We'll get back to Operation Chaos and a debate in a second, but you got to hear the Cheney stuff.
And it's just some fabulous stuff here in the general stack that I want to get to.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
El Rushbo here at 1-800-282-2882.
And the email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
I asked mere moments ago, why, Senator Obama, did you take the flag pin off?
You wore it for one day when the disabled vet thrust it at you, but you took it off.
Why did you take it off in the first place?
We actually know prior to the 9-11, or prior to the Iraq invasion, right after 9-11.
Here's his quote.
You know, the truth is that right after 9-11, I had a pin, a lapel pin, flag pin.
Shortly after 9-11, particularly because as we were talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are importance to our national security.
I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.
Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that'll be a testimony to my patriotism.
So he took it off to curry favor with the anti-war fringe in this country and the Democrat Party shortly before the Iraq invasion so that he could show real patriotism, speaking out on issues that are important.
This is another thing that this dumb party has done.
They have sought to redefine patriotism as being universally, constantly critical of this country.
That's the new patriotism.
It sounds to me like he wanted to be asked about this.
He wanted to be asked why he wasn't wearing flags so he could go out and say, well, I want my patriotism to show in a different manner.
I want it to show through my ideas.
Shocking economic news, a private business group says that its index of leading economic indicators rose today, reversing five months of decline.
Now, the indicators are down significantly from a year ago, leaving recession fears festering, but they are up.
This is not supposed to happen.
I mean, the stimulus checks haven't even been received yet.
You can't have the economy rebounding without the stimulus checks.
The Democrats won't get credit for it.
Bush's climate plan, this is a headline, Bush's climate plan said too little too late.
Good.
Let's call the whole thing off then.
If it's too little too late, call the whole thing off.
Speaking of global warming, this is from Fox News.
You remember to set this up?
Do you remember after the 04 election, there was a bunch of people down in Boca and Fort Lauderdale who had post-election traumatic stress disorder?
And they were going to the shrinks office to deal with post-election stress disorder, pest.
They were just shocked.
Well, get this.
Sarah Edwards.
Sarah Edwards worries about the gasoline she burns, the paper towels she throws out, the litter on the beach, and water pollution.
She's worrying so much about all this, it literally makes her sick.
Fear, grief, anger, confusion, and depression, Edwards says, pointing to the negativity that has manifested itself in real-life symptoms such as neck and shoulder pain, fatigue.
I had so much pathos.
It's so sad, says Edwards, who moved from California's crowded Santa Monica to a secluded cabin in the Los Padres National Forest to help her cope.
Now she says we only drive to the grocery store every three weeks.
We have our own source of water.
We compost no longer heat every room on the first floor.
They have named her disorder.
Sarah Edwards has eco-anxiety.
The growing angst experienced by those who can't handle the thought that they or anyone are in some way contributing to global warming, species extinction, and dwindling natural resources.
This is a four-page story.
Things have gotten so bad, a new kind of therapy has sprouted up to keep people from going nuts over the environment.
It's called ecotherapy or eco-psychology.
The time on the couch is not spent delving into a patient's childhood to find the source of misery.
Instead, it looks at how much time a person spends in nature, the person's carbon footprint, and what the individual is doing to save the planet.
And the prescribed treatment may be as simple as a dose of recycling or actually being told to go hug a tree.
I'm not making this up.
This is not a satire.
This is not a parody.
There are genuinely people out there who are making themselves sick.
Anxiety and stress over the fact that we're destroying the planet.
Eco-psychology, popularized in the early 90s by social critic Theodore Rozak, is being taught in colleges and universities across the country, including at Harvard Medical School.
Linda Bezell, founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy, said the field is so new that there are few statistics to indicate how many practitioners are using the techniques.
But the website for the International Community for Ecopsychology lists more than 100 ecotherapists in the United States.
Linda Bezell told Foxnews.com in an email that due to increased awareness about the environment with films like Al Gore's, more people are attuned to our challenging environmental situation.
Melissa Pickett, ecotherapist, Santa Fe, New Mexico, treats dozens of patients a month.
