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April 22, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I know I late arriving show prep.
After 18 years, I still have staff who doubt me.
And my ability to execute the programming format.
Anyway, we're here for another exciting hour.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, great to have you with us.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
Email address Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Yesterday we had Nora Efron at the Huffington Post lamenting the fact that white guys, racist white guys, are going to determine the outcome in Philadelphia or in Pennsylvania today.
It was the most incredible piece, if you didn't hear it.
She actually said it's going to come down to who do white guys hate most.
Women or blacks.
And she went on to talk about how, oh, well, you know, anybody who's ever dated a white guy understands how unreliable they are.
Today, Thomas Edsel at the Huffington Post, pretty much saying the same thing.
And uh, ladies and gentlemen, Thomas Edsel, just so you know, uh, used to write for the Washington Post.
He was a quote unquote journalist.
He was a reporter.
So yesterday it was Nora Efron, and today we have uh Thomas Edsel on course for another white guy election.
Hillary Clinton's uh release Monday of her first Osama bin Laden ad sets the stage for a general contest that Republicans could only dream about.
An election fought over issues of patriotism, sixties radicalism, liberal elites, gun control, terrorist threats, intimidation by a black preacher, and a 3 a.m. phone call signaling enemy attack.
With the bin Laden spot, Clinton has set the stage for an election in which a crucial voting block will once again be white men.
The issues will be those that tend to push these voters to the right towards the Republican Party, regardless of which Democrat is the nominee.
He goes on to lament the power of white voters.
Why do they have so much power?
And why is Hillary why is Hillary running around pandering to them?
Hey, Mr. Edsel, the dirty little secret is they're all determined by white voters.
All elections are particularly white men.
They're all just the way it is.
Why is Mrs. Clinton pandering to them?
She wants to win.
And she's up against a guy who's pandering to every anti-American voter he can find.
And she's trying to draw a contrast.
This is the primaries.
Don't worry, Thomas, if she happens to win, she'll straighten it all out for you liberals for the general.
Right now she's just trying to win this thing.
Boy, the Libs, I'll tell you what, they have they're liberals first.
Whatever else they are.
And if you if you drift off the liberal reservation, like Mrs. Clinton's done with this ad.
Have you heard about this ad?
This this ad, she came out with it yesterday, and it's got the left up in arms.
And the only thing she put a picture of bin Laden in the ad.
And the left is up in arms.
You know, and by the way, Mrs. Clinton and all the other libs are running around the past uh six years, five years decrying and lamenting and pointing fingers of accusation at the Republicans for running scare tactic ads by putting bin Laden or images of 9-11 in their ads.
And they were just livid.
They were just living now, Mrs. Clinton's doing it herself, and the lefties are mad at her.
All there is is it's there's a is a whole bunch of pictures that flash in this ad, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a number of things to point out that there are big things that happen to a president.
Unexpectedly big, disastrous things that happen.
Now her whole point is to say, ineffectively, but her whole point is to say she more qualified to deal with these uh than the Messiah Obama is.
So you put this picture bin Laden in there, and the left, the left is up in arms over it.
Last night she appeared on MSNBC, some kook leftist show on MSNBC.
She got this question written sound by number 14, Mike.
Your campaign put out today an ad that flashes a very brief image of bin Laden for six years now.
Since Max Cleland was Cut down by a commercial of featured pictures of bin Laden.
That tactic has been kind of a bloody shirt for many Democrats.
Is it not just, in your opinion, as much of a scare tactic for a Democrat to use it against another Democrat as it is for a Republican to use it in a race against a Democrat?
There's nothing at all that is in any way inappropriate in saying, look, presidents face the unexpected all the time.
Katrina was also uh part of that ad.
We don't know what the next president will face.
And I like to ask audiences to consider this as a hiring decision.
If you were to hire the person you thought was ready on day one to do the toughest job in the world, what would you look for?
Uh, what kind of resume would you be trying to seek out?
I obviously believe that I have a unique set of qualifications and experiences that prepared me for this moment in time.
Okay, she says that she didn't.
