Jan. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| And greetings to you, music. | |
| Music lovers and thrill seekers all across the fruited plane. | |
| I'm using my sexy and raspy voice today here on the EIB network. | |
| Still can't shake this thing, folks. | |
| Whatever it is, it's not really laryngitis, not a cold. | |
| Uh moving. | |
| Whatever's in there is just sticking there. | |
| So we will uh make the most of it. | |
| I hope this is not too irritating to you. | |
| I I think what's going to happen during the course of the busy broadcast day is that many of you are going to be spending the day clearing your throat. | |
| Don't do that. | |
| I've been clearing my throat too, and it uh it provides only temporary relief. | |
| Anyway, we're great to be with you. | |
| Uh hope you had a great weekend. | |
| Here's the phone number if you uh want to be on the program. | |
| It's 800-282-2882. | |
| The email address is rush at eIBNet.com. | |
| Okay. | |
| This to me is fascinating to watch. | |
| Washington Post on Sunday. | |
| This time, McCain defused conservative attacks from Rush Limbaugh to Tom DeLay. | |
| Voices that once held sway over the Republican rank and file, uh unloaded on John McCain over the last week, trying to use a conservative electorate in South Carolina to derail McCain's quest for the Republican nomination. | |
| Though McCain failed to persuade many of the old Republican power brokers, uh I think that's absolutely wrong. | |
| I think McCain's become the uh the machine candidate the establishment candidate, if you will. | |
| You know what's happened here for all this for all this talk about uh and I'm sure you've seen it over the weekend, and I'm sure you've heard it talked, broke always discussed, it was all over the place. | |
| The drive-bys and the Democrats are just in their mind so happy. | |
| They think I have been neutralized. | |
| They think I'm no longer a factor. | |
| Uh and yet all this time I've been portrayed as the Republican establishment. | |
| You know, I was I was the guy that determined who the nominees were, and all this sort of thing. | |
| Uh now all of a sudden, if you look, McCain really is the establishment guy, and I, L Rushbow, have become an outsider. | |
| Uh if you follow their logic. | |
| Now, uh they say here in the Washington Post, Limbaugh led the way with a verbal blitz, not just against McCain, but against Mike Huckabee. | |
| And they quote me as saying, I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys gets a nomination, it's gonna destroy the Republican Party. | |
| It's gonna change it forever. | |
| It's gonna be the end of it. | |
| Limbaugh fumed on his uh show Tuesday. | |
| It was a line of argument that he kept up all week long. | |
| And then they go into what uh Delay said and this and that and the other thing. | |
| Now, I happened to uh look at the election returns from Saturday night in South Carolina, and I saw some amazing things. | |
| Uh what are you saying? | |
| Don't if you're gonna say Well, I know, and independents and moderates led the charge, but that's not what I saw. | |
| We knew that was gonna happen. | |
| Independents and moderates led the charge. | |
| By the way, there's a Rasmussen pollout in Florida uh that has uh what is it? | |
| Romney is up by five now. | |
| Can I pull this on the knife? | |
| Where is it? | |
| Romney's up by five over McCain. | |
| Uh in Florida, you can't uh uh the independents can't vote. | |
| Uh and moderates can only registered Republicans can vote in the uh in the Florida press. | |
| Yeah, here it is. | |
| Romney has uh a five-point lead, 25%, McCain at 20, and uh Giuliani at 19%. | |
| So Romney Romney's picked up seven or eight points here, and that's uh over McCain. | |
| Uh McCain and Giuliani went up one point each from the last poll. | |
| But now let me let me stick with South Carolina because it's uh we knew that independents and moderates were gonna be voting there. | |
| That's that's not what happened. | |
| Um that's not that's not what's newsworthy uh about what happened there. | |
| And by the way, about this establishment business, I want to read it. | |
| Michael Graham had a post at National Review Online on uh Saturday. | |
| And uh he points out uh that in 2000, you had McCain running against George W. Bush and the whole Carroll Campbell machine in South Carolina, McCain got 40% of the vote, 42% of the vote, actually, in 2000. | |
| And out of the 573 votes that were cast, 240,000 went to McCain. | |
