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April 3, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy, the commanding supreme officer of Operation Chaos, all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
We're doing Open Line Friday on Thursday today.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
I will be out.
So whatever you want to call about today, feel free.
The number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
If you're just joining us and missed the first hour, you need to be updated on an Operation Chaos development taking place in Indiana.
And by the way, one more time to remind you, we caught a couple breaks with our Operation Merchandise, Operation Chaos Merchandise.
It was not supposed to start shipping until tomorrow to purchasers, but we caught a break.
It went out starting yesterday, two days ahead of schedule.
So keep a sharp eye on your UPS deliveries.
Operation Chaos Merchandise is en route to you.
Yeah, don't wear this.
Do not wear this.
If any of you in Indiana bought this, don't wear this to the primary on the 6th of May.
That is the development that has been discovered here today.
Indiana's Democrat chairman, Dan Parker, says his party is ready to challenge the votes of any lifelong Republican who attempts to vote as a Democrat on the May 6th primary.
He said, look, I'm only talking about crossover with mischievous intent.
If there's a coordinated effort by Republicans to affect the outcome of our primary, that would be something the party would try through the challenge process to keep those voters out.
They clearly are going to be targeting you, Operation Chaos operatives, in Indiana on May 6th.
I have given orders in the previous hour how to avoid getting caught and being successful.
I'm not going to go through that.
I don't want to repeat the whole first hour.
Those orders will be prominently displayed at rushlimbaugh.com when they update the site later this afternoon.
But I want to try to paint a picture for you, ladies and gentlemen, of the actual voting day, May the 6th.
Now, as we all know, in New York, Elliot Spitzer attempted to get legislation passed that would grant illegal aliens driver's licenses.
Now, we all know what that was for.
Give them the opportunity to go register to vote.
Elliot Spitzer is a Democrat.
The Democrats are all for open borders, and they're all for as many illegals coming in and working and voting.
That's what it's really all about.
Mrs. Clinton herself last year made a big pitch to change the law and to allow felons to vote.
Remember that?
She was bouncing off of a story out of Florida, but the Democrats are running out of victims, and that's why they need as many people as they can to vote.
Now, let's go to Election Day on May 6th.
And you show up, and you're an Operation Chaos member, and you look, and the Democrat Party operatives say they're going to be there.
So you're going to see, and you'll recognize them right off the bat.
Here comes, you know, a busload of illegals.
And they get off, or they show up in their cars or whatever, and the Democrat poll workers smile at them.
Hey, hey, hey, great to have you.
Come on in.
Come on in.
Just go right through that line right there.
That IO right there.
That's it for you.
And then felons will show up.
And the Democrats standing outside the polling place.
Hey, hey, hey, great to have you here.
Our outreach program is, you go right through that line.
Nice to have you people here.
Then you, an Operation Chaos operative, show up, a Republican.
And a Democrat poll worker, if he spots you as a Republican, says, whoop, and puts up the hand of the Gestapo, the vote stoppo, and gets on his walkie-talkie and says to his boss inside the poll, we got a problem here.
A Republican shown up after letting all the illegals in, after letting all of the felons in, they intend to stop the Republicans.
So this is getting funny, and everything about the Democrats that we've always told you, they are now demonstrating, ladies and gentlemen, for one and all to see with their very own eyes.
I mentioned just before the conclusion of the previous hour, Jane Fonda has endorsed Barack Obama.
Here is how it happened: it was on the street in New York City, TMZ, the celebrity, what would you call TMZ, the celebrity network that follows their criminal pursuits in part.
They ran into Jane Fonda on the streets of New York and an unidentified, and this is web quality here, but this is a little exchange between the reporter for TMZ and Jane Fonda.
Who you voted for?
Who gets your vote?
Obama.
Heaven help us all.
The reporter for TMZ.
Oh, God.
Heaven help us all.
Obviously, the reporter and Obama support him.
Now it was probably.
