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As you know, we have a court reporter who transcribes all the phone calls for me.
I see them on a computer monitor here.
In case it's a bad cell phone connection, or the caller has a uh difficult to understand accent.
So it's just a backup in case I can't hear what everybody's saying.
Dawn normally is doing it today, but Wendy is here because Dawn took the day off.
And I d during during the break, the top of the hour, as soon as it ended, I hit the bars and the ditto cam, I left the studio and I walked into the control room on my way to Snerdley's office.
And as soon as I got in there, I heard Wendy say, Oh, $400 a night.
And I said, Wow, what's his name?
And she didn't bat an eye.
She didn't flinch.
She says, No, I'm looking at hotels in Washington.
I said, Oh, I said, What are you looking at?
She, what was the first one you were looking at?
The uh oh, the the the one of the one of the highest, one of the hyats.
And the uh the rank room rate was a little high.
And I suggested, well, look, try try the four seasons in Georgetown, try Elliott Spitcher's hotel, a Mayflower.
Uh try the Rich Carlton.
So I went into Snerdley's office, and uh Snerdley was doing his usual suck up, telling me what a great show it was so far.
When I came back in on the way to get in here studio to start this hour, I stopped, said, What have you found?
She said, Well, at four seasons is this is way too high.
Uh and she named a couple others that might work.
So what's going on here?
I said, Well, we're going to Washington.
And I said, Well, I don't understand.
What's the when it turns out it's her husband's I can tell this birthday.
So she's springing for it.
So that's what the price matters.
I said, Wendy.
You gotta get with it.
Do you guys co-mingle accounts?
Yes.
Well, no, we don't.
I have separate checking accounts, same saving account.
And I said, Well, do what every other wife does.
When it's her husband's birthday, she spends his money on the birthday present.
Uh Christmas present, Father's Day.
Well she said, Okay, then well, no, we don't do it that way.
And then she started looking at holiday ins.
Uh When are you going?
Do you have any idea when you're gonna go?
Hmm.
Sometime in July.
Well, when you do, make sure you do the Mount Vernon thing.
Wherever, whatever hotel you stay, make sure you she did the Mayflower look good.
She said, and it's it's downtown, you'll enjoy.
There's a lot of stuff to do within walking distance there.
Walking distance for me is like 10 feet.
And you'll find uh things to do.
Now, uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh the uh Snerdley and I were talking about Obama and his speechifying, and I was I was telling Snurley, I'm just overwhelmed here.
I said, Is this program sounding like it's organized at all?
Because you would not believe the things being thrown at me during this program.
So I mentioned that Buckley said he would rather be governed by 100 members of the first hundred uh names on the Boston phone book rather than the Harvard faculty, and I got a note from my brother.
No, no, no, no, it was 2000, first 2000.
Okay, print that out, correct that.
Then we're talking about qualifications for president.
And I was talking about how the Democrats qualifications, they care just about rhetoric and inspiration and this sort of stuff.
I got a note from a friend.
No, no, no, no, no, that's not what it means.
You've got to understand the Democrats care about the the uh the rhetoric of good intentions.
They think the economy is a zero-sum game.
If somebody gets a dollar more, somebody loses.
Okay.
I've got cookies sending me sound bites out to Wazoo as the show can the show prep continues, and I've got all this stuff.
I've got what was four stacks of paper is now just meaningless individual pieces of paper strewn all across the desk.
So I asked Snurdly, is this is this show making any sense?
Because to me it feels like you know what's in my mind versus what's come out of my mouth.
But what's come out of my mouth is probably about one percent of the stuff that's been thrown at me here.
Since and he assured me, as he continued his suck-up, he assured me that it was just flawless, and he started reciting all the things that he thought about the program were good today.
So if it if it sounds a little disjointed here today, folks, it's um my fault.
It's a highly trained broadcast specialist, supposed to be able to better organize this.
And Brian sent me a note.
His grandfather is buried at Normandy.
His grandfather died when his dad was one year old at his yes, just last year your parents went over there for the first time to see your grandfather's grave.
