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April 22, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Operation Chaos is in full swing.
Operation Chaos is under attack from the drive-by media and campaign operatives.
Operation Chaos is succeeding exactly as planned and meeting all objectives.
Barack Obama chickening out of a debate in North Carolina.
The biggest loser, Katie Couric, who was to have moderated the debate.
And a latest poll from the American Research Group, which is reputed to be a great poll, has Mrs. Clinton up as of April 20th and 21st.
So that would be yesterday, the day before, up by 16 points.
Mrs. Clinton up 56 to 40 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the American Research Group Incorporated poll.
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the one and only EIB network.
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Let's go right to the audio soundbites.
Our troops are on the battlefield today, and I do not want those of you who have yet to take the battlefield to be deterred by any of the efforts ongoing in the drive-by media to dissuade you or to say to you that your importance is irrelevant.
We'll start with Fox and Friends on the Fox News channel this morning.
The co-host Gretchen Carlson had this exchange with McCain campaign New York State operative or chairman Ed Cox about Operation Chaos.
We want to talk to you about Operation Chaos because Rush Limbaugh has been advocating his listeners to go out and register Democrat and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary just to keep the whole chaos going on the Democratic side.
Ed, your thoughts on that?
Well, I don't think that's going to have that much of an impact in the end, but especially with this kind of a large turnout.
Not even the McCain camp is willing to acknowledge Operation Chaos.
And by the way, the intended beneficiary of Operation Chaos is indeed Senator McCain.
And yet he cannot have his campaign chairman in New York go out and acknowledge the effort we are making here on behalf of his campaign.
Same program.
Dee Dee Myers talking to Steve Ducey on the Fox and Friends show.
Docey says to her, are you afraid of Operation Chaos, Dee Dee Myers?
It sounds very scary.
Right, it sounds very chaotic.
I don't think people, I think people are reluctant to throw away their vote.
I think that most Americans take the franchise very seriously.
But if you're a Republican, you wouldn't vote today in Pennsylvania.
Yeah, but I just don't think people mess around with their vote.
I just don't, I mean, some will.
There's no question that some will think it's mischievous and fun and yeah, let's keep the chaos going.
But I think most people don't want to do that.
If they've already, you know, they have to re-register as a Democrat.
That's the only vote they get in this primary process.
Dee Dee and all the rest of you who are, including those of you in the McCain campaign who are doubting the size and the impact, the effectiveness of Operation Chaos, let me ask you why you think that in the final days, less than three or four days leading up to registration to change parties in Pennsylvania six weeks ago, why or four weeks or whatever it was, why do you think there were over 118,
maybe 178,000 people who changed registration from Democrat to Republican in the last three or four days?
Do you think it was because those Republicans all of a sudden at the same time had a revelation that they wanted to vote Obama?
Do you think those Republicans had a revelation at the last moment that they wanted to vote for Mrs. Clinton?
Or do you think they are Operation Chaos operatives?
I can understand, ladies and gentlemen, Democrats would like to play this down, and elements of the drive-by media would also like to play down the effectiveness of Operation Chaos.
This is primarily aimed at me.
It is professional broadcast jealousy, ladies and gentlemen, professional broadcast envy that I have the ability using our relationship here, our familial relationship here, to inspire and motivate so many people toward a cause.
And of course, as I have mentioned over the course of recent days, the drive-by meeting, drive-by media budget meetings every morning have been oriented toward how can we talk about this without mentioning Limbaugh and Operation Chaos.
I want to send a heartfelt thanks out to the Fox and Friends morning crew for daring to have the political and journalistic courage to ask various politicos the question.
We move on now to KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
The anchors Chris May and Liz Kepner were interviewing Harry Smith, the co-host of the CBS early show.
That's just incredible.
You know, we keep hearing so much about, I guess you could say, the conspiracy theories, a lot of Republicans who are changing their affiliation for the primary to elections.
Limbaugh Chaos.
Right.
A weaker Democratic candidate to run against John McCain in the fall.
