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Dec. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 20, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, I'm just looking for the chapstick.
I can't find any chapstick in here.
I never need chapstick unless I come up here in the wintertime.
That's why I can't find it.
But I thought there was some.
I've got everything else in this desk, but I can't find any chapstick.
Anyway, greeting.
There will be some.
I bet you within five minutes walking in the door.
Greetings, my friends.
It's the EIB network.
It's El Rushbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here we are, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
It's great.
No, did not get any rest last night.
Well, I mean, I got some, yeah, four hours, four or five, something like that.
Why?
I mean, do I sound tired?
I mean, I feel good.
Good.
I feel pretty, feel pretty peppy here today, wrapping up a quick week here to New York.
And it has been a lot of fun.
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The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Huckabee forces are attacking me, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, sir-eebob, the hucksters are on the warpath from the Atlantic magazine.
This is from their blog.
The author Mark Ambinder, I think that's how he pronounces it.
What's the Huckabee Universe's take on why Rush Limbaugh doesn't like the man from Arkansas?
I asked a prominent Washington-based Huckabee ally, and here's what the prominent Washington-based Huckabee ally said.
Well, Limbaugh doesn't like Huckabee because Rush doesn't think for himself.
That's not necessarily a slap because Rush isn't paid to be a thinker.
He's an entertainer.
I can't remember the last time he's veered from the talking points from the DC Manhattan chattering class.
If they were praising Huckabee, he would be too.
Also, I have to think that he's dying to have Hillary in the White House.
Bill Clinton made Rush a megastar.
Having another Clinton back in power would make him the leading voice of the opposition once again.
Now, this is so off the mark.
I can't believe that Huckabee would have somebody this ignorant on his staff, somebody on a campaign staff or a supporter or what have you that's so ignorant about this program and what happens on this program.
Part of the D.C. Manhattan chattering class?
When was the last time I was for illegal immigration, for example?
This is absurd.
But I look at, I think it's funny.
Huck forces attacking El Rushbo.
Also, I knew this was going to happen.
I want to take you back to Sunday.
Mr. Snowdly, listen up.
Stop screening calls.
I want you to hear this.
Because I knew it was going to happen.
On Sunday, the late game, and I'm watching it on the airplane.
No, no, no.
Yeah, no, I arrived in New York.
I'm watching it in my apartment, New York.
I'm watching the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys.
Tony Romo, the quarterback of the Cowboys, having the worst game of his season, perhaps the second worst game of his career.
The first worst game of his career was also against the Eagles and last year in Dallas.
The two games had something in common.
Last year, his girlfriend of the moment, Carrie Underwood, was in a luxury skybox looking down and waving.
Sunday, Romo's new babe, Jessica Simpson, was in his skybox looking down and waving, and she had on a cowboys jersey with pink number nine on it, which is Romo's number and pink sleeves in place of the Dallas Cowboy blue sleeves.
And they cut to her many times, the TV cameras did, while Romo is having a horrible outing at halftime.
Because I am so observant, it's frightening.
At halftime, the camera watches Romo walking to the locker room off the field, and they stick with him for quite a while.
He keeps looking up into the stands, then looks back to where he's going to look up in the stands, looks back to where he's going, looks up in the stands, and gives a wave.
And I said, you know, this kid's, his mind's not in a game.
He's up there looking for Jessica.
Well, that wasn't just me that noticed this, ladies and gentlemen.
Yesterday on ESPN, Terol Owens did a phone interview.
Jessica Simpson, not a fan favorite private in this locker room or in Texas Stadium.
Why not?
I mean, just, I mean, I think with everything that has happened and obviously the way Tony played and the comparison between her and Carrie Underwood.
And, you know, I think a lot of people feel like, you know, she's kind of taking this focus away, this and that.
But, I mean, she was hot on my list to last week.
But you want to see on TV.
I got a message for her when we make the playoffs.
Just stay tuned.
I got a message for her when we make the playoffs.