That is just he sent me that note after the uh little D-Day thing that we did at the top of the previous hour.
All right, let's move on with other items in the news.
This is from the Huffington Post.
Nevertheless, here's the headline religious right figure gets chills, Obama could win 40% of evangelicals.
With clients like Focus on the Family, Franklin Graham and Campus Crusade for Christ, Mark de Moss may be the most prominent public relations executive in the evangelical world, a former chief of staff to Jerry Falwell, de Moss became then presidential candidate Min Romney's chief liaison to evangelical leaders.
In a new interview with Dan Gilgoff for BeliefNet's Gottometer, DeMoss explains the lack of religious enthusiasm for McCain and predicts a potential major shift to Obama.
Here are a couple of excerpts.
Barack Obama's trying hard to win the evangelical voters.
Does that effort stand a chance?
Answer.
If one third of white evangelicals voted for Bill Clinton a second time at the height of Monica, that's a statistic.
I didn't believe at first, but I doubled and triple checked it.
I would not be surprised if that many or more voted for Obama in this election.
And then there is this.
There's some concern that maybe Republicans haven't done that well, according to evangelicals, and there's this fascination with Obama, so I won't be surprised, says this PR executive who works with evangelical causes.
I would not be surprised if he gets one-third of the evangelical vote.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was 40%.
Thank you.
Of the evangelical vote.
In a previous question, how is McCain doing among evangelicals?
Answer.
Well, the evangelical world of the conservative religious world is not his natural habitat, so he doesn't strike me as being all that comfortable with it.
I think that's evidenced by the strong comments made in 2000 about Falwell and uh and Robertson.
I don't know, this is what this guy thinks if it's true of it just means that this is part of the Republican base that the Republican Party is apparently content with ignoring this time around.
Yeah, the one in ten.
Mr. Duncan said yesterday that uh, oh, nine out of ten Republicans are rallying to Senator McCain.
So the one in ten that are not are me and the evangelicals, or at least a percentage of them.
However, I'm getting a lot of email from people, Mr. Snerdley, telling me they're getting fed up with my comments on Senator McCain.
They're getting fed up with it.
Nothing we can do about it.
He is who he is, he's the nominee.
We don't want Obama.
Why do you have to keep hammering McCain?
Well, folks, um, when was it?
It was shortly after the 2006 election.
I said, I'm not going to carry the water anymore.
If they're not, I mean, I'm not going to sit here and tell you, compromise my own credibility and integrity, and tell you that I think somebody's great when I don't think they are.
And I'm going to sit here and not going to sit here and tout qualifications that I don't believe in.
However, I will say this.
I think Senator McCain has done a very wise and brilliant thing in asking for All of these town hall meetings with Obama.
I'll tell you why.
Everybody knows McCain does not do well in a teleprompter.
You know, it's hard.
It it really is.
You wonder why people on television make a lot of money.
They read teleprompters the newscasters.
And because it's hard.
Anybody can sit there and read as something rolls by.
But to make it look like you're not reading, to make it look like you're saying it, to make it look like it's coming from inside you, which is what Obama can do.
Then that's very hard to do.
McCain, it's obvious he's reading it.
His eyes, even when he shifts his head from one direction to another, looking at different areas of the room where he is speaking, as he shifts his eyes, like if he's going to look from right to left as he makes the move with his head, his eyes still stay focused on the right side prompter screen.
And it gives the impression that he's reading it.
And when you're reading it, it sounds like you're reading it and like you don't believe it.
Like it's so he's so the idea to get away from that as much as possible and getting these town hall meetings and debate style formats where he excels is a brilliant thing because Obama doesn't.
Obama does not write these speeches of his.
There's a guy named David Axelrod that does.
Obama is great at delivering them.
Axlrod is great at writing them in Obama's voice, but they're just recycled themes from the Democrat playbook and boilerplate, as we have demoed today, with the contrast between Cuomo's speech from 84 at the convention and Obama's speech on Tuesday night in St. Paul.
But Obama doesn't like these town hall things.
Now he originally said, Oh, yeah, we'll talk to McCain about this, we'll be glad to do this.
