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March 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hiya, my friends, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the commanding officer of Operation Chaos on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
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You can talk about whatever you want.
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Something you think needs to be discussed that hasn't been brought up in the past week or so, feel free.
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Now, we activated all this today just as the program was beginning today.
And I have a commitment.
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Because we've had some problems with that, with coffee mugs in the past.
I have a commitment, ladies and gentlemen, from our supplier.
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We're still working on displaying the text that's on the back of the Operation Chaos t-shirt.
The photo that we have up, even when you expand it, you click on it to expand, it's still ineligible or illegible.
Here's what the back of the Operation Chaos T-shirt says, and it's a dark blue with Operation Chaos.
It's sort of red, white, and blue, but a dark, dark, dark blue.
It says on the back, 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, enjoy liberals tearing each other apart, drain the DNC of campaign cash, and annoy the drive-by media.
And at the bottom, it says, and in all caps, win in November.
The front of the t-shirt has a ballot box, an EIB on it, and a rush the vote ballot being stuffed into it with Operation Chaos underneath the ballot box.
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It's just an overload of people trying.
Be patient and you will be rewarded.
Operation Chaos continued last night on CNN.
Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room talking with James Carville, who is a Hillary advisor, and also Barack Obama advisor Tom Daschell.
Blitzer says, hey, James, what about the argument that Senator National makes here that there would be disenfranchised voters if you don't have these two do-overs?
You have a primary, you let people vote.
Have a Democratic primary.
Let Democrats vote.
Anybody that's watching this show can see that I and Senator Clinton want to have a primary and let people in Michigan decide.
Anybody can see as good a man as Senator Daschell is and as fine a man as Senator Obama is.
They don't want to have it because they would lose it.
And that's the wrong signal sent out.
He doesn't want to have this for a simple fact.
He would lose, just like he would lose in Florida.
Now, if the Democratic nominee is afraid to face a primary of Democratic voters, can you imagine what the general election would be like?
I think Senator Obama ought to show strength and say, you know what, I want to run this thing.
Put up half the money.
Okay, so Carville just said Obama's a coward.
Daschell's a coward.
They don't have the guts to rerun Michigan and Florida because they know that Obama would lose.
Blitzer said to the puffster, said those are some strong words out there, Tom Daschell.
They are strong words, and they're totally wrong.
They're totally wrong.
He doesn't know whether we'd win or lose.
We've won more states than Hillary across the country, all over the country.
Well, we could probably win that one as well.
We're not backing away from a contest.
We've been involved in contests all over the country.
The real question is, do you allow everybody to vote?
The Clinton people say no.
Do you, can you put this together in a way that would satisfy all the legal requirements?
The Clinton people acknowledge that is not possible.
They're willing to accept a flawed election.
I would call it a kitchen sink strategy.
They're prepared to use the kitchen sink if they have to to win this, and they'll do it however they think they can do it to their great advantage.
This isn't going to work in large measure because it's not administrative.
I have never heard Daschell that agitated.
I have never heard him speak that fast.
I have never heard him that animated because he's just been called a coward by James Carville, and so that's causing to lash out at Carville and Clinton.
So Carville shot back with this.
Anybody watching the show can see what it is.
I came here on this very show offered to put up half the money.
Obama people didn't want to do that.
Their lobbyists were working in Lansing with everything they could, working in Florida with everything they could to prohibit Floridians and Michigan dudes from having an opinion in this.
It's very clear we cannot go into the general election if our nominee doesn't want to face Democratic voters.
And that's what's happening here.
I'm all for it.
I'm willing to put up the money.
Because a lot of people look at the Senator Daschell and they say, you know, this is not a complicated ballot.
You have Hillary Clinton, you have Barack Obama, you have a box, you check which one you like, and you put the ballot in a box, and you count the ballot.
If you tell everybody, Wolf, that they can vote, if you tell armed forces personnel and people who aren't in Michigan that they can vote, if you tell people who voted the last time after they were told it was a meaningless vote that they can vote, then I think we can talk about it.
But they are all off the table.
They're saying, we want to vote, but we just want to select the people that we can have a vote for.
And that isn't going to work.
Again, you can hear the fear.
That's fair.
And we can hear the fear.
Operation Chaos.
This is James Carville and Tom Daschell you've been listening to, duking it out, one of them calling the other a coward, and then say, you can hit a FIA.
You can hit a FIA.
It's not fear, Tim.
It's fairness.
Operation Chaos.
Absolutely.
It's desperation time on both sides.
