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Feb. 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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This is the Rush Limbaugh program and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network live, a brand new episode each and every day here.
We are behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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It doesn't matter where here is.
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A bunch of emails during the break here.
Rush, if you're buying all these new MacPros to replace your existing macro, what do you do with the old Mac pros?
We give them to the homeless folks.
We find bridges that have Wi-Fi, and we drop these off underneath the bridges.
And uh we've got them rigged so that when they you know they get powered up, uh the Doctor Strange Love version of when Johnny Comes Marching Home Again starts playing.
It freaks them out out there.
Uh all right.
Enough of my personal techie talk.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, back to the serious issues of the day.
This is a uh a Reuters story.
Exit polls during the U.S. presidential primaries in Missouri and Tennessee last week show that the Democrat Party has some support from white evangelicals, a group strongly associated with the Republican Party.
No.
Really?
You mean there are actually Christians in America who vote for Democrats?
And the drive-bys are just discuss discovering that?
Why, how can this be?
You know, another one of these this this story is akin to the Time magazine cover back in 1996 or whenever it was.
Remember this cover that said, newsflash, boys and girls are actually born different.
Men and women can you imagine for that to be a cover story what the editors had to think about boys and girls, and that when they learned they were born different, it was such shocking news they made a cover story out of it.
And so now Reuters have been looking at exit poll data, and lo and behold, they're finding out that some white Democrats, uh white Christians vote Democrat.
Good lordy.
Who would have ever thunk it?
Commissioned by Faith in Public Life, a nonpartisan resource center, and conducted by Zogby International's gotten every single poll wrong throughout the primary, by the way.
The surveys were the first to ask Democrat vote, the first to ask Democrat voters if they were evangelical or born-again Christians.
The findings reinforce other surveys showing that Republicans still command most of the support of this voting block, but by no means do they have a monopoly on its affections.
Really?
Why, I'm shocked.
In Missouri, the polls showed that 34% of all white evangelicals who voted took part in the Democrat primary versus 66% of the Republican primary.
How many Democrats is this going to embarrass?
You know, there are a lot of uh establishment Republican types.
I've told you the stories over and over again that are profoundly embarrassed that evangelicals and born-again Christians are in their party because of abortion.
I wonder if this is going to embarrass Democrat liberals to find out that they have Christians, white Christians in their party, uh voting for Democrats.
Stunning.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites.
Fox and friends this morning.
This is uh Steve Ducey and Allison Camarata have this exchange about Senator McCain.
Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, says he's conservative enough for me.
And then remember, he also got the seal of approval from President Bush, who told Chris Wallace that he's conservative enough as well.
So that's a seal of approval.
Have you listened to Rush lately in the past couple of days?
I didn't listen yesterday.
I didn't either so I don't know.
I don't know if if Rush has heard about Friday.
Still not conservative enough.
McCain's uh sad news, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the Fox and Friends crew has gone two days without listening to this program.
And they had the temerity to admit it.
Asking each other if they listen.
Um it's true, Jeb Bush uh did endorse John McCain, but that's none of this.
People are acting like this is a shock.
Why why why is why is it that party regulars uh solidifying and unifying around the uh the party's nominee?
Why why is that unique?
Uh and I'll uh well, there's an answer to the question.
Uh it's it's unique because not everybody is rallying around Senator McCain.
Uh, least of all uh Governor Huckabee.
You know, yesterday, we're gonna move forward here, Mike.
Let's see what's assembly number is.
Uh, let's see.
Let's just start at number seven.
Let's just go back to me.
Uh what I said on this program yesterday about Governor Huckabee.
He is hoping that by staying in there, he can non-ploss Senator McCain.
He's hoping that Senator Cain will have one of his famous temper tantrums.
I'm telling you, look at Romney said it.
He said, look at we're heading to another 1976, nominating an old has been.
We're gonna nominate somebody, another genuine Republican, we're gonna set his back, we're gonna lose big.
Just like this is all designed to have McCain sit there and then start getting a little perturbed about it, maybe lose his temper in public.
Last night on Larry King Alive, Governor Huckabee appeared.
Larry King said, How governor do you win this?
Lay it out for me, how Mike Huckabee can win the nomination.
One, you might have some delegates that defect people who are committed to somebody else who decide to go elsewhere when they're released.
The main thing is that until somebody has 1,191 delegates, we don't have a nominee.
Now, other things could happen.