It is.
It is, ladies and gentlemen, this cannot be helpful for Barack Obama.
And here's Jane Fonda.
We all know over in North Vietnam, in Hanoi, sitting at an anti-aircraft gun, pretending to be shooting down American pilots, brave, handsome American pilots, traitorous Hanoi Jane.
Now she comes out and endorses Obama.
Can you, if Obama's planning on a crossover vote, this may complicate things?
She may have been sitting, ladies and gentlemen, at the same anti-aircraft gun that North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners used to shoot down Senator McCain's plane, who just happens to be the Republican presidential nominee.
By the way, if you noticed here in Operation Chaos in parts of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, they threatened Operation Chaos voters and threatened me with possible indictment and jail time.
In Indiana, the vote stopped there, the Democrat chairman, Democrat Party chairman in Indiana, openly admits to intimidating voters and profiling them and studying their past registrations to identify them, to perhaps keep them from voting.
But in Pennsylvania, they don't care.
They're welcoming anybody that wants to vote Democrat in Pennsylvania.
Doesn't matter to them.
Come on in.
We're happy to have you.
It's fascinating to watch how these different states operate.
Speaking of Pennsylvania, problems.
Democrat Senator Barack Obama has gained even more ground on Senator Hillary Clinton.
And he's doing this by drawing support, more support from men and younger voters, according to presidential polls in the state.
This is a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday.
She's ahead in the state, 50 to 41.
She's up nine, but she was 16 points ahead in mid-February, 12 points in mid-March in the same survey.
She still leads largely because of her dominance of white voters.
Now, she's expected to do well in Pennsylvania because the state has large numbers of voters who typically support her.
Older people, white people, those without a college education.
The Illinois senator would like to trim her margin as much as possible.
So the best news out of this is the dumb vote is still solid for Mrs. Clinton, but she's losing men.
She's losing men to Barack Obama.
And I know, well, here's the thing about this.
You know, the women supporters of Hillary, they're fit to be tied already that she's losing to a rookie and a black guy and that she's being discarded.
That sexism on display.
Ladies, you can stop this.
You can stop this tide of men moving over to Obama.
That's all I'm going to say.
You know what I'm saying, but I'm not going to say it.
You know what I'm saying?
You've got all the power in the world to stop this.
If Hillary is your choice, back to the phones we go.
Orange County, California.
John, glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
By the way, our dads were high school classmates in Cape Girardeau.
My dad used to caddy for your grandpa out there.
No kidding.
Yep.
Small world.
Wait a second.
I've just learned something here.
Your dad caddied for my grandfather?
Yeah, he's 90 years old.
As in golf.
Yes.
He and his older brother worked at the golf course there in Cape.
At any rate, I did not know until this day that my grandfather played golf.
Are you kidding?
Oh, my goodness.
I think this is going to come as a shock to everybody in the family.
Wow.
I didn't know my grandfather ever had time to play golf.
Well, my dad, he's still alive.
You could talk with him.
No, no, no.
I'm not.
No, don't misunderstand me here.
My grandfather did a lot of stuff before I was born.
And he did a lot of stuff before his own kids were born.
I might very well have done this.
This is.
Well, I knew it was.
Now I know it's genetic.
There you go.
It's genetic.
Anyhow, what I wanted to call about was to suggest perhaps a better analogy than brown shirts and Gestapo and Stalinism on what's going on in Indiana.
Maybe the better analogy might be the Spanish Inquisition.
I mean, this is really a religious faith litness test that they've got.
They're looking at intent, belief.
I mean, you could really call this thing the Indiana Inquisition with this guy being, this Dan Parker being the Grand Inquisitor.
I mean, he's wanting to extract confessions out of people.
Are they secretly Republicans or do they really hold this true faith?
I have to admit, you're right.
The Indiana Inquisition and the chief inquisitor is Dan Parker.
You know, he used to work for Evan Bay.
