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April 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Senator McCain, ladies and gentlemen, says that Americans, many Americans might be too cynical.
And in a way, he might have a point.
Cynical may not be the word I would use, but he did say that many Americans are spoiled.
He may have a point.
Then again, he may not.
Depends on the facial expressions I get when I say this stuff, and the staff reacts.
No, it doesn't.
Just kidding.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
Fastest Week in Media.
Here we are already on Wednesday.
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Had a great time last night.
The NFL meetings are in town, the owners' meetings, the annual spring owners of the big ones.
They're over there at the Breakers, had dinner with some friends from the NFL last night.
Well, it was fabulous.
It was late, and it was fabulous.
And I just, I can't, of course, divulge any details, ladies and gentlemen.
That's not the point.
I just always love it when the NFL people come to town.
The sports writers covering the NFL always complain about the high cost of things over at the Breakers.
It's fun to read that.
You know, I've got a little of a dilemma here.
We've got plenty of Operation Chaos stuff.
It just keeps adding up.
It just keeps piling up.
Now the drive-bys, you know, we told you yesterday that in their budget meetings every morning as they decide what the news is going to be, they have to be figuring out ways that they can explain all this massive late Republican crossover registration to the Democrat Party without mentioning Operation Chaos and without mentioning you, without mentioning me.
And so they tried it yesterday by focusing on a local show out in Oregon.
Last night on some of the cable networks, Chris Matthews said he thinks I'm delusional if I think I'm having any impact on any of this.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are asking, what the hell is Howard Dean worth?
How come Howard Dean, the chairman of our party, can't stop any of this?
Obama, according to the Real Clear Politics rolling average, polling average, Hillary's picked up a point.
Now she's six points ahead of Obama.
She was one point ahead yesterday.
And the Rasmussen poll, that hasn't changed.
She's still plus five.
But if you take an average, like she's up 12 in Pennsylvania, the Survey USA poll.
But in, let's see, she's up nine in the Quinnipiac poll.
The only poll of Obama's up is PPD, and that's he's up by two points, 45 to 43.
What I was going to say was so much stuff here that has nothing to do with Operation Chaos that just interests the hell out of me.
And I think I want to start with that today.
We'll get to the McCain stuff.
Well, let me get to that now, since that's the first thing I said.
Because Snerdley brought me this story this morning.
Did you believe this?
He came here with the biggest frown on his face.
And he didn't say, just read this, just read this.
So he threw it down in front of me, and I picked it up.
The Headliter Reuters story, McCain says Americans too cynical.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain believes many Americans are cynical about their country and their idea of liberty is the right to choose among competing brands of designer coffee.
What these people need, and he's making a speech today about this, is a good dose of public service.
That's one of the messages McCain will give today on a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he admittedly, what's this got to do with anything?
Where he admittedly bucked authority and slacked off on his studies to the point that he graduated fifth from the bottom of his goal.
Why throw that in there?
Everybody knows that.
You know, all this, I'm going to make a prediction to you.
All the drive-by media reports on all these deficiencies of both Hillary and Obama, Hillary and NAFTA, Hillary and Bosnia, Obama and whatever else he's misspeaking about.
I guarantee you this.
And those of you in the McCain camp, I want you to listen to this.
Because after the Democrats have chosen their nominee, all of the critical analysis that we are seeing of the Democrats with the drive-by media is going to cease.
And it will all be transferred to McCain.
He will be the sole recipient of all this kind of carbage where he admittedly bucked authority.
So did I.
I turned out pretty well.
Slacked off on his studies.
So did I.
To the point that he graduated, I didn't even graduate.
Look at me.
Fine.
One of the leaders of this country, one of the leaders of our movement, one of the hugest personalities ever in big media.
Throw that stuff in there.
That's just a little, this is a little forewarning of what's going to happen once the Democrats get their nominee.
Now, let's get to the nut here of what he's talking about with Americans being too cynical.
