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Sept. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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No, I'm telling you, I do.
I've got my doubts about this.
You know, this thing, this storm named Umberto.
And by the way, how unkind is that to name a potential hurricane after an illegal immigrant?
I mean, the Hispanics are having a tough enough time in this country without making all this death and destruction or this destruction resulting in the storm named after an Hispanic.
That was not forethought.
Down there at NASA, NOAA, Hurricane Center, whoever names these storms.
But all of a sudden out of nowhere, this thing hits the coast as a hurricane.
There was no indication this was going to become a hurricane.
They kept saying tropical storm.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882.
If you are on hold, please be patient.
We're going to get to you El Quico.
Don't hang up because you're all on hold for a reason.
But they got to keep their predictions up.
They have to keep their predictions.
I've always had this suspicion that these winds and these hurricanes are always a little bit exaggerated.
In fact, you know, a year or maybe six months after Katrina, we got the revised winds and they were down.
And it wasn't one of the most powerful storms in the last whatever number of decades or centuries.
It was a big storm, but it was not the record breaker that they had told us it was at the time.
By the way, as I mentioned here right before the program, the previous hour ended, Norman Shu did leave a suicide note.
And I knew this last week.
I cannot divulge sources, but I knew this last week.
I just couldn't confirm it.
I was not confident enough to go, but that's why I kept alluding last week to when he disappeared.
Ooh, are you going to find the body?
Because when you hear that there's a suicide note, and then he shows up some days later on the train, the Zephyr heading from California to New York.
But in a fetal position, he shows up in the surgical wing of the hospital out in California, but he did leave a suicide note.
He sent it on the day of his second appearance, disappearance, and in the suicide note, he apologized to those to whom he donated.
Now, come on, folks.
You know, we didn't get to fall off the turnip truck when we were kids.
This guy has swindled everybody that he's done business with.
He does not apologize to them.
He apologizes to the people he donated to.
By the way, this is actually not suicide.
It's suicide defined as death by campaign contribution or near death.
Suicide is near death by campaign contribution.
On the day he disappeared, Norman Shu, the disgraced fundraiser for Senator Clinton, sent letters to friends that recipients viewed as a suicide note.
In his letter, Shu apologized for any embarrassment he had caused the recipients of his largesse.
In the last four years, he's generated donations of more than $1 million for Democrat politicians across the country.
I don't, I mean, my mind is racing.
Did he actually write this note?
Was it dictated to him?
Apologize to people you don't know.
Isn't that just, isn't that just too comforting?
It's just too pat.
It just, it just, that doesn't, that doesn't stand the smell test.
All right, moving on.
I want to go to audio soundbites.
I want you to hear what happened last night.
Chris Matthew is interviewing Laura Ingram about, well, theoretically about her new book, Power to the People.
You're beautiful.
I get in trouble for this.
You're great looking, obviously.
You're one of the gods gifts to men in this country.
Told Laura Ingram she's beautiful, one of God's gifts to men in this country.
What's it?
I happen to know Laura, and she's not that way.
Thirdly's eyes are wide open.
You should see them.
Let's go back.
August 12th.
Well, God's gift to men.
August 12th, Chris Matthews is talking to the street sweetie, Aaron Burnett of CNBC.
Could you get a little closer to the camera?
What is it?
Is it closer?
Coming further.
Come in closer.
Really close.
What are you doing?
I'm just kidding.
You look great.
Anyways, thanks.
Aaron, it's great to have.
Look at that look.
I don't even know.
I'm going to have to go look at the tape here.
I know.
I know you're being closed.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
You're a knockout.
You're beautiful.
I get in trouble for this.
You're great looking, obviously.
You're one of the gods gifts to men in this country.
Now, as a man, I have a reaction when I hear this kind of thing.
I can't share it with you, ladies and gentlemen, because we have standards on this program.
But when I hear this kind of thing, I have the reaction.
I mean, it's not even a question.
I know what's going on here.
I just do.
But I want to take a time here to talk about Laura's book.