I mean, she wasn't part of the administration.
That's not the point.
To me, anyway.
The point is she runs an ad with Osama bin Laden's picture in it, and the liberals get mad.
Why?
All you have to do is run an ad with Bin Laden's picture in it, and somehow you've created some major, major sin.
Uh and it I'll tell you why it is.
It's precisely because all these kook fringe leftists know full well they're on the wrong side of this issue.
That bin Laden, who equals 9-11, uh, which equals all of those horrible images that uh we don't want to see, but we are reminded of them.
Liberals know they're on the wrong side of that.
Liberals know they're weak on national security.
They have proclaimed the war on terror unnecessary.
They have proclaimed us to have already lost it.
From Harry Reid to Nancy Pelosi to you name it, they have waved the white flag of surrender.
They have done everything they can to besmirch and impugn the ability and the integrity and the competence of our fighting forces.
So they panic when they see this, and now Mrs. Clinton to them is a traitor on this.
All she's trying to do is uh simply contrast herself with the peacnik uh Barack Obama.
Now there's a related issue to this.
Mrs. Clinton was displaying some tough talk in an interview on Good Morning America today.
And let me see if we have this sound chance to go through it all.
No, doesn't matter.
Chris Kumo, ABC's Good Morning America, asked Hillary Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
Mrs. Clinton said, I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran.
In the next ten years during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.
Obama has to be worried about obliterating his repeated promise of a new kind of politics, but he told ABC News Robin Roberts that his attacks on Mrs. Clinton are necessary.
He says you've always got a measure.
If somebody throws an elbow at you, and after three or four times getting elbows in the ribs, you know at what point you sort of say, okay, you know, we we we've gotta we've got to we've got to put a stop to that.
And a very powerful wimpish statement there from Barack Obama.
But let's take a look at Mrs. Clinton's claim here that she would nuke Iran if they attacked Israel.
This again is Mrs. Clinton attempting to tack to the right of Barack Obama, which is not hard to do.
She knows that this election is going to hinge on white voters, white male voters.
She knows what their interests are.
She's trying to portray herself as tough.
Now, a lot of people are saying this was an absolutely stupid thing to say, because basically what she's done is invite a retaliatory tack against a United States city.
If Iran attacks Israel, we will obliterate Iran or an Iranian city.
The Iranians presumably will have the uh mechanisms with which to nuke us at such a point in time, the time frame that she gave ten years.
And so people are saying, I can't believe she did this.
She went out there and she said, why, why is she going to give up an American city for Israel?
And a lot of people have thrown their arms up and said, this is this is incompetent, this is inexperienced.
You don't go out and say something like this.
This is something you tell them in private during famous diplomatic sessions, but you do not announce this to the world.
In fact, back in uh who was it?
I think it was the days of de Gaulle when the Soviet Union was threatening to nuke everybody around them that didn't tow the line.
Uh de Gaulle, I think it was de Gaulle.
Cut me some slack on this.
Had to be the somebody, maybe it was Valerie Giscard this thing.
I'm not sure which one of the French presidents decided that he couldn't count on, because of diplomatic talks, the United States to take care of the Soviet Union for him if the Soviet Union did happen to nuke Paris.
So he started his own nuclear program to take care of it.
And a lot of people say, Mrs. Clinton let Israel deal with this.
If Israel's hit, they can fire back.
They're closer.
They'll know the incoming is on its way.
But this is an appeal to obviously two groups, Jewish voters and to white male voters who are hawks, and she's trying to establish her bona fides here as a um as a competent uh president in terms of national security, in contrasting herself with the wimpish Barack Obama.
Be right back.
We have the uh Hillary comment on nuking Iran.
From Good Morning America Today, Chris Cuomo said, You said if Iran were to strike Israel, there'd be a massive retaliation, scary words, Mrs. Clinton.
Does massive retaliation mean you go into Iran, you would bomb Iran?
Is that what that's supposed to suggest?
Well, the question was if Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel, what would our response be?
And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran.
And I want them to understand that.
Because it does mean that they have to look very carefully at uh their society.
