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Jan. 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
And testing one, two, three.
I knew it.
I knew a little horse here today, folks.
Bear with me.
Yeah, it's I feel fine.
I feel fine.
I don't know what I think it's just it's just New York.
I guess I'll I'll bet you when we get back to the Southern Command tomorrow, everything's gonna be fine.
Anyway, we'll make through, folks.
I don't whine, I don't complain.
I just let you know what's going on.
Friday, let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Okay, folks, you know the drill of I'm gonna have to speak very softly.
You know the drill on open line Friday.
Very simple.
Monday through Thursday, we talk about the uh things I care about and nothing else.
On uh on Friday, we will talk about whatever you wish to talk about when we go to the phones.
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So the phone number is 800 282 at 2882.
The email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
I had I had a I'm sorry, that's right.
L Rush, but it's a new one.
It's a syllabic habit.
Uh L Rushbow at EIBNet.com is the uh is the new email address.
So I had to go to a cocktail party last night.
Yeah, I'm very hoarse today.
And uh, but I'm not I don't I'm I feel fine.
I don't have a cold or any of that.
I think I sound a little bit stuffed up, but I don't it it's cool.
This is just it's just hoarseness.
And of course there aren't any chocolate donuts around here.
You know, it used to be the fix.
Um how long will it be now do you think before there's some chocolate donuts to show up?
Anyway, I had to go to this cocktail party last night, and I get in, and it was a hearing nightmare.
Uh it was conveniently located only five blocks from my fashionable Upper East Side penthouse.
And I got in there and it was j I could I could hardly hear it.
And I a lot of people in there I didn't know.
One guy came up to me and started saying, Did you see Matthews tonight?
Did you see me?
No, I I never see Matthews.
Oh, you gotta see it, you gotta see it again.
What happened?
Oh, it's the most amazing thing, you just gotta see it.
What happened?
Well, we'll I mean you guys I I couldn't, I was having trouble hearing the guy, but I eventually figured out what he was saying.
Uh, that Matthews apologized to Hillary.
The one time Matthews gets something right and he apologizes for it because of pressure from uh the Hillary front group, Media Matters for America.
You do, if you didn't hear this, you have to hear it.
Here first is what Matthews said that got media matters and everybody all upset.
This is on January 9th.
Uh and this actually was on the Scarborough show in the morning, uh Morning Joe.
And this is what Matthews said about Hillary.
I think the Hillary appeal has always been somewhat about a mix of toughness and sympathy for her.
Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal.
The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front runner is her husband messed around.
That's how she got to be Senator from New York.
We keep forgetting it.
She didn't win there on her merit.
She won because everybody felt, my God, this woman stood up under humiliation.
Right?
That's what happened.
Hit the nail on the head, folks.
In fact, I've said that in far more explicit terms behind this very golden EIB microphone.
Hillary Clinton is where she is because she is the most cheated on woman in the world.
Not the most cheated on woman in America, but the most cheated on woman in the world.
Now listen, as Hardball last night turned into suckball.
Concerned people like you who watch this show so faithfully every night.
People like me who care about this country think I've been disrespectful to Hillary Clinton.
Not as a candidate, but as a woman.
Was it fair to imply that Hillary's whole career depended on being a victim of an unfaithful husband?
No.
And that's what it sounded like I was saying, and it hurt people.
I'd like to think normally like what I say.
In fact, normally like me.
If my heart is not always controlled my words, on those occasions when I have not taken the time to say things right or have simply said the inappropriate thing, I'll try to be clearer, smarter, more obviously, and supported the right of women of all people to full equality and respect for their ambitions.
So I get it.
Saying that Senator Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now it comes across just as nasty.
Worse yet, just as dismissive.
Well, you know, this is this is what happens to you when you want to be liked by the libs.
And well, you don't want the libs getting mad at you.
I mean, that this this is what my show would be every day.
If I if I if I sought the approval of uh of the libs.
So Hardball became suckball last night, and he got it right the first time when he was on Scarborough because she what what else what else recommends you?
In fact, Krauthammer had an even better line today.
I read his column at National Review Online, and he said this whole bid for the presidency just one giant alimony payment.
Even without the divorce.
So we're all the we're the one, we're the ones paying for it.
That's exactly right.
A giant alimony payment, and we're the ones paying.
She is.
I hope my voice is not going to irritate you, dude.
I'm gonna do my best.
As long as I don't raise it, be fine.
But she is the most cheated on woman in the world.
