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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Nice of you to join us, Mr. Snerdley.
	Greetings, my friends.
	Greetings, fellow operatives and commandos.
	I am Commander in Chief, U.S. Operation Chaos.
	Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, broadcast excellence for the next three hours from behind a golden EIB microphone at the heavily fortified and bunkered EIB Southern Command in Palm Beach, Florida.
	Our telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
	800-282-2882.
	The email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
	I just got an email right before the program started.
	You're the lead at TimeMagazine.com.
	This is madness.
	And so I went there and it's Mark Halpern's blog.
	And there is a picture of me in a blue background with all kinds of stars surrounding my beautiful face and head.
	And the headline above this graphic is chaos with an exclamation point and a question mark.
	And it references this story that I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
	The Indianapolis Star today on its website is updating turnout and other aspects of the primary vote in uh Indiana today.
	And the headline at their 1051 A.M. report was Hardcore Republicans voting Democrat.
	And the Time magazine blog says, listen to Limbaugh Crow about this at noon Eastern.
	I think they have a link to my website.
	The uh the two precincts at Broad Ripple Family Center selected Republican John Elrod over Democrat Andre Carson in March's special election.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	But by 9 a.m., just 21 voters in one of those precincts had requested Republican ballots out of 168 cast.
	Amid heavy turnout, Republicans appeared to be crossing over in droves today in Marion County, Indiana, and suburban counties where fewer Republican voters might impact down ticket primary races at the Broad Ripple Center.
	Nearly 400 voters out of 1,800 registered had turned out in the first few hours of voting.
	Republicans crossing over to vote in the Democrat primary.
	Operation Chaos.
	I have also been receiving field reports via email today, both at my website email address and the Elrushbow at EIB net.com address from people, commandos, operatives reporting that they have followed orders and uh and fulfilled their duty.
	Nobody's been challenged.
	ever.
	And in fact, the Indiana voters all say that they have not been challenged, and they were hoping to be.
	They had themselves steeled and ready for it.
	Many of them have shown up in tie-dyes, flip-flops, holding their heads up, looking down at their noses like their liberals, the effete snobs, showing up in battered pickup trucks and this sort of thing.
	And nobody's challenged them.
	In fact, the Some of the uh people show up and they ask for a Democrat ballot, and uh the poll worker says, why?
	What are you gonna say?
	Operation Chaos, and they just laugh.
	Oh, is that what's going on here?
	One poll worker said.
	Here's another one from New Albany, Indiana, which is right across.
	This is just it's it's it's Louisville North.
	Uh, received a call from one of Obama's operatives.
	She asked me if I was going to vote for Obama in the primary.
	I said no.
	She asked me who I was voting for.
	I said Operation Chaos.
	The Obama worker laughed and then said, okay, with a positive tone to her voice and thanked me for my time.
	Rush at 8 15 a.m. this morning.
	I voted for Hillary Clinton in the Indiana primary.
	It was tough.
	I showered twice.
	I flew up a little in my mouth, but I did it.
	It was an honor to follow your orders.
	Matthew Sullivan Shoals, Indiana.
	Greetings from small town Indiana.
	Well, I got up late this morning, put on my old tie-dye, rode my bicycle to polling place.
	A lady asked me, Republican or Democrat.
	Almost swallowing my tongue, I mumbled Democrat.
	I cast my vote for Hillary.
	The day gets worse.
	The beer store is closed on election day.
	I can't even get the taste out of my mouth.
	But I'm a loyal soldier, Chris Long.
	Hey, Rush, my bride and I went in this morning at the 9 o'clock to vote.
	This is North Carolina Operation Chaos update.
	We changed to unaffiliated in North Carolina last month, did our part for Operation Chaos.
	After we submitted our penmarked ballot, no machines in Garner, North Carolina, I took my official Operation Chaos hat out of my front pocket and I put it on.
	I then took the I voted sticker that they hand out after the ballot submitted, and I pressed it above the word operation on my hat.
	The looks I got as we left were priceless.
	Most were smiles.
	Some men laughed.
	Two women just frowned.
	By the way, I also had my Camp Gitmo t-shirt on under an unbuttoned cover shirt.
	Double whammy time.
	The election workers were commenting on the high turnout for our area, but I don't know if that's the case statewide.
	Big Al in Garner.
	Uh, North Carolina.
	Hell Coco, get this.
