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Dec. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
You are tuned to the nation's most listen to radio program.
You are listening to a program said by many to be the most influential radio program in America.
And quite simply, you are listening to the best radio program in America on Friday.
Let's live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
You are so egotistical, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's if you're insufferable.
He just brags all the time.
Open line Friday, phone number 800-282-2882, and the new email address, El Rushbow.
That's L Rushbow.
Some people have been writing Il Rush Mo, and it's, of course, being returned.
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And when we go to the phones, the program's all yours.
You can talk about whatever you want, since it is open line Friday.
It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our addictive culture, culture addictive to perfection.
And where I ask the salient question will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes.
The uh coverage has now reached Bangkok.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Ellen Wolfhorst writing in the uh what is it the uh uh uh Bangkok uh Well, it's it's a Bangkok news, the Bangkok Post.
Uh Hillary Clinton, not only battling for the U.S. presidency, but as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed she is also combating female stereotypes, still prevalent in the U.S. Influential talk show host Rush Limbaugh, noting his country was obsessed with appearances, exposed the old prejudices when he launched a salvo at Mrs. Clinton, referring to an unflattering photograph of a hackered wrinkled.
I did not describe the photo that way.
I didn't.
They are.
I didn't use the word haggard and wrinkled.
I just referenced, I didn't even describe the photo.
Mr. Limbaugh questioned whether America would want to see a woman age, as presidents tend to do while serving in the White House.
They go on a quote some of the uh things I said.
They go out and talk to all these experts.
Um Kathleen Dolan, political science professor, University of Wisconsin, author of voting for women, how the public evaluates women candidates says, Well, we you know, we've come a long way.
We've come far enough that it's okay for Hillary to run for president, but we've not come far enough for it to be okay for her to run as a creature without gender.
She's still a woman running for president, brings all that baggage about stereotypes and image and attractiveness.
I think she's responsible for that, folks.
And then um remarks such as Mr. Limbaugh's have little influence among voters, said Susan Carroll, political scientist at Rutgers uh University.
People who support Hillary Clinton will continue to support her, and I don't think a few wrinkles will scare them off.
And people who listen to Rush Limbaugh by and large are not Hillary Clinton supporters.
Uh, this uh ladies and gentlemen is uh not entirely true, as Tom Dashell told us after the 2002 midterms.
It continued on television last night on the Fox News channel on the O'Reilly factor.
He had on Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall.
Um, to talk about the controversy, his question.
Bernie, everybody in the world, including you and Jane, you've been photographed.
Me, of course, in an unflattering light.
Is it legitimate for the press to use something like this?
If they're using it in order to make her look bad, no, it's not legitimate.
It's out there for two reasons, Bill.
Rush Limbaugh made it an issue, and the liberal media hate Rush Limbaugh, so they picked up on it.
And because this is one of those subjects that makes some people feel uncomfortable.
It's not fair.
It's not fair that women who are getting older are looked upon one way, but men who are getting older are looked upon in a much better way.
Well, you know what?
It may not be fair.
A lot of things are unfair.
Bernie's got it right.
That was the point of the monologue.
Did you hear the monologue, Rachel?
You heard it.
All right, that was the point of the monologue.
And somehow my sincerity is now being questioned.
Can you believe that?
My Ill Rushbow's sincerity about really being concerned of this unfairness is being questioned.
Next, O'Reilly said, Jane Hall, this this uh this should go right up your wheelhouse here.
Hillary Clinton's running on experience.
We want experience, but we don't want wrinkles in a woman running for president.
It's a double standard.
Rush Limbaugh said, do we really want to see a woman age as the leader of this country day to day?
Maureen Dowd said, when you want to go after a woman and you don't like what she stands for, call her a hag.
I think the media are deciding that Hillary Clinton's campaign is in trouble, and this becomes one of those things that people who don't agree with her put out there and say she's looking old and tight.
I think it was mean-spirited.
Okay, so O'Reilly thinks that it was uh it was mean-spirited.
Uh so uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh its story continues to survive and thrive uh out there and will continue to do so, no doubt.