So we keep hearing these calls, polls, or we have heard these polls that Barack Obama was closing the, you know.
And it doesn't seem to be like that anymore now.
I mean, how do you think this all is working?
And how is this playing out?
These newly registered voters, many of them, some analysts say, many of them are undecided, many of them may be leaning toward Obama.
That could be enough of a percentage difference to offset the predicted Hillary Clinton lead.
I think it's anybody's guess.
So that was a worthwhile interview, was it not?
The noted expert, the noted electoral expert Harry Smith from the third place CBS morning show, commenting on the impact and effectiveness of Operation Chaos and then deigning to explain why so many Republicans might be motivated to cross over and vote for Obama.
Let me explain to all of you in the drive-by media that the past two weeks, the past week especially, Obama, the blooms off the roads.
Obama is a pure 100% myth.
He has been exposed.
And if you don't think people in flyover country haven't seen this, don't care about his preacher, don't care about his association with Bill Ayers, they do.
And it'll show up in the general election.
But I would maintain this.
You know, the drive-by media, for the most part, is in the tank for Obama.
And so they see these Republicans registering as Democrats as part of Operation Chaos in Pennsylvania, and they lie to themselves.
They have a storyline.
They have a narrative.
The narrative is that Obama is the second coming.
Obama is a Messiah.
Obama can save the country, save the world.
So they see even committed Republicans changing party registration.
And then they say, wow, even Republicans want Obama, the Messiah.
Let me suggest to you in the drive-by media that the vast majority of these people, if it happens, and we don't know what's going to happen either, the polling in the Clinton-Obama races in some states, other than Ohio and Texas, has been abysmally wrong, but profoundly wrong.
We don't know what's going to happen in Pennsylvania.
As I say, the American Research Group polling data last two days has Hillary with a 16-point lead.
But let's say it doesn't turn out to be that.
The Clinton Turtles yesterday, of course, were 11%.
But let's say it doesn't turn out to be that.
If indeed Republicans are crossing the aisle and voting for Obama, I want you in the drive-by meeting to understand one thing.
They ain't voting for Obama.
They are voting against Hillary.
There are some members of Operation Chaos.
I mean, we do our best to keep the troops in line here, folks, but there are some members of Operation Chaos who just can't stomach voting for a Clinton, no matter what, and would love to see the end of the Clintons today.
Do not fool yourselves, drive-bys, if you think that all these new Republicans are crossing the line panting with excitement to vote for Obama because they're not.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the myth that is Obama, we have decided to produce this in order to convey and persuade rather than just say it from my oral cavity.
Wait, wait, I think he smiled at me.
He's so nice.
He's so nice.
The myth that is Obama.
Lots to do on our exciting program today.
Be back with all the rest of it right after this.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, today is the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, one of the earliest communist dictator thugs in Russia, the old Soviet Union.
It's also Earth Day today, ladies and gentlemen.
And this is, I don't know what anniversary this thing.
It started back in the 1970s.
Even Earth Day supporters, organizers now admit they have made no progress.
No progress whatsoever in enlightenment.
They have made no progress in people turning away from their wasteful ways.
Somebody asked me yesterday, what are you going to urge your audience to do on Earth Day?
I said, it's very simple.
Drive.
Drive.
Drive five miles above the speed limit when you're on the highway.
Go out and buy, buy, buy.
Use extra toilet paper.
Clog up the toilet if you have to with extra toilet.
Just use, use, use.
Turn on every light in the house, every light in the office, and leave it on when you leave.
And if you see anybody driving a stupid hybrid around, just buzz them with your horn and wave at them as you speed by.
Just ram it down their throats, ladies and gentlemen.
There's a great couple of pieces today on Earth Day and global warming.
One of them from the American thinker, and it makes the great point.
If these people who were propounding global warming on the basis we need to feed the world, there's too much poverty, if they really wanted to do that, then they would make that their objective rather than try to reduce carbon emissions as a way of doing it because everybody admits that the only way to reduce carbon emissions is to make everybody in every nation poorer to reduce lifestyle.
