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April 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic, first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke, I am your host, your highly trained broadcast specialist and professional, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
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So, the North Carolina Republican Party is running an ad.
Everybody seems to be missing the point of the ad.
John McCain came out without having seen the ad, denounced it, and said that it doesn't represent the kind of campaign he wants to run.
He told the people of North Carolina to cancel it.
And North Carolina people said, screw you, you don't run what we do.
We're going to go ahead and do this.
The bottom line, this ad is not really hard to figure out.
This ad is essentially an offshoot of Operation Chaos.
This ad is designed to help Mrs. Clinton in the May 6th primary in North Carolina, which is exactly the purpose of Operation Chaos.
Here is audio of the ad.
For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew listening to his pastor.
And then wants us to sing God bless America.
No, no, no.
Not God bless America.
God bless America.
That's enough.
Now, Bev Perdue and Richard Moore endorse Barack Obama.
They should know better.
He's just too extreme for North Carolina.
The North Carolina Republican Party sponsored this ad, opposing Beth Perdue and Richard Moore for North Carolina governor.
Well, this just caused the McCain camp to get a little bit upset.
He sent the North Carolina GOP chairwoman Linda Daves there an email saying that this is an offensive advertisement.
The television, the advertisement, that you're planning to air, degrades our civics and distracts us from the very real differences that we have with the Democrats in the strongest terms.
And you know what that means when McCain says the strongest terms.
I implore you not to run this ad.
The Republican National Committee also called on North Carolina Republican officials not to run the ad.
Danny Diaz, RNC spokesman, said Senator McCain's been very clear.
He expects to run a respectful campaign based on the critical issues confronting the nation.
The RNC has been in contact with the North Carolina GOP and communicated that we don't believe the ad is appropriate or helpful, and we have asked that they refrain from running it.
The state Republican Party of North Carolina, however, would not relent.
Now, it is believed to be the first time nationwide that Republicans have used rights comments in a TV commercial since they first drew scrutiny last month.
The party's not released details on how much money it plans to spend.
How about zero?
They don't have to spend any money on this.
Now, there are two ways of looking at this.
Two ways.
One is that the McCain camp and the RNC are brilliant, that they, by opposing this, have called, I'm just giving you one of the theories.
And this theory is out there in certain circles.
The McCain camp and the RNC are brilliant in demanding this thing be taken down because it's called attention to the ad, and everybody's playing the ad, and it's not costing the North Carolina GOP anything to have it aired, not just in North Carolina, but all over the country.
And so some people say there's a method here that, you know, McCain knows exactly what he's doing.
The other theory is not so charitable regarding Senator McCain.
The other theory is that he hit out of the blue against this ad without even seeing it.
And what I think is going to, MSNBC just went all over this last night.
They just had a cow.
This is racist.
Now, Mrs. Clinton has been hitting Obama for the past six weeks, and they have never accused her of racism.
But what this is, I guarantee you, folks, this is why I don't care whether there's a method to the McCain strategy here or not.
What I think is happening is just like we cannot say his middle name, Obama's, just like we can't call him a liberal, just like they've tried to tie us up in what we can say about Obama, this is an attempt by the drive-by media to limit what Republicans can say about Obama in the general election.
And it's an attempt to dissuade them from using Reverend Wright because it's harmful to Obama, and this will lead to charges of racism against the Republicans.
And McCain doesn't want to be called a racist, which, if I may dovetail, is the precise reason for the original founding of Operation Chaos.
The whole purpose of Operation Chaos and its founding was to have Clinton bloody up Obama politically because the Republicans and McCain were not going to do it because they feared the charge of racism.
So now that exact charge is being made from the drive-by media and MSNBC, and it'll spread to other drive-by media outlets.
I don't know if anybody will buy it or not, but McCain's buying it.
This is the point.
McCain's buying it.
McCain is afraid of it.
McCain is out there saying, hey, will not sponsor anything like this.
He will not sanction it.
What is McCain doing?
Is he crisscrossing the country helping some of these gubernatorial candidates with their campaigns?
Is McCain running around the country?
Is he helping anybody running for House seats or Senate seats?
Is he?
I don't know.
