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March 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, hang on here just a second, folks.
Everything okay in there?
Late arriving show prep.
Okay, we are back.
As you know, Mrs. Clinton, because of a Freedom of Information Act request, A number of pages, 11,000 pages of her White House schedule have been released today from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
And I just got a blurb that she was in the White House on the day it was discovered that the blue dress had the stain on it Vermonica Lewinsky.
So anyway, we'll get to that after the first break here when I have time to do a little absorbing of what all this contains.
Plus, a quick blurb I just got, the Michigan primary do-over is dead.
Isn't going to happen.
It's a blow for Operation Chaos, but it's the first blow for Operation Chaos.
We will be able to continue on with this.
Telephone number here, 800-282-2882.
Email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
A lot of audio soundbites remaining.
What?
What are you saying?
Well, I know it's not.
Actually, Snerdley's right.
It's not a total loss.
It could lead to even more chaos out there because of the Michigan do-over.
Oh, yeah.
Could lead to lawsuits, all kinds of things.
Absolutely right.
No relation to Jeremiah.
Right.
Barack Obama was on Nightline last night, and the co-host Terry Moran said, if I went to a church where white supremacy was preached, what would you think of me?
I disagree with you, though, Terry.
That's not what's preached at Trinity.
And that, I think, that is an easy equivalence that is not at all what is taking place there.
If you look at the sermons, even the most offensive ones that are additional, he is condemning white racism as he defines it.
But he's not condemning the white race.
He is not suggesting that blacks are superior.
What he's saying is that white racism is endemic in this society.
He probably got a point there.
A better question would have been, what if I went to a church that preached separatism?
What if I went to a church and my preacher was just filthy rage with hate?
What would you think about that?
But there's still, you know, there's clearly whites are the problem as far as Jeremiah Wright is concerned.
Then Obama says this about the O.J. Simpson trial.
Do you remember when during the O.J. trial, there was a similar moment when the culture, the black and white culture just had these completely opposite reactions and nobody understood it.
And by the way, I'm somebody who was pretty clear that O.J. was guilty.
And I was ashamed for my own community to respond in that way.
But I also understood what was taking place, which was that reaction had more to do with a sense that somehow the criminal justice system historically had been biased so profoundly that a defeat of that justice system was somehow a victory.
Yeah, well, it wasn't good for unity.
That's not the kind of stuff that promotes unity, Obama.
It isn't.
He's right.
It was jury nullification.
The jury either says, screw you.
We've been lynched.
We've been this.
Okay, one of our guys is going to get away.
Hey, you see how you like it.
And so forth.
But that's all two wrongs don't make it right.
I mean, there's any number of arguments against that.
But see, here again, Obama, he condemns and then takes the condemnation back.
Well, I condemn it, but I understand it.
And once again, he falls back on the notion that it's the country's fault that the O.J. jury did what it did, that the jury had no complicity in their own verdict whatsoever.
Which takes us where?
To liberalism.
Nobody's responsible for what they do.
There's always somebody else to blame or some institution to blame that makes people victims.
So when you strip away all of the rhetoric and the flowery language and the inspirational syllables, what you're left with here is that this guy is as liberal as any Democrat who's ever run for the White House and is trying to mask it.
Like every other liberal tries to mask it, he's masking it in his own way.
The mask has come off now or is in the process of it.
Now, I am the one out there yesterday who said up until, and it was actually, I'd give Snirdley credit for this because Snirdley's analysis.
But up until yesterday, Obama was a candidate, a black candidate, transcended race.
And that was one of his strengths.
Speech yesterday, he became the candidate of race.
Terry Moran's question, there's a political risk for you, isn't there?
By embracing race, you might become the race candidate.
And that's a limiting thing.
Absolutely.
And so, you know, hopefully this is something that we have talked about.
We've lifted up.
It'll spur discussion, you know, like Robert Kennedy's wonderful metaphor, ripples of hope.
You know, you throw a rock into a pond and those ripples will go out.