Speaking of global warming, we had another message from terrorist Honcho Ayman al-Zawahiri, his chief deputy to Osama bin Laden.
On Tuesday, he denied.
Now, this is a convoluted story.
Zawahiri yesterday denied, or today actually, a new videotape, denied a theory that Israel carried out the September 11th attacks and blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to discredit the Sunni al-Qaeda strike against the U.S.
So, let me translate this for you.
Al-Zawahiri and bin Laden and the rest of his al-Qaeda guys, happy as hell to take credit for 9-11.
Now, there's a rumor out there that Israel carried this attack out.
For all I know, Jimmy Carter may be behind that rumor.
Regardless, Zawahiri is all bit out of shape now.
He's blaming Iran and the Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea that Israel blew up the World Trade Center in order to discredit bin Laden.
Now, that's where the whole thing started.
And then it got to this point.
Zawahiri spoke on a wide range of issues, even global warming, which he said reflected how, this is quote, how criminal, brutal, and greedy the Western crusader world is with America at the top.
He predicted that global warming would make the world more sympathetic to an understanding of the Muslim jihad against the aggressor America.
Now, isn't that just heartwarming?
Isn't that just delightful?
Number two to Osama bin Laden using Democrat talking points to rip this country to shreds to justify terrorism and jihad against the United States because we are responsible for global warming.
If I were a liberal Democrat, actually, what I was going to say is not applicable.
He says, if I were a liberal Democrat, I would be embarrassed that these terrorist idiots are using the same talking points I use on my blog or my candidates use in their campaign commercials.
But then I got to thinking, oh, it doesn't embarrass them because they don't consider Zawahiri and terrorism to be real threats to the country.
They think Republicans and people like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Halliburton and global warming represent the real threats.
But it's apparent to me that what happens is that these terrorist nutjobs monitor U.S. drive-by media reports and they end up parroting whatever the Democrats say.
They said, why?
Because the Democrats rip this country to shreds on a daily basis.
Liberals rip this country to shreds on a daily basis.
And so the terrorists think they've got willing accomplices.
They've got a brotherhood in the Democrat Party.
And the Democrats are out there saying we are responsible for global warming.
It's destroying the world.
It's destroying the planet.
In other words, America's dirty, rotten, and evil.
And that's what the jihadists want the rest of the world to think.
So all they have to do is wait to see what liberal Democrats say in this country and echo those sentiments.
And lo and behold, Eamon Al-Zawahiri did just that in his latest tape that was released today.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Let's see.
Where did I take where to start?
Nine?
Eight.
We're back to Operation Chaos soundbites.
A pollster Scott Rasmussen last night on Larry Kudlow's show.
Kudlow and company on CNBC, and they had this exchange about Operation Chaos.
Scott Rasmussen, Russ Limbaugh on the radio today talking a lot about Republicans in Pennsylvania re-registering Democratic to vote for Obama.
Are you picking up any of that?
We've heard about this in other states, and there are some who do it.
The net impact, I think, in Texas was almost a quarter of a percentage point in the popular vote.
You know, it's just it's not going to play a big factor.
The reality here, Hillary Clinton is likely to win.
The margin will be determined by who turns out the ultimate winner is John McCain from this context.
That was Scott Rasmussen.
And I might take the time here to remind everybody what the ultimate objective of Operation Chaos is.
Do you remember what it is, Dawn?
What is the no, no.
Yes, but the ultimate objective is for our side to win.
And our side is represented by John McCain.
So while the pollster Scott Rasmussen, I think he understood either Kudlow's question or Kudlow misunderstood what he heard on the program yesterday.
Yesterday, we were talking about the phenomenon that I had met some Republicans who said they couldn't wait to vote for Obama, despite knowing he's a full-fledged, 100% liberal, because they like his personality.
They think he's sincere about what he believes.
