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You know, I know I'm fighting uphill battle here, folks, on trying to convince you Republicans in Ohio and Texas to cross over, pimp yourselves for a day, vote for Hillary to keep this campaign going, this Uncivil War Democrat Party.
I know it's going to happen.
Even if I convince you to do it, for the good, remember what this is.
This is about us winning.
You have to do it.
It's about Hillary winning.
It's about us winning.
It's about our party winning.
It's about those people losing.
And they've got some problems in the Democrat Party.
It's not all sweetness and light over there.
And we need them to continue warring with each other.
We love these stories that black people playing came and they're claiming they've been threatened with violence of their lives because they're not supporting Obama.
We want all this kind of stuff out there.
We want the Clinton campaign to keep pumping out these pictures of Obama dressed up as bin Laden.
We want this kind of stuff to keep happening.
Hillary loses this thing, all that's going to come to a screeching halt.
We want all the disruption in that party as possible.
It's about us winning.
I know it's going to happen.
Even if I persuade you to go in there to pimp yourself for a day in Ohio and Texas next Tuesday, you're going to go in the ballot.
You're going to go in the booth.
And you're going to start punching the hole there for Hillary.
It's sort of like Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove.
He wanted to salute Hitler.
He kept having to grab his arm to keep it.
Your arm is just going to be naturally tending to go away from Hillary.
It's going to be a fight because you just can't bring yourself.
Never in your life would you ever have believed A, that I would be recommending you do it, and B, that you would.
I know it's going to be very difficult.
I am stunned.
This Clinton campaign is inept.
Well, actually, I'm not stunned.
I'm actually vindicated.
Ever since the 90s, we've been talking about or been hearing about how Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world.
She's inept.
Everything that she has touched, yet the Clinton administration bombed everything in a policy sense or a strategic sense.
This campaign of hers has been an absolute disaster.
First, the attitudinal arrogance to think that it was a coronation and that she was inevitable.
And then when it turned out not to be that, not knowing what to do, not having the right people in the right place.
You know, that campaign managerette of hers, Patty Salise Doyle.
One of the reasons she was watching soap operas every day.
According to the Atlantic Monthly, was that where it was?
It was the Atlantic, now their website, theatlantic.com.
Yeah, they're their website.
They're watching soap operas.
So the Clinton campaign said.
Now, if she was actually doing that, that means she was just a figurehead to try to get the Hispanic vote.
But Patty Solise Doyle had been with Hillary since the Arkansas days.
So we are seeing here.
Do you know how it has to frost her?
Do you hear she's she's I know I keep saying this, and I but you've got to try to understand this.
Gave up everything.
Do you know how mad she is when she goes to bed at night?
She gave up everything.
And now she's even having to abandon the whole notion she was co-president because Obama successfully called her out on all the Clinton administration failures.
He's out there saying, well, you can't say you were co-president on that when it worked and you weren't co-president on that when it didn't work.
You're either co-president or you weren't.
You know, so now she's having to go back to being an advisor.
She's his first lady and an advisor.
She goes to bed every night.
I'm telling you, she's probably got little voodoo dolls in her bedroom.
She throws darts at him.
She has got to be so mad.
Here, the country ostensibly loved her husband, even though he never got more than 50% of the vote.
Apparently, the country loved old Bill, and they're just rejecting it.
The Democrat Party is rejecting her out of hand.
Do you know how it's not just upsetting to Koki Roberts and Dee Dee Myers?
It's got to be upsetting to Hillary that she is being rejected and that lug husband of hers was so loved and adored by the Democrat Party and she isn't.
You got to understand that this is, these are not happy days.
I'm sure she does have a Rush Limbaugh doll in that room where she's throwing darts at a little voodoo room, but I'm telling you, I'm on her side here.
We are trying to save this.
You know, Bill Clinton and I grabbed this some, Mike.
Bill Clinton and I are on the same side here in trying to continue to promote the chaos in the Democrat Party.
You want to hear how the wheels are coming off in the Clinton campaign?
This is not good.
Yesterday during a telephone conference call, Hillary Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson spoke with reporters.
