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Aug. 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Every day, folks, it just gets weirder and weirder out there.
Now, all of a sudden, scientists at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen over in the UK have discovered that mating among overweight people is boosting obesity in the world.
Scientists say that people select partners of a similar size to them.
Not on purpose, folks.
Nobody does that on purpose.
Greetings and well, why would you it just doesn't happen?
Greetings, my friend.
They end up that way after they meet, maybe, but they don't they don't choose this is absurd.
Greetings, great to have you with us.
Here we are already Wednesday on the fastest week in media, L. Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution meetings surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Uh telef Ooh!
Woo-hoo!
I didn't watch the debate last night.
I got a I got ooh.
She's not wearing any makeup.
In the on the in the heated soldier, if she did, it melted.
Hillary, I'm talking.
There was no.
I looked over there.
I said, whoa, I didn't watch it.
This is the first picture.
See?
Sorry for the interruptions, my friends.
I've not lost my place.
Where was I?
Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Yes, Professor John Speakman of Aberdeen University said it was not yet clear how overweight people end up together.
Uh uh this is contributing to uh Britain's obesity epidemic.
Well, how what are they going to do about this?
Uh we're going to stop the obese from marrying one another.
I still maintain that that doesn't happen on purpose.
That does not happen on purpose.
Well, Snerdley's looking at me like he can't figure out, well, then how does it happen?
Uh people settle for the best they can get.
Uh and in a lot of cases, and that's just that's just that's you ever you remember when I when I suggested banning the ugly uh from the streets during daytime as a means of prolonging the economic uh uh recovery when at the time I made this suggestion.
Uh and people, how are you gonna decide?
I said, Well, we make it voluntary.
They know who they are.
They look in the mirror.
Uh I mean, you uh I used to work with a guy that that uh wore a two-tone green leisure suit that he got at K Martin.
He thought he was classy.
You know, so there are all kinds of uh people out there, but uh they just thank God for it, too.
I'm not trying to sound like an elitist here.
I just what do they expect to happen if two fat people get married and produce kids?
What what are the odds here?
What do they expect to happen?
Research on this?
By the way, the big Democrat debate last night, I did not watch it.
Um I intended to, and you might accuse me of slacking off on my responsibilities to you, my beloved audience.
But uh something came up.
I got a new toy.
I was playing around with it, and uh it just it just totally slipped my mind.
But I got a review of it.
But I want I want to sh I want to go back and and uh play for you the first question last Sunday at the Republican debate last Sunday morning in Iowa.
I want to play for you the very first question asked of the Republican candidates by George Steffi Stephanopoulos.
Our goal today is to get a real debate going uh among all of you to find out where you stand on the issues, but also to figure out the real differences that separate you and and in that spirit.
Here in Iowa, you've already been going at each other, somewhat beneath the radar screen on the issue of abortion.
So, first question asked of the Republicans on Sunday morning during a debate was um about abortion.
Uh here, ladies and gentlemen, is a montage of all the questions and answers on abortion in last night's Democrat debate.
And keep in mind, not one of these examples is repeated.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's right.
There were no questions on abortion.
Everybody oh no, what happened?
Mike didn't play it when broadcast engineer flinched.
There were no questions.
Little dead air never hurt anybody.
You know, dead air always works when nothing's coming out of the radio and you expect it to, you stop what you're doing and you pay much closer attention.
It's an old veteran broadcaster's trick.
But they didn't.
They were not asked one question about abortion last night.
And yesterday we described we'll have more in the Democrat debate as the uh program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
Also, we had yesterday proof positive.
If you ever had any doubts that the libs are totally nuts, Mia Farrow offered herself uh as a replacement hostage for some uh some war-torn leader in Darfer.
Well, which uh, you know, we've got a great uh graphic display uh uh at Rushlimbo.com on this on the Hostages for Peace program.
You ought to go look at it if you haven't.
She was on CNN last night.
The anchor Zayn Verjee uh spoke to her about this, Mia Farrow, and here's how that went.
I would do this in a heartbeat.