You know, Hillary has taken a weekend off.
Hillary is up in Chappaqua.
She has, the political term for this, she's gone dark.
She's gone down.
Her campaign's now.
She's not participating in anything this weekend.
Obama is out there doing anything he can to escape the race stuff that happened this week.
That's what he got at his endorsement here from Bill Richardson.
But his numbers are nosediving.
His numbers are taking a plunge, and he's losing white support.
But the point is, he can afford right now to lose this because Hillary can't win no matter what happens here.
All that can happen is that the last shot that Hillary has at this is if Obama loses so much momentum from here on out that she gets enough votes to claim the popular vote winner in all of these primaries and then say, look at the big states I won, and then go to the super voters, the super delegates, and say, look, he's lost his momentum.
He blew it up on their race business.
We can't have our nominee with this Reverend on television every day during a general campaign.
This guy is a ticket to the Democrat Party's defeat.
That's her hope.
And I'm sure that's what she's working on up there in Chappaqua.
Meanwhile, Obama's trying to staunch the bleeding by trying to get everybody off the subject of race.
And if he wants to do that, and this is going to be very, very difficult, he better not say another word about it for the foreseeable future.
He better said everything he's going to say.
But here's the problem with that.
Senator Obama, Senator Obama, what about you said on Philadelphia Radio about your grandmother?
I've answered that.
I'm not answering those questions anymore.
And walk off.
You don't.
Most people don't get away with that in a presidential campaign.
So, regardless, folks, Operation Chaos, exceeding all objectives, and it just keeps getting better.
I have a question.
Where do you think, ladies and gentlemen, the Obama family will attend Easter church services?
Will they be spotted anywhere?
Will there be cameras following the Obama family as they attend Easter church services?
By the way, this headline of Los Angeles Times today, Denver short on funds for Democrat National Convention, the mayor thinks that the extended nomination contest has distracted potential donors.
The Democrats expect everybody else to pay for what they do.
Good grief.
As the host city, Denver must raise $40.6 million by June 16th for the party's convention, August 25th to the 28th.
This week, the host committee missed its second fundraising deadline, and the mayor, John Hickenlooper, said he believed that the drawn-out battle between Clinton and Obama had distracted potential donors.
You know, this could be a huge factor for when the riots break out at the convention if they're short on funds.
Democrats tapped out on this.
Here's Joan in Philadelphia.
Joan, thank you for waiting.
You're next at Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Okay.
Yeah, hi.
We're up.
Hi, Rush.
Hi there.
Hi.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
I'm a 70-year-old white middle-class granny.
Typical white person.
Yeah, typical granny.
Typical white person.
And I saw Hillary's ad, the red telephone ad, at 3 a.m. in the morning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the first thought that popped into my head was, of course, she's the only person that can answer the phone.
It's Bill saying he won't be home tonight.
He's out on the sleepover.
Actually, that's quite humorous.
But you know, the interesting thing about this, Joan, she's released, what is 17,000 pages of her schedule and all that?
Phone never rang at 3 a.m. in the morning in the white.
Apparently, there was never a 3 a.m. phone call.
Clinton didn't answer the phone at 3 a.m. either.
And so the ad saying, who do you want to be there when a phone rings, nobody's been there to answer the phone at 3 o'clock?
Well, they hadn't rung.
At least according to these pages that have been released.
But what is that ad about?
What is the ad about?
The 3 a.m. phone call means a disaster, right?
You get a phone call at 3 in the morning.
It might mean that Mahmoud Ahmedinezaj launched a nuke.
It might mean that Kim Jong-il has.
It might mean the Chikams have overrun somebody.
It could mean that something's happened in an American city overnight at that point in time.
It's about a national emergency, is it not?
And it certainly wouldn't be about a hurricane.
It would be about a military attack somewhere.
Have you heard of the latest bin Laden tape?
After inciting riots against the Vatican and the Pope, Bin Laden, did you hear what he said?
Osama bin Laden, or whoever is acting as bin Laden, said that Iraq is the perfect base to stage jihad to liberate Palestine.
Osama bin Laden.
Now, I thought, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrats told us that the real enemy is bin Laden and that we cannot define success in the war on terror until we capture and kill bin Laden.
He was the key.
He was the head guy.
He was the brains.
Well, the real enemy disagrees with Barack and Hillary.
Bin Laden, on his tape, apparently would love to see America surrender Iraq.
Well, what the hell?
Conditions on the ground don't matter much, do they?
What matters is us demonstrating weakness and cowardice to an enemy that's on the run.
