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June 6, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic premium cigar smoke, both first and second hand.
I am Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
And it's Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yeah, goodbye goodie dung drugs.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo, and all of that.
Open line Friday, one of the greatest career risks known to be taken by any major media figure.
And it is simply this the content portion of the program.
Totally determined by rank amateurs.
Callers.
I mean, that is when we go to the phones.
You know the drill Monday through Thursday.
I determine what we talk about.
Unless Snerdly screws up.
But on Friday, anybody and talk about whatever they want.
So this is your day.
Questions, comments, whines, moans, what have you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address.
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I got a great email today from one of our subscribers, Jerry Torres.
One of our subscribers at uh at Rush 247, the uh the website.
Says, Dear Mr. Limbaugh.
I will not be surprised if I hear this in the coming weeks.
In a selfless act of bipartisan compassion.
Senator John McCain is expected to announce his endorsement and support for Barack Obama as the next president of the United States to prove that this will be a new kind of campaign.
Senator McCain will not be dropping out.
He will not be canceling his own campaign just to show his magnanimity.
He will endorse Senator Obama to show how he can continue to cross the aisle and work with the opposition.
Ladies and gentlemen, earlier this week, the drive-by media drive by their having orgasms over the meeting that Hillary had last night with Obama at the home of Diane Feinstein in Washington.
They are having orgasms.
Well, some of the Obama press detail was upset because they were headed, they were herded to the airport and put on his campaign plane while Obama sped over to Daify's house for a super secret private meeting with Hillary.
Nobody knew about their aides weren't there, and the media wasn't there, and we have sound bites of the press on Obama's plane all bent out of shape that they were denied access.
Anyway, tomorrow at noon.
Tomorrow noon, Mrs. Clinton is said to endorse Obama.
He will extricate herself formally and officially from the presidential race.
This has the drive-by's in a Twitter special coverage on all three drive-by cable networks.
They are they're headlining it, promoting it, uh, bannering it, and so forth.
It's just such an amazing thing.
And of course, earlier this week, uh, one of the questions came up.
You know, how should Obama do this?
How should Obama handle Mrs. Clinton?
And I immediately referenced a song from Camelot, a learner and law production called How to Handle a Woman by Richard Harris.
The uh the I remember as a struggling young DJ star of the future, my first or second year in uh in radio playing this song on the radio.
It was not a hit commercially on the radio, but uh we had it around.
I played it, and I've never forgotten the song.
Uh we asked uh for the broadcast engineer to see if we had the song in our profit system.
We did not have the song in our profit system, but we have found it.
We went out and used corporate funds to purchase a soundtrack from the uh 1967 soundtrack of uh of Camelot.
It's on Warner Brothers, and we have put together Richard Harris singing the song with a montage of uh people and respect, showing respect for Mrs. Clinton and how she is to be treated.
Now we're not through with this.
This is a work in progress.
We've got a couple things that we're gonna add to this, and as they get added, we will keep replaying the tune.
My friends, yesterday we had a big story here, and it caused a nationwide ruckus.
We repeated the story that the Denver Post published yesterday that this charity group Friends of New Orleans, which is headed up by Donna Brazil and James Carville, was going to pay for a party, a welcoming party, the Denver Convention Center, and the opening day, the Sunday night prior to the Democrat National Convention beginning.
And of course, I raised several questions about this.
This is a charity, Friends of New Orleans, which is designed to uh uh help New Orleans recover in any number of ways from Hurricane Katrina, and I said, well, it must be that New Orleans is back together.
Maybe I missed this.
Maybe I missed it, but all of the suffering in New Orleans is over.
All the buildings have been rebuilt, all the levies have been fixed.
The ninth ward's back up and running as it was, because they're going to send the money out there to throw by the way, Friends of New Orleans with Brazil and Carville.
This is a nonpartisan group.
Well, it turns out the Denver Post got this wrong.
New Orleans group that raised money for city defending itself is some eyewitness news station in New Orleans.
An organization that raises money and awareness for New Orleans rebuilding efforts getting national attention, but for all the wrong reasons.
The group Friends of New Orleans is working to set the record straight on how it spends fundraising dollars.
The homes in one Gentili neighborhood range from untouched after the storm to rows of rebuilt homes.
Some residents have done it on their own.
Others got a helping hand from volunteer groups who want to bring New Orleans back.
And then there are organizations like Friends of New Orleans, a group that executive director Emily Byrum said raises money and awareness to rebuild the city.
Money and awareness.
