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May 22, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man.
America's doctor of democracy.
America's truth detector.
Here behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the telephone numbers 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program today, the email address.com.
Well, the Obama campaign has uh begun now uh uh uh conducting, I guess, their super secret search for a vice presidential nominee.
Now you might be asking, how can it be super secret if everybody knows about it?
Well, because the Obama campaign leaked it.
Now he's not even a nominee yet, ladies and gentlemen.
This this is conceit on the part of the man who is uh destined to be the illegitimate nominee of the Democrat Party because millions of votes will have to be ignored and not counted.
Florida and Michigan in order for Barack Obama to secure the Democrat Party nomination.
Now, as you know, Mrs. Clinton is very upset, as are a number of women, very upset, that she has been cast aside by a bunch of male chauvinist pigs.
Now the Democrat Party is not known for male chauvinist pigs.
The Democrat Party is known for male wimps who have cowered in fear at the sight of any feminist in their party.
But all of a sudden, that's gone.
All of a sudden, they don't care about the feminists, and they don't care about the women because they got their guy.
They have Obama, they have a messiah, they have a black guy, and obviously to the men and some of the women in the Democrat Party, they can get rid of a lot more guilt that they carry around by nominating a black guy, even if he ends up being an illegitimate nominee, then they can get rid of a lot of guilt by nominating a woman.
As you know, the man of compassion and understanding, I have reached out to these women in the Democrat Party who are for Hillary, and I've told them I can relate.
I understand what's happening to them.
They've lived their lives before, and they're seeing all this repeated now.
When they were in the office, they followed all the rules, they did everything they were supposed to do, and in some little hot shot dweeb shows up from Harvard.
And the bots goes nuts over this guy because he's a good boot licker.
He polishes the apple real well, he's never gotten in any trouble and so forth, and he's really clean and articulate, and they say, wow, this guy's destined for stardom, and they put him on the fast track on the corporate ladder.
And he just zooms right past all the women who have been promised advancement.
Once again, they get kicked in the teeth.
And it's happening to them now in this campaign, and they are distressed and they're angry.
To compound that, the Democrat Party is ignoring them, not listening to their complaints.
We, on the other hand, here at the EIB network, have offered our understanding and sympathy.
I have reached out on three separate occasions to tell the women feminists of the Democrat Party who know that they are getting the shaft here, that I understand how they feel.
And I d if if any of you women in the Democrat Party who are just fit to be tied over what's happening to Hillary here, and the way this has gone down, if you want to talk about it, right here is the place.
800-282-2882.
And I can remember the old days of this program.
We used to have women-only caller hours.
Uh, because back in the early days of the program, the uh the buzz was that uh the program, you know, women did not listen to talk radio, they didn't care about it, they were busy watching soap operas, and we wanted to dispel that notion for the drive-by media, which was creating that buzz.
No longer do we have to demonstrate that.
It's a well-documented fact now that women listen, but if if you women who are not being heard in the Democrat Party, if they're ignoring you and you want to talk about it, feel free.
Our number's 800-282-2882, if you would like to talk this out.
and if I'd like to have your thoughts also on this uh whole notion of the Democrat primary season ending up producing an illegitimate nominee.
Here.
Last night, Charlie Rose, PBS, Audio Soundbite 14.
Uh, the novelist and journalist Kurt Anderson was the guest.
Charlie Rose said, Can you can you make the argument about blogs are more liberal than conservative?
There's a lot of conservative blogs.
It may be that the liberal blogs seem more consequential or influential because liberal talk radio barely exists.
And so the Internet became the way for the left to do what the right had done on talk radio.
It's true that no conservative blogger is as red is as influential as Rush Limbaugh, for instance.
And so that that the About the Drudge Report.
Well, but that's a different thing.
He's a conservative, but it's not.
He's not telling people to go do naughty things in the Indiana primary like Rush Limbaugh is.
Oh, naughty things discussed last night on Charlie Rose.
Now, uh many of you, and I'm you know Snerdley has told me that many of you have called and and uh expressed a little anger at me.
You didn't want to go on the air, but you were angry with me over uh being so what should I say, encouraging uh for Mrs. Clinton to so-called break the rules, the Democrat Party, to which I've said there are no rules.
