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March 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wahoo is Zowi.
What a day we have ahead of us here.
What a fabulous day, ladies.
Strap yourselves in because this is going to be a goodie.
Rushlim.
No, I'm not talking about Spitzer.
We'll get to Spitzer.
I'm not taking any joy or Schattenfreude in this.
Goes around.
No, not much.
Spitzer was a rotten guy.
What goes around comes around.
He tried to destroy a bunch of people.
He'd hoist it on his own protard.
No, this is just Spitzer, ladies and gentlemen, all part of Operation Chaos started by me.
Now, I can't lay any claim to what happened to Spitzer, but there is so much chaos in the Democrat Party, and it's now being credited to me on several Democrat blogs.
I mean, it's literally, it's just a delight to see.
By the way, there's tape of Spitzer coming back out today for his resignation.
Do you know his wife, Silda, did not look good, but I now know why.
She is the one of all of his advisors urging him not to resign.
Now, what do you make of that, Dawn?
What do you make that's telling when she was the one that was imploring him to stick this out?
To not resign, certainly not resign in haste.
It means, it has to mean something.
She had to know some of this.
You know what, folks, I don't think you and I have the slightest understanding of the kind of power these people seek and execute and exercise in the world of politics.
I mean, we know there's power and we know that they want it, but I think the quest, the desire, the thirst for that power to acquire it and then to use it obscures virtually everything else.
We had a big long discussion yesterday about character.
And, you know, it's clear to me that in this case, the fact that she wanted him to hang in there, the power of all of that and giving it up is more painful than whatever he has done to his family.
The drive-by media today, you go through some of the stories.
Spitzer escort.
Governor was a nice guy and a good tipper.
So they went on, they found some hooker.
Pardon me.
I'm still getting over this little bronchial thing.
I have a little bit of hacking cough and some sniffles.
You know, it's the remnants, and that always happens.
So bear with me on this today.
But he was, yeah, 22-year-old escort found on another Call Girl website, told ABC News in a phone interview that Governor Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago.
We'd been at this for 10 years, by the way, now, even when he was Attorney General.
He didn't do anything that wasn't clean, she said.
She knew who he was because he had made calls from the Attorney General's office in Brooklyn.
This little girl is trying to be helpful, and she is just hammering more nails in this guy's coffin.
But the stories, oh, he was a nice guy.
He was a good tipper.
Such a wonderful man.
Then there's this piece in the Los Angeles Times.
As an evolutionary biologist, I look at Spitzer's now public sexual indiscretions and feel justified in saying, I told you so.
One of the most startling discoveries of the last 15 years has been the extent of sexual infidelity among animals long thought to be monogamous.
It's clear that social monogamy, physical association, child rearing between a male and female, and sexual monogamy are very different things.
The former is common.
latter is rare.
One species that is and significantly perhaps the only one that could be reliably designated as monogamous is the parasite worm.
That's the only and of course geese are there swans they meet they meet for life.
But this guy, this is just like when Clinton was lying through his teeth back during the 1990s, we had stories.
Lying is good.
It's helpful.
It spares people hurt feelings.
Now, well, what's the big deal?
Everybody does it.
I mean, the drive-bys are just all morning, all last night, were just beside themselves because there's a great story today, too, in the Wall Street Journal by Kimberly Strassel about how the drive-by media enabled this guy when he was out destroying people, ruining people, threatening people.
They stood by and applauded because he was going after people that traditional liberals hate.
Wealthy people, people on Wall Street, corporate titans.
And they enabled him by emboldening him, by not being critical, by not examining any of the evidence that the guy was using to try to destroy people.
So anyway, he's finished, and at least for now in political life, I was stunned last night when I found out it was his wife who was urging him to hang in there.
The elegant and sophisticated Silda Spitzer.
Elegant, sophisticated.
Don't quit now, Elliot.
Don't quit now.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton asked for some time on the program today.
Oh, yeah.
Niall Rogers, here's some good times.
I love this group.
I love this new.
This is chic, by the way, C-H-I-C.
Operation Chaos.