Said ecotherapy helps those grappling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness about the environment.
People break down and cry.
They develop obsessive, compulsive behavior.
They have nightmares.
And these are normally high-functioning people.
Could you believe this, this?
And what party has given us this?
What party has given Democrat Party?
Back to Sarah Edwards for a moment.
Here at the top of this story.
It says here that she suffers from eco-anxiety, the growing angst experienced by those who can't handle the thought that they or anyone are in some way contributing to global warming.
See, they want to matter.
It's exactly as I've thought.
They want to matter.
Their lives are meaningless.
There's so little going on in their lives that they have enough time to drive themselves crazy and to send themselves into their own anxiety disorder over guilt.
And who is actually behind this?
The definition of eco-anxiety is this.
The growing angst from being suckered into believing the lies and hysteria from Al Gore and the drive-by media on global warming.
These people are simply buying into a hoax.
Their angst is built on lies.
They can't do anything to stop, no matter they move out to the woods, they compost, they go to grocery store once every three weeks, they don't heat every room on the lower floor, and nothing changes.
So no matter what they do to save the planet, every day we hear it's getting worse and we have no hope.
And there are people that have been conditioned and brainwashed into going out and doing the stupidest things in their lives.
Like the examples in this story.
Because they want to matter.
Their lives are meaningless.
I understand this.
I understand people who want to count.
Everybody wants their lives to mean something.
The best way for that to happen is to realize that much things, they're things much larger than yourself and devote yourself to that.
But these people are not doing that no matter what you think.
Rush, they're trying to save the planet.
No, they're not trying to save the planet.
These people are so narcissistic and they're so self-focused that they are doomed to fail because whatever action they take will not result in that which they want to see.
And the very people who are making them feel this anxiety, the very people who are browbeating him and propagandizing him into this are the same people every day claiming it's getting worse that we've got to start doing something.
These people meanwhile are doing something.
This is clearly another example of how the liberals in this country, the Democrat Party and Drive-By Media, have succeeded in creating chaos of their own and angst, keeping people all roiled and upset, the opposite of contentment.
The only upside to this is that the very people that are being affected like this and become loony-tuned nutcases are liberals.
Back to the phones we go now.
Rush Limbaugh to Worcester, Massachusetts.
David, thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you here.
Yes, hi.
I'd like to make a point on our constitutional rights to bear arms.
I heard John McCain and Bloomberg have this running these ads in Massachusetts where they want to ban guns and close loopholes on guns.
What's your intake on that?
On the loophole on guns?
Do they want to close loopholes?
And actually, they were even talking about banning, possibly banning guns.
Can't do it.
Well, the advertisement says they're going to definitely close loopholes on guns, Bloomberg.
Well, people have been trying to close all kinds of loopholes on guns, but there's a Second Amendment out there.
Plus, we have the U.S. Supreme Court currently hearing a case involving the ban on guns in the District of Columbia.
That's going to be interesting, and that's going to be a landmark once when they finally come out with their decision on this.
That caller, by the way, totally lied.
They call Screener.
He said he wanted to talk to me about my suggestion today as the commander of Operation Chaos.
In case you missed it, I did suggest it because these two candidates have, on the Democrat side, it's a disaster, folks, for the Democrat Party now.
It's an utter disaster.
And there's only one thing for the superdelegates to do, and that's to bag these two and to come up with a third candidate for the Democrat presidential race.
That's the last option they have.
If these two guys, Clinton Obama headed a convention, down 10 or 15 points to McCain, the only option they're going to have is to get somebody out there that's a fresh start that can run who's not a liberal and not as exposed as these two have become as genuine liberals.
And the guy said he wanted to talk about that, so the superdelegates wouldn't listen to me.
In the meantime, we have Dick Cheney.
Also, during the debate last night, was the final radio TV correspondence dinner for this administration.
There are a series of these dinners in the spring.
One of them is the radio TV correspondence dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Washington.
The big finale for these things is the White House correspondence dinner, which is April 26th.