But he doesn't like them because they're not controlled events.
You know, a town hall meeting, as many as McCain wants to do.
The uh I mean, how do you keep a how do you keep somebody in the audience from standing up and asking about Jeremiah Wright?
That's one thing for Obama to sit there and lecture the press and say, we're not gonna talk about that anymore.
You can't ask me about that.
I've said all I'm gonna say, this is the politics of distraction.
But if a voter stands up and asks these kinds of questions, what could you explain this resco deal?
How could you say that he's not the guy you knew when you knew him for twenty years?
Those kind of questions Obama doesn't want to guess.
I'll bet he doesn't agree to as many of these town hall meetings as he is letting on that he will agree to.
The only way he's going to agree to them is if a friendly network like CNN or MSNBC controls these things and has a role in selecting the voters, quote unquote, that get in there.
Brief time out here, folks.
Your phone calls are next because it's open line Friday back after this.
Obama, ladies and gentlemen, has issued the following in response to the news about his buddy Tony Rescoe being convicted.
I guess Hillary throwing stones at the guy out there.
Sure.
By the way, those of us here at the EIB network, we don't still believe it.
Until she actually uses the word concede, proclaims Obama the nominee.
We don't believe that this thing on Saturday is actually gonna happen.
We won't, but it's a Clinton's.
We don't believe it here until it happens.
It's just June.
Strange things have happened in June.
Even stranger things have happened in July.
Inexplicable things have happened in August.
We'll believe it when we hear it.
To Glen Echo, Maryland, this is Bill.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next at Open Line Friday.
Hi.
I want to add a must-stop on the DC tour stop for Wendy, the Rush Limbaugh Museum that sits right on the nation's mall next to the new newsam, which was opened by the old media leftists.
And because most visitors to DC are patriotic conservatives, it surpassed the air and space museum as the most visited place in Washington, especially since Russ started to make surprise live broadcasts from there on extreme occasions.
Mr. Limbaugh, why wait to open the limbaughing of the broadcast museum when we could be celebrating your life while you are still alive and capitalizing on a massive profit center that will further sicken this jealous media.
And before you respond to that, uh my suggestion there, Rush, can I quickly bring up one other quick point about two great callers earlier this week, Moan and Pete?
Yeah.
Feel free.
Okay, great.
Thanks.
They wanted you to use your power to do something about this presidential election, Rush.
We ended up with the very last Republican, the conservatives wanted going against the very most liberal in the Senate.
We got these two candidates from a watchdog press that has shirked its critical responsibility to report what is happening without showing their political preferences whatsoever.
If this media had been doing just the opposite, everything in its power to elect conservatives and destroy liberals, we would have Zell Miller running against Tom Dillay.
You asked your uh caller Pete, what would he want you to do?
Rush, this election uh of McCain versus Obama is just the current situation we want you to use your power on.
But but Rush, like you have uh said so many times, ignorance is our most expensive commodity, and I'm saying if you don't use your power to correct this problem, it may cost us our country.
You are doing a stellar job informing 20% of the American electric, but we are losing our country to a media that is using all its power to brainwash 80% of the American electric to vote for liberalism.
The very reason they can do this is because of the fact that TV and radio is subsidized.
You are against every subsidy as you should be, Rush, but you totally condone subsidized media.
Subsidies destroy that which is being subsidized.
Wait a second.
Give me an example of subsidized media.
You're talking about the NPR, I know.
No, I'm not talking about NPR Rush.
I'm talking about NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, the radio, when I can watch MBC all day long and not know what it's costing me, it's being subsidized by advertisement.
And subsidies destroy that which is being subsidized, regardless of whether it's a government imposed subject.
Well, wait a minute, though.
This program is supported by advertising.
Exactly, Rush.
This program is supported by advertisement.
But just think about it.
If in fact you led your uh ditto heads to take our country back from the media by forcing a systemic change from subsidized to unsubsidized media, information, news, and entertainment, then you would be delivering your program just like you do on the 24-7.
Instead of you making 30, 40, 50 million dollars a year, Rush, you would be making over two billion dollars a year.