And this is phone quality here.
An unidentified reporter said to Howard Wolfson, what it is about this approach and this tone that you think is a smart strategy to try to stay ahead in the polls.
I think it is true that every time the Obama campaign and this campaign has attacked Senator Clinton in the worst kind of personal ways, attacked her veracity, attacked her credibility, said that she would say or do anything to get elected, the press has largely applauded him.
When we have attempted to make contrasts with Senator Obama, we have been criticized for it.
That is a fact of life that we labor under.
Yeah.
And he continued here with this.
I reject the notion that Senator Clinton has been engaged in this sort of seriatum attacks on Senator Obama.
I think Senator Obama's entire campaign against Senator Clinton is negative.
I think he has run against her as the status quo.
He has essentially called her divisive.
He has called her untruthful.
He has questioned her credibility.
He has said she will do or say anything to get elected.
Now, if that's not negative, I don't know what negative is.
His entire campaign is premised on that point from day one.
See, we got to keep this alive.
I mean, this is Howard Wolfson.
None of this makes any sense, but we need these charges continue to be made against Obama because our side's not going to make them.
I know.
It sounds like an alternative universe.
By the way, after Obama decried the use of the picture with him dressed up like Al-Zawahiri, a supporter of his showed up on the Scarborough show today on DNC TV, Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson.
And Willie Geist, one of the participants on Scarborough Show, said, I'd like to give the American voters more credit than to think they'll see a picture of Obama dressed in a costume and not vote for him and think that he's Muslim, hopefully.
What do you make of this kind of politics?
Obviously, the Obama campaign itself has galvanized the hopefulness of millions of Americans, and hopefully that hopefulness is predicated upon high intelligence and a mental capacity that is beyond the fourth grade.
We need to keep this alive.
What did he say here?
Hopefully, that hopefulness.
See, once he gets a nomination, Obama's going to stop making these hope speeches.
He'll move on to other things.
All right, your phone calls are coming up after a brief EIB Extreme Profit Center timeout.
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We always have power, ladies and gentlemen, here at the EIB network.
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Otherwise, we always have power.
By the way, I also think it's important here to call out, ladies and to the media.
The media turned on the Clintons, and the bias and the venom shown toward the Clintons and the favoritism being shown toward Obama is offensive.
We need to keep chaos alive.
That is the slogan of this program, and we're not going to be able to keep chaos alive.
Look, here's a hard-hitting story from the drive-bys on Obama.
It's by Ann Flaherty of the Associated Press.
Barack Obama prefers cooperation abroad.
Well, who the hell doesn't prefer cooperation?
It's how you get it.
Sometimes you have to be warrior-like to get cooperation.
And then from the Chicago Sun-Times, how low will Hillary's camp go?
Clearly bias.
Clearly unfair.
Clearly targeted toward the Clintons.
This is absolutely outrageous.
How low will Hillary camps go?
This is about the bin Laden picture.
Do you know if there's another one?
There's another picture of Obama in African garb.
The AP's had it.
And it's been shown up on some website that's kind of dubious.
So people aren't sure if it's really real.
You can Photoshop these things, but he is wearing, he's wearing a traditional robe that many religious people in Africa wear, but he's wearing Muslim headgear.
And it points that out.
So another picture out there.
AP's had it.
Shows up on this website.
And clearly, the media has turned unfairly against Mrs. Clinton.
And if we don't point this out, who will?
Sal in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi.
Great talking to you.
Before I go on with my question, I just wanted to say that there are four people in my life that are heroes to me.
The first is Jesus Christ.
The second is my dad.
The third is Ronald Reagan.
And the fourth is the guy that I've been going to college for the last 15 years, and that's you.
And I still haven't graduated because I want to keep learning.
That's good, because I appreciate that.
You're very nice to say that, and I appreciate that's august company you've put me in.
But you're very shrewd.
There are no graduates here at the Institute.
I know that, and I don't want to graduate.
Okay, I've been I like Dick Morris, okay?
And last night I read an article by him that sort of threw me.
