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Dec. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 17, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
From Hyatapa EIB building in Midtown Manhattan on a frigid wintry day.
I am L Rushbow, your highly trained broadcast specialist with broadcast excellence for the next three hours, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, we're here in New York.
We'll be here through um well, at least Thursday at holiday time.
Have to come up here and show the uh the New York staff that I still remember them and in some cases still care about them.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
It is called up here, and I'm sure you've if you watched the football game last night, you've uh well, the whole Northeast uh got got socked yesterday.
I got off the airplane yesterday, I got in here about um I left early.
I was advised to leave early.
I was not I was gonna leave about five, and uh flight crew said, no, no, no, no, you gotta leave earlier than that because you're gonna get traffic delays with all the other snowbirds arriving back from Florida and the southern climbs between six and nine.
And so I left about uh left about two o'clock, and I got off the what are you saying?
Did you use it?
Well, I have to come back.
I mean, I have to come back to see you guys.
I've got stuff to do up here, too.
It's uh I am jammed uh this week.
At any rate, I got off the airplane yesterday uh in snow and ice, wearing shorts and a golf shirt.
Uh and felt good, and it's freezing in Florida this morning, I understand.
Well, for Florida, it's like 57 degrees.
Snerdley is just whining and moaning about it to me here on the uh on the IFB.
So what's happened over the weekend?
I mean, we're here to clean up the drive-by media messes over the weekend.
A lot of things happened since we were last together on Friday afternoon, and I'm struck by Normally this time of year, things have slowed to a crawl.
There's not a whole lot going on, and there's a there's a feeling of goodwill uh that usually abounds and is in the air, but uh the rancor of a presidential campaign continues to light up December as though it is uh October of 2008.
We've had Lieberman, Joe Lieberman endorsing John McCain.
Let me ask you a question for when was the last time that you can remember a liberal?
And and and Lieberman, now I love Lieberman.
Don't misunderstand, he's great on a war on a national security and so forth, but you look at his voting record on other issues, domestic and so forth, very, very liberal guy, but lovable and likable nevertheless.
Um not not a contentious sort.
Uh, but when's the last time a liberal endorsed a Republican on the Republican's terms?
I I can't remember this happening in uh in quite a while.
Lieberman says that McCain would be the best guy to unify the country uh against the threat of Islamo fascism.
And that would be wonderful if somebody could actually pull that off.
But you know, today's progressives and libs are part of the blame and hate America first crowd, and it's part of their existence.
It's in their DNA.
They don't want to be united uh in in this matter.
They want to continue to blame the United States.
Of course, Lieberman, uh, when he in 2004 sought the Democrat presidential nomination, he was the first guy thrown out in the New Hampshire primaries.
That's when he had to had to quit because his returns were so low there, and it was because his stance on the war was so pro-America.
So uh everybody's now debating the value of political endorsements since the school marm at the Des Moines Register has engineered an editorial board endorsement of Mrs. Clinton, and she's taken that like it's it's it's an endorsement from God in uh in Iowa.
But I'll tell you something, I I I saw Clinton is all over the place.
Bill Clinton is all over the place on Charlie Rose on on Friday night, he's all over the place on the weekend.
And when I heard him say, you know, I think Hillary may not win Iowa.
It's antenna went up, the red flags went up, and I said, here it is.
They are setting up the Comeback Kidette story.
If she does win Iowa, we had that piece by Howard Feynman last Friday, uh, in which Feynman wrote that she may lose the first four states or may not win.
She may she's in a dead heat in these four early states, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.
And then Clinton starts talking about the problems and how much trouble he's having.
And remember, let's go.
I've said this many times, so let's go back and Listen to me, myself, on this very program on December 10th.
Now, I don't know.
The conventional wisdom is that she's in trouble.
Conventional wisdom is that the campaign's imploding.
But remember what I said at the very outset.
This business of inevitability is one thing, and her desire to want to capture the nomination or corner it rather than have to capture it.
But the fact is she also needs to show she can overcome a challenge.
And what better challenge to overcome than Oprah Winfrey?
You imagine, folks, if we're what we're a little over a couple weeks away from the Hawkeye Cawkai, and they're setting the stage she can't win.
Her own campaign.
Her own husband's out there saying it's a long shot now.
What if she does win?
