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Feb. 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 25, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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So I was in there watching television during the break.
Obama is somewhere in Ohio today with a campaign appearance.
It's freezing up there.
And this long line of people standing outside waiting to get into the rally.
Or the revival meeting or whatever happens with these things.
And Snerdley looks at me and says, There is not a politician in the world.
I would stand outside and freeze my tush over to get in and hear.
I said, if your life was meaningless.
And if you were looking for some reason to give it meaning and to matter.
And if you're depressed that football season's over and you have nothing to cheer for, you might stand in line for an Obama rally.
What?
What prediction did I make to you last week that's already starting to come true?
I've given you one instance of it last week, and that is that women, I don't care if they're Democrat women, feminist women, liberal women.
When all said and done if Hillary loses this thing are going to be fit to be tied.
They are going to fit be fit to be tied that men in this country.
A brilliant, committed, experienced woman for a rookie guy.
And then they're going to blame white guys for being sexist instead of racist.
Cokey Roberts illustrates this a bit.
In fact, we could almost say with a new category here, the angry white woman.
And this is during the roundtable on Stephanopoulos'show this week yesterday.
E.J. Dion Jr. was on along with Ron Brownstein, George Will.
And here's Cokie Roberts talking about the Democrat primary race.
The only group she still really has is white women.
And I do think that there's some possibility that you will see a sort of reaction of among white women.
I had the opportunity to interview Billie Jean King this week and she said, "You know, I feel like everything I've worked for all of my life is going out the window." And there is that sense.
I mean, here's this woman who's worked hard, she's done it all the way you're supposed to do it, and then this cute young man comes in and says a bunch of sweet, you know, nothings and uh and pushes you out of the way.
And a lot of women are looking at that and saying, Here goes my life.
Boy, do I know these people or do I know these people?
That's almost verbatim what I predicted they would say.
It down to the fact that the guy is saying nothing.
And women think their lives are over.
Everything they've worked for is toast.
This is just this is this is just this.
This is why I want Hillary to stay in this.
This is fracture.
This is dissent.
This is anger on the Democrats.
We want to promote this.
Look at this.
They got more Koki Roberts coming up in just a second from uh uh St. Petersburg Times here in Florida.
Party frets over fractious tone.
Will Democrats unite behind their nominee when the sniping ends?
This is a particularly precarious moment for Democrats as Clinton's options for victory increasingly seem limited to tearing down Obama or persuading party leaders to hand her the nomination at the nominating convention, even if Obama has won more votes and pledge delegates.
Anxiety is especially acute in Florida, the country's most diverse battleground state.
Not only do Sunshine State Democrats see potential long-term damage should Florida wind up with no voice at the Democrat nomination.
They also see the prospect that the politics of hope could be trumped by the politics of race, gender, and ethnicity.
Who cares what they think?
The fact is they're unhappy.
They are unsettled and they are experiencing moments of disquiet.
This needs to be promoted.
Look at it in a military sense.
When your enemy is eating themselves alive, get out of the way and pass the salt.
You know, folks, this is just crucial here.
and And it's starting to happen.
Here's more Cokey Roberts.
The truth is that for a Republican running against him, he can put him, you know, just squarely on the left of the Democratic Party.
You know, he's got a very much, you know, ADA approved Americans for Democratic Action approved voting record.
He, unlike Hillary Clinton, oddly enough, given the rhetoric, has not reached across the aisle and worked with people in the other party to get things done, which she hasn't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so the Democrats still think it's something great reaching across the aisle because they always win when they do that.
Uh, but she's clearly upset that this little rookie, the black guy, is going to unseat Mrs. Clinton all these years of service.
All these years of sacrifice, and what's she gonna have left at the end of it?
Nothing.
All because of sexism in this dirty, stinking rotten country.
Dee Dee Myers chimed in.
This is uh what was it?
Today's show today, Matt Wower, said, Dee Dee, talk about the Clinton campaign right now, gone from gracious to angry to sarcastic.
