Hi, welcome back Rush Limbaugh Cutting Edge Societal Evolution here behind the golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
An hour to go folks.
When we go to the phones, the program content is all yours.
You can talk about that that you want to talk about, whether I care about it or not.
I will fake it.
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There's a associated press story on this FISA business out there about how Congress has failed to re-up the FISA program.
Bush is going to go ahead and go to Africa.
The legislation passed on Tuesday in the Senate lapsed because the House didn't even take it up.
Recess started at noon today, or did.
I don't know if they actually have left yet, but it's like a week or 10-day recess.
Surveillance can continue against known terrorist groups, but any new groups that form, no surveillance.
All you got to do is agree, okay, we are no longer al-Qaeda.
We are I-Qaeda Incorporated, and you can't surveil us.
But the AP story, the headline is, Bush says Congress putting U.S. in danger.
The headline should be, Bush says Democrats putting U.S. in danger.
Because it's the Democrats in Congress who are holding it up.
I'm sorry.
The bars, I'm sorry.
Now the bars are down.
There we go.
Get that stuff off of there.
I'm sorry, ditto cameras.
It's unintentional.
I really am sorry.
Thanks for reminding me about that, Ed.
Appreciate that.
Northern Illinois University.
I am told, we've had, what, seven people dead now?
Another campus shooting.
I am told that this is another one of these wonderful, utopian, marvelous little college campaign that is a gun-free zone.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
Gun-free is the only way that we're going to get rid of guns and random shootings in America.
Really?
This guy, singing medication, who is off his medication or whatever.
This guy walks in there, starts mowing people down, has got time to reload because there's nothing anybody can do to stop him.
Everybody's got to run away.
Everybody's got to take cover.
This is liberalism on parade.
I can't tell you the number of times I've had conversations with even Republican, liberal Republicans here in New York.
And these liberal Republicans in New York love to single me out and poke, you know, put their finger right in my chest and say, why do you conservatives believe X?
These are Republicans I'm talking about.
Some of these guys served in the Nixon administration.
And the subject always came up, gun control.
Why are you conservatives so opposed to gun control?
I said, I'd be happy to support gun control.
This is one, it was a Fifth Avenue apartment dinner party.
This is way back in the mid-90s.
I said, if you can convince me that after taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding people, that you're also going to go into Central Park and get the guns out of all the creeps hanging around in there and everywhere else in this city, you get the guns out of the hand of criminals too, then maybe we can talk.
But you're never going to be able to do that.
This is another case in point where you have a gun-free zone, hate-free zone.
You go out and say you've got something, but you don't got it.
Just because you say it doesn't mean you got it.
There's all this whack, and this wacko planned it.
He planned it and executed it.
And he knew that there wouldn't be anybody else in the time he had to do his damage that had a gun to fire back at him.
Well, what are we supposed to do, Mr. Limbaugh?
Let every student walk in with a gun?
No.
But you certainly don't disarm security people around the place.
You don't disarm perhaps the professor.
If you guys, you know, this is going to keep happening because you're going to have, you know, there are demented people walking around in our society.
And who cares what motivates them and who cares that they're there?
You know, you can debate all day why, and you're not going to solve the problem.
Even if you diagnose somebody as schizophrenic or bipolar or whatever, you give them the medicine for that, they stop taking it.
Where are you?
And they freak out.
They go get a gun and know full well nobody's going to be able to stop them with another gun until after.
I mean, they got to know the cops are going to show up at some point, but they can still wreak their havoc long before anybody shows up to stop them, and a number of people are dead in a gun-free zone.
This is like these stupid sanctuary cities that will announce, you know, no, no, we're not going to have this in our city.
We're not going to have that in our city.
It's all around them.
This is just classic, symbolic, feel-good liberalism that ends up putting people at risk because it fails to recognize that people are different.
And when it looks at either the demented or the sick or the truly sane who are yet criminally oriented, they look at them as no different than anybody else.