They're even trying to set it up now so that she finishes third to Edwards instead of second to Obama.
They say much be much rather if if Edwards won Iowa with Hillary in third place, that'd make it a much more palatable loss than if she finished second uh to Obama.
But I think all this is just setting up this comeback cadet stuff.
This is what they're familiar with.
This is their track record.
Um, and we'll just have to wait and see.
This was discussed on the Sunday morning shows yesterday.
Let's go to uh Stephanopoulos' show during the roundtable discussion at Claire Shipman and Jay Carney.
They are husband and wife.
Jay Carney works at time, Claire Shipman at ABC.
They are husband and wife.
They're on the same round table together on the Stephanopoulos show.
Um Stephana, and also Donna Brazil is there.
Stephanopoulos says, Claire, uh now now Hillary's campaign forced to run the campaign that was run against Bill Clinton in '92.
Change is risky.
You can't be the candidate of inevitability and suddenly be the underdog.
And I'm telling you, George, if you talk, you know, despite this endorsement, which is has given everyone a boost.
I mean, the Clinton team is demoralizing.
You talk to them, you can pick it up from everyone.
There's finger pointing, backfighting, rumors of wholesale change, maybe not now, but after New Hampshire.
There's no question about that.
It was rife throughout the campaign this week.
But I wonder if actually getting hurt, getting knocked back on her heels is the best thing to happen to Hillary Clinton, if indeed she can survive it.
Well, it depends on if she gets knocked back at her heels if she keeps falling.
She gets falling, she keeps knocked back on her heels, gives falling.
Nobody's going to be interested in that.
Uh, in a multitudinous number of ways.
So here they are.
They're either doing one of two things, is you can't escape the fact that the drive-by's are in a tank for Hillary.
And uh, and so you you you have to factor that.
So they it's it this is either genuine, this campaign's in real trouble, or they're just setting up this big giant comeback.
Up next, it was Jay Carney.
Uh Donna Brazil says, Look, I know for a fact that John Edwards is everybody's second choice in Iowa.
He has a great deal of momentum going into the process.
Stephanopoulos is uh says, well, that's a very, very important point.
Second choices count in Iowa, and then Jay Carney, the husband of Claire Shipman says.
The Clintons are now actively trying to promote John Edwards, and they'd love to see him win because uh a few weeks ago, a month ago, the Clintons were talking about sweeping the table and rushing to the nomination.
Now they need to prolong this fight as long as they can.
A third place finish to John Edwards may be better than a second place finish to Barack Obama.
Obama wins in Iowa.
He go he wins in New Hampshire, most likely, and probably moves over in South Carolina as well.
So um it's it's up to you and me together to figure out what's really going on here, and time will tell.
But I think they're playing both ends against the middle.
They're setting it up for the comeback cadet, uh, and they're also setting it up for a bad showing in Iowa to be able to move on and uh to New Hampshire and and uh other places.
One thing else, uh, you know, I like this continues to happen, and yet nobody but me and maybe others on our side of the aisle talking about this.
But once again, Bill Clinton's out there trashing Obama.
He's not ready.
He doesn't have the experience.
He's only got one year of service.
And Obama's, I've been in government ten or eleven years.
He had a great comeback line for that, which we'll play in the audio soundbite roster down the road as the program unfolds today.
But here you have the first legitimate top-tier black Democrat candidate for president, and once again, the Clintons are trashing the guy.
They're trashing him as incompetent, they're trashing him as too young, they're trashing him as too inexperienced, they're trashing him as too calculating, they're trashing him is not authentic.
It's look at what they did.
What What was a black Carl McCall running for governor of New York?
They trashed Carl McCall.
We ended up raising funds for Carl McCall.
You and I on this program together because the DNC and Terry McCaulaff hung him out to drive.
Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta, wanted to be chairman of DNC.
Clinton's movement is ain't no way, pal.
Terry McCaula's got.
Whenever blacks get to the point that they're rising to areas of prominence, positions of prominence in Democrat Party, guess who comes along and slaps them down?
Clinton Inc.
I thought I well, but I know because Clinton got away with this because he was the nation's first black president.
And of course, Andrew Young's out there saying, Yeah, yeah, he sees had more black women.
He's been with more black women than Obama has.
And of course, dig applause line.
Wow, wee, what a great recommendation.
