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Jan. 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Doctor of Democracy.
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And your guiding light, all combined in one harmless lovable little fuzzball.
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I must admit I've been obsessing over this song since we last did the uncivil war in the Democrat Party update.
When Johnny comes marching home again, this is the soundtrack from Dr. Strange Love, the movie.
And I told you, I predicted it, ladies and gentlemen.
I told you the Clinton, what was this, Tuesday, that the Clintons in South Carolina would employ their public Southern strategy.
That Hillary Clinton setting herself up to lose in South Carolina while keeping Bill in South Carolina make it look like they're not giving up.
And then when the votes are in and Obama has won big, the Clintons would then say, nay, they wouldn't, but their surrogates would say, Well, what do you expect?
A lot of blacks in South Carolina.
The Democrat Party at war.
On the issue of race, the Clintons attempting to beat down an upity young coming black.
Barack Obama.
And Bill Clinton himself suggested that Clinton may lose the presidential primary because many black voters will side with Obama.
This is from USA Today.
He isn't even being subtle, but then that never was the campaign style.
Mission accomplished.
What might prove even more important is how the constant Clinton attacks keep Obama on the defensive and unable to make his case to voters and subsequently close the deal, but the race card is now officially a part of the Clinton strategy.
Clinton suggested Mrs. Clinton may lose Saturday's presidential primary in South Carolina because many black voters will side with Obama.
Now this is the party that claims to have the best interest of black people at heart.
Going to protect them from the discrimination of the Republicans and conservatives.
Vote for us, the Clintons have said.
I'm the first black president.
I'll make sure you don't get squashed.
I'll make sure you don't get stomped on.
I'll make sure that you don't have any bad headwork.
And yet it is the Clintons who are enacting that very strategy.
New York Times today, Catherine Q Seeley, nicknamed Kit Seeley, headline.
Bill Clinton accuses Obama camp of stirring the race issue.
Clinton said, that's right, Limbo Obama started it, and I'm sure he's going to get votes because he's black.
He wants a black vote.
I'm sure he's going to get them.
It's in the New York Times.
As well as USA Today, Bill Clinton.
Hillary's gonna win because of blacks.
Correction, Obama is going to win because of blacks.
In South Carolina, former President Bill Clinton defended himself Wednesday against accusations that he and his wife had injected the issue of race into the Democrat presidential primary in South Carolina.
He accused Obama.
He accused Obama of putting out a hit job on Bill Clinton, ladies and gentlemen.
Scolding a reporter, Mr. Clinton said the Obama campaign was feeding the news media to keep issues of race alive.
He's lying to their face.
Lying to the media's face.
And they continue to marvel at a the Chutzpa and the talent involved in doing this.
The next thing we will hear from surrogates for the Clintons is that this hit job by Obama on the Clintons is a drugland hit.
And so now, as this campaign inches its way towards Saturday in the South Carolina primary, Bill Clinton has effectively directly said that Barack Obama is a hitman and a racemonger in the Associated Press.
From Dillon, South Carolina, he's not on the ballot, but Bill Clinton seemed to dominate the South Carolina presidential campaign, disparaging Black Obama and journalists, and predicting that many voters will be guided mainly by gender and race loyalties.
Gender and race will be the keys in South Carolina.
In the Los Angeles Times, a story by Maria Lagunga.
Headline, Obama turns his attention to race issue.
Meaning the issue was out there already, and he's turning to it now because he's been accused of injecting it.
Only now is he getting to it because he has to reply to it.
What is this make black voters?
If Obama has injected race, and they're only voting because of race, and Obama's doing hit pieces and carrying out hits on hit jobs on Bill Clinton.
Black voters being used as a scare tactic.
This is right out of the old South folks.
We all thought was dead when Republicans fought off Democrats to get the civil rights bill passed in 1964, but the Democrats are being forced to show who they really are.
They are returning to their roots, ladies and gentlemen.
What is amazing about this is that the Clintons never want any of us in the drive-by media on the right side to be right.
Called this on to we knew what their Southern strategy was going to be.
But there's even more, ladies and gentlemen.
Where is what I put this?
Ah, yes, a memo.
An Obama supporter Joe Irwin, former South Carolina Democrat Party Chair, has put out a campaign memo entitled Hillary Going All Out to Win in South Carolina.
As an old South Carolina saying goes like this, some people would rather climb a tree to tell a fib than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
The truth is Hillary Clinton's campaign's pulling out all the stops to win in South Carolina, and it includes saying and doing just about anything to win.
Judge the Clinton campaign on their actions rather than their spin.
And then there's several bullet points here of all the things that Bill Clinton is doing in South Carolina to win for his wife Hillary.