What did that black website name this yesterday?
I'm having a middle block.
The rush vote, the rush vote.
Listen to this.
This is from somebody by the name of John K. Wilson at the Huffington Post today.
Headline, Mississippi, Limbaugh Effect softens blow for Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton suffered a huge defeat last night in Mississippi, now faces an insurmountable pledge delegate lead by Barack Obama.
But what most pundits missed was the fact that Obama's victory would have been even more overwhelming in Mississippi.
And he might have won the popular vote in Texas if not for the limbaugh effect.
Republicans voting in the Democrat primary in order to undermine Obama and help McCain.
In voting during January and February, Republicans were an average of 3.8% of the voters in the Democrat primary, and they heavily supported Obama.
But for the primaries in March in Texas, Ohio, and Mississippi, Republicans have been 8% of the voters in a Democrat primary, and now they favor, heavily favor Hillary.
This is definite proof of the limbaugh effect coming through.
And you go to the last paragraph.
Rarely, rarely in American politics have so many people ever intentionally voted for a candidate they hate so much.
Approximately 40,000 Republicans in Mississippi decided to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to help her destroy the Democrat Party this year with a divided convention.
Hillary Clinton's big wins, in quotes, in March, failed to help her close the delegate gap.
She can't possibly win the pledge delegate race against Obama.
The only hope, the only hope for Hillary Clinton is that Republican voters will help her reduce the gap against Obama and that the superdelegates will somehow be convinced to obey the will of Rush Limbaugh and his acolytes by stealing the election from legitimate voters.
One more thing about Elliot Spitzer.
You have to, I mean, a lot of people say, why'd the media love Spitzer?
Well, he was the official drive-by prosecutor is the way to look at this.
And he was going after targets that the left despises institutionally, not so much personally.
I mean, here's how Spitzer operated, folks.
He would threaten to ruin people.
He would file an action.
He'd call a big press conference.
accusing these people, besmirching these people, and then squeeze them into settling to some consent decree to avoid the full force and power of his office.
But few of his targets were actually found to have done anything wrong.
This is what Elliot Spitzer is what Mike Nyfu wanted to be.
If you really, if you haven't followed Spitzer's career and you don't know much about him, Spitzer had to be Nyfuong's role model.
I mean, this kind of excess, no control, no discipline, pure exercise of political power to destroy people is exactly what Spitzer was engaged in.
It was great press based on no substance.
And the moral of it all is that he had no more business being a prosecutor than the drive-bys have a claim on being objective.
And this piece in the Wall Street Journal today by Kimberly Strossel just nails the drive-by media and their enabling behavior of Elliot Spitzer.
I mean, simply put, capitalism was his target.
And he went after it with a vengeance.
The most amazing story.
I have never heard of this before.
It's on the Politico.
After being forced to respond to three separate incidents in recent weeks of conservatives alluding to Obama's middle name, McCain's campaign manager sent a memo to top supporters urging them to stick to the campaign's preferred message and to avoid taking gratuitous shots at their Democrat rivals.
Quote, overheated rhetoric and personal attacks on our opponents distract from the big differences between McCain's vision for the future of our nation and the Democrats, wrote Rick Davis in a document the campaign emailed to Republican officials and staffers this afternoon.
This campaign's about McCain, his vision, his leadership, his experience, his courage, his service to his country, and ability to lead us as commander-in-chief from day one.
McCain Davis added, has held himself to the highest standards and he will continue to run a respectful campaign based on the issues.
We expect that all supporters, surrogates, and staff will hold themselves to similarly high standards when they are representing the campaign.
To help guide you, please find the talking points below.
So the McCain campaign has sent out talking points to supporters, surrogates, and staff, telling them what to say.
Those talking points focus entirely on McCain's biography and positions on key issues.
This is Jonathan Martin's blog at thepolitico.com.
I have to tell you, this doesn't apply to me, folks.
No, it doesn't.
And I'm not, no, I'm not trying to be provocative here.
I'm just, this does not apply to me.
I'm not a surrogate.
