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Jan. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I am warning you guys in there, do not, do not do this.
You know, every year my preferences and my wishes and my desires.
Don't do it.
No, I didn't see the debate last night.
I frankly forgot it was on.
The drive-bys keep telling us that debates don't make it matter.
So I was an invited guest, the board of directors, some major American investment house last night.
They had their annual dinner and they invited me to go.
And I got home pretty late, and I'm getting all my emails.
Wow, Fred really kicked butt last night, Rush.
What do you think?
I didn't even see it.
Friday live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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And greetings to you, music lovers, throw seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited play and the award-winning Throw Pact ever exciting, increasingly popular growing by leaps and bounds Rush Lindball program from the heavily secured and fortified EIB Southern Command.
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Open line Friday.
You know the rules.
Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things I care about.
I mean, I am a benevolent dictator.
Nobody has the right to be heard on this program but me.
Nobody has the right to speak on this program unless I grant it.
But on Friday, I throw all that out.
And when we go to the phones, I take one of the greatest career risks known to exist in major media today, and that is turning over the precious content of this program to rank amateurs, lovable, adorable rank amateurs.
That's you.
I, the highly trained broadcast specialist, turn it all over to you on Friday.
So we go to the phones.
You can talk about whatever you want.
You can whine, moan, you can ask questions, make comments, things that you think need to be discussed, which have it.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
No, I'm not going to ban the whining, Mr. Snerdley.
How can I be, you're whining now?
How can I ban the whining when you're whining at me?
Bo Snerdley, official screener of calls, I'm sick and tired of people whining on the phones.
Get used to it.
You won't believe some of the economic stories in the snack of stuff today.
You will not believe it.
It proves and illustrates a point that I have been making.
Our economy is not better.
I've got an example.
It's the Los Angeles Times.
I got people who make $100,000 a year whining they have to take public transportation because of the cost of gasoline.
Somebody who's got a credit card debt of $40,000, which is more than their annual income, and yet it's the economy's fault.
And of course, who's right in there to say, oh, yes, it really is.
All of our friends on the liberal Democrat side.
All right, we've got audio soundbites from the debate last night, and I'm up to speed now, folks.
I was up very late last night after I got home from this dinner, and I was working on this and informing myself.
We've got our audio soundbite roster from it, and I've got some comments.
I'm going to do it right off the bat.
Let me just tell you what's happening.
It is absurd, and you're going to have to really gut it up here because the drive-by media is doing everything it can to disqualify the true conservatives on the Republican side.
They're saying Romney, he can't win.
If he loses Michigan, he's done.
They said that about Romney and Iowa.
They said that about it Romney and New Hampshire.
Now, Fred Thompson apparently scored.
Did you watch it last night, Mr. Snerdley?
Fred Thompson was just fabulous.
And people say, where has this been?
All of this time, where's this been?
And I can't answer that.
But now the drive-bys are saying, well, yeah, he was pretty good last night, but it's too late.
We've had two states.
It's too late for Fred Thompson.
And of course, Rudy, why he's lost all of his momentum roots out of it.
So if you listen to the drive-bys and these people that got it all wrong in New Hampshire, what we're being told is that the only two candidates left that have any chance whatsoever are McCain and Huckabee, which is exactly what the drive-bys want.
They want liberal, moderate nominee and even a liberal, moderate vice presidential nominee because they know or they think that whoever the Democrat nominee is can smoke.
They don't want a conservative nominee on the Republican side.
Obviously, drive-bys will always tell you folks who is a conservative and who isn't by virtue of who they try to destroy and by virtue of who they try to pop up or prop up.
And right now they're trying to prop up McCain, trying to prop up Huckabee.
Last night, Thompson went after Huckabee big time, which is cool.
He's got to go after McCain too.
Now, I've been told that Thompson and McCain are good friends, and McCain or Thompson is a little bit reluctant to go after McCain.
I think one of the reasons here is everybody hates Romney, apparently.
A lot of these Republicans just despise Romney.
They're trying to take him out so that they can move on to others.
Somebody, if you go back to Iowa, somebody leaked the news, it was false, that Fred was going to get out of the race if he lost Iowa and endorse McCain.
