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Oct. 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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It is Friday on the EIB Network.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday!
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You pretty much talk about that whichever you wish.
Open line Friday's fun this way, because uh guys after that last call.
Yeah, you've you've jumped a shark now.
No, no, we haven't jumped a shark here, folks.
Uh this this is uh it was a perfect open line Friday call because people always ask, what's it like to be you?
You just heard.
Uh it happens.
Some of the emails are funny.
Rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, just buy our house and forget it.
Rush, she's separated.
There's a reason.
Everybody trying to warn me and help me, folks.
I don't need warning on this.
Been there, done that.
But I appreciate the offers of assistance.
Others said, get a room.
This is gross.
You need to add a cold shower room to your website, including the nap room.
So uh it is what it is.
Here's a big announcer we had a half hour ago at 1.33 Eastern Time.
The official, the real letter that Harry Reid uh wrote to Mark Mays, the chairman, chief executive officer of Clear Channel, my syndication partner, uh signed by Reed and 40 other Democrat senators, is now being auctioned off to the highest bidder on eBay.
You can go to our website, Rush Limbaugh.com, click on the uh little information button there under the eBay logo, take you right to the page, fully explanatory on the page.
It's a great page, by the way.
There are pictures of all four uh pages of the Harry Reed letter.
Uh the proceeds from the the winning bid, and by the way, the auction will remain open until next Friday at 1 30 Eastern time.
Every dime of the proceeds will go to the Marine Corps, law enforcement foundation, which uh raises money for college scholarships for children of Marines killed in action.
Also uh the children of federal law enforcement officers killed in action.
Uh been around since the 90s, raised almost 30 million dollars.
It's uh just a brilliant charity.
And we thought there would be no better way for Senator Reed's letter asking for my syndication partner to condemn me than for have it be auctioned off at whatever price we get and the money go to the military, since Stingy Harry's letter was an attempt to get me condemned as unpatriotic and anti-military.
The one thing that uh you should know we're asking everybody to pre-qualify, uh, not with credit card information or any of that, or whatever information is asked for, is gonna be destroyed at the end of the week of uh of the auction.
Uh it's uh it's it's primarily uh so we can backtrack and find out if uh anybody from the Democrat National Committee or Senator Reed's office trying to buy back their own letter to uh to keep it shielded, the actual real letter.
And there are 40 senators that have signed this among them.
Uh I don't want to read all 40 Democrat names, but on the front page, you find Harry Reed, Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer, Patty Murray, uh Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Uh see, Tom Harkin is there, Jack Reed, Frank Lautenberg.
Uh, who else?
Can't read all the signatures, and we've put the list on the eBay page, all in alphabetical order.
So uh we announced this last night in Philadelphia at the Rush to Excellence Tour, and the video of this announcement, as well as the audio, is also up now at Rush Limbaugh.com, where you can actually see how this happened.
A titanium case that is used to protect and shield the official letter made by Halliburton, also included.
There will be a personal thank you letter from me, also included in the prize package.
Uh the handcuffs that were used last night to protect the uh the uh letter in the case, in the attache case.
Uh uh handcuffs were attached to the attache case to uh the wrist of my security guy Stalin.
Uh and the um the handcuffs we can't give away because uh uh law requires that only law enforcement and uh people involved in security get the handcuffs.
We realize this may limit interest in markets like San Francisco.
Uh where the handcuffs would be the real attraction.
Uh nevertheless, go to a costume store, get some handcuffs if you want.
Uh this is going to be up for a week.
And uh we have also, I issued uh last hour a challenge to Senator Reed and the other 40 senators.
If you want to show us how really supportive of the military you are, and by the way, this this is in the midst now of this House resolution to condemn Turkey for the third time since the 70s for the genocide of Armenians 100 years ago.
This is designed to split Turkey and the United States' allies.
We use Turkey as a supply line and and uh and route uh to get necessary materiel into the troops in Iraq.
The Democrats are agitated and irritated the Turks, uh Turkish government.
They've already recalled their ambassador.
