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Oct. 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Revved up and raring to go, Rush Limbaugh, loving cleaning up the messes made by the drive-by media and the Democrats on a daily basis.
Our telephone number, you want to be on the program 800 282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
This is a program which meets and surpasses all audience expectations on a daily basis.
But there were a couple quick things here.
And then I want to play the first segment of my interview with Joe Scarborough today on MSNBC during his uh Morning Joe program.
Um Bin Laden puts out this uh this this tape from Al Jazeera in which he demands unity from uh Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Uh he uh he he sounds like Mrs. Clinton when he says, Look, we gotta hang together here.
Going our own way and individually is not good.
We gotta be part of a team and so forth and so on.
Which is hilarious because I've got a story here from the AP out of Baghdad to showcase the success of the tribal alliance, the Sunnis and the Shia.
The U.S. military planned.
U.S. military planned a unification parade today in Ramadi.
The Anbar provincial capital.
So while bin Laden's calling for unity, the tribal sheikhs have put together a unity parade in Ramadi.
This is so bad for the Democrats.
Everything they're trying to do is falling apart.
They're apologizing left and right for offending people over the uh comments that the members of their party have made over a rock.
Here is an interesting story.
This is the AP.
Civility rains at San Diego Stadium, like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years ago in uh New Orleans.
Thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to uh uh Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, waiting out the calamity, worrying about their homes.
Similarities ended there as an almost festive atmosphere rained at Qualcomm Stadium.
They had bands there.
Bands are belting out rock and roll.
There were lavish buffets serving gourmet entrees.
There were massage therapists to help relieve, I kid you not, massage therapists to relieve the stress of those forced to flee their homes because of wildfires.
Um the people are happy, they have everything here, said the Governor Schwarzenegger declared Monday night after his second Qualcomm tour.
Now, although exact anxieties ran high, the misery index seemed low as the governor waded through the mob, scarcely a complaint was registered with him.
Uh everybody asking for pictures with Arnold.
Now we in all fairness, we have to we have to mention that Qualcomm is not threatened by fire uh at the moment.
The the superdome was right in the middle of Hurricane Katrina and a roof blew open.
Um so it's not quite a perfect comparison, but it still is juicy.
Uh well, that's the thing.
I don't know how many people might have just shown up for a Sage that it was a home.
If I found out, if I found out they're doing massages in there, I got gourmet Andres, I tell him, yeah, my home's threatened here.
I saw it on the news.
The drive-by say so.
And they get in there and so forth.
But it is an interesting contrast, nevertheless.
It's just it is a fascinating contrast.
San Diego in in large part uh conservative uh community-oriented uh the uh Louisiana not.
Um people pitching in and so forth.
That just is a fascinating uh fascinating contrast, I think.
Uh at any rate, uh let's uh we've got this 13-minute interview I did with Scarborough today on his show on uh PMS NBC.
But to understand the beginning of the interview, you have to hear at Aaron Burnett on preceding me, the street sweetie, and she was upset that she was being big footed by me.
Uh the this this this is what she said.
I do want you to know since you moved to 30 Rock, I'm just peanuts, you know.
I'm getting big footed by Rush Limbaugh today.
Now I like Rush and everything, but you know, I used to be a part of this show, and now I just get the boot every I'm gonna listen into Rush.
I want to hear what he has to say.
All right, so they went to a break after that.
I was wired up and listening because I gotta get ready for my own interview.
So it's time for my interview, and here's how it went.
Let's bring in Rush Limbaugh right now, a guy, you know, we've got uh radio talk show host, but this guy actually helped create new media and certainly helped elect a lot of us in 1994.
Rush, thanks so much for being with us.
Nice to finally be with you, Joe.
Good morning.
Yeah, I greatly appreciate it.
Let's start by talking about the Republican field.
There was a story in the Washington Post this past week and the case.
Well, Joe, Joe, before you go to say something.
Yes.
I just heard Aaron Burnett sounding a little wifey.
Worried about you guys uh big footing.
Aaron, you said you were gonna be listening.
It's a thrill for me to know that you're listening to me.
I love listening to myself, but it's great to know that you're listening to me too.
Nobody can bigfoot you, Aaron.
Yeah.
Aaron is truly an international superstar.
Have you had Aaron on your show yet?
No, you know I don't have guests.
