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I heard this, and I can't, I haven't had time to check this or to confirm it.
So, but my memory is it was a reputable source where I saw this.
It might have been over the weekend.
You know, this house that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church bought for him for $1.6 million in a gated community, a little over 10,000 square feet, plus a $10 million line of credit.
Somebody said that that house is in a white neighborhood, gated community.
Oh, I hope that is true.
I hope that it would be even better if it's in a Gold Coast.
Have you seen Minister Farrakhan's mansion in Chicago?
I mean, this thing would blow you away.
That's a lot of bean pies they had to sell of Bill Farrakhan's mansion.
And that's, you know, I just love the hypocrisy on that side of the aisle.
I just do.
Now, when we review these numbers, by the way, that I heard Tony Blankly mention, this is one of the reasons why the Clintons are pressing on.
Now, they're pressing on for psychological reasons.
They're pressing on for entitlement reasons and just because they're the Clintons, but there are also some political facts here that are contributing to this.
Right now, some people on the Democrat side are proposing all kinds of ways to solve this contretemp.
And that is, well, let's look at the states with the candidate who has won the most electoral votes.
That would be Hillary.
Well, let's look at a popular vote.
That right now would be Obama.
And then, of course, the superdelegates, then the Credentials Committee at the convention.
There's any number of ways people are trying to figure it out.
Fast Eddie Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, has said that whoever wins Pennsylvania wins the nomination.
Not as far as Obama's, I mean, the candidates aren't going to say that.
After Pennsylvania, one of them is not going to drop out.
But that's what Fast Eddie is doing.
He's a Clinton supporter.
But here are the numbers.
Let's look at the popular vote side, since some people are suggesting that could be an arbiter here.
Right now, I think, according to, if I heard Tony Blankly correctly, she's behind the 700,000 popular votes somewhere in that range.
And of the 700,000 give or take popular votes that she's behind, more than 600,000 of the popular votes that she's behind are from Illinois, which is Obama's state.
The number is 639,109 popular votes that Obama got over Hillary in Illinois.
Now, of those 600,000 that Obama is ahead of Hillary in Illinois, more than 400,000 of the 600,000 are from one county, Cook County, Chicago.
You remember what was the beer, the slogan, the beer that made Milwaukee famous?
Was it Paps Blue Ribbon?
The beer?
Schlitz.
Okay, Schlitz.
Yeah, Schlitz, Pap's Blue Ribbon.
It was Pap.
It was Paps.
Paps Blue Ribbon.
Yep.
It's Schlitz.
Okay, Schlitzen made Milwaukee famous.
Well, Cook County is the county that made election rigging famous.
And I'm telling you, 400,000 of the 700,000 popular votes that Obama's ahead by came from Cook County.
Now, the Clintons can't point this out.
They dare not point this out because it's a Democrat power base, but they know it.
They know what's going on.
This is one of the reasons why they are staying in.
You throw Illinois out of this, and the popular vote, they're only separated here by 100,000 if you throw Illinois out of this.
Operation Chaos.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Let's go back to me on this program yesterday about Senator McCain and the Republican Party.
Let's pretend the election is today, and that McCain wins it, and he wins it with a sizable margin.
And he does so by attracting Democrats, liberals, and independents to his otherwise Republican coalition.
Do you know what's going to happen then, folks?
I'm not trying to depress you.
I'm trying to prepare you.
You know what's going to happen then?
We are going to have a revival of the whole notion that Rockefeller Republicans, that country club blue-blood Republicans are the way to go and the way to get victories.
That conservatism, the conservatism of Reagan is dead.
I said that on this program yesterday.
Keep that in mind as we listen to the next soundbite.
Last night, Hannity and Combs, Fox News channel, Bob Beckle and Sean Hannity have this exchange.
Your conservative cycles, you're in Hughes, are over, man.
That's the 80s and 90s.
This country is now 5% center-left.
It was 15% center-right.
It is not there anymore.
And you guys, frankly, you're dealing with a lot of dinosaurs.
All right.
There's Bob Beckle confirming exactly what I said in terms of what this country is going to look like, in his mind, looks like now.