It's just a it's a sneaky, cowardly way to secure defeat when they don't have the guts uh to vote.
No more money for the war.
They can't even pass 55 resolutions in the House and Senate that they've offered.
In the midst of all this, they try to say that I'm anti-military, and they write this letter to my corporate partner.
We can think of no better way than to put this on eBay, let the money that Senator Reed's actions and letter led to raise money for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
So there it is.
And again, the link, if your browser hasn't been refreshed since 12 noon, just refresh the browser that you're looking at our website on.
You can't miss the link at the top of the page on the left side, the eBay logo, there's a click for information button right below that.
We were speaking earlier in the program about federal deficit and how it's come way, way down, and how it's the tax cuts since 2003 that have caused this to happen.
Inarguable.
Democrats doing everything they can to dispute it.
Retail sales posted the usual.
Stronger than expected gain, and prices at the wholesale level jumped up significantly in September.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that retail sales increased 0.6% last month compared to August, as a big increase in auto sales helped offset weak demand for clothing.
The strength in retail sales should ease concerns that the worst slump in housing in 16 years in this summer's financial market turmoil could push the economy into a recession, just hoping for a recession.
and drive-bys just dying for a recession while Bush is in office to give the Democrats something else to run on.
So It is uh striking, and every story is another dang surprise.
Every economic story is a dang surprise.
They can't believe it.
Stronger than expected.
Experts surprised.
So uh in fact, I I I thought that I heard yesterday uh that uh J.C. Penny and Nordstroms reporting bad September sales.
This was a harbinger of a very bad Christmas.
There's a story in a stack here, by the way, there might be a toy shortage this Christmas because of the Chicoms putting lead in all the toys, which has led to a recall.
And if there's a shortage of toys, of course we'll not have as many toys sold.
That will lead to a recession.
Have you heard the latest?
There's lead in lipstick.
Lead and li- have any of you heard of a woman using lipstick dying from lead poison.
No, of course you haven't.
So the toy shortage, retail sales yesterday were going to be very, very, very bad.
Couldn't find the story last night after I had heard it.
Uh but uh never they are going to continue to pump out this nonsense that the economy is on its last legs because they're trying to create that in your mind.
And the economic news continues to befuddle them.
They will not look honestly at the reason the economy is growing, the tax cuts, because that doesn't fit the narrative of the drive-by media in the Democrat Party.
One more thing here before we go to the break.
This is classic.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Carl Bernstein took reporters at a news conference to task for not spending enough time on stories.
When he found out that many were not staying to listen to his speech.
We all know that Bernstein partnered with Woodward breaking the Watergate scandal, he spoke to journalists before a speech Wednesday at Indiana University, Purdue University, Fort Wayne.
When he asked how many reporters were covering his evening speech, many said that they were not citing early deadlines.
Bernstein, when he found out that few reporters are going to hang around to listen to his speech, said this.
He criticized reporters for rushing from event to event and not taking the time to do in-depth stories, even if they had to work off the clock.
Have you ever heard a more accurate description of the drive-by media other than mine than this?
They rush from story to story.
They don't do anything in depth.
They rush from story to story, apply the narrative that's already in their minds, the template that's already in their minds.
They basically blow up whatever situation they run into, create this big giant mess filled with lack of accurate reporting, a bunch of lies based on a narrative.
Think the Duke rape case.
Then they move on down the road in a convertible and do it all over again.
And Bernstein, without using the term, has just now said the drive-by media.
They rushed from story to story.
Now his motivation was he was anger because not a enough of them were hanging around to hear what he had to say, as though he is a story.
But whatever it takes.
Okay, folks, a little uh uh uh just something I want to explain to those of you who are subscribers at Rush Limbaugh.com.
I've been checking the email.
There is um there is uh tremendous demand for the uh video of last night's announcement of the intention to auction off Dingy Harry's uh letter on eBay from Philadelphia to be made available as a download to subscribers.
So we're gonna include it in the podcasts that we download this afternoon after the program.