And the reason why it threw me, he's a guy that absolutely despises Hillary Clinton.
And I read an article by him last night where it almost sounds like, and I'm paraphrasing, that he's endorsing Barack Obama.
I mean, he's saying such great things.
One of the things that he said was, you know, if he runs the White House the way he ran his campaign, he can't miss.
And that's a paraphrase.
What is that?
He said that about Obama?
He said that about Obama.
If you look at his last article, he said that about Obama.
And I said, where is this guy coming from?
I mean, all of a sudden, he loves Obama.
Obama is to the left.
Well, you can't be surprised that he doesn't like Hillary.
Oh, I know he doesn't like Hillary.
Well, I mean, I know, but does that surprise you?
Oh, no.
Well, who do you expect him to be for, McCain?
Well, if he doesn't like Hillary, how can he like Obama?
Well, with Hillary, it's personal.
Oh, I know that.
I know that.
It's not so much policy.
I mean, if he's going to – and he's – I think Mr. Morris is enamored of Obama's technique and his style and his strategery.
I don't think this goes to his policies, except, you know, Dick Morris looks at these things as a pollster looks at things.
How effective, not how right or accurate.
How effective is somebody?
And Hillary's not effective at all, and Obama is.
And Morris' point is, look, this guy could stand for Marxism, and if he's effective presenting it, it might happen.
Well, you know, so far...
And that impresses Morris.
So far as Obama is concerned, if you see the way he, excuse me, the way he can, you know, just get a crowd going, the last person that I know of that was able to do that was a guy that was back in the 30s and the 40s, and that was Adolf Hitler.
Now, now, now.
There have been many who have mesmerized crowds like this.
I myself have done it.
The difference is that when people show up to a Rush to Excellence tour, it's all based on substance.
That's right.
But many people have been able to attract crowds this size, and it's just that not in political campaigns.
You know, this is something that is somewhat unique in terms of political campaigns, but the people that are showing up here, that's really what makes this interesting, not Obama.
Well, you know, Dick Morris has a tape out on Hillary Clinton showing, you know, exactly what type of a person she is.
She's a ruthless individual.
And she's a Marxist.
Let's put it that way.
Well, if he doesn't think Obama is a Marxist, what is wrong with this man?
I don't understand him.
I don't understand where he's coming from.
Look, I've met Dick Morris three or four times, and I've never really had the pleasure of having a prolonged conversation with him.
I know him as well as you do from watching him on television reading what he writes.
So it's really perhaps even unfair of me to do this, but I'm just speculating that his assessment of opposing Hillary is not simply because she's a Marxist.
As I say, she's ineffective at doing what she's trying to do.
Obama is effective at what he's trying to do, and that's the kind of thing that I think Morris is focusing on.
I got to go.
Quick timeout.
Thanks again.
What do you mean, going to have a good time?
We are having a good time.
We do so daily here at the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, we have Created a new position here in the hierarchy of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the official Obama criticizer.
His name is Bo Snerdley, the official program observer, has taken on this new role of official Obama criticizer.
And this is just one of the many ways we will engage in criticism of Barack Obama during the course of the remainder of the presidential campaign.
By the way, speaking of, you know, Obama and all these Muslim outfits and so forth, has anybody seen him wearing a Chairman Mao pantsuit?
I mean, how come Mrs. Clinton doesn't get any grief?
She wears Chairman Mao clothes all the time.
How come nobody says, whoa, look at that.
She dressed up like a CHICOM.
Nobody ever accuses her of anything.
Anyway, Barack Obama, very sensitive about this picture that the Clinton campaign leaked, where he looks like Eamon Al-Zawahiri.
He was on our San Antonio affiliate yesterday, WOAI, with Jim Forsyth, who asked him, what's your feeling on this picture incident in politics like this?
I think the American people are saddened when they see this kind of politics.
Everybody knows that whether it's me or Senator Clinton or Bill Clinton, that when you travel to other countries, oftentimes they ask you to, you know, try on a traditional garb that has been given as a gift.