We don't know where those ripples will go.
I have no idea how this plays out politically, but I think it was important to do.
So that's Obama's, yeah, yeah, running a risk here, becoming the race candidate.
That's why we've lifted it up.
We'll spur discussion.
You know, like Robert Kennedy's wonderful metaphor, ripples of hope.
You throw a rock into a pond, those ripples will go out.
This is what Obama wishes his campaign could return to, ladies and gentlemen.
Computer froze.
Maybe it's sabotage, but we'll get the computer unfrozen.
You know, the commercial that we have played, parodying Obama's speeches and lofty rhetoric and people's reaction to it, this is what he would wish that his campaign could return to.
We had everybody buffaloed, agent of change, transcending race.
Obama didn't speak about race prior until yesterday when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy out of necessity, not courage, had to be addressed.
Finally, Terry Moran Nightline last night says, is there a difference between black patriotism and white patriotism?
The African-American community is much more familiar with some of the darker aspects of American life and American history.
I think that they understand America much less as a marching band playing, you know, John Philip Sousa.
They understand America much more as a jazz composition with blue notes.
And I think those are different things.
And so the African-American community can express great rage and anger about this country and love it all the same.
That'd be great if we saw evidence of the love.
It would be great if we saw evidence of the love.
Well, you know, it's a thin line between love and hate.
Really is.
Relationships, it's sometimes said that you can't really hate somebody until you love them first, because the emotion of hate requires significantly strong emotion on the other side.
You can dislike somebody To really, really, really get mad at him and hate her guts.
You got to love them.
Because only people you love can disappoint you that much or make you that mad.
So I can understand this.
I can understand hating your country and loving it at the same time.
I just want to see the evidence of the love from people that Obama hangs around.
That's all.
And welcome back, Rush Lynn Ball, the cutting edge of societal evolution, as usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right, Duval Patrick is the governor of Massachusetts.
He is an African-American.
He was in CNN last night.
And the Phillian host for Anderson Cooper was Campbell Brown.
She said, you know, he knew how controversial Reverend Wright's views were.
Why did Obama seem so surprised when they became public and this turned into such a furor?
It reminds me a little bit of that wonderful old saying of, I think it was Louis Pasteur, that education is learning to listen to anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
There are candidates, I'm sure, who listen to the most virulent of the conservative radio talk show hosts.
I know occasionally my wife listens to that stuff while she's driving in the car.
But it doesn't mean that she accepts those points of view.
Oh, so this is now what happens on this program is no different than what happens in the church where the preacher is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Here is the moral equivocation.
You see, this is, folks, we could not ask for more.
We could not ask for more of this kind of illustration of just how liberals think and who they are and running around insulting millions of Americans who listen to talk radio.
Just wanted you to hear that.
Now, Mary Ann Williamson, as you know, a noted author.
This happened this week.
This is about the Geraldine Ferraro thing.
I mean, the chaos that we are causing.
I mean, it's spanning all known boundaries.
It is exceeding all objectives.
Wait till you hear this.
Mary Ann Williamson, who is a noted female authorette who does things helping women become women and better women and get in touch with their female femaleness, whatever.
I really don't know how to describe what she does.
Do you know who she is, Don?
Marianne Williamson?
Well, she's a white Oprah in book form, in a way.
All right.
And she was on Retirement Living TV's Daily Cafe, which is some obscure cable channel.
And the host, Felicia Taylor, said, as a feminist, people have criticized you because you've said you're going to vote for Obama, not Hillary Clinton.
How do you respond to that?
First of all, I'm not going to vote with my vagina.
That's first of all.
A lot of the things that I think of as real feminist values.
To be honest, I see more in the policy positions of Barack Obama than I see in the policy positions of Hillary Clinton.
You know, our generation, baby boomers and older, we remember a time when in order to, we thought it was a kind of mistake of that wave of feminism in the 70s.
In order to show that we were liberated, we almost suppressed our own feminine and we became more masculine.