Senator McCain could uh say something on any given day, as I could, that would end the campaign.
Candidates are capable of having those moments.
The other thing that could happen is if nobody gets eleven hundred and ninety-one, we go to the convention.
That's when the delegates at that convention would actually pick their nominee.
That's a possibility.
Throw all that stuff out.
The re the salient point of his comment is other things could happen.
Senator McCain could say something on any given day that would end the campaign.
He threw himself in there too, is maybe committing such a faux pas.
I told you yesterday it's why he's hanging in there, and that's that's that's a uh a recognition of the volatile temper that Senator McCain has.
And and and what Huckabee is I don't know if he's hoping, there's that word again, uh, but there's a calculation that the more he irritates McCain, the more likely McCain is to fly off the handle.
And it could uh it could act as a detriment, could be something not good for Senator McCain.
So Larry King says, Look, Governor Huckabee, you're a conservative.
Why are so many of your brethren so not forgiving of Senator McCain?
Why won't they let him be what he is, what he says he is, a conservative?
He angered many conservatives with the immigration bill that was believed to be a form of amnesty, his failure to support the human life amendment, his support for embryonic stem cell and opposition to Anwar, the McCain Fine Gold Campaign Finance Act is really a tough one to swallow.
It has, I think, had some very detrimental effects on the uh overall electoral process in the country, his lack of support for Bush tax cuts.
So it's those things that he has done.
All of those things, you know, Huckabee, you know, rat tat tat tat can rattle them right off.
Uh and yet the drive-by's, they seem to be mystified by this.
Well, why would conservatives care about that?
Why would conservative be con it's it's it's gotta be hate.
They just have to hate McCain, right?
Because conservatives are haters, right?
It's just gonna be hate.
How about why would conservatives care about tax cuts?
Why would conservatives care about uh campaign finance reform and free speech?
Those are issues.
Why would conservatives care about that?
So no matter how many times you tell the drive-bys when they ask you what's your problem, rat-tat-tat-tat-tat.
Right over their head, doesn't fit the narrative, doesn't fit the template.
Brief timeout.
By the way, there is a drive-by guy out there for the New York Times that does seem on the verge of getting it, at least getting me where I come from.
His name is David Kirkpatrick.
And we'll have that when we come back.
Saying more in five seconds than most hosts say in an entire career.
Rushlin boy here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
You know, I'm I am surprisingly in a good mood today, given what I have to do this afternoon.
I I have to go get some clothes.
I hate there are very few things in life I hate, but going clothes shopping I despise.
I don't care if the tailor comes to the house, I hate it.
I hate trying stuff on, I hate picking stuff out.
It just I'm I'm looking so forward to when it's over.
Just despite I can't believe I'm in such a good mood despite the fact I have to go do this.
Um, I can't snurdly.
Snerdley in the IFB says, you don't you don't have a woman to do that for you?
I I can't buy things off the rack.
If I could buy things off the rack, fine, send anybody out there to do it.
Get us some pictures in a catalog, say, go, can't do it.
That's why you gotta try everything on.
Then you gotta go through the alterations.
They never get it right the first time.
Then you gotta go back for second or third.
That's a biggest pain.
Sorry to share that with you folks.
I know it pales in comparison to problems they're having in the subprime crisis.
But uh Ted in Muskegon, Michigan, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, hi.
Hi.
Uh Rush, could you just please answer me a question as clear as you can to perk me up here in Michigan?
The question is if conservatism wins every time it's tried, like you say, and like Mitt Romney said, then why are we losing?
Uh because it hasn't, we haven't had somebody that genuinely trying it.
That's the problem.
Uh you know, Romney, when we started out, Romney had some flaws, it's some flip-flops he had to explain.
Uh there were there were some questions.
That's why nobody coalesced around one of these candidates at the get-go.
It's why McCain is left to pick up the shreds, because the conservative vote was split among people who found something attractive about, say, Giuliani, others found attractive about uh Romney, others found attractive about Huckabee.
There hadn't been anybody that's united all three legs of the stool.
You know, I live in Michigan where we have a tax and spend liberal democratic governor who was elected and then re-elected.
Us business owners are being squashed in Michigan by the Democratic governor and the two Democratic senators.
How come these people are getting elected over and over again?
It makes me sick.
Well, you know, I I talked about this uh yesterday, uh, and and in the context of the real enemy that we conservatives have is not Senator McCain.
