March 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| From Operation Chaos Headquarters. | |
| I am Commander Rush Limbaugh here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. | |
| The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
| Great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Operation Chaos is now we can safely say exceeding all objectives. | |
| Could you turn up the theme music? | |
| Can barely hear it out there. | |
| We might have a mixed minus problem. | |
| There we go. | |
| Much, much better. | |
| And now it's gone. | |
| As soon as I asked for it to be turned up, now it's gone. | |
| Yes, Operation Chaos is exceeding all objectives, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| This is just amazing. | |
| I just got today's audio soundbite roster. | |
| Let me just give you the headlines here. | |
| This is uh uh drive-by's discuss Limbaugh critique of uh of Obama. | |
| Uh we've got an anti-Obama preacher from Harlem today. | |
| You have just got to hear this. | |
| Uh Obama on nightline, the candidate of race, because I said that yesterday. | |
| Uh Deval Patrick, the uh the governor of Massachusetts, equates uh the Reverend J. Wright to talk radio. | |
| Uh let's see, it's a feminist icon, I will not vote with my vagina. | |
| Uh on hardball last night, they had a big debate over the limbaugh and Operation Chaos. | |
| Bob Schiefer has been asked about the uh Operation Chaos and finds it fascinating. | |
| Bob Beckle has proposed a plan to counter Operation Chaos. | |
| Uh Obama is burning cash fighting Operation Chaos. | |
| It and here's the latest poll numbers. | |
| Obama's big national lead over uh Hillary Clinton's all but evaporated in the presidential race. | |
| Both Democrats trail McCain now, according to a uh a Reuters Zogby poll that was released today. | |
| The uh the poll shows that Obama had only a statistically insignificant lead of 47 to 44 percent over Clinton, which is down sharply from a 14-point edge that he held over Hillary in February. | |
| Uh the poll showed that McCain, who has clinched, of course, the Republican nomination, benefiting now from the lengthy campaign battle between Obama and Clinton. | |
| Well, yes, which was the primary purpose of Operation Chaos. | |
| Oh, this folks, we're doing it. | |
| Do you realize we are doing it? | |
| Things are happening out there on our terms. | |
| Well, this is this is just fabulous. | |
| Uh McCain now leads 46 to 40 in a hypothetical matchup against Obama. | |
| Uh sharp turnaround from the uh Reuters Zogby poll from last month, which showed in a head-to-head matchup, Obama would beat McCain 47 to uh 40 percent. | |
| Matched up against Clinton. | |
| McCain leads 48 to 40, narrower than his 50 to 38 advantage over her in uh in February. | |
| Uh Zogby said, Hey, it's not surprising to me that McCain's on top because there is disarray and confusion on the Democrat side. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| McCain's on top means Hillary's on bottom. | |
| And we were told Hillary will never be on bottom, particularly if it comes to this dream ticket. | |
| Uh the poll showed that Obama continues to have strong support from a African American community, but he is experimenting some slippage among moderates and independents. | |
| Among independents, McCain led for the first time in this poll. | |
| 46 to 36 percent over Obama. | |
| Uh he was uh behind McCain by 21 percent among white voters. | |
| Zogby attributed this to a combination of the fallout from Clinton's victory in Ohio uh this month and the controversy over the sermons of uh Reverend J. Wright. | |
| Uh and just the closer he gets to the nomination, the tougher questions whites ask about an African American candidate, Zogby said. | |
| Uh in Pennsylvania, uh Senator Clinton has widened her lead over Senator Obama. | |
| Uh this is according to a Quinnipiac University poll that was released late yesterday. | |
| Senator Clinton now leads Senator Obama 53 to 41 percent among likely primary voters. | |
| Um and in the latest survey, the split between black and white voters has grown. | |
| Senator Clinton has widened her lead among women, uh likely Democrat primary voters, and narrowed Senator Obama's lead among men. | |
| Again, this now is in Pennsylvania. | |
| Uh Clay Richards, who runs the Quinnipia Act poll, said the momentum clearly uh is Senator Clinton's as she firms up her traditional coalition of women, white males, stupid non-college rural and older voters in Pennsylvania. | |
| So uh not stupid, just uneducated. | |
| So Operation Chaos is exceeding all objectives. | |
| It's now gotten to the point that the drive-by media is having debates about it and what to do to stop it and how to counter it, which is only going to increase the effectiveness of Operation Chaos. | |
