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Feb. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 11, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, I spent a lot of time, I was in the airplane a lot, so I'm watching a lot of news.
I essentially flew ten hours for a four hour dinner.
It's cool.
It was fun.
Out to California.
And I noticed something.
And at first it kind of went over my head, because I don't make things about me.
Other people are doing that, but not I. I kept noticing all these pundits on all these chat shows saying, yeah, you know, the press, they really want Obama to win.
They really want Obama to do well.
And of course, it kind of went over my head.
Of course, I know they want him to do other than the press is right now, obviously pulling for Obama.
There's no question about it.
I mean, they like excitement.
They like something other than what the conventional wisdom is.
They like unpredictability and so forth.
And then listening to one of these pundits, I got I got smacked upside the head.
One of the opponents said, Yeah, the press, National Press Corps, the Washington Press Court, they want Obama to do well.
They want the black guy to do well.
And I said, whoa.
Wait a minute.
Let some guy on ESPN say that about a quarterback that the press wants a quarter black quarterback that the country shuts down for three days.
The whole NFL season got hijacked because of that guy on television making that claim that the media wanted a black quarterback to do well.
He really wasn't all that great what everybody was saying, but uh they just want him to do well.
And the same thing is being said about Obama.
He doesn't have all that much experience, and he probably is not the most qualified, but that we really want him to do us a shazam.
And nobody says a word.
In fact, it even as I say it went over my head, folks.
But let that guy on television say it about McNabb in the media.
Country shuts down for three days, NFL goes into a uh a major tizzy, and the season gets hijacked.
Speaking of uh Obama, you know, I I I've been catching a lot of heat for a lot of things as your host.
But I I want to tell you people somehow from the bottom of my heart.
I have never wavered, I do not moisten my finger, put it up in the wind to see which way the wind's blowing and get in front of it.
Meaning I never try to anticipate what you want or what you think, and say it just so that you will like me.
And listen, if it ever gets to the point that 99% of you think that I'm all wet or wrong about something, and I don't think I'm wrong.
I'm not siding with the 99%.
I'm gonna stay true to my principles, convictions, using my intelligence guided by experience.
One of the things that I have been catching heat over is this.
For the course of this recent campaign, uh when it has been said of Senator McCain that uh we can't afford to entrust the presidency to anybody else because the war in Iraq, he's the one guy that he's not gonna buckle.
You can't tell Hillary Obama, listen, they're gonna pull us out of there, they're gonna secure defeat.
And I've always said, no.
You're wrong.
The Democrats would love to saddle us with defeat, while our president is in the White House, they would love to saddle Bush with the defeat.
They would love to gum up and sabotage the war on terror so that Bush would take the hit to improve their electoral chances in 2008.
But so once they get into office, they're not gonna pull out of there, they're not gonna secure defeat, they're not gonna raise the white flag on their watch.
This is all smoke and mirrors.
And people say, you're crazy.
You don't know what you're talking about.
I said, I've heard them say it.
I said it in a debate.
They said it in a debate.
They were all asked the question will you commit to getting all troops out of Iraq by 2012, the end of your first term.
Edwards, Richardson, Hillary, Obama.
The only well, the only guy who said yes was Kucinich.
They all said no.
I will Edwards, I will not make that pledge.
Let me and I'm I made this statement, by the way, because I think it's silly to assume that let's just stick to the Republican side.
It's silly to assume we only have one candidate.
Who's going to do the right thing on American foreign policy?
It's absurd to think we've only got one candidate who's going to prosecute the war on terror correctly and defend and protect the nation's safety, security, and constitution.
But that would nevertheless that's where we are.
I think it's absurd, it gets ridiculous.
I think any of the people on the Republican side could be just as other than Ron Paul.
I mean, you know, you always got a wild card uh in uh in every deck, uh, but but but of the serious contenders here.
There's never any question.
The only thing about Huckabee is you wonder about his experience with it, uh being a governor.
I don't even think he ever called out the National Guard.
You remember when Bill Clinton ran for president, he said, I do have military experience.