That's just in the last three days.
Are we watching a candidate who's truly grasping right now?
Hillary Clinton's options are limited in many ways because she's a woman.
It's difficult for her to get angry, it's difficult for her to be sarcastic.
When she gets tough, she sounds like a scold.
And I think we have a different standard for how women um can approach going negative, getting tough, making their point than we do for men.
Oh, so see?
I told you people, I told you the women now that she's on the verge of losing, they are taking it personally, and they're all taking it as personal rejection.
Uh Matt Wower uh then said, Well, is it really about sexism or is it about favoritism?
I mean, does the media just have more to grab on to with Obama?
The public has different expectations for women, and I think the press has covered her different as a woman.
I think one of the things we've learned in this campaign is that the playing field still isn't level.
I don't think you can separate the fact that she's a woman.
I think it's still easier to be critical of a woman.
I think you can say almost anything about a woman, even if it's based in gender stereotypes without much penalty.
And I think we've seen that throughout this race.
Do you believe who we are hearing this about?
We are hearing this about Hillary Clinton, one of the founders of Clinton Inc., who is the architect of destructive politics, the politics of personal destruction, and she can't figure out how to do it, and she can't get away with it because she's a woman.
What a croc.
This is an absolute full-fledged croc.
Now they have to be make this is I'm embarrassed for the Clintons.
I am embarrassed for Mrs. Clinton.
I am embarrassed that Cokey Roberts and Didi Myers have to go out there and portray her as somebody that's helpless, unable to fight these battles in the political arena of ideas.
She's hamstrung because of his race.
She's hamstrung because he makes better speeches.
Then nothing she could do.
There's all kinds of things she could have done in his patriotism business.
Like I pointed out brilliantly in the last hour.
She didn't go there.
But it's look, it's no better on the Republican side.
Uh in the politico today, David Paul Kuhn, here's the headline.
GOP fears charges of racism, sexism.
Top Republican strategists are working on plans to protect the Republican Party from charges of racism or sexism in the general election as they prepare for a campaign against the first ever black guy or woman Democrat nominee.
The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups.
I only read the first paragraph.
What I just read came from the second, and the bile is starting to go north from my stomach.
The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate.
The uh secretive effort underscores the enormous risk senior Republican operatives see for a party often criticized for its incense.
Here we go.
We accept their premise and we act On it.
We accept elements of their agenda.
We believe what they tell people about us, and we then accept it and have to go out and try to prove that we're not that.
In the meantime, we lose.
We pick up little crumbs of their agenda, and then we run around and say conservatism doesn't work.
Conservative ideas don't work when nobody even tries them.
The Republican National Committee project is viewed as so sensitive.
Those involved in the work were reluctant to discuss the findings in detail, but one Republican strategist who asked that his name be withheld, said the research shows the daunting and delicate task ahead.
Republicans will be told to be sensitive to tone, stick to the substance of the discussion, and that the key is that you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're running against historic firsts.
So what do we have?
The Republicans are planning here on getting the uh the black and liberal white vote by not attacking the liberal in the candidate in the campaign.
If this guy wins it, it's McGovern all over.
In terms of policy, I think I think this is bogus.
I was talking to reporter last week.
Are you gonna criticize Obama?
Hell yeah, I'm gonna criticize how you're gonna do it.
Fearlessly.
I'm gonna do it on the issues.
I've got Sturdley here as our official Obama criticizer when he's situation is warranted.
He will be brought in also to assist in the project.
Um I just see I I don't want I don't want to accept that this is a problem.
We're already allowing them to tie one hand behind our back with all of this.
The policy difference between even McCain and Obama is stark enough.
It's it's night and day.
That race and gender are incidental to it.
But this is the reason Hillary's having trouble, because there are no distinctions in their ideas.
So Clinton had to go after, he had to play the race card.
We are not gonna have to play the race card.
