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Feb. 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Nice to have you here, the EIB Network on President's Day.
And we're getting a lot of audio sound bites from the roster.
I still have a chance to squeeze in there today, so gonna do that this hour as well as your your phone calls coming up too.
Telephone number if you want to join us 800-282-2882.
The email address is uh Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Now continuing here with Mrs. Clinton's uh this this economic manifesto.
Um she repeated this her plan to freeze home foreclosures and subprime adjustable rate mortgages, a plan some economists believe would raise interest rates on other consumers.
It would do worse than that.
Uh freeze home foreclosures and subprime adjustable rate more.
And you're gonna create a new homeless problem too, because we just learned that in Cleveland the homeless are occupying some of these foreclosed homes, um, which is an upside to the foreclosure thing if you're a liberal.
Uh also describes Clinton's plan for creating new jobs through investments in infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, and levees, green-collar jobs that would help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
This is right out of the John Edwards playbook.
And he went off the cliff with blew up his own campaign with this.
And yet both Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Obama are uh Mr. Obama are heading in that uh in that same direction.
Which I think is just an indication that panic is setting in here.
And it's not so much that either of these two candidates are actually gonna be able to pull off any of these things were they to be elected president.
They might try.
It probably wouldn't succeed, but look at what they think they've got to do to win the Democrat primaries to get the nomination.
The kind of people that are voting today in the Democrat Party, all this hatred for corporation and profit, uh corporations and profit that that propel the capitalist system.
Then there's this little ditty in in the story about um uh Mrs. Clinton's economic message.
After taking a question from a little girl who told her that she and her mother were about to lose their home because the mortgage payment had jumped too high.
Clinton invited the two on stage and put her arm around them.
Clinton said that the woman, a hairdresser, whose mortgage payment jumped from six hundred dollars to one thousand dollars a month, was in a similar position to many people she had spoken to who had been pushed into adjustable rate loans by unscrupulous mortgage brokers.
It's always the mortgage broker that's the culprit.
It's never the borrower.
The borrower is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
The borrower is always a victim of the evil loan shark.
Uh but did Mrs. Clinton offer to help this little girl and her mom?
Did she?
Well, the story doesn't say anything about that.
All the story says is that Mrs. Clinton brought the little girl and her mother up there and put her arm around them and the usual.
I talk to people all the time who tell me similar stories.
It reminded me of an incident that happened.
This has to be last summer.
Last fall, perhaps, the Breck Girl still in the campaign was in New Hampshire.
He was doing a town hall meeting.
During the town hall meeting, a young woman, a college student, raised her hand and uh spoke and complained about her student loans, how they had ballooned and she had no chance and no hope of repaying them.
And what was Edwards going to do about this?
And she was distressed, highly upset.
And she was on the verge of tears about this.
You know, Edwards did the typical liberal Democrat thing.
He shared her tears and shared her pain and then blame Bush.
And blame Republicans and evil Lenders and so forth for this horrible circumstance, and then essentially said, I'll fix this for you.
And I'm sure that's the last he ever thought of that little girl.
Well, it wasn't the last I thought of her.
Because I'll tell you what I did.
I am I I endeavored to find out who she was.
And by the way, I I told Mr. Snurley, I'm very going to be uncomfortable telling this story.
He said, You gotta do it.
You gotta tell the these Democrats get away with this stuff all the time.
They don't do diddly squat, and everybody thinks they're the ones that really care.
You gotta tell a story.
He said, Mr. Snurdley is too self-serving.
You gotta tell a story.
We endeavored to find out who this who this little student was, a student was at what school she went to, and and our office reached her.
And the message to her was that I would retire all of her student loans and any future loans that she had made or committed to, provided that she endeavored to keep her GPA up, went to school and all this sort of stuff.
All of that happened after I and didn't say a word about this to anybody, told her not to tell anybody about it.
I don't know if she did or not.
