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Feb. 13, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Well, they just had a big ceremony up there at the White House.
The uh the president, members of Congress signed the economic stimulus package.
Such a shame.
Politics, as usual during an election year, the government giving away money.
I had a story in the stack yesterday about this, and I can't find out where the stack's over there on the round table, and I can't get to it.
Don't sweat it.
I don't have time to go through the stack now.
It's fine.
My memory will be sufficient here.
It was a story out of Missouri about how the people at state governments have read the fine print in the stimulus package.
And it's going to cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid.
And they're going to have to cut back on some of their own services, and they're fuming about it.
Now, Arthur Laffer today, in a commentary in the uh in the Wall Street Journal called That Stimulus Nonsense.
Bipartisanship, a notion that stands as anathema to our basic political premise of checks and balances has resulted in a stimulus package that'll do enormous damage to the U.S. economy.
The idea is simple enough.
Have the government write everybody a rebate check, and these rebate recipients will spend most of the money, create enough demand to pull the economy out of its slowdown.
With a little luck, the people who supply the rebate recipients with their newly demanded products will also spend part of their added income on yet more products, so on and so forth, till the full effect of the rebate is multiplied manifold, provides a much greater and much needed boost to the U.S. economy.
The logic is totally correct as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough.
Now the the proposed rebate, and by the way, none of us here at the EIB network are going to get one.
And as I said last week, ladies and gentlemen, those of you who are going to get rebate checks, the least you could do, well, I don't expect to thank you.
I really the government could issue these checks in the name of those of us paying for them.
So, you know, Joe and Mary Six Pack, uh, who receive their rebate, when the check comes, it should have a little card courtesy of Rush Limbaugh, EIB network, and courtesy of H.R. Kit Carson, EIB, and everybody else that's not paying one.
But no, that's not true.
The politicians, both parties want credit for this.
Here's what Laffer says.
The proposed rebate of about six hundred dollars per man, woman, and child is transferred to people based on some characteristic other than work effort.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is key to understand.
In fact, if you have worked too hard, and if you have earned too much, you don't get a rebate.
So in some instances, the rebate actually requires the absence of work effort.
Now it's true that some of the people receiving the rebate may also be workers.
But working is not the reason each person's gonna get the rebate.
It's simply because he or she's a human being.
Thus, rebate recipients are given command over real resources for doing something other than working.
Milton Friedman used to say there's no such thing as a free lunch, and this rebate is exactly what he meant.
I mean, the net effect is that uh the reduction in demand from those who pay the real resources will be exactly the same size as the increase in demand from the rebate recipients.
It's sad, but it's true.
Income affects always net to zero in a closed system.
But here's the real bottom line of this.
There is collateral damage to this.
Uh, and few people in Congress understand or care about it.
They think that their actions either don't matter or that they would see a positive impact from their actions if uh Only they did more.
If the economy worsens, when their political censors become alarmed, they'll be up uh they'll up the dose, expand the rebate checks, and goodness knows just how far this vicious cycle will take us.
A quick glance, a quick glance back at the 16 years of the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter should give you pause.
Whenever you observe bipartisan cooperation, hold on to your wallet and run to the basement.
Now, this, of course, uh is is Mr. Laffer echoing previously expressed sentiments by me.
Uh during this, in fact, during this entire presidential campaign, one of the one of the uh uh controversial points is Rush, Rush, don't you understand that Senator McCain, he can work with the Democrats.
In fact, Senator McCain himself has said, I can work with them.
That's it, Limbo.
You don't understand.
I can work with it, I can reach out to him.
Doesn't just reach out, he walks across the aisle and sits down with them.
But that gives us bipartisanship.
And sadly, bipartisanship today means Republicans and conservatives cave and the Democrats get what they want.
But Rush, but Rush, the stimulus idea was George Bush's.
Yes, I understand that.
Point proven.
The Democrats write it tried to up it.
Uh some people held their grounds on getting checks to uh illegal immigrants and so forth, but the bottom line is partisanship is fabulous.
Partisanship is driven by principle, devotion to principle and ideals.
And when you start compromising those in effort and in order to get along, where are you?
Uh you know, people sometimes recoil when I say, I don't want to get along with the liberals, I want to defeat them.
But Rush, but Rush, they're people.
I know they're people.
There have been a lot of people in the world who have been bad people, a lot of people, good intention, well, I mean, look at these people that gave us the Great Society, uh, the war on poverty, all these other magnificent programs, uh demonstrable failures, but we're not supposed to examine the results.