Because I tell you right now, Rush, when everybody had to pay for what they were consuming in the way of information, news, and entertainment, they would already want to buy your stuff because they know you are providing the truth.
Why would I want to buy your show and then buy Hannity?
Hanny doesn't say anything that you aren't already saying.
Why would I want to buy it?
No, no, no, no, wait, wait a minute.
What we're all in this together.
There's no reason to start bumping on that.
Okay, I don't want to criticize.
He's a great guy.
He's done a great job.
Yes, he has, Rush, but 20 million of people out there would pay you $9.95 a month to listen to your show, Rush.
That would be over $2 billion per year.
And the same thing.
Right now, the average American household's watching eight hours of television a day because they're consuming propaganda loaded garbage that they wouldn't pay a penny for, Rush.
And if we force this media to not be able to subsidize their products, then the media becomes dependent on the w free will of the people to buy their products with their hard-earned discretionary dollars.
And the very people who are ignorant that you're always talking about are the non conservative talk radio listening people.
It's 80% of the electorate.
Once they have to pay for their products out of their pocket, they're not going to watch eight hours of television theory.
I can't miss.
But uh Bill, thanks.
That's it's a fascinating theory.
The two billion figure.
That's a fascinating figure.
I just reminded I forgot to play the Obama flop.
We played the flip.
But I forgot to play the flop.
We didn't have time for it, you know, going for the flop.
So here it is.
This is this is um Barack Obama a Wednesday morning speaking to APAC about Jerusalem.
Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state with secure, recognized, defensible borders.
And Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
They heard what they wanted to hear, but they didn't stop to think if they could believe it because of who was saying it.
But after that, Barack heard from his Arab constituents, his Arab buddies, his Palestinian buddies, his Hamas buddies.
And they told him they didn't like that.
And typical, this this is a guy, no preconditions, no this is a guy who's firm in his resolve.
When he says it, it's gonna be.
This guy is a wimp.
He will tell whatever group to whom he's speaking whatever they want to hear, and then when he leaves, if he said something some other group didn't like, he'll change, as he did last night on CNN's a situation room.
He just got through saying Jerusalem will not be divided.
Candy Crowley, I want to ask you about something you said at APAC yesterday.
You said Jerusalem must remain undivided.
Do the Palestinians have no claim to Jerusalem in the future?
Obviously, it's gonna be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues, and Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations.
But you would be against any kind of division of Jerusalem.
Yep, my belief is that as a practical matter, it would be very difficult to execute.
And I think that it is smart for us to work through a system in which everybody has access to the extraordinary religious sites uh in uh old Jerusalem, but that uh Israel has a legitimate claim on that.
Yeah, but but he's not gonna he's not gonna be as forcefully oriented toward defending the proposition.
Because he heard from Arab friends and didn't quite like this.
This is Barack Obama.
Let's let's move to somebody's 10 and 11.
This is CNN's election center last night.
Uh Campbell Brown and Jessica Yellen, two babes, have uh an arousal gap.
Obama gasm talking about this guy.
Campbell, the audience here clearly thought he can do anything or anything he does uh is in his reach.
He took off his jacket and let's take a look at what happened when he did that for a moment.
Just for taking off his jacket.
I wonder what would have happened if he'd uh loosen his tie, Campbell.
And there are those who say he has a women problem, huh?
So it's you know, they're just they're going, they're going mockers, even the female reporters.
No, no, no, even pretense of objectivity.
Let's listen to Maya Angelou, who did the uh poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, The River, The Rock, and the Tree.
Remember that?
Cookie, see if you can find that.
I mean, I know we have it on our archives.
I watched this, I watched Maya Angelo deliver the poem of the inauguration, The River, the Rock and to T. And Clinton's just got that, you know, W. C. Fields totally grin on his face, and he says, So great.
I just love that.
And it was gobbledygook.
Anyway, Larry King said to Maya Angelou, you wrote a poem in praise of Hillary that starts, you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies.
You may treat me or tread me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
And she has risen.
She has dared.
And that is fabulous.
You know, if just think of this little young white woman coming out deciding she's going to be the president of the United States of America, and to see her sticking it.