Um, because it, you know, as I said yesterday, I can play these people like a stratavarius.
I can straight play them like a violin.
I know what's gonna tick them off.
I know what they're gonna focus on.
And so we've been in control of the news cycle on this for five days.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, her husband's out there saying that she is a world-class genius.
Let me ask some questions about this.
As I was mentioned in the first hour when discussing the Huckabee campaign, one of the things I like to do here is ask questions.
Um world-class geniuses have forced uncomfortable laughs when asked simple questions about their area of expertise.
Do they have other people handle complex investment schemes like cattle futures?
Are world-class geniuses the last people on the planet to realize that their spouses are world-class philanderers.
And in terms of helping people, I just I've been fighting for people for 35 years.
I've been fighting for children for 35 years.
Whose philosophy is she borrowing?
She's borrowing the philosophy of Karl Marx, another alleged world-class genius.
Her so her solution to correcting free markets is to nationalize them.
By the way, I finally saw that commercial.
I saw the whole thing, and we played like 13 seconds of the sound bite from it.
Uh and just the from the sound, it sounds like she's making fun of her.
She's not that commercial.
She is telling everybody right up front what she's gonna do.
She's gonna give universal this.
She's reaching into grabbing little things out of her Christmas basket there to distribute to people, and they're all big-time government programs.
It's it was not an attempt to be funny.
Uh world-class genius to impose government control.
She would seize the profits of oil companies, she would socialize medicine.
She would not bring uh choice to a failing state-run education system.
In fact, she would expand the failing system by imposing it on preschoolers.
That's what the TV commercial was about.
Universal pre-K.
And she apparently believes our soon-to-be bankrupt social security shell game is one tax increase away from being fixed.
Uh Carl Marx, another alleged genius, has proven to be a world-class failure when it comes to helping people.
His ideas have brought misery.
His ideas brought financial ruin and a significant loss of liberty and loss of life to hundreds of millions of people.
And yet, Mrs. Clinton's a world-class genius emulating this.
She doesn't understand the flaw in this philosophy and the genius.
You want to talk about genius?
Founding fathers.
If President Clinton were uh honest, I mean, he would give a lengthy speech on why Hillary is a world-class pain in the butt.
Uh if if Hillary was as great as Bill's been saying, why not spend more time with her?
Why not spend the night together every now and then?
Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen from all of us, the EIB network and Il Rushbow.
Back after this.
Merry Christmas once again from all of us here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute.
Here's another question for you.
Is America ready to watch an aging Bill Clinton running around with 18 and 19-year-old interns in a third term where he has actually not been on the ballot?
I want to reiterate what I think is going on with this campaign.
I don't think any of this stuff is accidental.
Clinton out there on the stump and trying to take all the attention away from uh from Hillary.
They know she can't get elected on her own.
And she's got to have him out there.
And this is really a referendum on him.
He wants it to be a referendum on him for his legacy for everything else.
He wants to be essentially the reason she is elected.
That will validate him and his mind, a lot of other people's minds, and gets a third term without it having officially been one.
And of course, do we want as America to see an aging Bill Clinton with the Washington Post continuing to write stories about the power crackling from his genes?
As they did during his first term.
Back to the phones to Bozeman, Montana.
This is Greg, you're up first in this hour.
Nice to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Mary.
Make a Christmas.
Thank you.
Hey, uh, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.
You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching.
Why?
Well, I don't know.
All my people are Ann Coulter, New Piggy Noon, and all these people are uh I don't know, they don't they don't like him, and I don't know.
I mean, I'm all the stuff's starting to come out against me.
I'm starting to make me nervous.
Well, that's what you know, that's what campaigns are for.
You know, examining people's positions on things.
Uh but I would make up your own mind.
I I wouldn't I wouldn't listen to influential figures to shape and form your mind for you.
I mean, it might send you in a direction that your curiosity would take you, but um I I think maybe some people that you think you respect were not on board when you were caused you to actually start looking, and that's why you know what some of these positions are that you now think, well, I didn't know that, right?
Right.