Haven't heard about it if he is.
I know he's down in New Orleans today, so we got to get serious about fixing.
It was Bobby Jindahl.
There's a about McCain meeting with Bobby Jindahl, because, as you know, I was the first to suggest that Bobby Jindahl would be, or Jindahl would be a fabulous vice presidential candidate, despite his age.
People in Louisiana don't want to lose him because he's doing revolutionary work down there.
Bottom line here in this ad, there is nothing wrong with tying Obama to other candidates like these Democrats running in North Carolina.
There's nothing wrong about that at all.
There's nothing wrong pointing out that Obama has extremely liberal relationships.
And there's going to be more.
I think the depth, we got a couple of them in the stack today.
A couple of the relationships that Obama has with pure radicals is going to surface.
And if the McCain camp is not going to use it because they fear the charge of racism, somebody's going to use it.
Mrs. Clinton has been doing this for a month now, talking about Jeremiah Wright, talking about Bill Ayers, and they don't call her a racist, do they?
But they're calling Republicans racists for doing this.
Only when Republicans do it is it racism.
This is why Republicans cannot be cowed.
All this is, is an attempt to shut up any criticism of Obama.
The Democrats know his weaknesses.
Like I told you yesterday, the superdelegates, they know what they face.
There's a guy in Canada who wrote an analysis almost as good as mine yesterday on the outcome in Pennsylvania.
He said, basically, the superdelegates know they're going to be committing murder.
When they choose a candidate, because neither of these two candidates, Hillary Obama, is going to win via the Democrat primary purpose.
A bunch of hacks, unelected hacks called superdelegates, are going to end up choosing a Democrat nominee, and they're going to connect one of them, they're going to kill.
Politically, they're going to kill one.
And when they do that, you know, this is going to cause reverberations throughout the party that the drive-bys and the Democrats know full well that they're doing everything they can to limit this.
Now, there's another theory that McCain's not smart enough to denounce the ad for the purposes of having it aired free of charge in far more places than just North Carolina.
The theory is that McCain is doing what he always does, and that's doing what helps him politically, which is buying, in this case, buying into the liberal attack and joining in the attack on his own people.
He is attacking his own, he's attacking the Republican Party here, and he's doing it in sort of a dictatorial fashion by demanding they pull the ad, that he sent out instructions, and that the RNC seconds this and so forth.
Look, I want to know which Republican candidates he's helping as he crisscrosses the country.
Now, I know it's early.
Senator McCain has to know the numbers.
The numbers, pre-election polls, House and Senate, it's a disaster in terms of the number of seats the Democrats pick up in both.
Five to seven, maybe eight in the Senate.
The Republicans that are retiring in the House and Senate, the numbers are huge.
Some people are speculating Democrats may pick up another 30, 35 seats in the House of Representatives in November.
And McCain has to know this.
And if he's got any kind of conservative agenda, he's going to have problems with.
He's got to be out there trying to help.
Who's he trying to help?
This is not a challenge.
I don't know.
I haven't seen Senator McCain campaigning yet for people running for the House or Senate.
But here's the question that I have about this North Carolina ad and McCain's reaction to it.
Is this how you build support for your campaign within your party?
The North Carolina GOP runs an ad tying Obama via Reverend Wright to Democrat gubernatorial candidates.
And McCain comes out, slaps him, and says, stop it.
It's demeaning.
I want to run an honorable campaign.
And there's nothing wrong with the ad.
There's nothing racist about the ad.
The racist in the ad, if there is one, is right.
The preacher.
Now, is this how you build relationships and support for your own campaign within your own party?
Is this how you help rebuild the Republican Party in these states?
Is this how you treat fellow Republicans by trashing them to highlight the ad and then come off like you're above the fight?
You know, I'll tell you something.
It is no wonder that so many Republicans want to dump Ronald Reagan so badly.
He was honorable.
He fought hard to rebuild the Republican Party and lead the conservative movement.
So we're dealing now with the era of McCain, the era of moderates and country club blue-blood Republicans.
What is this business?
McCain only wants to run on policies.
He wants to have serious debate on the major issues.
What is this?
He attacked Mitt Romney relentlessly.
