Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, you want to quit the yapping in there when the program has started?
You're the official program observer.
You've got to be listening to observe to find the phantom phone cable so I can record stuff on my DVR, Brian.
We're probably going to have to call a phone company, right?
Good, good.
Better not, because that'll just delay it, you know, three years.
Till they show up.
Now, I can't record on my DVR.
There's a show on the mating habits, the Australian rabid bat coming up, and I'd set it up.
I said, can't record.
You're not authorized.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Operation Chaos, Commanding Officer El Rushbo, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, torture, humiliation, and even the good times.
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Have you seen this story about Knut, the polar bear, the little baby polar bear that the animal rights wackos wanted to kill rather than have it be raised by humans?
Newt the polar bear has turned from a cuddly cub, this is in the UK Daily Mail, into a publicity-addicted psycho.
According to one of his keepers, Marcus Rebke said that the Berlin Zoo's celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience.
Newt must go, and the sooner the better, he said, insisting that the bear ought to be sent to an animal park where he received less attention.
This bear is addicted to the whole show, the human adulation.
It's not healthy.
He actually cries out or whimpers if he sees that there's not a spectator outside the enclosure ready to ooh and ah at him.
When the zoo had to shut because of black ice, everybody, he howled until staff members stood before him and calmed him down.
The trouble is, said Mr. Rebke, the keeper here, is that Newt identifies himself as a human and not as a polar bear.
And as long as he's with us, he'll always think of the keeper who brought him up when he was a baby as his father.
Newt needs publicity, and that has to change.
We're not allowed to have...
Do you believe these nuts?
We got a polar bear addicted to celebrity.
And they got to get the poor polar bear.
Rebke's not the only observer to question Knut's sanity, it says here in the story.
They think the polar bear is insane.
They're blaming us.
They're blaming humanity for it.
In January, a prominent animal conservationist branded Newt an animal psychopath.
You know, wait till this story hits the school kids.
Wait till the kids who already think the polar bears are being wiped out because of the global warming hoax, wait till they hear what evil humans have done to this poor bear.
And get this.
Get this, folks.
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, this is Ed Markey's committee, is going to hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 1st.
This has got to be a hoax.
This just can't, but it looks official.
Tuesday, April 1st at 12 p.m. in the Longworth House Office building.
It's entitled Drilling for Answers, Oil Company Profits, Runaway Prices, and Pursuit of Alternatives.
Witnesses will be by invitation only.
Now, normally, the Democrats want to impose higher prices on fuel, on energy, correct?
And now they're going to have hearings when the prices have gone too high.
The purpose of Ed Machi's hearings is to find out, again, if big oil is gouging people.
They've wanted higher prices.
They've begged for it.
They think that's a great way to get conservation.
How are we supposed to respond to this schizophrenic flip-flopping?
It's like trying to reason with the insane.
I think Marky ought to call as one of his witnesses, Knut, the polar bear.
Listen to this from Barack Obama yesterday, Greensboro, North Carolina, at a campaign event.
He's talking about his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
This is somebody who was preaching three sermons at least a week for 30 years and got boiled down into, they found five or six of his most offensive statements, boiled that down into a half an hour sound clip or a half minute sound clip and just played it over and over and over again.
Partly because it spoke to some of the racial divisions that we have in this country and it tapped into some of those divisions.
I hope people don't get distracted by that.
Too late.
We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.
Nice try, Barack, but the dirty little secret is that you, sir, are the candidate of unity.
If you are the candidate of unity, why can't you even bring your own party together?
Why can't you and Hillary get together and solve this instead of having Operation Chaos prolong all of this disunity?
I mean, these people are starting to tear each other apart.
Now, this is great.
By the way, this is exactly the purpose.
When we sat down and designed Operation Chaos, this was exactly the purpose.
This guy can't unify anybody, and now he's blaming us for his pastor.
The New York Daily, I'm sorry, New York Post today got a great headline on Elliot Spitzer, and there he hoes again.
Disgraced Governor Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call girl ring.
The post has learned irregularly patronized wicked models.
The Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents, and other evidence unearthed in a year-long prostitution investigation, ladies and gentlemen.
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Did you see Mrs. Clinton last night by any chance on the Fox News channel with Greta Van Sustrin?
They're not going anywhere, folks.
I told you yesterday, she's talking about a credentials fight at the convention.
They have no idea.
I mean, they had no intention of losing this nomination.
And Clinton's out there saying to Obama, hey, look, pal, you know, you're sitting up there and you're acting all upset.
All these attacks.
If you don't want to get hit, then you don't get in the ring.
If you don't want to get hit, you don't get in politics.
You're going to have to man up out there, man, because you act like a little wimp and little baby.
If you think we're going away, you can't unify it.
