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March 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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And Operation Chaos continues.
Howard Kurtz today, last rights for the Hillary campaign.
You notice all the religious terminology that's being used here to describe the fate of Democrats.
Carvill's out there calling Bill Richardson a Judas.
No, snortly, there are no...
What rumors have I been passing around, walking around money in Pennsylvania?
I'm not...
I haven't been to Pennsylvania.
Last time I was in Pennsylvania, I was in Philadelphia.
When was that?
No, it was.
Yeah, maybe it was.
Yeah, it was October.
And I had no idea any of this was going to be going on.
No, I'm not passing.
Who's telling you I'm passing walking around money around?
Wait till I hear about this in Ohio, where they're threatening to indict me, ladies and gentlemen, for Operation Chaos.
All right, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Question, will Kwame Kilpatrick resign and run for governor in New York?
This is the pressing question we have here at the EIB network.
This guy Patterson, this new governor in New York, he's all mad now.
Some advisor told him to get it all out there about the affairs.
But look it.
Can I get serious about this for just a second?
In all candor, you notice when all these Democrats go down, there's no media effort to paint the whole Democrat Party generally as unethical or corrupt or what have you.
I mean, we've got Elliot Spitzer gone.
We've got Patterson admitting the serial infidelity, but only after he is sworn in as governor.
We have Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit, indicted.
Where are the stories about the demise of the Democrat Party?
You can't even find in most stories, at least before the program started, you couldn't, that Kwame Kilpatrick was a Democrat.
In a lot of the stories, but Elliot Spitzer, you couldn't find that he was a Democrat.
The network newscasts refrained from mentioning he was a Democrat.
And you know darn well that if this were a Republican series of resignations or indictments, they'd be running front-page stories for weeks on end about the demise, the Democrat Party, how unethical and corrupt that it has become.
Remember Macau, remember Mark Foley.
But no such stories here about the Democrats.
And just to remind you, Kwame Kilpatrick, he is married, right?
He is married.
His wife was not there, folks.
She was not standing by his side at the press conference in Detroit.
Does he have kids?
I don't know if Kwame Kilpatrick has kids or not, but he does have a wife and she wasn't there.
She is mad about this.
It's text messaging and having an affair and they lying about it and perjury and a number of other things.
I mean, if he's convicted on all this, he could spend 15 years in jail.
Back to Operation Chaos.
At the moment, at this moment in time, a snapshot today, March 24th, 08, the Democrats are screwed.
The latest news from the Rasmussen tracking poll, very encouraging for Senator McCain.
Obama's favorable, unfavorable has gone from 46 to 51.
Is its all-time low, by the way, demonstrating no ability yet to staunch the bleeding from the race speech.
Now, in the Democrat Party, it's a different picture.
He's pulled back ahead of Mrs. Clinton in the Democrat Party primary polling, but I'm talking about national polls now.
The national tracking poll, his unfavorable favorable, he's 46 favorable, 51 unfavorable.
This rivals Mrs. Clinton now.
And I think it's one of the reasons they trotted out Bill Richardson with the Foo Man Shoebeard.
But here's evidence of what's happened with white voters.
This is from Richard Baer at AmericanThinker.com.
In Arkansas, McCain leads Clinton 50 to 43.
McCain leads Obama 59 to 30.
In Kentucky, McCain leads Clinton 53-43, destroys Obama in Kentucky 64 to 28.
Lower middle-income whites have deserted Obama.
In one Pennsylvania poll, Clinton now leads Obama by 26 points.
She has now taken the lead from him in North Carolina.
And he owned that state.
Rasmussen national numbers now are Clinton 46, Obama 44.
And head-to-head in the general election, the Rasmussen tracking poll is McCain 49, Obama 41, and McCain 49, Clinton, 43.
Now, according to all of this, there is no question that Hillary is the stronger general election candidate.
She's more competitive in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
Obama does better than Hillary in states.