| Folks, I I really was hoping today, aside from news uh like I just gave you, I was really hoping uh to move on from the Barack Obama Reverend Jeremiah Wright story. | |
| Uh it's been the story for four or five days. | |
| I looked at my website last night after we updated. | |
| I said, Well, did it look any different than it did last Thursday? | |
| Uh overall, I mean, the this the the this Obama thing in Reverend Wright has been the story. | |
| And of course, we uh highly trained broadcast specialists want to move on uh to other things. | |
| And there are other things in the news here, but I'm sorry we we've got we we we're gonna have to give this one more day because the things just keep popping up here uh that are relevant, that are newsworthy. | |
| Uh and I predicted that if he went out and made this speech, he's he he he was the candidate who had transcended race, he was not a black candidate, now he is. | |
| Uh, and that changes the entire dynamic of the uh of the campaign and of the election. | |
| You know, uh today's the fifth anniversary of uh of going to war in Iraq, and I'm listening to Barack Obama and I'm listening to Hillary and and all the other Democrats trash President Bush, and I got to thinking. | |
| I wish that Senator Obama were as tolerant of our president as he is of his pastor. | |
| Do you realize the things that Obama and Hillary and all these Democrats have said about George W. Bush the last five years? | |
| Uh and there has been no tolerance, and there has been no attempt to understand. | |
| Uh there has been no attempt at unity. | |
| Uh and all this talk about Obama being the unifying candidate. | |
| Go find one instance where he's reached across the aisle as a senator in a bipartisan way to promote unity. | |
| It's all a smoke screen, and it's uh it's it's a mask. | |
| But wouldn't it be great from the candidate talking unity and talking tolerance? | |
| If he were as tolerant of George Bush as he is of his minister. | |
| By the way, a lot of people, a lot of commentators across the aisle are s are still what's the word, um they're they're they're amazed at how casually and how easily Obama threw his own grandmother under the bus yesterday in his speech in Philadelphia. | |
| Basically calling her, he had worse things to say about her than he did about Reverend Jeremiah Wright. | |
| Uh and uh this is he's he's I don't know, raised some questions here. | |
| This uh about who he is and what his character really is, and like I've been saying, he's two people, and the and the the one that we know has been on the scene for what, a couple years? | |
| Uh the earlier Obama, we're finding more and more about which one's the real one, despite all these talks and uh uh points made yesterday about his authenticity. | |
| Uh he's got more problems today than he had yesterday before he gave the speech. | |
| For example, people are going back, digging into the archives, April 11th, 2007. | |
| On DNC TV, David Gregory interviewed Obama about Imus. | |
| David Gregory said, Senator Obama, I want to begin by asking you about Don Imus. | |
| You've condemned his remarks about the women's basketball team at Rutgers. | |
| Let me ask you pointedly, do you think he should be fired? | |
| I don't think MSNBC should be carrying the kinds of hateful remarks that Imus uttered the other day. | |
| And you know, he has a track record of making those kinds of remarks. | |
| Look, I I've got two daughters who are African American, gorgeous, tall, and I hope at some point are interested enough in sports uh that they get athletic scholarships. | |
| So he should be off the air, off of MSNBC and off of CBS, off the air completely in your judgment. | |
| Ultimately, you guys are gonna have to make that view. | |
| He would not be working for me. | |
| So Don Imus would not be working for Barack Obama, but the Reverend Jeremiah Wright would be working for Obama until people found out about Jeremiah Wright, and then Jeremiah Wright got thrown overboard. | |
| But why now? | |
| See, this is he's opened this can of worms, and this stuff just is it's it's going to keep trickling out. | |
| There's more like this in the stack of stuff today in audio sound bites. | |
| Gregory then said, okay, Senator Obama, final point on this. | |
| You've been a guest on the IMAS program to promote your books. | |
| Will you or would you be a guest on his show in the future? | |
| No, I would not. | |
| I was on there once, actually, after the Democratic National Convention. | |
| Spoke about my book briefly. | |
| That's been my only experience on the show, and he was fine when I was on that show. | |
