Aug. 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Uh, excuse me, show starting. | |
| Could you guys stop pretending it's a sixth grade in there? | |
| Greetings, my friends. | |
| Welcome, Rush Limbaugh program, excellence in broadcasting, all yours the next three hours, and it's Friday. | |
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| It's open line Friday. | |
| Ah, yesterday, the nation eagerly awaits each week. | |
| Where America's most prominent media figure takes one of the greatest career risks ever known to have existed in major media. | |
| And that is turning over the content. | |
| Well, some of the content of the program to the audience, rank amateurs, compared to me, highly trained, seasoned broadcast specialist. | |
| Anyway, you know the rules. | |
| Monday through Thursday, we talk about what I care about. | |
| On Friday, we go to the phones, and it's all yours. | |
| We love this day. | |
| We look forward to it. | |
| You can uh whine, moan, cry, ask questions, make comments, and yet it doesn't have to be about anything I care about. | |
| I will fake it. | |
| I won't do that Monday through Thursday. | |
| Fellow telephone numbers 800 28282 and the uh email address rush at EIB net.com. | |
| Well, a Democrats had their forum last night uh with the uh with uh well an audience of gay people on it was televised on uh the logo network. | |
| We have we have countless audio sound bites uh from this. | |
| Mike Gravel was not asked about the Spartans teaching homosexuality last night, but we will remind you ourselves that uh that he said it. | |
| Um Bill Moyers on the war path against me, upset that I am trashing beloved and respected journalists by the all of them, the drive-by media. | |
| Uh he's terribly upset about this. | |
| Subset at Rupert Murdoch, too, upset at Fox News, is also upset that uh freelance journalists don't make any money if they do reports for NPR. | |
| Never mind if PBS has made him a gazillionaire. | |
| He's just having a tantrum. | |
| He was speaking at some forum yesterday... | |
| With an education of journalists, was uh was being discussed. | |
| So obviously it was there was not much learning uh or teaching uh going on. | |
| What else? | |
| Uh what else we have out there? | |
| We got uh uh oh we and speaking of yours, we've got this uh this poll of the latest pew poll. | |
| I'm I'm sure you've heard about it by now. | |
| More than half of Americans say that U.S. news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on. | |
| This is the Pew Center for people in the press. | |
| More than two-thirds of internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on. | |
| Fifty-nine percent said the reporting was inaccurate. | |
| 64% they were politically biased. | |
| This is devastating stuff. | |
| But I'm gonna tell you what, folks, I am really proud of this, because these three elements are exactly the nature of my 19 plus years of criticism of the drive-by media. | |
| They don't care. | |
| It's the one business where the customer's an idiot and is always wrong. | |
| And if the customer complains, the news business say, oh, yeah, you dare insult us. | |
| Well, here, take more of what you don't like. | |
| And meanwhile, circulation dwindles, ad pages dwindles. | |
| The uh you know, bird cages are suffering because newspapers are cutting the size of the paper. | |
| Uh uh I've also said that um uh they, of course, are politically biased, but inaccurate. | |
| Uh they just get it wrong a lot of times. | |
| This and that is why more uh the uh Moyers obviously uh upset knew this was out, so we'll get to all that. | |
| Uh, let's see. | |
| Shockingly good news, by the way. | |
| This is in a Wall Street Journal editorial today. | |
| Uh, which has been here here's a pop quiz. | |
| Which has been the most important in reducing poverty over time? | |
| A, taxes, B, economic growth, C, international trade, or D, government regulation. | |
| What would you say, uh, Brian? | |
| A B you weren't even listening, right? | |
| B. Good. | |
| Superb economic growth is something John Edwards needs to learn real fast. | |
| Uh get This, according to the journal, uh you'd be pleased to know that 53% of U.S. has scrubbed seniors also answered B, that economic growth is the most important factor in reducing poverty. | |
| It comes for the latest version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. | |
| They asked this question among others on economics, and the results will not please members of the Socialist International, or for that matter, the Senate Finance Committee, or for that matter, the Democrat Party. | |