So you get the three hours, this is for you, people that subscribe, the three hours of the radio show podcast, the m the video of Monday's morning update plus the um uh the video of last night's announcement of the intention to put Harry Reid's letter at auction on eBay will also be part of the the uh podcast package uh sh available shortly after the program today to those of you who are subscribers at Rush 24-7.
There's such demand for this that I have I just got a letter of an asking if I if I would authorize this to uh meet the demand.
And I've done so.
Back to the phones to Spokane Washington.
This is Catherine.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
Thank you for taking my call today.
Thank you.
Listen, uh, do you know what could happen three weeks from today?
Uh well, I have a three weeks of today.
No.
November 2nd, I think that Al Gore is going to end up throwing his hat in the ring.
What do you think?
Um, this is something that there's a big draft gore movement out there.
Whether he does or not, there's something about this that interests me more than his final decision on it.
Because we're being told that Mrs. Clinton's inevitable.
We're being told that this election really ought not even happen, that she's already got it in the bag.
In fact, some people have suggested in a mocking way, of course, that the Democrats ought to just suspend their presidential campaign and save all this money and give it to Mrs. Clinton for her health care plan and so forth, uh, without having to raise taxes so much, blah, blah, blah.
Because they've just made the made it the conventional wisdom of fate accomplished that she's the nominee.
Yet there is this huge draft gore movement.
Yesterday in the New York Times, there was a front page or a full page ad that was run on behalf of the draft gore movement.
They've got websites and so forth.
And now the drive-by's this morning after it was announced that Gore won the peace prize, are going absolutely bonkers over the excitement.
Now, I think, as far as the drive-by's are concerned, one of the things that excites them is the Democrat campaign is boring.
There's no excitement in it.
Because outside of Hillary, nobody's saying anything.
Barack's fallen apart.
Nobody knows where he is, what he's saying.
Edwards is, you know, not doing anything.
The problem that they're having is the votes haven't been cast.
You know, back at this time in 2004, everybody thought Howard Dean was Hillary Clinton.
They had it all in a bag, and look what happened there.
The interesting thing to me, therefore, is that there seems to be such dissatisfaction with Mrs. Clinton.
See, I think, deep in the bowels of the Democratic Party outside the Clinton machine, there is genuine worry she cannot win the general election because she's too polarizing a figure.
And so that's the fascinating thing to me.
Whether he gets in or not is uh uh something I'll just have to wait and see.
I don't try to predict the future and that sort of thing.
Plus, he's all over the board saying he's not going to.
Well, I actually came down to it, who which would do you think would be the lesser of two evils if it if it was between Gore and Hillary.
Um I think what what uh uh you mean the lesser two evils in terms of which one would be a president.
Who's to say either one of them is going to be president?
Well, we don't know.
I'm just saying, uh, you know, in your opinion, I I mean who who would be easier to live with.
Who's worse?
The distinction is not that great.
We're talking socialists here.
Either one of them would be a disaster.
Now, in terms of which one could easily more easily win, I do think Gore could.
I think there's a lot of Democrats that feel he got cheated, want to vote for him again, and this peace prize is going to give all kinds of standing to his reputation and so forth.
Plus, if you talk if you if you talk to Democrats, you talk about somebody who'd been deprived.
You know, part of Mrs. Clinton's appeal is that she has been deprived of her true destiny because she gave up her feminist future to marry the hick from Arkansas and then had to cover the guy in all of his embarrassing episodes and so forth.
So she kind of owed this.
Well, they can look at it gore as being owed this, because of course the Supreme Court stole the election from him in 2000.
Uh but he he doesn't have nearly the negative baggage going in that Hillary does.
His problem is that when he starts campaigning, he just, you know, he sighs and he hires Naomi Wolfe to dress him up in earth tones and and nobody likes him.
You know, outside the bunch that's that that's going for him, uh that's pulling for him to get in.
But look at this stage with any of these Democrats running, Catherine, I don't care if it's Obama or if it's the Breck There we we are talking on the most massive expansion of government uh since FDR, if these people win.