The Democrats are going to lose anyway, Georgia, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska.
Mr. Baer also points out some other good news.
Only Arkansas, among the southern states, is really in play.
And now McCain leads even Clinton there.
McCain, very well positioned in Florida.
Senator Lieberman will get Jewish votes for him.
Veterans, Cubans, northern panhandle whites don't like Obama or Clinton.
And Virginia, surprisingly strong for McCain, who holds a solid lead over both Democrats there.
Now, the New York Times, sorry, not the New York Times, this is Gary Reese and the Florida insider.
And this is four days ago.
It's the 20th of March.
And I mentioned this on Friday right before we left.
This is right toward the end of the program.
And I saved this because I wanted to go over this again on Monday when I, oh, Mr. and Mrs. Kwame have three kids.
And the three kids weren't there either.
And Mrs. Kwame wasn't there.
Only Mr. Kwame was.
She's mad.
She is mad.
And she's not doing a Silda Spitzer.
And she's not doing a Hillary Clinton.
82%.
This is polling after Obama's speech last Thursday on race.
And the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, 82% knew about Obama's relationship with Wright and about Obama's speech about race in America.
And of those who knew about the controversy in the speech, 52% said it made them less likely to vote Obama.
56% of blacks get this now.
56% of blacks said Obama's speech made them less likely to vote for him.
This is an insider advantage poll, by the way, from Gary Reese.
Barack Obama's speech about race on, I guess it was Tuesday last week, impressed many who witnessed it or read it, but most of America did neither.
And many of them, white and black, were less persuaded of the speech's capacity to heal racial wounds or to put the issue of race behind Obama as he continues his quest for the White House.
Look, the poll numbers in this story are really bad.
The disturbing numbers for Obama are the independent voters by 56 to 13%.
Independents said they're less likely to vote for him because of the speech.
Now, that's now.
And it's a snapshot of now.
And I think this is what the Obama internals were showing them, and that's why they went out and reached out to Richardson.
I don't think there's any question about it.
And the way that thing looked on Friday with Barry and Richardson, it looked like you could have been looking at the potential Democrat ticket.
Now, the Gallup Daily poll, which is just the Democrat Party, Barack Obama has quickly made up the deficit he faced with Hillary Clinton earlier this week with the latest Gallup poll daily tracking update on the Democrat nomination preferences showing 48% of Democrats favoring Obama and 45% favoring Clinton.
She was leading in this after the speech and going up to it.
Obama has come back on the Democrat side.
Now, this is a Gallup poll.
And they say here that Obama's campaign clearly suffered in recent days from negative press, mostly centered around his association with Jeremiah Wright.
Perhaps as a result, Clinton moved into the lead in Gallup's Wednesday release covering March 16th to 18th polling.
But Obama has now edged back ahead of Clinton due to a strong showing for him in Friday night's polling, which is obviously a result of the press conference and the appearance with Bill Richardson on the, well, not on the ticket, but the endorsement.
Both Democrats have inched closer to McCain in the latest update on registered voters, general election preferences.
McCain holds just a two-point edge over both, 46 to 44 over Obama, 47 to 45 over Hillary.
This, again, is according to Gallup.
So it remains, as we all know it will, it remains highly fluid, in a great state of flux.
And remember, polling this far out on the general election is just what it is to snapshot of things today and doesn't really mean much because the I mean, we still haven't gotten the end of Operation Chaos here yet.
Operation Chaos still has not.
I mean, the big artillery, the big firepower of Operation Chaos is yet to happen.
And that will affect, obviously, these polls down the line as well.
All right, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
More phone calls, more soundbites, more of everything, plus things that I don't even know are going to happen after this.
Okay, back to the phones we go as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Back to Norfolk, Virginia.
This is Mike.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
I really appreciate it.
Hey, Rush, longtime listener, first time caller, Hampton Rose Law Enforcement did those to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate it.
