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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 anchorman, 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 number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today, the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Well, the Obama campaign has begun now 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 is conceit on the part of the man who is 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, than 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 then some little hotshot dweeb shows up from Harvard, and the boss goes nuts over this guy because he's a good bootlicker.
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.
And once again, they get kicked in the teeth.
And it's happening to them now in this campaign, and they are distressed and they are 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 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.
I can remember the old days of this program.
We used to have women-only caller hours because back in the early days of the program, the buzz was that 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 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 is 800-282-2882 if you would like to talk this out.
And if I'd like to have your thoughts also on this whole notion of the Democrat primary season ending up producing an illegitimate nominee here, last night, Charlie Rose, PBS, Audio Soundbite 14, the novelist and journalist Kurt Anderson was the guest.
Charlie Rose said, 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 read, is as influential as Rush Limbaugh, for instance.
And so that...
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, many of you, and I'm, you know, Snerdley has told me that many of you have called and expressed a little anger at me.
You didn't want to go on the air, but you were angry with me over being so, what should I say, encouraging for Mrs. Clinton to so-called break the rules, the Democrat Party, 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 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 Bzinski 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.
Cares about the rules.
We 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 smithereens, 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 Rodden 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 cameramen 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 cameramen to stop showing Hillary's backside.
Beatrice in 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 74 years old.
I am appalled at the Democratic Party, at 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 19, what is it, 1996?
They've been prepping him for this position.
1998, probably.
Whatever.
But my question, let me tell you something.
The Democrats just got two more candidates for, not candidates, but two more voters for their party.
My husband hasn't voted since John F. Kennedy.
I had convinced him to register.
As he watches all these things that have been going on, the media has been so cruel to they have not been afraid.
They have tiptoed over the tulips with Obama.
And when it came for Hillary, they didn't care what they said.
The cartoonists, the same way.
The 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.
You talk about tiptoeing through the tulips.
May Tiny Tim rest in peace.
You talk about tiptoeing through the tulips.
They have done worse than that.
They have not only ignored the man's gaffes and ignored his associations with unsavory, dubious characters.
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've been voting Democrat since you were alive or something?
Since I'm 18 years old.
Okay, since you're 18.
Well, it's time you learned something about your party and you're learning it.
The votes don't count.
And you just heard Senator Bill Nelson say the votes of the votes don't count, Nancy Pelosi.
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 hell to pay from the black voters of the Democrat Party if Obama doesn't get this nomination.
Oh, they got to get their sh ⁇ together.
Pardon my French.
But they have to get this.
They can't be living for 40 years back.
Look at 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 done for them, and they're still complaining.
And to scare the people to say that it turns around and maybe they make Hillary the nominee, that there's going to be fights in the street and they're going to 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 its objective is to recreate what happened in Chicago in 1968 at the 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, are they Americans?
What are they?
No, I've encouraged them in their activities.
I've encouraged Recreate 68 on this program numerous times.
Exactly, dissent is what made this country great.
Riots, burning cars, and so forth, bring it on.
What I'm just trying to tell you is that 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've fabricated this Obama guy.
He's got two and a half years in the Senate.
He'd been running for president for two of them.
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 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 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, right?
But look.
I thought I'd look at this.
Here's the point.
I thought it started a movement to have the delegates and superdelegates investigated.
I want to see 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 superdelegates 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?
This is a sham.
The Democrat Party calls itself the Democratic Party, and there's 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.
And the press was doing this man should have no idea.
Or portraying Mrs. Clinton as Nurse Ratchet.
This man should have never been on the ticket.
He has some very bad baggage, very bad baggage.
Assigned from Levy right.
So let me ask you this, Beatrice.
We've got to close it up here.
What are you going to do if Obama gets a nomination?
What am I going to do?
I disown the Democratic Party.
I do.
I cannot, in all fairness, say that I would support him.
I don't support him because I don't believe in him.
Would you vote for McCain?
I sure would.
All right.
I sure would.
My husband is too.
He says, you know what?
The Democrats can say together about me.
I haven't voted all these years.
Well, now the Republicans just got 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.
And they've all gone to college, Billy.
I can't understand it.
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 internet as to who voted for him and when they're not.
Well, the superdelegates 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 really is still an open slate.
I mean, they're pledged, but they change their minds at any time with this.
Oh, I think this was all set up now.
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 were sick and tired of Clintons decided they were going to take her out.
So I knew that 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 issue of the states not being able to be seated, the delegates, they treated Hillary and whoever talks about it, treat it like 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 rules committee on the C-SPAN.
I remember Donna Brazil was involved 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 had more importance in the primary process.
And they threatened him with this sanction.
And it was a premeditated decision.
Now, why aren't the people that were falling all over themselves, those party hacks and all those people, I never hear them criticized or held, taken to task about this premeditated thing that they forced and they wanted to happen, or they allowed to happen.
They were told this was going to happen, and it happened, and they said they don't care.
Well, 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, is that 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 are 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 aren't going to count.
Thank you, and welcome back.
We are here, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan 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, well, it beats not counting any of the votes at all.
I mean, do you realize what they're on the verge of doing here?
Disenfranchising this many people, having an illegitimate exactly right, Snerdley, three-fifths.
Well, I don't know where you've heard it before.
I'm sure you've 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 every vote three-fifths.
It's the way you used to count black votes.
It's the way the Democrat Party counted black votes.
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 I've got to get 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.
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 a Hillary's 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 started 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 got to do something here.
Because 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.
Now, 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 number.
Here's Loretta in North Situate.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, Rhode Island.
Hi.
How are you?
Hey, how are you?
It's a pleasure.
Thank you.
I 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 city?
What way?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I misunderstood you.
Yes, keep going.
