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March 27, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 27, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, you want to quit the yappin in there when the program is started.
You're the official program observer.
You gotta be listening to observe.
To find the phantom phone cable so I can record stuff on my DVR, Brian.
We're probably gonna have to call a phone company, right?
Yeah, 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 rabbit bat coming up, and I'd set it up and say you can't record, you're not authorized.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Operation Chaos, Commanding Officer L. Rushbow, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, torture, humiliation, and even the good times.
We're here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the subterranean, well fortified EIB Southern Command.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Have you heard had you seen this story about Canute, the polar bear, you know, 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 uh the keeper here, uh, is that Newt identifies himself as a human and uh 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 gotta get the poor polar bear.
Now, Rebke's not the only observer to question Knut's sanity, it says here in the story.
They think the polar bear's 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 gonna 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 a 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 gonna have hearings when the prices have gone too high.
The purpose of Ed Mackey's hearings is to find out again if big oil is gouging people.
Uh they've all they've wanted higher prices.
They've begged for it.
They think that's a great way to get conservation.
How we how are we supposed to respond to this schizophrenic flip-flopping?
It's like trying to reason with the insane.
I think Markey ought to call as one of his witnesses, Knut.
The polar bear listened to this from Barack Obama yesterday, Greensboro, North Carolina, at a campaign event.
He's talking about um his former pastor, uh, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
This is somebody who was preaching three sermons at least a week for 30 years.
And so got boiled down into they they found five or six of their his most offensive statements, boiled that down Into a half an hour sound clip or a a half minute, 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 tribe, 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 start 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 Elliott 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 he regularly 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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Operation Chaos.
Did you see Mrs. Clinton last night by any chance on the Fox News channel with Greta Van Sustran?
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, and 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 got you're gonna 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 and ask Limbaugh.
Limbaugh knows me, he knows we know us.
You're you're whistling Dixie down there, pal, and 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.
Uh, and Obama is the lead unifier.
And it ain't gonna happen.
They're 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 just take a hundred 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 uh that isn't going to fly.
Uh so Operation Chaos, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is unfolding before our eyes in ways we wouldn't even have dreamt of.
It is delightful to see in um at the uh Christian Science Monitor today.
There's a story by Dante Chinney.
And it's 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 the Fox and Friends this morning in 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, don't mean he looks like an adult Eddie Munster.
Judge Napolitano is asked the following question by the lovely and gracious uh 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 a hundred 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 uh in Ohio.
So uh it's gonna be very interesting to watch these next few months, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Who's gonna fix this?
Who is going to fix the mess the Democrat Party's found itself in?
Harry Reed gonna fix it?
Howard Dean gonna work it out.
Superdelegates, are they gonna 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 My Bell 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 Roslyn 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 cliches 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 pledges, uh prejudices, as though prejudices that liberals hold are the fault of conservatives.
Michelle My Bell 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.
Oh, but there.
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 to were we ready for change.
This quote and the attitudes of people like Michelle Obama tick 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.
I'm Should be allowed to have.
Grab a phone call in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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 uh 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 uh 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 you're waiting.
And finally you hear in the in the telephone, hi, Susan, you're next and you freeze, right?
Of course, but here you're making me feel better already, and I'm not sure.
Now you've probably forgotten what you've taught 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.
All right.
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 on hum hung up on him three times and kicked him out of my house once in the past couple weeks over politics.
Wait, wait, wait.
Because I support Barack.
Now wait.
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 geez?
Okay, 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, your best friend's a guy.
Yes, sir.
Is it your husband?
No, no, no, no, no.
Your boyfriend?
No.
Oh, that's a dangerous situation.
No, we could go on for that for a while.
That's not my point here today.
Okay, okay.
For communication to occur, one of us has to speak while the uh and the other has to listen.
Uh are you married?
Divorced.
And your best friend's a guy.
Yeah.
Do you have a boyfriend?
No.
That's why.
Well, no, no, we don't well, let's not get into that right now, because seriously, I want to talk about the campaign.
Well 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 just let me just let me just war let me warn You of one thing.
Okay.
You keep listening.
Oh, I am.
I'm never going to turn you.
I have turned you off when you got me mad, but I turn you back on because I gotta 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 bless then.
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, uh the nuts.
If you keep listening, you you are gonna end up agreeing with everything.
It'll eventually happen.
Oh no.
It does to everybody.
Just wanted to warn you.
Can we now let's we get back to you love 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 gonna be the Republican.
You gotta find us a great Republican running mate, a guy that has vision, a guy that has the vision of Barack.
Then we 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 gonna stand up and tell you about my guy.
But I want him to have it.
Okay, is that is that a bad idea or a good aid?
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 is great to look at, because I want to I want to.
Okay, I'll give you two.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you two names.
Bobby Gendal, a governor of uh Louisiana, and Chris Cox, a former Congressman from California at the uh securities and exchange commission.
And there are a lot of others.
He's got to go with a youthful guy, and he's gotta go with a conservative guy.
You know, you know, an open-minded guy.
Open-minded guy?
Well, in a way.
What does that mean?
What's like the principal and the vice president?
No, when a when a liberal says you need an open-minded, what is that?
Well, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, let's go back to 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.
Two thousand one he was toying with leaving the party.
In two thousand four, 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.
and In fact, I'm I uh I want to hear another McCain.
We were playing some McCain parodies and uh going back through the archives, and I found a couple last night.
This was one of them Mark m grab the other one, Mike.
I've just uh I'm on uh the after that speech.
I can't tell you the emails I got after that speech.
People are so they're talking third parties, so depressed, so down in the dumps.
Uh what you know, we talked about the League of Uh 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 uh Crowdhammer said, I like this League of Democracies idea, primarily because I proposed it six months ago, six weeks, six years ago.
And apparently the League of Democracies is all about is eliminating or overshadowing the United Nations.
Um but McCain can't say 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?
Um at any rate, uh McCain's not gonna pull us out of the United Nations.
There's no way.
But I'd say there are a lot of people uh 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 gotta get this out of my system here.
Look at the Operation Chaos stuff here in mere moments.
Another McCain did he.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limboys Usual.
I have my brain tied behind my back.
Just to be fair.
Just to make it fair for everybody uh 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's starting to make.
The clincher, you don'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 Klein's idea in Time magazine.
I know you didn't.
But uh, you know, the the uh well according to the scenario you just laid out, why were why are they even gonna need Al Gore?
If you think Operation Chaos is uh has been counter effective, right?
Why are they even gonna be why what does it matter?
Why why what is it what why do you 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 uh imminent, uh 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, yes, I submit to you is Operation Chaos.
But all and I'm I'm telling you, I I don't 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 botched this campaign, that our party might still have some chance of winning.
You know, Senator McCain, you know, it 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 of his and theirs.
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