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May 20, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Thanks so very much.
It's hour number two of the Rush Limbaugh Show for this Tuesday, May twentieth, two thousand eight, Kentucky and Oregon primary day.
Good wishes to folks in those states and from every state.
Your call is welcome.
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Obviously a lot of presidential politics on our minds.
And as we begin this second hour, let me lay out a couple of other topical layers of some things that uh that we might talk about, and then you just pick and choose and do whatever you'd like.
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It is impossible to wallow through a newscast without hearing some reference to gas prices, oil prices, both are astronomical.
There is now an American city, I mean the national average is like three hundred eighty, I guess.
And uh and there's now an American city where regular has an average that is over four dollars, and that is the lucky people of Chicago.
Everybody else is pretty pretty close behind.
Uh Miami and Los Angeles, three dollars ninety-two cents.
New York, three dollars eighty-six cents, San Francisco $3.98.
So with this in the news every day, and people really fighting through it, suffering through it, and adjusting their lives accordingly, probably doing their share of proper grumbling, you know the politicians are going to be in full grandstand mode.
So this week, expect those oil company executives uh to get another tongue lashing from grandstanding politicians who want to be perceived back home as having done something about gas prices, as if American politicians can do anything about gas prices.
Now, can we get rid of the uh uh the eighteen cent federal gas tax as John McCain and Hillary Clinton to her credit want to do?
Sure, but that doesn't change anything, and in fact, I mean doesn't change anything about the nucleus of the problem, which is that we don't have enough oil.
We like oil.
We like fossil fuels, and I would love for oil company executives to actually say this this week as they are uh at the other end of a wagging finger from uh Henry Waxman or Ed Markey of Massachusetts or whatever.
In fact, I've always had a a bit of a fantasy, where the oil company executives are there and and some Congressman or another just reads them the riot act for not doing more to forward the cause of alternative fuels.
Why don't you give us more alternative fuels?
Why aren't you doing more to help decrease our reliance on foreign oil in that way?
And I just wish that one executive would say, Congressman, if you can give me sixty seconds, I need to take you to school for a minute.
We're in the oil business.
Sometimes our profits are fat, sometimes they're lean.
There are few things more expensive than finding drilling and refining oil.
And if those of you who are environmental extremists would just get out of the way and let us actually find more American oil and bring it to a nation that really likes fossil fuels and proves it every day, you'd then see oil prices go down.
But no, you'd rather scapegoat us and badger us for not engaging in more biofuel or synthetic fuel production.
Did I mention, Congressman, that we are oil companies?
It is not our job to help people run their cars on corn pone or baby shampoo or whatever they might like.
Would you have the chairman of Home Depot up here to ask why they don't like baby cribs?
Would you have the CEO of Pepperage Farm in here to ask them why they don't make more home electronics products?
We are oil companies.
Get out of our way and let us go get some oil.
Then and only then will we reduce dependency on oil from the parts of the world that want to kill us?
And then and only then.
Will prices go down and stay down?
Thomas Sowell wrote a genius article.
Uh saw it on RealClearPolitics.com, uh maybe a week ago.
Send the oil story, the Oil price story, it's not complex.
So many politicians and media types are saying, well, it's just very, very complicated.
No, it's not.
India and China are exploding economically.
There is more demand for oil than at any time in human history.
And there's not enough of it to go around to absolutely everybody in plentiful supply.
So what happens when you have that in a in a f in a free marketplace?
The price goes up.
The price goes up.
How do you get the price to go down?
Increase supply.
And in America, how do you increase supply?
Finding more oil.
Some of it might involve making a couple of caribou, scoot three feet to the left up there in Alaska.
Some of it might involve some actual drilling off the coasts of America and some other places.
Australia drills the living daylights out of their coastline, and those beaches are still pretty sweet.
So spare me the notion that planetary ruin lies ahead if we actually use the earth as the resource God meant it to be for us.
So anyway.
All right, thank you.
I feel better.
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I hope you enjoyed that.
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Speaking of God, you know they're a talk show host that will not talk about religion.
They're crazy.
Because it is a rich, rich tapestry.
And uh and I've always loved it.
