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Sept. 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And here we are, folks, amid billowing clouds of you look like a mullah in there.
Snurdly looks like a mullah.
You're wearing your hat today.
The way it is on your head, you look like you got one of those Iranian mullah turbans on.
Going to Columbia after the show.
Well, you'll miss it.
Ah, my Dini's out at 1.30 at Columbia.
You know, the little creep is going to be meeting with 9-11 families as well.
Greetings, folks.
Yeah, it's going to be meeting with 9-11 families and political opponents of the Bush administration.
We got all that coming up.
We've got lots of stuff to do here, folks.
Great to have you with us as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
I, of course, El Rushbo here amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic premium cigar smoke, first and secondhand.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
All right, we've got pictures from the Sacramento event.
It was called Perspectives.
It was put on by the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce.
They do it every year.
There were five speakers.
I was one, John Abbaze, who I met in a hotel just before I left to go over to the convention center.
Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers.
When I got to the green room and he was sitting on a sofa, came up and introduced himself.
The Pursuit of Happiness guy was speaking when I got, I never got a chance to meet him.
I'm having a metal block at his last name.
Chris Somethinger, I can't remember what his last name, but he was lighting it up out there.
And Colin Quinn was the other, the comedian from Saturday Night Live.
I tell you, folks, it was fun.
I had a blast.
It's always meaningful for me to go back to Sacramento because Sacramento is the Chris Gardner.
That's right.
Sacramento is the place, the first place in all of my broadcast career that I ever found any success.
The first time I was ever on any kind of a real success track.
And I was there for three and a half years, and it seemed like 10.
I don't know.
And I mean that in a positive way.
It was in a fulfilling way.
And I've been gone 19 and a half years, and it seems like it was just yesterday.
And every time I go back there, I feel the same way.
I walked out, there were 3,500 people at convention center.
And I don't know if you can visualize this, but this room seemed to me from the stage.
And by the way, we've got still shots from the event posted at rushlimbaugh.com right now.
We're working on getting audio and video.
And as soon as we get that, I can run it through the encoder.
Then we'll be able to post that.
We're working on getting that.
Now, we will get it.
We're just not sure of the time.
But, you know, imagine from the stage where I was standing, it looked as big as a football field in there.
And it's tough, even though I pulled it off because I'm a seasoned professional.
It's still tough to establish intimacy with a crowd that big, all on the same level.
They were all on the floor.
Stage was very high.
I walked out there to amidst thunderous applause and a standing ovation, and I said, hey, if any of you people get out of line, I just want you to know that I have literally hundreds of security people scattered amongst you with tasers.
I want to shut that down right off the bat.
And I also took applications since I don't have a California mistress.
I took applications for a California mistress, and there were a couple of big screams that erupted from the crowd at that point.
And then the photographers started going nuts, so I stopped and I would pose as I am wont to do because I want to give them a good shot.
And the photographers, a couple of them looked clearly irritated that I would pose for them when they wanted, kind of got these, come on, get serious look on their face.
But the whole thing was just a hoot.
And I'm from Sacramento.
I flew down to Los Angeles because I had a dinner to do on Friday night Saturday.
Went to Washington, flew into Dulles because there was a dinner at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.
And I hadn't been to Mount Vernon since I was 14.
Did I see the bust?
That was, yes, you walk through the one that Al Gore could not identify, all the busts when Al Gore was being escorted through it, didn't know who various founding fathers were.
And the curator was saying, Mr. Vice President, that's Ben Franklin.
How do you not know Ben Franklin?
But yeah, but the thing is, the reason for the dinner, a good friend of mine who lives here in Palm Bay, Palm Beach, Gay Gaines, it was her, I call it Swan Song.
She's finishing her term as running the place, essentially.
And they have just, I had no idea what she had done.
I mean, she told me about it, but they've got an education center that's open 365 days a year, including Christmas, that puts the history of George Washington and the founding of the country.
They got two or three movie theaters.
It's indescribable.
It's just amazing.
And normally a four-hour tour, and they showed me the highlights of it in about 30 minutes because it was time to go on to the adult beverage portion of dinner after that.
And then, yes, it is open to American history school teachers.
It's open to anybody that wants to get.
It would shock the average American history school teacher today, particularly those here in South Florida.
But I have to tell you, we're sitting, we had dinner on the back porch of Mount Vernon, overlooking, there were 26 of us there, overlooking the Potomac as the sun was set, all kinds of geese in the backyard.