To me, I don't look at a female candidate who's taking on this kind of hard stance to show she's powerful.
To me, the new feminist vision is to be genuinely feminine in how we show up as women with no apology.
All right, so this Ferrari stuff and all that, it doesn't bother.
She's not going to vote with her vagina.
Yes, Mr. Sternley, a program observer has a question.
Yes, what is it?
Mm-hmm.
Boy, I think it does.
Well, but she says that if she's not going to vote with her vagina, you could assume, yes, that women who are voting for Hillary are voting with their vaginas, which would make Bill Clinton happy, probably regardless how the vote comes out.
If you've got that many women voting with their vaginas, Clinton's going to be satisfied regardless.
But she's right about one thing here.
The huge sea, I told you so.
Feminism took away femininity.
Made him competitive.
I can open a door myself.
I can remember back in the 70s complimenting a woman's appearance.
Oh, you're insulting my brain, she would say.
You're objectifying me.
Is that all you see?
Is how I look?
This is what they've been taught.
So, I mean, for the longest time, I was afraid.
When I saw a woman whose appearance I wanted to compliment, I'd apologize.
So I said, please, I hope this doesn't offend you, but I think I did that for 20 years.
That decade had a profound effect on so many people.
It was unreal.
I think some people are still confused and screwed up by it.
All right, now here, on hardball last night, a montage of a report by David Schuster on Operation Chaos.
In the January and February Democratic primaries, Obama attracted, on average, 57% of self-identified Republicans compared to about 25% for Hillary Clinton.
But this month, things changed.
And a lot of people are pointing to one man, Rush Limbaugh.
At the time of Limbaugh's remarks, John McCain had practically wrapped up the Republican nomination, and Barack Obama had wheeled off 11 straight Democratic victories.
That's when the Clinton campaign launched its kitchen sink strategy, and Limbaugh launched his Vote for Hillary strategy.
Did it work?
Approximately 119,000 Texas Republicans voted for her in a state where Clinton's overall margin of victory over Obama was about 101,000.
In other words, Republicans helped turn a virtual draw into a slight Clinton victory.
While Obama won Mississippi in a landslide, Republicans favored Clinton 3-1, swelling her vote totals and costing Obama, according to analysts, a few delegates.
The next big Democratic primary in Pennsylvania is a closed contest, meaning registered Democrats only.
But Republican tactical voting is still a potential factor in Indiana, Montana, and Puerto Rico.
And conservatives who identify themselves as independents can vote in North Carolina and West Virginia.
That means out of the nine remaining major Democratic contests, conservatives could cause mischief in five of them.
The question is, will it make any difference?
Or not.
Mr. Schuster, don't forget Pennsylvania.
You left it out there.
We have operatives who are registering Democrat up until March 25th to vote for Hillary in Pennsylvania.
It is happening there, too.
Operation Chaos, rush the vote, exceeding all objectives.
Now, on hardball, Chris Matthews hosting former New York City mayoral candidate Mark Green is also the president of Air America, whose audience you could put a thumb, a thimble, a phone booth.
Certainly, Matthew says, well, Mark, what do you think here?
Is this going to be the greatest example of political sabotage in history?
Republicans sneak into Democrat voting booths, elect the candidate they think is easiest to beat.
That always right, by the way.
I know a lot of Democrats that rooted for Reagan to win the nomination only to learn he can beat any Democrat.
Rush is thin in weight, but he's also thin in logic.
I think Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingram are laughing to themselves how when they say jump, some progressive pundits, gullible, say how high.
First of all, voting is ingrained, sacrosanct habit.
It's very unlikely that many Republicans or Democrats will vote strategically in primaries.
They otherwise wouldn't vote in.
Second, this reminds me why I like Pennsylvania and New York closed primaries.
Democrats should decide who the Democratic nominee, so no Republicans can game it.
Yeah, but you guys clearly love gaming hours.
You love choosing our nominee.
So Matthews says, Mark, the problem you have is the numbers.