Because whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.
That's a terrible thing to say.
But those people who run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, and tragic.
I'm sure they're quaking in their boots.
Now, here's the problem.
Little Mahmoud Ahmadinizad probably has his feelings hurt all the hell today because he's for Mrs. Clinton.
He's for Mr. Obama.
He thinks that they are allies.
And now Mrs. Clinton, good morning, America today, promised to obliterate him and uh and his little country if he took out Israel.
Now there's a story in the LA Times today from Tehran, and the headline is Iran watching U.S. campaigns with hope for detente.
Iran watching U.S. campaign with hope for detente.
And so Mrs. This is not detente when you promise to obliterate Mahmood Ahmadinezad in his country.
If an Iranian woke up in America and glimpsed the front page of a newspaper, he'd be reminded of home.
A teetering economy, a restless populace, a tough talking leader.
Give me a break.
Are you kidding me?
The LA Times just compared Iran to the United States of America.
Anyway, this nation is fascinated by what it calls the Great Satan.
Remember, this is written from Iran.
This nation's fascinated by what it calls the Great Satan, and it's watching the U.S. primaries for signs of how it might benefit from crises similar to its own facing the new American president.
Since 1979, this theocracy has clashed with Democrat and Republican administrations alike.
He didn't clash with Jimmy Carter.
It totally dominated Jimmy Carter.
Iranians know the new U.S. leader will inherit an overextended military in Iraq, a declining dollar, high oil prices, and a subprime mortgage crisis, straining the American economy.
This scenario, analysts in Iran suggest, may lead to a softer U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, where Ahmadineizad has become widely admired for his harsh line Against the Bush administration.
Iran would be seeking signs of detente from the new American leader, including the lifting of sanctions, the unfreezing of about 20 billion dollars in Iranian assets, and Tehran's membership in the World Trade Organization.
Hu Shang Tail, a former member of the Iranian parliament said if Mr. Obama won the election, it would be good.
He's a newcomer without the old ties, and we can hope that American policy would undergo a deep change.
I think Mrs. Clinton still represents old Washington, the past regimes.
The U.S. must take the first step.
If a small country like Iran takes the first step, it can lose face.
But the big power doesn't lose face.
So some total of the story.
The Iranian leadership wants Obama to win the presidency of the United States.
Now I ask those of you out there who uh like Obama because he's sincere, or because he's got a messianic personality, he's a nice guy.
Uh does it bother you at all that the Iranians want him to become president because they think a new age will be born.
You can have detach somebody who won't stop them from doing what they're doing.
Lift the sanctions, unfreeze assets while they continue to develop nuclear weapons.
I know what's changed, snurdly.
Precisely it's change.
I'll tell you who else can't wait for Obama to be elected, and that's Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
And Daniel Ortega, who heads the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and Kim Jong-il in North Korea.
All these people are hoping that Obama is the next president because they see weakness.
Well, yes, they see hope.
They certainly as hell do see hope.
And don't give me this change garbage.
Although you're right about it, they do seek change, but primarily they seek hope.
Like, grab that Obama commercial with hope.
This we've got it, we've got to r we gotta go back and recycle this because this is the magic.
Let me know when you have it, Mike.
This is the magic.
The Obama campaign has lost ever since the preacher showed up, ever since the preacher videos showed up.
Barack Obama has crashed.
He crashed in a debate last week, but up until then he was messianic.
He was the man who was sincere.
He was gentle, had a great smile, cute little ears, great eyes.
And now that's all gone.
But this is what Obama's trying to get back to and will never be able to do it, folks.
That's the magic Obama had.
He wasn't saying anything, he was saying nothing better than anybody else ever said it.
Now when he tries to say something, doesn't work.
He has spent six months, not months, six, he spent months now trying to explain why he does not wear a flag pin on his lapel.
He says not just that I'm a Christian.
Some of these emails are misinforming people.
They're also feeding on an anti-Muslim sentiment, and that's wrong.
We don't have a religious test in this country, and I want to make sure that nobody gets hoodwinked.