We've got we're running against Carl Marx for crying out loud.
Phone calls next, back after this.
I've had enough diarrhea of the mouth.
Let me let me read one more passage from this uh Adam Smith piece in the St. Petersburg Times about the Democrat Party fretting over a fractious tone.
In the 66 some odd years I've been doing this, this is the saddest election I've ever worked in, said Ginger Grossman, a prominent Democrat organizer in Miami-Dade County, who says that she hears countless Jewish liberals tell her they won't vote for Obama if he wins the nomination.
It's outrageous, it's breaking my heart.
I know it's because he's black or I feel it is, said Grossman, a Clinton supporter who said she would also vote for Obama if he wins.
The worst of it is when they start calling him a Muslim, and they say, why aren't they using his name?
Hussein, I pray God it can be overcome.
It's devastating, and I'm hoping I can change it.
Well, I hadn't heard this one before.
I hadn't heard that liberal Democrat Jews are opposed to Obama.
Had you heard that?
I hadn't heard that this is good.
This is all good, folks, is it right into our plan.
I mean, look at.
If we're not going to be serious about beating these people, and they are serious about harming themselves, then we have to help them.
Because my objective is winning, is defeating these people, is defeating liberal Democrat Party.
Defeat, and since so few Republicans seem interested in that, we've g we do have uh uh opportunities nevertheless for it to happen because the Democrats are in the process of uh of tearing themselves apart here.
And it's probably far more than we even know.
I'm so you know, this St. Petersburg Times, it's drived by media, but it ain't big.
I mean, who knows what else is going on out there about all this that we're not hearing of.
The moment there's a Republican rift, if the Republicans have a rift over the kind of cheese to serve at the campaign rally, you know, that's a week's worth of stories.
But we don't get those kind of stories in the Democrat until it's gotten to the breaking point.
So this is a new one on me.
Liberal Jews in South Florida have no interest in voting for Obama.
That's what it says here.
And it's from a Democrat strategist.
It isn't me.
Saying not going to vote for Obama no matter.
Nah, does that mean they're going to vote for McCain?
I don't know.
Ah, may not have to.
Ralph Nader has entered the scene again.
Really made Tim Russert mad yesterday.
Oh, Calypso Lewie has had a miraculous health recovery, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh Calypso Louie, let's grab audio soundbite uh 14.
Now this is the microphone quality here is not the best.
But uh there was a 20,000 people at the at McCormick place yesterday, Chicago, where Calypso Louie was doing the I I'm having a middle block with the they do this every year.
Savior's Day, Savior's Day, that's right.
And here's Calypso Louie.
He's the cult of the entire world that America will change.
A black man is a white mother.
To be one.
From her fall.
Were you able to understand that?
In case you in case you weren't, Calypso Lewis said of Obama, he is the hope of the entire world.
That America will change.
A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.
Now, this is this is important to Calypso Lewis because the founder of the Nation of Islam had a white mother.
Was that Elijah Mohammed one of the uh forget which?
Okay.
Now the Obama camp immediately said about distancing themselves.
They wasted no time in distancing themselves here from Calypso Lewis.
All right, to the phones.
Carolyn in uh in Hartsgrove, Ohio.
Thank you for waiting and welcome to the EIB network.
Mega Ditto's Rush, I love you dearly.
I trust God first and I trust you.
I'm very frustrated at the fact that here in Ohio we sit and watch even mildly considered conservative uh candidates be eliminated before we even get a chance to vote.
I am now seriously thinking of crossing party lines and voting for Hillary to keep her in the race.
What do you think about that?
Uh we've had some people in Texas.
Um Republicans uh in Texas say that they too wanted to pimp themselves for a day and and and join the Democrat primary and vote either for Hillary or uh Obama.
Um but you know, you uh I some somebody's gonna prop her up.
There's no reason for this to end.
There's too much, there's I mean, uh the mathematics is what it is.