The point of this, the reason that I wanted you to hear the soundbite, Bob Beckle is a Democrat.
He ran the campaign of Walter Ifmondo.
Beckle might have had something to do with the notion of superdelegates.
Somebody told me that too, and I'm not sure if I heard that correctly.
But regardless, big, big Democrat.
And he's out there saying, hey, look, pal, it's a 5% center-left country.
It was 15% center-right.
It's not there anymore.
You guys, frankly, dealing with a lot of dinosaurs.
Your conservative cycle, it's over, man.
That's 80s and 90s.
The problem is that this is the exact point of view of many conservative media types who are attempting to make that prediction by Beckel or that statement a reality by trying to simply, it's bad enough.
I mean, it's serious enough when the, well, it's actually par for the course when the left tries to write off conservatism and portray it inaccurately as a minority movement and losing ground and so forth.
When people on our own side pick this up and then start championing it, which is what has happened, then you got a problem.
And Beckel is, you know, he wasn't even talking about the election of McCain, but I'm telling you that if McCain wins this, according to the conventional wisdom of today, by getting a lot of Democrats and independents, that's exactly what people on our side are going to say.
They're going to say, there is no conservatism anymore.
There never was.
Reagan wasn't even a conservative.
You conservatives, I mean, you never have been as powerful as you think.
You're whistling, Dixie.
You're longing for an icon from the 80s.
There's only one of those guys, and he wasn't even that conservative.
Get over it.
We are now a centerist party, meaning moderates, independents, and so forth, which the reason the so-called conservatives on our side like that notion is because they're big government guys.
They're part of the Washington establishment.
Washington is government.
And the bigger the better, and the more positions you can get, the more influence you have over Washington policy, the bigger you think you are.
And of course, conservatives eliminate as much of government as possible.
It's not the focus of our endeavors, infiltrating it and growing it and using it as our base.
We believe that individuals and the free market and liberty and freedom are the keys to American greatness, continued prosperity, not government.
All these centrists, be they leftists, Democrats, or Republicans, by comparison, are actually liberals, and they want to get their hands on government to use it to empower themselves in a whole bunch of different ways.
And this is what we face with a McCain victory.
I also came across from the Center for Immigration Studies last night something fascinating.
You know, the immigration issue, the illegal immigration issue, the open borders people on our side, the open borders people of the conservative, so-called conservative media, have been saying, immigration is not going to be an issue.
I mean, it's irrelevant.
You guys that are, you know, all big on illegal immigration, you're really, you're going to ruin the party here because we've got to have open borders.
You've got to have these people in where immigration has made the country great.
It's not going to be a political issue.
It's not going to be a big issue at all, they say.
And they cite McCain.
Look, McCain won the Republican nomination.
He's a huge open borders guy.
I mean, he had the McCain-Kennedy bill to open the borders and let the illegals keep coming in and to basically grant them amnesty.
So how can you guys, meaning me and others like me, how can you guys say illegal immigration is a big issue when McCain got the Republican nomination?
I may have the answer.
A new poll using neutral language finds that primary and caucus voters have little knowledge of candidates' immigration positions.
The results also show that voters often don't share their candidate's position.
Among the findings, this is fascinating.
Only 34% of McCain voters correctly identified their candidate as favoring eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements.
Only 34% of McCain voters correctly identified his position.
42% of Clinton voters correctly identified her position.
52% of Obama's voters know what his immigrant is.
And by the way, the position from all these three candidates is identical.
You know, open borders, amnesty, to let them in, let them register to vote, let them get into college.
These three candidates have the same view.
But only 34% of McCain voters know what his view is.
And get this.
Of McCain voters, 35% mistakenly thought he favored enforcement that would cause illegals to return home.
Another 10% thought McCain wanted mass deportations.
And 21% didn't know his position.
So if you add up these numbers, 66% of McCain voters are totally clueless about his position and his role in the issue of illegal immigration.
Voters often held different positions from the candidate they supported.
Only 31% of McCain voters had the same immigration position he does.
Whoever wins the presidency, it says here, will face significant opposition to giving eventual citizenship to illegal immigrants.
