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Sept. 28, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the most listened-to radio talk show in the country by far.
It's not even close, and it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
Yip, yahoo!
And you know the drill, ladies and gentlemen.
Monday through Thursday, I, as your benevolent dictator, dictate what is discussed on this program.
If I don't care about it, we don't talk about it.
But I waive that rule.
I broom that rule on Friday.
So that when we go to the phones, you can talk about pretty much whatever you wish to discuss.
If I don't care about it, I will fake it as best I can.
You can ask questions.
You can make comments.
Pretty much whatever.
Telephone number, 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
Let's go back to the grooveyard of forgotten hits, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Lieutenant Kerry's Purple Hearts Club Band on the EIB network.
From the grooveyard of forgotten favorites, Lieutenant Kerry's Purple Hearts Club band will medley there with a get by with a little help from my friends.
It's our buddy Paul Shanklin.
There's an interesting story.
Actually, it's a column today in the Wall Street Journal, and you can find it at opinionjournal.com is by Fred Kagan, Frederick Kagan, who is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the author, most recently, if no middle way, the challenge of exit strategeries from Iraq.
And the headline of the piece, very interesting, why we are winning now in Iraq.
Anbar's citizens needed protection before they would give their hearts and minds, and they've done so.
It's a long piece.
And I don't want to read the whole thing to you, obviously.
But it goes to show that the talking point, the U.S. presence is creating more terrorists, is wrong.
Makes this point brilliantly because we surged, because we kicked butt, and because we stayed in these regions after we kicked butt, we provided real and visible security, which corresponds with Iraqis joining the effort, not recruited, to target the United States.
Now, we'll link to this at rushlimbaugh.com because it's a very, very long piece.
But it's evidence like this.
It's truth like this that Liberal Democrats, the Democrat Party, the drive-by media do not want to hear.
Everything they tried with General Petraeus and the moveon.org ad backfired on them big time.
And they are looking to distract people's attention from their lack of patriotism and their attempt to secure defeat for this country and the U.S. military.
And it's going to blow back on them again every time they try this.
They have had 55 resolutions.
Do you people know this?
55 resolutions in the House and Senate to establish a date certain to get out of Iraq, and every one of them has failed.
Now, these people talk about the 06 elections being largely about the American people wanting to get out of Iraq.
They're misinterpreting that.
To the extent the 06 elections had anything to do with public mood on Iraq, yeah, people were upset about it, but a lot of people are upset that we weren't being the United States of America, that we weren't winning, that we weren't kicking butt.
To assess the results of the 06 election and conclude the American people want us out of there is absurd.
The American people don't want to lose.
They don't want the U.S. military to lose.
They want to win.
Americans love winners, especially in a fight.
George Patton said it.
If the Democrats really had all of this get out of Iraq now support, the first resolution would have passed.
And certainly one of the 55 would have passed.
None of them have, and they continue to lose ground each time they offer a new resolution.
And of course, now where are we?
Now that not only do Democrats and liberals lie, they will accept being lied to by their own people, by their own candidates.
Mrs. Clinton, depending on the hour of the day, has a different position on the war.
She has advocated getting out of there.
She has suggested we can't win.
And she's told the troops that if she gets elected, or told their troops, the Kuk Fringe base, if she gets elected, pull them out of there.
John Edwards, the same thing.
Barack Obama, same thing.
And then we go to the debate on Wednesday night.
Lo and behold, every damned one of them said, I can't commit to getting us out of Iraq by 2013, which, by the way, is four years after any of them would take office.
Four years after.
And they can't commit and wouldn't.
Now, their base is simply livid about this.
There's a column by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post.
Chris Matthews last night was beside himself.
He was despondent.
It was sort of funny to watch because they can't, they think they've been lied to.
What is this?
2013?
What are we talking about?
So what do they have to do?
They have to deflect attention away from themselves.
So the way to do it is run this attempted smear against me, particularly on a matter military.
And that gins up their base cause.
Their base obviously hates people like me much more than they are angry at Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards or whoever.
Take your pick.
And this is simply a strategery for the left.
I mean, they're running around like stuck pigs.
Nothing is working out for them on this war the way they thought it was after they won the House of the Senate in 06.
And they've got to deflect the anger from their own base.
And so what better way to do that than to put out some smear on me?
Because it works as far as getting their base livid and angry.
Get them mad at me.
Make them forget they're mad at Democrats.
Here's Eugene Robinson.
And he was on Matthews last night.
He is not happy.