| So Saturday night in South Carolina, McCain got 33% of the vote, less than he got in 2000. | |
| I would say, contrary to what the Washington Post, and I, by the way, you know, I'm I don't I don't like speaking this way, some thoughts on my being the guy who nominates Republicans, you nominate the nominee, I don't. | |
| You know, this this notion that that the Post puts out there that I've been overcome here, McCain's beaten me back, that's not that's not the way to look at this, because that whole line of thinking relies on the fact you people have to be perceived as my numb robots, and that all you are is a bunch of sponges, and you sit out there and you have no brain and you have no independent thoughts, you just listen to what I say and go act on it. | |
| We know that's not the case. | |
| It's never been the case. | |
| You're gonna vote for whoever you want to, and even if it's again, you know, somebody, you vote for somebody that I'm quote unquote railing against, you still listen here. | |
| Your audience, we're getting the fall rating reports uh coming up. | |
| All these is through the roof. | |
| Um it is the the audience last fall going into this election season is through the roof. | |
| It truly is, expanding by leaps and bounds. | |
| So once again, the drive-by's totally missed the whole point. | |
| Uh after almost 20 years of doing this show, they still under misunderstand its appeal, they misunderstand why you listen, they misunderstand who you are, and they misunderstand what my objective is. | |
| My objective is not to get anybody elected or defeated, except we get to the Democrats and Republicans in a general. | |
| My objective is to have the most informed, educated, participatory voting public that we can. | |
| And then you do with it what you want. | |
| Uh but but regardless, I think, since they want to talk this way, I think that we actually did end up suppressing some McCain's support in South Carolina. | |
| In 2000, he goes from 42 percent to 2008 to 33 percent of the vote. | |
| His top challengers, uh Romney and Giuliani were not even running there. | |
| They pulled out. | |
| Uh and uh they got 135,000 votes, nevertheless, and they weren't even really competing there. | |
| Um it's as Michael Graham points out, it's just the same people who voted for McCain in 2000, or if the same people had voted for him Saturday, he would have won 50 percent of the South Carolina vote. | |
| He lost votes from 2000 to 2008. | |
| However, that's not the way the drive-by is, and of course the McCain campaign look at this, it's sort of like in Nevada, uh, where Obama won the majority of delegates, but he failed to get that story out in time. | |
| Mrs. Clinton won the popular vote in the cauc eye. | |
| And by the way, as far as those delegates in Nevada count, those were just delegates to some county convention, they're not national delegates, those have yet to be assigned. | |
| Uh looks like Obama Obama will get the majority of them, but the the drive-by's put it on Hillary wins uh wins Nevada when he got the most delegates. | |
| Same thing in South Carolina. | |
| Well, McCain won. | |
| So he's the front runner. | |
| Well, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| Well, uh, he still trails in the popular vote in all the primaries, still trails in the delegate count, which is what this is all about, and he lost support from 2000 to uh excuse me, 2008. | |
| Now, who did this? | |
| Uh, I would say to the drive-by's, if you're gonna sit there and write newspaper stories suggesting that McCain overcame me and overcame delay, if you're gonna set that premise, and then I can counter with some actual truth and facts about how Senator McCain's support was was down eight years later, then I'll give myself credit for it. | |
| If that's the way you want to view me, I will say that I successfully suppressed McCain's vote total in South Carolina. | |
| If you want to assign that role to me in the drive-by media, I will gladly, for the purposes of this example, uh accept the premise. | |
| I helped to drive down McCain's support. | |
| See, the the the drive-by's folks cannot, and the pundits too, cannot wait to pronounce McCain's invincibility. | |
| But his numbers, his numbers in South Carolina, like my voice, uh were very weak. | |
| McCain has won in two states with rather low pluralities. | |
| And in New Hampshire, he had to win with independents and Democrats. | |
| Uh despite the efforts to portray McCain as invincible. | |
| He's not. | |
