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March 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And greetings, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh having more fun, as I say, than a human being should be allowed to have.
We are here at the fortified subterranean Southern Command bunker in South Florida, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, El Rushmo at EIBNet.com.
A couple things here.
The editrix of the Limbo letter, Diana Iloco, has sent me some interesting things here that sort of back up Iowa Congressman Steve King in his comments that Al-Qaeda and Islamofascists will be dancing in the streets if Obama wins.
And they demanded that he apologize.
So I'm not going to apologize for it.
And he went on offense even more.
Let's see.
So much stuff here.
Well, let's just a couple of news stories first from the Corruption Chronicles, which is a judicial watch blog.
March the 8th, 2008.
Let's see.
Here's a little excerpt from the Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch blog.
Evidence seized during a Colombian military raid on the Marxist terrorist group known as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Its Spanish acronym is FARC, reveals that the group's top commandos are receiving aid from President Hugo Chavez and that they see, quote, more help coming next year if Barack Obama becomes president.
I'm just telling you what's on these blogs out here.
One of the electronic emails says that Gringo Associates of FARC were scheduling a sit-down with Obama to lobby him since the associates believe Obama will be the next president.
The Illinois senator is quite popular among Latin American communists who view him as a spokesman for millions of Central Americans and Mexicans who migrate to the U.S. Last month.
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, the head of the Marxist-Sandinista Liberation Front, said Obama's presidential bid is a revolutionary phenomenon in the U.S. because he'll bring great change that will offer justice and equality toward all.
And then there's this little passage.
Ramadan Adassi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades terror group in the West Bank's Anscar refugee camp, pointed to Obama's rise to stardom as, quote, an important success.
He won popularity in spite of the Zionists and the conservatives.
So the Al-Aqsa Brigades terror group happens to dig Obama too.
Now, I'm looking.
I'm just reading this stuff to you to point out that what Steve King said is true.
There are people around the world who are hoping for Obama to win, and they are Marxists, and they are communists, and they are terrorists.
Well, I know that's because he's going to talk to them, but they think that they're going to get something from him after they talk to him.
We don't know that he's going to give them anything, but they think so.
All Steve King said was there's going to be dancing in this.
This is why he's not apologizing.
You know, pure and simple.
You know, freedom of speech is freedom of speech.
It's a crucial thing.
Too many people give it up too willingly.
I have not disobeyed the talking points.
Thirdly, I'm not subject to McCain's campaign talking.
If you're just joining us, you've got to hear this.
I guess it happened for the third time somebody at a McCain appearance used Obama's middle name, and that campaign's had it now.
And so they've issued talking points to all supporters, surrogates, and staff.
And you can't stray from the talking points.
They want Rick Davis of the McCain campaign.
You've got to stick to these talking points.
And I've got the talking points here at Jonathan Martin's blog at thepolitico.com.
And they basically talk about McCain and his honor and integrity and his war hero status and so forth and how he's the only guy qualified to lead the country at a dangerous time, so forth and so on.
But I'm not a surrogate and I'm not a staff and I'm not a, you know, I'm subject to these talking points.
So at any rate, I've never heard of this.
I've never heard of a candidate issuing talking points to supporters.
I've heard of the campaign giving the candidate talking points because he can't be disciplined.
Not McCain, but any candidate.
But I've never heard of the candidate issuing talking points to supporters.
Stick to this.
Don't stray.
It's crucial.
Or else.
And you know my tripper.
So anyway, Obama, if you also, if you, we're going to finish Ferraro here in just a second.
I got to do stuff stream of consciousness here.
Obama, we played this down by it earlier, lied about me.
He has turned his focus on me since I'm in the media more than McCain is.
He accused me of calling for mass deportation for all the illegal immigrants in the country.
Never done.
I earlier challenged Obama, who's running around demanding corrections from people who misspeak about him or who offend him.
I challenged him earlier to prove where I ever said that immigrants ought to be rounded up and deported.