And that's why where does this entitlement, this sense of entitlement come from, or this inevitability or what have you.
Or the president had a little press conference today and announced a stimulus package, 145 billion dollars, uh, consisting primarily of tax cuts.
H. Art, I I was having trouble with so much going on in here.
Did he propose a specific dollar amount rebate?
Because the word was floating around before he spoke, it's gonna be 800 bucks per man, woman, and child.
Uh yeah, no, I didn't either.
I I didn't, and I haven't, I've got a Wall Street Journal uh story on it here, but it they don't recount that.
They just give the highlight of the cost of the thing 145 billion.
They did make a pitch for keeping tax cuts permanent beyond 2010.
Uh and and it was really uh the stimulus plan is is uh actually the 145 billion dollars is tax relief.
It's this is one of the things that very rarely happens.
Normally, when people start proposing or talking about stimulus plans, I I have just one question.
Okay, so we're supposedly heading into recession.
I want to tell you, the numbers are not there yet, folks.
There aren't any numbers for recession yet.
I'm not predicting that is or not is gonna be one or not gonna be, but the numbers are not there yet on this recession business.
We're we're living here in a in a in a in a sort of surreal universe where the whole concept of been created uh with daily reports and the drive-by's coupled with the fluctuations going on uh in the markets on Wall Street.
And so everybody's convinced, and you combine that with the uh the subprime crisis and so forth, and so people are convinced that we're either in one or it's going to happen.
So voila, what do we do?
We start talking about stimulus packages.
When I always my always reaction to this is if we have the ability, which we don't, by the way, but that that's another point for a moment later.
If we have the ability to stimulate the economy with packages like this, why don't we do it every damn day and make sure there's never a recession?
Why didn't we do this six months ago to keep this day from ever coming?
It's because we can't.
Government can't the market's too big, it's too complex.
It's the same thing with trying to control global warming.
The climate's too complex.
So here's what we got.
The the administration's got to talk with the people in Congress, and Harry Reid, there was a conference call yesterday, it was hilarious.
Harry Reid and Pelosi, others of the congressional leadership on the phone with Bush and his team at the White House.
And Reed blew up.
Dingy Harry blew up on the phone because Bush was going to go ahead and do this and propose something without getting a deal with Congress first, i.e., he was going to go and be unipartisan instead of bipartisan.
And dingy Harry didn't like that.
And he start he started screaming on the phone from what we're told.
Um it had to be calmed down by other Democrat leaders on the on the conference call.
And Bush today just mentions it, says I had a productive call yesterday with members of the congressional leadership, and and I was happy they shared their ideas with me.
I could just I can just see this little gnome, dingy Harry on the phone yelling and screaming uh as uh as it's reported.
So what do you get with these things?
Well, one side you get Plan A stimulus package, on the other side you get Plan B. Plan A has never worked.
Plan B always does when you try it.
Uh, if if you want to give a boost to the economy, whether it's needed or not, uh, you would think the answer would be obvious.
Do plan B. Plan B is the one that always works.
But, my friends, this is an election year.
Plan A doesn't work, but it gets votes.
That's the problem.
Plan A is give money away.
As Fred Thompson said, just send the helicopters out and drop cash.
You know, your neighborhood.
Now, do we go plan A or plan B?
Depends upon if you're serious or if you are a politician.
Uh plan A, pass out a few bucks, walking around money to every voter, every household.
Uh it's never worked.
Plan B, boost economic activity, produces growth, cut taxes, make tax cuts permanent.
Plan B is what President Bush proposed.
Now, that but I'm I'm being cautious here because I don't know if he or some in his administration later on are going to propose elements of plan A to go along with Plan B. Uh the saddest part of all this is that everybody knows that Plan B is the way to do it, but uh many in Congress are going to reject it uh as as vigorously as they reject victory in uh in the Middle East.
And I I just I just want to remind you, you know, it's probably blow it against the wind here, but the numbers that signal recession aren't there yet.
Uh and it's gonna be months before they are.
Uh I'm not and I'm not gonna call a recession.
Hell, I don't know, but I I just know that we're not uh we're not in one now.
All right, we got lots of stuff on the program today, plus your phone calls.
Oh.
And I got a phone call.
Well, I got an email yesterday afternoon during the show.
And I knew immediately who it was from.
I turned over here and I looked at the subject line.
He said, Hey, my man, and I nobody says hey, my man to me except the Hutch.
