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Feb. 26, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I I just I love this headline.
This is a headline The Smoking Gun.
Website Clinton Knight Stabs Obama supporter.
Clintonite.
I love that word.
Usually is Clinton Oid.
Clintonite stabs Obama support.
It's a story we had yesterday.
This is uh Pennsylvania.
Jose Antonio Ortiz stabbed his brother-in-law in the stomach after they quarreled about their respective support of Democrat presidential candidates Obama and Hillary.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back.
Nice to have you.
Uh Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution at the EIB network.
Telephone number is 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
In today's Boston Globe.
If a compact fluorescent breaks, get children and pets out of the room and ventilate the room.
Never use a vacuum, even on a rug to clean up a broken compact fluorescent bulb.
Instead use stiff papers such as index cards and tape to pick up pieces and then wipe the area with a wet wipe or damp paper towel.
If there are young children or pregnant women in the house, consider cutting out the piece of carpet where the lamp broke as a precaution.
Place the shards and cleanup debris in a glass jar with a screw top and remove the jar from the house.
This is what you gotta do when one of these compact fluorescent bulbs breaks.
And it's not just you just can't take it to the trash dump either.
You have to call hazmat to have this stuff properly disposed of.
Most states allow intact compact fluorescence to be thrown away, but some Vermont, Minnesota, California, ban the disposal of intact compact for compact fluorescence in trash.
Massachusetts also ramping up a compact fluorescent recycling program, and in May will ban disposal of any intact compact fluorescent light bulb in the trash.
I don't know how long before the lawsuits it won't it won't be wrong, but the the these are the things that have been mandated, folks to reduce our carbon footprint, Mr. Limbaugh.
Yes, we must engage in the thefi protheur, Mr. Limbo to save the earth.
I I I I I I get so sick and tired of the new castrati being in charge of everybody's lives like this.
The incandescent bulb destroying the plant.
It is so frankly ridiculous and absurd that it insults my intelligence and it worries me when so many people are so mind-numbed that they go along with these charades and make it they make make themselves feel like they're actually doing something to improve the uh the light.
The headline or the their lives, the headline in the Boston Globe story, by the way, Mercury leaks found as new bulbs break.
Energy benefits of fluorescence may outweigh risk.
Oh, really?
So now we're gonna put mercury.
When is the last time a bunch of liberals downplayed the risk of something?
Wait till the trial lawyers get hold of this.
Downplay the risk, energy benefits of fluorescence may outweigh the risk.
You asked for it, you got it.
You vote liberal democrat, this is what you get.
When you're gonna allow a bunch of bureaucrats to turn over as much of your freedom as you have, this is what you get.
When you buy into hoaxes and silly things that a little examination with your own common sense could tell you is not true, such as incandescent light bulbs is drawing the planet.
Causing global warming.
If you're gonna if you're gonna buy into this tripe, then you deserve what you get.
I've got the point you deserve the problem is we're all we're all gonna get it too because of people's stupidity.
We're not gonna have a choice to put compact fluorescence in our houses or not.
You can't dim these things, can you?
I I'm not that familiar, but I don't think what I think I've heard people say that you can't dim them.
In other words, put them on dimmers.
If this actually happens, you guys have been to my house.
If this actually happens, I'll have to tear the whole wall.
I'll have to tear everything apart.
I have there's no way.
I mean, I I am not going to have a bunch of spaghetti looking light bulbs on display from the ceiling, accent lighting for various pictures on the wall.
They're crazy.
I'm not going to take them out.
I'm just, I'm just telling you that it it it is a it is it is folks.
Ain't gonna happen.
This just it is it is.
I wonder, however, I wonder if I could put some compact fluorescence outside in my landscape lighting, and not have to turn them off for the turtle season because they're safer and they're more energy efficient and so forth, and maybe the turtles won't even be able to see them.
Fat chance.
Uh talked earlier about what's happening in Texas in terms of Republicans voting Obama uh Houston Chronicle story.