But just just to, you know, I'm I'm watching this, and and the reason the reason that I did it was not to be able to tell you about it someday, because I'm just frosted here watching this, all these Democrats getting all this credit for compassion and caring because these people show up with legitimate problems, and by the way, college tuition is largely a Democrat problem.
Who the hell runs major institutions of higher learning?
Liberals.
Who is the majority of people in Congress right now?
Liberals.
Who is it that's constantly running around and talking about how big business is screwing the little guy?
Liberals.
And who is it that's running around suggesting we need new student loans and we need deductibility for parents of student loans and so forth and greater tuition deductibility.
But who is it that's never talking about how tuition needs to become lower?
How come we never hear like gas prices need to come down, other prices need to, there needs to be less profit, Mrs. Clinton will never talk about taking the profits of Harvard.
Mrs. Clinton will never talk about taking the profits of Yale.
Mrs. Clinton will never because they're in league.
The whole point, liberals hang together, keep those tuitions high so these professors and professor assistants and all the faculty and all of the presidents, all the administration of these universities continue to get paid very well on the basis of these exorbitant tuitions, plus the cost of books and rooming and lodging and all these things at these major universities.
Nobody on the left ever wants to attack the problem.
The rising cost of tuition, which has no bearing in people's ability to pay it.
They're relying on federal subsidies, scholarships, and of course, other little gimmicks like the deductibility of tuition, uh, which only encourages colleges to raise tuition.
They never do anything to help the people who are in pain and suffering because of these high tuitions.
So I decided to move in there and because this this young woman was obviously distressed over this.
She had, you know, a little job.
She was working working two jobs plus going to school, and she was in a sheer panic over not being able to pay back these loans.
Now, some people might say, well, she had no business taking out these loans if she couldn't afford to pay them back.
She's being encouraged to.
Everybody in this country is being encouraged to go to college, whether it's for them or not.
They're being told they've got no hope if they don't go to college.
It isn't for everybody.
If you want to go, fine, I'm not condemning it.
Don't misunderstand me here.
But I'm people are being told they got no chance, no prayer unless they go to college.
Some people go to college because they have nothing else to do, don't know what else they want to do.
They hope they'll find what they want to do when they get there.
There's all kinds of reasons.
But because the impetus, you know, we we must educate our children.
Yes, we must educate the children.
But some people go into bigger debt, sending kids to college, then they go into debt on their personal credit cards or their home mortgages or what have you, depending on how many kids they have.
And of course, nobody all we all we talk about in fixing this, well, we've got to restructure the student loan program.
Uh maybe we forgive the loan payments, and we'll just make it up for the university some other way, because liberals hang together.
So we got together, we found the woman, we paid off her loans and then her further commitments, and uh and she had to agree, keep GPA up, and we didn't do this for nothing.
There was an incentive attached to it.
We're not idiots here.
Um she couldn't believe it.
I didn't say a thing.
We didn't, you know, we talked to her, didn't say a thing about Senator Edwards, didn't run anybody else down.
We saw we saw the problem, uh, saw her on television, and uh just was we were distressed that she'd found herself in this circumstance, but there was a way out.
Uh and here Mrs. Clinton is dragging people up on the stage, exploiting their personal pain to which she might have had some role, in which she might have had some role, because it was Congress that encouraged these loan shark lenders to start making these kinds of loans to people that were not qualified on the basis they were being frozen out of the American dream and so forth.
Uh and now it's all backfired, and there's I mean, there's nobody's innocent in this.
And yet we're being told that there's only one set of guilty people, and that's the lenders.
The evil money changers.
And except right.
Now here's the missus Mrs. Clinton and her husband cannot stop talking about how rich they are.
Mrs. Clinton and her husband cannot stop talking about how they don't need a tax cut because they're wealthy now.
They talk about it constantly, and yet here comes a hairdresser and her little girl, and they're suffering on stage exploited with Mrs. Clinton's arms around them doing literally nothing, simply trying to tell the audience, I'm gonna get even with the people who did this to you.