And when you stop and think who's been on that porch and the things that were discussed on that porch, don't think the slaves made the porch, Mr. Snergly.
Would you just cool it in there?
Sorry about this, Gay.
I'm dealing with insolent employees today.
But she's done such a fabulous job.
And it was such, there were a lot of tributes to Gay for the great work that she's done.
It really has been.
And when I got home yesterday afternoon, I got a going through subscriber email, the Rush 24-7 email.
And the subject line kind of grabbed my attention.
So I read the note.
Some woman said, was that you about 5 p.m. landing at Dulles?
I was trying to get out of Washington to return home to Houston.
And some jet with your logo on the tailfin lands, delaying our departure.
And I said, she said, I continued to watch.
I watched where you parked, and I saw the door open, but I didn't see any limos, so I don't know if it was you.
So I wrote back, yeah, it was me, but I'm like, what were you doing looking out the windows of a tiny little windows of a commercial?
How can you see anything?
I mean, I've heard of pilots blaming me to their passengers for late departures.
Well, the EIB jet is ahead of us or whatever such thing.
This is the first time I've gotten an email from an actual passenger.
It was funny.
She didn't believe it was me replying.
You know, when I reply to emails, invariably, well, thanks for this reply, whoever it is.
I'm sure it isn't Rush.
Like, it would be beneath me to reply to my own email account.
Tell them nobody reads these accounts but me.
And I can't reply to all of them, but I do.
But I want to thank everybody in Sacramento for making it such a pleasurable.
I'll tell you what I spoke about.
Well, I did a couple greatest hits from my days in Sacramento on the radio.
And I told a couple Hillary jokes.
But the main thrust of it was the thing I did, I guess, three or four weeks ago.
I had a little conversation with the liberal about have you ever thought about how in less than 250 years, less than 300 people have outperformed any other group of people in the history of the world and the history of human civilization.
Because I think it's important.
So many people take the country for granted.
Understandably so.
They don't know anything else.
The audience was at rapt attention.
Well, they always are.
I own the stage when I am on the stage.
By the way, folks, I've been sitting here.
I've been going through the news.
I've been doing the show prep for the news today.
And I've got a dilemma.
Mrs. Clinton was all over television yesterday.
Five different Sunday shows.
And I don't want to make this whole show about Hillary Clinton.
I don't want to establish the fact that we are that concerned about Hillary Clinton.
I mean, she's going to get the nomination, and I know that there's some things that I got to do, but I don't want to devote all this time.
So I've boiled down the primary news that she made into a montage.
The most newsworthy, noteworthy thing to come out of all of her appearances yesterday was this.
Why do you and the president have such a hyper-partisan view of politics?
It would require, among other things, that every American.
What's your response?
Send my best to the president.
That's about it, folks.
You want four years of that?
You need to stop and think seriously about what's ahead.
Hi, and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
Brand new week of broadcast excellence here from the EIB Southern Command.
Again, the phone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
Another email that I got when I returned from the Whirlwind weekend, guy heard me talking about the fact last week, snerdly to you, that somebody asked me last week, why don't you buy some 9-11 footage and show it on your website?
Say they won't sell it.
And I described how I'd tried to buy every Steelers Super Bowl game in the 70s from the networks, and they won't sell it.
They will not give it up.
No way.
So I get this note from this guy.
Dear Rush, I have the complete 70s Steelers Super Bowl games on 11 DVDs.
The pregame and the post-game are also on these DVDs, except for Super Bowl IX from Preston Pearson taking the opening kickoff in Super Bowl IX to Bradshaw's kneel down to win Super Bowl XIV.
Every play is on these DVDs.
The price is just $753,000.
If interested, let me know.
And he sent this three or four times.
$753,000.
Have you seen that oil is at $81 a barrel?
It's a record price.
Have you noticed that just this morning, gasoline prices are dropping?
How can this be, ladies and gentlemen?
How can this be?
Would you like an Economics 101 lesson?
Well, let me give it to you.
Summertime is over.
Screw all has started.
The vacation travel season is done.
It's a little cooler out there in certain places.
And all this has led to a demand for gasoline being down.
The refineries are operating at full tilt.
We haven't had any hurricanes.
No shortages out there.
It's all supply and demand.
Maybe there's something to this stuff.
Now, I know you conspiracy people out there think with oil at a record price per barrel, 81 bucks, a little above that, that gasoline prices would automatically be coming up, but they're going down.