Ask Limbaugh.
Limbaugh knows me.
He knows us.
You're whistling Dixie down there, pal.
You don't want to whistle that too loud where you've been lately.
So they're having all kinds of problems uniting people here.
And Obama is the lead unifier.
And it ain't going to happen.
In fact, Joe Klein at Time Magazine has suggested, ladies and gentlemen, that if they actually go to the convention and it starts to, it falls apart there and they have their credentials fight, that the superdelegates is take 100 superdelegates to say, nope, we're not voting for either of these two.
We want Al Gore.
Joe Klein at Time Magazine suggesting Al Gore and Obama as the ticket.
Mr. Klein, you know the Clintons as well as any of us, and you know that that isn't going to fly.
So Operation Chaos, ladies and gentlemen, is unfolding before our eyes in ways we wouldn't even have dreamt of.
It is delightful to see in at the Christian Science Monitor today.
There's a story by Dante Chinney, and it's actually quite hilarious.
The guy's headline is this, rushing to register Limbaugh's efforts not yet showing signs of big effects in Pennsylvania, which is wishful thinking on the part of the drive-by media.
But by the end of this guy's piece, he's not so sure that Operation Chaos won't have an impact.
Details coming up.
In the meantime, on Fox and Friends this morning, the Fox News channel, Gretchen Carlson is talking with the official judge of the Fox News channel, Andrew Napolitano, who looks, and he's a friend of mine.
He looks like an adult Eddie Munster.
Judge Napolitano is asked the following question by the lovely and gracious Gretchen Carlson.
Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Ohio in the state's Democrat presidential primary.
Now some of the voters who may have helped her get that win could go to jail.
It's true that they could face jail.
It's true that some election commissioners in one county in Ohio want to investigate this.
It is extremely unlikely that they would ever go to jail for exercising their right to vote in somebody else's primary.
Rush Limbaugh was participating in a great American institution.
This has been going on for 100 years.
You vote in your opponent's party and you vote for the weaker of the candidates in your opponent's party.
Look, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that no government official can interrogate you as to who you voted for and why you voted for that person.
Nor can they sit out there and have loyalty oaths as they did in Ohio.
So it's going to be very interesting to watch these next few months, ladies and gentlemen, who's going to fix this?
Who is going to fix the mess the Democrat Party's found itself in?
Harry Reid going to fix it?
Howard Dean going to work it out?
Superdelegates, are they going to settle this?
What?
Are we being had?
Senator Obama, we are told, is first an instrument of hope and then an instrument of change.
Obama and his followers say that his biggest asset is bringing both sides together.
His both sides are liberals.
I mean, both sides in the fight, the Democrat Party are liberals.
Some might call themselves progressives, but others might call themselves liberals.
But that's another story for another time.
Obama and his followers and his adorers have decided he can bring us all together, that he can reach across aisles.
He can reach across oceans.
Who knows?
He might be able to reach across galaxies, bring people together to find common ground from the mountaintop.
And so, my friends, Operation Chaos is now facing its greatest challenge.
Will Obama show his proclaimed talents, reach across the aisle to the Clinton campaign?
Have you ever stopped to really consider this?
This fight is between liberals and liberals.
The war is between liberals and liberals.
If you can't unify liberals, how in the world can you unify anybody else?
If he can do it, then he might be able to put an end to Operation Chaos, which is now facing its greatest challenge if Obama shows his proclaimed talents to reach across the aisle to the Clinton campaign.
If Obama can convince her, her being Hillary, then he might well convince the rest of us.
It's not just Barack Obama in the news, ladies and gentlemen, his lovely and gracious wife, lovely and angry wife, Michelle Mybel Obama.
A YouTube video of her has surfaced of a speech that she gave January 23rd, 2008.
And in it, she sounds like Rosalind Carter.
You remember when Rosalind Carter, talking about Ronald Reagan, said he makes us comfortable with our prejudices?
This infuriated me.
Here was Rosalind Carter saying Reagan's a bigot and a racist and a sexist and all those clichés that they attach to conservatives.
But he's so sweet and he's got such an engaging personality.
He's so charismatic that he makes us comfortable with our prejudices, as though prejudices that liberals hold are the fault of conservatives.
Michelle Mybel Obama said pretty much the same thing on January 23rd, 2008 in Columbia, South Carolina.
We don't like being pushed outside of our comfort zones.
You know it right here on this campus.
No folks are sitting at different tables, y'all living in different dorms.
I was there.
Y'all not talking to each other, taking advantage of the fact that you're in this diverse community.
Because sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions.
It makes you feel justified in your ignorance.
That's America.
So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
Were you listening?
Look at me, folks.
Look at me.
She said, because sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions.
It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance.
That's America.
This was just last January.