The notion that the Clinton campaign would be trying to circulate this as a negative on the same day that Senator Clinton was scheduled to make a speech about how we repair our relationships around the world, I think is sad.
We here at the EIB network think this is very childlike and whiny, almost moaning.
So we now call on the official Obama criticizer to react to this, Mr. Bo Snerdley.
This is Bo Snerdley, official EIB Barack Criticizer, African American and certified black enough to criticize.
Senator Obama, I have a statement.
Your reaction to the release of the picture showing you in native garb with your extended family in Africa was regretful.
While the motives of the Clinton campaign in disseminating the image are clear, your response was frankly baffling.
Instead of acting like a wounded pup, acting like you were ashamed of the photo, acting like you were ashamed of your family, wouldn't it have been wiser for you just to take pride, show a little pride in the photo, explain in detail how world leaders such as yourself are often asked to wear these clothes, especially by your family?
You could have also dug up the pictures of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Africa, Hillary pretending to be the African queen, Bill pretending to be the first black president, and he doesn't even have real family in Africa.
Bad form, Mr. Obama.
Stop acting so wounded.
Stop acting so saddened by the Clintons just doing what they're doing.
Now, the translation for EIB Brothers and Sisters in the Hood.
Oh, what's up?
Why are you acting dissed when Hillary rolls out of shot of you dressed up African?
What's up with that?
You were in the motherland with your peeps.
And you're going to act dissed?
That's lame, yo.
These are your peeps.
You were styling.
Instead of acting dissed, you should have just rolled out large and told Clinton and everybody else the Clintons are the ones at front, okay?
Bill puts on these fake African clothes.
He puts on some Kinte cloths when he goes over to Africa, then forgets all about the homies when he comes back.
What's up with that?
And you should have told Hillary, maybe if she just got out that bumblebee outfit and dress up in the little costumes once in a while, she might could keep her man at home instead of wandering the streets.
You feel me?
Don't fall for this Clinton trichonology, oh.
You're better than that, man.
Bo Sturtley, the official Obama criticizer here at the EIB network, commenting on Obama's reaction to the Muslim photo of him disseminated by the Clinton campaign.
Tony in Farmingville, New York, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk with you, and I really follow all the things you talk about in politics, and you're pretty darn accurate.
Thank you, sir.
But my reason for calling again is I was listening to your show today, and I've been listening to your show for a long time.
You were discussing this whole government thing about the lights and lighting that's going on in this country about forcing people to do certain things.
And I agree with you to a certain point that there's government control should not be involved.
But by the same token, I am active in the semiconductor industry as a designer and developer marketing of products.
And what I do see coming is the trend for the LED lighting market to take over and probably push aside incandescents and CFLs with the next two, three years.
Really push aside the compact fluorescence?
Yes, because what's happening is there is a point of inflection on this curve that looks at aluminum output, color point, and all this nonsense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And LEDs are actually achieving that point very shortly.
And I am actually involved with companies, and my company actually sells LED recessed light fixtures today that are 12-watt comparable to 65-watt incandescents that look just like.
Can you dim one?
Yes.
Well, that's all I care about.
So I'm willing, my offer is I'm willing to set you up and let you see one of these things, a few of them, but they are real.
And they are coming about in the next few years.
For people who don't know, tell them what an LED is.
A lot of people hear LED and think computer screens or the flashing green and red lights on a piece of electronic equipment.
What is LED?
It's a light-emitting diode, but I mean, how is it applicable to a light bulb?
Well, what's happening is the LED traditionally was, like you just said, it was an indicator on your stereo system or a TV or whatever.
Now, in the last five, six years, there's been a transition in the semiconductor industry where they can make LEDs high-wattage output now, where we're talking about one, three-watt, and five-watt LEDs.
Cool.
Very cool.
So they put them in series, and they have 12 of them, and they make a 12-watt recessed picture.
That puts out quite a bit of light.
That's it.
That's true.
So that's all I wanted to just make sure to at least take a look at this.
If you want to really look into it more, you can look at these companies we work with, LLF.
And basically, that market's taking off.