People, you know, I get phone calls from you all the time, phone calls in frustration because of a lack of leadership or visible apparent leadership from the conservative movement, the Republican Party.
People call and ask, what can we do?
We've got to stop.
Hillary, what can we do about this part of the culture that's rotting?
What can we do?
And Laura's written a book that basically deals with that.
And I would strongly suggest that you get it.
It's out now.
It's called Power to the People.
And she worked as hard as she's ever worked on anything.
I'm not using a Bill Clinton line, but she worked extremely hard on this because she genuinely cares about the future.
We all do.
And there are a lot of people who are wondering, what can I do?
They just feel lonely and unattached and unable to be influential.
And Laura's book contains a bunch of things that will end up being inspirational.
First, a perfect laying out of the problems that face the country, the culture, and a number of different things, and how they've deteriorated and how they've gotten this way.
How we've lost the national pride over our culture.
We used to be very proud of it.
You have to go back some years for that.
But people want to feel proud of their culture.
They don't want to feel embarrassed about it.
They don't want to turn on television every day and think, my God, everything's going to hell in a handbasket.
We're going to hell.
We literally are falling apart.
A lot of this is due to 24-7 media.
None of it, well, none of it.
A lot of it isn't new.
I mean, in any society of people, population of people this large, you're going to have a certain percentage of deadbeats, miscreants, perverts, purse snatchers, rapists, muggers, criminals, and this kind of thing.
Yes, they all get coverage now.
It's 24-7 entertainment channels.
There are specific channels aimed at kids whose primary purpose is debauchery and to break down any guardrails along the road that they might follow to keep them on the straight and narrow.
And people watch this, and parents are feeling helpless about it.
What can they do?
All of these things are traced for when Laura thinks the deterioration began and the pride that accompanied this national culture that we were once proud of and how to get it back and what people can do about it.
And it is really, really well done.
And in my best Chris Matthews impersonation, the picture on the cover ain't bad either.
But it's called Power to the People.
You know, I don't recommend a whole lot of books because the market is flooded with them.
And they're constantly, there's a new flood of political books that comes out every so often, the time with either elections or Christmas, some sort of gift season.
Laura's a prolific writer.
She's written a lot of books.
She clerked for Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court.
She was instrumental in turning the Dartmouth Review into a conservative publication.
She's got her street cred on this.
She's been a commentator at CBS and MSNBC.
She's been fighting the wars for a long time, and she's done it in a number of different venues.
And this book is the net result of all of this time that she has spent, all the compassion and concern and care and love for the country that she has.
And in addition to that, it's just really well done.
It's inspirational in its own way.
It provides leadership and will get anybody who reads the book fired up, removes some of the feeling of hopelessness that people have, which I think is not necessary, but it exists.
And people need leadership, and this book will provide it.
I would strongly recommend, ladies and gentlemen.
It's called Power to the People, and it's out, and it's from Regnery.
And we'll link to it on our website when we update it for the content of today's program.
But really worth your time because this answers the basic question that we get all the time.
What can I do?
What can I do?
There are a lot of great ideas about what you can do here.
Some even, ladies, and I will admit in all humility that not even I have come up with.
Yes, Mr. Snirdley is true.
See, this is humility, ladies and gentlemen, something the Democrats do not have.
And I don't have to admit very often that people came up with things that I didn't.
So it's easy for me to do.
If I had to do it every day, then I'd be, you know, I have a problem.
Nevertheless, Power of the People by Laura Ingram, even able to melt the cold hearts of liberals like Chris Matthews.
Back in just a second.
El Rushball, On Top of the World, showing everybody else how it can and should be done from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
One more thing about Laura Ingram's book.
And a lot of you worried about your kids getting off track.
This is a great read for everybody.
This would be something to pass on to them or get for them.
And it's an interesting, she makes an interesting point in this book that in the interviews that she's given about it, that the moderates, they're people in our country who want nothing to do with politics.
They just eschew it.
