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March 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, this is getting great.
Chaos.
More and more chaos.
Passport gate, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama in a tizzy because his passport file was investigated by contract workers at the State Department.
Now, Mrs. Clinton says, well, the State Department's saying that her passport records, Hillary's passport records, were also violated, shall we say, in the year 2007.
And drive-bys love this.
Takes all the attention away from Obama blowing the race speech earlier this week and the stupid comments he made last night on Philadelphia radio.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yip, Yahoo.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
Open line Friday.
We have finally arrived to the exciting day of the week.
One of the most.
As you know, Monday through Thursday, this program is about what I care about and what I'm interested in.
But since I am a benevolent dictator, on Friday, when we go to the phones, the program is yours.
You can speak about whichever, whatever.
You're going to whine, moan, complain, ask questions.
Very few limits.
On Friday, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address, lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
The drive-bys are fascinated with possible criminal charges in Ohio related to Operation Rescue.
They're still investigating whether or not Republican voters lawed about their pledge to become Democrats when they went in there and voted in the Ohio primary.
Hugh Hewitt, a renowned member of the Reagan administration, has his own blog and talk show in the afternoons from California.
He's from Cleveland and said that if I get indicted in this, if I get charged along with any voters, are he going to defend me?
He will be happy to defend me.
He says, especially since I'm a Steelers fan, I'm going to need somebody in my camp in Ohio that has Cleveland Brown season tickets, which he does.
So I appreciate that support from Hugh Hewitt as well, ladies and gentlemen, as, you know, if any of you people in Ohio end up getting charged, and I frankly can't see it, fear not, worry not.
Operation Chaos will commence a massive legal defense fund.
Emblaw John.
This is just too much.
Look at this.
We hear about what?
High gasoline prices.
We hear about high food prices, high tuition, high mortgage foreclosures.
And then there's this from the Los Angeles Times.
Presidential candidates pull in $790 million.
Obama has the lead in fundraising among both parties, reporting $192.7 million total.
Also, Rands are busy paying money back.
There's a story out that Obama spent a million and a half bucks a day since February, including the Super Tuesday, February 5th primaries.
Now, how can this be?
With all these economic woes, why are all these people giving money to politicians?
Just an interesting little question.
How about Obama on the radio in Philadelphia?
We have the audio soundbite.
Listen to this.
Obama threw his grandmother under the bus at the speech on Tuesday.
Then yesterday, he put the bus in reverse and ran over her.
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harpers any racial animosity.
She doesn't.
But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.
Typical white person?
What does this reveal finally about Obama?
He is not transcendent on race.
Obama is telling us he is a black American first and an American second.
Typical white, his grandmother who raised him is a typical white woman and that these kinds of inordinate fears are bred.
I have a question.
I wonder how white college students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are feeling these days.
I wonder if they are nervous walking down the street and they see a couple of black boys dressed in baggy clothes with their hats on backwards swaggering toward them.
I wonder how they feel.
I wonder if it makes them fear that they're going to be shot in the face for their ATM cards and their PIN numbers.
Obama, do you think there might be reasons here rather than this being inbred?
Typical white woman, Obama has exposure.
And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, Passport Gate is such a welcome arrival for both Obama and the drive-by media.
Michael, what is, if you say this about his grandmother, he says this about his grandmother and he excuses that loco weed pastor.
And by the way, everybody's asking, where is Reverend Wright?
Well, Reverend Wright's out there on a cruise.
We don't know where, but he's on a cruise.
Reverend Wright, we're told, needed to take a vacation.
Somebody at Reverend Wright's church sent a photo of Reverend Wright talking with President Clinton in the White House on September 11th, 1998.
There was a prayer breakfast.
Clinton had a bunch of clergy in there to finally fess up to the Lewinsky stuff because the Star Report was coming out.
This picture is in the New York Times today, complete with a thank you note that Clinton sent to Jeremiah Wright in October after the September 11th date.
