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Aug. 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
I I will tell you what, I uh ladies and gentlemen, it is rare, very, very rare, that I amaze myself.
I'm so accustomed to being who I am.
But I'll tell you, the news today is filled with so many CI told you so from yesterday and the day before, that even I am amazed and excited to pass this uh evidence on to you.
We got a lot to do today on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Here we are at the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Already Wednesday, it's the uh fastest week in media.
This is Hump Day.
Looking forward to talking to you.
The telephone number here, 800-282-288-2, and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Programming note Carl Rove on the program in one hour.
He'll be here at the top of the uh of the next hour in his first broadcast interview since announcing his uh resignation from the White House.
Uh you all remember, I mean over the course of the many years of service to the nation that I have conducted here behind the golden EIB microphone, I've shared with you several intimate and personal details of uh of my life, and one of those is that I always wanted to be older.
I mean, from the time I started work when I was sixteen, I wanted to be older.
I have the uh my my family, I happen to hang around with a lot of adults, and the adults always seem to be happier and more secure and independent and free than I ever was as a kid.
Childhood to me was prison, school was prison.
I couldn't wait to get out of those circumstances.
I wanted to be on my own, and I've I've had this instinct of mine confirmed every year of my life.
Every year's been better than the year before.
When I was 25, I wanted to be 40.
I wanted to get those years behind me.
I wouldn't I mean I had to do them, but I mean I was looking forward to getting older, which is rare and unique because most people dread it.
Well, lo and behold, hubba hub.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers new research that indicates my instincts are are are uh uh well in my case they were right.
Men in their late 30s and early 40s are the least content of all of us.
Uh there's uh there's new research out there uh that has been done, and this is now this is from uh uh uh the UK, but I think it's uh it's probably applicable in a number of Western uh democracies.
Whether they're mourning the passing of their prime or struggling to cope with the demands of a job and young family, those between 35 and 44 invariably hit a midlife crisis when their happiness level plunges lower than at any other age.
Now, this is study that was done for the government.
Uh the British government.
Make it it makes uh men between 35 and 44 the least satisfied members of society scoring well below teenagers, the elderly, and women of all ages.
Researchers found it takes men until they reach the age of 65 to start enjoying life as much as they did in their late teens and early twenties.
Now, you know, that's that that that makes big sense to me.
I didn't particularly enjoy my life in the late teens and early twenties, as much as I am now.
I mean, I enjoyed it.
But I mean, it wasn't it wasn't happy go-lucky frolic around time because I started working.
Well, I mean, first job when I was thirteen, shining shoes in a barber shop, but I started working when I was sixteen.
And that's when I got serious about it, because I wanted to get those years behind me.
Research confirms that the overall average satisfaction level of both sexes uh was 7.3, whatever that means.
Uh most men rated their carefree teenage years between the age of 16 and 24 as one of their happiest periods, with an average score of 7.55 out of 10.
But halfway through their careers, satisfaction levels dipped to a low of 6.8, only rising to nearly 7.8 once they had crested retirement age.
Uh it's not a big deal, but I um I was I just love passing the Assante.
And you gotta love John Daly.
John Daly, uh you just have to love this.
He's won two majors on the PGA tour.
He's he's over in uh in Europe uh with the Scandinavian Masters Tournament.
Uh uh winning the uh the PGA championship last week in uh in Tulsa, Tiger Woods uh said, you know, this heat was not a big deal to me because I work out.
I work out a lot, I was used to it.
I can handle it, I prepare for this.
So they asked John Daly uh if uh if if he had because Tiger keeps winning because he works out, is uh is Daly going to change his lifestyle.
Uh and he said, No.
I I have no intention of changing my lifestyle.
I think I did better than most players last week who do work out.
I don't think it matters if you work out if you don't work out.
I'm used to the heat.
Fat boys like me can get through the heat.
I tried, but every time I worked out, I threw up, and I thought to myself, you can get drunk and throw up, so it's it's just not for me.