When people said laughed at her, and there were those who who decided she could not stick it, she would not go on, she would fall, and she stayed.
And, you know, I believe in going out with whom you came in with.
I believed in her and I stuck with her.
And when she said, this is it, then I said, now I will support Senator Obama.
Wow.
Just wow.
Moving on to Zabigniev Brzezinski.
Zabigniev Bzhinski was on Joe Scarborough's show, in which his daughter Mika is Bzinski is a co-hostette.
And Scarborough says, Look, your buddy uh Obama went over there to APAC, and uh I was struck by the tough talk regarding Hezbollah, the tough talk regarding Habas and Syria regarding Iran.
Were you surprised he was stridently pro-Israel as he was?
No.
I wasn't surprised.
Electoral politics again.
You know, there's a certain ritual involved here.
And after a while, rituals begin to lose their meaning.
They're kind of obligatory statements.
Do you know what that means?
Do you know what that means?
I mean, don't pay attention to what he says to any of these ritualized appearances.
All presidents have to go to APAC.
Don't pay attention to what they say.
We all know they're gonna say what the group wants, and then it doesn't mean anything after that.
We all know they're gonna go to the NAALCP.
We all know they're gonna go to some union hall, and we all know they're gonna go there and they're gonna go there and they're gonna go over there, and after they leave, don't pay any attention to what they say because it's a ritual.
They begin to lose their meaning.
These are kind of obligatory statements.
So you go to APAC, you tell them what you're obliged to tell them, and then when you get called on it the next day.
No, it didn't really mean that.
Uh uh.
And so Zibignev Bjazinski, big Obama guy, basically excuse me.
Don't pay any attention to what he says.
Z Big is telling us, pay no attention to what he says.
Don't ever pay the attention to what he says.
That's not that's not what Obama is, not who he is.
That's this is another brilliant thing, as far as the Democrats are concerned.
Don't listen to what he says.
Doesn't matter.
What he says has no meaning.
Which we knew.
He says nothing.
Better than anybody else ever has.
Who's next?
This is Justin in Bentown, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you here on Open Line Friday.
Hey, Russ.
Yeah.
I love you.
Um I'm so I'm so glad to be talking to you.
I wanna um I wanted to say that you are the crack cocaine of the media.
You got Fox News.
They're like the cigarettes, the gateway drug, and uh you got Sean Hannity, he's the gateway drug with marijuana, and you are the crack cocaine of the media.
So I just wanted to uh lay that out there, you know.
But uh I'm I'm calling to um to see what you your thoughts on uh and uh I'm really nervous, sorry.
I would be too if I were you.
You just called me crack cocaine.
I'm sorry.
You just called Hannity marijuana or whatever you called him.
What's what's Mark Levin?
Um he might be speed.
Speed.
Okay.
Or uh we won't uh go into any other drugs other.
Okay, so I'm crack cocaine, Levin Speed, Hannity is marijuana.
When we're all gate gateway drugs.
Yeah, I was just theorizing uh a little bit.
Yeah, we all understand.
Well, actually my question is why is polygamy, why can a man be put in jail for taking many wives and having many babies, but in a marriage situation, but a man who is not married can have many girlfriends, ten girlfriends, have ten babies, and they get government assistance.
When the gu Snarley.
Okay, let me see if I understand this.
And I'm speaking to you here as crack cocaine.
You want to know why a polygamist is breaking a law when he marries a bunch of babes, has a bunch of kids, and why a cad who doesn't marry the babe just runs around and has a lot of kids with different women.
Is not is not is not found to be in violation of the law.
You you want to know why one can get away with it and the other can't.
Yes, I would.
Well, it's basically it's the law.
I mean, the the there's you know, marriage in this country is you know, one man, one woman, One man, one man, uh, two women, two women, one man, one dog, one man, one gerbil.
But when you when you start adding uh a third party to it, then you have you have violated the law.
So it's the contract that violates the because the weddings take place, they're they're religious things, they're religious legal things.
Many of them are religious.
You st you you take the oath uh under God, before God.