And this is the meeting where Clinton said, I have sinned before you.
I have never been at a lower point.
And I'm so happy you've come.
You know, the dog and pony show.
And Reverend repaired a breach.
And there was a whole bunch of people there.
Reverend Wright was one.
They've got this picture.
This isn't the same thing.
The Obama camp released this.
This isn't the same thing.
In order for this to have any impact at all, somebody's going to have to place Clinton in Reverend Wright's church, which, I mean, if this church is that big and Clinton ran for office in 92 and in 96, somebody might come up with a picture of Clinton at that church.
So you never know.
I guarantee you, somebody's looking for it.
You know, you're running for the Democrat Party.
Well, when you're running for president, Democrat, you got to go to Chicago.
And you have this a huge church, 4,500 people.
But so far, this little picture in the New York Times, I mean, the Obama camp doing everything they can to sweep this off the front page and change the subject, which they've done now with passport getting.
I'm thinking of telling the State Department to release my passport fronts.
There's nothing in them.
There's nothing in them.
Your social security number, you know, it's going to start identifying data.
But I have a lifelock.
So if somebody's going to get my social security number, they're not going to be able to use it for anything.
So this is much ado about nothing.
They had a big investigation of this of Bill Clinton back in 1992 because people were trying to find out.
And the rumor then was that Clinton was thinking of denouncing or renouncing his citizenship during the Vietnam War era.
And they wanted, there were rumors that he'd been traveling to the Soviet Union and participating in protests there.
People wanted to see if he had been.
I don't know that these particular records that were looked at today by these contract employees will tell you that.
Obama, the reason people are interested in, he chairs a subcommittee on foreign affairs in Europe, and he's never had a meeting.
He's never chaired the meeting, never chaired the committee, never called the committee to order.
He says he's traveled all over Europe, got extensive experience, but he's never said where.
So it looks like it's got the Clinton fingerprints all over it until the Clintons.
Hey, by the way, our passport was looked into too.
McCain's everybody.
Exactly right.
So, gosh, folks, even though it's Open Line Friday, this stuff just keeps pouring out.
We get to come to the rescue each and every day here.
I, of course, now, as dubbed yesterday by Ariana Huffington, a toxic, what?
Did she toxic curiosity?
Right.
A toxic curiosity that can't be stopped.
McCain can be, as he has demonstrated.
We'll have more.
I'm sure you've heard about, oh, there are two things involving McCain today.
He has picked a huge, huge, not an independent Republican, not a moderate Republican.
He has picked a liberal Republican to run the Republican National Convention, a woman.
She was involved in the George H.W. Bush administration with some kind of outreach.
That's the stack here somewhere.
So, I mean, that's just, I mean, that's a slap in the face.
This is from Robert Novak, by the way.
So there's that to talk about more Operation Rescue.
Bill Richardson endorsing Obama today.
You know what's interesting?
I have observed, ladies and gentlemen, for countless years here at the Limbaugh Institute that there aren't ever any tell-all books about the Clinton administration.
I mean, every president has all kinds of people dumping on him with tell-all books, leaks.
It never happened in the Clinton administration.
Nobody wrote a tell-all book.
But look at how many former Clinton Eastas abandon them when they get the chance and are endorsing Obama.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, for those of you in the ditto camp, you can see this.
It is a perfectly folded American flag.
This came, FedEx today, to me.
This flag flew for a couple of hours over Camp Delta, Club Gitmo, on my birthday this year.
I have the certificate right here from which I will read, and I have the letter from the guy down at Camp Gitmo who sent me this.
His name is William, it's W-I-E-S-E.
He lives in College Station, Texas, but he's still down at Club Gitmo.
It's Weiss or Weiss, and he's the one who arranged for this.
He's a 24-7 subscriber.
He listens to the first hour of the program on Armed Forces Radio, and then the other two hours at the end of his day on the website.
He served under President Reagan, was with the 82nd Airborne Division during Operation Urgent Fury, which was Grenada.