Oh, by the way, in a paragraph, two paragraphs prior to the nut of his remarks, it says this.
McCain, 71-year-old Arizona senator who would be the oldest person ever elected to a first presidential term, who owned Halliburton stock at one time and has been a longtime supporter of the failed policy in Iraq, blah, blah, blah.
Add it all up.
This will be what they say.
We'll argue that Americans need to take up a cause greater than themselves.
Join the military, help feed the hungry, seek public office.
Well, I certainly believe in the notion of becoming aware of things greater than yourself.
That happened to Hillary Clinton, I think, when she was 50.
To most people, it happens in their teenage years or early 20s, sometimes a little later than that.
McCain says that many Americans are indifferent, indifferent to or cynical about the virtues that our country claims.
The virtues that our country claims?
We claim virtues or we are virtuous.
See, I think we are virtuous.
What do you mean, claim?
That's like I've had several interviews with the drive-by media over the course of my heralded career.
And I point out to them, yeah, I'm the most listened-to program in the country.
Limbaugh claims to have the most listened to.
Anyway, Al Gore says we are destroying the planet.
And Ted Turner last night on Charlie Rose says it's going to be so bad we're all going to end up cannibals.
And they don't say Ted Turner claims or that Al Gore claims.
They just report it as fact.
In part, McCain says that people are indifferent to or cynical is because some have suffered economic dislocations while others profit as never before.
And in part is a reaction to government's mistakes and incompetence and to the selfishness of some public figures.
Now, he says that this cynicism is because some of you people have suffered economic dislocations while others profit as never before.
Profit as never that phrase could come right out of a Democrat Party playbook.
That phrase has probably been uttered in countless ways, different ways and countless times by every Democrat in Congress at one point or another.
And besides that, profits as never before.
Has he never heard of the Vanderbilts?
Has he never heard of the Rockefellers?
Speaking of which, how come Jay Rockefeller's never asked about the price of oil?
Hmm?
The source of his family fortune.
I mean, he's never asked about it.
And then McCain comes close to calling some Americans spoiled, saying they are cynical because the ease which wealth and opportunity have given their lives led them to the mistaken conclusion that America and the liberties its system of government is intended to protect just aren't important to the quality of their lives.
Now, this is a toughie because I do think that they're, maybe, maybe spoiled isn't the right word.
If people are born in this country and have never left this country and have never seen what life is like elsewhere in the world, their expectations are going to be astronomically high based on their life experiences in this country.
We have economic downturns.
We have economic cycles.
They happen all the time.
People get outraged and get mad.
Why?
Because of expectations.
We've got truckers because of the high cost of diesel stopping traffic in New Jersey yesterday on the turnpike.
We have the story in USA Today about people going to the grocery store now unable to buy the same amount of food they used to buy with the same budget.
And so they're now having to change lifestyles and so forth.
And all of this is being portrayed as something catastrophic and horrible.
Yet these things happen constantly.
And people demand that government.
This is the danger.
People demand that government fix this.
Fix the high price of gas.
Government doesn't fix the price of gas.
Fix the high price of oil.
Fix the price of food.
Why?
Because they have expectations.
Expectations born of being Americans.
They don't know what real economic hardship is.
But to them, economic hardship they experience is real on a comparative basis.
I'm not being critical here, but it can lead to the notion of being spoiled.
And that is having something that's just phenomenally fabulous in your life and not having great appreciation for it and not understanding how it happens.
And it is, but I don't think that's what he means when he says that people are spoiled.
It's the way I would discuss it, but he doesn't.
He says led them to the mistaken conclusion that America and the liberties that its system of government is intended to protect just aren't important to the quality of their lives.
Now, I'm going to have to translate that.
I guess he thinks that people don't have a significant understanding of the Constitution and our founding and don't understand how that is relevant to their freedom and their liberty because they define liberty as the choice of coffee in the grocery store or different types of coffee when they go into Starbucks or something like that.