It's sort of like the same the same line of thinking.
I'm gonna raise taxes on the rich.
I'm gonna make you feel better to the rich are going to be paying more in tax.
But Mrs. Clinton, is that gonna help me?
Well, no, but you're gonna feel better because you want to hate these people, I'm gonna help you get even.
I mean, you're gonna feel revenge, and you're gonna it's gonna make you feel good.
No, it's not gonna help your circumstance.
What if Mrs. Clinton had said, you know, this is horrible.
I want to help you.
My husband and I would like to help you with your mortgage.
I know, I know.
Then people would say, but Rush, then everybody that Mrs. Clinton talks to is going to demand it.
Nope.
Maybe they might, but you can deal with it in another way.
You can say this is how people work together to help each other out in these situations.
Well, Mrs. Clinton doesn't want that.
Mrs. Clinton wants government in charge of making these problems and then supposedly solving these problems because government is where all the compassion and where all the concerns are.
The Hollywood pals of the Clintons could donate.
They can set up a trust fund for all of these people with these student loans that are out the was.
It wouldn't cover nearly all of them, I know.
But you could have a little sliding scale where the people that made the best effort to keep the GPA up got the help and getting their student loans paid off.
Instead of running off to Darfur to find victims over there instead of running off to Kosovo, instead of running off to all these half-baked places in the world to find suffering, and blame the United States for that.
Deal with some of the so-called suffering happening in this country that's been brought on by liberal compassion.
And by the way, Mrs. Clinton, you can also start tipping the waitresses at the diners in Iowa.
And if you don't carry cash, you're relying on your staff to do it, and if they forget to do it, take on that responsibility yourself.
The waitresses, I'm sure, would appreciate a dime or a quarter if it came from you personally.
Rather than being told that they're wrong when they report that they did not get a tip.
ABC News blog, there they're still the drive-by is they're still riveted here by the story that Obama plagiarized the governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick Howard Wolfson of the Clinton campaign who used the word plagiarism to describe what happened here, uh, said that because Obama's fired by saying look, Mrs. Mrs. Clinton has used some of my rhetoric too.
And Howard Wolfson said, well, that wouldn't be as big a deal.
Wouldn't be as big a deal if it were learned that Clinton had lifted language from Obama.
Senator Clinton's not running on the strength of her rhetoric.
So whatever rhetoric she uses, wherever she got it wouldn't be any big deal.
So the standard of plagiarism is now a morally irrelative one in the Clinton campaign based upon the degree to which one takes language seriously.
See, Mrs. Clinton's about solutions.
She's not about language.
Barack's about language.
When he uses somebody else's language, he's stealing it.
But she's not.
Because language is no big deal to Mrs. Clinton.
All right to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Marty in Centerville, Virginia.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Russia.
You ran through uh the list of problems everyone has, and you said the problem for your loyal listeners is that we're waiting for directions from you.
No.
No, no, no.
I said that I'm only on three hours a day, and that's not enough time really to s to go through and decipher all of the events that happened.
But that doesn't mean you're getting orders from me.
Well, maybe not, but I mean it's I I'm disappointed it's been a couple weeks already since Super Tuesday, and I'm still waiting for you to make McCain more palatable to us by taking up a crusade to get a decent running mate for him.
I mean, why aren't you hammering him the name Fred Thompson or Fad Cocker and Jim DeMin or somebody?
Because you're because look, I'm gonna in fact Mike disregard what I said about sound bites.
Go hang, I want you to grab uh ten and eleven in response to uh Marty here.
Marty, um I don't think that it is my what's the word?
I don't think I have any say so in who McCain chooses as his vice presidential nominee.
I I d it's his choice, it's not mine.
Can't be serious.
I'm uh I'm dead serious.
I did suggest a great one would be Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
But I I don't think it's my purview to demand of McCain that he choose a particular vice presidential candidate.