But in particular when certain faiths wind up in the news, it's it's a talk show horn of plenty, and that's certainly the case right here in my state of Texas.
And it's all over the national news, so a little later this hour.
We're going to go to calls right now on whatever you like, but a little later on this hour, and I give you a thought or two about the FLDS story.
And and we spent a lot of time talking about Mormons when Mitt Romney was a candidate.
And there's a lot that I find oh a little wacky about the LDS faith, but these are great people, and I really find them amazingly principled and good folks.
And I got to the point where it if in terms of religion and the presidency, I I'm prepared not to care what religion you are.
You don't have to be Christian like me.
But the disqualifier is going to be if there's something in your faith that might lead you to do something zany as president.
If there is something in your faith that is antithetical to what I think the leader of the free world should believe or do, or things like that, then it would be problematic.
I have no such uh quarrel with the Mormon faith.
Boy, is it different than what I believe.
Not a problem.
Mitt Romney would be, hey, speaking of which, I'll take Mitt Romney as a McCain running mate tomorrow, because that would pretty well make Mitt Romney the 45th president of the United States.
And might well be on inauguration day of 2013.
But the religion story that's in everybody's newscast these days are the FLDS people, fundamentalist uh Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, and that just makes mainstream Mormons crazy.
I want to reach out to those of you, whether in Utah or not, who have just got to be going crazy saying, oh, we need this like a hole in the head.
That's all we need is to have people look at Warren Jeffs and everybody in this compound in Texas looks like a casting call from Little House on the Prairie, and that's all we need is to have people look at that and go, Oh, is that a Mormon?
Oh, that's good.
Okay.
Thought they were wacky.
So to the real pardon the usage here, the real Mormons out there.
God love you, you're good people, and you deserve better than what you're getting from the uh from the backwash of this story.
That having been said, the people at the FLDS compound, that is one evil, nasty cult, children.
That is one big old sex slave operation from A to Z, and thank God we're on to them.
Thank God my state busted down those doors and said, This stops today.
Now, that having been said, did everything go by the book there?
Where all the I's dotted and the T's crossed in terms of that raid.
Those of you who are what we might call Waco sensitive or you know, and listen, I've got that, I've got that chromosome too.
I I like uh I like government raids to be done the right way.
And I wonder, and I do wonder if if this one was, at least they did us the favor of not setting themselves on fire.
So maybe the stakes are a little lower, but we have children ripped from the arms of their parents.
I'm always sensitive to that.
But you know something?
Maybe some of those kids' lives have thus been saved.
It it's a golden talk show topic, uh, and and we can touch on that to whatever degree you like.
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Let us head to a future primary state, and that would be Montana.
That'll be about the last ones that we do on the third of June, I believe, Montana and South Dakota.
In Shepard, Montana, Art Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh, and it's a pleasure to have you.
Hi.
This is Theodore from Maryland.
That's quite a bit.
Nobody next.
You all need some guidance every now and then.
And I appreciate it.
I so appreciate it from you.
Now I'd like to look at Mr. McCain in reference to his non electability in reference.
I think when people look at the issues of Mr. McCain, they will look at him as a person he had great service.
But other than that, you know, they'll look at he the the issues surrounding him, and they'll say he's not for the working man.
Mr. McCain recently helped the Republicans patch together a bill about two weeks after he said homeowners don't deserve a bailout.
He helped the Republicans print together a bill that basically bailed out Bear Starnes and bailed out mortgage uh mortgage lenders, home builders, and speculators.
And he said the working man, the homeowner, didn't shouldn't be getting a bailout.
That tells you something about John McCain.
Well, but it but he shared he shared that with a lot of Democrats, though.
If there's something that's really going to hurt and and every politician of every stripe wants to discuss sir, we'll both finish sentences.
It'll be great.
Right ride the train with me.
If if if politicians of every stripe are trying to get on board as helping the homeowner, then you're gonna have some shared blame or guilt there.
I don't really disagree with your point, but in order to really hurt McCain, it would have needed it would need to have been ground that he sort of staked out by himself and he had a lot of company.
But see, a lot of company is not going to be voted on on November.
It's him.
Therefore, that's a signal issue why people shouldn't vote for him.