Do you think it's over the top?
I think the circumstances in dark floor are over the top.
It's a signal of honestly of desperation and disgust.
Right.
Uh so uh she's not alone today, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Further proof that these people are nuts.
The Oscar-winning actress Kate Blanchette has stopped washing her hair in an effort to do her bit to save the environment and become a green example to her kids.
The actress admits that she's installed timers all around her home to restrict energy levels, and one is even on her shower head.
Now she's no longer washing her hair, she's realized.
I only need to have a two-minute shower.
I went to website, my husband was laughing at me because the box arrived with 30 timers, and I thought, excellent.
People I mean literal wackos.
Not washing her hair to save the environment.
In a companion story, people who suffer from excessive armpit sweating uh may find relief with a minimally invasive surgical procedure, a uh procedure, according to news study, really sweaty pits, uh, technically known as focal axillary hyperhydrosis, can cause serious emotional and social problems, note Dr. Falk Becara and colleagues from the Ruhr University in Germany.
This is in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Uh so I guess what we have here is a cure for flop sweat.
Uh lost forest in Africa once uh now get this.
How does this even get written?
In a once lost forest in Africa, six animal species new to science have been discovered, according to members of a two-month expedition.
If it was once lost, how did they find it?
How in the world is there a lost forest, a lost forest that you then find it when you go back to the once lost forest, so it's no longer lost, it's now known.
You find six brand new species that you had no clue existed.
How can this any of this be when we are destroying the planet, destroying the climate?
Uh these new species uh include a bat, a rodent, two shrews, and two frogs.
For those of you in Rio Linda doesn't mean they found two women.
Uh look it up on Wikipedia.
If if we can find six new species in such a short period, it makes you wonder what else is out there, said Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Andrew Plumptre.
This is from LiveScience.com, by the way.
And you Andrew Plumptray told you yesterday, a lot of people panicking yesterday, folks, over a uh poorly written story about Fox and the TV show 24 going green.
And everybody assumed that the plot lines would feature eco-friendly behavior on the part of Jack Bauer, such as shooting SUVs while driving Prius or some such thing.
It's not that at all.
It's only, and it's it's, by the way, all Fox TV shows are going green on the production side to uh try to be carbon neutral, but the plot lines are not going to be oriented that way.
And it's actually it's it's it's silly.
You but this is a great illustration of how corporate America responds.
The libs out there saying, oh, corporate America poisoning everybody, polluting our planet.
Corporate America's scared to death of alienating customers.
And if they think that customers are all caught up in all this, then they're going to issue press releases saying, we're going to be carbon neutral in our pre in our production.
It's not going to matter one-tenth of one percent to a rating point.
And it isn't going to save all that much money.
It's strictly PR, strictly image because they're responding to what the what they think.
They're rolling the dice that it are enough people Concerned about this.
But is it going to make you watch any Fox show just because you know that the production especially when you know this whole carbon neutral thing's a hoax anyway?
Carbon offsets, that flores and compact light bulbs.
It's not going to matter a heel of beans.
Might might make them some additional advertiser dollars for sucker advertisers who want to be associated with it, but that's uh even uh a long shot.
But it got even worse than that.
In a move that would have parted with decades of broadcast tradition, Fox wanted to roll out a green carpet during its presentation of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards.
But the uh Academy of Television Arts, Sciences, uh, and Flops, which considers the traditional red carpet an iconic part of its brand, overruled Fox's request earlier today.
See, a green carpet, mattering to what?
Meaning what, accomplishing what?
Zilt Zero Nata.
Nothing more than those people that run around and drive Prius's and say, or hybrids say, see, I care.
I'm better than you.
Like those ribbons, the red ribbon for AIDS, the whatever all those colors were.
I can remember on my TV show, I showed up one day of about 12 of those different colored ribbons on my jacket to illustrate how I cared more than you about everything.
Didn't achieve or accomplish one thing towards solving whatever problem.
Changing the carpet color was an unannounced part of Fox's green themed Emmy Award's presentation strategy, which includes employing hybrid vehicles for event transportation, using recycled materials and reducing carbon emissions from the production.