If we just treat them differently, it's like Obama, the way he wants to go talk to some of the worst murdering thugs in the world.
And just when the power of his presence and the power of his ability to say nothing can turn these people into a bunch of lambs and say to Mr. Obama, you know what, Mr. President, you are right.
We are going to give up our evil ways.
We're going to give up our dictatorships.
We are going to give up our tyranny.
And we're going to grant our people freedom just because you came and talked to us or because you allowed us to come talk to you in the Oval Office.
By the way, President Obama, you better have armed guards in your Oval Office when these guys come to see you.
Don't forget we let Yasser Arafat walk to the podium at the UN wearing a pistol.
Well, if we just show them that we mean them no harm, Mr. Limbaugh, then don't you think that alone will show that they have no reason to hate us?
No, it'll show them what a bunch of weak, defeatable little SOBs we are, you little pansy.
You run around, just show them, show them we don't mean them any harm.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
We throw them the reason we're in such trouble in the world, Mr. Limbaugh, is because of our nuclear arsenal.
We're stealing the world three-fourtheth from the poor, and we're polluting a planet and destroying it.
And if Senator Obama, he will make sure that we're not going to do anymore.
People around the world hate us.
We'll have no more reason to hate us.
Just like the gunman at Northern Illinois University knew that nobody in there could do him any harm, and so he had had no animus for them, right?
Liberalism is so stupid.
I don't understand why.
I just, the only explanation of people not getting liberalism is that they do not think.
They feel, they hope.
They want things to be different simply on the basis of their power of hope.
Here, here, Susan Sarandon.
This was on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS Monday night.
Smiley said, your candidate, John Edwards, now out of the race.
So what do you do now?
I'm going to back Obama, but I hope, I think that he, as a symbol, has really excited people, and he's definitely confusing to everyone who really hates America for hating, you know, Muslims, because a name like Obama and a black man are probably going to go, well, wait a minute, what?
It's kind of like, you know, when you're out on the line for, you know, freedom to have an abortion and you're incredibly pregnant, they just can't quite figure out.
So I think he definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope.
And I, you know, I can't wait to see what he stands for.
Did you hear that?
May I repeat this?
She said, I definitely, or he definitely has convinced people he stands for change and stands for hope.
I can't wait to see what he stands for.
She doesn't even know.
And she's for him.
She didn't even know what he's for other than change and hope.
And she's for him.
I think she'd probably been listening to Obama commercials on my program.
All right, have another soundbite here.
It's very, very, very uncomfortable playing this soundbite, but it must be done.
Ladies and gentlemen, Stevie the Boy Wonder, a black cat, by the way, could cross my path anytime.
I love Stevie the Boy Wonder's music.
I just, it is.
That Songs in a Key of Life album is why it's so difficult to play, this soundbite.
Here's his last night at the NAALCP Image Awards.
That's the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
Stevie the Boy Wonder was awarded the Hall of Fame Award, the NAA LCP Image Awards, and this is a portion of his acceptance speech.
There's a man named Barack Obama who shows you that there's no reason for you to have to be a gang member or do drugs or whatever that is.
And there's a woman named Hillary Clinton who clearly should say to every single woman there's no need for abuse by any man to any woman in the world.
And you don't have to accept that.
I say to all of you without question, it is time for change.
And we can not only change history, but we can help to determine everyone's destiny to the good.
I say to all of you, yes, we most definitely can.
Oh, no, this is painful.
This is painful.
First place, you can't change history.
Because history is what was.
It has been.
What has been, has been.
What is is.
What hasn't been, hasn't been.
History is so yesterday anyway.
Mrs. Clinton, I'm not going to touch the Obama business on the drugs business.
I'm not going to touch that.
But Hillary Clinton Says to every single woman, there is no need for abuse by any man to any woman in the world, and you don't have to accept it.
Clearly, maybe I'm wrong.