I forgot to mention that yesterday, folks, but this is one of the things, and it sort of wigs me out.
Yeah, he's a sincere liberal.
Does that not matter?
I just, he's just trustworthy.
He just seems sincere to me.
Why does he seem sincere?
Well, because of the way he speaks.
And he doesn't stutter around.
He sounds educated.
He's very calm.
Some of these Republicans saying, I don't think McCain's trustworthy.
I don't know what he's going to do, but I trust Obama.
Yeah, I do too.
I trust Obama to be as liberal, as radical as any Democrat that's ever run for the White House.
But that doesn't matter.
It still doesn't matter.
So that's what I was explaining yesterday to the audience here.
And I amended that a little bit right at the beginning of the program today because I do think that some of these Republicans, if they do cross over to vote for Obama, they're actually voting against Hillary.
There is no educated, and we only have educated Republicans in this audience.
And there's no educated Republican that in a general election, once we get to November, would vote for Barack Obama.
It just wouldn't happen.
They may sit home.
They may be mad at McCain.
There's a lot of that.
But they're not going to go out and actively vote for a radical leftist.
Whether he appears sincere or not, Howard Dean accepted congratulations on Operation Chaos registration on MSNBC this morning.
Look, I think we're in pretty good shape.
I, too, like many Americans, have concerns about the tone of the campaign.
But the truth is, in Pennsylvania, we registered over 300,000 new voters, including 160,000 who switched from the Republican Party.
North Carolina, we've got over 150,000 new voters.
All those people are going to be in the DNC data bank.
In fact, they probably already are for the fall election.
Governor, congratulations ahead of time.
300,000 new Democrats in Pennsylvania.
That's a big deal.
This is offensive to me.
This is profoundly offensive to me as Sink Yusuck, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Operation Chaos, to listen to Howard Dean accept credit for this when this whole concept was begun by me, executed by you, Operation Chaos.
The battle for control of the Democratic Party between me and Howard Dean.
Hey, Mike, they just delivered to you audio soundbite number 23.
Good.
Cookie just sent this in.
Mr. Snurdy, you're going to want to listen to this Curtis Sleewa show on our New York Blowtorch affiliate, AM77WABC.
Curtis was talking to the Altoona Mirror reporter, Jay Young, and they had this exchange.
The first voice you hear will be Jay Young of the Altoona, Pennsylvania Mirror.
One of the bigger stories we have is the amount of people who have been switching parties, that going from Republican to Democrat.
There's been a real Republican effort around here to get people to switch to Democrat, vote for Hillary, because they think that John McCain is a better matchup against Hillary Clinton.
So from the front lines of Operation Chaos, Jay Young, do you think that there are many Republicans who have heard their orders from headquarters and they're going to be casting their votes for Hillary today?
I can't say where they're hearing it from, but I can tell you the numbers reflect there's been a major switch from Republican to Democrat in our county, and our county is easily a very much a majority Republican county.
Operation Chaos.
That's this morning in WABC in New York.
Curtis Sleewa talking to Jay Young of the Altoona Mirror, who doesn't know where it's coming from.
Got to maintain those journalistic credentials of Objectivity.
Now, let me tell you something, folks.
Here's something I got to remind you of.
When this is all over in Pennsylvania, when this is all over in North Carolina, when it's all over in Indiana, you got to go back and re-register Republican.
Those of you who are Operation Chaos operatives, you must do that because campaign funds are allocated based on voter registration.
So you got to go back, find out what your deadline is to re-register as a Republican.
And then we'll keep a sharp eye.
And we will see if there are any wild-eyed news stories in the drive-by media about all the defections from the Democrat Party after all of the primaries.
You want to bet anything that we will see those stories?
We will not see those stories.
I just love this.
Howard Dean out there accepting all these kudos from Joe Scarborough at MSNBC.
Wow, Howard, way to go.
300,000 new Democrats in Pennsylvania.
That's so great.
And Dean says, thank you, thank you, and accepts the congratulations when Dean had nothing to do with it.