Here, let's go back to March 3rd, when I actually spoke about Democrat Party rules on this program.
In the Democrat Party.
There are no rules.
They're just traditions and customs.
There are no rules in a knife fight.
So let's not play Civics 101.
Let's not play junior high school senior class president election.
There are no rules.
There are traditions.
There are customs in the Democrat Party.
What are you talking about?
Stop and think about it.
If you want to break the rules, talking about, hey, you people in Florida, you blew it.
You people in Michigan, you blew it.
You violated Democrat Party rules.
Party we really didn't have any rules.
This was a tradition that they bucked.
This is a tradition.
They went against the party's request.
But now we see that we can't disenfranchise Democrats from two major states in the country.
So the tradition that every vote must count, the custom that delegates from every state will be seated, will now be employed with no rules being broken.
You see how easy this is?
That was me on March 3rd.
Here is Senator Bill Nelson this morning on MSNBC Live.
He's the Senator from Florida.
Mika Brzezinski says, Why the outcry now?
It does seem politically motivated.
It seems like you've waited too long to fix this.
Mika, I was trying to solve this problem way before Iowa and New Hampshire.
But, you know, the question now is are we going to violate the principle of one person, one vote?
And now people on the Democratic National Committee and the rules committee is going to decide this in a couple of weeks.
They've got to be looking at do you want to get so tangled up in the rules that you lose your prospects for winning in November.
Well, there you have it from Florida, Senator Bill Nelson.
What about who cares about the rules?
Well, you get tangled up in the rules for I've told you the Democrat Party has no rules, Mrs. Clinton knows it.
The only thing they have is a sacred principle of counting every vote.
And they're about to blow that to Smithereen's blow it sky high by disenfranchising at the direction of Howard George Wallace Dean.
Millions of voters.
From Florida and Michigan.
I mean, not even count them.
We'll be back.
Much more straight ahead on the EIB network.
To give you an idea of just how angry the women are out there over what is happening to Hillary.
From the Los Angeles Times, many Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters concede their candidates' presidential fortunes are fading, but some blame everything from bad camera angles to rebellious children.
Myrna Davis, a retired construction office manager, approached television cameraman awaiting Clinton's appearance Wednesday at a Sunrise Florida retirement community.
Myrna Davis, 72, shouted at the cameraman, stop showing her butt all the time.
Berating the group poised behind their tripods.
The TV cameras are always aiming at her backside every time she bends over.
It's very derogatory.
Exuding frustration, she said her family was a problem too.
My kids, they're both attorneys.
I don't even want to say who they're supporting, she fumed before rolling her eyes to confirm they were backing Barry Obama.
They're out of the will, said Myrna Davis, 72 years old.
Retired construction office manager, telling cameraman to stop showing Hillary's backside.
Beatrice in uh Milford, Pennsylvania.
You're next.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Love your program.
Thank you.
I have been a Democrat since I could vote.
And I'm seventy-four years old.
I am appalled at the Democratic Party.
At the the way they have carried on, they have put this man in the chair before I think he even was thought of.
They've been prepping him since nineteen what is it, nineteen ninety-six they've been prepping him for this position?
Nineteen ninety-eight, probably.
Whatever.
But my question my I let me tell you something.
The Democrats just got two par two more candidates for not candidates, but two more voters for their party.
My husband hasn't voted since John F. Kennedy.
I have convinced him to register.
As as he watches what all these things that have been going on, the media has been so crude uh they have not been afraid.
They have tiptoed over the tulips with Obama, and when it came to uh for Hillary, they didn't care what they said, the c the cartoonists the same way they're the uh comedians the same way, and I think it's the media that has put this man over the top.
There's no question, Beatrice.
There is no question that you're right.
That you talk about tiptoeing through the tulips, uh may Tiny Tim rest in peace.
You talk about tiptoeing through the tulips, they have done worse than that.
Yes.
They have not only ignored the man's gaffes and ignored his associations with unsavory, dubious characters, point taken.
They have promoted him as a messiah while at the same time portraying Mrs. Clinton as a witch.
Now let me ask you a question.
Maybe I'm stupid.
Maybe someone can educate me.
But in the states that she has won overwhelmingly, she blew him away in West Virginia.
