You fell off a ladder at 1.30 in the morning outside your house, inside the house.
Fell off a ladder at 1.30 in the morning.
I don't want to know anymore.
No, I walked by, folks.
I heard her telling Brian that when Brian was telling her she was stupid for something, and I said, What are you talking about?
And I fell off my ladder at 1:30 in the morning and was crying.
Was it your house or somebody else's house?
Okay.
So you weren't trying to get in somebody's bedroom window.
He's trying to get out of somebody's bedroom windows.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh back.
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Ladies and gentlemen, New York Times today has a story by Jeff Zellini in memories of a painful past, hushed worry about Obama.
There is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Obama, echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally, will he be safe in Colorado?
Two sisters pray daily for his safety in New Mexico.
A daughter says she persuaded her mother to still vote for Obama, even though the mother feared that winning would put him in danger.
And at a rally here, a woman expressed worries that a message of hope and change, in addition to his race, made him more vulnerable to violence.
I've got the best protection in the world, Obama said, so stop worrying.
Yet worry they do, with the spring of 1968 seared into their memories when the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated in a span of two months.
Now, question.
Who do you think, folks, is behind this story?
No, Mr. Sterling, Hillary's not behind this story.
Is that what you said?
Obama people are behind this story.
There is no question.
You know, you could almost say that this is brilliant to get this out there.
Oh, no, no.
This is somebody inside that camp is thinking real hard.
There is this quote, this passage from the story.
That afternoon, Mr. Obama's motorcade passed Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository building, where the fatal shot was fired at President Kennedy in 1963.
Several campaign aides looked out their windows, silently absorbing the scene.
The windows of their cars, looking up at the Texas School Book Depository Building.
Now, I wish I could remember the circumstances.
I really, I wish it was just last week.
I had an iChat going, an instant message chat going with a person who shall remain nameless.
And the subject of going to Texas and Obama and the campaign came up, and this person, who is very cynical, said, I wonder how long it'll take Obama to do the exact JFK route through Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository.
And damned if he wasn't right.
This is a you got to give them credit here.
Putting this stuff out there.
They're doing everything they can here to shut down any kind of criticism of the guy.
That's what this is all about.
Evil policy.
I don't care what it is.
That's the express purpose of this.
And with the New York Times getting it out there.
Then, of course, this picture with Obama looking like he's an al-Qaeda figure with the turban.
Well, that picture's, I saw that picture late, I think, Friday or Saturday, and somebody sent me that picture and said, this is photoshopped.
What is this?
This is nuts.
And then, of course, the picture shows up on Drudge today, and the Clinton campaign says, no, we cannot deny that we put it out there.
Now, it's interesting because if you look, and Mr. Snerdley did the research on this today, if you do the research, you can go back to when Bill Clinton was president, find him walking through mud villages in Africa, dressed up as some local warlord using a typical African garb.
And of course, nobody said a word about it then, but he wasn't wearing a turban.
Oh, you okay.
Snerdley says he found a picture of Clinton wearing some big giant hat, but not a witch doctor hat or something, something like that, but not a turban.
Not a turban.
Well, this picture of Obama is going around wearing a turban.
And the drive-by is just waiting for this picture to get out, somebody else, so that they could then report it.
Jim Kuhn, an AP, a photograph circulating on the internet of Senator Obama dressed in traditional local garments during a visit to Kenya in 2006 is causing a dust-up in the presidential campaign over what constitutes a smear.
The photograph portrays Obama wearing a white turban and a wrap-around white robe presented to him by elders in Wajir in northeastern Kenya.
Obama's estranged late father was Kenyan, and Obama visited the country in 2006, attracting thousands of well-wishers.
The gossip and news website, The Drudge Report, posted the photograph Monday, said it was being circulated by Clinton staffers.
Quoted Anim, God, you Clinton people are embarrassing me.
This is such rank amateurism.
If you're going to put it out there, talk about it.
You know, ask why is Mr. Obama dressed up like an al-Qaeda figure?
