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Dec. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 20, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It is a it's such a joy, a thrill and a delight to be able to do this every day, be here with you, discuss all these things that matter to so many of us.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network coming to you today from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited tourist sites in all of the city.
Mobs of people every afternoon when I walk out of the building, the super secret exit, mobs of people out there staring at my car.
It's just the way it is.
Here's the phone number, 800 282-2882, and the new email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I think Ellen Goodman, uh columnist at the Boston Globe, is a stalker, ladies and gentlemen.
She is stalking me.
She listens to every word of my show.
And she has written a piece.
It actually ran in the Cincinnati Post today.
Her column normally appears on Fridays in the Boston Globe.
And she this is a send up on my brilliant monologue of Monday.
And as the week has gone on, as the drive-bys have discussed this more and more, they have veered further and further away from the point that I was making.
The reporting is getting worse.
Here is how Ms. Goodman begins her piece.
And so we gather to praise the old Feminazi hunter himself.
Rush Limbaugh has single-handedly brushed aside the blinding snow on the windshield and let us have another clear view of the double standard running down this campaign highway.
This week, our man Rush offered a lengthy monologue about an unflattering photo of Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire cold.
He ended by asking the question, will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
See, this is I know how to play these people.
The brilliant monologue, which you all heard, then you give them the pull quote.
That little last little land, that's all they're gonna see, and they're gonna focus on them and own the news cycle for a week.
This is day four.
Hillary has wrinkles.
Oh no, somebody called the exorcist.
Remember last summer when the nation was treated to a bit of fashion babble about Hillary's cleavage?
This alerted us to the startling news that the senator had breasts, two of them.
News at eleven.
Now we're being treated to a psychodrama titled The Candidate Has Crows Feet.
Now let me stipulate that the photo was not one that she'd put on Match.com.
She goes on to describe Hillary's some self-deprecating humorous comments she tried to make.
The now infamous photo ended up on the Drudge Report with a caption reading The Toll of a Campaign.
Rush then picked up the old bat, I mean baton, and ran off at the mouth with it.
The Svelten charming 56-year-old talkmeister framed his words about the 60-year-old Clinton who is getting older before our eyes on a daily basis as a cultural comment.
He bemoans the reality of a country addicted to physical perfection.
He cited the laments of aging actresses.
He oozed special sympathy to women since older men look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished.
Do you believe that this was a pro-woman rant?
Then you also believe that Limbaugh's routine about Hillary Clinton's testicle lockbox is a paying to female leadership quality.
A peon, I should say.
Look at what we're getting out.
Look at what it upsets them so much because it's true.
It's what I said it's what I said to you.
What I said the other day, people, there's certain truths just not supposed to utter.
You know, and people don't want this.
Some people don't want to be confronted with truth.
There's a lot of unfairness out there.
We can talk about some unfairness, but we can't talk about others.
Hey, Snerdley, if you think this is good, so in one Boston Globe column, uh we got Feminazi, we got Testigo Lock Bucks, uh, and and we've got uh the other things that uh that I said during the monologue.
Cindy Adams.
I was at a cocktail party on Tuesday night at Georgia Mossback's, uh, and tons of people there.
Cindy Adams of the New York Post was there.
Uh and uh she you know, we ran into each other in the uh in the big living room at Georget's place, and she asked me about the campaign.
I said, Well, I don't understand this fear of Hillary everybody has.
Uh she puts her pants on one leg at a time like every other guy.
And that and Cindy Adams printed that today, snarly.
So I for the drive-by's as I say, it's it's just it's my world, you just live in it.
Four days, four days, and this was purposefully done, ladies and gentlemen.
In back back now to uh back now to Ellen Goodwin.
Meanwhile, it's become retro, maybe even feminazi, to notice the teensiest whiff of sexism.
Hillary was accused of playing the gender card for merely mentioning that presidential politics was an all-boys' club.
So when Limbaugh talks about the older women uh as a kind of Dorianic Gray, we are required to acknowledge the talk of John Edwards' hair and Barack Obama's swimsuit, not to mention the grimacing Giuliani and the robotic Romney.