Now, how can the delegates support Obama if she won the state?
Does it not matter what the constituents just did?
Hell no, it doesn't matter.
And I'm glad you called.
You said you're you've been you've been voting Democrat since you were alive or something.
Since I'm eighteen years old.
Okay, since you're eighteen.
Well, it's time you learned something about your party.
And you and and you and you're learning it.
The votes don't count.
And you just you just heard Senator Bill Nelson say the votes of votes don't count.
Nancy Pelosa, the votes don't count.
It's what the delegates want to do.
And the delegates, let me tell you something.
They are scared to death, Beatrice, that there's going to be racial held pay from the black voters of the Democrat Party if Obama doesn't get this nomination.
Oh, they gotta get their together.
Pardon my French.
But they have to get the they they can't be living for 40 years back.
Not for today.
I mean, they have a lot more going for them now than they ever did.
And it wasn't even their argument.
It was their great grandparents who should be fighting, not them.
They have everything going for them, and they're still complaining.
And to scare the people to say that if turns around and maybe they make Hillary the the nominee, that there's going to be fights in the street and they're gonna tear up the cities.
They have to get over it.
They have to get over it.
Well, they are genuinely afraid of that, Beatrice.
There are a couple of groups in Denver that are plotting just that.
One of them is called Recreate 68.
And it's its objective is to recreate what happened in Chicago in 1968 at Democrat convention.
There.
But don't you think that's fair that they're putting into the people?
I mean, is that right?
I mean, is that are they Americans or what are they?
No, I'm I'm I'm encouraged them in their activities.
I've I've encouraged Recreate 68 on this program numerous times.
Exactly, dissent is what made this country great.
Um riots, burning cars and so forth, bring it on.
I'm just trying what I'm just trying to tell you is that that the you you uh you have an interest in Mrs. Clinton here and for the longest time she was to be the nominee and then they went out and you're right they they've ver they fabricated this Obama guy.
He's got two and a half years in the Senate.
He'd been running for president for two of 'em they have fabricated this guy.
You take him off his teleprompter and he's lost Beatrice.
He thinks there are 57 states in this country.
Yeah I heard that I I almost fell off my chair.
I said where's this man been?
You know where's 57?
Did we miss something along the way here?
I mean I'm not a college graduate but I know we don't have 57 states.
Well see, let me tell you something you're not a college graduate and and that is precisely the vote that Mrs. Clinton gets and owns and there are a lot of people like you who are you may not be formally educated but you know your way around and you've acquired a lot of common sense in your life and you're certainly smart.
You may not be I'm not either I don't have a college degree and look at me one of the most brilliant people in the country.
Kudos to you.
But look, here's the point.
I thought I'd start a movement to have the delegates and superdelegates investigated.
I want to see wh what made them choose Obama when some of them their states were overwhelmingly given to Clinton.
I think there should be an investigation done on the super delegates and the delegates.
Where is the Justice Department on this?
I have asked that very question.
Where are the congressional investigating committees to look into this is a sham.
This is the Democrat Party calls itself the Democratic party and nothing Democratic about what they've done here.
And the main thing is how did this man ever get on the ticket with all the baggage that he has they hid the baggage Clinton as nurse ratchet.
This sh this man should have never been on the ticket.
He has some very bad baggage very bad baggage aside from the Beatrice we got it we gotta close it up here.
What are you going to do um if Obama gets a nomination?
What am I gonna do?
Yeah.
I I disowned the Deb the Democratic Party.
I do.
I cannot in all fairness state that that I I would support the I don't support him because I don't believe in him would you vote for McCain?
I sure would I sure would my husband is too he says you know what?
The Democrats can forget about me.
I haven't voted all these years well now the Republicans just got a new bur a new body.
Let me tell you something Beatrice if you can see the problems posed by Barack Obama's candidacy.
If you can see the problems Barack Obama brings to this race, if you can see the baggage, how come the superdelegates can't?
I have no idea.
I have no idea I if it's all gone to college Beatrice understand it.
Every every one of those superdelegates has gone to college and you haven't you see it and they don't.
Actually I think they do see it.
They're just ignoring it.