It turned out to be totally untrue.
Now, who would leak that?
Who would possibly leak that?
Could it have been somebody in the McCain camp?
And if it was, and if Fred knows that, then they've got to be pretty limited.
But they've got Fred, if he wants it back in this thing series, he's got to go back and go after all these guys.
Now, another thinking might be, well, we've got to go after Huckabee first because it's South Carolina, and that's, you know, we're looking for the same voters that Huckabee's looking for there.
The proclaimed frontrunner, even though he's not, because he doesn't have the delegate lead right now, McCain, nobody laid a glove on him last night.
And I think what it is with McCain, you know, I think it's let's be polite to the old guy.
And I, but I think it's a P-O-W-M-I-A thing.
I think it's the war hero thing.
I think that's that sort of provides a little boundary and a little wall here that people don't want to scale.
I got this, got an email from a subscriber of the Rush Comments line.
Rush, I keep hearing that Thompson was so great last night, but that he got started today.
It's just too late.
She says, Thompson is great.
Late into the race, yeah.
My husband also comes in late sometimes.
And we're still married.
I love, by the way, the Hillary Tears continues to evoke commentary from women.
There is a blistering piece.
Who is it?
It's the American Thinker by Pamela Meister.
Female Voters Give Themselves a Bad Name.
And she touches on the whole subject.
A lot of people, well, I can't say a lot, but there are an interesting number of people talking about what's happened to the country since women got the right to vote.
No, no, no, no, stick with me on this.
It's not, nobody's saying take it away from it.
Don't, it's not going to happen.
Nobody's talking about that.
It's if you the growth in the welfare system, the growth in the nanny state, the growth in government in the soccer mom business, the growth of government taking the place of a worthless, no-good husband or no husband whatsoever.
And this woman is speculating, what would have happened if women had never had the vote in this country?
Would we have the nanny state welfare state that we have today?
So it's a woman writing this.
I'm just going to pass along the details.
Also, this.
I'm getting a lot of these emails of this type.
Dear Rush, I'm surprised at you for completely missing the point, R.E., Mrs. Clinton's tears.
Somebody came up with information about other presidents, other male presidents crying.
And here's the important main difference.
When other presidents cried or male presidential candidates cried, it was because of things happening to other people, such as 9-11, such as the death of soldiers, such as Katrina, such as the misery and agony of fellow citizens.
When Mrs. Clinton cried, quote unquote, it was because she was being picked on.
It wasn't just fair to ask her position on the issues.
She was crying for herself.
And that's what's unseemly about it, Rush.
And I can't believe that you didn't pick up on this.
I can't believe.
See, Clinton's always making about themselves.
And I can't believe, I got all these emails that you missed this.
See, folks, I miss so little.
And I am wrong so infrequently that when I miss something or they think I've missed something or when they think I'm wrong, it's such a big deal.
They love, oh, because most people are allowed to learn from their mistake.
Keep plugging away, the advice goes.
You'll learn from me.
When I make a mistake, is that it for Limbaugh?
It is slipping.
My friends, my reaction to this is: do I have to tell you everything?
Can you not figure out one thing on your own?
Just because I didn't mention this doesn't mean I didn't know it.
By the way, I forgot to tell you, Mike, big-time broadcast engineer up in New York.
We will start at the top of the audio soundbites.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh Open Line Friday.
Phone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address, if you want to go that route, is lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, one more thing here.
We're in a period of time, a moment in histois in this country where public figures, and admittedly, I am a public figure.
Public figures, particularly politicians, and I'm not one of those.
But nevertheless, public figures are urged to show their human side.
Got to be human.
I thought I had mastered that because, after all, I am human.
But how can I appear human when I'm right all the time, when I seldom, when I hardly ever make any mistakes?
I have to pretend, ladies and gentlemen, to be wrong.
I have to pretend to make mistakes now and then or pretend to miss things so as to convey in that way that I am human.
Just keep that in mind the next time you think I've missed something that you have picked up on.
It's just my way of relating.
Now the economy.