And nevertheless, here's the first black and who's trashing him.
It's not Republicans.
It's not conservatives.
It's the Clintons.
Brief timeout, folks.
Back after this with much more on the EIB network.
And we are back.
Great to be with you, folks, as we near Christmas.
It is indeed the Christmas season.
It's one of the most joyous occasions for all of us here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh family.
We hope it is for you as well.
Speaking of the Christmas season, oh, by the way, I know we're got a lot of stuff to get to today.
Huckabee has trashed the Bush administration's foreign policy.
Romney is trashing Huckabee.
A number of others are trashing Huckabee.
Um we we barely scratch the surface here, as you know.
It's a three-hour program, and we squeeze it all.
Hey, Eddie.
Nice jacket you were wearing this morning out there waiting for me.
Eddie waits for me out there when I show up in the car to make sure that the screaming teams of mobs and fans can't get anywhere near me.
Economic woes have dumped a lump of coal on the nation's online retailers, which, like their brick and mortar rivals, have struggled with an uneven holiday business following a strong official start to the season.
This is AP, and it's the typical predictable gloom.
Uh on they go on with details about how rotten it is out there and how horrible it is, and then there's this.
Guy named Fuljone noted that the subprime mortgage meltdown, slumping housing values, higher gasoline prices, and an uncertain stock market are affecting shoppers.
Wait a second.
I thought the stock market was irrelevant.
When the stock market goes up, I thought that only benefited Wall Street.
It had no impact on Main Street.
I thought consumers didn't pay attention to what happened on Wall Street.
But now all of a sudden, consumers who are planning on hitting the mall or the online store, somehow turn on the Fox Business Channel or C N B C and see the stock market wavering up and down.
Oh gosh, Mabel, you know what?
We better not go shopping.
Stock market looks like a come on.
Typical AP doing everything they can to rip up people's moods here during a joyous holiday season.
And isn't it amazingly predictable?
Get this.
Fuljone noted subprime mortgage meltdowns, slumping housing values, higher gasoline prices, uncertain stock market are affecting shoppers at different income levels.
But he noted that consumers in lower income segments appear to be the most hit or hurt.
Okay.
Every story, every story.
Women and minorities.
Hardest hit.
It just, it's formulaic.
It has nothing to do whether it is really news.
And then there's this companion story.
This is uh same writer from AP following a lukewarm shopping weekend, the nation's stores are now focusing their attention on the final week leading to Christmas as consumers seem to be postponing more of their buying to the last minute compared to a year ago.
Come on.
Everybody waits for deals.
There is everybody shops for bargains.
They treat this every year as though bargain shopping is a sign that the economy is in trouble.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, they're going to tax caffeine.
For years, the idea of taxing soda to beat back obesity has been tossed around in medical circles, but now the mayor, Gavin Newsom, is proposing a tax on caffeine.
He says obesity accounts for tens of millions of dollars in city health care costs.
Cites a recent San Francisco Health Department survey that found nearly a quarter of the city's fifth, seventh, and ninth graders were overweight, and that high sugar drinks make up a tenth of a kid's daily calorie count.
So he he reportedly wants all big box retailers and chain drugstores to uh pay into his new Shape Up San Francisco program started this past summer with a walking regimen.
This comes as the state of California is considering slapping caffeine-infused sodas and energy drinks with warning labels saying consumption can contribute to diabetes.
Anybody say nanny state?
It just continues the effort to control more and more of your life.
Last week, we ignited a fire storm in this program quite accidentally and quite unawares, with the discussion of what did you say?
Like we always do, yeah, with the discussion of organic.
So this story, uh, I found amusing today.
The Associated Press.
Gene Johnson, is your organic milk really organic?
Some of the nation's largest retailers and grocery chains sold milk labeled organic that was not truly organic.
Recently filed lawsuits allege.
The federal complaints focus on the sale of milk from Boulder, Colorado-based Aurora Organic Dairy, which recently agreed to change its practices after the USDA found more than a dozen violations of organic standards.
The lawsuits allege that Costco Wholesale Corp, Walmart, Target, Safeway and Wild Oats Markets, sold Aurora milk under their own in-house brand names.
The brands include Costco's Kirkland and Target's Archer Farms.
The milk was sold in cartons marked USDA organic, typically with pictures of pastures and other bucolic scenes, according to the lawsuit.