I don't have time.
I'm the expert, Joe.
That's right.
That's I'll have Rush on.
Yeah, we you need to get Rush on your show.
But Aaron, what do you think about Russ saying that you were a little wifey today?
Wifey today, he said?
Well, you were whining about all these guys uh bigfooting you, and then they invite you to the studio and you act like I'm not coming to your studio and get big footed.
Well, I got big footed out.
That's what happened.
No, nobody can bigfoot you.
That's it, Saga.
Aaron, nobody can bigfoot you.
You you're too big.
Nobody can big foot you.
Aaron Burrell.
The truth is that anybody who follows you, Aaron, can't match what you've done.
So that's the way you need to look at it.
That's big.
Thank you, Russ.
You're welcome.
That is big.
You're getting that from the Mr. Excellence in Broadcasting right there.
Aaron Burnett.
I'm done now.
I'm going.
Yeah.
All right, very good.
You can just uh quit your job.
So uh Rush, obviously Aaron Burnett is uh drawing your attention.
What do you like about her?
Well, she's fabulous on economics.
She understands it, and she's not afraid to uh go against the conventional wisdom on economic thought.
Fresh voice, it's great when you stand out against conventional wisdom, and and she's uh obviously I mean, I'm not sucking up here, I'm giving you honest professional assessment.
She's extremely educated in understanding of the economy, which most people aren't, and I think it's refreshing for people to be able to hear what she has to say against all the uh inertia of the conventional wisdom.
Yeah, what about this economy?
You have uh the president over the the past several years, who obviously has been bogged down with uh the the fight in Iraq, but actually we've had a strong economy, and that's a message that hasn't gotten out in the past.
Well, the reason it hasn't gotten out is because we're in an election year and the uh the Democrats don't want it to get out.
Uh and they have many allies, Joe, as you know, and the drive-by media who will do what they can to uh suppress the the good news or to or to to shave it in such a way so it's not uh gonna have too much political impact.
But the truth about the U.S. economy on any given day of the week is that there has never been a country with this prosperity, this level of a standard of living and the opportunity to improve on it for all citizens each and every day.
Uh we are truly blessed.
When I make speeches, one of the things I often ask people, have you ever wondered why in less than 230 years, a population of three hundred million people has become the most powerful, the most prosperous, the most affluent society in the history of human civilization.
The Europeans and others, the Asians have been around thousands of years longer than we have.
Human beings are no different from one continent to the next.
We're all identical.
What is it that sets our country apart from all the rest?
There is an answer to this.
And I think most people ought to be positive and upbeat about the opportunities that uh exist in this country.
If you've traveled internationally, you see real poverty.
I did a troop visit to Afghanistan two and a half years ago.
We don't know poverty in this country like it exists around the world.
And I know things are relative, and there are people here that don't do nearly as well as others, but they have the opportunity to, if they're taught high expectations, if they're taught self-reliance and rugged individualism, too many people have made them dependent.
Uh we've got an ever growing nanny state.
It's a bit of a concern.
You asked me about the presidential candidates.
I actually think the election in 08 is not going to be so much about Iraq.
I think it's going to be about the future of the country.
I think I think by the time we get there, uh nobody is going to be able to saddle a president with defeat in Iraq, probably quite the opposite.
And so it'll drop off of the radar screen.
The future of the country, mark my words will be what the 08 presidential race is about.
Why is Rudy Giuliani doing so well?
Here's a guy that's 15, 20 points ahead, and yet he's pro-choice.
He supports gun control, he supports gay marriage.
Not exactly what Republican primary voters have embraced in the past.
Why are they embracing Giuliani now?
Well, what what are his numbers?
About 30 percent against the uh the rest of the field.
Uh you know, there's still a big field and it's uh it's spread out.
I think it's still early, Joe.
I think everybody is all hot to trot about this stuff.
I don't think most people are really, and I'm talking about most voters are really paying that close attention to this stuff.
You can look at the ratings that all the debates are getting on television, and they might get a million and a half to two million people, but that's zits.
That's nothing uh compared to what it's going to be once we have nominees Actually get into the primary voting states.
Once that starts, then I think the interest will peak a little bit.
But as you know, I mean, the real interest in the 08 presidential race is not going to happen until after Labor Day next year, especially with all these front loaded primaries, you're going to have both nominees perhaps chosen by February or March.