So what's happening here?
The Obama campaign raising the expectations of the Clinton campaign to counter the lowering of expectations by the Clinton campaign.
We all know the Clintons want to lose in South Carolina.
They want to blame it on blacks.
Obama says, wrong all.
They're trying to win.
They're giving it everything they've got.
And finally, there's this.
The Washington Post.
Some in the Democrat Party are bristling at Clinton's attacks.
Anti-Obama ads heighten unity fears in the Democrat parties by Alec McGillis and Ann Kornblut.
And it's a pretty hard-hitting piece on the Clintons.
There's also a story in the Financial Times today from Davos, Switzerland talking about how Clinton is damaging his national brand by not being in Davos and by conducting the campaign the way he is doing so.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton is where?
She's in the Northeast.
She is surrounded by her good old uh white female.
The white female.
New Castrati male base, while her husband Bill pays penance, left to deal in South Carolina while she's up with her people.
The whites and the less than blacks.
Clinton is in South Carolina, going door to door, knocking on those doors and begging for votes.
But who are these people in South Carolina?
Well, Mrs. Clinton hobnobs at tea parties in the Northeast with those people.
Her husband Bill Clinton makes the rounds.
South Carolina with the people of color.
And what does he do when he leaves the homes of the people of color?
He disses them.
He's running around knocking on a doors.
He said, hey, babe.
You know me, first black president.
I am here to help you.
I'm here to tell you that we're going to do more for you.
We care more for you.
We love you more than anything.
We need your vote.
Hillary loves you.
You know it.
I know it.
And as soon as he leaves, he goes to USA Today, goes to New York Times and go.
I know Obama's gonna win.
Hell, it's just a bunch of black people down here voting.
That's why Obama's gonna win because black people are gonna support black people.
And he goes to the next house.
Hey, babe, you know me, I'm your first black president, Bill Clinton.
You know the things I did for you.
I kept your church and being burned.
And when your church did burn, I showed up and cried.
Arkansas forward.
I even sat on the back of a bus one day for you.
In 1999, when I could have been driving the day of the I'm purposely moving to back in the bus.
You know, that my wife and I, Hiller, we care about you more than anybody ever has.
Hell, you called me the first black president, said my life was just like yours.
We are begging for your vote here in South Carolina.
He leaves, goes to the microphones.
My wife's gonna lose here.
This Obama guy putting out hit jobs.
I mean, he's gonna win the black people are voting for Obama.
That's what's gonna happen.
Meanwhile, Hillary's sipping tea and scones in the Northeast with Anne Lois and the others of the non-dark persuasion, the uncivil war in the Democrat Party.
Started, waged, by the Clintons.
A brief time out, we'll come back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
By the way, folks, since we have stumbled on to this uh new phenomenon, the unbanked people who have to go to these payday check cashing stores because they can't get bank accounts or don't want bank accounts.
Clinton and Schwarzenegger, big piece today in the Wall Street Journal about how we need to get the unbanked banked.
Now, who do you think might be behind this?
Do you think the banks themselves might be behind this?
I mean, banks make up pretty well managing checks account, uh checking accounts and so forth.
But nevertheless, once again, Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton are late arrivals to this concept.
All right, back to this story here in the uh Washington Times.
I'm sorry, the Washington Post today by Alec McGillis and uh Ann Cornblut, summoned party bristle at Clinton's attacks.
This they focus here on Dick Hart Putlion, the former chairman of the Democrat Party in South Carolina, accuses the Clintons of using the politics of deception.
Uh Clinton said that Harputlian's comments are a distraction.
He accused the Obama campaign of funneling smears through the media.
Uh he went on and attacked a CNN reporter at the name of uh Jessica Yellen.
You get Pat Lahey, uh, who endorsed Obama castigating Clinton for what he called his glib cheap shots at Obama.
It's beneath the dignity of a former president, Leahy said.
He's not helping anybody, certainly not helping a Democrat Party.
And then of course, Senator Kennedy and Rom Emanuel have both jumped on.
But if you're Senator Kennedy, what are you gonna do?
I mean, if you're Ted Kennedy and you and you call Bill Clinton and you say, look, you know, you gotta dial this down.
This is not dignified.
You're hurting the Democrat Party, and uh it's gonna give it and what what what you know Clinton can say, hey, look, at least Monica's still alive.
so Kennedy, there's not a whole lot he can do here other than express this.
But let's talk about the substance of this.
I call these people the Huffin' Puffs.
Liberals and drive-bys who are getting angry, very, very, very angry at the Clintons before they vote for them.
I mean, folks, let's be real, shall we?
