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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 Corrick, who was to have moderated the debate.
And a latest poll from the American Research Group, which is uh reputed to be a great poll, has Mrs. Clinton up as of uh 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.
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Let's go right to the audio sound bites.
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 uh McCain campaign New York State operative uh 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.
And your thoughts on that.
Well, I I don't think that's going to have that much of an impact in the end, uh, 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 uh 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.
Ducey says to her, are you afraid of Operation Chaos, D.D. 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 it is.
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.
They have that's the only vote they get in this primary process.
Uh 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 a hundred and eighteen, I don't know, maybe a hundred and seventy-eight thousand 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?
Now I can understand, ladies and gentlemen, Democrats uh would like to play this down.
Uh, and uh uh 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 uh 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 uh drive-by meeting uh drive-by media budget meetings every morning have been oriented toward how can we talk about this without mentioning limbaugh and operation chaos.
Uh, I want to send a heartfelt thanks out to the Fox and Friends morning crew uh for daring to have the political and journalistic courage to ask various politics the question.
We move on now to uh KYW TV in um in Philadelphia.
Uh the anchors Chris May and Liz Keppner were interviewing Harry Smith, the co-host of the CBS early show.
It'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 election.
Right.
We were a democratic candidate to run against John McCain in the fall.
Um so we keep hearing these calls at polls, or we have heard these polls that uh 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, if they're if the the many of them are undecided, many of them may be leaning toward Obama.
That could be enough of a percentage uh difference to offset the predicted uh 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.
Uh, let me let me explain to all of you in the drive-by media the the past two weeks, the past week especially, Obama the blooms off the rose.
Obama is a pure 100% myth.
He has been exposed.
And if you don't think people in flyover country uh 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 uh 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 uh 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 datas last two days has uh Hillary with a 16-point lead.
But let's say it doesn't turn out to be that.
The Clinton and 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 media to understand one thing.
They ain't voting for Obama.
They are voting against Hillary.
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-by's, 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, uh, 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 of 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 by.
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 Hancho Amon 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 let me translate this for you.
Al Zawiri 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's all bent out of shape now.
He's blaming uh uh 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 gonna say is not applicable.
If I were liberal Democrat, I would be embarrassed that these terrorist uh 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 nut jobs monitor U.S. drive-by media reports, and they end up parroting whatever the Democrats say.
And 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.
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 uh audio soundbites.
Uh let's see.
Where'd I take where to start?
Nine.
Eight.
We're back to Operation Chaos Soundbites.
A polster Scott Rasmussen last night on Larry Cudlow's show, Cudlow and Company on uh CNBC, and they had this exchange about Operation Chaos.
Scott Rasmussen, Rush Limbo 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.
Uh, 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 contest.
All right.
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, Don?
What is the 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 uh Cudlow's question or Cudlow misunderstood what he heard on the program yesterday.
Yesterday we were talking about the phenomena 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 I I I it it sort of wigs me out.
Yeah, he's a sincere liberal.
Does that not matter to you?
It I just I he just trustworthy.
He just seems sincere to me.
Why does he seem sincere?
Well, because of the way he speaks, and he's he doesn't stutter around, he sounds educated, very calm.
Uh some of these Republicans saying I I I don't I don't think McCain's trustworthy.
I don't know what he's gonna 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'm explaining yesterday to uh the audience here.
Uh and I I amended that a little bit the 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 when 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 a 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.
That's a big deal.
This is offensive to me.
This is profoundly offensive to me.
As Sink Usock, 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.
It's a battle for control of the Democratic Party between me and Howard Dean.
Hey, Mike, uh, they just delivered to you audio soundbite number twenty-three.
Good.
Cookie just sent this in.
Mr. Snertley, you're gonna want to listen to this Curtis Sleewa show uh on our New York Blowtorch affiliate uh AM seventy seven WABC.
Curtis was talking to um the Altoona Mirror uh reporter, Jay Young, uh, and uh 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 um 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 gonna be casting their votes for Hillary today?
I I can't say where they're hearing it from, but I can't tell you the numbers reflect there's been a major switch from Republican to Democrat in our county, and our county is uh easily a very much a majority Republican county.
Operation Chaos.
That's this morning on WABC in New York, Curtis Sleewa talking to Jay Young of the Altoona Mirror, who doesn't know where it's coming from.
Gotta maintain those journalistic credentials of objectivity.
Now now let me tell you something, folks.
Here's something I gotta 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 gotta 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 gotta 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 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 uh uh the you know matching funds and uh so forth allocated based on uh on voter registration in some states.
To the phones quickly to uh you want to pronounce Chuck in O'Fall.
It's O'Fallon, Missouri.
I yeah.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Great.
There's only one F in O'Fallon, Snor.
I thought I was I was looking at awful on.
What the hell is awful on Missouri?
Yeah, welcome to the program, well, thank you, Megadiddos, 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 greater good.
You would lie to a pollster for the greater good.
Give me an example.
If a poll called you polster called and asked you what?
Like who you're gonna vote for for president?
Uh for president, no, I would uh hang up on them.
I really would.
I I've answered them as no comment, and I don't see the publication, no comment.
I bet you there's twenty, thirty percent, no comments, and they just delete them from their polling.
Uh, you know, when they do this.
Uh I don't know how they run this, but I 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 uh is it's be it's it's become bastardized and diluted because so many uh networks and newspapers now run polls and conduct polls to make news.
You know, they'll run a poll and they'll have the result.
Look at the lead story today is our poll that came out that shows X. Right.
Uh 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 uh sentiment among the American people as uh as possible.