| The circumstances of a cluttered field and a compressed primary schedule may help him, but he's not the nominee yet. | |
| And I I noticed that so many pundits who were originally on the on the bandwagon for Huckabee when he was perceived to be the front runner, all these homers. | |
| Uh now, guess who they're on the bandwagons for is McCain. | |
| Uh no Prince. | |
| I'm talking about people on our side. | |
| They switched trains as fast as the trains change leads on the track. | |
| Uh and now they're trying to say, you know, Fred get out and Huckabee get out. | |
| It's McCain's and Rudy is gone. | |
| They just they want to anoint McCain right now. | |
| People on our side, as well as the drive-by's. | |
| Now, I want to reiterate a point that I made to a caller, I believe it was on Friday. | |
| Here is a story from the Associated Press. | |
| In the headline three, Florida newspapers back McCain, but split on the Democrats. | |
| Here are the newspapers. | |
| The Orlando Sentinel, the Palm Beach Post, and the Gainesville Sun have all backed McCain. | |
| But they were divided in the Democrat field. | |
| The Palm Beach Post and the Gainesville Sun endorse Obama. | |
| The uh Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, I'm sorry, gave its nod to Hillary Clinton. | |
| Now, you hear McCain discussed as the Democrat's favorite Republican. | |
| Does that not send up some red flags? | |
| What what does that mean? | |
| That he is the Democrat. | |
| The term Maverick, Maverick John McCain. | |
| You ever heard of a Maverick Democrat? | |
| You ever heard any of the drive-bys ever anoint and celebrate a maverick Democrat? | |
| No, if they'd call him traitors. | |
| If there were a Maverick Democrat, the Democrats would be look at what they did to Zell Miller. | |
| Zell Miller, a maverick Democrat, joined the Republicans, campaigned for Bush, they destroyed it. | |
| He was a kook. | |
| Lieberman, too, drove him out of the party. | |
| Now you have McCain as a maverick, and all that means is he divides Republicans. | |
| He goes against the Republicans. | |
| So you have all these liberal newspapers endorsing McCain in unanimity or unanimity. | |
| They're split on the Democrat side. | |
| Do you think let's say the Palm Beach Post? | |
| Do you think in uh whenever they get to their irrelevant endorsements? | |
| Do you think that they're going to endorse McCain over either Hillary or Obama? | |
| There is no way, folks. | |
| At any rate, let me take a break here. | |
| We'll come back, start at some of the uh audio sound bites and your phone calls. | |
| Uh you people will be profoundly uh relevant today in helping me to save my voice and make sure I get through all three hours, which I have to do because I did not call for backup today. | |
| I intend to get through this. | |
| Just like Philip Rivers yesterday playing on a sprained ACL against the Patriots. | |
| I'm gonna get through this. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| You know, I have to chuckle. | |
| Are you uh are you observing here in the Washington Post piece and even some people I thought were my friends in talk radio, so eager for my demise, so eager, it is clear, ladies and gentlemen, that I had a lot of enemies who would like to see me flounder out there, and so when they think it's happened, they write stories that it has. | |
| Washington Post on Sunday trying to rip me and a few others as the one who lost in South Carolina. | |
| You know what? | |
| One of the big differences in uh 2000 and 2004 is, or 2008. | |
| I remember back in the 2000 primary in South Carolina, uh, it was basically a two-man race. | |
| And in that circumstance, I violated my rule of not endorsing anybody. | |
| I had already chosen George W. Bush uh for the same reasons today that I uh didn't support McCain, I didn't support him back then. | |
| So back in 2000, while behind the golden EIB microphone talking about the presidential primaries, it was easy not only to just tell you what I thought was uh dangerous and wrong flawed about Senator McCain, I was also able to articulate something positive about the guy I was for. | |
| That's not the case this time around. | |
| Uh and that is a I think a very key fact in in uh in this contest that the drive-bys are having to pronounce the fact that I you know how many times I've been dead and buried and proclaimed so after the eighty-eight presidential election, they said I was finished after 92, they said it was finished in 96, they said it was finished. | |