You know, Limbaugh's out there saying I load the military not doing all that, but I I have experience with the military.
I have called out the National Guard on riot gear a couple times.
I understand what it is a deal with the military.
He was using that example.
I don't know even Huckabee has done that.
But let's go.
I'm gonna I'm gonna play this audio soundbite of me, and this is from January 31st of this year.
The dirty little secret is there is no Democrat presidential candidate who is going to saddle himself or herself and his party with defeat in the war in Iraq and the war on terror while they're in the White House.
They would love to have been able to pressure Bush.
They're not gonna be able to do that.
They would have loved to have been able to pressure Bush to get the troops out so they could say Bush lost the war, Bush admits it was horrible, it's a big mistake.
But when they're in power, they're in the White House.
I'll guarantee you they are not gonna pull troops out of there unless they can claim that victory has been had.
Guarantee you.
So there's no candidate other than Kucinich.
Huckabee Romney McCain, Hillary Obama, all five are gonna leave troops where they are.
And of course, you people think I'm nuts.
I've lost uh let's go to 60 minutes last night on CBS.
Uh Steve Croft interviewed Barack Obama, and this is a this is a line buried in this Obama puff piece on 60 Minutes Last Night.
Steve Croft says you will remove all troops by the end of 2009, regardless of the situation, even if there's serious sectarian violence.
So uh I always reserve as uh commander-in-chief the right to assess the situation.
Bingo!
Here he had a chance.
He's running for the Democrat nomination.
The cook fringe cares about this more than anything else.
He had a chance to continue to appeal to him.
Nope, because this is 60 minutes.
You can't go in 60 minutes and not say anything.
Real well.
You gotta say something on 60 minutes, going to ask you questions.
So he was asked, you're gonna get out by 2009, regardless?
No.
Didn't even hesitate.
No.
As commander in chief, I reserve the right to assess.
Translation.
Let's say he's elected.
Second week in office, first week in office, the fringe kooks of the Democrat Party are demanding they're marching in the White House out of Iraq now.
Obama says, I hear you.
I'm sympathetic.
But I didn't know a bunch of stuff until I got here.
The Bush administration had not been uh forthcoming with us, as you know, they tried to hide a bunch of things.
And I hope, he will say, I hope that we can leave soon.
My hope is that we will be able to get out of there as soon as possible, but I have assessed the situation, and I am telling you tonight that this is not the best or the right time to do it.
But I hope that I will be able to revise this uh policy in uh in coming months.
Mark my words, folks.
So if this is look at don't misunderstand.
I don't want a Democrat in charge of foreign policy.
I don't I don't I don't want a Democrat or liberal in charge of U.S. military.
Don't misunderstand I'm but I'm just telling you that the idea that there's only one person out there that's gonna, you know, do the right thing when it comes to Iraq and the war on terror uh instinctively is you're you're you're you're whistling, you're whistling Dixie.
Now, another thing, before we go to the break, people this was last night I was finishing show prep, and a dear, dear friend of mine in New York, very, very much worried about me.
Rush, what you're gonna endorse McCain at some point, are you?
I mean, I mean you know, he's probably gonna lose anyway, but if you don't endorse him, you're going to get the blame.
The whole Republican Party is going to blame you.
I wrote back, how?
I'm irrelevant.
I have been defeated.
I have been um I have been relegated to the ash heap of the past.
No, no, no, that's all, you know that's not true.
They wish you were there, but you're never going to go there.
She wrote back, you are going to get blamed for it.
And I said, No, I'm not.
I mean, some people will, but I laid down the marker on this last week.
Let me lay it down again.
A lot of people, uh, not just my friend in New York have been writing expressing this sentiment to me.
This is the big point.
The failure of establishment Republicans, whether they be members of Congress, Washington and New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community.
The failure of those people to uphold conservative principles during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they are now complaining about.
This mess, this supposed fracture in the Republican Party, where everybody else has seen the light, but the talk show hosts are now Maoists, Trotskyites, Stalinists.
We've been isolated over here.