Uh in Democrat primary expect a GOP turnout, perhaps fueled by Clinton dislike, many Republicans say they are going to vote for Obama.
I understand I've got a big challenge here to try to get Republicans to change their minds on this and vote for Hillary to keep her in the race to keep that party, you know, at war with itself.
Um the uh at John's barbershop, this is how the story begins.
John's barbershop and styling shop in the historic downtown of this conservative community uh southeast of Austin.
Politics is clearly in the air these days.
What has particularly struck stylist Pete Campos is how many of his Republican customers are talking about voting for Obama next week, motivated more he surmised by a strong dislike of Hillary than a strong attachment to Obama.
Uh Campos, who's an independent who's uh leaning toward voting for uh uh Obama says, I think Hillary scares some people.
Now, according to the polling, as well as some anecdotal evidence, an unusually large number of Republicans and independents may cast their votes in the Democrat contest next week, a prospect that could tip the outcome of what polls show is now a tight race.
Such defections could also affect the many local and state legislative primaries around the state.
An American research group poll released yesterday showed Obama leading Clinton 71 to 25% among Texas independents and Republicans who are likely to vote in the uh Democrat primary.
Darren Shaw, political science professor, University of Texas, said that surveys he conducted in two state legislative districts in the Dallas Fort Worth area revealed that almost a quarter of voters with a history of voting in Republican primaries planned on participating in the Democrat primary.
Uh Darren Shaw, who conducts exit polls for Fox News said that while some Republicans are voting in the Democrat primary largely for strategic reasons, he said others may be tired of Republican control of government and are drawn to a fresh face and ideas.
Yeah, who knows.
Michael Jones, 39-year-old self-described conservative Republican who is involved in marketing, said he'll vote for Obama so that Hillary gets out.
But he's not enamored of Obama.
I just wish he gets some substance, said Michael Jones, but Jones said that he's undecided about the general election because he doesn't like McCain, who he described as just another Washington senator.
So you see, there's there's all confusion is running rampant out there, and it's clear that Republicans in Texas have been listening to this program where we had advised Republicans to pimp themselves for a day and go vote in the Democrat.
Teach them what it's like, by the way.
They screwed our primaries up early up, all these Democrats and independents in these open states showing up and voting for a bunch of non conservatives.
It's about time we screwed them up.
I just think at this stage are really the longer Hillary can stay in this, the better for us is the bottom line.
Quick timeout, we'll be right back.
Okay, here we are back.
Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
Now for the past two days I have lamenting or been lamenting the fact that the Republican Party is officially put well not officially yet, but I mean people behind the scenes are in search leaking this without attribution, that they're they're deeply uh strategerizing how to criticize Obama without uh running the risk of being accused of racism uh and bigotry and uh and all of that,
which is another reason why I I want to extend Hillary's run here so that Obama gets bloodied up because it's apparent that the Republicans aren't gonna blue him up.
In fact, you know, yesterday uh in in uh the opening monologue I I repeated, repeated, reprised uh the question I so often ask of people to take time to consider.
How is it that in less than 250 years a population of less than 300 million has come to so dominate the world?
Never before in human history has there been an America.
Not even close.
And we're no different than anybody else in terms of DNA and humanity.
We're no different.
How has this happened?
What's the reason?
There are substantive reasons.
I got an email from a guy responding to this.
They're rush.
I agree that freedom is first and foremost the reason America is exceptional.
But there's another thing, which is born of freedom that makes America exceptional.
America is the greatest collection of ass-whooping warriors the earth has ever seen.
From a ragtag bunch of drunks, old men and youth, the Continental Army defeated the greatest empire in the world at the time at the time to earn independence.
We repelled the nation a second time in 1812.
The story goes on over and over the same way until the 1960s and the rule of liberalism, World War I, World War II, you name it.
We are a nation of warriors.
He is exactly right.
This is uh from William Giolando.
I don't know where William Trump is a subscriber to Rush 24-7, but he's exactly right.