He's not buying the political rationale here that you go left for the primary and then move to the center for the general, Richard Nixon's old strategery.
Yep, you heard it right, he begins.
At the Dartmouth College debate on Wednesday evening, not one of the three leading Democrat candidates could pledge that all U.S. combat troops would be out of Iraq by the end of his or her first term as president.
That's the end of a first term.
Would be January 2013, which would be five and a half years from now.
It's very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting, said Hillary Clinton.
I think it's hard to project four years from now, said Barack Obama.
I can't make that commitment, said John Edwards.
No wonder their base is livid.
No wonder their support groups have to run out and try to deflect attention.
They have just been lied to by their own people big time.
They have been lied to for four years because when the rubber hit the road, when the Democrats began speaking as president, future president, yeah, we can't pull out of there.
I can't guarantee we can do that.
And I told everybody this back in April, by the way.
Dirty little secret is whoever wins if the Democrats do, they're not pulling out of Iraq.
Anyway, Eugene Robinson continues.
It makes you wonder what kind of Kool-Aid they were serving backstage.
Let me suggest everybody stick to bottled water next time.
The time for a Democrat candidate to start taking the anti-war vote for granted and scurrying toward the imagined center is after securing the nomination, not before Democrat primary voters are smart enough to recognize the difference between saying you oppose the war and pledging to end it.
One thing we don't know is whether Bush will have sought to tie the next president's hands by ordering some kind of attack on Iran.
Yep, that would complicate the situation in Iraq.
So why did Clinton vote Wednesday for a Senate resolution encouraging Bush to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization?
Having voted to authorize the Iraq war, she says that Bush pulled the wool over her eyes.
Why would she vote for anything Bush might try to use as justification for yet another potentially catastrophic war?
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, not happy with Mrs. Clinton.
Not happy with anything he heard.
And he's reflecting the unhappiness of the fringe lunatic kook base of the Democrat Party.
So they've got to deflect attention.
And please, he concludes, no hiding behind I don't do hypotheticals.
The Republican candidate's view of Iraq around in the Middle East is dangerously apocalyptic, but at least it's a vision.
What's yours, Mrs. Clinton?
says Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.
Welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday, and time to go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
We'll go to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This is Greg.
It's great to have you on the program.
Greg, welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Love you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been listening to you since right before you hosted the Pat Sayjack show.
Well, that's going to be about 17 years that you've been.
At least.
Yeah.
That was great.
You had a female guest on there that he spent some time talking with, I remember.
Yeah, well, you ever take her out that night?
Sidney Biddle Barrel.
Oh, no.
You talk about Sidney Biddle Barrows, and somebody in the audience just started beating on me.
No, the one that you had on your stage talking with.
Oh, yeah, that was Sidney Biddle Barrows, a well-known med of, and so forth and so on.
Yeah.
Trying to shake him up.
I don't even remember what we talked about.
Okay.
I think I said I'd take her home to meet my mom, and she couldn't believe it.
You would?
Anyway, what'd you call about Greg?
Rush, I can't believe how these reporters and talking heads just can't get you right.
Now, you don't want to.
They don't want to.
You've got to understand this.
They're purposely getting it wrong.
That's the objective here.
Well, maybe we have a solution.
You have an adopt a soldier program.
So you're thinking of the an adopt a journalist program?
Adopt a reporter or adopt a talking head.
And I'd like to be the first to adopt for 24-7 one-year subscription.
And we can start with Chris Matthews.
You know, the basic problem with that is that they can afford it.
And it wouldn't matter if they read it every day anyway.
These people see the truth and it doesn't permeate.
They live in these cocoons that they have woven for themselves.
They wear body armor.
Their worldview is intact.
And they get challenges.
It doesn't happen.
It said.
It's irrelevant.
It's not worth debating.
These are the most closed-minded people around.
So nice idea, but not worth the time.
Sarah, Wilmington, Delaware, you're next on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
I was watching Family Guy last Sunday, and there was a scene where it sounded like I heard your voice, and then I saw your name in the credits, and I wanted to know how that came about.
I was sitting here minding my own business, and we got a call from Seth McFarlane, who is the creator of the program, and he asked, and this is back in, gee, I think it was April or May, and he said, we're working on our season premiere for next season, 07, and we're doing a little Star Wars thing, and we've got a little bit of the script we'd like you to do.
Would you do it?
And they sent what the script and was.
It was fine.
So I said, sure, I'd love to.