In reference to Mr. McCain and security, he tells me he's for security, yet he tried to introduce that bill that would open the borders.
He gave a he gives a lie to him being a person who's saying I'm for s I'm for national security.
Absolutely the opposite.
Mr. McCain has voted at least four times for raises for himself and members of Congress, but always he always votes against a minimum wage raise.
Well, of course he does, because the minimum wage is wrong.
Now again on the borders, you once again you're you're absolutely right about the borders, and there are Republicans who cannot forgive him for being soft on the borders and arranging the McCain Kennedy uh amnesty bill.
But folks are gonna have to believe him, and I think most Republicans will, when he says, Okay, I've heard you before we get to any kind of guest worker program, we've got to to to close up the borders and and make the borders more secure.
And on his worst day, he will do a better job of that than Barack Obama will.
To go upon a person's words, he says one thing, but yet when he had the opportunity to strike down this bill that he put up, he said no.
We have to go on his words.
I'm being told by your people and you that Mr. Obama set in the church for twenty years under Mr. Wright and the heirs.
But it's a funny thing.
You all are proposing for president or vice president, a man who sat under a church who said this.
Those of black African descent are cursed with the mark of King's.
What in the world, Church of your and what are you and what are you referring to?
I'm referring to Mitt Romney's Mormon church.
And he's saying he wants this guy for vice president.
Nobody says anything about Mitt Romney sitting under that church, not for twenty years, but for his entire fifty-five or sixty years, however old he is.
So when we talk about character, let's look at those issues.
Mr. McCain's wife supports him.
She refuses to release her tax return.
Because she's a private citizen, and her tax returns have been separate from his.
He has every right to do that.
And I'd say the same about Michelle Obama.
If hers had been separate and she had a few million dollars lying around, she absolutely retains the right to be a private citizen in that regard.
You finished strongly, Theodore.
I appreciate it.
You finished very strongly, because let's be honest.
Let's bring this all back again.
It's like Mitt's running all over again, and it will be like Mitt is running all over again if he is the McCain running mate.
That will make me happy in some ways, but I will wince as people go after Mitt Romney for some things that are probably not fair, but some things that are.
And I have to tell you, when Mitt told us that story, about being thirty some years old and pulling over to the side of the road and crying because his church finally said it's okay for black people to be in here.
Yikes.
Um that uh yeah, if Theodore's point is that that could be a tough sell, he has a good point.
But on the other things, you know, uh from John McCain has held some populist people pleasing views that he has shared with a gazillion other politicians of both stripes.
To be uniquely hurt for something to really hurt McCain, it's gotta be something that that he has done with that either his direct name is attached to, like the devil's work that is McCain Feingold's so-called campaign finance reform, or his weakness on the border, which he says he's learned a lesson about.
I'm going to choose to believe him because in John McCain you have this.
You have a guy who I think is dead wrong on some issues, but I don't think you have a liar.
You have a guy who I think is misguided on some issues, but I don't think you have a guy who is dishonest.
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I believe we are beholden to art in Montana, and he will be next on the EIB debt.
What better bumper music for the Limbaugh Show than Rush?
Thank you very much.
All righty.
We have uh some Ted Kennedy news, and it's not good.
Uh all the cable news nets, Fox News, MSNBC reporting that doctors are indicating this afternoon that Senator Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor.
Uh doctors say uh that this condition was discovered after the seizure, the hospitalization.
And it's funny, one of the things I was going to get to at some point involved the scrutiny of his hospital stay, because you remember this happened uh this is the fourth day of of his con of his continued hospitalization.
It raised questions about the severity of his illness.
The Senator's office uh early today announced that he's not expected to return to Washington this week, but they weren't really saying anything about okay, well, if it wasn't a stroke, then what was it?
And doctors say they have now discovered that Senator Kennedy has a brain tumor.
Now, you know, instantly uh listen, you remember earlier when I was talking about China in Myanmar, some things transcend politics, and obviously our our every thought and every prayer are with the Senator and his family.
Um I I have to sh share something with you.
My eyebrows are only now returning to their normal position.
And I do love the folks at Fox News.
Uh that's that's a great network.
Love them.