This weekend, I read in the paper how Senator Clinton referenced a 1996 visit to Bosnia.
She was sent because the president couldn't go.
And she made references to how they landed under sniper fire and had her duck underneath bullets to get into the car and rush off the tarmac.
And I'm kind of wondering, you know, I did some research back on the internet, and I didn't see anything that referenced to that.
So it kind of sounds like she's selling some falsehoods there.
And, you know, this Keystone cops, Three Stooges, Democratic Party here, continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
And why anybody calling her on it?
Why nobody's going to be able to do it?
Well, in fact, the Washington Post has today.
The Washington Post blog has a fact-checker post, and they've fact-checked this, and they've given Mrs. Clinton four Pinocchios on this story.
But the thing that troubles me about this is, that troubles me, that amazes me, this is old news.
I can remember talking about this two or three weeks and maybe even longer.
Mrs. Clinton, she told everybody she had to corkscrew down on a plane because there was all kinds of enemy fire when she landed.
She had to run for cover because bullets were flying everywhere.
None of it was true.
There was a recognition ceremony.
It was safe as it could be.
There were no hostilities going on anywhere near where she was.
It was all a lie.
And I remember talking about this three or four weeks ago.
I don't even know why it's come back up again, but I was directed today to this Washington Post blog, which they've fact-checked it, and they've given her four Pinocchios, meaning out of five, which talks about how big a lie it is.
But I don't know what's bringing this up now, and you say nobody's talking.
A lot of people have been talking about this for quite a while.
Well, it's the first time I've seen it.
I read in the newspaper this weekend.
I never seen anything about it.
And I was like, that's something different.
I never remember anything about it.
Snurdley is telling me she repeated the story even after it had been fact-checked and been shown to be a lie.
Look, there's a lot of stuff happening with the Clintons.
We're finding out all these documents that Judicial Watch got from a Freedom of Information Act request.
We find out basically after the debacle of healthcare in 1993, she didn't do anything.
She didn't do anything of any substance whatsoever until the impeachment stuff came up.
She was managing the Paula Jones case, and she was managing bimbo eruptions.
She was managing the Lewinsky situation.
But she really, she didn't have much to do with anything after the health care debacle.
And I think that this is stuff that the Clintons wanted to avoid because this goes directly to her claim that she had all kinds of experience.
should be ready on day one when the phone rings at three in the morning you want somebody who's the phone never rang at three in the morning according to these records uh So, I mean, she never answered the phone at 3 o'clock in the morning, official for anybody knows of.
Neither did Clinton.
He probably wasn't home by then anyway.
And the phone didn't ring, so who knows?
But I remain a little puzzled at the surprise factor when people learn that the Clintons lie.
As though, wow.
And I know it's not that.
No, it's Rush.
We know they lie, but here's proof, here's proof.
Yeah, there's been proof for 20 years.
It didn't matter.
Now all of a sudden, it does.
But anyway, we'll link to this Washington Post story, the fact checker at rushlimbaugh.com later this afternoon so that you can read all the details of it.
I've been through it before.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Jacob, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Pleasure to be on the show.
I've been a longtime listener, and this is the first time I've gotten through it.
I was a Rush baby, actually.
Well, welcome home.
I had a question.
I'd just be interested in your thoughts on.
You have understandably been fairly tough on the superdelegate situation with the Democratic Party.
I'm not terribly well informed on it.
So I remember back in 2000, I was listening a lot then, and I remember the Electoral College and all that was ⁇ you really promoted it then, and I mean, I remember that was a big deal.
I heard a lot about it back then, as I'm sure most of the country did when it really came to matter.
And I'm just wondering if you would talk about what you see the difference philosophically, why the Electoral College is good for American democracy, but why the superdelegate system in the Democratic Party is bad for America.
You can't compare the two.
The Electoral College is constitutional.
Okay.
And the Electoral College was there for the proportionality of votes around America.