Well, we do notice what both genders are wearing, but we've not yet passed the equal right to be scrutinized amendment.
Haggard still comes from the word old hag, which comes from which, which rhymes with you know what?
If from look at all the look at all that Ellen Goodman is assigning to me.
See, I'm this dastardly manipulator out there knowing exactly what I'm doing.
Because, see, in their world, what I'm doing, I want Hillary.
I want Hill, this is the Democrats.
I want Hillary in a White House for four years or eight years to really make my show good.
And so they think that I know that the way to get Hillary elected nominated is to make fun of her or to criticize her, thereby creating sympathy, and people who otherwise would not vote for her will do so just to spite me.
That's what they think my diabolical scheme is.
When I have no diabolical scheme, I don't scheme.
I tell the truth here.
I'm an open book.
Shows on for 15 hours a week.
You don't have to make up conspiracies about what happens here.
In phase one of this campaign, Hillary was the experienced candidate.
No gender need apply.
In the last tense stretch to the first primaries, the headlines tell us she's being humanized, which is a political seminar synonym for feminized.
When Hillary campaigns with her family, the media sometimes react as if she found Dorothy Rodham at Retamom.
So it appears, and it bears repeating, that women still have to negotiate the scilla and sharp of political life.
If you're seen as an authority figure, you aren't seen as womanly.
If you're seen as womanly, you aren't seen as an authority figure.
By the time you tack through the narrow channel, you have wrinkles.
And then she challenges what is it?
Let's see.
Uh what a business this is.
Come to think of it, maybe I prefer that bathing suit photo op.
Only Rush old buddy, you go first.
Uh Ella, I love it, it's a funny piece.
It's really well crafted.
This is not a written piece.
This is well crafted.
It really is.
I gotta give you credit.
But it's not about me wearing a bathing suit.
Not about me claiming there is or is not a double standard.
It is what it is.
It's what I said.
They cause it's me.
They won't, they won't address the premise that is a cultural thing going on in the country.
Even because I said it first, snurdly.
It's like it's like I advised a chant the Channel 2 reporter the other day.
Get a crew, go out on the streets of New York and tell random people on the street, Rush Limbaugh says the sky's blue, and see what they say.
They'll probably say, well, maybe somebody's an idiot.
Well, what does he know?
Why should we care what he thinks?
If I say it, they have to dispute it.
Now, Maureen Dowd and some others have understood, and they uh they and the gals on the view got it right.
Now, if you think that's funny, listen to this little blurb here from uh, what is it?
This from some Australian uh newspaper, news.com.au.
As Australians slack off ahead of Christmas, stories from the U.S. dominated a top ten this week, right wing shock juck, Rush Limbaugh launched a tirade over a particularly unflattering photo of Hillary Clinton, Limbaugh former painkiller addict, staunch supporter of the tobacco industry, who said the troops involved in torture, who grab were just having a good time.
And that it's no different to what Madonna or Brittany do on stage.
Yep, that guy.
Anyway, using this one bad photo, Limbaugh asked whether America wanted to watch a woman grow old before their eyes, because men, of course, don't age.
They just become distinguished, said the balding and overweight limb.
These people do not know how much I enjoy this.
If we're going to use every silly photo that's ever taken, personally, she writes, my face looks like it's melting if I'm photographed talking.
Then why not use this one?
And it's a picture that I didn't bother linking to.
I want to say that this woman's a Nazi sympathizer.
While you're here, check out this cool thing we've put together using George Clooney and Adam Sanders.
She goes on to the next topic in her uh in her little column.
And then audio sound bites.
This was last night on Inside Edition.
This is the program hosted by Deborah Norville.
Here is a portion of the reporter's report.
Uh Les Trent is his name.
This picture of Hillary Clinton is causing a furor.
It inspired this unflattering comment by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
So the question is this will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.
But the photographer who took the picture says Mrs. Clinton looks radiant in other shots taken just moments later.
And then this this morning on the uh Fox News channel, Fox and Friends.