I wonder if they're posting it on the on the internet as to who voted for him and when they're they're the delegates have not technically voted yet they have gone some of them have gone public and expressed what they're going to do, but they can change their minds all the way up to the convention.
So it's it really is still an open slate.
I mean they're they're they're there's they can they're pledged but they changed their minds uh at uh at any time with this was all set up now I I I have a funny feeling and it's my intuition but I think this was all laid out as to what was going to happen.
A lot of women agree with you that the only way that this shaft job could have taken place is if some sort of an association with the media and higher ups in the Democrat Party who are sick and tired of Clinton's decided they were going to take her out.
So I I knew that she's she is she's a microcosm of much of the female thought in the Democrat Party that's out there over the way Hillary has been treated.
It's not just that Hillary's losing it's the way she has been treated by these male chauvinist pigs in the Democrat Party.
Trevor in Greenville, South Carolina, welcome to the EIB network hello.
Hey afternoon Rush The thing about the way this um issue of the states not being able to be seated the delegates They they treated Hillary and whoever talks about it, treated like some some sort of force of nature.
This thing just happened and it wasn't it didn't you know it accidentally happened.
I watched the the uh rules committee on the C SPAN.
I remember Don Brazil was involved on the on the committee.
And this is a premeditated decision that they did because those states were falling all over themselves.
They wanted to be first and count, you know, so they have more importance in the primary process, and they threatened the end with this sanction, and it was a premeditated decision.
Now, where why aren't the people that were falling all over themselves, those party hacks and all those people?
I never heard them criticized or uh, you know, held taken to task about this premeditated thing that they forced and they want it to happen, or they allowed to happen.
They were told this is gonna happen, and it happened, and they said they don't care.
Well, you know, it's a good question.
And the reason that the hacks that came up with the decision here to penalize Florida and Michigan for violating the rules, which Senator Bill Nelson says really don't exist, confirming what I know about the Democrat Party, uh, is that uh the the head of the Democrat Party, the national chairman is Howard Dean, and there's an association with the drive-by media and so forth, and there's a pattern there, traditions of some of these states going early.
But you're right.
It was the DNC, it was Howard Dean who said, Florida and Michigan, your votes are gonna count.
Thank you, and welcome back.
We are here, Rush Limbaugh with talent on lawn from God.
I got an idea for you, Democrats.
Maybe you could do this.
Maybe the Democrats could count three-fifths of each vote in Florida and Michigan.
I mean, that that it beats not counting any of the votes at all.
I mean, you realize what they're on the verge of doing here?
Disenfranchising this many people, having an illegitimate Yeah, exactly right, Snurley, three-fifths.
Well, I don't know where you've heard it before.
I'm sure you got a great historical context for this, but I chose this number not at random.
I chose it on purpose.
We need to count three-fifths.
Democrats count count every vote three-fifths.
It's the way you used to count black votes.
It's the way the Democrat Party counted black votes.
The three-fifths of a vote for every black person of voting age.
So maybe the Democrats could count three-fifths of each vote in Florida and Michigan.
I mean, it beats not counting the votes at all.
And it gets a little bit further down the road here of not having a totally illegitimate nominee.
Look, the Democrat Party used to support slavery until they were defeated in the Civil War.
Let's be honest about this.
They might be familiar with this three-fifths vote concept.
But I say, say, I mean, three-fifths would be a compromise with the Obama campaign, which doesn't want to count these votes at all.
I mean, you've got to start somewhere.
And three-fifths, I think, is a great number.
And by the way, I agree with that lady.
The cameraman ought to stop showing assilleries backside.
Now, here's a funny story.
There's an interview in the St. Petersburg, Florida Times.
Obama believes the votes in Florida and Michigan should count as a half a vote.
Obama Democrat Illinois called the idea of cutting Florida's delegation in half a very reasonable solution to the party's standoff over how to treat a primary contest that was not sanctioned by the DNC.
Okay, so Mrs. Clinton can say no three-fifths.
Well, actually, you know what you start out with?
Mrs. Clinton starts every vote counts.
Obama says no, half a vote per person.
And maybe you compromise out of tradition at three-fifths.
But you've got to do something here, as I advise the Democrat Party and the superdelegates.
Let me repeat this.