Makes them nervous, too filled with confrontation, conflict, and this just makes them unable to deal and go through.
They don't want to deal with the fact that there are real problems out of Solomon.
She thinks, and she's right, that those people are wandering aimlessly through life with no sense of purpose.
You know, I have a phrase, without struggle, there is no purpose.
And these are people who try to abandon struggle.
They don't want any part of it because it's hard.
And they have to make up their minds about something.
Her point is, these people are a problem because they can't be reached.
And there are a lot of them.
And they're just wandering aimlessly out there, doing a lot of damage by not joining the right side.
They haven't joined the bad side, but they haven't joined the right side.
They're too eager to remain thought of as politically correct and open-minded and not closed-minded and so forth.
The new castra.
And they're basically wandering around, not helping anything.
This book attempts to reach them.
We'll see if it does.
Now to the phones, I promised, and I appreciate your patience.
Weston, is that right?
Yeah, I didn't have my glasses on.
Weston is in Philadelphia.
Hi, Weston.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Rush, how are you today?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
Rush, just an aside, before I bring up my point, I hope you don't mind.
General Petraeus absolutely represents the very best of this country.
He made the political class look very small in his two days of testimony.
And I just hope one day, going on what you were saying earlier, that one day the general gives us critical analysis of how he thinks the enemy may have resisted even harder because of the assistance that they received from our leftist Democrats.
He's not going to, I guarantee you that General Petraeus will never answer such a question.
If I had the chance to have General Petraeus on the program, you know what I would, first thing I'd want to know from him, is a general, you are a human being, sir.
We all are.
And I'm sure you're aware, but if you're not, I want to say the American people that witnessed your two days of hearings are outraged at the way you were treated.
Would you share with us how you felt as a human being?
You know what he would say?
I wouldn't even ask the question because he wouldn't answer it.
He'd poo-poo it and say, it's Washington.
It's not my job.
I was up there to report on the progress in Iraq and this I did.
I guarantee he's never going to tell you or answer a question such as the one you just posed.
It'll never, ever happen.
Not when he's wearing a uniform at any rate.
Exactly, exactly.
But Rush, my main point, though, you know, the Democratic presidential nominees have said that they will not debate on Fox News, that Fox News is a biased organization, and they're simply not going to partake.
Well, I think the New York Times has finally given us the empirical evidence that we've required that demonstrates that they are a biased organization, if not in the back pockets of the Democrat National Committee.
And I no longer want my paid representation.
The back pocket of the Democrat, a house organ.
Oh, exactly.
The New York Times is the house organ of the, I mean, if anybody's in the back pocket of anybody, it's the Democrat National Committee in the back of the New York Times.
I know exactly what you're saying.
The Democrats are out there.
And you have to put this in context and be able to see the stitches on the fastball.
It's this.
They know that Fox has the largest audience out there.
They know that Fox is not what they are saying that it is.
They simply say that because this is how liberals act.
They try to destroy the reputations.
They did with General Petraeus.
They've tried it with Bush.
They're trying with everybody.
Of the people with whom they disagree rather than engage them in debate.
They will not legitimize them.
They are going to do their best to destroy them.
So by saying they won't go on Fox because it's conservative, it's right-wing, it's not balanced, it's not fair, they're simply trying to create in the minds of the American people that Fox is simply a niche news channel serving a very few, small number of bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic Americans.
Whereas the Democrats go on MSNBC with no audience in CNN, with no audience, which is serving America.
They know they're lying.
They're not being honest about why they're lying.
And why would we, if you're going to lie, why be honest about why you were lying?
Your example of the Times reducing the price, taking a full-page ad for moveon.org, of course they're all on the same page.
Everybody now knows this.
But in the end, believe me, I have faith and trust in the population of this country, the vast majority of the people that make this country work.
They see the Democrats for what they are on this.
They see the moveon.org.
The Democrats think this is helping them.
It is not.
That's another mini wellstone moment.
The way they treated Petraeus is not helping them, folks.