They're outraising awareness.
Could somebody tell me?
Is there anybody in this audience that has not heard of Hurricane Katrina and the damage it did to New Orleans?
What in the world do they have to go raise money for awareness?
Don't give me that.
Bush flew over it, snertly saying Bush never heard of Katrina.
Bush flew over and Air Force One got big grief for not landing.
He flew over it in Air Force One looked out the window.
So imagine the shock, the anger, and the fallout from a Denver Post article published on Thursday.
It reported the Friends of New Orleans, a nonpartisan nonprofit group run by Donna Brazil and James Carville, was paying for a New Orleans themed party for Democrat delegates during the Democrat convention.
Because the party couldn't afford it.
That's not what it said because the host committee didn't raise enough money.
The host committee was supposed to raise 40 million.
They've topped out at 25 million.
They're 15 million short, and so Friends of New Orleans was going to go in there and throw one big party on Sunday night before the convention because the host committee screwed up and didn't raise enough money, and they didn't have enough money for all these parties that were supposed to go on during the week.
From the post article came the backlash on National Talk Radio.
Rush Limbaugh said, maybe what I'm missing is that New Orleans is repaired, fixed, rebuilt, the suffering there is over.
Because if Friends of New Orleans is going to take money from the New Orleans area and spend on Democrats, a host committee failed to meet their obligations, then New Orleans must be fine and dandy within hours.
Questions and concerns spread about the group, a group that's worked to establish itself during two years' existence.
People think we're mismanaging the money, and I want it to be clear, not one dollar's going toward any political committee, the DNC or anything, said the spokesbabe for Friends of New Orleans.
The Friends of New Orleans, which has prominent Democrat and Republican board members, is hosting events to raise awareness of rebuilding efforts in both cities where the Democrat and Republican conventions are held.
So they're not going to throw a party, but they are hosting events to raise awareness of rebuilding efforts.
Don't you raise awareness.
But the group said it isn't affiliated with either party.
Friends of New Orleans said the bad information came from the Democrat National Committee, which it said sent an erroneous press relief to the Denver Post, saying the group was footing the bill for the party.
The spokesbabe said the info was inaccurate, and I understand why people are calling in and thinking we're misusing funds that we're raising to help New Orleans.
The Denver Post and the DNC has corrected the information on their websites.
The Friends of New Orleans, meanwhile, will work on salvaging its reputation.
Well, the Friends of New Orleans and similar groups will be recognized because of the Katrina anniversary.
It's the Denver 2008 convention host committee that is paying for the party festivities.
Well, that's that's big news because the Post yesterday said that the host committee was not paying for parties.
The friends of uh Friends of New Orleans go in there and do it to make up for the lost money that never came in thanks to the Denver Host Committee.
So um Friends of New Orleans, smaller, similar groups we recognize because the Democrats look, they got two anniversaries during their convention then.
They've got they got the Katrina anniversary.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton sitting on a couch out on the beach for Al Gore's global warming thing, you know, the one that Newt sat down with Pelosi to do.
And I guess we're supposed to get the idea that if they don't act fast, the ocean's just gonna swallow them up there as they sit on a sofa on the beach.
Speaking of which, yeah, what's the downside of that?
What's it okay?
So the oceans rise and swallow up the sofa with Roberts and Sharpton.
Tell me the downside.
$45 trillion, folks.
$45 trillion is what they say it will take to beat man-made global warming.
If that doesn't tell you what's ahead for you and I, then that nothing else will.
The federal budget this year will be three trillion.
I mean, this th this is uh it's boondoggled, the Senate bill, as we knew, uh went down in flames yesterday, the cap and trade bill.
So anyway, the Democrats during their convention will have the anniversary of Katrina.
Can you make and they will celebrate it?
They will celebrate it.
They will find a way to celebrate that within the context of we can fix it.
We can stop these things from ever happening again.
Obama, the Messiah, would simply have walked down to the Delta of the Mississippi and put his arms up and redirected that hurricane right into Florida where Limbaugh lives.
Just as Fidel goes to the western tip of Cuba and keeps hurricanes from hitting the Volta Bajo, so shall the Messiah Obama.
They'll tell us it would never have happened, and if it did happen, then it would have been fixed by now.
They'll celebrate that.
They're also going to be celebrating on Obama's big acceptance speech night, the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
All right, a brief timeout.
It is open line Friday.
We'll get to your phone calls real quick.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
I don't believe this.
The staff asking me, what are you doing playing this song like Richard Harris when you're in this?