Lawrence, New York, this is not far from JFK.
A man was fatally struck by an SUV with no driver at the wheel.
This happened on a sidewalk in Lawrence, Long Island uh yesterday.
Nassau County cops said the accident occurred at 2 46 in the afternoon.
A woman had parked the SUV and had left the vehicle when it jumped the curb, struck a man walking on the sidewalk.
The man was taken to St. John's Hospital where he died.
This is a genuine I mean, this.
I uh I mean, oh my God, isn't it the reaction you had?
Oh my God, what's happening?
Do I ask you?
No sooner do I ask the question than I provide the answer, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, going back here for before we get to sound bites of the Democrat debate, going back to this story from uh from Aberdeen University.
Uh people select partners of a similar size to them, according to scientists, meaning that people that are overweight uh are mating with one another, and uh for some inexplicable reason their children are then prone to being overweight.
Scientists haven't figured this out yet.
Research continues.
So the question, why are they wh why why do the obese marry the obese?
Here's the answer.
Americans see fat as normal.
Uh carrying a spare tire or two around the waist has become socially acceptable in the U.S. As the population's waistlines have expanded.
This, according to a study released yesterday.
Economic researchers from uh Florida State University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
What the hell are they doing?
Found the weight of the average woman rose by 20 pounds, or 13 and a half percent between 1976 and 2000.
Their ideal weight also edged up.
In 1994, the average woman ticked tipped the scales at 140.
Really?
Hmm.
Uh at 1994, average woman tipped the scales at 147, but she wanted to weigh only 132.
Less than a decade later, for those of you in real end, it'd be 2003.
The average woman weighed 153, but said that her desired weight was 135.
This is a social force that we are trying to document because the rise in obesity has occurred so rapidly over the past 30 years.
Uh said the fact that even women's ideal weight had increased suggested there was less social pressure to uh lose weight.
Oh that people don't think there's anything wrong with being fat anymore.
So go out and marry each other.
All right, to the Democrat debate, ladies and gentlemen.
Hillary last night told the crowd, I'm your girl.
Because there's a battle for who is the real woman in this campaign between the Breck girl and Mrs. Clinton?
Um the uh started off here with a debate on on uh on on NAFTA.
Uh and a question was scrap it or fix it.
And the first person taking a stab at it was the Breck girl.
It needs to be fixed, but the first thing I want to say is NAFTA is a perfect example of the bigger problem.
When everyone to hear my voice on this, the one thing you can count on is you will never see a picture of me on the front of Fortune magazine saying I am the candidate that big corporate America is betting on.
That will never happen.
That's one thing you can take to the bike.
Or and now the audience, it was thousands and thousands and thousands of union people in their list.
The Breck girl, see Hillary's been on fortune.
The Bret girls on what?
Vogue, uh uh cosmopolitan.
You know what he the Bret girl, in order to pull this off, is gonna have to uh because he didn't pull it off last night from the analysis that I have seen.
He's gonna have to somehow transform himself, not just into a woman.
He's gonna have to become Oprah.
If he stands a chance on this woman thing, he's gonna have to do that.
I'm talking about the way she, you know, her attitude and uh and the things that she's concerned about.
But how about saying, you won't catch me on the cover of Fortune magazine?
That's just such a full-fledged bunch of pandering.
So Mrs. Clinton decided to respond to this.
The question Senator Clinton may have veiled reference to some on this panel in Senator Edwards' answer.
I think I'd be remiss if I didn't give you an additional 30 seconds to reply to this.
I've noticed in the last few days that uh a lot of the uh other campaigns have um been using my name a lot.
Um, but I'm here because I think we need to change America.
And it's not to get in fights with Democrats.
I want the Democrats to win, and I want a united Democratic Party that will stand against the Republicans.
And I will say that for 15 years I have stood up against the right wing machine, and I've come out stronger.
So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I'm your girl.
Believe this.
How about not what not not I'm your woman's?
I've I've been told all my life, my adult life, that you refer to women as women.