I've talked about other things, creating disincentives, which companies that hire illegals could stop hiring them, disincentives for illegals to keep coming and so forth.
But I never have supported a full deportation roundup.
So earlier, I insisted that Obama apologize for his falsehood.
He needs to get his facts straight out there, especially since he's demanding accuracy from everybody else.
Now, Obama, back to Ferraro.
Obama is saying that Ferraro is trying to divide Democrats with the slice and dice business.
It was in USA Today, just posted it an hour ago.
Well, let me say Obama's trying to divide the nation with false allegations against me.
Yes, he is.
He is trying to divide the nation with false allegations against me.
Obama is trying to introduce race into this discussion and into this election.
That's what his, you don't think there's a racial component here when he lies about me, demanding that all these illegals be deported?
You know, he's weak on the Hispanic side, folks.
He's got, you know, we've talked about this.
He's trying to pick up Hispanic votes.
He's doing it by attacking me and lying about me.
And I've demanded that he apologize for this.
He's trying to divide the nation using me and introducing race into this election by attacking me about deporting illegals.
He's trying to play to the fears of Hispanic Americans by attacking me and lying about what I said.
He's playing to the fears of the Latino community.
And I demand that he stop it.
At least stop it in my name, because I didn't say anything like he said I said.
And he's all sensitive about being lied about and so forth.
I got more experience being lied about than Obama will have, even if he becomes president.
But if he is, he's a presidential candidate.
And when those guys start lying about you, you know, Clinton tells these lying jokes about me at the White House Correspondence Dinner, also race-related, by the way.
And now Obama has gotten into the act.
Play, let's see, play, grab sound button number 11 very quickly here before we go to the break.
I want you to hear one more time before we get into the analysis of the Geraldine Ferraro thing and back to your phone calls.
Obama, she claims the Obama campaign has been threatening her.
This was yesterday or last night, actually, on Fox, Martha McCallum's 5 o'clock show.
Question, you're getting a lot of heat for this comment.
Do you want to put it in context for us?
I'm sorry, the people thought it was racist, but part of the problem is, and I'm a person really who has fought discrimination for 40 years, so I am absolutely offended by the emails, the phone calls, and all the threats that I've been getting, which is really terrible and has come out of the Obama campaign.
David Alexerado knows me better.
In 1984, if my name were Gerard Ferrero instead of Geraldine Ferrero, I would never have been the nominee for vice president.
What I find is offensive is that every time somebody says something about the campaign, you're accused of being racist.
Yeah.
I love hearing her so exercised.
I love hearing a liberal Democrat so offended, so outraged, so upset over being called a racist.
You know, I'm not one of these people that thinks that two wrongs make a right, but welcome to the club out there, Geraldine.
Your own party is who's calling you a racist.
Your own party, the Democrat Party, is calling you a racist.
And you have even admitted that it wasn't about your merits when you got the vice presidential nod with Mondal.
It was your gender.
And she's admitted this.
But even so, you're being called a racist.
Welcome to the club, Geraldine.
But stop whining.
It's happened to you once.
There are those of us on our side to whom it's been a lifetime accusation, Geraldine.
Ha, great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh.
I keep saying this because it's true.
I am having a literal ball today, which means that you are too.
And I'm throwing half my brain tied behind my back, which I do every day just to make it fair.
All right, what did Geraldine Ferraro actually say?
I mean, she said that he's only there because he's a black guy.
She said if he were a white man, he wouldn't even be in the presidential race.
So she's essentially saying that he's unqualified and black.
Right?
Now, let me ask you people a question.
Who gave us this concept?
Unqualified and black.
Shooting to the top.
Who gave us this concept?
I am rubbing my hands together in glee here.
It was liberals who demanded.
Of course, Nixon signed it, trying to make all the liberals love him.
Same thing with the EPA.
Same thing with OSHA.
Don't get me started on Nixon on that.
Liberals gave us affirmative action.