You're 16 years old.
What?
What kind of format was this radio station?
It was a small town little radio station.
And the way it worked was this.
In the morning we played, well, when I started, I changed all this uh in time, but in the morning we played, you know, really light stuff so it wouldn't shock people when their radio alarms went off.
I mean, that was the theory.
This no, the farm news was part of it.
The Barnyard News, Big Barnyard News uh did all that.
Beauty tips.
Uh and then, and then like at uh eight or nine o'clock uh country started.
It had the country cycle, and uh and you played that uh until about one o'clock, then you started on the pop stuff, the Sinatra and all this, and at three o'clock when the kids got out of school did top 40.
So uh this I just ran into this Richard Harris song.
I was going through the stack of stack of records that was not part of the playlist.
And oh, we didn't use 78 back then, Brian.
Way to go.
We didn't use 78.
We used 33s and 45s.
We use vinyl.
We have you used vinyl.
It was it was mono.
We were we were at 1550 on the dial.
We were thump compressed.
I mean, it was just it was uh it was fast.
Anyway, we have updated the Richard Harris song now, How to Handle a Woman with Additional Additions.
Uh put it that way.
Wait a minute.
Is this respect?
That come out of that where she's about a mover.
It is fun to watch the drive-by's having their orgasms here over this meeting last night with uh Hillary and Barack Obama and Hillary's big appearance uh tomorrow.
To the Fawns Open Line Friday, where where are we gonna start?
We're gonna start in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Is that where we're uh we're going first?
This is uh this Dwayne.
Dwayne, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello today.
Hello.
Hello?
Yeah, hi.
Hi, how are you doing?
I'm fine and dandy.
Couldn't be better.
How are you?
My gosh, I can't believe that I'm actually on the radio.
I understand how you feel.
Um first of all, I'd like to say it's a it's a privilege to be able to speak with you.
I understand that too.
Longtime listener.
Thank you.
I actually started listening um about around Clinton's um presidency.
I was really young at the time, and you know, I I wasn't as well versed as I am, thanks to you.
Thank you.
Um the question that I have is um is there anything different that you would have done based on the current situation?
Looking back, can you see any things strategically that you would have done differently based on the um current political arena now?
What do you mean done differently when?
Um gosh, I don't know.
Probably toward the middle part, whenever everything really started kind of to change for middle part of what Barack Obama.
Oh you mean the primaries, I'm guessing.
Yes, yes, sir.
You know, this is a I guess we're gonna I guess we're gonna be on this theme all day today, too.
I goofed up, I screwed up, I'm a wimp, I'm a coward.
No, no way.
I didn't do it right.
I was all my fault.
Excuse me.
No, no, no.
I would I would never say that to you.
Look at uh it's actually uh a question I want to take.
Uh I I'm coming up here on a hard break.
Okay.
But you keep your radio on and I'll answer the question when we come back.
Thanks, Dwayne.
It's a very good question.
A very nice and uh very very wise comments you made.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It's uh Rush Limboy here, serving humanity.
From the EIB, heavily fortified and secured Southern Command bunker.
It's open line Friday at 800-282-2882.
Email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I just saw something on MSNBC and I did not see enough graphics to see where it was, but it looked to me like the reporter on MSNBC was standing in front of the home of Diane Feinstein, which is all well and good, except that the meeting between Hillary and Dify took place last night and there's nobody there.
So maybe it wasn't Daifi's house.
What are they doing outside some house in Washington?
What other could have been in Hillary's house?
In what whatever some they were taking furniture out of there.
Uh wherever it was.
Maybe it had to be cleaned.
I don't know.
No, don't don't no.
Why would if it's Dify's house, why would it have to be cleaned?
You mean because of the meeting last night?
Might have spilled wine, that kind of thing.
Here's a uh story uh from the Associated Press.
For young voters, Rosa Park's refusal to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 is a screw book is screw book history.
Even the racially charged 1992 riots in Los Angeles are a distant memory.
The United States is far from a blueprint for racial harmony, but for today's young adults, all born after segregation was outlawed in the mid-sixties.
Race is not the issue it once was.
Except for those sucked in by the race industry, I add.
So uh the the point here is that uh this is an AP story, Martha Irvine out of Chicago, Obama's race is an asset.
It's a non-issue.
They've grown up with Oprah, Michael Jordan among their highest profile, wealthiest role models in their everyday lives.
There this How did this story get out?
You know, I saw a picture of the uh well, do you realize what this story says?