The delegate math is what it is, and all the but these are the Clintons we're talking about, and I know they don't want their legacy to be that they quit.
Even if it is the so-called live for another day.
Right.
But uh no, I think I think uh the more she can stay in and harass Obama and uh and take this down to the convention, the better it'll be for us.
Is Ralph Nader helping at all?
Well, you know, Ralph Nader got 2.7% of the vote in 2000.
Uh-huh.
Well, you might say he did, he because he he took his 2.7% of the vote from uh from Al Gore.
So he he could be uh he could be a marginal factor because uh I mean this is despite what everybody thinks, a 50-50 country.
It's gonna come down to one or two states again in November.
And if Ralph Nader can get in there and goof up one of them, uh then yeah, he could be a factor.
More power to him.
I I wasn't sorry to see him join in.
No, no, no, no, I just I love watching the Democrats get conniption fits over it.
I mean, you gotta understand their attitude.
They think since the 2006 elections that they just it just a matter of the clock ticking, and they're gonna own the country and therefore the world.
And uh and now, but it's not happening the way they thought it was going to, and there are they're breaking into factions here.
The women are not mad or not happy, as we've documented for you.
Uh the uh blacks in the Democrat Party not happy with the way Hillary's been campaigning.
Oh, and you know something else.
Be on a lookout for this.
This the all the racism and sexism is actually on the Democrat side.
And there are people now running around, folks, whispering, don't worry, Rush.
McCain can't lose.
There's no way Hispanic's gonna vote for black guy.
Ain't gonna Latinos aren't gonna vote a black guy.
I don't care what anybody says they're gonna have party affiliation.
This is little scuttle butt that I'm hearing Democrats talking about their woes and their concerns and so forth, all of it being masked by the uh messianic type rallies that uh Obama is having.
But they're in trouble.
They're fracturing.
Fractious out there.
And we need to encourage that.
Okay, we're back.
More phone calls coming up, but let's look.
Let's assess where we are based on what we have learned today from the mouths of liberals.
I must preface this by pointing out from the mouths of liberals, we have learned this.
That Hispanics and the Democrat Party are upset and might not vote for the black guy.
We have also learned that liberal Jewish people in South Florida are upset with the black guy.
Want to know why nobody's using his middle name, Hussein.
They are concerned about his list of foreign visitors, the places he's gonna go to try to make friends.
We have learned in the Democrat Party that women are mad at men.
White men, white liberal women mad at white men for supporting the black guy.
We haven't heard from the gay lesbian transgender movement.
We don't know what they're thinking is.
Generally gay guys, they'll side with the candidate that's the more fashionable.
Hillary may have hurt herself with the bumblebee outfit.
What's the fourth or fifth time she's worn a bumblebee outfit?
Um the lesbians, you'd have to assume will side with Hillary here against the black guy.
But you're not sure.
The transgenders, that's anybody's guess.
They may not even know once they decide.
As they change things a lot.
Um meanwhile, from the nation, a liberal publication.
From a blog headline, John McCain may be old, but he's still the white guy.
So that headline sums up the problem.
We have a race war, an uncivil war going on, a race and ethnic war going on in the Democrat Party.
Hispanics vowing not to support in significant numbers, Obama.
Women upset that Obama has beat Hillary and they're blaming white men for it.
White men supporting a black guy over a woman who's given it all.
For 35 years, this is a slap at all women.
Women feel like everything they fought for is down to tubes.
South Florida Jews, Democrats.
Not comfortable voting for Obama.
Want to know why nobody's talking about his middle name.
Gays and lesbians yet to weigh in, transgenders too.
But with all this going on, the nation worries, the nation magazine, a blog where he may be old, he may be this, and he's still a white guy, damn it.
And what they mean by this is we're cooked.
We're cooked.
Oh, racist country is gonna elect the white guy again, no matter.
But if you put his mother's wig on, you can have him in a rocking chair above the baits, Motel he'd be right at home.