And we're being blamed for the problems they created.
But this mess that exists is a reaction to them and their failures and their false promises.
Now, these these very same people are now demanding that the people they took for granted continue to follow them, continue to be swayed by their demeaning and condescending lectures.
You know, it wasn't that long ago when when these people were on board.
But but in the past ten years, they have sought a new definition of conservatism.
And they've sought to put themselves at the head of it.
And it is a new definition of conservatism that is not conservative.
This new definition of conservatism cannot be conservative because it requires, it relies on an expanding government to accomplish the so-called big ideas, when in fact, you know what's really wrong with this campaign?
Bob Herbert, of all people that I'm going to agree with.
Bob Herbert in the New York Times.
He's a liberal who writes for liberals in the New York Times.
We have some conservatives who write for liberals on that paper, but he's a liberal who writes for liberals, and he's asking basically about the Obama campaigns.
Where's the big idea?
But you could ask that about anybody running.
Where is the big idea?
What is the big idea?
Is anybody running on a big idea?
Is that Obama clearly isn't?
Hillary clearly isn't.
Uh what's the big idea?
It's out there.
It's waiting to be grasped, embraced, and turned into a huge majority landslide victory.
But nobody wants to embrace it.
And that is Reaganism, constitutional conservatism.
Instead, people are abandoning that, and now blaming people like me for not abandoning it too.
Well, it isn't gonna be my fault if things go to hell in a handbasket this November, and I have no idea how they're gonna go.
That the truth of the matter is this isn't about Rush Limbaugh, it isn't about any single person.
Uh the same people in Washington and New York who like to write op-eds and editorials to themselves to show how smart they are and how in touch they are, missing what's going on.
I don't control the real disaffection conservatives are feeling for the Republican Party and for Washington generally.
This isn't some manufactured view that's turned on or off by me among my audience.
This is the result of years of contempt for the grassroots, years of neglect, false promises, pseudo-conservatism.
I mean, you can look.
McCain became the presumptive winner after Super Tuesday.
There have been four primaries since.
And other than the state of Washington, where um the party got involved there, he's not you would you would think, wouldn't you, that a party excited about the nominee in coming debates, coming votes, coming primaries, would rally behind that candidate to send a signal to the Democrats, to send a signal to the country.
It's not happening.
And it ain't, it's not because of me.
Everybody knows these conservatives and our base, they're independent thinkers.
And so this, you know, this idea here that those of us on talk radio become isolated, a bunch of Maoists, Trotskyites, Stalist or whatever, and we've abandoned the reservation.
The abandon the reservations abandoned us.
And so I'm just laying down the marker because if McCain loses, the first thing that's going to happen is that these people who are changing.
And by the way, I'm going to tell you something else.
I'm going to have to go to a break here pretty quick because I'm going way long here.
But I don't even think for these people it's about McCain.
That's why four weeks ago their favorite candidate was Huckabee.
What it's about is whoever can win that takes us away from Reaganism.
And if they think McCain's the best guy to do that, then they're going to get behind McCain.
But these people that I'm talking about are actually supporting McCain because he's the vessel for them to redefine conservatism the way they want to.
And if it had been Huckabee that have gotten behind Huckabee as they did four weeks ago.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
I have to go to New York this afternoon.
I have some work being done here at the estate down in Florida.
I have to decamp for four or five days.
I'm thinking of organizing a meeting with the talk show hosts to uh plan a strategy to conspire with the other hosts to uh to see what we do and where we go uh from here.
Uh I'll let you know if it happens.
I'll let you know with who.
Actually think of oh, everybody's saying, what are you gonna do?
Your time capsule.
I announced last Friday, rather than predict to you today what I think will be the case a year from now, because I don't want to be accused of my prediction affecting anybody's behavior.
So I'm gonna go and when I get to New York sometime this week, I'm gonna use a ditto cam up there to record my predictions for a year, 14 months from now.
I am going to hold up the newspapers of that day to prove that I made the prediction on that day, which will whatever to be this week.