I don't care which one of them it is, especially if they win the House and the Senate.
But speaking of that, you remember back when uh Republicans control the House and the Senate, Democrats are all out there worried about the uh imbalance of power.
Uh this just uh and and we had to respect the rights of the minority.
And what are they trying to do?
They're trying to gain control of all three the House and Senate and the and the uh and the White House.
Do you think they will complain about the imbalance of power when it's all theirs?
Doubt it, folks.
In fact, I'd make book on it that they won't.
They're just a bunch of hypocrites out there.
But the i either one of them, any one of them that runs, is uh is a disaster in the way that and I'm not making it up.
They are the ones telling us what they're going to do.
I if if people were actually listening to Mrs. Clinton, and we had a widely educated informed public, she would be a national embarrassment, and there'd be people scared to death of her being president.
But they don't.
It's a personality thing.
It's a cult of personality, pop culture personality, the Clintons.
And you can't rule Bill out of the equation as to why Hillary has.
If her last name weren't Clinton, you've heard all the various lines, but she wouldn't be in this race.
There's nothing that recommends her to resume to be a leader of anything.
Zilch Zero Nada.
Lee in Chicago, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I just got an email from MoveOn.org that said they want me to start a candlelight vigil for the ship program.
Really, uh uh where?
Uh well in Chicago, they send around to uh to everybody, but you know, I uh I'm a conservative and I subscribe to all the left-wing stuff just to find out what they do because uh, you know, I write for a conservative blog and such.
But it's just ridiculous how how they're just blatantly lying to their constituents.
Well, it's move on.org.
It's George Soros, it's move on.org.
It's a Clinton's.
I mean, what do you expect?
Lying?
Well, I mean, of course I expect that, but I mean they're they're they're saying like you swift voted a 12-year-old in this email.
I mean, it's just it's just getting to be obnoxious.
Yeah, I know.
I I I I'm the same thing with the smear of me.
It was it it was almost surreal to to these people are are living in an alternative universe.
We've got two sets of realities here.
But the problem is for people like you and me, a reality is a reality.
They are fabricating A reality.
They are living a lie, trying to make it true, and in the process, they start to believe their own lies.
This is called sociopath.
And it's what they are.
And you are, we all make the mistake.
If we try to analyze and react to this rationally, we can't.
I don't know about you.
I'm pretty confident.
You don't want your side to prevail or the blog you write on.
You don't want people to read it and agree with it and like it because it's filled with lies.
You want it to be truthful, and you want people to be on your side because they understand the truth.
These people, just the exact opposite.
They're trying to create as many falsehoods and lies as possible.
Because the secret is liberalism cannot survive unless it owns the monopoly on the dissemination of information.
It's just that simple.
Yeah, just looking at the audio soundbite roster here for a second.
Yeah, just looking at the audio soundbite roster here for a second.
Thank you.
I'm just looking for examples here of Mrs. Clinton telling us full full full force what she's going to do.
Um the same thing with the Brett Girl in Obama when it comes to raising taxes, growing government.
Look at the S Chip program.
Look at the things that Charlie Wrangle has got a one trillion dollar tax increase planned.
And he's excited about it, and he can't wait to implement it.
He needs a Democrat president to do it.
One trillion dollar tax increase.
They want to slow down the economy, folks.
They want you in need, with them providing the need.
Try this.
This is an AP story.
As the world's top condom experts.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Convene this week to update international standard condom experts.
Hey, little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Mommy, mommy, I will be expert in condoms.
Really, little Johnny.
Yeah, I see them in dad's shoes all the time.
I want to know what I want to be expert.
How do people end up in certain jobs?
Condom experts.
Anyway, the the condom convention is taking place because an American entrepreneur has a simple message, and that is size matters.
It's shaking up an industry that's generally taken a one-size-fits-all approach.
Frank Sadlow, the entrepreneur here, founder of They Fit, which makes uh what he claims are the world's first custom fit condoms, is pushing for updated standards to allow greater variation in condom science.
What you mean to tell me they're regulated.