And when Evan Bay hears about this, because Evan Bay is a Hillary guy.
Evan Bayh, perhaps, you know, was high up on Hillary's vice presidential list.
And what we're talking about are Hillary voters.
We're talking about Operation Chaos voters for Hillary here.
These guys, you know, these guys are, they're just, they're liberal Democrats, and they just, they can't, they just can't handle the same game being played against them that they play against everybody else.
By the way, are they going to mirandize these people, give them the right to a lawyer, or how are they going to do that?
I don't think any of this is legal.
Isn't this voter intimidation?
I mean, you can't hassle voters at the polling place unless they show up, obviously, breaking a law, wearing a shirt with a campaign message or something like that.
But speaking of Evan Bay, there he is on television right now, grilling some poor bank guy.
Looking at the Bear Stearns rescue.
But I want to see him pull this off.
I want to ask, while the illegals are ushered in, and while the felons are ushered in, they stop the Republicans, Miranda.
So you have the right to remain silent.
And if they remain silent, how the Democrats are going to know what their intentions are all good points.
And out here several years ago in Orange County, we had a Republican candidate founder over the fact that he simply had supporters that showed up at the polling place with placards saying, if you're not a U.S. citizen, you cannot vote.
And what did they do to him?
Oh, he was pilloried.
Pilloried.
Hugely.
Oh, just hugely pilloried.
Total voter intimidation just to stay a truth.
If you're not a citizen, you can't vote.
Imagine even needing a sign like that.
Folks, I mean, sometimes all you can do is laugh.
Stay in California.
This is Lois in Vista.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Oh, thank you for taking my call, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
Thank you, ma'am.
I'm calling because Pelosi promised that when the Democrats took office that they were going to make big changes.
Yes, she did.
Okay.
This is the ones that I see.
The stock market has dropped.
The economy is sinking.
Gasoline and food prices are soaring.
We have the housing debacle, the some pribe mess.
They've been giving themselves raises again, investigating baseball players instead of doing the people's business, all under their watch.
And now they want to lose the war by pulling our troops out of Iraq.
And they want to kill big oil.
Amen.
By the way, you know, that's an excellent reminder.
And I tell people, I don't go through the whole list as you did, but I do point out that have you seen what happened to the gasoline price since the Democrats took over Congress.
It just makes people mad.
Just makes the liberals mad.
One thing that, Lois, thanks so much.
One thing I missed this yesterday in USA Today, there was a they had a story on the hearings of big oil before Ed Machie and his committee.
And I didn't miss this.
It went past me.
Ed Machi and the Democrats pointed their fingers at the big oil execs yesterday and told them that they need to be looking at alternative fuels and that they're being un-American and unpatriotic and they're raping people if they don't do that.
Now, you had a big oil monologue and so forth, but stop and think of just what Machi said.
You guys need to be looking into alternative oils.
What he was essentially saying was, you guys are responsible for finding the product that's going to put you out of business.
This would be like bringing up Ford dealerships and say, you have got to take your Fords out of the showroom and bring in General Motors and Toyota cars.
And perhaps you can think of better analogies than that.
But we're still back to this notion that there is some massive overnight fix for oil, that oil has become, it's dirty and so forth.
And her call reminds me, because they're overstepping left and right.
And, you know, who was it?
Tom Bethel, or Bethel, today in the American Spectator, he analyzes the Clinton and Obama primary race in a way that he thinks is unique.
He says, yeah, there's problems for the Democrats and, yeah, all the fallout that might happen at the convention.
But what he said here, that what's really on display is the pure 100% liberalism of both of these candidates.
There is not one inspiring thought about the country other than Obama's meaningless and vacuous speeches of long ago on change and hope and the future and all of that.
And that's true, folks, and that's one of the ancillary benefits of Operation Chaos, that the longer this goes on, the more people are going to notice just exactly who they are and the way they're speaking about the country.
We'll be back.