It may be helping them shore up the kooks that are already there.
I actually think, in fact, that what's going on here with the Democrats and moveon.org, I think rather than trying to keep them on board, I think they're scared to death that move on will come after them if they stray.
I think they're afraid of attack ads against them run by moveon.org.
They do a good job of making it look like they're always on offense and that they're forward thinkers and they've got all this strategy.
They are pure reactionary right now.
They're reacting to everything that happens and they are losing and they're looking embarrassing.
You trust me on this, folks.
They are looking embarrassing to more Americans than you can possibly believe or understand.
Vicki in Reno, Nevada, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
I called about the letter carriers.
I've been a letter carrier for over 35 years.
Now, wait, which letter carrier?
Mr. Paul?
No, he lives in California.
I live in Reno, Nevada.
No, I know, but which letter carrier are you calling about?
He was a letter carrier.
No, I'm calling about the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Oh, you're talking about Bill Young, the union leader.
Yes.
In July, they sent out a postcard to all of us members to put down our choice for the union to endorse for their presidential candidate.
And on this postcard, there were eight or nine names, all of whom were Democrats.
There wasn't a single Republican listed on the card.
I crossed out all the names, wrote none of the above, and sent it back and said I was outraged that they did not even give us the option.
Now, wait, I need to understand this clearly.
Was this a special mailing or was it the monthly newsletter?
Well, our postal record is our monthly magazine.
Okay, it's a monthly magazine.
So it's right, but they included a postcard.
Oh, they included a postcard in it.
Right, that they wanted us to send back our preference.
This changes things dramatically because what we had originally heard was that there were little blurbs from each of the candidates and they were all Democrats explaining themselves on various issues.
And the original letter carrier called her to talk about said there weren't any Republicans in there.
That's what got this firestorm started.
Right.
That might have been the case.
I didn't read the magazine, but I did return my postcard because I was outraged that there wasn't a single Republican candidate listed on that postcard.
We have got to find out if that postcard was included in the same monthly issue of the magazine that the original letter carrier talked about.
It came out about July because they wanted it back by August.
Right.
Quick question.
I got 15 seconds.
Do you really think the votes of the members had a thing to do with who the board decided to endorse?
Oh, no, I'm sure it was a foregone conclusion.
Exactly.
Just the fact that they did not even put a single Republican candidate.
No, no, no.
They're always going to throw a union.
It's AFL-CIO.
They're going to endorse Hillary.
There's no question about it.
I just wonder if these letter carriers realize their check marks meant nothing.
Screams of joy, ladies and gentlemen.
The very mention of my name.
Of course, in the case of liberals and Democrats, screams of pure panic and hatred.
We are at 800-282-2882.
In fact, oh, look what we got here.
We're going to Sarasota, Florida.
We have the original letter carrier, Mailbabe, who got this whole thing started.
Hi, Kimberly.
Rush Megadatos from somebody that knows liberals better than you do because I was shamefully one at one time.
I have to tell you, I believe that that card for the vote went out in the July issue.
The next issue, which is the one I was talking about, did have the seven Democrat electees in it.
I find it statistically impossible for all those mailings to go out with the wonderful mail people we have delivering the mail and for no Republican to have returned one of those, considering we have plenty of rhinos running for office.
Okay, let me reset the stage here because this, when did you first call?
It was back in early August, is that right?
Yes, sir.
Mid-August.
All right.
What happened was Kimberly called here and said, is she reading this issue of the monthly magazine put out by her union, the what is it, the National Association of Letter carries?
Yes, sir.
NAUC.
And in this issue, there were, what, little blurbs from the seven Democrat presidential primary candidates on the issues and what they thought, right?
Correct.
Now you were telling us that in the previous month's issue, by the way, in that August issue, no Republicans were presented, no views of the Republicans as written by them were presented.
Now we learn today that the month prior to this where they're asking these letter carriers to read the position statements of these candidates, month prior to that, they sent out a card saying which one should we endorse?
Correct.
