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Feb. 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
This is a fine cigar.
Here we are, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the fastest week in media.
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And what a week it was, and the week is not over.
The week is not over until we finish on Friday at the EIB Network.
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Snurgly, this ought to be good today.
Because on Friday, as you know, we change the rules for who we let on the program on the phones.
Monday through Thursday, you got to talk what I care about.
You speak about what I care about, or you don't stand a prayer.
And on Friday, we go to the phones.
The show is yours.
Pretty much whatever you want to talk about.
You can plan, you can whine, you can moan, you can celebrate, you can ask questions.
Feel free to have at it.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have decided, I cannot believe, stand by, by the way, audio soundbites one and two, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
I cannot believe that I let my guard down as easily as it happened.
This just goes to show.
This incident just goes to show how easy it is to lose one's vigilance.
As you know, the past two days, we've been hearing sob stories from the Clinton campaign about how she's out of money, about how she had to borrow $5 million from either herself or her husband, how the staff is not being paid.
None of it was true.
Not one word of it is true.
I mean, she might have borrowed $5 million.
She is not out of money by any stretch.
Her staffers are being paid.
We have two stories on this from ABC News.
We were clearly lied to.
And this is where the vigilance fell.
It's the Clintons.
We should have always suspected a lie.
The whole thing was a ruse to gin up fundraising because she is lagging behind Barack Obama, but she's not out of money.
The whole thing was a flat-out lie from top to bottom.
And so as you know, if you were here yesterday, I have listened carefully to what the Republican Party's strategy is for defeating Mrs. Clinton.
And it is this.
They are going to rely on the hatred and the loathing for Mrs. Clinton, the fear of Mrs. Clinton to rally Republicans and conservatives to vote against her.
Rather than offer genuine leadership from our own party, they are going to rely on your hatred, your disgust, your loathing, and your fear for Mrs. Clinton to rally you to the Republican side and Senator McCain just to keep her out of the White House.
So I thought, you know, being loyal to the party here to show that there are no hard feelings over any, I was going to help that prospect along.
So going to do a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton.
Even came up with a slogan, keep her in it so we can win it.
We even got a little banner at rushlimbaugh.com to that we were going to get printed up.
And I was thinking very seriously about actually doing this on the air here.
I wasn't going to ask you people to send a lot of money, just a buck or two.
There's a lot of you out there.
You can seriously help.
But I'm canceling the fundraiser.
It's no longer necessary.
The whole thing was a lie.
There will be no fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton.
She's doing just fine.
So you're going to have to come up with your fear and loathing of her on your own.
I mean, I'll be in there, but I doubt that you'll need much assistance on that.
I also predicted off air yesterday to my trusted and loyal staff here that members of the drive-by media would fall hook, line, and sinker for this and would report that I was so angry at McCain being the presumptive Republican nominee,
so angry at having lost my mojo, so angry at being rejected by my own party that I, in a fit of peak, in a fit of anger, would run out and publicly support Mrs. Clinton.
And it happened.
It happened in two places.
Diane Sawyer and local CBS Channel 2 in New York.
Now, Diane Sawyer, she's on the edge here of not getting it or getting it.
But it could not have been more clear what this was.
In fact, I even said yesterday, snurdly asked me, well, you endorsed Howard Dennis.
I'm not endorsing Hillary.
I'm just thinking about raising money for her to help further the Republican strategy, making sure she's a nominee, keep her in it so we can win it.
Let's go to the audio tape.
Good morning, America, today.
Diane Sawyer with Newt Gingrich about me and Senator McCain.
Sawyer says I'm going to play Rush Limbaugh's response of the call for calm.
We've got to calm down.
That's what you say to six-year-olds.
And just yesterday, Rush Limbaugh, as we know, a conservative talk show host on the radio, said that he's even thinking about helping Senator Clinton, Hillary Clinton, raise money.
Said, perhaps ironically, but this doesn't sound like a group of conservatives coming around.
I'm going to try to outline the notion that maybe it'll be healthy for conservatives to start a new presidency by understanding that you've got to measure every single proposal.