I don't that's not what I view myself sitting here doing.
If you don't intervene, we're gonna get stuck with the huckster, and that's gonna make it so stink so bad that most of us aren't gonna be able to.
I don't think we're not even gonna be able to hold our nose then and pull the lever up.
I don't think he's going to choose Huckabee.
Uh especially the longer Huckabee stays in this without getting out.
I I I don't I don't see that happening.
If it look it what McCain has learned in the campaign so far is that he won the Republican vote in uh blue states where he's not going to win the popular vote.
He lost the Republican vote in Southern states where he's going to need the Republican vote.
He lost those states to Huckabee.
Uh I think that he's going to need a conservative governor of some kind.
I'll tell you the front runner, and this is just conventional wisdom right now.
I have I have no inside information on this, obviously.
But there obviously are a lot of people pushing the governor of Minnesota Tim Pallenty because his name is being featured as the guy at the top of the list.
He is a governor, he's a governor of a blue state.
McCain could use it.
Uh he is considered an independent conservative Republican in a lot of people's eyes.
Uh also uh Terry Sanford, uh, Mark Sanford in South Carolina is being considered, but others say no.
Haley Barber's being considered, others say no, he's got a lobbying problem.
McCain can't have that.
Uh but but I I I don't uh it's gotta be somebody from the South.
I mean, uh when's the last time?
I think it's what Eisenhower Nixon before ever a ticket without somebody on the South that won.
Yeah, I know, but this seems to be the year of uh, you know, blowing traditions all through the water.
Ah, it it it it it it does in uh in a whole lot of ways.
But you know, uh I don't know how to explain this.
I I um I I just I could not sit here and saying I could I just can't see myself here self sitting here and saying, Senator McCain, you have got to put X on the ticket.
You you you don't know Senator McCain.
Senator McCain is going to do what Senator McCain while he's seventy years old.
His job is not to satisfy one person.
He's got to be who he is.
And I'm content to let him be who he is.
Yesterday on CNN's late edition with the Wolf Blitzer.
He interviewed Governor Bobby Gindle of Louisiana.
They had this exchange.
Rush Limbaugh, who's no great fan of John McCain's, as you well know, he is a big fan of yours.
He said this on February 8th.
I'm going to give you a name that would make me jump for joy, Bobby Gendal.
I did an interview with Bobby Gendal.
He is the next Ronald Reagan if he doesn't change.
He was throwing out your name as a potential vice presidential running mate for John McCain.
Now what do you think about that?
Well, first, I'll obviously extremely flattered.
Whenever anybody puts your name in that kind of context, it it's flattering.
It was very nice for us to do that.
The reality is I've got the job I want.
I've got a an incredible opportunity in Louisiana.
We've got an historic opportunity to change our state.
The storms cause massive destruction.
But we had challenges before the storms.
We had challenges in health care and our economy, in our roads.
We had challenges throughout our state.
We now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix our state.
You can interpret that in any number of ways.
I will leave it to you.
Blitzer then said, Well, what if McCain asked you?
He's not going to ask me.
How do you know?
Well, look, he he's not going to ask me, but no, my uh my focus is on Louisiana.
I I've I've I've been elected.
I've told the people of Louisiana this is our chance to fix our state.
And I mean that.
I don't think we'll get this chance again in our lifetimes.
So it is my responsibility to work with the legislature and the voters.
He's just in his first year, and he does want to complete these uh uh promises, these uh challenges that lie before him and the uh that he said he was uniquely qualified to fix uh in Louisiana, and his election was revolutionary.
They have not had somebody less conservative in charge of this state in I don't know how long.
And we uh uh interviewed him for the Limbaugh Letter uh like late last year, and we put that interview up on Rush Limbaugh.com uh last week so people could read this and find out what all the hubbub was about.
Uh and it'll still be up there in the archives.
If what I forget what day it was.
I'll find Cocoa.