I think some of it is like the the last campaign where where everybody bailed out on Howard Dean because they thought he was well, I mean he was kooky, but they thought he was uh unelectable.
And I'm just I don't want to do that.
I mean, I don't want to I don't want to just jump to somebody that I think can win.
It isn't necessarily line up with what I believe.
Well, when is the Montana primary?
I don't think it's till March.
Got a little time.
Yeah, you got a little time to figure it out.
Right.
Uh the Republican side, it may this this it may not it may not shake out in February.
This this is so bundled up there that you know that this this this could go way deep into the primary season and perhaps uh even to the convention.
There are some political professionals speculating that that could happen.
Once again, nobody knows.
Um I I can I still, you know, I'm not necessarily saying history repeats itself all the time, but uh Howard Dean, 2004, I mean, clear front when nobody was even close going into the Hawkeye Calc eye.
And then when people actually caught eyed and they came out of there, Dean was nowhere near the top where the polls had put him and so forth.
And it was then that the Democrats sort of happily got rid of the guy and said, ooh, John Kerry, he, the haughty John Kerry came out of nowhere.
Uh he's electable, and they really got behind him without knowing what he was all about.
Uh I I forgive if Snerdley is saying you conveniently vowed that I destroyed Howard Dean's campaign.
I've forgotten it.
I don't remember what I said about the Dean campaign.
I I I don't know that I've got the ability to affect a Democrat campaign.
I really don't know.
Those those look at Snerdly, it it's like it's like this guy.
This was the funniest thing.
I hate to keep referring to this, but it's fun.
On Tuesday, Scott Rappaport from Channel 2 in New York went out on the streets in Manhattan and played people some video and audio of what I'd said about Mrs. Clinton aging and so forth.
Uh and these people, oh, he's an idiot!
Whoa, just because I had said it, they were gonna reject it.
That's why I told the guy, go out there with a camera crew.
Later, he has not taken me up on this, but it would be a fabulous report.
I said, go out there with a camera crew and just tell people, just random people on the street.
Rush Limbaugh said sky's blue.
Well, it may be, but who's he to say?
Well, it may be, but I don't, he's an idiot.
What's that got to do with it?
Why are you telling me you just because I say it to people on the left, they will reject it, or they will they will they will they will cast it aside.
Do you really think that the comments here that that we're making on Hillary and Bill are going to affect Clinton voters in Iowa?
I uh I'd be stunned.
Let me stun.
These Yeah, but yeah, I know the driver's license and illegally, but remember Tim Russert brought that up.
You know, I started it, put the thing in play, but it was Russ that brought up, and she was the one that stumbled in the debate while everybody to see.
It wasn't that I told them that she had stumbled.
If I had told them she had stumbled when uh when they didn't seen it, well he hates a Clinton's anyway.
He said, Oh, never gonna say anything good about him.
And they would have rejected it.
So uh but the the income or the outcome rather is is is is not important.
Sharing the ideas uh with you on on our side of things is what's uh important to me.
George, South Windsor, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush, you know, I'm totally upset.
Every single time people take a shot at you and say that your content is entertaining and it's all about entertainment, and it's Washington speak.
It's one thing to insult you, but then that insults me because I spent three hours a day listening to you, and so it insults my intelligence that I'm wasting my time listening to entertainment and listening to Washington speak.
I listened to you because I want something different.
I want the facts.
And you're only one vote, Rush.
But the millions of listeners are millions of votes, and I think Huckabee made a big mistake by either you know acknowledging this or not, or sending someone out to say what he said because what you say does matter to not just you, but millions of people.
And I'm tired of always having to defend you because of people like like at Huckabee's camp that have taken a shot and say, Oh, yeah, your content is just entertainment, and it's the same Washington speak.
It's not, it's different.
And that's why I listened to you, and I think he made a big huge mistake in this.
You know, you've you have made an excellent point about something, Hen.
Uh uh here, and and it's this.
The one thing uh that I'm not sure that the critics that you're talking about are just any of the critics who out there label me an entertainer or whatever else.
I I think a lot of it is that they can't and don't want to debate ideas, so it's it's it's it's a typical discredit uh strategy in the in your eyes.