Would you, Mr. Creeley?
You're a good objective guy, you're a broadcast engineer.
Would you say, in terms of abuse, that Mrs. Clinton has accepted it or not accepted it?
She's accepted it.
Yes, absolutely.
I mean, if Hillary Clinton has demonstrated anything, it is be abused and exact a price for it.
She has totally accepted it, she's marketed it, she has used it.
She's Mr. Wonder.
I just hate this, but I hate people being wrong.
I want to help them.
She's the most cheated-on woman in the world.
And she knew it for how many years?
25.
Even today, Mr. Wonder, people joke about who President Clinton is dating while he's married to her.
Even today, Mr. Wonder, reporters ask Mrs. Clinton how she will deal with further scandals involving her husband.
That is a past that continues to exist in the right now and will exist in the future.
It will not change.
And she knows it and is accepting it.
And Chris Matthews, before threatened with being kneecapped, said that's the reason she's a candidate because she was cheated on by her husband.
Geez, oh man, this has been painful.
This has been a painful sound.
Look, I was a struggling young disc jockey back in the early days of my what was to become Sterling broadcast career playing Stevie Wonder tunes.
Signed, sealed, delivered.
I'm yours.
Suspicion.
This wounds me to the heart to have to do this.
But see, I don't shy away from the tough.
I could have seen this sound by like say cookie.
Don't tell anybody you gave it to me.
I'm not even going to use it.
Back to the phones.
It's Open Line Friday, South Jersey.
This is Rich.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Little, little, little damn heart.
I'm hurt here.
But I'm going to get over it.
But this is a very painful thing I just did.
All right.
Here's my point.
Yeah.
I don't want people to forget about tort reform because I think it really messed up the medical industry because of the inflated settlements.
Look what it's doing to the foreign surveillance.
Exactly right.
That's exactly.
We talked about this in great detail yesterday.
All of these things.
Now, one thing, one thing, let me just say this.
Yes.
Because if you do fix the tort reform, you're going to reduce the weight of the lawyer lobby.
It's like automatic, don't you think?
Yeah, except lawyers make the laws.
Most members of Congress or lawyers are related to them.
Well, I'm talking if the judges, you get the right judges in there.
Well, guess what?
Dirty little secret.
Many judges are former trial lawyers who have been elected by trial lawyers in various cities, towns, and communities for the express purpose of siding with the trial lawyer community.
Well, I'm talking about the ones who the president has signed.
So where's McCain on that?
That's what I want to know, I guess.
That's a bearing on my vote.
I'll ask him.
That's a good point.
Well, he probably heard this.
I don't know where he is.
I think I don't really, I'm going to have to guess.
My instinctive answer to you would be that he has expressed dissatisfaction with the tort lawyer situation and these outrageous settlements and claims and so forth.
Be my guess since he's claims to be a budget hawk.
I think if that gets fixed, I think a lot of problems will just fix themselves.
Well, a lot of people, you know, a lot of people agree with you, and I would not be one.
I think it is.
Well, I have a friend who's a tort lawyer.
Met him at a Michael Irvin charity golf tournament.
And this guy, he's, I mean, he's unabashed, very proud.
He is votes Democrat, contributes to Democrats.
He'll vote Republicans if they want to punish corporations.
He's this, and he came by, brought me a Christmas present back in December.
He brought me a box of cigars, and he was complaining his business was down.
His tort lawyer business was down.
And I said, what do you mean?
He says, I need movement.
I need movement in my business.
Nobody's moving because the gas price is too high.
I need accidents.
I need broken legs.
I need whiplash.
I need destroyed front ends.
I need, I'm not getting it.
It's been a bad Christmas.
Okay, yeah, my instincts are right on this.
We just checked this.
The Club for Growth, which is not a big McCain supporter, by the way, says that his record on tort reform, Rich, is generally positive.
So if that's what it would take to get you to vote for Senator McCain, then that's go to the Club for Growth website.