Uh they're discussing all this.
Steve Deucey and Gretchen Carlson, along with Brian Kilmead.
Matt Drudge on the Drudge Report put this picture right here of Hillary Clinton.
And the headline said, Toll of a campaign.
Uh that same day, Rush Limbaugh on his wily successful radio show was talking about.
He said, Quote, will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
He said, Men aging makes them look more authoritative.
Accomplished and distinguished.
I disagree.
Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.
I I think the same thing could be said for a lot of the candidates for president who are of the male persuasion.
Some of them are looking pretty old to me.
Right.
But are we willing to say, okay, that guy is old and distinguished?
Or we try to look at this woman and say she's too old.
So I think there are a lot of stereotypes uh that any woman would face running for president.
It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on politically.
I mean, I think we talk in general more about what Hillary wears.
We talk in general more about how she looks.
And the same thing could be said for any woman in any profession.
I think that's just the way that we are.
Right.
Right.
She's disagreed with me while agreeing with my premise.
Back, ladies and gentlemen, right after this, this a brand new episode of the Rush Limbaugh program sit tight.
Well, as if poor Mrs. Clinton didn't have enough to worry about, folks.
Uh her youngest sibling, it turns out, uh Anthony Rodham, uh, I think known as Tony, uh, is a deadbeat dad, owes tens of thousands of dollars in child support to his politically connected ex-wife.
His ex-wife is a daughter of Barbara Boxer.
This is a White House wedding.
In a disclosure that could prove embarrassing for his sister, Tony Rodham has stiffed his former wife Nicole Boxer out of $75,000 in child support as well as $55,000 in alimony.
A source close to the case said.
That's Barbara Boxer's daughter.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh Nicole Boxer's lawyer couldn't be reached.
I wonder uh what the relationship between Hillary and Barbara Boxer is like.
But this is so this is so easily soluble.
The Clintons are very rich.
They tell us all the time, uh, why don't they pay this for Tony?
End it.
I mean, this is child support in alimony.
There are children here.
And Mrs. Clinton has fought 35 years for children.
And her brother has begotten children who are not being supported by him.
Oh.
We'll probably get a tax increase so that we'll all end up supporting this kid, but it's time for the Clintons to step up here.
Josh in uh Selena, Ohio.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Ditto from the Buckeye State.
Thank you.
Um it's a pleasure to talk to you.
Um, I just was curious to what your thought is on the issue of the the budget and that there has not been this outrage from the mainstream media.
I mean, if it was a Republican Congress doing this, it would be the top story on on all these networks.
Well, I've hardly seen anything about it.
That's your answer.
It's a Democrat Congress.
And the drive the drive-by is all for these kind of big budgets when Democrats are behind them.
They're all for all these earmarks.
They're all for all of these things.
They're, you know, liberals believe in the growth of government.
And uh so this is this is actually standard operating procedure.
They're not, they're not uh the Democrats really uh I I think as far as the press is concerned, actually trying to protect them.
The Democrats haven't gotten anything done.
The Democrats have been demonstrable failures.
They have not succeeded at any of their primary promises or initiatives legislatively, in either the House or the Senate.
And this this budget with 11,000 earmarks, and most of them are Democrat earmarks.
Uh I think they're just giving the Democrats cover because remember in the 2006 election, one of the things that was credited to the Democrats winning it was Republicans have become corrupt.
Well, there's been no change.
It's just that the Democrats are running the place now, and the corruption is the same as it was, and the earmarks are larger than ever and more numerous than ever.
So I think this is just cover.
Um and besides the presidential campaign provides uh the narrative and the template these days.
Um it's just it's it all makes sense when you understand who the drive-by's are and what their agenda is.
Absolutely.
I'm glad you called Josh.
Thanks much.
Uh York, Pennsylvania.
This is Mark.
Hello, sir.
Merry Christmas Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Same to you.
Uh Rush, my question is uh you had stated originally that you don't support people in a primary candidate, but and you also stated that you're gonna vote Republican no matter who to candidate.