So anyway, but I'll tell you what is interesting about this to me is that you don't hear, people have jokingly said to me over the course of my heralded career, why don't you run for office?
And I say, well, pay cut number one, but number two, I wouldn't last after my first campaign speech.
Well, why not?
Well, because I basically say to people, I'm not the one that's going to make your life better.
You are.
I'm not the one as president that makes country work.
You are.
I'm not here to fix every little problem that you have.
You are.
As president, I'm here to make sure the liberals do not take over this country, take away your freedom and defend us from any kind of foreign attack, protect the defend the Constitution.
But when it comes to your economic viability, my job is to get as many government obstacles out of your way, and then you are on your own.
And bam, I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'll tell you why.
This USA Today story on the rising cost of food today.
If I were a candidate and following my instincts, I would say to people, yes, and let me tell you why.
And I'd go into the explanation.
I'd be out after that appearance, unless I also said, I feel your pain.
I know how hard it is out there.
It's so bad.
And I'm working every day to do anything I can to make sure that these prices come down.
And then I might stand a chance.
But if I gave a speech in which I tried to inspire and motivate people to overcome obstacles that we face in life each and every day, rather than say, guys, that's so bad.
I feel so sorry for you.
I wish there was something I could do.
And you know what?
I'm going to work hard as I can.
I'm going to make sure to punish these people who are raising your prices.
Then I'd be a star.
But that isn't me.
And McCain is coming close here to my approach with this speech.
He's going to give it an apple.
Not totally all the way there, but he's coming close.
He's, excuse me, sounding a little liberal, and he's using some of these phrases out of the liberal handbook, but telling people they're spoiled, telling people that they're things larger in life than themselves to stop whining and to get over it is essentially what he's saying here.
That's pretty gutsy for a politician.
You don't hear politicians speak that way, especially politicians seeking the presidents.
Now, I'm going to stop there because if I go any further, Independents and Democrats will think I'm praising McCain and will be less inclined to support him.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Now, Senator McCain was a little contradictory here in his comments.
And I think maybe one of the things that might bother some of you as I went through his quotes here, where he says the ease which wealth and opportunity have given their lives led them to the mistaken conclusion that America...
Now, some of you might be offended by that.
So, what do you mean?
The ease which wealth and opportunity have given their lives.
Some of you might think that what McCain means here is that people have not worked hard for what they have, and that that's another phrase right out of the left liberal handbook.
I don't think that's what he means.
He may not, I'm just interpreting this perhaps in a way that you aren't.
But compared, look at this, this has been my point for as long as I've been behind his microphone.
There is more opportunity, there is more affluence, there is more wealth in this country than ever before, and there's going to be more tomorrow than there was today.
I don't care these economic cycles.
They come and go.
It's going to happen.
You can do it.
You are not excluded.
We have freedom.
You can create your own job if you don't like where you're working.
You can go out and make yourself whatever you want to be.
Now, McCain may not be saying this.
McCain may be saying that all these rich people have all this rich stuff and they don't care enough about the country.
I don't know if that's what he's saying.
I didn't interpret it that way.
I'm interpreting it perhaps in a way that you wouldn't interpret it either.
But regardless, regardless what Senator McCain is saying, the fact of the matter is that compared to anywhere else in the world, the opportunity for affluence, education, contentment, happiness is better in this country than anywhere in the world, which is why I get so frustrated when people I do think are spoiled start whining and moaning and ask for somebody else to help them.
Do you know we had a story the other day?
Where is it in Ohio that half the people in Ohio are on food stamps?
Was it Ohio or somewhere?
Half, or is it maybe half the country?
It wasn't half the country.
Half the population in some state is on food stamps.
Of course, the drive-by media portray this, oh, the country going to hell in a handbasket.
This is horrible.
Economic downturn, Bush administration, only the rich are getting the Food Stamp Authority advertises.
The Food Stamp Authority solicits participants.