I mean, if you go back and look at the Republican primary, you didn't see all this honorable stuff that McCain is now insisting on in the presidential race.
You know, maybe he only wants to run on policies when dealing with Democrats, but he's more than happy to attack Republicans.
I mean, this just, this is sadly disappointing.
Regardless what your theories are here on MSNBC Live yesterday, we have two more soundbites here.
Linda Daves, who is the North Carolina Republican Party chairman, Nora O'Donnell.
I understand in this ad you're challenging those candidates to do that, but what's interesting, I think, is that an email essentially that John McCain wrote said the TV advertisement you're planning to air degrades our civics, distracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats.
In the strongest terms, I implore you to not run the ad.
In fact, McCain says it's offensive, so you going to heed McCain's call, pull the ad off the air?
We plan to run the ad because I think that we're thinking about the people of North Carolina.
This is not about the president's race.
This is about the people of North Carolina.
And they are having a lot of people.
You're a loyal Republican.
Well, of course I am.
But I'm also the chairman of the state Republican Party.
And it is also my responsibility to point out the weaknesses of the Democrat candidates in North Carolina.
Amen.
Amen.
Linda, you go, babe.
You go.
For Nora O'Donnell to ask her if she is the loyal Republican?
That question needs to be asked of a bunch of Republicans in Washington, not in North Carolina.
If you want to find loyal Republicans, you'll find them in North Carolina.
You're going to find them in a lot of states.
The problem is we're not going to find very many of them in Washington.
We're not going to find enough.
One more bite.
Nora O'Donnell said, well, you know, it's interesting.
The chairman of the RNC essentially said it's not appropriate or helpful.
Are you playing the race card?
No, none whatsoever.
If this had been Hillary Clinton, I'd do the same thing.
And I really would encourage people to get past that race card thing.
That is an accusation that is frequently made by people when they want to divert the discussion from the real issue at hand.
And the issue at hand is good judgment and patriotism.
I'll tell you, thank God for Linda Daves in North Carolina.
She is exactly right.
They've been Hillary Clinton, they'd do the same thing.
Get past the race card thing.
But see, here's the question from Nora O'Donnell: Are you playing the race card?
They haven't asked Hillary Clinton if she played a race card against Obama.
This is a drive-by media effort to intimidate Republicans like those in North Carolina to pull these kind of ads and to shut up about Barack Obama and his preacher and some of the other lunatics that form his inner circle.
And we can see here that in North Carolina, it isn't going to work.
Kudos to them.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbull, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Let's continue to explore this notion that anti-Obama ads are racist.
Floyd Brown, who was the guy who did the Willie Horton ad, my buddy Roger Ailes has been tarred and feathered incorrectly with being the architect of the Willie Horton ad on against Michael Dukakis, the loser, back in 1988.
It was Floyd Brown that did it.
He's got a new anti-Obama ad that's running as well.
Mike Boyd, killed at 15, beaten with bricks after a gang member crashed into his car.
Severo Enriquez, just 14 years old, when he refused to flash a gang hand sign, he was shot five times in the back.
They all died in 2001 in Chicago.
The Sun-Times called it urban terrorism and demanded action on gang violence.
But that same year, a Chicago state senator named Barack Obama voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders.
Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?
Oh, this just has them fit to be tied.
In the drive-by media last night, MSNBC hardball host Chris Matthews talking to Roger Simon of the Politico, Jonathan K. Part of the Washington Post about this ad.
It's a giant permission slip that somebody doesn't want to vote for him to begin with, and it's also a permission slip for the Republican Party to use him as a target throughout the general election.
This guy hides under a rock every couple generations, shows up again with another ad against a black candidate or using a black person as the bad guy.
Well, I've got to say, although I'm not a great fan of Brown, and I wrote extensively about the Willie Horton ad when it was used in a negative way, I'm not sure you can say this ad is racially motivated.
This is an attack on Barack Obama for a specific vote, not extending the death penalty to gang members or whatever the heck it's about.
But it's not, I mean, you can't say that every time someone uses Barack Obama's picture in an ad, it's racism.
I mean, the guy is what the guy is.
Bravo.
That was Jonathan Kay part.
