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Feb. 22, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh and the whole gang from the subterranean depths of the EIB Southern Command broadcast excellence.
Straight ahead for two hours.
It's all yours on Friday, so let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And that simply means that I get out of the way in terms of directing the program when we go to the polls.
Whatever you want to talk about, feel free to talk about.
Not the rule Monday through Thursday, Monday through Thursday.
We only talk about things I care about.
Not going to sit here and get bored.
Then you'll get bored.
But on Friday, I will fake it.
If I don't care, I will act like I do.
Truly a golden opportunity to bring up whatever you want.
Ask a question.
Will you whine or moan or what have you?
So the numbers 800-282-2882.
Our email address is new, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
All right, let's move on.
Let's move back to the Republican campaign, which means me.
The drive by media.
Last night and and and all afternoon yesterday were playing clips of me from this program yesterday, Ditto Cam clips.
Two of the three nightly newscasts last night did.
This program discussed all over the place, and they were they were they were wrong.
They were totally wrong, and all of them admit to listening to what uh I said yesterday, but they got it wrong.
Uh Limbaugh's on board now.
It's what it took.
Boy, New York Times comes out and Savages McCain, Limbaugh finally on board.
Now, those of you who listened to this program yesterday, I think would agree with me when I tell you that my reaction to the New York Times story uh was not to say, all right, this is it.
Now they've thrown the gauntlet down.
I'm a McCain guy now.
That's not what yesterday's program was about.
Yesterday's program was, if anything, a C I told you so.
See?
This is who the left is.
You can't befriend them.
They're gonna come out, and at some point, if you are a Republican conservative or otherwise, they're gonna throw you under the bus, even your own after you've given them rides on it.
And I asked Senator McCain to learn a vital lesson from this.
Find out who his real friends are.
However, ladies and gentlemen, I don't believe that the drive-by media getting what I said yesterday wrong is actually the story.
In fact, they know that they got it wrong.
They know full well they got it wrong.
They are trying to frame it in their own way as the drive-bys do.
They're trying to take little snippets of what I said, forget other things I said, and say, hey, Limbaugh's on board, all right.
Now let's get him.
Now that everybody's on board in their mind now, okay, both barrels can be fired at Senator McCain.
They're in essence saying, and I know these people, you gotta trust me on this.
They're essentially saying, if anybody's gonna take McCain out, it's gonna be us, not Limbaugh.
And lo and behold, we have uh, and and this is actually at the first example of this, which is important.
It's a third or fourth version.
At 71, this is Reuters, by the way, uh Thomas Ferraro.
At 71, leading Republican presidential contender John McCain must convince voters that despite his age, he is up to the rigors of what is often called the world's toughest job.
I'm not the youngest candidate, but I I am and the most experienced, says the white-haired senator from Arizona, first elected to Congress in 1982.
This story.
McCain's age is one reason his selection of a vice presidential running mate will be scrutinized.
If McCain were to die in office.
If McCain were to die in off, but Rush, but Rush, why are you so upset?
A lot of people, I guess, now.
Yes, now a lot of people are bringing this up.
Now, of course they are.
This has been my point all along, ladies and gentlemen.
So the the bottom line here is they know full well what I said yesterday and what the import of it was.
They're getting it wrong on purpose.
They just want to be able to frame this in their own way, because if they can frame the Republican Party unified and get, then they can it's let's get him.
All right.
Now it's open season.
As long as there were rifts that they had to report, uh, you know, they have to sit by the uh the side of the road uh and let the Republican Party, you know, perhaps off itself.
At any rate, let's go to the audio sound bites.
I'll show you what I'm talking about.
Last night, CBS evening news, the anchorette Katie Kurick spoke with uh the commentator and analyst Bob Schaefer, who I think also is um 71, who he might die on the air.
And and and Katie said, do you think this uh McCain story in the Times has legs?
Uh, you think it'll trip him up?