Uh I will find other ways to date and timestamp this so that no one can dispute its authenticity.
And then I will make my predictions on any number of things.
If Hillary wins, if Obama wins, if McCain wins, I will make my predictions as to what your reaction will be to it all within two months after the inauguration of any of those people.
It will be an audio video deposit in a time capsule.
And I may make additional deposits in the time capsule, as but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna predict to you today on air or tomorrow or next week what I think the results will be a year or fourteen months.
I'm gonna do it in a time capsule or release a time capsule a year from now, fourteen months from now, and we'll see if I'm right.
And I'll release it whether I'm right or wrong.
I'm not afraid.
I'm wrong so infrequently that it's you know, it doesn't upset me psychologically to be wrong.
Laura in Erie, Pennsylvania will start with you on the phones today.
Thank you for waiting and hello.
Hi there, Rush.
Thank you for everything you do, especially for crediting our brave troops for their success in Iraq.
Thank you.
Thank you for letting them hear that from you.
Uh, I just wanted to talk to you about um your article with Mr. Timmerman in the Limbaugh Letter.
Yes, ma'am.
It was so great uh describing how you know the Democrats use all of this for a political gain and how they really want our troops out of there and to lose.
And uh from all of those that served, including my husband and I, we want you to thank you for doing this article because he quotes um in there, if Americans are so unlucky to elect the Democratic president in two thousand eight that we'll shortly be at war with Iran, and he gives a lot of background uh reasons for that.
That's true.
You know, and I I'm glad you uh Laura called uh to to thank me and remind people about this is the latest interview in the limbo letters of Kenneth Timmerman, who has written a book uh uh about all of the things that are so difficult to explain the last four years with happening in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy.
Thanks, Laura.
Appreciate it.
We will be back.
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People have been patiently waiting out there, and it's time for their patience to have uh to be rewarded.
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
Robert, thank you for holding on, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Thanks for taking away.
You bet.
Yeah, yeah, what what sets me up gets me kind of paid, is all this talk about the surge is working.
It is not working.
So we just happen to find come across this email or mail out in Iraq that our car is claiming they're getting uh their asses kicked.
Uh we're also getting uh just like we found these Iranian naval ships who are attacking our ships, that turned out to be a hoax, just like there was no WMD, there was no Iranian uh Nigerian uh papers showing that Iraq was trying to buy uranium.
That's all bull.
Now this month alone we had thirty-eight killed.
Friday we had five sh soldiers killed in two separate bombings.
Yeah.
Did the government is not being helped what this uh surge was supposed to do, it's not happening.
So where is the surge working?
All right.
I don't even want to argue with you about it.
It's a waste of time.
I'm not gonna change your mind about it.
Your your mind's made up and therefore closed.
But are you looking for an improvement if Hillary or Obama win?
I'm looking for them to get us out of there.
It isn't gonna happen, pal.
Let me just warn you.
It isn't going to happen.
Not right away.
It isn't gonna happen.
Well, do you think I think McCain will pull them out just as uh he's only saying he's not gonna pull them out just to win the Republican votes, but I think he's also gonna pull them out.
It's it's it's it's common sense.
With we're spending trillions of dollars over there.
Our economy is going down a tubes just to build another nation.
Build America.
Forget Iraq.
I don't care what happens to Iraq.
We build America.
Oh, come on.
You can't be do you really think this you're trying you're you know, Robert, you sound like a reasonably intelligent guy with a closed mind.
You can't do you really think America is being short changed with the money being spent to defend and protect this country against Iraq?
So are you r no this is not against Iraq.
Iraq is simply a theater in the overall war on terror.
And we're and we're beating them.
And we're cleaning their clocks.
And it is working and it is happening.
But why the pest why why are you so desperately desirous for your country to lose?
Why are you so desperately desirous for your country to be thought of as a quitter?
Uh uh uh uh it's not well, y you're trying to word it that way, but I'll I'll give you why I see things that way.
I have this guy who works for me.
His son's been in Iraq for less than two months, and is in his first week there, his uh uh his his truck, his Hummer was hit by one of these uh explosives.
