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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.
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Well, from the Chicago Tribune today, uh 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.
Uh and the toy lets your dog takes uh take a bite out of Michael Vick.
Uh it's Vic smiling uh with a football in his left hand in his uh home black and red Atlanta Falcons uniform.
It'll be available uh for delivery starting today.
Uh the toy, it probably won't last long because the the they didn't get his permission.
And they're using the Falcons jersey and using his name as well as uh uh uh they're probably infringing on NFL trademarks because the uniform uh doesn't have any logos on it, but I mean it's obviously the Falcons uniform.
The NFL watches this stuff uh like uh like crazy.
But if you want to try to get one of these things, it's www.vicdogcheoy.com.
I don't know how big it is, but it's uh because there's a tiny little picture of it here.
We're gonna melt their service.
I'll bet their servers melted already.
Vic DogChootoy.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, Toinetta 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, recalled Jones.
But at 37, the divorcee has shifted to dating anybody who will ask her out, regardless of race.
Uh I don't I don't sit around dreaming about the perfect black man I'm gonna marry, uh uh Toynetta Jones says.
And in fact, it turns out black women around the country are reconsidering deep-seated reservations toward interracial uh relationships and are branching out.
Uh 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 what could be going on here?
What in the world could be going on here?
This has to be um.
Well, what would you say?
Circumstances do uh or or the the uh obviously it's a dwindling pool.
If you want to if you want to cut to the chase, there's a dwindling pool out there because of uh cultural circumstances.
Um, passing it on.
You know these satellite radio guys.
I have no brief against them, don't misunderstand.
And I I've explained why this program is not on satellite radio a number of times.
Not that it never will be, but but uh in this in this current italiation or iteration three-hour program Monday Friday, it can't be because uh would be cannibalizing the uh terrestrial radio stations that have made this program, and I've I've assured them of that.
Uh but they report their subscriber numbers.
And I think the combined total for satellite radio to both those companies is around 13 million, six million and seven million or eight million and I'm not well what is it to me?
Maybe the story says.
Um anyway, it doesn't matter what the total number is, because one in ten satellite subscribers are in unowned cars still sitting on the car lot.
The way these people report it uh is the number of radios sold or manufactured.
So that then most of these uh satellite radios are in automobiles as are manufactured, but one in ten of uh satellite subscribers live in car lots.
Neither in cars that haven't been sold by anybody yet.
Um, We read today in the New York Post that Pinch Schultzberger, who is the sky on of the New York Times Company, is going to change policy abruptly very soon and uh eliminate the Times Select Service.
Now, you know what the Times Select Service.
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 it uh it I think it was priced at $49 a year.
And what it had the effect of doing was walling off these nitwits from Bell Media.
So nobody had to read them other than the uh people that subscribe to the dead tree copy of the paper every day.
Uh the uh saw these columnists, like the uh the important Thomas Friedman, the deranged Frank Rich, the miserably and uh sadly unhappy Maureen Dowd existed behind this this wall of 49 dollars a year that people were not paying, and so they stopped being factors in the creation of the daily news agenda.
Uh and so uh little pinch has decided we're gonna get rid of Time Select.
Which is you know, it's it's sad.
I was I was 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 uh will be discontinued as a standalone service on October 31st.
Uh this it was it was uh uh 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 uh and and let uh people from all over the country send in their stories, and uh it just it just never it just never took off.
They have an award-winning news service, the AP, has bombed financially, and this this is the ripple effect of newspapers going under, which uh is happening.
CBS said that it earned 404 million dollars, fifty-five cents a share, compared with a profit of 781 million uh in the year-ago quarter.
So uh CBS's profit nearly halved versus uh uh year ago.
So they they lost 48% of last year's profit at uh at CBS.
That's uh that's not helpful.
We I I must tell you, we here at the EIB uh network are experiencing none of this.
We are not experiencing any kind of we're not cutting back nothing.