Uh I'm flexible enough.
There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, I'd rather drink, diet, coax, and eat.
I get enough exercise walking five or six miles a day.
You just gotta love this.
The irreverence and the and the and the unwillingness here to to to conform, uh uh you might disagree with it, but the guy knows who he is, and he's not gonna change himself for anybody uh for any reason.
He's gonna change himself for himself someday when he uh when he gets around to it.
Minorities worry more about the housing slump.
Really, is this can we count on the drive-by media to constantly tell us on any economic story where the news is bad, women and minorities hardest hit.
As usual.
African Americans and Hispanics are far more worried than whites about declining U.S. house prices, and there are three times uh more likely to say it's getting tougher to obtain a home loan.
Nationwide survey, 1,020 likely voters conducted August 9 through 11 when concerns about tightening credit terms sparked a global stock market slide.
Some 60 percent of African Americans said they're very concerned about declining home prices compared with just 19 percent of whites.
A third of Hispanics said they were very concerned.
Uh Zogby said the findings reflect growing economic uncertainty and a feeling of declining hope among minorities, even as consumer confidence surveys show Americans overall feeling generally upbeat.
Uh the the the Zogby says it's a bifurcated country.
Now, you know the purpose of this story.
The purpose of story, class envy, we're not equal, folks.
We don't have equality of outcomes.
This is an injustice.
It's always women and minorities and the poor who are hardest hit by uh downturns in the economy.
Maybe.
Maybe, my friends, the answer would be to stop whining about it and look to why this is the difference, or why there is a difference.
And instead of denigrating whites because they're successful and optimistic, why don't people go out and try to emulate them?
The thing about this that does always amazed me and with liberalism uh and and uh and the drive-by media is when you have economic disparities, you're always gonna have them.
The liberals seek to fix them by lowering those at the top, punish them, tax them, make it tougher on them, rather than elevate people at the bottom, which is and more conservatism 101.
That's exactly what conservatism doesn't want to do.
We want to try to elevate those at the bottom, motivate them, inspire them, give them uh give them confidence.
Most people have no clue how good they can be.
They have no idea what's inside them because they haven't had anybody around them that had high expectations of them.
And if they've been around liberals and Democrats all their lives, they're gonna be told that they have no prayer, that America's unjust and it's unfair, and you don't have a chance.
The deck's stacked against you.
The establishment's gonna keep stepping on you.
And of course they grow to believe this, and they end up feeling victimized and disadvantaged, and then Democrats come along and say, Don't worry about it.
We'll punish those people at the top.
We'll raise their taxes.
And the poor and the minorities go, yeah, yeah, soak them.
Their lives don't improve as a result.
Uh and we can demonstrate that uh the lives of the wards of the state, wherever the state is, do not improve.
Uh you know, there's a there's an implied hint here in this story that racism is keeping people worried and scared, and that if to the extent that it's true, uh uh it is it is uh uh thought that's put in their heads by uh Democrats in the drive-by's.
Yes, uh, Mr. Snerdley, it.
Uh no, no.
1,020, 1,000, it's a it's uh it's not a it it's a scientific zogby poll.
I didn't did I say 125 people?
Did I say 125 people?
You you people aren't listening.
You are you are chatting amongst yourselves in there, and I I read it right at 1,020 like if I said 125, fine.
It's a win one thousand twenty likely voters.
Uh uh well, uh there doesn't know where, but it's uh probably blue cities.
Uh but but now companion story.
You just knew this one had to follow.
Both of these are Reuters stories, by the way.
Democratic White House hopeful seize on housing woes.
So here we have the obligatory story Women and Minorities hardest hit.
Have no chance.
There's racism in America.
And here comes the next story.
Democrat White House hopeful seize on housing woes.
Uh Democrat presidential hopefuls have seized on the deepening U.S. mortgage crisis and gyrating financial markets as signs they would be better stewards of the economy.