So that's going to be a tune out factor.
As to Giuliani, I think that uh uh among the top tier people, he sounds optimistic.
He sounds funny, sounds upbeat, he sounds casual, he's quick on his feet.
The thing that uh I I think people have to understand is that even though the Republicans uh were in the House for what all those years, 95 through uh last year, 2006, and have had the White House uh for the last seven, Republicans and conservatives still constantly feel on the defensive, feel like they're in the minority, uh feel like the Democrats are able to skunk them at every turn.
It's not the case anymore, but you have so many years of experience of having that attitude that Republicans want to win.
They just want to win, and they want somebody to fight back, and I think the key to Rudy is that he has been leading that pack and running against Hillary already.
He is really focused on her, and that is energizing the uh the Republican base right now.
They want to win more than anything else, right?
And that's that's what the elections are all about.
Uh yes, uh uh so absorbed in listening to myself, I was ready for more.
Uh, but that's the next segment.
We'll get that at some point back after this.
They let's go ahead.
Uh let's get this.
Let's go ahead and play the second segment of the Scarborough interview.
Audio soundbite number three runs uh just a little over six minutes, and this is a good time to get that in.
Uh Joe continues here, uh interested in who is and who is not on the Republican side, a real conservative.
Is Mitt Romney a uh true conservative?
Would you be concerned if Romney won the nomination?
Well, uh I let me tell you this true conservative business.
Here's the one thing that concerns me.
I'm a I'm a Reaganite, I'm a Reagan conservative, and conservatism is like two plus two, it equals four.
The one thing about this uh whole primary that upsets me is that some people are trying to redefine conservatism to accommodate some of uh these candidates or all of them who don't necessarily fit the bill.
Now, I will end up supporting whoever the nominee is, but I don't want conservatism to be redefined in the process.
So whether or not Rudy is uh has got these things that stray off the so called conservative reservation in the end, if he ends up being the nominee, those things uh for the most I think they heard the evangelicals are a little concerned here about that, which is going to excite the drive-by media splits in the Republican Party always do.
But I find it fascinating, Joe, as I watch these debates and I listen to the analysis afterwards, the focus among the candidates, in fact, uh and uh some of the media is well, who was the real conservative here?
And the Republicans are arguing about it.
You don't hear that on the Democrat side.
You don't hear them say, well, who's the real liberal here, or who's the real progressive here?
The argument over ideas, the genuine intellectual debate over ideas, as always is the case, is happening on the right.
Right now, the Democrats are simply repeating whatever move on.org, media matters, or some of their lunatic fringe in the blogosphere tell them to say, because it's still primary time.
But you and I both know, though, one of the reasons Republicans are talking ideology, and they're concerned about who the true conservative is, and we've talked about this before.
It's because Republicans have been acting like Republicans over the past four or five years.
You look at spending, the pork barrel spending.
You look at the miserable job we did in Congress.
Of course, people will say, well, Democrats have done just as badly.
In fact, there's a Wall Street Journal uh column saying they're saying as much today.
But, you know, Republicans expect Democrats to spend a lot of money.
Aren't we in a difficult situation now because how badly we handled the federal budget and other issues that are.
That is a that is an excellent point.
This is why you have a morning show on television.
Everybody thinks the 06 election was about Iraq uh and the Democrats getting a mandate to get us out.
Had it really been about that, we'd be out of a rock.
If the vast majority of the American people actually threw Republicans out to get out of a rock, we'd be out.
They can't get us out of Iraq.
They don't even have the uh votes to defund the war, which means public support for doing that really isn't there.
The problem the Republicans had, Joe, is that you had President Bush in the White House, who was the author of that spending.
If you're John Boehner, if you're Denny Hastert, if you're uh the Senate minority leader, majority leader in the in many cases, uh, you can't go against your own president.
You can't go against no child left behind.
You can't go against uh letting Ted Kennedy write the education bill.
The president sort of hamstrung them on This, but you're right, the perception of voters is that Republicans in Congress campaigned as conservatives and got there and failed to govern that way, and then appeared to get a little arrogant with power, which uh is seductive.
You've experienced and seen it and written about it.
So I think that while there's plenty of blame to go around for the House Republicans, they're sort of hamstrung, it was much easier for Newt, for example, to be Newt bouncing off of Clinton.