I noticed after the debate last night, I did get home in time to watch all the post-debate roundtables, the wastes of time on the drive-by cable news networks last night.
And I detected a theme.
The Democrats are doing two things.
One, they're bringing back not the Iraq war, but the surge.
Nancy Pelosi has issued a press release today proclaiming the surge to be a total failure on the same day that we're told we're about ready to be able to turn over Anbar province to the Iraqis.
11 out of 18 provinces in Iraq are soon to be turned over to the Iraqis.
And yet the surge didn't work.
The second thing that the Democrats, the commentators and the Democrat side are really pushing is the economy.
It's horrible.
It is rotten.
It is bad.
And of course, the only, you know, the one guy on the Republican side that's going right along with them and echoing that sentiment is Mike Huckabee.
And this whole notion of angst and uncertainty and fear about the future of the economy has got people on edge.
And of course, the drive-bys, the Democrats are eager for that impression to take hold because even though for the last eight years the economy has not been an issue that will have an effect in elections because Bush was the president, now all of a sudden, guess what's back?
Iraq's off the front page, the economy's on the front page.
And guess what?
The economy is rotten.
The economy is bad.
Let me share some things with you.
You can turn on any financial news network or read a newspaper and you can find what you think are disasters in the making.
The price of gold is way up.
The price of oil is way up.
Stocks are plunging.
The subprime crisis.
Banks having to refinance with foreign money.
And so all the, oh my gosh, Russia.
And look at people losing their homes foreclosures.
94% of all Americans are paying their mortgages.
Do you realize, and I'll just give you this in personal terms.
You realize how cyclical all things economic are, just like all things are cyclical in history, all things are cyclical in all of life.
You know, the idea of people in a panic over normal since the beginning of time economic cycles is a little frustrating.
I want to try to do something about it.
All of the panic mongers try to make it sound as if none of this has ever happened before.
And that creates panic.
What are we going to do?
We've never seen this set of circumstances before.
Now, I know that there are new variables thrown in at all times, like the CHICOMs and their economic growth.
But these are all cycles.
And they're all cycles in all of life's activities.
Nothing is new.
The CHICOMs may be expanding, but guess what?
There are other parts of the world that are contracting.
The EU is a non-factor.
And I told you this a couple of years ago.
They're soon to fall behind the CHICOMs in terms of economic output and competitiveness.
So while the CHICOMs are making up the balance, there's a, you know, we're always going to have competition from someplace.
And just because it's a Chikom's growing, it's actually probably pretty good sign the CHICOMs are growing because the more economic power that their people amass, the tougher it's going to be for the Chikoms to maintain a tight communist control on all areas of their society.
It's not going to change anytime soon.
It's going to take some time to roll out.
But there's good.
There's so much good in all of these things that happens, and nobody wants to try to find it.
Everybody wants to focus on the negative, start biting the nails, especially in an election year.
Let me try to give you an example.
I was 16 in 1967.
When I got my driver's license, you know what the price of a gallon of gasoline was?
Take a guess, Brian.
You weren't even born in 67, so I want you to take a guess.
This is a very great example.
What was it?
Give me a, it's a wild guess.
It was 28 cents a gallon in 1967 when I got my driver's license, my Pottiac Le Mans.
That was with taxes.
That was with everything.
And then there were gasoline wars.
And sometimes the price would go to 25 cents.
Now, stop and think about this.
Now, granted, you know, I was working my first job and I was making, I think, a dollar and a quarter an hour.
It didn't matter.
I was living at home.
I gave my dad my paychecks because I was 16.
So 28 cents.
And then we get to the 70s.
And of course, all hell broke loose.
They had Nixon wage and price controls.
We had contrived shortages of oil.
There weren't really any shortages.
And guess what happened?
The price of gasoline overnight doubled.
It didn't go from 28 to 31 to 35 to 37.
All of a sudden, it was 50 cents.
And that was a huge shock, a dramatic percentage increase.
And then it didn't take long for it to get to a dollar.
Then we had the gas lines.
We had gas stations open two or three days a week, alternate days.
You could go in based on your license plate, depending on where you lived, to gas up.
We had people siphoning gasoline out of their neighbors' cars.