So Matthews had his lunch handed to him by a couple fellow travelers there on DNC TV last night.
See, knee-jerk reaction is what Matthews had.
Well, you got an ad talking about Obama, black guy.
Therefore, the ad's racist.
Whatever the ad says.
And Roger Seinberg, well, yeah, no, no, this is about some vote he made when he was in Chicago, Illinois, against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murder.
But, you know, there's a method to Matthews' madness, and once again, it is to stifle any criticism of Barack Obama at all by saying that any criticism is racist.
And I, look, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but this is one of the primary reasons that I started Operation Chaos, because it became clear to me that the Republicans, as evidenced here by McCain's denouncing this ad in North Carolina and the Republican National Committee doing the same thing, it became clear to me a long time ago that the Republicans are not going to attack Obama.
They're just not going to do it because they are afraid of being called racists.
And so if Obama's not going to be attacked and bloodied up politically, somebody's going to do it.
Who better than the Clintons?
Ergo, Operation Chaos.
Now, these two sound bites here from Chris Matthews, well, this soundbite, well, the previous one from Nora O'Donnell illustrate what the drive-by media technique is, and that's to stifle any criticism of the guy they think there is eventually is their eventual nominee.
Matthews was not finished last night talking to Nora O'Donnell on his show last night about Pennsylvanians.
But there seems to be some residue of people that Clinton voters who don't like Obama.
Obama voters are more likely to like Clinton and be willing to vote for her in November.
We saw that not just among Catholics, but among all voters in Pennsylvania and the exit polls.
Well, somebody doesn't like that group of voters might call them Archie Bunkers.
I'll call them Reagan Democrats, John.
They're Reagan Democrats, people who are culturally conservative, maybe a little culturally conservative on the racial front, on the ethnic front.
They like to think of themselves as Democrats on economic issues, but when it comes to the squeeze on some of these cultural issues, didn't this all come up earlier, about three weeks ago in San Francisco, this conversation?
Absolutely right.
And it was harmful to Barack Obama.
You know, Obama to this day, and this is, I think, a characteristic that is attributable to all elitists.
He didn't understand what he said wrong.
When he was in Pennsylvania or out in San Francisco with the elites at the Getty Mansion, and he starts talking about the bitter clingers holding on to guns and God because they're disappointed the government's ignored them and so forth.
They haven't had jobs 25 years.
He believes that.
He doesn't understand what was wrong about that.
And Matthews does it.
Of course, they've had this conversation three weeks ago, Chris, when this all happened.
But now these Reagan Democrats that didn't vote for Obama, they are culturally conservative on the racial front.
So I know exactly what's happening here.
We better not buckle to it.
And while you're shaking all over, you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
How many months ago was it on this very program, ladies and gentlemen?
And I explained to you, and we discussed the Bradley effect, the Warner effect, and a reverse Bradley effect.
And that is people lying to pollsters, person to person, when a black candidate is involved.
White candidates tend to lie about whether they intend to vote for a black candidate.
They say they will when they really don't.
Well, all of a sudden now, the Bradley effect is being used to explain why these exit polls are so inaccurate with Obama and how the polling in the general election, if Obama is the nominee, Zogby's out there.
So we got a big problem.
It's in Robert Novak's column.
We've got a big, big problem out here with the Bradley effect.
So all of the excuses are now being launched to explain what's happening to Obama.
Isn't it amazing how the drive-by narrative changes going into Pennsylvania?
Mrs. Clinton had, if she had to win it, and she had to win if she had a chance.
If she won it, they're still saying it's over.
Just I think there's one, Ryan Lizza, I think, and the Washington Post is making a point that she still can win this.
And I think it's on a lot more people's minds than we'll admit it, that she can win this precisely because of the reasons I spelled out yesterday in great detail about the lack of momentum, the fact that Obama hasn't won a significant primary since February 22nd, that he has lost the popular vote and primaries in seven of the 10 most populous states in the country.
She's got the momentum.
He doesn't.
She raised $10 million something over the internet after her speech, her acceptance speech, her victory speech on.
By the way, the way the drive-bys are portraying that, I have a little exclamation.
They're making that sound much larger and more impressive than it actually is.