He survived because he was sitting in the front.
That same night they took him out of the hospital, put him right back into that Humvee.
Three weeks later, he was shot three times in the same path.
Our soldiers are like uh uh it's target practice.
Why why should they be getting pop shot at?
Well, yeah, I know it's it's hard it's hard to do that.
No, I I think you have you know, you if you want to start anecdotal stories about soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors.
I know more than you do, buddy.
You know more propaganda than that.
No, I know.
I know more than that.
I know more of these people, and I can I can't tell you to a man they are honored and proud to be doing what they're doing, and they know that they're kicking butt, and they tell me this constantly.
They r they are they're a little frustrated why their story has vanished from the newspapers now that the news is turned good.
Uh they don't understand it.
I try to talk them up.
Well, they do understand it, but they they they're still disappointed by it.
Um the casualties in this war are all of them, of course, unfortunate, but war is war.
These people join knowing full well what was in store.
This is why they deserve our respect and our honor and our awe and our devotion.
They know what they're heading into, man, and yet they do it.
99.9% of the rest of us wouldn't.
In terms of the numbers of casualties, a sense of proportion is needed here.
The we have we've lost more soldiers in training exercises of World War II than in four and a half, five years in uh in Iraq.
Uh you know, this is this is it it's unfortunate that people like you, otherwise intelligent, just seem compelled to have your country embarrassed to quit, to lose.
And it's people like me that don't understand this.
We don't understand people that want our own country to be a laughing stock in the world, to be con and if we pull out of there and quit the way you think your candidates are going to do, we are in for one of the biggest shocks and surprises because we're going to send a message to the rest of the world and to our allies.
You can't count on us to finish what we start, and that's one of the worst things that could be said about us.
It'll embarrass the U.S. military, especially when victory over there is uh is at hand.
Uh McCain's not going to pull us out of there.
Uh he I mean, he's he's the architect in his mind, the sole architect of the surge.
He's gonna see that through so that he can claim it he did it.
Anyway, Robert, I'm glad you called.
It's always a pleasure to talk to you.
Here's Skip in El Segundo, California.
Great to have you with us.
Uh Diddle Trush.
Hi.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I had the privilege of seeing you in UC Irvine a long time ago.
Wow, that's way back in like eighty-nine or ninety.
Way back there.
Hey, I'm curious with all the callers that are suggesting you're responsible for the outcome of the Republican primary.
Those callers should look at the bigotry of the far right that is so concerned about their freedom of religion, as long as their religion.
You have the three legs of the uh party, defense, left government, life, and social issues.
When you do not have a candidate that meets all the requirements, you have to prioritize prioritize.
I put country first.
Romney had everything except the rights, religion.
And when all the illegals become legal, you can thank the religious right.
I believe the electorate gets what they deserve.
All of us pay the price for the stupidity.
My question to you, is there some way that Romney could be pulled back in the race, say that the independent?
Because if he was in a presidential bait, he would run circles around the other candidates.
The country needs you?
I look forward to your comments.
Uh no, that that's that's highly unlikely.
It's a pipe dream holding on to something like that.
I mean i i it's going to be Senator McCain.
Uh people, well, why is Huckabee hanging in?
Well, there's two things.
Uh, two reasons Huckabee's hanging in.
He is hoping that by staying in there, he can non-ploss Senator McCain.
Uh he's hoping that Senator Cain will have one of his famous temper tantrums.
Uh I'm I'm telling you.
What look it?
Romney said it.
He said, look it, we're heading to another 1976, nominating an old has been.
And we're we're gonna nominate somebody, another we're a genuine Republican.
We're gonna set us back, we're gonna lose big.
Just like this is this is all designed to have McCain sit there and start getting a little perturbed about it, maybe lose his temper in public.
The second thing is Huckabee staying in this because the donor list keeps getting bigger.
His fundraising prowess keeps increasing, and the longer he stays in it and is viable, I'm sure the more he thinks that he's gonna have a chance to have a say so in the outcome and maybe a place in the administration, or at least cement his place for the next Republican uh presidential primary set or uh or nomination as a whole host.