So I want to read the proclamation to you.
We know we have a three, and he has sent his picture to our website wearing his Club Gitmo t-shirt.
So I will read the proclamation, the certificate rather, that confirms this and some of the other details.
And again, here's the flag.
We'll get pictures of, Brian, we're going to get pictures of all this stuff and send them up to Coco at the website.
So they're going to be posted.
Quick time out here, folks.
Back with much more.
All the details of the things we have discussed to the present, and there's much more.
Oh, by the way, Arlen Specter has a new book out about his dealing with cancer while continuing to serve in the Senate.
And he asked to come on, and I think it's going to be interesting to talk to.
I saw him a little bit on Fox this morning.
And his purpose here is to try to help others who are diagnosed.
He had lymph cancer.
He's trying to diagnose others or help others who are diagnosed to keep going and to keep fighting and that the mental attitude is what's crucial here to surviving this kind of a disease and beating it.
And I'm going to ask him about the status of judicial nominations and confirmations in the final term of the Bush administration.
And I want to ask him a little bit about Spygate, the New England Patriots National Football League, because they haven't heard anything about this in two or three weeks.
So he'll be up in the opening segment of the next hour.
We'll be right back and continue after this.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, commanding officer of Operation Chaos coming to you from the headquarters of Operation Chaos, the EIB Southern Command.
Here is the letter I received with this flag that flew over Camp Delta at Club Gitmo.
Dear Rush, I was sitting at my desk in our windowless building a couple hundred yards from the sparkling ocean overlooking the eastern end of the Cayman Trench.
I was thinking how nice it was that your staff got you a birthday cake and presented it on air.
I started to wonder what one might get someone who pretty much has everything he wants or can afford if he so chooses.
And I did find the one thing that you cannot buy.
I enjoy immensely your radio program.
I can only hear the first hour live on Armed Forces Radio.
I have to stream the other two hours later in the evening via computer with my 24-7 membership.
It's one of the best investments I've ever made, by the way.
I served under President Ronald Reagan, was with the 82nd Airborne Division during Operation Urgent Fury, Grenada.
Thank you for your support of the United States military over all these years.
Please accept this flag flown over Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a token of my respect.
Those are my initials along the margin to verify that it was flown, as the certificate states.
Happy birthday and God bless William Weiss, College Station, Texas.
P.S. You can find my picture uploaded to your website.
I'm the guy standing in front of the welcome aboard sign in my Club Gitmo shirt.
Perhaps you can fly the flag over your Southern Command compound and post a picture of it.
If you decide that you ever want to visit the island, let me know and I will sponsor you.
Wow, a potential trip to Club Gitmo.
Cuba cigars.
Here's the certificate.
It's wrapped up like a scroll.
I'll unfurl it here for those of you watching in the ditto camera.
You're not going to be able to read it, I think, because I'm not going to zoom in.
I don't have a hand in which to zoom in.
But let me read this.
Joint Task Force, Guantanamo, Cuba, Joint Detention Group, Operation Enduring Freedom, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Certificate of Authenticity presented to Mr. Rush H. Limbaugh.
be known that the flag accompanying this certificate was flown proudly over Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 12th, my birthday, 2008, at 0156 hours for nine minutes and 11 seconds.
Nine minutes and 11 seconds.
So this was about 2 o'clock in the morning.
for 9 minutes and 11 seconds.
This flag is presented to you in the spirit of patriotism and as a tribute to those who lost their lives in terrorist attacks on the United States of America and to those who continue to fight in the global war on terror.
It had Department of Defense medal or symbol up in the upper left-hand corner and the Club Gitmo Delta, Camp Delta icon logo in the upper right-hand corner.
And it is signed by Theodore Trahan, the commanding sergeant major of U.S. Army at the Joint Detention Group at Club Gitmo and Bruce Vargo, Colonel U.S. Army Commander JDG.
So we'll get pictures of this.