The real enemy that we face, in a political sense, is liberalism and liberals.
But when you get when you get right down to when you strip all the vagaries of this campaign away, what those of us who are genuine conservatives want is to defeat liberals.
We don't want to get along with them.
We don't want to share power with them.
We don't want to walk across the aisle and try to appease them.
We're not interested in having them like us.
We view the future of the country as something very serious, and we view liberals' approach to the future as something very deleterious to the traditions and institutions that have made the country great.
We want to defeat them.
And one of the reasons why, you look at Detroit.
What what a what that that city, look at the population drain that's happened in that city.
It's just in it's it's a it's a testament to the corruption that exists.
I think even beyond liberalism, once once politicians entrench themselves at the trough of either party, the next thing that follows is corruption.
Detroit, I and every time I go to Detroit, I love it, the tradition that's there, but let's face it, you know, you don't need me to tell you what's happened to Detroit, and you and you just gave us a great case of what's happened to Michigan.
Michigan is in a one-state recession.
General Motors today just announced what, a thirty some odd billion dollar loss.
Now, the answer to your question is that for the vast there's been some flight uh out of Michigan, and unfortunately, the vast majority of people voting in Michigan are voting to keep the existing people in power because they've created a welfare state there.
They have created a majority now of people who are dependent on the state government.
They have they have successfully the Democrats and the Liberals have successfully marketed class envy.
Uh and it's this is why we view this election in the future as serious.
Uh I I I look at some Elements of California where the Republican Party is practically non-existent.
I look at the city of New Orleans.
Fabulous, wonderful, great city, but it's a it's a it's a testament to what happens when you have 60 years of liberalism unchecked.
You have people who are uneducated, uh unable to get and keep decent jobs, don't even want to look for jobs because that's not how they survive.
Uh the evidence is all around us, what liberalism does and socialism, it's all around us all over the world.
But the liberals for 50 years have succeeded in placing more and more people on the rolls of dependency for any number of things, largely their needs.
This is why conservative leadership is sorely sorely needed to be able to explain to people that their future is being robbed.
These people that are in constant dependence, their potential is being robbed.
The people that they think are genuinely trying to help them are in fact harming them.
Uh, but we don't have anybody on our side other than on the radio who is willing to tell people these things.
We have people on our side who want to go get along with them and who themselves want to expand government in such ways that they're in control of it for whatever benevolent reasons they assign to themselves.
That's why this is serious.
You know, we're not playing games here with our McCain problems.
We're not the I There's another piece in the Wall Street Journal today, Ted by a guy from the I guess he's a s is a scholar at the uh Claremont Institute.
Now, the Claremont Institute, how many years ago was it, H.R., four or five years ago?
Four or five years ago, Larry Arne, who is a dear friend of mine, he's not Hillsdale College, he doesn't run Claremont anymore, they gave me the highest award they can give, the Churchill Award, named after Winston Churchill.
Today in the Wall Street Journal, there is a scholar from that very institute, uh his name is Helprin.
Don't confuse him with the guy from Time, whose name is Halperin.
This guy's name is Helprin, and he writes a bunch of drivel, essentially saying that people like me love chaos and that we succeed by whining and moaning and B.I. itching and complaining.
This same old stupid analysis that does not take an intellectual to come up with.
Uh yeah, yeah, we should just get over ourselves.
We just get they can't conceive that we're fighting for principles we believe in here.
We they can't conceive that to us, and to me, this is about the future of the country and reviving places like Michigan for the betterment of Michigan and the people who live there and for the country.
They think, even these scholars on our side, they think that this is about nothing more than me trying to remain dominant on the radio by having somebody in Washington I disagree with, because I'm much better when I'm whining and moaning than when I'm supporting.
Somebody, it's sophistry.
It is in it it is embarrassingly short-sighted.
It certainly isn't intellectual.
Uh in fact, I would dare say that most of the curious intellectual discourse on the Republican side of the aisle is occurring on talk radio today.
It is not where intellectuals are genuinely thought to reside, at the journals of opinion, at the newspapers, and at the think tags.
There's some exceptions.
Great people at AEI, great people at heritage.
But for the most part, we've got a bunch of followers who themselves are interested in acquiring power, so they have some influence.
I don't care about having power, the influence of policy in Washington.
Many on our side do.
To us, this is about the future of the country, and it is serious because we see what you see in Michigan in pockets all over this country.
It need not be this way.