It's difficult, if not impossible for liberals to understand the concept of real core beliefs about right and wrong, good and bad.
Let me illustrate.
Here's William Grider on a blog at the nation.
The Clintons played dirty when they feel threatened, but we knew that, didn't we?
The recent roughing up of Barack Obama was in the trademark style of the Clinton years in the White House, high-minded and self-important on the surface, marmilly duplicitous and underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area.
I wonder who Grider's gonna vote for, though.
The end of the day, he's gonna vote for Hillary Clinton.
You know, these people, at these leftists, particularly in the media, ought to be outraged at what the Clintons are doing vis-a-vis a black man.
Now they have all these criticisms of the Clintons, and when it's all said and done, they'll vote for them.
Here's Maureen now the New York Times.
If Bill Clinton has to trash his legacy to protect his legacy, so be it.
If he has to put a dagger through the heart of hope to give Hillary hope, so be it.
If he has to preside in this state as the former first black president stopping the would-be first black president, so be it.
I wonder who Modo will vote for.
Yes, friends are gonna huff, they're gonna puff, they'll huff and puff and come the election, they'll go into that booth and they're gonna vote for the Clintons.
But even before they vote, you can almost bet they will complain about the rascally Republicans.
The Republican attack machine.
Kerry was swift boarded, Mrs. Clinton will be Obama'd, but it was the Clintons who obamed Obama.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
People have been patiently waiting on the phones.
Let's find out what kind of excitement's lurking out there.
This is uh D in uh Aurora, Colorado.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Uh it it's Aurora, Ohio.
Okay.
Uh just two slip-ups on the part and that made you think that maybe I was took the wrong call, right?
And that's why you paused and hesitated.
Yes, that's exactly right.
Okay.
My question to you is because I am absolutely beside myself, Rush.
Why in the world would you make a statement that you may not for the first time in your life not vote in this election this year?
Wouldn't any one of the Republican candidates be better than Hillary or Obama?
Um that's an interesting question that you asked.
What I said was that I for the first time on this program, I can possibly I can I can see possibly not voting for the Republican nominee.
But Rush, there's enough of us that are we all have problems with the fact that none of them are true conservatives.
But isn't something better than nothing?
Uh well, let me let me try it and explain it to you this way.
If one such as me, myself happens to believe that there's not too much of a substantive difference between Mrs. Clinton and a couple Republican potential nominees.
And I for if I believe that either, the Republican or Democrat nominee, is going to cause great damage and harm to the country.
I would just assume it happened on the watch of a Democrat.
Well, that certainly helped.
That makes you feel a little better.
Uh it's look at that statement I made is is based on substantive analysis.
I was not knee-jerk, and I didn't just throw it out there for it to be picked up.
I knew it would be, but that's not why I why I threw it out there.
And it I tell you, uh D, it's it's it's rooted in the fact that I'm a, you know, I blue in the face here.
I'm I'm I'm a conservative first and a quote unquote Republican second.
And party unity at the expense of conservative principles and values to me is not advancing things.
Well, in the case of Rudy Giuliani, and I know you're not going to back anybody, but and and I'm not really quite sure who I'm gonna back, who I'm gonna vote for.
But at least he said he would appoint conservative judges.
And fiscally he's good.
Crime, he's good.
I mean, you know, if you really have to weigh it all.
To me, that's where it is right now.
Uh I have weighed it all.
I didn't say that there are no Republicans that I would vote for.
Did you assume I meant that?
Yes, I did.
Oh, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
There's a couple, maybe one.
Uh and and it's not all of them by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh, good.
I'm glad to hear that.
As usual, you always have the right answers that make you feel better.
Well, I appreciate that.
And thank you for calling and questioning rather than going off knee jerk.
Yeah, it was bothering me terribly.
I was kind of nervous to call, but I had to get beyond that nervous.
Well, see, you once you get past your fears.
Life opens up for you.
You faced a fear, you confronted it, and now you're looking you're going away satisfied, and perhaps even more that you did it.
So it's great to have you calling.
I appreciate it, D. This is Kay in uh in Medford, New Jersey.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
It's uh great honor to talk to you.
Mental health dittoes from New Jersey, which is a hard thing to maintain.
New Jersey.
And I'm a psychologist, so it's even harder.
Would you explain the difference the audience of psychologists and a psychiatrist?
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who can prescribe medication.
You mean like to Heath Ledger?
Yes.
Okay.
Why am I calling?
Two reasons.
In the paper today, uh and this every time this is why I don't usually get papers, but my husband got it for the sports.
There's an article again bashing President Bush, not not overtly.
