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April 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
We go to the phones.
The program is yours.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
One more little comment here about the furor that erupted in Denver the past two days over comments made by me on this program regarding potential riots in Denver during the Democrat National Convention.
There is an organization out there called Recreate 68.
They have a website.
You go there.
It's recreate68.org, and you can see what they're planning.
You can see their statement of nonviolence, which they have to put in there.
Back in March, on March 21st, there was a quote here in the Rocky Mountain News.
Denver could face a dangerous situation on the first day of the Democrat National Convention.
War protesters said Thursday after losing a coveted permit for Civic Center to the convention host committee.
When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don't blame us for that, said Glenn Spagnolo, an organizer for the Recreate 68 Alliance.
Blame the Democrats for trying to silence dissent in the city of Denver.
When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don't blame us for that.
That's the head honcho of Recreate 60.
When things blow up, as Michelle Malkin wrote at the time, remember that quote, when things blow up.
So just to clarify, for those of you in Denver, and especially the great people at KOA in Denver, our EIB affiliate, my point probably could have been better made had I said it this way.
If the Democrats and their allies, such as Recreate 68, want to engage in self-destructive behavior, we'll take it.
It is they who protest.
It is they who riot.
It is they who threaten it.
It is not us.
It is not me.
They're the ones.
In fact, a bunch of anarchists are also protesting and promising the same kind of activity at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, or St. Paul, actually, in September.
Okay, that's that.
Justice Scalia has a book coming out, and he did the obligatory appearance on 60 Minutes.
It'll air on Sunday night, but I want you to hear an excerpt from the interview.
Leslie Stahl during the interview, she said, people say that the 2000 Florida election decision was not based on judicial philosophy, but on politics.
I say nonsense.
Was it political?
Get over it.
It's so old by now.
The principal issue in the case, whether the scheme that the Florida Supreme Court had put together violated the federal constitution.
That wasn't even close.
The vote was 7 to 2.
It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question.
It was he who brought it into the Florida courts.
We didn't go looking for trouble.
It was he who said, I want this to be decided by the courts.
What are we supposed to say?
Oh, not important enough.
And he continued.
Look, the Florida Supreme Court was changing the rules by which votes were counted at every hearing that they had.
And the Supreme Court of the United States was telling him you can't, and they kept doing it.
But he's right.
It was Al Gore who caused all that havoc by taking into the court system in the first place.
In the first hour of the program, and I want to go through some of this again because it's crucially important.
As you know, the North Carolina Republican Party has an ad.
They are not going to pull the ad.
It is an ad that is, its intent is to cause doubt among North Carolina voters about the Democrat gubernatorial candidates it uses.
Soundbites from the Reverend Wright.
Here is that 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, Beth 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.
On the Today Show Today Show Today, Meredith Vieira asked John McCain, why can't you call this, why don't you get this ad canceled?
You've called this ad degrading and you've asked the state party to pull it.
They've refused.
Why do you think they're not listening to you, Senator?
And why do you believe that they would continue to raise questions about Obama's patriotism?
They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party.
We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.
And this kind of campaigning is unacceptable.
I've said that.
It will harm the Republicans' cause.
And I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue.
I have engaged in and will continue a respectful campaign of either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton.
They're not listening to me.
They're not listening to me because they're out of touch.
They're out of touch with reality.
Senator McCain attacking his own party.
The North Carolina GOP is not backing down and they are fundraising successfully off of this.
Meredith Vieira then said, well, Senator Obama said that if you really wanted to, you could get this ad pulled because you're the head honcho now.
So if you can't get the ad pulled, does it raise any questions about your leadership?
I don't know exactly how to respond to that, except that I would hope that Senator Obama would repudiate and apologize for his remarks concerning the heartland of America, where his elitist remarks indicated that people are hardworking, dedicated people who harbor traditional values and principles and value their religion and the Second Amendment of the Constitution would not be treated in an elitist fashion.