I am a liberated American who will discuss the candidates as I see fit without the help of the McCain campaign and their talking points.
Can you believe this?
Talking points?
This is going to extend beyond just surrogates and staff and so forth.
They're going to try to make anybody that speaks for McCain is going to be asked to stick to these talking points.
I've never heard of a candidate issuing talking points to supporters, telling them to stick to those points and not to express their own views their own ways.
You know, this is why they don't like us on talk radio, folks.
Because they can issue all the talking points in the world, but, you know, what are we going to do with them?
So they can.
I knew Limo would do this.
I told you not to put those talking points out.
I knew he's going to make fun of it.
Damn it.
Damn it to hell.
I mean, this is still pandering to the lib media, folks.
Just stick to this, if you would please.
Just say that McCain has the experience, the judgment, and the character to lead America in a dangerous world.
I mean, that's one of the primary talking points.
So anyway, I wanted to get that out of the way because, oh, and we want to get the Republican stuff out of the way because the chaos that we've created here in the Democrat Party is two juicy soundbite stories all over the place.
Romney says that he would take the vice presidency and went out there and called McCain the big dog.
Romney said in his first interview, this was with, I think it was Hannity, wasn't it?
Yeah.
I think any Republican leader in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee, myself included.
So Romney wants it.
If it's offered to some people, say it'll never happen because there's just too much animosity between these two guys.
Romney was the most hated guy in the campaign.
Huckabee.
Oh, by the way, by the way, I meant to mention this yesterday and it slipped my mind.
I know that there are many of you Republicans out there still in a tizzy over my Operation Chaos and the rush vote urging Republicans to vote for Hillary in these primaries.
This is not the way we Republicans do things.
We don't do this.
You're asking us to compromise our principles.
And so this is something the Democrats do.
And you remember the calls.
Where is your integrity on this?
Blah, blah, blah.
You remember all this.
What I meant to mention yesterday, remember what happened in the Republican primary or caucuses, I guess it was West Virginia?
After the first round, who was leading?
Mitt Romney, leading by quite a lot.
And then what happened?
Before going in and voting in the second round, the huckster threw his support, or McCain, one of the two, through his support did a huckster.
I guess who won West Road?
Was it McCain win West Virginia or Huckabee?
Huckabee won West.
So McCain said, okay, I'll throw this stato out.
I don't need it.
And the McCain forces joined the Huck forces to oust Romney in West Virginia.
Now, what do you think of that?
That's our side doing it.
Does that bother you?
Does that give you pause?
Does it make you question the integrity of Governor Huckabee and Senator McCain?
Because they clearly ganged up on Mitt Romney, and they hated Romney because he was running all these ads and he was paying for them himself.
And there was nothing that was going to stop them.
And they thought the ads were personal and unfair, direct hits and so forth.
And Romney said, no, these are ads that are just on the issues.
So I meant to mention that yesterday.
Let's go to audio soundbite number one.
This is President Bush in Nashville yesterday, National Religious Broadcasters Association conference, and his portion of his remarks.
Some members of Congress want to reinstate a regulation that was repealed 20 years ago.
It has the Orwellian name called the Fairness Doctrine.
We know who these advocates of so-called balance really have in their sights.
Shows hosted by people like Rush Limbaugh or many of you here today.
By insisting on so-called balance, they want to silence those they don't agree with.
They don't acknowledge that you are the balance.
I'll tell you this: if Congress should ever pass any legislation that stifles your right to express your views, I'm going to veto it.
Rado, rado, rado.
The applause went on for quite a while there.
So the president on the record with the fairness doctrine, and by the way, he's exactly right about it.
He told that audience, you are the balance.
We are the balance.
People say, you need to balance your show, Limbaugh.
It's not you all.
It's right.
We don't need equal time.
I am equal time.
And was when we started against all of the drive-by monopoly dominance that was out there before we came along.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Fastest Week in Media.
Here we are already at Wednesday.
Rush the Vote, Operation Chaos Working.
The only woman ever to be on a major party's U.S. presidential ticket stood by her comment that Senator Obama is ahead in the Democrat race because he is black.