That's not even close to the reality of where this milk's coming from, said Steve Berman, a Seattle lawyer, whose firm is among those suing.
These cows are all penned in factory confinement conditions.
There's no such thing as non-organic milk.
This is what's uh they have to come up with a way to make it without a cow if it was going to be non-organic.
Anyway, uh, folks, the the kidding aside, all the fun and games about what it takes for milk to be organic.
How can you sue the retailers?
Except it's lawyers looking for a paycheck.
I had a conversation with a trial lawyer the other day.
I've befriended a couple of them.
And I said, How's it going?
It's a horrible season for me.
I said, What do you mean?
Nobody's moving.
My business requires more get this.
My business requires movement.
High gas prices, nobody's driving, nobody's having accidents.
Nobody's running into each other, nobody's running over anybody.
My business, and he was dead.
He looks me dead in the ass.
I need movement.
I need people moving around.
It's amazing.
I mean, it is the tort lawyers and the trail lawyers are actually, they're just mining for business.
Ambulance chasers uh at all.
Um, and that's what's happening here.
You've got a bunch of lawyers looking for a paycheck.
The manufacturers had some problems meeting these guidelines for organic, but the stores bought the milk on good faith.
Uh, if we start suing stores every time some Chinese product had a problem, be no more stores left, which I guess might be somebody's intended purpose.
Uh and uh now in this story, it it goes on to describe how um Congress has passed a law deciding what is organic.
And I told you last week what bugs me about this is if you like organic, that's fine to I just hate, I hate people who can be made into sheep.
I hate people whose independence uh in their thinking can be compromised for groupthink, act like lemmings going over to a cliff.
If it's not organic, I'm not gonna eat it because it's not healthy, and I want to live longer, and the only way to do that is to just eat all this organic stuff.
And it's it's it's a myth.
It's a hoax like global warming.
Oh, did you hear what happened?
The global warming thing in Bali?
Oh, this is just too good, folks.
From the UK Daily Mail flood of tears as climate change hardman breaks down at the summit.
He is known as the hard man of climate change negotiation, but after 12 exhausting days of trying to reach a worldwide agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it was suddenly all too much for Evo de Boer.
As the 200 Nation Bali conference wrangled over a minor procedural matter, the Dutch diplomat in charge of the talks burst into tears, had to had to be led away by colleagues.
Moments, yes, it's true, Mr. Snurley.
Moments earlier, Mr. Debor had been warning delegates that failure to reach an agreement on global warming could plunge the world into conflict.
Then the SHICOMs got up and said that Western countries should do more to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, accused the UN negotiators of ignoring conference protocol.
Mr. Debore distinctively dressed in a floral shirt, stepped to the microphone to defend his staff, only to find the words would no longer come.
He broke down in tears had to be escorted because the conference was going to fail.
This is sick.
Seriously, folks.
Does it not does it not sort of confirm what I've told you about these global warming people?
They're sick.
They've got so much invested in this that's personal.
I know they're a bunch of socialists and a bunch of libs and they're trying to control and they're trying to fleece Western democracies with the Bali conference and all, but for the guy to stand up there, the guy that's been the bull warp on all this, this Dutch guy, Ebo de Boer, to start crying when the ChICOMs start questioning the way the place is being run.
To not be when all else fails, you cry.
We all who have been married know that.
When all else fails, you cry.
Oh, he must really care so much.
Look at Evo Debor.
He can't even continue.
He still cares about this so much.
And it may be true.
It may be the guy is so invested in having meaning in his life that he's gotten so caught up in the pathology of all of this that he must have really thought big things are going to come out of this.
Big things did not come out of this.
Despite what the media is saying, big things did not come out of the Bali conference.
Uh trying to make it look like the U.S. is totally caved on things.
All they've agreed to do is meet again down the road for some new guidelines.
But this was supposed to be the last chance.
Bali was the last chance to save Mother Earth.
And they didn't save it.
And they didn't do anything other than agree to get together and come up with some guidelines down the road, plus Evo Debor broke down in tears.
Do you know that as we speak today, as we speak, at this moment, just about sixty percent, six zero.
Just about that's over half for those of you in Rio Linda.
Just over sixty percent of the U.S. is now under a cover of snow and ice.
