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Aug. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back folks.
It's Rush Limbaugh and this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network coming to you from the EIB Southern Command, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the largest free education institution known to exist in the free or oppressed worlds.
There are no degrees and there are no graduates because the learning never stops.
Go to the top of the audio soundbite roster here, Mike.
Bill Moyers is just one of the latest to launch a drive-by attack on Karl Rove.
In and of itself, that's no big deal.
But something seriously happened to Bill Moyers.
He is, well, the train's off the tracks here.
Somebody must have stood in front of him, making him take a dirt road here because he's heading into the wilderness.
This is last Friday on a PBS Bill Moyers journal.
We have a lot of soundbites.
Here's the first one, a portion of his monologue about the president and Karl Rove.
Karl Rove figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious, draft-averse, naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas was to sell him as God's anointed in a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber even old Derricks and jackrabbits.
Using church pews as precincts, Rove turned religion into a weapon of political combat, a battering ram aimed at the devil's minions, especially at gay people.
It's so easy, as Carl knew, to scapegoat people you outnumber.
All right, now this is just laughable.
This is not even worth getting mad about.
This is so uninformed and frankly stupid that it speaks for itself.
But in this one bite is practically every element of the template and the prism through which liberals look at conservatives.
And I mentioned to you earlier they're all upset because they think Rove divided America by playing to the conservative base.
The conservative base is what?
Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
And so when Rove plays to those people, why he's dividing the country and he's turning those people of horrible values into a majority that's just damaging liberalism in America and so forth and so on.
So it's all here.
And of course, Bush is a blithering idiot.
He's an intellectually incurious, yet we just heard from Karl Rove that last year President Bush read 134 books.
Last year he read, I'll bet you Moyers hadn't read 134 books in the last 10 years.
Intellectually incurious.
draft-averse, naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket.
There's a caricature of Southern, and Moyers is from Texas, too, but this is the caricature here of Southerners.
You hayseed Hicks.
He forgot to mention he missed his two front teeth.
Forgot to mention a pickup truck with the gun rack in the back.
Here is, yeah, Moyers stayed with LBJ.
Moyers, I mean, it was an LBJ hack.
Moyers still is a Democrat hack.
Here's the next bite.
If God is love, as rumor has it, Rove knew in politics to bet on fear and loathing.
Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry of true believers, you coursen both politics and religion.
At the same time he was recruiting an army of the Lord for the born-again Bush, Grove was also shaking down corporations for campaign cash.
Cronic capitalism became a biblical injunction.
Greed and God won four elections in a row, twice in the Lone Star State and twice again in the nation at large.
Now, we never hear from Moyers how many millions and gazillions he has.
He's, of course, not greedy, but Rove knew in politics to bet on fear and loathing.
Never mind that in stoking the basest bigotry of true believers, like the Christian right, this is what they think of you, and he's letting it be known here.
Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry of true believers, you coarsen both politics and religion.
Oh, by the way, if God is love, as rumor has it.
He then finishes by attacking Rove's personal religion.
At his press conference this week, he asked God to bless the president and the country, even as reports were circulating that he himself had confessed to friends his own agnosticism.
He wished he could believe, but he cannot.
You have to wonder how all those folks on the Christian right must feel discovering they were used for partisan reasons by a skeptic, a secular manipulator.
On his last play of the game, all Karl Rove had to offer them was a Hail Mary Pass while telling himself there's no one there to catch it.
The interesting thing about this, of course, is that Carl Rove is an Episcopalian and has borne witness to his belief and his faith in public countless times and did so on TV over the weekend.
So this is just, this is insane.
The ramblings of a genuine lunatic.
Now, he was asked about this on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Wallace said, Bill Moyers went after you as an agnostic who flim-flammed a Christian right.
What do you say to that?
I'm a Christian.
I go to church.
I'm an Episcopalian.