Before you had even read the position paper aspect of it.
Correct.
And I'm not going to say for sure it was July because God only knows I don't need to be wrong about that, but I believe it was.
Well, we'll find, look at it.
We're going to find out.
Last caller said it was July.
I believe so.
But who are we to believe?
We will not know the truth until we hear back from Bill Young on this.
Absolutely, sir.
We appreciate you out here.
Is that a message to Mr. Young?
No, to you, sir.
My name's Rush.
Yes, sir.
No, Rich Rush.
I'm not, sir.
Well, if you quit talking about yourself, you wouldn't have those problems.
Rush, we love to hear about you.
So just keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Kimberly, that's a habit with me.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Let's go to Palm Springs.
This is Paul.
Paul, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I wanted to make a comment about Norman Shu.
He was not an altruistic guy.
He spent all that money.
He was trying to buy something.
And I don't think it was a museum for Woodstock.
His buying is accessed.
I think we need to really look into what he was getting, what they were telling.
No, no, no.
I agree totally.
In fact, I said yesterday what was a uniquely brilliant, poignant, and unique observation.
For Mrs. Clinton to claim that she had no clue about this guy's past, didn't really know him that well, but he's doing joint appearances with her at the Museum of Modern Art Restaurant and so forth.
For a guy that's sending this much money to the Democrat Party, you damn well know he's expecting something from it.
And therefore, she has to know what it is.
You don't bundle and bring that kind of money to a candidate into a party just because you're a good guy and believe in the ideas.
You do it because you want something for.
We all know this.
So my point about Woodstock today was just that this Shu guy swindled the founder of Woodstock out of $40 million.
And the question was, where'd Shu get his money?
Well, one of the stories the Wall Street Journal had this week indicated he got it from this guy who founded Woodstock.
Now, Mrs. Clinton's saying, I don't know anything about any of this.
Well, we find out that Mrs. Clinton voted for a $1 million earmark to build a Woodstock museum.
Yeah, that was the piece of it.
And she's surrounded by Secret Service.
So they wouldn't know as well who this guy is, he should, unless he's not looting.
Well, they say their campaign computer, their vetting computer, sort of just wasn't functioning.
I mean, they've all said this.
Terry McAuliffe said it.
Howard Wolfson said it.
Mrs. Clinton said it.
They just don't know what happened.
But I'll tell you what, you go buy a car, you go try to buy a car, they'll do a check.
They'll find out if you're a felon or not.
It ain't that hard, especially in this guy's case.
They've been on a lamb for 15 years.
And there's Bill Clinton.
You know, you could have blown me over with a feather.
I found out where this guy was in that.
It just, there's no coincidence when the Clintons are involved here, folks.
I appreciate the call out there.
Paul, Bethesda, Maryland, this is Bob.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, it's a pleasure talking to you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank God for you, and thank God for George W. Bush.
I'm a longtime listener of yours, and I was a member of the 82nd Airborne back in the Korean War, and I'm recovering from a stroke, and it's pretty difficult watching this TV with how they treated General Petraeus.
I remember as a young kid when I was in the 82nd going through that, and I looked up to these veteran officers that had fought in all the major airborne drops in World War II, and you just admired them, you know, because they were such great men.
And to see what happened in Washington this week really saddens me as an American.
I love this country, and to see it going downhill like this, it just, it's really hard on me.
Well, you're joined by millions of Americans, but you have a unique perspective having been in the 82nd Airborne in Korea.
Yeah, it was a fun time, but, you know, it was a time that it's rough days.
Was it?
But many kids over in Iraq right now are going through.
Let me ask you a historical question about that.
Because I was not, I was too young to, Korean War is, I don't know anything about it except the history books and what my dad said about it.
But what I'm reading about it, that Harry Truman was treated pretty much like George W. Bush is being treated today.
That he was incompetent for the way this was going, and it was a lost cause and so forth.
Do you remember that time?
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
Truman, you know, go down as one of our great presidents.
And he was lambasted like George W. is.