I would encourage the Democrats to count each vote in Florida and Michigan as three-fifths of a vote just to tie it in with their historical position in a different context prior to the Civil War.
And we Republicans, we believe in counting every vote.
We Republicans, we believe in one person, one vote, even the people of Florida and Michigan.
The Democrat Party, as it stands now, believes those votes don't even count.
And we're doing our best there.
Obama says, okay, well, half of them will count.
One half vote for every person.
And hell, he doesn't even have a slavery heritage.
And he's got more understanding about this apparently some of the Democrats do.
Three fifths half or what have you.
I think three fifths is the um is the number.
Here's Loretta in uh uh North North Situate.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, Rhode Island.
Hi.
How are you?
Hey, how are you?
It's a pleasure.
Thank you.
Um I know you know I heard you earlier saying that she's listening to you.
What if we suggest to her we all know how bad she wants to be president?
If we can get her to come middle of the road.
Oh, I'm sorry, y I misunderstood you.
Yes, keep going.
Because I hate McCain.
We know what's gonna happen with the House and Senate once the d Democrats come in and forget McCain.
Don't like Obama.
Maybe if we can get her to sway a little bit as far as the borders to promise.
Uh keep the tax cuts the way they are.
We know they're not going to do anything in Iraq.
She's not going to do anything.
And also as far as promising the people drilling.
Now this is hurting both Democrats and Republicans what's going on in the country.
Maybe if she sees the light on this and goes a little bit mid of the road.
Loretta.
Loretta.
You know, I I I'm I'm sitting here and I'm I'm in stunned disbelief and amazement.
Why?
I don't I don't believe what I'm hearing.
Well, because You actually telling me you think that we would have more ability to influence the policies of Hillary Clinton than we would John McCain.
Yes, because she wants it bad enough.
Yes.
Well, just say anything they get it, but how do we know that once she gets into office she won't screw us?
Um I don't know.
I think I give her that little bit of a doubt.
I mean, I'm a big big Republican ever since Jimmy Carter.
Oh I I I turned Republican.
I would never vote for another Democrat again.
That was my thing.
Well, wait a minute.
It sounds like you would vote for Hillary if we could bend it.
If we can get Hillary to promise that she would do these things for us.
Oh, you don't believe that folks are you hearing what I'm hearing out there?
This is a woman, a Republican who's been a Republican's Jimmy Carter, and wants me to do my best influence Hillary.
Well, you're influencing her now.
Because you don't want you don't want McCain.
I hate McCain.
I Why?
Just to hear him talk the things he's done.
He fought the president.
I hate McCain.
I couldn't vote for McCain.
Just because of what because because the things he's they fought the oh, okay.
All right, he hasn't been a loyal Republican.
No, and as far as Bush, I mean, I know uh how you feel.
I think Bush was the worst of a president.
He was not a leader.
That's why the country's in the condition that it's in now.
These past four years have been miserable with him.
Well, you know, a lot of people agree a lot of people think what uh a lot of people think that the uh president uh has not provided conservative leadership.
I would agree with you on that.
He's not a conservative.
He's conservative now and then, but he's not a conservative.
No.
Uh and he has not been leading a movement.
I'll agree with you on that.
Any kind of a movement.
More towards the Democrat movement.
No, no, I I know, I know, I know.
I'm sitting here trying to agree with you on this.
Uh but in terms of providing leadership, let me tell you have you seen the latest news out of Soder City and Basra?
Um, Rush, I'm gonna tell you something.
What uh wh I wait a minute.
I'm just telling you the media's not talking about it.
There is overwhelming, resounding successor report coming out of Iraq.
And we've got a news report today that terrorism, worldwide terrorism, deaths down forty percent.
Somebody's provided leadership on that.
Uh Rush, you know what?
I I there'll never be peace in that region of the country.
Ever, ever, ever.
It's in the Bible.
It'll never be, ever.
And this is maybe a temporary thing fine next year.
Maybe they know.
Hey, maybe if we do like this, uh Hillary will get in, things will change.
Who knows?
Who knows what they're thinking is.
I I don't I don't I mean I hope, but I feel bad to think all these servicemen went out there and killed themselves.
It'll never be.
It'll never be peace.