I hope he'll apologize for that.
Yeah, well, this is not the sandbox.
This is big leagues.
You apologize, you repudiate.
I've repudiated, you repudiate.
I've apologized, you apologize.
This is embarrassing.
Next on the CBS early show today, Maggie Rodriguez talking to Senator McCain.
North Carolina Republican Party planning to run that ad.
You oppose the ad.
They're running it anyway.
What does it say about you?
You haven't opposed it strongly enough, or that your party's blatantly disregarding you.
It means that the Republican Party of the state of North Carolina is dead wrong.
They are an independent organization.
I'll do everything in my power to make sure not only they stop it, but that kind of leadership is rejected.
And the overhauling majority of Republicans in North Carolina share my view.
But as the Republican nominee for president, couldn't you pick up the phone and call the head of the North Carolina GOP and say, don't run it?
I have communicated that in every possible way, and I will continue to communicate that.
The Republican Party of the state of North Carolina is dead wrong.
Has he ever said the Democrat Party is dead wrong?
Would he say the Democrat Party is dead wrong in a presidential campaign, or is that being too harsh?
So once again, Senator McCain, totally comfortable lighting out against his own party, insulting them.
They're out of touch with reality.
They are dead wrong.
They're not listening to me.
Hey, Senator, we're all mavericks now.
You demand fealty and loyalty from us and these state parties.
You demand that we not use Hussein's middle name.
Sorry, Barack's middle name.
You go along with the notion we shouldn't call him a liberal.
We shouldn't talk about Reverend Wright.
But you're free to walk across the aisle and make all kinds of ⁇ you're free to trash your party.
You reserve the right to do whatever you want to do and say what you want to say whenever you want to say it, but you chide us for the same behavior.
We're all mavericks now.
We're all independents now, Senator McCain, including the North Carolina Republican Party.
Harry Smith, I'm sorry, Shepard Smith, yesterday Fox News channel.
What about that North Carolina ad was offensive to you, Senator?
I think it's anyone who watched it was offensive in that it brought elements into this race, which are race, excuse me, into this contest of race that are totally unacceptable.
They're the party of Abraham Lincoln and the party of Teddy Roosevelt and Milo Reagan.
That's just not the kind of advertising we want to do.
We want this race decided on the issues.
This is an issue.
Jeremiah Wright and all of Obama's relationships attest to his character.
That is an issue.
Read the Federalist Papers, Senator McCain.
So now they don't know how to listen to him.
They're not listening to him.
They're not representing the views of the Republican Party.
They're dead wrong, and now their ad is racist.
Has he ever said anything the Democrats do is racist?
Would he say that Reverend Wright is racist?
No!
Of course not, folks.
It's the North Carolina GOP that is racist, according to Senator McCain.
It's clear he doesn't care about the Republican Party.
He doesn't care about bringing it along.
He doesn't care about building it up.
He intends to win despite it.
This from the Christian Science Monitor.
The announcement got buried in the avalanche of news coverage ahead of Tuesday's Democrat primary in Pennsylvania, but on the same day that Obama and Hilton, or Clinton, finished another lap in their slog for the nomination, the National Democrat Party launched its first TV ad against McCain.
A 32nd spot, going to air for three weeks on CNN and MSNBC, targets McCain's economic views, reflects a growing sense among Democrat leaders the prolonged nomination fight is giving McCain a free pass for too long.
The ad coincides with a set of other Democrat Party efforts this week to counter McCain, including a national grassroots door knocking effort and a series of counteractivities near McCain campaign stops and fundraisers.
When McCain visits Oklahoma today, for instance, the state's Democrat Party will host a no-third Bush term rally and a Union Hall event with $2.30 hot dogs and a poke at McCain's $2,300 plate fundraiser that night at a nearby Hilton.
It's too bad the state Republican Party won't be there to help him.
The state Democrat Party, is McCain going to make them apologize for making fun of him by having a $2.30 hot dog night?