I I just want to see if you notice a little later on if one of their Capitol Hill correspondents, James Rosen, gets in a little bit of trouble in the blogosphere for something he said about three minutes ago during the commercial break.
Uh Megan Kelly, I guess, handed it to him and said, This is an obvious uh tragedy for the the Senator's family with more here's James Rosen.
And James said, Well, I don't know if it's really a tragedy, because he's lived a long life.
Wow.
Whoa.
Okay.
Okay, James, strong letter in the file.
But but the bottom line here is, and is is there a brain is as many of anybody who's been through this or known anybody who has, they're brain tumors and their brain tumors.
I mean, some of them can mean uh you are not long for this world.
Other times, I mean there are people who've lived for years after they uh find a tumor, because not a lot of those are set a lot of those people are seventy-six.
So we will see what transpires.
Just want to share the at least the headline with you.
That is a brain tumor that has Senator Kennedy in uh in the hospital.
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A call delayed is not a call denied.
In Montana Art is here.
Hi, Mark Davis, in for rush.
Welcome.
Hey, Mark.
When I lived in Glen Rose, B WBAP was my station.
Fantastic.
Thanks so much.
Anyways, uh, the reason why I called, I'm disturbed by both of the uh candidates on the Democratic Party.
One is uh I've seen it on local newscasts out here and National Newscasts.
Whenever Barack Obama uh appears, somewhere between a third and fifty percent of the uh people that are listening to him treat him as exactly like he was a rock star, like he was Ricky Martin or Garth Brooks or every time that has happened in the in any country in the world when the guy actually gets elected, it's either a very bad thing for the uh country, or in some cases it's been a tragedy.
In which case I have great news, and that is that the appeal of the campaign trail and the rock star glitz of today does not translate to a November fourth victory.
It just doesn't.
As James Carville said, we have a word for those who rely on the youth vote.
That word is loser.
And it's probably the only time I'll be quoting James Carville.
Just don't get caught up in it.
Do not get caught up in it.
Once McCain is finished with him, that'll be a little less glitter.
Be right back.
Thanks everybody.
Rush is back tomorrow, and uh boy, I think I have a little bit of an idea of what some of the topic matter might be, and it's certainly going to envelop the evening newscasts tonight.
Look, I I don't know about you.
Listen, we all know the environment that that we're sharing.
I have longed to be freed of the uh of of the face and voice of Ted Kennedy in our public discourse for as long as I've been an adult.
But not this way.
Not this way.
Uh the tumor I told you about uh when the story broke in the last segment, uh is now uh they're uh beefing it up a little bit.
Uh it is indeed a malignant brain tumor.
Uh you know, don't get ahead of of the cycle here.
It will I don't know when some doctor will hold some news conference.
I would certainly think they can't hold it off for long because immediate questions are, you know, how bad is it?
Uh are we is is Senator Kennedy on the clock, as the saying goes, or you know, even with its malignancy, is this something that might respond to treatment?
We there's just no way to know.
So all of those details will be forthcoming.
But the one that is out now is that the hospitalization from a few days ago and the continuing hospitalization, which uh if if he didn't have a stroke, a lot of people were starting to ask, okay, well, why isn't he out of the hospital and back at IANA sport by now?
And now we have that answer.
It is a malignant brain tumor.
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We're doing a lot of business in the primary states today, and we appreciate that a lot.
And in fact, it's a call screeners challenge.
We have two guys named David, and they're both in Kentucky.
We spin the wheel and it comes up ring-dig-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding Bronson, Kentucky.
And David, you are first up this segment.
Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh, how are you?
Good.
How you doing, Mark?
Fantastic.
Hey, the road sign says Bronson, Kentucky, but the people know that know best know that this is really God's country.
Well, it is a magnificent state, and I want to reach out with big props to my uncle, who is uh for forever was a teacher at Western Kentucky in Bowling Green.
It is a fine, fine place to be.
Yes, it is, sir.
Well, uh, up into the new year, I was a registered independent, uh conservative, and there is such a thing, not a moderate, uh, but uh because my state doesn't allow independents to vote in major party primaries.
Right.
I crossed over and registered as a Democrat by the state's deadline of December 31st.