Just stay tuned.
Knew this was going to happen.
I knew it was going to happen.
Romo was going to get blamed for having Jessica there.
She was going to get blamed for distracting him.
I have a theory about all this, but I'm not going to share it because it's pop culture BS and I'm not going to mess with it.
Well, I talked a little bit about it yesterday when I was discussing fame and how some people think this come from humble kid.
He's from Eastern Illinois University for crying out loud.
I don't even think it exists anymore.
You know, he's an average ordinary run-of-the-mill guy, solid guy.
But if fame makes him think he launched himself into some new stratosphere.
And so the actress babes and the actors' babes are looking not for anything other than getting noticed themselves.
When your career is being noticed and you got to do things to get noticed, you don't have a lot of substance there.
That's as far as I'm going to go with this because I don't know Romo and I could be dead wrong about this.
I don't know Jessica Simpson.
I do know that Romo the night before the game, this is highly unusual, folks.
I know the NFL.
He went out to dinner with Jessica Simpson to a sushi place with his parents.
Now the pregame meals the next day.
Pregame meals either four or five hours for the game, depending on the team.
Everybody has different philosophies.
But Saturday night, you are supposed to be with the team in the hotel going over final game plan adjustments.
And so he might have gone back to hotel.
I'm really speaking out of school here.
I love Romo.
He's got a great future.
I just knew this was going to happen.
Just knew it was going to happen.
Now, Tom Brady's found a way to make sure he's dating Giselle Bunny Hunch, that model.
Apparently, she's not a distraction, but I don't think she goes to the games.
Well, I take that back.
She did go to one game in Miami when the Patriots' wives went down earlier this year.
And she was out dancing the night away with the Patriots' wives while the team was in a hotel making final adjustments to cream the dolphins the next day.
You know, Nancy Pelosi, folks, bragged about her first 100 days.
I'll tell you what, the next 265 days really sucked.
This budget, this budget, I'm excited.
Do you know, folks, I might be getting a $500 million grant in this year's budget?
You might be too.
Nobody knows what's in this.
There are 11,000 earmarks in this.
Nobody has read the whole thing.
Nobody knows what's.
In fact, the president has assigned somebody over there to go through the whole thing.
He's going to sign it.
He's got a sense he's got his money for Iraq in this, and he excoriated members of Congress today for all these earmarks.
But I'll tell you, 3,000 of these earmarks are Republicans.
The other eight or nine are Democrat earmarks thrown in at the last minute.
There's too many pages in this thing, too little time, which means by simple deduction that some people know some of the things, but nobody knows all the things.
You could probably petition the government for your $100 million grant today.
It's like, oh, well, it's probably in there.
We'll give it to you.
If you're some scientist or whatever, it's just, it's the money being bandied about here is just incomprehensible.
And they're going to have to do it all over again pretty soon because it's just a continuing resolution.
Nancy Pelosi said it takes a woman to clean up the house.
If this is cleaning up, bring back dirty.
I can't help but laugh about this.
I've got an idea.
How about, and it's right out of Congress too.
How about Sarbanes Oxley for the federal budget?
You know, Sarbanes-Oxley, anything a corporation did that was nefarious, the CEO was held personally accountable, even if he didn't know what was going on, which is one of the reasons why so many companies are going private and getting themselves out so they don't have to mess with Sarbanes-Oxley as a public traded company.
But that's beside the point.
Everybody who is Sarbanes-Oxley for Congress, everybody who votes for the budget is personally responsible for it.
These guys get to act like spectators.
If Congress thinks a company should be responsible for their accounting statements, shouldn't they be responsible for their spending?
After all, it's our money.
Well, it was until they took it.
Have you seen the economic figure?
The third quarter GDP number?
4.9% July through September.
Can you believe, ladies and gentlemen, the disconnect between the reporting about a recession and this figure?
Gross domestic product rose at an unrevised 4.9% annual rate in the third quarter quicker than the 3.8 performance in the second quarter.