CNN has this story.
Al Jazeera broadcast on Thursday an audio tape in which voice, a voice identified as bin Laden declares Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine.
The voice calls on Muslims in neighboring countries to do their best in supporting their Mujahideen brothers in Iraq.
And what do the Democrats want to do?
Get us out.
Hillary and Obama both in a race to promise who could get us out of Iraq.
The first for the 3 a.m. phone call, just as we all said at the time, that ad benefited Senator McCain.
You know, as far as Operation Chaos is concerned, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not wise enough to know how Operation Chaos will end.
I don't know who, I really don't know who the candidate's going to be.
i had to guess right it's going to be obama because he's got the delegates and he's got now he's put race out since he's gone racial on us if they take this away from him it's i did but i'm i can't say with confidence it's going to be obama but i am wise enough to know this Neither Obama nor Hillary are running on the truth.
Mrs. Clinton is not experienced.
Mr. Obama is not a man who can unite us.
Can we at least admit that?
What this last week has shown, Obama cannot unite us.
He has given up on the whole, at least at this point, he's temporarily abandoned the whole mission of uniting us.
Yes, Mr. Sterling, program observer has a question.
What is it?
That doesn't matter.
Nobody's ever united this.
And of course, I'm against unity.
I'm against it because somebody caves, look, I'm all for unity if we cream those guys and they accept our view of things.
You know, like John Adams stood fast for unanimous votes on independence, and he got his unity by standing up for what he believed in, not caving it, and compromising.
The other guys did.
Unity as a concept is about as stupid as getting rid of partisanship as a concept.
I am against bipartisanship.
I am against unity.
I am for victory over people who are trying to destroy people on our side.
Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas.
This is not Trump change here.
But whether Obama was ever going to unify or not, there were people who thought he could is the point.
We're dealing with perceptions in politics.
Perceptions is often reality, or are often reality.
And he was the unity candidate, and he was bringing young people in.
Why?
Because young people are jaundiced.
They don't think politics ever gets anything done.
Obama was different.
He was uplifting change, hope, the future, unity.
Unity's out the window.
Thank you, Reverend Wright.
There ain't going to be no unity.
Obama's not going to be able to bring unity.
Everybody knows now he can't even unify the people in his closest circle.
As we keep pointing out, his wife's mad all the time.
Reverend Wright's mad doesn't describe it.
So unity's off the table.
So we got two people, neither of whom are running on the truth.
Mrs. Clinton has no experience, and Obama can't unite us.
Now, don't get me wrong, both of them have talents.
Mrs. Clinton is a tireless, driven politician with an excellent memory and an ability to reach the undereducated and the elderly.
That's hard to do.
I don't think I reach the undereducated very well, but she does.
Mrs. Obama is an intelligent, talented politician who has the ability to reach out to the young and the media more than reach out.
Mr. Obama has the ability to mesmerize liberals.
But instead of both players running on what they are not, it'd be better for all of us if they ran on what they are.
Which isn't much, but it's better than lying about who they are.
I mean, Mrs. Clinton has no experience.
He's running on experience.
Obama's running as a uniter.
He can't unite.
Mrs. Clinton ought to say, look, I work hard.
I'm tireless.
I have an excellent memory that I forget now and then.
I can reach out to the stupid and the old.
Obama, I'm intelligent.
I'm talented.
I'm young.
I have the ability to reach out to the young.
I have the ability to make the media love me.
And I can mesmerize liberals.
But I can't unify anybody.
Now, here are the taglines for their commercials they could better use.
Clinton.
I will not take no for an answer.
Obama, don't watch what I do.
Watch what I say.
As I see it, ladies and gentlemen, the pro-choice crowd has some choice for their nominee.
I mean, really, imagine the dilemma that the pro-choicers are in.
Among their choices are a woman who knew nothing about her husband's overt flagrant philandering versus a man who knew nothing about his mentor minister's overt, flagrant America hatred for 20 years.
What are the pro-choice crowd to do?
You know, by the way, one thing about this unity business: all of this talk about unity, when Obama was out making his speeches and people were fainting and everybody was going gaga and the crowds were like they are at a rock concert.
That unity was always a myth and now it's gone.
The unity was what?
Nothing more than a hope.
All of those people were hoping for unity.
And what has the last week demoed?
It has demonstrated the futility of hope.
It has.
All these Obama people.
Hope.
Grab the Obama commercial out there, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
The future, if you have hope, and so the futility of hoping did what?
To the whole concept of unity?
Zilch Zero Nada.