He's still the white guy.
Uh who's next?
Michael in Wilmington, Delaware.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How you doing, Rush, and God bless you.
Thank you.
You're my hero and the last person I voted for that lost an election was Barry Goldwater.
That gives you an idea of how old I am.
It also gives us an idea that you make the right call.
Absolutely.
Does that mean you voted for Clinton?
No, I never voted for Clinton.
I meant to say the last Republican.
Oh, okay.
All right, all right, all right.
Rush, listen.
I everything you just said I agree with with this race, with this with Jews.
I mean, I am a Jew, and I I know they're not gonna vote for Obama.
But The point is this.
Really?
This is the first I've heard of this.
Why?
Because I thought liberals were liberals first.
Because my whole family lives in Fort Lauderdale and they've been voting liberal Democrats their entire life, but they will not.
They will not vote for a black man.
I don't want to.
That's just the way it is.
It has nothing to do with his foreign policy, the people he's cozying up to.
No.
Is this racist?
No, they're they're just that's what they are.
That's the bottom line.
They're racial.
So you're talking about members of your family that you know intimately.
I I believe so, yes.
Yeah.
Now listen, Rush.
That's not the point of my call.
Powerful point, though.
You have to admit.
Well, it's a point.
It's accurate.
I'm not denying the point that you just made.
Okay.
I can't tell you how the gays are going to vote.
I don't know that.
No gays in your family to call on.
No, we don't have any gays.
Okay.
Um, Rush.
I've been in business for 30 years.
I've been successful.
I have been delivering food to the state of Delaware economically, spectacularly, winning awards.
My credentials are impeccable.
I can't bring the food any more to the table at the price I'm bringing it because of Delmarva Power and Light, which is really not their fault.
It's our governor.
It's Joe Biden.
These people are out of their minds, Rush.
We don't need free health care.
That is not the problem in this country.
We're being crippled with energy.
We can't bring oil out of Anwar.
We can't drill off your estate at Palm Beach.
No one wants to look at a Derrick.
I wouldn't mind it.
I know you wouldn't mind.
But there's something crazy taking place.
They're bringing kilowatt.
The price of my kilowatt is a dime.
Because they want to take the CO2 and put it into a cave and save it.
They they can deliver it at three cents.
American electric power has been in business for a hundred years.
They know what to do.
Governors telling them what to do, how to build a plant, not to use coal, demonizing oil.
A woman named Jane Fonda sits on a cannon and stops an entire world from delivering nuclear power with this uh movie she made.
Exactly right.
In fact, I watched a little bit of that yesterday.
It was on HDNet movies.
How does this happen, Rush?
How does this happen?
How do intelligent Americans allow themselves to have a hundred and three nuclear power plants in this country and not build another one since 1975 when there is no greenhouse gas bullshit from nuclear energy?
Why can't we build nuclear?
We can create 40,000 jobs by bringing oil in from Anwar.
We bring it in by a pipeline, not with a tank and no spills, no Exxon Valdez.
What is going on, Rush?
29 states with 29 different grades of gasoline.
We're paying a we're paying over $3 for regular Rush.
I don't care.
I got the money.
I drive only 12 cylinder cars.
I wouldn't put my grandchildren in no little mini boxes.
But I'm not talking about me.
And I'm not talking about you.
I'm talking about working America.
They think they need free health care.
They need $2 a gallon gas.
This country will explode.
They need they they're heating their houses.
You think there's a subprime crisis, Rush?
Yes, there's a subprime crisis.
That's not the problem.
People bought a house, they thought their energy was going to be $250.
They get a bill, it's $385.
They go to the gas station, they spend another $40.
So they stop coming out to my restaurant.
They stop buying $24-7.
They don't buy a newsletter.
Rush, there is a domino effect taking place.
It's energy.
We bring down the price of a plasma television set.
I bought one for $10,000 of Fujitsu.