| Now they're seeing him finished again. | |
| Uh in 2000, when I had an alternative versus 2008 when there isn't, you know, that's it's uh it's a whole different field. | |
| It's a whole different uh attitude. | |
| Uh now, you can look at the numbers, and I have. | |
| McCain is not the leading vote getter among conservatives and Republicans when you analyze the vote. | |
| He's not the leading delegate getter either. | |
| Uh he is honing his uh his his record, uh, to conceal aspects of it, to pretend that he has changed parts of it, and to speak openly of it, depending on the audience and the state that he's in. | |
| Uh why why is he running for so much of his record or on so much of his record and pretending it's something that it's not? | |
| He's doing that because he has to cover it up. | |
| And not enough has been done to expose that. | |
| Media won't do it because they support him, uh, but they're not going to support him in uh in November. | |
| Also, you know, I wrote a book, and one of the early chapters in that book, the first book was my success is not determined by who wins elections. | |
| It was as true uh in the early nineties when I wrote it as it is today. | |
| I'm not running for office. | |
| I'm not a campaign operative. | |
| I am a conservative and an all-power powerful media figure, powerful, influential member of the media. | |
| And I simply am explaining the consequences of nominating certain of these candidates. | |
| You can agree with me or not. | |
| Uh but Senator McCain got 33 percent of those vote in South Carolina, far less than he got uh when he ran and lost to Bush in uh in 2000. | |
| Now the total number of uh Republican votes cuss cast thus far are these 987,298. | |
| And I know numbers are hard to follow, but this won't be hard. | |
| Romney has 30.1 percent of the total votes so far. | |
| McCain 27.3, Huckabee 23.3, Rudy 4.6. | |
| Uh the delegate count is is uh is is similar. | |
| So however you however you look at it, uh McCain has not won anything yet. | |
| Uh you know, my my job is not to pick these guys, my job is to tell you what I think about them and whether I believe they will advance the cause of conservatism and republicanism uh or not. | |
| So to uh Mr. Weissman at the Washington Post and all the rest of you who are uh eagerly analyzing the results in South Carolina as McCain won limbo lost, not any of the other candidates is not McCain won Huckabee Lost. | |
| Huckabee's still viable today. | |
| Uh McCain won limbow lost. | |
| I will maintain to you that we helped suppress McCain's vote and actually reduce it from what it was in the year 2000. | |
| On Meet the Press Sunday, Tim Russert. | |
| I'll have to work fast on this question. | |
| Tom Broco, we have four Republicans in a sense uh still standing, viable way, trying to grab onto the sole Republican Party and define their own persona. | |
| If there's a big thematic uh issue here in this election, it's the end of dogma, which has dominated so much of our politics in the last well, since 1980, really. | |
| People are rejecting dogma as I see it as this kind of nomadic herd of voters out there wandering the landscape looking for solutions, looking for a water hole, if you will, in which they can kind of resupply themselves and find solutions to the issues that really trouble them. | |
| It's going on in the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party. | |
| I was listening to Rush Lindbaugh for an hour yesterday, who is determined to not have this campaign, as he put it, redefined conservativism. | |
| And one of the dittoheads, one of his followers called and said, Well, help me out here. | |
| Uh what do I think now about Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich? | |
| And it's one of the few times I've ever heard Rush Lindbaugh kind of temporarily at a loss for words. | |
| And he ended up saying that they're not true conservatives. | |
| And that debate is not going to help the Republican Party if they get bogged down on that. | |
| The country is hungry for solutions. | |
| I just I just love these liberals trying to tell us what we need to do to solve the country's problems. | |
| We've got to take a break. | |
| We'll be back and continue right after this. | |
| And utilizing talent on lawn from a God. | |
| Now about the about the Brokaw. | |
| Soundbite that we uh that we just played. | |
| Uh he referred to listening to me for an hour and then said that uh he hadn't he'd never heard me kind of temporarily at a loss for words. | |