It has nothing to do with not trusting the average voter.
It may have in its origins.
They were worried about how many people were actually informed in the early days of the country, not that they were stupid.
But the superdelegate thing is a Democrat Party creation.
And here's what's interesting about it to me.
It was created, it's conceived in the 70s to prevent the party from nominating another McGovern who lost in a 49-state landslide.
And the superdelegates are the party elders, the supposed elites, the smartest guys in the room to make sure that the Democrat Party voters don't screw it up.
And of course, you can look at it and say, okay, the superdelegates are the equivalent of the Electoral College, and the voters are the people.
And the Electoral College superdelegates come in and say, you guys, that's.
But that's not true because the superdelegates are not apportioned by virtue of popular vote.
The superdelegates are apportioned by proportionality.
It's such a convoluted thing.
You would not, there's no comparison at all to the Electoral College.
And the Democrats aren't even consistent on it.
You mentioned 2000.
Back in 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote.
And the Democrats then started talking, boy, we got to get rid of the Electoral College.
Well, this is not what the founding fathers intended.
This is horrible.
Our guy got most votes, and he's not going to be the president because the Supreme Court chose Bush.
You remember all that.
Then in 2004, John Kerry lost Ohio by something like, what, 100,000 votes?
So the Democrats started, and he lost the popular vote by 4 million.
This is key.
You still with me here?
Yeah.
It's hard to follow numbers on radio.
2000.
Remember, in 2000, the Democrats wanted to get rid of the Electoral College.
In 2004, they desperately wanted to use it again because Kerry lost by 4 million popular votes and 100,000 votes in Ohio.
They immediately started charging voter fraud.
And Kerry's out there saying, if I could have just turned around 55,000 votes, I'd be president today.
Oh, really?
If he could have turned around 55,000 votes, he would have won Ohio's electoral votes and been elected president despite losing in general by 4 million votes.
So the lesson here, Jacob, is that the Democrats, they don't have any rules.
They just have customs and traditions.
And whatever it takes to win for whoever they want to win is whatever they support at the time.
In 2000, they wanted to dump the Electoral College.
In 2004, they were hoping to use it along with charges of voter fraud.
The superdelegates, I don't, you know, you say I oppose the superdelegates.
I don't oppose superdelegates.
I'm not a Democrat.
They can do what they want.
I frankly love the superdelegate situation in the sense that it's helping us to promote Operation Chaos.
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On Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bill Clinton at a campaign event for his wife spoke.
And here's a portion of what he said.
I think it'd be a great thing if we had an election where you had two people who love this country and were devoted to the interests of the country.
And people could actually ask themselves who's right on these issues instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.
This has caused a firestorm and is helping to fuel Operation Chaos.
I think it'd be a great thing if we had an election.
You know, where had two people love this country, devoted to the interests of the country?
He's saying, we need my wife and McCain because they had two people love this country.
Now, there's a real reason that he really, I mean, the Clintons are out there showering McCain with all kinds of great platitudes because they know.
They think anyway.
They think it'd be a piece of cake to take on McCain because McCain's out there saying it can be honorable.
There won't be any attacks on the Democrat presidential nominee, whoever it is.
And that's music to the Clintons' ears.
You know, that's just, that is a sign of weakness that the Clintons will just pounce on.
But this has been interpreted by people as saying that Obama doesn't love his country, may not be a patriot out there.
And so the day after comparing Clinton to Joseph McCarthy, Obama supporter Tony McPeak, and that's how he responded originally to Clinton's statement about Obama.
He said, this is McCarthy-esque.
Tony McPeak stands next to Obama at a rally in Medford, Oregon, and explains why he said it and doesn't back down.
President Clinton was speaking to a group of veterans yesterday in North Carolina, and he said something that frankly astonished me.
Let me say first, we will have such an election this year because both Barack Obama and John McCain are great patriots who love this country and are devoted to it.