And you also said that after the CNN YouTube debate that Fred Thompson was the only conservative candidate.
And I'm kind of curious as why you wouldn't endorse Fred Thompson being he's the only conservative candidate so far that shown any hope.
Well, you you you answered it uh yourself, and that is that I I do not get involved in primaries, either presidential or congressional, unless it's a two-man race and the choice for me is obvious.
Okay, because I mean I did say that about Thompson.
I did say that about Thompson.
What I actually said was after the YouTube debate, I said it hit me when I'm when I'm watching all this that Fred Thompson was the one guy on the stage whose past governance service as a senator does not feature a bunch of liberalism or moderate moves or policies, legislation or beliefs.
It it it was it was uh it was clearly uh striking to me.
But I also praised Romney after his uh his religion speech and the founding of the country and the relationship between those two things.
Uh but Romney, didn't Romney after that at one debate say he uh the last debate said he w he was in favor of expanding entitlement, which is anything but conservative.
Uh yeah, that that's why I haven't endorsed anybody.
I'm waiting for us all I how I don't know how else I can I realize that there are a lot of you out there.
You got your candidate.
And you think that if I got behind your candidate, put him over the top, and you might be right.
Uh but I just I've at this at this point um it's just it's just an age-old belief that I have, and I remain true to my beliefs and principles.
Now, somebody some people have written me and say, I hear you say this, but you're full of it.
What about 19 what about 2000?
With Bush and McCain in South Carolina, it's a special circumstance in a two-man race, and what was happening in South Carolina.
McCain was going so far off the conservative reservation.
So far off of it, uh that it it was it was necessary to uh to step in.
Huckabee's getting close.
I'm not gonna have to tell you.
Huckabee's getting close to the same stuff.
Huckabee is using his his devout Christianity to mask some other things that are just distinctively not conservative.
He is against free trade.
He's a he he really doesn't believe in free markets to uh here.
Well, let me read what George Will wrote today.
This is when I go along with a DC New York axis.
But I just want to read from George Will's column of paragraph today.
Uh Huckabee's campaign, actually, is what Rudy Giuliani's candidacy is misdescribed as being.
A comprehensive apostasy against core Republican beliefs.
Giuliani departs from recent Republican stances on two issues abortion and a recognition by the law of same-sex couples.
Huckabee's radical candidacy broadly repudiates core Republican policies like free trade, low taxes, the essential legitimacy of America's corporate entities, and the market system allocating wealth and opportunity.
Consider New Hampshire's chapter of the National Education Association, the teachers' union.
That's a crucial component of the Democrat base.
In 2004, it endorsed Howard Dean in a Democrat primary, nobody in the Republican primary.
Last week, it endorsed Clinton in the Democrat primary and Huckabee in the Republican primary.
It likes Huckabee on education.
You know, there I don't I don't folks, folks, there's just there's no question there is a double standard on gender in our culture.
I mean, look at John Edwards has been accused of having a love child.
He's a guy.
Has anyone accused Mrs. Clinton of having a love child?
No.
Ergo, there is a double standard on gender.
Rest my case.
One presidential hopeful is a preacher.
This is the French news agency here.
One presidential hopeful is a preacher, another proudly Mormon, and most openly tout their Christianity in an arena where faith can make or break a politician.
The one in ten Americans who profess no religion feel left in the cold.
Darren Shercat, atheist sociology professor specializing in religion, at Southern Illinois University said they're very disconcerted.
They're horrified.
The atheists are, by both the Democrat and Republican rhetoric surrounding religion.
People who are not religious are immoral, that they're not qualified to serve in public office.
Who the hell's been saying that?
Who said it?
Nobody said it.
You atheists need to lighten up out there.
You get this persecution complex.
I mean, you d you think you're being accused of things, and you're not.
Ian Thomas, 25, got involved in political campaigning as a student, and in 2005 ran for a place on the screw board in his local district in Pennsylvania.
Days before the vote, a county council member emailed local community groups disparaging Thomas for having an atheist bumper sticker on his car and for writing a letter about atheism in a local newspaper.
