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May 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we are, as always.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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There were two voices that we we do have we do have the audio sound bites.
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You know, I was just reflecting back on our conversation with uh uh Andy McCarthy and his uh his new book Willful Blindness about our uh reluctance to see the truth about uh Islamic jihad and Islamo fascism.
And here he's talking about Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, who was involved in '93 World Trade Center bombing and a plan to blow up the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, UN, and uh other things.
And he told the story of how he got into the country.
He came in a number of times.
And uh one agency of the government had him on the terrorist watch list.
Another agency of the government's giving him a green card.
And I'm sitting here thinking this is the same government that people want to run their health care.
This is the same government that people want to turn over the responsibility for punishing big oil, big drug, big retail.
It just these things just hit me.
And then the of course the stuff about the 90s and how we uh bungled everything we were doing.
Of course, who was running the show in the 90s?
But the uh but the Clintons, and he also mentioned during the interview that uh the administration's put out some guidelines.
Not yet mandates, except for certain government officials, but m but guidelines on how we should refer to the enemy.
And the AP had the story on April 24th.
Don't call Al Qaeda a movement, don't call them jihadists anymore.
The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.
Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counterterrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as jihadists or mujahadin.
According to documents obtained by the AP, lingo like Islamo fascism is also out.
The official memo originally prepared in March by the extremist messaging branch at the National Counter-terrorism center.
The extremist messaging branch.
We can call ourselves extremists.
The extremist messaging branch at a national counter-terrorism center was approved for diplomatic use this week by the State Department, which plans to distribute a version to all U.S. Embassies.
Here are some of the guidelines.
Actually, some of the specifics.
Never use the term jihadist or mujahide in conversation to describe the terrorists, calling them jihadists, and their movement of global jihad unintentionally legitimizes their actions.
Use terms like violent extremist or terrorist.
Both are widely understood terms that define our enemies appropriately and simultaneously deny them any.
Now, this you'd have to say here, this this is our government involved in its number one constitutional charge.
And that is the defense and protection of The Constitution, the government, and the people of the United States.
And we're worried here.
We don't want to offend these people.
And we don't want to make them feel any more omnipotent or powerful than they already are.
So don't call them what they are.
Moving on from this to Obama.
I want to spend a little bit more time on this because I just run through this at the top of the hour, but there's a story here from uh was this from not sure.
Uh probably AP.
Doesn't matter.
Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said yesterday to the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by Jeremiah Wright.
He said we hear time and time again, voters are tired of this, said Michelle My Bell Obama in an interview on the Today Show.
They don't want to hear about this division.
They want to know what we're going to do to move beyond these issues, she said.
What made me feel proud of Barack and the situation is he's trying to move us as a nation beyond these conversations that divide.
Here's the thing about this.
How long has Jeremiah Wright been on the national radar?
Thirty days.
45 days or whatever.
So the Obamas tell us that after 30 days, 45 days, we're tired of it.
Actually, they tell us that we're tired of it.
I don't know that we're telling them.
They're telling us that after 30, 45 days, we are tired of Jeremiah Wright.
Let's go with the first one.
Let's just assume, although I don't believe it, but let's just assume that when they're out there on the stump that people are telling them we're tired of hearing about Jeremiah Wright.
If it's true, it took us, the collective United States population, 30 to 40 days to get sick and tired of this lunatic.
Barack Obama was listening to this clown for 20 years and didn't get tired of it.
He only started getting tired of it when we told him we were getting tired of it.
So the question you know you have for Michelle My Bill is okay, the American people tired of it for 30, 35 days.
What took you people 20 years to get tired of it?
Back to the audio sound bites.
Operation Chaos is good for Democrats.
Last night on Night Line, Cynthia McFadden talking to Hillary Clinton.
Joe Andrew was one of your first supporters.
He feels at this point continuing to support you is tearing the party apart.
Why?
I'm picking up momentum every single day.
And I think this has been good for the Democratic Party.
We have registered millions of new voters.
And what we see is such excitement and energy.
Why anybody would want to short circuit that, I don't understand, because I think it's giving us a very firm base to go into the fall election.
Operation chaos, she just described what is happening out there.
And there are hundreds of thousands of Republicans registering as Democrats.
And of course, the drive-by's and others want to say, well, we can't quantify that.
We can't uh pull this asking me questions about it.
Look at the numbers.
Mrs. Clinton here.
We've registered millions of new voters.