Now, I know some of you conspiracy people, they're just setting us up for major increases down the road.
They're screwing with us.
Try this headline: Men are smarter, parentheses, and more stupid than women, say scientists.
This is another UK website, the Daily Mail.
For centuries, men believed themselves to be smarter than women who they felt were only equipped for wifely duties.
It's a sad thing that changed.
Now, a study has revealed that the male of the species is actually more intelligent, but he's more stupid as well.
When scientists measured the intelligence of more than 2,500 brothers and sisters, they found a disproportionate number of men in both the top 2% and the bottom 2%.
That's how this works out.
There were twice as many men as women in the smartest group, but there were also twice as many men among the idiots.
The subject were tested on science, maths, English, and mechanical abilities.
The average scores of the men were virtually identical to that of the women, the average.
One of the study's authors, a psychology professor, said that the phenomenon may have its roots in society's expectations for the sexes.
Men have long been expected to be high achievers, while women were expected to base their lives around the home.
All right, right.
Men are also expected to be slugs and idiots and lugs and all kinds of things.
I have this expectation game.
Still amazing what people study.
Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans, with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online.
A one in three giving up friends and sex for the internet.
A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel okay without going on the web, to which 15% said just a day or less.
21% said a couple of days.
Another 19% said a few days.
Only a fifth of those who took part in an online survey conducted by an advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, said that they could go for a week.
People told us how anxious, isolated, and bored they felt when they were forced offline.
They felt disconnected from the world, from their friends, and from their families.
And then there's this little line here: this business about giving up friends and sex for the web.
One of the survey people says, I don't suppose their partners are too pleased about that.
Partner's probably next room doing the same thing.
Probably speaking to each other more often on email and instant messaging than they do in purpose, in person.
All right, Mahmoud Ahmadinezad arrived in New York last night and is making a whirlwind tour.
He'll be at Columbia University this afternoon.
These idiots at Columbia, they're casting this as free speech.
It's not free speech.
I mean, it is, but it's idiotic.
It is just simply stupid.
I mean, this is a state sponsor of terrorism, a man who has sworn the destruction of the United States and Israel a number of times.
And people at Columbia think they're opening themselves up to ideas.
And we must listen to what these people think.
We must listen to their ideas for us.
These are basically liberals who hate this country or find great deficiencies in this country.
And they embrace totalitarian dictators and our enemies as though they have all the answers.
And, of course, the dupe student, and the president is nothing more than a dupe, the president of Colombia.
You can't.
You know, they talk about free speech.
Remember what happened to the Menet Men?
The anti-illegal immigration group?
They get booed off the stage by the students.
Nobody did anything about it.
They're not interested in ideas there.
They hate George W. Bush.
They are really worried that the whole world hates us.
They're so scared that we've lost our reputation in the world, Mr. Limbaugh, that they hope by opening their arms to this idiot thug, Ahmadineizad, that he will end up liking us more and pose less of a threat.
I mean, it's just, I know how these people think.
Now, Ahmadinezad was on 60 Minutes last night.
Scott Pelley flew over to Tehran last Thursday to interview him.
Here's a couple soundbites.
The first question, President Bush has pledged that you will not be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon and will use military force if necessary.
I think, Mr. Bush, if he wants his party to win the next elections, there are cheaper ways and ways to go about this.
I can very well give him a few ideas so that the people vote for him.
He should respect the American people.
They should not bug the telephone conversations of their citizens.
They should not kill the sons and daughters of the American nation.
They should not squander the taxpayers' money and give them to weapons companies and also help the people, the victims of Katrina.
People will vote for them if they do these things.
He's giving Republicans campaign advice by basically reciting the Democrat Party platform.
This guy could keynote the 2008 Democrat National Convention.
I mean, after he finishes at Harvard, why does Pelosi meet him at the airport?
Was she part of the official greeting part?
Well, I'm surprised.
Was Kucinich out there?
You know, they want to go there.
He's reciting the Democrat Party platform.
Katrina?
Do we have time for...
No, we don't have time to get the next one.
I'm too busy.
I'm too busy laughing here.
The only thing, did he mention Abu Ghraib?
I think he did it.
Yes, he does.
It's coming up in the next soundbite.
So here he is offering advice to the Republicans, i.e. George Bush's party.
He was actually praising last night the 06 election results.
He said he was encouraged.