But the interesting thing, I don't know how this made it into the story, but I want you to listen to the last paragraph, which is a shocker coming from Reuters.
I think if the election were to happen today, the Democrats would have trouble getting traction, said Kenneth Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard who has advised Senator McCain.
Very hard to say what you want to change without coming off as if you don't believe in the miracle of the American economy.
So he says, okay, you Democrats, you want to change things?
What are you gonna change?
Everything the lot of people look at consumer confidence surveys uh are feeling pretty optimistic.
So surprised that made it into the uh story.
Now, uh very quickly.
Excuse me, last uh I don't know, week or two ago, one of the things that I uh shared with you was the problem in Russia.
The average age in Russia, the average male life expectancy, fifty-seven years.
Their big problems are alcoholism, because what else are you gonna do there, you know, in the wintertime?
You know, vodka, I mean, they they drink it at work, plus AIDS via needles.
Uh and Putin is worried about this.
They're all worried about this.
In fact, their their population in Russia right now is 141 million in 20 or 30, maybe it's 40 years, it's gonna be a hundred million.
They have a low birth rate replacement level, and of course, uh they're they're not living very long.
So uh the Russian government has decided to give citizens a day off so that they can procreate.
A day off to go out there and get it on, and they're even gonna give them prizes.
Uh they've found a novel way to fight their uh their birth rate crisis September 12th, the day of conception, they're calling it.
Uh and for the third year running, giving couples time off from work to procreate.
Uh the the the well, let me see, what are the prizes here?
Uh well, the 2007 grand prize went to Arena and Andrey Kartasov, who received a UAZ Patriot, a sport utility vehicle so they can continue to cause global warming.
So uh uh uh I don't know what how do you win this?
Uh cash incentive.
Let me read the whole thing.
I I just I got caught up here in the headline because I was talking about this two or three weeks ago.
Now now the day of conception, September 12th.
Uh it it is this well it is it is pro-life.
There's no question it's pro-life.
Uh, but I want to find out what you have to do to win the prize.
And I'll find that out here in just a second.
Lots to do here, folks.
Sit tight.
We have only just begun.
All right, here's here's here's apparently how this works.
The the uh the uh uh day of conception is September 12th throughout Russia.
And uh the hope is that the nine months later be a whole bunch of babies born.
And so, and that's Russia's national day.
January June 12th is Russia's national day.
Uh so couples who give birth to a patriot, a kid, during the June 12th festivities when money, cars, refrigerators, and other prizes.
So that's it.
Uh it's not how many you have, it's just that you do it.
And then they pay you off.
Refrigerators, even.
Uh cars, money, and uh, and and other prizes.
In fact, uh, we have a guy on on the phone here who has a question about this.
Uh in Culpepper, Virginia.
Hey, Paul, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Megadethos from the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Thank you, sir.
Russ, I was just wondering, uh, how do you think the uh National Organization of Women would take it?
If we had a uh a procreation day in a day of conception, oh, the nags would flip.
The nags would oh, that's a great thought.
Pro-life day, conception day.
Uh anyway, the great thing about uh the United States is that we don't have to uh have a procreation day.
Everybody's getting it on in a lunch hour anyway.
Uh we we we we do this without having to be told.
Uh anyway, that would be fun just just to tweak them.
Uh that could be hilarious.
The New York City Council is preparing a new ban on smoking by parents in cars.
City Council member from Queens, chairman of the Council's Environmental Protection Committee, James Gennaro, said he's planning to introduce the smoking bill next week.
I'm just I'm just seeking every opportunity I can to denormalize smoking and to try to put it out of the reach of kids.
He said, I've lost family members of lung cancer and I have seen what happens.
Somebody better tell this guy that the entire national and state, by the way, health care insurance program for kids depends on people buying cigarettes.
And if they're gonna buy them, they have to be able to smoke them.
If they can't smoke them anywhere, people aren't gonna buy them.
