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You know, every time I say award winning, what awards do you win, Limbaugh?
Well, I just won one.
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I think this is my third one from Radio and Records.
I've also won three Marconi Awards.
Fourth.
I have there's been so many of them I've lost count.
Oh, you have three hanging on a wall.
Well, there's going to be the fourth one, and there's a three Marconi Award.
Are you talking Marconi's?
Radio and Records.
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Geraldine Ferraro is still on the war path.
She is livid at Barack Obama.
Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said yesterday she objected to the comparison that Senator Barack Obama drew between her and his former pastor in his speech on race relations on Tuesday.
In the speech, Obama, as you know, sought to place the inflammatory remarks of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
By the way, Mike, stand by on Jeremiah was my pastor.
It's coming up real quick.
Uh Obama sought to place the remarks of Reverend Wright in a broader context, in part by placing them on a continuum with Ferraro's recent marks uh to the Daily Breeze newspaper that Obama is lucky to be black.
She said that which is not exactly what she said.
She said that if he were not a black man, he wouldn't be at this point in the presidential campaign.
So Ferraro, of course, he had to resign in disgrace, and she went down firing both barrels, and she's still doing so.
She said this.
To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable.
He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred.
That's exactly right.
This is this was not even about race.
Jeremiah Wright is about anti-American hatred and separatism from the Pope.
I haven't seen this anywhere else.
But I was in the midst of show prep this morning, diligently working, getting ready for today's program, and I saw a little crawl go across the TV screen that uh the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is about to be honored by somebody for 40 years of distinguished service in his ministry.
Still trying to find details.
So Geraldine Ferraro is still not happy, but still, ladies and gentlemen, properly characterizing.
Now the drive-bys are doing everything they can to save Barack Obama's campaign.
Make no mistake about it.
The drive-by's are in a tank for Obama, and they're doing everything they can to extricate himself.
And one of the techniques here is to say, wait, this guy, uh Reverend Wright, why no different than Rush Limbaugh and all these right-wing talk radio people.
Uh, Tuesday night, Anderson Cooper 180, CNN.
Fill-in host Campbell Brown spoke with Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, and her question.
Uh, he knew how controversial Reverend Wright's views are.
Well, why did Obama seem so surprised when they became public and this turned into such furor?
It reminds me a little bit of that wonderful little saying of uh I think it was Louis Pasteur that education is learning to listen to anything without losing your temper Or your self-confidence.
There are uh 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.
Yeah, so you it's a moral equivalence here that they're trying to establish, which everybody who listens to this program knows is frankly absurd.
Susan Malvo was on the situation room with uh with Wolf Blitzer uh last night on CNN, and uh we have a little uh montage of her.
This is she basically makes the same point.
On the table, black anger, white resentment and its expression behind closed doors.
That anger may not get expressed in public in front of white co-workers or white friends, but it does find voice in the barber shop or the beauty shop around the kitchen table.
A similar anger exists within segments of the white community.
That anger among a host of other emotions is now being unleashed, including conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who took on Obama's comments regarding the challenges of growing up biracial.
He has to trash his grandmother for being a racist.
It's part of who he is.
No, it's not.
He's trying to tell us he knows so much hatred and so much racial bias and so much segregation that he's the guy to fix it.
When he is the agent, not the agent of the healing, he's the product of healing.
The question remains whether Obama's call to seriously deal with America's racism will be answered.
His call.
We've been asked to deal with this for my whole adult life.
And every time I hear we need to have a conversation on race.
The racial progress that's being made in this in this country is undeniable, and Obama's candidacy is one of the many uh examples of it.
Now, folks, I want to deviate here for just a minute.
There's a fascinating story I found at uh Associated Press, and the headline here, not just sex, why men see prostitutes.
Now, why do you think this story has hit now?
Well, obviously, Ariel Elliott Spitzer.
We it's just like when Clinton was, you know, lying through his teeth.
We got stories in the 90s about how lying is good for us.
And that's it spares people's feelings.