Mahmoud Ahmadinezad was encouraged by the 06 election results.
All right, a quick timeout here, folks.
Much more straight ahead.
That's all we do here.
We make the complex understandable.
Folks, I want to be open, upfront, honest, and candid with you.
I'm a little depressed today.
It will not affect the professionalism of the execution and performance of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
But I just want you to know I've gained some weight back after the last three-week whirlwind.
It's just been tough.
I'm starting back on the diet today.
It's still depressing.
It's just depressing.
Well, I'm not going to, it would take me four years to work it all back, get all bit, but I haven't lost enough for that to happen, see, because I got sidetracked.
My original pledge was to lose enough weight.
It would take me four years to gain it all back rather than the usual one.
But I just, it's been ever since June, it's just been tough.
It has been off and on and on.
And the last three weeks have just been, well, it just hasn't been any discipline out there.
And it just depresses me.
It depresses me.
I have to start all over again.
I haven't gained it all back nowhere close.
It's just being open, honest, candid, and forthright, ladies and gentlemen.
Now back to Ahmadinezad.
Again, sounding like a Democrat on 60 Minutes.
Scott Pelley says, when I ask you a question, as direct as will you pledge not to test a nuclear weapon, you dance all around the question.
You never say yes, you never say no.
Well, thank you for that.
You are like a CIA investigator.
I am just a reporter.
I am a simple average American reporter.
This is not Guantanamo Bay.
This is not a Baghdad prison.
This is not a secret prison in Europe.
This is not Abu Khoraim.
This is Iran.
I'm the president of this country.
Now, look, to me, this is funny, but I have to, in all candor, he is regurgitating Democrat Party talking points, not liberal talking.
He is reciting what he has heard said on the floor of the United States Senate by people like Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and people like Harry Reid over in the House, Nancy Pelosi.
Now, I just, if I were an elected official in this country and somebody like Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, state sponsor of terror, starts mimicking and reciting my talking points, privately I get mad.
Privately, I get embarrassed.
I don't know that the Democrats have that ability to be embarrassed by this.
I just sit here and I marvel at the similarity.
And of course, bin Laden does it too.
In fact, who is it?
Is it actually Ahmadinezad speaking at Columbia at 130 or is it Bin Laden?
What difference would it make, folks?
When Bin Laden comes out with a tape, when Ahmadinezad grants him interview to 60 Minutes, forget the Democrats.
What about the American people who saw this?
Who pay attention?
Do they not recognize that one of our sworn enemies is reciting Democrat Party talking points in an effort to try to sway the American people?
He's basically, Ahmadinezad is saying to these people in the audience, hey, I'm no different than your average Democrat, and we're very encouraged by the election results in 06.
This ought to be shameful.
This should be embarrassing these people all hell, but I guarantee you it's not.
It's making them proud, probably making them happy.
Because the focal point of all this is they hate Bush, and anybody else who hates Bush is on the same page.
So the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Let's grab a phone call about this.
This is Gail in Sacramento.
Hi, Gail.
Thanks for calling and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
I just wanted to comment.
I think that people are confusing the right to do something with the right thing to do.
It disturbs me because sometimes rights are supposed to be mixed with common sense, civility, and some manners.
And for heaven's sakes, this man does not deserve to come and speak at one of our universities.
He clearly dislikes America.
He doesn't provide freedoms and rights to his own people.
And here, Colombia, I think, is just showing bad form.
It's not the right thing to do.
It is not bad form.
Well, I mean, it's worse than bad form.
And you're absolutely right.
It is not the right thing to do.
But you understand that the people that run Columbia, this president, this is a great illustration.
This is another learning, teachable moment here.
These are liberals.
This is how they view the world.
This is how they view their country.
Mahmoud has no right to free speech here.
I agree.
The liberals couch it as, oh, he's got a right.
What about the right free speech, Mr. Limbo?
There's no obligation for Colombia to invite him to speak.
Nobody's under any obligation to invite him to speak.
And nobody, he, not including Ahmadinezad, nobody in this country has the right to be heard.
You know, everybody confuses the right to free speech with the right to be heard.
No such thing.
You have to earn the right to be heard.
This guy doesn't have the right to be heard by anybody.
Now, he's been invited to the United Nations.
That's a different thing.
But it's going to be the same diatribe.
And of course, the liberals are out there saying, well, we're going to ask him the tough questions, really.
Well, once again, the drive-bys have had a three-day head start on this.
It's a typical Monday.