That's my my that's that's my Well, I'm a little bit I'm a little bit more optimistic than uh than you were I know you're saying that these people basically have a warring tradition amongst themselves.
It'll never change.
We'll see.
Um by the way, I made myself an honorary um uh what do you call your your women there?
You're oh my god, my degree.
No, no, no, no.
Um you're uh Mink gloves.
No, no, the women, what do you call those women that call you?
You're I my mind is gone.
I just I just got a mistake.
Oh, you're an honorary mistress, the honorable mistress.
Okay, honorary North North Situate.
Rhode Island mistress.
Okay.
All right.
But I hope maybe if we can do a little bit of whatever who knows what may sway her because she's a little bit more.
Okay, I'll handle it.
Too bad.
I'll take care of it.
All right, appreciate it.
Thanks.
Very much Loretta.
She call me Sweetie.
That's cool, which I can I love.
Optimistic about Hillary, but not a rock, not optimistic about McCain, hates McCain.
Hates McCain.
Thinks I can change Hillary's mind on things.
I can understand why she would think that.
I mean, on May 7th, I go back and I say, here's the strategy, and then they're in a process here of uh of rolling it out.
John in uh Whitefield, Connecticut.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hi, thanks.
That's Lichfield and uh Rush.
I love and embrace the chaos.
Sorry, a cheap little computer software program here for call screeners and among glasses on Lichfield.
I'm sorry.
Well what was the uh what was that?
What was it what did you just say?
I I'm saying I love and embrace the chaos.
It's wonderful.
Thank you.
It is.
It's uh it's tremendous amount of fun and it's very effective.
I happen to be caught here uh in the uh the very uh democratic state of Connecticut, but I happily in the uh much more conservative Northwest corner here.
So I I just wanted to call to say I find it very interesting in light of all of the pressure being put on these superdelegates to fall in line with Obama, uh, that Senator Byrd uh just spit in the face of a resounding majority of his own state constituents and and went with Obama when his own state voted overwhelmingly for uh Mrs. Clinton.
And how do you explain that?
Um, you know, in his case, if the sheet fits, you wear it.
Okay, well, hey, look, he's a superdelegate.
He's not bound by what the voters in his state do.
That's why he's super delegate.
Can do whatever he wants.
Well, there you go.
And that uh that gives uh Mrs. Clinton even more ammunition than for the rest of the superdelegates to see the writing on the wall that uh uh Obama's not elected.
Well, I mean, you can see it from from uh Sheets Byrd's angle here.
I mean, he's a former he's a former Grand Cleague or whatever, uh, in the uh Ku Klux Klan, uh now actively endorsing the black guy.
I mean, it's uh this is good for the legacy and uh history and all that.
So I say that.
Well, if I was one of those who would have voted for him, I'd be like, superdelegates are in this as much for themselves as they are for any other reason.
Don't forget that.
We'll be right back.
Ladies and gentlemen, I erred uh mere moments ago when I said that Obama has no slavery heritage.
I was wrong.
From the UK Times of March 4, 2007, a little over a year from now.
Uh ago, a little over a year ago, the maternal ancestors of Barack Obama, the Democrat who hopes to become America's first black president, once owned slaves.
Genealogists have revealed, as the son of a white woman from Kansas, and a black man from Kenya.
The background of Obama who went to a school in Indonesia was already considered exotic, according to the genealogists.
George Washington overall, Obama's great great great great-grandfather, owned two slaves.
A 15-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man who were listed in the 1850 Kentucky census.
Another maternal ancestor owned two older slaves.
Now, in his autobiography, Dreams from my father, Obama, referred to family rumors that his relatives had links to both sides during the Civil War, but he didn't know that he had slave holding ancestors.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Illinois Senator, said it showed his relatives were representative of America.
So now having having relatives that own slaves.
That's a plus for a Democrat, because it shows that you have the ability to relate to all Americans.
From the beginning of our country's East.
Well, by the way, I just saw a news flash on DNC TV.
Florida DNC Florida Democrat Party going to sue for the right of their delegates to be seated.
Operation Chaos.
Where do we go next on the phones?
Who's up next?
Hickory Dickory Dark.
We're waiting for somebody to tell me who's next.
It is Linda in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm fine and dandy.
