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May 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 9, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
This is classic.
This is just classic.
The United Nations says that it's going to suspend all further aid shipments for the survivors of the hurricane in Burma because the junta seized all the goods.
The junta, the junta, the commi junta seized all the goods and the UN's out there saying, We don't know why they would do this.
We can't figure out why they would do this.
38 tons of high-energy biscuits among the food drops.
Do you know how much we spend on the World Food Program part of the United Nations?
We're the leading contributor to the World Food Program, the United Nations, $352 million a year to the World Food Program.
How many gallons of gasoline would that buy?
Hi, folks.
It's Friday, and let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
You mean to tell me the United Nations still hasn't figured out why communist leaderships would want to kill their citizens after 100 years of history on this?
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you with us.
Open Line Friday.
You know the rules.
When we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Monday through Friday, that is not the case.
Monday through Friday, this is all about what I care about, all about what interests me.
But on Friday, I will fake it.
You call, I want to talk about something.
It bores me.
I will act interested.
At least as interested as I can.
Telephone number 800.
I mean, it's your day.
Ask what you want.
Say what you want.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is Elrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Well, we were talking a lot about the oil price yesterday, as you know.
And here's a little bit of a C.
I told you so.
Right off of the Associated Press wire, even as oil prices reach new highs, $126 a barrel today, many oil and gas industry executives say they expect the price to fall significantly by the end of the year.
55% of 372 petroleum industry execs surveyed by KPMG LLP said they think the price of a barrel of crude will drop below $100 by the end of the year.
21% of the respondents predicted a barrel of oil will end the year between $101 and $110 a barrel.
15% forecast the year-end price will be between $111 and $120 a barrel.
It has to come down, folks.
At some point, it is going to come to trust me on this.
It has to.
Particularly if it goes a whole lot higher, it's going to have to come down.
We talked about this in great detail yesterday.
The market just will not support this.
And when I was talking about this yesterday, I got a bunch of email notes because I asked the question, have you sat around, have you thought about at what price a gallon of gasoline will make you either swear off of it or chew as an order transportation?
And I got emails from people.
You idiot, you don't understand.
It's not like we can swear off gasoline.
If something else got to, like if movie price tickets, movie ticket prices got to 50 bucks, and yeah, so screw it, I'm not going.
But gasoline, I have to use it no matter what the price.
And so I've got to make adjustments elsewhere.
And that's the point.
When you start making adjustments elsewhere, when you stop going to the movies, when you stop taking your summer vacation, when you don't have money to go to SeaWorld or Disney World.
And by the way, have you seen the record crowds at the Disney theme parks, both in Orlando, out in Los Angeles?
Record crowds out there in this battered recession era economy, which, of course, is not what this is.
But nevertheless, it all works together.
So, if the gasoline price would hit 10 bucks a gallon, and I'm using that as an arbitrary number, yeah, you'd still have to use gasoline to get to work and so forth, but you're not going to do all these other fluffy things, and that will have impact on all those fluffy businesses that you're not patronizing, along with a whole lot of other people.
This will bring market pressure.
We're not going to sit here and let the tourist industry go broke and bankrupt and shut down.
It's not going to happen.
So, it's you know, times are tight, Booker T and EMGs, 1968.
But the price is going to come down.
It simply has to.
OPEC makes by the way, the price hit $126 today of a barrel of oil because of Hugo Chavez, the speculation market, the commodities markets, all in a tizzy because Hugo Chavez says that he's going to back the rebels in Colombia trying to overthrow our friendly government there.
And this is causing the United States to say, fine, you do that, and we'll put sanctions on you, Hugo.
And Hugo's saying, Fine, you put sanctions on me, and I stop selling oil to you.
And so, the commodities market, oh, no, that's going to interrupt supply to the U.S.
It will not interrupt the supply to the U.S. What will happen is Hugo will sell his oil to whoever wants it.
There will be buyers, even if he freezes us out, and whoever buys the stuff will in turn sell it back to us.
There will not be a shortage of oil if Hugo Chavez decides to freeze us out.