| Since its founding in 1969, the uh National Assessment of Educational Progress has become something of an annual exercise in American educational masochism. | |
| Last year, only 54% of students met the basic standard, the equivalent of a passing grade on the science test. | |
| The previous year tested history at a mere 47% passed. | |
| But when knowledge of economics was tested this year, well, let's just say the supply curve shifted. | |
| They reported this week that 79% of 12th graders passed the first ever national economics test. | |
| Holy hayek. | |
| As in Friedrich von Hayek. | |
| 79%. | |
| The exam taken by a representative sample of 12th graders at public and private hascrules tested the students on micro and macroeconomic principles and international trade. | |
| What, for example, is the effect of breaking down trade barriers between countries. | |
| A majority correctly said that goods would become less expensive. | |
| Which is true, they do. | |
| They chose this over the quality of goods available would decrease. | |
| Maybe Edwards needs to go hire some of these high school people for his economics uh advisory team. | |
| Anyway, that's uh that's great news. | |
| Also, uh milk prices skyrocketing out there now. | |
| Average retail price of a gallon of milk. | |
| Uh I I would not know this because I uh have fine calcium and bones and don't well, I do have milk on cereal, but I don't buy it. | |
| So but uh don't you you you know what a gallon of milk is, Don, just off top of your head, right now what is it where you go to the store? | |
| I suggest buys it and doesn't really look as most people snerdly, you have any idea. | |
| Oh, you know you're a vegan, you don't. | |
| Yeah, you drive, you'd walk by the milk section, you probably get sick. | |
| Organic milk. | |
| Uh, well, you know what organic means. | |
| Feces. | |
| Uh that's what it means. | |
| That's what it means. | |
| Uh anyway, the average retail price. | |
| It's gonna make that's gonna make the uh the health food people really freak. | |
| The average retail price of a gallon of whole milk never been higher, three dollars eighty cents a gallon, according to the stats from the Department of Agriculture last month. | |
| Experts blame the increase, which is up 51 cents a gallon since February on milk shortages in Europe and Asia. | |
| But but also playing a smaller role in the price spike is higher demand for corn-based ethanol fuel, according to the USDA. | |
| Increased demand for corn pushes up costs for cattle feed, which is then added to the price of milk. | |
| It's why there is a steak shortage at some of the finest steakhouses in New York. | |
| Ethanol. | |
| Well, because we import milk. | |
| Well, no, we import more. | |
| Obviously, we import milk if there's a if there's a if the milk shortage in Europe and Australia, it's it's a supply and demand thing anyway. | |
| I mean, we export milk, I'm sure too. | |
| Or um, it's a it's it's a total supply and demand thing. | |
| Oh, no, no question about it. | |
| Everybody's asking me. | |
| Rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush. | |
| What do you think of the market? | |
| What should I do? | |
| What shouldn't I do? | |
| Uh it's an interesting question, and I'll attempt to tackle that. | |
| Uh, in a way that you may not expect right after the break, plus all these great audio sound bites are coming up, plus your phone calls, because it's open line Friday. | |
| Hi, welcome back. | |
| It's open line Friday, Rush Limboy, your guiding light. | |
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| I don't know why people ask me, but they ask, well, what should I do in the market? | |
| What shouldn't I do? | |
| I counsel patients. | |
| The fundamentals here are they're fine. | |
| But look at this. | |
| I was looking at U.S. SNOOS and World Report. | |
| The uh the issue dated August 6th, 2007. | |
| And on the cover of that of that issue is this blurb. | |
| If you had invested $1,000 with Warren Buffett in 1956, $1,000, you'd have $27 million today. | |
| 50 years, a virtual lifetime of employment. | |
| $1,000 to $27 million. | |
| That's $27,000 times your investment. | |
| But Rush, but Rush, what's the not Warren Buffett? | |
| What are you, what are you talking about? | |
| Forget Warren Buffett here, folks. | |
| Warren Buffett's not the point. | |
| Look at the lessons of the words. | |
| 50 years. | |
| That cover 50 years, look at how many market corrections there but you know what a market correction is, snurdly? | |
| A market correction is defined as a market going down 10%. | |