Something sold in the bathrooms at gas stations are regulated.
There have to have been leaks in this department.
We wouldn't have known the story if there hadn't been leaks here.
All right.
Uh is Vanica, is that how this is Vanica in uh Magnolia, Texas?
Thank you hi Hi, welcome to the program.
Thanks, Baja.
Um, my name's Deanna Khan from Magnolia, Texas, and since you're being charitable today, can I plug a volunteer group that I work for?
Well, I don't work.
Uh okay.
Uh well, we uh we advocate for and support those affected by congenital heart defect for it's my heart.org.
So I don't want uh anything to do with that, but I I want to tie in something really funny now that you know that I've been affected by cajonal heart disease.
My daughter underwent open heart surgery at three months of age.
And uh my husband and I find humor wherever we can find it.
And we were watching South Park on Wednesday, and I lamented to my husband that I wished you watched it because these guys craft storylines that are so full of irony, and they demonstrate absurdity by being absurd on a level that you can appreciate.
And the gest of this episode was um a gentleman had been constipated because he'd been eating PF chains for a couple of weeks, and then he got a prescription.
And I know this is kind of crass, but I'll get to the point, and that that's really humorous.
Um, you know, that's not heard that before.
It involves the drive-by media and uh an activist on par with Al Gore.
But um he uh he eliminates a size of excrement so big that he calls his wife then and his friends then, they call the Guinness.
Birdly, did she tell you she was gonna mention this?
Yes, yes, yes, what do you know?
No, no, listen, right for the.
I don't care the size of excrement.
I don't care if it's on South Park, it's not an open line friend.
Be quiet out there for a minute, Vatican.
No.
You don't what you have just done to this poem, I can't believe what we're discussing here.
We've become Lenny Bruce.
Let me cut to the chase.
I have watched South Park in the past, but I haven't I haven't watched it regularly.
I do have a pinball machine, a South Park pinball machine.
Up yes, up in the game room.
And it's got the South Park characters on there, and they whine and moan, go crazy, little Kenny and so forth when you score certain numbers of points.
I know of this episode.
I've I've I've I've heard of this episode.
I've I'm a look at I watched this uh this Team America World Police, and that is hilarious, except they ruined it with putting such a scene in it.
Was totally unnecessary.
It was gross, it was uncalled for.
You know, it it was one of the best animated films ever, Team America the World Police, but they didn't need to put I'm not even gonna tell you what it was.
Violate my own rule.
Here we are discussing the size of X Krement on a cartoon show in the context of congenital heart disease.
Oh, come on, don't wait a second.
Now see, I can't, I can't.
This is just why you guys do not have microphones and and so forth.
Look at Vanica, I really appreciate your call.
I've I'm I I'm glad that you that you made it.
It's not it's not your fault.
Thirdly, you're facing you're facing a suspension.
John in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Make it us.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I wanted to talk about uh passion and how you said before that you need passion in order to succeed, and I wanted to talk about it as it relates to the Republican candidate.
Yes.
I was watching the the debate Wednesday, and it just seemed like there was a lack of passion.
And even to kind of demonstrate, when you were reading uh Giuliani's words on Wednesday, um you delivered those with two or three times more passion than Giuliani did.
And I was thinking, I've been wondering, you know, how someone like Ron Paul can have the success that he does, you know, in raising the money that he has as a Republican when his views can you know far out there, and it's just that he has the passion.
And I think if someone like Mike Huckabee, whose views I think line up more closer to a lot of more conservative and right wing, even evangelical Christians, um line up well, but he doesn't quite have the passion.
You know, what does it take for him to succeed in?
You know, there's a lot of factors in play here.
Have you if you've been watching these debates, you know that in some of them, McCain has come out there really wired, fired up and energetic, and he's been criticized as being overcaffeinated.
When you're running for president, there is a there's a decorum that seems to be required uh and expected and having too much energy.
Uh it goes against the notion that presidents are supposed to be deliberative.
These guys are all trying to make it sound like they're being deliberate and they probably are because they're they're focused.