It'll go up because there'll be a middleman price to pay, but we'll not do without oil.
The profit motive alone will cause these middlemen that Hugo sells to to turn around and sell it to us.
We're going to need it, and we'll have to pay through the nose for it, but there will be oil.
In the meantime, OPEC may consult on whether the group needs to boost oil output before a scheduled meeting in September.
Should the oil price keep rising?
This is an OPEC source said today: if the price keeps going up, OPEC may consult on an increase in production before it meets in September.
The expert here said that OPEC would have to raise the production by more than 500,000 barrels a day to have any impact on the price.
Wrong.
I mean, in a static supply and demand market, true, but you let the speculators get hold of the news that OPEC might increase production by half a million barrels and are going to go nuts the other way.
It's going to be happy days are here again.
More oil on the market.
So this stuff is just academic, really.
It's not that complicated other than the role the speculators have in the market.
I got an interesting note from a friend of mine.
Friend of mine, with whom I used to play Thursday afternoon, when I worked for the Kansas City Royals from 1979 to 83, at the end of the football, the baseball season, the front office of the Royals would play touch football on Thursday afternoons, regardless of the weather, with the front office of the Kansas City Cheaps.
They were the cheaps at the time.
And we had some interlopers that joined the game, people that were not part of the front office.
Occasionally, some of the players, like George Brett and Jamie Quirk, would show up.
And when they showed up, it showed how pathetic all the rest of us were.
I'll never forget one afternoon, Quirk playing quarterback.
He must have thrown a 100-yard bomb to Brett.
It looked like 100 yards to me, easily 50.
You know, we're just a bunch of duffers out there, but it was a lot of fun.
And one of the guys, one of the interlopers that started the game was this little scatback speed demon who has become a friend.
He sent me a note last night.
He said, Rush, You don't realize what has happened to you and your show.
You're too close to it.
You don't realize what's happened.
We've been told that Barack Obama, not by deed, but by the very fact of his being, is a candidate that transcends race and politics.
And that is pushed as fact, despite Obama's trouble in unifying his party and groups within the party.
And this is a good point, by the way.
Obama's now back to being the unity candidate.
He went to the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, got a hero's welcome.
The Messiah is back.
But is the Democrat Party unified right now?
In fact, do you know who leads in the superdelegate count right now?
You people have any idea who leads?
It's Hillary Clinton, 273.5 superdelegates to Obama, 265.
So he's about eight and a half, seven and a half superdelegates behind.
I don't know who the half is.
I know, but look at he's not ahead in the supers is the point, despite all of this.
Why should Mrs. Clinton get out?
Operation Chaos has not been canceled, by the way.
And I'll get dirty little secret.
She isn't going to get out.
She's not going to get out.
And another dirty little secret.
Obama doesn't want her to get out.
I'll tell you why Obama doesn't want to.
No, I'll tell you why.
If she gets, she's going to win West Virginia, Kentucky.
If she gets out now, for example, if she were to go on TV and say, you know what?
I'm so much in debt and I want to unify my party, I quit.
She still wins West Virginia and Kentucky after pulling out how does that make Obama look?
The last thing he wants, it's like McCain.
You know, Huckabee and Ron Paul still getting all these votes.
I mean, we're not talking about it, but how does that make McCain look?
Obama does not want that.
He wants her to stay in beyond the next two primaries at least where she is scheduled to win.
But there is no unity here that Obama is causing to happen, even in his inner circle, much less his party.
Back to my friend's note.
Obama's campaign is decidedly about race, elitism, and inexperience.
92% of blacks voting in lockstep in several states and an increasingly tough time with the other colors of the rainbow.
Liberal elites are wild about the former law professor and people under 30.
Life's neophytes are swooning at Obama.
But blue collar workers, the AARP crowd, the non-black women, they are firmly in Hillary's camp and they threaten to never vote for Obama, the allegedly transcending public figure, the allegedly transcending public figure.
Barack Obama is no such thing.
Polarizing Rush might be a better term for Obama than transcending.
On the other hand, your radio show has moved beyond simply reporting and analyzing what others say and do.