You've got to oppose the ones that are wrong and before the ones that are right.
But it's not about a yes-no test on one personality.
I think issue by issue, we'll sometimes fight Senator McCain and we'll sometimes be for him.
All right.
So I'm going to leave all the McCain stuff aside for today.
I've got some emails I'm going to read to you from people who are royally angry at me.
The emails continue to pour in in record numbers.
But you see, Diane Sawyer said, perhaps ironically, but this doesn't sound like a group of conservatives coming.
Diane, the whole point of raising money for Hillary was to help the Republican Party because their strategy is they can easily beat her, more so than Obama.
Let's move on to New York, WCBS TV Channel 2.
They took it dead seriously.
This is the morning show today, and there are anchors Maurice Dubois and Kate Sullivan.
Shortly after the announcement, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that to combat McCain, he may raise money for Hillary Clinton.
The reason for raising money for Hillary is because apparently my party is relying on fear and loathing of Hillary to get the nomination to unite Republicans, who are some of them off the reservation.
Fascinating in politics, not only on the Democratic side, but the Republican side.
And now with Nick Romney dropping out.
Plot Dickens.
Yes, very interesting.
You know, these drive-by media people are so predictable.
I was telling somebody this morning, their focus is so narrow.
Their cliched, stereotypical view of conservatives and me is so narrow, they haven't the slightest.
It could not have been more plain yesterday.
It could not have been clearer.
They think that I am in a fit of peak, even after playing my soundbite.
And I am so upset that Romney dropped out, that McCain's the nominee, that I'm going to go raise money for Hillary Clinton.
It didn't dawn on them that I was being loyal to the party.
Here's some of the emails.
Dear Rush, I've always listened and agreed to what you have to say.
I'm a lifelong conservative Republican from Alabama.
I love President Bush.
I can proudly say that the first president I ever voted for was Reagan.
I was so excited to vote as a college student at Auburn.
You have always been an intelligent person in the political area of life, yet I am so disappointed in how you are damaging this wonderful party of ours.
Ronald Reagan would be horrified with your actions.
To suggest that we should not support Senator McCain is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.
Personally, I love Governor Huckabee, but I will support Senator McCain if he's my party's choice.
Do I want Hillary Black Panther supporter Clinton or Obama so smooth it's scary to be my next president?
No.
You've lost it.
You need to go on vacation, reevaluate the harm you're doing.
My soccer mom coffee group of conservative Republicans have all agreed.
We can no longer listen to your show.
Get a clue, Rush.
Dear Rush, this is from R.B. Littleton.
The next one, Sue Bigsby, Orlando, Florida.
Rush, what's with you?
Did your addiction to the synthetic heroin kill off that many brain cells that you're taking such an incredibly stupid stand in this election?
If you're still enfranchised and actually have a vote to hold hostage, you're essentially voting for the socialist opponent.
This election has two clear choices, socialism or democracy.
You're very disappointing.
You've become a kook.
Goodbye and good riddance, Rush.
Sue Bigsby, Orlando, Florida, conservative Republican, member of conservative Lutheran WELS Church.
Dear Rush, you have such power.
We have to vote for McCain.
Please get behind our candidate.
Is there going to be another choice?
Hillary or Obama is not a choice.
If they win, we're in deep doo-doo.
I have a daughter serving in the U.S. Navy.
We will be deployed soon.
She'll be deployed soon to the Persian Gulf.
Please use your power to elect a Republican.
Thank you, Sarah.
Please.
Mike in Watertown, New York.
Dear Rush, it is possible that in a time when WMDs existed, Rush Limbaugh will go down in history as the name of the person who helped elect a President Obama or Clinton whose foreign and security policies were so destructive that America was never able to recover from them, no matter how hard the conservative president that followed tried.
Survival of America, Rush, and you are on the wrong side.
Now, I know what this is all in response.
It's not in reaction to anything I've actually said on the program.
It is a reaction to a quote that has been in the drive-bys that was in Howard Kurtz's piece last Tuesday.