	Coco, our website operator, webmaster, had to go to the hospital early this morning to visit someone, and he's in the elevator, and there's two guys in the elevator talking.
	Have you heard what Rush Limbaugh doing with Operation Chaos?
	The other guy started laughing big time.
	Yeah, this is the most fun we've had in a long time.
	The women in the elevator just sneered at the at the mention of my name.
	So Operation Chaos apparently in North Carolina is alive in w in Indiana.
	Uh reports in North Carolina are not as uh informative, but I'm sure operatives from our outposts will uh be reporting in during the during the day.
	Some very confusing poll numbers out today.
	Uh Rasmussen is reporting a national telephone survey found that just four percent of American adults believe that comments made by Jeremiah Wright have helped Obama's bid for the White House.
	66% say that Wright's comments have hurt Obama's campaign.
	It was just yesterday New York Times said just the opposite.
	USA Today has a poll today saying basically the same thing Rasmussen's saying.
	Zogby has a poll out today.
	Obama expanding lead in North Carolina, still biting nails in Indiana.
	Now, how can how can this be true?
	How can 66% say Wright's comments have hurt Obama's campaign if he's going through the roof in North Carolina?
	The Clinton Clinton campaign also is trying to lower expectations.
	They've they've told everybody here they see a 15-point loss tonight in uh in North Carolina, which a classic move to lower expectations.
	So if he only loses by 10, uh, then it's a big surprise they can say based on what their so-called internals uh had to say uh about all this.
	So uh, you know, this this Jeremiah Wright stuff, I have to tell you, you know, the the the everybody I think not everybody, a lot of people are missing the point.
	It's not about Jeremiah Wright.
	And it really never has been about Jeremiah Wright.
	Because Jeremiah Wright's who he is.
	This is about Obama.
	It has always been about Obama.
	You know, Wright makes no bones about who he is.
	It's Obama who's trying to hide who he really is.
	Uh, it is Obama who's trying to keep people from understanding exactly the details of his relationship with Wright.
	Uh we we can sit here, we can talk about Jeremiah Wright all day and the things that he has said and the friendships that he has, Calypso Louis traveling to Libya to meet Moamer Qaddafi and so forth.
	It's always been about Obama, and it will remain about Obama uh if he secures the nomination, heads into the general election.
	It's always going to be about Obama.
	They can make this about Jeremiah Wright, and they can throw Wright overboard and they get rid of him, but it's not going to help Obama in the sense that it's still going to cause people to be curious about who he is.
	And you start get past these primaries, the Democratic Convention, get into the fall, get into the general election, and Obama's going to have a much tougher time keeping himself hidden or camouflaged once the opponents are the Republicans and not other Democrats, plus the drive-by media's in the tank for the guy.
	More on this as the uh as the program unfolds today.
	A lot of other news as well.
	Some states are trying to get in on the gasoline tax cut uh or holiday, putting pressure on the feds.
	Charlie Christ wants uh ten cents, lopped off the Florida State gasoline tax.
	So you add that to the Feds 18.4, and now you're talking 28.4 cents.
	California gas taxes Run as high as 45 cents a gallon.
	So if you add 45 45 and a half, so if you add 45 and a half cents to the 18.4 federal tax, you're you're talking now, you know, almost uh, you know, what, sixty sixty-three percent, sixty-three cents here.
	Well, no, but but but the the the point is here well here it's a New York Times story.
	Governor Christ of Florida been fighting to cut ten cents from his state's gas tax for two weeks in July.
	Lawmakers in Missouri, New York, and Texas have also proposed a summer break from state gas taxes, while candidates for governor in Indiana and North Carolina are sparring over relief of their own.
	Uh the point is that the some state representatives and governors are behind this in trying to get this done uh for a whole host of reasons.
	So uh that's that's percolating as lots of stuff here today.
	And we'll get started with all the rest of it, including audio sound bites.
	Bill Clinton was on a North Carolina radio station today in Charlotte, and it's a top 40 uh uh syndicated show, the Ace and TJ show, and they asked him all about my having a crush on Hillary, and they asked him about the time that he hit on my date at the restaurant in New York.
	Wait till you hear the answers to this.
	It's all coming up.
	Hi, how are you?
	I am Rush Linbohr.
	I am having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Great to be with you on the EIB network.
	Last night I was watching television, I was zipping around.
	I very rarely do this.
	Uh I have better things to do at night than watch cable TV, but I was zipping around, and I came across a segment on hardball.