Is he going to demand that Obama repudiate the Oklahoma State Democrat Party for the way it's conducting itself in this campaign?
As he repudiates the Republican Party of North Carolina, don't look for it.
It's apparent to him the Democrat Party is not the enemy.
His own party apparently poses the greatest obstacle to Senator McCain.
It's obvious to me, folks, that Senator McCain has no intention of rebuilding the Republican Party as an institution.
He just wants to use it as a means to achieve his ends and leave it in whatever state of disrepair, repair it is when he is done.
And we know this because the purpose of McCain's fine goal was to cripple the party system.
McCain's revenge when he lost the 2000 Republican primary, which he blamed on party officials and blamed on George W. Bush.
So final question here.
If Senator McCain is to be praised as a maverick, as an independent, then why shouldn't the rest of us get the same praise?
I want to be very clear about this.
If Senator McCain is campaigning not as a Republican or conservative, but as a maverick, an independent, with license to criticize his own party so as to impress Democrats in the media, then why shouldn't we behave the same way?
What do I mean by this?
Very simple.
Why should Republicans vote for McCain just because he's a Republican?
What reason?
Is that what he's a Republican, so Republicans are going to vote for him?
Is that how this works?
Well, McCain teaches that's the wrong thing to do.
You don't support Republican presidents and their policies just because they're Republicans.
No, you don't do that.
So why should we support his candidacy just because he's a Republican?
Why should conservatives get behind McCain?
Just because he claims to be conservative?
McCain teaches us that that's the wrong thing to do as well.
So if he's not going to be loyal to his own party and to conservative principles, why should Republicans be loyal to him?
Why should conservatives be loyal to him?
We're all mavericks now.
He reserves the right to dictate to all Republicans what they do say, not say, when, but then he at the same time reserves for himself the right to abandon the Republican Party.
We have to stay on the reservation.
He can wander off anytime he wants.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Before we get back to the phones, I have just one more thought, ladies and gentlemen, just one more on the potential civil unrest in Denver, the Democrat National Convention.
The groups recreate 68.
What was going on in 1968 that caused all the problems in the first place?
The wall in Vietnam, the Vietnam Wall.
Now, are there any American political figures who have referred to the wall in Iraq as Vietnam, the quagmire, so forth?
I think there have been.
I think Senator Durbin is one.
I think Senator Reed said that this was another Vietnam.
There may be even more Democrats who were hoping to secure defeat for the United States in the war in Iraq who compared it to Vietnam.
It's just another Vietnam.
Now, if you are an anti-war protester and nostalgia reminds you of the glory days of 1968 and the Vietnam War in Chicago, might you be inspired to organize on the basis of the Democrat Party suggesting we've got another Vietnam?
And you go, yeah, baby, yeah, baby, another Vietnam.
It's time to relive the old days.
So it may not even be this Spagnolo guy's fault.
The guy running Recreate 68.
Just something else to think about in this whole mix.
Durham, North Carolina.
Sorry, Durham.
Durham, North Carolina.
This is Mike.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Megan Dano's Rush.
Thank you.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
I appreciate that.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Appreciate that.
Rush as a North Carolina Republican.
I'm mad as hell about John McCain's comments.
Who does he think he is to tell us how to run our local elections?
I mean, I was prepared, you know, to hold my nose and vote for John McCain, even though he's not a Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan Republican.
But, you know, why should we vote for somebody who insults us?
And if John McCain loses states like North Carolina, he's finished.
He can't win the presidency without us.
He says we need to listen to him.
He better wake up and listen to us if he wants to win this election.
It is mystifying.
As I said earlier in the broadcast, I can't relate to that kind of ego, even though I have one of the most renowned egos in modern media.
I can't relate to it.
He's living in a parallel universe.
He cannot win without our support.
I think, you know, he said in one of these soundbites that the majority of people in North Carolina agreed with him on this.