Once again, here is the flag.
You know, this has happened before, and I had no idea.
It was when these Mark Hassara and his buddies, Taz, Joe Katosyinski, five or six aircraft all flew a flag, turning out to be in my honor on the original invasion bombing runs during the Iraq invasion in 2003.
And they sent me the certificates of all the airplanes that the flag flew on and a letter that Hassara wrote by hand on a piece of yellow legal paper explaining what had happened and why they did it.
The flag arrived in a Ziploc bag perfectly folded.
That's now at home in my library and it's framed.
The flag is unfurled, as are all the certificates.
And as will this be, this is just, I get, I don't know, as you know, folks, I'm trying to learn how to receive without feeling embarrassed or something.
But this is just touching.
This is a genuine honor that somebody sitting at a Club Gitmo listening to the first hour on Armed Forces Radio would see you guys in there give me a cake and think, what can I get rush?
And he secured a flag that flew for nine minutes, 11 seconds over Club Gitmo.
Where, of course, we here at the EIB network have a thriving merchant.
Well, we don't have a thriving merchandise business at Club Git.
It depends on Club Gitmo being open.
So thank you so much, Mr. Weiss, who again is from College Station, Texas.
I shall treasure this and honor it and protect it for as, well, for the rest of my life.
We've got to take a brief time out here.
We'll come back and get started with your phone calls, some of the audio sound bites to illustrate the ongoing Operation Chaos.
It just keeps getting better.
Back after this.
As it does a man, a living legend, a way of life, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a prophet, a national treasure, and the commanding officer of Operation Chaos here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Hey, folks, yesterday we got a phone call from somebody in Florida and said, where can I get an Operation Chaos t-shirt?
And I had mentioned yesterday that I had just authorized and approved designs.
And I said, we're not going to do this until I can be assured by the manufacturer and the fulfillment company that from the day we take orders, within 10 to 14 days, they're going to start being fulfilled.
Because the last time we tried to do a coffee mug, it took 30 days and it just defeated a whole purpose and it was an absolute mess.
I have been assured by all involved, and as such, we just today, just now, actually in the first half hour of the program, added to the EIB store at rushlimbaugh.com the following items.
An Operation Chaos T-shirt, all sizes, now at the same price, $19.95.
An Operation Chaos Cap, $19.95.
And a two-pack bumper sticker, $6.95.
And there's a special Chaos Combo offer.
You can order the hat and a T-shirt together, and we're going to send along one bumper sticker free that the combo offer will be found at the store at rushlimbaugh.com.
Now, I have a commitment here from our supplier.
All orders that we receive by the end of the show next Wednesday will go out in the first shipment on Friday, April 4th.
So if you want to be among the very first members of the Operations Chaos Street team, get your order in by Wednesday at 3 p.m. Eastern.
And if you do, all orders received by Wednesday at 3 p.m. will go out in the first shipment on Friday, April the 4th.
Now, this also happened with the Club Gitmost stuff.
It's inevitable that the initial demand here is going to swamp our fulfillment company servers.
And if you log into RushLimbaugh.com and then click, you go to the EIB store, then you click on the Operation Chaos merchandise, some of you are going to get failure messages.
Sorry, can't find a page.
Page not found, server error, what have you.
You just have to try again.
Just wait and try again for the initial burst to subside.
Doesn't mean anything wrong with your computer.
It doesn't mean anything wrong with the link.
It just means if it happened with Club Gitmo, it's probably going to happen here with Operation Chaos.
A lot of things, a lot of initial orders will tie up the servers.
So there it is.
You asked for it.
You have it.
Last night, Fox News Channel's election headquarters co-host Megan Kelly talking with Mark Halperin at Time magazine.
She says this all stemmed from a Rush Limbaugh initiative where he pushed people to go and register as Democrats because you can do that in Ohio and vote Hillary Clinton to keep her in the race so the conservatives and Republicans could run against her.