The damn federal government's trying to get people hooked on dependence on the federal government.
It isn't necessary.
But you talk to a beat cop anywhere in town where you live and you ask him what happens when they open a homeless shelter food kitchen.
The crowds in that neighborhood multiply by geometric proportions.
So here comes the government in an election year giving out food stamps, advertising, and they've been soliciting for food stamp applicants for years.
We've been talking about it on this program.
And so it does spoil me when people, maybe because it isn't there for the way they've been taught, the way they've been raised, the way they've been educated, do not understand the glory of this country.
I mean, the limitless opportunities that are there and get caught up in the daily minutiae of things.
Life, sometimes it's hard.
Sometimes it's very hard.
Accepting challenges and overcoming them is part of it.
Nobody, nobody, including God, ever said that life was going to be painless.
It ever said it was going to be pain-free, ever said it was going to be easy.
I don't think people have a decent enough historical perspective of how tough it was to live around the world hundreds of years ago.
When the life expectancy was 35 or 40, they have exhumed bones, bodies.
They've examined the skeletal remains of some people from hundreds of years ago.
They worked.
I mean, these people, we can't relate.
We simply cannot relate to how tough it was.
Now, I'm not suggesting we go back to it.
I'm just trying to inspire a little appreciation for what's here rather than beating the country up.
I'm so sick and tired of hearing the country beaten up.
I have to put it up every day.
My job is to listen to what liberals say, and I have to listen to them trash this country each and every day.
I listen to them trash the military.
I listen to them trash big oil.
The very guys that are putting gasoline in your car are being trashed, and you are being conditioned to hate their guts while the guys on the committee wouldn't know the first thing about putting gas in your car, have not done one thing to get gas in your car, and you think they are your savior.
Well, you don't, but a lot of people do.
The price of oil, yeah, going way up.
You know what?
A lot of other things are going up.
How about the price of gold?
The price of gold's gone through the roof.
I want to know what the hell's going on with that.
Where is their congressional hearing to bring in big gold?
Have you looked at the price of jewelry?
You're going to go out there, get engaged, get married?
Hope not.
But if you are, you're going to go out there and buy diamonds.
Have you seen the price escalations?
Are they bringing big jewelry in?
$350 an ounce is about, I think they just want to set the gold price at $350 an ounce instead of close to $1,000 and make this fair.
I mean, this kind of stuff is really frustrating to me, and I thought McCain might have been onto something.
Maybe he's not.
Who knows?
We'll know more later.
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All right.
All right.
I'll admit it.
I don't know what the hell McCain's saying.
Other than he's spouting some liberal stuff in his speech at Annapolis today about the haves and have-nots.
I agree to all that.
But I will say this: if he's going to lecture the American people about who they need to be, he might be just a little bit off the mark.
Let him attack the liberals, which he won't do.
Let him attack the bureaucrats, which he won't do.
Let him attack the judges, which he won't do.
But the American people generally, the people who make the country work, it's sort of way off to start criticizing the American people in general.
And look, I want to admit I'm confused.
If he can't give a speech.
Where we can understand what he's saying, then it isn't a very good speech.
Also, this is just in here from the Associated Press.
Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says the party is committed to seating Florida's delegates at this summer's convention.
Dean met today with Florida lawmakers to discuss ways of allocating delegates among Hillary and Obama.
This is going to please Hillary.
They're going to seat the Florida delegates without a revote.
Operation Chaos.
Ladies and gentlemen, rolls on.
No, I'm serious about this price of gold stuff.
Bring the big oil guys up.
Those are the guys that put gasoline in your car.
If it weren't for them, you wouldn't have gasoline.
And yet they're the guys that get grilled.
But have you seen the price of gold?
Now, see, this is a good illustration.
I'm trying to make a point here, but I think that the point's lost because I'm not being sympathetic or empathetic.
That would be a better word.
It would be so easy for me to sit here and say, oh, gosh, the price of the price of gas.