We are a nation of warriors for good.
We liberate the oppressed.
We do not conquer.
That the reason that his email resonated is that our political party, the Republican Party, has no warriors.
In the political sense, none.
None are willing to fight the premise of liberalism.
None are willing to fight the premise behind the liberal Democrat agenda.
Well, there are exceptions to this.
I mean, John Boehner right now is is doing something very good in the House.
He is trying to humiliate the Democrats into voting for the FISA intelligence act that the Senate passed.
So I mean there are there are spurts of it.
But of course, we never see Republicans on TV attacking liberals the way we are constantly attacked.
We just don't do it.
We are not, we don't have warriors.
We got we have some, they're just not an elected office.
Uh, at least federally.
Uh I think there's some some um effervescence out there, if you will, in the warrior uh uh uh class uh in the in the state legislature's uh uh governor's mansions and this sort of thing.
But it is a it is uh it is an excellent point, and here is an illustration of what I'm talking about.
McCain's in Cincinnati.
MSNBC is reporting that a McCain supporter repeated repeatedly calls Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama.
This supporter, I think it was a Cincinnati talk show host, but I'm not sure, was was on the mic at a McCain rally, kept referring to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama.
Now, may I ask a simple question?
Is that his name?
It is.
So why can't it be used?
Because McCain apologized for this.
McCain went out there at after the event was over and virtually apologized and said that kind of disparaging reference to his opponent is not the way he runs his campaign.
He said he accepts full responsibility for it, because his campaign set up the event, but he didn't know that the talk show host was gonna be speaking.
So it's Barack Hussein Obama.
Now we don't make a big deal out of it here, but other people do.
And it happened at a McCain rally.
McCain went out there, it's sorry.
It's uncalled for it.
It's uncalled for it.
American politics.
And I didn't even know he's gonna be here.
Now, what if McCain's middle name was Adolf instead of Sidney?
What his name is Sydney.
What if Obama, what if the Democrats start talking about John Sidney McCain?
Is somebody gonna say we're not gonna tolerate that.
That's that's that's that's uh that's a kind of disparaging reference to my opponent we're not gonna put up with.
His middle name is Hussein.
Come on, Rush, you know they're trying to use it in a disparaging way.
How?
Oh, but because Saddam Hussein, because it's a uh it's an Arabic name, what what?
It's his name.
As I say, we don't make a big deal out of it here, but this just illustrates the fact we're not even gonna do that.
Uh and in fact, if somebody does call him Hussein, we're gonna because we're gonna apologize for it because it's disparaging.
So we're going into this defensive.
Now, some of you may think strategically it's wise to stay away from it because it's only gonna gin up sympathy for him because the name is obviously uh uh highly charged.
But you know, you can't call Barack Obama a liberal.
I have a story in the stack here.
He don't want to be called a liberal.
No, no, you can't call him a liberal.
He does you know, I'm not kidding.
I'm gonna find it in a stack here at some way.
He does not want to be called a liberal.
He it's in the Boston Globe.
I mean, he he he bristles at it when people call him a liberal.
Well, let me find it.
Let me use it.
Ask me all these questions.
It's coming up.
Where did I put the stack here?
So many stacks.
Oops, gonna be in a different stack.
Okay, hang on.
Let me find this.
I can do many things at once.
Sit tight.
Uh let's see, does this it just don't call Barack Obama liberal?
Okie doke.
That's the headline.
It's by Peter Cannellis.
In his radio and TV ads that are blanketing Texas, Barack Obama claims a chief executive can make more money in ten minutes than an ordinary worker makes in a year.
Obama wants to win the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, enact a national health plan, offer a $4,000 a year tuition reimbursement in exchange for national service, and have the government intervene to prevent home foreclosures.
But he doesn't want anybody to call him a liberal.
Despite Obama's vow to build a working majority for change to win a clear mandate for his progressive agenda rather than gauge in Clinton-like triangulation, he's not willing to own the L word.