What is he trying to accomplish with the Ayman al-Zawahiri look?
That picture's not going to help Obama in certain neighborhoods in this country.
And today, by the way, now look at this headline.
This is from CBSNews.com.
Obama defends his wife's patriotism.
Barack Obama today, this is actually from yesterday, defended his and his wife's patriotism after she was criticized last week for saying she's proud of America for the first time in her life.
You know, folks, I have to, if you have to defend your patriotism, are you not in trouble?
And when somebody puts you on defense on your patriotism, I mean, it's a sign that you're in trouble.
But this is the most, I've got a story here from the Asian Times, and it's by somebody called Spengler.
No first name.
Now, I mentioned earlier in the program that there are fractures in the Democrat Party, and some in the drive-by media are starting to back away from the idolatry which they are viewing and reporting on Obama.
This happened long ago with the Clintons.
I think it's safe to say the drive-bys who felt like they were whores in the 90s are starting, they're embarrassed here.
They're no longer going to cover.
And that's coming to pass.
But this piece, this piece is stunning.
And again, all I know is Spengler.
There's no first name here.
2008 copyright Asia Times online.
Obama's women reveal his secret.
When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the womans of Alexander Duma.
In the case of Barack Obama, we have two.
His late mother, the went native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife, Michelle.
Obama's women reveal his secret.
He hates America.
We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history.
His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests.
His career bears no trace of his own character.
Not an article for the Harvard Law Review he edited or a single piece of legislation.
He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him.
But there is a real Barack Obama.
No man, least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father, can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother or the influence of a brilliant wife.
Let me get to the money quote snurdily.
I want you to listen to this.
Again, I just know the name Spengler Asian Times.
It's a kind of an amazing story, but I'm going to read this.
I'm just going to read it as it's written.
Never underestimate the influence of a wife who slaps her husband in public.
Early in Obama's campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator.
Quote, I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama.
There's Barack Obama, the phenomenon.
He's an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner, pretty amazing, right?
And there's the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house.
And that guy is a little less impressive.
And she said this at a fundraiser a year ago, February 2007.
She continued, for some reason, my husband can't manage to put the butter up when he makes toast.
Secure the bread so that it doesn't get stale.
His five-year-old's still better at making the bed than he is.
New York Times columnist Maureen Down said at the time, Michelle Obama added that the TV version of Barack Obama sounded really interesting and that she'd like to meet him sometime.
Michelle Obama's handlers have convinced her to be more tactful since then.
What are you saying to me?
How can I hear you?
Now, some people are looking at this and say, wow, this guy Obama, he's a total phony.
But I have a different, I'm like, I have a different take on this.
The guy is so important.
He's so messionic.
Gods don't care about the butter.
Gods don't care about making the beds.
It's her job anyway.
She's supposed to put the butter up.
She's supposed to make the bed.
She's supposed to make sure the bread doesn't get sick.
Gods don't worry about this stuff.
Gods don't worry about stale bread.
They just create fresh bread if the bread gets stale.
The butter goes bad, the gods create more.
It just happens.
It's just there.
And if the bed's not made, God gets in it and it's automatically made.
If God's wife wants to join him, it'll be fine.
So I think, you know, this piece is intending to slice Obama to shreds by saying he's nothing more than that he's phony, that in his private life, he's incompetent.
Wife doesn't like him.
He can't do anything.
But all that's going to do is make people think he's like everybody else.
And at the same time, he's a god.
You remember, ladies and gentlemen, John Kerry, when he was running for the presidency in 2004, went down there to NASA and he dressed up in a sperm costume.
Remember that picture?
It looked like John Kerry was running through the tubes, the shuttle launch complex, or whatever it was, in a sperm.
He looked like a sperm cell with just his face sticking out.
And everybody laughing themselves silly, just having the greatest time making fun of Kit because he did look like a dork.
He looked like an idiot.
He looked like a sperm cell.
Now Obama dresses up like bin Laden, and if you mention it, it's a scurrilous attack.
And this is the brilliance of the Obama campaign.
They have fostered all of this.