| But I don't want to be an enabler or be encouraging in any way of the kind of programming that results in the unbelievably inoffensive statements that were made. | |
| See, the problem he's got here is that his kids did go and listen to Reverend Wright, and he wasn't concerned about the impact of Reverend Wright on his kids, but he is taking the occasion here of the Don Imus situation and pandering to a uh uh, you know, | |
| obviously Democrat base and offering street cred here for his blackness, uh, which is a lot of people are speculating, by the way, that's why he moved to Chicago in the first place, because Chicago has a history of launching uh black politicos that that that do will. | |
| Uh so it all boils down to that people are now looking at the authenticity of Obama. | |
| Uh after this speech, remember the original I told you this yesterday. | |
| The flash reviews right after it. | |
| This was, I mean, this was better than Martin Luther King's Whoa. | |
| This is they just went beside themselves to praise this thing. | |
| And of course, the take on this program totally different from anything you heard anywhere else, because I'm a week ahead on this kind of stuff. | |
| I don't watch this stuff with emotion. | |
| I don't sit here and swoon over the theatrics or any of that. | |
| I listen to what is stated uh without any emotional attachment here, and he's got problems. | |
| And the polling data shows that he's got problems, and they are going to continue. | |
| Wait till you hear this Harlem minister go after Obama, folks. | |
| And you might be saying, Well, Rush. | |
| Why are you gonna play the Harlem minister? | |
| Well, because we've been told that we don't understand uh the black church environment. | |
| We we don't understand that dynamic. | |
| Uh and and then that we we should excuse it for okay, fine. | |
| Well, we'll we'll give you an example of the kind of stuff that's being said in Harlem at Black Church about Senator Obama, that and more coming up right after our first EIB obscene profit timeout. | |
| Operation Chaos, rush the vote is a sticking point. | |
| Mrs. Clinton in Michigan today, trying to persuade Michigan to revote, talking about it's unfair for Michiganders to be disenfranchised. | |
| Her campaign accused Barack Obama of standing in the way of a second presidential primary in Michigan as several state lawmakers expressed concerns over suggested rules uh governing any revote. | |
| One of the sticking points holding up a possible do-over election in Michigan is a rule that would ban anybody who voted in the Republican presidential primary from voting again in the Democrat one. | |
| Mrs. Clinton wants the Republicans to be able to vote. | |
| She she is totally aware of what's going on with Operation Chaos and rushed the vote, and she wants Republicans to be able to vote in the Michigan do-over if it happens. | |
| Uh U.S. Senator Carr Levin and uh three Democrat leaders working on the proposal plan to lobby lawmakers uh today. | |
| Michigan doesn't require voters to register by party to vote, so the parties have to use other tools to stop crossover voting. | |
| Both parties are due to get a list of who voted in the January 15th primary and which ballot, Democrat or Republican, they chose. | |
| It is uh it's unclear whether those lists would be used to challenge anybody who had voted in the Republican primary. | |
| Uh guy named Brewer said that he's sorry that some Democrats won't be able to vote again. | |
| I regret that that might be the case, but it's a national party rule, and we have no choice but to follow it. | |
| Well, the Clinton can't put up with this. | |
| She can't, she can't tolerate this. | |
| No voter should be disenfranchised, and that was the focus of her speech today in Michigan. | |
| As as Democrats keep saying, count all the votes as many times as you can from all the voters. | |
| Every voter should count. | |
| But now national rules are suggesting that some people won't be able to vote if they do a redo in Michigan. | |
| This the result of Operation Chaos. | |
| And rush the vote. | |
| And besides, there are no rules. | |
| There are only traditions and customs. | |
| Mrs. Clinton will find a way. | |
| Then there's this. | |
| Liberals, a little antsy. | |
| This is this is Jim Coonan. | |
| The Associated Press liberals are antsy. | |
| They haven't seen Democrat voter enthusiasm like this in a long time, and they'd rather not wait until the party's convention to harness it to the party's presidential nominee. | |
| Hillary Clinton and Obama still fiercely competing, just when liberal activists and labor leaders wanted to mobilize voters and gear up their message for the general election in November. | |