It's not just Spitzer now, it's Patterson.
You know, the governor, the new governor of New York, who came out and admitted of an affair, and book, they they found the husband of the woman he was having an affair with, and this guy didn't know about it.
He was throwing they were throwing he was throwing recycle bins at the drive-by photographers in Yes.
Oh, it's the new Oh, he was, he was living.
Get out of my property, get off my He didn't want to deal with it.
I I I'll tell you what, if Patterson would be wise never to run into this guy, because I think he just learned about this.
Anyway, the the story here is high definition pornography is a mouse click away.
Assignations with multiple partners are advertised on Craigslist.
And if celebrities are any indication, underwear is strictly optional.
Sex, it seems, is everywhere.
It's on the internet, it's in chat rooms, girls gone wild, buses and hotel rooms and governors' mansions.
It's come a long way from dark and peep shows and plain brown rappers.
So in this hyper-sexualized time, one might wonder what's the point of going through the elaborate, illegal, and stigmatized motions of hiring a prostitute.
Elliot Spitzer's alleged choice to partake in the hobby, as men who solicit prostitutes call it, cost him his governor's seat.
Why will some men risk everything for secret twists with sex workers?
The answer may seem obvious, but experts say it's not just about easy sex.
Some might be drawn to adventure.
Some are attracted to the level of secrecy they think will come with a paid prostitute.
Others are looking for a sense of control.
You see where this is going.
We're practically AP practically trying to explain it in a justifiable way.
It could say that they don't know how to be intimate, said Bebs.
Oh, of course.
The Johns have a reason.
They don't know how to be intimate, and you don't have to be intimate with a prostitute.
Bev Small would uh quoted here, psychologist in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
She said it could also say that they have a sexual addiction, uh, that they have become desensitized to sex within a more appropriate context, and that they're seeking one more thrill of the chase.
Now, but this let me go, let me let me go let me get deeper here to the story, because this, ladies and gentlemen, the PS that are resistance.
For those of you in real linda, that means this is the nut graph.
Well, they put on what that is either.
This is the big point for those of you in real life.
This is the point of the story.
There's little threat of rejection with paid sex.
If you want your wife to behave in ways that push certain boundaries, you might get turned down.
If you pick somebody up at a bar and try to ease her out of her comfort zone, you might get partial results.
But with a prostitute, you get what you pay for.
So the wife is to blame.
She just won't go all out.
She just won't put out, won't go out, won't entertain her fantasy, so the guy has got to go out.
Buy the prostitute, get what he pays for, and then she leaves.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
Operation Chaos.
Meeting and surpassing all objectives.
This is white comedian Paul Shanklin in a vocal portrayal of Bill Clinton parodying the Spitzer mess.
It is Texas Christian University's bright divinity school that will honor Obama's fiery pastor Jeremiah Wright, stories in the Dallas Morning News.
Bright Divinity School in Fort Worth sticking by a decision to honor Jeremia Wright despite controversy over his pulpit rhetoric and relationship with Barack Obama.
Texas Christian University decided months ago to salute Dr. Wright at an event later this month for his long career in the ministry.
Congratulations, Dr. Wright.
I think it's fabulous.
I think I think the more this guy's recognized for his great work, the more Operation Chaos will be effective.
And by the way, why did I do that?
Prostitution story.
I just wanted to hear the song, the Spitzer song, and there was really no way to work it in there, but now during the break I found something.
Show prep never stops on this program.
Are humans meant to be monogamous?
This is from Livescience.com.
News of politicians extra News of Democrat politicians' extramarital affairs seems to be in no short supply lately, but if humans were cut from exactly the same cloth as other mammals, a faithful spouse would be an unusual phenomenon.
Only 3% to 5% of the roughly 5,000 species of mammals, including humans, are known to form lifelong monogamous bonds with the loyal superstars, including beavers, wolves, and bats.
By the way, I didn't comment on this.
I did not comment on this, but the Daily Mail in the UK ran a story on Botox and how it's destroying Hollywood actress's ability to be subtle with facial expressions, and had a picture of Nicole Kidman, and said, look at what Botox has done to her.