And the quote was, if I believe, if being the operative word here, if I believe that there will be no difference between a Hillary or Obama or McCain candidacy, and if I believe the country is going to go down the tubes with either of the three, I would just assume the Democrats take the hit.
That is the quote that has spawned all of this.
And of course, the drive-bys are getting so much of this wrong as they extrapolate it, just as they got wrong my attempt here to save Hillary's candidacy by raising money for it.
But regardless, that's what it is.
But the operative word there is if this is November, I'm talking about down the road.
It's a long time between now and the general election.
The quote in the Kurt's story was not meant to indicate I had made up my mind.
Anyway, a brief time out.
We've got lots to do on the program today.
Sit tight.
Open Line Friday continues after this.
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Get this.
Regulators said today they were reviewing the safety of Botox, Allergen Inc.'s Botox.
That'd be Allergan or Allergen Incorporated as Botox in a competing product after reports of deaths and serious reactions in some patients.
Wow.
So after the Senate finishes investigating Arlen Spur or Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots, and that they finish investigating Roger Clemens and his trainer, they're going to now have hearings or investigations on Botox.
You know, that makes me wonder if Hillary is going to hold hearings on this in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi hold hearings on this in the House.
How far call themselves as witnesses, how far do you think these Botox hearings are going to get, folks?
Especially when Kerry carries over there in the haughty John Kerry.
More audio sound bites as you get these out of the way.
Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough's show this morning, talking about me and Hillary.
Republican talk show people like Rush Limbaugh, they wouldn't be so unhappy to have Hillary Clinton to beat up for four or eight years, especially four years.
Imagine Hillary Clinton is president for a couple months with about a one-point advantage come into office.
They will crash around her, hitting her with everything they got.
She won't get a three-second honeymoon.
They'll be in heaven.
Boy, is this back to the same old Chris?
It had been 20 years.
When are you people going to get it through your head?
Who wins elections is irrelevant to me in terms of my success.
It doesn't matter.
My success is not dependent on who wins elections.
I don't want Hillary to win.
So I'll have exciting shows for four or eight years.
It would be pure agony to deal with that bunch in the White House and in Washington again.
And Matthews continues his rant.
Chris Limbaugh will be in heaven.
Their ratings will go through the roof.
Roger Ailes will be in, he'll be a Neptune.
He'll be so happy.
Because all they'll do every day is say, how do we beat up Hillary Clinton today?
Unless occasionally she starts a war and then they'll give her a parade.
And they'll give her a parade every day she starts a war.
But if she's not starting a war, they'll kill her.
You know, the dirty little secret here is that Chris Matthews has been on the anti-Hillary Clinton bandwagon.
He'd been on a tear against her for weeks now, if not months.
It is clear that he's chosen Obama.
And now this transference, this projection, saying that what we want is Hillary to have, if that's the case, we ought to, caught myself.
Caught myself on that.
If we want Hillary, wouldn't it be wise to nominate somebody we think is going to lose?
And if we're going to nominate somebody you think is going to lose, wouldn't it be wise for me to support that nominee?
Guys are so dense.
It's never going to change.
They are who they are, and it's not going to change.
All right, aside from these soundbites, and a couple others out there, but in the drive-by media today, and we did a careful perusal here during show prep, and all of a sudden, within 24 hours, it's not Limbaugh versus McCain anymore.
There are some references to me, in fact, having lost to McCain again and so forth.
They're very hard to find.
Instead, now, like, here's the Associated Press, a story by Libby Quaid.
It's no longer Limbaugh versus McCain, it's the issues.
After McCain's got it sewn up, now the drive-bys are telling everybody about the issues that conservatives, issue problems conservatives had with Senator McCain.
Some may still have.
While Republican John McCain's urging his conservative critics to rally around his campaign, there's a lot of water under that bridge.
Here are the top 10 reasons sub-conservatives dislike McCain.
One, campaign finance reform, two, immigration, three tax cuts, four, gay marriage, five stem cell research, six, global warming, seven, gang of 14, eight, carry and the vice presidential thing.
Number nine, works with Democrats.
Number 10, belligerence.
Fine and dandy.