Uh the doctor, Reverend Dr. Uh Ken Hutcherson in Seattle, played football, as you know, with the Dallas Cowboys, uh, the San Diego Chargers and the and the uh Seattle Seahawks.
And every year, uh the Hutch and I discuss football on the upcoming weekends, usually on the Super Bowl, and the Hutch wanted to do a discussion on a Super Bowl, which he thought would be uh New England and Dallas.
Well, that's shot to hell now.
So he now wants to talk about these two games the uh the Chargers at the Patriots at three o'clock on Sunday, and the Giants at Green Bay at 6 30, Eastern Times on Sunday, so the two o'clock hour.
The Hutch is gonna be here and get his predictions wrong again, but it's always fun to talk to him.
We'll be back in just a second.
Open line Friday on the cutting edge, El Rushbow at uh 800-282-2882.
And the email address is uh rush at EIB net.com.
Now we're gonna you ready to go.
In fact, let's we got a couple sound bites here.
I want to get us to Fred Thompson's things uh for just a second here because an amazing news story has just been released from the Christian broadcast network about Thompson surge in uh in South Carolina, and how this guy's never seen anything like it.
But we j we just played Chris Chris Matthews apologizing to Hillary, hard ball became suckball.
Uh Hillary uh is is back to playing the victim again.
Monday, she was on a Tyra Banks show.
What what is the Tyra Banks show?
Now I know ti I know Tyra Banks a model, but I didn't know she had a show.
What where is this show?
Is it on Sirius or XM?
Is it on Cape?
It's what?
It's TV.
It's a syndicated TV show.
Oh, geez.
Oprah light.
You know, it's stuff like this.
It just really, really impacts my optimism uh on the future of the country.
Something like this, non-broadcastette at a TV show.
Anyway, Hillary was there playing the victim again, and Tyra Banks said, Um, how did you persevere during the darkest moment in your life?
Well, because I had tremendous faith, number one, I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what was right for my family.
And I never doubted Bill's love for me, ever.
And I never doubted my faith and my commitment to our daughter and our extended family.
But I had to decide what I had to do.
And I think it's so important to be able to hear yourself at a moment when it's hard.
This is so much smack.
This is so I mean to act like this was a surprise when everybody knows that we should talk about Lewinsky here.
It wasn't a surprise.
How many she had been in charge of the Bimbo eruptions?
The only thing she was probably upset is she was probably stupid that he got caught.
She's probably angry that he was stupid that he got caught.
Now, how about you, you know, jive goblet gook about you gotta be able to hear yourself at a moment when it's hard.
Somebody tell me what that means.
You have to be able to hear yourself.
And we know she wasn't even trying to hear herself, she was channeling Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House.
She's already admitted that.
So next up on the Tyra Banks show, the question then to Mrs. Clinton, as she now in this sound bite offers advice to other dormats out there.
Question, were you embarrassed?
Well, sure.
I mean, all of that, but I also I was just praying so hard and thinking so hard about what's right to do.
Do women come up to you and ask for advice, my husband said my husband stepped out on me and it's I'm I'm going to hell right now.
What do I do?
Have they done that?
Yes, what do you have time?
What do you say?
I say you have to be true to yourself.
You know, no one story is the same as any other story.
I don't know your reality.
I can't possibly substitute my judgment for yours.
But what I can tell you is you must be true to yourself.
You have to do what is right for you.
What does that mean?
In Hillary's case, she's okay.
I am the most cheated on woman in the world, and I'm gonna get something for this.
There's a price.
And it's right for me, and that is being president, because I am the most cheated on woman in the world.
Not the country, but the world.
So she was true to and she's telling you that you can't do that.
If you are a dormat and you're being cheated on, not as much as Hillary, because she's the most cheated on woman in the world.
But if you're if you're a woman and you're being cheated on, she's saying, look, I can't judge for you.
What that means is you don't stand up prayer becoming president like I do.
But you might be able to join the culinary workers and endorse Obama if you really set your sights high.
Speaking of that, they're really mad out there.
Uh let's let's go ahead and play audio soundbite number five here.
Obama's supporters are running an ad, a Spanish language ad in Nevada that says Hillary doesn't respect Latinos.
Didn't they hear her say no woman is illegal?
Anyway, we've got the Spanish ad here, Spanish language ad uh translated.
Hillary Clinton no respeta a nuestra gente.
Los partidarios de Hillary Clinton fueron a corte para evitar que la gente que trabaja pueda...