	We've got the audio sound bites.
	I don't even know if I'm gonna play them.
	I just want to summarize it for you.
	They did a whole segment on Operation Chaos, refusing, and I think this is purposeful, by the way, refusing to explain it properly.
	To them, it's all about getting Hillary nominated.
	And they were very praiseworthy.
	Mike Barnacle called me a great entertainer, a great American entertainer, but they were doing that in a way to uh deflect uh any relevance of Operation Chaos.
	And it makes me uh I've stated the purpose of Operation Chaos countless times here.
	I've stated the origin of Operation Chaos a number of times, and they uh refused to get it.
	And I imagine we got a huge tune-in factor today because let me state it again very briefly, real quickly.
	Operation chaos.
	Uh the idea for it actually came when I heard a McCain campaign worker say that they were not going to be critical of Obama.
	And a campaign worker said he would quit the McCain campaign if he was told to do ads critical of Obama.
	Now, this time, this is this is uh before Texas and Ohio, Obama's running away with this.
	And if he wins Texas and Ohio, Mississippi, he puts her away, and it's over, and there's no way the superdelegates are going to be talked out of supporting her.
	So Operation Chaos was born primarily for the purpose, assuming Obama was going to be the nominee at the get-go of his get-go of this, he needs to be bloodied up politically since McCain's not going to do it.
	Since the Republican Party's not going to be on the field in this way, somebody's got to bloody up Obama.
	The only person that can do it is Hillary, and she can't do it if she's not in the race.
	And so the purpose of Operation Chaos was to keep her in the race and to have her bloody up Obama in the process of staying in the race.
	I'm talking about politically.
	And lo and behold, it's happened.
	This is the crucible of chaos.
	Look at what Operation Chaos has forged.
	Mrs. Clinton now is threatening to obliterate Iran.
	She says she's gonna break up OPEC.
	She wants to hold the money brokers responsible for the alleged recession.
	She says she's gonna renege on NAFTA.
	She'll take what she calls the excess profits from big oil.
	And she's gonna do all that while hunting and downing shots at Crown Royal followed by a beer.
	None of that, not one of these Clinton promises would exist were it not for Operation Chaos.
	The train would not have come off the tracks of the Obama campaign were it not for Operation Chaos.
	The Jeremiah Wright stuff and all that, yes, that would have happened, but nobody could have done anything about it, because Mrs. Clinton would have been effectively out of the race, not able to amount a campaign.
	So we'd be in a far different spot today than we were.
	So the purpose of this is to keep the exactly what's happened.
	And not only do we have chaos in the Democrat ticket and the Democrat race and the primaries, we've got chaos in the drive-by media.
	Uh chaos has uh has sprung up all over this campaign.
	That was the objective.
	And I need to issue a sincere thanks to all of you commandos, volunteers and operatives for one hell of a job.
	I know how hard this has been for those of you to go out there and follow orders and actually vote for a Clinton.
	And you have had to trust me that I know what I'm doing here and that this will not end up harming you or us.
	And I appreciate this trust that you have invested in me, your commander in chief.
	Now let's go to these audio sound bites.
	This is this morning on the Ace and TJ show.
	It's a syndicated top 40 morning show.
	And they uh the flagship out of Charlotte, North Carolina had Clinton on today.
	And the first question came from TJ Mr. President I gotta tell you I think it was like hilarious yesterday, the day before yesterday when your wife said that Rush Limbaugh had a crush on her.
	I thought that was funny.
	Yeah I think old Rush might have a crush on him he's certainly obsessed with her.
	I guess I'd come closer crush did you ever imagine though, like with his Operation Chaos thing that he would uh he would be consciously helping Mrs. Clinton in an election?
	No, you know I ran into him a few months ago he was at a restaurant in New York and I just decided after all the mean things he said about us over the years after my heart surgery I made up my mind that I didn't have enough time left to be mad at anybody and I went up and shook his hand sat down and visited with him.
	It gets better uh he did he never sat down.
	He never sat down.
	I did shake his hand.
	I offered my hand to him uh and he told me I I was having trouble hearing him because it was very noisy in there and my date had to translate for me later what he had said and he was telling me how good I looked.
	You're looking good, Limbaugh.
	You're looking good.
	And he shook my hand and so forth.
	And I told him I'd met a couple of his big donors down here in Palm Beach.