It's just it's it's 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 by these, and 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 that's 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 elite say, ah, 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 uh want to re uh read.
Uh example, ladies and gentlemen, of the incest, the incest that exists in liberalism and the drive-by media.
Christian Amanpoor's husband, James Rubin, who was uh State Department spokesman at Clinton years, is leaving his Sky News job and returning from London to join Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Christiana Manpoor 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 Manpore will see any conflict of interest in her reporting while her husband works in a Hillary campaign and she works on the Hillary campaign disguised as a reporter as CNN.
As you know, last uh what was it?
Last Friday I came out for lead.
Uh 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 uh into the toys that they are selling us.
All right, brief timeout.
We'll come back.
Your phone calls have got some audio sound bites.
Mrs. Clinton upfront and honest about taxes and her policy right after this.
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This is unbelievable.
If you this I shouldn't, I in fact I'm not, I'm not gonna 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.
We got I'll get the Hillary.
What did I say I was gonna do?
Did I tell you?
Okay, you gotta hear this sound by then we're gonna go to the phones.
You people in the phones be patient, we're coming right at you.
This morning on CNBC, uh, the host there, Dylan Ratigan, uh, was interviewing uh uh Mrs. Clinton.
And the question, is it the role of the government and tax policy to try to reconcile fairness?
Well, uh, you know, I 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 uh in his term as president.
Tax cuts for people like Bill and me and uh 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 the stop the ta.
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 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.
Uh 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 lifts a hundred 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.
A hundred times more people out of poverty.
A hundred than the Reagan years, 22 million.
Prove it.
Throw these numbers around, nobody challenges them.
Prove it.
It's bogus number.
If they proved a hundred times more people out of poverty than we wouldn't in Edwards wouldn't have we wouldn't 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 uh their life's better off because the rich people are getting it uh 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 this this woman is a disaster waiting to happen, and there's an eighty percent chance as we sit here today that she's the next president of the United States.
She is a disaster waiting to happen.
Ray and uh in Nashville sell call, glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Military chapendito is here on the road as I pass the Titan Stadium.
Pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I've uh 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 uh one of those who graduated seminary and got into one of those low rate adjustable mortgages over the past couple weeks.
I've heard nothing but the record foreclosures and all the housing markets just gonna crash in the next year.
I thought I'd couldn't get a hold of my financial advisor, so I'd call Rush and get a better perspective.
Well, look, you know, the uh U.S. economy is not bulletproof, and throughout my life, when I've I've been through uh what were called recessions, hell, I was alive.
Uh 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 uh because we had inflation at three and a half percent.
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 they love the wage good, 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 fillet, your T-bone, your porter house, and your ground sir line, a 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 it, so can charge whatever they want for it.
And any number of places operated that way.
So it it it was uh it was an abominable.
We had gas lines, we had rising energy prices, and then we got Jimmy Carter with with what the inflation was 14% interest rates were 20%.
It was a disaster.
And look where we are to the point is, I want to make to you is housing market, uh, because of some of these subprime mortgages uh uh uh the the whole industry, it might cause a temporary blip.
But even let's say when the oil price, I remember this too.
Uh in the what was it, 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.
Uh 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 uh hard.
So my my point to you is is that yeah, there may be a housing blip.
There it nothing goes up and keeps going up forever.
Everything levels off, may drop here and head back up.
But it's 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 gonna start a downward trend.
Drive buys will try to convince you of this.
Um but I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
My guess, wild guess, is that the Fed's gonna meet, I think Friday, I sometime this week.
The Fed's gonna meet sometime Friday.
Interest rates probably will hold steady at five and a quarter.
If they lower the interest rate, then you'll then no problem, everything will be solved.
But they won't do it.
Uh, probably in October they'll lower it.
Uh, I wouldn't be surprised if the interest rates down a point and a half by some time next year.
Now, uh the the if if they don't if they don't lower interest rates, what'll happen is there there will there will be some kind of a if if it's that bad, there'll be some kind of uh federal intervention bailout to to cover it.