So is Hillary Clinton.
Any suggestion to the contrary is flat wrong.
I'm saddened to see a president employ these kind of tactics.
He, of all people, should know better because he was the target of exactly the same kind of tactic when he first ran 16 years ago.
So the Obama campaign not backing down, McPeak not backing down Clinton once again.
People are going to ask the question: does he really want his wife to win this or does he want her to lose?
That's, you know, nothing that happens with the Clintons is a coincidence.
Never forget that.
Sunday on Meet the Press, Tim Russert spoke with John Meacham Newsweek about the Democrat primary race.
Russert said, where we are, where are we headed?
Is there a way for this Democrat Party to unify to this kind of primary?
Are we in a situation where in order for Hillary Clinton to be successful and appeal to the superdelegates, she has to win a nomination even though she won fewer elected delegates?
Depending on where you end up with the, as you're saying, the popular vote or the pledge delegates, you do have the capacity for a kind of corrupt bargain charge.
Echoes of 1824, which I think we should always be talking about every Easter.
I apologize for that.
But John, who was 1824, tell us who it was quickly.
Well, very quickly.
Andrew Jackson won the popular vote.
Henry Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams.
Adams becomes president four years later, running on a campaign saying that was a corrupt bargain.
Jackson takes over, founds the modern Democratic Party, and here we sit.
So the Democrat Party is basically founded on corruption and remains corrupt to this day.
But this is Operation Chaos.
These people are worried.
Are the Democrats heading for Armageddon?
Can they unify after all of this?
And here's the problem that they're going to have.
The problem they're going to have unifying is that Obama has become the candidate of race.
There are so many people who are for Obama.
If he doesn't get it, they're going to be fit to be tied and either won't vote or they'll vote for McCain.
There are a number of people who want Clinton to get this.
And if she doesn't get it, they're going to be fit to be tied and either sit out or vote for McCain.
All this talk of unity, here we have, again, let's just bring this down to real life terms.
We have the leading Democrat presidential primary contender, Barack Obama, campaigning on what?
Hope, change, unity.
We can all get along.
We can all come together and we can do what's best for all of us to reach the mountaintop.
Blah, They can't even unify their own party.
How in the name of Sam Hill, and there was a Sam Hill, how in the name of Sam Hill are they going to unify the country?
The whole thing is an illusion.
I did a great, great monologue last week on the whole concept of unity anyway.
I mean, for crying out loud, folks, I'm sounding like a broken record here.
Obama can't even unify his own inner circle.
He's got people in his inner circle that are fit to be tied themselves.
His pastor's perennially angry.
His wife's never happy.
Well, recently was happy because of his presidential campaign.
And they can't even unify their own party.
They're worried about Armageddon.
They're worried about the party self-destructing.
In the meantime, they're running a campaign on unity for the country.
It's a pipe dream.
By the way, one thing here about Senator McCain.
Senator McCain has not wrapped up the Chuck Hagel endorsement yet.
And I wanted to mention this to you.
Hagel was on this week with Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
And Stephanopoulos said to him, look, Senator McCain's a good friend of yours.
Why haven't you endorsed him?
When I work for someone or commit to someone, I want to be behind that person in every way I can.
I've obviously got some differences with John on the Iraq War.
That's no secret.
I want to understand a little more about foreign policy, where he'd want to go.
Certainly doesn't put me in Obama or Clinton's camp.
But John and I have some pretty fundamental disagreements.
Well, I'm telling you what, if a moderate independent candidate like McCain cannot get the Hagel endorsement, where are we?
This is troubling, ladies and gentlemen.
This is puzzling to me as well.
Unless, of course, Senator Hagel's holding out for a pipe dream for his own third-party candidacy or independent candidacy somewhere down the line.
Speaking of Senator McCain, I'm sure you people have seen this by now.
The New York Times, Elizabeth Bumiller, a picture of the haughty John Kerry and Senator McCain sitting somewhere in deep leather chairs, McCain slouching like he's fatigued and tired.