| The market goes down 10%, and the experts up there, we've had a correction. | |
| We've had lots of corrections in 50 years. | |
| We've gone up, we've gone down. | |
| We've had crashes. | |
| 87 crash. | |
| Everybody was panicked left and right. | |
| We've had the Jimmy Carter years. | |
| We've gone and we've gone sky high, too. | |
| And the point is, in 50 years, if you start investing things and just leave it alone and be patient. | |
| In 50 years, a thousand dollars with Warren Buffett would today be worth 27 million dollars. | |
| Uh there have been some pretty real panics in those fifty years, and there have been some imagined panics. | |
| I know you're still saying, but Rush, but Rush, I'm not Warren Buffett. | |
| I know that. | |
| Lesson two. | |
| Warren Buffett's smart. | |
| But don't think that he's a soothsayer. | |
| Don't think he leaves the market before tops and reinvests before bottoms. | |
| No, I mean he doesn't, he nobody can can uh can predict what's going to happen when. | |
| Uh he he makes investments in good companies, he accepts the downs of corrections in bear markets over the long haul. | |
| His methods are not secret, anybody can learn them. | |
| Do you mean rush? | |
| I can make 27,000 times my money. | |
| No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying here, folks. | |
| Just I wanted to use that example because it was on Newsweek. | |
| But you could be one-tenth as good uh or one hundredth as good. | |
| Remember, you're not starting with just a single one thousand dollars. | |
| That's just an example. | |
| Try a thousand dollars a year that you invest, or try a thousand dollars a month. | |
| Whatever you have, and then and then add it up over fifty years. | |
| This takes us to lesson four. | |
| And this is the this is the real point about all this. | |
| Just think, if your social security withholdings were invested for those fifty years, not just the thousand dollars, even half of your quote-unquote contributions. | |
| The FICA on your pay stub, imagine that's invested, and you leave it alone from the minute you start working until the day you retire. | |
| Yep, the market's gonna go up and down. | |
| It's gonna have corrections. | |
| There's gonna be bear markets. | |
| There's gonna be imagined and predicted crashes. | |
| Just like there have been, you can take any 50 years period of the stock market and you're gonna find those same up, same up and downs. | |
| But over those fifty years, whenever you start and whenever you end, you're gonna find a market way up over when it uh started uh at the beginning of the 50 years. | |
| So uh it it this this Social Security business, when they tried to reform it, President wanted to reform it and let people invest a portion of it. | |
| You know, you have a market like today and a Democrat, oh no, but everybody's gonna lose everything they've got. | |
| And of course, inexperienced people, you know, I am gonna No, you're gonna lose it. | |
| Leave it alone. | |
| And you don't panic. | |
| Now, if if uh if if you're if you're looking for signs yesterday's volume uh on the stock market lower than the day of the last big drop ten days ago. | |
| That's an encouraging tea leaf. | |
| Uh and the and the Fed has pumped a you know twice today. | |
| They've fumped a uh pumped a bunch of money into the liquidity markets, and it is causing the market to come back a little bit, it's rallying a little bit from uh from it, it just started tumbling again when it opened. | |
| But patience, patience, patience, take any 50-year period, uh start to end, and you'll find a market that's way up over when it began. | |
| Uh let's start with the audio soundbikes here. | |
| Uh, ladies and gentlemen from last night's uh human rights campaign forum with the Democrat presidential candidates. | |
| The moderator was Melissa Etheridge, and she had this exchange with the uh Democrat front runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton. | |
| I remember when uh your husband was elected president. | |
| I actually came out publicly during his inaugural week. | |
| It was a very hopeful time for the gay community. | |
| For the first time we were being recognized as uh American citizens. | |
| It was wonderful. | |
| We were very, very hopeful. | |
| And in the years that followed, our hearts were broken. | |
| We were thrown under the bus. | |
| We were pushed aside. | |
| All those great promises that were made to us. | |
| What promise? | |
| A year from now are we going to be left behind like we were before? | |
| Well, you know, obviously, Melissa, I don't see it quite the way that you describe, but I respect your feeling about it. | |