This story says to young adults, race is no big deal in America anymore.
That can't be that can't be allowed to stand.
I mean, that put people like the Reverend Jackson and the Reverend Sharpton out of business might put affirmative action out of business too.
I mean if they're looking up to heroes like Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey.
Really, this is this is crazy that they let this uh story out.
Is it any wonder then that young adults have been the most willing age group to support a black man for president?
Okay, cool.
Well, the key is still going to be getting them to show up to uh to vote.
I saw a picture of the Reverend Dax earlier this week, and I think that I think it was in St. Paul on Tuesday night, where Obama delivered his acceptance speech or his faux faux acceptance speech.
And the Reverend Jackson was standing, he was holding an Obama sign.
He had the most depressed look on his face.
I looked at that picture.
I said, Does this man look happy?
He can't be happy.
The Reverend Jackson, by the way, where has been the Reverend Dax on television celebrating this momentous achievement?
And I'm telling you the picture I saw of him, he did not look happy.
He looked worse than happy.
He looked depressed.
He looked a little miserable, standing there at some Obama rally holding his little Obama sign.
I think it's quite telling that we have not heard from the Reverend Dax.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, back to this story.
Later on in the story, let's see.
Some wonder if the welcoming attitude toward a black president has its limits.
Even among the most racially open young Obama supporters.
Young Han, 25, said race played little role in his decision to vote for Obama in the Washington state caucuses.
But he wonders if his peers would be uncomfortable.
If Obama were a different type of black candidate.
Get this, folks.
This is a 25-year-old Obama voter, state of Washington commenting, he said, a person who talks in a black English, engages in identity politics, and comes out of a marching yelling out of a megaphone background, might be considered really black.
Whereas a Harvard educator lawyer who looks non-threatening, maybe just a guy who happens to be black.
Said young Han, 25, he's Korean American who recently worked for a Washington Civic Education Foundation teaching students about government.
Whether this is a valid way by which to judge somebody's competence or legitimacy is a whole other question, but I think that's how things work.
What's he saying here?
What is he saying?
Wait a minute, we may not have really crossed any great threshold here, because this is not your average black guy.
This is a Harvard educated lawyer who looks non-threatening and may be just a guy who happens to be black.
But said this young man, a person who talks in a black English, engages in identity politics, and comes out of a marching yelling out of a megaphone background, might not be considered really black.
He summed up our whole parody here.
Just summed it up perfectly.
The Reverend Sharpton, not able to stay with a lyric line and begins protesting.
As his anger mounts while singing the song Barack the Magic Negro.
A person who talks in a black English, engages in identity politics, comes out of a marching, yelling out of a megaphone background, might be considered really black, whereas Obama may not be, because he's Harvard educated, he's a lawyer.
This is an Obama supporter in Washington State, 25 years old, saying, I don't know that we've really crossed the racial threshold here.
Because Obama doesn't come off like a real black guy.
He was obviously referring to somebody like Reverend Sharpton.
And of course, that's what the whole Barack Obama debate was about a little over a year ago.
The drive-by media.
Is he authentic enough?
Is he black enough?
It was they in the drive-bys who were asking these questions.
It was other Democrats who were asking these questions, which is why we uh artfully and cleverly put together that brilliant, brilliant parody song based on a column published by a black liberal in the Los Angeles Times.
Portland, Maine, this is Henry.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Thank you, Rush.
It's nice to get through the uh firewall.
Thank you.
Uh anyway, Obama has been saying that John McCain will continue the third Bush term.
Well, if he picks Hillary Clinton, the perception will be that it's just gonna be the Clinton's third term.
And so that's gonna blow his whole argument out of the water.
The same with Florida voting.
They can't use that now in November because they also disenfranchise many voters.
But well, they can't, but they will.
They'll continue to talk about it, but they can't because the drive-by's won't call them on their hypocrisy.
Hillary's not gonna be the V. They didn't it just it it isn't going to happen.
Well, he certainly can't do that because that will definitely be the perception, and I don't think he wants all that baggage, and he knows that he'll end up being the perceptive vice president by the time.
Oh, it's worse.
It's it's worse than that.
I mean, look at the whole vetting process.
The Clintons wouldn't sit down for it.
When you start vetting your vice presidential nominee, they have to they have to open up on all the finances.
They have to do an FBI background check.
None of this.
The Clintons are not gonna sit for this.
They're not gonna do it.
It isn't gonna happen.
Especially Bill is not gonna do it.
Here, listen to this.