We're supposed to acknowledge the good intentions and the big heartedness behind the attempt.
Fine, okay, tensions are fine, but I'd rather look at results.
And when when bipartisanship occurs, the truth the the odds are that it's us that are going to be giving up on things we believe in.
Uh, and that's why bipartisanship is heralded as something wonderful, because liberals win when there's bipartisanship.
Partisanship, on the other hand, is decried and condemned because that's mean, extremist, rotten to the core conservatives being who they are.
Mean extremist and rotten.
Uh and that's not the case at all.
So here's here's a Laffer's point's exactly mine.
Here we gotta think these guys couldn't wait to get along, couldn't wait to cross the aisle.
Both parties shake hands because it's an election year, give money away in Washington.
This is this is all about votes.
There's nobody with any economics 101 will tell you this is not going to stimulate the economy.
But the interesting thing about this is what the Democrats are admitting by going along with this.
They are admitting what?
They are admitting that additional money in the back pockets of who?
Citizens can stimulate the economy.
Meaning it's the people who make the country work.
It's the people, anonymous, laboring away in anonymity, just ordinary people trying to do extraordinary things.
They're the ones that make the country work, and if you let them have more money, bam oh, economy jumps.
So you say, well, why can't we get to them on tax cuts then?
Ah.
Big difference.
Tax cuts, that doesn't play well with Democrats because Democrats and liberals want to be viewed by as many citizens as possible as giving the money.
They want the government to be seen as the source of the money.
In this case, as in all cases, it isn't.
This money was never the government's until it was taxed.
This money used to be all of ours.
It now got taxed, we got taxed, and so now they're just sending it back.
They love the psychology of as many people as possible, thinking, Oh, my government cares, my government cares.
Look, it's giving me money.
And it's not giving money to the rich.
Good.
They've got enough.
And yet there are stories, even in the drive-by's, the associated press.
The rich, you know, they've bought into this economic recession down the road business.
And they're cutting back on their spending.
And so the limo drivers are not getting as much work.
And the booty care salon, well, the boutique hair salons, I think, are surviving, as are the spas.
But as they stop spending, there's a little trickle-down effect throughout the rest of the economy.
Those who benefit from their spending are not benefiting.
So you say to the Democrats, look, if you acknowledge that more money in people's back pockets stimulates the economy, why don't you make these tax cuts permanent?
Why don't you stop talking about raising taxes?
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
We can't have, we can't have the notion in people's minds that the money is theirs.
And that they're keeping more of it because we're lowering their tax.
No, no, no.
We want them to think money is Washington's.
It starts in Washington and it goes to the people and comes back.
That's what liberals are trying to create with this big nanny state syndrome.
And of course, bipartisanship has given us this perception.
So as far as people are concerned, are going to go to the mailbox with it.
What are these checks start arriving?
H. By the way, HR at Steve Jobs call.
Snerdily did uh Steve Jobs call.
Anyway, many people think I lose my place, these circumstances, but I don't.
You're gonna go, what are these checks arrive?
May?
May May through August.
So some of you are gonna double whammy.
They've let the government keep all of their money from taxes overpayment taxes during the year to get this big re uh refund.
Think they're screwing the government.
Then they get their refund check, and then they're gonna get the rebate check and it'll say U.S. Treasury on it.
Uh and it's not gonna say courtesy of Rush Limbaugh and your fellow citizens.
It's gonna say, I don't know, maybe a little note in there from Bush.
Who knows where it'll be from?
And they're gonna think, wow, look what the government's doing for me.
When it was their money to begin with, uh, or other people's money.
So anyway, it is what it is, but this is an example of how bipartisanship uh is celebrated, and everybody goes bonkers over it.
But it leads to a result which is decidedly not conservative, and in this case, is not going to be productive.
It's not going to stimulate the economy in any noticeable way, because there's no new money being generated or created here, and it's not being created by productivity and work, which is Laffer's point.
Anyway, brief timeout.
Uh be no, I no, no, no, no.
Um, I didn't expect jobs to call.
I thought maybe somebody from his office would look, I own a lot of Macs.
And I love, you know, I knew this was going to happen to you.
The blogs, though there's all kinds of Mac, Apple Mac blogs.
And they hate the fact that I'm a Mac guy.
And I they do.
They despise it.
Because Macs are associated with uh, you know, the left.
So whenever I talk about my Macs, you can go to some of these blogs and it'll just you can they're gnashing their teeth and they're banging the keyboards.