No, he's.
Yeah, he said it.
He's deluding himself.
Well, I had not heard those comments until you played them, and I appreciate you playing them today because I had not heard them until then.
I should have given a blood pressure alert warning, though.
And the other thing I want to say, Rush, and I'm sure you're aware of this, but probably a lot of people aren't, is that WRAL-TV here in the triangle, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill area, proudly announced that they are refusing to run that ad.
Now, Rush, I would hope that North Carolinians of any political persuasion would be upset at the idea of censorship.
That's not censorship.
They can accept the advertising or not.
That's within their right.
The thing you have to ask yourself is why?
Why do you think they're not going to get 25 seconds?
I happen to know.
Well, I mean, they think it's racist, but, you know, if you believe that Reverend Wright didn't say what he said and Obama sat there for 20 years and didn't listen to what he said, you got to be Chris Matthews.
Can't top that.
I'm sure you can't.
I would bet you that the people that own that station or run that station have a bunch of wealthy liberal guilt and aren't running it for that reason.
Try this headline from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today: City crime down except for the killings.
It's an actual headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The city of St. Louis has seen nine people slain in 10 days.
Assaults on the cops have been on the rise, too.
Officials say, thanks to a crop of young criminals willing to shoot their way out of capture.
However, the police chief, Joe Mokwa, in the boardroom of the police department this week, told the mayor, I'm happy to report crime is continuing its double-digit decreases.
Except for the killings.
Do you guys happen to see anybody see tonight's show last night?
Governor Schwarzenegger was on promoting global warming and condemning and ripping anybody who didn't believe it.
Meanwhile, the state is headed to the sewer.
The state is in economic crisis.
And he's on television, you know, promoting a hoax and ripping anybody who doesn't agree with it.
And there's this story from Reuters saying California was going through a very, very tough year.
Governor Schwarzenegger yesterday warned that the nation's most populous state faced even bigger budget deficits than previously projected.
So what?
We all know what it means.
And now we know what the whole global warming thing is for: tax increases.
And now, New Jersey or New York, somebody are going to raise taxes on the internet sales.
Let me see.
Here's the cardboard box here, folks, that all the junk goes into.
I'm able to throw it away early.
Here it is.
New York Internet shoppers take note in five weeks, sales tax-free shopping will end on many websites thanks to rewritten state rules that are trying to force internet retailers to collect.
You better get up, folks.
You better grab your wallet.
It is the taxes that are going to go up.
There will absolutely be no fiscal restraint on the part of government anywhere whatsoever.
You are going to be taxed like you can't believe.
And every excuse under the sun, this economy, this economy will be used as an excuse to raise taxes rather than cut them, at least as far as the Democrats are concerned.
Georgia in Enfield, Connecticut.
I'm glad you called.
Well, she's 16 years old.
Nice to have you here.
Hello.
Hi.
Megan Deidos from A Rush Baby.
Thank you.
I've been listening for my whole life, for as long as I can remember.
And I've been homeschooled for most of my life, and I recently started going to a public school this year.
Yeah.
And my.
My condolences, by the way.
Thank you.
My English teacher every Monday opens it up for cultural events and discussions.
And wait a second.
Wait a second.
I want to understand this.
Your English teacher every Monday opens up the discussion for cultural events and discussions.
Yeah.
Your English teacher.
Yes.
Okay.
And what happens?
And I listened to you, and then I pointed out about Jeremiah Wright, because, well, that's kind of a cultural event.
I'd say so.
Yes, it is.
And I said that Jeremiah Wright is racist, and Barack Obama's been listening to him for very many years.
And then my English teacher stopped me and said, well, he's being soundbited and taken out of context.
And what did you say?
And I said, and then I pointed out that he was talking about Jesus being a poor black man who's being oppressed by the white Italian rich people.
And I was like, because that was one of the soundbites I remembered from your show.
And I said, and she was like, well, that was taken out of context and everything.