They're entitled Their Beliefs in Free Speech, but it doesn't make a sound foundation for elected officials who make our laws to promote an atheist that we know anything about.
Read the ungrammatical email known to or shown to the French news agency.
Thomas said I was very, very insulted.
You know, um you atheists, you get plenty of places you can go.
Go go the church of global warming.
They'll take you, and you feel better, and then you'll you'll you won't feel so ostracized.
I don't know of any presidential candidates out there.
Uh saying atheists shouldn't serve.
Uh, you know, this next story is amazing.
It's from the Arizona Republic.
It's a common scene this time of year.
Streams of overloaded cars, pickups, and vans with U.S. license plates crossing into Mexico for the holidays.
Most are filled with Hispanic familias from Arizona and other states on their way to visit relatives south of the border for a few weeks before heading back to the U.S. But this year the holiday travelers are being joined by scores of families such as Jorge and Liliano Franco, who are driving to Mexico, not to visit, but to stay permanently.
Congress's failure to pass comprehensive amnesty, immigration crackdowns, and Arizona's new employer sanctions law and a sluggish economy have combined to create a climate.
Families such as the Francos no longer find hospitable.
The number returning to Mexico, difficult to calculate, but there is no question that many families are leaving, according to Mexican government officials, local community leaders, and immigrants themselves.
Jorge said minutes after driving into a Mexican immigration and customs checkpoint.
Um situation in Arizona has become very tough.
Well, isn't this isn't this amazing?
So the crackdown has illegal immigrants leaving Arizona.
Looky what happens when the laws are enforced.
Why, who would have thought it?
We don't need comprehensive immigration reform.
We just need laws on the books being enforced.
This is Brian in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hello, Brian, and welcome to the program.
Raleigh, uh Russ, it's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Well, thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
We love you here and Raleigh.
Just I I still believe that Hillary is inevitable to be nominated, and just wanted to pick your brain to see if who you believe would be her choice for VP if she has already burned Obama's bridge or you're not gonna choose Obama and Obama wouldn't take it.
You know, whoever she chooses is gonna have to and is gonna have to recognize and accept the fact that he's a doormat.
Do you realize who her husband is?
Yes.
Bill Clinton, a name ringabell, with Hillary as president and Bill in the do you think the vice president will even be given an office?
Who I'm telling I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm only halfway joking on this.
If Hillary is elected president, the vice president's gonna be the biggest doormat in the history of vice presidents.
Because Bill's gonna be there, and this guy's gonna have to know it.
He's gonna have to take the gig for the resume enhancement, likes to travel to funerals and all the other ceremonial things, but that's it.
I've heard names bandied about, but uh I frankly don't interest me at this point.
I'm not willing to concede that she's going to win.
Uh but you've got names being thrown around like Evan Bye of Indiana.
Richardson is actively campaigning to be VEP.
I mean, that's what he's doing.
So I don't know.
I I don't even know if uh I don't know how far down the path they are on even getting serious about this.
I'm sure they got staffers vetting people um investigating and and uh and that sort of thing.
But really, this this this I'm gonna re- I want to reiterate a point that I made earlier this week.
You know, with Bill Clinton all over the place out there, this is actually a referendum, these early primaries on him.
He is actually the one running uh for a third term while his name not on the ballot.
We all know, well, you should know, Mrs. Clinton cannot win this by herself.
It's they that they've tacitly admitted it by bringing Clinton out and making him front and center.
And they don't care.
Their quest is power.
They don't care how they get back in there, doesn't matter to them.
There's no ego involved here in that sense.
I mean, Mrs. Clinton, despite what you might think, is not running around all jealous and worried that Bill's stealing or thunder.
Doesn't matter.
Getting getting there is the objective, how they get there is irrelevant.
If they have to use Bill to get people to think they're voting for him when they vote for Hillary, then that's what they're gonna do, and that's what they are doing.
Especially in Iowa and probably in New Hampshire, too.
Mike, in uh Leto, Ohio.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Yes, uh first, let me say thank you very much for taking my call.