This is the greatest country on the face of the earth.
Our freedom, as documented in our founding documents and acknowledged as having come from God, is the reason this country in less than 300 years rules the world like no other group of human beings ever has.
And we're at risk of having that lost and having it changed because there are actually people on the left side of the aisle who don't like the fact we lead the world.
We're too powerful.
That's unstabilizing or destabilized, destabilizing.
And we need to be brought down to size.
And that's what global warming is all about.
We've got to sacrifice, we've got to slow our economy down.
We've got to move back.
Bunk to all of that.
This nation's greatness is unique and it needs to be persevered for the this this is, you know, Bill Bennett says as he signs off his program every day, the last best hope for mankind.
It's absolutely true.
This country, but it's not going To be if we ever cede control of it totally to liberals and socialists.
It's that simple.
And that's what motivates us.
That's why party unity doesn't mean diddly squat to me if getting behind somebody in the party doesn't see things I do and is going to contribute, whether regardless of the intentions, to the continued decay of the country.
It's just that simple.
I guarantee you, if we had somebody running for office out there, Ted, uh, who was able to articulate with passion and confidence his belief in the American people, their ability to triumph and overcome, and the fact that they're the ones that make the country work.
It wouldn't even be close.
But we don't have that.
We've got a roster of people who want to pander to the left.
Ah, there's our old buddy Bob Dole on PMSNBC.
Brian Williams peppering him, you know, Senator Dole, despite your letter, these limbaug people are serious.
They're serious.
They just soon your party take the hit.
Very, very serious.
Um at any rate, uh.
Before we go back to the phones, I want to establish another thing here that we have uh I have been telling you for the longest time about the economy.
And that is for most people, the economy's doing pretty well, but they think it's bad for everybody else.
And it's affecting them, and this is by design by having a constant drumbeat of pessimism and negativism from the drive-by media from today's Washington Post.
Rattled by economy's ills, consumers forego life's little luxuries.
By the way, remember this.
We had this a couple weeks ago.
Life's affluent are cutting back too.
And when the affluent cut back, they don't rent as many limousines, and a limo driver doesn't get hired or get a tip.
You know, this in fact it was an AP story.
It actually admitted the trickle-down effect.
So we hate the richer being rich, now we hate them because they're not spending.
Because they too are buying into all this silly notion of a recession.
Charlene Hennessy cooked dinner one Sunday night at her German town home in another act of downsizing her life.
Six months ago, Charlene Hennessy and her husband relied a lot more on restaurants, buying takeout a few times a week.
Now she is wary of every little splurge.
On her weekend trips to the grocery store, she is on the lookout for sales.
For the first time, she clips coupons.
I'm very much more cautious, says Charlene Hennessy.
very it's not that hennessy 48 faces any personal financial crisis rather charlene hennessy 48 is reacting to what she sees around her rising gas and food prices a housing market in decline Whispers of recession.
At some point she said it all became too unsettling.
Warning signs that it was time to conserve.
This mood of uncertainty and budget tightening has touched families all across the Washington region, where many in a large and relatively prosperous middle class say that they are rethinking how and where they spend their money.
The changes, a vacation postponed, a lawn care service stopped, a switch to one dollar movie rentals or a discount hair salon might not alter the bottom line much, but experts say these measures offer a sense of control and comfort in a faltering economy.
What?
What drivel?
What absolute bilge?
Guess what happens when Charlene Hennesy, 48, postpones her vacation.
Somebody at the other end of the vacation, the resort, the hotel, the airline, don't get revenue.
Guess what happens when you hire or fire the lawn lawn care service?
They might have to get rid of some of the illegals working for them because they don't have enough work.
If you fire the lawn care service, the lawn care service is going, especially when you don't have to.
When you're only doing it because you've got this angst, and you're chewing your fingernails down because the drive by's tell your recessions go.
So you and after going out to eat four times a week, you start clipping coupons.
One dollar movie rentals.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Blockbusters out?
What are you doing?
Is that Netflix?
What are one dollar movie rentals?
Uh see.
Discount hair salon.
Discount hair salon.
Let me tell you something.
If you were really serious, I don't know if this is.
This paragraph is not specific to Charlene Hennessy.
But whoever you are out there in the Washington middle class, uh going to a discount hair salon, if you were really serious, you'd cancel a hair salon, and you'd do it at home.
If you're gonna start clipping coupons, go all the way.
Cancel it.