| Activists who gathered at a Washington Hotel this week said that Obama and Clinton have energized the electorate with their prolonged contest. | |
| But several of them warned that a convention fight could be fractious and leave little time to mount a general campaign against McCain. | |
| There's always that danger, said Karen Ackerman, the political director for the AFL CIO. | |
| Um this plays out in terms of how the nominee is eventually chosen matters a lot. | |
| So they but they're they're cheering the voter enthusiasm out there, but they are worried that this is going to go to the convention, and that it is all going to fall apart. | |
| They somehow want a nominee chosen before they get to the convention. | |
| That's going to be very difficult to do. | |
| Let's go to the audio sound bites. | |
| We'll start uh let's say CNN. | |
| Uh Anderson Cooper 180. | |
| The fill-in host last night was Campbell Brown. | |
| She spoke with uh radio host Roland Martin. | |
| They had this exchange. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, though, said that Obama is now the candidate of race. | |
| How politically risky was his speech. | |
| Frankly, I don't think Rush Limbaugh is really an expert when it comes to the issue of race in America, so we should not be shocked that he would make those kinds of claims. | |
| It amazes me when I hear Christians on the right. | |
| And I hear some Christians on the left say, Well, you should disown your pastor, disown your church. | |
| Those are not words that frankly I, as a Christian, would use. | |
| I didn't say it. | |
| I'm not on that manwell. | |
| I don't think that's what this is about. | |
| I think this is about hate, Roland. | |
| As I said yesterday, this is about hate and what this is really about, and and and this is why I'm a week ahead of people. | |
| What we heard yesterday, folks, and I summarized it for you very quickly. | |
| What I heard was that we have all of these problems of division in America because we don't have nationalized health care. | |
| We have all these problems of disunity and division in America, because we don't have national this. | |
| We don't have national that. | |
| We don't have a big enough government. | |
| We're not spending enough money. | |
| Obama is a pure liberal socialist, and that is being obscured by all this other stuff involving Reverend Wright. | |
| Now, Roland, I'm going to give you a chance to learn something here. | |
| Prior to this speech yesterday, Obama had succeeded in making his candidacy not about race. | |
| He was the one the Messiah. | |
| By the way, this is the one-year anniversary, I think. | |
| March nineteenth is when the Los Angeles Times published the column by David Aaron Berg. | |
| Who? | |
| David Ehrenstein of uh Barack the Magic Negro. | |
| This is the one-year anniversary of that column. | |
| I think we need to play it. | |
| I think we need to dig it out of the archives because it was the liberals who started all of that. | |
| He was the candidate, first was not black enough, because he wasn't down for the struggle, then he was too black. | |
| Then he and then he transcended it. | |
| He was a candidate who had nothing to do with race. | |
| And that was that was the beauty of it all. | |
| It is the one year anniversary of uh Barack the Magic Negro in the Los Angeles Times. | |
| Um so he had transcended it. | |
| He was a black candidate who was getting where he was getting because he wasn't black. | |
| Now all of a sudden, Roland, and all I'm saying is, with that speech yesterday, he has made himself the candidate of race. | |
| Whereas he hadn't done that before. | |
| Moving on to DNC TV, Nora O'Donnell had this exchange with Republican Strategist Phil Musser. | |
| I was listening to what Rush Limbaugh had to say about this today. | |
| Take a listen to what he had to say. | |
| Barack makes whites feel good. | |
| Jackson and Sharpton did not. | |
| But his association with Reverend Wright now threatens this. | |
| The association with Reverend Wright has demasked Obama, and now the speech today has taken him away from this transcendent on race position to a candidate of race. | |
| Is that true that it makes him a candidate of race? | |
| But Rush was pointing out that this was a speech of political necessity, too, because the underlying theme is here that the Obama campaign has had this thing nipping at their heels for the last couple days in the context of a really tough three or four weeks where the Clinton campaign, frankly, has kept them on message defense. | |
| Right, that was Phil Mooser, who's a Republican strategist. | |
| And it was. | |
| This was not a speech of political courage yesterday. | |
| It was a speech of political necessity. | |