She's got a rat face, and had a picture of a rat, a bat, bat face, and had a picture of a bat right next to her to illustrate how she looked like a bat.
I just was reminded of that.
At any rate, yeah, uh beavers are monogamous, wolves are monogamous, and some bats.
Social monogamy is a team, or term rather referring to creatures that pair up to mate and raise offspring but still have flings.
Uh sexual monogamous pairs mate with only one partner, so a cheating husband who detours for a romantic romp yet returns home in time to tuck in the kids at night would be considered socially monogamous.
Well fabulous!
We're redefining the terms here.
Does this kind of story ever happen when some Republican minister is discovered to be flitting around with a man or woman?
Does this kind of story ever happen?
Do we ever get one of these?
Say after Bob Livingston says that he's not going to accept a speakership because he had an affair.
Do we ever get stories like this thing?
It's fine.
As long as he got home to tuck in the kids, there's no problem.
He's still monogamous.
No, my friends, we don't get those kind of stories.
It's only after these Democrats get involved.
Because I've why do I I need indelled in my mind?
I've got snurdly, do you realize the great thing this has been for manhood, this story?
This I can print it out again.
This story has lifelong application for all of us, guys.
Thanks to Elliot Spitzer and David Patterson.
Just keep a copy of this story in your pocket.
Go out there.
Don't even prostitute or whatever.
Go out there and do whatever.
And then when you get called on, it said, no, no, no, no.
Look, look.
Science says I'm still monogamous.
And science says that global warming is happening, and you believe that, honey.
This is more fun.
Human beings should be allowed in.
Operation Chaos continues.
John in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Rush, Mayor Army Hood Diddle's.
Thank you very much, sir.
I'm a Pennsylvania Republican, and uh I considered your idea of crossing over to uh vote in the Democratic uh primary.
I know what you're gonna say.
I know what you're gonna say, but there are too many important down elect down ballot elections on the Republican side to m to sit them out.
Right.
I have I have a uh very important election in my district for uh state representative, and there's a couple of rhinos that are running, and then there's a uh conservative.
And I want to make sure that the conservative is uh the one that's uh I understand that.
I I I understand that's a concern for some people in the North Carolina, too.
Right.
Uh where there are some uh some Republicans that they they want to get elected on a down ballot after you vote for the presidential prime.
I understand that.
Hey, look, that's why these are not marching orders.
That's why you are not my number of butts.
You are free on this program, even though I am a benevolent dictator, you are free to choose your choice in life.
Oh, yes, screams of joy and or panic at the very mention of my name, Rush Limboa with talent on loan from God.
Uh back to the phones, uh Norma Jean in uh Lewiston, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you here.
Well, thank you.
I I had a phone call last week I thought you might really be interested in.
Tell me about it.
It was a political survey.
They said they were just gonna talk about the congressional race in the in the state, but we went to the presidential elections really quick, and then we had the issues, you know, the war, the economy, what?
Then the next question was do you go to church?
Once in a while, uh every day, every Sunday, special occasions, never.
Wait just wait a second here.
Uh uh, Norman Jean, who who who was it?
All I know is it was a political survey.
Would I be interested in answering some political questions?
All right, so as a polling company, not a candidate.
Yes.
Okay.
So uh then after that it was are you a conservative or a liberal?
And what I thought you would be interested in is the next question.
Do you listen to Rush Limbaugh?
How often or never?
Well, uh, we'd like to have the answers to this, Norman Jean, if you can remember what you told them.
Yes, I said almost always.
As much as I can.
And that was the end of the survey.
Thank you.
Come on.
They stopped asking you questions, or do you think that was the legitimate end of the yes.
Well, you know, you're very brave.
A lot of people lie to polsters.
Uh when that's known as the Bradley effect or the Wilder effect.
Uh, in the case of Doug Wilder running uh for the governorship in Virginia, Tom Bradley running for governor of California in pre-election polls, they had huge leads, and going into election day, it was assumed both candidates, both candidates are black and both were gonna win.