Just 25% of Republicans and 50% of Democrat primary voters said they would support amnesty, eventual citizenship.
Just 25% of Republican voters said they would support it.
66% of McCain's voters don't have any idea what his position is.
You can add the numbers up and you can put this together, and it's a disaster waiting to happen.
In my house, America Jane girls, they're part of the Rick James harem.
And we're back, and we have Investors Business Daily, and this is from yesterday's edition.
And it is true that the Reverend Jeremiah White's home is in Tinley Park, an affluent Chicago suburb.
The area has seen a boom in growth from mostly non-Hispanic whites who buy upscale homes in new subdivisions like the one Wright lives in or is going to move into.
And it's on a golf course.
Reverend Wright's new house is in a gated community on a golf course, and it is a basically non-Hispanic white neighborhood.
Now, this is all fine.
This is all well and good.
This is the American dream.
This is the American Dream.
Buy your house, move up.
The problem for Reverend Wright is that he's condemned all this for the rest of America.
He's condemned all of this.
He has told his flock at the church, do not, do not get in bed with rich white people.
Do not get involved in middle classness.
And Michelle Obama has even given that speech to some poor women in Ohio.
He has condemned the American dream in sermon after sermon after sermon.
He says the American Dream is part of a white conspiracy to get blacks hooked on middle class materialism and separate them from the inner city and their African roots.
This is all part of the black liberation theology, false Christian doctrine promulgated by Marxist-leaning black writers in the 1960s that espouses economic parody and other collectivist claptrap.
And yet here he is typical liberal, typical liberal, telling his flock, stay poor, stay related to your ancestors in Africa, don't consort with rich white people, while he moves into a neighborhood with nothing but rich white people and a golf course to boot.
Think Reverend Wright plays golf?
If he does, I would love to get video of that.
How much more white can you be than to go out there and play golf?
What did you say?
What I'm giving up, I'm giving.
What am I doing here?
Oh, Reverend Wright.
Where is he supposed to live?
Well, I tell you, what?
He's supposed to stay in the hood.
He's supposed to stay in the ghetto.
That's what all the successful rappers are told.
Those rappers are told you're selling out if you move out of the neighborhood, man.
Once you strike him, you're supposed to stay there.
Now, somebody like Reverend Wright, I'm sure, doesn't want to deal with the crime problems, the security problems of the hood.
And so he's got a gate now for that to keep his flock out of his house.
Reverend Wright, you want to hear Hillary Clinton's April Fool's joke today?
This was in Philadelphia this morning.
It's audio sound by number 25, Mr. Broadcast Engineer, and Hillary Clinton's April Fool's joke.
Today, I am challenging Senator Obama to a bowl-off, a bowling night, right here in Pennsylvania.
Winner, take all.
I'll even spot him two frames.
It's time for his campaign to get out of the gutter and allow all of the pins to be counted.
And I'm prepared to play this game all the way to the 10th frame.
And when this game is over, the American people will know when that phone rings at 3 a.m., They'll have a president who's ready to bowl on day one.
So let's strike a deal and go bowling for delegates.
We don't have a moment to spare because it's already April Fool's Day.
So happy April Fool's Day, everybody.
Mrs. Clinton's joke, a bowl off.
The only thing wrong with this is if they're actually going to do this, you don't do this in Pennsylvania.
I have nothing against Pennsylvania, but the tomb of the unknown bowler is in Raytown, Missouri.
It is right outside Kansas City.
And if they're going to do this, that's, I mean, that's Raytown, Missouri, the capital of this kind of stuff.
That's where they got to have the bowl up, a neutral state right in the middle of the country.
It does border Illinois, but I think Hillary could somehow allow that to happen since Illinois has already voted.
Louisville, Kentucky, JT, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
I heard the call that calls yesterday.
I believe it was a tall brought up the antique law about not being able to switch after December and still be able to vote.
But I registered in 2001 as an independent, sir, and am waiting for orders from you.
So you're not encumbered in Kentucky by that law that said you had to be registered to vote by December 31st because you're an independent.
Yes, sir.
I'm fairly young.