I have to come in here and clean up the mess that they made with Hillary yesterday, clean up the mess that they've made with Ahmadinezad.
The action line that the narrative here of the drive-bys is, should Ahmadinezad have been invited by Colombia or shouldn't he?
The real story angle here and the real way we ought to look at this, the prism through which we need to be examining this is how liberals deal with terrorism, how they deal with terrorists, how they deal with rogue leaders, and how they deal with threats to civilization.
They ask the tough questions.
And then they are congratulated by other liberals for asking the tough questions.
Oh, yeah, there'll be a cocktail party somewhere on the campus at Columbia tonight.
And a president will be there with a bunch of liberal buddies.
I just love the way you brought Ahmadinezad.
I love it when you're a third of an F of tough questions that really made me feel good about myself.
They'll be praising the guy.
They'll be scratching each other's backs.
Who knows what else will be going on in there?
As what a great thing we did for the world and for America, because we opened up our university with the open and free exchange of certain ideas, the ones we approve of, to all kinds of foreign leaders to come and tell us what they think is wrong with our country.
And by the way, they'll say, what's so wrong with what Ahmedinezad said?
It'd be no different than having Harry Reid up here.
No different than having Dick Durbin come and speak.
It'd be the same message.
Meanwhile, in the real world, ladies and gentlemen, Ahmadinezad toys with these useful idiots, these dupes, and they're tough questions.
This is going to be like a cat playing with a ball of yarn.
Do you think these people even intend to corner Ahmadineizad with questions about destroying Israel, about denying the Holocaust?
And if they do ask those questions, guess what?
They will praise his answers.
And they will praise his courage for coming into such a hostile environment and atmosphere and dealing with the tough questions that the liberals ask.
And so while liberals play to liberals, Ahmadinezad is going to be playing to the Middle East.
His audience is not going to be these dupes in the audience or on the faculty at Columbia.
His audience is going to be over at the UN with the Star Wars bar scene buddies that he hangs with and his buddies back in the Middle East.
I mean, the silliest defense of this is that it's free speech.
As I say, nobody's required to invite him anywhere to speak.
He doesn't automatically have free speeches as he comes here.
But, you know, to the liberals, Ahmadinezad is a victim.
He's from Iran, poor Middle East, just trying to survive with the evil superpower United States trying to destroy him.
So they think they're doing a good thing.
They think they're being moral.
They think they're being open-minded.
They're allowing an oppressed leader of a third world type nation in many ways to come speak to them at Columbia.
He gave a major speech before the UN in 2005, again in 2006.
He's going to do it again tomorrow.
He will exercise his free speech at the UN for the third straight year.
Constitution guarantee free speech at Columbia University?
Nope.
You know, by the way, this reminds me of something.
I have had not a lot of people, but I've had some people tell me, Rush, I really appreciate what you do, and I hope you keep doing it.
But, you know, you are helping to preserve and provoke this continued partisan divide in this country.
Because all you do is talk about liberals.
I mean, I know, Rush, you do great lessons on conservatism, but liberals this and liberals that.
Don't you think people have it figured out by now?
And then some people have said, you know, we've got to get rid of the partisanship, Rush.
There's too much of this blue and red divide out there.
We've got to start bringing people together.
And I look at these people in wide-eyed wonderment.
Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen.
I shall not be talked out of my instincts on this.
But what is interesting to me is that the other side's interested in any kind of a rapprochement.
Does our side not see what's happening?
Does our side, Republicans, conservatives, I don't care how you want to classify them, do they not see that the left's trying to wipe us out politically?
Get along with them?
Anybody heard of the new tone?
Who among you thinks we can get along with them?
I mean, you can get along with them civilly, one-on-one in a lot of places.
When you boil it all down, we've always had these arguments about what's best for the country, what we need to preserve about the country, how best to do that.
And those arguments are never going to go away unless one side cedes.
Now, I'm fully willing to talk to people on the left to try to persuade them.
But the idea that I somehow should tone it down or stop focusing on and reminding people about liberals so much is intriguing to me because that to me is a recipe for our defeat.
Now, you can say, well, this is making the American people nervous, Rush.
They're tired of this red state versus blue state.
They want to be red, white, and blue.
Everybody wants to be united.
I don't see that on the left.
I do not see that on the left.
I don't see where they want unity.
I see where they want no opposition.
And there's a huge difference in unity and no opposition.
And what do you think their policies are about?