Stop it, stop it, stop it.
We don't I have the translation.
I misread that the w you're gonna we'll listen to this and I will translate when it's over.
I thought this is gonna be like, you know, we got Kim Jong-il on the back down screaming and so forth of the UN interpreter whatever.
That's not what we have here.
So we're pleased.
You ready from the top?
Yeah, here goes.
Imperdonable.
Hillary Clinton not in Bergwenza.
Hillary Clinton no deveria permit that his amigos attack the derecho de Nostra Hent to votar este Sabbath is imperdonable.
No hay respeto.
El senador Barack Obama está defendiendo nuestro derecho de votar.
El senador Barack Obama quiere nuestros votos.
Él respeta nuestro voto, nuestra comunidad y a nuestra gente.
El lema de la campaña de Barack Obama es, Si se puede.
Si se puede, vote por un presidente que nos respeta y respeta nuestro derecho de votar.
Obama para presidente.
Si se puede.
Si se puede, it means yes we can.
Code language.
You want to hear the whole thing?
You want to hear what it said?
Hillary Clinton does not respect our people.
Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people to vote this Saturday.
This is an embarrassment.
Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from voting in their workplace on Saturday.
This is unforgivable.
Hillary Clinton is shameless.
Speaking of shameless, I thought it was the right-wing conspiracy that created the Lewinsky scandal.
You know, she went on a today show, told Matt O'er.
Now she gets a Tyra Banks show and basically admits that there wasn't any vast right-wing conspiracy involved.
Okay, uh, Hillary Clinton is shameless.
Hillary Clinton should not allow her friends to attack our people's right to vote this Saturday.
Uh this is unforgivable.
There's no respect.
Senator Barack Obama is defending our right to vote.
Senator Barack Obama wants our votes.
He respects our votes, our community and our people.
Senator Barack Obama's campaign slogan is CC Puede.
Yes, we can.
Vote for a president that respects us and that respects our right to vote.
Barack Obama for president.
TC Puede.
That's a translation.
A man, a living legend, a way of life, a prophet, and uh a national treasure.
It's open line Friday.
El Rushmo here.
Uh as we wrap up the week, we are high atop the uh EIB building in Midtown Manhattan today.
Judicial Watch.
I don't think Larry Clayman's part of them anymore.
I'm not sure, but Judicial Watch has gotten hold of some of the documents from Hillary Clinton's days in the White House putting together health care.
They are amazing.
I've got some I've got some details here in just a second, but I didn't want to get to Fred Thompson here as promised.
But it was such a massive, her plan was such a massive overreach and expansion of federal power that there was a group inside the Clinton administration in the White House that wrote a memo said this is too much, this is too big.
Jay Rockefeller, when he heard what was going on, sent Hillary a memo.
This it was suggesting ways to get it done by using friends in the news media who are eager for guidance on coverage of this story.
He suggested, if anybody came up in opposition, that they use opposition research to find lifestyle questions about these people.
Ooh, folks, this is it's it's it's uh it's exciting.
All that coming up.
But I got two things here and some audio sound bites from Fred Thompson.
First, uh Fred Thompson just got some encouraging news.
Dr. Richard Land, uh, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission told uh the Brody file, which is a blog at the CBN.com website, the Christian Broadcast Network.
My assessment is that at this moment in time it is Fred Thompson's race to lose.
It may be a convergence of the right man in the right place at the right time.
I have never seen anything like this grassroots swell for Thompson.
I'm not speaking for Southern Baptists, but I do believe I have my hand on the pulse of Southern Baptist here, and I think I know where the consensus is.
Uh, this guy uh does not, Dr. Richard Land does not endorse candidates, but he is a powerful figure in evangelical circles.
Uh and why the fascination with Thompson?
Well, Land told uh the Brody file, which is the blog here at the CBN.com, that there are a lot of factors.
He believes electability is extremely important, thinks that Thompson may be the best social conservative candidate right now to beat Hillary.
He says just look at the head-to-head polling between the two of them, but there's more.
It was the land uh uh land that came up with the term Southern Fried Reagan when describing Thompson.
So he's all excited.
Eric Erickson at Redstate.com has a piece posted at Human Events.
Traveling through snowy South Carolina with Fred Thompson.
I am struck by the sense that finally the man's arrived.
The candidate so many conservatives were excited by early in 2007 is finally walking the land.
Though barely mentioned in a national media, Senator Thompson has been on a barnstorming tour, crisscrossing South Carolina for more than a week.