What they're trying to do is discredit me in your eyes.
What they don't get, uh, and it's stunning to me, what they don't get, because these are people out trying to get votes.
How do you get votes?
You connect with people.
You connect with them in a personal way.
That's what's happened on this program.
All of you in this audience and me were like one big happy family.
And whenever I get the same, you know, if what when you people in the audience are insulted as my numb robots, I take that personally too, just as you take it personally when they come after me.
They don't understand they can't break this connection.
And you know why?
Because they had nothing to do with making it.
Uh one of the things I love to say is that drive-by media did not make this show, and so they can't tear it down.
Uh one of the one of the things I always marvel at is public figures who rely on the media to make them big by spreading spin or buzz or PR.
Because when you rely on anybody else to establish your bona fides and your character and so forth, they can also destroy it.
But if they don't, if they have nothing to do with making somebody and establishing a connection that that person has with their audience, they can't destroy it.
And yet that's what they're trying to do because they do not understand it.
The the level of ignorance that exists throughout the country uh from critics of this program who just don't seem to understand how and why it works after 19 and a half years is a um is a mind blower.
Uh I'm I'm reminded what I did with Howard did I I endorsed Howard Dean.
Is that what I did?
In the um in the I endorsed Howard Dean in the uh in the Hawkeye Calcai.
And uh that that's that's what killed him with Democrats.
I'd forgotten.
I'd forgotten.
I endorsed Clinton, too, in ninety-two for twenty minutes and then denied it for the next hour and a half.
Um let's see.
Uh well, I don't know, but I was trying to illustrate another thing there.
Clinton was out there lying every day about things he had done in his childhood all the way up to his present at the present time.
Uh and I I thought, well, I gotta illustrate this.
Illustrate rather than just you know, the guy just has trouble telling the truth.
That's not gonna make the impact.
So I thought I would pull to Clinton.
So I endorsed him.
And I was a very, very powerful flower endorsement.
And I took calls from people.
I can't believe what I just heard.
You just I said, No, I didn't.
I did not endorse Bill Clinton.
I heard you.
You do it.
You did it.
No, I didn't.
For an hour and a half I took calls from people claiming it had heard me endorse Clinton.
I denied it.
I said, well, even if I did, it was in my youth.
That was 20 minutes ago.
You can't hold me accountable for what happened 20 minutes ago.
It's my youth.
Trying to illustrate what Clinton was doing.
It was fun, but it didn't work.
I am vegging this week.
It's snurtly asking me what I'm going to do this week.
I'm going to play golf tomorrow and vegging.
But while I was in New York, I had uh handy AV guys come out and uh upgrade a direct TV system because they put the new satellite up there.
They've got like 75 or 80 HD channels up there now.
Uh and so I wanted to get them, so I had to switch out some receivers.
So I got home left.
I was all excited to see uh if it works.
I got home uh pretty late last night after dinner.
I guess I walked into the house at 1.30.
So I went into library, I checked some mail, and then I turned on the TV and I went through what some of the new satellite channels are.
And some of them came in and some of them didn't.
Some of the new HD channels, like Cinemax wasn't coming in, CNN wasn't coming in, which I care less about, but it's available I want to see it in HD, weather channel, some of these other things.
So I got hold of the AV guys, hey, what's going on?
They said, well, we we got a big problem here with uh it's a 5 LNB dish now to get all these HD channels, and uh there's a problem with satellite 99B on my dish.
The satellite is up is okay up there.
So I have we got a we got a multi-switch on the dish that feeds a distribution switch, and we think that's the problem.
So I'm they're they're over there working on it now, so I'm kind of eager to get home to see if they fix the multi-switch on the distribution switch so that 99B can get these HD channels to my new direct TV receivers.
So that's what I'm gonna be doing.
And I'm gonna veg.
Uh I've not true.
I'm vegging because I do need to recuperate, and I gotta go to Missouri over the weekend for uh a few hours for Christmas, and then uh come back.
I'm gonna I'm gonna do some more do some more vegging.
Because I mean it's recharge of batteries time.