One of the things is, like I said to the speech coach, speech instructor, if you go into a speech or an appearance with fear, you're dead because you're gonna be worrying what you shouldn't say.
And when you're worried about what you shouldn't say for whatever reason, you're not gonna be able to have passion about what you are saying, because passion uh might you might think will lead you into making the uh the the verbal slip that you don't want to make.
On the other hand, some of the I think back to Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan uh he had just a warm and magnetic, charismatic personality, but he was never wildly upbeat and passionate, except during convention speeches and so forth in front of the in front of the party.
I was thinking about Clinton when you said this.
Clinton uh, you know, he he was kind of like this all the time.
He's like a daysy and so forth, and uh uh but Clinton had the ability to believe the lies he was telling, and that's where the passion comes in.
And if you know your subject, then you that that's that's what the confidence derived from.
Now it's interesting, however, John, that you mentioned this.
Because I was I was on a riff last night, uh, the Rush to Excellence tour in Philadelphia.
And I want you to hear this riff.
It's audio soundbite number five, and here it is.
I don't mean this is an ego statement.
I sit around, I watch the presidential debates.
Why aren't any of them saying these things?
You realize one of them in the pack and run away with a whole thing just to explain this.
It's a reason my show is successful.
Democrats think that I've created a bunch of mind-numb robots.
You people couldn't think for yourself, because that's what they think of you anyway.
Can't think of yourself.
Uh don't have the brains to, and so I'm your stingali.
I'm Pied Piper.
And you get your marching orders from me every day.
That's how they look at at virtually everybody else.
The fact is, you're here tonight because finally there's somebody nationally that says and thinks what you've always said and thought.
You've been balloting.
Oh, point was I I was on a riff.
I had just gone through a description, much like you hear on the radio here today of of these Democrat candidates and what's in store for the country and what they want to do based on what they say.
And it was during this riff that a couple of the liberals got up and walked out.
And so I was uh when I saw the Liberals got up to walk out, it was when I said, Does it frustrate you like it frustrates me that none of the Republican candidates are actually saying this stuff about the Democrats and what they pretend for the future?
I understand it's primaries and the primaries you run against your opponents.
My my thinking is since the Democrats think they've got their nominee, and since it doesn't matter who their nominee is, if somebody in this Republican field wants to jump out and break away from it, start running against the Democrats and what they're going to do for the country.
This campaign is not going to be about Iraq.
This campaign's going to be about the future of the country.
And the sooner somebody on our side starts talking about it, particularly from a staunch conservative principled perspective, they're going to run away with the nomination, and they have a s stand a good chance of being elected president.
But if you're if you have a fear, what you're going to say is going to offend or bother a specific constituent group like uh independents or like minorities or whatever, then you you you any time you start speaking defensive, it's not possible to have passion.
And passion is what's necessary to attract.
It's the magnet.
And so it's a fine line between being passionate and confident and briefed on the subject, knowing the subject matter, and that's what gives you the confidence, and being exuberant.
Because exuberance, as you can see, the way McCain has been treated a couple times, and it's by the way, another thing that happens with that.
McCain has come out, he's been really exuberant a couple times.
Other times he's come out not been exuberant.
What's wrong with McCain?
So you've you've you've got to have you gotta be who you are every time you show up.
Uh and even at that, they're gonna be nitpicking at you.
That didn't seem quite the same to you.
Maybe getting too old as Alzheimer's setting in as they tried on Reagan uh in uh in those debates in 1984.
But did you gotta forget all that?
You just gotta be who you are.
Connect with the audience.
That's that's that's something that I don't know, uh to me it's not that hard to do, but but uh because that's also also done with passion.
Because you the audience, I don't care if a person, if they're on television, when you're running for president, you're telling them why you need to be elected to run the country.
It's that important.
That ought to give you enough ego and and passion to be able to sell it to people, at least give them a chance to reject it or accept it.
Uh quick time out because of the programming formats constraints back in a second.
Back to the phones we go.
It's open line Friday.