Your program has progressed to reporting on your program.
You have to now report on what the drive-bys are saying about your program.
The media is obsessed with Operation Chaos, so much so that you're required to report on their reports which concern what you are saying and doing.
Other media report on others who make the news.
Your program is the news, and you have to report on that.
I don't think you realize, Rush, just what your program has become.
Your program, through your own efforts, your own brilliance, and your own creativity.
And of course, I would have never described it that way, which is why I am reading the email from my friend in Kansas City.
Your program, through your own efforts, brilliance, and creativity, has been elevated under your direction.
It has assumed a loftier position than others in the media.
You are making the news.
They are reporting on you.
So the question must be asked: who is the transcending figure?
You or Barack Obama.
Seinfeld broke new ground with a show about nothing.
Now you have a show about your show.
Have a good weekend, Rich.
That's that's pretty profound.
I have to say.
Audio sound by time, ladies and gentlemen.
Operation Chaos still being discussed.
In fact, I just saw a link, U.S. News and World Report has a post on Operation Chaos and how I'm just an egomaniacal blowhard tampering with the precious principles of our democracy, all for my ego.
And I love it.
The drive-bys are so jealous and rabid over this because my friend from Kansas City is right.
You folks, they despise the fact that they have to talk about what happens on this program.
And so when they talk about what happens on this program, they do everything they can to denigrate it, besmirch it, impugn it, and so forth.
But they don't understand they cannot destroy this program because they did not make this program.
You did.
And try as they might, they will never be able to divide you and me.
For one thing, one thing that everybody needs to realize here.
You want to talk about unity?
I have it.
I have forged unity with you, the audience of this program.
It is an unbreakable bond because of mutual respect.
And the drive-bys can do all they want to try to tear it down, but they will not succeed because they had nothing to do with it.
So Matthews, Chris Matthews, who is obsessed with Operation Chaos, Chris Matthews with 500,000 viewers, obsessed with Operation on a Good Night, obsessed with Operation Chaos.
Last night had Howard Wolfson on, Mrs. Clinton's communications director, and they had this exchange.
What do you think about Rush Limbaugh?
Do you think he helped or hurt your candidate the other day?
No, I think it had no impact whatsoever.
No impact.
With all due respect.
He has no impact at all.
Rush Limbaugh.
I don't believe that it had any impact.
Howard Wolfson says to Rush Limbaugh, you have no impact.
See how excited Matthews is.
What is Wolfson going to say?
He can't say anything else.
If Wolfson says, oh, yeah, we're thankful.
Limbaugh put us over the top.
What is he saying?
People that have no intention to vote for Hillary Clinton in November gave us our victory in Indiana.
He's not going to say that.
And he makes that point in the next exchange.
Here's what I would suggest.
People shouldn't denigrate Senator Clinton's accomplishments and they shouldn't denigrate her voters.
That's a mistake.
How's that done?
How do you denigrate her voters?
I think if you're saying that the people who were voting for her were voting for her for some reason other than the fact that they wanted her to win.
Isn't that what Rush Limbaugh is saying?
Yeah, you're saying, but I was worse than you on that.
I said anybody who uses their vote in that sick kind of way ought to be ashamed of themselves.
I agree with you.
The founding fathers and all the soldiers that fought for this country's freedom did not think a vote should be a joke or a mischief.
Howard and I agree.
Serious business.
Howard Wolfson, it is serious business.
This guy, this guy, you're like one of these Japanese soldiers that's still fighting in 1953.
Well, they just hate it.
They just hate it.
And I'm getting blue in the face listening to all this, this pompous arrogance from these fraud and cheats, the Democrat Party, who claim that they have never, oh, of course not.
What is Cook County, Illinois for crying out loud?
What was West Virginia in 1960?
What did Al Gore try to do in 2000 by denying the absentee votes of military personnel serving overseas in the Florida recount?
And they tell me that I'm tampering with precious democracy and so that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves when these people had a pretty large role in choosing our own nominee.
CNN continues to misreport Operation Chaos.