This woman and her husband have no question been influenced by Jeremiah Wright and wherever else they have been.
So she said, the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
Now, I wonder where in the world dear Michelle Obama could have learned such a thing about stereotypes?
Did she perhaps learn this at her Ivy League school?
Did she learn this at the hospital that paid her $300,000 a year?
This quote, it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions.
It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance.
That's America.
So the challenge for us is, were we ready for change?
This quote and the attitudes of people like Michelle Obama ticked me off.
The essence of conservatism is that it does not care what race, sex, or creed a person is.
They on the left are the ones obsessed with those markers.
Yet they on the left have to tag us constantly with racism.
It's their projection.
As anybody can see, the racism in this country is on full display.
Smack dab in the middle of the Democrat Party.
As usual, we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Grab a phone call in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Susan, hi, Susan.
Great to have you here with us.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you?
Just fine, Susan.
Great to have you.
Oh, thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
Why don't you start?
I don't know if you heard everything I said to your wonderful man who answered the phone and spoke with me, but you start because I'm so nervous now I can't even breathe.
Well, that happens to many people.
I've been where you are.
I used to be a caller before I became the nation's most accomplished and achieved host.
And I know what it's like to sit out there on hold.
You call in, you talk to the call screener.
Right.
Call screener makes you feel really good, and then you go back on hold, and then you're waiting, and you're waiting, and you're waiting.
And finally, you hear in the telephone, hi, Susan, you're there, and you freeze, right?
Of course, but you're making me feel better already.
Now you've probably forgotten what you've called about, in which case I could talk to you about anything I choose.
I know, but no, I just remembered in that moment you gave me to catch my breath, and I appreciate it.
So, what I want to say is, you know, my very best friend in the world, you know, talk about campaigns and things like that.
I've hung up on him three times and kicked him out of my house once in the past couple weeks over politics.
Wait, wait, Because I support Barack.
Now, wait a minute.
And he supports McCain, okay?
Wait a second.
Now you're going a little bit too fast.
Okay, I know I am.
But let me get back to what's important.
Can I?
Because that's not.
Jeez.
Okay, so.
Can we go back to when you were nervous?
I know.
I was better.
I was better.
And I apologize.
No, no, no.
A question.
Okay.
Your best friend's a guy.
Yes, sir.
Is it your husband?
No, Your boyfriend?
No.
Oh, that's a dangerous situation.
No, we could go on for that.
That's a dangerous.
That's not my point here today.
Okay, okay.
For communication to occur, one of us has to speak while and the other has to listen.
Are you married?
Divorced.
And your best friend's a guy.
Yeah.
Do you have a boyfriend?
No.
That's why.
Well, no, no.
Well, let's not get into that right now because seriously, I want to talk about the campaign.
I mean it.
Okay, okay, okay.
I'm just trying to help you.
Okay, I think I can go now without going crazy.
Okay.
Okay, let's talk about the campaign.
Okay.
Now, I don't agree with you, but I listen to you every day because it's important for me to hear your views.
And I agree with many of your views, but many I don't.
The right issue, I'm not even going to talk about it.
Yeah, well, let me warn you of one thing.
Okay.
You keep listening.
Oh, I am.
I'm never going to turn you off.
I have turned you off when you got me mad, but I turned you back on because I got to listen.
There was a comma there after you keep listening.
I wasn't through.
It was not a period.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay, tell me to listen.
Tell me.
I can't listen with my mouth.
I can't listen with my mouth.
Thank you.
Some women can, and that's fun.
Okay.
Now, if you keep listening, you are going to end up agreeing with everything.
It'll eventually happen.
Oh, no.
It does to everybody.
He ends up in calling you.
Just wanted to warn you.
Now, let's get back to you.
You love Obama.
That's where I think we left off the campaign.
You know what?
I feel bad for my buddy because, you know, the Republican race is over.
He didn't, you know, he's accepting McCain, and I do too.
But what I want is who's going to be the Republican?
You've got to find us a great Republican running mate, a guy that has vision, a guy that has the vision of Barack.
Then we've got a great fight on our hands.
And you and Sean Hannity and all you Republicans don't.
Oh, I didn't mean to say you're Republicans.
I didn't mean to give you that lump.
But boy, that's what I want to hear from you right now.
I want to have a fight with my friend and say, okay, you tell me about your guy, and I'm going to stand up and tell you about my guy.
But I want him to have a significant.
Okay, is that a bad idea or a good idea?
No, I have no input whatsoever in Senator McCain's choice of a vice president.
Oh, I know, but I wish you would tell me who was great to look at because I want to.
I'm going to give you two names.
Bobby Jendal, a governor of Louisiana, and Chris Cox, a former congressman from California at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And there are a lot of others.