And they're going to re-register right back, Hillary.
And what we see is such excitement and energy.
Yeah, from a bunch of Republicans who are bored silly and depressed until Operation Chaos came along.
I guarantee you that the Republican operatives in Operation Chaos are far more excited and energetic than the Democrats are in all this.
Just like if the Democrats are tired of Obama or sorry, Jeremiah Wright after 30 days, can you imagine how tired they are of these two candidates after a year?
Why anybody would want to short circuit this excitement, Hillary says, I don't understand.
Exactly right, which is why I, Commander in Chief, U.S. Operation Chaos and not calling off the operation.
Next question from Cynthia McFadden on Nightline last night.
The numbers look like they don't add up.
And by staying in the race, you could hurt Obama's chances if he's the nominee.
This is just idle talk.
You have to know how to run a campaign that's going to win.
I mean, you put my base against my opponent's base.
Mine's much broader and deeper.
And I think that's what's going to matter.
When people start asking themselves, who's our better candidate?
Who can we actually put up against John McCain?
You know, it is who can better win.
And I've won the big states.
I've won the states that we have to anchor.
Why would uh any of us uh think that it shouldn't go to the end?
We've got a process.
The rules are it goes all the way into June.
Yeah, and beyond, hopefully.
Can I translate this for you?
Mrs. Clinton said, put my base against my opponent's base, mine's much broader and deeper.
Meaning the only thing he's getting is a few rich white liberals in the black population.
Pure and simple.
That's that's what is that's he's not making inroads here into the uh all the blue-collar worker, white uh traditional called Reagan Democrat voter, and now here's uh here's Hillary.
Now, this is on the gas tax holiday.
I f I find what's happening here with the gas tax holiday and these proposals uh fascinating.
Mrs. Clinton in Brownsburg, Indiana, uh talking about the gas tax holiday, calls herself Goldilocks here in this bite.
Senator Obama says we shouldn't do it, and it's a gimmick, and Senator McCain says we should do to it, but we shouldn't pay for it.
I sometimes feel like the Goldilocks of this campaign.
You know, not too much, not too little, just right.
And I think we should have a gas tax holiday and pay for it.
I find it frankly a little offensive that people who don't have to worry about filling up their gas tank or what they buy when they go to the supermarket, think that it's somehow illegitimate to provide relief for the millions and millions of Americans who are on the brink of losing their jobs, unable to keep up with their daily expenses.
So, as I say, we have to do both.
In a way, in a way, not let's let's leave the economics of this aside for just a second.
Uh in a set you know, in a way, she's she's got a point here.
All these people who don't have to worry about the price of gas, don't have to worry about what the food prices are in the grocery store, are the same people saying, eh, cutting the price of gasoline 18 cents again, it's not gonna help anybody.
It's bad.
Plus, there's this rumor that the oil companies would just raise the price of gasoline to make up for the 18 cents that would be saved by not having to pay any federal tax on it.
Uh the biggest problem with it is it's simply interference uh in uh in the market, and and here's here's the contradictory thing.
This is what this is what just amuses me.
On the one hand, we got all these people who have asked for gasoline prices to skyrocket because they think it'll make people drive less, and there'll be less pollution, and there'll be less traffic, and we'll use less fuel and less pressure on on uh importing oil.
And so when we're gonna cut the price by 18 cents a gallon, if we do by getting rid of the federal gas tax.
No, no, no, that's a bit people are just gonna start driving again and they're gonna start polluting again and global warming again and yet these are the same people who are wandering around out there bemoaning the high price.
The same people that are just livid as hell about the high price and want to somehow fix the blame totally to big oil.
When anybody comes along with any proposal to reduce the price, which is what people are demanding.
Get it lower and get it lower now.
The same people oh, you can't do it that way.
Well, we we'd destroy our roads and bridges, we'd destroy jobs.
This is this is like the government would fall apart if it loses a penny of tax revenue.
And here is guess we didn't get the profit center fixed.
I have no idea how it happened either.
I'm just sitting here prepared to intro a new soundbite, and I get Mike Ravel's gay army spot.
Just it just happened.
It just it just it just came out of nowhere.
Engineer is telling me it just came out, it just started.
Just happened.
Now I happen to know a little bit about electronics, and I happen to know that just doesn't happen.
Okay.
Does all right.
Well, that th well that explains it.
It didn't just happen.
Then you were going back and forth between the A server and the B server.
Doesn't matter.
