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December 17, 2007, Monday, Hour #2

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	Yes, yes, Mr. Snirdly.
	If I can squeeze it in today, I will explain to you what happened to your cowboys yesterday afternoon against the Philadelphia McNabs.
	I will also attempt to explain what happened to the Steelers and the New Jersey Giants.
	Time permitting on our excursion into broadcast excellence today, which we're back and welcome to it.
	Special welcome to those of you watching on the DittoCam at rushlimbaugh.com.
	Great to be with you.
	Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, a new email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
	NBC officially announced today that its two late-night talk stars, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, will return to the air on January 2nd, even if the writer's strike is not resolved by then.
	The two hosts will be forced to perform without writers, might have to face opposition from the Writers Guild, which has thus far urged late-night hosts to support the strike by staying off the air.
	But they want to get back.
	Now, why do they want to come back?
	I know they love their jobs.
	They love their jobs.
	They like the money and so forth.
	But you know what?
	I think they're beginning to realize, and I think this is true of a lot of television.
	I think they're beginning to realize how irrelevant they are.
	There's nobody clamoring for these shows to come back.
	There's nobody clamoring for a whole lot of primetime shows to come back.
	You know, it's been slow in coming, but it has been coming.
	And that is the evolutionary change of viewing habits for people who watch primetime television.
	The ratings have been not good for a number of programs.
	Well, network-wide.
	I mean, some programs do well, but network-wide, ratings are off.
	But the main aspect of this that people, I think, don't stop to think about, the average consumer doesn't, is the advertising vehicle that three hours of prime time every night on television networks affords advertisers.
	And now it's gone.
	There aren't as many people watching.
	And so these advertisers that spend a lot of money, big budgets on prime time television, are in the throes of reassessing the allocation of their advertising dollars, which, of course, will only benefit those of us here at the EIB network because every single advertiser with us experiences growth that even they are surprised by, even though we tell them it's going to happen.
	We don't go on strike.
	We don't have writers, and we're always here.
	We are our own producers.
	We are our own talent.
	We are all combined into one human being as pretty decent, all-round, all-encompassing broadcast specialists.
	So I think Leno and Conan, nobody's clamoring for their return.
	Nobody seems to be missing them.
	I mean, not that you hear about.
	There might be angry letters to the networks, but they haven't released them if there are.
	So I think that's probably a factor, too, because they know out of sight, out of mind.
	And television is sight, clearly.
	So they're going to come back on January 2nd without writers.
	Probably be stealing more of my stuff, doing their own jokes, which will be interesting to see.
	Bill Clinton.
	On Charlie Rose, we got the audio soundbites of this coming up later.
	An unusually direct attack Friday night on Senator Obama.
	Clinton repeatedly questioned Obama's preparedness for the White House, noting that he took office in January 2005 and became a presidential candidate about two years later.
	But Mr. Obama was an Illinois state senator before that.
	He's got 10 or 11 years in quote-unquote public service.
	Clinton said, look, Charlie, when's the last time we elected a president based on one years of service in the Senate before he started running?
	I mean, Obama is like he's like a good TV commentator, Charlie, running for president.
	They only have one year less experience in national politics than Obama's got.
	And it continues to run down the black guy.
	When you get right down to Mrs. Clinton's campaign, puts out this notion Obama might be selling drugs.
	So it's damage control time for Hillary.
	She was all over television today.
	We start with the early show on the CBS.
	The co-host Harry Smith had this exchange with her.
	Here's the thing, though.
	One of the rubs about your campaign, they say it feels like it's focus group driven, that it's too run too tightly, that people in Iowa don't get to see enough of the real you.
	Well, that's counter to what you just said.
	Well, that's certainly not my impression.
	It's not the first time I disagreed with the press, and I probably don't think it's the last time.
	The cackle is back.
	Come on, Harry.
	Don't hide your views behind other people.
	One of the rubs about your campaign, they say it feels like a focus group.
	Who is they, Charlie?
	Then Harry said, you know, you're very focused on what you're doing.
	Has somebody focused on what President Clinton is doing?
