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June 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 2, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back.
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You know, I I just had a story, just saw a story about Ted Kennedy's surgery today.
And the it's a um I guess it's from the I don't know where this is from, the Raleigh News and Observer, perhaps.
Kennedy's surgeon considered to be among the best.
And I've seen there's been a lot of reporting on Ted Kennedy's brain surgery today, and as I've watched a lot of this reporting and listened to these news stories.
I wonder how it is that the superior nature of our medical system continues to be trashed in this country by Senator Kennedy's own party.
Senator Kennedy's own party, I don't care if it's Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, or if it's Barack Obama, they all want to junk it.
They all want to throw it under the bus and create something new.
Listen to some of the details in the story about his surgeon.
When author and Duke University English professor Reynolds Price heard that Senator Kennedy had a brain tumor.
He hoped Kennedy would trust his medical care to Alan Friedman.
Friedman, the neurosurgeon in chief at Duke University Hospital, removed Price's 11-inch malignant spinal tumor in the summer of 1984.
Price wrote about the experience in his book, A Whole New Life.
Dr. Friedman is 59, is considered to be among the best tumor and vascular neurosurgeons in the world.
Has a career-long interest in neurooncology, according to the Duke website.
Friedman is responsible for over 90% of all tumor resections and biopsies conducted at Duke.
He's written hundreds of articles on brain tumor and vascular lesion surgery.
Malignant brain tumors have ruined the lives of many healthy, vibrant members of our society, said Friedman on Duke's website.
We are translating research into successful new treatments.
The odds are in our favor for major achievement and long-term answers.
Now Reynolds Price, the Duke University English professor who has become friends with the doctor since his surgery over 20 years ago, said he feels better now that Kennedy selected Friedman to remove his brain tumor.
I'm sitting here with every finger crossed for both of them.
Price said that Friedman used a new technology to remove his own tumor, which was inside his spine, took three surgeries, but Friedman removed it all.
One surgery took six to eight hours.
Price said, and I said, What were you doing for that long?
Dr. Friedman said he was separating cell A from cell B. Back then, Friedman was a very young doctor.
When he first walked into my room, I thought they sent me Doogie Hauser.
I mean, I couldn't believe it, but they told me in advance he was the most brilliant.
The man kept me alive while I was very, very sick.
I'm very fond of him.
This is the doctor that Ted Kennedy had today operate on him and remove his tumor.
Best medical care in the country, some of the best medical people in the world, rather.
Not the country in the world, and they want to trash it.
They just want to throw it and put people like Obama or Hillary Clinton in charge of it.
Something to uh stop and think about.
Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates.
And they have trouble assessing in-depth stories, this according to a study to be unveiled at a global media conference today in Stockholm.
The context-based research group and uh ethnographic research firm found that news consumption behavior of younger readers differs profoundly from that of previous generations.
The research project commissioned by the AP in 2007 analyzed the news consumption patterns of an ethnically diverse group of 18 men and women between the ages of 18 and 34 in six cities in the United States, Britain, and India.
It ultimately helped AP design a new model for news delivery to meet the needs of young adults who are driving the shift from traditional media to digital news, said Jim Kennedy, AP's director of strategic planning.
Our observations and analysis identified that consumers' news diets are out of balance due to the overconsumption of facts and headlines, said Robbie Blinkov, co founder and head anthropologist at the Baltimore, Maryland based context based research group.
You know what the problem with this is?
I don't think it's because they can turn it off.
And they think this is not what it they're not being taught to critically think.
Kids in school today are not being taught critical thinking or analytical thinking.
They're being propagandized.
They're being indoctrinated.
And this this business here that they're they're news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble assessing in-depth stories.
Overconsumption of facts.
What facts?
Like the polar bears are dying?
Like the glaciers are melting.
What kind of facts are we talking about here?
At any rate, there still is, I I think there probably is a deadening effect if you do watch this stuff uh constantly.
The effect that it has on you is to depress the hell out of you.
Let's see, UK telegraph.
A huge study found that deaths of children fathered by over forty-five year old men occurred at almost twice the rate of those fathered by men aged between twenty-five and thirty.
Scientists believe that children of older fathers are more likely to suffer particular congenital defects, as well as autism, schizophrenia, and epilepsy.
The study was the first of its kind of such magnitude in the West.
Researchers believe the findings are linked to the declining quality of sperm as men age.
What are you nodding your head in agreement for there?
What do you know about it, Dawn?
She's sitting nodding her head in the affirmative.
A total of 100,000 churrin born between nine I know he's out of surgery, Snerdley.