I think he may have taken a comment that I made where I was talking about how I have had colleagues at the White House, Mike Gerson, Pete Wayner, Leslie Druon, Josh Bowl, and others, who I'm really impressed about how their faith has informed their lives and made them really better people.
And I took a comment where I acknowledged my shortcomings in living up to the beliefs of my faith and contrasted it with how these extraordinary people have made their faith a part of their fiber.
And somehow or another, he goes from taking it from me being an Episcopalian wishing I was a better Christian to somehow making me into an agnostic.
You know, Mr. Moyers ought to do a little bit better research before he does another drive by slander.
Another drive by slander.
Amen.
Way to go, Carl.
10-4, buddy.
Rove just ran rings around these people.
Iran rings around David Gregory on Meet the Press yesterday.
It was just Gregory.
And these guys don't even know it.
You don't even get their stock questions.
Rove starts answering.
I mean, it's easy because he knows because of what their templates are, what the questions are going to be.
And when Rove starts giving the answers they don't want to hear, Gregory started interrupting him.
Let me finish.
Don't interrupt me, Rove said.
Just asserted himself.
I don't know.
I don't think Moyers knows how hateful he sounds at all.
I think none of these people know how hateful they sound.
They are love.
They are the good people.
They have care and good intentions in their bulging hearts.
What do you mean does he know how hateful he sounds?
He doesn't think that any liberal can possibly hate.
It's not in them.
The only haters are the Christian right.
And they hate Rove.
It's now coming out.
They hate Rove because he went out there and mobilized the Christian right.
He knew their racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
He knew it.
And yet he made them a powerful force.
And that's what divided America.
Liberals never think they're culpable or responsible for anything.
And plus, he knows that Rove is brilliant.
And it just bugs all of these because they're the ones that run around with this arrogance and this superiority thinking they're the smartest people in the room.
And these guys, Bush, with his tin can of chewing tobacco in a back pocket, draft a verse, run rings around the good people, the smart people, the elites.
I think they are livid.
I think Moyer's body, his internal organs, including his brain, are racked with resentment and hatred.
And he's being eaten up alive.
And he's letting us know just how much with all these sound bites.
Let's go back to Moyers and his attack on me, Abu Grab, and the loss of the late elite media monopoly.
This is August 9th.
Washington, D.C., the Association for Education and Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention that he keynoted.
Journalism is under fire today from ideologues.
The journalist whose reporting dares to challenge their party line becomes a candidate for Guntanamo.
Rush Limbaugh, notably, railed against journalists for their reporting on the torture at Abu Ghraib, which he dismissed as a little sport for soldiers under stress.
He told his audience, quote, this is no different from what happens at the Skull and Bones Initiation.
You ever heard of people who need to blow off some steam?
The Limbaugh line became a drumbeat in the right-wing echo chamber from which so many millions of Americans now get their news.
So I wasn't surprised to read that nationwide survey by the Chicago Tribune in which half of the respondents said there should have been some kind of press restraint on reporting about the prison abuse.
Journalism's under fire from ideologues.
See, they are not ideologues because liberalism is not an ideology.
They're not ideologues.
Yeah, I railed against them.
I rail and do this and do that.
Yeah, they think they hate me almost as much as they hate Rove.
Here's one more from the same keynote address.
Journalists and others who tried to challenge the administration's fallacious evidence for invading Iraq found the Patriot police on their tail.
Whatever Kool-Aid he's brewing for the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch could make a singular contribution to journalism simply by calling Fox News from the Republican fog machine and giving it a mandate to report reality instead of attacking those who do.
This is the most offensive of all these bites to me because I am the chief of the Patriot Police, not Rupert Murdoch.
And he knows it too.
Okay, people have been waiting patiently as they always do.
Oh, is that so?
Vic has copped a plea.
He's agreed to a plea deal on the dogfighting charges out there.
Well, we'll have to wait, see what the details of this are, but the preliminary reporting, of which we can trust very little, suggested he'd have to spend at least a year in jail, a year behind bars.
A grand jury convened today to consider additional charges, of course, the pressure the prosecutors put on him.