Now, you people that run governments, I don't care if it's city councils or the federal government or whatever, you're gonna have to figure something out here real quick.
Because if you're gonna fund everything with tobacco, you're gonna have to make sure the product can be used after it's purchased.
You can't at the same time try to get everybody to quit it and then demand that the taxes from it support a health care program.
I know what's going to happen with this.
It won't.
People will not pay the taxes on cigars that they're talking about, the buck a pack on cigarettes, it's already impacting sales.
And so everybody's out there saying to themselves about the children's health care program, sure, go ahead and tax those smokers, dirty, filthy rotten pigs, second-hand smoke.
If they want to kill themselves, great.
Make them pay.
Make them that's how this incremental taxation works.
Get all of you who don't smoke, supporting a tax increase on smokers.
Well, you know what's going to happen.
They're not going to generate enough revenue to pay for this stupid program, not when kids in this program are anybody 25 and under, and when families of 82,000 a year annual income qualify.
And so when the taxes from cigarettes cigarettes and cigars don't meet the costs, guess who's going to get taxed next, folks?
You.
They'll find a way to tax some other activity that you do, like drinking bottled water that you get from Chicago.
Uh or little inside joke there.
Or whatever else.
But you gotta be careful.
This this is somebody better tell him this.
I understand the need and the desire to get people to stop smoking.
Uh, but it's their own life.
If people want to smoke and if they want to do it in their cars with the kids in there, it's their life.
And if the you the more you allow nanny state government to step in and tell you how you can and can't live your private life, the more freedom you're going to end up losing.
Another huge C I told you so.
We had a discussion yesterday.
Somebody uh called, I forget what the question was, but we in a uh entered into a discussion on uh Iraq and the Democrats and why it is that all of a sudden the Democrats trying to change their tune, all these drive-by media outlets uh now suggest, oh, we can't get out of Iraq.
Whoa, of course not.
Why we can't pull out of it real fast.
New York Times offering cover to the Democrats, not just the presidential candidates, but also people like Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi, who've already proclaimed defeat.
So I threw out a hypothetical.
Yesterday.
I said, suppose this happens.
Suppose this report that Petraeus uh presents in the middle of September says, you know what, we can uh we can do with less troops here.
We can do with fewer boots on the ground in certain some some of these areas because uh surge is really working.
Uh what next?
What do the Democrats do next?
I'm telling you that what is happening right now, the drive-by media working in consort with the uh concert with the uh the Democrats are trying to get them back off the cliff uh and get them oriented to supporting the war By the end of the year, you know, November, December, that's that's uh when the electoral season begins.
Uh make no mistake about it.
This is they're trying to bring them back.
Adults somewhere in the liberal apparatus have recognized the Democrats had uh nowhere to go but over the cliff to total McGovernization and destruction by proclaiming and investing in the defeat of U.S. troops.
Well, lo and behold, LA Times today has a story saying that uh General Petraeus is expected to recommend removing American troops soon from several areas where commanders believe security has improved, possibly including Alan Bar Province.
This is ladies and this is what I mean.
Uh when I say I'm on the cutting edge side of evolution, and if you listen to this program, you are too.
That means you know what's going to happen in many cases before it does.
LA Times had it today.
I had it yesterday.
Brief time out as we uh go to an EIB profit center uh break.
Much more straight ahead, Carl Raw in a half hour.
That's right, folks.
More than even you could expect to get.
More than you can ask for.
We are here at 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, along with the uh stories we had from Reuters on the housing uh slump uh being uh hard on minorities and uh women, and so this is the obligatory narrative of the drive-by media.
Remember that quote from Reuters they put in from this Harvard uh economist who's worked on McCain's campaign.
Say that's a tough thing if a Democrats, you know, run for the uh presidency on change in the economy.
It's gonna be pretty risky because how in the world or why in the world, what is it about the miracle of the U.S. economy you want to change?
And he's exactly right.
We know what they want to change.
Uh they want to raise taxes, they want to slow economic activity down.