It'll be in restaurants, hotels, and high-end residential.
Let me ask you a quick question here because I'm very sensitive to these kinds of technological advances being thrown under the open market.
Will the poor and minorities be able to afford these new lights?
Or is it one of these things where people like me are going to have to buy them at exorbitant prices at the outset in order to bring the price down for the poor?
Well, what I see happening is your point is correct.
What I see happening is the utilities, as they do with the CFL lights today, will become sponsors of them and also co-sponsor payment towards these lights.
What's one of these things going to look like?
It looks just like your standard six-inch recessed fixture.
No different.
Actually, they're quite pleasing looking.
Do you screw it in?
Do you unscrew it?
I mean, how big is it?
They screw in, yes.
And they look just like it was a recessed fixture in your ceiling.
But the main thing is that.
And you can get them in red and green and blue, and you're going to flash just like on your scenario or your TV.
No, no, no.
You're getting them in the true incandescent yellow cough.
Oh.
But I imagine the sky's the limit if you'll pay for it.
Well, they're starting.
They're coming down.
They're starting $100.
But then you look at the maintenance.
Like you said, if you have a $50,000-hour bulb that lasts over a period of that time and you have to replace other bulbs over that period of time and you do the energy analysis, the LED light's probably about 25% cost.
And three years these things are going to be on the market?
They're on the market now today.
I'm actually selling them.
I didn't call up to promote my company or anything, but what I wanted to call to say is it's happening.
Well, who are your customers now?
Is it homeowners or businesses?
Both.
Mostly business are getting involved with it, like restaurant chains, hotel chains, because they clearly see the maintenance cost savings and the cost of the.
Yeah, and these LEDs, they don't put out a lot of heat either, do they?
Absolutely.
Very minimal heat.
Yeah.
What about those?
What about those screwball lights, those compact fluorescents?
Do they put out any heat?
They put out some heat.
You can't touch them.
You can touch an LED fixer.
You can't.
That's what I was thinking.
You can't touch an incandescent.
Correctly.
Until it cools out.
You can touch the LED.
You can take it out, put it in, put wherever you want.
Right.
And the other main thing is, with respect to the discussions that are going about CFL, the two key points is that they are environmentally not good because of their mercury content.
Oh, yeah.
The other story is they do have an effect wavelength-wise as terms of light on your skin.
And the third thing is they turn on slow, right?
You flip them on, they take a few minutes to warm up.
Right.
So those are the three key features or factors.
Wait, your lights, the LEDs?
No, yours come on immediately, don't they?
Yes.
The CFLs are the complex for CFLs.
Those take time to warm up, is what you're saying.
Correct.
Yeah.
That's not good.
A burglar sneaks in the house, you want to turn on the lights.
Burglar's got three minutes before your energy-saving light bulbs light up to save your life.
Ha!
Welcome back.
By the way, this photo, the second photo that I was referring to here with Obama in African garb with Muslim headgear.
It's a sweetnessandlight.com website.
But that was not the website I was talking about.
It's odd.
The Freedom's Enemies is where this photo also appears.
And Sweetness and Light says it's a highly partisan website.
But it's there.
It's Obama with three other guys.
There's some guy African guy proudly holding the picture, and Obama's on the far left of three guys.
We'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com so that you can see it.
Let's see, I'm looking at the clock.
We had the story about depressants yesterday, antidepressants for your animals.
From the Financial Times, study casts doubt on antidepressants.
They don't work.
They gave a bunch of people placebos, and the real thing, they noticed no difference.
Companion story from, where's this from?
Times of India, depression makes you stronger.
So if you are depressed, you're going to get stronger being depressed than if you go out and take the depressant, which doesn't work in the first place.
Washington Post today, headline, Democrat governors see McCain as formidable.
They cite his life story and his appeal to independence.
There are quotes here from Janet Napolitano of Arizona, from Fast Eddie Rendell of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, who is supporting Hillary Clinton, by the way.
Now, why would a bunch of Democrat governors come out and start singing McCain's praises?
Other than I'm sure they're telling the truth.
I'm sure the Democrat governors love McCain.