| I think that uh we certainly didn't get as much done as I would have liked. | |
| But I believe that uh there was a lot of honest effort going on by the president, the vice president, and the rest of us who were trying to keep the uh the momentum going. | |
| Well, what are we talking about here? | |
| Does anybody have the slightest clue? | |
| I don't. | |
| I don't know what promises were made. | |
| What promises does uh Melissa Etheridge remember Bill Clinton having made? | |
| And then how uh when did they get thrown under the bus? | |
| When did they get for what? | |
| I mean, you can say, don't ask, don't tell, but I mean that that I don't think she's talking about that. | |
| Um and of course there's Hillary. | |
| Well, uh, there could have been a lot more done. | |
| And these people had eight years to do all of this stuff, and they didn't get this, you know, we were talking the other day when we had the questions at the AFL CIO forum at Soldier Field, and all these union guys parade up there to the microphone, start asking their questions. | |
| They've been voting Democrat for as long as they've been alive. | |
| Their lives are miserable, their future is bleak, they want to know what's wrong with America, what's the president gonna do to fix it? | |
| They keep voting for him. | |
| It's like you know, battered wife syndrome. | |
| People don't understand a battered woman syndrome. | |
| That women just hang around even though they get abused. | |
| Nobody can understand it. | |
| And uh uh, I mean, there are psychological explanations for it. | |
| They're battered liberal send them for crying out loud, the liberals in this country have been battered by the Democrat Party for all these years, and they just keep going back to them. | |
| And here's another example. | |
| Here's Melissa Etheridge got thrown under the bus. | |
| Couldn't trust the one group they gave all their money to, the Democrats couldn't trust them, didn't get delivered. | |
| What are they gonna do? | |
| Going to go back and vote for them all over again. | |
| Definition of insanity. | |
| Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. | |
| When a different result's impossible. | |
| Uh Etheridge says uh to Hillary, this next answer, get this. | |
| Melissa Etheridge said, Well, why not be the leader now? | |
| Well, I think I think I am a I think I am a leader now. | |
| Uh if I were sitting where you're a minute. | |
| You think you think you are a leader? | |
| Did you cue that back up to the top? | |
| Well, I think I think I am. | |
| I th I I think I'm a leader now. | |
| Uh tell you what, you know, th this question really put them off. | |
| I know what's happening here, folks. | |
| They are duty bound to go out and address this group, and they're duty bound to go out there and pander to them and say whatever. | |
| But they gotta be really, really, really careful because this thing is on television. | |
| They have to be real careful how they pander here, and so she's Hillary's, you know, she's back on her heels here with this because she's being very, very defensive, because this thing is being televised. | |
| Plus, you don't want to anger this bunch. | |
| There was a there was a a story the other day, and I forget the source of the story. | |
| I had it in the stack, I didn't get a chance to get to it. | |
| Uh it was that the endorsement of political figures by gay and lesbian groups and individuals has no impact on the American population at large in terms of how they're going to vote. | |
| Uh so w this is about, you know, fundraising here and the and the Democrats, you know, they gotta be very careful talking about gay marriage here. | |
| They they they they know what the mood of the country is on that. | |
| So here's her answer again to the question why not be the leader now? | |
| Well, I think I think I am a I think I am a leader now. | |
| Uh if I were sitting where you're sitting with all you have gone through in the last fourteen years, Um I'm sure I would feel exactly the same way because, you know, not only did you bravely come out, but you've had health challenges and so much else. | |
| And so time can't go by slowly. | |
| You want things to move as quickly as possible, which I, you know, understand and and um wish could happen as well. | |
| Man, that was bold, folks. | |
| That was just that was bold. | |
| That's Mrs. Clinton and her boldest best, wasn't it? | |
| You know, Democrats say they want openly gay people in the military. | |
| They want uh they all want to open up all these doors and so forth. | |