This is from the Commerce Department today.
Now, if the media, if the Drive-Bys were a drug company and they got its information about its products so consistently wrong, they would be out of business.
They would be sued out of business.
Imagine the Drive-Bys as a drug company.
They get everything wrong.
They put stuff in their news that kills you or harms you or makes you sick.
And there's no accountability.
If they were a drug company, they'd be out of business.
The only business I know, the Drive-Buy Media, that can be consistently wrong about its product and stay in business, can be consistently wrong about its customers and tell its customers that they're stupid and still stay in business.
They are constantly trying to drive down the morale of the people about their own country.
It's a sick mentality that these people in the drive-bys have.
And by the way, what happened to all those front-page stories with those retired Clinton generals about how we couldn't win this war?
Where are those retired Clinton generals?
Haven't seen them on TV in a while.
Have you?
I mean, shouldn't they be brought back on TV by the drive-by?
So what did you mean coming on TV and lying to us like that?
And how could you be so wrong?
And if I were a Clinton general, I said, don't talk to me about wrong.
When have you gotten anything right?
Anyway, despite this 4.9% growth figure in the third quarter, it's enormous.
It should be celebrated.
People ought to be happy about this.
We're going to hear no end.
No end to the stories about foreclosures by people who took out loans on terms they couldn't afford, as if the majority of us do that.
94% of all people in this country are paying their mortgages, and yet it's been made to look like the housing market's crashing, people being forced out of their homes, and it's like a soup line mentality out there, and it's a disgrace, a brief timeout.
Do you realize this is day four of the Hillary photo-inspired brilliant monologue by me on Monday?
And the drive-bys are still not letting it go.
The reporting is getting worse on this.
Ellen Goodman has, this is the funny, funny, Boston Globe, funny column today on this.
They discussed it at Fox and Friends on TV this morning, and some female infobabe in an Australian paper has really written really just a snitty little, it's funny.
I could, you know, you people, Ms. Goodman, the rest of you in a drive-by meeting, it's time to learn something.
It's my world.
You just live in it.
Ha.
How are you?
Welcome back, El Rushball.
Half my brand tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Remember, folks, as far as the Hawkeye cauckey goes, and even to a certain extent, the New Hampshire primary, but particularly Iowa, many of the Democrat presidential candidates believe that December 23rd is the lock-in day.
If you haven't got your support locked in by then, it's going to be a little late.
Students going home and then coming back for the cauckey.
They're not going to be in Iowa when you're there campaigning.
The holidays, people, they abandon normalcy, just like at Thanksgiving.
Families travel all over the place.
Other people come in and visit, but it's just not the same.
So a lot of candidates think, particularly the Obama group, and I'm sure Mrs. Clinton does too, that they got to get it locked in by December 23rd.
Shore up their support.
And whatever the numbers are on December 23rd, they think, man, it's pretty close to what it's going to end up being.
So that's why this last-minute push.
And as part of that, members of Congress will hold a conference call today to discuss a New York Times article published today detailing Senator Barack Obama's present votes while in the Illinois State Senate.
Now, why would members of Congress hold a conference call to discuss a New York Times story detailing Barack Obama's present votes while in the Illinois State Senate?
Meaning he just voted president, didn't vote yes or no, just yay or nay, present.
Didn't want to take a position.
Now, what could possibly be behind this?
At first glance, you might say, oh my gosh, the members of Congress are trying to figure out how to protect Obama.
Ah, ah, ah, folks.
Team Clinton trying to take one more jab here before things get locked in.
And they're not only doing that, try this from ABC News.
Clinton launches Obama attack websites.
ABC News has learned that the campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton has registered the names of two websites with the express goal of attacking Barack Obama.
It's the first time this election cycle, a presidential campaign has launched a website with the express purpose of launching serious criticisms on a rival.