They gave us the concept of quotas and they gave us the concept that it will never end.
They will never be able to make amends for what kind of discrimination and transgressions in the past that may have taken place.
So we're going to have perpetual affirmative action, perpetual quotas.
And what did it mean?
It means that people who are minorities, who have not accomplished as much to qualify, are going to be pushed ahead anyway because we've held them down for so long.
It's the only thing we can do to make up for our sins.
Now, The Libs' very own theory, their very own belief system, their very own policy has resulted in something they abhor, or at least Geraldine Ferraro does, and I will guarantee you, in the bowels of the Clinton campaign, they are saying and have been saying for a long time,
how the hell are we being outmaneuvered by some rookie African-American guy?
These Democrats, they love to talk about affirmative action and fairness and so forth until it affects them.
And when it starts to affect them, what do you do?
You send Bill Clinton out to basically insult them.
As in South Carolina, George Newmeyer, who writes today in the American Spectator on this whole Ferraro flap, has a great point.
Since liberalism is not based upon natural justice, but rather willfulness, liberalism never fails to devour its supposed beneficiaries.
Ferraro's condescension captures the tone of paternalistic liberalism perfectly.
Its victims should know their place and plot their ascent according to the progressive charts set up by the white liberal establishment, meaning Obama's reached too far here.
And so even though this is the party of affirmative action, the party that tells us that this equals fairness, when this fairness affects them, guess what?
Somebody like Geraldine Ferraro says he's only there because he's black.
That's what she said.
He's only there because she, and now she's mad that people are upset at her.
Now, you could look at this in any number of ways.
Obama is receiving 90% of the black vote in the Democrat primary.
Why is that?
Are the differences between Obama and Hillary on policy so different?
They're not.
Why are most women voting for Hillary?
What is the party of segregation?
You tell me what is the real party that segregates people and puts them into groups and makes victims out of them.
It's a Democrat Party.
And now they're being done in by their own policies, by their own beliefs.
They end up eating themselves with this.
Of course, we're hoping out with the rush of the vote and the continual chaos that we're causing, but they're doing a lot to help this along themselves.
I mean, to be honest here, Hillary Clinton wouldn't be where she is, but for the fact that she has Bill Clinton's wife on her resume and that she's a woman, Obama would not have received the kind of attention he's received from the media, but for who he is, would he?
And we can't ask this question.
We're being told we can't ask the question.
Geraldine Ferraro can't say this.
But it looks to me like most of the blacks are voting for him.
Most of the women are voting for her.
That party's segregated.
There's no policy difference.
So what's going on here?
You can't point this out?
I mean, the liberals, including some black leaders, say Obama's election is a referendum on America's openness to a black candidate.
But if Ferraro says that Obama wouldn't be where he is but for his race, that's not a question that could be asked.
I happen to think that, you know, what she said, she should be entitled to say, I don't know, and if people want to excoriate her for her, she should be excoriated.
But all these people running around demanding apologies is just another creation of the Democrat Party.
Look at the Clinton campaign.
Obama was too ambitious, they said early on.
Too ambitious.
Cited his kindergarten statements to prove it.
Remember that, folks?
I remember all this stuff.
Hillary pointed out, he's lying about how long he says he wants to be president.
Why he wrote a kindergarten essay about it?
And everybody goes, What are you talking about?
Well, oh, there was a message there.
Obama, you are too ambitious.
Right now, you should know your place.
Quick phone call, Columbia, South Carolina.
John, I really appreciate you holding on.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
All right.
I just got a quick comment.
I heard you say earlier there is a difference between the comments you've made about McNab and the ones that Geraldine Ferraro made about Obama.
To me, the only difference is that you made a comment about a quarterback on an NFL team that wasn't even in the lead of his conference at the time.
And she's making the same exact comment about supposedly from their side is going to be the leader of the world.
Well, I'm glad you called because I think a lot of people think what you think.
And I don't blame you for thinking it, but there is a stark difference between what Mrs. and it's Ms. Ferraro.