I know he's out of surgery.
That's what made me prompt the story on his doctor.
Did I not say it was out of surgery?
I thought I did say it was out of surgery.
Okay, Ted Kennedy is out of surgery.
And we have the best damn health care system in the world, and Senator Kennedy's own party wants to trash it.
One hundred thousand children born between 1980 and 1996 were examined, of whom 830 have so far died before they reached 18, the majority when they were less than a year old.
The deaths of many of the children of the older fathers were related to congenital defects, such as problems of the heart and the spine, which increased the risk of infant mortality, but there were also higher rates of accidental death, which the researchers believe might be explained by the increased likelihood of suffering from autism, epilepsy, or schizophrenia.
Most research into older parents has until now focused on the risks passed on by older mothers, but the new study, published in the European Journal of Epidemiology, was adjusted to take account of maternal age and socioeconomic differences.
You ever heard anything like this before?
First up, what would be the point of this?
Try to get older guys not to father kids.
At any rate, a quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
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Back to the phones we go here on the EIB network, Rushlin bought it, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This is Sherry.
Great to have you here.
Welcome.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm a lifelong Democrat.
Uh friend finally convinced me to listen to you probably about six months ago, and I have enjoyed listening to your program, although I don't always agree with you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I am calling because I I'm sure you can tell it, but uh not only am I nervous, I am so mad, because I cannot understand how any American that loves America, truly loves America, could vote for Obama, who very apparently hates this country.
What will he do when he becomes president?
I mean, uh uh i i it doesn't matter what gender you are, what race you are, how in the world could you vote for a man like this?
And you know, people say, well, Hillary, everybody hates Hillary, they don't want her in there.
Well, you know, one thing about Hillary and the Clintons, they've at least been investigated from every angle for the last how many years for the city.
Well, that is saying something.
That is saying something.
Yeah, I know you're being sarcastic.
But truly, it they're not gonna have any many things left that's gonna come out, I don't believe.
But what do we know about Obama?
Nothing.
With the very things we just barely scraped at, and and then the everything, if you say anything about that, I mean, oh my goodness, well, we're racist.
This has nothing to do with rights.
This has to do with putting a man in the presidency of the United States that hates this country.
I mean, you know, Hitler was a true list, the worst leader of all time, but I bet you he loved his country.
So Obama's worse than Hitler.
In my opinion, yes.
Well, let me ask you a question.
I'm I'm I'm sitting here, I'm somewhat stupefied because I've had I I thought I understood Democrats pretty well.
But I and I understand the riff.
I understand that that there are a lot of female Democrats who are just livid over how Hillary's been treated here.
Uh are you one of those?
Are you upset the way she's been treated?
Not just that the party's on the cusp of nominating Obama, but are you worried you're you're mad about the way she's been treated?
That does not bother me at all.
I would vote for any Democrat over Obama.
Let me ask you, I'm I'm being dead serious.
I'm not uh do not read anything into this.
Do you go to church every Sunday?
Uh no, I do not.
Do you have a gun?
Unfortunately, no.
Unfortunately, no.
Okay, well, I'm just trying to think if you, you know, because Obama is losing votes of a lot of Democrats who he says cling to religion and their guns because they don't like people that uh don't look like them and this sort of thing.
I was just wondering if you were one of the kind of people he's described that he's and he's really uh offended.
I'm just an American that loves this country.
I am religious.
Uh uh I'm uh Okay, well, I I have to ask you that if you're an American that loves the country, what do you think about Democrat senators like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi urging the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq?
I think it's disgusting.
We're in there now.
I didn't agree with it, but at the time I actually agreed with it because I really thought they were going to find weapons of mass destruction, and I wanted Bush and our soldiers to go in there and kick butt and get rid of them.
As it's turned out, as we know, there wasn't it.
But regardless, we're there now.
We can't get out now until we win that.
There we can't get out in disgrace.
It's gonna be worse if if we leave now, so we've got to finish the job.
Well, doesn't it bother you that that's not the the position of your party?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, by far.
I mean, that's it.
Hillary Hillary doesn't care about winning there.
She wants to pull out as quickly as she can, too.
Well, I I think Hillary is smart enough to when she gets into office, if she was to become the president, she'd realize we can't get out of there now.
And she'd have to change, and she'd have to uh uh she'd have to stay in there until the job was finished.
All right, I'm gonna answer your questions now because you said we don't know what Obama's gonna do.
Uh we don't know who he is.
Hillary's at least they've been investigated, we know who they are.