Exactly.
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a lot easier to stand up in the present of the other party instead of the president in your own party.
And when they start breaking your arms and saying pass this education bill that Ted Kennedy co-wrote, you don't have a whole lot of Republicans.
No, you can't stand you can't stand up against a president of your own party.
I mean, that's suicide, especially when you've got the Iraq war going on.
You just you just you can't do it.
That so they were kind of hamstrung.
You know, the debate the other night, it was interesting that most of the Republican candidates spoke more about Hillary Clinton than they did uh George Bush or the Republican Party.
I'm curious, do you think uh Hillary Clinton uh nomination is the best thing that could happen to the Republican Party, or could this end up being like the Jimmy Carter White House cheering for a Reagan nomination back in 1980?
Uh speaking about conventional wisdom earlier, and there's too much conventional wisdom that Hillary's already elected, and that uh not just nominated, but already elected.
There's too much conventional wisdom of this inevitability.
She's got 49 percent, 50 percent disapproval numbers.
That is more polarizing than any presidential candidate that's ever been elected in my lifetime.
I I I would have to go back to American history to find anybody who had that polarizing a figure was that polarizing a figure that that got elected.
I think this next year, this campaign and this election is going to be so full of surprises that nobody will come close to even predicting what's actually going to happen.
Mrs. Clinton is uh obviously, you know, she she has the the funny fundraising techniques and so forth.
What I find most interesting is that the Democrats are not going after her on her side in their primary, the Republicans are, because they know uh that r they're gonna end up running against Democrats in uh in November of 2008.
So but I don't think she's inevitable.
I think she can be beat.
The idea that that she can't be is ridiculous.
So you think it's possible that we could uh have a president Barack Obama?
Well, no, no, no, no.
I think she's gonna get the nomination.
Because they're not even opposing her on that.
They're not even contending in in truth.
I mean, they've got a real problem.
You know, uh despite the advances of feminism in this country, there's still an axiom you can't hit the girl, and that's why Edwards is sending his wife out there, and that's why Obama is sending his wife out there to criticize her.
The Republicans are not sending their wives out to do it.
They're doing it themselves.
They're not trapped by uh conventional wisdom and and the old uh adages of political correctness.
Another thing, Joe, the last senator that was elected president in this country was Kennedy, 1960.
So that's not the route to go because uh senators have these huge egos, they don't delegate much, they have to know everything that's going on, uh, and they end up being in in too much uh hands-on control of things, and they it's not an executive position like being a governor is or uh maybe running a cabinet post or some such thing.
There's just too many things that argue against her inevitability here.
All right.
They don't call it the House of Lords on Capitol Hill for nothing.
Rush Limbaugh, thank you so much.
Greatly appreciate you being here.
Thank you, Joe.
I appreciate it.
It's always nice to speak to you.
Thanks for uh, you know, over the years, uh the last three years for your support.
I really appreciate it more than you know.
Best to you.
That was me with Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today.
And we're talking about Mrs. Clinton here at now, we hadn't stupid cables too damn long.
Keep stepping on the damn cable, almost ripped it out of the out of the jack here just a minute ago.
Did I just lose my composure there?
Did I say anything besides stupid?
Okay.
I said damn, well, that's that's all right, that'll fly.
Uh too close.
That's very too.
Two close ones.
We were talking about Mrs. Clinton yesterday and the uh the Chinese uh Chinatown dishwashers.
A thousand dollars, two thousand dollars, people live in tenements, reporting addresses that are actually clinics for s uh STDs, hemorrhoids, and uh and other things.
The Washington Post has a blog today, and it's it's it's actually it's hilarious.
They're trying to turn, and I'm not gonna read the blog to you, we'll link to it website, but they're trying to turn the scrutiny of these donations and the abuse of these people into racism.
That the LA Times and the New York Post trying to find out who these people are in Chinatown is nothing more than racism.
Now, I would think that a group, and this group is identified here as the one charging racism, you know, an Asian interest group.
I would think that a group that has as its purpose, the representation of the Asian American community, self-proclaimed like most such groups, that it would be concerned about how these individuals were put upon to make donations, uh, when they were dishwashers and the like, and how the community was used to launder money in cases where there were no donors.
If I were a genuine honest representative of the Asian community, I would be more concerned about that than charging racism against people trying to find out who these people are.