You were still going, doesn't matter if you touch it or not, you're still going back between the servers.
Of course you do that.
The server.
Now it makes total sense.
One server wasn't talking to the other server, didn't know what the other server was doing, didn't know you were trying to switch.
One server didn't know you were trying to switch, thought you had switched and started Mike Bravel's gay army spot.
Ha.
Welcome back.
Rush Limboa, having more fun than a human being.
Should be a lot to have back to the audio soundbite.
I'll get to your phone calls here in just a second.
We want to stay in this gas tax business.
Here is Obama, the audio soundbite number 16.
And it it's a little press conference, and this is what he said about it.
So now it's the Clinton McCain proposal to suspend the gas tax for three months.
Here's the problem.
Is not only is it worth 30 cents a day to you, but it takes money out of the Federal Highway Fund that goes to rebuilding roads and bridges.
And without that money, you could have thousands of fewer jobs here in Indiana, and our roads and bridges won't be safe.
Where do you start?
Where, where, where, where do you start?
You know, the sad thing is that there are a bunch of ignoramuses in his audience listening to this and just lapping it all up.
What is what's wrong with saving 30 cents a day if everybody crying and moaning about the price of gasoline and wanting the price to come, you gotta start somewhere, don't you?
What are we gonna do, Obama?
Cut it two bucks.
Tell me how we're gonna where do you get 30 cents out of this anyway?
It's 18.4 cents a gallon.
Has he somehow calculated that people use two gallons a day or less than two gallons a day?
Well, what is this?
And the poor roads and bridges.
And the poor government work.
I guarantee you, not one government worker would be fired.
Not one government worker would be laid on.
This offends everyone out of me.
The idea that the government, which steals 3.1 trillion dollars from us this year, can't do without their federal gas tax for three months.
If we allow that premise to stand, there will never be any reduction in the size of government.
And now, you know who I'm hearing is near the top of the list for Obama's vice president?
Bloomberg.
I kid you not.
I'm hearing it from a couple of sectors.
Michael Bloomberg, Mr. Antitrans Fat, the mayor of Nueva Ork, Liberal Democrat calls himself a Republican to trade on Rudy's coattails to get elected up there, is also climbing on board the gas tax holiday and being very critical of it, said this to reporters yesterday about waiving the gasoline to this the sales, the the the uh gasoline sales tax, uh federal tax.
That's about the dumbest thing I've heard in a awful long time from an economic point of view.
I don't understand why you think there's any merit to it whatsoever.
We're trying to discourage people from driving, and we're trying to end our energy dependence.
You don't do that.
Oh, and incidentally, and we're trying to have more money to build infrastructure.
All three of those things go fly in the face of giving everybody 30 bucks a year.
Oh, now it's 30 bucks a year, not 30 cents a day.
Well, I'm getting confused with all these numbers these people.
So, you know, we we 30 bucks a year, we can't afford to give you 30 bucks.
It's not giving you anything, it's letting you keep 30 bucks a year that you've already earned and don't have to fork over to these people.
Now, it may be that there are places who are trying to urge people to drive less, and I'm sure New York is one.
This guy wants to tax people to drive into New York.
And I'm sure, you know, all these stupid liberal-run cities building all these light rail systems.
We got one down, I never see anybody on it.
Every time I have to go to the airport, we have to cross railroad tracks, folks.
There's no other way around.
You have to cross railroad tracks.
And invariably, and you, you know, I don't go to the airport two hours early.
You know, I leave for the airport 20 minutes before the flight leaves.
Time is valuable.
Sit there and have the little crossbars go down.
Here comes the ugliest looking, what do they call it?
Metro trail?
Trirail.
It's not really a light, it's an actual train.
That's even worse.
And the ugliest painted things that they look like that they're supposed to be sky blue with palm trees on them, and I tell it looks like that they picked them right out of the junkyard.
And there's nobody on them.
And they go putt-putting through the interchange here at about a mile and a half an hour, dinging a little bill, ding-ding-ding-ding.
They make sure that some homeless person doesn't walk in front of the train.
Hell, you can walk in front of the train and stop it.
And there's nobody on it.
So they're okay, we're trying to get people to drive less.
No, we're not.
We're not trying to get people to drive less.
New York they might be.
Los Angeles they might be, but we're not doing that.
And this business of trying to end our energy dependence.
Mayor Bloomberg, please.
I uh our intelligence.