Now that McCain has all but secured the GOP knot, he's been trying to cast Obama as a liberal.
The National Journal recently obliged by publishing a survey declaring Obama the most liberal senator.
The survey itself is highly subjective based on a limited number of recent votes, but it nevertheless pegged Obama as a liberal.
On Friday, Obama responded by denying it.
Obama said, mimicking his critics, oh, he's a liberal.
He's a liberal.
Let me tell you something.
There's nothing liberal about wanting to reduce money in politics.
That's common sense.
There's nothing liberal about wanting to make sure our soldiers are treated properly when they come home.
There's nothing liberal about wanting to make sure everybody has health care.
We're spending more on health care in this country than any other advanced country, but we got more uninsured.
There's nothing liberal about saying that doesn't make sense, and we should do something smarter with our health care system.
He has invented a phrase for actions that smack if politics as usual.
Okie doke.
Of the liberal campaign Obama thundered, don't let him run that oaky doke on you.
Okay, so his name is off limits.
Can't can't use Hussein.
He can't call him a liberal.
What other facts about Obama are we not going to be allowed to talk about?
That's right, can't talk about his ears either, because when Maureen Dowd made some comment about his ears, he went straight into the crowd and said, I'm very sensitive about my ears.
She said, We're trying to toughen you up.
Well, it hasn't worked.
Can't use the name Hussein, can't call him a liberal.
Uh and this is the kind of thing, this very look at it's brilliant on Obama's part.
He's setting the rules, and everybody's gonna abide by them.
Republican national committee okay, we can't call him a liberal because he's gonna he's gonna tear into us.
We don't want him tearing into us.
Well, I don't know how you're gonna characterize his policies if you don't call him a liberal.
And by the way, what's so bad about being a liberal?
How come none of these liberals want to be called liberals?
See, Obama's no different than any of the rest of them, folks.
No different at all.
Nothing new Here.
Only thing new is that Democrats have now made it official.
Their guiding principle is America sucks.
But they have to mask who they are.
They have to disguise themselves, camouflage themselves, whatever.
You call them a liberal, and it's a personal attack.
And so Obama's now said the liberal off limits can't do it.
What will the Republicans do?
Your guess is as good as mine, but I hope they don't shy away from that.
This Hussein business.
Um that could backfire.
I mean, it's it's so charged that it's it's it's uh it's almost one of those things could could uh uh arouse uh sympathy for Obama, but regardless.
I can't believe it.
Somebody's name is off limits.
I just can't believe it.
Nobel Peace Prize 2.
Nobel Peace Prize 2.
And Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Didn't win that one, lost it to Al Gore, but they can never take that nomination away from me.
And I am Rush Lindboy, your highly trained broadcast specialist, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Mark Shepard at The American Thinker.
We had the story yesterday that uh that the New York Times ran about uh people being worried about Obama and his uh safety.
And I frankly think the Obama campaign put that stuff out, and I guess brilliant.
Um Obama campaign even took the exact JFK motorcade route through Dealy Plaza in the Texas school book depository last week on a campaign rally in Dallas.
And reportedly people in the Obama motorcade were looking out the windows of their cars up at the sixth floor window, gawking at it and so forth.
Bet they were.
You're gonna take us where, Obama?
We're gonna go on what route.
Well, anyway, Mark Shepard in The American Thinker has an intriguing, compelling provocative story today.
Black Hillary supporters may be receiving death threats.
There's mounting evidence that at least some of Obama's faithful intend to see a black American president sworn in next year, no matter what it takes.
Earlier this month, popular black author and talk show host Tavis Smiley disclosed death threats he'd received from those accusing him of blasphemy against Obama, their black prophet.
Then at Saturday's Smiley hosted State of the Black Union Forum, Congressional Black Caucus member Stephanie Tubbs Jones lent credence to Smiley's claim by suggesting that many black elected officials not swearing allegiance to Obama have also been the target of violent threats.
Now, this has been widely ignored by the drive-by media.