People have forgotten.
And look where we are today after all of that.
We are prospering like never before.
We are affluent like never before.
And yet, people who were alive during those days and experiencing it for the first time and the price of energy jumping like that, it was panic city.
But we don't learn that there was no need to panic.
That was 1967.
Now, of course, the gasoline, figure what?
Little over $3 a gallon since 1967.
This is 2008.
What is that, 40 years?
That's not really bad, is it?
From 28 cents a gallon to over $3 a gallon in 40 years, and yet look at the panic the drive-bys are able to inspire and instill in people.
Despite this, we are booming.
All of these cycles up and down do not kill us.
We adapt and we prosper.
I mean, prices for everything will always increase.
Prices always go up.
Phone bills are more expensive.
Now, some things are immune to it.
I mean, you will have the introduction, say, of high-tech electronics at ridiculously high prices, but that's to recoup the RD.
And because they know they're suckers like me who'll go buy the first version, and thanks to suckers like me who go out and spend $1,200 in the first Betamax, the price comes down to $200 in a short period of time.
These things happen to work because markets work.
People always want cheap stuff.
Every holiday season, people are waiting here to find the best deal.
When do they not try to find the best deals?
News out of China, by the way, Chinese global trade surplus up 50% last year.
Numbers came out overnight last night.
So all this talk about boycotting ChiCom toys and so forth, it didn't happen.
All the lead continued matter because people want to pay as little as they have to for things.
That has never changed.
It does not mean that there are economic problems ahead because people, consumers, are trying to find deals.
What have you not tried to find a deal on a car?
The only exception is when you buy a house, you love to tell people how much you spent for it.
When you buy a car, you love to tell people how you screwed a dealer.
All of this stuff is just cyclical.
It happens all the time.
There's nothing new here.
And guess what?
Because people want low prices, what we got at Walmart.
We got Walmart and Walmart's so successful of Democrats trying to destroy it.
And why are they trying to destroy it?
Because Walmart has created a bond and loyalty to its customer base that Democrats want government to establish.
Democrats want low-income people, middle-class people, to look at government with the respect, the loyalty, and love that they look at Walmart with.
You know, I just, I watch all this and have all these economic stories of people in panic, and I just cringe because it just isn't necessary.
But I'll tell you, one of the things, see, the problem is that there are people, Madeline Albright's one, there are people throughout the U.S. government who don't like the fact that we're the only world superpower, both militarily and economically.
And they want to do everything they can to bring us down.
Some people, Albright, who would love the CHICOMs to become a competing economic superpower because of their perverted view, lacking the concept of American exceptionalism, they think the world would be more stable because they think the U.S. is evil and that we need to be counterbalanced.
This is a serious problem, and that's just telling you things are bad.
No need to think about it, folks.
We do that for you here.
Redefining him.
Happy birthday to you.
On the radio, I warn you, people.
Happy birthday, El Ross Bow.
Warn you.
Happy birthday to you.
Thank you very much.
Every year, I beg, I plead, I command, I order.
Do not do anything on my birthday.
This isn't even my birthday.
So now you people watching on the Ditto Cam studio is not on fire.
Have you actually got the right number of candles in there?
All right.
What's the deal?
You're supposed to make a wish and you blow them out.
And if you blow them all out, then the wish is granted.
Something like that.
What happens if you don't blow them all out?
Then you get screwed in the wish.
All right.
All right.
Notice none of them have the guts to show themselves to you in the Ditto Cam.
They're all standing aside, willing to be seen.
All right, here, I've made the wish.
Okay.
The wish is that this is the last year this ever happens.
No, that was not the wish last year.
Okay.
Oh, damn it.
I got screwed in the wish.
Now, see, I did that on purpose to be human so that I could not blow out all just way to go.
Way to spill a cake wax all over the cue sheet for the audio soundback.
Holy.
All right.
Oh, no.
The birthday card is a picture of him.
I told you she looks sexy here.
Blah, blah, blah.
Takes a village, blah, blah, blah.
Cookie recipe, blah, blah, blah.
Awesome birthday here.
Hope a big celebration is on your agenda.