	Did you watch Charlie Rosemanny Chance Friday night?
	The things he was saying about Barack Obama being inadequate and like a TV announcer?
	Not that that's such a horrible thing.
	It's like you have a president as a tack dog in this campaign.
	He was quite complimentary of everyone else except Barack Obama.
	Well, I don't think that's a fair reading or seeing of what he did say.
	He basically made the case that the Des Moines Register editorial made that we need a proven leader.
	We need someone who has years of experience making change.
	I think that's a fair argument to make.
	And of course, I'm thrilled to have his support.
	You know, it's a little bit of a role reversal, but it is exciting because he throws himself into everything he does, as you know.
	And he loves this country, and he believes he knows what it's going to take to make the changes we need after George Bush finally leaves.
	And that's the case he's making.
	It is not the case he's making at all.
	He's making the case that Obama's an idiot.
	He's out there saying Obama's unqualified.
	The black guy can't get it done.
	He's saying that Barack Obama doesn't have things.
	You know, and this message that the Clintons are now on, we need a proven leader.
	We need someone who has years of experience making change.
	Nobody asks her, what change did you make when you were co-president for eight years?
	It just slides on by.
	All this other stuff, she said, I'm thrilled to have Clinton's support.
	Let me give you another dirty little secret.
	People have forgotten this, but I looked it up over the weekend.
	All during Clinton's eight years in Washington, in the White House, there were a number of times that Bill Clinton had to stand up and say, look, I'm the president.
	And Buck stops.
	Well, Buck never got here, but I mean, I make the decision.
	And he's out there doing it now.
	Look, don't blame her on healthcare.
	I mean, she really didn't do that much.
	That was my failure.
	That didn't work because of me.
	Everybody got that wrong idea.
	Now, I don't know about these two and their relationship.
	People speculate about it all over the place.
	But Thomas Lifson, at the American Thinker Today, opines on the body of thinking out there, and there is a sizable portion of it, that Clinton is actually trying to sabotage her and her chances, all these attacks on the black guy and Obama and so forth.
	And we all know, I mean, all we have to do is admit it.
	He doesn't help when he gets out there.
	All he does is talk about himself.
	But he does not help the candidates he is ostensibly campaigning for and endorses.
	They lose.
	They don't do well at all.
	He's out there.
	And you can track her troubles directly to two things.
	That debate in Philadelphia, where she blew the driver's license for illegals in New York question, and then Clinton riding to the rescue.
	That's when this swoon, if indeed it is one, began.
	And now he's out over Charlie Rose and trashing Obama and building up John Edwards, which goes to the point that they really would love Edwards to win Iowa if Hillary can't.
	Hillary coming in third in Iowa rather than second to Obama, who might win, for some reason they think would be better for her.
	But the Lifson thinking goes that, look it, he's trying to sabotage her because the last thing he wants is her in the White House settling scores with him.
	The thoughts and the theories about these people are all over the board.
	Now let's go to the Today Show.
	And before we get to the soundbites from the Today Show, David Gregory, by the way, filled in from Maoer.
	Pretty decent post here at Campaign Spot at the National ReviewOnline.com.
	Sometimes we forget that before Howard Dean's famous scream moment, there were a bunch of signs that he was hitting the skids beforehand.
	First, there were a couple of brusque debate moments, Peggy Noonan comparing him to a teapot that looked ready to boil over.
	But the other big warning sign came when a guy at an Iowa town hall meeting asked for less negative campaigning and a biblical teaching of love thy neighbor.
	And Howard Dean gruffly snapped to this guy, George Bush is not my neighbor.
	And when the questioner interrupted Dean, Dean then shouted back and said, you sit down.
	You had your say, and I'm going to have my say.
	It was not, you remember that?
	It was not Iowa friendly.
	It wasn't a total meltdown.
	But Hillary's interview with David Gregory today might be another one of those red flag moments.
	She's really emphasizing the Des Moines Register endorsement, but she mentions it rather robotically.
	You listen and see what you think.