It's now $1,100.
We bring down the price of phones.
We bring down the price of computers.
Why do we bring up the price of energy?
Why do you allow the Sierra Club to run this country?
What is going on?
These people are walking through the country and telling us to go on a bicycle.
I need Larry David to drive around for four years in curb your enthusiasm with Priests.
What is going on, Rush?
We're out of our minds.
People are calling up and saying he's liberal, he's conservative, he's this, he's that.
They're they're driving themselves into a barrel.
They're not going to get out.
The Bo Snerdleys of the world.
I'm talking about young couples.
I've got two young boys.
They're trying to bring children up.
They're getting energy bills that are knocking their homes out of sight.
Nothing, nothing is more important than the bringing energy is what makes this world tick.
We will kill I mean, we've got we're beholden to Chavez's and Castros and Putin's.
We want to go dig here, dig there.
Can you dig in Alaska?
Oh no, we're gonna kill a caribou.
This is nonsense.
This doesn't make any sense.
How do we allow these idiots to get on television and talk about foreign oil?
There is no rush.
You have got to lead a charge.
It is not that McCain is reaching over the aisle and he's he's a global warmer.
I know.
Rush, if this man gets in, he will not help the American family.
If Obama gets in, there'll be no American family.
Rush, the point is energy.
You've got to get the bureaucrats out of the energy business.
I know American electric power.
I knew in 1980 that this country would never drill for oil again.
I went out and bought ESO before it was Exxon.
I bought the stock.
I I get my gasoline for free.
I get dividends from Exxon Mobil.
They're a spectacular corporation.
Rush, they have 27 energy projects going in the world today.
Zero in North America.
I know.
Why?
Why is this allowed?
How do we stay captured by a moron who wants to save an owl, a fish, a bird, a dog, a snake, a rat.
What about my grandkids?
What is going on, Rush?
Okay, now answer your own question.
I'm sure you've got a lot of questions.
I know you've got the answer here.
Tell me what the answer is.
What's going on?
How did it happen?
Why is the Sierra Club running the country on energy?
Why is the Sierra Club trying to put your SUV in a junk pile?
Correct.
You know the answers to these questions.
They hate America?
Could that be it?
Well, could Larry David hate America?
No, Larry David's a willing idiot.
He's a dupe.
You know, the the most most of the people that are running around spouting all this stuff are willing, useful idiots who want meaning in their lives.
They want to matter, they want to think that what they're doing is helping somebody or something.
They have been gotten to by a bun.
They're guilt.
People are running around with the guilt of prosperity or the guilt of whatever.
They've successfully made the energy movement a religious movement.
Uh and it's got every tenant of everyone.
How do we stop it?
Uh you stop accepting the liberal premise of every policy idea that comes down to Pike.
And when they say we can't drill in the Gulf of Mexico, we say, why not?
Why not?
What's going to happen to us if we can we need to confront them?
You're the same people who are whining and moaning about our dependence on other people's oil, and you won't let us go get our own.
What do you really want?
Do you really want the people's country impoverished?
So I have to turn to you for what they need.
It's gonna happen.
It is happening.
Rush, it's gonna happen.
I need my I got an energy bill in my restaurant just last week, 11,600 to heat my restaurant and to supply natural gas to my kitchen.
The bill four years ago was fifty, five hundred dollars.
Now, Rush, what am I supposed to do?
I gotta pass this along.
So the people who love my restaurant, who are eating there wonderfully for years and years and years, they I don't want to charge them more.
What can I do?
I don't have tablecloths, I don't have wine stewards going around.
I have a family restaurant, I cook my own food, everything from scratch.
I do everything I can to save the dollar to give the customer an absolute wonderful Experience.
I need an idiot.
I need a governor to tell me that she she can't build a nuclear power plant on the Delaware River.
She can bring power to this state so cheap, but she's afraid that the power plant's gonna blow up where she she has water, she has she has chickens down there.