Once again, the drive-bys misunderstand the full thrust of Operation Chaos, but I've explained it enough.
If they can't get it by now, it's not worth continuing to try.
Megan Kelly asks Mark Halperin of Time, are people in Ohio, the elections people, really going to go through with this, perhaps charging Republicans who crossed over to vote Democrat with crimes?
Well, they're still investigating this mischief voting.
Who knows how much of it was based on Rush and how much of it was people maybe wanting to vote in this primary because they liked one of the candidates.
But, you know, there are a lot of things in America that are illegal.
The notion that you could go to jail for switching parties and voting will require the ability to look into the conscience of individual voters.
It's nuts.
And you would think they have something better to do.
Look, Florida was a laughing stock in 2000.
Ohio's had more problems since then.
My secret theory is this is Ohio election officials attempting to take away the mantle from Florida, laughing stock of the nation when it comes to elections.
This is crazy.
Mark Halperin actually says that Ohio is jealous of Florida for being a laughing stock, and they want to become the laughing stock.
Megan Kelly, is this a political start?
I think the Democrats are annoyed that people would come into their primary, they think illegitimately, and mess things up and vote, do that mischief voting.
If the rules allow you to switch parties, you cannot look into the soul of people who do it and say these people are robots programmed by Rush Limbaugh.
They've just got to let him do it.
Now, there are a few cases, anecdotally, where people seem to fess up.
One person scribbled on a ballot that they were doing it just for the day.
And I think there's probably some of that, but less than I think these people suspect, and clearly not enough to criminalize party registration.
That just seems silly.
Hey, these are Democrats, Mark.
These are Democrats, and they're fit to be tied.
Look, they feel free to cross over all the time and have fun with our nomination process, as in Senator McCain in Iowa, New Hampshire, and so forth, and other states.
They just don't like the same game being played by us.
Finally, Megan Kelly and Mark Halperin have this exchange.
One has to think that Rush Limbaugh will celebrate this as another extreme move.
He will start a legal defense fund for anyone, I think, who's indicted.
And look, there's a long way to go.
The election board is split.
The county prosecutor, who would be the first person to look at this, has said he probably doesn't see a problem.
The Attorney General, I don't think, will see a problem.
So I don't think this will happen.
Extreme move, Megan.
One has to think that Rush Limbaugh will celebrate this as another extreme move.
Oh, well, moving on.
You've heard about this.
I'm sure.
An aide to Senator McCain was suspended from the campaign yesterday for blasting out an inflammatory video that raises questions about Barack Obama's patriots.
What was inflammatory about it?
Did you see this video that was put on YouTube?
It just had Obama statements and Reverend Wright statements.
That's all it had on it.
Guy's name is Soren Dayton, works in McCain's political department, sent out the YouTube link of Is Obama Right, W-R-I-G-H-T, at 1231 with the tag Good Video on Obama and Wright.
It's been taken down.
McCain and his campaign have repeatedly said they would stay away from personal attacks on Obama, but the temptation has increased as Wright's words have dominated the race in recent days.
So let's go back to the audio sound bites.
This is CNN yesterday.
Don Lemon, the host, interviewing Joe Klein of Time magazine, says it's a suspension.
McCain's campaign suspended this guy.
I just want to make it clear, it's a suspension.
We've had a history of campaign workers over the years distributing videotapes and getting canned for it.
This is pretty much campaign business as usual.
It's really stupid because as long as Rush Limbaugh lives and breathes on this planet, the McCain doesn't have to do any dirty work like Limbaugh will do it for him.
And the campaign may be counting on that.
But still, that's the point.
What is dirty about telling the truth?
What's dirty about putting it out?
Nothing was inflammatory.
It's just that McCain doesn't want it out there under his name.
You know, McCain's, he's traveling around the world.
He's doing a bunch of things.
He's trying to brand himself right now as strong on national defense, strong on national security, while the Democrats are duking it out here in Operation Chaos.
And he doesn't want to get involved in this.