	And he bit the lower lip and said, yeah, they're great folks, nice people.
	Ace, then, well, Clinton just continued with this.
	As a result of Hillary's service in New York, we've become very close friends with a man in New York who works on cochlear implants, which has made it possible for people to hear who would otherwise be almost tone deaf.
	So I got to talk to Rush about it.
	And I was thinking, you know, this is testing my resolve because if he couldn't hear, could he do so much damage?
	We had a really nice video.
	visit I learned when uh we sequenced the human genome in 2000 which has led to all this wonderful medical research bringing us closer to finding the answer to breast cancer to Parkinson's to Alzheimer's and hope someday to autism which is the biggest unspoken health problem among young people today that we're all 99.9% the same genetically I have to keep reminding myself every time I'm tempted to get mad at anybody that they're so much like me I better take a deep breath and
	step back here.
	Now I look this is the first that I have heard that he spoke to me about cochlear implants.
	This is the first I've heard him speak of cochlear implants period.
	He did not sit down at our table I mean it were in a booth I mean there was no way there wasn't room.
	It it wouldn't have been accommodated unless everybody had slid over which didn't happen.
	Now he might have been talking to me about my cochlear implant but I and the the noise in there was raucous and I I couldn't hear so I'm not flat out denying this but the person I was with did not report that and he didn't the point is he didn't talk to me.
	I mean that that's that's where this is headed the uh next question and this from Ace well you know he actually told that story as soon as it happened said you were with mayor for of Los Angeles Antonio Villarragosa and I think he was joking that you detracted him with mayor Villarragosa while you can talk it up chat it up with his date.
	Well he he ought to be ashamed of himself she seemed like a perfectly nice woman but I did all my time talking to him.
	No he spoke finally he said that it was a a very uh very nice folks thanks to Ace and TJ she was a perfectly nice lady uh but I did all my talk in a rush it's and I ought to be ashamed of my ought to be ashamed of myself making up story like that.
	So that yeah he's a married man how can he possibly hit on my date, right.
	Of course, nobody would believe this.
	So far out of the bounds of presidential propriety, nobody would believe that the president would do something like this.
	So Limbaugh has to be making this up.
	He ought to be ashamed of it.
	I've spent more time talking to the mayor of Los Angeles.
	What had Clinton came in?
	I didn't see him because it couldn't hear, so I had to sit close to my date and focused looking at her, trying to hear what she's saying.
	I look up and there's Clinton standing there.
	Shakes my hand, uh, is there for maybe 30 seconds and goes to his table, comes back and has the mayor of Los Angeles with him.
	And the mayor's going on and on and on about how excited he is to meet me.
	And I don't know who he is, because they can't hear him introduce himself.
	He gives me his card.
	It's a whoa, this is a mayor of Los Angeles.
	So I did slide to the right, out of the booth, stood up, shook his hand, and a minute later I looked over, and Clinton's face is three inches from my dates.
	He's got his he's got his elbows on the top of the of the booth.
	You know, it's a twilight zone type.
	I gotta love this.
	We gotta take a timeout, folks.
	Back after this, stay with us.
	So can't get over Clinton here saying I ought to be ashamed of myself.
	What he probably meant to say was he ought to be ashamed of himself for out in me in a country like that hitting on his date.
	Uh anyway, the the evening didn't end then.
	Uh he came back a third time, this time with Ron Burkle, as they were on their way out, so stood up and talked to him again.
	And again, Clinton's talking to my date.
	Well, I'm talking to Mayor of Los Angeles and Burkle.
	Then they leave.
	Now, this is the interesting point.
	Forty-five minutes later, we leave.
	He is still out there.
	He's on the streets chatting it up with people.
	And as soon as I open a front door at Kobe Club, the flashbulbs start going nuts.
	Somebody called a meeting at paparazzi.
	So Clinton's standing about 15 feet up the sidewalk, and they said, Boy, there's all these cameras here.
	If I don't go up and you know say goodbye, blah, blah, blah, blah, they're gonna be held to pay.
	So I walked up there.
	He acted like he didn't know who I am and had no idea who I was.
	Oh, because that's where the cameras were.
	Anyway, it was a it was a fun night.
	Before we get back to Operation Chaos and to your phone calls, which are coming next, I want to say something about this this cyclone, this hurricane in Burma.
	I know they want to call it Myanmar, but it's it's it's Burma.