David Schuster just reported the enormous number of Republicans have switched over, and only after Limbaugh began his effort here to try to get them to vote strategically.
Did they shift from voting?
The ones who voted were inspired by Barack and were voting for him all of a sudden after he said go vote for Hillary to screw the Democrats.
They started to do that.
How do you explain that?
That's a fact.
It's a fact that those numbers voted for Hillary.
It's total congestion.
No, they're only after Limbaugh made his call.
How about this?
Today, USA Today Gallup did a poll.
Hillary Clinton is more ahead of McCain than Obama is.
Hillary Clinton has pulled 10 points ahead of Obama, by the way.
What are we changing the subject for?
No, no.
Are you jealous of Rush Limbaugh's ability to get his people to do what he wants them to do?
Unfortunately, Chris, you and me and Ed don't have ditto heads.
We have thinking people.
Yeah.
And this guy has lost every election he's ever raged.
Which I guess, one way of looking at it, you could say Mark Green is an expert on the way people vote.
And that is they don't vote for him.
No matter how hard he gets them to try, or tries to get them to vote for him.
How does he really know what voters do when they go in?
That's a great question for Matthews.
You jealous of Rush Limbaugh's ability to get his people to do what he wants them to do.
Operation Chaos rolls on.
The saga continues.
A man, a living legend, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a way of life.
I want to go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
And one of the many things that helped us at the beginning of Operation Chaos make it happen.
Looks like the Michigan do-over is dead.
The hotline is reporting.
I'm sorry, the Politico is reporting.
Ding-dong, actually, it's Michigan's hotline.
Ding-dong do-over primary is dead.
Time of death for the do-over Michigan primary about 11 a.m. today, March the 19th.
A Lansing Insider instant messages to explain the latest development.
And this is on the Politico.com website.
The Senate Democrats just had a long caucus following their long phone call with the gang of four, as Carl Levin and others pushing a revote are called.
And the result is that nobody moved.
There was no unity on the Democrat side.
There was no unity on the Democrat side.
But we thrive, Mr. Limbaugh.
We thrive.
It's more than you do.
You don't even want unity.
Yeah, I know, because it's an impossible concept, you klutz.
Anyway, we didn't get any unity here in Michigan.
Nobody moved.
Votes aren't there.
Thus, it'll not go to a vote in the Senate.
And barring some other last-minute miracle that does not involve those four and the governor and Hillary traveling to Michigan, it's as dead as a doornail.
Then there's an update from state senator Tupac Hunter.
Tupac, spelled the same way as Tupac Shakur.
State Senator Tupac Hunter, an Obama supporter, confirms the outcome of today's meetings.
The caucus, as expressed again today, there is no concern about the proposal and a great deal of unreadiness.
The sentiment's still overwhelming.
We informed the four great Democrats who've worked very hard to come up with a solution.
It's one of those things where you can agree to disagree.
The question then becomes, what do we do now?
Unity.
Unity.
So Michigan do-over is dead.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, let's think ahead to Denver and the Democrat convention in August.
Maybe is their convention in September or August.
Ours is in September, right?
When is it?
One of these The Democrats is August.
Okay.
Think of the potential lawsuits Michigan files.
Think of the absolute chaos, perhaps, on the floor of the convention over Michigan being disenfranchised.
Will I go?
I've been asked to go to the Republican convention and host a little cocktail dinner party the night before it, but I don't know that I would be welcome at our convention.
I might be welcome at the Democrat convention, depending.
I don't think I'd be welcome at our own.
Okay, Hillary was in the White House on stained blue dress day.
Schedules reviewed by ABC showed that Hillary may have been there when the fateful act was committed.
Listen to this.
Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day her husband had Lewinsky with Monica Lewinsky and may have actually been there when it happened, according to records of her schedule.
Released today by the National Archives, an initial review by ABC News of 17,481 pages of Senator Hillary Clinton's schedule as First Lady also finds significant gaps in time and many days containing only private meetings at the White House with unnamed individuals.
