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Feb. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 21, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, uh I see a Kosovo's over there blowing up right now.
Kinds of uh revolution uh going over there, whatever it is, tanks, people in the streets, fires.
U.S. Embassy has been attacked, no reports of injuries.
Who was we were watching?
MSNBC in there, MSNBC decided to get expert commentary on what's happening uh over in Kosovo.
Of course, this this was the situation that was fixed by uh President Clinton.
Uh and uh so they who do they go to?
They went they went to Ashley Wilkes.
They went to Ashley Wilkes, Wesley Clark, uh part of the Hillary Clinton campaign team to uh discuss what's going on in Kosovo.
Uh now, General Clark, of course, was the commander of NATO forces uh during the uh the war in Kosovo.
You know, it it ladies and gentlemen, it's very obvious, is it not, that the uh the Clinton broker deal in Kosovo is not making much political progress.
And it is apparently obvious to me that political progress is desperately sorely needed on the ground in uh in Kosovo.
Uh let's just apply.
Let's just apply the same requirements to Iraq at Pelosi and Reed have applied to the situation in Kosovo.
You remember that 21-year-old superdelegate that was wined and dined by Chelsea Clinton?
His name was uh Jason Ray.
He's a Wisconsin superdelegate.
He was taken out to breakfast by uh Chelsea Clinton in the run up to the Wisconsin primary.
Two days after the vote, Jason Ray, a uh junior in college, who'll be the youngest superdelegate at this year's Democrat National Convention, is undecided no longer.
He is going to back Obama.
The Democrat Party is fortunate to have two very talented individuals running for president this election, uh, Jason Ray said in a statement released by the Obama campaign.
I know I almost said erection, but I caught myself.
It's a difficult choice for anybody, but in the end, the choice for me has become clear.
I am proudly supporting Senator Barack Obama.
He cited Obama's support from an overwhelming majority of young voters as the major reason for his decision.
Now I don't know if this story I'm about to tell you is instructive, if it's illustrative or not.
But I saw this this week uh in one of my show prep stacks, and I I didn't get to it.
Um it was about a young Obama supporter, just excited as she could be.
She was just oh she's typical of these Obama crowds that you see.
And she was in New York.
And she, well, and she's from New Jersey, but she was in New York, and she got sick, and she just wasn't able to get across the river and go vote for Obama.
And so you gotta wonder if the young vote's gonna do a 180 this year and show up in greater numbers than they usually do.
Uh yeah.
Right.
Yeah, that's right.
It was the Obama girl.
That's exactly it was the Obama girl.
Did all those commercials of the primary on an Obama girl?
And she didn't when she had the chance to vote for the guy, she didn't.
Because uh because she got sick.
So we'll see if uh if the Ute vote actually shows up.
You know, it's a striking contrast.
I it is it it f it's so obvious.
Mrs. Clinton cannot give a speech.
When you contrast Obama out there in his rallies or whatever these things are, uh to Mrs. Clinton, it's just it's just so, so obvious.
The glaring weaknesses of Mrs. Clinton and her campaign, charisma, lack of it, uh, what have you.
I mean, try this headline, even blowing his nose, Obama gets applause.
Probably safe to say that you've arrived as a politician when your audience applauds when you blow your nose.
Just a day before debate in Texas, Barack Obama's uh has a head cold, and about a half hour into his speech in Dallas, he announced he had to take a quick break.
Gotta blow my nose here for a second, he said.
Out came a kleenex, maybe it was a handkerchief.
He wiped his nose.
The near capacity audience at Reunion Arena, which is campaign said total 17,000 people, broke out in a slightly awkward applause.
When he blew his nose.
Will that handkerchief be for sale on the eBay?
Is the um is the real question.
Uh this is from uh the Times Online, a UK Times Online.
A uh uh a blog, I believe it's called Clinton's spin machine spun dry.
Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the ninth and tenth straight time last night with blowouts in Wisconsin and Ohio.
But look at here's spin machine spun dry.
Analysis Clinton could turn toxic as options dry up.
Now there I I have noticed several stories that reference how dried up Hillary is uh and it's it's I you know what I think is going on something I called and something I predicted is nobody will ever admit this, but I think what's going on here is ageism, folks.
I really do.
I predicted this.
You can't avoid it.
The contrast of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's headlines, analysts.
Clinton could turn toxic as options dry up.
Clinton's spin machine spun dry.
Um these stories, you know, they're just subtle ways of saying we just don't want to watch her melt.