You know, she couldn't care less about my having a happy birthday.
All right.
Thank you, the EIB staff.
Once again, violating orders.
By the way, they left.
I don't know what kind of cake it is.
Hopefully it's a.
Yeah, I know.
You know why that's a good point?
Go to New York next year on my birthday to leave me alone up there.
Oh, it's a yellow cake with white.
We call that a white trash cake.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
That's what I was hoping that you would remember if you're going to go ahead and do this.
Hoping.
No, no, it's not.
It's not just made.
Look, I want to finish what I was saying in this economic business.
Thank you all very much.
It is.
I'm trying to get better at receiving.
You know, having attention focused on me for a birthday is embarrassing to me because there's no achievement here.
Living another year.
I'm not that old to where it's an achievement.
No big.
No, I'm not gone.
Anyway, to finish off this business on the economy, there are a number of people in this country, folks.
You've seen them in action trying to secure defeat in Iraq.
There are plenty of people.
Madeleine Albright has said countless times, the Clinton Secretary of State, that it's bad that we're the only superpower in the world because it promotes instability.
It makes the rest of the world hate us.
And of course, to believe that, you cannot.
You must not, if you're Madeline Albright and other people like her, you simply cannot accept the concept of the U.S. as the good guys.
If you want there to be a competing supertower, a power, particularly a competing economic superpower and a competing ideological superpower.
For example, if you want a country like the Soviet Union or the CHICOMs to be a competing superpower, then it's ideological.
So you want an enemy.
You must not have the concept of the U.S. as the good guys.
You must believe that we're evil.
You must believe that we are the cause of many of the so-called problems that exist in the world.
And these people are getting a tollhold now on the economy.
There are people who want the U.S. economy to become less important to the world and in the world.
And the reason they say this, it's a very seductive reason.
They say, well, you know, if there was another competing economy and a competing financial center out there that could maybe wrest control from us, then it would cushion our down cycles.
But when we're the lone economic superpower, if we go down, the world goes down with us.
That's not fair, Mithril Limbaugh.
That's being egotistical.
We must protect the world, forget the thoroughcoming.
This is the new castrophy speak, by the way.
We must protect the world, Mithril Limbaugh, from the thoroughcomings of the U.S. capitalistathithum.
And so they go where they run and tell people, yeah, it'd be good if there were another major economy that would absorb the blows for the rest of the world when we have a down cycle.
Is that not perverted?
You start allowing that to happen.
We're eventually going to be eclipsed.
And if you think the economy is bad now, I mean, everything's a product of expectations.
Only in the United States of America, where there is American exceptionalism and high expectations, could some klutz making $100,000 a year whine about having to take public transportation.
And he doesn't live in New York.
No, no, no, he doesn't, $100,000 in New York is one thing.
$100,000 in Atlanta, $100,000 in Biloxi, it's a different thing.
Complaining and whining about $100,000 and how the economy is forcing hardships on him.
Only in America could that happen.
And then, of course, ready to ride right in and capitalize on this, your Democrat Party, which wants to portray all of this misery as the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts for the rich, which in fact were tax increases for the rich.
The rich tax increase went up.
The amount of dollars they pay, top 1%, top 5%, top 10%, up.
Their rates may have gone down, but they're paying more of the income tax burden than ever before.
So the Bush tax cuts were actually Bush tax increases.
I'm spending time on this because the Democrats, I noticed after the debate last night, just couldn't stop talking about how rotten and horrible the economy is.
And they're trying to tick off or take off of a pew poll that showed that 84% of the American people are very happy with their lives, very comfortable with their lives.
But 70% of those same people said that America's head in the wrong direction.
How in the hell can that be?
How in the hell can that be?
It's precisely because, while 84% think things are hunky-dory, they think they're not for everybody else.
They're hearing about the subprime problem.
They're hearing about mortgage foreclosures.
They hear that stupid comment from John Edwards that every night in America, 200,000 people are sleeping under bridges or on grates.
And that most of them are U.S. military veterans.
Flat-out lie.
But they hear all this.
They can't take the chances.
Oh, that's terrible.