Let's go to the phones.
We're going to start in Steubenville, Ohio.
This is Kelly.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
I've tried several times, and it's great to get through.
I just wanted to comment about the stuff you've been talking about this morning about the North Carolina leader of the Republican party there.
I just think it's great that we finally found somebody who can deal with these stupid questions and be clear and not be distracted and get to the point.
I, for one, am a Catholic homeschooling mother of six, and I'm completely disturbed by this Reverend Wright thing.
Not that I would ever vote for Obama or Clinton to begin with, but it's just beyond disturbing to me.
And I can't imagine how some of these people rationalize it and make it out to seem like it's just not a big deal.
Well, they know it's a big deal.
That's why they're trying to rationalize and say it isn't.
They know it is a killer deal.
And so's Bill Ayers.
And so's the number of, not with the people who are already on board Obama.
They don't care.
But as Obama has demonstrated, he can't get people he doesn't already have.
He is not expanding his base.
He basically has these elite, wealthy white liberals and 80 to 85 percent of the black vote.
And beyond that, that's why he hasn't won a primary since the 22nd of February.
Well, I just drove up to my house, and I thought, I'm going to Google her name, and I'm going to find her email, and I'm just going to send her an email and say, you know, God bless you, because more people have to see.
Let me spell her name for you.
It's Linda Daves, D-A-V-E-S.
Great.
That's how it appears on my cue sheet here.
Yeah.
So, D-A-V-E-S.
You're exactly right.
But here's the thing.
And I'm not taking anything away from her.
In fact, I want to play these two audio soundbites again because she deserves to be heard again.
But this was a Republican defending her actions against an attack by the Republican presidential nominee.
She has not yet been attacked by the Democrats.
Well, maybe she has in North Carolina.
I hope she holds firm, steady, and all that when the Democrats start laying into her.
That's what McCain does.
McCain doesn't want the Democrats attacking him.
He wants the Democrats liking him because that's where he's seeking his majority victory.
But she stood up to the Republican presidential nominee.
That's even more impressive and basically said, get out of my state.
So here she is.
Thanks for the call, Kelly.
I appreciate it.
This is on MSNBC Live last night.
And Nora O'Donnell asks Linda Daves, who is the North Carolina Republican Party chairman, if she's going to pull the ad off the air because McCain asked her to.
We plan to run the ad because I think that we're thinking about the people of North Carolina.
This is not about the president's race.
This is about the people of North Carolina.
And they are not.
Are you a loyal Republican?
Well, of course I am.
But I'm also the chairman of the state Republican Party.
And it is also my responsibility to point out the weaknesses of the Democrat candidates in North Carolina.
Right.
And when she does that, who does she hear from?
The Republican presidential nominee in the Republican National Committee.
And of course, this question, aren't you a loyal Republican?
As I said mere brilliant moments ago, ask that question of people in Washington.
Ask that question of Republicans in Washington.
One more Linda Daves bite.
She's asked by Nora O'Donnell, you plan a race card here.
No, not none whatsoever.
If this had been Hillary Clinton, I'd do the same thing.
And I really would encourage people to get past that race card thing.
That is an accusation that is frequently made by people when they want to divert the discussion from the real issue at hand.
And the issue at hand is good judgment and patriotism.
The accusation of racism is frequently made by people when they want to stop and shut down the discussion at hand, not divert it.
And as I said, Mrs. Clinton has been using Reverend Wright and attacking Obama finally for the last month.
And note that nobody is accusing her of being racist because even the civil war, the uncivil, civil, whatever you want to call it, the race war in this country has been on display for months in the Democrat Party.
We have seen that's where racism is in this country.
It's in the Democrat Party.
And these people at MSNBC, they're pathetic people, they understand that.
They're doing everything they can to shift it based on clichés, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, uncaring Republicans and make them out to be the racists.
When all the racism in this campaign is on the Democrat side, and the lead racist in this campaign has been none other than the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
This is Paul in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's a great honor to speak with you, sir.
I can imagine.
Thank you.
I have an opportunity to recruit a new operative, but first I must ask if it gets to the point that Hillary could actually win the popular vote over Obama.