	You probably heard that this hurricane uh is is claimed twenty two thousand lives.
	And they're now projecting that 50,000 people might have died from this storm.
	And it could be even more than that, mostly from drowning.
	A 12-foot storm surge.
	Now, when a when a tragedy like this happens, and the reason I want to spend some time on this, not much, but I just want to put a thought in your head.
	When a tragedy like this happens, we need to remind ourselves of the main reason why humanitarian disasters continue to occur.
	It is due to one simple fact, maybe not just one, but I think the central characteristic here of these massive humanitarian disasters is that when people are denied freedom, the results can be deadly.
	Millions of poor people in Burma live on a floodplain right along the coast.
	And the reason they do is because they have to raise enough rice to support their families.
	They have no freedom.
	They have no freedom to move around, they have they don't know property rights or anything else.
	They they have to live where they live, right in the target of their floodplain, just to be able to eat.
	The dictatorship did not bother to warn people about the storm in time, and even if the dictatorship had, most of the people don't have electricity, let alone television, so they would not have gotten the message.
	They were sitting ducks.
	Now, you can contrast this with the with the poor people in New Orleans who did hear the warnings before Hurricane Katrina.
	At least they had the freedom to choose to stay or to leave, which helps illustrate the fact that we have the richest poor people in the world.
	They had every warning available to them.
	They all had televisions, most of them had cars or they had ways of getting out, and had the freedom to choose whether to leave or stay.
	That was not the case in Burma.
	So what we have here, folks, we have one more example of what can happen when people are denied freedom, freedom to own property, and to benefit in proportions to one's own creativity and hard work.
	And a lot of people are gonna blame this on global warming and so forth, and uh climate change and all this and all these poor people.
	This was gonna happen.
	There have been deadly hurricanes like this in the past in that part of the world, as well as tsunamis.
	And it's the the the number of people that are killed in these things in these poor countries.
	There's a reason for it.
	It's because these poor people have no means of being warned.
	They have no mechanism to get out, even if they are warned, and they have to live in floodplains and other areas that are prone to suffer the greatest damage during disasters like this.
	Precisely because they don't have the freedom to move around and live elsewhere.
	Protesters in Burma, by the way, have been risking their lives in recent months, speaking out against the dictatorship there, calling for Democrat reforms.
	We're in the process here very slowly and very surely, though, of giving up our freedoms.
	Little by little, every day we cede our freedoms under the rubric that it's for the common good or it's to save the planet, or we've got to stop being mean to trees or what have you.
	We are sitting around and letting ever enlarging governments, state, federal, local, take away our freedom.
	Give you an example.
	I I was shocked.
	I wish I had this letter here to read to you.
	I left it on my computer at home.
	I could probably still get it.
	As you know, one of the things that really bothers me where I live is these restrictions on turtle lights at night.
	Now stay with me on this.
	This is not this is not about the turtles.
	They just happen to be the reason the environmentalists have won here.
	Those of us who live on a beach, starting March 1st have to turn out all lights that can be seen by turtle hatchlings on the beach at night.
	Because theoretically, and this hasn't even been proven, theoretically, light attracts the hatchlings away from the ocean where they're supposed to go.
	They don't show up.
	The turtles don't show up to lay the eggs until May.
	But we have to turn the lights out March 1st.
	Environmentalist wackos.
	I've had them call a cops on me when I was in compliance with the ordinance.
	Had to go out, talk the Cobb didn't even know the ordinance.
	Didn't even know what it was, but this woman was complaining, said she's a big fan.
	It was raining, cats and dogs had to walk out there to the gate in the umbrella.
	There is beach preservation work going on on the very beach where these turtles come up and lay their eggs.
	And they've been granted an exemption, the workers are dredging the inlet, they're gonna dump the sand on the beach, you're gonna pipe the sand further south to help nourish the beaches here.
	And they've been given a variance to work on this till May 15th.
	May 15th, because that's when turtle season begins.
	Yet March 1st, we have to turn out our lights in the back.
	In my case, they're security, they're decorative, you know, they're landscaping light.
	I like it.
	But I can't.
	I have to turn them off March 1st or be in violation of some stupid law.
	So I've I've I've been talking to people about it, you know, not complaining about it on the air, talking to people who might be able to do something about it.
	They showed me the letter from the from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Services, the construction crew putting sand on the beach from the dredge.