The name of the websites, votingpresent.com and votingpresent.org, are domains hosted by the same IP address as the official Clinton websites, like thehillaryino.com, which was launched with much fanfare this week.
Votepresent.com, votepresent.
When I read this, when I read this story, you know what went through my mind?
That cackle?
That little cackle.
And then Hillary saying, I'll get you, my pretty.
Hang it in the lapdog Oprah.
I thought of the wicked witch and the Wizard of Oz.
Folks, I tell you, this is this is not what Iowans want, according to Zogby information.
They don't like this kind of stuff.
Here, Bob Kerry.
Bob Kerry, when I apologize, sent Obama an apology letter today for all this Muslim stuff, thereby keeping it alive.
Jimmy, in Decatur, Illinois, we're going to start with you on the phones here today.
Get something out of the way.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Kittos from the land of Lincoln, L. Rush, bro.
Thank you.
I got to tell you, I'm one of your biggest fans out here, but today, brother, you really stepped in it when you said Eastern Illinois.
Are they even still a university?
Eastern Illinois is kind of like what we consider in Central Illinois.
It's been a quarterback factory for a long time.
Mike Shanahan, Sean Payton, and now Tony Romo.
I wasn't putting it down.
You missed it.
No, you misunderstood.
You misunderstood.
I'm talking, somebody comes out of Eastern Illinois.
He's an average.
He's a solid runner.
He's not some, oh, what am I?
He's not some playboy running around.
I was not criticizing the school.
I might have said, I don't know if it's still there now, because I remember somebody discussing Romo once, and I was confusing with Dave Craig.
Dave Craig came out of a school of Wisconsin.
It's no longer there.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, and real quick, I just want to give you a name.
A redshirt freshman from a little tiny town in Maroa, Illinois.
He's at Eastern now.
His name is Luke Hockaday.
Remember that name, Rush?
Write it down.
He's going to follow in the footsteps of those other three.
All right.
Hang on.
Luke Hockaday.
Luke Hockaday from Maroa, Illinois.
I'm rocking it.
He's a great kid.
He's a redshirt freshman.
Be playing there next year.
All right.
Hey, H-O-C-K-A-D-A-Y, right?
You got it.
Luke Hockaday.
He's a quarterback.
Yes, sir.
Luke Hockaday, red shirt.
All right.
I wrote it down.
Hey, we love you out here.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Graham.
I love you too.
I really do, Jimmy, and I appreciate it.
By the way, do you know that Decatur is the original home of what NFL team?
It is the original home of the Chicago, what was called the Staley Bears.
That's right.
And it was the Decatur Staleys, named after a guy named Staley who owned an automobile dealership, right?
I believe that's correct.
Yes, it is correct.
Don't believing about it.
It is correct.
I know my American history.
I got to take a brief time out in the nick of time.
Luke Hockaday, Red Shirt Freshman, Eastern Illinois.
Ba-do-ba-do-ba-do-ba-do-ba-do-ba-do.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Happy holidays.
Happy New Year's Eve.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Now, as you people, as you know, I really do not like to stray into religion because religion is personal and it's faith-based, and to argue about it is not productive.
And so I very rarely like to stray into it, but there's a news story out there.
It's been out there for a couple days that I have to address because it bugs me about the liberal Christians out there, the wacko Christians that are liberal that just Try my patience.
It's that time of year again, just before Christmas, when some religious leaders feel the need to explain that the miracles of the Bible never happened, or that the homeless roaming the streets in Buffalo are the modern equivalent of Mary and Joseph.
I mean, we get the bastardization of the story of the Bible this time of year by liberal Christians.
Today's violator, if you will, is no less than the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams.
And what he says is that the star of Bethlehem, regarding the star of Bethlehem rising and standing still, he says, stars, they just don't behave like that.
Now, this is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
This is a man of the cloth.
And he said that that's just not possible.
Stars just don't stop up there.
He also says that belief in the virgin birth shouldn't be a hurdle over which one must jump before they can be signed up as Christians.
