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Oct. 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this show, now documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time, it is Friday on the EIB Network.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
We are coming to you from High Atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, Open Line Friday, the final hour now underway.
And the telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Remember, when we go to the phones, program is yours.
You pretty much talk about that, whichever you wish.
Open Line Friday is fun this way, because hey, guys, after that last call, yeah, you've jumped a shark now.
No, no, we haven't jumped a shark here, folks.
This is a perfect Open Line Friday call because people always ask, what's it like to be you?
You just heard.
It happens.
Some of the emails are funny.
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 it is what it is.
Here's a big announcement we had a half hour ago at 1.33 Eastern Time.
The official, the real letter that Harry Reid wrote to Mark Mays, the chairman and chief executive officer of Clear Channel, my syndication partner, 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, rushlimbaugh.com.
Click on the little information button there under the eBay logo.
It'll 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 pages of the Harry Reid letter.
The proceeds from 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 raises money for college scholarships for children of Marines killed in action.
Also, the children of federal law enforcement officers killed in action.
Been around since the 90s, raised almost $30 million.
It's just a brilliant charity.
And we thought there'd 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 Dingy Harry's letter was an attempt to get me condemned as unpatriotic and anti-military.
The one thing that you should know, we're asking everybody to pre-qualify, not with credit card information or any of that, and whatever information is asked for is going to be destroyed at the end of the week of the auction.
It's primarily so we can backtrack and find out if anybody from the Democrat National Committee or Senator Reed's office trying to buy back their own letter to keep it shielded, the actual real letter.
And there are 40 senators that have signed this among them.
I don't want to read all 40 Democrat names, but on the front page, you find Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer, Patty Murray, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Let's see, Tom Harkin is there.
Jack Reed, Frank Lautenberg.
Who else?
Can't read all the signatures, and we've put the list on the eBay page all in alphabetical order.
So 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 rushlinbaugh.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.
The handcuffs that were used last night to protect the letter in the case in the Adashé case.
Handcuffs were attached to the Adashé case to the wrist of my security guy, Stalin.
And the handcuffs we can't give away because law requires that only law enforcement and people involved in security get the handcuffs.
We realize this may limit interest in markets like San Francisco, where the handcuffs would be the real attraction.
Nevertheless, go to a costume store, get some handcuffs if you want.
This is going to be up for a week.
And we have also, I issued 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 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 as allies.
We used Turkey as a supply line and route to get necessary materiel into the troops in Iraq.
The Democrats have agitated and irritated the Turkish government.
They've already recalled their ambassador.
It's just a sneaky, cowardly way to secure defeat when they don't have the guts 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 and this summer's financial market turmoil could push the economy into a recession.
They're just hoping for a recession.
The drive-bys just dying for a recession while Bush is in office to give the Democrats something else to run on.
It is 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, in fact, I thought that I heard yesterday that JCPenney Nordstrom's 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 in lipstick.
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.
But never mind.
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 meeting of 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 and 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, they drive by media.
They rush from story to story.
Now, his motivation was he was angry because not 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 just something I want to explain to those of you who are subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com.
I've been checking the email.
There is tremendous demand for the video of last night's announcement of the intention to auction off Dingy Harry's letter on eBay from Philadelphia to be made available as a download to subscribers.
So we're going to 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 video of Monday's morning update, plus the video of last night's announcement of the intention to put Harry Reed's letter at auction on eBay will also be part of the podcast package 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 just got a letter asking if I would authorize this to 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, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call today.
Thank you.
Listen, do you know what could happen three weeks from today?
Well, I have three weeks from today.
No.
November 2nd, I think that Al Gore is going to end up throwing his hat in the ring.
What do you think?
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 without having to raise taxes so much, blah, blah, because they've just made it the conventional wisdom of Faita Compli 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-bys 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-bys 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 back.
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.
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 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, if it came down to it, which do you think would be the lesser of two evils if it was between Gore and Hillary?
I think you mean the lesser of two evils in terms of which one would be.
Who's to say either one of them is going to be president?
Well, we don't know.
I'm just saying, you know, in your opinion, I mean, 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 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.
This peace prize is going to give all kinds of standing to his reputation and so forth.
Plus, 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.
But 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 just sighs and he hires Naomi Wolf to dress him up in earth tones.