I just turned 31, and it just seemed fair to me that come election times.
I should be able to have a voice in both sides.
So I registered independent, and I know it's a little early.
I think we're going to go to the next step.
Let me ask you a question here because I have a look.
Kentucky's not till May 20th, right?
Yes, sir.
That's correct.
All right, so that's a little, let's wait on down the pike here.
This is about six or seven weeks away, and I haven't looked.
Can independents vote in Democrat and Republican primaries?
From what I understand, I have been told from everyone I've asked that I can because I want to be a part of what's going on.
Well, and you want to be part of Operation Chaos?
Absolutely.
See, another volunteer.
Nobody gets drafted into Operation Chaos.
We have another volunteer here, ladies and gentlemen.
This is easy, JT.
You simply, as a registered independent, by May 20th, I'm telling you, it'll still be necessary to vote Mrs. Clinton in the Kentucky primary.
And we are back, as usual, utilizing half my brain, the other half tied behind my back to make it fair and talent on loan from God.
Senator McCain was on Good Morning America today with Diane Sawyer.
And she said, on the big things, is America in for four more years with the McCain presidency of a Bush presidency?
Is that a fair question to ask you, Senator?
Oops.
Do we not have audio sounds?
I'm going to be very different policies that I have with the president.
Climate change is one of the major issues that differences for nearly four years.
I fought hard against the failed strategy in Iraq and called for the new strategy that's succeeding.
There's a number of issues, but the point is, I'm not running on the Bush presidency.
I'm running on my own service to the country, my own record in the House of Representatives in the United States Senate, and my vision for the future.
Okay, so McCain's not running on the Bush presidency.
He's running on global warming.
Is that you?
He's give us what a Gore presidency would be other than a war in Iraq.
Very different policies that I have with the president.
Climate change, one of the major issues, that differences.
Nearly four years, I fought hard against the failed strategy in Iraq.
I'm holding my fire.
It's, I know, I know.
Harry Reid says the same.
Don't get me started.
Snerdley, if I get started here, Jack Murphy uses the same word.
I know.
Jack Murphy uses the same words.
Harry Reid, the failed strategy.
Harry Reid uses the same strategy.
Nancy Pelosi uses the same words, the same.
So then, Diane Sawyer's next question.
Well, today, well, here, we have the whole exchange.
Today, you're going back to Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, part of your biographical tour.
We got the yearbook.
It says here that your nickname was Punk.
Anything you want to say about that?
Listen, I love this school.
I was a kid who was rebellious, and we all know that.
Some of my happiest times were here, but I certainly was not exactly the model student.
No, but we all don't know that.
I mean, what does it mean?
Everybody knows that he was rebellious.
We all know that.
Hell, 66% of his own voters don't even know what his immigration position is.
Time for the groove yard of forgotten favorites.
Senator McCain being rebellious.
A couple things.
I just checked the email, ladies and gentlemen, and I got a note from saying it says independents cannot vote in the primary in Kentucky.
So a little controversy that a caller as independent thought he could.
Also, I got a funny email here, really mad at me.
Rush, we're having so much fun.
This was such a fun show, and then you go and ruin it by playing those two McCain soundbites.
Every time you're on a roll and having a good time, you play a McCain soundbite, it just ruins it.
You just destroyed the mood that you would say.
Come on, folks, we got to cover both sides here.
You need to know what's going on.
can capture it well now snurdly's going nuts What do you mean, both sides?
He said there's only one side, and he's on their side.
I have to admit, Snerdley has a point.
You just, you have to.
The only way to get through this right now is to laugh.
Highgate, Vermont.
This is Claude.
Claude, nice to have you with us.
Ditto's Rush.
Pleasure to be speaking with you.
Thank you, sir.
When I heard Pat Leahy, our illustrious senator, get into the fray the other day, it reminded me of something that happened during one of his elections a few years ago with a man named Fred Tuttle, the man with a plan.
You may have heard of him.
Oh, yeah, everybody's heard of Fred Tuttle, the man with a plan.
Sure.
Well, what actually happened in that situation was the Republicans had a primary, and the Democrats had no primary.