You could be a Christian without believing that.
No big deal.
I mean, who really thinks that happened anyway?
says the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Well, a lot of Christians know where his reasoning is going to end up, where this line of reasoning will take you, because it ends up denying the fundamental basis of Christianity, which is the resurrection.
Because if that didn't happen, then the whole thing is in trouble.
And if these biblical miracles didn't happen, the star of Bethlehem didn't stop.
If there was no virgin birth, then of course there probably wasn't a resurrection.
In which case, what the hell is the Archbishop of Canterbury doing in the business?
If he wants to rewrite it this way, this is the typical way that that is the worst toupee I have ever seen on anybody.
I'm watching CNBC and I've got Fox in the top of my cat.
It's the worst toupee I have ever seen.
I have not lost my place.
Now, why?
Now the resurrection.
I remember, I've told you about the French philosopher Pascal, Blaise Pascal.
He was just agonizing over trying to find earthly proof of the existence of God, aside from inanimate objects and the existence of human beings, looking for some sign.
And of course, there is no sign that we knowingly receive.
And so he began to philosophize about it.
And the resurrection was his problem point.
He said, guys, if that didn't happen, then all of this might be bogus.
So he said, how do I explain the resurrection to myself?
This is the thing about religion in the Bible.
People take it on faith, but truly inquiring minds, curious minds, are going to examine it and try to establish proof for themselves rather than just have to accept the word of others.
Nature, it's part of the way we're created.
There's nothing wrong with it.
So Pascal set about to explain to himself in a satisfactory way the resurrection.
And I'm going to paraphrase because I don't have it right in front of me, but basically he said it's easier to believe that something that has been can be again than it is to believe that something's never been can be.
Which takes me back to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams.
He said that the star didn't stop, and he said that the virgin birth, they don't have to believe that.
Why would anybody not believe in these things?
Isn't it because they are contrary to scientific laws, contrary to how we observe nature operating?
If we don't see it operating a certain way, then we science say, well, it couldn't have happened that way.
Yet, yet, ladies and gentlemen, our very existence cannot be explained by science.
The Big Bang violates the best known law of science, the first law of thermodynamics.
The first law of thermodynamics says that you cannot create something out of nothing.
Hello, Mr. Pascal.
He wasn't even a scientist.
He was a philosopher.
It's easier to believe it something that has been can be again than it is to believe that something that has never been can be.
And yet, the Big Bang violates the first law of thermodynamics.
That law says you cannot create something out of nothing.
But cosmologists who are physicists that study the evolution of the universe have to invent new physics to explain the Big Bang.
Physics that have never been observed.
So is this science or is it faith?
The Big Bang crowd, nobody was there to see it.
We're just told that this tiny little speck of almost nothing exploded one day and became the universe.
What law of physics explains that?
We don't have one.
They've had to create it because they haven't observed it.
The Big Bang is as much an article of faith as anything else is in any other religion.
It's just like the other day we found out nobody in the world of science or medicine has yet to prove that unsaturated fats, saturated fats, whatever, clog your arteries and make you sick.
Nobody has ever proved it.
We all believe it.
And a lot of people run around believing the Big Bang.
Nobody can prove it.
And the laws of physics, as we know them, cannot explain it.
And yet we accept it.
So what's the problem with Dr. Rowan Wilson?
You can claim that the universe has always existed if you want, on the other hand.
But guess if you do that, if you say that the universe has always existed, now you're violating the next most important law in science, which is the second law of thermodynamics, which says that everything is running down and wearing out, but the universe is still wound up and operating, isn't it?
But we're told it's still expanding.
Stephen Hawking, a brief history of time.
I was able to get through 80% of it before I gave up.
Universe is still expanding.
Then it's going to contract.
Big Bang is going to become the big implosion.
We're going to all die.
Well, we won't be around when this happens because we're talking gazillions of years.
The wild guess.
So it's wearing down, second law, thermodynamics.
Oh, yeah, well, it was wearing down.