Last night on CNN's newsroom, here is a portion of co-host Don Lemon's report on Operation Chaos.
Rush Limbaugh switching sides?
Well, the conservative radio talk show host has been calling on Republicans to vote for Clinton in the primaries to keep the Democrats fighting.
Now he's urging Democratic superdelegates to vote for Barack Obama.
He says Obama would be the weaker opponent for John Obama.
All right.
All right.
You know what?
I hate having to do this.
I hate having to explain things that should be obvious.
But I feel confident because of the recent history of Operation Chaos that explaining all this to them will still not matter.
They still will not get it.
Can we go back, wind the clock back to Wednesday morning?
It is after the Indiana primary.
The Obama campaign has credited Operation Chaos for Mrs. Clinton's victory in Indiana.
I am now faced with a question as the commanding officer, as the commanding general of Operation Chaos, what's next?
Operation Chaos is not going away.
I'm not canceling it.
I'm not calling it off.
What's next?
Well, I know that liberal Democrats, wherever they are to be found, drive-by media or elsewhere, find me repugnant.
Find me to be just unpalatable.
So for all of these months of Operation Chaos, I have been suggesting that voters go out and keep Hillary Clinton alive for all the obvious reasons.
And that succeeded.
And it worked.
But now it's looking kind of bad because Obama had a big North Carolina victory.
I know full well that the instinctive reaction to me among liberal Democrats in the drive-bys is to do the opposite of what I say.
So I wanted to get out in front of them.
I wanted to once again be on the cutting edge.
So I thought I'd throw them a little bone, maybe confuse them a little, urge the supers.
Okay, gang, it's time.
Go ahead.
Let Obama have it.
You want to lose?
Let him have it.
Go vote for him.
Proclaim your support for Obama right now.
I said, George McGovern wants you to.
And the only reason McGovern wants Obama to get the nomination and win is because Obama is going to lose bigger than McGovern did.
And McGovern wants to see somebody, Democrat Party, lose by a larger margin than he did in 1972.
I could not have made it more clear.
By telling the superdelegates to endorse Obama because it was a guaranteed loser for the Democrat Party.
I was trying to tell them, stop here, wait a second, think about what you're doing.
Knowing full well that when I tell them to go for Obama, their instinctive reaction is to not go for Obama.
And yet these short-sighted, very, I mean, no depth whatsoever in the drive-bys are so in the tank with their own action line, Obama, Obama, Obama, that they were throwing up their hands in celebration.
Finally, Limbaugh joining us and wants the supers to vote for Obama.
I want chaos.
I want this going to the convention.
Nothing has changed in the operational battle plan here.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, ladies and gentlemen, the United States climate summary for April of this year.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that was just last month.
The average temperature in April, United States, 2008, was 51 degrees.
That 51 degrees was 1 degree Fahrenheit cooler than the average temperature in the 20th century, 1901 to 2000.
It was the 29th coolest April in 114 years, ladies and gentlemen.
The temperature trend for the period of record 1895 to present is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade, which means the average temperature increase or decrease of 0.1 degree Fahrenheit per decade was blown in one month.
April of 2008, the coolest April in 114 years.
Try this economic story.
And the headline alone, stocks rebound, retail sales higher, jobless claims drop.
You think the drive-by is meant to put all this in one place, in one headline?
Stocks are mounting a tentative recovery after yesterday's 206-point drop in the Dow.
The Labor Department says the number of workers filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week.
New claims totaled 365,000.
That's a drop of 18,000.
Some retailers saw a bit of sales relief last month.
All this good economic news other than the oil price in one place.
One headline, stocks rebound, retail sales higher, jobless claims drop.
To the phones, Ed in Lansing, Michigan, your first today on Open Line Friday.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Thank you very much.
Mega Mail Pattern Baldness Ditto to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Do you foresee any chance that Operation Chaos could possibly come to the state of Michigan so I can be part of it?
Well, I don't know what we could do in Michigan on the ground in Michigan.
The Operation Chaos playbook and the manual here shows that the only really relevant aspect of Michigan is in the question over whether or not they'll be seated.