Thank you.
Um, I've got two comments.
I I was going to come in with one, uh, and then I was just thinking about the second one.
The first one was um I I just wanted to respond to the caller that you had about I think an hour, hour and a half ago, where he was talking about um it not being fair for Barack Obama if we count the votes in Michigan.
Um I'm I know a lot of people are aware out there that um, you know, his name wasn't on the ballot, but uh from what I understand was that his name was on the ballot, and he took his name off.
So all is fair and love and war, that's what I say.
Excellent observation.
That's a very excellent point out there.
And the second thing was when uh I was running out the door with my son this morning to take him to a doctor's appointment.
I was I just caught ABC News out of the corner of my eye, and uh I wanted to get your take on this about John McCain and this reverend that they're trying to tie him to, the evangelical reverend that they say that he sought out his allegiance um, you know, for his his campaign.
And while I was looking and listened to this at the very end, I can't remember who the reporter was, but it seemed like he had a smile on his face, and he was thinking, there, we got you this time.
If you're gonna bring it up.
Here's the problem.
Here's the problem.
I know what you're talking about.
I'm not sure how this preacher pronounced his name.
Is it Hagee?
Yeah, yes.
Hagee, uh I'm not uh he is not McCain's pastor.
The drive-by's are reporting that this guy is McCain's pastor, and he's not McCain's pastor.
He has said some wacko things, I guess, about uh Germany, Nazis, and the Jews and so forth that he thought was was was uh I think favorable at the end of I don't know, I just saw a brief mention of it.
But the important thing for you to realize is that the media is mischaracterizing who this guy is.
And there's the reason why you saw the smile on that little jerk reporter's face is because he thinks, okay, now we're leveling the playing field because of what they did with Jeremiah Wright.
But they're having a lie about this because this guy is not McCain's pastor.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on that.
That's why I don't watch TV anymore.
I listen to Talk Radio.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thank you uh very much, Linda.
I appreciate it more than you know.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, as you know, General Motors has entrusted their product line to me and this program because they know that I am a huge American capitalist and that I have seen their operation.
They're letting us drive some of their cars here, some of their different cars.
Uh we're focusing on some of the advanced technologies uh that GM is using here to use less gasoline uh in their automobiles, and they're working on some some cars down the road, they say that eventually will use no gasoline uh whatsoever.
Uh and we are proud at this program to be driving General Motors products around.
We've been driving their new Tahoe hybrid.
At dawn been driving around.
Brian's been driving around, Dawn says it's a guy magnet.
And it's a it's a full-fledged Chevy Tahoe.
It is an SUV, but it's a hybrid.
And it does get surprisingly great gas mileage, much greater than a standard uh in internal combustion engine gets without the hybrid attachment.
Uh and a lot of people said, but Rush, but Rush, I mean I thought you thought hybrids I no, I don't care.
You want to drive a hybrid?
I've always said this.
Feel free.
Just don't think you're saving the planet with it.
If you want to do it to get better gas mileage, fine and dandy.
And you don't have to go out and buy one of these little tonka toy cars and sit around with it.
Uh this thing's a full-fledged SUV.
Uh, and it's it's just it's a dream to drive, and everybody that's driven it loves this thing.
Um, the Chevy Tahoe Hybrid.
You can log on to my website, Rush Limbaugh or website, Rush Limbaugh.com or go to GM.com backslash explore and uh and take a look at this.
There was even a hit piece in the newspaper the other day on the show.
The Washington Post has lended a hit piece on the Chevy Tahoe, precisely because it's an SUV hybrid.
I mean, you no matter what you give the libs, it's never enough.
This is worth looking at.
A lot of fun to drive, and it's cheaper to drive as well.
Back after this.
Here are the details on that story out of Florida.
Three Florida delegates, including Florida's Senate Democrat leader, have filed a federal lawsuit against a DNC, claiming that the DNC violated their constitutional rights by barring them from the party's national convention.
The litigation addresses the view of Howard Dean and the DNC that 1.75 million Democrats can be ignored at will.
Whoa, Operation Chaos.
Ladies and gentlemen, providing the uh the blueprint for disaffected Democrats, disenfranchised Democrats to redress their grievances.
There are three specific areas of this suit.
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