This is the old, you know, it's the old roof.
If your enemy is destroying them, get out of the way, let it happen.
If you never get into an argument with a fool because people will not be able to tell the difference.
If your enemy is eating himself alive, pass assault and leave.
McCain is simply trying to stay out of this.
But he's also trying to establish this notion he's going to run an honorable campaign.
On the contrary, the Obama campaign can leak the, they can put out the Clinton picture with Reverend Wright, sent it to the New York Times.
How smart is that?
Why, that's brilliant.
Look at the Obama campaign.
Why they're not taking this sitting now.
Why?
We love the Obama campaign.
Go to drive-bys.
And of course, they can defend Reverend Wright from now until the Reverend gets off his cruise.
But, you know, McCain's thrown his people overboard.
How many people has he fired or suspended here just in the last month?
Robert Novak today.
John McCain's team that is taking over the Republican Party has decided on Bobby Green, this female, Bobby Green Kilberg, liberal Republican from Virginia, long detested by conservatives, to run the party's national convention in St. Paul in August.
Kilberg is an aide to President George H.W. Bush in 1990, promoted White House overtures to gay activists.
She won an internal power struggle over gay politics with fellow Bush assistant R. Douglas Weed, who was fired as White House liaison to religious conservatives.
When Bonnie Bobby Green Kilberg appeared on television by McCain's side on the night of February 12th after he won the Virginia primary, her presence was resented by conservatives as a sign of contempt for them.
What else are conservatives supposed to think?
This is McCain's, screw you guys.
I mean, I know who my base is.
I know where I want my support to come from, and I'm going to go out there and I'm going to get it and I'm going to let this babe run my convention.
By the way, Mr. Snerdley, confirm this to me.
Who was the first distinguished American to propose Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, as a potential McCain VP?
It was me.
Thank you.
Correct.
It was I, El Rushbo, who did that.
I've seen two or three other people mention this now, and people, wow, what a shocking move that would be.
Novak says, don't laugh.
Not Novak, but Novak also floats Bobby Jindal as a possible VP for Senator McCain.
I don't know if Novak's idea or if he's hearing that the name of Bobby Jindal is being suggested by those close to McCain.
Quick timeout.
We'll grab some phone calls when we come back after this.
We have to do one more thing on the website at rushlimbo.com and the EIB store.
The t-shirt, the Operation Chaos T-shirt is two-sided.
The front side has a ballot box with the EIB logo on it and rush the vote being stuffed into the box.
And on the back are the Operation Chaos mission objectives.
And there's supposed to be a text accompaniment to say what is on the back of the shirt because even the enlarged photo doesn't say, let me read it to you.
Here's to show you people in Diddle Cam.
Operation Chaos mission objectives, cross over to vote in Democrat primaries, prolong the Democrat uncivil war, allow the Clintons to bloody up Obama politically since our side won't do it.
How prescient was that?
Enjoy liberals tearing each other apart, drain a DNC of campaign money, annoy the drive-by media, and win in November.
The objectives of Operation Chaos.
That will be on the back, and all the t-shirts are 1995, and they're all whatever size you order to the same price.
Here's Paris in Irvine, California.
Hi, Rye.
Hi, Paris.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you for taking my call.
I wanted to talk to you about this Obama character.
Yeah.
Which I am a typical white person, and I question his patriotism.
I question that he's been defending this Reverend Wright and has yet never shown any kind of passion for this land, for this country as a whole, and this nation as a whole.
My second issue with Obama is the fact that he keeps correcting Senator McCain, but if we all remember, this guy doesn't even know his recent history.
Some of the head of al-Qaeda and Taliban ran to Iran and they were being harbored by that government.
That government has been doing that for many years.
Where is he coming from saying that Iran has never supported al-Qaeda?
Why doesn't he listen to our generals?
Wait a minute.
I lost you during the because you're talking.
Are you talking about McCain at the end of that?
Are you talking about Obama?