Those delegates will be seated along with the Florida delegation and Democrat Party officials in Michigan have floated an idea that Mrs. Clinton would get 59 of the delegates and Obama would get 49 or some such thing, 69, 50, whatever the numbers are.
She'd get just like a 10-point advantage over there, hoping to compromise with this.
The only way Operation Chaos, I think, could have an impact in Michigan would be to attempt to pressure Democrat Party officials in Michigan.
And that, you know, that would be a tough thing.
Operation Chaos involves Republican operatives tampering in, messing around with, having fun in Democrat elections, just as the Democrats have done for years with ours.
I don't know how we would get to the leaders of the Democrat Party in Michigan to alter their plan with their delegate seating at the convention.
Well, whose responsibility was that in the Democrat leadership that even changed our date that caused this to happen?
Well, it was the local Michigan Democrat Party that told Howard Dean, basically, you.
We want our primary early.
We want it on January 15th, and that's when we're going to do it.
That's the Democrat National Committee said, well, if you do, then your delegates aren't going to be seated.
And Obama, trying to show his virtue, promptly pulled himself off the ballot.
Now, I don't know how you give somebody who wasn't even on the ballot any delegates.
Amen to that.
Amen to that.
All right, well, thanks for that.
I'm going to tell you one thing.
I'm going to make a prediction to you.
This is a campaign.
The Obama campaign is a campaign that centers around his messianic ability to unite disparate groups of people.
When we get to Denver, whatever it is, August 24th, I think, when they start their convention, the Florida and the Michigan delegations will be seated.
You mark my words.
They are not going to go to that convention, risking the wrath of unseated delegates from Florida outside protesting, joining up with Recreate 68 and Tent State.
They're not going to run that risk.
Those delegations will be seated somehow.
The meeting where this will be discussed, I doubt if it'll be solved at this meeting.
It'll be discussed to the Rules and Bylaws Committee on May 31st.
By the way, Bill Hemmer had, let's see, Adam Smith, a congressman, Adam Smith, I don't know where he's from, doesn't say here.
And of course, not even I, El Rushbo, can know where all of these congressmen are from.
There are 435 of them.
Democrat from Washington state.
Yeah, because D.C. only has, okay, Joe says it's Adam Smith, Democrat Washington State.
Bill Hemmer had him on the show in Fox yesterday afternoon, said Rush Limbaugh onto something here when he talks about the Rules Committee at the end of May.
Does Mrs. Clinton call the shots in that?
No, she doesn't.
The Rules Committee does, and she doesn't control it anymore than Senator Obama does.
But critical factor that everyone's blowing past, even if you count those elections and count those delegates, Senator Obama is still ahead in both popular vote and in delegates count.
So even if they do get counted, according to that, he still wins, which is a fact that really hasn't been pointed out very often.
Oh, it's pointed out every day, Adam.
Here's the question I have.
Where is this mad dash of superdelegates to Obama?
Where is it?
No, I mean, look at after North Carolina and Indiana on Tuesday, that was said to be it.
And the news reports since then have been, you know, we're back to square one.
Who's going to tell Hillary to get out?
Is it going to be Dianne Feinstein?
Who's going to go up to it?
Who's going to say, Mrs. Clinton, get out?
And now they're talking about, well, maybe Obama can help her retire some of her campaign debt.
That happens.
That's common, but it's her debt is pretty high, plus the $11.5 million that she's loaned herself.
You know, it's one thing to retire the campaign debt.
It's another thing to make Mrs. Clinton whole.
And that's something that she's going to be very much interested in.
So they're talking about that.
So in light of all these discussions about how Mrs. Clinton gets out of the race, why hasn't there been a mad dash of superdelegates to Obama?
Now, I know the drive-bys are reporting that minds are made up, but that they don't want to announce before June the 3rd.
AP talked to a number of the superdelegates.
I still have the same question.
Why don't they want to announce before June 3rd?
Why don't they?
It's because they haven't decided, and they can make up their minds.
They can change their minds as often as they want before they officially declare.