You telling me that the gas tax I don't even had an interesting email, uh, ladies and gentlemen, and I I'm frankly surprised at this.
I didn't think that it would happen as from a subscriber, Rush 247.
Hi, Rush.
Firstly, I want to thank you for having Andrew McCarthy on, Washington is nuts.
And secondly, I just wanted to thank you and your staff for my stimulus check that I received from our illustrious government.
I have sweetly stimulated the economy within the good old USA, beginning with the purchase of a great firearm.
I am not some kind of nut.
The remainder of my money went toward a weapons training course.
We live in an era where the bad guys far outnumber law enforcement capability.
Have a great weekend.
Be sure to thank your staff.
Vicky Beam.
A babe went out and bought cold blue steel.
And then training with her stimulus check and thanked us.
Because your loyal staff here at the EIB network doesn't get a $600 stimulus check.
We are paying for yours.
And she had the uh realization of this.
She uh sent us a thank you note.
We very much appreciate that.
You don't see, and I'm gonna accept uh the thanks of all of you on behalf of Vicky.
You don't need to flood us with these thank you notes.
Here is uh Shannon in Fort Worth, Texas.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh good afternoon, Russ.
Uh I want to get straight to the point.
Um I want to know in your opinion, who has the best integrity of the Democrat um the Democratic candidates, would it be uh Hillary or Obama?
And I I want to also ask you, I want to take you back a little bit to the 2000 Peter Paul scandal of Mrs. Clinton.
And uh I I'm surprised she's still in politics.
I'm surprised that she's not in jail after that.
And in your opinion, I wanna I want I want you to explain why you think that she was able to get out of that uh scot-free because it didn't it did not appear as if she was held accountable for any of that.
She didn't know about it.
Well she didn't know about it, Shannon.
Here's the story on this Peter Paul business, is as best as I understand it.
They had this big time fundraiser out there and and uh in Los Angeles somewhere, and he was one of the organizers and a fundraiser, and they uh uh a lot of the money that went into staging the thing, they they contracted out and just counted that as a as a campaign country.
They took much more money out of the event than it raised uh and and converted it to campaign funds for Mrs. Clinton.
But she didn't know anything about it.
This woman doesn't know anything.
She's ready to lead from day one, but she doesn't know anything.
She doesn't know anything that happens in her own house.
She had no anything that happens in her own bedroom, she doesn't know anything and happens in her own husband's administration.
She doesn't know anything.
Mind is jellow.
And since nobody had any proof that she knew about it, that's why.
As to what was the other question?
Who has the most integrity between Obama and Hillary?
Yeah, who who do you who do you view as being more honest and has more integrity?
Jeez.
Um this is a case of two negatives, which is the least dishonest is the most appropriate question.
I think that's a more accurate, accurate question, but in your opinion, um I because I think Mrs. Clinton is beatable, and I think it's because every time that she uh makes a statement is she's she's proven uh, you know, with the snipper fire and all this stuff.
She's proven that she can't she can't be honest, she can't tell the truth.
Well, of course, but this look at Obama can't either.
Nobody wants to talk about hung up.
Nobody wants to talk about uh uh this Obama stuff.
But this guy hasn't told the truth since Jeremiah Wright hit the scene.
He hadn't told the truth about anything.
And Michelle might by the way, Michelle My Bell Obama says we're sick and tired of hearing about Reverend Wright.
You know what I'm saying and tired of hearing?
I'm sick and tired of hearing about alternative energy.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing about health care.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing about education.
And here's another thing, too, folks.
The idea that one of these two is more beatable than the other, that may be true.
We don't really know now, because there's too much that can happen between now and the actual election.
But they're both beatable.
These two st under under, you know, in a sane political environment, neither of these two would stand a ghost's chance.
And if somebody is willing to make the case, and some of us are, uh you, I think you'll see that come to fruition.
That's why I'm not worried here about the outcome of Operation Chaos.
Uh Alan in Lawrence, Kansas, I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush.
And I'm a 17-year listener, but I find myself in the position of being in the dark about your uh comment on your top ten favorite female names.
And I don't like being in the dark about your tweaks, so I'd like to know the story behind that.
There is there's no story.
See, this is the one of the things I find amazing about the program.
Uh I've got my top ten all-time favorite top ten female names.
You think there's some gimmick here.
There's got to be something to it.
You gotta be you gotta be uh uh tweaking somebody out there.
No.
Really?
No.