This mic, a golden EIB microphone.
In case you missed it, New Jersey Governor John Corzon, a Hillary Clinton endorser, said today that if she loses the popular vote, i.e. if Obama wins the popular vote in the primaries, then he's going to abandon Hillary and support Obama.
Now, this is interesting to me on one level, I mean, aside from the obvious.
And that is the Democrat Party has obviously changed.
There's no discipline.
Where are the enforcers?
Bill Richardson, the last I looked, folks, and he's, I think Richardson's sending a signal to all these other people that either have supported Hillary or the superdelegate types that it's okay to change.
Bill Richardson's still healthy.
Bill Rich, I saw him yesterday.
He's still walking around out there over a week after endorsing Obama.
What's happened to the Clinton enforcers?
There are people abandoning the Clintons left and right.
Why, if it weren't for you and me, folks, and Operation Chaos, she'd have been gone by now.
She's going to be, she finished in it anyway, but we want the chaos to continue.
The Washington Post today, Ann Kornblut.
Now, Ann Kornblut, reporter at, I have detected, has had a bit of an animus toward Mrs. Clinton throughout this entire primary season.
And I think so because Ann Kornblut was on television once talking about, well, no, she won't do an interview with me.
She's only talking to editorial people and columnists.
And she's very controlled.
She's not talking to reporters.
And so she's building up this animus among people.
When they have a chance to take a shot, they do.
Ann Kornblut's story today in the Washington Post in speeches, Clinton often veers to the dark side.
She never tells an uplifting story, never tells stories of hope, never tells stories of the greatness of America.
It almost always comes when the audience least expects it, the moment that Senator Clinton brings a roaring crowd to a hush with a heart-rending anecdote.
I remember listening to a story about a young woman in a small town along the Ohio River in Miggs County who worked at a pizza parlor, Hillary said during his stop in Cleveland, beginning a particularly grim tale.
She got pregnant.
She started having problems.
There's no hospital left in Miggs County.
And why the hell might that be the case?
Anybody want to take a stab at answering why the hospital wouldn't still be in Miggs County?
So she had to go to a neighboring county, Hillary said.
She showed up at the hospital.
The hospital said, you know, you've got to give us $100 before we can see you.
She didn't have $100, Hillary said.
So the young woman went back home.
The next time she went back, she was in an ambulance.
It turned out she lost the baby.
She was airlifted to Columbus.
She paused before concluding.
And after heroic efforts at the medical center, she died.
The audience, as always, gasped.
In hushed tones, sometimes with palpable sadness in her voice, Clinton tells dark, difficult anecdotes picked up on the campaign trail.
They often relate to health matters culled from her conversations with voters and are designed to illustrate a policy point.
For Clinton, the approach seems to bring together her best skills, especially her ability to listen to voters she meets.
In speeches that sometimes wear on, sometimes derail into deadening policy, sharing bleak stories can focus the audience's attention.
The story drew an audible gulp of horror.
She ends by saying it's a real indictment of our health care system.
This shouldn't happen in America.
And this is true.
And Obama, too, this is what the Liberal Democrat Party has become.
Negative after negative after negative after negative example and story, as though to mainstream these stories, make it out like this is common in the country.
In the Wall Street Journal today, there's an editorial entitled Solving the Hillary Problem.
And there's a pull quote in this editorial that says, Democrats should let Mrs. Clinton be Senate majority leader.
Isn't it amazing?
They're so eager to get her out of there.
They will let her be the Senate majority leader.
That's something that you have to run for.
And I don't know that Dingy Harry's ready to give it up, but here's the point about this.
When Mrs. Clinton first ran for the Senate and decided to make her move on New York, you know, by the way, if she had run in Illinois, there wouldn't be a Barack Obama.
But she ran in New York.
And there was a Congresswoman, Snerdley, you'll remember this name, a Congresswoman by the name of Nita Lowy.
It was Nita Lowy's turn.