I'll I'm gonna tell you right now, Sherry, exactly what's gonna happen if Obama's elected, and I think people need to seriously start thinking about this.
He cannot leave that church.
That church is Obama.
He may physically leave it, but that church is in his heart and it's in his soul.
He knows who those preachers are, he knows what they are, always has.
I'm convinced that Father Flager was brought in there to rile up that congregation to give Obama the excuse to leave the church, so he can leave it, not because of something Reverend Wright said, but because of something a white Catholic priest said.
But he can never leave it because the church is who he is.
Now, Sherry, here's what's going to happen.
Barack Obama, and you're right, nobody knows hardly anything about him.
We just have to assume the people he runs around with are very, very fishy.
They're anti-American, they're terrorists, they hate the country.
Uh they are they're shady characters, they're they're embezzlers.
Barack Obama will do anything to become president.
He will even deny who he is until the election is over.
He will deny his longtime friends further association with him until the election is over.
Nobody has pointed out that the people with whom he surrounds himself represent the kind of people that he will appoint to high government posts in his administration.
He is going to load up the foreign policy apparatus with unilateral disarmament types, with people who are anti-Israel and are anti-U.S.
sovereignty.
He will load up the departments and the agencies with people who will try to regulate society into their own images.
I think I think we all need to start thinking and imagining what an Obama administration will be like, what it will do.
They will seek permanent change through the bureaucracy.
They will seek statutory change through Congress, and they seek backing from the law through the judiciary.
Everything's going to be on the table.
Nothing will be safe or secure.
This would be one of the most radical leftist administrations in the history of this country.
And it's time to seriously consider it.
Uh audio, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
From Sunday, May twenty fifth.
Now, this is the same sermon in which he uh sounded just like Jeremiah Wright, talking about how Hillary was sitting out there, sees white, this guy's black, can't believe she's losing the campaign to some unexperienced black guy, all this stuff that caused Obama to finally say he's quitting or leaving the church.
Here is something else that Father Flager said in that same sermon.
Racism is still America's greatest addiction.
I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.
If the greatest command is to love, then the sin against love must be the greatest sin against God who is love and who calls us to love one another.
So then this greatest sin against God, racism.
It's as natural as the air we breathe.
You know, this didn't take long to get out either.
This is the same sermon that caused Obama to leave the church.
America is the greatest sin against God.
Now keep in mind, Obama is gonna have to have the votes of white people if he has a chance to win the presidency.
And he's not gonna get the votes of white people if he's a member of that church.
And when this guy starts going nuts, that congregation stands up, folks, and it is dance party.
I mean, it is Dick Clark's bandstand.
They're in there and they are just going nuts.
They're having the best time.
You can and that video is out there, and Obama cannot win if that's the he had to get out of that church.
I am more convinced than ever that Flager's sermon last Sunday, the 25th of May, was done in an inflammatory manner on purpose to give Obama the break, the excuse to get out of there.
And and he quits or says he quits, he leaves the church because of a sermon by a deranged sounding white guy.
He also ripped the Clintons in the same sermon and the immensely popular Joel O'steen in another crazy sermon.
Young woman running for pre-What's her name?
Hilltop, or what's her name?
Oh, Hillary.
Hillary.
Hillborn Hiltop.
Talking about white folk ain't gonna vote for him.
She must not have been to Iowa.
Trying to distract him.
Talk about what'd your preacher say?
Hillary and McKing would wish they had a preacher with the integrity of a Jeremiah Wright.
They wish they had a brother who would stand up and tell it like it is and not be ashamed or apologetic.
They got some old wheat preacher.
Jesus loves you.
Some old Joe Olstein cotton candy preachers say.
Oh no, all the old steam people are mad at me, but that's all.
Jesus loves you.
I know he does, but there's some stuff wrong in my life.
Everything's wonderful.
No, everything ain't wonderful.
That was May 25th in his own church, the St. Sabina Church.
Father Michael Flager and a so he was he was out there two sermons in one day at two different churches.
Uh this is not coincidental.
Nothing that happens in the Obama campaign is coincidental.
Now, yesterday in Chicago, late yesterday in Chicago, Michael Flager finally reacted.
I am deeply sorry, and I pray that my apology will be accepted even by those who have told me they won't accept it.
As a result of this, over three thousand emails of hate and threats and name-calling who have gone so far to say, kill yourself, take your life.
So here we have a guy dishing out hatred every day in the guise of religion, who is acting like the victim because of emails he's getting as a result of what he said.
Anyway, he's the reason.
He's the exit strategy for Barack Obama from his church.
And I just wanted you to hear more of what this guy had to say.