	We've got two bites from Mrs. Clinton with David Gregory, and there's a question here in the first bite.
	So where's all your momentum gone, Mrs. Clinton, from six weeks ago?
	Well, you know, I'm going to let voters decide that, not the press.
	So, you know, I really don't pay a lot of attention to the day-to-day.
	I'm looking at what the trends are, what we're doing, what kind of response we're getting.
	It's more for me kind of a touch and a feel, and I feel really grateful.
	I feel very confident and optimistic.
	So, Gregory says, Senator Clinton, you're not really addressing the question, though.
	Your husband said it would be rolling the dice with America's future if Barack Obama were elected.
	What's the risk to America if Barack Obama's the president?
	You know, he not only said that, but the Des Moines Register editorial implied that.
	And a lot of people are making up their minds among real candidates, not abstractions, not hypotheticals.
	I welcome that kind of, you know, examination of our records, our experience, our qualifications, our vision for the country.
	That's what elections are about.
	You know, this is the way elections are as you move toward decision making.
	All right, so you're choosing not to answer that question.
	Let me ask you another issue that has to be done.
	No, no, wait a minute.
	No, wait a minute.
	I am making the case for my candidacy.
	Right.
	But she's not answering the question.
	She's mad.
	She was very ticked off about this.
	And of course, I don't know if you can believe it.
	The Zogby poll data that we shared with you last week, voters in Iowa really, really miffed at all this negative stuff.
	And Hillary and her campaign are engaging in more and more of it.
	Now, we hear this, you know, every four years, that they hate negative campaigning.
	We also know that negative campaigning works.
	But she is hitting the black guy, and they're out there hitting him pretty hard in the areas of incompetency.
	She doesn't want to talk about it.
	She wants to rely on the Des Moines Register editorial.
	And of course, that begets a question.
	Well, how much do these endorsements really matter?
	Newspapers, celebrities, or what have you.
	Brief time out.
	Much more straight ahead.
	Don't go away.
	Ha, welcome back, El Rushboat Talent.
	So much more than I even need.
	On loan from God.
	From high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
	Now, am I correct in recalling, ladies and gentlemen, that the Clintons, both of them, are constantly telling us, in fact, complaining that they are so rich and yet they're not being taxed enough.
	They're not being taxed fairly.
	Did you know that they hold several offshore accounts to avoid taxes?
	No, Rush, say it ain't so.
	I wish I could, folks.
	I wish I could.
	But this is from Bloomberg News.
	Former President Bill Clinton's decision to reconsider a bidness relationship with California billionaire Ron Burkle reflects concern that those financial dealings may embarrass his wife's presidential candidacy.
	SEC documents and financial disclosure forms filed by Hillary Clinton show that Bill has a, and that means she does.
	I mean, they're husband and wife.
	Everything gets jointly pooled.
	It's like, you know, we've got news now on some of the donors to the Clinton Library, and it turns out that the Saudis have donated $10 million to the Clinton Library.
	And people say, well, no big deal, Rush donated $10 million to George H.W. Bush's library, too.
	I told you people long ago that the Saudis donate to every presidential library, or the vast majority of them.
	It's written, W-R-I-T.
	The difference here is that with, you know, Hillary and Bill are a political team and they're a husband and wife.
	And so whatever Bill gets, Hillary gets.
	And so it's like a double hit in a sense.
	And so when it says here that Clinton, Bill Clinton has a financial stake in three investment entities, so does Hillary.
	And these investment entities are registered in the Cayman Islands by Buerkle's Yucaipa Companies, LLC.
	In 2004, Hillary Clinton, the Senate in New York, said she wanted to close, Senator Washington wrote her from New York, said she wanted to close the loopholes for people who create a mailbox or a drop or send one person to sit on a beach in some island paradise and claim that's their offshore headquarters.
	Now, we did have news last week that Clinton has got angry with Buerkle over something, severed business ties.
	The former president's possible decision to move away from Buerkle is all tied up with the laws of appearance and the politics of perception, said Linda Fowler, the professor of government at Dartmouth.