Uh and when I yesterday expressed that I was having just a couple problems with 10.5.2, the new OS update.
One guy wrote on a blog, may you see the spinning beach ball of death for the rest of your life.
Now, the spinning beach ball in a Mac is when the processor gets clogged and slowed down and your task is not completed.
Uh this guy wished for a spinning beach ball for eternity for me.
He hoped that my Mac would.
Yeah.
Well, I haven't checked them all.
Um, but I figured it's somebody, I mean, I've owned enough of these things.
Our office here is equipped with them.
I know if I call, I'll not get through.
It just won't happen.
Anyway, a brief time out here, folks.
Uh, audio sound bites ahead, plus your phone call, sit tight, we'll be right back.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, serving humanity, simply by showing up.
So I just checked a Mac website, MacDailyNews.com, and they've got the transcript for my program yesterday posted with some comments.
And some of them are okay.
Some of the other comments, I hope he never gets problem fixed.
Uh, but one of the guys says, Why don't you tell us?
I said, I didn't identify the two problems.
Why don't you identify the problems?
Maybe we can do a workaround.
Maybe we can help you, Rush.
Why don't you tell us what the pro I think Rush is smart enough to fix his own problems?
I'll tell you what the problems are.
But it's gonna be Greek To those of you who don't use Mac, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time with this, but here we go.
There are two things.
Back to my Mac.
Screen sharing.
Doesn't work.
It's intermittent on occasion.
Now I got six computers on the network.
Maybe it's only meant to go back and forth one to computer to the next.
And the second thing, and this is the biggie, because I have found a workaround of screen sharing and back to my Mac not worrying.
I've got direct access to the IP address I can do it without back to my Mac.
But they've got this great new backup program called Time Machine.
I primarily live in my mail application.
I use it for my word processing.
The only time I open a word process when somebody sends me something in a word document or whatever.
I do everything.
And Time Machine will not restore email mailboxes.
Restores everything else but that.
And it ought to restore either a single message or a whole mailbox, and it won't.
On one machine, this one here in New York, I have found a way to restore a single message or a multiple list of messages from wherever the Time Machine archive is.
But on none of my other five machines does that work.
They're identical.
So Mr. Jobs, there's got to be somebody who can figure this is major.
I think I'm not calling it a bug.
They just left it out of the operating system.
To not back up.
And by the way, when you open time machine, in your mail program, it says click restore to back up your inbox or to back up the message you have selected, so it was supposed to, it just doesn't do it.
And there's a whole thread at the Apple site people having the same problem.
But I posting a problem on a website is not going to solve anything.
It's like filing a bug report.
It goes out to the ether, nobody ever sees you, never hear.
But by the way, we have a new sponsor on the program, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
We have new sponsors.
You know, we always give them a little attention uh in the content portion of the program.
Earlier in the program, ladies and gentlemen, I said I wanted to get some things uh off my chest about Chelsea Clinton and this this whole scenario with David Schuster uh at DNC TV.
Um the more the more I think about this whole thing, the more offended I am by this entire Chelsea episode.
I mean, I'm not supporting the language that Schuster used, but uh Oberman has talked about Bush pimping Petraeus uh on his show, and nobody raised a stink about it because the Republic you know, Bush doesn't have thin skin not running around demanding apologies and threatening never to appear on the network like Mrs. Clinton did.
But I think my irritation here stems of the fact that Chelsea's 27 years old.
What were you doing when you were 27?
When I was 27, what?
Working.
Precisely.
Well, she's working too.
But when I was 27, I had moved out of the house.
I was starting my fledgling radio career.
I had held several jobs, I was totally on my own.
I did not call mommy and daddy.
And mommy and daddy sure did when I got fired a couple times, they didn't call the radio station.
Wow, dare you do this to me.
It didn't happen.
How many 27-year-olds in this country have already served nine years in the military combat veterans like uh uh people that join at 18 and 19?
So she's 27, somebody says something that offends her or her mother on a low-rated cable show that nobody saw, and she still needs her mommy to write a note to the teacher and threaten the teacher that the mommy is not going to appear on the network and a network caved.
You know, I forgot to I forgot to remind you people of this.
Uh remember yesterday we had this sound by from Mrs. Clinton.
She was asked uh going forward in the campaign, and even if she were to be nominated and then win the presidency, uh, is she worried about future scandals involving uh her husband?
And uh she said, Well, you can't predict the future, but I can assure you there won't be any.
Now that was on the record, and it was broadcast audio and video.
I need to know from women how that kind of assurance can be made.