Political correctness is just censorship of speech.
And it's so that liberals don't have to hear what they don't want to hear.
So they don't have to be challenged by what they don't want to be challenged by.
They want to control as much of your individual life as they can.
What do you think that's about?
Getting along with you?
They have contempt for the average American.
Yet smart enough to do anything on your own.
And when you exhibit the ability to be smart enough to do anything on your own, you generally don't vote for them, and that's a threat.
So you've got to stop that somehow.
Our quest on this program is to create as many informed, educated, motivated people to vote in the arena of ideas as possible.
And in addition to understanding the conservative principles you and I all hold dear, folks, it is imperative that as many Americans as possible understand the truth about today's liberals.
They're worse than they have ever been.
I mean, some of the things that Mrs. Clinton has said, and she epitomizes them today as the frontrunner of the Democrat Party nomination for president, some of the things that she wants to do, some of the things that she is saying openly, ought to have disqualified her.
I don't mean officially, but she ought not even stand a chance.
But people don't understand, not enough people understand the full-fledged intent that Mrs. Clinton has because of her liberalism, which is actually, in her case, socialism, which she's trying to hide.
I got to take a timeout.
I'm a little long here.
Do not go away and stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I want to spend some more time.
I did not know what happened on this program on Friday.
Mr. Snerdley just told me after the short little burst I did here on the red-blue partisan divide and so forth.
Apparently, Paul W. Smith had nude on, and they were talking about all this, which is fine.
Which is fine.
We have no dictatorial controls that we hand out on the days that I am not here.
But I do want to spend some more time on this because I think it is a tactical error to assume.
I'm going to do it right now, but I'm setting it up for later.
Maybe when I get to it today, I need to think a little bit more about it.
I'm speaking instinctively now, but this notion that there's anybody out there George W. Bush has reached out more times than anybody I can think of.
And what has it gotten him?
Pure, unadulterated hatred.
No, I'm not going to take credit for Philadelphia's victory yesterday.
The Eagles, you mean?
I would love to take credit for it, but I have to tell you, I don't think the Lions could stop laughing all day at those stupid throwback uniforms Eagles wore.
Did you see those things?
For crying out loud.
I think that was a strategic ploy.
The Eagles, they've had first uniforms in their history as a team.
And the Lions come out there and they see that and they think they're playing with a bunch of women in a sandbox.
We can't hurt these people.
Look at those cute colors, the light blue and the yellow, all those helmets.
We don't want to get those clothes dirty.
I mean, I think the Lions are totally distracted by the uniforms.
I wouldn't give the Eagles any credit for anything yesterday.
Linda in San Diego, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Here I am.
Okay.
Hi, Linda.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm fine and dandy.
Who's distracting you there?
You're distracted.
Oh, who's distracting me here?
I'm at the hospital getting ready to have my knees operated on.
Oh, gee, I'm sorry.
I'm having trouble.
That's okay.
I've been waiting a long time.
But anyway, I disagree with something you said this morning.
What's that?
And it bothered me.
What's that?
You said that American history teachers would be amazed at what's at Mount Vernon.
There are lots of us American history teachers out here that actually teach American history, teach the Founding Fathers, teach the Constitution.
Okay.
And we need to get credit for that.
Okay, a little test question for you then.
Okay.
Who gave George Washington's first Thanksgiving address?
He did.
All right.
All right.
Okay, Linda.
Very good.
Of course he did.
You're so silly.
We've been listening to you a lot of years, and lots of times we agree with you.
Every now and then we get upset with you.
And this is one of them because there are hundreds of us American teachers out here that actually really teach American history.
I understand that.
And you're right.
I've been to Mount Vernon.
I made a hasty generalization born of a fear that I think that there are fewer of you.
There are a lot of teachers that may know it, but they're not teaching it.
They're using their own political agenda as the syllabus under the guise of calling in American history.
I've heard too many examples of this, admittedly here in South Florida.
I don't want to get a bunch of arguments going here over which teachers are good or bad, but clearly there's some politicking going on in the high school classrooms across America today.
And I appreciate the fact that your feelings were hurt.
And I now know that you know American history, so I feel better about it.
I'm glad you called.
Back after this.
Well, the guy who wants me to buy his Steelers DVDs for $753,000 has come back.
He's lowered the price now to $375,000.
If I will donate $375,000 additional to the Fisher House, which cares for injured soldiers and military people when they are released from military hospitals.
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