So they, on the day we recorded, I recorded it here in my studio.
They were out in Hollywood, wherever they are.
And we, I guess it took about 20 minutes to get it the way they wanted it done.
And they were as nice as they could be.
It was a lot of fun to do.
Do you ever watch the show?
I had never seen it.
I had to go find out what it was.
I don't watch cartoons.
I haven't seen The Simpsons either in a long, long time.
Nothing against it.
I'm just not cartoons to me are for eight-year-olds.
Sure.
Can I also tell you that back when I was 19, I'm 29 now, I once gave $20 to President Clinton's defense fund.
And shortly after that, I started to listen to you, and I started to think.
And then I went on to go to law school, and I became president of the Republican group at my law school.
And I'm now practicing law, but I'm definitely conservative and been listening to you for 10 years, and you are the one who changed my thinking.
So I just want to thank you for that.
Well, that is nice of you to say.
I appreciate that.
I love hearing these kinds of stories because whether you know it or not, this kind of thing happens a lot, and this threatens the Democrats.
It threatens the left, and it makes me a bit of a target, which I say bring it on.
But you're very kind.
I really appreciate that.
Thanks so much.
You practicing law in Wilmington?
Yes, I am.
I got a lot of friends that live in Wilmington.
Well, not a lot, three or four.
Good golf buddies.
It's a great, great place to live.
Yeah, it is.
It's close enough to Philadelphia without being there.
Yeah, I'm from Philly, but I moved here to practice law, and it's a great legal environment.
I'm going to be in Philadelphia on the 11th of October.
I did hear that.
Yeah, that's going to be interesting and fun, too.
Yeah, I hope I should have tried to get tickets, but I did not do that.
Well, you never know.
There might be a way.
me put you on hold here for a second.
We'll see if we can.
Look, there's always tickets.
Oh.
There are always.
These things sell out in a matter of minutes.
There are always tickets.
Yeah, I think it sold out pretty quick, and I'm actually a new mom, so I didn't have time to try and get the tickets.
Well, are you going to be able to go?
I would make time to go.
Well, wonderful.
Well, hang on, and we'll find a way to get you some tickets, okay?
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Thank you, Sarah.
Appreciate it.
Don't hang up.
Mr. Snerdley will be on.
Don't get her phone number in there, Snerdley.
Just get an address.
She's a new mom.
Oh, that's right.
You can get her phone number.
She's a new mom.
Have to keep Snerdley within the guardrails on occasion.
Beth in Schenectady, New York.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi.
Well, I wanted to mention the Blackwater shooting of civilians.
They still need to be brought to justice.
And the issue I hear of the upper brass driving around with more armament than the average working soldier over in Iraq?
Blackwater is an independent security force.
Right, which means you probably shouldn't have one over there if this is what's happening, right?
Shouldn't have.
A private security force.
Well, no, they're all over there.
When I toured Afghanistan, I did a troop visit in Afghanistan.
It'll be two years ago in February, maybe three now.
And contract security was used for all of us.
I went over to the State Department contingent, and we stayed in the equivalent in Kabul of the Green Zone in Baghdad.
And the security for the ambassador and for the State Department people were all contract security people.
I don't know if they were Blackwater, but they are the best.
And they're former special forces in some ways, but they are the absolute best at what they do.
They are charged with protecting.
You know, when he was in Iraq and in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, who was the first appointment of President Bush to go over there and start putting things in order, was the most targeted man in the country.
It was Blackwater that did his security.
Well, my great uncle was a air radio mechanic first class in World War II and did escort and all that stuff.
And I'm thinking, you know, in his little rickety plane, and I'm imagining today, as I said, the second point besides the civilian killing was my great uncle's MIA with MIA.
His plane, he's presumed to die in a plane explosion.
But they didn't go look for him.
But anyway, that's another story.
But he did escort.
They did bombing.
They did search and rescue.
They did everything.
They escorted over.
He was a little bit more.
What is that?
A little rickety plane.
I don't get your point.
Well, my point is that thinking in the name of all those soldiers that don't have armament, right, that's it.
You know, you're living under such an illusion.
They don't have armaments.
You need to watch Ken Burns' World War II on PBS if you want to find out what having no armaments and things and no food.
This is all a myth that you're believing.
I know.
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We go to Des Moines, Iowa.
This is Richard.
Richard, welcome to the EIB Network.
It's your turn.
Hey, Mega Dezos Rush.
Thanks.
Can I thank you for something first?
Yeah, by all means.