This is this is who Obama is.
He may disown this guy now or throw him aside, but they'll be back arm in arm shortly after the election, whether Obama wins this or loses it.
He cannot separate himself from who he is, and that's his biggest task is trying to tell us that he's somebody he isn't, and he's going to have to do his and it's the buttons the cat's out of the bag now.
There's just too much.
We j we know we know who this guy's been hanging around with for all these years.
Is there somebody?
Senator Obama, you better find a normal person to bring forth as a friend of yours.
Somebody is just like all the rest of us, that is one of your pals that you hang around.
Because so far, everybody that's come forth that's that's that is one of your spiritual advisors, a mentor, your pastor or whatever, your close friends, your fundraisers, they're either terrorists, anti-Americans, hate-filled numbkoffs, embezzlers, radicals.
I mean, you're your close group of people are the kind of people are not interested in any kind of unity.
Which, by the way, neither is Obama.
That's another facade.
He's not interested in unity.
Obama is interested in a monologue.
He is only interested in people who agree with him, and that's who he will have unity with.
If you don't agree with him, he's not going to reach out to you.
You're going to get stomped on, or you won't exist.
Vince in Victoria, Minnesota.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for having me on here.
Rush, uh, just go uh, if I could first make a very quick point regarding that last uh uh caller that uh that you spoke to.
I think uh honestly I'm I'm coming to the conclusion that the uh we we need to rename the political parties.
One is the uh globalist democrats, the other is uh you might call in the American conservatism, conservatives or something like that.
We begin to understand uh what our geopolitical choices are.
That is, I think everything falls into place quickly.
But uh that's the real reason I call in you'd uh spoken a while ago about Iraq and the improving situation there, and uh really I think it's time for Republicans to finally start speaking out with much more confidence about the Middle East, which is uh it's already in historic transformation.
Where are we gonna be in a few years with uh uh friendly America-friendly governments in Iraq and Turkey uh and uh Afghanistan?
If all that falls into place, I think the mullahs in Iran have to go away also, or they will inevitably be turned out also.
Any agreement about that?
Any comment about that?
Well, I've got something here.
Let me see if I can find it real quick.
I've got so many darn stacks.
Uh that relates to something that you just said, I feel like I'm getting Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh it's in the American thinker.
It is by Jeff Lucas.
Was the Iraq War worth it?
Before this war, state sponsors of terror in the Middle East were Iran, Syria, Iraq, and the Libya.
Today only Iran and Syria remain.
Libya no longer a state sponsor of terrorism and abandoned its nuclear program, and of course we all know what's happened to Iraq, Saddam's gone, and they are no longer state sponsors of terrorism.
Iraq has become a country where terrorism has been defeated in the Middle East.
So you ask an interesting question.
If we do end up successfully here with we've got a pro-American government in Afghanistan, we have a pro-American government in Iraq.
Uh the Iraq government's pretty close to self-sustaining itself.
Major victory there, pro-American government in Turkey.
You think the Republicans need to get more confident about the success of the policies and so forth in the Middle East.
You're right.
Republicans need to get more confident, period.
It's a um there they're look at this.
Is why I mentioned earlier in the program, there are all kinds of what ifs that people ask out there.
But I a year ago, I thought it was fascinating because the Democrats were so invested in defeat, they owned it.
And we hadn't been defeated.
And I said, what happens if this turns out really positively?
What happens if Iraq becomes An undeniable huge success and win.
And what happens if Bush's approval numbers start going up?
Right as we get into the summer and the fall of the 2008 election.
What happens?
You imagine the shakeup that that will be an entire political party.
The Democrats structuring themselves on the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq in the war on terror.
Has raised they've raised m millions of dollars on it.
At least half, if not more, of the Democrat Party base is made up of lunatics who want this country to lose.
They are so poisoned with their hatred, their personal hatred, their irrational personal hatred of George W. Bush, that they have steered this party into a corner, and it is it is looking like they are going to be profoundly embarrassed.
They're going to nominate a candidate on the basis of many things.
One of the things is he was always against the Iraq war.
He knew he was the smartest guy in the room.
He never supported this war.
He knew it was a loser.
Now, if he wins the presidency, he may inherit a circumstance where we are victorious.
And does he have the mettle to admit that, or will he continue on because of his requirement he be loyal to this kook fringe base in the Democrat Party?
Will he continue to say that this is a defeat?
Will he say all these stories about success in Iraq?
They were lies to try to shake up the election, but we can't win there.
We never were going to win there.
We had no business going there.
This this party is in such a mess, and it is so painful.