In a unique approach, he's not just going to major media markets, he's going to rural areas of South Carolina.
The crowds are enthusiastic and relieved, finally, the Fred Thompson they hope for is on the campaign trail.
Saying the Reagan coalition is dead is like saying the Constitution is dead, uh is how he began one speech.
We've got that coming up.
Uh at the same time taking on uh Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee.
The Reagan coalition was never about the man, he said.
Boy, this all sounds awfully familiar.
I mean, it really does.
I can't help but make that observation.
But uh I said that because everybody was accusing us of those of us citing Reaganism of having a cult of personality.
And it went way, it had nothing to do with personality.
It had totally to do with sub the cult of personality is on the Huckabee McCain side.
At any rate, let's go to the audio sound bites here of Fred Thompson.
Uh this is in Anderson, South Carolina Carolina last night at a campaign event.
We've got two sound bites.
Here's the first.
Some people think that you know our successes of the past have been on transient notions that change with the times, and the Reagan coalition may be dead.
We gotta be different in order to beat the Democrats, we've got to be more like the Democrats.
And we've got to be more so-called progressive or so-called moderate.
Show empathy, a populist kind of approach, and uh talk about the man keeping us down and you know, rich versus poor, and that sort of thing.
But I grew up parents that uh had an eighth-grade education, but they were always concerned, not with how you re-divide the pie in this country, but how you make the pie bigger for everybody.
And that's the way I grew up, and that's what I believe in.
And here came the cheers we've edited the applause out.
Uh here's the second portion.
That's what the Reagan coalition was based on.
And to say the Reagan coalition is dead is like saying the Constitution is dead.
Because our founding fathers told us in the Declaration of Independence that our basic rights come not from government but from God.
They laid out in our Constitution.
The notion that too much power in too few hands is a bad idea.
And that a government big enough and powerful enough to give anything to you is big enough and powerful enough to take anything away from you.
Those are fundamental principles and notions in which we built a great nation.
A willingness to sacrifice for the freedom and liberty of other people around the world because we knew that it made us freer and made us safer here in our own country.
Free people doing free things.
And the magic that comes out of that.
Basic fundamental principles.
Fred Thompson in South Carolina.
So uh he is in the in the most recent polling I have seen, uh, you've got McCain and Huckabee tied, and the only one moving up is Thompson.
So uh you know, there's a day left here, and I uh there there is some uh apparently some genuine energy for Thompson because he is barnstorming, and from what I've learned about South Carolina, uh it uh you know everybody goes to Iowa and goes everywhere.
Uh but in South Carolina that because uh there's not much time after Iowa to South Carolina, a lot of people spend much more time in Iowa since it's first and New Hampshire than they do South Carolina, uh, and as such they they concentrate on the uh the more cosmopolitan areas uh and the the larger cities of South Carolina.
Thompson's out there all over the state, apparently just on a barnstorming tour, and these um uh these recent dispatches of the excitement for him out there.
We'll see if it manifests itself uh during the uh during the vote uh tomorrow.
Let me go to the phones because it is open line Friday, and if I keep going here, it'll be a while before I get there, and I don't want you to have to wait as long today as you did yesterday.
So we'll start in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Bruce, nice to have you.
Welcome to the program.
An honor, sir.
Um is Hillary Clinton uh a woman or a feminist?
Because frankly, I can't tell anymore, and I need your help.
Both.
Uh Hillary Clinton is a man.
Uh well, she she's a woman who wants to be someday uh uh uh viewed as a woman but treated like a man, and other days vice versa.
Uh uh well, someday she's a feminist, the other day she's a victim.
She will morph uh into whatever she has to be uh on that particular day based on what is happening in her campaign of what's called for.
You mean based on convenience on the particular day.
Uh yeah, exactly.
I mean, and that's that's that's nothing new.
I mean, she's she's always been that.
And I I'll tell you that I've you you go back to this crying episode in New Hampshire.
Uh I uh the I it's not gonna ever be reported this way, but what a what what an actual blow for feminism to have to play the victim to have to I can't get anywhere because these men are making fun of me.
I'm just so hard, it's so hard to do that.
I don't know how I get up and do my hair every day, it's so and that brought out all kinds of pent-up rage that women have for men.
Uh you know, this this was not a not a good day for the feminist movement, of course it's not gonna be reported that way, but yeah, she's chameleon, she'll be whatever she has to do whenever she needs to do it.