I mean, get back here on January 2nd or third, whatever.
I don't know when am I coming back?
Third.
That's the day to Hawkeye Cawkeye.
You know, and in it back on the second.
Yeah, I thought it'd be back a day before the Hawkeye caucus.
January 2nd of coming back.
So um anyway, that's that's what I'm gonna be doing.
Uh I love, I got a couple medical stories here, folks.
Uh the seven great medical myths.
Reuters.
Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes.
You don't need eight glasses of water a day to still he stay healthy or lose weight.
Shaving your legs will not make the hair grow back faster.
These well-worn theories are among the medical myths, seven medical myths exposed in a paper published Friday in excuse me, the British Medical Journal, which uh traditionally carries lighthearted features in its Christmas edition.
Despite frequent mentions in the popular press, the need to drink eight glasses of water, scientists found no scientific basis for the claim, either to help you lose weight or just to be healthy.
The other six myths are reading in dim light ruins your eyesight.
The majority of eye experts believe it's unlikely to do any permanent damage, but it may make you squint or blink more and have trouble focusing.
But it won't ruin your eyesight.
Uh shaving makes hair grow back faster or coarser, has no effect on the thickness or the rate of hair regrowth, according to studies.
Uh eating turkey makes you drowsy is a myth.
Eating turkey does not make you drowsy.
Another myth, we only use 10% of our brains.
Those myths arose, or this one arose uh as early as 1907, but imaging shows that no area of the brain is silent or completely inactive.
You know how they figure that out.
I mean, you can really see it if you go get what's the thing?
It's it's not an MRI, it's a um pet.
You get a PET scan.
They can show you it's it's a thing they use to search uh cancer.
And you you they can light up the brain in any number of ways in that thing, and you can see that the whole thing uh has activity.
Uh hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
This is a myth.
It doesn't happen.
Uh mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals.
Myth.
Studies have found minimal interference with medical equipment.
Myth, but you still can't turn one on in there in in most hospitals.
They also left off another popular myth, and that is that exercise burns a lot of calories.
That exercise burns as many calories as we fought.
Get this.
New York Times.
Gina Collotta is the authorette.
The spinning class at our local gym was winding down.
People were wiping off their bikes, gathering their towels and water bottles, walking out the door when a woman shouted to the teacher, How many calories did we burn?
The instructor said about 900.
My husband and I rolled our eyes.
We looked around the room.
Most people had hardly broken a sweat.
I did a quick calculation in my head, we were cycling for 45 minutes.
Suppose someone was running, and the rule of thumb, a hundred calories a mile was correct.
To burn 900 calories, we would have had to work as hard as somebody who ran a five-minute mile for the entire distance of nine miles.
Exercise physiologists say there is little in the world of exercise as wildly exaggerated as people's estimates of the number of calories they burn.
I knew this.
I knew this instinctively before I read the story.
I knew this.
Despite the displays on machines at gyms with their precise looking calorie counts, and despite the official looking published charts of exercise and calories, it can be all but impossible to accurately estimate the number of calories you burn.
Now you can use your heart rate to gauge your effort, and from that you can plan routines that are as challenging as you want, but researchers say that heart rate does not translate easily into calories.
And you may be in for a rude surprise if you try to count the calories you think you use during exercise and then reward yourself with extra food.
There are so many myths out there.
just, they're all over the place.
Snerley has just asked a question, and the answer to this is so much common sense.
How much water do you need?
Drink when you're thirsty.
How much food do you need?
Eat when you're hungry.
Now most people eat when they're not hungry, too.
Uh I don't think you get, you know, you can't OD on water, but I mean, we're talking about what they say you need.
Well, you can OD on water if you're in a contest trying to see how long you can hold it without uh uh urinating.
But excuse me, but beyond that, drink when you're thirsty.
One of these myths is that drinking coffee or or pop, or Brian, in your case, the sugar-loaded Gatorade, oh, that doesn't count to water.
Well, what the hell is it?
What is the base substance in all those things?
It isn't blood.
I mean, what do you what does it take to make coffee?