And the president was unable to attend last night the radio TV correspondence because there was a dinner at the White House in honor of Pope Benedict XVI, who I don't think made it because he was at a prayer group session with bishops.
But a bunch of people went to the White House anyway for dinner in honor of Pope Benedict.
So it fell to Dick Cheney to go to the White House, the radio TV correspondence dinner.
And we have three montages of the jokes that Vice President Cheney told.
You'd be amazed at how many guys want to go fishing with me these days.
You all know how to make a guy feel welcome.
Obviously, you're not the kind to look down on a bitter man who clings to his guns.
I myself met with His Holiness this morning at the White House.
So between that and this dinner with the media, it's been quite a day for me.
I spent the morning with one infallible authority, and now I get to spend the evening with a thousand of them.
It's always very exciting when the Pope comes to town, and I am modest enough to realize that all of you would rather see the Pope standing here than me.
But instead of the successor to St. Peter, you're stuck with me, the successor to St. Al.
Meaning Al Gore, that one brought down the house.
Here's another montage.
Speaking of Vice President Gore, I'm sorry to relate that he's a little bit sore at me.
He's convinced that on global warming, I just don't get it.
But lately, with every passing day, the evidence has been catching my attention.
I have no doubt, none at all, that we are in the midst of a global warming.
Or as I prefer to call it, spring.
And I don't want to sound like an alarmist, but it's going to get a lot warmer before it gets cooler.
But I want you to know I'm doing my part to meet the crisis by reducing my carbon footprint big time.
Every time I'm rushed to the hospital, I insist on a hybrid ambulance.
And the last one.
At breakfast today, I asked Glynn if deep down it bugs her that people have taken to calling me Darth Bader.
She said, not at all.
It humanizes you.
I'm old news in this election, but I want a piece of the action.
I'm fired up for my own candidate, but the feeling isn't always returned.
I feel kind of like Bill Clinton.
I guess my cousin Barack has sat through some mighty riveting sermons over the years.
If he gets elected, you're not going to want to miss those Washington prayer breakfasts.
You and the press need to go easy on Senator Clinton on the whole business about running and ducking from gunfire in Bosnia.
She made an honest mistake.
She confused the Bosnia trip with the time I took her hunting.
Did you see that footage of Hillary knocking back that shot with a beer chaser?
Looks like she replaced Mark Penn with Johnny Walker.
Since it is our last time together at this dinner, I think it's enough to leave you with words I once addressed to Senator Pat Leahy.
Go straight home, have good night, and thank you very much.
Vice President Cheney, last night at the radio TV correspondence dinner, we have an update on the CNN situation, the apology to the Shikoms.
China on Thursday snubbed CNN's apology over remarks by Jack Cafferty as a wave of verbal assaults on foreign media raised concerns over coverage at this.
They might lose the CNN Bureau in Beijing, Peiking, Shanghao, Shang Zhao, Xing Wei, and Klingon.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhang Yu rejected CNN's explanation that Jack Cafferty was referring to the Chikom leaders and not the Chinese people when he described them as goons and thugs.
CNN said it apologized to anybody who thought otherwise, but the foreign ministry spokeswoman said at a regularly scheduled news conference that CNN's statement lacked sincerity and instead turned its attack on the Chikom government to try to sow division between the Chinese government and its people.
Can you imagine the executives at CNN?
They can sit there all day long and they can literally trash any Republican they can destroy the career of any Republican they want to try.
George Bush, any Republican judicial nominee, they can just go out and they can do hit piece after hit piece.
But now their crazy uncle, you know, Cafferty's one of these guys, you've seen him in New York all the time.
These guys haven't shaved or washed their hair in like three weeks and they're in these cheap little trench coats on the corner and they're shouting as people as they go by.
CNN put him on the air.
You know, and so he's insulting the CHICOMs.
Now these executives at CNN, they go, oh my God, they're scared to death.
They've insulted the Chikoms.
They can insult.
Cafferty can do a commentary in which he accuses people in the small towns in the Midwest of being no different than al-Qaeda terrorists.
And CNN, battened eye.