Just go to Google Club for Growth.
You'll find it.
Search down what they've said about tort reform, what they think McCain said, what his positions are.
And I think you'll be genuinely satisfied with that.
That's indeed what my instincts were.
So, Rich, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it.
I don't think his point was, aren't lawsuits the real problem.
If we get a handle on that, won't a lot of other things come into line.
In one area of the culture, yeah.
But there's far more than that that has to be attacked and just liberalism, pure and simple, in the education business.
Everywhere.
You people know this.
You know the drill.
Back in a sec.
I know.
Thank you anyway.
Open Line Friday continues here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Peggy in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello.
Rush, just like you said before, it's a theory I've had for a long time.
I think Hillary is a mafia wife.
If you saw the Married to the Mob movie, it was those gals that pretended they didn't know how their husband gave them the money or got the money for their perks.
Now, I feel Hillary is the same thing.
I think Tim Russett is way off saying, you know, she wasn't aware and everybody feels so badly for her.
Wait, Russett said she wasn't aware of what?
That she was not aware that he was that much of a cheat or that he was cheating on her, or as she said, he's never going to do it again.
This gal doesn't care.
This gal has a nuptial agreement, never mind a pre-nup.
She is going to go for the perks just like, God forgive me, the Kennedy women did.
It's you just turn a blind eye.
You turn your head.
Your husband's cheating, but you're getting power, money, notoriety.
It's like selling your souls.
You know, I can't argue with that.
That is a pretty good analogy.
Yeah.
And I really like that it's coming.
Well, no, I'll tell you why I like it too.
I like it because it's coming from you, a woman.
See, this is one of the.
If I had said that, a lot of women who might be predisposed to agree with me would still have gotten angry because I was sounding like I was speaking disrespectful.
But you can say that, and it has power because it connects when you say it.
So I'm glad that you called him that.
I had never consciously looked at it that way.
Because you're absolutely rich.
There's no way she doesn't know what he's been doing for all of these years.
Exactly.
She's exacted a price for it.
Yes, she has.
And she's going to exact a bigger price if she gets in any position to.
She's going to buy a silence.
Omerta.
Well, all right.
Now, let me ask you this.
Continuing here with the mafia analogy.
Yes.
Don Clinton-Leone.
Right.
It is now his wife who seeks to run the mob.
Yes.
What if she loses?
What if she loses?
Therefore, Don Clinton-Leone is of no more value to her.
Right.
She is only a liability.
And, of course, Don Clinton-Leone will see her as a liability because he can't get back where he wants, the White House, without her getting there.
What then happens to this famous mob couple?
I wonder if they would have the guts to shed themselves of each other because I think they're just hanging on to each other for what they can get out of it.
There's no love there.
I don't know if there ever was.
But even if there was, as I said, she sold out a long time ago.
She sold out on women.
That's why I can't understand why more women don't see that.
Women are smart.
A lot do.
A lot do.
It's the dumb women that don't.
It's the smart women are moving over to Obama.
Can I ask you another question as a woman?
Well, you know, just when you say that, too, just what you said before, I thought I'd like to, you know, switch from this business of mafia wife and go to Obama because then when you went to Susan Saradin and, you know, about Obama and everything else, I kept thinking to myself, they're talking about hope, but you see, I'm a right to lifer.
And what hope is there then for the unborn if either one of them had any say?
None.
None.
There is no hope.
Nope.
And see, real women would want hope for the unborn.
And real men.
That's true.
Yep.
I need to ask you another question.
As a woman, I mean, I'm asking you as a woman.
Yes.
I want you to tell me if I'm off base in this.
Go right ahead.
We have been told, I mean, the image since, I guess, 1992, the image of Bill Clinton is that every woman in the world wants the guy, and that when every woman in the world meets the guy, they are paralyzed with admiration, desire.
They are dazzled.
We're told about those big hands.