Well, they may not want to do that, but that's what will happen.
They want control over people's lives.
And along those lines, uh, surprising, surprising 94% of Americans say that they are satisfied with their lives.
Although far fewer in New York and other eastern states think they're better off than they were five years ago.
This is a Harris poll of more than a thousand people.
Uh and they reported the overall satisfaction level to find as people who said they were either very or somewhat satisfied with their lot.
It was up four percentage points from 90% two years ago.
But only 42% of people in the Eastern U.S. said things had improved since 2002.
By contrast, 60% of Southerners, 62% of Westerners said their lives had improved.
So uh consumer confidence is also high, and this is uh it's gonna be tricky uh for the Democrats to run around and say they want to change all of this.
Uh because the Democrats don't do you know, I'm not I shouldn't say this.
I I'm I'm reminded of the 1960 campaign, uh, Kennedy.
You know, things were really good in the we were burgeoning 50s, we were coming out of the recovery of World War II, and we were at histant in all kinds of uh uh boom cycles.
And uh JFK, I guess I'm safe in saying this because no Democrats can take advice from me.
JFK.
Uh so yeah, things are going good, but we can do even better.
Now, today's Democrats are not capable of that kind of optimism.
Today's liberals are not capable of that type of uh of upbeat and cheerful, rosy outlook.
Everything is doom and gloom, everything is a crisis.
We're one paycheck away from homelessness at sup line America.
Uh and, you know, they're sitting there with this notion of inevitability about their chances in 08, and the big issue that is gonna launch them to the White House is already falling apart on them, and that's the nature of the Iraq War.
Story from the Guardian, the UK guardian.
Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR, but a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing Wikipedia in order to improve their public image, called the Wikipedia scanner.
It trawls the backwaters of the popular online encyclopedia, and it's unearthed a catalog of organizations massaging entries, including the CIA and the Labor Party.
None of this surprises me.
What did interest me in this story is this.
Somebody from a computer traced to Democrat headquarters, edit a page on Rush Limbaugh's Wikipedia site, calling him idiotic, ridiculous, and labeling his 20 million listeners as legally retarded.
I don't waste, I don't, I have never read my Wikipedia entry.
I didn't do it.
I don't know who did.
I know anybody can add whatever they want.
I this is the first I've heard of this.
Somebody at the Democrat National Committee went in there and hacked.
It's like high school prank time.
As though they think this is going to make a difference.
Idiotic, ridiculous, and labeling the audience as legally retarded.
By the way, the Brett girl, ladies and gentlemen, has announced he's pulling his staff out of Nevada, and he's going to relocate some of his staff to uh uh the primary states with earlier voting going on out there.
The truth of the matter is he's given up Nevada.
The truth of the matter is it ain't working.
That's uh Paul Shanklin as a Bret girl as a Brett girl decamps, Nevada, and heads to other states, conceding the state, giving up, it's just the first of many to the phones.
We go to Detroit.
This is uh Mike.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey there, Rush.
Uh let me get this straight.
Russia is now more pro-life than the United States.
They have a lower income tax rate than we do, and they've retired their entire national debt.
I don't understand this picture.
I thought we're supposed to be the greatest economic engine and uh model in the world.
You have got to be killed.
What is your point here?
Well, they want us to go out and make babies with pro-life, which is a beautiful thing.
Their ink their income tax rate, I think topped out.
No, no, no, no.
They don't want us to go make babies.
They want them to go make babies.
Well, I understand.
I think that maybe some American politicians should be looking at uh the mod on the left, what I mean there, uh on the left should be looking at some of the uh uh models of Russia.
I see what you're saying.
The problem is that that this is not the old Soviet Union.
They're they're not the communists yet, they used to be.
They're the Putin, I think is is is is asserting the kind of tyrannical control that there used to be.
Uh, but he's got much bigger problems than that right now.
And his problem is his population dying off.
And and they're struggling.