I hope not, but that it it could happen.
But there's another way to look at record foreclosures uh out there.
Uh uh, Ray, and and uh record floor foreclosures are great time for investors to purchase.
Uh, you know, the vulture funds are really kicking up in gear here.
How do you this Warren Buffett can't wait?
He just can't wait.
This is this is where people make their money in the foreclosure.
This is it's 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 till we start growing fur and are able to climb trees.
Uh and so don't let anybody make you panic.
Yeah, it's it's it's really unfortunate and can be tough for people who've gone through it, but we've all been through tough economic times, relatively speaking.
So uh your financial advisor may tell you something totally different as to what to do with your own uh portfolio loot or what have you, but I'm just giving you a philosophical attitudinal reaction to it all.
Yeah, uh making the complex understandable, Rush Limbo talent on loan from God.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have erred it is not an opinion error, and so it will not it will not count against my accuracy rating.
The Fed Reserve meets today and will have an announcement on what they're gonna do with interest rates.
Uh I said they will meet Friday.
They will meet today.
Now you just heard Mrs. Clinton's soundbite.
And you just heard my uh my call with uh Ray in Nashville, worried about the housing market.
Folks, it is a 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 multimillionaires.
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 what what a what a 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 gonna 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 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.
Uh 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 if that ever occurs, there'll be no responsibility by those who are on their own assume these obligations.
Uh 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 health care.
All right, the government ought to pay my health care.
Got an opportunity for conservatism 101 in uh in that call.
Uh 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 rush, 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 that 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 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.
Um but we all face challenging events.
Housing market now, uh high oil and gas prices now, low oil prices back then.
Jimmy Carter's administration, four years of melees, we all face challenging events, economic and otherwise.
But on the whole, we are uh we're able to to uh earn, learn, and progress.
Um, 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 uh 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 we we are we're born and raised in this country, we we grow up knowing its potential.
This is why this is why I just I cringe when I start hearing people talk about, well, we've peaked.
American exceptionalism's over.
The days of uh 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.
Uh but it's not the history of the country.
It is not what happens, 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.
Uh Rush, you mentioned a while back that the media elite uh look down on their audience and and say these were your words, they think they're smarter than you.
Right.
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, uh this is you know, I understand what you you were you were trying to get me to uh to to uh uh fall into my braggadocious uh uh personality that irritates the libs.
But this is a it's a great question you've asked, because I think the reason I'm answering it this way is is I don't come in here every day with anything but respect for you.
I expect that if I talk about uh uh you know some of the various aspects of energy production or global warming and the I expect that everybody in this audience is smart enough to understand it.
So I don't approach you like your sixth graders with with uh with 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 with 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 in the Press did a poll or did a survey.
And so attitudally, 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 I understand that, and I and I'm glad, for instance, you used the word gauche uh a while back, and you expect us to know what it means.
I do.
Uh do you know what it means?
Oh, yes, I do.
Well, see, I was right.
And it comes from uh the Latin word, I believe, for left.
Uh no.
No.
Do you know give me a do you know what the word calumny or calumnies means?
Yes.
You do or don't?
Well, no, I do.
You do, all right.
Well, yeah, it means commotion.
No, but yeah, but I have a story about it.
Um, okay.
I was not checking to see if you knew.
I was just there's a story.
Conrad Black was on trial in Chicago for looting his company, uh, Hollinger and so forth.
Uh and the uh it was prosecuted by the office of the state at 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 he was 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 th there's a uh my only point here is that uh there's a lot of resentment for achievement.
There's a lot of resentment for people use the language correctly.
I have always from uh from the you know, moment I I I became someone that others would ask, how do you succeed in radio?
Uh 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 it's a cultural thing.
We all want the best country we can have.
We want the most educated informed people we can get.
And if you if you continue to baby people and treat them like they're idiots, they're gonna stay idiots.