If anybody gets that information, make sure to correct.
Oh, maybe you want to talk to Mitt Romney.
Barack, maybe you two guys could do a joint ad on how America doesn't have religious tests.
Oh, yeah, where is this been?
In the bumper rotation.
I did not know that.
Al Al Wilson died.
Well, this is one of my old-time favorite tunes.
I play it as a struggling young disc jockey star of the future way back.
It was in Pittsburgh, show and tell.
What a great.
He called this program once.
He uh didn't have control of his masters, or he had just gotten control of his masters from master tapes from uh I did not know he died.
What did he die of?
Did you have any idea?
By the way, I want to uh uh one more thing on Mrs. Clinton and uh and Iran.
You know, we uh we've spoken with the uh the author Joel Rosenberg on this program, who's written a series of thriller novels.
And in addition to writing his thriller novels actually related to current events, but Mrs. Clinton thinks that she was Miss Tough Guy by saying to Mahmood Ahmadini Zad, hey look, pal, you attack Israel, we're gonna annihilate you.
And she's talking about how she can deter Mahmoud Achinizad with this kind of talk.
Well, she doesn't understand.
Ahmedinizad cannot be deterred.
You know, all of you people out there who hate religious fanatics and you think religious fanatics have no place in American government in life, and you you want to compare religious fanatics in this country to religious fanatics around the world.
The babes at the view do that.
You know, a lot of liberals, there's no difference in Christians and Islamo fascists and so forth and so this is the Libs like to say this, but there is a huge difference.
Huge.
Ahmed Dinizad cannot be deterred.
He believes, and the reason he's out there rattling sabers and promising to do this, but he's telling us everything he's going to do, it's just so unpleasant, people don't want to listen to it.
And Obama's naive too.
Obama thinks he can schedule a meeting with Ahmadini Zad and talk him out of his intentions.
Hillary thinks with big talk she can deter him, but this guy is a religious nutcase who believes that his God-given mission as president of Iran is to annihilate the U.S. and Israel.
And why?
Because it is those two acts which will usher in the 12th Imam.
The 12th Imam who's hiding in some well somewhere, the bottom of a well.
And when the two great Satans are destroyed, the United States and Israel, then the 12th Imam, who is the Islamic Messiah, will make his grand reappearance.
And there's Ahmadinezad believes this, and he's out there saying it, and he's writing about it.
And uh people just you know chalk him up to just being some little lunatic, and he is.
He's a total lunatic driven by a religious fur, but he point he can't be deterred.
So when I read stories, they're sitting around hoping for Det, of course they're hoping for Detente.
They would love for somebody in this country who is weak and thinks that he can bargain with this kind of evil to be elected.
I mean, it's it's it would in a decent world.
In a sensible, sane political climate, any political party or candidate who was, for all practical purposes, endorsed by Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad or Ayman al-Zawahiri should so scare the American population as to disqualify their chances.
Imagine if Adolf Hitler, let's say we went to World War II, and Adolf Hitler had endorsed, I don't know, you know, whoever was running against FDR.
What do you think the reaction in this country would have been?
What if Hitler was out there saying the drive-by media was covering it?
And the drive-by media was, oh, yeah, they're hoping for a reduction in uh forces and a reduction in tensions with the United States and the uh Third Reich.
And therefore the Third Reich is hoping a more reasonable American leadership will be elected with President X than the incumbent warmonger FDR.
What do you think the reaction back then would have been?
Today it's almost like a badge honor because with liberals today, anybody else who hates your country is your friend.
Anyone else who's suspicious of you, maybe hates too strong.
There are some people, there are some liberals who hate this country.
I'm not gonna, I'm gonna I'm not gonna assign that to the Democrat Party.
I'll make that stipulation.
But there are enough of them in this country that hate it, and they're all on the left.
You don't find the blame America first crowd and among Republicans or conservatives, you don't find the hate America crowd anywhere but the left.
And here come all these, all these communist leaders from Chavez to Daniel Ortega, they may be insignificant to you.
But to me, it's quite telling.