The caption to the picture, Senators John Kerry left.
John McCain meeting with reporters in 2002 as they discussed automobile mileage standards.
The headline of the story, McCain twice flirted with the Democrat Party.
Candidate considered leaving the Republican Party as McCain in 2001 and running with Kerry in 2004.
Now, as I say, I'm sure you guys have all seen this, but it's still, it still stuns me.
Assume what?
Well, because, well, that's right, it's a New York Times.
Maybe I shouldn't assume people have seen it.
But it's been out there since last night.
I mean, the news, you know, it's in the newspaper today, but it's...
Well, the drive-bys have not made it news yet.
That's true.
Because the drive-bys are occupied trying to hold their own party together.
The drive-bys are trying to get the Clinton sitcom canceled.
So maybe, okay, Stergly may have a point.
Maybe you haven't seen this.
Here's how the story is by Elizabeth Bue Miller, and here's how it opens.
Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party's presumptive presidential nominee.
He often adds he was a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution and that he believes on the in-the-bedrock conservative principles of small government, low taxes, and the rights of the unborn.
What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present.
His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party and his conversations in 2004 with Senator Kerry, the haughty Senator Kerry who served in Vietnam about becoming his running mate on the Democrat presidential ticket.
Now, there are widely divergent versions of both episodes, depending on whether Democrats or Mr. McCain and his advisors are telling the story.
The Democrats, including Kerry, say that not only did McCain express interest, but that it was his camp that initially reached out to them about being Kerry's vice president.
And McCain's denying that.
But the Kerry came, no, we got a call from McCain.
And you know that Kerry very publicly proudly said that he was considering McCain.
This 2001 business, you know, I had forgotten that.
But this is a result of how steamed he was over the South Carolina primary and losing the nomination to Bush in 2000.
Remember, they had the Straight Talk Express was heading on down the highway, and the reporters on it were having the best time, and so was McCain.
And the New Hampshire primary came along.
McCain aced that.
But the whole thing got derailed in South Carolina over Bob Jones University and a couple of rumors some people put out about McCain.
Point is, he was livid.
He was fit to be tied.
And this is why some people still to this day think he's got it in for the Republican Party.
That's why he crosses the aisle and makes deals with Democrats.
So these two occasions, New York Times writing about it today, I guess McCain is aware.
I would hope so.
They better be aware what's in store for them.
Once the Democrats have their nominee and so forth, this is just a little, little bitty tidbit of.
Yeah, I know there's stories about the Keating Five out there today, too.
This is just a little heads up about what's coming Senator McCain's way once the Democrats iron out their stuff and Operation Chaos has come to a conclusion.
But it's still all of this stuns me.
It literally stuns me that a guy, Senator McCain, who has spent years criticizing his own party and thought seriously about leaving his own party is now the leader of it.
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Carl, I'm glad you called, sir.
You are up next.
Rush, This operation chaos that you have is really ridiculous and it's stupid.
And it's what we call in sports, unsportsmanlike conduct.
Now, Rush, when the Democrats win the election, I'm a Senator Obama supporter.
I campaigned with him.
When they win the election in November, you are going to be partially responsible.
You and all these other idiots, Republicans, who decided to switch over.
You are going to be 10% responsible for putting us in the White House.
So the more you kick this up, the more it's putting us closer and closer to the White House.
I appreciate you doing this.
Well, I was going to say, Carl, you call up here, you start ripping me, say that I'm being a bad sport, that it's ridiculous, that it's stupid, unsportsmanlike, and now you say you hope I keep doing it.
Yeah, I hope you keep doing it because what are you doing?
You are itching us closer and closer to the White House because we all know.
Let me tell you something.
If you want us to keep doing it, Carl, you don't call the people doing it idiots.
You have just insulted the people doing this that are going to put you in the White House.
You've just called them idiots.