A lot of people do.
I got to thank you for your sense of humor.
Without it, I would never have survived the Clinton years.
I would have been distraught the whole time.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was distraught, but I managed to laugh.
I figured if I could laugh while distraught, everybody else could.
Well, I laughed my head off.
Anyway, being a conservative first, it kind of pains me to disagree with you about the nanny state.
I'm becoming more and more in favor of it.
Well, this ought to be good.
Well, reason being is with the guest that you had yesterday, and I only heard about five minutes of the show that quoted an astronomically high percentage of Americans who want socialized health care.
What was it like 44, 46 percent?
44 percent want free socialized.
Think every American should have it, not just for themselves.
44 percent think every American should have free socialized medicine.
Okay, now based on that, knowing the principles of conservative economics, my insurance gives me a break for being a non-smoker.
So, on that principle, wouldn't it make sense what John Kerry was saying?
Everybody has to go to the doctor once a year.
John Edwards, shut down.
Excuse me, excuse me, John Edwards.
You can't smoke, you can't get fat, you can't eat trans fats, you have to do things that will keep yourself healthy so that you're not such a drain on the health care economy.
Essentially, that's a tip of the iceberger where this would end up.
Yeah, well, I understand that, but it's starting to make sense to me that the nanny state is not just people telling you what to do, but it's the sensible thing to do if we end up with free health care, which I think we're going to.
I saw another non-scientific poll that quoted as high as 51% recently.
I don't know.
I can't figure out if you're joking.
I wish I was.
Rush, really, I wish I was.
You're telling me, you started out here, you built the foundation of conservative free market economics, and you think that free hasshal health care for everybody would work.
I'm assuming because all of the restrictions on us would keep us all healthy, and we would put much less strain on the health care system.
Is that it?
I'm not saying it would work.
I'm saying that it makes sense to tell people from the government if government's going to provide our health care, just like my insurance is the third-party payer for my health care, it makes sense for them to say you can't eat trans fats, you can't smoke, you have to do some level of exercise.
You want that kind of restriction on your freedom?
I cannot believe that.
No, I don't.
I'm not saying I want it.
I'm just saying that since it looks like I think whoever we end up with as president, be they Republican or Democrat, we're going to end up with some kind of socialized health care.
But being a taxpayer.
Not if I have anything to say about it.
Why are you willing to throw in a towel on this stuff?
I can't believe what I'm hearing here.
I will go to the voting booth and I will fight with my vote every step of the way.
I do not want it, and I'm not throwing in the towel.
I'm just scared to death it's actually going to happen.
But then you don't honestly think it's going to work.
You mean you think they're going to achieve it.
They're going to pull this off.
I think they're going to pull it off.
Exactly.
All right.
That's a different thing than you telling me you think it's going to work.
No, no, I don't think it's going to work.
Because there's no such thing as free.
There's no such thing as free.
I don't know who people expect to pay for this.
The French?
The United Nations?
The new government of Miran Maher that we have just put sanctions on?
Who is going to pay for this?
Look, since you've given me a springboard here, a transition.
And I need somebody to do some research here.
I need to find out as quickly as we can the U.S. birth rate.
How many babies are born in this country every year?
I don't care legal, illegal, I need to know how many babies are born every year in this country.
And you multiply that number times 5,000, as in dollars, because Mrs. Clinton said today that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 baby bond from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
She made the suggestion during a forum hosted by a Congressional Black caucus.
She said, I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that'll grow over time so that when that young person turns 18, if they have finished high school, they'll be able to access it to go to college.
Maybe they'll be able to make that down payment on their first home.
She didn't offer any estimate of the total cost or how she would pay for it.
We know how she'll pay for it.
She will raise taxes on the rich.
This is about the 10th time that she is now going to raise taxes on the rich, which means there's not going to be money to pay for this.
Now, can I take you back to Social Security reform for just a second?
Remember, Social Security reform, the Democrats opposed it mightily because they didn't want any portion of somebody's Social Security contribution to the government being managed in an account that would, quote unquote, grow independent of where the money was in the Social Security system.
And they demagogued this and they said, we can't do that when the stock market plunges.
Why the people could be wiped out?
And look at all the management fees.
These PS is just, this is just a SOP to Wall Street.
The Bush administration just trying to make their rich buddies richer.
Of course, it was all smoke and mirrors.
Democrats don't want to give up any control of Social Security.
But now, here comes Mrs. Clinton.
This is just one observation.
