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Sept. 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I will tell you what, 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 see I told you so's from yesterday and the day before that even I am amazed and excited to pass this evidence on to you.
We got a lot to do today on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Here we are at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network already Wednesday.
It's the fastest week in media.
This is hump day.
Looking forward to talking to you.
The telephone number here, 800-282-2882, 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 next hour in his first broadcast interview since announcing his resignation from the White House.
You all remember, 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 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 16, I wanted to be older.
I had the 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 had this instinct of mine confirmed every year of my life.
Every year has been better than the year before.
When I was 25, I wanted to be 40.
I wanted to get those years behind me.
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, hub-ba-ho, I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers new research that indicates my instincts are, well, in my case, they were right.
Men in their late 30s and early 40s are the least content of all of us.
There's new research out there that has been done.
And now, this is from the UK, but I think it's probably applicable in a number of Western 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 a study that was done for the government, the British government.
It makes 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 20s.
Now, that makes big sense to me.
I didn't particularly enjoy my life in the late teens and early 20s as much as I am now.
I mean, I enjoyed it.
But, I mean, it wasn't happy-go-lucky frolic around time because I started working.
Well, I had my first job when I was 13, shining shoes in a barbershop, but I started working when I was 16.
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 was 7.3, whatever that means.
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.
It's not a big deal, but I just love passing the assault.
And you've got to love John Daly.
John Daly, you just have to love this.
He's won two majors on the PGA tour.
He's over in Europe with the Scandinavian Masters Tournament.
After winning the PGA championship last week in Tulsa, Tiger Woods 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 if he had, because Tiger keeps winning and because he works out, is Daly going to change his lifestyle?
And he said, no, 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 just not for me.
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 got to love this.
The irreverence and the unwillingness here to conform.
You might disagree with it, but the guy knows who he is, and he's not going to change himself for anybody for any reason.
He's going to change himself for himself someday when he gets around to it.
Minorities worry more about the housing slump.
Really?
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 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% of African Americans said they're very concerned about declining home prices compared with just 19% of whites.
A third of Hispanics said they were very concerned.
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.
Zogbi said it's a bifurcated country.
Now, you know the purpose of this story.
The purpose of this 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 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 has always amazed me with liberalism and the drive-by media is when you have economic disparities, you're always going to 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 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 going to be told that they have no prayer, that America is unjust and it's unfair and you don't have a chance.
The deck's stacked against you.
The establishment's going to 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.
And we can demonstrate that the lives of the wards of the state, wherever the state is, do not improve.
You know, there's an implied hint here in this story that racism is keeping people worried and scared.
And that, to the extent that it's true, it is a thought that's put in their heads by Democrats in the drive-by.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley.
No, no, 1,020.
1,000.
It's a scientific zogbie poll.
Did I say 125 people?
Did I say 125 people?
You people aren't listening.
You are chatting amongst yourselves in there.
And I read it right at 1,020 likely.
Okay, if I said 125, fine.
1,020 likely voters.
Well, there's no where.
It's probably Blue Cities.
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.
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 going to change?
Everything, a lot of people look at consumer confidence surveys are feeling pretty optimistic.
So surprised that made it into the story.
Now, very quickly, excuse me, last, I don't know, week or two ago, one of the things that I shared with you was the problem in Russia.
The average age in Russia, the average male life expectancy, 57 years.
Their big problems are alcoholism because what else are you going to do there?
You know, in the wintertime, you know, vodka.
I mean, they drink it at work plus AIDS via needles.
And Putin is worried about this.
They're all worried about this.
In fact, their population in Russia right now is 141 million.
In 20 or 30, maybe it's 40 years, it's going to be 100 million.
They have a low birth rate replacement level, and of course, they're not living very long.
So 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 going to give them prizes.
They found a novel way to fight their birth rate crisis, September 12th, the day of conception, they're calling it.
And for the third year running, giving couples time off from work to procreate.
Well, let me see, what are the prizes here?
Well, the 2007 grand prize went to Irina and Andrei Kartizov, who received a UAZ Patriot, a sport utility vehicle so they can continue to cause global warming.
So I don't know how do you win this?