What nobody's talking about is the state of South Carolina wants in on this action.
They wanted additional charges too.
This is one of the things that held up the plea deal with the feds, from what I'm told, is South Carolina wanted to charge him with things that, if convicted on all of them, could get him 40 years in jail.
The Fed charges five or six.
And from what I understand, the Vic legal team was attempting to, if he copped a plea, the Fed charges that South Carolina would go away.
We'll just have to wait and see on what the details are.
Gretna, Virginia, Chris, I appreciate your patience.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Thank you.
Greetings from the old Dominion State.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing today?
Couldn't be better.
Well, that's great.
I wanted to comment on your opening montage about that MTV survey.
Yeah.
My son, he's 21 and he's in college, goes here locally.
And I'm not very computer literate, but I happened upon a MySpace program.
And after about an hour of fumbling around, I found out how to search for people.
I got my son on there, and I scrolled down through it.
And after a couple questions, it has, you know, one thing I was proud of.
It said, what drugs do you use?
He didn't do drugs.
And it says, what is your favorite pastime?
And he puts spending time with my parents.
Man, that blew me away.
I mean, did he know that you went to look at his MySpace page?
I'm sorry.
Did he know that you went to look at his MySpace page?
Yeah, he would never dream that I would know how to even get on there for one thing.
But I don't know if you're not.
This is fake.
This is the way I'm hearing this.
You took a stab at something you weren't confident doing.
You're not computer literate, but you went out there and you went to your MySpace page, and look what you found.
You might never have found this out.
Right, right.
And, you know, parents don't get many thanks for what they do and everything, but, you know, that was.
Amen.
Yeah.
Amen.
That was mine.
Well, congratulations out there.
And I just wanted to share that with you, and I appreciate you bringing it up.
Okay.
Well, I'm glad you called out there, Chris.
For those of you just joining us, let me give you the story details here.
It's an AP story that the AP and MTV polled 1,280 people between 13 and 24.
And spending time with family was the top answer to an open-ended question, what makes you happy?
Ask this question of the 13 to 24-year-olds, what makes you happy?
Number one answer, spending time with the family.
But predictably and in an obligatory fashion, this paragraph also in the story.
Other results are more disconcerting.
While most young people are happy overall with the way their lives are going, there are racial differences.
The poll shows whites to be happier across economic categories than blacks and Hispanics.
A lot of young people feel stress, particularly those from the middle class, and females more than males.
That's nature.
You know, that's just genetics.
That's just biology.
Anyway, a majority of minorities still answered family in the survey, even though the story makes it sound like they're not as happy in economic categories.
Now, there's some other interesting questions.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Other results are more disconcerting.
While most young people, I just read that to you.
I got two pages of the same thing here.
You might think money would be clearly tied to general sense of happiness, but almost no one said money when asked what makes them happy.
However, having highly educated parents is a stronger predictor of happiness than income, as deduced from this survey.
Sex?
Well, yeah, being sexually active actually leads to less happiness among 13 to 17 year olds, according to the survey.
If you're 18 to 24, sex might lead to more happiness in the moment, but not in general.
There's no meaning to it.
That's why this is great that they're learning this.
Of course, they have to be having sex to learning it.
Well, take the good with the bad, right, Don?
From the body to the soul, close to half.
Say religion and spirituality are very important, close to half.
And more than half say that they believe there's a higher power, a God, that has an influence over things that make them happy.
Beyond religion, simply belonging to an organized religious group makes people happier.
This is devastating.
MTV says, my gosh, we got to sign off.
We've been trying to pollute the minds of these kids for all these years.
We've failed.
You think MTV does anything on God?
Loving your parents?
Not having sex?
You think MTV is promoting any of that?
I were Time Warner, I'd be in sheer panic over this.
Because that only failing to register young voters, now they're failing to influence them to destroy their lives.
Parents, here's some more for you.
Most young people in school say it makes them happy.