I agree with you on two things.
One, women grow old and men mature.
Two, there is no senior women's golf tournament.
There is no league.
You know, I just that's it.
I have nothing else to say.
But I think uh Hillary Hillary is in the same boat.
Okay.
All right.
For those of you that might not have heard that, let me translate it.
He's agreeing with me.
Men mature, women grow old.
There is no senior LPGA tour.
Why?
Because it'd be on TV.
And that's enough.
You fill in the blanks.
Mike, thanks for helping out, buddy.
I appreciate all the assistance I can get here.
John and Aurora, Illinois, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
Uh I was uh hoping that I might make a wager with you, and to be fair, it would based on income.
So I'm saying the economy is going to have a major recession to a depression, but then the next two to three years.
And I base that belief on uh the housing market.
I a case where people are kept out with equity, they've been living the good life, and now that stick it is shut up.
Now they're turning to credit cards, and they're soaring through the roof on default.
And uh I think it's just a matter of time before the house of cards collapse.
What do you think?
Nope.
Don't think it's gonna have been hearing things like this my whole life.
I've been hearing the national debt's gonna wipe us out.
I've been hearing the annual deficits are gonna wipe us out.
I've been hearing that credit card debt, and if people don't save enough money is going to wipe us out.
Keep hearing that social security is gonna wipe us out in thirty years unless we reform it.
Um I I think the country is built on far more than a uh than a house of cards.
Uh and I would not enter into a wager uh like this publicly uh because I choose not to violate federal gambling laws.
Um what were you willing to put on the line for this?
Uh I was gonna put my five hundred dollars.
Five hundred dollars.
Well, look at you may if if if if you're right, you can't afford to lose five hundred dollars.
Well, but I think that uh the money I'd win from you would be well worth it.
Well, d yeah uh who you do you think a uh uh uh president can stop this slide that's imminent?
No, Rush, and I and I think the housing market this time is something like the country's never never soared so high in the history since they started keeping numbers.
It only happened, they can't compare it to any uh time in history except Japan, where it happened in nineteen eighty-four.
And theirs is still coming down.
Well, uh You know, I'm I'm amazed uh that that the people can take the news of the day like this.
So I think you're being helped along by the uh the context and the attitude in which all of this is is reported.
Uh the doom and gloom.
For example, you make it sound like everybody who owns a house is gonna go bust because they're gonna lose their equity in it.
They're gonna turn into credit cards and they're gonna get cut off from those who were in the upper creek.
Ninety-four percent of mortgage holders are making payments on time.
Ninety-four percent.
Now that may be better if it were ninety-eight, but the point is it's not fifty.
It's not sixty, it's ninety-four percent.
So the roots of the so-called housing crisis uh are uh I don't think they're that deep, and then certainly it's not as bad as it's being portrayed.
Most of the people who pay no attention other than scant attention, day-to-day reports on the housing market.
Don't forget this housing market, the the media was hoping for this bubble for the last two years.
They kept talking, the bubble's gonna burst.
It's gonna burst in a housing market.
Okay, so they've had a little burst here in the bubble.
See, and they've set the table for this.
Two years of praying and hoping, just like they're hoping and praying for a recession now.
Uh it's irresponsible, especially with the GDP number that came out today, four point nine percent.
Like I said earlier, if the media were a drug company that had been put out of business long ago for all the damage they're doing and for how incorrect and wrong and poorly they're doing their jobs.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go anywhere.
Now, this is a heartwarming story.
It's Christmas time at Camp Taj in Iraq.
And Army Staff Sergeant Jaron D'Atley looks traumatized, but none by the war outside the camp or the holidays away from home.
It's only 9 a.m.
And the mail warehouse already is called.
Come get the mail, said the Adley, who's from Fleming County, Kentucky.
Those calls have been coming earlier and more emphatically lately.
The Daily Mail pickup by Battery Becond Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, a National Guard unit from Carlisle, Kentucky, easily fills the bed of a Chevy Silverado, sometimes twice.