America, veterans, we must be headed in the wrong direction.
Even though their own evidence, their own life's evidence, is expressly counter.
So let me just grab you this economic story I keep referencing here.
Oh, and by the way, Washington Post also on the case here, economy slumps to the top of the campaign agenda.
But then on page two, they ask, what is the economy?
Different voters have different anxieties about the economy.
For some, it may be jobs.
Really?
Statistical full employment for how many months, years now?
For others, it's housing.
Really?
We have a housing crisis, a housing shortage.
Do you realize you try to find the good in everything?
Do you realize that as this housing bubble splits and the mortgage crisis goes on that realize what's happening?
House prices, they're coming down, which is going to aid who?
First-time homebuyers.
Yeah, it's not going to help existing homebuyers.
Their equity may be a while in returning.
That's a cycle.
It happens.
Go back to the 80s.
Let's go back to the 80s again in oil.
Oil got down to $10 a barrel in the 80s.
Boy, it was great for consumers.
Domestic oil business bottoms up.
Plant them dead and plant a flag because they had to cap all the wells.
They couldn't make money bringing oil out of the ground at $10 a barrel.
Great for the consumer.
You think things have never been worse?
Those of you who were alive, do you remember the Carter years?
They were so bad we had a misery index to measure it.
Interest rates at 21%.
Inflation was, what, 14%?
Jimmy Carter created the modern Islamic Republic of Iran with the Ayatollah Khomeini by getting rid of the Shah of Iran.
Think things are bad now?
They've been much worse.
The point is, we came out of it.
You go back to any point in time, Great Depression, all these so-called recessions, look where we are now.
Better than ever.
Every day in America is better than the day before.
Now, here's this story I keep referencing.
It's out of Los Angeles Times.
Public senses and economy going south.
Dateline, Sedalia, Colorado.
The numbers stopped adding up some time ago, and every month, Shane Covelli gets angrier.
He sells heavy equipment on commission, and construction firms are not buying.
Covelli has sold his Corvette.
He has stopped taking his wife out to dinner.
He's pulled his son from the ski team.
He has withdrawn nearly 50 grand from his retirement accounts, started taking extra work, laying carpet, pouring concrete evenings and weekends.
Still, he owes more than he earns, and he just can't seem to fix it.
I'll take the country four or five years to dig out of this, said Covelli, 44.
By then, I will be bankrupt.
In Atlanta, Bernadette Smith, 4131, has watched her credit card debt climb to near $40,000.
Yeah, she was sitting there minding her own business, folks.
Poor woman, just sitting there getting up, doing her best to make it happen in this rotten economy known as the United States of America.
One day, one day, while she's minding her own business, trying to be a great citizen, a credit card bill comes in, and no, and behold, her credit card debt is 40 grand.
She just watched it climb to 40,000.
She had nothing to do with it, according here to the L.A. Times.
Just watched it climb.
That's more than her annual take-home pay.
What a sucky country.
How can this, this is not fair, ladies and gentlemen.
A woman's credit card debt magically enlarges to the point it's larger than her take-home pay.
She works 13 hours a day at two jobs, once obsessed with the latest style of designer jeans.
Bernadette Smith, 31, now shops for clothes only at Walmart or maybe Target.
That's the embarrassment.
Why, the indignity.
What a rotten country.
She has come to consider dinner at Ruby Tuesday a splurge.
This is embarrassing.
This is, and these people, apparently proud to have their names in the Los Angeles Times with these details attached.
Just watched her credit card debt, college nearly 40 grand.
Has that ever happened to you, Mr. Snirdley?
You've been watching your credit card debt.
Every month it comes as it gets bigger.
You just watch it happen.
You say, how does this happen?
This is not fair.
This is not right.
Now I got to go to Walmart.
Yes, if the credit card debt goes up, you usually have something to do with causing it, do you not?
You aren't just standing idly by.
The faltering economy costs Leslie Garza, 18, nearly an hour of sleep every morning.
Her mom won't spend the gas money to drive her to downtown Los Angeles for job scooping ice cream.
So she sets the alarm early and takes the bus.
Garza recently canceled her cell phone service to stretch her $450 a week paycheck.