	This is the most frightening, the power these little bureaucrats have and wield, and the penalties that they threaten and so forth illustrated to me just how much freedom we have lost here and how ingrained the bureaucracies are in usurping it and then lauding it over everybody's heads.
	And in this case, there is concern for everything except people and property owners.
	Same thing in Myanmar, same thing in Burma.
	Those people had no freedom.
	Well, they live in a dictatorship for one thing.
	They hadn't the ability to get out of there.
	They have to live in the most dangerous places.
	That's why there are mass deaths, such as the tsunami, this cyclone, previous cyclones.
	50,000 people may die.
	That's not gonna happen in the United States of America because we have freedom.
	People can get out of the way.
	There's enough warning.
	Everybody hears the warnings.
	If they don't, it's their fault.
	But here, in this case, zilpch.
	In the meantime, we're continuing to give up our freedoms in this country, and these people are risking their lives so they might have access to what we're throwing away.
	Now, when the environmentalist wackos hear about weather disasters like this, they think global warming, But when conservatives hear about these events, we need to remind ourselves of the fundamental importance of bringing freedom to humanity.
	Freedom that allows people to use the brains God gave us to protect ourselves from storms.
	Storms are going to come anyway.
	They have always been there.
	They're always going to be with us.
	It's not unique.
	This has nothing to do with global warming.
	These things happen constantly.
	It just shows the extent to which we have taken our freedoms for granted in this country that the word freedom never is brought up in either of these presidential campaigns.
	Not McCain's, not Hillary's, not Obama's.
	Nobody's talking about freedom.
	Nobody's talking about happiness.
	Nobody's talking about American exceptionalism.
	Everybody's talking about doom and gloom.
	There is no happiness in American politics today.
	And there's no happiness in politics, so it bleeds into the people who pay attention to it.
	Hence Operation Chaos, an attempt to have a little fun with this and involve Republicans in what would otherwise be one of the most boring political periods ever.
	Who cares who wins this primary?
	One of them is going to win it.
	They have to sit here and watch the drive-by media salivate all over this as though it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
	Operation Chaos saw a need.
	We got in there and we're getting it.
	And we're going to soon be getting out because it's going to have been proclaimed successful by me.
	And it has met and exceeded all of our objectives here.
	As we have chronicled.
	But we in this country, I think, take our freedoms way too much for granted.
	And we need to preserve them here at home, not only for our own well-being, but so that we can also help others around the world to do the same thing.
	If you can believe it, the leadership in Burma is not yet determined whether or not they'll accept international aid.
	They don't care about these people.
	Probably fewer mouths to feed if you get into the tin horn dictatorship palaces and offices.
	They're probably rubbing their hands together in glee, saying that ultimately in the future this is going to help them become more prosperous because no more people to feed.
	50,000 people are dead.
	It's a it's a sick way that dictatorships looked at, but that's most of the world.
	We're the exception.
	And yet we get blamed.
	Quick timeout.
	We'll be back.
	Resume with Operation Chaos after this.
	Stay with us.
	And we are back.
	We resume now discussions on Operation Chaos to the phones.
	We'll start in Syracuse, Indiana.
	This is Chris.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	I wanted to compliment you first off with your uh work in uh funding for the assorted uh cancer organizations.
	That's really nice of you.
	Uh appreciate that, ma'am.
	Thank you very much.
	And uh, like I said, I'm from Syracuse, Indiana, and um I'm most often uh voted uh Democrat, but yesterday I called uh my Secretary of State to get parameters because I was curious about uh what could be done to uh to do uh anything to be done about uh Operation Chaos and and what and he was a lovely Republican gentleman,
	very nice, and uh told me that um, you know, there is a certain mechanism for um contesting a vote, like if you had a uh a record of voting Republican that there would be a a democratic person there at the poll that could in fact stop that.
	But I'm kind of curious, don't you don't you think that uh what you're doing is kind of like political uh screaming fire in a crowded theater type of deal?
	Don't you I mean you said I've I've I listened to your program and you said that um the Democrats have done it to the Republicans, you know, during the McCain, the early part of the re Republican primaries with McCain.
	And the way I look at it, you know, that's wrong.
	I live in uh a county that is all republican, you know?
	And you're a Democrat?
	Mm-hmm.
	What's that like?
	Usually it's a Republicans outnumbered.
	How have you managed to hold out?
	In Indiana, we're a uh red state.
	Well, that's true.
	That's that's a that's a good point.