This is all Operation Chaos.
So don't forget, folks, head back, re-register as Republicans.
I've talked to some people who say they want to stay registered as Democrats just to screw up the Democrats because they're still going to end up voting Republican.
You can do that if you want, but I want you to know that matching funds and so forth allocated based on voter registration in some states.
To the phones quickly to you want to pronounce Chuck in O'Fallon.
It's O'Fallon, Missouri.
Yeah.
Hi, Rush.
How you doing?
Great.
There's only one F in O'Fallon, snow.
I thought I was looking off along.
What the hell is Offalon, Missouri?
Yeah, welcome to the program.
Well, thank you, Mega Dittos, and thank you so much for broadcasting the truth worldwide each day.
I'm happy to do it.
Somebody must, everybody has to be somewhere doing something.
I'm doing what I was born to do.
Amen.
I would like to comment that probably the people that I dislike more than the Democrats are the pollsters, and I sure would not tell them the truth when I answered their poll.
And if I crossed over, I would answer their poll.
You mean you would lie to a pollster?
Well, for the greater good.
You would lie to a pollster for the greater good.
Give me an example.
If a pollster called and asked you what, like who you're going to vote for for president?
For president, no, I would hang up on them.
I really would.
I've answered them as no comment, and I don't see the publication, no comment.
I bet you there's 20, 30% no comments, and they just delete them from their polling when they do this.
I don't know how they run this, but I think it's all a sham.
I think it's like cutting open sheep and looking at the entrails, tell you the truth.
Well, in a lot of cases, polling it's become bastardized and diluted because so many networks and newspapers now run polls and conduct polls to make news.
They'll run a poll and they'll have the result.
Look at the lead story today is our poll.
It came out that shows X. Right.
They also use polls to try to move and shape public opinion, such as during the Iraq War when they were trying to gin up as much anti-war sentiment among the American people as possible.
You look at this particular Democrat primary season and the polls in the Democrat primaries have been all over the place.
They've not really been very accurate.
They were pretty close in Texas and Ohio, as I remember, but in a lot of other states, they were just all over the board.
I mean, embarrassingly wrong, missing by sometimes eight or nine points the margin of victory on certain candidates.
And of course, it might not be the pollster's fault in this case.
I mean, when you've got so many people being asked by pollsters who are you going to vote for, you've got the Wilder effect.
You have the Bradley effect.
You have the reverse Wilder effect.
You have the double reverse Bradley effect.
And then you've got an unknown quantity, and that is pollster calls a guy and asks, are you going to vote for Hillary or Obama?
And they throw the Hillary effect.
There's no Bradley or reverse Bradley effect on a female candidate, only black candidates.
So that's why, you know, the Clinton internals are 11 points today.
The American Research Group has 16 points that Hillary is up.
Other polls are showing between five and nine.
Nobody knows because of the skittish performance of polls in the Democrat primaries so far, which is why all the drive-bys are excited about the returns today because they really don't know.
And it's going to be the same thing with exit polls.
This is a Democrat primary, remember.
And so people are going to come out of the polling places.
The exit pollsters are going to be there.
They're going to be asking who they voted for and all these other questions.
And you've got the Bradley effect, the reverse Bradley effect, the Wilder effect, the double reverse Wilder effect.
You may not know even in the exit polls whether the people are telling the drive-bys the truth, the pollsters.
So it'll be a fun night watching this to see what happens.
Of course, we'll have the proper analysis of the results tomorrow when the program inaugurates at 12 noon Eastern Time.
Tracy, California, next.
And this is Trent.
Nice to have you here.
Hey, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
I'm just driving fast in my SUV and trying to burn up some gas on Earth Day here.
And away.
Hubba, hubba.
Hey, I'm seriously considering Obama.
I am a registered, I'm not in Pennsylvania, but obviously, but registered Republican, very conservative.
And, you know, I think John McCain is more liberal than the police.
Wait, let me just say this, Corner.
Are you talking about in the general election or in a primary?