Put the story out that they worry about harm coming to him.
And by the way, who was the first that did that?
Who?
Tell me, who was the first person to raise fears of Obama?
Well, no.
I mean, as it relates to Obama, his wife.
Is his wife already?
He could get shot at a gas station.
Remember that?
That was Michelle Obama, Princeton, 85, or wherever she went there.
What are you shaking your head for?
Don't give me.
Jesus, romance can't ever leave any subject.
She just loves him.
I'm sure she does.
Except when he doesn't put the butter away and doesn't make the bid.
What husband makes a bed anyway?
Don in Atlanta, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
I just had two things.
First of all, I watched a movie this weekend, Man of the Year.
I think you ought to look at it and see what empty rhetoric will do for somebody.
Yeah, I've heard of that movie.
Who was in it?
I can't remember the star off the top of my head.
Robin Williams, I'm told.
Yeah, it was Robin Williams.
That's correct.
The other thing I wanted to bring up is that I think that John McCain may well be very, very well positioned for the campaign coming up, regardless of who he has to run against.
He doesn't even have to criticize these people and run a negative campaign.
All he needs to do is play back all the negatives that they have been saying about each other, and he can give the liberal Democrats a very credible reason not to vote for their Democrat candidate.
And I just think that, you know, it looks relatively positive, even though I'm not real wild about John McCain.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
But the objective still is the Democrat Party to destroy itself, since we're not going to try.
I mean, you've just articulated a policy or a philosophy or a theory or an idea where McCain shouldn't.
He shouldn't even take it to them because they're doing it themselves.
They've given us enough ammo and so forth, which is one of the reasons why a lot of Democrats want Hillary to quit.
So they can get about you and not uniting the party.
This is why we don't want her to quit.
We want her to stay in there and try to wrest the nomination away from Obama and keep this tumult and chaos going for as long as possible.
I just hope McCain's people are smart enough to do this.
We'll find out.
I mean, McCain's, one of his advisors, Mark McKinnon, has Personally, said he will resign from the position if they do an attack ad on Obama.
Again, they don't need to.
They can just play back Hillary's negatives.
Look, they're going to have to.
You've got to compare and contrast.
This is a presidential campaign.
This kid gloves stuff.
You know, forget the fact that Obama's historic.
Forget the fact he's the first.
This is exactly what I'm talking.
The left is telling us how we have to play.
Screw that.
You know, here we are falling.
The RNC sending out their little memo in their strategy memo.
We must be very careful.
Why?
And Democrats are telling us how do we have to campaign now?
It's one thing they have to tell us what our energy policy is.
It's one thing they tell us what kind of light bulbs we can't use anymore.
Now they're going to tell us how we have to campaign.
This is for the presidency of the United States.
Barack Obama is to the left of George McGovern.
Barack Obama has never reached across the aisle in legislation or anything else.
This is about what he stands for, who he is, and where he wants to take the country with foreign policy and all this stuff.
I'll tell you what, folks, if we get hamstrung or intimidated into failing to expose the Obama agenda because of fears that we'll be attacked, we're going to be.
But one thing about McCain, I don't know whether McCain's ever been accused of being a racist.
If he hasn't, you better get used to it.
Maybe not directly, but by implication, his party, you know how this goes.
But you can't let this stuff stop you from being seriously critical of policy ideas of a political opponent.
I mean, we're the Republican party.
We supposedly want colorblindness, right?
We're not interested all the quotas and stuff, and people don't get jobs just because the color of their skin or their sex, gender orientation, merit and this kind of thing.
So what the hell?
This guy's a Democrat presidential nominee.
Fine.
We take him seriously.
He's got serious ideas.
We think they're destructive.
We cannot sit around and let the Democrats alone destroy themselves.
If they are, it's certainly wise to help them.
But if we're going to sit here and not try to win by not being aggressive here, then we deserve to lose.
Thank you, and welcome back.
I am indeed noted info hunk Rush Limbaugh behind here the golden EIB microphone.