You don't call them girls.
The girls are when they're younger.
Here she's calling herself I'm your girl.
And of course, the Brick girls over there, jealous and all this sort of stuff, trying to figure out how to respond to this, because he can't say I'm your man, because he's not trying to be the man in the camp.
He's trying to be the woman in the campaign.
So he's sitting over there twiddling his thumbs trying to figure it out.
We here's a we put a montage together.
We may lay this over some bumps coming out of commercial breaks uh during the program today, because this is just a hoot.
I am proud to be the New York AFL CIO's favorite sister.
If you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I'm your girl.
Sister, girl.
She really you know, you you you think I'm exaggerating this, but I'm telling you something.
The women's vote is crucial for these people.
Uh and uh and right now, Obama's getting his share of the educated women, at least in polling data, Hillary's uh female support comes from the um shall we say uneducated and the uh uh less uh economically viable.
Uh let's put it uh that way.
But there this she's using this is on purpose.
I'm your girl uh favorite sister.
Uh you know, Elizabeth Edwards got all this started and and they're they're running seriously on this.
Here's a montage.
No Democrat event would be complete without the parade of victims.
It was Soup Line America.
Uh what we have here is a montab of some of the audience questions uh from the debate last night.
My husband, George Junior Hamner, was one of the twelve men who were killed in the Sega Month.
The Bush administration has failed workers like my husband.
What will you do to improve the health and safety in our coal minds and all of our workplaces across America?
After serving in Iraq for a year, I came home to find that my factory job at Maytag had closed and moved to Mexico.
What will you do to keep manufacturing jobs like mine from leaving the country?
As a nurse, I live with the failures of the American health care system daily.
We don't have enough nurses to staff our hospitals.
How would you address these issues?
After 34 years would LTVs do, I was forced to retire because of a disability.
Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy.
I lost a third of my pension, and my family lost their health care.
Every day of my life, I sit at the kitchen table across from the woman who devoted 36 years of her life to my family, and I can't afford to pay for her health care.
What's wrong with America and what will you do to change it?
So this is now keep in mind this is a union audience uh last night.
Well, this guy's hurting.
You know, it's it's it's a shame.
He he devoted his life to the union, but that's at the same time, at the same time that these people continue to rip corporate America and they get mad at corporate America, corporate America's, his steel company shuts down, and all of a sudden he's mad at them for that too.
So they can't the liberals, a corporation can't win if it stays in business, and it can't win if it goes out of business.
Grunts of pure joy.
The very mention of my name, Rushlin Boy here.
And as usual, with half my brain tied behind my back.
I want to go back, I got a little bit of time after the soundbite to offer expert analysis and commentary.
I want to go back to this montage of the uh the parade of victims in the audience at the Democrat debate last night, because the fact what I want you to think about as you as you listen to this is this is what the Democrat Party has created.
This is what the Mer the American liberals want the whole country to end up being like.
They want people dependent, they want people in constant crisis, they want people in angst, anger uh at Republicans.
Uh, they they want people to constantly be turning to Democrats for their needs in life.
You know, the needs and wants are are two different things.
And the argument that we have in this country is is really you can boil it down to over to two things one thing, and that is how do we best provide for the needs and the wants of people?
Uh and of course, conservatism says you're better off going out and handling that yourself because the odds are you're gonna do far better providing for yourself than if you sit around waiting and depending on other people.
The liberals want the waiting and the depending on other people because they know it won't be enough for self-sufficiency, and therefore they will be needed and thus uh they derive their power.
Uh we conservatives cringe when we hear people in circumstances like that.
We really do.
It's so unnecessary in this country.
People do not have to have lives like this.
Uh but this is what American liberalism has fostered.
This is what the Democrat Party has been all about since uh the New Deal since FDR.
Uh and th this is it's it's this this I I really it breaks my heart.
It cringes.
I cringe when I hear Americans in this circumstance, because it's so unnecessary.
Here is this montage again.
My husband, George Junior Hamner, was one of the twelve men who were killed in the Sega Month.