The implications here are nothing short of momentous.
The very prospect of physical intimidation as a means of garnering political compliance from Americans awakens frightening images of thuggish antics of boss tweed in the mid-19th century New York.
Didn't Chris Matthews call me boss tweed?
He did.
Anyway, having survived the 2000 election debacle without even the threat of bloodshed, would some now have us back on the road to the inquit uh inquitous days of Tammany Hall.
Not surprisingly, no one in the black community's come forward with specific complaints.
But uh then Shepard goes on to list uh what we do know.
And it basically is a list of people who claim to have been threatened with violence or their lives because they are not supporting Obama.
I think it's pretty brilliant, too, to get this news story out there.
Um I have no clue whether this is true, but I mean Tavis Smiley says he got a death threat, and so does Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
And there are uh there are apparently more than that.
Emmy in Loveland, Colorado, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
I just adore you.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Um, I've been wondering as it gets closer to looking like Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee.
Um, Do you think the Clintons are going to resort to sabotage against Barack?
Oh, I hope so.
You know, I uh I really had the cigar in my mouth.
It's very rude.
I apologize.
Um I have I've speculated all along.
You know how badly she wants this.
You this is the all of these last thirty-five years with Clinton uh have have been oriented toward this.
I mean, there was an implicit deal, it's a business arrangement, whatever else it is, marriage or what have you, and she kept his hopes alive.
She kept his governorship alive, she kept his presidential aspiration, kept his presidency alive.
That cost something.
Yeah.
This is her turn.
She's earned this.
She gave up all of her life for this to play second fiddle to some hick from Arkansas.
And now to have it see it slipping away to a rookie.
Yeah.
Uh you still got the superdelegates you can play games with uh and you still I know the delegate math doesn't look good.
I'm I have to admit, but there's also the Florida and Michigan delegations.
But even with those, you know, these are they're not winner-take all states.
I don't think I don't think both of them are.
Uh and it it it it it may not be enough depending on uh on what the delegates he's what, 153 delegates ahead right now?
Something like them.
Yeah, depending on who's counting.
Uh she'd have to sh in order to do this legitimately, Emmy, she's gonna have to run the table here, and that's gonna be very, very difficult today.
And even if to do it, even if you know, these are not winner-take all states in Texas and Ohio, the the Democrats divvy these things up, and Texas is really weird in that regard on the Democrat side, uh, because they also wait minorities in the amount of delic number delegates they get uh in in districts, not so much by total vote count.
It's a strange damn setup.
Uh but all it leads to at points is that there's plenty of opportunity here for sabotage.
Uh I you let me let me ask you, Emmy.
You know these people.
Yeah.
You followed them.
Do you see them just going away quietly in the night graciously in defeat?
No.
No.
And I'm picturing the day after Denver, you know, and Barack's the nominee, they are going to be so mad.
I mean Oh, it ain't gonna get to that point.
Oh, it won't.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
They can't sabotage him after that.
They can't?
No.
How they sabotage him after he's a nominee.
They gotta stop him from getting the nomination.
Well, I'm thinking they'd rather see McCain get the presidency after you know, if Barack beats them.
What, and maybe Hillary come back in two thousand twelve?
Possibly.
Well, I'm sure I'm sure that Hillary's ambition uh is double or triple the average Americans.
And I'm sure that her level of entitlement to this is very strong and high too.
Uh-huh.
But if she gets smoked here, I don't know how how I don't know how they do this, because the next four years they are not going to matter.
He is going to be irrelevant.
Having he is finished.
Because there if if whoever whoever wins the Democrat nomination will run the party.
Yeah.
And even if Obama loses, the the the Clintons I guess they'll try to take over the party.
I just I don't I don't see her with with the desire to wait four years and start this all over again, because you got to start three years out.
Right.
Um here's what I see happening.
This is if I were Hillary, this is what I would be doing behind the scenes.
I would be I would go out and get an insurance policy against losing this even after my attempts at sabotage.