Philadelphia and Josh, you're next, sir.
Hello.
Josh, are you there?
Yeah, I'm here.
How are you?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
So I was just wondering about the uh the Bush tax uh rebates, I guess.
Um I was just wondering, how does he plan to do it?
I don't know that he's going to do it.
I haven't heard that there are going to be any rebates in this.
Now there I there was a lot of news in the early, you know, before he spoke today that there would be $800 rebates.
Uh, but the the speech did not talk about that.
He just talked about $145 or billion dollar stimulus package.
Do you know, by the way, and a little observation, that Bush's 145 billion dollar stimulus package is more than the two stimulus packages offered by Hillary and Obama combined.
Josh, are you there?
I'm here, sorry.
I was just yeah, I was just wondering like how does he plan to do it by printing more money, or does he plan on doing it by through the actual tax cuts?
Um, because the way I understand economics is if he plant prints more money, then doesn't that um cause inflation?
Which would actually be a detriment to the economy.
I mean, I'm full I'm all for uh tax cuts, but it just seems to be a little bit more.
Well, you know, I I that's a good question.
I don't know if we'd print more money or just get it from our loan reserves or call the Chicoms for it.
Uh maybe the Saudis.
Uh we got plenty of places we can go to get it.
Um, you know, there there is a plan there is an economic stimulus plan C. You know, I I erred when I said there's only plan A and plan B. Plan A, give everybody a little money, give every house a little money.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Election year especially works really great.
Plan B, stimulate the economy, tax cuts, making tax cuts permanent beyond 2010.
Plan C, don't do anything.
Uh plan C is not on the table, but it is an option.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Open line Friday.
You'll rush more here behind the golden EIB microphone, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
David Brooks is back in action today at the New York Times.
And the uh the pull quote of note, Rush Limbaugh is going bananas.
Because Mike Huckabee is breaking up the tribe.
I'm paraphrasing.
Limbaugh's going bananas because Huckabee is breaking up the tribe that Limbaugh has spent all these years...
What do you say, creating and and putting putting together?
And so the his his thought is that I'm upset because I've built this huge movement out there based on my radio program.
And here comes Huckabee, who's going to destroy it, and that's why I don't like Huckabee.
Uh you know, he talks about me going bananas.
Have I sound like I gone bananas this week?
No.
But I'll tell you something, Mr. Brooks.
Uh what is really fascinating is that you know Jell O, all these moderates and these independents, jellos, as I call them.
Bananas and fruit go great in jello.
And I don't eat jello.
I make fun of it.
Senator McCain here, white comedian Paul Shanklin in the vocal.
And that kind of reminded me of uh what's his name?
Uh Tom Harkin at the Wallstone Memorial.
Do it for Paul!
Do it for Paul.
If you don't know me by now, that was originally done by Harold Melvin of Blue Notes uh and the lead singer back then with Teddy Pintergrass.
Have you people heard?
You know, we we talked about that.
Kelly Tillman and Golf Channel talking about there was on there On the air with Nick Faldo, and they're talking about all these new young guys coming on the PGA tour this year, and what were their chances of beating Tiger?
And Kelly Tillman says, Well, I bet their best chance is taking him out in the back alley and lynch him.
And they got a little sh little little little storm over this.
She apologized.
The meaning by it, Tiger said, We know that.
We like Kelly.
We know she didn't mean anything by this.
Tiger was okay with it.
And then, of course, Al Sharpton got involved, and then the golf channel said, Oh, we rethought this.
And it really is horrible what she said.
We're going to suspend her for two weeks.
Now, the next thing that happened, Golf Week magazine came out with their latest issue, and on the cover is a picture of a noose.
The picture of the noose discussing the story of Tiger being taken to the back alley and lynched.
The editor who chose the picture has been fired.
So, here's what's happened in this sordid saga.
By the way, do you people know, thanks to David Brooks, I am now a tribal leader?
You are a tribe.
We conservatives are a tribe, and I'm the tribal leader.
I mean, that's another move for diversity here.
Imagine Rush Limbaugh, a tribal leader.
Anyway, so what we've had here.
The girl who got it all started is suspended.
The editor who illustrated it got replaced.
The next person who does anything on this will probably end up being lynched.
And the first hour of the EIB network now officially over and in the can.
A brief break here at the top of the hour.
I will take more remedial measures to try to bring back the voice with a combination of greasy potato chips and chocolate donuts.
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