You know, I mentioned this on Friday, and I don't, it might have been Thursday.
I think it probably went by most of you, despite my extraordinary communicative skills.
But it's now all over the drive-by media.
San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, any number of places.
McCain Dodges bullet.
New York Times story, but now faces fiscal bombshell.
This is about his desire to pull out of the public-funded portion of the campaign after saying he wasn't going to do so.
Howard Dean has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over this.
But the problem is the Federal Election Commission's gone dormant because the Democrats are playing politics and there's an opening and they haven't filled it.
And it means they can't come to a quorum at the FEC, so nobody's there to enforce any rules.
I mean, it can enforce them after the fact, once somebody gets appointed and so forth.
But the warning is, and it's from the Republican chairman of the FEC, that McCain may not be able to drop out of the presidential public financing system.
And if he can't, he could be outspent by the Democrat nominee by 10 to 1 or even more before the Republican convention in September because of a dispute in the Senate over one of Bush's nominees to the agency.
The FEC lacks a quorum to hear McCain's case.
Rick Hays, election law expert at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, just puts McCain in a pickle.
In the short term, McCain has turned the controversy over a story published in the Times to his advantage, but reverberations to the lobby story may dog him through the November election.
And again, by the way, the Chronicle story here refers to me decrying the drive-by media.
So it has entered the vernacular now.
But political experts said that this controversy over public funding leaves McCain with some vulnerabilities heading into the fall campaign.
So what's interesting is his own campaign finance rules are proving to be a thorn in his side.
Then the New York Times, conservative distrust of McCain lingers over 05 deal on judges.
You know, I really love you people in New York Times.
You know, we can always count on you people.
You love writing stories telling us what makes us mad after you picked our candidate.
This headline from the Associated Press, Cuba's communist system unshaken.
As though this is a good thing.
Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by Brother Fidel, but leaving the island's communist system unshaken.
Thank you, AP.
It's a good thing.
Communism is still in full force in Cuba.
Here's Mike in Boca Raton, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Kitos Rush.
Hey, how are you doing?
Fine.
Couple things for you.
Michael, in the caller in, I think, the last hour, kind of touching on my subject.
First off, though, I want more Snerdley bets.
I think he'd be perfect for the Obama wardrobe thing.
The Obama what?
Obama wardrobe thing?
Wardrobe, yeah.
Well, you mean the official Obama criticizer?
Correct.
Yes.
Well, the official Obama criticizer will be used on the pro.
We can't overdo this, but when warranted, look at it.
I'm not going to shirk from criticizing Obama either.
But our official criticizer will be Bo Snerdley.
Right.
And I told him I really liked the bets.
And before you accuse him of favoritism, I've been at home for two hours, so he didn't put me right through.
Well, that's true.
He plays it by the rule.
Snerdley's an ethical guy.
That's why he is qualified.
He's certified black enough, by the way, to be the official Obama criticizer.
Right.
So, and for those of you that haven't gone, if you want to see what Snerdley looks like, we even gave him a badge.
There's an official Obama criticizer badge.
You can see it all at www.rushlinbaugh.com.
Have you seen it there, Jeff?
I have not.
Oh, it's a good picture, Snerdley.
I took it when I got a new camera.
His here in the studio, you won't know that because we've cropped it just for the head and shoulder shot.
But no, you get the official beret of the official Obama criticizer.
It's a uniform to go.
It's a very serious position.
I'll check that out when I get home.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Back to Michael's call.
I do have a gay cousin I'm going to call.
I'm going to find out how she's going to vote for you, whether for Hillary or Obama.
So she's a Democrat, you're saying?
She's a liberal.
She is.
Yeah, definitely, definitely.
I don't know which way she's going to vote on.
I can't.
Where does she live?
You're in Springfield, Ohio.
Where does she live?
No, I'm actually in Boca.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You're in Boca.
They've moved the one.
You're in Boca.
Where does she live?
She's in Kansas City.
Kansas City?
Missouri or Kansas?
Missouri.
Good.
She's from a long line of Irish Democrats.
My family is not, though.