With the holidays approaching, the volume of mail headed to service members in Iraq has skyrocketed in one twenty-four-hour period last week.
788,000 pounds of mail came into Iraq.
Compare that with a 24-hour period in July when soldiers received a mere 294,000 pounds for the uh two one thirty-eight, the sheer volume, X boxes, iPods from family, treats and cards, some well-wishers they've never met, prompts them to deny adamantly that they need anything.
Once after the unit arrived in August, some soldiers mused that they'd like soft toilet paper and a bag of Werter's originals.
They receive crates of fluffy rolls and 40 bags of hard caramel candy.
Uh the holidays are bringing an avalanche of mail for the troops.
But how can this be?
Like I thought I thought the American people hated the war.
I thought the American people hated our troops.
They hated the war, at least.
That's what Harry Reed and Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi keep telling us.
The Americans are totally against this.
Uh Stan in Elizabethtown, Tennessee.
Uh, or is it Elizabeth Ton?
It is Elizabeth and Rush.
I just wanted to uh call you and thank you for making my wife's Christmas shopping so easy.
In 31 years of marriage, I can only remember one Christmas present I get.
And that's Rush 24-7.
My wife and kids fight over who gets to give it.
And I'll tell you what, ladies out there, you know how you feel about diamonds.
Now you know how we feel about Rush.
Your old man, give them that.
It's the one thing that all year long, all year long.
I got stuff I can't I can't remember what I got you last year.
I can't remember what I got two years ago.
But I know that it is the gift that does keep on giving.
So every time you put on them diamonds, ladies, think about your old man.
Give him Rush 24-7, and I guarantee you throughout the year he's gonna tell you thanks.
That's all there is to it.
You know, this is this is it's very sweet of you to say that.
It's very nice.
I gotta tell you, but you embarrass me.
But you give me embarrassed once in a while.
I have to work on it.
Well, I you know, I don't I don't I don't we talk about Rush 24-7 during the commercial aspects of the program during uh commercial breaks, but I don't spend a lot of time uh no offense to Huckabee people.
I don't spend a lot of time huckstering it.
Yeah.
Uh because I like to devote time to the issues and so forth.
I mention it now and then.
The same thing with my newsletter.
I just have this, I don't know, just this little block about saying, hey, folks, I've got this great website newsletter, and you should buy it.
I just feel like let me tell him.
Let me tell him.
It's the truth.
I can go in anytime I want, and I can pick up what happened earlier that day anytime I want.
When I need to get my feet rooted back again in reality, I can do it when I want.
But as I do, I remember who gave it to me.
Well, it's not just that.
I mean, don't stop there.
Now you're on a roll.
We've got archives, we've got the essential stack of stuff.
There's video of the morning update.
There's streaming video via the Ditto Cam here in the studio of the radio show each and every day.
There are podcasts.
The uh all five shows of uh the previous four shows are tabbed.
You can go back easily, and there's a search feature.
It's it's an encyclopedia.
This website is an encyclopedia of knowledge unrivaled.
Yep.
Yep.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh, thank you, Stan.
I uh Merry Christmas.
Same same to you.
That's a good point.
Mamon, do you remember what you got for Christmas last year?
Uh Snerdley, you remember what you got for Christmas last year?
He says he does.
How about you, Don?
Do you remember what you got for Christmas?
Don Dawson does that very sweet.
Well, that's uh some people probably do forget.
Here's uh here's Luann in Salt Lake City.
Oops.
You know, Luann, uh, I wasn't looking at a clock when I can I can you hold on to it, because I've only got like 20 seconds, and that's not fair.
You can't say what you want in 20 seconds.
Thank you very much.
I'll be glad to.
Say it in 20 seconds, which are now 15, or hold on.
Oh, I want to hold on.
Uh figured that.
Okay, well, you hold, we'll have a brief timeout and come back right after this.
Well, we have one hour to go.
One hour remaining of broadcast excellence from this trip to the EIB building here in Midtown Manhattan.
And we'll be back at the Southern Command back in Florida tomorrow to wrap up the uh the week.
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