Overwhelmingly, young people think marriage would make them happy and want to be married someday.
Most also want to have kids.
Finally, when asked to name their heroes, nearly half of respondents mentioned one or both of their parents.
But the winner by a nose was mom.
When asked what one thing makes them most happy, 20% mention spending time with the family more than anything else.
So it is uplifting stuff.
Because, you know, these kids, in this age group, are bombarded.
They are barraged with, even in the schools, they try to give them condoms for crying out loud.
And so this is all good news.
We'll link to this at RussianLimbaugh.com.
We'll update the site later this afternoon for today's content.
This is Jack in Miami.
He's 20 years old.
Jack, welcome to the program.
Are you happy?
Oh, I'm an invisible, happy person living down here in Miami.
I called today to tell you.
What is being invisible like?
I would so like to know that.
And I never will.
I really don't know.
Anyway, I called today about trans fats because you had said recently that, oh, in 20 years, they're going to say we're not getting enough trans fats and we're all going to be able to get it.
Five or six.
Five or six years.
Well, you know, young, yeah.
Well, I just did a six-week study on trans fats and wrote a big report about it.
And I think you'll be very interested to find out how trans fats came around.
The trans fat we're talking about is called elatic acid.
It's a hydrogenated oil.
They basically, scientists thought that we were getting too much saturated fat.
So they took an unsaturated fat like olive oil and added hydrogen to it to harden it up so it could store better, it could ship easier.
I know all these reasons.
Exactly.
But it is found nowhere in nature, that elatic acid.
And there are many scientific studies that I've just learned.
No, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I got to take a break here, and I want you to hold on through the break, Jack.
Can you do that?
Sure.
Okay.
Gasoline isn't found in nature either.
We make it, and it does kill.
I mean, there's no question if you drink it, if you put it in a car and a little car and a big car hits you, you're dead.
It can kill you, too.
Okay, we go back now to Jack in Miami.
And you're giving us a little history on trans fats, hydrogenated oil, and why it is that I'm wrong about something about it.
Well, I'm not going to say you're wrong about, well, the point is, trans fats aren't safe to consume at any level.
And really quick, the FDA saw all the fervor about this, and they changed the rules.
You're going to love this.
You don't have to list trans fats if there's under a half a gram of serving.
So there may be trans fats in things that say zero grams.
Right, right.
In fact, I saw that today.
Zero trans fats is not low enough because you're allowed to say it's per serving if it's less than half a gram.
You can say that it's zero.
Exactly.
That's one of the main points.
You know how big food is killing us?
They package foods that are not just one serving.
Yeah, obviously, but big food is wiping us out, Jack.
Wait, that's not my point.
All my point is just why this one trans fat's dangerous.
Your body builds almost everything, like your brain is mostly fat.
All the hormones in your body are fat.
When your body goes to construct what it needs out of this elatic acid, this alien fat that we've made to make food last longer, it doesn't make it quite right.
It can't produce the correct levels.
That's what cholesterol.
What do we get?
Diarrhea?
No, Our cholesterol gets messed up.
LDL goes way up.
Oh, okay.
Well, how do you let me ask you a question then?
Okay.
Seriously, you know, I've been multiple weights over the course of my life.
When I was in my 20s, I weighed over 300.
And throughout my medical history, my cholesterol has never been over 180.
Now, I guarantee you that I have eaten trans fats a lot of places, and I didn't know what they were.
I mean, you go to get some French fries or something and chance other things.
How come my cholesterol didn't go up?
Well, cholesterol is actually, it's still a mystery today.
Heredity plays a huge role in cholesterol.
Really?
Exactly.
I think it plays a heredity in a lot of things, like diabetes.
It does.
It most definitely does.
Intelligence?
Yeah, I know the drive-bys don't want to say it, but yeah, it does.
Absolutely.
All right.
So, but you would urge people not to eat trans fats.
Yeah, I just spent six weeks studying them, and there are true scientific studies that do show that when your body goes to make its hormones and cholesterol and everything out of it, it doesn't make it quite right.