Because she will have no doubt, well, I can't predict the future, but and then the nurse Ratchet look came over her face.
That I can assure you will not happen.
The guy's whole life has been one scandal to the next.
I mean, how does she get it?
I need married women who've had some challenges in their marriages to tell me how she's gonna do this.
How she can make this pledge, sort of.
Back to the phones now.
Darrell in Kansas City, Missouri.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Uh make it old, Russ.
Thank you.
Retired first class city officer from the United States Navy.
How are you doing, my good friend?
I appreciate that.
Oh, I'm doing I'm doing fine.
I'm uh you actually most people ask me and don't stop and wait for an answer, so they really don't mean it, but you actually paused.
So I'm doing fine.
Thank you.
All right.
Um Sir, my question is to you do you think Governor Romney will run the R and C?
Governor Romney has good organizational experience, strong administration skills, as well as a good communication recruit uh no no.
I I I have no idea who's gonna run the the RNZ.
All I know is uh that the the who eventually whoever the nominee is, that's gonna be McCain.
That's the guy that runs the parties.
He installs somebody at the RNC that he wants.
If he wins the presidency, of course, uh he'd probably change and install somebody else at that point.
But the Republican presidential nominee of i is the de facto architect who runs the party and and fills all those spots.
And I I don't know if he would if he would select Romney, and I don't know that Romney would uh necessarily want that.
Uh that's a fundraising job.
One of the great things about Romney, we never had to worry where his money was coming from because it was his.
Uh there is there is a I was gonna say that uh well, in my opinion, I think McCain needs Romney more than ever because uh because Romney stands on immigration.
No, no, no, no, no.
The other thing.
No, no, no, no, no.
Ah, he may need Romney, but he will never admit that or realize it.
Well, Bruce, my question uh uh the question I would follow up on that is that uh if my universal question would be is if if McCain's not gonna force the immigration laws, then how can I trust McCain to enforce the drug laws?
Um well he is I mean the th th this is the strange thing.
Immigration laws are being enforced now.
There's uh another series of stories uh I have in the stack.
I haven't gotten to them today.
Uh all over Arizona and Rhode Island we had yesterday.
The states are saying, you know, we uh we can't afford continued benefits, health care and so forth for the children of illegals.
They're starting to enforce the law, and there's a natural attrition that is happening, and this is what uh you know opponents of the McCain Amnesty Bill, the McCain Kennedy Amnesty Bill said just start enforcing the law.
You don't need a new comprehensive bill, it's amnesty.
You don't need all of this.
You don't need to create a new bureaucracy that won't get anything done, just enforce the law.
So this thing comes up comprehensive, meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform.
It went down the tubes.
Because guys like Limbaugh.
No, it didn't go down the tubes.
The states have no choice now to enforce the laws.
And it's working.
Uh I know what you mean.
McCain said that if the same bill came before him, he would sign it again, but it's not that time.
Uh we're past that and so forth.
Uh but McCain is who he is.
Susan in Overland Park, Kansas, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
My question is um well, first of all, I'm one of those conservatives who does not like McCain, mostly because he called people like me names because we disagreed with him on immigration.
So it's very difficult to consider voting for him.
However, uh my question is, why is no one trying to organize a write-in campaign for somebody like Romney or somebody else than that that we might really consider as a real conservative.
Well, uh I can only hazard a guess, because people know that the write-in campaign is not gonna work, it's not going to elect anybody, and the people that you're talking about have bowed out of the campaign.
Uh they clearly, um Romney, Giuliani, if they wanted to proceed under the concept of uh write-in candidacy, they could do that.
Uh but they've pulled out.
Uh so the the impetus uh has to be in something like this, has to be provided by a candidate.
Uh and the and the candidates just are not there.
You're you're not gonna have Republicans.
There's there's nobody in that roster of candidates on the Republican side that is so distant from the current structure of the Republican Party that's gonna run against it, that Their futures would be doomed.
I mean, the only guy who might is Ron Paul.
But none of the others will.
Well, doesn't stop you from doing it.
It doesn't stop you from doing it right in, though.
No, I I was considering that, but I wish we'd get a draft going or something like that.
So I just would like to put the word out there.
You know, I I I'm getting calls like Susan's, I mean this is the third or fourth one today, and they happen every day.
I don't think the Republican Party has the slightest idea how much of this kind of unrest there is out there.
I don't think they have the slightest clue.
I I think they think it's temporary.
I think they think it exists.
I don't think they realize how deep it is, how passionately emotional these people who say they're never going to vote McCain feel about it.