| This was in response to the uh question I got from a caller. | |
| What do you uh what do you think about Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich? | |
| I remember that, and there was a pause, because that's not easy. | |
| It's th these both these people have been profoundly uh uh instrumental in shaping the views of a lot of people uh in conservatism, and they've both on a on you know, from issue here to issue there, uh have, in my terms, wandered off the reservation. | |
| So I get somebody calling and say, Well, what do you think about these guys? | |
| It's tough. | |
| It is um tough to say these things. | |
| I know both these guys, and I liked them both, and it just it's just difficult to say these things. | |
| Uh and that's that's why the uh pause. | |
| Now, Peggy Noonan was the token conservative on Russert's round table, and she replied uh to Broco with this. | |
| You know what, Tom, I would agree, except I would add this. | |
| The country is hungry for a sense in its leaders that they have thought it through, that they have a philosophy, that they've considered the relationship of man and the state. | |
| And considered the moment in history we're in, that philosophically they are coherent. | |
| That matters too. | |
| Now, what she's talking about, in fact, go back and play number one. | |
| Um and and and say my voice here, listen to Broco at the beginning of this, uh talking voters are nomadic herd, and they're just looking for solutions. | |
| That is his point. | |
| Listen, uh you ready up there, Mike with this? | |
| Yeah, here it is. | |
| If there's a big thematic uh issue here in this election, it's the end of dogma, which has dominated so much of our politics in the last well, since 1980, really, and people are rejecting dogma as I see it. | |
| There's this kind of nomadic herd of voters out there wandering the landscape, looking for solutions, looking for a water hole, if you will, in which they can kind of resupply themselves and find solutions to the issues that really trouble them. | |
| That's enough. | |
| That's a what he's saying is that there's just there's so much angst, there's so much disgust. | |
| They just want some problem solved. | |
| They just want them solved. | |
| They don't want to have bickerments, they're bickering in arguments. | |
| They want the problem solved. | |
| And what Noonan said in her reply to Newt was, Tom, uh they're hungry for sense that they've thought these problems through, that they have a philosophy that undergirds whatever solution they come up with. | |
| Uh you know, th this these guys in the drive-by's, and then the this this guy broke off. | |
| How many millions, gazillions of people that he talked to for how many years for a half hour every night? | |
| And how shallow does he come off here? | |
| Uh we just they just want solutions. | |
| They just I I I listened to bites like this, and and I I get the impression that I know he's liberal. | |
| Uh I know as a liberal, none of these guys want conservatism to triumph. | |
| But to make no effort to understand what it is that drives conservatives and why these rifts take place is just is just shallow. | |
| Peggy Noonan's exactly right. | |
| Of course there has to be a philosophy, a guiding set of principles. | |
| And you use both of those things that in order to get to a solution, because you don't want just a solution, you want the right one. | |
| It's like Mrs. Clinton. | |
| Now everybody's going nuts on the Democrat side because she's pandering and she's playing a little class envy politics, a little populism, and she's out there saying, Well, you know what? | |
| I'm going to freeze mortgage foreclosures. | |
| I'm going to freeze foreclosures for 90 days, and I'm going to freeze whatever. | |
| I'm going to freeze mortgage interest rate. | |
| It will freeze all that for 90 days. | |
| Well, okay, whoop. | |
| And the average consumer, wow, she really cares. | |
| The little guy, she's gonna make sure that he doesn't lose the accounts and so forth. | |
| All right, now Wall Street's closed today, and I get the latest numbers on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Futures trading overseas. | |
| In case you haven't followed, don't care. | |
| Foreign markets are plunging today. | |
| I mean, the bottom has fallen out of the foreign markets. | |
| Uh overseas markets are always very volatile when we are closed. | |
| Dow Jones futures are trading down 420 points, and if the futures are correct, that would have us below 12,000 tomorrow on the Dow when we open. | |