Yeah, well, I know.
Here's my problem.
They could be right about this.
And I'm making a joke when I say five or six years from now, they'll be telling us we're not eating enough of the stuff.
Because it happens with everything.
It happened with coffee.
It happened with oat bran.
All these things are going to kill us.
Then they there's, let me, let me find.
This is even in the stack I had from the last week.
Jack, hang on here, buddy.
You've got to hear this along with all the rest of healthy foods.
Healthy, fast foods, not easier on the heart.
So-called healthy, fast food alternatives to the classic burger fries and soft drink appear to have similar effects on the cardiovascular system.
There's no such thing, this healthy food business.
Like carrots.
Broccoli, too.
Broccoli, I mean, that stuff is deadly.
You take a look at the statistics of people who have died and how much they ate broccoli.
People have been in accidents.
And how long after they ate broccoli, the accidents happen?
Tofu.
You wait.
You people just wait.
I'm telling you, they're going to discover something about trans fats somewhere down the road.
You know what?
It's got a benefit.
What if the cure for Parkinson's disease is found in trans fats?
Andy in El Paso, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Megadittos from the land of the liberals, El Paso, Texas.
Thank you.
I flew over El Paso the other day on the way to Los Angeles.
It's out there.
It's all by itself.
Yes, sir.
We're way out.
You've got to be going there to get there.
Yes, sir.
I wanted to nominate you for an Oscar for your performance on Half Hour News Hour.
After the dialogue you were having with Kirk, the host.
Is his name Kirk?
Yeah, this is the skit list.
That would be an Emmy.
Because it's television.
Oscar is for the big screen, and I don't have a chance of ever being on the big screen unless some liberal in a movie house throws me up against it, which won't happen because I don't go there.
Let me point, we've got the sound bite, we've got the audio soundbite of this.
The audio will pretty much give you an idea of the skit, but there's a lot of video in this that obviously it's a TV skit.
You've got to watch it.
The whole thing is at rushlinbaugh.com via Windows Media Player.
But this is the opening skit last night.
I'm talking to, we're coming out of an elevator, and I'm very earnest.
I'm really in a hurry coming out of the elevator, and the anchor of the show, Kurt McNally, stops me and wants to talk to me.
And I'm sort of a little impatient because I got somewhere to go.
So that's how it starts.
Hey, Rush!
Kurt, what are you doing here?
I'm out here playing golf for the weekend with a buddy.
Oh, nice.
Well, great to see you.
Take it easy, Bet.
Oh, wait, you know what?
I forgot.
I was going to ask you, what's that fairness doctrine thing going on?
Oh, that's nothing new.
They've been trying to shut me down for a long time now.
I don't get it.
You know, I heard this Democrat the other day talking about how talk radio controls the country.
Well, when they say talk radio, Kurt, they mean me.
You.
Right, exactly.
So what's going to happen?
They're going to keep coming after me.
They're going to try to shut me up.
I mean, they think I control the way people think.
They think I control the way people vote.
Hell, they think I run the country.
It's crazy.
Like, you're the wizard of Oz and you just wave your hands and things happen, right?
Have you ever heard anything more ridiculous?
I've been doing this 19 years.
19 years.
Yeah.
19 years on the air.
Congratulations.
That's awesome.
Awesome.
Thanks very much.
Great to see you, Mr. Opowerful Wizard, huh?
The Puppet Master.
Okay, let's get started.
Consumer confidence looks a little low.
Jack it up 2%.
Right away, sir.
Nudge the global temperature up another degree.
Sir, another degree?
Yes, Elroy.
You know I love riling up the whackle.
Just jack it up.
Right away, sir.
Lower the price of oil to $65 a barrel.
Been a tough summer.
People need a break.
65, right.
You are a good man, Rush.
I'm glad you are running America.
Me too.
Now, after I leave Kurt in the hallway outside the elevator, follow me walking down a couple halls and into a doorway, making sure nobody can see me.