Here comes Mrs. Clinton, wants to hand out five grand to every baby born in America so that it will be invested somewhere and it will grow and it will have X number of dollars in it by the time they need to go to college.
You talk about creating dependency from the cradle to the grave.
Now, George McGovern tried this.
He proposed this in 1972.
And I think, I have to consult this to be sure, but I think McGovern was proposing to give every citizen $1,000 back in 1972.
Now, back then, he was laughingstock for doing this.
He was laughed off the presidential candidate stage.
He ended up losing in a massive landslide loss to Richard Nixon.
Now today, when you have 44% of the American people claiming in a poll that they think every American ought to have free health care, why you're looking at a much different culture today.
You're looking at a culture that thinks the government should do this kind of thing.
So here, this is the Democrats are on the march.
Mrs. Clinton's on the march, not masking anything.
This is what government is there to do, is take care of you, to pay for you, to make sure you don't have any rough spots in your life.
And the deal is you end up voting for Democrats for the rest of your life.
And frankly, you're going to have to if you buy into this scheme because you're not ever going to learn how to take care of yourself.
You're going to think the government's there for your health care.
The government's there for your retirement.
The government is there for your education.
The government is there for your first home.
The government's there for pretty much everything.
Okay, so we've found out approximately 4 million births in the United States every year.
So you multiply that number times 5,000, and that's what this would cost.
You can run the numbers on that if you have a calculator at home or on your iPod or iPhone.
Can't take time to do it here behind the golden EIB microphone until I go to a commercial break.
But this is Mrs. Clinton's proposal, $5,000 per baby, every baby born in America.
That's her idea.
Made the proposal today before the Congressional Black Caucus.
We'll see what kind of reaction this gets.
I'm telling you, it's not going to be the reaction McGovern got in 72.
McGovern was laughed off the stage, but this is the McGovernization of the Democrat Party with their anti-war stance now, this kind of thing.
In the meantime, more economic news, U.S. consumer spending up 0.6%, incomes up 0.3%, according to the Commerce Department.
Experts shocked.
Experts surprised.
Consumer confidence is also way up in the latest report in the conference board, stunning the experts who figured the housing market problems would have everybody depressed.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Well, the nanny state has no limits.
No limits whatsoever.
Once the rule of law is irrelevant, that being the Constitution, once they take care of that, what are the limits on government?
There won't be any.
So let's look at health care.
Once the government steps in, it is empowered to tell you you have to see a doctor and when you have to see a doctor and what behaviors you can and cannot engage in in order to hold on to your insurance.
And they will tell you you can't eat trans fats and you can't smoke and you've got to exercise and do this.
It's folks, it is going.
You all need to go out.
You really do need to go out.
We are like frogs in boiling water.
Oh, it's not boiling yet.
They've been turning up the heat here for about 25 years, 25 or 30 years.
And we're not getting hot enough yet to the point we need to jump out of this.
And if we don't jump out of it, we're going to end up stuck in This pot for the rest of our lives surrounded by this boiling water.
You need to go rent the movie, The Lives of Others.
It's German.
It's closed captioned.
It's a kind of movie the United States should be making, but we aren't.
It's made by Germans, and it's a portrayal and a depiction of what life was like under totalitarian socialism and communism in East Germany.
Now, it's rated R, so you don't want to watch it with your crumb crunchers because there's some nudity in there and it sits, but it's really not necessary.
It just didn't get the R to get the attention, but it's really, really, really good.
And if you want to find out what citizens who are afraid of their government every day, who are told where they have to live, what they can do, what their jobs are, what they're going to be paid, if you want to know what that's like, go get this movie.
And don't sit there and say, oh, come on, Rush, it's never going to happen.
It may not happen in our lifetimes.
But if these people like Mrs. Clinton aren't stopped and if they aren't checked, we're all frogs in this boiling cauldron of water that's not boiling yet.
In fact, it's pretty warm, feels pretty good right now, pretty comforting.
But they keep turning up the heat, and pretty soon we're going to not realize it in time.
It's going to be too late.
So if you go along with this socialized, so-called free national healthcare, rather than actively get involved and support programs and policies that will reverse the silly trend of spiraling out of control, senseless costs, rather than say, I want it and I want it free, there's no such thing as free.
You're going to be paying for it one way or the other, both monetarily and at a loss of freedom.
This is a serious thing.
And this control over people is precisely what liberals today are all about.
Why do you think they want to raise taxes?
They want to raise taxes so you have less money to spend.