They've got alcoholism and there's they do not have a uh uh a roaring economy.
Uh plus, you know, Putin's starting to get he's starting to militarize up again.
He's starting to he's starting to arm up.
He's flying all these military sorties that the Soviets used to fly, playing little cat and mouse games, some of our ships.
Uh somebody caught a picture of one of the bear bombers.
Uh we haven't seen a bear bomber in the air since 19 whatever it was, 94, and whatever it was, the but the giant, it's a propeller, the jet prop bomber, looks kind of like a B-52, but with huge props instead of jet engines.
And it's called the bear.
And they've been flying that thing around.
So he's in Putin, Putin has uh, folks, an inferiority complex.
He's a short little guy, nobody takes his country seriously anymore, at least not as the big threat that they used to.
And so that's why he's running around flexing his muscles and acting like he's going to do deals with the Iranians and uh cozying up to maybe Venezuela and so forth.
It's just to get everybody's attention.
Uh and he's former KGB.
And whatnot there is no such thing, actually as former KGB.
Once you are KGB, you are KGB.
And if you are become former KGB, then you become what they did to that guy lit Veninko in uh in Great Britain.
They poison you with uh polonium B212, whatever it is.
Uh so he's he's he's trying to to uh command a whole bunch more international respect, but he needs a population and he needs a functioning uh working productive population, and it's going the wrong way.
So they've got they've got a huge, huge problems.
The exact opposite of the Chinese.
The Chicoms, their big problems finding enough jobs for all their people.
I mean, they wouldn't mind losing a half billion of them in a war.
It'd be uh a lot less problems for him.
The biggest threat that uh Hu Xin Tao, the president has is keeping those countryside people living in the countryside.
If they flood the city, the cities of Chinese got big problems controlling them.
Anyway, uh I don't think that the I get your point.
I don't I don't think today's Democrats are looking to the Soviet or to the current Russia uh as uh a model.
Now, if it ever goes communist officially, then they will again.
Uh and they were hoping and praying for better results next time around.
Half my brain tied behind my back because I don't need the other half.
Also to make it fair for others.
Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Jason in a Logan, Utah.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
Just uh want to start uh this morning or this afternoon by uh saying thanks for shifting that talent that you uh have on loan from God.
Uh and just wanted to get a clarification from you.
Uh you made a comment uh a couple segments ago regarding uh cars with children.
Uh am I to understand that you are for or against that?
I understand you're against uh the government telling us where we can and can't do things.
I'm just curious uh what your thoughts were.
I am I am a I am against he's he's on a cell phone breaking up, is that what the noise is?
Yes, sir, probably.
Well, hang with me until you finally lose your you move are you on the move or are you stationary?
I'm on the move.
No, we'll probably lose you, but but hang in there as long as you can.
I am totally against the government coming into my car and into my house and telling me what I can and can't do, whether it's where how I use a cell phone, listen to the radio, or smoke a cigar cigarette.
And if you let them into your car, pal, because of your kids, then they're gonna be into your house because of your kids, and not just because of smoking.
And maybe you've got the wrong kind of toys, maybe you got the wrong kind of upholstery on your furniture, maybe you're using the wrong kind of floor wax.
Maybe your house is a pig style and they're gonna you let them in, and it's over.
So does that take away the free agency from the child, though, that has to suffer the rest of their lives from the smoke that their parents, you know, there is no documented evidence that secondhand smoke has killed anybody.
That is a myth.
The World Health Organization suppress their own survey on this.
We have it at Rushlinbaugh.com.
We put it up periodically.
Uh my my mom smoked, and look at me.
Well, my parents smoked.
My mom smoked in the car.
Now, most I think if a kid says to, Mommy, mommy, I don't want to smoke.
Most parents the sensitivity today probably is high enough that people aren't going to do it anyway.
I'm just saying, you let them in.
We already can't smoke outdoors.
You can't go you can't in New York, you can't smoke a cigarette in Central Park, not legally.