Where was this before McCain got the nomination or before he became the presumptive nominee?
Prior to that, it was Limbaugh versus McCain.
It wasn't even Romney versus McCain.
Now that McCain's the presumptive nominee, the drive-bys, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, they start telling people what McCain's deficiencies are.
And this is the first step in the reporting of the record.
Now here's Libby Quaid again in a different AP story.
This is about all of McCain's missed votes.
Now the AP going into an attack mode on McCain.
Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain has skipped more than half the Senate's votes in the past year, but he showed up Thursday to help pass a bill to stimulate the faldering economy.
Which, by the way, at CPAC yesterday, Senator McCain was going on and on and on about busting the budget.
No more pork, no more earmarks.
We're going to government smaller.
And then shows up to vote for the stimulus package.
Look, there's nothing we can do to stop this, ladies and gentlemen.
The stimulus pack is what it is.
I think they did eliminate the stimulus checks to the illegals.
But they've added seasoned citizens and who?
Disable vets.
Right, Nate?
Right.
They pulled it back to the limits in the House.
The upper-income people are not going to get anything.
So, no, I'm not going to get a check.
You're not going to get a check, Snerdy.
You're not going to check Dawn.
Brian, even you are not going to check, get one.
And I know many of you who are going to get checks would love to thank me and all the rest of us who aren't getting checks because we're paying for your checks.
But don't thank me.
Don't thank Snerdley.
Don't thank any of us for the $300, $600, or $1,200 you're going to get because I had no say in the matter.
Your Congress either wants to save the economy or save their seats.
And I guarantee you, it's the latter.
I mean, I don't want to begrudge those of you who are going to be giving your checks, the socialist gift of the month.
And I and Snerdley and Dawn and Brian, all the rest of us who are not going to get checks, we have no choice whether to pay you your checks or not.
But I do wish the government, I really, for once, I wish the government would be decent and send the checks out under my name and Snerdley's name.
I wish if you're getting a stimulus check, this check, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh, this check, courtesy of Beau Snerdley, not your federal government, but us.
Just once.
I know.
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh, a man, a living legend, a way of life, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, national treasure, and recognized prophet.
Here on Open Line Friday at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's attack time in the drive-bys.
After this story talks about all the votes that McCain missed, after a speech appealing to conservative activists who have largely shunned his candidacy, McCain voted with 32 other Senate Republicans to pass the stimulus package.
Almost every Republican lined up to shake his hand, congratulate him, who only a few hours earlier sealed his hold on the presidential nomination by suggesting he was going to be a big budget cutter and pork buster.
Now, this is the kind of thing you better get ready for, folks.
This is just the first of the stream.
It's going to start very mild, but now that he's the presumptive nominee, the drive-bys are going to start their little hits, their little attack time.
One senator stayed seated, didn't come to the well to vote until McCain had left, and that's Larry Craig of Idaho, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
It's very hard, obviously.
I've missed a lot of votes.
There's no doubt about it, said McCain during a flight from Phoenix to Washington.
Obama and Clinton have missed fewer votes than Senator McCain.
I'm reading for the AP here, folks.
We're being critical of Senator McCain.
I'm just telling you what the AP is saying.
Obama's missed about 40%.
Clinton's missed 24%.
McCain has missed a larger percentage of votes than that.
What's the next story here?
Oh, yeah.
McCain not yet energizing conservatives.
Jim Kunin, the Associated Press.
Among the cheers at CPAC, there were booze.
Placards denounced McCain's past support for changes in immigration policies.
In the halls, public and private arguments erupted over his candidacy.
McCain has angered conservatives over the years for working with...
What's that?
McCain has angered conservatives.
I thought he just angered talk show hosts.
Am I reading this right?
The Associated Press says McCain has angered conservatives over the years.
I could have sworn him in the last two weeks it was only talk show hosts that didn't like Senator McCain or gotten angered by him.
Let's see.
The next one in this stack is that.
Oh.
Well, this is interesting.
Who's talking about it?
Ralph Reed.