Of course, everybody agrees with that, right?
I mean, that's true.
Who could argue with that?
CNN says.
No, the Chikoms, they have refused the apology.
The ChiComs have basically told CNN to take that apology and put it where the sun doesn't shine and use Cafferty's body to do it.
CNN and other foreign satellite broadcasters can be seen only in hotels over there, offices and housing developments that are open to foreigners, meaning very few Chikoms would have heard Cafferty's comments anyway.
Censors also block a lot of foreign news sites on the internet.
But a signed editorial in the Communist Party's flagship People's Daily attacked what it called Cafferty's verbal violence.
He said, when people wake up and face the facts, there will be no more market for information terrorism.
The Chikom editorial says, CNN has been accused by the ChiComs of information terrorism.
This has got to be just tearing these execs over there apart.
They have got to be devastated.
Their buddies, communists, have misunderstood them.
And they apologized.
They groveled.
They got down on hands and knees.
And the Chikom said, screw you, you capitalist pigs.
We don't accept your apology.
And now they're worrying what they can do to smooth relations.
We are looking forward to tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.
Tomorrow is our annual Leukemia Lymphoma Society Radio Thon, one day a year.
We devote a portion of the program to raising money to cure those blood cancers.
Tomorrow is the big day, and I just wanted to mention it to you rather than surprising you with it out of the box tomorrow.
It's always a fun day, and it's very meaningful.
And you people have come through every year in an unbelievable fashion, regardless of economic circumstances or anything else.
Every year you have come through huge.
So tomorrow is it.
Now, we have some nags news.
The National Association of Gals are very upset out there.
One of my all-time favorite Congresswomen who actually prefers to be called a Congressman is Marcia Blackburn.
She's a Republican from Tennessee.
She's been in the Tennessee delegation in Congress since 2003, and she prefers to be called a congressman.
Like if you call her office and you get hold of Secretary Sega, you go, hang on, let me grab the Congressman for you.
Hang on just a second.
Theoretically, I mean, euphemistically here, not literally, grab the congressman.
And then she gets on the phone.
Marcia Blackburn says, it's not something I see as a big deal.
She's the only female member of the Tennessee delegation, by the way.
She says, I'm not trying to make a statement, feminist or otherwise.
Her statement, her communications director, Claude Chaffin.
I've never known her to correct anybody who calls her Congresswoman.
I also never heard her introduce herself as anything other than Marcia.
Still, Congressman is her first choice.
Blackburn signs her official correspondence with that title, and it appears on her website.
In several news articles, she's referred to as Congressman Blackburn, with the added disclaimer: her preferred term.
But the NAGs are bent out of shape about this.
The National Association of Gals is upset.
There's a reason for that, say leading female academics, women's policy analysts, and other members.
Names matter.
When they refer to themselves as Congresswoman, this sounds different because it is different.
Said Latifa Lyles of the NAGs.
I think it, you know what?
This is fascinating.
This is in Politico.
Now, would you listen to how the Politico writes up and describes or gives their modifier here?
Said Latifa Lyles of the National Organization for Women, a feminist advocacy group, as though people don't know who they are anymore.
Which is music.
It's sweet because we have swept the NAGs away to irrelevance.
By the way, who wrote this?
Helena Andrews.
Helena, the National Organization for Women is a liberal advocacy group.
It's not a feminist advocacy group.
Anyway, Latifa Lyles of the NAGS says that it's significant.
We want her to use the word Congresswoman.
We don't have to pretend we're not women in order to be leaders in this country.
Barbara Kellerman, professor of women's and government studies at Harvard, said women are repeatedly at odds with the issues of nomenclature.
Whenever we blend with the male appellation, we are diminishing the significance of the accomplishment, said Kellerman.
No.
The accomplishment stands on its own.
So here are the NAGs, and here are a bunch of enlightened feminists.
What was that about, by the way?
Empowering women to do what they want to do.
So here's Marsha Blackburn.
I want to be called Congress.
You can't.
More Stalinist-like intolerance from another liberal advocacy group.
Go back to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Klaus Nomi with the vocal portrayal here.