What's her maiden name?
What's John?
John Zaccaro.
It's going to be Mrs. Zaccaro, Ms. Ferraro.
But I said Mrs. Ferraro, and that's not wrong because there is no Mr. Ferraro except her dad, and we don't want to go there.
What she said about Barack Obama was he wouldn't be anywhere near this presidential race if he were white.
Turn it around.
He's only here because he's black.
I didn't say anything like that about McNabb.
I said the media holding out a little hope for McNabb.
They want to build him up because they've got a little social justice going on in the sports drive-bys.
And so they cut black quarterbacks into a little slack if they like them.
I never said Obama or McNabb was a bad quarterback.
I just said he was overrated.
I spent a lot of time talking about the talents he does have.
I never, ever said that if he were white, he wouldn't be a quarterback.
I never ever said that he's only a quarterback because he's black.
I did not insult his race at all.
I was talking about the drive-bys and liberal Democrat social justice.
Geraldine Ferraro attacked Obama and said he's not qualified for any because he's black.
More examples of chaos.
As a result of Operation Chaos here at the EIB network, you people playing a terrific role in this.
Rush the vote from the Wall Street Journal.
Jonathan Kaufman in fighting worries Democrats.
Split between backers of Clinton and Obama lifts Republican hopes.
The groups that for months have energized a Democrat campaign have given Democrats high hopes.
Blacks, women, young voters are increasingly sniping at each other, raising concerns that the battle could create problems in the November election.
It is frightening.
It is frightening how I called this.
And how everybody told me, don't do it.
Don't do it.
This is not good.
And it just love it.
Just absolutely love it.
Back to the phones.
Nuncie.
And that's right, Nuncie in Centerville, Louisiana.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Rush Buku Diddles from the Hard Academy Country.
Thank you, sir.
My quick comment: I'm just wondering how long this could take the Democrats to blame all of this Spitzer mess on an evil, illegal, warrantless firetime for the Bush administration.
Oh, it's already happened.
Last, I guess it was Monday, I went to the Democrat Underground website, which is a blog site, and they'd already gotten started there that Spitzer was probably nabbed by Bush's warrantless spy program, the National Security Agency in FISA.
Now, wait, now wait.
Now, today, I think it's the Washington Post.
Does the name Naomi Wolf mean anything to you?
I've heard of it.
Well-known feminazi, Nuncie.
Oh, yeah.
Well-known.
She was the one hired by Al Gore in 2000 to remake his wardrobe into earth colors.
And the airbrush and all that.
Yeah, that's right.
That was Rolling Stone magazine, though.
The airbrush of the package.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know if she had anything to do with that.
Probably did.
Who the hell knows?
Naomi Wolf in the Washington Post today, I think it's the Washington Post, says the real story in the Spitzer story is the intrusive government spying apparatus that caught him.
The wiretaps, Nuncie.
Yeah.
Wiretaps.
George Bush personally listening in, no doubt.
Well, I wouldn't put anything past them.
Just one more quick point.
I'd just like to say just how happy I am to see all of this rhetoric that we've been spoon-fed for the last 40 years by the Liberal Democrats coming back to Bitem in the rear end.
Yeah, oh, it's biting him in more than the rear end.
And that's all I have.
Thanks, thank you, Nuncie.
I appreciate your holding on, you bet.
It is.
It's, folks, it is such a delight to see all this happen.
Now, I don't know where it's going to end up.
And the odds are, as far as the Democrats are concerned, by the time they get down, you know, to convention time, they'll probably be able to put all this together because political parties usually do.
They usually are able to unify.
But this is going to go on through the convention.
And what's going to happen is that it's going to create a lot of ad opportunities for Republican groups during the general election.
And it's going to show, it's going to illustrate for the American people who the Clintons are, what the Democrat Party always has been.
And those images are going to remain even after the Democrats go through their quasi-unity.