| Uh how about an openly gay running mate? | |
| How about that? | |
| Seems to me that these Democrats uh candidates need to be put to the test. | |
| The military says openly gay people in the ranks would be disruptive. | |
| The same can't be said of a gay running mate, can it? | |
| I mean, if gays are no different in terms of civil rights than blacks, then why won't a Democrat candidate commit to running with a gay person on the ticket? | |
| That would be real leadership. | |
| We got the first female, we got the first black here. | |
| Where's the gay running mate if they're really serious? | |
| What do you mean gonna have a good time? | |
| We're in the middle of a good time. | |
| Uh more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, right? | |
| Back to the human rights campaign forum in Los Angeles with the Democrat uh presidential candidates. | |
| I gotta go out there this afternoon. | |
| I'll be in Los Angeles for the uh for the weekend. | |
| Uh timing worked out here. | |
| Melissa Etheridge uh says to candidate Bill Richardson, do you think homosexuality is a choice or is it biological? | |
| It's a choice. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I don't know if you understand the question. | |
| Do you think a homosexual is born that way? | |
| Or do you think that around seventh grade we go, oh, I want to be gay? | |
| I'm not a scientist. | |
| I don't see this as an issue of science or definition. | |
| I see gays and lesbians as people as a matter of human decency. | |
| It's hard when you are a citizen of a country that tells you that you are making a choice when you are you were born that way. | |
| And your creator made you that way, and there's a document that was written 200 years ago that says you are entitled to certain rights that you are not given. | |
| What the hell was this last year? | |
| Can there be anything other than absolute equal rights for homosexual? | |
| Well, that's always been my view, as I said. | |
| You know, the Democrat candidates were there just as a bunch of pawns. | |
| Did you catch the way this began? | |
| Do you think homosexuality is a choice or is it biological? | |
| And and then Richardson said it's a choice. | |
| Ether said, I don't think you understand the question. | |
| Why did you ask it? | |
| What is that your final it's why did you ask the question? | |
| I don't think you I mean, there's obviously only one answer to that question. | |
| So she gave him a chance to slither back into it, and he was lost. | |
| Had no clue. | |
| I mean, some people are good panderers and uh and some aren't. | |
| Now, Etheridge and Edwards, the Breck girl, have uh have this exchange. | |
| I have heard that you have said in the past that you feel uncomfortable around gay people. | |
| Are you okay right now? | |
| Yes. | |
| It's it's okay. | |
| Very calm. | |
| I'm perfectly comfortable. | |
| It's not true. | |
| It is not a good one. | |
| I will I take that back. | |
| I'm parenting. | |
| No, I know where it came from. | |
| It came from a political consultant, and he's just wrong. | |
| And Elizabeth and I were both there, and both of us have said he's wrong. | |
| Well, let's go back. | |
| Let's review what Mrs. Edwards recollection of the Schrum incident is. | |
| Srum wrote in his book, you know, that Edwards said he he was asked about gay rights and uh so forth. | |
| And I'm uncomfortable uh around those people. | |
| That's what Schrum wrote in the in the book. | |
| Uh more troubling was an exchange we had one afternoon where throwing around questions and answers in his law firm's conference room. | |
| What's your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights? | |
| I asked. | |
| I'm not comfortable around those people was how he began his answer. | |
| Uh you were there, Elizabeth. | |
| This is on late edition with Wolf Blitzer. | |
| Uh, what really happened? | |
| I believe that Bob Schrum brought up uh the issues of uh gays and lesbians. | |
| And uh John said, you know, I come from a small southern town, uh Baptist, you know, as far as I know, I don't know, you know, see this is he said honestly an abstract issue from me, because he said, you know, I don't I don't really know as far as I know, know any gay people. | |
| Um, you know, so sort of talked to me about it, and I said, Well, actually you do. | |
| And I said, I referred to a friend of mine from English graduate school, and how John and Ivan out for the evening. | |
| I saw this old friend from English graduate school when we were still in law school, and I went over and spoke to him, and I knew that he was gay. | |