| Uh gold is down 10, the euro is down 143, now down 187. | |
| Uh gold is now down 15. | |
| I've been updating this. | |
| But see, if you look at Mrs. Clinton's solution, why? | |
| Now don't worry. | |
| Mrs. Clinton is going to freeze stocks. | |
| She's going to set a floor on stock prices, and no stock will be allowed to go below that floor. | |
| Oh, Rush, she can't do that. | |
| Why not, folks? | |
| She's going to freeze mortgage interest rates. | |
| You're going to freeze foreclosures for 90 days. | |
| Why not freeze stock prices? | |
| Hey, Tom Brokaw, is that not a great solution? | |
| And what and what philosophy and what common sense is that solution? | |
| Even the solution on mortgage interest rates and foreclosures. | |
| What what what's the philosophy undergirding that solution? | |
| What's good about that solution? | |
| See, Mr. Broker, it's not solutions. | |
| It's the right ones. | |
| And the right ones are guided by principles and a philosophy and commitment to both, and then leadership to take people along. | |
| And we're not getting that anywhere. | |
| We're certainly not getting it on the right. | |
| We're certainly not getting it on the left. | |
| We're getting no leadership anywhere. | |
| And that's why these people are like you just ran, you know, wandering nomadic tribes and herds. | |
| By the way, David Brooks, New York Times last week proclaimed that I'm the leader of a tribe, and you people are members of the tribe. | |
| And I want you to note as the chief of the tribe, Chief Wagawaga Ill Rushbo, I have applied for a casino license for us here in Florida. | |
| And I will be keeping you apprised of our progress here. | |
| We are the Ill Rushbo El Conservo tribe, and we are going to get our own casino. | |
| And we're going to be able to sell cigarettes in there with no tax. | |
| Oh, it's going to be a great day. | |
| We'll be insulating ourselves from the future Democrat president and administration. | |
| All right, Rick in Fort Mills, South Carolina. | |
| Hi. | |
| Rush, I love you, but I haven't been as mad with you as I have now since you did that Playboy interview. | |
| It just you're really beginning to make me so angry right now. | |
| Rush, you're you're decimating the Republican Party right now. | |
| You're so blind to what's going on down here in South Carolina and uh and uh national election here. | |
| Hold it. | |
| Enlighten me. | |
| Show me the light. | |
| I'm blind. | |
| Tell me how I am to blame for this. | |
| I want to know. | |
| All right. | |
| You are truly like you say, you're all powerful, influential media. | |
| And there are a ton of undecided people here. | |
| There are people who will be influenced by what you say. | |
| Fred Thompson has never heard had the numbers. | |
| If anybody's been listening to you, Rush, over the past few weeks, everybody knows you're a Fred Thompson supporter, that's fine. | |
| No, they don't. | |
| No, they don't. | |
| Well, well, wait a second, wait a sec. | |
| And by the way, to all of you callers, I want you to listen very carefully Because I if I have to interrupt you, you may not hear me unless you're uh paying attention. | |
| I appreciate your sensitivity there, Nick. | |
| I haven't endorsed anybody, and in fact, most people last three weeks think that I'm in the tank for Romney. | |
| I didn't say you endorse. | |
| I said amongst the group of Republicans running. | |
| Everybody knows you've been. | |
| I happened. | |
| Well, I know where you're going with this, but you think well, I'll let you get there, but you but you think that because I quoted some news stories about a possible Thompson surge on Friday, then all of a sudden I'm for Thompson. | |
| No, Rush, you talk for three hours. | |
| You throw these atomic fireballs and you give a call or two or three minutes to have with a cup of water to douse your flames, and it's impossible. | |
| The main point here is Rush. | |
| We not so much what you said Friday about Thompson. | |
| It's been consistent. | |
| We hear you, we listen to you. | |
| We know you you like the conservat true conservatism of Fred Thompson. | |
| I'm not saying you endorse him, you won't admit to that. | |
| I'm not going there. | |
| But what I'm saying is, Rush, he's never had the numbers. | |
| And with all of these undecided voters, they gotta go somewhere. | |
| McCain's people are not going to budge one inch. | |
| They're always going to be there. | |