I I think they're they're they're in for a um a rude awakening.
I don't know what they can do about it.
I don't know what I because if McCain tries to make a move to people like this, then he's going to anger the independents and moderates who think he's a maverick and a whole straight talk thing will be out the window, and he'd be thrown out of his own bus.
Uh uh, in a in a sense.
I want to get a couple of audio sound bites in here before the uh program comes to a screeching halt today.
Uh as I mentioned, ladies and gentlemen, we had a little fun yesterday with the uh with the drive-bys.
I actually, and CNN was the first to pick up on this, uh, and then it was all over the place.
I actually said uh at the program uh open yesterday that people go, Well, why don't you endorse somebody?
The worst thing I could do.
If I wanted to torpedo the McCain campaign, I would endorse him.
What do you mean, Rush?
What do you mean?
Well, it's simple.
He's appealing to independence, some Democrats and moderates.
Those people don't like me.
I mean, I've taken out after moderates on this program quite often.
Call them jellos.
These are people that have no independent thoughts.
They sit around and wait for the majority to form uh or for some emotional tie, and then they go there.
But by definition, moderates cannot have an opinion.
That's what they're smarter than everybody else.
They're uh open-minded, and they remain above the the fray, the typical schoolyard fray.
So they have no if I endorse McCain, all these independents and Democrats that despise me would abandon him.
I'm the greatest asset McCain has.
And the drive-by's bit on it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh, this is uh Fox and Friends this morning, Steve Ducy and Alison Camarata.
Rush Limbaugh on his show yesterday was talking about how he was actually this is great.
He says he's actually doing John McCain a favor.
Now keep in mind, Rush Limbaugh has said that John McCain is not conservative enough.
Rush Limbaugh now says that he's doing him a favor by not endorsing him because he thinks that he would be the kiss of death to John McCain if he endorsed him because John McCain is so popular with independents and moderates.
It's reverse psychology.
But it's brilliant.
Is it?
Maybe.
Yeah, I'm not gonna get any new anywhere near that guy, or else everybody's gonna hate him because they hate me.
And by not getting near him, I'm supporting him.
And then later in the program, the other two on this show got involved.
This is Gretchen Carlson and uh Deucey.
That's Brian Kilmead and Deucey as well.
We want to talk a little Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh is saying, look, I am McCain's most valuable asset.
I'm doing him a big favor by not endorsing him, because quite frankly, if I did, then all the independents and liberals would run away from John McCain.
That's true too.
Rush Limbaugh saying this says he'll get the moderates' independents will stay with McCain.
However, did you see what happened yesterday?
Three to one margin.
He lost the conservatives to Mike Huckabee.
So that is not going to get you an election.
Right.
And I have not endorsed Huckabee.
And I don't think anybody else in Talk Radio has either.
So this notion that um Well, did you well we talked about this earlier in the program?
These exits, they're now exit polling me.
Uh, they did in Virginia and they did in Maryland.
This has been a brilliant, brilliant insertion of myself into this campaign, folks.
You have to don't tell anybody this is between us.
He'll have to admit this has just been brilliant.
Scarborough, MSNBC, morning show today, the co-host Mika Bzinski, the daughter of the former Carter National Security Grand Poobah, Zabignev Bzzynski, uh says to Scarborough, you know, very healthy portion of those polled, listen to conservative talk radio.
New question we put in, as no Mika had anything to do with it.
The voices are being heard.
The question is, how does John McCain deal with that as well as get to the voters he needs on both sides, independents and Republicans alike, and here's what Scarborough said.
I don't think John McCain cares what Rush Limbaugh says or thinks.
He's proven that time and time again.
And he thinks he can win on his own without their support.
I wouldn't want to do it if I were a Republican nominee, but John McCain does.
He does.
He does.
Well, he's he is where he is.
He walks across the aisle.
He's he's very proud.
He said earlier this week.
He's the right guy at the right time because he can reach across the aisle.
If he's gonna do that, you know, then you know, pandering or appearing to pander to uh those of us who have problems with his lack of fealty to conservatism.
He can't do it.
He can send emissaries out, maybe, but he can't do it.
Harry Smith uh had uh they hired Nicole Devon.
You know who Nicole Devinish is?
She's the cutest little thing.
Uh she was in the Bush White House uh and she was in the Bush campaign uh as a as a in the in the press office, and she started a Bush campaign.
I remember uh back during the debates of 2004 uh between Bush and the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
Uh Nicole Devinish was uh one of the Bush campaign spokesmen, spokeswomen, and she just was sharp.