Why would coffee beans distort the value of the water you pour in a pot?
But people people have been led to believe this.
Coffee's a diuretic.
It is for some people.
Coffee's not a diuretic for me.
It's another myth.
How many myths can we keep?
Coffee is a diuretic.
I once had somebody, some dietitian tell me on one of my many diets.
Whatever you do, don't drink coffee on a diet because caffeine uh ends up putting a little shell around cells, and you end up retaining water.
Uh and uh and you shouldn't, you shouldn't do that.
Stay away from uh there's so many myths out there, and it's really none of these things are as complicated as people want to make them out to be.
Ralph, uh in uh New York, nice to have you, sir, on open line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Merry Christmas from your favorite um fallen correspondent behind hostile enemy liberal lines.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
Um it's good to talk to you, Ross.
Listen, I hope I can bring up a couple of things.
The first thing I wanted to bring up was the thing about Hockabee.
And I agree with you because I'm a conservative first before a Republican.
My voter registration card says conservative on it, which is why I feel I can't back a guy like Huckabee.
But at the same time, to the critics of Rudy Giuliani about some of his social liberal policies that I have to disagree with, because I found I first-handedly watched Rudy Giuliani dismantle organized crime.
I see him turn drug-infected, war zone-looking neighborhoods like East Harlem, the South Bronx, um, um neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
It's a livable, viable neighborhoods where kids are going to school in the morning, men are going to work.
I seen him turn Times Square into the sleaziest pornography junkie-ridden paradise into a into one of the best tourist attractions.
Yeah, that was a shame.
Huh?
But you can't get everything, you can't get everything right.
I know, yeah, you can't identify unless you hear a siren or an ambulance at night.
But see, the people, the the reason I bring that up is because the people, the the critics of Giuliani, don't understand that this is a guy who gets things done when people tell him he can't do them.
Now, as far as you know, the the things he did in New York with immigration and and and the gay rights, I think he he had a maneuver certain for a certain degree in the city itself.
Look, as a leader.
Let me tell you something here, Ralph, and there's a there's a this we've addressed this before, and this is not a wine, and it's not a complaint.
It is a fact.
The DC Wall Street media access of the drive-bys is doing everything it can to influence the Republican selection process.
So it's up to the candidates to be louder than the drive-by's are.
I mean, Mike Huckerby's getting a pass from the drive-by's.
They are excited that he might get the nomination.
They don't want Rudy because Rudy might be able to beat Hillary.
They don't want Romney because of the same thing.
They don't want uh Fred Thompson for the same thing.
Um they are they're they're doing everything they can not to focus on the things that you're talking about, and instead they're taking aim at the two or three things uh each candidate deviates somewhat from conservatism, and there's a story after story after story.
Will Republican-based voters support somebody who lived with a gay couple in the middle of a divorce?
Rudy, Giuliani, yeah.
And then this is how they're trying to influence people.
But aren't you doing it, Ross?
No, I'm just repeating what they've already done.
That stuff's out there.
You didn't know that, certainly?
Oh, it's out there.
Um Rudy's uh, you know, uh position on abortion.
Um they're they're trying to divide the Republican base.
That's why when Huckabee comes along, they don't have to divide the Republican base, because they think if they nominate Hugby, if if they succeed in getting him nominated, in one fell swoop of a presidential campaign they can take Huckabee out, same time take out the Christian right once and for all.
That's what they want to do.
That is they're salivating over this.
And so when you when you call here and you go through the resume of Giuliani, if you wanted to try out with Romney, uh uh there's no question, real life experience is what it is, as you described with Rudy in New York and cleaning it up.
Uh, but that's not what they focus on.
Not the drive-by's.
Uh the drive-by's are focusing on the deficiencies and the deviations from a so-called um conservative norm.
So these guys, they have a they have a double-dose order.
They've got to overcome uh these attacks, and they know it uh going in.
All right, a little long here in the segment.
Ralph, always a pleasure to hear from you back in the second statement.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh.
I say it, you believe it.
Don't doubt me.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Hillary Clinton, fighting for 35 years for children.