That is exactly what this is.
Real life, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network saying more in five seconds.
And the average host says, in an entire career, this is Paul in Naperville, Illinois.
We own Naperville, Illinois.
A great community for us, uh great test market, just perfect EIB community.
Nice to have you with us, Paul.
It was so great to be on.
Thank you.
It was so great to be on.
Big-time Major League dittos from Naperville.
Uh I just want to say that I am just so jazzed and so excited by the result of what you did with the declaration of incompetence by the Democrat leadership.
Declaration of incompetence.
I just think and and I I hope everybody hears my point on this.
I think it's a turn.
Hey, hang on just a second.
Folks, turn your radios up out there so that you can be sure and hear Paul's point.
Three, two, one.
All right, radios are jacked up a little bit out there, Paul.
Start over.
Awesome.
Awesome.
I think that this declaration of incompetence and what you are able to do with it is a turning point in the war at home.
That that's the part of the war where where, you know, those of us who are kind of like the silent victory coalition out here have have really found something to coalesce around.
And uh but I mean, and they did it to themselves.
I mean, they shine the light on who's really undermining the troops, who's really out there rooting for defeat.
And and you know, I just think this is gonna go down in history.
You know, you joke about it being in the I don't know, maybe you're not joking, that it'll be in the Smithsonian.
Uh I think it could be.
I think it could be.
I think this is is one of those moments in history where the side of right prevailed.
Well, why dangerous moment?
I I hope you're right.
Um, but I'm curious about your instincts.
Why do you think that this letter and the way we uh dealt with it is a turning point, turning point in what?
You said you mean in in in uh is it you think the the way we dealt with it's gonna give strength and confidence to elected Republicans to say to realize, see, these people can be beat back, or it's gonna coalesce American Republicans to be more involved and interested now, because uh frankly,
you know, I I was talking to these Marine guys last night at this impromptu dinner out of Dom Pepe's, and and uh a bunch of them came up to me and said, We are so glad you did this for more than the obvious reasons because we're sick and tired of the Republicans just sitting here and taking it and never fighting back despite what's said about them or despite what's being said about the country.
Is that what you're talking about?
Yeah, I think that's the key.
I I think that when you see what happened when you stood up to these guys, yeah, and and how the the the people that matter out here, the you know, those of us that aren't don't have radio shows and stuff every day rallied uh, you know, around this issue.
And when we stood up to them, th they were just they had egg on their face.
But it's even it's even better than that, Paul.
It's even better than that because the reason it's better than that is at the very last hour, we had a hundred and sixty-eight hours of bidding on eBay.
At the very last hour for a hundred hours, nothing from Harry Reid or the Democrats, 90 hours they said nothing.
Eighty hours they said nothing.
Fifty hours they were silent, twenty-five hours to go, silent, ten hours to go didn't say a word, one hour to go.
And Harry Reed jumps in from the floor of the Senate trying to take credit, trying to horn in on this.
Interestingly, I've seen a bunch of newspaper editorials, among them the Las Vegas Review Journal castigating and chastising Senator Reed for this transparent effort.
They didn't get away with any part of this.
So in addition to getting um uh this whole thing stuffed back down their throats, when they tried to horn in on it at the very last hour, it fell apart on them even further.
And I hope you're right.
I hope this does tell people and illustrate to others that there's no reason to have to sit back and take these kinds of smears, uh mischaracterizations, these assaults, that there are ways to fight back with these people and prevail.
Harry Reed, and I shouldn't have written the letter.
I don't care what media matters says again.
Fat chance of that.
Here's uh here's Kathy Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Nice that you called.
I appreciate it.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Any time really serious question for you.
Are you still with me?
Yeah, of course, yeah.
Oh, oh, I'm sorry.
I thought I lost you.
Um for president.
I was wondering if you knew if any of the Republican candidates have a uh set of brass ones like yours so they can stand up against the Democrat.
Well, man, what a question.
I that's a no-win question.
Because if I don't say all of them, I got big problems.
Oh.
Well, that's I need to know.
Uh let's see.
Well, look at you you have you have to think that you know at least a couple of them do, don't you?
I mean, can you when you look at that field is it is there anybody based on what you've seen so far in the campaign that strikes you as having a brass pear?
Well, yes, I think I've seen a couple of them with with with brass.