Are you willing to direct the operatives to go ahead and vote for Obama?
We have several strategies in our operations manual here, but it would be foolish for me to divulge those strategies in public here so that the enemy would know what we have in mind.
So, yeah, we've got, I don't want anybody to worry about this.
I understand a lot of people are, and I don't want any of you operatives to worry.
Let me tell you right now, it's far more possible for Mrs. Clinton to win this than anybody thinks.
And it's not because the popular vote, it's not because the delegate vote, it's not because anything having to do with the primaries.
It has everything to do with the super delegates and how much they can collect.
There's another thing, too, that people are not remembering about the super delegates.
And let me make this very, very clear.
This is crucial.
The super delegates are elected Democrats in most cases, federal, state, some cases, local, but they're big-time elected party hacks.
They, with the power granted them by the rules of the Democrat Party, are going to pick the person they think can win because that person and that person's victory are inexorably tied to the fortunes of the supers.
If the supers pick somebody that's going to lose the White House simply because they're following whatever, popular vote, pledge delegates, or what have you, then a loss by the Democrats in November as a result of the Supers choosing the wrong candidate will harm them where it hurts, and that's in their own electability and their own futures.
So you've got, these guys have, these people have a lot of power.
They have a tremendous amount of power, and they have the freedom to focus their decision totally on what's best for them, not just what's best for the party.
You know, they think the two would go hand in hand.
So if Obama doesn't pick up some momentum here, and if Obama doesn't show he can win outside the base he's already got, I guarantee you, it's like I told you yesterday, these people are quaking in their boots, and they're not going to betray this publicly, of course.
But they're not comfortable.
This is not how this was supposed to play out.
Now, as to future plans for Operation Chaos, we have many strategieries.
We're not flying blind here.
We're not flying in the seat of our pants.
We're not reacting to anything here.
We have a detailed battle plan, and it'll be implemented, the elements of it as necessary, as needed, at the proper time.
But I do want to remind Barack Obama that he can stop all of this.
He can shut all of this down, but his window of opportunity is rapidly closing.
Obama simply had, he's got to somehow discredit her win in Pennsylvania, and maybe he's gone too far now that he can't.
But there was a way and may still be a way that he could do it.
And simply stand up and say her victory is tainted because it was the result of a number of Republicans registering as Democrats to vote Hillary for the express purpose of creating chaos.
These people have no intention of voting Hillary in November.
And so her victory is somewhat tainted by voters who purposely, on the orders of someone, you have to use my name, sabotaged the Pennsylvania Press.
If he would simply acknowledge Operation Chaos, this would give the drive-bys are in his tank.
They're in his camp.
The drive-bys are looking for any reason they can to support and build up Obama.
And if he put it out there and then gave them the freedom, therefore, by making it a news story, to go out and totally slash and burn on Operation Chaos, then it would say it would take some of the bloom off of the Hillary victory and off the roads because it would portray it as the result of sabotage, therefore illegitimate.
But I say his window of opportunity to do this rapidly closing.
Got to be today.
Welcome back, Rushlin Bought Talent on loan from God.
Latest opinion audit is in, no change from the Sullivan opinion auditing firm, a Sullivan group out in Sacramento.
The data remains the same, documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time to Atlanta, where it's going to hit 80 degrees today, finally.
Here is Lisa.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm calling because I wanted to get some clarification on a comment that you made yesterday at the end of the first hour.
Yes, ma'am.
You made the comment, I think one of your callers that called in, you were saying that you were hoping for riots if the Democrats choose Hillary over Obama.
And you even kind of sang your statement to the tune of, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, or did you mean a white country?
What exactly did you mean by those statements yesterday?
Because I feel like all the American people want is what's best for this country.
No, they don't.
Why does it have to be such a hate-filled comment from you and other radio hosts?
Lisa, there's nothing but love for people, care and concern for people.
It didn't sound that way yesterday.
Well, you're picking a selective moment.
How often do you listen to the program, Lisa?
I listened almost every day.
You do?
Yes, I do.
So I was a bit surprised, and I must say, shocked that you were so blatant with that comment, and you even sang it.
I've made the comment before.
Who wishes for riots?