They both lost by sizable percentages.
Uh and the uh pollsters decided, well, you know, we've been lied to here, but people didn't want us to think that they were racist, so they told us they're gonna vote for Bradley or Wilder when they really had no intention of it.
And so it's interesting to how many people are actually answering questions about Obama that way.
For example, in the and thanks uh Norman Gene, I appreciate that for you being honest with them.
I really do.
Uh, in the politico.com uh today on their website, uh there's a there's a story about how people in Pennsylvania are just fed up with all this race stuff in the uh in a Democrat Party.
People are not happy in Pennsylvania with quote that race stuff.
Stephanie Gill, a bartender in a white working class neighborhood in Philadelphia, noticed the shift immediately.
A week ago, her customers at Rawchat's Tavern, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, didn't have much to say about Barack Obama, but when she returned to work on Wednesday, the day after the speech, the reaction inside the corner bar was raw and unapologetic.
People are not happy with Obama, said Stephanie Gill.
It's the race stuff.
More than a dozen interviews Wednesday found voters unmoved by Obama's plea to move beyond racial divisions of the past.
He lied to Anderson Cooper, said Rodica Mattrea, an aesthetician aesthetician.
What is this?
I've never said S. What the hell is an aesthetician?
Oh, the root words aesthetics.
So people who do facials are now called aestheticians.
Sort of like window washers are called vision control coordinators.
Masas are now massage therapists.
Well, I'm all for upgrading names.
Fine.
I don't misunderstand.
I'm not making fun of it.
I just never seen it.
Rodica Mattrea, an aesthetician.
Yeah, yeah.
Uhesthetician.
Good.
Uh Rodica Matreya, I'm going to get through this here.
Rodica Matreya, an esthetician and immigrant from Romania, said Obama lied to Anderson Cooper, referring to an Obama interview Friday with the CNN anchor.
And then there's another guy quoted here, Peter, somebody from Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, who Peter doesn't really matter because we've never heard of him.
Glenn Peter.
Peter's last name is 54, a patron at the tavern, said he heard finger pointing, not reconciliation, after Obama's speech.
He took issue with Obama's explaining that his reverence observations of a racist America were reflecting the racial scars of the past.
I don't want to hear that.
I don't want to hear that you're blaming us for your reverence saying that, said Glenn Peter, who is white, and worked at an auto parts factory until it was shuttered several years ago.
This was we we were forewarned about this.
You'll remember this, Mr. Snerdley.
We were forewarned about this by the governor of Pennsylvania himself, Fastetti Rendell, who said he knew the people of Pennsylvania and they'd not prepared to vote for a black candidate.
That was in the last month or so.
And fast Eddie had to do a quick fastetti shuffle to get back on the high moral ground here.
And people in the Democrats I worried about this going into Philadelphia.
Not Pennsylvania, but in Philadelphia.
Blue collar white workers.
It has always been thought that this was going to be a problem for Obama once they got to Pennsylvania.
And Hillary's leading big in uh in Pennsylvania anyway, but with that demographic, apparently, if this stuff is anecdotal in the politico.com.
Um, it is not it didn't work.
And remember, this speech, people are forgetting this aspect of the speech that Obama gave.
It was a speech in the context of a presidential campaign, specifically in context of Pennsylvania primary.
It was not a Martin Luther King I have a dream speech.
And by the way, folks, it didn't even approach that.
It was not even the same tone, it didn't have the same objective.
Uh whereas Martin Luther Kings was uplifting.
Uh this this was this was not that.
This was this was finger pointing and blaming and then saying we've all got to get together and share our mutual blame for this.
Uh and that's going backwards.
But at any rate, uh in in in the calculation of whether or not it's been a success for Obama within the confines of a presidential race and a particular state and its primary Pennsylvania.
Jury is still out on that.
Now the aesthetician is back at the end of this story, uh, Metrea.
And uh she was on her cigarette Break.