And I was just.
What in the world is out of context about that?
He said it.
Your teacher is just trying to convince you that he didn't say these things, that it's mean people like me who are poisoning your skull full of mush with lies about Reverend Wright.
Your teacher's irresponsible.
I shouldn't say that.
I shouldn't.
This kind of stuff.
I hope you hold firm in there, Georgia, because they're after your mind.
Yeah.
And then she said, well, most old people hold their racist beliefs from way back when.
And how many of you can honestly say your family has never said anything racist against any other race?
And I was like, and a couple people raised their hands, and I raised my hand, and she's like, well, I find that very hard to believe.
And then she looked at me and she was like, I can't believe you raised your hand.
You've made some racist comments and prejudicial comments yourself.
And I was like, okay.
That was pretty funny.
Wait, what racial comments, prejudice, comments did you make?
is quoting Reverend Wright?
No, other cultural events I have pointed out that if, because we were talking about the getting into college, I've pointed out that the college system, if you are black and you have the same grades as a white male or something, then you're going to get into the college ahead of the white male.
and it's not exactly an equal society.
And so she took that as a racist comment or something.
You know, so all you were doing was telling her the principle behind affirmative action, and she accuses you of racism.
Yeah, when she's kind of being, when the affirmative action is kind of racist itself.
It's pretty.
Well, of course it is.
It decides who gets to go where because of their skin color, black or white.
It doesn't matter.
Well, obviously, this is quite different from your home schooling.
Are you enjoying the challenges that are presented here by dealing with teachers that probably don't have the same IQ that you do?
Well, I suppose, yes.
I'm glad you admitted it.
You've got a whole firm in there, Georgia, because they're going to try to beat you down.
They're going to be very subtle, but they're going to try to tell you, just like your teacher told you that there's racism in every family and it goes way, way back and so forth.
It's an attempt to just ladle you with all kinds of guilt over things about which you had nothing to do, nothing to do with.
But this could be a good experience for you because you find out the assault that other kids your age are under in these schools.
But it sounds like you're well prepared and steeled for this.
I suppose.
I do more than suppose.
I can tell by your answers that you are.
Well, look, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate this first-hand report from inside the classroom in Enfield, Connecticut.
We're always happy to have these kinds of reports, and I'm glad you called.
Thank you.
Okay, thanks, Georgia, very much.
Jason in Norman, Oklahoma, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I was calling because I'm a student at the University of Oklahoma, and in my history of journalism course, we have a chapter in our textbook dedicated to pretty much that you're a liar.
It's a chapter dedicated to the premise that I'm a liar?
Essentially, that the reason why that's a whole chapter.
It used to be a couple pages.
Now it's a whole chapter.
Yeah, it's a very liberal book.
The whole book looks at the history of journalism through a very liberal point of view.
But basically, you said racist things, that you don't believe in women's rights, that you lie about Bill Clinton, all those things.
What am I doing?
What year are you?
Is it your freshman sophomore?
What year is this?
I'm a junior.
Junior for crying out loud.
This is like a second-grade textbook.
This is so infantile.
All right, your teacher, what?
Oh, well, on Tuesday, he said that we're going to be talking about you more extensively, and he's going to show some, I guess, show, or we're going to listen to some clips of you.
And he did ask if there were any ditto heads in the room.
And me and one other kid raised our hand out of about 150 in the class.
They're more than that.
They just don't have the courage.
Right.
What did he do?
Did he then target you?
Oh, he just said that we'd have our chance to talk, that we'd have equal time.
Well, how gracious.
But we'll see.
How gracious.
How gracious.
150 students, two of them will get equal time.
Right.
So he's probably going to play clips in my television show and copyright violation.
Don't have permission.
Probably going to play clips on the radio show.
And I guarantee you that they will fit a prejudice that your professor has.
They'll probably be taken completely out of context.
So I'm looking forward to that.
Please keep us posted.