Folks, if you're wondering why this has come up here, if you just joined us, Kathy, let me let I'm gonna have to ponder this one because that's um you're asking a very personal question, and I I really haven't seen up close and personal whether or not this could possibly be true.
Um last night the the the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation guys have a dinner.
It's not for the foundation, they just bring a bunch of supporters and military people in and uh Marines and federal law enforcement officers.
And they do it every year toward the uh end of October at Don Pepe's, which is out near JFK.
So I flew in a JFK uh from Florida yesterday afternoon over there.
They start at six.
I got in about six thirty, six forty-five.
And uh they had a big dais.
So normally they don't do a dais like this.
Is everybody finding a seat where they want to sit?
It's just a very casual roam around, grab something to eat and leave when you want to.
This was a bit more formal.
Uh and they gave a special prize last night to a special award, the first ever award that the M Clef has ever given.
I can't show it to you.
I've uh it it's uh it's it's uh brass pear, but I'm not gonna show it to you.
It's and it's it's I mean, it's it's uh it's well, it's not just anatomically correct, it's it's graphic.
Uh uh, it's I would not I would not dare put the even on the website.
Uh I've been suggesting why don't you put it on a website and blue dot it?
So just the uh might do that.
Uh but I you really, folks, it's just like the other day when Snerdley put up the excrement call, uh we we had to get rid of the call.
I'm bringing it up because it's snurredly shouting over the edge.
I am I'm bringing it up because I have to draw an analogy here to the uh decorum and the class and the quality of the program.
Anyway, I mentioned this at the top of the program.
Kathy is calling to ask.
That's why we didn't bleep her reference uh to brass pear, because I had already uh uh broken that ground earlier in the program.
Jerry in Framingham, Massachusetts, nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
So last week when you were talking about the bidding, you were saying how the bids were gonna go up, and then in the last you know, hour or two before you know you would make the announcement, they'd go way up.
I've got a uh another sinister motive on the part of Harry Reid on why he made these uh announcement an hour before.
I think he, by associating himself with the letter, was to suppress the bids.
And that's why the two to two million one hundred thousand K oh, if you recall, I mean it was it was a number of hours before noon or before one o'clock.
And I think by Harry Reid doing that, he actually suppressed bids because he was associating himself with the letter, so people without throwing things out wouldn't want to be associated with the letter.
No, no, no, that's not true.
Trust me on this, that's not true.
The way to look at what Harry Reed did was an act of pure futility.
He takes to the Senate floor at noon and asks people to get in on a bidding.
Well, it's at two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
Who can get in on a billing at that level?
Yeah, but but he and and so nobody bid after but look at we there were there were three people in the last six hours.
Look, we had to pre-qualify everybody because the the amount got so high, you've got to verify that they're who they say they are.
You've got to verify that they can pay it.
Uh you just can't take these bids once a year talking about this kind of money.
So we there were three people in the last six hours.
And what happened is two of them fell out early on, but we didn't know that till afterwards.
We I mean we not we don't know what they're gonna do, but we knew there were three people left in this.
Uh and and that uh uh rush, Harry Reid didn't know that.
No, basically but by twelve nobody heard Harry Reid until we played his thing at twelve three.
He couldn't have suppressed anything.
Well it could have been a last minute bid up.
I mean, I was kind of thinking that in the last hour the thing was gonna go up above that.
So if anything he would have cost money.
Well can I say one more thing?
Yeah, if you want to believe this, I'm just trying to I'm trying to help you here.
Okay, well, uh I I hope you're right.
But uh because he would have cost the Marines money.
But one other point is the other caller talked about the uh declaration of incompetence.
I think what they really tried for is a declaration of intimidation.
And that's what makes that significant.
It was really a declaration of intimidation against not only you, against all listeners uh and people of free speech, and that's why I think that letters.
In a classic sense, this was a an abuse of power that they put on paper.
Official Harry Reed letterhead.
Uh and that's what makes it worth it.
That is what that is why to the uh to Betty Casey, the woman who bought it to her, that's what made the and the others that were bidding on it.
Uh this this was a blatant nowhere to hide abuse of power, the United States Senate against a U.S. private citizen when you ask his uh syndication partner to confer with him and help get his mind right.
This is a big abuse of power.
The additional signatures helped uh because they ought automatically are verified.