We're going backwards here.
Universe still wound up and operating.
Therefore, here's the bottom line.
Whether he knows it or not, and this is the key point here for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
His very existence is a miracle, as is all of ours, a miracle.
That is, it cannot be explained by modern science.
By the way, the Archbishop of Canterbury also said the nativity scene is a legend.
Not real, just a legend.
So for those of you out there who feel compelled to take some of your Christian beliefs, discard the miracles, and replace them with modern science, and thereby invent a new religion, go right ahead.
And if this is what Dr. Rowan Wilson wants to do, if he wants to throw out the things in Christianity that he just can't explain in his superior mind, go ahead, Dr. Wilson.
But just don't call it Christianity.
You are distorting and debasing it.
Call it whatever you want.
Call it Wilsononianism.
I don't care what you do not call it Christianity.
Start cherry-picking things that you want, cherry-picking things that your superior mind says you can't possibly accept because stars don't stop.
There is no virgin birth, and nobody can rise from the dead.
Fine, go base your own religion on that.
Find the flock that you want, but don't call it Christianity.
We will be back.
And we are back.
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This morning on Good Morning America, the Clinton Inc. assault on Barack Obama, ABC lines up to carry out the assault.
Co-host Chris Cuomo is interviewing Obama.
And Chris Cuomo says, So, one of the questions that pops up this morning: you've been a critic of Hillary Clinton for not having a definite stand on the issues.
Well, it turns out that you voted present as opposed to yes or no over 100 times as a state legislator.
One vote in particular I want to talk to you about.
The bill was about trying juveniles as adults.
You voted present instead of no.
Were you playing politics, Obama?
No, as the newspaper points out, this was a standard practice in Illinois.
You oftentimes would strategically vote present because you were still negotiating a bill or because there was some element in the bill that was unconstitutional or had problems that needed to be tweaked.
And there was a signal that you would send to the sponsor of the bill that you were willing to work with them to try to make the bill better.
We understand that more than 4,000 votes, we're talking about about 130 present votes.
When you put yourself out there as the agent of change, that you won't play politics as usual, and then the explanation for why you vote present is inside politics.
Is that sending a mixed message?
No, I wasn't inside politics.
This was particular strategies in order to improve legislation that had an impact on my constituents.
Sounds perfectly plausible to me.
Sounds like Obama was very even-tempered in that answer.
Seems also very obvious to me that ABC, hearing about the Clinton Inc. attack on Obama, said, Hey, we're here and we'll help.
And it looks like they got the contract that the Clintons have put out on Obama, because there's even more we got coming up later.
Mark in Davenport, Iowa.
Good to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Absolute honor.
Quick question.
I wanted you to go back to the article you had on early at the meeting of your program where the writer said that you wanted Hillary in the White House because they felt that you'd like to have somebody to pick on.
And I just think you're way too principled than that.
And you're a person that would never want something of that nature.
So why don't you respond to that?
This is why, well, I responded to it, not specifically.
I appreciate your saying that.
And I'm glad you called because I thought I responded just in a generic way to discount the whole thing.
What this supposed Huck supporter, I'm not even sure it's a Huck supporter.
This sounds like something a Clinton person would say.
You know, this is what the Clinton people believe, that Bill Clinton made my career.
That all I want is somebody in office that can make me even bigger.
And that I don't think for myself.
You people are just mind-numb robots.
I can't believe there's anybody on Huckabee's staff that ignorant about what happens on this program.
If this is indeed huckster forces attacking Rush, then he's got some people on his staff that are going to cause him problems because that's just, it's simply idiotic.
You know, this notion, I have to explain this too often, as far as I'm concerned.
This notion that I was nothing, that I was just wandering aimlessly in the radio muck field until Bill Clinton came along and voila, I blossomed into what I am today is frankly absurd.
This broadcast commenced with 56 little radio stations and WABC New York on August 1st, 1988.