Mr. Snerdley, get his number.
When is this going to happen?
Tuesday.
Tuesday.
This is Friday.
Wednesday's a big day next week for a lot of reasons.
Nothing to do with the radio program, but we'll look forward to talking to you on Wednesday.
If you'll give us your number, we can call you back first-hand report on how they're doing.
This is cool.
A whole chapter.
University of Oklahoma Journalism Textbook.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue.
Stay with us.
What was the name of the young student at the Journalism School, University of Oklahoma?
Hey, Jason, I know you're still out there.
At some point in your class, because they're focusing here on what a liar I am, and I make things up and so forth.
And I know some of you, I checked the email.
Rush, why are you laughing at this?
This is very serious.
They're trying to discredit you.
I know, folks, it's a testament to the effectiveness of the program.
Now a whole chapter in a textbook, a lecture.
This professor is fully aware that there are far more than two ditto heads in his class, and the whole point is to dissuade him, to intimidate him.
I know exactly what's going on here, but they're not going to be deterred.
Now, Jason, when the time comes in this class and you get your chance to speak, I want you to stand up and just sort of innocently say, Professor Slobodnik, or whatever his name is, we've heard how Rush Limbaugh lies and makes things up and he's a racist.
This is a journalism school.
Could you teach us about Dan Rather?
Dan Rather made up some stuff, I'm told, about a National Guard story.
And Jason Blair, New York Times, literally making up stories.
There have been Washington Post reporters, Newsweek reporters.
Could you explain to me, Professor, Jason, why don't you say this?
Could you explain to me, Professor, why the New York Times is getting ready to let go hundreds of reporters and others, why advertising revenue is declining at major American newspapers, why there is restructuring, why are there layoffs?
Why is the circulation down in major newspapers?
While at the same time, Professor Slobodnik, how come Limbaugh's audience continues to grow?
He's reporting no revenue problems.
And yet some of the biggest names in broadcast journalism have been humiliated from Dan Rather on.
Could you explain this since we're in journalism class here?
And just see what he says.
By the way, there's a report out there that Nancy Pelosi is misquoting or did misquote the Bible on Earth Day on April 22nd.
She did no such thing.
There are too many people on our side who are unwilling to tell the truth.
She didn't misquote.
She made it up.
She literally lied and made it up.
In her news release on April 22nd on Earth Day, she said, the Bible tells us in the Old Testament, quote, to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship.
To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.
On this Earth Day and every day, let us pledge to our children and our children's children that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to exercise the wonders of nature.
So she lies.
She didn't misquote the Bible.
She made it up.
It's not there.
All to advance a political agenda.
Quoting the Bible to fit an agenda?
So there's a guy named Claude Mariotini, who is a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He told the Cybercast News Service, the passage not only doesn't exist, it's fictional.
It is not in the Bible, said the theologian.
There's nothing that even approximates it in the Bible.
Nothing.
It's not even close.
It was totally made up.
It was not a misquote.
People are so afraid to be critical of people and things like this.
You know, Obama does the same thing.
You know, when he, all these liberals, they start playing games with what's in the Bible and redefining this and what Jesus said and so, but Pelosi made it up.
And everybody's talking about she misquoted the Bible and so forth.
This is far more hideous than a misquote.
And so, Jason, ask your journalism student, your journalism professor, Professor Slobodnik, what he thinks of the speaker of the house literally making up scripture.
I want to give you another way to read this Pelosi quote.
This Pelosi quote, to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship.
To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.
It seems to me like what Ms. Pelosi is saying, and this is to advance the whole concept of global warming, by the way, she's saying, don't worship the creator.
Worship the created.
Don't worship the creator.
We can't worship, we can't be because the created is the creator, nature, whatever.
But Frosty, it's not a misquote.
She made it up.
Unless she's got a new religion that she hasn't told us about, and she's just calling it Christianity.
At any rate, have a great weekend, folks.
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