See, but when it comes to personal aggrandizement and so forth, all of this a sense of control.
You know, it's it's this kind of psychology that is that is making the global warming scare work.
All his green garbage and so forth, this is exactly how it works.
This is the drive by media succeeding in creating a self-fulfilling prophetic mood of doom and gloom and disaster.
And people think they can stave it off when they're not even affected by it by cutting back.
And this from the New York Sun, the mayor of New York City, rumored by many, hoped by many, I should say, that he too will enter the presidential sweepstakes.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg went to the United Nations, and while he acknowledged that scientists are unable to predict its consequences, while he acknowledged scientists are unable, that means they can't, for those of you in Rio Linda, predict the consequences.
Translation, even though scientists admit they have no idea.
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday compared the scourge of global warming to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Although it's a long-term fight, the mayor said, reducing gas emissions may save the life of everybody on the planet.
The same way the fighting terrorism and its proliferation saves lives in shorter terms.
Okay.
Now Bloomberg, unlike Romney, a respected businessman.
And he's got gabillions compared to Romney's mamillions.
And yet, somehow his word is taken as gospel.
This is insane.
This is literally kooky, but he has a lot of respect.
He admits scientists have no clue, have no clue what this means.
Don't even know what the consequence is going to be.
But it's worse than terrorism.
It's worse than weapons of mass destruction.
Well, this is what gives us the Charlene Hennessies of the world.
When respected people make these outrageous, indefensible.
I mean, Ron Paul wouldn't even say this.
Lyndon LaRouche wouldn't even say this.
Ron Hubbard wouldn't say this.
The mayor of New York says it, and everybody.
And this is how, and you know, the liberals fall at folks.
This is serious stuff.
I mean, it sounds funny.
Uh, but to me, this is this is dreadfully, because all of this adds up to one thing, an attack on the American way of life.
By virtue of blaming the American way of life.
For something that scientists acknowledge they can't even predict and don't have the slightest clue.
Back to the phones.
Mark and Schomberg, Illinois, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, this is the first time I've had the privilege of speaking with you.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you, Chat.
Appreciate it.
I was a Romney supporter, and I honestly feel like he was the only Republican who had a chance of winning against either Hillary or Obama.
Isn't McCain Sort of a moot point, and I have another question for a follow-up, if you'll indulge me.
Isn't McCain sort of a moot point?
You mean because he's gonna lose?
I just don't think McCain can win against either Hillary or Obama.
Why not?
I just think he is um he's he's a loose canon.
He is um old, he is there's just all kinds of problems with him.
Uh but you know the conventional wisdom is the McCain can't lose because he's gonna win by attracting Democrats and independents to join the Republican Party and thereby take votes away from Obama or Hillary.
Well, uh you know, I I just I think that's the same thing.
The question is if that happens, here's the real question.
If that happens, who who wins?
Well, I think this is the same thing.
The question and if he if he goes if if they vote for him, why wouldn't they just vote for the Democrat?
That's my you know my point.
And well the other thing.
Here's uh the there's an answer to that.
I mean, you can walk around New York and you can find some of these liberals uh who want to vote for McCain over these other two clowns.
And what it boils down to is uh the the POW story and honor and uh national security.
In New York, liberals do care about national security.
Outside of New York, New Jersey, they don't care about it much, but here they do.
And I don't think that they necessarily trust Hillary, certainly not Obama, but they do trust McCain.
And McCain's saying just enough things on the social side to satisfy him.
So there are a lot of liberals in New York that might vote for McCain.
Second, can I ask you my second?
Sure, by all means.
And this is based on the premise, you know, that that McCain's gonna lose.
Okay, I've heard predictions that whoever is elected in 2008 will be a one-term president.
And I've even heard the McCain said he will only serve one term.
Uh, which is why I think he hadn't said that.
He hasn't said that.
If he said that, it better be that that he hasn't said that.
Okay, great.
With which is why I think Romney is aiming for 2012.
What what do you think?
Uh a lot of people are going to be aiming for 2012.
Uh uh, you know.
You've you've brought me dangerously close to an area here I don't want to discuss, and I think I'm gonna practice my uh restraint and and uh discipline here not not to go there.
In terms of in terms of this one-term business.
Uh but but uh you know, here's the here's the let me say this.
The one-term business, what's fascinating about it to me is Obama, I think, can afford to lose, got a future, he's young.