	That's a good point.
	Well, let me answer your question.
	I d I I don't at all think that uh we're tantamount to fraud here.
	I don't think there's anything untoward going on with Operation Chaos.
	It's sort of like Chris, when this program started, uh it was the only program that was not liberal in a national sense.
	They had the drive by media all over the place, the network newscasts, and here my program came, and the critics immediately said, Well, there's no balance on this show.
	It's just all conservatism.
	And I said, I am the balance to all the other liberalism in the media.
	Operation Chaos is balance to all of the fraud that is being committed throughout our electoral process.
	George Soros is tampering with our electoral process with a huge multi-billion dollar fortune.
	Move on.org, tampering with vast fundraising tentacles.
	The unions, you I mean, who doesn't tamper with elections if you want to get right down to it?
	Everybody tampers with elections because they're trying to influence the outcome.
	But I'm not a tamperer.
	I'm an untamperer.
	I'm trying to level the playing field here somewhat.
	The Democrat Party effectively chose our Republican Party nominee, and you're thinking, well, two wrongs don't make a right.
	It doesn't.
	That's not what no, this is that's they're that's there they had the right to do it.
	No, they really don't have the right to do it.
	Yes, they did it.
	Anybody can vote for whoever they want to vote for in this country.
	And hopefully, and for whatever reason, Chris.
	Hopefully there were poll workers, Republican poll workers there to stop them.
	Which should have done had it happened.
	You know, on your on your your point that you made about the broadcasting.
	You know, I like to live I listen to you.
	I listen to Bill O'Reilly.
	I don't I don't get I don't have cable because number one, I'm a fifty-four-year-old student going back to school after I lost my job after 30 years.
	Fortunate you are not watching cable TV.
	You'd have such a pessimistic view of your own country if you watch cable television.
	You'd uh it's a good thing that you don't.
	Well, it my point is that I try and keep I try to listen to different points of view.
	And I can't say that I always agree with you, but I still like to listen.
	All right.
	And I think that the problem right now in this country is the absolute discourse.
	You know, I I I had a whole bunch of scientists.
	I I look, uh Chris, I'm I'm I'm I'm getting up to it on time here.
	I don't know.
	Okay, well I'll let you go, right?
	I don't mean no, I want you to listen to this one more thing.
	I don't mean to be rude here.
	I really don't.
	But see, the the problem is not the discourse.
	Go back and read how people spoke to one another in the days of the founding, some of the early days around the civil war, what we said.
	Oh, it was worse.
	It was worth that the problem is not discourse.
	Discourse is is uh productive.
	People debating ideas.
	The problem in America is too much liberalism.
	The problem in America is too many liberals, too many people.
	Our most expensive commodity in this country is ignorance, not discourse, not uncivil discourse.
	There are too many ignorant people who have been shortchanged by our education system.
	If there were in a more balanced and educated society, liberalism would be but twenty percent of the elected seats in this country.
	But they have for fifty years weaned a bunch of people away from self-reliance, created a bunch of dependence among every demographic group out there, and that's how they profess to get elected.
	But they are destroying the country.
	They are destroying the institutions and traditions that made the country great.
	Everything liberals try to fix gets worse.
	The most recent example, we are now producing food for fuel, and we have food riots around the world.
	We have starvation around the world.
	You realize even before gasoline prices went up to the as high as they are, and the food prices started jumping, there were still 850 million people in this country, according to National Review.
	850 million people in the world who were below the poverty standard and couldn't get enough food every day.
	That was before the price of rice and wheat and corn skyrocketed.
	So now people are not going to be able to afford to eat, even uh when they with even more are going to be pushed into poverty because a bunch of social do-gooders thought that we needed to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, so we're gonna turn corn into fuel to be used in automobiles, trucks, and so forth, and it's resulted in skyrocketing prices around the world, and a lot of people more so than ever are hungry.
	And this was a great idea.
	Liberals had to save us from global warming and to protect the planet.
	The thing that happens when liber you know, liberals stand up for all these principles, but they never stand up For people.
	The people are always the ones who suffer when liberalism succeeds.
	And when people are suffering, I don't think you can shout too loud about it, which you would call uncivil discourse, to try to ring the warning bells that this needs to stop.
	People are curious.
	What do you mean, Rush?
	Liberals stand for principles and people get hurt.
	I'll explain this.
	I'm glad I caught your attention with it.

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