And nobody likes him, you know, outside the bunch that's going for him, 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.
We are talking the most massive expansion of government 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 Republicans control the House and Senate, Democrats are all out there worried about the imbalance of power.
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 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 a book on it that they won't.
They're just a bunch of hypocrites out there.
But either one of them, any one of them that runs 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.
If people were actually listening to Mrs. Clinton and we had a widely educated and 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.
I just got an email from moveon.org that said they want me to start a candlelight vigil for the SHIP program.
Really?
Where?
Well, in Chicago, they send it around to everybody.
But, you know, I'm a conservative and I subscribe to all the left-wing stuff just to find out what they do because I write for a conservative blog and such.
But it's just ridiculous how they're just blatantly lying to their constituents.
Well, it's moveon.org.
It's George Soros.
It's moveon.org.
It's just at Clintons.
I mean, what do you expect?
Lying?
Well, I mean, of course I expect that.
But, I mean, they're saying like you swift voted a 12-year-old in this email.
I mean, it's just getting to be obnoxious.
Yeah, I know.
The same thing with the smear of me.
It was almost surreal.
These people are living in an alternative universe.
We've got two sets of realities here.
But the problem is, for people like you and me, our 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.
I'm just looking for examples here of Mrs. Clinton telling us full force what she's going to do.
And the same thing with the Brett Girl and Obama when it comes to raising taxes, growing government.
Look at the S-CHIP program.
Look at the things that Charlie Wrangell has got a $1 trillion 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.
$1 trillion tax increase.
They want to slow down the economy, folks.
Want you in need with them providing the need.
Try this.
This is an AP story.
As the world's top condom experts convene this week to update international standards.
Condom experts.
Hey, little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Mommy, mommy, I want to 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 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 what he claims are the world's first custom-fit condoms, is pushing for updated standards to allow greater variation in condom size.
You mean to tell me they're regulated?
Something sold in the bathrooms at gas stations are regulated.
There has to have been leaks in this department.
We wouldn't have known the story if there hadn't been leaks here.
All right.
Is that how there's Vanica in Magnolia, Texas?
Hi, welcome to the program.
Thanks, Baja.
My name is Deanna.
I'm from Magnolia, Texas.
And since you're being charitable today, can I plug a volunteer group that I work for when I don't work?
Oh, okay.
Well, we advocate for and support those affected by congenital heart defects.
We're it's myheart.org.
So anybody who wants anything to do with that, but I want to tie in something really funny.
Now that you know that I've been affected by cajoler heart disease, my daughter underwent open heart surgery at three months of age.
And 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 gist of this episode was a gentleman had been constipated because he had been eating P.F. Changs 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's really humorous.
I've heard that before.
It involves a drive-by media and an activist on par with Al Gore.
But he eliminates a size of excrement so big that he calls his wife in and his friends in.
They call the Guinness.
Thirdly, did she tell you she was going to mention this?
Yes, yes, what?
What did you know?
Don't worry about it.
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, Vanica.
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 watched it regularly.
I do have a pinball machine, a South Park pinball machine.
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 heard of this episode.
Look at, I watched this Team America World Police.
And that is hilarious, except they ruined it with putting such a scene in it.
It was totally unnecessary.
It was gross.
It was uncalled for.
You know, 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 going to tell you what it was.
It didn't violate my own rule.
Here we are discussing the size of excrement on a cartoon show in the context of congenital heart disease.
Oh, come on.
Now, wait a second.
Now, see, I can't, I can't.
This is why you guys do not have microphones and so forth.
Look, Advanica, I really appreciate your call.
I'm glad that you made it.
It's not your fault.
Thirdly, you're facing a suspension.
John in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Megadittos.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I wanted to talk about passion and how you've said before that you need passion in order to succeed.
And I wanted to talk about it as it relates to the Republican candidates.
Yes.
I was watching the debate Wednesday, and it just seemed like there was a lack of passion.
And even to kind of demonstrate, when you were reading Giuliani's words on Wednesday, 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 someone like Mike Huckabee, whose views I think line up more closer to a lot of more conservative and right-wing, even evangelical Christians, line up well, but he doesn't quite have the passion.
What does it take for him to succeed in?
You know, there's a lot of factors in play here.
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 over-caffeinated.
When you're running for president, there's a decorum that seems to be required and expected, and having too much energy 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 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 going to be worrying what you shouldn't say.