Katie, there were some people in the McCain campaign who actually winced when he was endorsed for the Republican nomination by the New York Times.
They thought that would set off the Republican right, and boy, did it ever.
It looked like he would never find a way to get those people to warm to him.
But look what happened today.
Here's Rush Limbaugh coming to his defense.
So maybe uh we're gonna see some changes there.
So now they'll bond over a common enemy.
You know, you just doesn't Katie's intellect, Dazzle.
I mean, it just it it's it it stops you uh dead in your tracks.
The power of her intellect, uh the CBS Evening News.
Schaefer made it through the soundbite alive.
So now we move on to uh PMS NBC.
This is last, I'm sorry it's the nightly news.
Uh correspondent Kelly O'Donnell said this about me.
The Times found itself the target of criticism today.
Rush Limbaugh, usually harsh on McCain, was now on his side.
The story is that this paper endorsed McCain, sat on sat on this story, and now puts it out just prior to McCain wrapping up the nomination.
So I they know.
They have they had to, of course they did.
They had to listen to what came before, they had to listen to what came after.
Well, PMSNBC ran it all.
They ran it all as ditto cam video.
As I said yesterday, they better be careful because this is going to outrate their own anchors.
It's a risky thing that they uh to play so much Ditto Cam footage of me.
Now we move on to MSNBC last night live with Dan Abrams.
Uh had this exchange with uh the Democrat strategist Lawrence O'Donnell.
Rush Limbaugh today sure sounded like he was ready to uh shift gears.
Let's listen.
Most people's prediction last night whether this was going to finally rally conservatives to McCain.
The McCain couldn't do it himself, but that the New York Times could and the drive-by media.
And I got some emails.
That's it, Rush.
I hadn't planned on voting for McCain, but I'm going to send him some money now.
I'm I'm not going to sit here and let the New York Times destroy my candidate.
Well, I mean, Lars, what do you make of it, real quick?
I listened to the first hour of Rush today, and and it was a pretty warm hour for McCain.
Sheesh.
You know, I was also getting, I didn't say this yesterday.
I was getting emails yesterday.
Can't you ever lighten up on McCain?
Can't you ever does it?
I was getting lots of emails of that of that nature.
Uh oh, go, yeah, that woman that wrote me oh, the F bomb.
Yeah, I got a read that email yesterday.
She's just mad as hell at me uh because I she thought I was continuing to pile on McCain.
Now, Lawrence O'Donnell, he was he was one of the uh, I don't know, creative advisors to the show The West Wing, you know, which liberals actually thought was the administration.
Martin Sheen was president, so it's no question that O'Donnell could listen to this show yesterday and think that it was a pretty warm hour for uh Senator McCain.
Stephanopoulos, good morning America today.
Robin Roberts talked to him.
The Republican story, of course, yesterday, John McCain with his wife Cindy by himside, strongly denying uh the New York Times story, and it seems like conservative Republicans are now rallying around him like talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Any day, any day that Rush Limbaugh is attacking the New York Times instead of John McCain after what he's been doing for the last three months is a good day for John McCain.
They had to have heard this.
They had to have heard what I said.
Senator McCain, you need to learn a lesson from this.
The McCain parody.
Yeah, grab the McCain.
Grab the old you know McCain and the breaking up of the old gray lady.
Here.
I mean, we played all this throughout the program yesterday.
Okay, we have to go to a brief commercial timeout.
We call those extreme profit center breaks here at the EIB networks.
Uh hang tough.
We're coming right back.
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Back to the phones to Fort Madison, Iowa.
This is Robert.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi Rush.
Hi.
I've listened to you for a long time and uh just like to say I'm influenced, but I'm not a robot.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I hope so.
Anyway, uh, had you heard that the uh New York Times had lost five percent of its worth today.
Oh, you mean on the uh down the their stock price?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, I heard that.
And they were also reconsidering who was gonna run the show over there.
Reconsidering who is going to run it.