He's walking a very fine line, but in a closely fought competitive campaign that I think will be decided by a few points, Senator McCain's going to need the conservative grassroots of the party in the boat.
Really?
Well, I know I've said that, but that's not what the drive-bys have been saying.
The drive-bys have been saying that he doesn't need conservatives, that he's going to get in moderates and independents and so forth.
And then there's this Liz Sadoti at Sadati, another she pronounced, AP, that leaves McCain, whose independent streak rankles many in the Republican rank and file.
Wait, I thought McCain's independent streak only angered talk show hosts.
What's happening here in the drive-by media?
All of a sudden now, that leaves McCain, whose independent streak rankles many in the Republican rank and file.
I thought it was just these extremist kook conservatives like me and the talk show hosts that McCain rankled.
Anyway, just get ready for this, folks, because I warned you about it.
Nothing that you can't deal with.
I'm just telling you where the drive-bys' hearts and minds lie, and you will see it very subtly, as I have pointed out to you here at first, but then it will expand and it will confound and it will be amplified even more.
Three more soundbites, and we'll go to the phones.
Before I play the sound bite, I need to ask those of you who were listening to this program at about this time yesterday, the first half hour of this program yesterday, I want to ask all of you, Mr. Snurdly, Don, did I, on this program yesterday, what do they say here?
Did I suggest that Mike Huckabee should be McCain's vice presidential numb?
I did not say that at all, did I?
Did I praise Huckabee on this program yesterday and suggest that that would be my choice to make this ticket one I could support?
All right, I didn't think so, but I say a lot.
And sometimes it's hard to remember specifically without checking the transcript.
Let's go to Tucker Carlson.
Last night, his show, and he had David Schuster and McCain campaign advisor Frank Donatelli.
Mike Huckabee got some praise today from Rush Limbaugh, who, as you know, has suggested that McCain does not represent his view of the Republican Party.
And there was Rush Limbaugh today praising Mike Huckabee.
And he said, Republicans cannot win the White House, cannot win a presidential race without winning in the South.
And McCain demonstrated he can't do that unless he puts the huckster on the ticket as the V. What's your reaction?
What's the McCain campaign reaction to this blatant suggestion that Mike Huckabee ought to be John McCain's running mate?
Well, I'm delighted that Rush has changed his mind on Mike Huckabee.
You know, he was critical of him for many months.
Maybe he'll change his opinion on us and give Senator McCain a little benefit of the doubt in the near future.
You know what alerted me to this?
I was sitting at home last night.
I was minding my own business, just relaxing, and all of a sudden I got four or five emails from people who hadn't heard the program yesterday.
Did you endorse Huckabee as vice president?
Did you say you would support that?
No, I did.
Well, they're saying it all over MSNBC that you did.
I think what I said here yesterday was talking about regional politics.
And I did point out McCain won his Super Tuesday votes in these blue states that he's not going to carry in the general election.
And he's going to need somebody to get Southern votes because he didn't get them.
And Huckabee did.
I think what I actually said was during the course of the program yesterday that McCain's going to throw Huckabee overboard now that he doesn't need him.
Huckabee's been around to split the Romney vote.
But now, there's no way.
In fact, I said yesterday that McCain's not going to put Huckabee on the ticket.
There's no way he's going to do that.
It's going to happen.
He's going to throw him overboard.
So from the endorsement of the fundraiser of Hillary to this, your host being misrepresented profoundly on the drive by media.
Hardball with Chris Matthews, spoke with reporter David Schuster, part of the previous soundbite.
Also, Chris Jeff Freeland from the Financial Times.
And Matthews says, what's Huckabee's stake in your black eye?
What's his role?
To rally people like Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh today said that if John McCain wants to win the presidency, he's got to put Mike Huckabee on the ticket.
And they want to show John McCain that, look, you need us.
If you want to carry the South, if you want to get evangelicals behind your candidacy, put me, Mike Huckabee, on the ticket, or at least recognize some of the issues that we care so deeply about.
Chris, is Rush Limbaugh now boss Tweed?
Is that his role, King caucus?
Does he now dictate these things?