We're told about those eyes that make you think he is the only, you are the only person he's thinking about when he's talking to you.
That you are immediately left a quivering mass of desirous jello.
Now, in that case, do you know any women who are jealous of Hillary because she has him and they don't?
Well, I'm coming from an advanced age.
I'm what they call a BIC.
That meant years ago a Bronx-Irish Catholic.
In other words, we didn't put out until we got married.
And we had to.
Believe me, there are still plenty of you.
You know what?
There are plenty of us.
Maybe they'll come out of the closet more and everybody will be a little bit more for chastity and purity and marriage and the unborn.
So as I said, I'm coming from an advanced age.
I understand that, but your advanced age is what gives you wisdom here.
You don't have to excuse it.
No, no, I won't.
I'm actually happy that I'm still around.
But, yeah, no, I think most people, most thinking people, my age or whatever, feel that she does not signify.
You're going to go back to Bill Clinton as far as his appeal.
That's another thing, too, I think, from my background.
We could spot a phony a mile away.
So you think that's an image that's overblown and been cultivated that he really doesn't have that appeal to all that many women?
Not women my age, of course.
And, you know, I mean, I still can appreciate a handsome man, of course, but I think, too, that we...
I know, but we're talking about Bill Clinton.
Let's stay on subject.
No, I think it's because he's a phony, but more than a phony, his character stinks.
Yeah, but you know, the women always like to rack and tours.
They like the ne'er-do-wells.
They like the guys taking the motorcycle off the cliff and living to talk about it.
They like the guys that their parents despised.
Do you know what happens then that my mother used to say?
Then they pick a lemon in the garden of love.
Pick a lemon in the garden of love.
And it winds up in the divorce courts.
You are a piece of work.
Well, I just, look, I'm just, I've wondered why, with all of this talk about how irresistible Bill Clinton is, no women seem to be jealous of Hillary.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Why would you want your heart broken?
No, that's.
You wouldn't stick around.
Any woman worth her salt would stick around.
No, I mean, there were a lot of women jealous of Jackie Onassis.
They wished they were her.
I don't, because she was close to Jack.
She had whatever she had.
In addition to her own attributes, she was there.
She was in Camelot.
You know, she was, she was, the women that wanted her husband were jealous of her because she had him.
I don't know any women jealous of Hillary because she's got Bill.
Well, you see, there again, as I said, the Kennedys, God help them.
But Jackie also was a mafia wife.
She knew what Jack was, too.
And she sold out.
I mean, I'll always remember her as the president's wife standing there with her little boy on the corner when the hearse passed by.
I mean, my mother used to say, no matter what you think of her, there she is.
And that's true.
But I always felt that she let us down, too, because Jack, you see, that made me laugh, too, as a Catholic, because my dad used to say, remember, Jack Kennedy is a roaming Catholic, not a Roman Catholic.
This is why you have characterized yourself as a seasoned citizen.
I am.
All right.
Now, this is why one of my undeniable truths of life that I wrote back in 1987, I'm to paraphrase it, one of the single greatest attributes young people have is access to people much older because of what you've seen, what you've learned, and the wisdom you can impart.
And you are illustrating that today.
Plus, it is obvious to all of us listening, you have impeccable taste and character.
You are refined.
You are class act.
Well, I have impeccable taste in men because I married a New York City fire lieutenant.
New York City fire lieutenant.
Oh, one of the bravest.
One of the bravest.
And my two sons, well, they were hurt in 9-11.
But as I said, I come from a good background, good family.
It's obvious that you're.
Very proud of them.
Well, you should be.
And I'm proud you're in the audience down there in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Thank you.
Well, you're warm and toasty up here freezing the buns.
No, but you'll be back soon to enjoy your beautiful, what is it, 24 hours.
Good for you.
Thanks very much.
And it's great to hear from you, Peggy.
Thanks a lot.
And it's good to speak to you.
I thought so much of you.
I do think so much of you.
Thank you.
Same here.