Cash incentive.
Let me read the whole thing.
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, it is pro-life.
There's no question it's pro-life.
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 apparently how this works.
The day of conception is September 12th throughout Russia.
And the hope is that nine months later, there'll be a whole bunch of babies born.
And so, and that's Russia's national day.
June 12th is Russia's national day.
So couples who give birth to a patriot, a kid, during the June 12th festivities win money, cars, refrigerators, and other prizes.
So that's it.
It's not how many you have, it's just that you do it.
And then they pay you off.
Refrigerators, even, cars, money, and other prizes.
In fact, we have a guy on the phone here who has a question about this in Culpeper, Virginia.
Hey, Paul, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Megadittos from the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I was just wondering, how do you think the National Organization of Women would take it if we had a Procreation Day and a Day of Conception?
Oh, the NAGs would flip.
The NAGs would.
Oh, that's a great thought.
Pro-life Day, Conception Day.
Anyway, the great thing about the United States is that we don't have to have a Procreation Day.
Everybody's getting it on in a lunch hour anyway.
We do this without having to be told.
Anyway, that would be fun, just to tweak them.
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 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 going to buy them, they have to be able to smoke them.
If they can't smoke them anywhere, people aren't going to 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 going to have to figure something out here real quick because if you're going to fund everything with tobacco, you're going to 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, secondhand 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 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, or a little inside joke there, or whatever else.
But you got to be careful.
Somebody better tell him this.
I understand the need and the desire to get people to stop smoking, 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 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 see, I told you so.
We had a discussion yesterday.
Somebody called, I forget what the question was, but we entered into a discussion on Iraq and the Democrats and why it is that all of a sudden the Democrats try and change their tune.
All these drive-by media outlets now suggest, oh, we can't get out of Iraq.
Whoa, of course not.
Why?
We can't pull out of the real fast.
New York Times offering cover to the Democrats, not just the presidential candidates, but also people like Harry Reid 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 presents in the middle of September says, you know what?
We can do with less troops here.
We can do with fewer boots on the ground in some of these areas because surge is really working.
What next?
What do the Democrats do next?
I'm telling you that what is happening right now, the drive-by media, working in concert with the concert with the Democrats, are trying to get them back off the cliff and get them oriented to supporting the war by the end of the year, you know, November, December.
That's when the electoral season begins.
Make no mistake about it.
They're trying to bring them back.
Adults somewhere in the liberal apparatus have recognized the Democrats had nowhere to go but over the cliff to total Macovernization and destruction by proclaiming and investing in the defeat of U.S. troops.
Well, lo and behold, L.A. Times today has a story saying that General Petraeus is expected to recommend removing American troops soon from several areas where commanders believe security has improved, possibly including Alaanbar province.
Ladies, this is what I mean.
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.
L.A. Times had it today.
I had it yesterday.
Brief timeout as we go to an EIB profit center break.
Much more straight ahead, Karl Rowe, 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.
Ladies and gentlemen, along with the stories we had from Reuters on the housing slump being hard on minorities and women, and so this is the obligatory narrative of the drive-by media.
Remember that quote from Reuters they put in from this Harvard economist who's worked on McCain's campaign.
That's a tough thing.
If a Democrat's run for the presidency on change in the economy, it's going to 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.
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, 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 1,000 people.
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 consumer confidence is also high, and this is going to be tricky for the Democrats to run around and say they want to change all of this.
Because the Democrats don't, you know, I'm not, I shouldn't say this.
I'm reminded of the 1960 campaign, Kennedy.
Things were really good in the burgeoning 50s.
We were coming out of the recovery of World War II, and we were interested in all kinds of boom cycles.
And JFK, I guess I'm safe in saying this because no Democrat's going to take advice from me.
JFK said, 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 upbeat and cheerful, rosy outlook.
Everything is doom and gloom.
Everything is a crisis.
We're one paycheck away from homelessness.
It's soup line America.
And, you know, they're sitting there with this notion of inevitability about their chances in 08.
And the big issue that is going to 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 edited 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.
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 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 Paul Shanklin as a Brett 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 Mike.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey there, Rush.
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 model in the world.