You look at this particular Democrat primary season and the uh the the polls in the in the in the Democrat primaries have been all over the place.
They have not they've not really been very accurate.
They've 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, the embarrassingly wrong, missing by sometimes eight or nine points uh the margin of victory on the on certain candidates.
And of course, it might not be the pollsters' fault in this case.
I mean, when you've got uh so many people uh being asked by pollsters who you're gonna 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 gonna vote for Hillary or Obama and you can throw the Hillary fact.
There's no Bradley or reverse Bradley effect on a female candidate, only uh only black candidates.
So that's why, you know, the Clinton internals are eleven points today.
The American research group has sixteen points that Hillary is up.
Other polls are showing between five and nine.
Nobody knows because of the uh skittish performance of polls in the uh 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 gonna be the same thing with exit polls.
Uh uh this is a Democrat primary, remember.
And so people are gonna come out of the polling places, the exit pollsters are gonna be there, and they're gonna be asking them who they voted for and all these other questions.
And you 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 um are telling the drive-by is the truth, the polsters.
So it'll be a fun night watching this uh to uh to see what happens.
Of course, we'll have the proper uh analysis of the results tomorrow when the program inaugurates at twelve noon Eastern time.
Tracy, California next, and this is Trent.
Nice to have you here.
Hey, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yeah.
I I'm just driving fast in my SUV and uh trying to burn up some gas on Earth Day here.
And away.
Huh?
Hey, I am I'm seriously considering Obama.
I am a registered I I'm not in Pennsylvania, but obviously, but um registered Republican, um very conservative.
And you know, I think John McCain is a very good thing.
Wait, let me just say this you're quite are you talking about in the general election or in a primary?
General.
Yeah, because you've had your prokay.
So uh general election.
You you you're you're you say you're conservative Republican and Obama looks good to you.
Well, and here's here's my my thinking, and tell me if I'm wrong, but uh 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.
Um so I think that McCain is gonna screw up the country.
And if somebody's gonna screw it up, I'd rather it be a Democrat or so that we can get back to uh someone who's a little more conservative.
I myself uh uttered those exact words almost within a couple syllables uh to the drive-by media in a quest, I forget what re what what magazine or Howard Kurtz.
It was a Washington Post.
It was Washington, I actually said if look, if the country's gonna go to hell, I'd rather the Democrats get the credit for it.
And uh that was that that that's like right around the f the first of the year, right?
I mean it's months ago, and it caused a fire storm out there in the McCain campaign and the uh and the Republican primary was still going on at at this time.
So you're but but the point is I understand your sentiment.
Your point is you're not gonna vote for Obama because you like Obama as a conservative.
You're not Absolutely.
I mean I think you're not calling here to say, boy, he's got such a great personality, and I think he's so sincere.
You're not doing that, are you?
The longer the longer this primary goes on, the more I think I couldn't ever do it.
I can't stomach this guy.
But uh, you know, I I I really felt that way um earlier on when the primary, when McCain first won.
I thought this guy is not a conservative.
I I can't you know I can't watch him screw up the country in the Republican Party.
I'd rather have someone else do it.
But you know, the more that the more time passes, and I think that's one of the probably his advantage of of uh winning so early is the more time passes, the more I think, oh, there's no way I could bring myself to vote for it.
Neither are these other two.
Well, let me tell you what's gonna happen.
I already know what's gonna happen.
Obama's gonna be the nominee.
Because the party's not gonna have the guts take it away from him, no matter what the Clintons do.
He's gonna be the nominee.
McCain's gonna cream him.
McCain is going to cream Obama.
It's m Obama's toast right now.
In the general election with people who are paying attention, you know, there's everybody knows there's no bit of difference between him and Hillary.
And so we don't need another debate on issues in Iraq and health care 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 not 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 we'll tell you what else is going to happen.
The Democrats are gonna 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, uh Olympia Snow Susan Collins to give the Democrats sixty votes, which means they can do anything in the Senate.
They can stop any judge nomination, they can stop any tax in or cut that point is this.
McCain's gonna win.
But they won't get anything done.
Oh, he'll get something done.
This this is the problem.
Presidents define getting things done as passing legislation.
Right, which is bad for us.
It's bad for us.
It's gonna be bad for their country.
You know, this is this is uh this is I care about people.
I f I can't tell you how 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's 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.
Anyone 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 gonna 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 gonna have this big margin in both the House and the Senate, because what whoever's in the White House, the objective is to get things done.
Uh so it's it's this is gonna this is gonna bear watching.
Uh and the the the whole the whole focus for me anyway, and and a lot of people like me on being so concerned about what this 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, the 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 uh talk show host and uh and and big guy desk at my home library.
Uh did not have the TV on.
I very seldom have a TV on at night, less I'm watching uh one of the TV shows I like on the broadcast networks or a movie or something like that.
I got an email.
Rush, you gotta turn on the World Wrestling Federation, WWE, you gotta 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 with like Obama with giant ears.
It was 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 pantsuit.
Uh well, look like Mrs. Clinton.
I don't need to add any of the details.
So, and then they had the actor, they had a guy who done it runs around and looks like Clinton.
Uh he does Clinton impersonations.
He was there as Hillary's manager.
And so the referee starts, and Obama's in a suit with a with a with a white shirt and a red tie, and Hillary's in her blue pantsuit 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, says, Don't you do that, don't you do that?
I'm very sensitive on 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, yeah, I'm telling you, she 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 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 uh Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We're gonna go out to your phone calls today, too, because we want field reports from Operation Chaos, volunteers in Pennsylvania.
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If you want to be on the program today, we'll be back.
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