And have a wonderful weekend.
Ladies and gentlemen, before we go to the commercial break, it is time for a little public service here.
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And it's always a risk because you do make more, well, not enemies, but for every person you please, there's a lot of others disappointed.
Why couldn't it have been me?
Well, don't give up hope.
It could all.
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Another big, busy broadcast week.
About to come to a screeching halt.
But as I say, we will be here on Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
Many people take the President's Weekend Monday off, go skiing or what have you, but we don't.
Mitt Romney still in the gun sights, the political gun sites of Mike Huckabee.
And this is all about Romney endorsing McCain yesterday.
And last night on the Fox News channel with Neil Cavuto, Huckabee appeared.
Cavuto said, we're in this odd position today where it's Governor Romney kumbayaeing with Senator McCain, acknowledging the fact that it was a tension campaign, tension-filled campaign.
And in your Mr. Friendly Governor Huckabee, the odd man out, you're challenging the presumed nominee, Senator McCain.
It's a little weird, isn't it?
If John McCain and I end up standing on the stage together to congratulate one or the other, neither of us will have to put in an Oscar-winning performance or take acting lessons before we go up on that stage.
I won't have to fake it at all.
Senator McCain knows I have nothing but the highest respect for him.
I think he does for me.
Our relationship has been cordial.
I don't have to go and behind the scenes apologize or hope nothing gets brought up that's been said in the past.
He's attacking Romney.
He said acting lessons has to fake it when he says neither I nor McCain will have to put in an Oscar winning performance or take acting lessons before we go up on that stage.
I won't have to fake it at all.
Romney's gone.
The huckster still attacking Romney, claiming to be best budge with Senator McCain.
And I will guarantee you on the Straight Talk Express, Senator McCain's looking at his campaign aides.
What are we going to do about Huckabee?
He thinks we're still partners.
It's time to throw him under this bush, and he has to get it.
Well, he will get it.
If he doesn't understand, we'll make him understand.
I'm not going to put up with this.
I am a nominee.
It's mine.
It's mine.
Keep him in the Cayman's.
I don't care if a bush has to go down to Cameron's or run over him.
It's going to happen.
You got me?
The aide said, yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Absolutely.
If I have to, I'll take it all the way to the Supreme Court, like I did comprehensive campaign finance reform.
Warner in Brunswick, Maine, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
I've got a quick question for you, Rush.
Yeah.
Does the conservative base have enough influence to, shall we say, inspire Senator McCain to govern conservatively?
Does the conservative base have that kind of power over Senator McCain?
Or that kind of power within the Republican Party that we can keep him in control.
See, that's the rub.
I don't think so.
I don't think that's his personality.
I mean, look at, let me try to put this in perspective for you.
This is John McCain.
Reputation is of a man of honor, character, integrity, prisoner of war, survived multiple years of torture.
I don't think McCain, and by the way, I admire him in this.
I don't think McCain is a weak-spirited guy who needs a bunch of advisors about what he believes.
I think his advisors have to toe his line.
I frankly, I get so worn out of having presidents and people thinking that they're advisors.
Like Karl Rove, Karl Rove, mad scientist genius was George Bush's brain.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
George Bush is committed to what he's going to do, and he's going to do it come hell or high water.
And there isn't anybody who's going to talk him out of it because he believes passionately in what he believes or he wants to get done what he wants to get done.
I think McCain is even more so.
I think McCain is committed.
He's 70 years old.
You know, he's not worth it.
He doesn't run around think he's got something to learn.
He thinks we all have something to learn.
That's right.
Limbaugh, you're getting it.
You do have something to learn.
I am the guy to teach you.
If you don't get it, I will.
Thanks very much for being with us today, folks.
Open Line Friday now over, but it was a blast.
It was a good time.
We'll just take a little weekend here to rejuvenate and be back with you on Monday.
Many of you, of course, will be taking the President's Day holiday off, but a lot of you won't.