They're saying that President Bush tax cuts would not give a rebate to poor families, as though he's against poor families.
But they're not.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
President Bush's tax cuts or his are the stimulus package.
His no that they would not under under President Bush's plan, the poor families with children would not get a tax rebate.
That's because they don't pay taxes, but they don't say that.
They make it sound as though he would not give them money and he would give everybody else money.
The thing that gets me is is the Democrats and the um press walking in lockstep that promote this sense of entitlement because dependency in adults is abhorrent to your psyche.
So you swallow that, and what comes out consciously is you owe me.
Well, I don't know you unless I gave birth to you or adopted you.
And unless you're physically or mentally un unable.
Right.
Or unless I divorced you.
Well you would be surprised when I speak like that at conferences how people move away from me and don't sit next to me anymore.
But I'd like to thank you for keeping me sane, especially in New Jersey.
Wow, that's a compliment.
I keep a psychologist sane.
In New Jersey.
In New Jersey.
You know something, uh Kay?
The uh the the compromise, the stimulus package does pay uh people who don't pay income taxes uh three hundred bucks.
Sure.
But it's not a tax rebate because I haven't paid any taxes.
So that's the thing.
No, it's that's a flat out flat out gift.
Right.
And they worded here as though President Bush were just against the poor and the Democrats were for the poor, and they talked him into giving a kind of thing.
No, that's that's an age-old template, and then that's that's that's the the the the media people you're talking about, that is never ever going to change.
It's not gonna go away.
It's something that people are just gonna have to understand when they're reading the press that they have these cliches about conservatives and republicans.
Um and the the you know, the the evidence, the truth, uh the facts that are in the news will not counter it.
No.
And you know what?
I teach people all the time don't plug into repetition compulsion, and that's what I do.
I keep setting up the thing and waiting for a different ending.
They're always going to write like that.
Exactly.
But they can be overcome and they can be marginalized to to uh to a certain extent, far more than they used to be able to.
Yes, thanks to you.
Well other people that are sane.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Okay, thank you.
Thank thanks much for the call.
Appreciate it.
Uh Herb in uh Calamesa.
You're sure it's not Calabasas.
I mean, you're not doing too well out there and figuring out.
Are you sure it's Califor?
Okay.
Uh Herb, are you in Calamesa, California?
Yes, I am.
All right.
Certainly got one right.
That's awesome.
Great.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you.
First time caller, long, long, long time listener.
Thank you.
Three observations.
Number one, there is enough oil wells already capped on the western slope of Colorado alone to keep us, this country in oil for the next 300 years.
Second thing, Halliburton, just Halliburton alone right now has over 500 active drill sites in the western slope of Colorado for natural gas and oil.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Halliburton doesn't drill that.
They're an oil services outfit.
They they provide equipment, but they don't they don't own the wells, do they?
They don't own the wells, but they are on over 500 wells, just them alone.
They are in such a boom economy right now on the western slope of Colorado based on energy alone is amazing.
Halliburton is trying to hire people at 35 bucks an hour just to monitor computers on active wells just to monitor the pumping out of the well.
Wow.
And they can't find enough people to work there.
Third thing, Rush.
I was in a extremely affluent university, private university yesterday having lunch with a dear friend.
My observation is out of 500 kids in this cafeteria, there was probably no more than three that could be classified as obese.
Really?
So you think we're being fed a myth here about obesity in schools?
Obesity is in the extremely economically depressed areas more so than they are in the people that are are in the upper crust of society because they obviously they're more educated, they're more affluent, they're more informed on how to better take care of themselves.
Yeah, but but but the the point is that the uh people in the lower income brackets don't have enough money to buy food.
Oh, they have enough money to buy food.
You think the subsidies is peanut butter, cheese, uh butter, dairy products is all given to them anyway.
They just don't take advantage of it.
They'd rather go to the bottom than you got a point there.
You do uh you you do have a point.
Uh look at you're singing my song on the oil.
You're singing my song on the supply, you're singing my song on the capped wells, and there's a bunch of them in Louisiana and Texas, too, from uh from back in the 70s.
Uh it is it is almost, like I said yesterday, it's almost as though that there is a powerful lobby in this country that wants to reduce our superpower status, wants to make us ever more and more dependent on energy so as to collapse our superpower status because they think we're the bad guys in the world.
They think we're hated because we're big and powerful, and they think we need to be cut down in size, and they think if there are other superpowers that the world will be safer.
And plus, they're from the blame America crowd.
The idea that that we have to import 65% of our oil is absurd.
We don't have to do it.
We are choosing to do it, or we're being bullied into doing it by the environmentalist wacko lobby and its association with the American left.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
An observation here about uh Mrs. Clinton.