General.
Yeah, because you've had your primary.
Okay, so general election.
You say you're conservative Republican and Obama looks good to you.
Well, and here's my thinking, and tell me if I'm wrong, but I think that McCain is more liberal than Bush.
And I haven't liked Bush at all.
Well, I shouldn't say at all.
I haven't liked a lot of things Bush has done.
And so I think that McCain is going to screw up the country.
And if somebody's going to screw it up, I'd rather be a Democrat so that we can get back to someone who's a little more conservative.
I myself uttered those exact words almost within a couple syllables to the drive-by media in a quest.
I forget what magazine or how it was Howard Kurtz.
It was the Washington Post.
It was Washington.
I actually said, look, if a country is going to go to hell, I'd rather the Democrats get the credit for it.
And that's like right around the first of the year, right?
I mean, it's months ago.
And it caused a firestorm out there in the McCain campaign.
And the Republican primary was still going on at this time.
But the point is, I understand your sentiment.
Your point is you're not going to vote for Obama because you like Obama as a conservative.
You're not.
Absolutely.
I mean, you're not calling here to say, boy, he's got such a great personality.
I think he's.
You're not doing that, are you?
The longer this primary goes on, the more I think, I could never do it.
I can't stomach this guy.
But, you know, I really felt that way earlier on in the primary when McCain first won.
I thought, this guy is not a conservative.
I can't watch him screw up the country in the Republican Party.
I'd rather have someone else do it.
But the more time passes, and I think that's one of the probably his advantage of winning so early is the more time passes, the more I think, oh, there's no way I could bring myself to vote for these other two.
Let me tell you what's going to happen.
I already know what's going to happen.
Obama's going to be the nominee because the party's not going to have the guts taken away from him, no matter what the Clintons do.
He's going to be the nominee.
McCain's going to cream him.
McCain is going to cream Obama.
Obama's toast right now in the general election with people who are paying attention.
You know, everybody knows there's no big difference between him and Hillary.
And so we don't need another debate on issues in Iraq and healthcare because we know there's no difference.
This last debate in Philadelphia exposed Obama as incompetent.
Without a teleprompter, he's incapable.
It also exposed the messianic personality he's got.
He doesn't have one.
He has it when he's reading something on a prompter, but he doesn't have it.
He's also now being exposed as a coward.
His associations do matter to people.
The people who he are, you know, you choose your friends.
If Reverend Wright's a big mentor, and if this wacko-terrorist, Bill Ayers, these kind of people, this has already been duly noted.
But I'll tell you what else is going to happen.
The Democrats are going to pick up a huge number of seats in the Senate or the House and maybe five to seven seats in the Senate.
If they pick up five to seven seats in the Senate, there are enough liberal Republicans, Olympias know Susan Collins, to give the Democrats 60 votes, which means they can do anything in the Senate.
They can stop any judge nomination.
They can stop any tax cut.
The point is this: McCain's going to win.
But they won't get anything done.
Oh, he'll get something.
This is the problem.
Presidents define getting things done is passing legislation.
You're right.
Which is bad for us.
It's bad for us.
It's going to be bad for the country.
You know, this is, I care about people.
I can't tell you how frustrating it is for me and has been all of my stellar broadcast career to be considered mean-spirited and harsh and all this simply because I'm a conservative, especially by people who don't listen.
I care about people.
I care about people more than Obama cares about people.
I'll tell you that, and there's not even a contest.
Obama says he cares about people.
I actually do.
I want the best for people.
I look at everybody and see their potential.
And I see that most people aren't using it because they don't even know it, because they haven't been treated with high expectations.
They haven't been treated as mature adults.
They haven't been told either by their parents or teachers or whatever that they do have what it takes.
They're being told just the opposite.
And while they're being told that, they're being told their country is horrible, that their country is guilty, that their country is committing sin, killing people, destroying the climate, and all of this.
It breaks my heart when I see this.
The greatest country on earth, and the great country is only as great as its people, not its politicians, not its messianic leaders.