She's not afraid of that.
She's afraid of losing the election.
Yes, she won't get any money from the Sierra Club.
They gave her a million dollars to get re-elected.
It's not just that, they'll actively campaign against her.
Why does Joe Biden care if I get gasoline for two dollars?
Why does this man vote against Anwar?
Sixteen years the man has casted 16 votes against Trump.
Well, for that you gotta listen to Why does he follow the money?
All about money.
It's all about money.
But follow the money and what it and the the amount of money it takes for these clowns to stay in power and whose skids they have to grease.
If we take the monkey off our back of energy and deliver it like we deliver a TV, deliver it like we deliver a computer.
Allow these brilliant, brilliant people who run these power plants.
I made this point in the first hour.
The entrepreneurism in the energy production of this country, we cannot survive on conservation alone.
We cannot, we will not grow.
And by the way, without additional production, we're not going to increase supply, which is not going to bring down price.
Price is going up because of limited supply.
We're importing, importing 13% of our gasoline today.
Importing.
Not just uh not just oil.
By the way, wait till you people see what the price of food's gonna have happen to it in the near future with all the biofuel garbage going on out there.
You just wait.
In fact, the uh Financial Times today with a story.
When William Lapp, U.S. based consultancy, advanced economic solutions took the podium at the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture conference.
The sentiment was already bullish for agriculture commodities, boosted by demand from the biofuels industry and emerging Oh, yeah.
There's so much demand now for these agriculture products as a biofuels.
He added a twist, though.
Rising agricultural raw material prices will translate this year into sharply higher food inflation.
So, Michael, not only your energy prices going up, your your uh wholesale food costs are gonna go up too.
At some point you got to start passing it along.
Uh but this is gonna happen in materialized at the grocery store as well, too, not just in uh in restaurants.
We'll be back.
I gotta take a break.
It's gonna be a short segment because I wanted to stay with Michael.
He was on a roll, our last caller.
So, Marty in Kalamazoo, Michigan, you are next.
Nice to have you here with us.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
I was fortunate enough to get through and talk to you a couple of years ago, and this is just a thrill for me.
Thank you.
Um the reason that I'm calling was I think last week you had a montage of Obama rallies where people were swooning and fainting in the audience.
And I I listened to that and I thought, this just can't be happening.
This just doesn't happen like that.
And I wondered how long it was going to be before somebody would faint at one of Hillary's rallies.
No.
Don't tell me it's happened.
It it happened.
I saw it on the news last night.
I don't remember where it was, but there she was in her yellow bumblebee suit, and somebody down there, you know, in the front row was, oh, let's get them some water.
Are they okay?
Somebody's in trouble here.
And I thought, this just cannot be real.
You know, for one thing, if these rallies are really as big as they say they are, what is the likelihood that these people are up front when they get in trouble?
That the candidate would even see that there was anybody in medical trouble.
Well, see that the the closer they are, the closer they are to the electricity of the candidate.
Oh, yeah.
And uh the the heat and the uh overcome by uh the close proximity to client.
Yeah, I'm sure that must be it, to just be overcome by it all.
But uh, you know, I how long did it take before Hillary was out there copycatting something that seemed like it was uh successful for Obama?
It made him look caring and compassionate and all those things that Hillary wants to seem.
Um Did Hillary cry at the sight of the supporter fainting.
Nope, she doesn't feel like she could have set herself apart from Obama.
She wasn't thinking.
Yeah.
If you're gonna copy Obama to have your audience faint, at least act upset about it more than Obama does.
I mean, can say get a stretcher and get some water, but a couple of little tears or a um a moist eye would have gone a long way in that situation.
You see how we're talking about him here, folks?
There's there's trouble out there in paradise, and uh, we need to raise the curtain on this.
This is it's too good to pass up.
Okay, second hour is Finney.
Totho la completa in the can.
Yet another one straight ahead.
Don't go away, folks.
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