	The world being what it is, people are attracted to the spouse of somebody with political power.
	The level of potential conflict is just that much higher with a former president and a senator who would be president.
	She added that with this particular couple, somehow the whole story doesn't come out except in dribs and drabs.
	The campaign did not respond to the queries until December 13th, after the New York Times reported that Clinton plans to dissolve his five-year partnership with Burkle, longtime friend and important fundraiser for both Clintons.
	So they've got, or they had with Buerkle, offshore accounts.
	And why do you have offshore accounts?
	You have offshore accounts to shield yourself from onshore taxes.
	Pure and simple.
	While they're out there running around complaining that they're not taxed enough because they're so rich and they need to be, you know, increased their taxes.
	For you to say when the increase in taxes won't hit you because some of your investments are offshore.
	One other soundbite before we go back to the phones.
	This is yesterday in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
	This is a campaign stop.
	This is a portion of a speech Mrs. Clinton gave.
	There's so much we can do if we work together as a world.
	You know, remember that movie Independence Day where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion?
	Well, why can't we be united on behalf of our planet?
	And that's what I want to do, to get more and more people to understand that and be involved to protect our environment.
	Well, let's talk about movies.
	You know, I remember the movie Mars Attacks.
	Independence Day, Mars attacks.
	Remember, the little green guys showed up from Mars wearing their little glass helmets and so forth?
	And they started just zipping and zapping everybody, and they had this little funny language.
	Talk to each other.
	Jack Nicholson is the president.
	The first lady is Glenn Close.
	And Nicholson adopts a Hillary.
	You know, these guys walk in and they gun down everybody in the Senate with their little Martian weapons.
	And finally, they head over to the White House, take care of Nicholson.
	And Nicholson gives them a little speech.
	Folks, if she can cite a movie, is that we all need to work together in the world to save our planet, then I can cite one too.
	So here comes a little Martian leader in his little glass helmet there with his big bug eyes and veins all over his face.
	And these Martians don't walk.
	You know, they just sort of glide in the room.
	And Nicholson rolls up the sleeves.
	Come on, you people.
	What is it with you little people?
	We could do so much working together.
	Look at what we both bring to the table.
	Could we just, I don't know what your problems are, but let's sit down and talk about them.
	This carnage must stop.
	And of course, little Martian leader's got his two minions, one on each side, and he looks around at each of them and sort of goes, and smiles and offers his hand.
	Little Martian leader offers his hand to Nicholson.
	Nicholson takes a little Martian leader's hand and shakes it.
	And then the Martian leader pops Nicholson with his weapon, kills him, and a little Martian flag pops out of the chest cavity of the dead president of the United States.
	So if I'd have been in the audience and I've said, Mrs. Clinton, remember the movie Mars Attacks?
	Remember, if you just, if you blame your own country for the problems that the world is having and think all you got to do is get together with all the people like the Martian leader in Mars attacks, you're going to end up, and the rest of us will just like him, citing a movie.
	Independence Day.
	This, remember now the reputation.
	This is the smartest woman in the world, citing movies as foreign policy examples.
	By the way, I should have told you on these two soundbites that we had with Mrs. Clinton on the Today Show today, you need to see the looks on her faces.
	Newsbusters.org has it.
	She's during the cackle, she looks when David Gregory is telling her she's not answering a question.
	The look on her face is, I'm going to get you for this.
	It is priceless.
	By the way, Mrs. Clinton talking about a movie.
	Now, for those of you in Iowa, you know, I have to be very honest and upfront here.
	I have a new policy where the Clintons are concerned based on what happened during the 90s.
	Constantly ripping them and so forth only drummed up sympathy for them.
	And so I'm changing my tack on this, trying to actually get through to you, especially you Democrats and Iowa.
	And I know you're out there and I know you're listening.
	But come on.
	Telling you in a speech about a movie and applying something in a make-believe.
	It's not real.
	Independence Day was not real.
	It was Martians attacking.
	Remember?
	That's why I chose Mars attacks as my movie to explain to Mrs. Clinton about Mars.