The Bush administration has failed workers like my husband.
What will you do to improve the health and safety in our coal mans and all of our workplaces across America?
After serving in Iraq for a year, I came home to find that my factory job at Maytag had closed and moved to Mexico.
What will you do to keep manufacturing jobs like mine from leaving the country?
As a nurse, I live with the failures of the American health care system daily.
We don't have enough nurses to staff our hospitals.
How would you address these issues?
After 34 years would LTVs steal, I was forced to retire because of a disability.
Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy.
I lost a third of my pension, and my family lost their health care.
Every day of my life, I sit at the kitchen table across from the woman who devoted 36 years of her life to my family, and I can't afford to pay for her health care.
What's wrong with America and what will you do to change it?
Now, this is it's sad.
By the way, Mike, I want you to keep that standing by because I'm I'm gonna go through this again, and I am going to pretend that they're asking me the question.
And I'm gonna answer each one of these questions.
So Mike, at the end of each one of those questions, stop the tape.
Now, it is it's a sad thing to hear people like this.
It's so unnecessary.
Uh This sort of reminds me of the never ending complaints of the black community in this country.
These people, and people like them that you just heard have been voting for Democrats all of their lives.
And then all of a sudden their lives turn into a guano sandwich.
And it's time to come to the rest of us for them to fix their problems.
The, of course, the Democrat Party and the government.
Now, if if if voting for Democrats for all of their lives is supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening, then when do these people wake up and say, you know what?
The people I've been voting for have not been saving my jobs.
The people I've been voting for have not been providing me health care.
The people I've been voting for have not been making the workplace safe, quote unquote.
At what point do they wake up?
Well, they won't, ladies and gentlemen, because it's easy to be dependent, and it's easy.
Nobody really, in the midst of a terrible crisis, focuses on themselves first, as we all should do.
If you're in the middle of a problem and you're going to genuinely solve the problem, you have to first say, okay, how did I get into this?
What did I do that might have contributed to it and change that?
But change is hard because change is new.
Especially after a lifetime of uh of of living a certain way with certain assumptions, certain expectations.
Uh so it it becomes difficult.
So all goes to hell one day if your life does, and it has for all of us.
Uh but these people that have been I think damaged in terms of fulfilling their expectations and potential by relying on Democrats to fix these problems that they themselves really have responsibility for in one way or the other.
Uh it just it's it it makes me sad.
It really does to hear these people come because it's so unnecessary.
What if everybody in the country reacted to problems this way?
What kind of country would we be?
What kind of country would we have?
I guarantee you we wouldn't be the leading economic output country, we wouldn't be a superpower, we'd be a nation uh of bleeding heart wimps, helpless wafs, looking to some other powerful nation around the world to help us out.
We'd be France.
We'd be the European Union, uh, or worse.
All right, let's go through this, and let me pretend that they're axing me these questions.
Let me pretend that they're that I'm a presidential candidate, and somehow they got into my debate, uh, and they asked me the question.
Remember, Mike, stop it after every question.
My husband, George Junior Hamner, was one of the twelve men who were killed in the Sega Month.
The Bush administration has failed workers like my husband.
What will you do to improve the health and safety in our coal mines and all of our workplaces across America?
Um her name is Deb, by the way, first name is Deb uh Mrs. Hamner.
I'm terribly sorry that uh what happened uh with your your your your husband.
Uh but the Bush administration had nothing to do with it.
Nobody in the Bush administration wanted the mine to collapse.
The Bush administration has not stood in the way of any improvements being made.
Uh your your grief is understandable, but looking to the federal government for blame in a situation like this is just as bad as looking to the federal government for looking uh to for to find solutions to to everything in your life.
Uh we already have OSHA.
We have any number of federal agencies that are out there working to make sure that workplaces are safe, and in some cases, some of these regulations have become counterproductive because they have closed businesses, they have made it impossible for businesses to stay in business and so forth, and the uh the big problem that we face here is not uh too little government, our problem is too much in some of these areas.
Next question.