Is he the kingfish of the Republican Party now?
Well, I think he would certainly like to be, and I think he needs to be a little bit careful not to overstep the mark.
You know, for one thing, John McCain historically has not been that good at listening to bosses tweed.
His personality is a little bit averse to that sort of thing.
Folks, it's a Twilight Zone.
That's Chris Jeffreeland of the Financial Times.
Is Rush Limbaugh the boss tweet?
After just writing, after just broadcasting it, I have lost totally because McCain is the presumptive nominee.
Oh, because they misunderstood what I said about Huckabee yesterday.
Think that I have advocated Huckabee on the ticket.
All of a sudden, now I'm boss Tweed, the kingfish.
King caucus, does he dictate?
Do I dictate?
I tell you, the Limbaugh machine, they are bugged.
I didn't even say, I did not say I'd support the ticket with Huckabee on it.
I didn't even recommend it.
I said McCain's going to need somebody in the South to get votes.
Huckabee Shoney could.
I said McCain's going to throw Huckabee overboard.
Now that he's through with him, one more on this morning Joe today.
Scarborough Show, MSNBC, Chuck Todd, their political director, and Scarborough on the phone all had this exchange about me.
Rush Limbaugh said the other morning about, well, if John McCain wants to unite conservatives, especially in the South, and be competitive, he ought to put Mike Huckabee on the ticket.
This is where I'm confused by Rush.
I thought a week ago he said that if either McCain or Huckabee were the nominee, it would ruin the Republican Party.
Now he thinks the two of them should run as a ticket.
That is very confusing.
It's only confusing, Joe, because I didn't say it.
Your reporter, Schuster, cannot get this right.
But neither could CBS in New York get right my Hillary fundraiser purpose.
Diane Sawyer was on the verge of not getting it.
You all are in good company.
CNN, the Situation Room correspondent Mary Snow.
CNN comes close to getting it right on this.
Don't expect conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh to hop on the Huckabee bandwagon anytime soon.
Limbaugh has been highly critical of McCain and raised this question on his nationally syndicated radio talk show.
Now what's going to happen is all of us, okay, who's the conservative alternative?
You got to go to Huckabee now, Rush.
There is no conservative alternative in the race.
It's just that simple.
So CNN gets it.
Comes close.
PMS NBC doesn't.
It's, I don't know.
So now I'm tribal chieftain.
I'm leading a herd, King Caucus, boss Tweed, Kingfish, Potentate, Kingmaker, and who knows what else coming down the pike.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh from the heavily fortified and secured EIB Southern Command.
And we now start on the phones.
Appreciate your patience out there.
Karina in Kinnebunkport, Maine.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Oh, it's a delight to talk to you.
And Michael Dittos from beautiful, snowy New England.
Thanks very much.
Well, the reason I wanted to call is because I'm going to, this is probably a bad pun, but I'm going to rush to your defense.
Anybody who thinks that you would suddenly support Hillary Clinton clearly is not a ditto head.
It can't be.
When I first heard it, I was like, okay, so what's the punchline?
And then everybody seems to be so serious.
Oh, well, no, he's supporting Hillary.
And I thought, no, that can't be.
And then one of your letters, the person had said that something about Ronald Reagan would be horrified.
I think Ronald Reagan would have laughed and offered to donate a toilet to collect the funds then.
This is a donated a toilet to collect the funds for Mrs. Clinton.
You know, I'll tell you why.
Karina, I appreciate this.
I appreciate your intelligence, your perceptiveness in understanding this.
But the reason something this is allowed to take, like this is allowed to take hold that I would actually support Mrs. Clinton and vote for her.
What is the drive-bys have chronicled my problems with Senator McCain, so it's easy for them to then extrapolate, say, this guy's got a problem with McCain so much, he might vote Hillary, and it puts that out there and people see it and think, whoa, I didn't hear Rush say this, and they start writing emails and so forth.
But look, But it's still, it doesn't make sense because even if you hear it in the drive-by media, you've got to understand that the drive-by media often gets it wrong more often than not.
And especially they did it wrong.
Let me tell you something.