I don't remember what day we put it up there, but the last five days are uh are available, so all of last week, Monday through Friday will be available.
I think we did it one day last week, didn't we?
Yeah, it was one day last week.
So we'll figure out which day it was and direct you to it again.
Here is uh Jennifer in Midland, Texas.
Hello, Jennifer.
Hey, Rush, West Texas Diddles.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Well, it's nice to talk to you.
Uh however, I do need to let you know I'm not gonna faint for John McCain no matter what he says.
Yeah, I don't think it's been happening out there.
Uh it's been happening in the uh in the Obama campaign.
But I I don't know what you know, the fainting, it's either planted as a flu bug going on out there.
Well, there is a flu bug, and we've been having it here in Midland.
I was gonna what caused me to think of this was listening to your Obama story, and I was thinking how silly it is to be so enamored of your political candidate or anybody really.
And I wondered if it might I'm just thinking, and in the disgusting situation we find ourselves here, you know that the media's chosen our candidate for us.
What do you think about a candidate where we already know some of his footables before he gets there?
Instead of being blindsided, now you know, I mean, I'm from Midland and I love W, but my gosh, you know.
He blindsided me.
I don't know if he blindsided you.
Uh well, on some things, yeah.
What but what is what is your question?
We'd much rather have somebody that we know is gonna be dissatisfying a little bit than take a chance on somebody who could just be a disaster.
Well, I mean, either one's gonna have the same power, what however, you know, to whatever limitations that may be.
And if you know already what a person is likely to to lean, I mean, is there an opportunity to guard yourself for that?
To to maybe, you know, find some way to to rally support for the other side and just you know beat him into submission somehow.
Well, you're gonna have to put some names here.
Are you suggesting it'd be much be easier to support McCain than Obama?
Well, yeah.
I'm not gonna vote Democrat no matter what.
All right, neither am I. But I I just I just want to know what you meant.
All right, so you're you're basing your you're you're you're for me to hold your nose argument.
Well, you know, the devil you know is worse than the devil you don't know him, and this is what you're saying.
Well kind of.
I mean, I I don't feel like I'd be setting aside my conservative principles if he was the only person on the ballot.
Now in the primary in March, you know, we're right, right, right.
Now I know you can't I understand exactly what you're saying.
How can you set your side a cur your conservative principles and there's nobody to invest them in?
Right, right.
So I think it's that is why.
That is why I have been suggesting to people in addition to however you vote in the presidential race, pay attention to congressional and state races, especially congressional and senate races.
And the way to do that is keep an eye on a farm system.
The farm system is state legislatures.
G pay very close attention to the people in Texas legislature who are voting for tax cuts, doing you know, have a conservative agenda because that's where con congressional candidates eventually come from in large measure.
Not totally, but but uh but they do.
Uh because if if we're gonna have a president who is not as conservative as you would like, and we might have one that's not even conservative at all, uh then you're gonna need some way to stop them.
And that's done with uh significant numbers of conservative Republicans in the House and Senate.
So there's there's there's no reason to sit it out, and there's no reason to think that your vote's being wasted.
There are other ways to enforce or to try uh to ensure that you get as close to what you want happening.
Not everything that the executive branch wants to do gets done.
Uh so there are any number of ways of of dealing with this.
But yeah, I understand what you're saying.
I'm I'm never urged anybody to vote for Hillary or Obama here.
Uh then and and wouldn't.
And I don't know where that got started.
Unless somebody believed my fake endorsement of Obama last week.
And I look at I said I might support Hillary because McCain said that she would be a fine president.
In fact, he was asked about that.
Grab soundbite number uh number two.
McCain was asked about this by George Stephanopoulos yesterday.
He said uh back in two thousand five, Senator, you said I have no doubt Senator Clinton would make a good president.
She would be a good president in respect, but I think she has integrity.
I think she has uh uh all of the qualities that are necessary, but she has a very different philosophical view, the liberal democratic view than I have, which is conservative Republican.
Yeah.