Man, it's so hard for all of us.
I just, I don't know what we're going to do.
I really, really, I know how tough it is for you.
It wouldn't change your situation any at all, but you'd think somebody cares.
This is what the liberals pull off.
The liberals make people think they care about their problems.
They think they have a kindred spirit working on solving the problem.
Of course, they don't.
Liberals don't fix anything.
All they do is break things.
All they do is ruin things.
They don't fix diddly squat, but people think they do because they care.
And if I were to sit here and go through this a little bit, hey, why doesn't Congress bring in big gold?
Seen the price of gold lately?
Why doesn't Congress demanded big gold, lower the gold price?
Why didn't Congress bring in big jewelry?
You see the price of diamonds list?
It's skyrocketing.
Everything is.
Pull out all the stops.
Find out who's responsible.
See who's cheating the little guy when it comes to gold and jewelry.
You know how much people have suffered who want to go out and get married or get engaged, have a decent anniversary present?
Maybe get that solid gold toilet they've always dreamed about.
Now they can't do it because of the price of gold and the price of jewelry.
And where are Pelosi?
And where's Reed?
And where's Ed Machi?
And where's Obama?
Giving me hope again that the price of gold will come down to make it profitable and yet affordable to me.
Now, if I could make that, I could do that.
I don't know how many people get what I'm saying.
I mean, you people, you would.
I'm talking about people outside this audience.
You all have above-average IQs, above-average education.
We've done audience surveys.
We know who you are.
And you know who you are.
When I say you, I'm talking about, you know, people that vote liberals, people that vote Democrats.
But boy, I could say, well, I feel sorry for, oh, it's just so bad out there.
I wish something could be done.
And of course, there's nothing I can do or anybody else can do.
But if you think that somebody cares, then I guess you're less, what, concerned, or at least you're more hopeful.
Yes, you are more hopeful that something might get fixed if somebody cares.
John in Chicago, let's go to the phones.
Grab you first today, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Rochelle.
I got a message for Mr. McCain.
We as Americans, we ain't cynical at all.
We are outraged.
I mean, you got the gas going up sky high.
Even plus in turn, expect everything else go up.
He ain't doing one thing to address this problem.
In fact, the government and cindering the oil companies from going out and finding the oil brings the prices down or building refineries.
They are crippling the oil companies.
And like you said, the market is dictating this.
Not the oil companies.
They would love to find the oil, but we can't because of the government.
And no one is addressing this problem.
Okay, you're exactly.
We can't.
We can't because of the government.
But who's influencing the government?
Who is the government in this case?
Us, the people.
We keep blowing these dunger heads down because it's the environmentalist wackos who have influence with the government.
Do you realize if you're outraged over the price of gasoline, you don't want to listen to today's program because you don't want to hear what California is thinking of doing, which will then spread all across the country.
If you are upset about the price of gasoline, you don't want to listen to this program today because you don't want to hear the fact that every one of the presidential candidates, all three of them, have a global warming plan that's going to raise taxes and the cost of doing business, those should be passed on to you.
None of these three candidates has any desire to drill for our own sources of oil.
There is a story in the stack today about how we could end our dependence on foreign oil totally with reserves found in one of the Dakotas.
Oh, that's just great.
It is just great.
And of course, we're not going to be allowed to go get it because the environmentalist wackos and the Democrats will not allow it.
They'll stop.
This is just a scheme by big oil to raise their profits at your expense.
Let me ask you a quick question.
How did we get in this predicament on a consensus?
There's no fact or anything saying we're in a global warming crisis.
I'm going to tell you how we got into this predicament.
Have you seen the latest report from Colin Powell's bunch on the status of high school education in America?
Yes, I have.
He says it's abysmal.
What did you conclude from it?
Well, then I want to make sure you know what I'm talking about.
What's the story that you saw?
The story that I saw, that the school system was basically run by the liberal Democrats and they ain't getting educated.