After serving in Iraq for a year, I came home to find that my factory job at Maytag had closed and moved to Mexico.
What will you do to keep manufacturing jobs like mine from leaving the country?
Uh the question for you, sir, is since it happened.
Things are what they are.
It is what it is.
What are you going to do to find a new job to explore new opportunities for yourself?
Uh The global economy is what it is.
By the way, which union official gave you this question?
This question goes back to the early 90s.
Manufacturing jobs, giant sucking sound.
It should not have become a surprise to anybody that American corporations are relocating elsewhere.
It's going to continue to happen.
I have discussed this with many people.
They have had similar things happen.
This is no different than being fired in late life when your corporation still exists.
I mean, it is what it is.
You face reality.
You have to go out and try to find something else to do.
You're far more capable of doing other things than you probably believe.
And what my job as president is going to do is to help inspire you, as all as as many people in this country to assume the mantle of greatness that population in this country requires.
If we are to maintain it, we can all sit around and whine and moan about the things that happened to us, and after a while, we've got to get busy getting serious about the next phase of our lives.
Next question.
As a nurse, I live with the failures of the American health care system daily.
We don't have enough nurses to staff our hospitals.
How would you address these issues?
Well, you're asking a basic health care question here, and we can say this about we don't have enough band-aids in the hospitals, and the band-aids we have are too expensive.
We don't have enough sutures or they're too expensive, or the nurses are too fat, but they need to be fat because they got to roll around all the fat patients in bed.
What do we do about the American health care system?
We stop looking to the government to fix it.
It's broken because the government's involved in it.
What more evidence do we need that more government is going to fix it or not going to fix it?
I mean, if you you'll work in a hospital, and if the people running your hospital had botched it for 30 years and it was barely staying open and patients were dying, would you not try to change the way it's run?
Would you maybe change systems?
Would you get rid of the administrator, the doctors, all this sort of thing that are working there?
We've got a demonstrable failure in our health care system.
At the root of it is the government.
And why are you looking to the government to fix it?
What we need to do to fix health care is give people who are patients more power and choice over where they go for their health care because that'll bring the cost down, it'll bring the price down, it'll make accessibility uh uh a little easier, and we next need to have a serious conversation with the American people and define sickness.
We spend too much time in this country talking about sickness, we don't talk about health, we don't talk about wellness, we don't talk about goodness.
Everybody wants to be sick.
Everybody's making everybody else sick, and so the the first moment you think you're sick, it's off to the doctor's office.
People go to the doctor in this country way too much.
Then we got to get the trial lawyers out of this so that their medical malpractice premiums are not sky high, so that they don't have to close up shop and uh and so forth.
There's a lot of problems here, but the nurse shortage is uh is not something that I, as president, I mean, that's I I don't have time to deal with incremental details like a nurse shortage at Pine Valley Hospital.
Next question.
After 34 years with LTV steal, I was forced to retire because of a disability.
Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy.
I lost a third of my pension.
And my family lost their health care.
Every day of my life.
I sit at the kitchen table across from the woman who devoted 36 years of her life to my family, and I can't afford to pay for her health care.
What's wrong with America and what will you do to change it?
Nothing's wrong with America, sir.
The greatest place in the world.
More opportunity and more solutions for people in your unfortunate situation.
But but to say that there's something wrong with America, and then to look to me as your president to fix a problem like this is to misunderstand the role of the presidency.
I'll be glad to discuss the health care issue all over again with anybody who wants to uh discuss it.
It does need fixing.
There's no question about it.
But um, you know, this is this is a a classic example to me of your whole life.
You have worked for a corporation, you've not been happy with the corporation, you don't like corporations, period, and all of a sudden a corporation goes out of business for whatever reason you hate the corporation for that too.
So it was uh uh it was it was good for you.
There's a problem in this country of dependence.
Too many people depending on too many others over whom they have no control for their needs, wants or another thing.
But when you get yourself into a circumstance of depending on others for your needs, you are never going to be genuinely free.
I got a couple of email notes that uh the people want to respond to the uh the the victims in the Democrat debate montage last night.