So these remaining primaries, they're going to be a factor of some kind.
And I guarantee you, the Clintons are out there.
We had a caller yesterday.
Can't understand what's happening to the Clintons.
The old 1990s Clintons would have buried this guy with all kinds of untrue innuendo or who knows what else long ago.
But they can't seem to lay a hand on the guy.
Now, the guy does have an interesting characteristic about him, and he's getting away with it.
It's sort of like this has got to really bug the Clintons because this is exactly what they got away with in the 90s.
Obama has portrayed himself here as so messianic and so unique, unlike any politician who has ever trod the sacred soil of American politics.
Therefore, any criticism is not to be answered.
The criticism is to be waved away, dispatched as, how dare you ask that question?
Who are you?
And so the person offering the criticism or asking the question is portrayed as some kind of a mortal kook or flim flam artist.
And this is the same way the Clintons got away with this back in the 1990s.
You know, Bob Dole, poor old guy, in the debate, where's the outrage?
Where's the outrage?
Over to lack of morals and ethics.
And Clinton's out there saying, hey, Bob, no attack ever fed a hungry child.
Oh, they swooned.
What a brilliant response.
And Dole, who wanted to know where the hell is the outrage over the lack of morals and ethics and honesty and integrity in these people, was relegated to some kind of old man who was so out of it that he didn't not be listened to.
And that's what Obama's benefiting from now.
So, Jeremiah Wright, bring that up.
You racist, I don't have to deal with your question.
What about your angry wife?
How dare you insult my wife and my marriage?
Who are you?
You don't even fit to be in my presence.
All right, what about your buddy Bill Ayers stomping all over the Americans?
I am not going to listen to these distractions, to my campaign.
We have to unify this country.
We've got to go on.
We've got to tax the CEOs.
We've got to tax the middle class.
We've got to tax.
I'm not listening to it.
And of course, the people who bring this stuff up are then ridiculed and belittled.
And that's what Obama's getting away with now.
So, what do the Clintons have?
What's left?
I guarantee you that they're staying in.
That's right.
They have Operation Chaos.
It's the only thing they've got.
The only thing they've got is Operation Chaos.
However, you know they're waiting around for more.
They're waiting for Obama to step in it.
They're waiting for something else to happen.
They probably, American Spectator has a piece here by Ned Barnett called Hillary Clinton's Nuclear Option.
And his theory is that until the first ballot in Denver in August, Hillary still has a chance here.
And she knows it.
And the Clintons do not quit.
They do not quit.
What constitutes nuclear option?
People asking, what do the Clintons have in their deck of cards left to play?
Ned Barnett theorizes Senator Obama's background will deliver that one deal killer issue that'll turn the superdelegates away from their popular favorite or the weight, W-E-I-G-H-T, of unanswered criticism over all these various problems that Obama brings will collectively convince superdelegates Senator Obama can't win and that the party needs a win more than it needs Obama.
Those are long shots, folks.
There's no question they're long shots, but there may be enough out there with which to criticize Obama to make the nuclear option at least plausible.
What are the issues, writes Mr. Barnett and the American thinker, that could be included in the nuclear options?
Well, here's a sampling.
Comb the archives of Trinity Church for a DVD that shows both Reverend Wright making yet one more of his offensively over-the-top statements and showing Obama in the congregation listening to the preacher.
Comb sources for home video of a speech that Obama gave in conjunction with unrepentant weathermen domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and in this way tie Senator Obama more tightly to this radical who's helped kill Americans on American soil.
Third one, assuming that Tony Resco's found guilty in his fraud trial, find some way to pressure prosecutors to offer Resco a sentencing deal in exchange for offering incriminating testimony that'll tie Obama far more closely to this shady political fundraiser.
Now, that's all these are long shots.
And they've all been tried.
Various forms of these nuclear options have been tried, but the Clintons are still waiting for something to surface out there or for him to just step in it.
That's the bottom line here.
He says, this is Senator Clinton's last chance.
She has the opportunity.
She has the strategy.
She and her advisors have the savvy to see how to raise these and other issues without leaving fingerprints.