There's a dropout rate sucking.
I mean, in all the major cities, 30%, 40, 50%.
That's ridiculous.
But in the suburbs, it's much higher, like 60, 70, 80% graduate.
That's exactly right.
You must have heard today's morning update.
Let me give you all of you, if you missed the morning update today, and this is the answer to the question I keep telling people.
The most expensive commodity we have in this country is ignorance.
Not gasoline, not rice, not wheat, not corn.
The most expensive commodity we have is the ignorance of way too many Americans.
It is ignorance that allows liberalism to prosper.
Get this.
Three out of ten U.S. public school students do not graduate from hassruel.
Major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released on Tuesday.
In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance showed that the high school graduation rate of finishing 12 grades of school, they have to even throw that in there because half the country reading the story doesn't know what it takes to graduate.
Can you believe this?
The high school graduation rate finishing 12 grades of school.
Do you have to add that?
Really?
I thought you only got in the 10th grade when you graduated.
The highest school graduation rate finishing 12 grades of school in big cities falls to as low as just 34% In Baltimore, Maryland, barely over 40% for troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland.
It said that black and Native American students have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a Haskruel diploma.
Now, stick with me on this, because while this is tragic, and while it is horrible, and while it is disconcerting, this story, and I am reading this as an AP story, French news agency, I'm sorry, doesn't even bother to analyze why this is.
Doesn't even bother.
Let me give you the dirty little secret here.
America's Promise Alliance was a group founded by Colin Powell, and they looked at high school graduation rates in America's 50 largest cities.
In 17 of our 50 largest cities, not even half the kids attending Haskruel finish.
That doesn't even touch on what the hell they're being taught while they're there.
But I will guarantee you it's not Economics 101 in a way that they can understand it.
I will guarantee you that most of what they're being taught is a multicultural hybrid of hate America, America sucks, America's out to screw you, you don't have a prayer in America, Ronald Reagan sucks, George Bush sucks, Bill Clinton was fabulous, the founding fathers were racists and they were atheists.
And this country originally belongs to the Indians from whom it was stolen by evil white Europeans.
This is what these people come out of school knowing, thinking.
In large metropolitan areas, you may as well draw a target around the inner cities if you want to isolate this problem.
In Baltimore's suburbs, 80%, over 80% of the kids graduate.
34% who live in Baltimore's inner city graduate.
Suburbs, okay.
I mean, not great.
80%, we shouldn't even be happy with that.
There's no excuse for anything less than 100%.
It's basic.
We all have people talk about education.
We got to educate our children.
We need no more money to educate our children.
Then how can we be happy with being less than 100%?
Anyway, by contrast, we're ecstatic about 80% in the suburbs of Baltimore because the inner city, 34%.
In Detroit, about a quarter, 25% of the kids graduate.
25%.
Indianapolis, public school system, 30% graduation rate.
Cleveland, 35%.
Inner city.
In response to the report, Secretary Powell said, when more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem.
It's a catastrophe.
It's worse than that, Secretary Powell.
Let's go back to Obama's big race speech for a second, shall we?
Obama, like every other Democrat, talks about schools failing minority kids, but he never addresses how they got that way.
There's no question that inner city schools are failing minority kids.
Why do you think the biggest supporters of school vouchers are the parents of kids in inner-city schools who take the first chance they can to get them out of there and get them into a decent school?
These are primarily black and Hispanic kids in Democrat Party-run cities, and they are left to fail year after year, decade after decade.
Liberalism is giving us this problem, and it has for a long time.
And look at the billions that we are spending on education to boot.
You throw that into the mix.
You talk about being mad about something.
You talk about being mad at the high cost of something and getting nothing for it?
These kids are caught on a stranglehold, folks, of liberal politics.
Liberal politics is designed to keep unions strong, including the teachers, minority kids underachieving.
I mean, to the extent that there's institutional racism in America, it is in these blue cities run by liberal Democrats for years.