I see.
Same family, but we're not going to live.
Well, we'll look forward to the answer there because there's a rift to split.
All factions are warring with each other on the Democrat side.
We have not heard in the gay, lesbian, or transgender community.
I can't help you.
The transgender, I can't help you.
We'll find a way.
We've got tentacles out there everywhere.
And the original topic of the call, I've got Irish twins.
They're both one years old.
My son will be two at the end of March.
They're 10 months apart.
I'm worried about what their future is going to be like and if they're going to be left a better country or a better way to make a good living in a life.
Serious concern than I was.
Your concern is one that every most responsible parents throughout life have had.
And I don't think that the boomers, no offense, are leaving things better than they found them from their parents.
My grandparents had a great life and left a great country for them.
In some cases, you're right.
I mean, the boomers, some boomers, not all.
I mean, I'm a boomer.
I'm from the good branch of boomers, but some boomers are so narcissistic, so self-focused that you're right.
They didn't care how they left things because it was all about me, Right.
Other boomers are not quite that way.
The boomers are a wide and diverse lot, but you basically split them down the middle.
There's two kinds.
You've got the big anti-war 60s boomers who the anarchists who want to blow everything up, want to make everything about themselves, and have succeeded in having so much free time on their hands that they're free to do stupid, destructive things, including invent their own neuroses and disorders and psychosomatic problems.
The good boomers, people like me, make country work.
And they're out there working hard, and some of them are anonymous.
You don't even know who they are.
But your concern is something every parent has, and you have a greater influence in what happens with your kids than you might even know.
Because while we all worry what the future of the country is going to be, it's a serious question with this presidential race coming up.
And if a George McGovern-type liberal, if an Obama or Hillary win, then with Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, then it's going to be problematic.
The hope would be so bad that there'd be a Jimmy Carter four years and we'd get rid of them after that because things would go to hell in a handbasket so fast.
But you don't want to base the future on that kind of hope because you never know.
The last time when Barry Goldwater lost, we were in the wilderness for 20 years.
Well, you look what happened.
I mean, happening to everything today.
They don't call it a new tax, but my power bill doubling, property taxes going up.
Every little user fee that they're putting on.
I mean, you live in Paul County.
They're talking about charging people to spay their dogs more.
I mean, every single thing that they can think of.
They don't call it a tax, but it costs more to live now.
All right, since you bring this up, I have a little story here.
You know, Bush meeting with the governors today.
The National Governors Association conferences in Washington.
Had lunch there in the state dining room today, or a meeting, and a big dinner and so forth.
But on the eve of the National Governors Association meeting, some interesting statistics were released.
20 states face a total budget shortfall of at least $35 billion in 2009, and eight others expect budget problems.
Now, I have a list of the states that are expecting budget shortfalls.
And the blue dots are in Democrat states.
The red dots, for some reason, they've assigned red dots to the Republican.
Well, that makes sense.
They're red and blue.
I keep thinking the Democrats ought to be red.
I've never understood this red and blue.
The Democrats are red.
Official color, communist flag, all that.
You know, the Soviet Union flag, the Cuban flag.
At any rate, when you count, let me just count these red dots here.
So out of 20 of these states with projected gaps, 16 of them are Democrat-run.
You know, folks, and this is determined by who's the governor, by the way.
The idea that these states are out of money is just absurd.
They're spending it left.
The amount of money that we are taxed in like user fees or what have you that go to government, state, local, we've got a budget now with $3 trillion, $3.1 trillion.
The idea that our governments are out of money is just crazy.
And that's why your state taxes and other places in these states are going to continue to go up.
It all comes back to smaller government, less intrusive government.
It all comes back to conservatism versus liberalism.
I know people think that's awfully simplistic.
It's not.
You can get caught up.
I was reading somebody the other day want to get caught up in the definition of what a conservative is and how even we conservatives as liberals define what that is in part in that conservative equals racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
And his point was, I think this was in the American thinker.
His point was that forget the label.
Let's explain the principles.
Let's just keep articulating the principles.