Oh, well, there's a look at this has been going on for a long, long time.
Oh, yeah.
There have been here's Thomas Liffson at the American thinker has been chronicling the boardroom travails of the New York Times for many, many months.
Uh-huh.
There have been many stockholders who have wanted to get rid of Pinch Schultzberger.
Well, his dad was Punch.
Yeah.
And they call this one a little pinch.
And uh because they think he's incompetent.
Uh and because the stock price, advertising revenue, everything's falling over the New York Times.
It has been for many months prior to this McCain thing.
Yeah.
But there are two classes of shares uh at the New York Times that basically ensure that the Schultzberger family will never ever lose control here.
But there is a battle to change that and to force if they're not going to change that to get somebody in it to run the paper that knows what they're doing uh as a business, not just as a as a little journalism publication.
Yeah.
Uh I don't know that the McCain thing has anything to do.
I it'd be it'd be tough to peg that the McCain story has anything to do with uh their decline yesterday because the market's been very volatile lately.
But if you want to think that, I mean you're free to.
Well, you know, um my wife and I were Mitt Romney supporters.
And um well, we we still do in a way.
Yeah.
Um we listened to his speech when he was at CPAC.
Yeah.
And uh and I realized, and you know, uh we we were gonna make a choice, and we feel that you can't unvote a nuke, a nuclear attack on the United States, and I still we think that it'd be probably best, even though with all his shortcomings at McCain, uh, we're gonna vote for him.
Okay.
You know, it's um it's a hard decision, but uh when it comes down to the national security, I mean that was the government's supposed to do, right?
Protect us.
Uh well, yeah, uh of course that's part of the oath of office that every president does.
Right, exactly.
Well, I don't think Hillary or or especially Obama would even come close to that.
And I love Bo Snurley, by the way, and what he's saying there.
Oh, yeah, you are official Obama criticizer.
Oh, he's great.
Give him ten minutes of his own.
Yeah.
Sam, no, I'm running around.
Well, you know, every guest host I've ever had here has gone on to bigger and better things.
And I realize uh by giving Sturdley the post as official criticizer that uh he might want an even bigger chunk of broadcast now.
He's shaking his head in there.
No, no, no, no, it never happened, but I know human nature.
Uh uh Robert, I appreciate the uh the phone call.
Thanks.
El Mucho Lincoln, California next.
And Eddie.
Hello, Eddie.
Yes, Russ.
Hey.
How are you doing, Russ?
Never better, sir.
Good.
We talked before uh quite a while ago.
Um what I wanted to uh kind of talk about is Hillary.
Um I had a unique uh position.
Uh I was the fire marshal at UC Berkeley.
And uh the first time the Secret Service called me it was for the uh wooden Idney and Gore.
And I went there for him, and then about a year and a half later they called me, and Hillary was going to be there, so they wanted to make sure that the um everything fire all the fire regulations were being met, and they wanted me to be there, so I went there.
And I'm telling you, beware of Hillary.
Uh her I mean uh what are they the saying goes, uh stripes on a zebra doesn't change.
Well, anyway, whatever the saying is she was the meanest person I've ever seen.
Uh the Secret Service was the most professional people I've ever met, and I worked with the FBI and ATF and all these other people, which were fine.
Well, you're not saying there's anything wrong with the FBI or ATF.
No, no, you're yeah, I just mean looking out for you here.
They were fine.
It was just that the the Secret Service is very, very well um trained and very professional.
And uh anyway, I got to see an insight of Hillary that most people don't see.
Um we've heard about it.
You know, we this is we have heard about this.
I mean, we've heard about it for the days in the White House, we've heard about the tantrums that she's been throwing with her campaign staff.
You've actually seen it.
We've just we've just heard about it.
Right.
No, I've seen it, and it was ugly, and uh nothing against uh drunken sailors, but she had a mouse like a drunken sailor.
Uh you know what?