That may well be, but I'm going to tell you the bottom line here, Karina, for all the drive-by media and the power and the monopoly they have lost.
I'm here to tell you that the drive-by media has chosen our candidate, and the drive-by media is going to choose a Democrat candidate.
And right now, it looks if the drive-bys get their way, they did on our side, if the drive-bys get their way on the Democrat side, it's going to be Obama.
Yeah, I believe it.
I totally believe it.
Well, I can say at least one good thing about Maine.
Maine voted for Romney.
So there's a little bit of sense out there in the world still.
Yeah, the drive-bys didn't report that, though, when Mitt Romney won the Maine primary of the Clark says.
He didn't get any of that reported.
Thanks for the call, Karina.
Appreciate it.
This is Brian in New Orleans.
Nice to have you, sir.
Hello.
Rush, mega, mega, bayou state where every man's a king, no one wears a crown, LSU Tiger National Championship did it.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
Great to have you here.
Yes, sir.
I was calling because, as you may or may not know, Barack Obama was in New Orleans yesterday, and I thought it was interesting that he talked a lot about, of course, you know, trying to say that the slow recovery here has to do because there's a large African-American population, even though we all know Katrina was an equal opportunity destroyer.
But he was talking about the.
Wait, wait, I want to understand this.
Barack Obama's in New Orleans, and he said that the slow recovery there has to do because there's a large bunch of African Americans, and that means the country doesn't care, so they're not helping him to recover.
It's what he alluded to, not in so many words.
Yes, sir.
And he also talked one of the things I thought that was funny.
He talked about he wanted to give an annual tax credit for students to make college more affordable.
Yet he gave this speech from Tulane University, which cost about $40,000 a year to go to.
I thought that was pretty interesting.
He also talked about, you know, again, about our recovery post-Katrina, but he was the one that voted against a key piece of legislation in the Senate that was going to help restore our coast.
And he voted against it and had the audacity to, you know, criticize the federal government for being slow on recovery.
So the reason why I was calling, and what I wanted to really hear you opine on today was what is the phenomenon with this guy?
Why they have all these people that follow him like a blind cult, like he's a one-man Grateful Dead concert.
I call him the Obamunists, the people that follow Barack Obama, the Obamist.
It is strictly a cult personality.
It has nothing to do with the issues.
You could go down every list of liberal things that he supports.
Yeah, that college tuition thing.
Dirty little secret on that is that liberals in Washington are offering, what did he say, tax credits?
He wanted to offer like a $4,000 tax credit in exchange for, you know, I think for maybe volunteering in the community or something.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not a good question.
See, guess what that ends up doing?
If you offer a $4,000 tax credit to help you with college tuition, guess what the colleges are free to do?
Raise tuition.
Exactly.
And that's exactly what liberals want.
Look, liberals are liberals first, and they hang together.
And liberals run most of the Ivy League universities, well, all of them, a good number of the universities in the country.
You never hear the liberals when they complain about Walmart or big oil.
You never hear them talking about the exorbitant increases in tuition costs.
You never hear them complain about the cost of college.
All you hear them talk about how is a student loan program is not sufficient.
And the payback problem in the student loan program is too punitive.
And we need more student loans and we need more Pell Grants.
You never hear them talk about any kind of control over the out-of-control rise in tuition costs because they want a lot of high tuitions to keep liberal buddies paid well enough as professors and presidents and so forth.
Want liberals to continue to populate these campuses because that's where the propagandizing of the American youth takes place as American youth become adults.
So, you know, you're going to go crazy if you start at this stage anyway, if you start analyzing Obama issue by issue and asking why people support him.
He's a big lib, and libs are going to support him on that basis.
But his appeal right now is above and beyond.
It's almost messianic.
He's a messiah.
He's for change.
He's young.
He's youthful.
He's JFK.
He's Camelot.
I mean, people will show up and listen to Obama speak and say nothing, but say it well, and they will literally start crying.
You see this headline?
Sadness may encourage more extravagance?
Hmm.
We're going to have to explore this.
Lots of other things like that as the program unfolds today.
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