Anybody that sits around and loves the country because they like the way a candidate speaks or because they think he has a nice personality is selling the country short.
People have to know what that personality and that character are going to do, issue-wise, policy-wise.
Obama's policies, Hillary's policies, the policies of any liberal will continue to emasculate millions of Americans by denying them the full potential, their humanity.
And they do this on purpose so as to make them dependent on people like Obama and Hillary and a Democrat-run government.
So it does concern me, you know, what these people stand for and what they're going to do.
And it does concern me the Democrats are going to have this big margin in both the House and the Senate because whoever's in the White House, the objective is to get things done.
So this is going to bear watching.
And The whole focus for me, anyway, and a lot of people like me on being so concerned about what I don't hear anybody talking about American exceptionalism.
I don't hear not one of our presidential candidates is talking about the greatness of this country, just the exact opposite.
That's not good.
If somebody could break out of the pack talking about how great this country is because how great the people who work and live here make it, a guy could run a landslide victory.
It's simple.
It's right there.
It's in the playbook.
It's in the blueprints.
But we end up on our side so often accepting the doom and gloom, pessimistic premises of the left.
And that's why this all gets frustrating sometimes.
So I got to take a break a little long here.
Next segment will be commensurately short.
Back after this and get right to it.
I have to tell you, people, I forgot, I just got an email that reminded me of this last night.
I was sitting at my official talk show host and big guy desk at my home library.
Did not have the TV on.
I very seldom have a TV on at night unless I'm watching one of the TV shows I like on the broadcast networks or a movie or something like that.
I got an email, Rush, you got to turn on the World Wrestling Federation, WWE, you got to turn it on.
Hillary and Obama are in the ring.
So I didn't even know what channel it was on.
So I did a quick search and a guide.
I turned it on, and just as I turned it on, they had two actors in the ring, one dressed up like Obama with giant ears.
It was just, it was hilarious.
And they had Mrs. Clinton.
They had a woman that pretty much looked like Mrs. Clinton, short and dumpy with a pant suit.
Well, she looked like Mrs. Clinton.
I don't need to add any of the details.
And then they had the actor, they had a guy who runs around and looks like Clinton.
He does Clinton impersonations.
He was there as Hillary's manager.
And so the referee starts, and Obama's in a suit with a white shirt and a red tie, and Hillary's in her blue pants suit with a scarf.
And the referee goes over to Obama's corner and making sure there are no foreign objects in the suit and so forth.
And when he gets up to Obama's head and ears, he starts checking Obama's giant ears.
And Obama shoes him away and says, Don't you do that?
Don't you do that?
I'm very sensitive about my ears.
Then the referee goes over, the referee goes over to Clinton, to Hillary, and starts trying to do the same thing, make sure she's not got any foreign objects in her clothes.
And she's resisting this.
She doesn't want any part of it.
She's pointing her finger, and Clinton from outside the ring says to the ref, I'm telling you, you leave her alone.
She hasn't been touched by a man in years, and you're not going to be the first.
And I'm laughing myself silly.
She hasn't been touched by a man in years.
This is after, and I didn't see this.
This is after all three candidates, McCain and Hillary and Obama, taped campaign appeals to the WWE audience on videotape, and they ran those.
And then, when it comes time to have this fake match in the ring, they totally made fun of Obama and Hillary in every stereotypical caricature way you could have.
And they were body slamming each other.
And they were, you know, even Obama was about to win.
Hillary was on her back, knocked out from a body slam or some such thing.
And Obama's moving to get one final lunge.
And Clinton grabs his foot and trips him.
Falls down from outside the ring, falls on his face, and knocks himself out.
And Clinton's running around the ring.
That wasn't me.
I didn't do anything.
The crowd was just yucking it up.
And the announcers were playing as though it's real.
Gee, I hope this doesn't happen to these two in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
The ring announcers.
Okay, first hours in the can, ladies and gentlemen.
Lots more to go here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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