This is Geraldine Ferraro.
She's being told to shut up.
She's being told to apologize.
She said, hell no.
I'm not going to apologize.
Why can't I say this?
More on this as the program unfolds.
Another example of Operation Chaos Working.
Democrat Senator Barack Obama assailed a slice and dice politics.
Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that he wouldn't be where he is in the presidential race if he weren't black.
On the Today Show today, Obama said, part of what I think Ferraro is doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind of slice and dice politics that's about race and about gender and about this and about that.
And that's what Americans are tired of because they recognize that when we divide ourselves in that way, we can't have hope and solve problems.
So Obama wants her thrown under the bus.
Obama wants Clinton to throw Ferraro under the bus.
Clinton did say she didn't like the comments, but Ferraro is still there defending herself.
Note, all of the race, all the gender comments are on the Democrat side in this race.
The uncivil war has been going on a long time.
And I don't think, you know, Ferraro may have gone out there as an independent contractor and made these comments, but we've known for a long time that the Clintons and their quest for power, the kind that Spitzer just had to give up, they'll do anything to get it, folks.
They'll put up with any humiliation.
They'll do whatever it takes to get it.
They can't say as much themselves, but if they can send surrogates out to plant these seeds, we know that the Clintons have injected race happily, starting in the South Carolina primary.
Florida's congressional delegation said Tuesday it opposes holding a Democrat presidential vote by mail.
And Barack Obama expressed concerns about the fairness of that option.
Chaos, folks.
Operation Chaos, rush the vote, working.
They're worried about ballot security in Florida.
That's wise.
You start sending out mail ballots with the Clintons involved in the election.
Obama is smart to suggest that this mail-in thing isn't right.
It isn't going to work.
He was around.
He saw what happened in the aftermath of Florida in 2000.
More chaos facing a revived Hillary Clinton.
And why is that?
Facing a revived Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama has dropped a tenet of his early strategy that seemed vital to his January successes, and that is the conviction that he can win almost anywhere if he has enough time to engage voters.
With the important Pennsylvania primary six weeks away, a near eternity in presidential primaries, Obama is now playing down his chances here, even though a victory would effectively finish Clinton.
His aides are emphasizing instead the need to campaign in North Carolina, Indiana, and other presumably friendlier states that'll vote even later.
Obama's revised strategy is essentially a mathematical calculation.
If Clinton wins a few more delegates than he does in Pennsylvania, Obama figures he can offset them in the nine states and territories scheduled to vote later.
The Obama swagger is gone.
Rush the vote, Operation Chaos.
It continues.
Curious whether Obama or Hillary won Texas caucuses on March 4th.
So is everybody else.
The official results won't be available until March 29th.
Until then, the last reported results from 41% of the precinct cauckey show Obama ahead with 56% to Clinton's 44.
State Democrat Party gave up Monday in its effort to produce a running public tally of the count.
The Texas State Democrat Party set up a reporting system outside the official count that relied on 8,247 precinct chairmen to voluntarily call their results to 254.
These people are nuts.
Assigning a task of 8,247 precinct people have to make phone calls to 254 county chairmen who would relay them to state party headquarters.
Remember, these are the people that want to run your health care.
These are the people that want to determine where you shop.
These are the people who want to determine the kind of light bulbs you can have in your house, kind of TVs.
They can't even count their own votes in Texas.
An estimated 1 million Democrats, far more than ever before, showed up for the cauckey, which were held right after the voting ended in the first part of the Democrat contest.
The huge turnout played havoc with the caucus.
Chaos.
Rush the vote.
Chaos in Texas.
Chaos in Pennsylvania.
Chaos in the Clinton campaign.
Chaos in the Obama campaign.
More chaos.
Hillary Clinton has challenged Obama on his record on energy policy, prompting Obama's campaign to counter that it was Clinton who voted against improvements in automobile fuel economy and promoting renewable fuels.
More chaos.
Rush the vote in the Democrat Party.
So it's working, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, here's the bottom line of all this.
At least in Mississippi, Obama extended his lead in delegates and popular votes.