It's our gay community update theme, my friends.
Coming up now.
Looks just like he sounds, folks.
Trust me.
Controversy has erupted over a YouTube video, ladies and gentlemen, showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object, a canister, from the rectum of a patient.
This video may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost of their medical license.
Three-minute video, noisy operating room, doctors and nurses laughing.
At one point, a hand appears with a cell phone camera taking a close-up picture as a doctor gingerly pulls a six-inch-long canister from the male patient's rectum.
And they shout, baby out.
And then they start spraying each other with the aerosol that's inside the can.
It's all viewable on YouTube.
If you're going, ew, so am I.
The late, great Klaus Nomi, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes.
Hey, you don't know me.
It's our gay community update theme.
Now, we're not through with the story.
I guess I'm sure you're wondering, I wish.
Okay, we got the YouTube video.
It's at a Philippine hospital in Manila.
And the doctors pull this canister out of the rear end of the guy.
And they take pictures of it and they start spraying the aerosol can all over the place.
The doctor that removes the canister cap sprays the contents toward the crowd of nurses and doctors.
It remains unclear who shot the video and who posted it on YouTube, but the person who did post it, posted, removed it from the website yesterday.
The video has angered the unidentified patient.
The patient found out about this and plans to press charges, according to his lawyer.
Dr. Emmanuel Geins said that more than 10 people were involved, including staff and medical and nursing students from a nearby operating room.
I imagine that this, you know, this guy came in and the word spread through the ER pretty quick: say, hey, guess what we've got here?
We got a guy with a six-inch canister up the rear end.
You want to see us take this out?
So everybody pours in there.
Well, I don't know what the spray was.
I mean, it was a body spray.
The results of the not cheese whiz.
See, this is why the staff does not have my breath.
Don't do this to me.
Jeez whiz.
It was not silly string.
It was body lotion.
Would you let me finish the story?
I'm trying to provide as journalistically as possible here the details.
I keep being interrupted by some sick numbers today of my own staff.
Now, Dr. Jose Sebilli, president of the Philippine Medical Association, told the AP that the group's going to conduct an investigation if a formal complaint is filed by the patient.
And if doctors are found violating medical ethics, they could be suspended or expelled from the association.
And that would result in the suspension or termination of their state health insurance accreditation.
The results, the investigation could also be used by the Professional Regulations Commission to suspend or revoke their licenses.
Health Undersecretary Alexander Padillas said that the health department will conduct a separate investigation.
Now, the 39-year-old patient received surgery on January 3rd, three days after a New Year's drinking spree and a one-night stand with a male partner.
According to the lawyer, he said the client was too drunk to remember how the body spray canister ended up in his rear end.
You'll never find another love like mine.
See this can they sound like a couple of drunk divers anyway?
How many of you over the years have bought into this whole notion that taking vitamins as supplements can help you make you healthier in case of vitamin C, ward off cold and all that sort of stuff?
We've been told this for years and years and years and years.
And we can make book.
We can make book that after getting everybody worked into a tizzy over something, the drive-by is at a bunch of left-wing special interest goose are going to come back and say, oops.
It's not happened with vitamins.
The headline is really all you need to know here.
This is from the BBC.
Vitamins may shorten your life.
Research has suggested certain vitamin supplements do not extend life and could even lead to a premature death.
A review of 67 studies found no convincing evidence that antioxidant supplements cut the risk of dying.
Even more, beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E seem to increase mortality, according to the review by the respected Cochrane Collaboration.
They might have died a week earlier without them.
Who knows?
You know what surprised me about this story?
I can't believe that we can't stop death with vitamins.
Well, you know what a failure this is?
This is an abject failure.
We have been living under the illusion we can stop death.
We can prolong our with vitamins.
Now we're killing ourselves with vitamins.
We are killing ourselves with them.
Welcome to Drive By Media 101.
Welcome to Liberal Special Interest 101.
This is how this stuff works.
Just keep everybody in constant angst.
You realize how many people can be talking about it.
Don't take that vitamin.