And when you're worried about what you shouldn't say for whatever reason, you're not going to be able to have passion about what you are saying because passion might, you might think, will lead you into making the verbal slip that you don't want to make.
On the other hand, I think back to Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, 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 party.
I was thinking about Clinton when you said this.
Clinton, he was kind of like this all the time.
He's like a Dazekill and so forth.
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 that's what the confidence derived from.
Now, it's interesting, however, John, that you mentioned this, because I was in a riff last night at 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 can run away with a whole thing just to explain this.
It's a reason my show was 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, don't have the brains to, and so I'm your stengali, I'm Pied and Piper, and you get your marching orders from me every day.
That's how they look 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.
The point was, I was on a riff.
I had just gone through a description, much like you hear on the radio here today, 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 when I saw the liberals got 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?
Now, I understand it's primaries and the primaries you run against your opponents.
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 a rock.
This campaign is 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 stand a good chance of being elected president.
But if you have a fear that what you're going to say is going to offend or bother a specific constituent group like independents, like minorities, or whatever, then anytime 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 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 got to be who you are every time you show up.
And even at that, they're going to be nitpicking at you.
I wondered.
It didn't seem quite the same to you.
Maybe getting too old as Alzheimer's setting in, as they tried on Reagan in those debates in 1984.
But you've got to forget all that.
You just got to be who you are.
Connect with the audience.
That's something that, I don't know, to me, it's not that hard to do, because that's also done with passion.
Because 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 passion to be able to sell it to people, at least give them a chance to reject it or accept it.
Quick timeout 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 show.
Hey, Rush.
I just was calling because I think you're going to be having a Rush grandbaby in February.
Really?
Yes.
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 born in 82, so I was about six years old when you got to go.
That's a Rush baby.
Whether you were aware of it or not, you were subjected to the program here.
Your parents listened, obviously.
Yes, they got the orange juice when it was protesting and got home and dumped it off.
Well, hell's bells.
Of course you're a rush baby.
You should have no doubt about this.
Yeah, well, I just wanted to, I didn't know if that was six was two.
I actually, you had such influence, I actually cried myself to sleep the night Bill Clinton got elected to president.
Well, how old are you?
82?
You were 10?
Yeah.
Oh, you definitely qualify as a rush baby.
Okay.
All right, David.
You got every qualification you need.
All right.
And my wife's not letting me name the baby Rush.
I want to make sure your middle name is really Hudson because the only place I ever saw that is on Wikipedia, and I wanted to make sure it wasn't read stats.
That'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 going to try to work on my wife for that for the name of the baby.
Fine.
Just don't name it, Mr. Limbaugh.
Okay.
Like that lady did her dog.
I was worried when I heard that call that she was going to, that I won't be able to name my kid after her because you already had it.
Well, I'm very honored.
Thanks, Rush.
Thank you very much, Ryan.
I appreciate it.
This is Davin Kent, Ohio.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Hey, calling from Kent, Ohio.
I had nothing to do with Kent Dennis Kucinich.
Rush, I'm home this afternoon.
Took the afternoon.
I'm thumbing through my son's.
He's 12th grader, but an American government, Continuity, and Change government book.
It's a 2002, but publisher has long been incorporated.
And there's a chapter, 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 a American government book?
American government book.
You know, 12th grader.
12th grader is a senior half-screw, and it's published in 2002.
That's correct.
Chapter on media bias.
Well, the news media, but the question bias.
They mention the liberal bias, but they specifically 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.
Come on.
Clintons are the one that try to blame me for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Inflammatory rhetoric?
I had to chuckle.
Well, this shouldn't surprise you.
It certainly doesn't surprise me.
Liberals writing these books.
I get into arguments all the time with liberals about the public school system and how they're just little indoctrination centers now.
And this is a classic example.
Has your son read the passage yet?
Are you just thumbing through it on your own?
He hasn't gotten to that part yet.
Oh, well, this will be interesting.
Rush, 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 leave you going.
Who or what is the Associated Press?
The Associated Press is an organization.
Yeah, it's a bunch of liberals 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.
And what they do is they buy this.
They're the most widely distributed liberal group in the media.
And they're a bunch of liberals disguised as a news organization.
And they serve television stations, radio stations, and newspapers as well.
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