We just don't want to watch her melt.
I mean, that's that's these stories are uh all about and did you know she's in debt, 7.6 million dollars in debt?
From the new republic for many weeks, a growing chorus of political observers have wondered why exactly Hillary Clinton hadn't fired the architect of her thus far woefully unsuccessful strategy, Mark Penn.
Politico.com at last supplies a persuasive answer.
She owes him too much money.
Hillary Clinton ended January with $7.6 million in debt, not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign in the run-up to Super Tuesday.
More than two million dollars of the red ink is owed to Mark Penn.
This is just another one of these stories.
Oh, what's wrong with the Hillary campaign?
Well, it's a bad strategy for Mark Penn.
And Howard Wolfson, he's not a pretty good spokesman.
He looks looks old and worn out in there.
All these old Clinton it's her.
And none of them just want to say it.
It is the uh the candidate, Lisa Larer Politico.com.
Obama mania verges on obsession.
Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings has held elected office for more than a quarter century.
He's seen his fair share of politicians come and go, but he's apparently never seen one quite like Barack Obama.
This is not a campaign for President of the United States.
This is a movement to change the world, he said as he introduced Obama last week in Baltimore.
You do not get 13,000 people in this auditorium with a campaign.
George Clooney.
Uh who makes Bill Press look like Einstein.
He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere.
Actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News, I'll do whatever he says to do.
I'll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.
What's what she said.
It's what she said.
It's what it's right here in the uh it's in politico.com.
I'll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.
Yeah, this is uh this is uh it's fascinating to watch this, folks.
We'll see where it goes.
It's uh it it's it's clear there are a lot of factors uh tied up in support for Obama, but very few of them have anything to do with uh with substance.
Speaking of the Obamas, Michelle Obama is is on her clarification tour.
Uh you know, she took some heat here for saying that this is the first time she's been proud of her country.
WJAR television Providence.
Reporter Bill Rappola interviewed Michelle Obama, and he said, you want to clarify those remarks of yours?
Yeah, I think it's uh you know, the clarification has been made.
I mean, what I was sort clearly talking about was that I'm proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process.
I mean, everybody has said what I've said, which is we haven't seen these record numbers of turnouts, people who are paying attention, going to rallies, watching the debates.
I mean, for the first time in my lifetime, I'm seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven't seen, and really trying to figure this out.
And that's uh the source of pride that I was talking about.
How old is Michelle Obama?
Give me a give me a rough.
Is she in her forties?
Okay.
Okay, so that would mean that in the 90s, Michelle Obama was an adult.
Right.
If I'm Hillary Clinton, I have to be sealing.
Because the Clintons think that they were in the 90s what Obama is today.
People stuffing envelopes and attending rallies and going bonkers and cheering and so forth and so on.
And and and Michelle Obama has just dissed the Clinton 90s, which for the longest time defined the uh the Democrat Party.
And next question from the reporter Bill Rappoli.
Have you always been proud of America when we abandon the people in Rwanda?
The disparity between the rich and the poor.
We've got work to do, but you don't run for president of the United States and put yourself and your family through this if you don't feel some level of deep pride and uh possibility uh for your country.
That's pretty much all I can say is I love my country.
I wouldn't be in this if I I didn't care deeply and didn't believe that the kind of possibilities that I've had as a kid should be available for every single child, and it shouldn't be up to luck or based on race or gender or political affiliation.
And I think people in this country know that, and that's why they're hungry for something different.
Okay, so she wouldn't be in this, she wouldn't be doing this, she wouldn't be doing all of that if she didn't care deeply.
Obviously felt the need to go out there and do the uh clarification tour on uh being proud of her country for the uh for the first time in her life.
One more, Beaumont, Texas, yesterday at a Hillary campaign event.
Bill Clinton spoke uh very quick, this nine seconds.
Here's what he said.
If she wins in Texas and Ohio, I think she'll be the nominee.
If you don't deliver for her, I don't think she can be.
It's all on you.
It's she's toast, it's a Texas and Ohio or bust.
This from Bill Clinton.
So once again, points the finger at the voters.
It's all on you.
It's all on you.
It's not up to Hillary get your vote.
She's she's she deserves your vote.
I mean, she's owed your vote.
It's up to you.
Get out there and support her, and we are gonna be watching.
The news just continues to pile up.
And it's not good for Mrs. Clinton.
Major organized labor endorsements continue to be delivered to Obama, with the union leaders increasingly signaling that they believe the time is rapidly approaching for Senator Clinton to exit the Democrat nomination race.