This is Provo Utah, and Ryan, thank you for waiting, sir, and welcome to the Joe.
Hey, Rush.
Uh I just was calling because I think you're gonna be having a rush grandbaby in February.
Really?
Uh a rush grandbaby in February.
Yes.
Well, I need to I don't know if I qualify as a rush baby per se, because I was uh I was born in eighty-two, so I was about uh six years old when you got when I was at the rush baby.
Whether you were aware of it or not, you were subjected to the uh program here and had a profile.
Your parents listened, obviously.
Yes, they were they bought the orange juice when it was protesting and got home and dumped it all out.
Hell's Bells.
Of course you're a rush baby.
You should have you should you should have no doubt about this.
Yeah, well, I just wanted I didn't know if that was six with two old.
Actually, you had such influence.
I actually cried myself to sleep the night Bill Clinton got uh got elected to president.
Well, uh you you you were how old are you?
Eighty two?
That was you were ten?
Yeah.
Oh, you definitely qualify as a rush baby.
Okay.
All right, good.
You got every qualification you need.
All right.
And my wife's not letting me name the baby rest.
I I want to make sure your middle name's really Hudson, because the only place I ever saw that is on uh Wikipedia, and I want to make sure it wasn't.
It's true.
It's true, and I was not named after the car.
Not after the car.
Not after the car.
Middle name is Hudson.
Okay.
I'm gonna try to work on my wife for that for the name of the baby.
Uh fine.
Just don't name it, Mr. Limbaugh.
Okay, like that lady did their dog.
I was worried when I heard that called uh that uh she was gonna that I won't be able to name my kid after you already had a dog.
Well, that's actually I'm I'm very I'm very honored.
Uh thank you very much, uh uh Ryan.
I appreciate it.
This is uh Dave in Kent, Ohio.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Hey, calling from Kent, Ohio.
I had nothing to do with Kent Deniscu.
Rush, I'm home this afternoon, took the afternoon.
I'm thumbing through my son's uh he's twelfth grader, but an American government, continuity and change government book.
Publish it's a 2002, but publishers longman incorporated.
And there's a chapter uh well, a chapter on the news media, and a specific chapter on the question of bias, and I just wanted to read you conservative bias exists in the media as well.
Wait, is this now this is a American government book.
American government book.
Yeah, 12th grader.
Twelfth grade is a senior half screw all, and it's published in 2002.
That's correct.
Chapter on media bias.
News uh well, the news media, but the question bias.
They mention uh the liberal bias, but they specifically uh conservative bias exists in the media as well, as exemplified, and they mention you by Rush Limbaugh.
These radio hosts are the political equivalent of shock jocks.
They strive for controversy and attack liberals, and in parentheses, especially the Clinton family and administration, with ferocious and inflammatory rhetoric.
Clinton's the Clintons are the one that tried to blame me for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Inflammatory rhetoric?
I had to chuckle.
Well, this shouldn't surprise you.
Uh does it certainly doesn't surprise me.
Uh liberals writing these books.
This is you know I get I get into arguments all the time with liberals about the public school system and how they're just little indoctrination centers now.
Uh and this is this is a classic example.
Did your son read the passage yet?
Or are you just thumbing through it on your part yet?
Oh, well, this will be interesting.
Rush, I I appreciate you taking my call.
I had a quick question for you.
Yeah.
A little bit of education from you to me and your audience.
Who or what is the associated press?
And I'll I'll leave you going.
Who or what is the associated press?
The Associated Press is an organization.
Yeah, it's uh it's a bunch of liberals.
Uh that disguise themselves as journalists and reporters.
They've got notepads and they've got microphones and cameras.
Because they've got audio and they've got video.
And they put their liberalism in the guise of news stories on what's called the Associated Press Wire.
And newspapers and radio stations buy the service provided by these liberals.
Uh and what what they do is they they they uh buy this.
They're the most widely distributed liberal uh group in the media.
Uh, and they they it's just uh they're a bunch of liberals disguised as a news organization.
And they serve television stations, radio stations, and uh and and uh newspapers as well.
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