Who would want that to happen in this country?
Who wishes for riots?
I didn't get the ball rolling.
It is Democrats like Al Sharpton who have warned that there will be Rush.
Lisa, you need to be calling Reverend Sharpton and some of these other people who are saying that.
I'm calling the gentleman who made the comment yesterday and sang to the tune of, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
What was that about, Rush?
It was about nothing.
You are tired of it.
You're an intelligent man.
I don't think anything you do is about nothing.
Everything you say and do on your radio show has a purpose and a lot of pick up on that, Rush.
What's happening here is that your own racism and your own projection of racism is forcing me to.
I've never wished for white Christmas.
You are reading my mind.
All I want is what's best for the American people.
Between the two of us.
I'm tired of $4 gas prices.
I'm tired of truck drivers not being able to get to deliver goods.
I'm tired of people getting kicked out of their homes.
I'm tired.
I just want what's best for this country for everybody, white, black, Chinese people.
So do I.
And that is why.
And I would never watch it.
So do I.
So do I riots.
So do I. See, where you go.
Everybody, white, black, I see Americans.
You see colors and races.
No, I have to say I would wish for a white, whether it was a white Christmas or white country rush.
Which one?
Lisa?
I wish you would play those comments back.
I'll sing it again.
I am dreaming of riots.
Are you happy now?
Now, what's in my mind when I'm doing that?
You tell me, mind reader.
I hope your listeners think about what you're saying.
I'm dreaming of raw.
Tell me what's in my mind.
Why are you listening and falling behind someone who's acting like this and singing like this?
Is this really how you're going to be able to do it?
You said you wanted to hear it again.
I'm being a nice guy.
You said play it back.
I don't need to play it back.
I can sing it again.
Yesterday, I didn't have the melody right.
That's why I gave up on it.
Today I've got the melody.
The level in the division of this country is in your mind.
Republican Democrat.
Americans, we need to do away with both parties and just really start from scratch and think about what's best for this country.
You know what we need to do away with?
And all that would do is put Rush out of business with his hate-filled discussions every day.
There's no 24 hours to do.
No hate on this, bro.
We need to put liberals out of business, Lisa.
We need to put mush minds like you out of business.
People who walk around your resulting calls.
been nothing but mean, spirited on this program, and you think that's what I am?
You are the you want the gas prices to come down.
Can I talk to you about gas prices for a minute, Lisa?
Can I get clarifications?
What did you mean yesterday when you made those comments?
That's what my call is about.
You have moved on from that and I've answered that.
And I've even sung the tune for you again.
You already know what it was about because you're a mind reader.
You've already told my audience and me that it was I'm dreaming a white country.
Do you realize how ridiculous, offensive, and racist that is for you to say, especially if you claim to listen to this.
I hope they burn their cars or something to that effect.
Well, somebody who claims to listen to this.
I hope they burn their cars and take her down.
Somebody that listens to this program every day, you have betrayed that you don't.
You have called here to filibuster and you are part.
We've got folks with how many calls like this have you had today, Snerdley?
He said three or four.
These seminar callers are out on this topic today, and I said, give me the best one.
But you obviously gave me a woman who doesn't want to talk.
Now, let's talk about the gas prices.
She brought up gas price.
She wants gas prices back down to four bucks.
So do the Republicans.
House Republican leaders on Tuesday challenged Speaker Pelosi to release a plan to lower gas prices that they say Democrats touted when they were in the minority.
Two years ago this week, you stated that House Democrats had a common sense plan to lower gas prices, the letter said, in light of skyrocketing gas prices affecting working families in every sector of our economy.
We're writing today to respectfully request Ms. Pelosi that you reveal this plan so that we can begin work on responsible solutions to help ease the strain.
Republicans are getting some gonads lately.
Call Al Sharpton, Lisa.
He's the one that established the whole concept of trouble brewing in Denver if he didn't get his way.
I'm told that when I sang in the last call that I was on tune this time, it makes me feel better because yesterday was an embarrassment.
This is why I gave it up.
I couldn't get the tune yesterday for some reason.
Anyway, sit tight, folks.
Fireworks still ahead.
Watsa Lisa's trying to get through today.
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