We do think it's time to bring this nomination process to a close, said Anna Berger, chairman of Change to Win, which is an umbrella group that represents seven unions with six million workers in Texas.
Uh Berger made the comment during a conference call with reporters to announce the group's endorsement of Obama.
There's certainly a movement blowing here, uh she said, adding it maybe time for Clinton to recognize that Obama is benef benefiting from that desire for change.
Who would have thunk this?
I know it's unions in Texas, but who in the world would have thunk this?
That we've got actually got union organizers and leaders suggesting to Mrs. Clinton that she's scram.
All right, back to the phones.
Lenny in Gulfport, Mississippi.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
He's gone.
Lenny's gone, so we're gonna go to uh we're standing in Bristol, Virginia.
Stan, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hey, Prophet, how are you doing?
Good, sir.
Uh, listen, I I could have sworn I just heard Michelle Obama say she wanted kids today to have the same opportunities she had.
Yep.
When she was a kid.
Now let's go back.
That puts her right about the Reagan administration, if I'm not wrong.
Well, it's gotta be something like that.
I mean, we know she's not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a it's a good point you're making out there.
Well, she's stomping for conservatism is what I'm getting at, and uh, so part of the McCain show prep.
You know, we gotta do what we can for the boy.
That's all we can do.
That's all we can do, brother, is tell the truth.
She was a kid when Reagan was around.
She had all kinds of opportunities.
What was going on?
Yeah, where'd those opportunities emanate from when the Republican administration?
That obviously is the point that you were making.
Yeah.
She needs to go home and be quiet.
Well, here's the thing is, there are more opportunities today than there were when she was growing up.
This is the point that I keep trying to make to people day in and day out when they keep hearing about how rotten the economy.
By the way, by the way, did you hear about the unemployment numbers?
Unexpectedly the unemployment numbers dropped, ladies and gentlemen.
A big drop.
We're at 4.9% unemployment.
We're supposedly heading into a recession.
The thing that somebody should tell Michelle Obama.
This is what the Democrats and media are trying to make you think.
That back when they grew up, back when Barry and Michelle were just little apples in their parents' eyes, there's wondrous opportunity in this country.
And of course, Stan's point is when was that during the Reagan years?
I'm not supposed to reference that.
But now all of a sudden the country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
Michelle and Barry went to Harvard, Yale, wherever the hell they went, Ivy Lee Schools.
He's a senator.
She was working for some hospital group.
They're millionaires.
Nice house.
But somehow something's gone wrong.
Must have happened in the 90s.
For us to lose all this ground for there to be no opportunity.
How come there's more opportunity today than there was yesterday?
There's more opportunity yesterday than there was a week ago.
There's more opportunity today than there was in the 1980s.
This is the United States of America.
And as long as we continue to be devoted to the free market capitalist system, there will continue to be more opportunity each and every day.
Every day in America is better than the day before.
And I'm not just but I'm not doing an Obama on you here and uh and and uttering little platitudes.
Uh, but they're out trying to make you think that the salad days are behind is oh, whoa, is that we got ours and we feel so bad.
Barack and I, we got ours, we got everything we I want my kids to have the same chance.
They'll they'll have more chance than you did, Michelle.
What they do with it's another thing, but it's still going to be the case.
Melinda in Springfield, Indiana, hello, and welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
This is a this is a I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a little bit nervous.
No need to be.
No need to be nervous.
You don't even sound nervous.
Well, Rush, I'm I'm so upset.
I've been watching this thing about McCain all day long.
And uh what I wanted you to know, to me, it's not even about whether he's guilty or not.
I don't know if he's guilty or not.
It's about the New York Times and leveling them and exposing them for the hypocrisy and challenging their credibility.
Listen, if you Google or research Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, you will find that in 1999, he was married to his first wife for over 20 years.
He left her because he was having an affair with his second wife who was pregnant.
Her name is Emma Gilby, she's a reporter from England.
He left his first wife for Emma because he was having an affair with her, got her pregnant, she was pregnant when they got married.
And so what this man, this son of a bitch is actually hypocritical, son of a bitch, excuse my language, is actually saying is that you can be a lying cheating husband and run the New York Times and have people think you're honest and believe the words that you print in that paper, but you can't be a lying cheating husband and run the country as president and have people believe your words.
If you're a Republican, if the wait, if you are a Republican, you can be a lighting lying cheating SOB if you're a Democrat.
Don't you understand?