And they're both great leaders, you know.
Truman had more courage than people give him credit for.
Well, what's interesting, Truman's legacy was not established till long after he died.
You're right.
When the people who wrote his history were not even born when he was going through his problems.
And that's what I've always said is going to happen to Bush.
The true history of the Bush administration is going to be written by people who have yet to even be conceived.
But I agree with you.
It was a low point for me in my life.
I'm sure worse has happened in this country's Civil War period.
But it was a low point for me in my life to see a decorated four-star general full military dress uniform, duty, honor, country, all the things that you military people swear to.
Just everything this country stands for.
You know, he's such a great soldier and devoted his whole life.
Yes, and he's a Ph.D.
He's a brilliant.
He has written the book, the American Operations Manual on Defeating Counterinsurgencies, and it's working.
And to have a bunch of arrogant blowhards insult him by saying he's come up there to lie to them, and they're not going to buy anything he says.
That is a low point for me.
Well, Rush, you know, we came to Washington.
We moved from California, and we came to be with my wife.
She just turned 100 years old, and her husband was a bird colonel with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he was buried at Arlington with full military honors.
And going through that, I mean, I just marvel.
It was just awesome, you know.
And to think of these people sitting in those chairs and talking that way to one of our best.
Yeah, as though it really, really.
It should.
And they sit there and talk as though they are military experts.
They know more than Petraeus.
This is what bothers me about them, Bob, when they start talking about how they need to be the ones that manage the health care system.
It really, their experience in it is there are health care professionals out there, and they don't know diddly squad about what they're doing.
We need people like John Edwards in charge of it.
With his, you know, as angry and as many jokes people make about the inefficiency of government and so forth, why in the world would you hire anybody from government to take on something really serious and important?
What are the resume qualifications?
What is it that just because somebody gets elected makes them an expert in the American health care system or the American energy program?
I know they write legislation and so forth, but you remember when Cheney had meetings early on in the Bush administration with energy executives, Democrats suspected a crime was taking place.
And the meetings were private because there's separation of powers, legislative branch, executive branch, judicial, separation of powers.
They sued Cheney and they sued him to find out what was going on in the meetings.
They got nowhere because the case had no merit.
But they suspected a crime going on.
If you take a look at Liberal Democrats' enemies list, you will find the backbone of America on it.
You'll find the American corporate structure, the people and companies and organizations that provide the jobs, that create the wealth, that produce the products, food, and services that run rings around anybody else in the world.
And those are the people the Democrats are aiming for.
Now, why?
They're aiming for them because they want to control all those industries, ultimately.
Tell those industries.
And you think you doubt me?
They're already telling Detroit what kind of cars they can and can't make with these stupid mileage standards.
Now they're getting into this restaurant food business.
They had this for you yesterday.
The City Council of LA has put a moratorium in South Los Angeles on new fast food restaurants because in their view, there's already too many there.
And the people that live there have no choices because all they got is fast food.
So they go there and they get fat and they get sick and they die and so forth.
And the city council is going to protect them.
You think these people are not about total control.
You are going to have to come to grips with it.
That's their agenda.
If they were to ever pull it off, folks, it's going to take years to happen.
But it's been going on for quite a while.
And healthcare is a great example.
They have convinced people that health care is a constitutional right that ought not cost anything because we're human beings and our health is something that ought to be as God-given as our creation.
And so they've got people thinking that healthcare is not their responsibility, their personal responsibility.
When it should be, that's the way to bring market forces into it and bring prices down to something more reasonable.
Can't have that because that would mean independence for the American people.
Democrats want to control them.
Be back in a minute.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
John Edwards, by the way, has purchased two minutes of broadcast time tonight on MSNBC to reply to President Bush's remarks to the nation.
He's going to air his rebuttal.
Bush is going to go 15 minutes, so I guess the Brett girl will be there about 9-17 or 9-18.
He's buying the time, and this NBC can sell it.
If he were smart, he'd buy it on Fox where people are going to see it.