And the room in which I'm controlling the world is a television control with just massive monitors all over the place.
It was really done well.
Five hours to shoot that sketch.
For those of you who have seen it, five hours.
Nope.
Five out.
Well, there's a portion in that skit where I hit the R button on a computer keyboard, and that brings the whole board of monitors to life.
14 takes of my finger.
And do everything.
And then for every angle, like we had to do the conversation, Kurt and Kurt Long's real name, the conversation took an hour.
It took first a master take that's right.
Got two cameras.
Then they move the cameras, get close-ups on him, and then they move the cameras to get close-ups on me, doing the whole thing over and over again.
And after an hour, they've got all kinds of possible angles.
Sometimes lighting wouldn't work, an audio battery went out.
These things happen.
And so after, and then going in the doors, they had to shoot that.
That probably took a half hour.
Because after cameras inside the room, getting me walking in the door, they have cameras outside the room, and it's the same camera.
So you finish one place to set them up, relight, do all this stuff.
Five hours to shoot that thing.
And then we did a second skit that took four hours.
I think it's going to be, I've just been asked by the IFB if I miss TV.
You know, this one was fun.
I couldn't do this every day.
I could not do that.
If this was my job to do this every day, this was nine hours for about maybe three total minutes of footage that will air.
And this skit would have to edit a couple things out of it because it didn't work, aired Sunday night because it was originally going to air Thursday night.
It had a little bit about being on on Thursday night, which is not his normal night.
Had to pull that out since I moved it back to Sunday.
And then the second skit, I'll just tell you the premise.
You know, everybody's got a fragrance these days.
So we introduce a new fragrance, El Rushbo.
And it just causes women to go berserk and nuts.
And that's all I'll say.
It's going to be, it was funny.
I play myself in this one, obviously, too.
But yeah, five hours to do that skit.
It's fun doing it, but after a while, it's okay.
I've done it.
It's over.
It's not going to be done any better.
But this is not the way professional directors and producers do things.
You keep taking it over and over and over again because it can always be better.
Or maybe the lighting can be better or something.
There are many times, like in the El Rushpo skit, we had to do a whole bunch of different takes of one scene where all I'm doing is sitting in a bar smoking a cigar.
It was the lighting, a number of other things.
But it's time-intensive.
But when it's over with, it's worth it when the skit's good, when it plays well, and so forth.
But boy, doing that every day.
Do the what?
The what?
The what?
No sympathy on the bar cigar thing.
What do you mean?
Oh, well, no sympathy.
I'm not asking for sympathy on that, except like I'm drinking a martini with olives and it's water.
You ever drank water with olive-flavored water?
I said, where is the real vodka here?
After a while.
And by the way, when you have to have a puff of smoke on every take, you know, he's not casually smoking.
It was work smoking that cigar, snurdly.
And this is the point I want you all to realize.
This is not Humble Dubbing.
I want to take you back to last Friday.
Last Friday, we had a series of reports, and I admitted to being totally confused because earlier in the week, the Democrats seemed to be pretty much united.
We hadn't heard from Harry Reid or Pelosi.
Surge is working.
Petraeus reports going to be what it is.
Troop drawdown.
We better come back over the cliff.
And then on Friday, Dingy Harry and Pelosi essentially spoke up and said, nope, we think it's going to be a lie.
We don't think the surge is working.
The political process is falling apart.
We don't think then they started complaining that Bush is going to write the report, not Petraeus, even though that's exactly what the law says the president shall present to the Congress report on the success of the surge, blah, So I thought I had gotten it right.
I thought these guys, somebody in the media or in the Democratic Party bowels somewhere had understood that they are governizing themselves.
But when Harry Reid and Pelosi came out and said what they said Thursday and Friday about this, that doesn't change their mind on anything.
No, we still got to get the troops out of there.
We can't win.
This is hopeless.
Blah, blah, blah.
I said, well, maybe I got it wrong.
Now I'm confused again because Fox News just posted a story.