| So what happened was because all of these uh a lot of these re radio guys have been giving all this hurrah for Fred Thompson, the voters got to go somewhere. | |
| So he's gonna pull some support from somewhere. | |
| Either he's gonna pull it from Thompson, I mean from uh Romney, or he's gonna pull it from Huckabee. | |
| And so what happened is you saw this nice growth of Fred Thompson because of likes of you and some others, and they pulled people away from uh Romney, pull people away from Huckney. | |
| And and what happened was I think you're missing the point here. | |
| You're sadly, Fred Thompson's not getting enough votes if he pulls from anybody that even notice them missing. | |
| I mean, that's the truth. | |
| If I'll tell you who's pulling votes from somebody, is Huckabee is pulling them from Romney. | |
| And I think you know, it wouldn't surprise me if Huckabee and McCain are two timing to get Romney out of there. | |
| I uh that's what I it's Huckabee taking votes from Romney in these places. | |
| It's not Thompson. | |
| He's not taking fact the stories are out there today, Thompson considering pulling out again. | |
| I don't know if these are true or not. | |
| Uh but a lot of people think he ought to stay in because uh he does have the the potential to uh defuse some of the Huckabee support. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Uh as I say, you know, I'm just in here analyzing and watching and commenting. | |
| But if you think it's even worse for me than I thought if you're right, if I'm out there if I'm out there encouraging Thompson. | |
| Oh, that's bad. | |
| I'm glad the Washington Post didn't repeat that. | |
| Are you bringing uh are you bringing bumper music from home again? | |
| You haven't played this in a long time, it's so long I've never heard it. | |
| Anyway, it doesn't matter. | |
| Okay, folks, I think you know, when this primary season's over, it is clear that uh we're gonna need a unity rally. | |
| We're we're we're a herd wandering aimlessly in the desert. | |
| We are a tribe, and I am your tribal leader. | |
| And according to Giz uh Brokaw, we're we're just you know, we're just a bunch of thirsty hippopotami wandering the desert looking for a watering hole. | |
| Uh this is uh this is this campaign is causing rifts, but hey, this is what these things are about. | |
| This is where you settle these issues. | |
| And I'm gonna tell you something. | |
| I don't care if it's Bill Crystal or David Brooks, or anybody on our side at National Review Online, I don't care where it is, or if it's the drive-bys, after five states, I am not gonna sit here and say, okay, this is over. | |
| And it's time that we just accept the inevitable. | |
| Uh this this this whole process is for getting ideas out and solving these things, or at least getting the arguments on a table so people can hear what uh what this is all about. | |
| Juan Williams on Fox News someday. | |
| Uh again saying that McCain beat me in South Carolina. | |
| Chris Wallace says Romney and McCain came into Florida or coming to Florida with some considerable momentum now. | |
| McCain is, as I would put it, nobody's child. | |
| You listen to Rush Limbaugh. | |
| You listen to Sean Hannity, you read George Will. | |
| Tom Delay was on Fox News channel this week just dumping on McCain. | |
| They don't like McCain. | |
| And uh the idea that he's now the leader in terms of the Republican pact. | |
| I think is I think the Republicans must be pulling their hair out because there is not this reassembling of the Reagan coalition, which is the way most Republicans talk about. | |
| Yeah. | |
| We'll see. | |
| That's my whole point. | |
| Too early to know whether this is the truth or not. | |
| Uh in terms of uh what else did he say here? | |
| Pulling your hair out because leader in terms of the Republican pact. | |
| We don't we can't say that. | |
| The drive-by's are. | |
| They're trying to create that impression. | |
| But McCain doesn't lead anything yet. | |
| He doesn't lead the delegate count. | |
| He doesn't lead in the uh total vote in the five states that we've had. | |
| He's just been proclaimed now as the inevitable winner by the drive-by is Roseanne in Greensboro, North Carolina. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Hey, you're the scapegoat of our generation, and people who follow you, well, not follow you because I don't follow anybody, but people who listen to you and we don't listen to you because we follow you, we listen to you because we don't feel like we're the only ones in the universe who can think our way out of a paper bag when we listen to you. | |