Outside the beauty works salon and day spa in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia.
She said she watched the whole speech, and before the controversy over Wright's sermons, Metrea said she was fifty-five percent for Clinton, forty-five percent for Obama.
Now I am one hundred percent for Clinton and zero percent for Obama, said Metrea.
She's an immigrant who is now a citizen, and she said she took offense to Wright's comments that God bless America should be God bleep America.
I love America.
I thank God I'm here.
I live a free life.
Obama should have severed all relations with his pastor, Metreya said.
So again, ladies and gentlemen, simply anecdotal, but uh again, more evidence.
Operation chaos.
John in Burlington, Iowa.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you for waiting and welcome.
Yes, hi, Rush.
Thank you for letting me on.
You bet.
Um Rush, I I first of all let me preface my comments.
I'm I'm a conservative.
I I can't stand the the Clintons and Obama.
I I I subscribe to much of what you say, but I have to respond to the ignorance in your comments on ethanol and the price of food in this country and and the agriculture that's behind it.
Well, I'm not surprised that you're that you have this opinion and you're calling from Iowa about it.
Remember, the primary story here that I quoted is uh is about California, but it does it does mention Iowa.
Walter Williams is talking about it, you know, as a universal story nationwide.
Um I'm sure.
Um and uh m from my viewpoint um urban folks like yourself and Walter Williams and your numbers or Legion are absolutely uninformed and uneducated and ignorant about uh the business of agriculture in this company in this country and I am one of the biggest supporters of agriculture.
I came from an agricultural community.
I understand that.
And I live in a town of twenty thousand people.
Well, maybe forty, it's not exactly urban.
Well, no, but you're urbanized now, Right.
I understand.
I okay.
Look, I don't mean to interrupt.
In fact, can you hold let me take a break?
Because I'm gonna have to take a break in a couple minutes anyway, and you deserve more time than that.
So can you hang on?
Yes, I sure can.
All right, we'll be back, and we'll I'm gonna give you some of the stories, uh, details rather in the Sacramento Bee story, uh and you can explain why they're wrong if you wish, okay.
Good.
No, no.
Um you that you can do that without any I'm not gonna stand in your way.
Whatever you want to say will be fine.
Okay.
No, I'm still gonna be here after the commercial break.
Don't how are you?
We are back, Rush Limbaugh, commanding officer from the headquarters of Operation Chaos, and now we rejoin John in Burlington, Iowa.
Let me give you just a couple of opening paragraphs.
It might be easier for you to respond to this knowing what it says, because I didn't detail any of what it said.
Uh it's by Dale Casler or Castler, it's a K A S L E R Sacramento B, published today.
The Cash Crunch at Sacramento's Pacific Ethanol Incorporated spotlights the swift decline of an industry battered by too much supply, too expensive corn, and too many increases in plant construction costs.
Ethanol, hailed by some as a green fuel that would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, is in a major slump here and nationwide across California.
Profit margins are vanishing, new plants are being canceled, some existing facilities are struggling.
The state's first major plant opened in Telari County in 2005 has suspended operations, and it goes on from there.
But you get the drift of this story.
Yes.
Walter Williams, a couple paragraphs from him.
Ethanol contains water that distillation can't remove.
As such, it can cause major damage to automobile engines, not specifically designed to burn ethanol.
The water content of ethanol also risks pipeline corrosion, and thus must be shipped by truck, rail car, or barge.
These shipping methods are far more expensive than pipelines.
Okay, that's I think enough for you to register what your disagreements with both these pieces are.
Okay.
Well, first of all, they and there are other studies out there, such as the Pimental study that that go through and try and and uh uh designate ethanol as uh an inefficient pro uh product um that goes through an inefficient process that it actually costs more energy and more money to produce than it than it um uh does to use that's that's what Walter Williams piece basically he says it's so costly it wouldn't make it in a free market which is why Congress has
enacted subsidies uh about a dollar five to a dollar thirty eight a gallon which is no less than a tax on consumers in fact he says it's a double tax one in the form of ethanol subsidies and another in the form of handouts to corn farmers to the tune of nine and a half billion dollars in two thousand five part of the problem with some of these studies rush is that is that some of their information in there is flawed.