But what Democrat wouldn't love McCain?
But why do you think they're doing this?
Give me a hazard a guess here, Snowdley.
Why would somebody be well?
No, why would they be singing McCain's praises?
Why would Democrat governors?
This guy's going to be tough.
Well, this guy is formidable.
Could one of them, could they be angling for the VEP?
Could they think that McCain might put a Democrat governor on the ticket?
Well, who knows?
This is an awful strange time in the midst of chaos in the Democrat Party for a bunch of Democrat governors to come out praising McCain.
You don't think it's strange?
It is strange.
I'm telling you, it's strange.
Jennifer and Fresno, thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Well, hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
Jennifer's one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names, by the way.
See, you're so sweet.
That's one thing people refuse to acknowledge about you.
But just don't tell anybody my middle name is Kaddafi or else they may not like me.
It's just our secret.
Nobody will know.
Okay.
The reason I was calling is because I really think that we underestimate Hillary if we think that she hasn't managed to dig up anything about Obama.
I think if you go through someone's past thoroughly enough to find out about what they did in kindergarten, you're liable to stumble upon anything that may be there.
I'm just what I'm saying.
They've done it and they don't have anything.
It's getting late to use it out there, Jennifer.
Well, I think that they are waiting until right before the convention because these things are all about timing.
You really need to do it.
But if she loses, if she's down, if she loses Ohio and Texas, that may be too late.
It may be, but then again, she may use this to go into the superdelegates and say, see, we have a flawed candidate.
Well, what do you think it is?
What do you think she's got?
I have no idea, but I remember something that you said it was either the day before Thanksgiving or two days before Thanksgiving, and you said that the drive-bys had a big story about one of the candidates, and they were trying to decide whether or not to use it.
Yeah, yeah.
And that right there tells you it was not about a Republican because then there wouldn't be any discussion about whether or not they were going to use it.
It would be when.
That's true.
The conventional wisdom is it was about the Brett girl.
Yeah, but why wouldn't now that he's not in there, why wouldn't they use it to sell papers?
You know, they don't have any lawyers.
They didn't want to use it in the first place.
I think a cigar, but they didn't want to use it in the first place.
And now the Brett girl's not a factor.
And then the Brett girl comes out and endorses somebody.
By the way, this is just, I'm just telling you what I've heard from drive-buyers.
I don't know who this story was about.
I'm just in the scuttlebutt inside the drive-by community as it was about Edwards.
But I don't even know what the details of it are.
I have no clue.
I think it's possible.
I just, maybe I'm not sure.
You know what's happening to you, Jennifer?
What?
You have this.
You have the way, like I'm a sports fan.
Let's say I was a New York Giants fan going in the Super Bowl.
You just have this thing that the Patriots don't lose.
They just don't lose.
Our guys don't have a chance.
That's how you're looking at the Clintons.
You're looking at all this history of media idolatry and worship.
They got and succeeded at everything they did.
They got away with everything they shouldn't have gotten away with.
And you're still believing that they've got the magic, and it's just a matter of time until they pull it out here.
And I don't think that's true.
I think.
Well, I don't think that it's magic.
I think they're just that underhanded.
Oh, that hasn't changed.
I think they've tried being underhanded a lot through this camp and it hasn't worked.
Everything's backfired on them.
I don't understand it.
That's true.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see if anything happens the week before the convention, then you'll know I was right.
Well, you think, I got 20 seconds, 30 seconds.
You think that Obama could wipe her out in Ohio and Texas and effectively wrap this up, and she could still unload something the week before the convention and take it away from him?
I think it really depends on the magnitude and the type of thing that it is.
I think if it's something that's big enough that she thinks going into it, she can put doubt into the minds of those superdelegates.
And I think that's why she's still not pushing.
Timing on this, if you're right, the timing would have to be crucial because if she waits too long, people are going to get mad at her for doing it in the first place.
Let's see.
Well, that's it.
There's simply no more time, ladies and gentlemen, to do any more broadcast excellence.
So we'll just have to wait and keep you wanting more.