The public schedule for Senator Clinton on February 28, 1997, the day on which Lewinsky's infamous blue dress would become stained by the president, shows the first lady spent the morning and the night in the White House.
The February 28th schedule lists her as attending four drop-by events closed to the press between 11 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. and then records her as staying in the White House overnight that fateful day.
The schedule lists three different events occurring that evening at Washington theaters in the Kennedy Center, but does not indicate if she went.
According to the Star report, President Clinton took Lewinsky into an oval office bathroom in the early evening after recording a radio address.
Forensic tests later conclusively showed the blue dress that she was wearing was stained with the president's semen, according to the star report.
So all you vagina voters out there may have things here to reconsider.
Hopperish chaos.
Battle Creek, Michigan.
This is Sandra.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
We hear so much about these evil rich people.
I don't care what race or whatever they're from.
We hear about them all the time.
But my question is, who would we go to for a job if there were no rich people?
Government.
Uh-huh.
How could there be a government without rich people?
That's a good point.
Yes.
That's where the money comes from.
Ours and the people.
You're absolutely right about this.
This is, and it's so commonsensical.
It's so ridiculous.
Well, it's scary that so many people don't understand it, but we have 50 years of Democrat Party class envy that has convinced people that most money is governments.
You know how to fix this.
Here is how to fix this.
This will never happen.
Well, I shouldn't say never.
But all you people, you want the flat tax or you want the fair tax or you want the sales, national sales tax, you want to fix this.
Here's how you fix it.
For one year, you end all withholding.
For example, if you happen to be employed by some place that pays you $100,000, then they every month they will pay you whatever $12,000 into $100,000 is.
And then every month, you'll get a bill of how much you have to send to fire department, how much you have to send to school district, how much you have to send to the federal government, how much you have to send to the state government, how much you have to send to the city.
Every tax in the world that you pay, you will be paid the gross every month.
And every month you will have to pay the government.
And it'll either be, you'll get a giant bill and it'll be deducted from your credit card or however you want to do it from your debit card or you can write the check.
But you every month will be paid the gross.
If you are paid $10,000 a month, that's what you get.
And within two days, you have to take out of that $10,000 every dime in taxes you owe everything you pay.
And do this for a year.
And follow up and really hammer the people who don't pay their taxes.
Hunt them down.
Make a big deal of hunting them down.
Put a couple of them in jail if they are a two-month delinquent.
If we end withholding for a year, then this is what will never happen.
People would understand exactly how much they are earning that they never see.
I am convinced that most people think that they are paid the net in their paycheck because they never see the gross.
And then they're told, yes, and the government is matching your Social Security.
Oh, no.
When you get the $10,000 every month or whatever it would be, you owe all of Social Security because your employer is not matching anything because he's not matching anything now.
It's just money you never see.
You want to end this notion that there are budget cuts that are dragged.
You want to end the notion the government doesn't have enough money.
You want to end the notion that government has all the money and you only get to keep what you get.
You want to create the idea that in people's minds and hearts, in their lives, they earn the money and it is the government that takes it from them rather than gives them something.
And along with ending withholding, buy-by refunds, because you're going to owe every month exactly what you owe.
You're not going to be allowed to underpay.
You can overpay if you want, but you won't do it this way.
You make $10,000 a month and you have to, every tax item you owe, you have to see it recorded or write the check and you end up with $5,000 by the time everybody's taken their check from you.
I will guarantee you this notion of class envy and who's rich and who isn't and who's paying what would be out the window.
This is why it will never happen.
It would never ever happen.
Now, those of us who file quarterly estimates because we are incorporated, self-employed, independent contractors or what, we already know this.
And we don't have to pay them every month, but you have to set it aside.
It's due every April 15th.
See, we're really, those of us who do it this way, folks, we get a double whammy on April 15th.
And those of us who do, we wait till the last minute to file our taxes so we can hold on to our money as long as we can before giving it to the government.
You don't get that chance because it's withheld from you.
Now, April 15th, we owe for the previous year and the first quarterly estimate for the current year.