If you want to talk about bad science just just one example with the Pimentol study when they start adding up the cost that goes into producing a gallon of ethanol they even include a cost for the sunlight that the corn crop takes to produce a bushel of corn.
Now that sunlight is free.
And that that cost shouldn't even be included in there.
And that's just one example of how some of these studies are flawed.
How are they calculating the cost of sunlight?
You got me um here's here's these these are probably some of the same scientists that ascribed a global warming right here's a here's another uh passage in Walter Williams.
Ethanol is twenty to thirty percent less efficient than gasoline making it more expensive per highway mile.
It takes four hundred and fifty pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank four hundred and fifty pounds of corn is enough corn to feed one person for a year.
Is that accurate the the energy figure I wouldn't uh uh necessarily prescribe as being quite that high I use ten percent ethanol uh personally and I ha and I have for years.
In fact, my last pickup that I had, I had over 242,000 miles on it before it was traded off, and the engine was never touched.
And that engine had practically nothing but ethanol run all the way through it, the lifetime of the truck.
Well, see, my problem with ethanol is that I think it's part of the global warming hoax.
And what has happened is, in fact, I remember there was a story on the American Spectator website from a person...
like you who lived in Iowa was a Republican and was uh highly critical of uh Republican critics of ethanol his question was where do you think Republican votes come from?
And his point was it doesn't matter what ethanol is or isn't you need the votes if the Republicans are to win, we need the votes of people who make money off of it.
And I I looked at that I said no wonder we're in trouble.
Whether it works or not, whether it's costly, whether it adds a tax, we still, in order to get Republicans elected have to go ahead and invest in something that may be not at all what it's claimed to be not even be beneficial and may be harmful in fact in other areas of the economy and if if that makes Republicans no different than Democrats.
If if Republicans are going to say we need to subsidize some of our voters to get their votes, they might as well join the Democrat Party well that part yeah I I'd agree with that.
I I think another part of the problem is and and and part of the problem with with that you're ascribing to the increase in the cost of food is transportation costs.
The the the problem isn't so much ethanol there is plenty of No, but wheat no it's corn and wheat and ethanol is taking food uh corn out of the food markets and it's no it's not no it's not well are we producing more corn?
We are why is the price going up because partially because of uh overseas demand um partially because uh we're we're gas is concerned partially uh um the the the the problem with the the price of food is is uh not ethanol because there's plenty of corn to go around there's plenty of corn to feed our livestock there's plenty of corn to go into everything else we use.
Okay.
W when corn costs four dollars a bushel and it's a little higher than that right now but I don't have current figures when corn costs four dollars a bushel corn only contributes twenty eight cents to the price of a dozen eggs.
Okay, so but what uh less than a minute here so what would you say?
Are you in are you an agriculturist?
Are you in the business?
I've been involved with agriculture all my life, yes.
I am I'm a sales manager in the seed corn business.
I figured.
Now that full disclosure, it was important we get that out.
You have obviously an explanation then that exempts corn from rising food prices.
What is it?
A lot of it's transportation.
Um nineteen cents of each food dollar right now goes back to farmers.
The remaining eighty-one cents and sp is spent on labor, packaging, energy, transportation, and marketing.
By the way, in this discussion of food prices going up, nobody that I've heard, and I certainly didn't mean to imply, nor for you to infer...
That rising food prices are going to the farmers and that farmers are gouging.
I that's not how agriculture works.
That's not at all what I meant.
I'm I'm just saying we've we've got a lot of stuff going on in the environment that has been promulgated primarily by liberals, uh, to help the little guy and to save the planet and do and it's causing more of the it's it's it's it's common.
The unintended consequences or the known intended consequences, which is even more sinister, of liberal policies, which all fail is is is this a sight to behold.
Everybody can see it if they just be honest enough to.
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