Senators Warner and Levin travel to Iraq and praise the surge results.
Now, Carl Levin is head of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
And Warner is a ranking Republican on it.
After a brief trip to Iraq, Senators Carl Levin and John Warner said Monday they're encouraged by the effects of the recent U.S. military surge there.
But they predict in their enthusiasm tempered by concerns about Iraq's political climate, which is obligatory.
They have to say that.
But what's Harry Reid going to do now?
Forget Warner.
This is Levin coming back and saying it's worked.
Now, he's not, I'm not saying he's on board, but he's reporting the surge is working.
Looks impressive.
And by the way, another Democrat, one of Pelosi's big aides, let me find this guy.
Yeah, John McCaslin has this inside the beltway today.
This is Representative Brian Baird, a senior Democratic whip on a Democrat steering committee, just got home from Iraq to say the U.S. military is making real progress there.
So you got Levin in the Senate.
You've got this guy who is obviously at cross purposes with Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha.
He said, we're making real, real progress over there.
You know what?
I have to conclude here that there's an internal behind-the-scenes battle going on within the Democratic Party over what their official position on this is going to be.
And that fight is spilling out into public because these Democrats that are saying these things publicly about the success of the surge, remember, everything they do is self-interest, oriented towards self-interest.
They're trying to save themselves.
They realize they got a problem out there.
And I think by going public with this, they're trying to put pressure on Reed, Murthy, and Pelosi, whoever else, to stop this defeatist.
And we're doomed and we can't win talk.
We'll have to wait and see.
I'm still fascinated by this.
Here's Greg in Baltimore.
Thank you for calling, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Rush, it's an honor to speak to the man that really runs America.
Thank you, sir.
Regarding that, you know, the clips that you ran earlier about John Edwards and the Libs, the crazy libs, especially about his issue that, you know, about his confusion about whether Cuba is a communist country or whatever.
No, no, his confusion.
He wasn't sure that Cuba's healthcare system was government-run.
Right.
But my point was that for most of these libs, they don't really get the fact.
They think socialism is still a good thing.
It's like a desired state.
They're trying to keep hope alive in terms of socialism.
It's a benign thing.
It's not harmful.
It's a great thing.
It's full of love and compassion.
Exactly.
But they don't realize that as you create more and more socialism, that requires more and more government repression or individual liberty.
I disagree with you totally.
They do recognize that.
That's what they want to preside over.
More and more government power and control.
Less individual liberty means less threat to them and their power.
In their view, look at these people may be dorks, but they're not blind.
They're not idiots.
They can see everywhere socialism's been tried.
It has not worked.
Except from the standpoint of the people who lead the country where socialism is.
And guess who these people want to be?
They want to be the leaders of the country.
You think they would subject themselves to the same socialist liberal type laws that they're going to subject everybody else to?
Two sets.
There's no way.
If they tell you one day you've got to raise your thermostat to 78 degrees to save the planet, they're going to be saying that from a 68 degrees cooled room, for example.
And that's just one minor illustration.
Thanks for the call.
We'll be right back and wrap it up.
By the way, folks, a minor correction here.
I said that Carl Levin was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
It's Armed Services Committee that will not count against the accuracy rating because it is my opinions that are audited there for accuracy.
It's not facts.
By the way, 75%, this is WebMD medical news, 75% of U.S. adults will be overweight eight years from now based on current obesity statistics.
And of course, not far down the story, the obligatory reference, the percentage of overweight and obese adults is particularly high among African Americans and tends to be lowest among Asian Americans.
All right, well, if that's true, if the percentage of overweight and obese adults is particularly high among African Americans, take them out and redo the survey and let's see what it says.
75% of U.S. adults will be overweight eight years from now based on current obesity statistics.
This is why the obese are marrying each other, folks, is because they've got no choice.
Everybody is.
And of course, this just begets more obese kids.
We're doomed.
And even having gotten rid of trans fats, it doesn't appear it'll help.
See you tomorrow.
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