Because you're gonna get down to their level to make sure they understand things, or you're not gonna even care if they understand things.
So I I uh I approach this program each and every day with the confidence that everybody here will either 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.
Uh if 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, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The late arriving show prep here looking for something.
Ah, this is cool.
Well, it's not cool.
It's it's it's 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 uh suggest 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 Scrual of Medicine, whose work appeared.
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 sixty-three kids aged three to five who were enrolled in a head start preschool for low-income families in about sixty percent 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 they even put carrots in a wrapper calling them McCarrots, and the kids liked them.
Now you know where this is headed.
Uh anybody say the word trial lawyers.
Here is uh Dave and Carey, North Carolina.
Hello, Dave, nice to have you with us.
Ross, Maggie Dedos from North Carolina.
How are you, sir?
Thank you, sir.
Um, a couple of things here.
I have a comment and then a cigar ready question if you have time for it.
By all means, fire away.
Let it rip.
Okay.
Number one, uh d don't get me wrong.
I love your show.
I love you.
I love the Clintons, but uh 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 sportsly yet at Al can back me up on this when you talk about the minions you have around the studio that uh hand wash and wax your uh your car and your uh doing it right now, in fact.
I was good you reminded me to look.
Check.
Don't get me wrong, Rosh.
I aspire to live as opulently as and uh extravagantly as you do, but uh I think you're just being a little bit hypocritical there.
Um you do?
Absolutely.
You you never go so far as to mention your net worth, but it's always implied in your terms on you know, the gulf streams and this and that, and uh and don't get me wrong, I I want the same for myself, but um, you know, I guess the Clintons are maybe a little more uh uh direct about it, but uh you definitely imply from time to time.
Uh you know, I have a uh uh a special bond with this relationship, and when I make these references to which you just referred, it's always done uh 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, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you don't.
And then they're going to, we got so much we don't need it.
But then they don't turn around and and uh 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.
I uh that's true.
I appreciate that.
Okay, quick.
So you get the impression.
Let me ask you a question.
Okay.
By the way, I'm not insisting that you pay more taxes, and I'm not insisting that what the whatever you have is too little or too much, and I'm not trying to make policy to go take what you've got.
Well, that's 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 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 uh I defer to your uh 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 d I don't find fault with it.
The Clintons do.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
They do uh they do nothing.
And I don't accuse them, 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 uh subscribing to Rush 24-7.
Um my quick cigar question for you, and I have a stake in a writing on this.
Um, and you may not be free to answer this.
I think you may have an endorsement deal with uh LaFor Dominicana, but if it's uh 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, etc.
cigar just due to the the climate and the soil and and the expertise that goes into the blending.
Um my friend says he thinks there's some out there that are that are on par.
Uh don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good uh Dominican Nicaraguan, etc.
cigars out there.
I love a lot of them, but I still think the best Cuban is still better than the best.
Where did I go wrong with you today?
Now now you 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.
Um you know it's even I found it's against the law to buy one anywhere.
You're kidding.
No, it really is.
You are it doesn't matter if you're in a country where they're legal, you it's a it's so silly.
The whole thing is just is just so silly.
Uh I I will tell you this.
I have I uh I I back before 1995, maybe 95 is the last, I would have agreed what what are you, rattling papers out there?
Oh, sorry about that.
Uh 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.
Uh they had a couple of hurricanes, and by the way, when the Soviet subsidy of five 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 uh 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.
I stopped the the the floor the the Dominicans, I've found that just I I smoking a La Flor Dominicana double the garrowed chisel right now, but I don't have an endorsement deal.
I smoke a wide variety of things.
But but I'm told by people who know that the uh the Cuban cigars are coming back.
But I haven't 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 eighties.
Find one from the or go back and find some pre-embargo.
Yeah.
That's yeah.
I tell you, those those things they melt in your mouth.
I gotta run here.
All right, another exciting excursion, another hour and uh broadcast excellence about over.
Headed for the museum, housing artifacts for the future limb 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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