You would think that pushing an extremist view of global warming would be a tough sell at this time.
Craig James is a meteorologist writing at Wood TV says, where did the U.N. decide to hold its latest climate conference?
Not at the headquarters of New York City, but in a very warm location just south of the equator on the Indonesian island of Bali.
While at that conference, the UN Secretary General received a letter from 100 of the world's most prominent scientists.
Apparently, the media in Canada and Great Britain have found this a significant enough event to give it plenty of coverage.
But I'll bet you haven't heard about this in the U.S. media.
The main emphasis of the letter is attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would better be spent on humanity's real and pressing problems.
60% of the United States under snow and ice.
There's also a story here that the uh couple of uh uh scientists uh wanted to not rely on uh satellite pictures and so forth uh with the the ice.
You know, the the the global Arctic ice supposedly melted faster this year than ever before.
And they say at Bali that by 2012, during summertime, there will be no ice of the North Pole.
Yet the ice has re-melted at a record clip, and the ice cover at the North Pole where Sandy Claws lives is now equal to what it normally is in February.
So a couple of scientists decided to hill with these photos and said, well, we're gonna go up there, we're gonna inspect.
And they had to give it up after two days because temperatures below a hundred degrees, 100 degrees below whatever, zero, and they had to give it up because they're written frostbite, they were about to die.
As they're investigating global warming.
Sixty percent of the United States under the cover of ice and snow right now.
And this is the time they try to run out and convince everybody that uh that global warming is taking place.
Okay, to the phones will start in San Francisco today with Barbara.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Happy holidays, Rosh.
Same to you.
Um, you know, you at the beginning of the hour you were talking about um the news media whining about, you know, the per the persons who are hurt the most are women and uh minorities or whatever.
And the poor, yeah, the poor.
And the poor, of course.
Well, over here, you know, if you're a minority or you're poor, uh we're not gonna help you, we're just gonna whine about it.
And uh the media, they that's all they talk about is uh we're hurting everybody.
Well, the truth is why don't they get off their ass and go and do something?
I love that attitude.
Instead of every because well uh the the left in this country has done such a great job of making victims out of every minority and even some majorities, like women.
Uh in numerical terms, women are a majority, and yet they're victims.
But you know what?
Everybody that I know that has a job, any kind of a job, they're doing okay.
So who who's getting hurt?
I don't see anybody getting hurt that has a job.
No, but they think everybody they they get caught up in the media narrative and all this stuff, they read these stories of the seat them on television, and even though they know that they're doing okay, they're made to worry that their neighbors aren't doing well, and then they feel guilty, uh, and then they believe that things are in tumoil, uh turmoil over over the state of the economy, even though their own personal experiences as you cite.
Just take one homeless person and help them.
Just go out and help them.
No.
But but nobody's gonna do that.
They'll run you over in a crosswalk, though.
No, no, you can't help them.
They're supposed to stay homeless because they are props for the Democrats in the presidential campaign.
Yeah, you need the butts in the seats.
That's right.
I like this attitude, though.
Why do you just get over do something?
You know, I've uh in in and and by the way, Barbara, I can tell you what the reaction of some of the audiences, because we got a lot of libs and progressives in this audience, and they hear you say that, just like when I used to say, What well, why don't we teach them to work, get them a job?
Oh, easy for you to say.
As though that's cruel.
As though that's inhumane.
We should acknowledge their circumstance and understand that there's a reason for it, and that is the United States of America and its inherent unfairness of the capitalistic system.
Uh and so all of this misery, all this poverty, so-called, and all of the homelessness fits right into the media narrative that this country is unjust and unfair.
And so any example of it that they can cite, they will.
Ergo, Christmas season, slower than usual, online and brick and mortar, and of course, the poor, hardest hit.
Of course, the poor are always gonna be hardest hit by virtually everything.
But the poor in this country have it far better off than the poor, average poor anywhere else in the world.
David Nashville, you're next.
Great to have you as we kick off a brand new week on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Merry Merry Christmas.
Same to you, sir.
Well, uh I just wanted to share a story with you.
I was listening to uh old Manheim steamroller this morning to Christmas lullaby.
Yes.
And it took me back to uh a time when you closed out your Christmas season.
Uh giving an inspirational talk while that music was playing.
And it was a very difficult time in my life.