You better take it back.
The Republicans that you have are switching over.
Look, if I'm a Democrat, I'm voting for my man.
I ain't switching over.
And so all these people that are switching over, Rush, when Hillary Oberock is in the White House, we're going to call and thank you all because y'all are really up in the cause.
You should stop this, Rush, really.
This is really, really out of bounds.
It's really, really stupid.
You're not making sense, Carl.
I want you to make you're not making sense.
If this is going to help you, you should not be telling me to stop it.
We don't really need to.
We don't really need for you all to do this because we can beat John McCain.
I was going to ask you, how in the world is Operation Operation Chaos going to guarantee the election of Obama?
Because people eventually are going to get tired of you all coming on the radio, bashing Obama.
You, Hannity, Beck, all you guys are bashing Obama.
The American people, you have already put the information out about Jeremiah Wright, and you're still pounding on it.
What you should have done is let the people, American people, make their decision.
We are.
The American people are going to get tired of hearing this stuff over and over.
That's other issues bigger to be talking about.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
You're just telling me that you're really bugged by Jeremiah Wright.
You know it can hurt Obama.
No, I'm not.
That's what you're telling me.
The American people are going to get tired of it.
You are attempting the usual intimidate the host tricks, but I've seen all these tricks.
I have seen all these tricks.
You come here and you say, stop doing what you're doing.
It's going to get us elected.
Oh, really?
I want you to keep doing what you're doing because it's going to get us a decision.
All I'm saying is, Rush.
Call people idiots.
You're going to get a ballpark here.
Jeremiah Wright's Jeremiah Wright.
I didn't put the words in his mouth.
Rush, I only got 30 seconds because I'm out here campaigning.
What's going to happen, Rush?
Wait a second.
The American people are going to get tired of you and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.
Y'all keep bashing Obama because there's more issues to be talking about.
The economy or people want to talk about the Obama.
Let me tell you something.
I have to have crisis.
We haven't played any Jeremiah Wright soundbites since last week, but we're going to keep talking about Obama because Obama will wreck the economy, Carl.
And so will Hillary Clinton.
Any liberal Democrat who has a Liberal Democrat Congress will be in position to wreck the economy.
That's serious stuff.
I don't want that to happen.
Rush, I wish you would stop the Operation Chaos.
It's ridiculous.
You're confusing me.
Please stop the Operation Chaos.
Please stop the bash.
Talk about the economy.
Talk about why I have to put $70 in my SUV every three days.
Talk about other issues.
There's other issues more important to the American people.
This Jeremiah Wright talking about is Operation Chaos.
It's not coming.
People are eventually going to get tired of you and Hannity and Glenn Beck and all of you guys.
You are a testament, Carl, to the effectiveness of Operation Chaos, and I can't thank you enough.
Watch it.
Watch what I tell you, Rush.
You're telling me how hard it's working by asking me to stop it.
Watch, Rudge.
In about two weeks, people are going to get tired of you all bashing Obama.
Obama came with a great speech, most eloquent speech in U.S. history.
He clarified and he defended everything that you all have been talking about.
Carl.
And y'all still are bashing him.
I mean, y'all did y'all job.
Y'all put the information out there.
Let the American people make their decision.
The criticism of Obama hasn't even really begun.
Wait till he gets the nomination and the presidential campaign, the actual general election unfolds and the criticism of Obama.
You think it's this is nothing compared to what's ahead.
And the same thing's headed for Senator McCain.
It's the nature of our politics.
Now, you're putting all this gasoline money in your SUV.
I want you to think about something.
Gasoline prices did not start skyrocketing until Democrats took over the Congress in November of 2006.
Would you believe me if I told you that existing home sales rose in February by 2.9%?
Existing home sales rose 2.9%.
Would you believe it?
It's true, folks.
It is true.
And there's a simple reason for it.
Prices are down.
It's a great entry-level market.
We'll be back.
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