| Uh and I said, you know, I'm I'm engaged. | |
| There's the fellow over there I'm engaged to, and he said, Oh, he's awfully cute. | |
| I might snake him if he wasn't with you. | |
| And I told John that, and this is where he used the word uncomfortable. | |
| He said, That made me feel uncomfortable. | |
| So Bob correctly remembers the word uncomfortable, but incorrectly remembers the uh circumstances in which he said it. | |
| I mean, uh all of us feel uncomfortable about someone trying to snake us in the presence of our fiance, and uh that made him feel uncomfortable. | |
| John talked about that. | |
| So he remembers it slightly, but it remembers it incorrectly. | |
| I remember thinking in quite good detail from years ago, and I remember this conversation very clearly, and I have talked to John about that, and he does recall exactly the same thing. | |
| Right. | |
| The uh I talked to John, and we got our we got our talking point straight. | |
| Now he sees it that way too. | |
| That's uh that's the official family position on this. | |
| Um she has to explain there why the potential snaking uh made uh John Edwards uncomfortable. | |
| So Edwards then shows how tough he is. | |
| It's time to take the obligatory shot at uh at Ann Coulter, Jonathan K. Park, the Washington Post said, Senator Edwards. | |
| When you were the VEEP nominee in 2004, many gays and lesbians felt they were being used as a scare tactic by the right wing and the Republican Party and the Democrats didn't do anything to defend them. | |
| Why should the gay community think that it will be defended this time by you? | |
| Lisa mentioned my wife Elizabeth. | |
| I was very proud of Elizabeth for taking Ann Coulter on and taking her own head off. | |
| If you stand quietly by and let it happen, what happens is it takes hold. | |
| And it takes hold, and then people begin to believe it's okay. | |
| You know, it's okay to use the kind of language that Ann Coulter uses. | |
| It's okay for the Republicans in their politics to divide America and use hate mongering to separate us. | |
| I tell you, I is this as painful for you people listen to us as for me. | |
| I mean, this is pathetic. | |
| This is literally pathetic. | |
| This is pure pandering. | |
| These people haven't got the guts or the courage to say what they really think in front of this group because all it's about here is money. | |
| They are big donors to the Democrat Party, and this is what they've got to do to get it. | |
| They gotta go out there and make all these promises, but these poor people in the gay community out there in this forum are going to end up being like those poor people in Chicago at Soldier Field, a bunch of battered libs feeling sold out, left out, disappointed. | |
| Once again, when it's all said and done, there is one guy out there, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| There is one guy who is willing to speak his mind about homosexuality. | |
| That's the uh former Senator Mike Gravell. | |
| Uh he was uh not asked the question about Sparta yesterday, he was asked how he convinces his generation of straight white men on gay issues. | |
| My generation? | |
| Well, most of them are wrong. | |
| When I was a kid, uh there's a lot of homophobia around. | |
| I can recall when uh when the with the gay issue was what uh fifty-five percent opposed, forty percent for, and lo and behold, now if you're talking about the gay issue general, it's probably fifty-five, almost fifty-nine percent for, and the rest are in the dustbin of history. | |
| The same thing's gonna happen with the marriage issue. | |
| I'll tell you, I'll make you a promise. | |
| Five years from now, the marriage issue will be a non-issue in the next presidential campaign. | |
| Just that's interesting. | |
| All right, so he's out there, he's he's he's willing to tell him what he thinks. | |
| He's not pandering around, he doesn't care who in the general population he offends with that because he knows he's not gonna get the nomination. | |
| Uh let's give you another example of the boldness. | |
| And the cast it all aside and proceed down the fork in the road, taking both pathways. | |
| Mike Gravel in New Hampshire at a gay rights. | |
| Uh what was it? | |
| Uh gay rights, it was uh gay rights. | |
| I would say like a well, I don't know, it was uh it was an event, gay pride event, yeah. | |
| You know something? | |
| Clinton was dead wrong, dead wrong on that issue. | |
| It's ridiculous. | |
| He was trying to be mousey and in the middle. | |
| When Clinton got to be president, well, first thing he's doing is standing on to-leight, waffling back and forth. | |