But I'll tell you, if they do do this dream ticket, as I sit here today, remember it was a year ago, probably it'll be a year ago in April.
I'll never forget this.
A year ago in April, I predicted to you on this program.
I said to you, as of then, April of 2007, 80% chance Hillary Clinton was to be the next president of the United States.
Now, six weeks ago, two months ago, some people might have written her off totally.
But look where we are.
Obama has a 700,000 popular vote lead.
Obama has a pledged delegate lead that cannot be overcome.
He has one more states than she has.
And he's got his share of superdelegates.
And still Mrs. Clinton and her campaign are running around saying, yeah, and that really qualifies him to be number two.
That qualifies him to be my vice president.
He's only weak on foreign policy, but by August, he might have that down pet to where we can put him on a ticket.
Obama's sitting there scratching.
He said, what the hell is this?
The loser is out there telling the world that I'm qualified to be vice president, and at the same time, I'm not qualified because they're saying he's not qualified to be president, but they're saying he's qualified to be vice president.
He said, how the hell does that work?
Obama's been taken so far off his game, he's now lying about me.
And I'm not even running.
Not even on anybody's ticket.
I am the maverick in this campaign.
You know, when you get right down to it, I am the maverick.
I don't get anybody's talking points.
I don't follow anybody's toe-the-line demand, causing havoc in the Democrat Party, and probably my share of it in the Republican Party, too.
But this Democrat campaign, they go to the convention, this Clintons, everybody knows they will do anything to win, and the media has said they will do anything to win, which means the media is going to let them do anything to win.
They'll sit back and watch it.
Great show.
Great story.
So this, well, they've thrown the kitchen sink at, oh, kitchen sinks, nothing.
Wait till they throw the bathtub.
Then they'll throw the shower stall.
If that doesn't work, they'll start throwing the cars.
Then they'll throw the refrigerator.
Oh, they got a lot of stuff left in the mansion if the Clintons are to throw at Obama.
And they're going to throw it.
That's the point.
They are going to throw it.
And all of them, they'll probably unify.
But even after they unify, folks, let's either way, if it's Obama-Hillary, Hillary's going to be seething, plotting, even while shaking hands on unity, how to undermine this guy as soon as she can.
He may not have a choice, snarling is my point.
You've got to listen to me.
I know you're screening calls in there, but the point, he's going to have to win really big if he does.
He's going to have to win this decisively to earn the right to pick his own vice president.
Or somebody's going to say, you're going to have to put her on there in order for us to have unity.
He has not earned the right to pick his own.
Most white Democrat presidential nominees get to choose their own vice president, but Obama hadn't earned that yet.
He's not experienced enough.
He has a one-by-large enough number.
And besides, damn it, the Clintons want it.
And so I'm telling you, nothing in this campaign is going by the book.
Why do you want to start going by the book now?
Why do you want to say, hey, never put her on the ticket.
He may not have a choice.
He doesn't know that himself.
He might think he has a choice.
You wait till they start talking about unity, but even after they get unified, quote-unquote unified, there is going to be seething rage on the part of both of them.
No matter what the public presentation of love, compassion, embraces, handshakes, and all that.
With the Clintons as number two, there can never be peace.
There can never be unity.
With Obama at number two, that would blow him up.
If he wins this, but they put him at number two, that would blow up all the unity in the black community and the Hispanic community.
So, folks, this is going to be fun to watch, and we are going to continue here to play our role in roiling the waters of the Democrat primary.
Operation Chaos will continue.
I don't think it's going to take much more now because it's in full swing.
You know, as I've been hosting the program, today I'll get multitask here.
As I've been hosting the program, I've also been looking at other media, television, computer websites.
I have noticed that there is real, almost a sense of beleaguered torturedness in the Democrat Party over the fall of the New York governor, Elliot the Spritz Spitzer.
They're all concerned if it's going to affect the Hillary campaign.
That seems to be the number one.
Actually, Hillary ought to be happy he's gone.