Their own kids are not even being disserviced.
It's just, it's criminal the way they're not being taught and what they are being taught.
So you ask me, how do we get this way where people don't understand that we got to go get our own oil to become independent?
They're not, they don't have the education.
They don't have the information.
They've been taught that America's bad, that America's rotten, that America steals from the rest of the world, that America deserves to suffer.
America deserves to be hated by the rest of the world.
That's what they're taught.
And so when big oil guys get called up there and get called on the carpet for these prices, they think, yeah, yeah, you stick it to them.
You stick it to them.
Big, fat, white guys taking all the prices just getting rich while I'm sitting here poor.
That's right.
You stick it to them.
Sad thing is that, actually, this is not a catastrophe, Secretary Powell.
This is just liberal business as usual.
By the way, Colin Powell's group, the name of that gorgon, I have it right in front of me here, is run by Morton Kondracki's wife.
America's Promise for America, whatever.
I don't have it right in front of me, but Kondracki's wife runs it.
Anyway, folks, big news here.
Another Democrat has been caught with a whore.
It's the husband of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow.
Stabenow?
Stabenow.
Stabenow.
The husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow toll a cops he used the internet to make a date with a prostitute, paid her $150 for sex at a hotel, according to a police report.
What a piker.
150 bucks?
I mean, I guess maybe that's what it is in Michigan.
Thomas Athens.
Well, it is.
I forgot.
Economic time.
Even the whores have had to drop prices.
Forget about that.
Thomas Athens, 46, co-founder of the Liberal Talk USA Radio Network.
I've never heard of that.
Have you heard of Talk USA?
I've never heard of it.
He was stopped by the police who were investigating internet-based prostitution at the hotel.
Detroit Free Press put this story on its website today.
The newspaper said it obtained a copy of the police report through a state Freedom of Information Act request.
AP left telephone messages for the Troy police on Wednesday.
A statement from Stabenow's office this morning was short.
This is very disturbing and serious, the statement said.
Obviously, it's a deeply difficult and personal matter.
They stopped his car after he left the Residence Inn in Troy on February 26th.
They ticketed him for driving with a suspended license, but did not bring any sex charges against him.
He was very cooperative.
He didn't tell officers who he was.
He didn't ask for any special treatment.
The cops arrested Alicia Martin, 20 of Westland, in the hotel room on a charge of prostitution.
They confiscated a cell phone, laptop, and they went after the whore.
They went after the whore of his time?
Normally, our culture makes celebrities out of the whores.
They end up being invited on Donald Trump shows.
Playboy wants them.
All these other cable networks, they want to make starlets out of these prostitutes.
The Michigan cops went after the whore.
By the way, somebody said to me, Rush, David Patterson, when he was having the affair, why are it days in?
Why a days in?
He can't see.
He's legally blind.
It doesn't matter to him.
So, of course, cost will be a factor.
One more thing here before we go to the, I don't think it's true of Stabinos.
I think he can see.
So no excuse for him other than the economy.
These are hard times.
Here's, look, I'm going to have to do this very quickly because of the constraints of broadcast time here.
But as far as the economy here is concerned, education, the problem is not the American people.
The people make this country work.
The problem is the government and how government manipulates people.
The government abuses people and now the government uses them.
The problem is liberalism, which controls most of the government elections and how it seeks to transform our society for the worst.
Why doesn't McCain just address that?
Because he believes in a lot of it.
That's why.
He believes in big government.
All of these candidates do.
We can't say the American people are great one day, that left to their own devices, they'll succeed, and on the other hand, condemn them, or most of them, or a lot of them.
I had to expand on this because this has really frosted me here today.
Back in just a second.
I know David Patterson may be legally blind and can't see that he's in a day's end, but this Athens guy can see.
But I'm not going any further than that, folks, because people are so depressed with the rotten economic times, they might not appreciate the humor.
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