Tell you what surprises me about this.
Um I I I mean, I've heard this about her, but but when when uh the stories I've heard all have her saying these kinds of things around people that she would trust not to repeat it, or that that she knows.
She probably thought I was a Secret Service guy.
Why were you dressed like that?
Well, I was dressed in a suit and a tie, and I had my uh bad the Secret Service badge on that they gave me.
Oh, okay, okay.
Okay, so I mean to secrecy in private.
Right, exactly.
And and uh like I said, uh Secret Service guys would never talk to you like that.
Any uh ashtrays or is she throwing anything or was it just verbal?
Uh it was verbal, but it was very verbal.
Well, who was it directed to and why?
What what what could possibly have happened to say well what was going on at the time?
Amy was at Stanford, and there was a stalker stalking Amy, and she was just You mean you mean uh uh the Chelsea.
Chelsea, I'm sorry.
Amy is Amy Carter.
I'm sorry, I got the two confused there.
Anyway, not hard to do.
Anyway, yeah, she was at Stanford at the time, and she was being stalked, and uh but that was a different group of Secret Service guys that was guarding her, and she was under you know, very good protection, but she was just blowing her butt at these Secret Service guys saying is she protected, is are they watching over her and all this kind of stuff?
But I mean there was other things too that entered into this that she was just uh yeah, she was awful.
This was the old town hall meeting.
As you know, Berkeley, I was probably one of a dozen conservative Republicans, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
You see Berkeley is completely liberal.
Yeah.
And they were um of course you know what now I gotta tell you something, though.
There are more Republican students uh registered at Berkeley than there are communists and liberals and democrats.
When I was there, I want to tell you the truth.
The kids that went there were more conservative than than liberals, but they handpicked the liberals, of course, to be at the town hall meeting.
Absolutely, absolutely looking I appreciate this.
I've got to run because we have a heartbreak uh broadcast lingo, which means we can't miss it.
Back right after this.
As long as I'm here, ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't matter where here is.
Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies back to St. Louis.
And Martha.
Martha, nice to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
I hope you don't wish you had gotten a flu instead of having to talk to me today.
But now whoa, you know where we're going, don't you?
Well, I think I remember because Mr. Snerdley's put a little of the uh note there that tells me I remember talking to you, Martha.
But why don't you why don't you uh refresh the memory of the audience?
Okay.
You had been complaining about women for a period of time, not being able to figure them out, not meeting their needs, not knowing what they want.
And I called in and said, Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
Is that what is that how you remember the conversation?
Is that No, no, no.
That's my reason for calling you that time.
I listened to you for a long period of time.
I know you love women, but it was sounding over the radio as if you didn't, and I knew you did.
Oh, yeah, okay.
But it's not that I hadn't figured him out, it's that I have.
And I question that that you have not.
Well that was my point.
All right.
And I said, Rush, you need to turn it around and ask yourself.
What do you need in a woman?
How can she meet your needs and how what are your wants?
And it piqued your interest because I said you've been settling for women.
That's right.
I admitted that too.
And you did.
You absolutely and I know failure is not a part of who you are.
And I so want this for you, probably more than you do.
Obviously, a year later I'm still thinking about this because I listened to you one time and you said if I had a wife and I had to go home to her today after what I've said about women on the air, she would lock the door and never let me in again.
Now people laugh at me.
I might prefer, I mean you never know.
I know.
See, now you think that's funny, and I don't hear the humor because I know better.
I do know better.
I would just love stereotypical humor, Martha.
Now wait a minute.
I'm on point here, and I'm not I'm gonna get one shot at this, and that's probably all I'm ever gonna get at.
You can take your time.
Don't don't feel rushed.
Well, I'd rather have lunch with you and do it off the air.
Honest to God, that's what I'd rather do.
Slick.
It is slick.
That's very sick.
But I need to know your marital status.
I'm married very happily so.
And he can come.
Oh, well, wonderful.