Well, how come there's it seems like there's got to be more than ten names on it by now?
Name them.
Well, I can't, but it seems like everyone that calls.
You've got to be counting them up.
It seems like.
It seems like every woman that calls makes your top ten list.
No, now that I've there's I've how many women have we talked to today, and only one of them, a woman named Jane, uh says her name in my all-time favorite top ten list of female names.
See, this is an illusion.
You're falling for an illusion now.
There's no gimmick, there's no trick.
Okay, so there's no good story behind it.
No, no, no, no, no.
There's not there's no payoff.
Well well, let me make one quick request on your days off.
I'll I'd like more Walter E. Williams as substitute for you.
More Walter Williams when I am out.
Yes.
Okay, we will uh we'll we'll put that in the uh in the hopper.
I like I like Walter.
I really in fact, one of the one things uh one of my favorite things.
Walter has already apologized.
He's accepted.
Uh no, let me get this right.
He forgave us.
Walter Williams forgave all of us white people for slavery on one of the first days he uh co-hosted or guest hosted this program.
Uh he's uh he's uh he's a fine funny guy.
I appreciate that uh recommendation.
I gotta take a quick time out here, my good buddies.
More on the other side right after this.
Do not go away.
Barack Obama, Democrat presidential candidate, says that he would levy a fifteen billion dollar tax on oil company profits.
This is a this is a game now between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to see who can seize the most profits from the oil company.
This 15 billion dollars.
This tax on big oil that Obama proposes is three times as high as what Mrs. Clinton has proposed.
Obama's plan uh three times larger than the fifty billion dollar ten-year plan contemplated by Mrs. Clinton.
The plan would target profit from the biggest all companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than eighty dollars.
According to a fact sheet on a proposal, the tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned income tax credit, and assistance for people who can't afford their energy bills.
Why don't you, you know, Obama, look at you why are you playing games here, buddy?
We know who you are, we know what you're all about.
Just do a Hugo Chavez and nationalize the damn companies.
Just take everything.
Just have the government take over the oil wells and all the refineries and all the production in this country.
Kick them out.
And then you go get your liberal buddies who've never had dirt under their fingernails hanging around on academic and you have them run the oil business.
Just nationalize it.
The windfall profits tax.
Everybody goes nuts over a windfall profits tax.
And big oil always seems to get around it.
You know how they do?
They stop producing as much domestic oil.
And guess what happens then?
Price goes way, way up.
Here is uh David in Lakeland, Florida.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Um, I was just calling about I've been reading online recently about all this money that Al Gore now has at his disposal through all these investment funds.
And I saw the last total I saw was about one point nine billion dollars.
Earmarked for clean tech investment in different funds and different investments.
Fraudulent most of them are fraudulent.
It's a giant hoax.
Well, but what's the point?
Basically, it's planting trees, you know, and turning chicken manure into some some kind of fuel to do what with your one more.
Who the hell knows what it is?
It's all a big joke.
Yeah, well, I I think we've reached this point where we need to start talking about these global warming people and all this, all the different things we need to do.
We need to give it its own new term, and I'm thinking big weather needs to be what we need to just group all these people under now.
I mean, it's what's the difference?
Big oil makes profits, big weather.
You know, it's just it's it's the same kind of thing, just they're trying to put a different spin on it, but ultimately money and control is what they're after.
It's interesting.
I'll tell you something.
I feel good about this.
Uh I actually we could call them big weather.
I mean, that's not that's not not a bad idea, but I think there are better ones.
But I think we're winning here.
Al Gore's had to go out and invest $300 million in this thing to get people like Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi sitting in a black and white TV ad on a couch outside in Washington talking about their mutual interest in all this.
Uh must mean that his movie didn't work.
But here's this story again, this time in the UK telegraph.
Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate.
We talked about this yesterday.
This is about ocean currents in the Pacific, in the Atlantic, and they naturally cool the planet.
Nothing we're doing.
Nobody's claimed yet.
I mean, every bit of damage we're doing is on the warming side, right?
So all of a sudden, here comes a massive movement.
It's gonna cool the planet for fifteen years.
And then global warming will resume.
Now, one of two things is going on here.
Either the global warming clown crowd knows there isn't any warming.
And that's probably the case.
And the second thing we can say is wait a minute, wait a minute, no, wait a minute.
If there are natural cooling cycles, might there also be natural warming cycles.
And the reason that's important is because all the warming is being attributed to you and me.