You have got to be.
What is your point here?
Well, they're wanting us to go out and make babies, which is pro-life, which is a beautiful thing.
Their income tax rate, I think, topped out a lot.
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 on the left, what I mean there.
On the left should be looking at some of the models of Russia.
I see what you're saying.
The problem is that this is not the old Soviet Union.
They're not the communists that they used to be.
Putin, I think, is asserting the kind of tyrannical control that there used to be.
But he's got much bigger problems than that right now.
And the problem is his population is dying off.
And they're struggling.
They've got alcoholism, and they do not have a roaring economy.
Plus, you know, Putin's starting to get, he's starting to militarize up again.
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.
Somebody caught a picture of one of the bear bombers.
We haven't seen a bear bomber in the air since 19, whatever it was, 94, whatever it was, 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, you know, Putin, Putin has, 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 cozying up to maybe Venezuela and so forth.
It's just to get everybody's attention.
And he's former KGB.
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 Vininko in Great Britain.
They poison you with polonium B212, whatever it is.
So he's trying to command a whole bunch more international respect.
But he needs a population and he needs a functioning, working, productive population, and it's going the wrong way.
So they've got huge, huge problems.
The exact opposite of the Chinese, the Chikoms, their big problem is 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 a lot less problems for them.
The biggest threat that Hu Zhintao, 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, I don't think that the, I get your point.
I don't think today's Democrats are looking to the Soviet or to the current Russia as a model.
Now, if it ever goes communist officially, then they will again.
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 Logan, Utah.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
Just want to start this morning or this afternoon by saying thanks for sharing that talent that you have on loan from God.
And just wanted to get a clarification from you.
You made a comment a couple segments ago regarding cars with children.
Am I to understand that you are for or against that?
I understand you're against the government telling us where we can and can't do things.
I'm just curious what your thoughts were.
I am against.
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.
Are you on the move or are you stationary?
I'm on the move.
Yeah, we'll probably lose you, 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 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 going to 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've 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 sty.
And 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, no documented evidence that secondhand smoke has killed anybody.
That is a myth.
The World Health Organization suppressed their own survey on this.
We have it at rushlimbaugh.com.
We put it up periodically.
My mom smoked, and look at me.
My parents smoked in the car.
My mom smoked in the car.
Now, most, I think if the 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 know, 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 at Shea Stadium.
You can't smoke anywhere.
And yet, here's the thing.
As I said very clearly, very articulately in the first half hour of the program.
If you're going to 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 going to ban cigarette smoking everywhere and then still charge all these exorbitant taxes, you are going to not generate the money that you want.
And see, you are proving my point.
You probably don't smoke.
And so it's okay to raise taxes on people who do.
It's okay to tell people who are smoking that they shouldn't be, especially around their kids.
And if it stayed in cars, they won't.
They'll take it.
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 have 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.
This is a big, big bugaboo 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 states.
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 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-round good guy.
Lovable, harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network 2, 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.
I will listen to you off and on.
I try to listen to you.
I like your program.
You're very excellent at what you do.
I don't agree with you on everything.
Probably eight-tenths of 1%, I agree with you.
Yeah, we got a lot of room for growth then.
Yeah, I'm African-American.
I'm liberal.
I remember Mr. Bowl snarling.
He with you, so there must be something good about you.
He stuck with you this long.
Anyways, what bothered me a little bit got me under the collar when you were describing Barack Obama?
That's where I'm back in.
I like Hillary a little bit sometimes.
I'm a Clinton.
You know, I'm a Clintonite.
I voted for the first Bush, our father.
Wait, wait.
You know what?
I've got 45 seconds here.
I shouldn't have taken your call here because I thought you had a different point that you were going to make.
I do.
What candidate did you think on the Republican side is white enough since you mentioned Barack Obama being black enough?
I'm not the one talking about whether Obama's black enough.
That's the liberals.
I know.
The liberals make that up.
It's the liberals asking that question, Jim, not me.
Oh, I know, Rush.
I know, but you emphasize it a lot on is he black enough or whatever.
I just want to know from another perspective.
I have friends from.
Frankly, no, no.
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 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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