What are we doing to our children, folks?
What are we doing to our children?
She's 18 and she has to get up an hour early to go scoop ice cream.
Losing an hour of sleep in the United States of America.
Enoch Brown, 49, a data entry worker in Atlanta said his annual household income is about $100,000, yet he's riding public transportation to work so he can save on gasoline and parking.
So he's making an economic decision.
Does it mean the country's horrible?
Does it mean the economy is in the dregs?
This is the drive-by media, and this is what they want you to think.
And of course, they're trying to evoke sympathy for this.
Now, a lot of people, you know, some of you people waste money.
We all waste money.
Do you know what one of the largest areas of wasting money is?
It's right in your own home.
If you own a home and you have one of these age-old conventional water heaters, the big tank, you are wasting your money.
It's heating hot water you're never going to use.
It does.
And then half the time, the hot water is not there if you got guests in the house or the kids are irresponsible.
You talk about wasting money.
Well, I'll tell you what you can do about that.
You can get a Renai tankless water heater.
That's what you can do.
It's a little upfront cost, but you will stop wasting money because the hot water will only be there when you need it.
It'll always be there when you need it, but it won't be there when you don't.
Would you still drive a Model A?
No.
We haven't changed technology on water heaters in homes in 100 years or 80 years.
You have to admit, this was a brilliant transition.
Not too many broadcast specialists could do this.
They've got a savings calculator on their website, foreverhotwater.com.
Folks, this really is this revolutionary.
You'll have all the hot water you need whenever you want it, and you won't have it when you don't need it.
And so you're going to save money like you cannot believe.
Just go to foreverhotwater.com and see what I'm talking about.
No, no, sit tight forward and get to the Republican debate.
Audio soundbites in the next hour.
Rushland bought talent on lawn from God.
By the way, if you go out and get a Renaissance water heater, you won't have to have your kid get up an hour early in LA to take the bus to her ice cream scoop job.
All right, Dan in Crescent City, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Yes.
Okay.
You are wrong about the Clinton-Obama routine.
Here's the situation.
Where's Hillary from?
Chicago.
Where's Obama from?
Chicago.
This is all Clinton-esque.
He's designed as her Mount Everest, if you forgive the pun, to conquer.
And then after she wins the whole enchilada, she will magnanimously take him as her running mate.
It'll be the black Obama, vice president, Hillary, president.
She'll have a woman's vote.
She'll have a black vote.
Thank you.
And he will be beateable.
Yes, it will be.
No, it's not going to happen.
And if you're wrong about it, I'm just interjecting a human moment.
It will happen.
It's not going to happen because there are two reasons why it ain't going to happen.
Number one, I've explored the theory that Obama was placed there as the mountain for her to climb to show she can overcome an obstacle.
We espoused that theory back in summertime.
Bill Richardson has gotten out of the race, but he hadn't gotten out of it.
He's going to stay in it, but he's not going to campaign.
And that is to shift his votes to Mrs. Clinton.
Clinton called Bill Clinton, Don Clinton Leone, called Bill Richardson a bunch of times last week.
And after those phone calls, Richardson has pulled out.
He hadn't pulled out, but he's pulled out.
He hasn't announced he's over, but he's pulling out.
He wants the VEEP badly.
He's Hispanic.
Mrs. Clinton, Democrat Party, as I've told you all week, the Democrat Party is scared to death that the Republicans are going to come up with a way to beat either of these nominees because they think we're racist or sexist.
They're not going to give the Republicans the way they look at us.
I'm not saying they're right, this is how they look at us.
They're not going to give us two targets.
They're not going to allow us conservatives to defeat them with both racism and sexism.
That's what they fear, folks.
I've told you this all week.
I know some of you still can't get your arms around that, but believe me, that's one of the things they fear on the Democrat side.
Plus, she's not going to put somebody more popular, more charismatic, that's going to make people wish that he was the president.
It ain't going to happen.
It's the fastest three hours in media, the first of three today, in the can, on the way by armored courier to the nearest warehouse, secretly housing and protecting artifacts that will make up the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum and Massage Parlor.
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