He's got to go with a youthful guy, and he's got to go with a conservative guy.
You know, you know.
An open-minded guy.
Open-minded guy?
Well, in a way.
What does that mean?
You know what it's like?
The principal and the vice president.
When a liberal says you need an open-minded, what does that mean?
No, Okay, let's go back to Spanish.
The last thing we need is another moderate on our ticket.
I mean, it was just, what, four or five years ago that Senator McCain was toying with leaving our party.
2001, he was toying with leaving the party.
In 2004, he was toying with being Kerry's vice president.
We are so screwed.
I have no clue who Senator McCain is going to pick as his vice presidential running mate.
In fact, I want to hear another McCain.
I was playing some McCain parodies and going back through the archives, and I found a couple last night.
This was one of them.
Grab the other one, Mike.
After that speech, I can't tell you the emails I got after that speech.
People are so talking third party, so depressed, so down in the dumps.
We talked about the League of Democracies.
Now, wait a minute.
You know what?
The purpose.
I was watching Charles Krauthammer last night on the Fox All-Stars on Britt Hume's show.
And Krauthammer said, I like this League of Democracies idea primarily because I proposed it six months ago, six weeks, six years ago.
And apparently what the League of Democracies is all about is eliminating or overshadowing the United Nations.
But McCain can't say.
Now, why can't McCain say that?
If he believes it, why can't he say it?
If that's what the purpose of the League of Democracies is, why can't he say that?
At any rate, McCain's not going to pull us out of the United Nations.
There's no way.
But I'd say there were a lot of people that were just.
You should have seen the email.
That's it.
I've had it.
I don't care what happened.
I'm not voting for me.
It's anecdotal evidence here, but I mean, there were literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these things.
Anyway, I got to get this out of my system here.
We'll get to Operation Chaos stuff here in mere moments.
Another McCain did he.
Hi, welcome back, Rushland.
Boy, as usual, I have my brain tied behind my back.
Just to be fair, just to make it fair for everybody involved.
After the McCain speech yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, there's even some problems now in the White House.
Listen.
Pretty much sums it up.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
And John in South Bend, Indiana.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're next.
Well, I hope you mean me, Rush.
Only a real friend would tell you this, but I'm afraid Operation Chaos has accomplished nothing positive.
It is only undermining your own purposes, as you yourself have acknowledged, inadvertently, I believe, when you acknowledged that Hillary would not have dropped out even if she had lost the Texas primary vote.
Had that happened, Hillary would have stayed in.
She would have been more desperate, would have been more ruthless and vicious.
And therefore, if anything, Operation Chaos is only mitigating the amount of Democrat chaos.
Here's the problem: McCain would have beaten Obama handily.
That's becoming obvious because of all the mistakes Obama is starting to make.
The clincher, you don't seem to realize, or didn't seem to realize, if Obama were the nominee, the Clintons would do everything possible to sabotage him, maybe even Fort Marcy Park.
Now, if only you had held your fire a little bit longer.
Obama needed one or two more big wins to really become inevitable.
You jumped the gun, thereby making President Hillary a near certainty McCain won't beat Hillary.
She'll do anything to win.
And after Hillary steals the nomination, she will offer the vice presidency to Obama, and he will take it, thereby foiling your plan to leave the Democrats divided.
And you and I shouldn't even talk publicly about that Al Gore prospect because we don't want to give the Democrats any ideas.
Well, I didn't bring that up as Joe Prince in Time magazine.
I know you didn't.
But, you know, according to the scenario you just laid out, why are they even going to need Al Gore?
If you think Operation Chaos has been counter effective, why does it matter?
What's the Al Gore option even relevant for?
By eliminating Obama, you leave two other possibilities.
One, Hillary will steal a nomination, as you have acknowledged and declared is likely to happen.
Or the other possibility, which is becoming more and more imminent, the Democrat leaders may conclude that both these two are so damaged that they will have to turn to Al Gore on a second ballot brokered scenario.
All of that, I submit to you, is Operation Chaos.
But all that.
And I'm telling you, I don't.
But either one leads to a loss for the Republicans.
McCain can beat Obama.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
I will have no role, and I will take no blame, and I will accept no responsibility for a Republican loss.
I am not the Republican candidate.
I am not the architect of a screwball Republican strategy that seeks the presidency this year that is alienating the party he needs to vote for him.
I am not going to accept responsibility for whatever happens in the presidential race.
I'm doing my part with Operation Chaos to see that despite how badly the Republicans botch this campaign, that our party might still have some chance of winning.
You know, Senator McCain struck out yesterday, you know, saddling up to the hate America crowd, no conservative principles in that speech.
If he loses the presidency, it's nobody's fault but his and his parties for being unable to unify his own party behind him.
And that's going to be nobody's fault but his and theirs.