They have no standards.
No, but McCain is Mr. Glass House that shouldn't cast stones.
This son of a bitch is guilty.
It's the New York Times.
I keep trying to do it.
I know.
I called me.
Look at you and I on the same page.
I've been saying all day long the story is this the story's not the story.
The story is the New York Times.
Yes, it is the New York Times.
And I what I want, and I called Senator McCain's office and his campaign headquarters.
I said, you people need to turn the tables and expose how about people doing investigative reporting on the press.
But how about doing reporting on the New York Times?
Because it will challenge, if people know this about Bill Keller, they will know that they will challenge that his credibility and his motive.
Melinda, the problem with that is that John McCain likes the New York Times.
And we're back serving humanity here on the uh on the EIB network.
John Weaver, who um, you know, former aide to Senator McCain, he's the guy in in the middle of all this New York Times story stuff in involving uh McCain's relationship or lack of relationship with the lobbyist uh Vicky Iceman.
Uh he'd been watching all this go down all day.
He called Chris Silesa at the Washington Post and issued the following statement.
The New York Times asked for a formal interview, and I said no, and asked for written questions.
The Times knew of my meeting with Miss Iceman from sources they didn't identify to me.
They asked me about that meeting.
I did not inform Senator McCain that I asked for a meeting with Ms. Iceman.
Her comments, which had gotten back to some of us that she had strong ties to the Commerce Committee and his staff were wrong and harmful.
And so I informed her, I asked her to stop with these comments and to not be involved in a campaign.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I responded to the Times on the record about a meeting they already knew about.
The campaign received a copy of my response to the Times the same day, which is in late December.
From the day I first approached John about running for President 97 through today, I have always wanted John to be president.
The country needs him at this perilous time.
From the moment I left the campaign until today, not one day, not one, has gone by.
But I haven't reactively or proactively talked with the campaign leadership, state leadership about how the campaign uh how they came in the how to win.
To suggest anything else is wrong, a lie, and meant to do nothing but harm.
Now, the what the reason for that is that the um Times story is causing people to speculate that Weaver might be a disgruntled ex-employee running around telling stories.
So this statement by uh John Weaver, in many people's estimation, stamps the New York Times story as a lie.
And his point here, he's making it sound like sort of a star-struck uh woman who um, you know, celebrity worship worshipper type, uh, who was out telling stories about how close she was to McCain and the Commerce Committee and the staff and the campaign, and Weaver says, it wasn't true, and I went over and basically asked her to stop saying these things.
So that's this is the whole focal point on which the Times story is based.
So, where are we now?
Here's where we are.
Weaver has said, essentially with this statement to Chris Salees at the Washington Post at the Times story's bogus that it's a lie.
In my mind, that changes nothing.
Because the story was not the story.
Here's the question the drive-by's have to ask.
The drive-by's have to ask, what the hell is a respected journalist outfit like the New York Times, which is supposed to be fair and objective.
What are they doing?
The drive-by's continually respond to criticism by saying, we're fair, we're objective, we're not liberal, and we get it right, and we don't have an agenda.
Now, how are the drive-bys going to defend this?
How are what what now will be the theories that the drive-by's come up with to explain why the New York Times ran the story?
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter what the drive will be interesting, but it doesn't matter.
Weaver's statement doesn't matter.
The story is the New York Times behaving exactly as we knew they would.
We just didn't know when because it happens frequently, trying to destroy the Republican presidential nominee.
This is like I mean, there aren't any forged documents here, but how much different is this from uh from Dan Rather and the forged documents regarding Bush's National Guard service.
You remember how the drive-by circle the wagons around rather?
Tom Brockout, all these guys having all these award ceremonies, giving rather awards for his great work as a journalist.
And uh supporting I mean, this this is a bunch that hangs together, folks, no matter what embarrassment pops up, and no matter how they get caught in lying, which is apparently what the New York Times story is, it's apparently a lie.
This is something for all of us to never forget, put it in the brain, put it into our own Nexus database.
It's the New York Times when they say it's just what it is.
And the opportunity here is large for Senator McCain to learn a lesson too about who his real friends are and who they aren't.
And I think he's had that question wrong for a number of um years, at least months.
Uh anyway, back to the phones to Miami.
This is Laura.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hello.
Yeah, hi.
Hi.
First I want to say I'm a Democrat, so don't hang up.
I'm not surprised you're in Miami.
Um I wanted to say I think the Obama Obama camp pushed this story to take the heat off of them.