She'd be a fine president.
I mean, if if if our nominees should be fine president, why can't I say it?
And people have a conniption fit when I say it.
February eighth, uh uh on the website, so um that was ten days ago.
The Jindal interview was on the website on February eighth is ten to get okay.
So February, find the find the uh the website for February eighth at Rush Limbo dot comedy archives.
And if you didn't read the Bobby Gindle interview, you'll find out what all the hubbub is about with my suggesting that he would make a fine, fine vice presidential nominee.
Ben, North Georgia on a cell phone.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh Megadetto's uh been been listening to you since the day after Bill Clinton got elected in ninety two.
That that was a very depressing day for many Americans, and we got them through that day.
But that was a brilliant broadcast that day.
It was it was just excellence.
Um wanted to uh wanted to chime in my two cents here.
Um I'm tired of holding my nose at the polls.
Um I'm not gonna vote for uh McCain.
Um I plan to uh dig around, see who there's usually a couple of also rans at the bottom of the ballot.
I'm gonna see if I can find some kind of a right wing zealot who just absolutely terrifies the the liberals, uh with probably no chance of getting elected, but I'm gonna vote for him because uh You mean for president?
For president.
Oh, okay.
I just I I can't I'm I'm tired of voting for people who uh who just refuse to uh represent me.
John McCain has campaigned against Republicans every time he's got the chance.
Uh He's he's much more fond of reaching across the aisle, as he puts it, than uh that's been the case the last eight years or so.
His his earlier years in the Senate were not that way.
Yeah, I understand.
Um only going by his record that that I'm aware of, and and unfortunately that's that's the record of the last primarily the last eight years in which he's pretty much uh shot us down every chance he's got.
I I agree with uh I agree with your philosophy that we need to defeat liberalism if we really believe in what we stand for.
We need to defeat liberalism, not constantly try to, you know, reach across to Ted Kennedy and his and his ilk.
Um just that's just not something I'm willing to vote for.
Very frustrating, I agree with you.
But it look at uh the Republican establishment is uh is firmly embedded in that philosophy now.
I mean, the the Republican, not the conservative, but the Republican establishment is embedded with a notion that uh we need to reach across the aisle, uh work with people, uh get things done, uh comedy, uh good vibes, uh you know, all these wonderful things.
That reminds me of of something you said on quite a few occasions that uh especially back um uh when the uh when Newt and the freshman class took over uh way back when that the Republicans just don't seem to be comfortable being in power.
That a lot of them seemed like they were just uh a lot happier to be dormats for the last year.
Yeah, you you're you you uh you're paraphrasing it incorrectly, but you're very close.
Uh what I said was that psychology is psychology, and the Republicans were not in power for forty years in the House of Representatives.
And aside from the Reagan years as president, conservatives were not in power.
What had their position been?
Their position had been opposing, criticizing, reacting, you might say knocking on the door, uh working from the standpoint of the minority to try to stop the majority.
It's sort of like a a person who's been fat overweight for a long time and loses a lot of weight, doesn't believe for a long time that he's lost a lot of weight, will stop in the mirror every five minutes to check to see if it's still off.
Um will not really feel different.
I mean, physically will, but psychologically won't feel that different.
Uh depending on how much time the person overweight has been overweight, and if the weight loss is significant.
Uh and when the overweight person puts the weight back on, which invariably happens, the person says, Well, you know, that's skinny me, it just wasn't me.
That just not who I was.
They rationalize it.
Well, but the same token, the Republicans and conservatives who'd been in the wilderness for forty years found themselves in the majority.
And that it was and they were leaders.
And you don't criticize yourselves.
You advance an agenda and go forward.
And the first couple of years, Newton the Boys did that.
And then uh after after a while uh government shut down in 1995, some other things uh they just lost a little focus.
My theory was that they made a miscalculation that the ninety-four election meant that the country gone conservative, and they just assume people now supported them and they stopped teaching conservatism along the way, which is what Reagan did as leader of a movement.