| Nora O'Donnell and Laura Schwartz, a Democrat strategist had this exchange. | |
| This country has got to unite if they want to solve the problems in America. | |
| Rather than what Rush Limbaugh said, didn't it in fact make him the transcendent candidate, at least play in with the theme that he's been trying to run on? | |
| Absolutely, and that's the key word, Nora. | |
| He's transcended race in his candidacy. | |
| And he could have really gone the other way today. | |
| But he didn't. | |
| I think he still transcends race as a candidate. | |
| He's not a black candidate. | |
| He's an American candidate running for president. | |
| See, this is in their dreams. | |
| This is this is what they're hoping. | |
| Uh but I uh frankly, it was just with intellectual candor, I don't know how, uh, Miss Schwartz, who I like. | |
| I like her work on TV. | |
| I but I don't I don't understand how she doesn't get this. | |
| Uh uh country has to get unite if we want to solve the problems of it. | |
| That's see, that's bogus too. | |
| We do not have to unite in order to solve the problem. | |
| That's another little liberal trick telling us we conservatives have to compromise and give up on our principles, let them solve problems the way they want to. | |
| It's not the way it works. | |
| Any of you watching John Adams on HBO? | |
| I want to make a point about this when we come back. | |
| Stay where you are. | |
| Here we are on the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, Operation Chaos Headquarters, known as the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
| How many of you are taking the time to watch? | |
| It started Sunday night. | |
| They're the seven episodes in total. | |
| They ran the first two on HBO called John Adams. | |
| John Adams is the first vice president of the United States about his life, uh his wife Abigail, their children. | |
| And the first two episodes were really about the steps leading up to American independence and the convention in Philadelphia, where the uh declaration of independence was written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, where it was argued over, hammered out. | |
| Uh and you know it it's really great. | |
| I I hope you're watching it. | |
| If you're not, uh I hope that when they finish it and put it on DVD, you get it, because this is the kind of stuff that is not being taught in schools today. | |
| Uh I'm I'm stunned at the number of people that I've talked to who have watched this who didn't know any of this. | |
| And they're my age. | |
| Uh it is just, you know what happened in that room for all of those months was a miracle. | |
| It was a miracle that it happened. | |
| Now, the reason I'm harping on this is because Nora O'Donnell is echoing one of the things that's, you know, part of the Obama campaign, and really is something that the Democrats have been trying to s to to bamboozle everybody with, and that is you can't solve problems unless you unify. | |
| Uh can I give you uh uh uh just a couple of examples of this? | |
| I know unification sounds great, and can't we all get along and have the same objectives? | |
| We do have the same objectives. | |
| Most of us do. | |
| It's how you get there that we argue about, and those arguments are substantive. | |
| Because we all want prosperity. | |
| Well, is the best way to do it to earn it ourselves? | |
| Have the government hand it out to people. | |
| You won't have prosperity if the government's in charge of handing it out to people. | |
| But that's what liberals want. | |
| Um how can how can you achieve prosperity and independence and education when liberals who want to run the government have contempt for the average person's ability to accomplish anything? | |
| So they want to be the ones to provide all these things for people, whereas we conservatives think it's much better if people provide these things for themselves for a whole host of reasons. | |
| Uh not to mention their own psyche and their own self-esteem, since liberals are concerned about that. | |
| 1980s, Ronald Reagan. | |
| Reagan had um. | |
| Well, he had no Republicans to speak of in the House of Representatives. | |
| What a 130? | |
| I'm gonna have to look this up. | |
| I keep guessing, but it was an insignificant number. | |
| There was no way the Republicans were ever, ever going to be a majority in anything. | |
| I mean, they didn't even half the number of seats in the House the Democrats had. | |
| Yet Reagan succeeded in reducing the top marginal tax rate from 90% to 28% over eight years. | |
| Now, do you think he did this unifying with the Democrats? | |
| He did this by virtue of unity with the Democrats in Con No, that is not how it happened. | |