But the Times endorsed Hillary.
The Times did this.
Look at I I you th you th you think the Obama camp push this story out?
Yeah.
Okay.
Fine.
I I do.
Take the heat off of them.
There's no heat on them.
I hate to tell you, but I wish there was more.
You guys the the media is that's like the media darling.
They need to go they need to turn on him.
They put Hillary through the ringer, but this guy's like protected.
Yeah, why is that?
I have no idea.
Oh, come on, yes, you do.
I think he offers for me, he offers change with uncertainty.
You know, I I wouldn't vote for him.
I'm a liberal Democrat.
Could you imagine all the Republicans that are losing their seats, they're resigning?
The Democrats take over Congress, the House, and you have the most liberal.
I I think there needs to be a balance.
I think that's pretty scary.
And if you all don't back McClain.
Wait a second here.
I'm I'm I think I'm coming down with a flu, I think.
You have to bear with me.
I need to go back.
I need to ask you a question.
You said you're a liberal democrat.
Yeah.
But you're concerned that so many Republicans are quitting Congress and too many liberal democrats are replacing them.
They probably will, yeah.
And there's going to be too many liberal democrats just like you.
I think if you have an Obama in the White House with full with power to do really what he all the change he says he wants to do.
Yeah.
I mean, what kind of change is that?
That's uncertainty.
Well, but you're a liberal Democrat, so's he.
Uh, but I don't I think there needs to be balance.
I mean, tell you something.
If I had my way, there would be a conservative Republican president.
There'd be three hundred members of the House of Representatives that are conservative, and there'd be ten members of the Senate that were liberal Democrat.
I want to keep enough of them around so we never ever forget who they are, but I want them to have zero power.
They screw up things.
They are on the wrong side of history, they are on the wrong side of this country.
They're trying to destroy it as it exists to rebuild it in their own image, and it's horrible.
But I would think that you, as a liberal democrat, would want as many of your compatriots in positions of power so you get done what you want to get done.
Not with Obama.
I mean, what that's uncertainty.
What kind of change is that?
I want change with predictability, not with uncertainty.
Well, I can tell you want predictability, he's a liberal Democrat.
All this all this smoke and mirror stuff right now.
That's what it looks like to me.
Well I won't vote for him.
Look, I I look, I appreciate your your understanding what's what's happening here, but be beyond all this flower.
In fact, you know what?
You I'm gonna Why don't you all back McCain and stop this guy?
It's like crazy.
Uh huh.
Liberal Democrat, I get it now.
Liberal Democrat from Miami calls here toward the end of the program.
Why don't you support why don't you guys support McCain to stop Obama?
What about Hillary?
You don't like her either?
I would rather have her than Obama, yeah.
Do you even know what Obama stands for?
He doesn't.
Yes, he does.
Well, I I see I know what he stands for.
He wants you to have health care.
He wants you to have a job.
He wants you to have no taxes.
He he's he's he wants everything Hillary wants.
I just think they threw the story out.
Well that's what I think.
That's what I do.
Well, you think they threw the story out to stop her.
Mm-hmm.
Uh here's a here's uh what I was gonna tell you.
Uh Debbie Schlossel has posted on her website today.
We've linked to it at Rushlinbaugh.com or go.
I think we have linked to it now.
There is a YouTube video that somebody really crafty put together.
And it is st i I know you can scary, it's striking, but it once again this hits at the lack of authenticity of Obama.
There are lines that Obama is using that are almost verbatim from Spike Lee's movie Malcolm X. I mean, there are countless other Yes.
I kid you not.
No, I believe it.
I I watch I don't know where where he's inspiring.
He doesn't inspire me.
I listened to him saying he's gonna put the his talks on C-SPAN and we, the American people.
Is he gonna ask us before he signed the bill?
I mean, come on.
Uh let me Cash you a question, Laura.
Are you by chance of Cuban descent?
No.
You're not.
Okay.
I am not.
Well, that's okay too.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.
I was just I was just curious.
Uh I'm I'm still puzzled.
You're a liberal Democrat, you want McCain to be elected to stop liberal Democrats.
Not to stop them, but I'm pretty sure they're gonna take over the House and the Congress.
I wouldn't want Obama with all the power.
But for crying out loud, that doesn't make any sense.
If you should want them to take over Congress, and I'm gonna tell you if they do, in as in as great an uh majority as as you seem to think, it's gonna be their agenda that advances, no matter who the president is.
Uh this is I mean, it's fascinating to talk to people.