He was constantly teaching and explaining conservatism as he went along.
Uh we have people now saying, I am conservative, I believe in conservatism, but they're not telling anybody what it is.
Uh and you have to do that.
It's uh it's always been uh politically in a it's not it's not it's not a minority in the way most people live, it's a minority in the way people most people vote or have.
And so it's it's a constant, constant education process.
And if that breaks down and stops, uh then you're eventually going to lose it.
So it was an attitudinal thing.
It was it was something weren't they weren't uh uh conditioned to it.
Uh and and uh but at the same time Clinton was in the White House, so they got to do both things.
They got to lead the House as conservatives, but they also got to rail against Clinton, which is what conservatives have been doing for the uh for the longest time.
And and there's there's uh you know a body of thought that says, you know, w maybe we're not cut out to lead.
Well, we're cut out to share.
Uh it's a lack of confidence, perhaps.
I don't know, I don't know what it is, but I think it's it it part of it is the fact that constantly need votes to get reelected and the It's like if if seventy percent of the electorate believes in global warming and you want to get reelected, you gotta act like you believe it too.
And that's not leadership, it's pandering.
And that describes a whole lot of elected officials, too.
And that's what gets sort of frustrating to all of us who uh think we could do their jobs better than uh than they're doing it.
A little long here, we gotta take a break.
I'll be right back.
You gotta hear this soundbite.
Friday night CNN's Anderson Cooper 180.
Uh Randy Kay did a report.
Uh, I guess you call this a CNN special focusing on limbaugh race and gender.
Ecklers at a Hillary Clinton rally shouted for her to iron their shirts.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh wasn't any kinder.
Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes?
Her hair does, the shape of her ankles, even her cleavage has been debated.
Why do sexist attacks seem more prevalent than racial ones?
Some here point to free speech, others to racial guilt.
Still, Barack Obama has had his share of jabs.
Rush Limbaugh, not playing favorites, aired this song called Barack, the Magic Negro.
Barack, the magic Negro.
It's not just the right.
Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice.
Remember when Bill Clinton reminded voters like Obama, Jesse Jackson won South Carolina too.
Clearly, there are consequences to perceived racial insults.
But feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem says the consequences of sexism aren't taken as seriously.
I told you earlier in this program, if Hillary loses, all these women on TV, even the ones who are not even for her, are gonna are they're gonna be all of us are gonna realize what happened here.
That America threw a woman overboard for an unqualified black guy, and you're getting this is this this I would think I would get credit for being equal opportunity here.
But even when they play this Barack the Magic Negro thing, they refuse to cite the real source of this.
A liberal Democrat black guy columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
I can handle it.
I think it's funny.
Adam in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
I got about one minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Rush, Mega Mega, 82nd Airborne Division Ditto's.
Thank you.
I just have a question.
I was working through my post-Thompson depression, him getting out of the race.
And I got to thinking, with McCain's famous temper, what's going to happen when the very people he's been courting for years, the liberals and the media, turn on him.
That's about ready to happen.
Is he going to be able to do that?
Well, you know what?
It's already started.
I I I have a story here in the stack.
I uh didn't get to it today.
There's been too much McCain bashing going on as far as I'm concerned.
But uh there's uh a story about all of his profanity laced tirades at people.
I mean, AP has a story where they had a bleep, something like 20 words in a McCain story, citing his temper and so forth.
That kind of thing, his age, uh, those things have already uh started.
I I don't know how he's gonna deal with it.
Uh if if his if he'll respond in kind or not.
Well time will uh time will tell.
You just wait, Limbo.
I got this under control.
Kill 'em, not to worry.
Didn't have a chance to get to this today, but I'm all excited.
There have been a format winner declared in the HD DVD race, and that's Blu-ray.
I happen to have both as insurance against one of them going belly up.
But now that there's a winner, we're gonna be moving forward with the whole format.
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