Two checks.
Next June 15th, the next quarterly estimate.
Next September 15th.
And then January 15th.
And you have to set the money aside because you don't pay it.
If you're a day late, they find you.
Penalties.
They track you down.
So, and those of you who file quarterly, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
If everybody had to do this, we could take our country back.
Once again, Operation Chaos, now exceeding all objectives.
I am Rush Limbaugh coming to you today, as every day, from Operation Chaos Headquarters, the heavily fortified and bunkered EIB Southern Command.
Bob Beckle was on Fox News Channel's election headquarters show last night.
This is their 5 o'clock show with Bill Hemmer and the newlywed Megan Kelly.
Did you see that story about her wedding in the New York Times?
Wow.
If you didn't, it's a fascinating story.
Anyway, Hemmer says to Bob Beckle, Beckle here has a plan to counter Operation Chaos.
Hemmer says, is Rush Limbaugh winning with his message with a conservative radio talk show host instructing listeners to keep Hillary Clinton in the race, saying the more they duke it out, the more harm they will do to themselves?
Democratic leaders are saying that.
You know, we can't go all the way to Denver.
Well, guess what?
They're superdelegates.
They could vote.
So instead of whining, make up your mind and cast a vote.
The last vote is June 3rd, and I think the superdelegates should decide on June 4th.
All the evidence will be in.
And so then we'll have almost three months till the convention.
I don't think it's quite as dire as Republicans dream about or that Rush Limbaugh dreams about.
We'll take June 7th, Bob.
June 7th is Puerto Rico or June 3rd, whatever it is.
But did you notice what he's suggesting here?
Bob Beckel, who, by the way, ran the campaign of Walter F. Mondo in 1984.
Bob Beckle suggests superdelegates vote as soon as you can in this, right?
Don't take it to the convention.
I don't know what the rules are.
Of course, the Democrat Party aren't any rules.
See, they're just customs and traditions.
That's the way they can say they never break the rules.
So I have to check and find out if there has to be a custom or tradition change for super delegates to vote prior to the convention.
Because they're still going to go through the roll call at the convention.
They're still going to call the states.
And when they get to Michigan and Florida, they may not even call their names.
There are going to be riots and protests.
And even Reverend Jeremiah Wright, notwithstanding, if the superdelegates, after all this, give it to Hillary, Sharpton's promise to match.
Operation Chaos, Bob, I hate to tell you will go on even after the superdelegates vote, especially depending how they vote.
Rita in Belleville, Illinois, great to have you here.
Hi.
Hello.
It's a good job I wrote this down because I would have forgotten it by now.
Anyway.
She's only been on hold for two hours, folks.
I'm sorry about that, Rita.
That's why we wanted to get to you.
But I'm glad you took drastic action here to remember what you called about.
Well, I'm calling about why we cannot have Hillary in the White House because she wants to do a national health thing.
So does Obama.
There's no difference in these two.
Well, they should go over to England and see what the National Health has done for people.
You know, I know you know because you're from there.
We've been talking about that and also what's happened in Canada.
But you misunderstand the hubris and the arrogance of Democrats.
I mean, if they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how healthcare, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism, socialism didn't work.
But it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened, right, is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.
Yeah.
Well, the thing is, though, that the Labor Party have been closing hospitals.
Oh, I know.
Women are being told to get midwives because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine or not at the hospitals.
What's also, and you can confirm this, I got 20 seconds, what's happened is a private medical practice has started up.
People who can afford it are going to medical institutions, hospitals and so forth that are not part of the National Health Service.
They've opted out.
Yeah.
And that will happen here, too.
And you'll end up with this rich versus middle class strata that you have now.
It's, oh, it'd be a total mess.
And I got to go.
We're out of time.
And the EIB obscene profit center timeout right now.
I'll tell you something else.
When American liberals go to the UK, they see the Tories as the Washington generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that.
Total power.
Whether anything works or not, it's irrelevant.
We work.
See you tomorrow.
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