Well, anyway, I think that now I hear you laughing.
Now quit that.
I'm sorry.
I slap my okay.
Have you advanced that cause of yours to figure out what it is you need and what you want instead of settling?
Yes, I have.
And what?
I I have fig I I I have I I have isolated and identified the reasons why I was settling.
Uh-huh.
Uh I think if you recall when we spoke, um I think I think you suggested to make a list.
Yes, I did.
Right.
Uh of yeses and no's.
Uh-huh.
And don't compromise on it.
And don't compromise is right.
You said one thing on the air, you know, i all that I had just said that I couldn't go home if I had said this about women.
Now you need to find a woman who's secure enough in who she is that she can hear this on the air and just laugh and laugh and then embrace you when you come home and say, Good job, Rush, knowing you didn't mean that about all women.
You meant it to whom they apply to.
It isn't well.
My experience is that that is going to be the absolute toughest of these things to achieve.
Maybe it is, but Rush, you can do it.
It's not to me to do it.
Yes, it is.
It's to pick the right one.
Yes, it is.
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Oh, well, is this North Carolina babe an email mistress, or she really a mistress?
Oh, you're asking for secrets.
No, I just meant I can't distinguish over the air.
I'm hoping that if it is, you practice on her.
Uh stop it.
I know where you're going.
No, you don't.
You really don't know.
Where do you where do you think I'm going?
To a dirty place in your mind.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm I'm sitting here.
I'm I am hamstrung.
Uh uh these are real people that you're asking me about.
Yes, they are.
Well, if I were to sit here and discuss the relationship and the quirks of the North Carolina mistress, then I guarantee you what you just said wouldn't happen would happen.
Mm-hmm.
But those some of these things, and of course, Martha are private uh private messages.
And they should stay that way.
Right.
Well that's why you're asking about them.
But I know From last time talking with you.
Something connected with you with what we were talking about.
It did.
There's no question it did.
And you took grief over this phone call.
I heard it the rest of the day.
What was the f for getting off the issues or something?
Well, people were s calling and saying, What was that about it?
You took some heat.
It was open line Friday, I think.
I know it was.
Well, you know, it's it's Martha, really I take a lot of hits, but it's nothing compared to the hits the American people are taking every day.
Oh right.
I understand that.
But now can I rest easy?
Do I have to call again in a year?
Uh you could call any time.
I thoroughly enjoy talking to you.
But let me just without without you know, I'm in a very good mood today and lighthearted and uh uh you know, some little sarcastic cynicism here for the hu sake of humor, but let me give you the straight skinny on this.
After we spoke, I prepared the list.
Uh I have worked on it.
Uh I have been discriminating.
Uh and I have uh tried to you know the big problem with something like this not the big problem, but uh in making a list being honest, you know, with with yourself.
And then when the list is made, there are things that can tempt you to ignore certain things on it.
Yeah.
And uh that so discipline and all that means is nope, standing up uh for yourself and and being firm and being if you've been honest with what's on the list, if I which I have uh but there is uh I don't I I think that the you should take comfort in the fact that the conversation that we had was very helpful and productive.
You know, I sensed it was, and that meant more to me than you'll ever know.
I love your show, but I love you more than your show.
And I want you to be as happy as I think I am Well, you know, i I I have I appreciate that.
I really do.
I I um I I have w you know one of the things that I'll uh I'll put I I'll share you a couple things I put on the list.
And and just so you'll know and and and give you an idea of some of the problem.
At the top of the list.
Woman has to know the history of my career here, why I am successful, what it has taken, what it will continue to take to stay here, and what and and you know, when is the show and when is it not the show?
Uh second thing, she has to understand that that has always been number one in my life.
Has to understand it.
Uh we'll have to understand that I mean to sequester myself for hours working, or because I just want to be alone.
Yeah.
It it's it's it's a tough list, Martha.
Again, it goes back to her security.
That is main ingredient for that woman.