Sometimes you do it before a uh croupier in Vegas.
Uh but it's it's a solemn, it's it's a solemn thing, and you can't you can't legally marry two people in the in the United States.
I don't know why not.
We it just because you can't.
It's just though that's what the law says.
Look at the law says I can't have my damn turtle lights on.
I'm gonna lights on because it's why?
Because the law says is the law stupid, yes.
You know, here's the the real question here, Justin, this is what you ought to ask yourself.
Yeah, have you ever been married?
I'm married now.
You are what you want?
A second wife?
Would you want to be married to two or three?
At the same time.
At the same time.
Uh what do you mean if they're foreign?
If one lives in one country or other one lives in another country.
Um I don't want to bash American women on the air, so uh why?
I mean, you just bashed American talk show hosts as gateway drugs.
No, I was just trying to make a uh and uh how you obviously you want to marry somebody else, but you don't want to get divorced.
That's obvious.
You you you want to I love my wife.
Yeah, but you But she's against it.
I wonder why.
Why do you want to marry another woman?
At the same time you're married to this current wife.
Um why more um I guess it's maybe it's pride, more power, had more babies, um, rule over more women.
You just want to spread your seed all over the place.
You need a lot of women to do it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, using your example, I would divorce your wife and stay in a relationship with her, and then go get a couple girlfriends and just do what your alternative scenario was.
And then nobody will get mad at you.
Yeah.
I just I love her, so.
Um I'm actually fasting right now because of it.
Trying to try to change my mindset, kinda.
Well, that's a real way to do it.
Deny your brain nourishment.
So you're gonna go out there and try to change your mindset about this.
Yeah.
Have you tried crack cocaine?
Oh, yeah.
We'll be back in just a second.
I have we have one minute here of Maya Angelou's poem, A River, a Rock and a Tree from the Clinton inauguration.
The whole poem ran over six minutes, so we just we just have one minute of this, but this is enough.
And it actually isn't gobbledygook, not just gobbledygook.
It's here, here, listen to this, and i I'm gonna have translate this for you, which I'll be happily uh able to do.
A rock, a river, a tree, hosts to species long since departed, marked the mastodon, the dinosaur who left dry tokens of their sojourn here.
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the rock cries out to us clearly, forcefully, come.
You may stand up on my back and face your distant destiny, but seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than the angels, have crouched too long in the bruising darkness, have lain too long face down in ignorance, your mouth spilling words armed for slaughter.
Now this went on for another five minutes.
Maya Angelou and the inaugural poem for Bill Clinton in 1993.
Let's go back to the top of this.
A rock, a river, a tea.
A tea hosts to species long since departed, marked the Mastodon, the dinosaur who left dry tokens of their sojourn here.
Now, what is a dry token?
What is a dinosaur dry token?
Exactly right, Mr. Sturdley.
This is a poem about dinosaur excrement.
This is a poem about dinosaur dung who left giat tokens of their sojourn here on our planet floor.
So here's the president of the United States, who's just been inaugurated.
He's going to get a poem here about dinosaur dung.
Read in his honor by Maya Angelou.
And of course, their sojourn here on our planet floor.
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today the rock cries out to us clearly forcefully come, you may stand upon my back and face your distant destiny.
The Mastodon is a dinosaur elephant.
And that's what she's marked the mastodon, the dinosaur.
So it's Mastodon Dinosaur Dung.
If you if you go through the whole thing, it actually is a very, very partisan poem with uh with some vulgarity to it.
And of course, it appealed to Clinton's ego because this was a poem for him about what he faced no different than dinosaur dung, but Bill Clinton's got to go stand on the rocks out there and take us all on his back.
But he can't hide, he can't be in the shadows, he's got to be on the back, and he's got to be everybody's back.
And of course, it almost happened, but he ended up sitting down in the Oval Office rather than laying down.
Back your job.
See where Seattle is banning fires, bonfires on the beach because of global warming.
At least they're not doing it because of the turtles.
Folks, have a wonderful weekend.
It's been a great week.
We've enjoyed it as we always do, and we'll be right back on Monday, revved up and ready to go.