Central Park.
You can't smoke out, you can't smoke at Yankee Stadium.
You can't smoke a Shea Stadium.
You can't smoke anywhere.
And yet, here's the thing.
This is I said uh very clearly, very articulately in the first half hour of the program.
If you're gonna tax this product in order to support health care for the precious widowed children, you better be able to let the product that's being taxed be used.
And if you're gonna ban cigarette smoking everywhere and then still charge all these exorbitant taxes, you are gonna not generate the money that you want.
And see, you are proving my point.
You probably don't smoke.
Uh, and so it's okay to raise taxes on people who do.
It's okay to tell people who are smoking if they shouldn't be, especially around their kids.
Uh and if you know if it stayed in cars, they won't.
They'll they'll take it, uh they'll take it elsewhere.
Your own private property, they'll start telling you already tell you, and if it rains too much in your backyard and you got a flood, you can't mow the grass anymore.
You have a wetland.
With home to all kinds of critters out there that didn't show up and didn't live there until the rain fell.
Uh, this is a big big bugaboo uh with me.
And I hate the holier than thou among us, who think that everything they do in life is right, and so everybody's got to emulate them.
You smoke ew.
Ew, you are subhuman.
I must make you stop.
Now leave me alone.
Leave me alone.
Just if you, you know, you want to go out and live a dull, boring, pristine life.
It's not going to get you any significant longer years of life and my life is going to give me, you go right ahead, but don't impose it on me.
And by the way, my kids are my kids, and they're not yours, and they're not the state's, and it's my job to raise them, and if I goof it up, tough toenails.
At some point, the kids have to become adults anyway.
Lots of kids have grown up with route rotten parents and have gone on to have very successful lives.
Happens every day.
Most parents are bad at it anyway.
There's no school that you go to.
Back in just a second.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
National Treasure.
General, all around good guy, lovable, harmless, lovable little fussbull, Rush Limbaugh, the E. IB network to Atlanta.
And Jim, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, hi, Rush.
I haven't talked to you in a long time.
I went back to Springfield, West Springfield, Massachusetts, back in Atlanta.
Maybe I have better fortune, but I'm doing okay.
Um I will listen to you off and on.
I try to listen to you.
I I like your program.
You're very excellent at what you do.
Thank you.
I don't agree with you on everything.
Eight probably eight tenths of one percent.
I agree with you.
Well, we got a lot of room for growth then.
Yeah, I'm African American, I'm liberal.
I remember Mr. Bowl snarly.
He with you, so it must be something good about you.
He stuck with you this long.
Anyways, um, what bothered me a little bit got me under the collar when you were describing um um Barack Obama.
That's what I'm back in.
I like Hillary a little bit sometimes.
I'm a Clinton, you know I'm a Clinton.
I voted for the first Bush, our father.
Wait, wait, no, okay.
I'm you know what?
I've I've got 45 seconds here.
You you um I don't mean I shouldn't have shouldn't have taken your call here because I didn't I thought you had a different point that you were gonna make.
I I I do.
Um, what candidate did you think on the Republican side is white enough that you uh mentioned about Barack Obama being black and I'm not the one talking about whether Obama's black enough.
That's a liberal liberals make that up.
It's a liberals asking that question, uh uh, Jim, not me.
Oh, I know Rush.
I know, but you you know, you you you emphasize it a lot on um uh is he black enough or whatever.
I just want to know from another perspective.
I have friends from the case.
No, no, I I'm not emphasizing to be derogatory toward Obama.
I'm making fun of these guys.
I think they're the ones denigrating Obama, and his wife's even getting fed up with it now.
We got sound bites.
We got sound bites from her and him on this today.
He thinks it's silly, but she's mad about it.
It's it's your buddies that look at people and see skin color and wonder whether or not is authentic enough.
I don't even know what the hell that means, except he's not down for the civil rights struggle, I suppose.
Carl Rove coming up after the break.
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