She has to be secure.
Period.
And that's hard to find in a woman.
Uh we call them here in Palm Beach self-feeders.
Okay.
Whatever.
Whatever works.
It's on the list too.
Okay.
All right.
Martha, it's great to hear you.
You call back any and and by the way, you don't have to always call about about uh uh my relationship with women.
So oh so so lunch is out.
No, no, no, no, no, I'm I'm not I'm not saying that.
Okay.
Well then next year when I call, I'm just gonna come to lunch and we're gonna check signals on how you're doing.
Hey, I'm I'm not coming on to you.
I love my husband.
I why why would you even say that?
You're denying something that nobody even accused you of.
Well, I thought maybe you were thinking this woman is fairly pushy.
And I am fairly pushy, but not in that regard.
Okay.
I'm just not.
I just want is my friend said if you get to go to lunch with him, then I get to go lunch with him.
It's one of those things, okay.
Well, why don't we just make it up?
Yeah, come on.
Just yeah, I mean you I'll tell you what, you sound like you know, Jim Wright, you remember him the uh former speaker of the house in Texas after a Reagan State of the Union speech, I'd send right out there to do the Democrat response.
The theme of every one of his speeches was we just want to help the president.
We just want to help you.
Uh which you you sound like you just want to help me.
I did I that's all is in my head.
That's it.
I'm flattered that you care.
So why why does this now seriously?
Do you think if this aspect of my life doesn't get uh not fixed, but if if if it doesn't become a whole that it somehow will affect Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
But failure is not in your vocabulary.
That's where I'm coming from.
And so far, that's not a great area for you.
Yeah.
I don't want you to fail at this before you die.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
I don't want that to happen to you again.
Appreciate that.
I really do.
You're I I uh I don't want to fail at at anything.
I know you I know you don't.
No, that's not true.
There are a lot of things I want to fail at.
Well okay.
I'm not going there either.
Crop failure the next morning, for example.
I would love you know to fail at that.
Anyway, uh Martha, I uh well that's the old soldier wild oats thing.
Uh thanks for the call, guys.
I guess I don't get a private number, right?
If I if I acquiesce to this private number business, I'm gonna have it's I'd make you happy and I would make others miserable.
I know you would.
So Snurley could give it to me if he wanted to.
You know, I had to just do a big dance to get through Snurley.
Really?
Well, he kept saying, uh, tell me, tell me, tell me more.
Tell me more.
You know, I don't think he heard the passion in my voice that you're hearing.
That's all.
Maybe not.
I'll ask him about it.
Okay.
But anyway, Martha, thanks for the call.
Thank you.
I appreciate you.
You have a wonderful weekend, okay.
All right.
Quick timeout here, folks.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
Do not go away.
You know, Martha St. Louis, I know you're still out there.
I asked uh Snerdley if uh by chance he got your number, because I I I forgot to do I meant to do something in the call and I got flustered because we're getting close to the uh commercial time of it.
I wanted to give you a present.
I wanted to give you a gift, Martha.
Uh so whenever you have a chance, try to get back through.
Snerdly knows how to uh recognize your voice and so forth.
Then why you're all jam-packed at all times, as you know, so you'll have to keep plugging away to Memphis.
This is Harry, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Harry, nice to have you here.
Look at Rush.
I would just like to have a brief debate with you in the arena of ideas.
I am a moderate.
I know what you think about moderates.
You think we're all liberals.
But before I talk about issues, I'd like to say one thing about being a moderate.
I think the word is unhelpful, Rush, because it means different things to different people.
You think it's another way of people who are liberal denying it, and that's not the case at all.
Uh I think liberal and conservative too, or at least as unhelpful as the word moderate, because if you think whatever the National Party thinks this year, it's not going to be the same thing they think next year, Rush.
And I just want to make that brief point to you before I would like to debate you in the array of ideas on just a few issues, Rush, as a moderate who leans right.