	And can we remind you of a couple things for those of you in Iowa?
	Because I think your intelligence is being insulted here.
	The first lady in the movie, Independence Day, gets killed in the attack.
	And who's the hero?
	Who is the hero in the movie Independence and a Black Guy?
	Will Smith.
	Bad sight, Mrs. Clinton.
	A bad sight, if any.
	First lady zapped, hero of the movie's a black guy.
	Totally bad form.
	If you're going to start talking to Iowans as though they're idiots and will accept what happens in a movie about Mars attacking as a prelude for establishing world peace, God save you.
	All right, to the phones.
	We go back to Eureka, South Dakota.
	This is Charlie.
	I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Rush, thank you very much.
	You bet.
	I'm totally honored and humbled by being able to wish you, sir, the supreme conservative commander of the world, Megadidos, and Merry Christmas.
	Thank you very much, and the same to you, sir.
	I have a number of things about Mike Huckabee that I really, really love, and I'd like to push one really neat idea.
	When my kids were in school, I told my children that if your science teacher wants to talk about evolution, you raise your hand, you stand up, and you say, sir, if you want to think that you came from apes, my father has instructed me to let you think that, but the Hoffmans did not, sir.
	And Mike Huckabee's conservative response to the creationism on national television to millions and millions of people just put fear into the hearts of all the liberals who want to think that there is somebody else out there besides God running our lives.
	All right, I'm very curious.
	I'm glad you called, Charlie, because you're an avowed, committed huckster.
	And I want to ask you, what is it primarily about Mr. Huckabee, Governor Huckabee, that excites you?
	Is it that he's a Baptist minister, former Baptist minister, and is saying things that resonate with you on matters of like you're just a creation of God?
	Is that the primary reason he's attraction to you?
	Really, what I'm attracted to, Rush, is he is kind.
	He is thoughtful.
	He is the quickest man on his feet with the correct answers that I think have a moral basis better than all the other candidates.
	What all do you know about his policies and the things that he did as governor, the things that he said policy was during his presidential campaign?
	I do not know a lot about what happened in Arkansas.
	I know that he took on the Clinton machine and he beat them.
	Well, okay, I actually think he's a populist like Clinton is.
	I think one of the ways he was some states, and Arkansas is one of them, you know, they're really not Republican or Democrat.
	They're populist in a lot of ways, and Clinton mastered that there.
	I think Huckabee did too.
	I think he was able to win the same way in Arkansas that Clinton did with populism.
	He's under some fire right now, Charlie, for something.
	A little piece he wrote in Foreign Affairs, which is the publication of the Council on Foreign Relations.
	And I want to read to you the opening two paragraphs.
	And just get your reaction to them.
	I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
	And if you'd rather not, I won't.
	But if you'd like to hear them, I'll read them to you and get your reaction.
	Okay.
	This is the opening two paragraphs.
	The United States, as the world's only superpower, is less vulnerable to military defeat, but it is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries.
	Much like a top high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in helping others, it's loved.
	But if it attempts to dominate others, it's despised.
	American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude.
	Open up and reach out.
	The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.
	My administration will recognize the U.S. main fight today does not pit us against the world, but pits the world against terrorists.
	At the same time, my administration will never surrender our sovereignty, which is why I was the first candidate to oppose ratification of Law of the Sea Treaty, which would endanger both our national security and our economic interests.
	What's your reaction when you hear those two paragraphs?
	I would have to say that I would agree with the latter part being that I don't think it's in our best interest to follow what the UN is doing.
	I think we should be autonomous from that.
	Well, that's the Law of the Sea Treaty, but he didn't just attack the UN.
	He aimed at the Bush administration, and he said it's an arrogant bunker mentality that's been counterproductive at home and abroad.
	He also said that America, like a high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements and generous in helping others, it's loved.
	Now, I think there's no more generous country in the world than the United States.
	I don't know what he means by that.
	I agree 100%.
	I would say, too, though, that the decrease in deaths in Iraq today would be a firm commitment to that we are following the correct path.
	And George Bush did do the right thing by going in and taking Saddam out.