But um uh Romney would would I don't think would be turned to uh uh in in a circumstance like this, he pulled out.
Um so those are those those kinds of things are uh pipe dreams.
Plus, you know, folks, I just have to tell, I read I guess it's uh editorial, I'm not sure.
I've got it somewhere here in the stack.
Uh in the Wall Street Journal, which is a you know Wall Street Journal editorial board, big open borders crowd.
And uh they're poo-pooing aga and the talk show people for claiming that immigration uh is gonna be such a big important issue, and they're citing California.
Say, California Republicans, majority of them who cite immigration as the number one issue voted for McCain in the uh in the primaries.
So the Wall Street Journal saying immigration ain't that big a deal.
The talk show crowds making it out to be a far bigger deal it is to people.
Uh where has it gone as an issue?
And yet when it came time for the stimulus package and the checks to be sent out to people when people uh in Congress learned that some of those illegals would be getting checks, they raced in there and amended that.
Wonder why if immigration is not such a big deal.
And of course, as I've also said, the states are starting to take over some of this stuff uh because they realize the uh the anger that exists uh among their among their populations.
So the there's there's progress being made and on on some front.
I think this is also a factor too.
A lot of people think that they beat the immigration reform act back.
Uh uh amnesty was what was attempted.
It wasn't amnesty.
Limbaugh, you keep saying there was amnesty or why is it?
They were gonna pay a fine five thousand dollars.
Fine, fine, it's not amnesty.
Well, whatever.
Point is it was beat back, the proponents retreated, and a lot of people think, okay, we be it's over.
And they're not thinking that it might come back, uh, and so forth.
But for those of you that think immigration is going to be a big Republican presidential issue or electoral issue, period, Republican and Democrat, don't worry about it.
Because the Wall Street Journal says it's not.
Just got a note from a friend that said, You realize that you're gonna be getting on your airplane this afternoon at 78 degrees to fly to New York when you get off the airplane, it's gonna be twelve.
I said, Yeah.
I'm gonna be wearing shorts.
I always wear shorts when traveling.
Comfort is the name of the game.
Not gonna change clothes on the airplane.
I'll be outside ten seconds.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
I'm I don't care what the weather is in New York, I'm never out in it more than ten seconds.
Whatever it takes to get from the door to the car, from the car to the door, and that usually is no more than ten seconds.
I don't even wear a coat.
I just I don't even have one.
I've got a little black leather jacket, but I don't have a coat.
I'm just gonna make sure this time that I keep a you know a pot of water boiling in the stove there to keep the uh apartment humidifier.
I don't want to lose my voice like happened the last time I went up there uh when it got uh yeah, it wasn't this cold, but it was it was close to it.
Anyway, Morgan in Apple Valley, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I do not think that Obama's rhetoric is empty.
I am of the opinion that he is skillfully using soaring rhetoric to make desire fact, desire becomes policy position.
I don't hear people saying I agree with his policies and positions.
I hear I believe in Obama.
And rather than write off, write his rhetoric off as empty.
I would like to see someone do a thesis-level analysis of Obama's rhetoric from a historical perspective, Obama's rhetoric frightens me.
I see it as an abusive exploitation of the human religious sentiment in the service of progressivism's political religion, and you have stated before that progressivism liberalism is a religious, and I believe that Obama is just their newest priest.
I agree with you a hundred percent on that's very well said.
But the what when I say he's saying nothing, I I'm I'm not I don't mean to be insulting here.
Say, you you you just you you made the point a different way.
People are not saying I agree with Obama because they don't know what he's saying.
If you ask Obama what's he for, they'll say, Well, it doesn't matter.
And they can't they won't be able to tell you what he's for.
They'll be able to give you platitudes.
Well, he's for America.
Well, he's for fairness, well, he's for justice.
The historing rhetoric will bring them to him, and once he has them, he will be able to lead them where he wishes them to go.
This has a historical precedent.
What are we gonna be able to do about it?