I've I this is the first Liberal Democrat I have talked to who doesn't want her side to get too powerful.
You know, on many occasions on this program I have voiced my opinion about solar panels, solar energy on your house and so forth.
Remember the arguments we've had that solar panels can cause your electric meter to run backwards.
And I have shared with you my experiences as the uh owner of a house in which I was forced in California to have them up there on the roof.
And I was assured that this is going to lower my electric bill, but of course I had nothing to compare it to because it couldn't turn the damn things off.
Under fear of jail and penalty.
Well, from the San Jose Mercury News, installing solar panels on homes is an economic loser with the costs far outweighing the financial benefit.
This according to a respected University of California, Berkeley business professor.
The technology using photovoltaic panels to generate electricity is not economically competitive with fossil fuels, costs more than other renewable fuels.
This Stephen or or Severin Borinstein also directs the UC Energy Institute.
He said, We are throwing away money by installing the current solar PV technology.
Not surprisingly, the solar industry reacted strongly to the report.
Neil Lewrie with the American Solar Energy Society called the study a publicity stunt.
Borinstein doesn't give proper credit to the important role that competition and economies of scale play in driving down costs.
And Julie Blundon, vice president with San Jose's sun power, said that Borinstein's analysis was deeply flawed.
He seems to be disconnected from the empirical data in the market.
He doesn't seem to have much peripheral vision from his ivory tower.
However, in his thirty-eight page paper, Borinstein attacks several arguments made by proponents.
Solar systems provide energy on hot sunny days when the strain on the grid's the highest.
That's true, but the ability to provide power during peak periods of demand increases the economic value of P V solar only slightly, perhaps up to twenty percent more.
Uh he said solar power um as a power source on people's homes cuts the cost of transmission and distribution, but in California, adding solar has not significantly lowered these costs and is unlikely to do so in other reasons.
Folk, let me tell you how this works.
remember in California, what they they uh they went out, they encouraged all these new m new cars, these little puddle things out there that get all this new mileage, a great one.
And when that happened, when people started buying these little lawnmowers with seats on them and their gas mileage went up, it means they were buying less gasoline.
Guess what the state of California, which it of course urged all this to happen, found that their gas tax revenue was plummeting.
And so they were gonna go out and raise gas taxes, gasoline taxes in order to compensate for their loss over people doing what the state had said to save money.
The whole all of this is a scam.
And when the state's telling you to do something to reduce your use of it.
And if they tax it, they're going to eventually figure out that you're less use.
You're decreased use of something that will cost them money and are going to find a way to get the money back.
Ergo, your savings.
If there are any, go out the tubes.
BJ, Houston, Texas, nice to have you on the program and welcome.
Rush.
Yes.
I am just delighted to talk to you.
We love you, love you, love you.
Well, that's very sweet.
I I wanted you to know that when the little lady called that uh said she no longer her children didn't need a father because they had you.
Oh, yeah.
I had to call you because when both of my children graduated from college in the eighties, they both told me, Mom, you gotta listen to this guy on the radio because he sounds just like you.
Well, that's true.
That's what we do here is validate the opinions and thoughts of others.
Well, you're not a mind-numbed robot, for example.
You mean you had your own ideas before you ever turned this program on.
That's exactly right.
But I've wanted you to know how much I appreciate the fact that you have stood with our military.
Um I'll be seventy-three, my next birthday, and that I was ten years old when the Japanese surrendered.
And we we were living right outside of our little town with Shepard Air Force Base, and we were very aware of the war.
And um uh that wonderful, wonderful military that made it unnecessary for me as a ten-year-old to have to learn Japanese and German, are the parents and the grandparents of this wonderful military, that the Democratic Party today,
uh, and leadership has been standing on the floor of the United States Congress now for four years, uh, besmirching and telling the enemy that we, the greatest country in the world with the greatest military in the world, can't whip a bunch of third world fuds.
Not just besmirching, they have been dispiriting them.
They have been trying to demoralize them, they have been insulting them, and they have been impugning them.
They have been tr uh uh trying to say that uh they can't win, can't beat this little ragtag bunch.
Uh and you're absolutely right to call and honor them, and I'm I appreciate that.
Thanks very much for taking the time, BJ.
I gotta run because of constraints of time.
We will be right back.
Stay with us.
All right, folks, if what I think is happening is happening, I'm getting this flu that everybody down here's had for a week or two.
It could be something else if it's n if it is, I'm gonna take off tomorrow because I don't want to miss any more than I have to.
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