It can't kill you.
Back to the phones we go.
Duncan in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega Dittos, Commander Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
I am heading up Operation Chaos here at my school, Wake Forest, and I have won a front-roast ticket tomorrow to a Hillary Clinton event with Maya Angelou.
I need your advice.
I don't know what to do.
This is beyond my knowing what to do with Operation Chaos.
Do I ask a flattering question?
Do I go after her?
How do you know you're going to get a chance to ask a question?
That's what I've been told.
I entered a lottery to be one of the special people, and apparently I am.
Apparently they know nothing about me.
And when is this?
Tomorrow, at 6 o'clock.
6 o'clock tomorrow.
You want to know what question to ask Mrs. Clinton.
Well, the only thing I've thought about is saying to her that I recently changed my registration so that I could vote for her in the primary, try and get her guard down, and then ask her what she thinks of having your support.
No, no, no.
Do not bring my name up.
Okay.
Operation Chaos operatives are trained professionals.
We're not going to portray that we're in there for sabotage.
Okay.
You know, cheap little theatrics like that are performed by much lesser radio hosts.
That's true.
I'm sorry.
You're going to go in there and you're going to ask a serious question.
Mrs. Clinton, here's what you, this is it, Mrs. Clinton.
And you can tell her that you switched registration to vote for her because you really want her to win the Democratic nomination.
You really want.
But as bad as Obama did in the debate on Wednesday night, what is the problem in putting him away?
How come you just can't seem to put him away because he's making himself, he's making more and more mistakes.
He has lost his image of Messiah.
His association with known radical figures has been documented.
Why?
What is the problem you and your campaign are having?
Don't make it personal.
What is the problem you and your campaign are having in gaining ground and closing this guy out?
That sounds fantastic.
It is.
It's a serious question.
That question might make the news if you ask it right.
And her answer might make the news if you ask it right.
Well, then I'll have to practice.
All right.
You go back.
We're going to put this in the website so you can get the question down, Pet.
I don't trust your memory on this because I know you're nervous being on the phone.
I am an insider, so I'll be able to podcast it.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Plain and dandy.
Yeah, because I don't want to plaster it all over the website for the Clinton campaign to see.
That's a good point.
They are fairly wily.
All right, Duncan, thanks for the...
By the way, Duncan, how do you spell your name?
D-U-N-C-A-N.
I'm looking at Mr. Snerdley spelled it D-U-N-K-I-N.
I'm thinking, why don't we have a donut on the phone?
No, not at all.
I've been getting that my entire life.
It's the Scottish spelling.
All right.
Thanks, Duncan, for the call.
I appreciate it.
Kingwood, Texas, this is Jim.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
A suggestion for the Democrat superdelegate nuclear option for a third candidate.
Let me hear it.
Let's give him John McCain.
Then we can rerun our own primary.
I'd like to do it differently this time.
As a Texan, I was disenfranchised by my choices having been eliminated by the time I could vote.
So I would run it as Republican Idol.
Let's put the candidates back up there and have a weekly elimination debate with call-in voting.
And for the Panhurst moderators, I want, instead of Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson and Paul Abdul, I want Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Ann Coulter.
As the judges.
As the judges.
Interesting.
I like your first idea.
Give the Democrats McCain.
We do our own smoke-filled room selecting at our convention.
That's actually brilliant.
Sad it couldn't happen.
Sean in Cleveland.
I have 35 seconds, and I wanted to get to you before we had to skate out of here.
Great.
It's Indianapolis, Rush.
Hey, first of all, I want to thank you for fighting for our freedom.
Cleveland, Indianapolis?
No, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Is your name Sean?
Yes.
Okay, we're halfway there.
All right.
Hey, I believe that the delegates won't change their support for Obama just for the simple fact that they believe in the same thing that he does.
They believe in nothing and the hate for a free country.
I think they rather not cling to the truth, but rather run.
Democrat Party wants to win.
The biggest obstacle the superdelegates are going to have to throwing both these candidates out is that one of them is black.
That's the biggest obstacle to the doomsday option being implemented.