| Oh, don't tell us you're gay. | |
| What are you talking about? | |
| If you had any knowledge of of history, ancient history, in Sparta, they encouraged homosexuality because they fight for the people they love. | |
| And if it's your partner and you love them, you're prepared to die for them. | |
| And that's the same ethic you see in the military today. | |
| It's not the country. | |
| It's my partner. | |
| Go see the movies on war, and it's always the person next to me who's in my boxhole with me. | |
| Well, I gotta tell you, extend that a little further, and you'll see why the Spartans trained their people to be homosexuals because they were better fighters. | |
| It's open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| I've got one more sound bite. | |
| This is from the aftermath, uh the the the post-show wrap-up last night after the logo networks uh forum with a human rights campaign and the Democrat candidates. | |
| Uh this is comedian and actor Alec Mappa giving his analysis of the performances last night of the Democrat presidential candidates. | |
| Dennis Kucinich seemed like a magical person, like he had was born in a flower and you know, came to life out of you know, it was like he was like a it being in the presence of like Santa Claus. | |
| Bill Richardson seemed like Eeyore, you know, from Winnie the Pooh, kind of like, well, you guys, it's the best I can do. | |
| Um and where it kind of came across as a little patronizing to me. | |
| Um Obama looked me right in the eye, shook my hand, and told me that he loved me. | |
| So uh on a personal note, you know, I'm gonna be having dreams. | |
| Um but the one who really changed the temperature in the room tonight was Hillary. | |
| It felt like she was one of us. | |
| It felt like I don't know, the other ones kind of felt like there were other candidates that came in like, hi, gay folks, how are you? | |
| I'm safe to be here, you know. | |
| Overline Friday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, and we go to Fresno in California to start with Bridget, your first today on Open Line Friday. | |
| Hey, how are you? | |
| I'm fine, how are you? | |
| I'm good, I'm good. | |
| I'm so excited to talk with you. | |
| You know, I have to say, you truly are the most optimistic man in America, and you just crack me up with your observations. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| It called yesterday about something else. | |
| But uh what I wanted to ask you is I'm gonna be starting golf lessons later uh this month. | |
| Oh no. | |
| And I know why. | |
| Another woman on the golf course. | |
| Well, I'll try and I'll try and take it slowly in those little cards. | |
| I'm just kidding. | |
| I'm just look at I was up late last night. | |
| I'm in one of these giddy moods, so don't take any of this up personally. | |
| I just thought, you know, I just left. | |
| Uh don't. | |
| Yes. | |
| You you're trying you're right. | |
| You're right. | |
| Did I tell you did I tell you that Rush is one of my all-time favorite guy names? | |
| No, but uh you just did. | |
| Quick, what's the what what let me ask you a question, Bridget. | |
| What uh before you get in the golf business here, because I got a great way of teaching women to to play golf if you're interested. | |
| Private lessons? | |
| Well, yes, and you start out with the irons, you gradually work our way into the woods. | |
| Okay. | |
| I love it when you flirt. | |
| It's it's an old joke. | |
| What's the question about golf? | |
| Well, I love your optimistic attitude, and I love that you have a passion for the sport. | |
| So I want to know, since I have no background, nothing preconceived going into this, what insight or pearls of wisdom would you share with me so that I can develop the same kind of passion for it that you have. | |
| Um well, I I what all I can just tell you is why I have this passion for it. | |
| A uh it's it's beautiful wherever you go to play. | |
| B, you're always with friends doing it. | |
| You're with people you choose to be with. | |
| C, when I'm out playing golf, I don't think about anything else. | |
| I am totally absorbed in it. | |
| I remember when I worked for the uh Kansas City Royals, a lot of players, when they had an off day, just couldn't wait to go fishing. | |
| And I I'm not a big fisherman. | |
| I caught 22 bluegill one day, and I think it's a smell off my hands when I was like ten years old for like a month, so I I've just think I can still smell it. | |
| But they I said, What is it what what is it about fishing? | |