One guy said, hey, that Maytag plant closed in 2002.
This is 2007.
So who wrote the guy's question?
Uh I agree.
That that that that question is is a is a is a just a standard cliche question that's going to show up uh in any union forum.
Then I got this from a guy named Patrick Casey's a subscriber of Rush 247, so the steel company closed.
Poor guy lost a third of his pension.
His pension and other union demands is one of the reasons the company closed in the first place.
And he's still collecting social security, isn't he?
As to his health insurance, he didn't lose it.
Still has Medicare, has the ability to purchase supplemental insurance from the AARP.
His wife has that option as well.
Welcome to the real world, union member.
Not a lot of sympathy out there, ladies.
See, I do.
I I I have I have sympathy because it's just I I don't want to beat a dead horse here.
It just burns me up that people end up looking at life in themselves this way.
This is what liberalism does to people is what Democrats do to people.
They create this this constant fear that life is going to turn to a guano sandwich, and then when it does, go to the Democrats, and they elect these Democrats for 50 years, and these problems still happen, and they still go back to them when it's all said and done and need help, even though they're not solving their problems.
Anyway, uh let me grab a phone call here, folks, so we don't have a callerless first hour.
Mark in Bethesda, Maryland, I appreciate your patience, and welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, I am a loyal listener, but I'm mad at you.
You keep dissing and you keep saying all these nasty things that a conservative can't own a Prius.
I own a Prius.
I'm a conservative.
Not only am I a conservative, I supported Ehrlich and Steel in the last election.
I made sure my son registered as a Republican.
I led a revolt at my gym to get Fox News on TV, and I'm still being called seven-letter words.
And I told you this three years ago when I first bought my car.
Wait a minute on my license plate because too many libs can't.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Who's calling you seven letter words?
People at my gym because I got Fox News on the on the on the TV.
Oh, see, see, you're doing all those that but buying a Prius and driving it around's not buying you one bit of credibility with those people, is it?
Of course it won't.
But I of course it's not going to do anything.
But what I had to do to get the people on the parking lot kept nagging me on my license plate.
And I told you this once before.
In Hebrew, it says Shamron, and Shamron in Hebrew means conservative.
So that's my my way of telling the world a conservative's driving this car.
Conservatives can own Prius.
Now get this.
This is how I hear your circumstance.
Here you're doing the right thing.
You're watching Fox, your listeners' program, your big conservative, but you live in Maryland, which is infested with liberals.
So you've gone out and you bought it, you bought a hybrid.
And then furthermore, you have put a bumper sticker on a car identifying yourself as Jewish.
And neither of those two things are buying you anything with the libs in Maryland.
It never would.
I it won't.
They're who they are.
I'm happy being me.
I'm not trying to buy anything with them.
Well, then happy.
They're always going to be angry.
Wait, wait, wait.
Then why are you complaining about them calling you seven-letter words in the gym?
Because it's not appropriate.
I don't like being called seven-letter words.
What's this got to do with having a pre...
Wait a minute.
What's this got to do with having a Prius?
I somehow have lost track here with the amazing thing for me to lose track.
All I'm trying to tell you is my point is I'm listing all the my conservative credentials.
I have all these conservative credentials, and I'm trying to tell you the conservatives can drive pre-information.
Oh, oh, all I'm doing all my conservative credentials.
Okay, good.
Well, you've you certainly have uh conservative credentials, as if the what you've said is truthful.
I have no doubt that it is.
Uh I've never said conservatives.
I don't care what you drive.
I'm just saying most people at biome are buying them as status symbols.
We know this from research surveys.
They're buying them as status symbols, and they're buying Toyota Priuses because they look different than the Honda uh hybrid.
They want it known.
They are good people.
They're doing this as a status thing to make it look like they care and that they're saving the environment, and that uh Mark is a bunch of liberals doing it.
If you have Prius and buy it, like it and drive it, cool.
All right, the first hour is in the can, and as you know, the uh content's going over to the uh warehouse how housing museums.
Artifacts for the future uh Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
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