And if we want to call it, you know, rushism, call it whatever we want to call it, the label is not important.
It's what the principles are, and they too often too infrequently are articulated.
And certainly there's no conservative leadership right now that has the guts to articulate these principles.
And Bobby Jindal, I've got to continue to give him credit.
Mark Sanford in South Carolina.
There are some people, but none of them yet have arrived on the national scene.
Anyway, I know it's going to be a challenge.
All of you with young Truan today.
Every parent is worried about whether their kid's going to have as bright a future.
It's worth staying optimistic about, but you have to make it happen.
It's not going to happen sitting around hoping it happens.
It's not going to happen sitting around wishing it happens.
It takes the work of the American people to continue to produce an ever-growing U.S. economy.
And this is what frosts me about having all these obstacles and restrictions placed in the way by bureaucrats, particularly in the area of energy.
The ability to move around, get where you need to go, to conduct business, to engage in leisure time, vacations, and what have you.
It was said here earlier today, and it's right on the money.
Energy is the key.
Affordable energy is the key to growth of the U.S. economy.
Everything else will fall from that.
Affordable health care, affordable health care, affordable housing and so forth.
Affordable energy is the key.
And that means new supply.
Supply and demand.
Conserving what we have is all fine and dandy.
Hunky-dory makes you feel really good about yourself.
It doesn't contribute to growth and iota.
Getting rid of your stupid light bulbs and replacing with those little spaghetti things is not going to make a bit of difference in your prosperity or in the country's growth.
Driving your little Priuses around and your hybrids, fine, if it makes you feel good, it ain't going to matter.
It's not going to contribute to the growth of this country whatsoever.
What's going to contribute to the lack of growth is not finding more resources of energy that are ours and they are there.
And we are letting others in the world go dig it and find it and then sell it to us.
And then we become dependent.
We are letting a bunch of long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking, Birkenstock-wearing, linguini-spine liberals determine how this country grows or not.
Environmentalist numbskulls who place a higher value on a kangaroo rat or a snail darter than your kids.
Back in a minute.
Boy, it's worse than I thought out there.
Now there has been a stabbing involving two people arguing over Hillary and Barack.
It is from Upper Providence, Pennsylvania, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office investigating a politically motivated stabbing left one in-law hospitalized and another in prison.
Authorities said that brother-in-law Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurrelds were involved in a verbal altercation over Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside the family home on Honey Locust Court in Upper Providence.
Authorities said that Jose Ortiz, a registered Republican and Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed Sherelles, an Obama supporter, in the stomach.
Shorels was flown to an area hospital, listed in critical condition.
Ortiz jailed on $20,000 bail.
If convicted of a felony crime, he'll not be able to vote in the upcoming election.
Is that the conclusion the drive-bys come to?
Guys should have not done this.
Now I won't be able to vote.
So one brother-in-law stabs another in a voting argument over Hillary and Barack.
Wow, that is some unity.
Jeff in Springfield, Ohio, welcome to the program.
So we have about a minute here, and I wanted to get to you, though, because you've been waiting a while.
Thank you, Rush.
Yes.
I live in Springfield, and Bill Clinton came to our local YMC last night for a little rally.
Clinton's at the YMCA?
Yeah, that's 750 people in the gym.
But who is in the showers?
And on the front page of our local paper, it says by one police officer's account, four people fainted.
So now they're four people.
Were they male or female?
It doesn't say.
It just says by one police officer's account, four people fainted.
Four people.
Were you there, Jeff?
Oh, no, I was not.
No.
Was it cold in Springfield last night?
They might have had the heat turned up real high.
It wasn't too bad.
It was 35, 40 degrees.
Yeah, you can have the heat up too high in there.
People show up in their coats and so forth.
You can get heat prostration in there.
I don't know.
There's too much fainting going on at these Democrat rallies, though.
Dark, anti-American, depressing movies are not desired by people.
By the way, speaking of Democrats and stabbing and fainting, if it's happening now in February, can you imagine what's going to be happening at the Democrat convention in Colorado in August?