Or he'd buy it on NBC if they would.
Well, they may not carry it.
Yeah, they'll carry it.
But he'll get more than two minutes because they'll talk about it before he starts.
They'll talk about it after he starts.
He'll analyze what he said, keep playing clips.
Not a bad move for the Brett girl in terms of shoring up his credentials with the lunatics that that bunch needs to get their party's nomination.
Here we got another letter carrier, Becky.
Have you noted that all the letter carriers we've had today?
In fact, since this whole thing started, letter carriers have been babes.
We had one guy call that was a letter carrier.
This is Becky in Selman, North Carolina.
Hi.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I'm so nervous.
You're my hero, and I'm the mother of two Rush babies.
Thank you very much.
Don't be nervous.
There's no reason to be nervous.
We are kind, patient, tolerant, compassionate with all first-time callers.
Well, yes, okay.
Second time, look out.
First time you get a pass.
All right, well, I appreciate it.
Now, my understanding of how this all went down is that supposedly they sent out a questionnaire to all the candidates.
Supposedly, and I say supposedly, I don't really necessarily trust my union leadership.
The only ones who replied were the Democrat candidates.
And in that same exact postal record, which is what the magazine is called, that they put all their, you know, what, you know, their blah, blah, blah, was the card that they wanted us to send back saying who did we want to, as a supposedly non-partisan union.
Okay, so it was the same issue then that the card and the little blurbs appeared in.
Correct.
Okay.
I wrote down my Republican at the bottom in my own handwriting along to a nasty note to the fact that I don't like how they run things as far as politically.
Well, you knew that going in, though, Beck.
I mean, it's a union.
Oh, I understand, but there's those of us who are trying to change stuff within.
And I was the one of them.
Bless you.
So, I mean, I love what I do.
Part of it's because I get to listen to you from 12 to 3 as I'm walking my route.
I have a radio in my pocket, and so people who I come in contact also gets to listen to you.
That's great.
I've always said this program enhances and improves, increases productivity.
No question.
You're my hero, and I love you, Rush.
I really do.
Well, and it's great, and it's great to know that other letter carriers are listening too.
Yeah, I wonder how Bill Young feels when he hears a lot of his membership call here and say what they say about the union that he's running.
Anyway, Becky, thanks very much.
I made my afternoon.
I appreciate it.
This is where we go.
Mike and Oceanside, New York.
You're next.
I'm glad that you called, sir.
Oh, hi, Rush, and thank you for taking my call.
I have another puzzle to the shoe mystery.
The California Zephyr is Amtrak's most popular train.
Those sleeping compartments are sold out months in advance.
How was he able to get one?
I love the way people think.
You know, I had no idea that California Zephyr sleeping compartments are sold out months in advance.
Oh, you try and call one and say you want to go next week.
You'll find out how difficult they are to get.
It's the most popular train.
Well, you know, I'm just off the top of my head here, Mike.
And this is just the first thing that flashed into my mind is that Amtrak is bought, paid for, owned, and operated by who?
By us, the government.
Federal government.
Right.
If somebody really needed a shoe-isha, a sleeping compartment.
A call from a senator's office, perhaps?
Well, I don't think you'd trace it back there, but clearly, you know, the government, which operates the train, if somebody from the government with high authority calls up and says we need a sleeping compartment for somebody, I think it could be done.
Look, I know, look, I myself am a powerful, influential member of the media.
In my world, there's no such thing as sold out.
It just isn't, folks.
You want me to explain this later, Mr. Snirdley?
There's no such thing as sold out.
It's really a crime, too.
It's when you don't need the freebies when everybody throws them at you.
But that's the first thing that hits my mind on how shoe could end up in the.
Same thing, I'll guarantee you on the California Zephyr, when they tell you it's sold out, it isn't.
Always a compartment there for a VIP who might show up at the last minute.
You'll just never know it unless you're the VIP.
And I am a VIP.
And that's how it works.
And we will be back, ladies and gentlemen.
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