And uh at the time I crossed over, uh I did so mainly to vote against Hillary Clinton for the reasons that you described a little bit earlier about how the about the Clinton uh machine, the masters of destruction, and you know, for me I I don't think there's more uh disingenuous power hungry politicians in the world than the Clintons.
Now I'm not gonna be voting for a Democrat for president, but the the fact of the matter is I just could not in good conscience uh should a worst-case situation occur and uh she became the president, I sure did not want to be part of that blame.
You know, and this is can influence me.
He does.
I mean I listened to his show, but uh but the fact of the matter is at the end of the day, this is one he won he won't influence me on.
And I know the chances of go be becoming president aren't that great, but still it's it's a thing of conscience, and and uh if the things that have been put out about Obama, and they could be true, in a worst case scenario, he could be reflective of his uh pastor, uh he could be a bitter black man.
Uh and in a worst case scenario, Hillary is a liar.
I mean, if she can't remember if she was came under fire by snipers, I mean I got a choice.
A better black man or a liar.
I'd go with Eddie, and you've uh identified Hillary's quandary exactly right.
She absolutely remembered she did lie and she lied on purpose to make herself look like a more worthy commander in chief.
Christopher Hitchens wrote a wonderful piece saying, why isn't that an immediate deal breaker for every single American?
Where in the world are our most basic standards for uh for truth telling.
David, thank you very much and my best everybody in that neck of the woods of Kentucky.
We'll be visiting elsewhere in the state in just a couple of moments.
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The um the quandary of those who've been doing the crossover voting for Hillary, and Rush mentioned this, and and I have on the local show when we had our Texas primary.
Uh be careful what you wish for.
That you better be ready i if if you've helped Hillary become the nominee and something really wacky happens, uh, and she winds up being president, you better be prepared to be okay with that.
And by okay with that, I don't mean happy in a overarching sense, like, wow, I'm really glad Hillary's uh president.
But you better be uh you better have a strong preference of her over Barack Obama.
If indeed the president's got to be a Democrat, you better prefer her over Obama, which quite frankly, most sensible people do.
I mean, please.
And and in fact, you know something?
Swear to God I think this is true.
I think most Democrats feel that way too.
As much as the pendulum seems to be really swinging back to Obama for the final chapter of this uh of this um for the final chapter of this this passion play.
If you were to hold if you were to wipe everything clean, hold a national primary right now, I think she'd win it.
I just do.
I think she would win it.
I think the the the pastor right stuff is coming well, it's it's come and gone, but its legacy remains.
The uh the the the Bill Ayers, the the uh so the radioactive list of associations that this man has, and the the ones that maybe we don't even know about.
Um, no, no, no, no.
And you know what?
When the heat has been on, as people have just constantly bugged her to get out of a r uh of of a race that she once and everybody once thought she could win, Hillary has come across looking tough, poised, and even, yes, presidential.
While Barack Obama under pressure has been folding like a cheap suit.
Oh, you better not talk about my wife.
You know, or uh th the these very odd and and just clumsy defenses of uh of Pastor Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ and and what that reveals about his horrible judgment.
I don't believe that Barack Obama is pastor Wright.
I don't think they are peas in the exact same pod, but he unwisely stayed in the seats of that church for twenty years while this America hating, white hating uh vitriol poured over him, and he never left.
He never left.
That doesn't mean he agreed with everything he heard, but it means he never heard anything that rose to the level of I've got to get out of here.
And I gotta tell you, any self-respecting black man or woman sitting in any church in America, when the pastor steps forward with the part of the sermon that says the white devil invented AIDS to kill us, that's when you pick up your stuff and hit the door.
Failure to do so says as much about you as it does about the pastor.
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I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Rush, who is back tomorrow.
Let's head to Northridge, California.
And Will, that is you.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Um, hi, it's really enjoying your show today.
Thank you.
Um the reason I called in, uh I'm Mormon.
I've been my family was Mormon, and there were a couple of things I I wanted to clear up.
Um the black people have always been allowed into the church.
But it was it was uh maybe twenty-five, thirty years ago that the church changed and they uh were allowed to hold the priesthood.
Right.