And I just want you to know how much you inspired me to pull through during that time.
Well, thank you.
You know, I uh I remember that usually I've sometimes done it on Christmas lullaby, but uh usually we do it over silent night.
Uh which that that song, I mean, even though I've lost my hearing and I cannot hear uh all of the frequency ranges in it, my memory supplies the melody.
It still makes me tear up, as though I were on meet the press uh talking about it.
Well, that came on this morning.
I started to tear up.
Yeah.
Well, you know, uh, I have to tell you something.
The um the the same thing happened to me in a in a different way when I was first exposed to Manheim steamroller, it was I forget the year now, but it well, I was first exposed to them in in the Sacramento in the nineteen eighties as watching a playoff football game.
I remember the Seattle Seahawks were playing in it.
And uh as they would play bump music, NBC going to commercial break, playing this com this this Christmas music that uh I I was unfamiliar with.
So I started asking around a radio station, KFBK, the production director, oh, yeah, it's Manheim steamroller.
So I went out and I bought a bunch of whatever the existing Manheim Steamroller Christmas CDs were at the time and immediately fell in love with them.
And then in 1990, uh, which was a tough, tough uh time of the year for me because my father passed away, and I remember I was flying on an American Airlines MD 80 out to California while he was ill.
It was late at night, and I was going out for a speaking engagement, and I had my little walkman at the time that played cassettes.
And I uh I had recorded a bunch of uh Manheim steamroller music on it, and I had the earphones in.
35,000 feet looking out the window, it's just a crystal crystal clearness in December.
It's a crystal clear night, and I'm looking down over God's creation.
Uh and this music uh it it just brought back all of the joyous family times that I had had as a kid, uh growing up with our whole extended family, and I started I started tearing up, and that the Manheim steamroller music ever since then has had a uh uh deep heartfelt connection uh with me and my memory and psyche, not just the fact that I like the music for what it is.
So I can understand how it uh could affect you the same way, and I I appreciate your calling and saying so.
Hey Rush, we grew up close to each other.
How come I don't sound like you then?
Do I have a southern accent?
No, no, no, you just you have southern accent, and I don't.
I used to.
You know, I you in Southeast Missouri, where I grew up, they call it Swamp East Missouri, and they it's not really a southern accent, it's like they say get and forget in yours and and things like that, and some of them very nasal.
And when I first heard a tape of myself one of my first early days in the radio, I sounded a little bit like that.
So I embarked on a self-taught course to uh be able to speak uh in such a way that nobody would ever know what part of country I was from.
And that became a uh and I learned to breathe diaphragmatically and uh because a lot of beginning radio people are what we call pukers, you know, Ron Radios.
Hey, babe, how is it it's it's 70 shaven degrees, and it's just uh and I wanted to get rid of that too.
So uh I'm just joking.
Where do we grow?
Where did you grow up?
Northeast Arkansas, a little town called Pocahontas.
Well, I know where Pocahontas are.
My mother's from Arkansas, she was from Cersei, she grew up there, they moved to Kenneth, Missouri, when she was a kid.
So I got dangerously close to Arkansas a bunch of times.
Uh down there from my great-great-grandmother's funeral and uh uh a lot of other times.
So, yeah, we're close and a lot of weapons.
There was a man in our town, his name was Ray Lambaugh.
But he never claimed you.
Well, uh there are some limbs, even my immediate family who will not claim me even to this day, so that doesn't surprise me.
We'll be back right after this.
Don't go away.
Thanks much for the call out there.
And some Manheim steamroller right here.
Taking us back into the content portion of the program, the old Rushbow behind the golden EIB microphone with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You may have heard that uh there was a chemical explosion at the Fox News building on the 45th floor, um just before noon, uh sometime just before noon.
That is uh that just two blocks down the road here from the EIB building uh here in Midtown Manhattan.
The 45th floor is not a floor occupied by uh by Fox News.
Uh one man is critically burned, the cops are on the scene, the hazmat crews are on the scene, they've got Sixth Avenue blocked off between uh 47th and uh and 48th.
But everything cool, everything fine here at the uh at the EIB building.
Joe in St. Louis.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Mary Christmas, and I'll get right to it.
I think you've discovered your next area of excellence.
You uh inadvertently stumbled on a new leading in economic indicator.
Uh it's first time phone calls to ambulance teaching attorneys.