Uh these are U.S. Senators, and Harry Reed got the signatures.
So there are a lot of factors here, but uh it was it was it was a full-fledged attempted abuse of power, but it was beaten back.
It was beaten back.
Uh, and that's another reason why it is a uh a valuable piece to the people who were bidding on it.
Be right back, folks.
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I can't be sure.
Yes, inmate fire crews is just fire.
Whoa, there it is.
I was right.
I saw something go by there on Fox.
I wasn't sure I saw it.
Governor Schwarzenegger has sent inmates.
I assume this means prisoners, people behind prison walls who've been let out to join fire.
Inmate fire crew is that mean the fire crew at a prison.
Inmate fire crews.
It could be the schools, too.
The way I always look at schools of prison.
Anyway, Governor Schwarzenegger is sending inmates out to assist real firefighters in battling the California Blaze.
Now, what do you think of that, folks?
I'll tell you what.
Well, he's no, he's not risking a felon vote.
He's gang he's angling for the felon vote.
Um letting the inmates out to go fight fires, while you all you're saying it's a dangerous gig.
Uh you go, you go do it.
I find it fascinating you're letting inmates out of there, but they're not using illegals uh to join the uh the firefighting crews out in um in California.
Well, all right, by the way, um, ladies and gentlemen, I've just made an executive decision as uh editor of the website.
We're gonna put a picture of um the impromptu award I was granted last night by the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
It is hilarious, but we're gonna have to blue dot it.
There's no other way around.
It's gonna be a big blue dot, but we're still gonna blue dot.
Uh just yeah, I know, but look at I've got standards.
I've guessed it's almost maybe we shouldn't do it at all.
The blue dots just too big at tease.
It's just everybody's agonizing over this.
You know, this it was just a bunch of guys last night.
It was just it was as fun as it could be.
It was just hilarious.
It's one of these things you want to share.
And over 18 and pre-qualified.
No, I don't care.
You even with the blue dot version?
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not, I wouldn't even consider putting the whole.
That's what's so frustrating.
I can show this to virtually everybody.
I've shown it to everybody in the office, and everybody's just gotten a biggest kick out of it, but I can't put it on the website.
I can't show it on a ditto cam.
There is just this matter of public decorum.
Well, it's like I leak it to a blog.
Uh I would be identified as a source.
Nobody's got it but me.
Now, here see here's the thing.
Even when I took it out of car when I got to the EIB building today, I had to walk in.
There's about a space of ten feet that I have to walk before I get into loading dock in the building.
And I held it so that the uh award side could not be seen by pedestrians in the sidewalk.
You just can't walk around with this kind of thing.
Uh as a uh as as a matter of uh decorum, but I wanted to bring it up here for people to uh to see it.
Uh David in uh whiskasset, Wisconsin, Maine.
I'm glad you called and welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh listen, I I'm calling because I think that uh the declaration of incompetence moniker is going to stick for that document.
I think you need to add that to your website or something.
But the the guy that called a couple of callers ago, he made the comment that that was the turning point for the war back home.
And I think what he was referring to was uh was the war against the fifth column.
And I think uh any any president who ever decides to embark on a war campaign of any kind is gonna have to have a strategy for winning that fifth column war.
You know what I mean by fifth column, right?
Well, I do, but uh people in Rio Linda may not, and I think you you you need to you need to explain it.
So it uh it I'm not an expert on this subject, but I know that uh generally there's four columns in a uh uh in an army, and uh the somebody coined the phrase fifth column to describe the contingent uh that actually lives within your borders who is going to work for the enemy.
And uh and clearly that's pretty close.
That's that's pretty close.
Pretty close.
That's that's good enough for real.
They'll understand it basically subversives.
Exactly.
The subversive.
So in this in this case, we've got Democrats and we've got the uh the drive-by media.
And and those two things, you have to have a strategy as a president to win the battle against those contingents.
Um yeah, I he might have meant that.
I I um I rather think uh that if he did mean he also meant maybe I'm just projecting because so many people reacted to me uh this way.
They said, thanks for doing this.
Is great.
He fired me up.
I'm starting to start donate to the Republican Party.
It did with the rally of the base, is what I heard a lot of people say, and I thought that's what what he meant, because that has to happen too.
The base pretty depressed out there right now.
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