So that you will be more easily controlled and more open to receiving some sort of government benefit.
Now, the difference between private insurance and the government taking over health care is private insurance, you voluntarily decide what kind of insurance you want or will accept for that matter.
If the government runs it, you have no say.
And if you don't like it, there's nowhere you can go because there's nobody else in the business.
And if it's unsatisfactory service, you're stuck.
Nothing you can do.
Great Britain now saying natural childbirth and birthing pools.
Don't come to the hospitals for pain medicine and don't come for the birth here.
We don't have the money is what they don't say, but that's why they want to turn birthing back 100 years in Great Britain because the healthcare system can't deal with childbirths.
It's so overburdened with other medical emergencies.
And by the way, another thing is $5,000 for every baby born in America.
Can you imagine the kind of power trip you have to be on to make this kind of statement?
Can you also imagine the flood of illegal immigration that this is going to spawn?
You tell the impoverished and the poor, not just in Mexico, but around the world, all they got to do is get in here and their kid is born, five grand, start making babies.
And what, well, we don't know the details of the plan.
I'm sure she'll say it doesn't apply to illegals, but you wait.
Everything applies to them now.
They get health care.
They get public education.
They get tuition breaks when they go to college that in-state students don't get or out-of-state students don't get.
You think that Mrs. Clinton's going to actively keep $5,000 away from illegal immigrant babies born in this country are citizens?
Born in this country, you're a citizen.
You get it.
Hello, the swarm that would take place if this ever happened.
And of course, Mrs. Clinton likes that because those are all future Democrat voters.
This is Rod in Miami.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
I've got to tell you, I was listening to Liberal Station, Ed Schultz, and they're playing the clip of you basically talking about the soldiers.
It's pretty condemning.
Haven't heard it.
Haven't heard you replay it.
You replay a lot of your old clips.
I'd like to hear the whole clip and see how it really plays out.
I haven't heard you.
I've been listening for about an hour now, and I've heard you talk about it, but you haven't played anything.
Also, I wouldn't mind.
I'm a crazy liberal from Miami, so I've got a few things.
We could talk about global warming.
We could talk about abortion.
What do you want a liberal's opinion on?
What do I want a liberal's opinion on?
You like giving the liberal's opinion, but I don't hear to give you my opinion.
With all due respect, I mean, I don't mean this personally, but I don't need your opinion as a liberal because I already know what it is.
Oh, okay.
I know what liberal opinion, global warming is, and abortion, and whatever else.
I played the soundbite that you didn't hear in the first 10 minutes of the program today.
Okay.
Putting it all in context.
I'm sorry you missed it.
What I can tell you is that what you're hearing on these shows is so incompetently, purposely taken out of context.
It's something I never said.
I did say phony soldiers talking about an actual fraud named Jesse Macbeth who was found.
You did say soldiers in plural, though, didn't you?
Yes, because there have been a number of these people, but they were not active duty.
I was not talking about anti-war active duty troops.
I was talking about people who've been exposed as frauds, who never served in Iraq, but claimed to have seen all these atrocities, claimed to be a Green Beret.
He was an Army Ranger, never was, claimed they had a purple heart.
He never got one.
He was busted out of the Army in 44 days in boot camp.
This is the guy I was talking about.
Okay, I don't know much about him, but can we talk about global warming?
No, no, no, no.
We're not going to talk about global warming because there's nothing left to say about global warming other than what I've already said.
But what you say about it, I don't care to hear.
You have just demonstrated to me that you're not interested in what I say.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Can I talk about global warming?
No, you haven't earned the right to say anything on this program.
I just answered your question, and it didn't either penetrate your skull or it went in one ear and out the other that it made no difference to you.
And this program is about what I think anyway.
And since I already know what you think, and I've already articulated what you think about global warming, I don't need to waste time doing it.
Now, besides, I don't have time.
I have to go to a profit center timeout where we charge $20,000 a minute, and I would rather do that than listen to you.
All right, listen up, folks.
We have just posted the video from the DittoCam of the first segment of this program with the truth of this whole phony soldier controversy that Media Matters and the Democrats are totally lying about on YouTube.
You can go to rushlimbaugh.com, and we've got the YouTube link right there.
And it's, I don't know, even check to see how long it is.
The first segment of the program with the whole story.
It's a little over eight minutes long, and it's up on YouTube now.
And you can link to it at rushlimbaud.com.
I'll say more about this when we come back and start the final hour of today's excursion into broadcast Cast Excellence.
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