And we had a legitimate businessman who would have given Senator Leahy a decent run for his money.
And Fred Tuttle, who was kind of a joke candidate, and all the Democrats thought they were so quaint and cute.
And they went over to the Republican, in the Republican primary, and they voted for Fred Tuttle and eliminated the true candidate.
And as soon as Mr. Tuttle won, he endorsed Mr. Leahy, and the rest is history.
And so there's a double standard if anybody's giving you grief for what Operation Chaos is doing, because in Vermont, they just thought it was so funny that they would co-opt the Republican primary and put this Fred Tuttle, who's, I think, his main platform was sending all pollution into outer space.
And he became the Republican nominee.
Run against Senator Leahy.
I remember that because Fred Tuttle, the man with the plan, was the forerunner of today's Democrats.
Put all the pollution in the spaceship and launch it in the outer space.
Well, but I get your point.
This is the thing.
The Democrats chose a nominee for crying out loud this year.
You know, Democrats and independents crossing over and voting Republican because they wanted McCain.
They thought McCain would be the easiest of all these people to beat for a whole host of reasons.
I'm not worried about this.
I never have been worried about any of the critics suggesting that what I'm doing is an American.
It's challenging the dignity of the American electoral system.
It's all bunk.
You know, this is the Democrats just stay, they cannot stand getting a taste of their own medicine.
And just to remind you people, one of the reasons for Operation Chaos was purely strategic, in addition to the results that we had hoped for, and that it is doubtless now we have achieved.
One of the reasons was because our party will simply not do this.
Our party is not going to engage the Democrats.
Our party is not going to contrast themselves with the Democrats, and they're certainly not going to point out any of the ideological problems and weaknesses, the threat posed to the country by liberalism and the Democrat Party.
Somebody got to do it.
And I'm not doing it for the Republican Party, by the way.
I'm doing it because they're not, but I'm doing it for you.
I'm doing it for the country.
You know, I'm an American first.
I'm a conservative second, and a Republican third.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Yesterday in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama held a press conference, and he gets a little testy here with a reporter.
This is happening more and more frequently to the Messiah.
This exchange is with ABC's David Wright.
John McCain said, perhaps 100 years.
I mean, I'm just quoting back what he said.
And unless you tell me that that's a misquote.
I just wonder if it's you've been critical of Senator Clinton for distorting, for taking the political and sort of pushing it too far.
And I just wonder, are you guilty of the same thing?
And what I'm asking is, am I misquoting John McCain in any way?
We'll have to go back to his quote, I guess, but I think that he talks about it in the spirit of Germany and Japan.
And we've been in South Korea for 50 years.
And he's used that as an example, as George Bush has.
And that is decades.
Now, you know what this is all about.
McCain joking, he does this.
McCain could be a smart aleck.
And he's out there and he said, 100 years if it takes it.
And of course, he never meant combat, never meant at war for 100 years.
And he didn't mean occupation.
He pointed, look, we're still in Germany.
We got bases there.
We're still in South Korea.
We got bases there.
We got base, or had a base in Saudi Arabia.
And so this is classic.
This is Obama.
I'm surprised he got called on this, but the Drive-By Media, normally Drive-By Media would pick this up and run back to McCain with it and say, Obama says this.
And what do you say about Obama?
And McCain would blow up.
But now they're piling it back on Obama here.
It's clearly a misrepresentation.
And Obama's been caught in it, but he won't back down, just like Hillary and her Bosnia comment from it.
Later on at the same press conference, Obama spotted Dan Rather.
Dan Rather.
Good to see you, sir.
Get down with a big round of applause.
He asked for a big round of applause at a press conference for Dan Rather.
And he got it.
You heard.
You heard it.
Now, McCain responded to Obama.
This is yesterday aboard his plane on the way to the Washington area.
He responded to Obama's remarks about this 100-year stuff with this.
In all due respect, he does not understand the elements, fundamental elements of national security and warfare.
Because that's exactly what we did in Korea.
That's what we did after World War II.
That's what we did in Kuwait after the first Gulf War.
And has been what has happened in conflicts we've had in the latter part of the 20th century.