If Hillary doesn't make it this year, and let's say the next republic, let's say McCain and his vice president end up serving two terms.
That means it's uh what 2008?
2016, Hillary will be 68.
I think she's 60 now.
Uh this is it for her, I think.
Trust me on this, folks, for reasons I've explained previously that people wrote about and trust me, uh this is it.
That's gonna make them so desperate, too.
Uh but but that's you know, I think there are a lot of people looking at 2012.
I I I don't know that the conventional wisdom and whoever wins is only gonna serve one term.
Uh I don't know where that comes from.
I haven't necessarily you mean only last one term might get defeated uh after after one term.
I think the odds of that happening are pretty good if the Democrats win.
Uh anyway, I gotta take a break here.
I'm a little long in this segment.
We'll uh take a brief time out and be right back after this.
Ha.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh cutting edge of societal evolution serving humanity simply by showing up.
You know, all these people.
And uh this is this is this has been, I guess, the the the narrative or the template of the drive-bys for uh um what ever since ever since McCain became the front runner in Florida during our primary season, they attack people like me or Hannity or Ann Coulter as uh uh we're just doing it for ratings.
Just doing it to sell books.
Uh we just want somebody that we can argue with.
The most short-sighted uh blind analysis possible.
The way we look at it is whether it's McCain or Obama or Hillary, we're gonna be opposing somebody.
I mean, if if if that's not why, if if if if what they say were true, and Colder's right about this.
If what they say were true, we would be supporting McCain like we can't wait for him to win.
We're criticizing him, right?
We succeed on criticism.
Here's the dirty little secret, folks.
This is the truth.
It ain't us angling for ratings, book sales, or whatever.
The sycophants on our side, from the New York Times conservatives to the Weekly Standard to Summit National Review Online, these are the people that want jobs with the McCain administration.
These are the people who want influence with the McCain.
These are the people who are doing what they're doing for their careers.
The people who are lamb-basing us, the people who are challenging our integrity, the people telling us to shut up to go away to calm down, are the very ones who are calculating their support for Senator McCain on the basis of the enhancement of their careers.
I'm not thinking of career here because my career doesn't depend on who wins elections.
How many times, HR, must I say this before the drive-bys are gonna understand?
And even some of the local weeds on our side.
How 20 years.
How many times are we gonna have to say this?
How many times do we have to demonstrate it?
Let's go through the presidents.
1988, Bush.
I start the show in August of 88, 56 stations after four years of Bush, my buddy.
500 radio stations.
How the hell did that happen?
I'll tell you how it happened.
Liberals were out there trying to destroy him.
And I was criticizing liberals back then.
We had the global warming movement getting started.
We had the spotted owl.
It was a good show for crying out.
Then Clinton in 92.
And from 92 for the next three or four years, we added 112 stations up to 612.
And the audience grew and stayed constant.
And then after Clinton, we got George W. Bush.
Audience stayed constant.
If my success and my show depended on who wins elections, then I've lost a couple here that are pretty big, my guys did.
I should be pushing up flowers right now in the career sense.
This is not about, I know my career, I know where I'm headed, I know how to do what I do better than anybody else does, including these people that analyze it.
And I'm telling you, the people on our side, the conservatives, the New York Times that write conservatism for liberals, some of our magazines, some of our vaunted intellectuals, they're the ones whose support for McCain is calculated to benefit their careers.
And yet they are being ignored in this.
In fact, they're being described and characterized as brilliant intellectuals when they're nothing but a bunch of sycophants.
Either want jobs in a McCain administration, or they want influence in a McCain administration, or they're just frontrunners, whatever the hell it is.
I'm telling you, the true independence and intellectual application to the events of the day and the future of our country are being expressed on talk radio today.
You're not going to find them on cable news, chat shows at night, that is vapidity.
I mean, those people are rivaling Obama in saying nothing in a compelling way.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
You know, a friend of mine just sent me a uh a copy of a Boston Globe story from December 20th last year, an interview with Barack Obama on uh foreign policy.
And I, folks, you read this and you just go, oh God, we we are in trouble.
This guy hasn't the slightest understanding of what he's doing.
Um I don't have time to go into it right now, but well, no, for example, he says Congress has the authority to limit troop numbers, troop movements, and so forth.
They do not, constitutionally, he says that.
They do not.
They are not the commander in chief.
They cut off the funds, is all I can do, but they they're not don't argue with me about this.
I'm telling you, this is scary.
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