If my attempts at sabotaging the Obama nomination fail, uh I make sure those efforts have uh don't have my fingerprints.
I try to maneuver myself as uh the vice presidential nominee on his ticket.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Uh and then from there, from the vice presidency, she could undermine his administration every day and eventually lead the impeachment proceedings against him.
Oh.
So there is there I I I misspoke.
There is an opportunity for sabotage if Obama gets a nomination.
She's got to be on the ticket.
She may even be able to do this in the Senate.
Uh-huh.
I know he's not stupid enough to put her on the table.
You never know if it's if it takes that to unite the party.
You don't know how far this is going to go down the road.
Um, he may need to do it to Hold on to certain segments of uh uh like we heard yesterday the South Florida Jewish voters have no intention of voting Obama, but if Hillary's on the ticket, uh Hispanics, we don't think a whole lot of Hispanics are going to vote Obama.
So he she she she might be of some value.
There's well the options are uh pretty open for the Clintons, but I just don't see them coming back strong four years after.
Uh uh I'm sure that yes, Mr. Snerdy, there are plenty of white women out there in the Democrat Party that uh that Barack could choose from besides Hillary, we'll just have to wait and see.
I'm just speculating here.
But I just I I think that if she was able to spenagle her way uh in his vice president, she could undermine him from there.
Uh that so that what that would be uh what would be one element of sabotage, but I'm hoping they do I want the Clintons to be the Clintons.
These are not the Clintons.
These are not the Clintons I know, Emmy.
These people, I mean, they're they're they're they're they're they're acting like they're novices and they've never done this before.
I know politics may have passed them by.
We're in a different era.
Um and and their way of doing things obviously hasn't worked, but I think it boils down to the reason the way hasn't worked is because they don't have anything on Obama.
If they had anything on Obama, they would have used it before Super Tuesday.
And she's kind of hamstrung because she can't call him out on policy differences because they're identical.
They're not uh and she's tried the inexperienced business, that's not working.
She tried plagiarism, that didn't work.
Um what else is she?
Oh, she tried the the bin Laden picture.
Uh that backfired.
The Clintons are not used to having things backfired.
Now the press is abandoned them in droves.
Have you noticed this?
The press has a I mean, there's there are there are stories in my stack here of uh there's a great one, I think it's from Mike Allen at political, I'm not sure somebody, on a conference call with uh Howard Wolfson and Bill Singer.
Uh and and these two guys from the Clinton campaign were just berating the press left and right.
Uh Tucker Carlson's talked about it.
Uh uh Chatsworth Osborne Jr. over at DNC TV.
There's the press is no longer enamored.
Press used to cover for these people.
The press used to marvel at the way the Clintons lied, at the way they position things.
They're not marveling at it, they're calling them on it.
Uh so they're they're facing a roadmap they've not seen before.
You know, they think that they've always had acrimonious relations with the press.
And that's just absurd.
Uh the press helped them survive all during the 90s and helped Clinton get elected and so forth.
I mean, they may have had their moments where the press was a little critical, but for crying out loud, for these people to think the press has always been against them, uh, they're not living in any kind of reality.
So I think they're head spinning.
I don't think they know which way is up now.
They cannot believe that every tactic they've tried has backfired.
And they don't know what to do next.
And so that's where the sabotage comes into play.
Speaking of vice presidential nominees, a new name is surfaced on the Republican side.
Uh she is Sarah Palin.
I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
P A L I N. She was born as Sarah Louise Heath in 1964 in Sand Point, Idaho.
She's the governor of Alaska.
She is the youngest governor in Alaskan history.
She was 42 upon taking office.
She's also the first woman to hold the office in Alaska.
In addition to being uh Alaska's youngest governor, she is also the first who was born after Alaska achieved statehood.
The uh the first to be inaugurated, not be inaugurated in June O, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks.
Uh she took uh office on Monday, December 4th, 2006.
Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell Pallin is the former mayor of Watsala, Alaska.