Nita Lowy had climbed the ladder.
She'd been in Congress.
She stepped aside.
She passed on her turn so as to open the door for Mrs. Clinton.
Now they want Dingy Harry to step aside.
What does he get for giving up his title as majority leader?
It just, you know, maybe make him secretary of surrendering in the new administration.
Offer him something.
Don't put him on the court.
Secretary of surrendering is good.
But you just, everybody's supposed to part ways and make way for Mrs. Clinton.
Get out of her way because what's hers is hers and she's entitled to it.
Except when it comes to the presidential nomination, they're not willing to do it anymore.
They want her gone.
We at Operation Chaos, we want her gone too, but not for another few months.
Here's Shannon in Alcaria, Florida.
I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Very nice to be here, Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, I'm quite upset with the primaries and the Democrats in Florida and that they're upset that they didn't get a chance to have their votes count.
Well, Governor Christ says that he believes everyone should be heard.
My problem with all this is I'm an independent voter in Florida, and I was not allowed to vote because I'm an independent.
The person that I would have voted for, Republican, by the way, is no longer in the race.
What if my vote and a bunch of the independents in Florida could have put the candidate I would have chosen?
He would have been up there with McCain.
You know, I just'm so baffled that they're even considering giving the Democrats a second chance.
Well, I don't think they're going to do it.
Without the independents.
Well, I don't think they're going to do it.
I don't think you're going to be a do-over.
I think that what Howard Dean, and by the way, the press is misreporting this.
This is not a done deal yet.
Right.
But they're going to seat the Florida delegates based on the, and the Democrat side based on the outcome of the vote.
But I don't think there's going to be a do-over in Florida.
Right.
Well, my problem with it is that, you know, I just upset that they're even being considered when Florida knew, okay, the Democrats said, okay, we're not going to count your votes if you move your primary.
Okay.
And now, yes, okay, we will take those votes.
But independents still don't count in Florida.
And who knows what would have happened if the independents could have voted?
Well, but the party makes the rules.
Right, I understand that.
Well, the parties make the rules of these primaries, and it's different from state-state.
Right.
I mean, you could have gone up and voted in New Hampshire, and all you would have had to tell them was that you intend to move there someday.
No kidding.
No, I'm not kidding.
Oh, my word.
The same thing with the Hawkeye Caucy.
Anybody can show up to the caucuses.
You don't have to be registered.
He just show up.
Wow.
But Kentucky, Kentucky, they're very concerned about Operation Chaos.
And if you haven't registered by December 31st of last year, you can't vote in their primary coming up.
Every state's different.
Right, I understand that.
But I moved down here.
Why are you an independent?
Why haven't you chosen?
Well, I'll tell you what.
I've since chosen just because I never know which side of the coin.
You know, I like to hear out everybody and make up my own mind.
And I generally vote Republican.
So I'd pull the trigger because you're being disenfranchised here by these party rules.
I was going to say, if you're a moderate, you didn't say you're a moderate.
You said you're an independent.
Right.
But if you're a moderate, you know, moderates don't care about anything.
So the fact that you couldn't vote shouldn't bother you.
No, it bothers me.
It really does.
I was never one to be highly involved in politics at all.
My husband loves politics.
He listens to you religiously every day.
I'm in a bad day.
Good man.
Good man.
Oh, yeah.
My dad up in Massachusetts, religiously every day.
Good man.
Oh, yeah.
And I just have recently gotten into it.
And boy, this thing where I couldn't vote really got me riled.
Well.
And you're the first person that's been willing to listen.
I really appreciate it.
Well, I appreciate you.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
You can eliminate this.
Now, you can vote in general when that comes around.
That's not a stock, obviously.
If you want to vote in primaries, you're going to have to pull the trigger and register with a particular party here in the state of Florida.
Right.
Well, I understand that now, but oh, I was furious.
Well, then you can't be a moderate.
We'll be back, folks.