Not the ChICOMs.
And not the Taiwanese, and not the not the anybody, it's all it's all our fault.
Here's the best idea.
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has proposed taking Al Gore and other environmental wekos to court.
He did so to sue them.
Did so at a conference in New York in March.
Since then, John Coleman has received thousands and thousands of emails with lots of support, and thousands of these people want to donate to a legal fund to sue Al Gore.
He hopes that the uh court could be the venue to settle a debate over what he calls the biggest scam in history and expose global warming alarmism as silly hype.
I think it's maybe our only alternative to just hunkering down and waiting it out.
Uh he claims the mainstream media ignores uh uh what those skeptical of man-made global warming have to say, while the educational community does not even debate the uh the issue.
Without the media and the educational institutions, said Coleman, what resource do we have to counter these people?
We're we're not going to be heard unless we can find a place to be heard, and a court of law may be a place where we could get a fair hearing.
If the judge had a non-political scientific approach in reaching a decision, we can win this lawsuit.
It's something that's in the works.
I have no announcement to make now.
But numerous people are involved, and it remains a valid possibility.
That would be awesome.
That just would be fabulous.
Anyway, Nathaniel in Dallas.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network at Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, how are you, Rush?
Good, thank you.
Um, my point was that basically that the uh Congress has been complaining about how they can't afford to pay for this federal tax holiday from gas over the summer.
But uh somehow they managed to pay all this uh stimulus rebate.
And they had no problem finding the money for that.
So my point is every time they give out money for us, if it's uh somehow of a uh uh economy stimulus, why can't they just let us have our own money?
Excellent point.
Excellent point.
The only thing I'm thinking is is this money that they are giving back in the form of the stimulus is was it was somebody's first.
Right.
Uh and I'm uh that was my point originally, but they told me not to mess with that.
So you're exactly right.
They can afford to get well.
See, in that case, this was an election year.
This is both bipartisanship.
Here you did you get your letter, are you getting a check?
Yeah, I got my uh deposit this morning.
I actually just checked it.
Really?
Well, I got a letter telling me that I wasn't gonna get one.
Yeah, I imagine.
But it explained what it was going to happen to people who were.
And I'm thinking, here here if if I'm your average ignorant klutz American, you know, there are too many ignorant people, the most experienced uh expensive commodity, and I get this.
Wow, do I love my government?
Right.
Six hundred dollars is coming to me sometime between now and August.
It just happens to be an election year.
Very in insidious.
Right.
Very insidious.
But you're great it's a great point.
They can afford to give a lot of Americans 600 bucks to stimulate the economy, but they're having conniption fits over what would be $30 a year, says Mayor Bloomberg, uh, for a gas tax holiday.
Art in uh DuPage County, Illinois.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Greetings from uh the uh People's Republic of Illinois.
Yes, sir.
Uh I just got uh I'm standing here in line and I'm getting ready for your next operation, operation get over it, uh, to give uh Mr. McCain uh a backbone because I think the other two are nine entities and they dug a grave deep enough that they're never gonna climb out of it.
Operation get over it.
Operation well, uh I think isn't that what you said at some dinner that you were at where we're not gonna get over it.
Yeah, one of the guys in the audience said, get over it.
Yeah, we're not gonna get over it.
But uh I'd like to let McCain know ahead of time that even if he even thinks of closing down Club Getmo and uh closes down my uh source of uh t-shirts and shirts uh that uh we're gonna go after them uh with demonstrations even worse than uh if I were if I were to tell Senator McCain, you I don't care what you do, buddy, but you don't close Gitmo because I got a thriving merchandise business.
He was it would move to the top of his agenda.
You know, but your larger point here, your larger point is hey.
How are we gonna keep McCain in check?
How are conservatives gonna keep McCain?
I hate to tell you this, folks, but John McCain is seventy years old.
And you know, they don't advertise beer to 70-year-olds.
They advertise it to 14 to 15, 16 year olds who haven't made up their mind yet.
No, they do.
I mean, that's that's why advertising 18 to 24, that's when they're impressionable.
Somebody seventy years old, they they're set.
Their politics is set.
This and McCain is is very, very confident of himself.
He has a very high opinion of himself, and uh you know if his ad who are they to tell me what I have to think?
I I think what I think.
I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do.
So it's um there might be some some uh possibility with that on the economic side since he's admitted he's a little weak on that.
Be right back and close it out.
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