| The Democrats didn't change their mind and all of a sudden think tax cuts were good, because if they had, we wouldn't be arguing about more tax cuts, and we wouldn't leave listening to Democrats continuing to talk about more tax increases. | |
| So they didn't change their mind about anything back in the 80s. | |
| They were just beaten. | |
| And the question is, how were they beaten? | |
| Well, they were beaten by virtue of the fact that Reagan won 49 states on the specific issue of tax cuts, rebuilding the military, and wiping out communism in the Soviet Union. | |
| And he had the American people behind him, and the American people in this country get what they want. | |
| Now you might want to say that Reagan united the people. | |
| But he did it on the basis of policy. | |
| He did it on the basis of his personality. | |
| He did it on the basis of his patriotism. | |
| But he changed people's minds, but he didn't change Democrats in Congress' mind. | |
| They just they had no choice. | |
| They had to go along, and not everything did they. | |
| Remember the Iran-Contra situation and the Boland Amendment and everything they could do in the second term to undermine Ronald Reagan. | |
| They hated those tax cuts being passed, and they everything they could to do to undermine him after that, they did. | |
| And yet they got done. | |
| It wasn't with unity. | |
| It was by perseverance, the idea triumphing in the minds of as many people as possible, leading a movement, teaching and explaining leadership. | |
| It's what's absent today in both sides of this on the presidential camp. | |
| We got no leadership from Hillary. | |
| No Obama's not a leader. | |
| McCain's not a leader. | |
| These are politicians seeking a promotion. | |
| Tieron said, We don't have leadership. | |
| And that's why everybody's filled with angst. | |
| It's just, it's it's sad, but it's it's the way it is. | |
| So we get all this talk about unity, and we can't get anything done without unity. | |
| And who is it that's saying this? | |
| Liberal Democrats. | |
| Well, I'm sure they would love us to unify with them. | |
| By giving up what we believe, by compromising on our principles. | |
| Sure, they'd love that kind of unity. | |
| John Adams. | |
| When things started out in 1770, the British were running this country. | |
| And there were a lot of uh people living in the 13 colonies who they were all Englishmen. | |
| They had all emigrated. | |
| They were all Brits. | |
| That's why Margaret Thatcher loves them. | |
| You ought to hear. | |
| I heard Margaret Thatcher one night at dinner speak so glowingly and so eloquently of our founding fathers. | |
| She loved them. | |
| She thought they were some of the most brilliant, marvelous individuals that have ever walked the earth. | |
| And uh, well, no wonder she thinks that. | |
| They were Brits. | |
| And they were. | |
| And not all of them wanted independence. | |
| They were Englishmen. | |
| They didn't mind being under the crown of old King George. | |
| And so the Brits had their army. | |
| Their red coats were all over Boston and places, and it got um to shorten the story. | |
| They started shooting people. | |
| They start basically started a war. | |
| And it was fascinating to watch this, and this was a non-political presentation. | |
| When we finally get to Philadelphia to convention hall, and the uh representatives of the thirteen colonies are there. | |
| John Adams was it was hell-bent on seeing to it that he had a unanimous vote for independence. | |
| He wasn't gonna settle for a nine to four vote. | |
| He wasn't gonna settle for just a simple majority. | |
| He needed it to be unanimous. | |
| But there were there were uh elements from Pennsylvania and New York and New Jersey who had no desire for independence. | |
| And to listen to them speak this, no, this is the time. | |
| While the while the red culture firing and murdering innocent people, essentially, the war had already broken out in Boston. | |
| And these people from from Pennsylvania, not Ben Franklin, but uh the Dickinson from Pennsylvania, guy from New York, how uh they were all this is a time for caution. | |
| This is the time for restraint. | |
| And I'm watching the screen, I'm just smiling. | |
| And we got those same kind of pansies today. | |
| And they wanted to send a proclamation to King George, demanding that King George stop taxing their tea and stop taxing them exorbitantly on a number, then basically stop squishing them and and and squeezing them. | |
| Uh and uh so uh Adams, all right, if you want to do that, go ahead. | |
| I'm gonna still try to convince you, but you want to do it's gonna be months before we hear back, and I can tell you what we're gonna hear back, but if it'll make you feel better, go ahead and do it. | |