She was uh she was just a you know young, attractive, I mean, the exact kind of face you want in a Republican Party.
Well, she left the White House, you know, you gave them six years, and was hired by CBS.
That's when a red flag went up for me.
Hired by CBS.
And she got married.
She went to Greece to get married, name is Nicole Wallace now, and she's a consultant at CBS.
She was on the uh CBS morning show today with Harry Smith, and they had this exchange.
This lingering Huckabee thing, Huckabee got a lot of votes in Virginia.
These conservatives, they're still they're not happy.
They're not happy about this guy.
And you know what?
Republicans are beginning to say that's okay.
Oh the more that we see uh kind of the crazies out attacking John McCain, the better Republicans feel about their chances in the general election.
So here's here's this young woman who I admired and thought represented the future Republican Party called me a crazy on CBS today.
It wounded me to the heart.
It just says maybe it's a good thing that they're attacking McCain, which was my point yesterday.
The official program observer, uh, Mr. Snerdley informs me that uh we could we could have a full three hours of calls uh from uh from people who claim they're not gonna vote McCain.
He says he's only giving me a very small fraction of those calls, but his note here says every day, every hour could be a full board with anti-MCain calls.
So we're spacing these out, of course, because we don't want to be a one-note samba here.
All right, back to the audio sound bites.
You gotta hear these two.
Chris Matthews on DNC TV last night during their coverage of the Potomac primary, after hearing the vapid, but really powerfully delivered speech of Obama.
Chris Matthews had this to say.
I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case.
This election.
The feeling most people get when they hear a Barack Obama speech.
My I felt this thrill going up my leg.
I mean, I don't have that too often.
He felt he felt a thrill.
He didn't say which leg, Mr. Snerdley.
A thrill.
Go up his leg.
Normally these tingles happen in the spine.
Which way did it go on the leg?
Um or down.
Here's the next bite.
McCain's problem is he's over 70.
He's standing there with John Warner, who's much older than him.
He's standing there with Tom Davis, who's retiring.
He looks like an army in retreat in Virginia.
That's what it looks like.
Now, Chris, we're getting personal here.
See, I told you this is gonna happen.
This guy, Matthews, used to be McCain's number one champion.
McCain may as well have been a co-host on Matthews' show.
Eight years ago, Matthews was saying the things about McCain that he's saying about Obama today.
He would sit there, he'd look like a star-struck girl when McCain would get into his straight talk rap about whatever.
And now all of a sudden, McCain's old.
And everybody around him is old.
Looks like an army in retreat.
Chris just put on the Obama button.
Bill Crystal's wearing his McCain button over on Fox.
You can balance each other out.
Liz in Collinsville, Illinois.
Welcome to the program.
Rush.
Nice to speak with you.
Great fan.
Thank you very much.
Hillary will divorce Bill, and here's my reason.
He needed her early on when they were in Arkansas, and she's needed him for a number of years.
If she gets the presidency, and I don't think she will, but if she did, uh, she no longer needs him.
I think she'll toss him aside.
In fact, I'm sure she will.
Yeah, I'm gonna tell you a little story here.
Okay.
This was back uh this 92.
No, 93 or 94.
I was asked to dinners when I lived full-time in New York.
I was asked to dinner uh by a well-known media figure and publisher in this town who I will not identify.
It doesn't matter.
Uh, took me to dinner to ostensibly offer me a position writing for one of his publications, and then told me, I'm gonna tell you a little secret.
She's divorcing him.
She can't deal with this stuff.
This might have been 96.
I'm not sure.
But but she's meaning Hillary.
You're gonna get divorced.
I don't see how after this 96 election, and I thought, nah, this I'm being set up.
This, this, this being said, so I go to the radio tomorrow and say, folks, folks, guess what I heard last night?
And publicly humiliate myself with the Clintons coming out.
Here's Limbaugh and all irresponsible.
I don't see them.
They're nothing without each other.
She's nothing without his last name.
Don't forget it was Chris Matthews said she's only qualified because she's been cheated on.
Maureen Dowd says almost as much.
Now, now, of course, that's DNC TV, so the Clintons made Matthews apologize.
Testicles are in her locks box, but um She is.
She's the most cheated-on woman in the world.
I mean, there's no question about it.
But I don't, I don't, you know, whether they get divorced, but that may be the only way she can assure that there will be no bill scandals in the future.
Gotta go, folks.
Quick time out.
Back after this.
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