Well, the um the one thing you said here about uh the the parties will be different from year to year.
Uh nothing new about that, but the in in the case of the Republican Party, there has been a battle for control of the Republican Party Party for as long as I have, you know, been an adult, and it's been between the country club blue bloods,
the moderate Republicans who are embarrassed of the Christians in the party, and of course the conservatives uh who uh finally wrested control of the party from uh the blue bloods in the nineteen eighties, uh and that irritated the hell out of the blue bloods in our party, and they've now gotten it back.
Well, you you you raise an interesting point, Rush, because even conservatism, conservatism today is not conservatism twenty years ago, and the same thing goes with liberalism.
This is how slowly evolving.
Wait a minute.
Well, that's I don't I don't agree with that at all.
How's conservatism different today?
I mean, you cannot have principles that never evolve.
That's my point.
I mean, you can be grounded, but the grounding changes.
Well, but nobody won't change as part of life.
No, of course the principles don't evolve, but the issues to which they're applied do.
But the principles, this is the point remain the same.
Conservatism hasn't changed.
What's happened is that there are people that won't be true, right?
Actual practice in Washington, that is not the case.
Well, I'm not talking that's right.
We're not talking about Washington.
We're doing Washington is where the competition for the definition of conservatives is taking place because most people most people think conservatives are the Republican Party.
Well, in theory, you're absolutely right, but in practice, it doesn't play out that way.
In practice, when conservative involves in the public policy.
You disgree with me.
Well, can we just talk about a few issues then?
Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying.
That's why I'm going to catch up with you on my transcriber here.
Could you back off the phone?
Are you on a cell phone?
I am, Russ.
I'm on an iPhone.
Oh, okay.
Well, I love the iPhone, so go ahead and use it.
Okay.
Rush, it was about three months ago.
You said the dirty little secret is that you can single-handedly pick the Republican nominee for president.
When Mid Romney's campaign was tanking, you virtually endorsed him by encouraging people to vote.
Yeah.
And it was last week or the week before that you said the dirty little secret is that you could single-handedly think McCain's campaign by endorsing him.
You said two different things in the time span of three months.
Yes.
And you agreeing with that?
Do I agree that I said those things?
Yes.
I do agree with I said those things.
Of course I did.
But in that in that contradictory.
Isn't that kind?
No, no, well, see, you're getting back now to context, and you don't know why I said those things.
Do you actually think?
I need to ask your you I want you to honestly answer that.
Do you actually think that I believe that I could single-handedly pick the Republican nominee?
Do you think I actually Absolutely I believe you did that?
Yes.
You think I believe that?
Yes.
And I I think you probably could too.
And I think a lot of your listeners would agree so too.
And you just can't do it at the very end of a primary.
You'd have to do it at the get-go.
Uh perhaps.
But the reason for saying it.
Uh I love tweaking media people.
I love the that is their image of me.
And it's uh like the other day when I said, hasn't it been brilliant how I strategically inserted myself into the campaign to get all of this media covered?
As though I orchestrated this.
Uh I love tweaking these people.
So, yeah, I say a lot of things here, but you have to have a regular contextual listening understanding of the program to understand.
I've listened to you for years.
I'm a subscriber of your newsletter and regularly go to your website, so I understand the context.
Well, good.
I think you're one of the best speakers in America today, but I also think sometimes that you get a little carried away behind the microphone and don't realize the influence you have behind your microphone.
Well, it could be, because I think of myself, you know, harmless little fuzzball, actually.
Well, you that's not the case.
You you you you're not just a harmless little fuzzball, because you can impact you can impact public policy.
You singularly stopped the immigration reform bill in Washington not too long ago.
You singly and your listeners.
Yes.
If it wasn't for you, that bill would have soared through and been law, and we would have Mexicans running everywhere.
You are absolutely right.
This is totally true.
It's just that I don't want anybody else to know it.
Well, another exciting broadcast hour in the can.
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