Uh Kim Jong, they want somebody elected they think is weak and malleable, somebody they can threaten, somebody they can quote unquote do business with a Jimmy Carter.
Iran would love another Jimmy Carter type in the White House.
And they're telling us this today that doesn't seem to register.
Not as much as a Hitler or a Hitler crony endorsing the opponent of FDR in any one of his reelections.
Back to the phones to York, Pennsylvania, Tim, I'm glad you called an Operation Chaos volunteer on the phone.
Hello, sir.
Mega bitter Pennsylvanian dizzos.
Thank you, sir.
I uh I have two reports actually.
Uh uh one report uh from Saturday.
I I waited nearly all day for the uh live uh campaign res representative to to call me from the Hillary campaign and finally the call came in.
Wait a minute wait wait wait why did you know that a call was going why were you waiting for a phone call?
Oh they they we we got so I I have never received so many phone calls.
I I thought I was on the do not call list but I I'm not sure now but uh okay so regardless but you're wait a minute I want to set stage here for people to understand you're Republican Operation Chaos volunteer and you registered Democrat to vote for Hillary.
Yes and uh apparently that registration went through uh unfortunately it didn't for my wife she uh she remained uh Republican although she had tried she did a mail in and it didn't work.
Yeah, there was a deadline.
There was a deadline.
Yep, but I did.
I succeeded in becoming an operative, and I succeeded in getting the live phone call on Saturday.
And the gentleman very politely asked me if I was going to show my support for Hillary, go out and vote.
I said, absolutely, I wouldn't miss it.
And he started thanking me, and I said, sure, I'm an operative.
Operation Chaos and he was laughing so hard he could barely say thank you for your support and hang up.
They know you know damn you know damn well they know despite the drive by's trying to make it look like it's insignificant, ineffective it isn't happen.
No, even the exit pollsters today are laughing when Operation Chaos volunteers tell them they're operating with Operation Chaos orders.
Well, the second report is from the polling station.
I haven't been able to go over yet.
I'm just chomping at the bit.
But my wife was by earlier, and like I said, she voted Republican today for a couple of local things.
And she reported that in-line campaign representatives were going down through with a notebook and just taking notes, asking people if they were part of Operation Chaos.
No kidding.
They weren't throwing their bodies down in front of people, telling them they couldn't vote.
But they were taking notes, not taking names, but just seemed to be taking notes of what the responses were.
And I don't know what they're preparing for.
Now, let me ask you specifically.
Were these campaign workers or were these pollsters?
Well, they were probably just – no, no, they would have been pollsters, you know, outside the campaign area.
building or outside the phone building before you'd gotten in there where there's no electioneering allowed before you got in there before your wife got in there and and get in line to vote.
This is outside before she's gone up and signed up signed in operatives campaign operatives polsters want to know how many people are with operation chaos.
Exactly and uh there were several of my neighbors there that I know are Republican that were just kind of uh smiling you know giving giving the thumbs up to my wife I I you know to believe that it it's not a force to be reckoned with I I can't wait till tomorrow when I switch back.
I I really can't because I I've been getting these cravings for tofu I I stopped by looked at uh the new Prius it's it's making me sick.
I really need to Yeah that's you can't hang on to this too long because the addictive forces that can overcome you.
It's mentally straining I'll tell you they're actually asking people in line both Republicans and Democrats by the way.
Oh yeah yeah if you're part of going down through just going down through the line.
Yeah you operation chaos all right that's great news.
Well what's gonna happen you're gonna go re register tomorrow probably a lot others a lot of others will too but that story will never be written about the shrinking Democrat voter registration.
Oh I know I know I just want to I want to I want to I want to get it over with as quickly as possible and try to make it.
How come you uh how come you haven't voted yet?
I'd work.
Uh you know, I I'm a Republican.
I'm I'm busy working.
Right.
Well, don't I'm hoping I can ski skid through at the end of the day.
Uh no, no, no.
There's no hoping in Operation Chaos.
Our mission relies not at all on hope.
You've got to get in there and vote.
Those are your orders.
I I will I will get in there and vote.