It displays a fundamental misunderstanding of history of how we've maintained national security and what we need to do in the future to maintain our security in the face of a transcendent challenge of radical Islamic extremism.
And I understand that because he has no experience or background in any of it.
Oh, McCain hitting pretty hard there at the Messiah, basically claiming you don't know what he's talking about.
He's got no experience.
He doesn't.
Obama doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking.
He doesn't have the slightest idea.
Without his teleprompter, he doesn't know what he's saying.
He doesn't know what he's saying about the economy.
Well, yeah, we raise capital gains.
I think we raise it to 25%.
Warren Buffett said we can even raise it to 30%.
In this economic climate, sir, you want to raise capital gains?
Well, of course, we might exempt people to really be harmed.
He doesn't have the slightest.
His eyes glaze over on all of this stuff.
He really has no clue what he's talking aboutside of that teleprompter.
And he's being very guarded at all times to make sure that he doesn't unleash what he really believes.
And I think this is one of the things that Mrs. Clinton is waiting on for Obama.
And it's very possible.
It's only April 1st.
There's a lot of stuff he could step in out there.
You know, the old rule of thumb is you throw a bag of excrement in front of a Democrat, and the likelihood is he'll step in it.
And if he were to come out and say something about his preacher, if something more is learned about the preacher, if he would get frustrated one day, if I were Hillary, if I were Hillary and Bill, I'd start planting operatives in his press conferences.
And if I were Obama, I'd be doing the same thing.
I would put, I would plant people as questioners in press conferences and town hall meetings and so forth.
Thing is that both these people so tightly screen who gets in there, it might be a tough nut to crack.
But Hillary knows that he's not that far away from tripping up here because when he goes off prompter, he can do things that are ridiculous.
And he's got, I mean, he's got a radical past.
He knows people who are extreme anti-American radicals.
And some people conclude he's got to be one himself at some level of his soul.
He's got to be one too, because that's who he's hung around.
And that's who's influenced him.
And the Clinton is saying, Limbaugh, you know, I marvel every time I listen to you.
I mean, I think I'm listening to me when I listen to you describe what we're going to do with Obama.
Everybody knows this guy's been hanging around with that preacher and that preacher.
It's just not black liberation theology, Limbaugh.
You got to understand.
We liberals, we know that parts of this country we don't like.
And you know what they are because you chronicle them.
But this guy, this Obama, he hates.
He hates America.
That preacher hates America.
He hung around that guy for 20 years.
And you're right.
At some point, if we can make it happen, he's going to step in it.
And when he does, we're going to be right there.
That's why we're not quitting.
Everybody knows we don't quit.
We may not be able to take this thing away from him, but we may be able to make him screw it up.
And that's what we're shooting for.
I feel like I'm in a funhouse here every day.
And I look in the mirror and I see Obama looking back at me.
I said, oh, no.
Get me out of here.
But I'm staying in Limbaugh for her.
She deserves.
Well, no, you're not even going to buy that.
Joe in Athens, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, sir.
I'm a faithful follower of the Maha Rushi and a highly trained professional Rushbo Gen Y listener, sir.
Appreciate that, sir.
Nice to have you here on the program.
Thank you.
I have a quick comment and a question on OC or Operation Chaos.
The beauty is even when Obama gets more votes and states, Hillary can point out that this is a reason why the delegates should go to the convention for it because it's illegitimate since the crossovers would be counted in the Democratic primaries and whatnot.
No.
She can't say that because she's benefiting from the crossovers.
Right, but that's what I mean.
That's the beauty of it.
It's going to keep it so close that that's going to be a reason why she can go.
Well, that's what Operation Chaos is.
Absolutely.
My question is: the pundits, the Fred Barnes, Anderson Coopers, and whatnot, you know, two, three months ago were touting your defeat and that you have no more influence.
And now it seems the topic is yours, the OC, Operation Chaos.
So in your wisdom, do you think it's that you won't lost?
This happens two or three times every election cycle.
All these people you mentioned would love for me to have no influence, but they know that I have it.
And so there's nothing more they can do than try to make people think I've lost it.
But we always smack them down when they try it.
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