Her husband Todd works on a North Slope as a commercial fisherman.
She has four children.
Bristol, Piper, Track, and Willow.
Yeah, kids have strange names, but uh off record, off limits.
Uh names of the kids Bristol Piper, Track, and uh and Willow.
And she's a babe.
She's a babe.
I mean, you gotta say it, she's a babe.
So her name has surfaced.
Uh high up on the list now, potential vice presidents for Senator McCain.
I have a question about this business that we can't use Barack Hussein Obama.
Or that if somebody in McCain's camp does, McCain's going to apologize for it and get rid of this disparaging term.
If Obama is given a free pass because of his father's heritage, you know, one generation removed.
I mean, that if he's given a pass for that, then a question.
Are all white Americans going to continue to be held responsible for their alleged racist forebearers, multiple generations removed.
Of course.
Why ask?
It's a stupid question.
Of course they are.
But you can say, okay, Obama, you don't want the name Hussein News will give you a pass.
If black America gives all of us a pass.
I mean, isn't it it isn't isn't that one of the primary reason that uh uh a lot of white Americans want Barack Obama is because Barack Obama offers absolution for sins that they aren't even responsible for.
Well, well, that's the I mean with the whole magic Negro concept that uh that the white people vote for him not knowing what he stands for, don't care what he stands for because it makes them feel like they're getting rid of their racial sins and you know, discrimination, racism that never even committed.
So it's it's this this classic example, by the way.
You know, I I've I said uh anybody thinks somebody caught here and asked if if Obama is actually elected president, is it is it gonna end racism of America?
Well, it's gonna get even better.
It's gonna expand.
It is the the race business will become more heated than ever before.
You wait, folks.
I know what I'm talking about here.
You know that and I know that.
This is Mike in Diamond Bar, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the show.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I heard your show yesterday, and uh I started screaming in the car when you were talking about the inflation and price on food due to E 85 and uh and the biodiesel fuels and things like that.
Yeah.
Uh I sell products to chain stores, and I can tell you, like the block market, which is based out of Chicago, in 1906, 224, because this is this price comes out every week.
The block price on cheese was a dollar fifteen a pound.
Today, that same cheese, that block price is two hundred six a pound.
When when was it a dollar fifteen a pound?
Okay, it was a dollar fifteen on two twenty-four oh six.
Okay.
Okay, once two years ago.
Two years ago.
Two years ago.
One year ago, which was two twenty-two oh eight.
It was uh pardon me, uh two twenty-three oh seven, it was a dollar thirty-four.
It had already started going up.
And then by two twenty-two oh eight, which was just last week, it went up to the two oh six.
Well, yeah, but but I mean, food prices always go up.
I mean, what what is Yeah, but Russ, that's an eighty percent increase in just the raw product.
Now you've got to imagine on top of that, your price is then whatever type of cheese.
So that's the very raw product.
Yeah, yeah.
Then you gotta process it, then you gotta package it, then you gotta transport it, then you gotta refrigerate it.
Yeah, all of that.
Okay, so it went from a retail in in 206 of around a dollar forty-nine to a dollar eighty-nine, to this this year, a price of a block of cheese, a ch uh one pound of cheese runs you $399 on sale to $499.
More than double.
And it's the same in anything to do with lunch meat, or you used to get $1.49, two for three dollars for packages of lunch meat.
They're now running you a hot price, a hot price now.
Okay, I got 30 seconds.
I got 30 seconds.
What's behind all this?
Okay, well, it's because corn is one of the major staples in the feed process of all of these animals, whether it be poultry, uh, beef, uh, pork, etc.
So all of these all this E 85 stuff is going for E85.
Yeah, well, the corn price has gone through the roof.
I've been warning about this, but the answer we've got to save the planet.
The planet's gonna burn up.
And if people have to starve, well, then tough.
Here's the way you need to look at this, folks.
Use ethanol.
Use it.
You can starve people all over the world and feel good about yourself at the same time.
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