All right, that's the only reason to switch party registration.
Oh, believe me, I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Tim, thanks for the call.
Thank you, Roger.
We really appreciate it.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, you and I all know that the uncivil war in this political campaign is exclusively on the Democrat Party side.
That race and bigotry, prejudice and discrimination are all found in the Democrat Party campaign.
I now take you to a piece on the politico today by Roger Simon.
I was talking the other day to a prominent Republican who asked me what I thought John McCain's strongest issues would be in the general election.
Lower taxes and the argument he'll be better able to protect America from its enemies, I said, said Roger Simon.
Republicans have pretty good track record on those issues.
Those are McCain's strongest two issues.
The Republican shook his head.
Race.
McCain runs against Obama.
The race vote is worth maybe 15% to McCain.
The man I was talking to is not a racist.
He was just stating what he believes to be fact.
There is a percentage of the American electorate who will simply not vote for a black person no matter what his qualifications or qualities.
How big is that percentage?
An AP Yahoo poll conducted April 2 to 14 found that about 8% of whites would be uncomfortable voting for a black president.
I don't know if 8% sounds high or low to you, but I was amazed that 8% of respondents were willing to admit this to a polster.
And I figured that the true figure is much higher.
Now this is an effort by the drive by media to shift the whole concept of racial uh racism and bigotry to the Republican Party.
That's what this is all about, because everybody knows that all of the racism, discrimination, bigotry has been on the Democrat Party side.
And of course the qualifier, he's not a racist.
This this Republican is not a racist.
Race votes is worth 15, but that's not even the right way to put it, the race vote.
I think in this case, if I may disagree with the Republican, rather than call it the race vote, once Obama gets tagged as incompetent, inexperienced, and wimpy...
Once his liberalism is fully explained, that's gonna be the primary reason people aren't gonna vote for him.
You've got I wonder what the percentage of people of this country who would never vote for a woman.
I wonder what percentage of women would never vote for a woman.
If the woman happens to be Hillary Clinton.
In fact, if you look at a Democrat primary, a look at this campaign, give me two differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Tell me two differences.
Because that's all there are.
There are two differences.
Now, you might want to say four, but there are only two differences between them.
I'm waiting.
Come on.
Race and gender.
They'll be the only things that are different about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Race and gender.
And my point race and gender as issues are on the Democrat side.
Here comes the politico trying to shift all this, the racism and bigotry and so forth, to some nameless Republican commenting on what McCain's strong suit is.
How many other people out there from the Huff Paul wherever else are saying Democrats don't have a prayer if they don't get some white person on the ticket?
You'll get a white guy to take it somewhere.
Whether it's racism or whatever it is, election returns are what they are historically.
The only two things that separate Obama and Hillary are race and gender.
Now I can hear some of you saying, wrong rush.
One of them is a BIH.
Well, true.
One of them, and one of them seems like a nice guy.
True.
Seems.
But I think they're both livid.
I think they're both angry at different things.
They're not happy people.
Anyway, and I well we'll get we'll have we'll have enough of this as the general election unfolds.
From the New York Times today, in a red state of blue draw blue dog has Republicans worried.
This story, I can't tell you how this just ticks me off.
The Democrats in Mississippi are going to run a conservative in order to grab a House seat.
The Republicans hold is being unexpectedly tested by a self-described Mississippi Democrat, Gagarious local courthouse official, whose positions on social issues are indistinguishable from those of the other guy.
The Democrats are hoping to add the candidate, Travis Childers, 50, to the raft of conservative blue dog Democrats elected in 2006.
It was those Democrats who were conservative.
This is what ticks me off.
The Democrats are running out and running conservatives in order to win elections.
And we are out there trying to find Rockefeller Republicans, moderates and independents to lose elections.
Here is the real question: how many blacks will not vote for a white candidate?
How many blacks, how many minorities will not vote for a white candidate?
And guess what else is happening in the primaries?
Many more whites are voting for Obama than they are voting for Hillary.
But not that many blacks are voting for Hillary.
Nice try, political.
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