It is so painful to see my own beloved party nowhere near being positioned to take maximum advantage of it.
What is Father's Day?
It's June the 15th this year, right?
Sunday, June 15th.
So you got is this this is the second is you get less than two weeks.
Less than two weeks to figure and Father's Day is when he's forgotten things.
Mother's Day, big deal.
All the phone calls that go in.
Phone companies melt their phone lines on Mother's Day.
Father's Day, the phone lines that get trickle use.
Dad sits out there halftime's not even home because he knows nobody's gonna call him.
And I think this year this needs to change.
Fathers need to show they count too.
They need to show they're loved and appreciated.
And there's a way you can you know men love beef.
Why not give your dad the best beef if you have to pool everybody in the family on it to get your dad the best beef you can get, why wouldn't you do it?
It's Allen Brothers.
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What's so different about it?
It's because you can't get it anywhere else.
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You're gonna order desserts, all kinds of things.
It's gonna make your mouth water.
There are two different rush packs that you can choose from, some with some free steak burgers thrown in for your dad.
You've got 13 days to think about this.
Well, now you don't have 13 days because you got to figure shipping.
But they ship it, it's flash frozen, overnight FedEx, UPS, whatever it is, and when you thaw it out, it is just like fresh.
The only risk that you take in buying Allen Brothers is that one steak or burger won't be enough or hot dog.
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Obama.
We were talking about Iraq and the surge, and it doesn't work.
And my brilliant prognostication of a year ago, in which I asked, what happens if this all turns around?
Do you realize how they've pigeoned them, pigeonholed themselves?
And after all, folks, we're talking about the United States military, which does not lose unless the Democrats are in charge.
And the Democrats tried to secure victory, but they couldn't.
Because on this, George W. Bush hung tough.
Last Friday, PMS NBC, otherwise known as DNC TV, Morning Joe, Obama campaign strategist, David Axelrod, was asked by Mike Barnacle.
Do you know whether Senator Obama you know whether he thinks there's been progress made in Iraq?
I think what he what he said is that there's been uh I mean he never disputed the fact that if you throw a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can uh make a difference.
Really?
He never disputed the fact, never, that if you throw a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can make a difference.
Let's go back to January 14th of 2007, about a year and a half ago.
Senator Barack Obama is the guest and says this about more troops in Iraq.
We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war.
And until we acknowledge that reality, uh, we can send fifteen thousand more troops, twenty thousand more troops, thirty thousand more troops.
Uh, I don't know any uh expert on the region or any military officer that I've spoken to uh privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.
Uh he's an idiot.
He is a lying idiot.
He says he didn't he you can't find a general who will tell him it worked.
Have you ever heard of David Petraeus, who is a general.
It is working.
A year and a half ago, he is dead wrong.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
When he's put on the spot like this, and he doesn't have an answer pre-written that he is memorized, he is wandering aimlessly in search of a thought.
Axelrod said, Well, of course he's not you throw soldiers or something, it's gonna work.
No, just the opposite.
Obama, in his own words, surge is impossible.
We will hold on to this bite, and we will continue to play it at the appropriate strategic times.
To clearly illustrate, this man knows not at all from what he is saying.
Who's next?
Bob in uh Mullica Hill, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Quick comment.
I was in the audience when you were on Broadway, and it was a terrific show.
I hope you'll do that again sometime.
Thank you.
Um let's say that Obama gets enough delegates tomorrow from South Dakota and uh Montana to become the presumptive nominee.
He won't.
Do you think do you think well, even say the next day with a couple superdelegates, do you think as soon as he gets that, the drive-by's are gonna completely ignore Hillary from then till the convention so that she becomes more of a distant memory than anything?
Depends on what she does.
Well, I mean, if the drive-bys ignore her and the DNC doesn't want to hear from her, you know, and just think that you'll have to hear less and less of her to her own uh she won't like that, but I think that's a good thing.
No, the reason well, th th the premise of the question is interesting, but depend it all depends on what she does.
It depends on whether she slinks away.
So because here's here the truth of the matter is you can win all the pledge delegates in the world, but the superdelegates can change their minds no matter who they've endorsed.
So until they actually vote at the convention, it doesn't matter what they say now.
And if she decides that she's gonna keep plugging away at them and trying to change their minds and therefore stays in this, they will not ignore her.
They will get even angrier and try to force her out and more hit pieces will come on Bill.
Oops, would help to turn on the microphone to say goodbye.
Thanks for being with us today, folks.
Always a pleasure and an honor.
We will look forward to being right back at it tomorrow.
See you then.
Thanks.
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