By 1993, when Wilhelm van der Schlickmeister was inaugurated as president, number 42, we had 500 radio stations and our audience was at about 18, 17 and a half, maybe 18 million people.
By the time Clinton, well, halfway through, we had our 600 and the audience had peaked at somewhere over 20.
It goes back and forth to 20 to 22, depending on the vagaries of the rating period.
That Clinton had nothing to do with building this radio show.
He had nothing to do with sustaining this radio show.
And I was miserable during those eight years.
It was not fun.
And I'll tell you why I was miserable.
I mean, I had fun.
I enjoyed the what bugged me was that with everything the guy did, and we're going to have to relive it again if she gets elected, 65% approval ratings, 55%, even during the impeachment thing.
I was fearing for my country if they could be this easily fooled.
And it looks like they might be able to be fooled again because it looks like it may repeat itself.
But the last thing in the world, and I care about the country first, this election is going to be about the future of the country.
The election is not about the career of Rush Limbaugh or anybody else in drive-by media or talk radio or what have you.
It's about the future of the country, which I care deeply about, care more about that than anything else.
Because I have this awe and this respect and this utter appreciation for what this country is and what it affords the people, not only this country, but of the world.
And it can be destroyed.
It can be damaged greatly.
And there are people running on the Democrat side who want to do that.
They don't, I'm not sure they think they're damaging it.
They think they're improving it.
They think socialism is better than anything else.
They're wrong.
But it's not something I want to see.
And I don't want to spend eight years or four years having to talk about the president every day.
You know, the Clintons, they are the issue.
What their issues are is that they are the issue.
They are just, they're just, they're omnipresent and so forth.
Now, would it cause an uptick in the audience?
I don't know.
Don't think about that.
I wrote a book, first chapter.
Maya's success does not depend on who wins elections.
Now, my responsibility is to attract the largest audience I can and hold it for as long as I can every day, charge confiscatory advertising rates to my sponsors so that they get better results here than they get anywhere else.
It's my job to do that regardless what the news of the day is.
That's why, and I do, which is why I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist and unparalleled.
So it doesn't matter to me who wins in terms of the radio show.
It matters to me who wins in terms of the country.
And if you, if this is really a hook force member, and here's, if you missed it, somebody went out there and asked Huckabee supporter in the Huckabee universe, actually, why I don't like him.
Frankly, I haven't attacked Huckabee.
You know, I've raised some questions, but they're pretty sensitive out there about this.
So the Huckabee universe guy said, honestly, Rush doesn't think from himself.
I mean, that's not necessarily a slap because he's not paid to be a thinker.
He's an entertainer.
I can't remember the last time he was veered from the talking points from the DC Manhattan chattering class.
If they were praising Huckabee, he would be too.
That's just, that's, I can't believe that there is a Republican alive today who thinks this.
Whether they're supporting the huckster, Giuliani, whoever, then this also, said the hook forcer, I have to think that he's dying to have Hillary in the White House.
Bill Clinton made Rush a megastar.
Having another Clinton back in power would make him the leading voice of the opposition once again.
What do you mean once again?
What do you mean once again?
You know, these reports of my demise, they have never been correct.
This program, after 20 years, 19 and a half years, still a fad to some people.
But if whoever made these comments, I'm sure, has been made aware now that I am making them public.
or amplifying their already having been in public.
And if you really are a Huckabee supporter, whoever said this, your campaign's in trouble.
Because if that's what people on Huckabee's team think, your ignorance is going to get your candidate in big, big trouble.
Back in just a second.
I remember 1988, Bush 41 wins the election.
The media says, well, that's it for Limbaugh.
Nothing for him to talk about.
His guy won.
There's going to be nothing for him to talk about here.
Only been on the air for three months.
92, Clinton wins election.
Drive-by media says, yeah, that's it for Limbaugh.
Clinton won the White House.
Democrat in the White House.
Limbaugh's been discredited.
Who's going to want to listen to him?
He lost.
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