After all said and done, that happened.
He's got an insurmountable lead in delegates now.
Then pledge delegates.
He cannot, she cannot overtake.
Well, she'd have to get 80% of the vote in every remaining.
If Saddam did it, that's true.
Saddam and Fidel, they both managed to get 93, 94% of the vote.
So it's something we need to hold out as a possibility.
We are talking about the Clintons.
But where we are right now, after Mississippi last night, Obama has extended his lead in delegates and in popular votes.
I mean, he's like 700,000 popular votes ahead of her.
This is all the more reason, ladies and gentlemen, for Mrs. Clinton to accept him as her vice president.
Make that accept him for consideration.
This guy, he continues to mount up these delegates.
He continues to lead in the popular vote.
Mrs. Clinton, this guy's got something here that we ought to look at.
This guy's actually number one.
I think he'd be perfect number two.
My number two.
At least he's good for consideration here.
By August, maybe he'll be weaned enough to handle foreign policy.
Maybe she should name her Secretary of State soon, you know, just to assure everybody what's going to happen.
And I got a little bit of a different spin on the Pennsylvania primary.
I don't think it's about who gets the nomination.
It's about whether Obama gets to name the vice president of his choice or will be forced to add her to the ticket.
I think this is where this is headed.
Will he be allowed to pick his own vice president or will he be forced to put her on the ticket?
Obama's got the delegates.
He has the popular votes.
But the superdelegates are being bribed with Bill Clinton's dream ticket scheme.
If she wins big in Pennsylvania, Obama's setting that up.
If she wins big in Pennsylvania, the argument could work and she could get the VEEP gig.
If he wins in Pennsylvania, he gets the luxury of every white candidate, and that would be to name his own vice president.
So here are the numbers.
The popular vote, by winning almost 100,000 votes in Mississippi yesterday, Obama increased his popular vote lead over Clinton to approximately 700,000 votes.
Now, even if you include Florida and Michigan, Obama leads the popular vote.
So, as Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Clinton look at this, this guy is certainly, after last night, even more qualified to be vice president on her ticket.
Hey, by the way, speaking of McCain's talking points, you know, McCain's campaign talking, we're all upset here about the use of Obama's middle name, and they've had three instances now where it's happened.
So the McCain campaign's put out some talking points and it told the surrogates and staff and the supporters to say, just talk about McCain.
Don't talk about Obama.
Don't mention his middle name.
There was a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, a column, a story, rather, Brett Stevens.
Do you know who the first person who started this Hussein business, the first person to use the middle name of Barack Obama was?
It was Barack Obama.
This was October 18th, 2007, talking to Tavis Smiley at PBS.
Well, I think if you've got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama, that's a pretty good contrast to George W. Bush.
If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe I'm the messenger who can deliver the message.
The point being that on October 18th of last year, it was Obama himself using his middle name, saying the fact that my middle name is Hussein and whatever connotations are attached to it, why this is going to help bring us together.
This is going to help America heal.
This is going to increase our standing in the world.
No, I think, how do we deal with this, folks?
Obama was the first to use his middle name.
He did so in the context of healing and improving our standing in the world.
And now McCain has ordered nobody to use the middle name.
Maybe McCain's campaign, Rick Davis, I know you're out there.
Send Obama McCain's talking points.
We got to stop this.
Obama's wrong.
He can't use his middle name.
It makes McCain look bad when anybody has to say, you've got to send those talking points over to Obama.
Somebody's got to get a hold of Obama and let him know what the right thing to do here is.
He's the one.
This is kind of like the Boston Globe story we had Monday or Tuesday, pointing out how back in 2004, Obama's out there saying, we can't leave a rock until the job is done.
And they said in the headline, yes, his position has evolved on this.
Kathy in Plano, Texas, we're going to start on the phones with you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
Welcome.
Thank you.
It's good to talk to you.
I know.
Thanks.
I've listened to you for a long time, and I really love you, but I've got a question for you.
Yeah.
How is your criticism of the manager, the campaign manager for McCain, and his suggestion to others about what not to talk about?