That was the only thing that that was withheld from them because for whatever reason.
And that's well, you well, you know well, you know the reason.
And you're the Mormon, you know the reason, and it ain't pretty to a whole lot of people.
It it's it's um it's kind of funny.
For for those that don't know, it's not so very different from the reason that women can't be priests in the Catholic church.
It's not that they don't like women, it's that the image of God is a fatherly image and a woman cannot do that.
For the the the LDS faith, it's a matter of lineage, uh certain lineage that leads to some degree ethnically to the priesthood, and black folks just were not of that lineage, so it wasn't I've never known a Mormon who I even remotely thought was racist, not at all, but it's gonna come across that way.
And here's the tricky thing.
When churches it can be it can twisted that it can be twisted that way.
Well, but eh it doesn't have to be um okay.
It doesn't have to be twisted to look weird to a lot of people from the outside.
And maybe to and you know, it's just a it's it's a hard sell.
And here's the even harder sell.
When your church changes its mind seemingly because of societal pressure.
Black folks either belong in the Mormon clergy or they don't.
If they don't, for reasons that are okay with you, stick to your guns and don't change.
If it is okay for black folks to be in the clergy, what the heck were y'all thinking for those centuries when you did not allow them?
Therein lies part of the LDS problem.
Very similar as far as the attitude towards polygamy.
And in the church back in the eighteen hundreds, polygamy was literally a matter of survival.
My my great grandfather was a polygamist.
And if you look at the pictures in my I have two books on the genealogy, these women were not married to my great grandfather because they were beautiful ladies, and he just couldn't live without them.
Some of them were downright scary.
I want to tell you, the picture of my great grandmother who was his seventh wife.
Oh my God almighty, let me tell you, it's something great for Halloween.
Well, in fairness, ain't nobody smoking hot in the late 19th century.
I got pictures of my I mean, I I I know which let me ask you one quick thing because I gotta go.
Because I I really did reach out in the last hour.
I've expressed some empathy.
For those of you who are in the LDS church living fairly normal lives, just going about the business of believing in Joseph Smith and all that Brigham Young taught and all of that.
Is this FLDS ranch thing here in Texas just killing you?
Do you hate that this is in the news because do you feel guilt by association?
Do you feel people looking at you more differently because of this story?
I don't feel feel guilt at all because guilt.
Not for you to feel it, because you shouldn't.
Do you feel that people are that this is a bad PR development for the normal mainstream modern Mormon.
No, because the this is not a normal mainstream modern uh Mormon.
The the church gave up uh polygamy over a hundred years ago when Utah became a state.
Well, sure, I know.
This this this group or groups wherever they they they make their compound.
That's not the more the church of Latter-day Saints.
I hope everybody gets that.
I've I've I think uh I I think everybody pretty well gets that.
I I I hope so.
And and and thank you for for for being here.
I appreciate it, Will.
Yeah, I um maybe I've overstated that.
Maybe it's weird.
Maybe I have sensitivity to it as a non-Mormon that maybe the average Mormon doesn't even care about.
I any time I see a subset of a group.
I mean, what all right, for example, when I see, you know, cops misbehaving on video, I I go, oh God, I I just hate the I hate what that does for the good cops.
When uh okay, here's here's a good one.
For all this time that uh that that we were dealing with Pastor Wright, you know who I felt sorry for?
Normal black pastors.
Normal, sane black pastors, because a lot of people I'm I bet watched that and went, those people, those black churches, they're crazy.
When in fact only uh you know a small sliver of them probably are are that nutty.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
That's well, I'll just let everybody fend for themselves, take a commercial break and come on back.
I'm Mark Davis, in for rush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two will continue.
Hey everybody, Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush is back tomorrow.
Uh with every commercial break, I'm getting the opportunity to to sort of listen in to some of the breaking news coverage on the Ted Kennedy brain tumors, so I'll I'll share with you a little snippets of of what I hear and then just get back to our normal narrative of calls.
I've well, listen, I don't mean to be ghoulish, but yeah, I mean, if if not tomorrow, then today it's it's time to talk about the prospect at least of post-Kennedy Life in America.
I mean, you know, John and Bobby, Lord knows their ends were the the stuff of a violent legend.