| We're the scapegoat of our generation, too. | |
| I went to a class the beginning of this semester. | |
| I sat in one class, the second class, the professor yelled at me for asking too many questions. | |
| You represent people who think, who think independently, who can think and have their own ideas, who remember history. | |
| And they don't like that, so they turn you into an emotional sound bite. | |
| I sit in class anymore, and I use your name as a way to weed out the ones who don't think. | |
| I say I love listening to Rush Slim Bar. | |
| If people have an emotional response to that statement, I don't associate with them. | |
| You caught me in the midst of tea and honey. | |
| Uh that's very that that that one of the nicest things somebody said to me since Saturday night. | |
| Uh you're right. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| We are thinking we do you realize all this means, all this all these other little lame talk show hosts getting their digs in and uh in the Washington Post and and uh and and then T V people, and just I just think it I I believe in this thing I read not long ago. | |
| Those who hate you wish they were you. | |
| Uh that you we we pose a threat, thoughtful thinking people, the worst thing can happen to liberals, by the way. | |
| There's an article in the one classroom that says it's about law school versus um master's degrees. | |
| And people are talking about how they went to law school to be learned to be critical thinking. | |
| You're supposed to learn how to do critical thinking prior to going to law school. | |
| But what you see in politics is they don't want us to think. | |
| They want us to have emotional responses. | |
| Right. | |
| Or they just want us to accept. | |
| But don't think yeah, that you're right. | |
| Uh somebody that examines what they say thoughtfully so, and posts it on a bulletin board and say, you know, this isn't right. | |
| They're the changing they do. | |
| You do become a threat to them. | |
| Uh but that's what makes this fun. | |
| Do you re realize the hypocrisy of it though? | |
| It's the generation that had an emotional response to their parents' authority. | |
| I read an article when I was a real young girl in my teens. | |
| It said the sixties was conformity within their own ranks, their their uniform were the blue jeans and burning your bra. | |
| This is the generation that was supposed to be independent thinking of their parents. | |
| That was their battle cry allegedly, and they're the biggest biggest oppressor of independent thought that there is. | |
| Yeah, in fact, contrary uh to rejecting and throwing their parents overboard or under the bus, they were profoundly obedient in the final analysis. | |
| Uh they they they didn't reject uh anything. | |
| They they just they decided to take the easy way out. | |
| Uh and instead of debating people who have different ideas, they try to destroy those people or discredit them or what have that's that very perceptive of you out there, Roseanne. | |
| I um one of my problems uh that I'm having with my voice is is I cannot speak fast. | |
| And because I can't speak fast, my mouth cannot keep up with my brain. | |
| My brain's racing a mile a minute here, and you don't know how frustrating that is not to be able to say everything I want to say because I can't. | |
| Uh but you did a great job, Roseanne. | |
| That was fabulous. | |
| You're A right on the money. | |
| And I'm glad you called. | |
| And we will be right back. | |
| One other thing uh before we go to the break here, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| I'm I'm I'm sure you've heard this too. | |
| I'm hearing like Crystal is on Fox today. | |
| You know, McCain's the guy. | |
| I think McCain can win. | |
| It everybody ought to just back off. | |
| Uh, these are fine candidates. | |
| All these guys are great candidates for Republicans, and just back off. | |
| Just be quiet. | |
| Bill, why don't you be quiet? | |
| You know, why why is it up to us to be quiet? | |
| Why don't you McCain people be quiet? | |
| Why don't you Huckybee people be quiet? | |
| I don't even have a people to endorse it. | |
| What are you telling me to be quiet for? | |
| Well, he says be quiet stuff. | |
| That's what liberals tell people. | |
| Be quiet. | |
| You guys go be quiet if you like silence. |
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