| So they did it all the while. | |
| Adams continues to try and arm twist and persuade. | |
| Finally they get the answer, King George, and King George, how dare you ask me this? | |
| Now you guys are really in for it. | |
| We're gonna kick your butts. | |
| And so the moderates well further caution is required here. | |
| And then we got eloquent speeches about we don't need bloodshed, we don't need warfare, and this is not the way to go about this. | |
| Because some of these people did not want independence, they were Englishmen. | |
| So Adams, this thing shows how difficult it was, how almost impossible it was, is why it was a miracle. | |
| For John Adams to craft unanimity from thirteen colonies, who had thirteen different special interests. | |
| Uh these founding fathers, as I say, they were not all hell bent for independence, they considered themselves Englishmen. | |
| It took a lot of time. | |
| It took a lot of persuasion, it took strategy, it took negotiation, it took compromise, it took manipulation to get the necessary unanimity. | |
| But how did he get it? | |
| His objective was independence. | |
| Pure 100% independence. | |
| He got his unity not by watering down his version of independence, not by watering down his way of getting it, the timetable for getting it, the procedures. | |
| It was it was masterful to watch them pretr uh uh uh uh portray this because it was amazingly historically accurate. | |
| It's based on David McCullough's book, by the way, on John Adams. | |
| One of the things that they did to uh that Adams did to get unanimity, the big the one of the biggest opponent to this uh to independence was Dickinson in Pennsylvania. | |
| And he was the anti he was the dove, he was the anti-war whore. | |
| He just he just he couldn't abide any of this. | |
| Uh but he was very persuasive, and these were very reasonable talks that they had, and Adams was very um uh reasonable and understanding too, although they had knocked down drag-outs about it, but they talked privately after a session one day, and it was uh it was decided that uh Dickinson just wouldn't show up the next day for the vote. | |
| And that New York would abstain rather than vote no. | |
| So Dickinson did and that this was done so that Dickinson would not have to compromise his principles of anti-war and so forth, but he knew the dig was up because he knew where the votes were. | |
| They had finally persuaded Virginia and Maryland, and of course, now the interest interesting thing here about Virginia. | |
| Uh the reason why it took a lot of time and persuasion and strategy, negotiation, compromise, manipulation, all of this to get unanimity. | |
| The wealthiest and most influential state or colony at the time was Virginia. | |
| And Virginia was a slave state. | |
| Uh and Virginia stood to lose a lot of wealth, uh a number of other things here, especially being a slave state. | |
| It's ironic, by the way, how this plays against the reality of Barack Obama. | |
| The point is, these thirteen people got to, well, there were more than one per state, but these people got together. | |
| John Hancock was chairing the whole thing, uh, and they got together, and Adams finally got his unanimity. | |
| Uh, but he achieved it by with one abstention from New York and the Pennsylvania guy being out of the room so he wouldn't have to vote. | |
| But it took him months to persuade. | |
| He never compromised what he wanted at all. | |
| And they ended up with unification, unanimity, you could call it unity. | |
| But uh but he did it uh you know, in a way that was not at all weakening of his desire and passion. | |
| And of course, George Washington is portrayed here too, uh, Colonel Washington becomes General Washington. | |
| Now the the next episodes of this are gonna be bloody because that's when the fight for independence began. | |
| This was just the declaration uh that they uh that they went through. | |
| But gosh, it's it's in tingles up my spine to watch how this country actually came together. | |
| It's why I think, you know, it what happened there is a miracle. | |
| In fact, Catherine Brinker, even I think has written a book called The Miracle of Philadelphia, really, really was a uh a miracle. | |
| And we didn't take a little bit of the uh people who didn't want independence and shove it into the pro-independent side, the people that didn't want independence lost. | |
| They were given something for it, but not at the expense of those who wanted independence. | |
| So be very, very careful when you hear Obama or any of these other liberals start talking unity, uh, and that we can't get anything done until we have unity. | |
| We got this country done without unity. | |
| It happened without unity. | |