She'd been out there working hard, fighting for change for children.
And yet after 35 years of fighting for children, she still can't convince her brother to pay his child support.
To the children he uh fathered with his estranged ex-wife, the daughter of uh Barbara Boxer.
Still, after 35 years of fighting for kids, can't get the brother to pay child support.
She is a genius.
That's right, Limbosh.
She's an unqualified genius, and you know it and I know it.
How many of you people trying to find one of those Nintendo Wii games?
These things are all the rage.
I had many people ask me, Rush, can you use your powerful, influential member of the media?
I've gone to Best Buy, I've stood a line of four in the morning, and I got my number.
Stand in line, I show up and they're out of them, and I can't find one anywhere.
So I went into gear.
Because I thought, what a snap.
There's no such thing in my life as sold out.
So I have I have somebody who can get anything.
And I put her on it.
Three days.
Three days we got.
What are you saying to me?
What are you saying to me?
I scored one.
I scored one.
That's why in three days I scored one up in Rockville Center in New York.
And I then in the process, I found out that the reason they're so hard to get is because the first iteration of the Wii, it kind of buggy.
You know, had some, and so they came out with a with a revved version, and it was that version that was really hard to get.
And in order to get, I had to buy a lot of the uh accessories, packages, games, uh wireless controllers, and this sort of thing.
Everybody's trying to get hold of the we I had never heard of it until I was asked if I, as a powerful, influential member of the media could secure one.
Uh, and uh so uh anyone got it, so forth, and uh sent it to where it's supposed to go, so that it'll be some some little spoiled rotten kid will have a very merry Christmas.
I'm sorry, I was I'm just trying to be funny with that folks.
Really, it's you know.
I was a spoiled rotten kid, so that's why I can relate.
Um, what do you mean it's unb uh by the way?
I didn't pull any strings.
I mean, I didn't call anybody at a store or a manufacturer and say, hey, Rush Limbaugh, powerful, influential member of the media wants what didn't do that.
I'm telling you, I got somebody can get anything.
There is no such thing as sold out in my life.
Now that sometimes I have to use my name.
In this case I didn't, and I and I wouldn't, by the way, because I know we just we got it.
Anywhere there's a story.
Get this.
One reason I tell the story is because obviously this thing is wildly popular.
I mean, it's it's so many kids, and parents want to get these things for their kids for Christmas.
It's gotten to the point now that uh some of these stores are selling uh after the fact gift cards.
Put a little envelope under the tree.
Hey, little Johnny, you're getting a Wii.
It just isn't here yet.
Sandy Claus ran out of them, but Sandy left this.
Look, it's going to be here soon.
That's how popular the things are.
So, here's a story from the French news agency.
Parents are fooling themselves if they hope Nintendo's Wii, Active Games console, which uses a wireless handheld controller to replicate athletic movement, will stop their youngsters becoming obese.
Researchers in sports science at Liverpool John Moore's University in Northwestern England recruited six boys and five girls between 13 and 15, and fitted them with monitoring device uh to calculate energy expenditure.
They played four games for 15 minutes.
Uh, then they then they played on the sedentary Xbox 350, which is made by Microsoft.
The three other games are sports bowling, tennis, and boxing played on Wii Sports with a five-minute rest between sports, and all the children played on the consoles for one hour.
Energy expenditure using Wii was significantly greater than the Xbox, but it's misleading.
The total number of extra energy units burned using Wii amounted to only 60 calories per hour, or about a quarter of a Mars bar.
Now we just had the story.
They don't know how to measure calorie use when you're exercising.
But how many parents are actually buying a Wii because they think it's going to get their kids off the couch stopping potato?
You have to take something that's very popular.
Apparently, a lot of kids want this.
Now I have to run the thing down.
You have to do a story.
Hey, kid.
The toy is worthless.
Hey, mom, the toy is worthless.
You're still gonna be a fat slob.
Researchers in London say so.
That's a time flying by as it always does.
You see, Vladimir Putin may have squandered and hidden away 40 billion dollars as he leaves office next May.
Makes me wonder what the real wealth of the Clintons is.
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