The first time phone calls to ambulance teaching.
Uh oh, you mean the conversation I shared with you about the uh trial lawyer I spoke to?
That's correct.
Said he was having a slow year.
That's right.
So they actually had a slow quarter because there's not enough movement out there.
Gas prices are so high that people aren't moving around as much.
This is his theory.
And he needs movement.
He needs accidents.
He needs people running over people, uh, this kind of thing in order to.
It was it was funny listening.
I clocked he was dead serious.
He was dead serious, folks.
He was I mean he was not making a joke.
Uh it hasn't, it's uh slowed down since the summer, man.
The gas price is up.
I need movement.
Well, I think the slowdown has been a lot a little bit longer than that.
Um, in particular, in in pursuit of your next Nobel Prize in the field of economics, you might want to do some more research on this.
I think I think the I think the recession has been full bloom since Jonathan Edison started in the public.
I he what he's if you're having trouble hearing, ladies and gentlemen, because he's not a cell phone with a uh uh not the best connection, uh, is he says that the slow activity for trial lawyers is the greatest indication of uh economic slowdown and recession, because there's not enough activity out there for the ambulance chasers to chase and find, which means that he and he says I should I should apply this theory to my application Nobel Prize for economics next year.
Kevin in Boise, Idaho, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, Megadiddos, and Merry Christmas.
I gotta I gotta tell you, you know, you're the one that's kind of founded this industry, and out of all the talk show hosts out there, the one thing that I talk about uh with my family, the one thing that I appreciate and thank you for is you have really changed my opinion on a lot of things that that I have, you know, were constantly being pounded by the negative.
You've turned so many things into a positive.
So I gotta say you're probably the most optimistic person and uh positive person out there on the on the radio waves.
And I thank you for that.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Hey, I just wanted a real quick mention, you know, I just heard you I I think I'm correct in hearing that you said they're gonna start taxing soda pop over in uh in San Francisco.
And if I if I don't if I remember correctly, I don't remember if it was a year ago or so that you had mentioned um uh about you talking about uh I don't know if it was over in that area about a guy who was doing a story, he was a supposed expert that was talking about all the harm that uh soda was doing to kids and and uh you were saying that he was probably walking out of his out of his uh uh little shop in the in this back corner office, you know, and the newspapers were calling him some great expert.
But you were talking at that time that he, you know, that it was going to be a uh there's gonna be some type of attacks or something on that down the road.
And when I heard that, I really didn't believe it.
I you know, I thought it was one of your exaggerations, you know, to make your point.
And I cannot believe it.
When I heard that, I had to call up.
I just can't believe that they would actually come down and tax on soda pop.
Did I hear that correctly?
You did.
It's San Francisco, and the the way they're gonna do it is they're going to tax caffeine uh that is in sugary uh energy drinks and soda pop.
It's a caffeine tax, and it's being done uh under the guise of saving the children and protecting them from obesity.
Now, the way and and it it's the mayor, Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, who's proposing this.
Uh you know, I I I love when you say you thought I was exaggerating.
You thought, eh, maybe right is a little overboard on this.
Just like I'm sure a lot of people thought I was overboard when I warned you they're gonna come after your SUV in a whole number of ways.
That turned out to be true.
Look, folks, I know these libs.
I know them as well as they know themselves, probably better than they know themselves because they're not willing to admit to themselves who they really are, nor to anybody else.
And so taxes, control over people's life, assuming that people have not the ability to live their lives responsibly.
That's all part of liberalism and wanting control over it, uh raising taxes is a way to do it, always done under the guise of helping and serving humanity.
Uh and of course, the way they do it is incrementally.
Oh, yeah.
We gotta save the children, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's right.
The children are getting fat and are waddling around, and it's all of thought of pop that I'm in favor of taxing that stuff, Mr. Limbaugh, because I care and you don't.
And so when we sit around and we allow one group to suffer a tax increase, we think, ah, well, we're not gonna pay it.
We'll just stop buying the stuff.
Once you accept it, you're next.
A tax increase on one group is a tax increase on everybody.
Mrs. Clinton, with uh, I wouldn't call it a meltdown, but she was not happy today on the Today Show with David Gregory.
Clinton's Unhappy with the Drive Bys.
There are Howard Dean parallels to this, by the way.
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