Thanks much.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Open line Friday on Thursday.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Yesterday in Columbus, Indiana, at a Hillary Clinton campaign event, former President Bill Clinton spoke.
Here is a portion of what he said.
I remember when we were young right out of law, so she went downtown to join the Army, and they said, your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you.
Do I need to translate that?
Was that hard?
Here was web quality.
What he said there was, I remember we were young, right out of law school.
Hillary went down.
She tried to join the Army.
And they said, your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you.
Now, this must have been after she tried to join the Marines, and the Marines said, we can't use you.
Go ask the dogs, see if they'll take you.
The dogs is a Marine term for the Army.
And she's beside you're a woman.
Let's go back.
Then, First Lady Hillary Clinton, this in June 15th of 94, audio from my television show, Hillary talking to a women's veteran group describing a visit she made to her local military recruiter.
Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago, 1975.
I decided that I was very interested in having some experience and serving in some capacity in the military.
And I think it was just my bad luck that the person who happened to be there on duty could not have been older than 21, was in perfect physical shape.
So I sat down and I said, you know, I wanted to explore.
I didn't know whether I thought active duty would be a good idea, reserve, you know, maybe National Guard, something along those lines.
I was already a lawyer.
I thought there were some roles I could perform.
And I was going on and on, you know, trying to justify my existence.
This is Hillary speaking to a women's veterans group as first lady in 1994.
Then she continued.
This young man looked at me and he said, How old are you?
I said, Well, 27.
He looked at me, and in those days, as before, I learned how to wear contact lenses.
I had these really thick glasses on.
I said, This is embarrassing.
He said, How bad?
So I told him.
He said, That's pretty bad.
And he finally said to me, He said, You're too old.
You can't see.
And you're a woman.
And then he went on.
And since this is the birthday of the Army, I will tell you what the rest of the said was.
This man, young man, was a Marine.
He said, But maybe the dogs would take you.
I said, This is not a very encouraging conversation.
So maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country.
And I decided to hitch my wagon to this hayseed from Arkansas, go down and try to take over the state, and then follow him wherever he was going when he got there, take over from him.
I just, I don't think there's a word of this that's true.
I just, I just, I frankly given everything.
I mean, she's lying about Bosnia, lying about all kinds of Clintons.
It's pathological with both of them.
Whatever they say, they believe it to be true, whether it's true or not.
Let's see.
No, we don't know what she applied for.
Snipper Corps don't know she wanted to be a snipper.
She didn't know what she wanted to be.
Tom in Waterloo, Iowa.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hey, hey.
I take you to work with me every day, so I want to extend co-worker ditto's.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Appreciate that.
Say, Rush, I wanted to get your take on something.
As the commanding general of Operation Chaos, I was wondering if you think the damage that Operation Chaos was causing to the Democratic Party by watching these two lead candidates go at each other, if you would see any broader effects.
For instance, here in Iowa, we'd really love to oust Tom Harkin.
And I'd like to see a greater effect on the Democratic Party in general.
Do you see anything happening out there?
That's no, and I'll tell you why.
It could happen, but in this case, it's not going to happen.
Operation Chaos will affect the presidential race.
The objective of Operation Chaos is to cause the Democrat presidential candidate to lose by exposing that candidate, both these candidates for what they are and who they are, and to create so much infighting within the party that they all start hating and distrusting each other.
But the only way Operation Chaos could secure victory down the ballot in House and Senate elections is if the Republican Party was on the field.
The Republican Party is not on the field.
If the Republican Party sought to nationalize elections like they did in winning the House in 94, if they sought to run campaigns against people like Harkin and whoever else is up this year on the Democrat side, House and Senate and say, look, Senator X is no different than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
They stand for the same stuff, but you got a party has to do that.
We at Operation Chaos can only do so much.
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The Associated Press, you might think this is a hit piece on Senator McCain when I share it with you.
The headline: Beer executive could be next first lady.
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