Expose it, analyze it, lay it side by side with its historical precedent.
Okay, but do you think Democrats are gonna listen to me on this?
No, no Democrat ever listens to you.
Oh, that's the same thing.
But we will hopefully.
The thing about, you know.
Rush, Democrats won't.
Same people will.
Well, but the point is he's gonna get Democrat votes in a lot more.
The Democrats do listen, but but they they are they're inclined to do the exact opposite of what I say.
Like if I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him.
If I wanted a torpedo McCain, I would because that would send the independents and liberals, they're gonna vote for him running away faster than anything.
What people don't realize is I'm doing McCain the biggest favor could be done for him if by by staying out of this.
If I endorsed him thoroughly with passion, that would end the independents and moderates because they so despise me and they so hate me that that they I mean, for example, where did I see this?
Oh, some guy, a columnist of the New York Post, and he talked You know who Tina Faye is?
Not really.
Well, Tina Faye used to be one of the writers at Saturday Night Live, and she did uh she did the the weekend update.
No, she now is the creator, producer, writer of the NBC comedy show 30 Rock.
And this guy in a New York Post yesterday was quoting her, saying, Yeah, I'm telling everybody I'm voting Obama, but I'm really voting McCain.
Now she's telling people she's voting Obama because with the liberals that make gonna make her sound good, look good because you're voting for the black guy.
But she says she's secretly gonna vote for McCain.
Now, if I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him because if I do, and if I come out, if I become the biggest champion and supporter of John McCain there is in this country, the Tina Fays of the world are gonna punt.
They're gonna think, wait a minute, what's happened here?
What did what did McCain do to get Limbaugh's endorsement?
But the That's the way Democrats listen to me, is is my is my point.
Logical, insane people listen to you, and there are enough logical, insane Democrats that will hopefully wake up and understand Obama's rhetoric has a historical presidential.
They don't care about anything.
Winning.
They don't care about anything anything about winning is like I said earlier.
The fact that he says nothing while saying it well, that's half of why they like him.
They're so sick and tired of a president they don't think can put two sentences together in a way that makes sense.
I can't tell you the number of liberal Democrats I've run into, and their sole reason for hating Bush is they don't think he can talk.
And they think he's stupid, which of course he isn't, but they think he is because the way he speaks publicly.
So here you've got Obama, regardless of what he's saying, I mean, speaks much better in public than Hillary does.
He speaks much better in public than even old Bill did.
We know who Hillary is.
We know where she's been, we know what we stand for.
Obama is impossible to pin down.
And that's scary.
Uh well, I'm not intimidated by that.
When when the time comes, all you're gonna need to know about Obama is he's a liberal.
And then you just need to define what liberals are going to do to the country, and I'll incorporate your well-reasoned thoughts that he look in fact.
You know what you're really saying is if there are any mind-numbed robots out there, they are Obama supporters.
Yes.
They don't care what he's saying.
They don't care whether it makes sense or not.
Like the Pied Piper.
Exactly.
Exactly.
What I'm accused of being is what Obama is.
But his sweet tune has got to be.
Do you think Morgan he's uh uh seriously going to win the Democrat nomination?
I don't know from here.
I really don't know.
But he might be a big thing.
Well, he may win it.
He may win it, but he's not gonna be the nominee.
Interesting.
Yeah.
That's the Clintons we're talking about here, Morgan.
The Clintons.
May I may I make a personal note?
You inspire me.
Yes.
Because of your ability to have overcome what you have been through and get on with your life.
And I listen to you mostly for that reason.
Well, thank you very much.
I I I sincerely appreciate that.
You inspire me.
Thank you very much, Morgan.
I appreciate it.
By the way, Morgan and one of my old-time top ten female names.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
All right, we have a lot of uh interesting and funny audio sound bites.
And we'll get to those in the uh next hour.
Don't you think it's funny McCain is saying calm down to his people?
Obama's saying, get fired up.
Isn't that kind of all we need to know here?
We're told to calm down.
Obama's telling his people get fired up out there.
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