Obama.
And I'm saying, why is he thinking that Obama was, I mean, McCain was wrong.
McCain was not wrong.
Iran has been aware of the.
Don't okay.
That doesn't matter, Paris.
It doesn't matter whether McCain's right or wrong.
This is what the Democrats do.
They're going to try to attack.
And Obama's desperately trying to change the subject.
He's trying to make it look like he's already won the nomination.
So he's focusing on McCain, who is the resumptive Republican nominee.
And he knows the drive-bys are going to carry his water.
He knows the drive-bys will then go to McCain and play this little gaff up and so forth.
This is who the Democrats are.
And this is, you know, McCain's not going to play this game.
You know what?
The other thing I wanted to mention to you is CNN being so biased and Anderson Cooper's program.
I used to be a fan.
I stopped watching the program because it makes me sick to see that a reputable news agency can be so biased.
Just for that, I'm sick of it.
I started three websites I wanted to tell you about.
Shame on DriveByMedia.com, shame on CNN.com, and shame on New YorkTimes.com.
I'm launching these three websites, and I'm just going to go and try to protect the biased media.
I love your passion, Paris, but a question.
When did you just discover that CNN is not a reputable news agency?
Because that's been the case for about 20 years.
Well, to be very honest with you, I've always given them the benefit of the doubt.
Why?
Why'd you give them the benefit?
Because you wanted to be nice?
I wanted to be nice, and I decided that I cannot close my eyes to this no longer.
And I've just decided they're not my news agency no longer.
Good.
Who is your news agency?
Well, I you.
Yeah, right.
You passed.
You passed the test.
No, I watch Fox News too.
Well, naturally.
Naturally.
Oh, Paris, thanks for the call.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Have a nice weekend.
Kevin in Wyoming, you're next on the EIB network at Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Angry white Air Force dittos.
God bless you, Rush Rembrandt.
You know, I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten from women today, subscribers.
I am a typical American, typical white woman.
People are livid about this because this finally, I've been reading all these stories.
Why, you know, white people just finally found out what blacks really think of them with the Jeremiah Wright stuff.
Then they're shocked and they're surprised.
Well, people are just now finding out what Obama thinks of them, too.
And you call and you say you're an angry white guy.
Yes, I am.
Okay, why?
Well, first, I just have to say you have no idea how much you've improved my life and developed my philosophy.
You're my hero and a big hello to my family.
What I'm angry about is McCain, Rush.
I just don't think I can vote for him.
He's just along the road to the same place the Democrats are taking us.
And I have to look my kids in the eyes at the end of the day, and I just don't know how I'd live with myself after voting for such a liberal Republican.
What do you think the similarities between the Democrats and Senator McCain are?
By the way, you said you're in the Air Force?
Yes, I am.
You're active Air Force.
Yes, sir, 12 years.
So what are the similarities between McCain and the Democrats, do you think?
Well, the immigration and just all the things you constantly cover on your program.
I don't want to rehash all of the similarities, but you're stuck with him now that he's the nominee.
And I just, I don't want the Republican Party to be redefined.
Well, amen, bro.
That's the thing about this that concerns me.
if Senator McCain is going to try to grow the party with liberals and Democrats coming over as liberals and Democrats.
And by the way, you know, I mentioned this poll yesterday, and it's still early.
Well, there's Richardson endorsing Obama.
Richardson hadn't shaved in a couple weeks.
That's a new look.
At any rate, this poll says 20% of Obama voters are going to vote for McCain if Obama loses a nomination.
19% of Hillary's voters are going to vote for McCain if Hillary loses.
That's, I don't know if that's going to hold up, but some of it's going to be true.
Some percentage will.
Anyway, Kevin, thanks so much for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
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Bill Richards is on fire out there endorsing Obama.
We may be looking at that Democrat ticket here, you know, because Obama's going to need somebody like Richardson to get Hispanic votes.
The question that I have, ladies and gentlemen, is this.
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