And uh and and Ted, who is viewed as the the least serious and the least substantive of all three.
Now, who knows what John Kennedy's life and legacy would have been like?
Who knows what the Bobby Kennedy presidency would have been like, because trust me, there would have been one.
And you know what that means?
That means no Nixon, at least, you know, maybe not until later.
And maybe that means no Watergate, which means no Ford, which means no Carter, which means no Reagan, at least not in the way that it played out.
And uh getting into chaos theory like that can can drive you a little crazy.
But the latest that we've learned about this, if you're just joining us, Senator Ted Kennedy, the hospitalization is indeed about a malignant brain tumor.
It is what is called a glioma, uh, one that starts in the brain from glial cells, uh and and that's n really not good.
It didn't metastasize, it didn't move from somewhere else.
Are there people who live three, four, even five years with some chemo and some radiation with this kind of tumor?
Yes.
Uh but the early word is that this one seems to be growing and growing already.
It is malignant, and he is seventy-six.
That combination put together is not what you not what you want to hear when you're the patient, and so there is there is the latest.
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Let us head to home of the Bobcat, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Martha, Mark Davis, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Hi, how are you?
Hi, Mark.
It's great to have you on the air for us back east.
Thanks.
You you alluded a while ago to John McCain's age, and um that that relates to my concern, which is that the Republican jerseys are so willing to elect or hire someone for a four-year job that in any other government or private sector job, he probably wouldn't even be considered because of his age.
Is that fair?
Let me ask you.
Is that fair?
Because uh I let's talk about age limits, because John McCain at 71.
I hope I've got I'm fifty.
I hope I got that kind of of energy when I'm 61.
The guy looks like he's in great shape, and I would in no way favor in some arbitrary age limit on whether and when you can run for president based based on the year of your birth.
Well, but but I hear you, but I can't believe that it won't become an issue sometime after the the primaries, you know, are finally resolved, and we have the two candidates.
I mean, there are two things.
There are two things that'll keep it from being there are two things that will keep it from being an issue.
One is the Reagan precedence.
Now, obviously some might say, yeah, but by the time Reagan was in his second term, the Alzheimer's was probably starting to kick in.
True.
Uh the second thing, though, that insulates McCain is he seems to be as vigorous as someone half his age.
Now, if he has any brain belches on the campaign trail or falls asleep during a campaign event, boy, could that be trouble.
But the likelihood of that is probably not very great.
Well, I hear you appreciate your opinion.
It's just I I try not to be ageist myself either.
But um it it really it it bothers me to think that I'm electing somebody for a four-year term that might not be around that whole time.
Well, that's why the running the running mate selection is really important, because again, not to be ghoulish, chapter two, the running mate selection is very important because John McCain simply may not last the entire term.
So he better run with somebody who is ready, quite literally, ready on day one or day one thousand two hundred and fifty-six of the McCain presidency or whatever you get to be president, and it better be of presidential metal right off the bat.
Martha, thank you.
Need to take a quick break, come back, room for another call, I believe, before we hit the top of the next hour.
I'm Mark Davis, In for Rush, and we'll continue.
We have a couple of minutes before we uh reach our top of the hour respite and begin our third hour together.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh, who will be back in the chair tomorrow.
Right now, though, let's get back to the primary state of Kentucky, Kentucky and Oregon voting today.
David is in Villa, Kentucky.
Hello, sir.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Thanks uh for taking my call.
Sure.
Greetings from the fourth district, uh represented by Jeff Davis, a strong conservative in Congress.
A good guy, no relation, but I'd be proud to be.
At the top of the show, you were talking about uh talking with um terrorist organizations or leaders of nations that uh support terrorism.
And uh I guess the biggest struggle That I think liberals have.
I won't even say Democrats, just liberals in general, is they think it's a political struggle rather than an ideological struggle.
And so they they are seem to be addressing everything uh politically only, not understanding the ideologics behind it.
You have an absolutely golden point.
Pardon me for the brevity, but uh brevity is the soul of genius sometimes, and you're right about that.
I'll talk in a minute about the difference between talking to Iran today and talking to China and Russia back in the old days.
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