And by the way, I want to go back, I want to go back to a term here that Kay from Medford, New Jersey used, because it is I mean, if it it's perfect, it fits.
Repetition compulsion.
Uh we all have it.
We like to do things like I obsess on these songs when I find a song I like, I'll listen to it for three days and nothing else.
Repetition compulsion.
And a lot of people do this in other areas of their life, keep going to the same places to eat, uh, choosing the same entree five or six days in a row once you have when you like this kind of thing.
The drive by media does this too.
The drive-by media has repetition compulsion.
And the rest of us are struggling to keep from being infected by it.
And the repetition compulsion consists of Republicans are racist, sexists, big and homophobes.
Uh, they hate the poor.
Uh they want to take the poor's can of beans and uh go back to their kitchens and open themselves and enjoy while knowing the poor is suffering.
All of these repetition compulsion.
That's why I am able to predict what the drive-bys are going to do before they do it, it is why I'm able to predict what the liberals are going to do before they do it.
Now back to Mrs. Clinton.
She was inevitable until she actually ran.
Have you everybody so caught up in the uncivil war and the entertainment factor here of Bill Clinton claiming that Obama interjected race and is putting out hit jobs on him?
But have you noticed what's had to happen here?
Uh I think one of the one of the best ways to expose Hillary is to show how far she fell in the real world.
Mrs. Clinton wasn't the only one who thought she was inevitable.
She actually was.
The whole Democrat Party thought she was inevitable until she ran.
She has the last name of a liberal icon, Clinton.
She has a first name known around the world, Hillary.
She has control of one of the most powerful national political machines in our history.
She is the most cheated on woman in the world.
She has the leading Democrat fundraiser.
She has the longest database of contributors, legal and illegal.
She was inevitable.
She was vacuuming up all of that money way before these other Democrats got in the race.
She has an army of battle-tested pollsters and spinners, investigators, hit men and hit women.
She has an under the radar gang of 527s with names that include the word America in them, like Media Matters for America, that really should be called Media Matters for Hillary.
the America Think Forward Progress There's so many Hillary front groups out there.
She was inevitable.
She even has a rigged primary calendar, a compressed primary schedule that favored the candidate with the greatest name recognition and money, and also favored the candidate with the most to lose by going out there and opening her mouth all the time.
The more she speaks, the more her numbers go down.
So they compressed all of this so that by February 5th, the race would be over.
With all of that, from the money on down to the machine to the inevitability of it all to all of the front group, to all of the George Soros money to from all of that.
Look where we are.
She went from inevitable to not so inevitable.
To maybe not inevitable.
And now people are asking, whoever said she was inevitable?
She did.
She was running on a coronation.
And a lot of people bought into it.
How did a woman?
I ask you this question.
How did a woman who is connected by chromosome to more than half the electorate?
That would be women for those of you in Rio Linda.
How did a woman connected by chromosome to more than half the electorate who doesn't have an experienced rival?
Don't tell me Edwards, don't tell me Obama.
She does not have an experienced rival.
How did that woman go from inevitable to down and dirty to the testicle lockbox to her red-faced husband showing that even he too gets PMS?
Mrs. Clinton says that she bears the scars of her health care plan defeat.
Actually, scars are a little too romantic.
Warriors bear scars.
Cosmetic surgery leaves scars.
The most cheated on woman in the world has emotional scars.
This health care plan defeat...
That was not a scar.
That was an F, a failed grade.
Blew it big time.
Same thing with handling the Paula Jones case.
Same thing with vising on other legal issues in the White House.
Her big success has actually been the 35 years of bimbo eruptions, ruining the reputations of the pretty girls that bopped up and said that they had had affairs with Bill Clinton, or warning the pretty girls who were gonna pop up and say that that they'd better not.
The bimbo eruption operation, that was pretty successful out there.
Gets an F. So where did inevitable ever come from in the first place?
They got it out there.
Plus, she's owed this.
As Charles Krauthammer said, this is one huge alimony check she is cashing.
A coronation for the presidency, an inevitable campaign.
I'm beginning to wonder, though, will Mrs. Clinton's White House run be as big a failure as her health care plan.
Because I really want to know, how do you go from inevitable to people now asking whoever said she was inevitable?
Well, she was inevitable and heading down that path to the coronation until one little grim reality got in the way.
And that is she had to campaign.
Try this headline here.
This is uh Charles Babbington in the Associated Press.
Obama criticizes Clinton's candor.
What a hell Clinton's candor, candor means honesty.
Uh if you read this, though, the headline is totally misrepresentative of what the story is all about.
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