Independently, these individual issues are unlikely to be deal killers, but if they're taken together, they might give Democrat Party superdelegates reason to reconsider Obama and favor Senator Clinton.
Obama may go ahead and declare victory on May 20th, but he may not have an easy three months until a Democrat National Convention, which is exactly what we want.
Chaos.
I can't see it happening because I can't see these superdelegates if nothing else happens between now.
I mean, let's say something else does happen with Jeremiah Wright.
Let's just follow me on this is hypothetically.
Let's say something comes out.
Let's say they do find a videotape of Wright going off on America and Obama's in there nodding his head.
Let's just say they find that.
Let's just say it's there.
Superdelegates then decide, okay, God, we can't have that.
We can't win the election.
They pull the delegation, the nomination from Obama, folks.
Somebody speculated earlier that to do that would be to destroy the Democrat Party because the blacks would fissure forever.
It's possible.
Blacks have stuck with the Democrats when they've done far worse to them than pulling the nomination from Obama.
But I'm convinced that a lot of the vote in North Carolina and a lot of the black vote in Indiana went Obama.
It was going to anyway, but it was really firm.
It was really solid because they're mad at bringing Jeremiah Wright out and trying to hurt Obama with Jeremiah Wright.
And this was sort of a rebuke against everybody that tried to hurt Obama with Jeremiah Wright.
So they have to be very, very careful.
Leave this to Operation Chaos.
Well, here's exciting news.
This is uplifting news, ladies and gentlemen.
The communist thug dictatorship of Myanmar has changed its mind.
They have decided to accept limited U.S. aid.
They're going to allow one airplane to deliver cyclone relief supplies.
Defense officials have told ABC News.
One plane, one plane, which means they've gone through all the other supplies that they stole and they need more for the government.
I mean, they took the stuff and they didn't even distribute it to the victims of the hurricane cyclone.
Sorry.
A bunch of suckers.
We're going to send one more plane of stuff in there.
Judy in Miami, I'm glad you called.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
I'd like to say thank you, Rush, for everything that you're doing for our party.
It makes me proud.
You know, lately, you know, you start feeling like being a Republican is a bad thing.
It's a bad word.
You can't tell people that you're a Republican.
They look at you bad.
Oh, my God, are you crazy?
But we listen to you.
We turn the station on, and we're just proud to be Americans.
We're just proud to keep going.
Well, that's what I, you know, you're very nice to say that, and I really appreciate it because we do focus on the positive of this program.
We try to be optimistic of good cheer, enjoy life, and have fun.
After all, we're Americans.
Yes.
But, you know, it's like you can't say how you feel.
People, especially in Miami, it's like, I don't know what's going on.
I'm a Cuban American, even with my own people.
Everybody's like changing.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Why are people who used to be Republicans, or let's say even friendly Democrats, why do they get so visceral now when you tell them you're a Republican?
What do they not like about Republicans?
I have no idea.
Oh, there's got to be something.
Is it not?
I think they hate that we're right.
They hate it.
I mean, they're all fictional.
They don't think they're right.
Wait a second.
I don't think they think we're right.
I don't think they've got too much hubris and arrogance.
If you're actually using the term Republican and they're getting mad at Republican, I have my own theories, but what about when you tell them you're a conservative?
How's the reaction to that?
Oh, but then they don't, no, they don't have much reaction to that.
They'll just think that I'm prejudiced and things like that.
Well, don't take this stuff personally.
These people are just, you know, they think they're the smartest people in the room and they're just nothing but a bunch of people that are reacting to clichés.
They don't know anything.
You just need to learn to laugh at them.
The worst thing, yeah, you don't want to get mad at them.
It's not worth it.
Just laugh at them and they'll say, why are you laughing?
He's like, because I just, I'm amazed at your ignorance.
You actually believe Republicans are all these things that you believe.
And then point out all the race wars going on in the Democrat Party.
Point out Mrs. Clinton and Obama getting into arguments about race.
Well, you tell them to look at themselves first before they start making these kinds of charges and then just keep laughing at them.
Be right back.
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