So the futility of hope has now been clearly demonstrated in just the past five days by virtue of the Reverend Wright's videos being seen by America.
Bob in Miami, I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next at Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush, and thank God that you're on the air.
Thank you, sir.
I agree.
You're the watchman on the wall, my friend, sounding the alarm.
Trying to, yes.
Well, first of all, Rush, I have been around a long time since before World War II, and I have seen these political parties deteriorate to what they are today.
I have had it with both of them.
Both of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.
We need a third party desperately.
Did you say they're not worth it?
Wait a minute.
Did you say neither party is worth the powder it would take to blow them to hell?
That's right.
I love that.
I love that.
Because I thought you said it weren't worth the powder to make them up.
And I said, that can't be.
So I read the transcription.
Powder to blow them away.
Great.
Well, it's true.
Yes, yes.
You know, let me tell you something.
Like I said, I've been around a long time.
We have parties now and voters and people in this country that think it is fashionable to be a traitor to your country.
Whenever you give aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war, it's in the Constitution if these morons want to ever look it up, is punishable by death.
Now, if the New York Times ever printed, say, for example, we had cracked the Japanese code in World War II, do you know what would have happened?
Five minutes after that article hit the street, the FBI, Secret Service, U.S. Marshals would have been up there and arrested everybody that had anything to do with that thing, with the exception of the truck drivers, the printers, and the copyboys.
And they would have been tried for treason.
And if they would have found guilty, they would have been executed.
And if people don't think that we executed people during the Second World War for treasons, Rosenbergs, look it up.
I am furious with these parties.
I have had the course.
I'm watching my country slowly but surely go down the toilet because of these people who put their party before their country.
And I have had it.
I will vote for Republican this time because I don't vote for traitors.
And that's what these people are.
You got Dashel out there, Dashel.
Pardon me.
He's out of it.
You got Pelosi out there.
Be careful.
I knew what you were going to say.
I know.
I'm actually going to launch because we have a 40-second delay.
If you say anything, we can handle it.
Well, I don't want to be rude and crude.
I've learned something over the years.
Well, Croy is a very fine line between rude and crude and accurate.
Well, in that case, he's a bitch.
All right.
All right.
I've had it with them.
I've had it.
They put their party before the country.
And I am sick of it.
And I'm quite sure I speak for a lot of people out here.
You said you were going to vote Republican this time.
Have you been voting Democrat?
Are you crazy?
I started out as a Democrat in the 40s and 50s.
Then I noticed that the Democrats left me and I went independent.
And then Reagan came around and I voted for him and I said, oh, I finally got a party.
Now the Republican Party has left me.
And I'll stay Republican just to vote in primaries because independents can't vote in primaries.
But I have had it.
I have really, really had it.
And I'm got to the point now.
Okay, what are your grievances against the Republicans?
We sent them to Washington to do something for the country, not to bend over and kiss their butt.
Okay, you can censor that if you want.
Kiss whose butt, their own, or the Democrats.
The Democrats.
You know, there's two parties that are supposed to, you know, be against each other and come to some kind of an agreement that pleases everybody and is good for the country.
These Republicans now have bent over backwards to go help the Democrats.
And all they succeeded in doing is driving our economy through the floor by this excess of spending.
You want to see something?
You know, I don't want to really plug another guy's show, but go to Glenn Beck and read the interview with Wilson, the Comptroller General of the United States.
We are in debt.
We will never get out.
Do you know what the debt is?
Yeah, it's.
$53 trillion.
Yeah.
$53 trillion.
I don't think there's that much money around.
And it's the way he says it over there.
In order to get out of this, every family has to pay $200,000 or $400,000 to get out of this debt.
Fat chance of that.
You know, Bob, one of the things that you mentioned here in your monologue was that the Republicans have failed and they have joined the Democrats to try to get along.
And that's, frankly, one of the things that really bugs me because what the Democrats want is not good for the future of the country.
What the Democrats want is what's good for them.
And I can tell that's what's bothering you.
They would just soon trash whatever they have to trash in order to reclaim their power and then claim to go about fixing the mess that they made.
The problem is they don't fix any mess that they make.
And there are gobs of them out there from all of the social welfare programs that part of the great society of the war on poverty.
Abject messes.
Social Security is far, far and away beyond what it was ever.
Well, I take that back.
I think FDR knew exactly what he wanted and he got it.
Something that was leading indicator or factor in getting Democrats elected every four years as often as possible.
This is what bothers me about Republicans who think that there's some virtue here in showing that they're nice people and they can get along with Democrats.