| New York abstained, and of course, Mr. Dickinson from Philadelphia was not even there on the day of the final vote. | |
| Uh now you you might say, but Russia, it sounds like there was unanimity, you keep using the word. | |
| Yeah, there was, just like there was close to unanimity in Congress, as close as you can get on Reagan's tax cuts. | |
| Um, but it's because one side maintained and fought for its principles and didn't cave. | |
| In this case, it was John Adams. | |
| You don't hear a whole lot about John Adams, the first vice president. | |
| Here you hear more about Hancock and Thomas Jefferson, which is why this book of McCullough's is great and why the HBO series, surprisingly, is uh is a very active uh and accurate portrayal here. | |
| I brief time out. | |
| We'll take it and come back after this. | |
| Hi, welcome back. | |
| Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, Operation Chaos headquarters. | |
| Where we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Operation Chaos, now exceeding all objectives. | |
| We're gonna go to the phones to Huntington Beach, California. | |
| Gene, uh, welcome, and you're up first. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| The uh fine as a grandmother, I suppose I'd made it personal for me. | |
| I found it uh uh objectionable that uh Obama, in order to make a point, had to diss his white grandmother and compare her with that clown in Chicago. | |
| I don't know. | |
| It just seemed to me. | |
| Do you understand the technique here? | |
| Do you understand what the attempt was? | |
| It's like when Obama he compared your pastor and everybody else's pastor to Reverend Wright, too. | |
| Said, I'm sure you've all heard your pastor say some outrageous thing. | |
| No, we have not. | |
| That's right. | |
| So when he says, when he when he throws a grandmother under the bus, what he's trying to say is, we're all tinged by race, and we are all who we are, and we are who we are because of who we know, and we're who we are because of where we came from, we're who we are because of our DNA gene pool, we're who we and we can't do anything about it. | |
| So Obama was spelling out liberalism there. | |
| You're not an individual. | |
| You're a product of your environment, a product of your genetic code, and you can't do anything about it. | |
| You are who you are. | |
| Only people like Obama can unify us. | |
| He could have mentioned that the Reverend Jackson some years ago said, and this is this is widely been disseminated now, uh, and Gene, you may not have heard this, but the uh Reverend Jackson actually said he's walking down a street at night, and he hears footsteps behind. | |
| He turns around and he sees it's a white person, he feels safer. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And Obama himself is white, and he was raised, as I understand, in an upper middle class environment in Honolulu. | |
| So I don't know how he can I don't know, he and his wife, I don't know, and she is apparently a Princeton graduate. | |
| How they can equate uh their experiences to me haven't been that bad. | |
| Uh the the simplest way to understand this is that Obama and his wife are huge liberals, Gene. | |
| Yes. | |
| That that will inform you uh in every step of the way when you're trying to figure out just what what is the purpose, what's the objective. | |
| If I mean, even in the speech yesterday, it was it was very clear. | |
| Uh we have these problems in America where we're not unified because too many don't have health insurance. | |
| Uh we have these problems because too many do not have a proper education. | |
| Uh we don't we we don't have unity, and we have these racial problems uh because there just isn't enough government in people's lives. | |
| That's what he was saying. | |
| This this thing you gotta you gotta be able to read between the lines. | |
| I'll tell you what, Gene, don't be don't be upset here. | |
| Operation Chaos working flawlessly. | |
| I mean, If I were a Democrat, what I would want to be doing right now is just take a long hot shower. | |
| The problem for Democrats is that they may not have a water heater that has enough hot water in it for them to take as long and as hot a shower as they would want. | |
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| There's a calculator on that website. | |
| And get yourself a Renai tankless water heater. | |
| The way to heat water. | |
| And it's at foreverhotwater.com for those of you, including Democrats who need a long hot shower about now. | |
| All right, warning, folks. | |
| The next segment will feature audio from Harlem's Reverend James David Manning attacking Barack Obama. |
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