He was the source of some of her biggest problems, a driver's license for illegals in New York, a couple other things.
But I want to help.
You know, I'm here.
We want to lift all boats.
We want to lift all peoples.
And even though we have inspired a lot of chaos on the Democrat side, there are things I think Democrats are forgetting in their staple of policies that could turn this negative, this Spitzer negative, into a positive.
It's very simple.
The new governor, David Patterson, perhaps in conjunction with President Clinton or any number of liberal Democrats, should make the case again.
This is an ideal time for it.
Equal pay for equal work.
That's something the Democrats have sponsored and been in favor of ever since I have been hosting radio programs for over 20 years.
Why should one prostitute get $5,500 an hour and another one only get $1,000?
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And back to the phones, Lexington, Kentucky.
This is Becky, and I'm glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Hey there, Rush.
How you doing?
Good, thank you.
I wanted to make a couple comments about the Ferraro comment.
Yes.
And again, based on your premise that they have a difficult time looking beyond race, Geraldine Ferraro obviously has a difficult time looking beyond color because isn't Barack Obama's mother, wasn't she white?
See, we're not supposed to say that either.
We can't, we can't, that, that's, that's, look at, they're really putting restrictions on us now there, Becky.
You can't point that out because that means he's not all black.
But black enough.
You can't do that.
And you can't mention that his dad was a Muslim.
Can't do it.
But he wouldn't be in the position that he is if he was a white man.
Yeah.
That's what Geraldine Ferraro said.
Yes, exactly.
But the funniest aspect of this to me is that who's the party that sponsors this kind of stuff?
Precisely.
They have been telling us that unqualified people merit advancement because their minorities have been discriminated against.
And now one of them wants to take the party away from the Clintons.
And guess what?
That's not what they had in mind.
And they certainly had no problem trotting him out at the 04 convention as the rising star of the Democratic Party, did they?
Not at all.
Good point.
Good point.
They had no idea it was going to lead to this.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And why did they bring him out?
Why do you think?
To unify and get the black vote.
To continue to do that.
No, I don't want to answer this.
Think about what Joe Biden said.
That's how Joe Biden would answer the question that you asked.
And let his words be the ones.
You remember that?
It's articulate.
Joe Biden said, it's good.
Finally, we got an articulate black guy in our party to run for president.
A clean, clean, articulate.
I think they brought him out for exactly what you say.
They brought him out for unity and they said to the black populist, hey, look, look at what we got here.
Look at what we're doing for you.
Look what's in possible.
You too could be a senator someday and be big in our party.
The rising star.
That's what we were fed.
Right.
The rising star.
No question about it.
He was.
Okay, fast forward.
If Hillary should steal the nomination and Barack decides not to become the VP, then what are they going to do to I will tell you what will happen.
If that happens, you are going to see more black voters stay home and not vote than you've ever seen before.
And you're going to see 10 to 20% of them cross over and vote for McCain.
And you are going to see, well, I'm not also going to stop predicting there, but that's what you will see.
People are not talking about the drive-by is not going to talk about this, but there is rage in the black community over that possibility.
And they see it shaping up.
They are mad about it.
Are you still there, Beck?
I sure am.
Okay, because it's your turn to talk now.
Oh, okay.
You must not be given a chance to talk much at your house, but here.
Well, I'm just kind of awestruck by talking to you right now.
No, you're awestruck because, well, you're not really awestruck.
You're just proud that I've given you credit for brilliance, which you've been.
It's because I listen to you all the time.
Is your face turning red?
It is.
Mine already was.
All right, Becky, thanks.
I'd appreciate it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You bet.
All right.
Now, I'm telling you, folks, there is a seething rage out there.
It's about if Hillary gets a nomination after all of this, Democrats have a lesson to learn over this.
Back in just a sec, don't go away.
That's it, folks.
We're gone.
Enough fun for today.
Save some for tomorrow.
I guarantee you, there will be some.
Look forward to seeing you then.
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