How does that differ than your suggestion to the Republicans who to vote for in the primaries?
Oh, you've got to be kidding, Kathy.
No.
I'm not demanding anything.
I'm just you have free will out there.
The people on McCain's support staff, his surrogates do not.
They have been ordered to only stick to those talking points that McCain's camp has put out.
Their speech has been limited.
Yours hasn't.
I can't do that to you.
Wouldn't even think of it.
Mine is a suggestion that you go out and create the chaos, but you don't have to.
And I'm not going to kick you out of the audience if you don't.
Right.
McCain might kick you out of campaign if you violate his talking points.
Well, that is different.
Yeah, that's a major difference.
Major difference out there.
Absolutely.
If he's making a suggestion to supporters of how to keep it on the up and up or to not be critical of the other candidates, then I think that that's his suggestion in trying to keep the campaign positive.
I'm not a big McCain supporter, don't get me wrong, but I would rather him than Barack or Hillary.
Well, do you think I wouldn't?
No, no, no, no, not at all.
I just want to.
Don't you understand what I'm doing here is about winning.
Secret.
I'll tell you something, Kathy, just between you and me, don't tell anybody else.
Okay.
I actually think that the McCain campaign loves the fact I'm doing this so that they can take their so-called high road because they know I'm not going to stick to it.
You have to know.
You just have to know that in the bowels of the Republican Party complex, they're sitting there laughing themselves silly over rush the vote and operation chaos.
They don't have the gonads to do it.
We're doing it.
They can sit around and laugh and yuck it up.
Then they can say McCain can go out there and take the high road while we create the chaos they ought to be creating.
They're happy to let us do it.
Don't.
And they do need the free advertising, airtime.
They could help.
It will help them because they have the finance.
Wait a second.
Wait a minute.
Wait, I did a free advertising time for what?
No, no, no.
Not free.
The airtime.
This is the exposure for the McCain camp.
I mean, you're talking about them.
And they don't have the finances that the Democratic Party, I mean, candidates, either one of them.
Oh, you say I am already doing that.
I am offering them cost-free support in a roundabout, circuitous way.
In a roundabout way, yes.
Because you're talking about them.
No, I'm talking about the Democrats.
We're creating chaos on the Democrat side, which can only benefit the Republicans.
I don't care what these high and mighty Republicans are out there saying, oh, we would prefer this not be happening.
We, of course, planned the up.
They are loving every minute.
But I don't care whether they love it or not.
That's not the reason that I'm engaged in this.
I'm just, well, I've explained it.
This is all about winning.
This is about our side winning.
Well, it's about the future of our country.
Same difference.
Yes.
Same thing.
Absolutely.
It really is.
All right.
Well, keep up the good work.
At the end of the call, now it's a good work.
Thank you, Kathy.
I appreciate it.
Oops, I hit the wrong button.
I meant to hang up on her and I turned myself off.
A microphone off.
One more quickly, Chicago.
This is John.
You're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Megadittos, Roche.
Hey, I'm just going to make this brief and to the point.
Yeah.
No one is ever talking about these energy prices.
I mean, you know, oil, $110 a barrel.
That's ridiculous.
Diesel, $405.
Gas, $343.
I am sick and tired of these people like Greenpeace, the Sahara Club.
When I see green, I go red.
I want gasoline.
I want it cheese.
Amen, bro.
I am right in there with you.
I'm looking at these prices skyrocketing.
I'm looking at seeing who is interested in free market fixes to this.
You can say, oh, this has something to do with supply, has something to do with demand.
It has to do with speculators and the futures market, the commodities market.
I just want you to know that both parties support environmental policies that would cost you even more gasoline money because it would raise taxes on it.
Keep that.
Look at, I got to run here real quick.
I'm glad you called, John, but you make a fabulous point.
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Yeah, time is tight, but we will squeeze it in, ladies and gentlemen.
Booker T and the MGs here.
MG Stancer Morgan's Garage.
At any rate, we barely scratched the surface.
I've only played one audio sound bite so far.
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