Because I hate McCain.
We know what's going to happen with the House and Senate once the 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, 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'm sitting here and I'm in stunned disbelief and amazement.
Why?
I don't believe what I'm hearing.
Well, because you're 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?
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, 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 her.
If we can get Hillary to promise that she would do these things for us.
I 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 to influence Hillary.
Well, you're influencing her now.
Because you don't want McCain.
I hate McCain.
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 the things they fought to.
Oh, okay, and a loyalist.
All right.
He hasn't been a loyal Republican.
And as far as Bush, I mean, I know 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 think that the president has not provided conservative leadership.
I'd agree with you on that.
He's not a conservative.
He's conservative now and then, but he's not a conservative.
No.
And he has not been leading a movement.
I'll agree with you on that.
Any kind of a movement.
More towards a Democrat movement.
No, no, I know.
I know.
I know.
I'm sitting here trying to agree with you on this.
But in terms of providing leadership, let me tell you, have you seen the latest news out of Sauter City in Basra?
Rush, I'm going to tell you something.
Wait a minute.
I'm just telling you the media is not talking about it.
There is overwhelming, resounding success to report coming out of Iraq.
And we've got a news report today that terrorism, worldwide terrorism, deaths down 40%.
Somebody's provided leadership on that.
Rush, you know what?
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 be a temporary thing.
Fine.
Next year, maybe they know.
Hey, maybe if we do like this, Hillary will get in, things will change.
Who knows?
Who knows what they're thinking.
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.
For what?
It'll never be.
It'll never be peace.
That's my belief.
I'm a little bit more optimistic than you are.
Than me.
I know you're saying that these people basically have a warring tradition amongst themselves.
It'll never change.
We'll see.
By the way, I made myself an honorary, what do you call your women there?
Oh, my God, my mind.
Degree.
No, no, no, no.
Mink gloves.
No, no, the women, what do you call those women that call you?
My mind is gone.
Oh, you're an honorary mistress, the honorary mistress.
From Rhode Island, right.
Okay, honorary North Carolina.
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 not going to be able to do it.
Okay, I'll handle it.
I'll take care of it.
All right, Chris.
Thanks very much.
Loretta.
She called me sweetie?
That's cool.
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 rolling it out.
John in Whitefield, Connecticut.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hi, thanks.
It's Litchfield.
And Rush, I love and embrace the chaos.
Sorry, a cheap little computer software program here for call screeners and ammo glasses on Litchfield.
I'm sorry.
What was the what was that?
What was it?
What did you just say?
I'm saying I love and embrace the chaos.
It's wonderful.
Thank you.
It is.
It's a tremendous amount of fun, and it's very effective.
I happen to be caught here in the very Democratic state of Connecticut, but I'm happily in the much more conservative Northwest corner here.
So 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, that Senator Byrd just spit in the face of a resounding majority of his own state constituents and went with Obama when his own state voted overwhelmingly for Mrs. Clinton.
And how do you explain that?
Well, you know, in his case, if the sheet fits, you wear it.
Okay, well.
He's a superdelegate.
He's not bound by what the voters in his state do.
That's why his superdelegate can do whatever he wants.
Well, there you go.
And that gives Mrs. Clinton even more ammunition than for the rest of the superdelegates to see the writing on the wall that Obama's not elected.
I mean, you can see it from Sheets Bird's angle here.
He's a former Grand Kliegel or whatever in the Ku Klux Klan, now actively endorsing the black guy.
I mean, this is good for the legacy and history and all that.
So I think 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 mere moments ago when I said that Obama has no slavery heritage.
I was wrong.
From the UK Times of March 4th, 2007, a little over a year from now, 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 his 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 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 Wall.
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?
Dickory 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.
I've got two comments.
I was going to come in with one, and then I was just thinking about the second one.
The first one was, 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 it not being fair for Barack Obama if we count the votes in Michigan.
I know a lot of people are aware out there that his name wasn't on the ballot, but from what I understand was that his name was on the ballot, and he took his name off.
So all is fair in love and war.
That's what I say.
Excellent observation.
That's a very excellent point out there.
And the second thing was when I was running out the door with my son this morning to take him to a doctor's appointment, I just caught ABC News out of the corner of my eye, and 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 for his campaign.
And while I was looking and listening 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.
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?
Yes.
Hagee, I'm not.
He is not McCain's pastor.
The drive-bys are reporting that this guy is McCain's pastor.
He's not McCain's pastor.
He has said some wacko things, I guess, about Germany, Nazis, and the Jews and so forth that he thought was, I think, favorable at the end.
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 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 very much, Linda.
I appreciate it more than you know.
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.
We're focusing on some of the advanced technologies that GM is using here to use less gasoline in their automobiles.
And they're working on some cars down the road.
They say that eventually we'll use no gasoline whatsoever.
And we are proud at this program to be driving General Motors products around.
We've been driving their new Tahoe hybrid.
Dawn's been driving it around.
Brian's been driving it around.
Dawn says it's a guy magnet.
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 in internal combustion engine gets without the hybrid attachment.
And a lot of people say, but Rush, but Russia, man, I thought you thought hybrids.
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.
This thing's a full-fledged SUV.
And it's just a dream to drive.
And everybody that's driven loves this thing.
The Chevy Tahoe hybrid.
You can log on to my website, Rush Limbaugh, or website, rushlimbaugh.com, or go to gm.com backslash explore and take a look at this.
There was even a hit piece in the newspaper the other day on the Chevy.
The Washington Post just did a hit piece on the Chevy Tahoe precisely because it's an SUV hybrid.
I mean, 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 blueprint for disaffected Democrats, disenfranchised Democrats, to redress their grievances.
There are three specific areas of this suit.
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