This just cleared uh the wires.
It's in the New York Daily News this morning.
The Obama camp is preparing to embrace Hillary Clinton enthusiastically, but they're reaching for the ten-foot poll to keep her rabid husband at bay.
Bill Clinton's erratic and increasingly sulfuric behavior on the campaign trail has perplexed Obama campaign officials trying to figure out how to deploy him in the fall campaign.
A senior Obama advisor said Bill Clinton and Obama were likely to appear together in rural areas where blue-collar white voters favored Hillary overwhelmingly.
He could have been a great attack dog on McCain, the source lamented he was rehabilitated.
He's a total rock star, leader of the Democrat Party, elder statesman, all that's gone.
There's a lot of consensus on that in the party.
Bubba's bozo act became so notorious, even a fan, Queen's representative Gary Ackerman was willing to crack a joke at his expense.
Ask Thursday if uh the Obama Clinton ticket uh he would like to see wouldn't also marry the duo's weaknesses, Ackerman quick.
Yeah, you also don't want to marry their spouse.
So uh at any rate, I I just who knows what these people are gonna do.
I can't see Hillary on the ticket.
And there's a big, big story happened here in the stack of stuff about how the Senate is not going to roll out the welcome carpet for Mrs. Clinton when she returns with some specially created leadership position.
So I think that if you read the tea leaves right now, the Democrats want rid of the Clintons uh as much as can be done.
And it isn't gonna happen if she ends up on the ticket.
We'll be right back.
It has been discovered, ladies and gentlemen, that Barack Obama may be a quasi plagiarist.
From YouTube, we have the audio here of a montage of uh Governor Mario the pious Cuomo at his 1984 Democrat National Convention keynote speech in San Francisco.
And Obama's speech from Tuesday night, the Democrat nomination victory speech.
So we will go Obama and then the Cuomo similarity and then Obama and Cuomo Obama in that order.
So we'll hear Obama first and we'll hear Cuomo say what Obama had ripped off.
John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks.
But maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy, cities in Michigan and Ohio and Right here in Minnesota.
He'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for.
Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places.
Maybe if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds.
Maybe if he went to Iowa and met the student who works the night shift after a full day of class and still can't pay the medical bills for a sister who's ill.
He'd understand she can't afford four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and the wealthy.
Maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidize foreign steel.
Maybe if John McCain went to Pennsylvania and he met the man who lost his job but can't even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one.
He'd understand we can't afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators.
Maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there.
And maybe if John McCain spent some time in the schools of South Carolina, or St. Paul, Minnesota.
Or where he spoke tonight in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He'd understand that we can't afford to leave the money behind for no child left behind.
Maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use.
Maybe, Mr. President.
But I'm afraid not.
Now this just illustrates the point that not only is there a little plagiarism going on, but it's just a repetition of the Democrat liberal playbook.
Nothing is new from these people.
Here's Mario Cuomo.
This is 24 years ago.
Sounding the call of class envy.
The Democrats use it as a constant.
And Obama, the same themes, the same rhetorical style, the same accusations.
Twour years later.
In those 24 years, we have had a Clinton administration.
We have had record federal spending.
Federal spending has skyrocketed through the roof to the point now that we are over three trillion dollars federal budget every year.
And yet the Democrats don't change the tone.
The country's still horrible.
Everybody's just a paycheck away from losing their jobs and becoming homeless.
Everybody is just a soup line.
There is no prosperity.
There is no opportunity for prosperity.
There is no hope.
Unless we elect Democrats.
And so you see why I keep saying there's nothing new about Obama.
There's nothing new about what he thinks.
There's nothing new about what he says, and there really isn't anything new about how he says it.
The liberal view of America is in a permanent state of decline.
And this really sort of focuses and synthesizes the liberal view of this country, a permanent state of decline.
When it's not, America is constantly growing.
There are more new jobs, more new opportunities, more prosperity, more wealth.
Yeah, we're going through an economic bubble at the moment.
But things are far better today than they were in the 1980s in terms of American greatness and growth and so forth, but they see a permanent state of decline.
They see no American exceptionalism.
They want everybody to believe that everybody else in this country is barely making it, barely hanging on.
And that the only solution to this is more and more of what has created the poverty circumstances that the Democrats decry, because it is liberalism that creates poverty, promotes poverty, extends poverty, and spreads it.
And they want eight more years of power to keep doing it.
And we find ourselves in the midst of open line Friday, the first hour is in the can.
Two more to go.
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