	So Huckabee writes this piece basically savaging the Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality.
	Now, one thing I know, I remember back in the 92 campaign, Ross Perot came along, and I had my instincts, I had misgivings about it from the get-go, and I shared those misgivings, and I tried to talk the Perot people out of it.
	You people are being fooled.
	He's not even serious about wanting to be elected.
	There's something else going on here.
	I'm going to get to the bottom of it and find out.
	I found out what it was.
	When it looked like he was going to win, he pulled out, then he got back in.
	Basically, he gave the election to the Democrats and Bill Clinton.
	But what I remember is that all during that period, when I was so intense and so purposefully desirous of trying to get the Perot people to see the light, they didn't want to see it.
	They were like cultists.
	And I learned that you cannot talk cultists out of their cult.
	You just have to let them see it for themselves in the time it takes for it all to unfold.
	And I think with Huckabee, I don't think his people are cultists.
	Don't misunderstand, but I think there are two or three things about him that have drawn people to him that are going to make them overlook some other things that ought to raise some red flags.
	Okay.
	I would have to agree and state that he might be trying to work his way towards the middle, which in America today, I think if you're going to try to get 54, 55% of the vote and become president, you need to be closer to the middle than the outside.
	Well, now, what is the outside?
	Is mainstream conservatism the outside?
	See, Ronald Reagan didn't move to the middle.
	Ronald Reagan got two landslides, you know, straight down the middle conservatism.
	It wins nationally every time it's tried.
	Right, right.
	I would say the conservatives today in America aren't out there on the fringe.
	We do have compassion.
	We do need to take care of people who are less fortunate than us.
	We also can't give money to the government.
	No, we have better than we do.
	Conservatives have the compassion to tell people less fortunate than us how to change their circumstances, how to educate them, how to teach them, because we believe, as conservatives, in the full potential of every human being based on how much that human being wants it.
	And that's what we try to.
	We count compassion by how many people don't need federal assistance anymore.
	That's our definition of compassion.
	I agree.
	We get up every day.
	We have one thing that we need to work on.
	That's our own attitude.
	We can either make it or break it by the first five minutes of the morning.
	Well, my only point to you is that, and I'm not going to repeat what I did with Perot because it's not going to work.
	But the only thing I'll say to you is I think if you dug deep, you would find that, well, you admitted it.
	Huckabee's moving to the middle because he wants, if he's moving to the middle, he's abandoning what?
	The right.
	He'll stick solid on certain things in the right because he knows that he is attracting a portion of the population based on religious and moral and ethical values, which is fine.
	But on some of these other areas that also define conservatisms, like taxes and so forth, he doesn't have the pedigree.
	But I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.
	Don't even think about it.
	I'm not trying to talk you out of it.
	I'm not attacking you because I know I can't.
	Because you called here, and you think he's the one true conservative out there because of the things that matter a lot to you.
	He's right on the money on him.
	So we'll see what unfolds in the few short weeks ahead to when we finally get nominees for both parties.
	In the meantime, Charlie, thanks for the call.
	It's great to talk to you.
	Thanks for enduring my quote-unquote challenge.
	You're a gutsy guy.
	We'll be back after this.
	Your guiding light through times of troubled confusion, tumult, chaos, turmoil, and even the good times.
	And having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have at the same time doing it.
	Pete Wayner, who used to work in the White House, he was on Karl Rove's staff, number one behind Rove, has a piece today on Huckabee.
	It is in National Review Online.
	And he also wants to take issue with the first two paragraphs of Huckabee's essay that he wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine, particularly the claim by Huckabee that we're too mean around the world.
	We're trying to dominate the world, and we need to be more like a top high school student, modest about our abilities and achievements, generous, and that we will be loved.
	If we keep dominating people, we'll be despised.
	And the Bush administration's arrogant bucker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.
	Now, understandably, Mr. Wayner, a former member of the president's staff working with Karl Roves.
	So keep that in mind as I share with you just some brief comments from his essay today.
	Fact is, the United States has sacrificed enormous amounts of blood and treasure to help other nations.