| What I they they get away from it all. | |
| I don't think about anything else when I'm doing it. | |
| And that's I now know what they meant because that's that's what golf is to me. | |
| But it's a test. | |
| It's you can measure your improvement each time you play. | |
| You're playing against the course and yourself. | |
| And and it's a it's a it's a it's also you'll find out everything you want to know about somebody playing around in golf with them. | |
| You'll find out if they quit, you'll find out if they cheat, you'll find out they have honor. | |
| Uh you'll you'll find out about their sense of humor. | |
| You'll find pretty much everything you want to know. | |
| But the great thing that it does, it tests you mentally. | |
| Uh and y y it golf, you know, all things being equal, and once you get your lessons underway and you s you swing down where you can actually hit the ball, it's gonna be eighty percent in your head. | |
| Uh, and not getting down on yourself and not and not thinking you can't do it, uh wanting to give up, not getting frustrated because there's always the next shot. | |
| Uh and anything can happen. | |
| And it's it's you know, I still get mad out there. | |
| I still blow up. | |
| Well, I don't blow up, but internally I blow up, and that's what the great test is maintaining an even emotional keel. | |
| In fact, you go to PGA tour, Bridget, those guys they can all hit it, they can all chip, they can all put. | |
| Uh Tiger Woods may be better at it than all the rest of them, but what he's really better at is ignoring everything else going on around him and focusing uh on just his performance uh and what he has to do and not be affected by anything else he sees, somebody else does, and not being affected by when he screws up, which he does a lot. | |
| Uh it's just a great, great, great metal exercise. | |
| Plus, there is something. | |
| Bridget, as a guy, there is something nearly orgasmic hitting the ball 300 yards down the middle off the tee. | |
| It just nearly, I said, nearly. | |
| Well, I must say, I think I'm looking forward to it even more now. | |
| Uh what made you want to pick it up? | |
| Well, my mom actually has a set of really nice golf clubs that she offered to give me, and um my husband's a musician and he plays gigs occasionally at uh golf courses, and I was out there one day helping him set up, and I heard these guys, I guess I don't know if they call it the driving range where it lines up, and and I heard and hit that ball, and it was that huge whack kind of sound, and I just thought, you know what? | |
| I think I might like that. | |
| Yeah, the whack sound does it every time. | |
| Uh I know exactly what you mean and uh and what you're talking about. | |
| It is fun when you hit the ball right, when you flush it, meaning when you hit it on a screws, meaning when you hit it in the center club face. | |
| It's just it's I'm telling you, it is so sweet. | |
| It it really is. | |
| It looks easy until you get up there and do it. | |
| Well, I tell you what, if it's if I get out of it, what you've uh what you shared with me is possible. | |
| I I can see why you are passionate about it. | |
| Because I I love I love the fact that it's just so much more than hitting a little white ball around the grass. | |
| If you take it seriously, it is. | |
| Uh if you if that's all if if anybody goes out and plays if that's all it is, then they're not going to enjoy it. | |
| They're gonna say, when's this over? | |
| This is stupid, sitting a hitting this white ball around this cow pasture. | |
| What am I doing here? | |
| But if you if you understand what it's all about uh and and really use it as a as a measure of your improvement every time you play. | |
| Uh and you can you can see that. | |
| And everybody likes getting better at everything they do. | |
| Yep. | |
| And that's uh everybody that that's a great sense of achievement. | |
| And uh golf is one of those things that that uh anybody can really go play. | |
| Uh it looks so seductive, ball's not moving. | |
| You go try to hit somebody throwing a fastball 95 miles an hour at you with a round bat, that's hard. | |
| This looks easy. | |
| Ball's not moving. | |
| It's just sitting there waiting to be whacked, as you say, and then you try it, and you find out it is not as easy as the great ones make it look. | |
| But I hope you love it. | |
| I hope you have a great time with it. | |
| I hope so too. | |
| Okay, Bridget. | |
| You take care. | |
| You do the same. | |
| We'll be back here in just a second, folks, on open line Friday. | |
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