When that happens, the Democrats get what they want.
They prevail.
And it is frustrating.
I understand that profoundly.
It's one of the big problems a lot of us are having in this particular campaign cycle.
But look, Bob, I appreciate the call.
I got to run.
Don't cave in yet.
Don't give up.
As long as we're here, there's still a chance.
I will tell you when it's time to pack it in.
You know, we just hung up on our phone conversation with Bob from Miami.
And I checked a couple emails during the commercial break.
And surprising number of people, I mean, in a good way, surprising number of people said, you know, people ought to listen to that old timer.
These old-timers are the ones that need to be listened to.
And it reminded me of the timeless wisdom encapsulated by my 35 Undeniable Truths of Life, in which number 16 says, the collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the most valuable yet untapped resource our young people have.
And of course, a lot of young people look at seasoned citizens and I don't want to hang around grandma.
I don't want to hang around.
It's not cool.
But boy, if they ever did.
You know, you got to listen to people who've been alive a long time.
This guy says he was around prior to World War II, gave a history lesson, a brief one, about the demise of both political parties.
Collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens, the most valuable yet untapped resource our young people have.
Here's how difficult it's going to be for Barack Obama to keep race out of his campaign when you've got idiots like the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, out campaigning for you.
You're rolling the dice.
Last Monday, Kerry did an interview with the New Bedford Standard Times.
It's in Massachusetts, New Bedford Standard Times editorial board.
And of course, they taped him.
An unidentified reporter said, why would you say that?
What gives Obama credibility on that score?
And Kerry had said that Obama's blackness and Muslim background his main qualification for office would help him with American foreign policy.
And the reporter said, what gives him credibility on that score particularly?
It would be such an affirmation of who we say we are as a people.
If we can elect an African-American president, young leader who is obviously visionary and got an ability to inspire people, it will give us an ability to talk to those countries, to, in some cases, go around their dictator leaders to the people and inspire the people in ways that we can't have otherwise.
And I think in the end, he has an ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism, to maybe even give power to moderate Islam to be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion.
Man, this is what I mean.
You got guys like this speaking for you.
You have no control over this.
Do you realize what you just heard?
This is the former Democrat presidential nominee, and he has just encapsulated here the liberal Democrat view of this country where it comes to race.
We are guilty.
Whatever anybody, particularly our enemies, whatever radical Islam thinks of us, they're right.
We are guilty because we are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and all that.
And we need to elect an African-American president, a young leader, obviously visionary, to show the rest of the world that we are who we say we are as a people.
To bridge the divide of religious extremism?
Kerry said this on Monday.
I don't think Jeremiah Wright was a common household name.
He said bridge the divide.
He has created the divide.
He is widening the divide.
He's dredging the divide.
He's dumping the sand of the divide on both sides of the shore.
But Kerry wasn't through.
Reporters said, why would you say that?
What gives him credibility on that score again?
Because he's African American.
Because he's a black man who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country.
His life story, you know, a Kenyan father who abandoned him and he was raised by a single parent and found the purpose and values to go to college and make something of himself.
That's an important lesson for America to show Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, other places in the world where disenfranchised people don't get anything.
Folks, this is, I mean, I'm sitting here laughing because it's Friday.
It's the end of the week.
This is outrageous, though.
This is just what must John Kerry think of his own country in order to say these kinds of things.
That only Obama, because he has a Kenyan father, his life story, he had any impression in his life.
He wasn't raised as an African American.
He wasn't down for the civil rights struggle.
He has no ties to that.
That's what the black community was worried about when Obama first announced.
That's what Magic Negro was all about.
That's what Is He Black Enough was all about.
He found the purpose and values to go to college, make something of himself.
That's an important lesson for America to show Egypt.
What?
He went to college?
It's an important lesson to show Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia.
This is ass backwards.
This is 180 degrees out of phase.
What ought to be happening here is that we ought to be telling some of these other places what's wrong with them.
And because if they don't fix it, they keep attacking us, they are in peril.
Did you see, by the way, the story?
The Saudi Arabian government is going to start training 40,000 new imams to try to deal with this Wahhabi sect that's causing all the grief.
So anyway, there you hear it.
John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, speaking Monday to the New Bedford, Massachusetts Standard Times editorial board.
Brief time out.
We'll come back after this.
I know.
I just reading.
I'm just going to get pre-read here on the morning update that I got to do.
Okay, folks, we have to get out of here.
It's Easter weekend, and I hope that yours is everything you want it to be and more.
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