	Any suggestion otherwise is wrong and even offensive.
	This animus against the U.S., we have, for starters, liberated more than 50 million people from two of the most repressive regimes in modern history, the Taliban and the Bathist police state in Iraq.
	That doesn't count all the others that have been liberated in our history over the course of our existence.
	The Global AIDS Initiative qualifies as among the most humane and generous acts in the history of American foreign policy.
	We give billions in additional foreign aid, including the enormous generosity America has displayed in helping Indonesia and other nations in the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami.
	The United States, while imperfect, ranks as perhaps the most benevolent superpower, to say nothing of its status as a benevolent nation, in human history.
	Unlike past empires, we are using American power and influence for great good instead of as a means of advancing oppression.
	Beyond that, the belief that if we are modest and generous, we'll be loved by other nations, and that anger at America is based on our attempts to dominate is both naive and foolish.
	Some nations like Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea, and others will oppose us because they are totalitarian states that hate our efforts to curb their ambitions and advance freedom and self-determination.
	They are not the loving kind.
	Other nations, like France under Jacques Chirac, will oppose us because they can't stand the idea of a unipolar world and want to counterbalance it.
	Other nations like the Chikoms and the Russians will oppose our efforts to end genocide in Darfur and keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons because of their economic interests.
	Memo to Mike Huckabee: sometimes we are despised for all the right reasons.
	Pete Wayner, that's just an excerpt from his piece at National Review online today.
	Steven, Salt Lake City, glad you waited.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Rush, what a pleasure it is to talk to you and to, first of all, wish you not only a season's greetings, a happy holidays, but most importantly, a Merry, Merry Christmas.
	I love that.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you so much.
	Hey, you bet.
	Rush, I just wanted to remind the listeners and to let you know how important you are to our voice and to our cause.
	And I have a great example.
	First of all, I've noticed I paid quite a bit of attention to the global warming thing.
	And I've noticed recently, and I think it's single-handedly because of you, they've changed the semantics on global warming, and it's now become global climate change.
	Yes.
	Which is irrefutable.
	India, weather storm, anything, every time the weather changes, they can blame it on global warming.
	Exactly.
	That's how, in the middle of this, as we speak, 60% of the United States is under snow or ice cover.
	That's how they can declare a global warming emergency because the climate just did change.
	Two weeks ago, it was 60 degrees here.
	We just had climate change.
	Whoa, even though it's natural, and even though this is the, by the way, the cold front that went through Florida, every year at the, I've been there since 97, and last year was the first interruption in the trend.
	Every year during this week, the week leading up to Christmas, the first big coal front comes through.
	You've got a low near 50, the highs in the upper 60s for a couple days.
	It happened at Thanksgiving last year, but it's right on schedule.
	Here it's arrived.
	It's a trend that keeps repeating itself over and over again, and yet they call it climate change.
	Exactly.
	And the weather changes more than more than Hillary's face does.
	I noticed recent pictures of her face on the drudge report and how sometimes it looks good, and sometimes, like today, it looks that picture of Hillary on the Drudge Report.
	You know, I've got a theory about this.
	I don't know if I should mention this.
	People are going to misunderstand this, and they're going to think that I'm being mean when I'm not.
	What I'm actually doing is commenting on American pop culture.
	And let me just, well, this is so risky to do, but hey, I do risky.
	Let me ask a question.
	You take a look at that picture of Hillary on a drudge report.
	You ask yourself, does this country does Mr. Snerdley is warning me to be careful?
	And every time I hear that, that's a signal to go for it.
	But now I've got 15 seconds here, and that's not enough time to do it.
	sit tight, and in the next hour I will, I'm not backing off No, no, no, no.
	I'm giving myself more time to try to explain what I'm going to be talking about Americans, not Mrs. Clinton.
	You just sit tight.
	Don't sweat it, folks.
	We'll be back.
	Hey, I got something for you to think about here before we go to the break.
	If you really want the world to love us, you really want the world to love us, stop foreign aid.
	Just cut them off.

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