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June 6, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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I'm dying to tell this story.
I'm just Friday, folks, on the EIB Network live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday!
Do you mind if I tell this story?
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Lindball, the EIB Network, and Open Mind Friday.
When we go to the phones, and I promise you we will.
You can discuss whatever you want to talk about.
It's wide open.
We go to the phones.
The content of the program is all yours.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
As you know, we have a court reporter who transcribes all the phone calls for me.
I see him on a computer monitor here in case there's a bad cell phone connection or the caller has a 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 during the break, the top of the hour, as soon as it ended, and I hit the bars on 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?
What was the first one you were looking at?
One of the Hyatts, one of the Hyatts.
And the rack room rate was a little high.
And I suggested, well, look, try the four seasons in Georgetown.
Try Elliot Spitzer's hotel, a Mayflower.
Try the Rich Carlton.
So I went into Snerdley's office, and 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 and said, what have you found?
She said, well, that four seasons is way too high.
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.
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 got to get with it.
Do you guys commingle accounts?
Yes.
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, Christmas present, Father's Day.
She said, okay, then, well, no, we don't do it that way.
And then she started looking at Holiday Inns.
When are you going?
Do you have any idea when you're going to go?
Sometime in July.
When you do, make sure you do the Mount Vernon thing, whatever hotel you stay.
Make sure.
She said, the Mayflower look good, she said.
And 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 plenty of things to do.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, Sterdley and I were talking about Obama and his speechifying.
And I was telling Sterdley, I'm just overwhelmed here.
And 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 100 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 2,000.
First 2,000.
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, that's not what it means.
You've got to understand the Democrats care about 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 Cookie sending me soundbites 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 sternly, is this show making any sense?
Because to me, it feels like what's in my mind versus what's come out of my mouth.
But what's come out of my mouth is probably about 1% of the stuff that's been thrown at me here.
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 sounds a little disjointed here today, folks, it's 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.
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 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 DeMoss may be the most prominent public relations executive in the evangelical world, a former chief of staff to Jerry Falwell.
DeMos became then-presidential candidate Min Romney's chief liaison to evangelical leaders.
In a new interview with Dan Gilgoff for BeliefNet's Gautameter, 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 double 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.
Will not be surprised if he gets one-third of the evangelical vote.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was 40% 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 Robertson.
I don't know.
This is what this guy thinks, if it's true.
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 10.
Mr. Duncan said yesterday that, oh, nine out of ten Republicans are rallying to Senator McCain.
So the one in 10 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, 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, 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 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.
So the idea to get away from that as much as possible and get in 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.
Axelrod 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.
I mean, how do you keep somebody in the audience of 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 going to talk about that anymore.
You can't ask me about that.
I've said all I'm going to say is the politics of distraction.
But if a voter stands up and asks these kinds of questions, could you explain this, Resco deal?
How could you say that he's not the guy you knew when you knew him for 20 years?
Those kind of questions Obama doesn't want to get.
So 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 him 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 Resco being convicted.
I guess Hillary throwing stones at the guy out there.
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 going to happen.
We won't, but it's a Clintons.
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 Glenn 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 D.C. tour stop for Wendy, the Rush Limbaugh Museum that sits right on the nation's mall next to the new Zam, which was opened by the old media leptists.
And because most visitors to D.C. are patriotic conservatives, it surpassed the Air and Space Museum as the most visited place in Washington, especially since Rush started to make surprise live broadcasts from there on extreme occasions.
Mr. Limbaugh, why wait to open the Limbaugh wing 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, my suggestion there, Rush, can I quickly bring up one other quick point about two great callers earlier this week, Mona 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 DeLay.
You asked your caller, Pete, what would he want you to do?
Rush, this election of McCain versus Obama is just the current situation we want you to use your power on.
But Rush, like you have 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 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 NBC 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 subsidy.
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 ditto heads to take our country back from the media by forcing this 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 a year, Rush, you would be making over $2 billion 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?
Hannity doesn't say anything that you aren't already saying.
Why would I want to buy it?
We're all in this together.
There's no reason to start bumping on this.
Okay, I don't want to criticize the people.
Yeah, Roger.
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 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.
It's an interesting theory.
I've got to stop you there because I've got a break here.
I can't miss.
But Bill, thanks.
It's a fascinating theory.
The $2 billion figure.
That's a fascinating figure.
I'm 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, for the flop.
So here it is.
This is Barack Obama on Wednesday morning speaking to AIPAC 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 is a guy, no preconditions.
This is a guy who's firm in his resolve.
When he says it, it's going to 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 where 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 going to 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.
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 in old Jerusalem, but that Israel has a legitimate claim on that system.
Yeah, but he's not going to, he's not going to 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 move to somebody's 10 and 11.
This is CNN's Election Center last night.
Campbell Brown and Jessica Yellen, two babes, have an arousal gap Obamagasm talking about this guy.
Campbell, the audience here clearly thought he can do anything or anything he does 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 loosened his tie.
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 monkers, even the female reporters.
No, no, no, even pretense of objectivity.
Let's listen to Maya Angelou, who did the 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 in our archives.
I watched this.
I watched Maya Angelou deliver the poem at the inauguration, The River, the Rock, and the Tree.
And Clinton's just got that, you know, W.C. Fields total grin on his face.
And he's, well, that's so great.
I just love that.
And it was godbloody gook.
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, 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 laughed at her, and there were those 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 Zbigniew Bzezinski.
Zbigniew Bzhzinski was on Joe Scarborough's show, in which his daughter Mika Bzinski is a co-hostette.
And Scarborough says, look, your buddy Obama went over there to APAC, and 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 going to say what the group wants, and then it doesn't mean anything after that.
We all know they're going to go to the NAALCP.
We all know they're going to go to some union hall.
And we all know they're going to go there and they're going to go there and they're going to go over there.
And after they leave, don't pay any attention to what they say because it's the ritual.
They begin to lose their meaning.
These are kind of obligatory statements.
So you go to AIPAC, you tell them what you're obliged to tell them, and then when you get called on it the next day, no, I didn't really mean that.
And so Zbign Jashinsky, big Obama guy, basically excuses.
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 any attention to what he says.
That's not what Obama is, not who he is.
This is another brilliant thing, as far as the Democrats are concerned.
Don't listen to what he says.
It 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.
I love you.
I'm so glad to be talking to you.
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 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 lay that out there.
You know.
But I'm calling to see what your thoughts on.
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 Mark Levin?
He might be Speed.
Speed.
Okay.
We won't go into any other drugs.
Okay, so I'm Crack Cocaine, Levin's Speed.
Hannity is marijuana.
But we're all gateway drugs.
Yeah, I was just theorizing 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 in a marriage situation?
But a man who is not married can have many girlfriends, 10 girlfriends, have 10 babies, and they get government assistance when snarling.
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 babes, just runs around and has a lot of kids with different women.
And that's the only thing is not found to be in violation of the law.
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, there's, you know, marriage in this country is, you know, one man, one woman, one man, one man, two women, two women, one man, one dog, one man, one gerbil.
But when you start adding a third party to it, then you have violated the law.
So it's the contract that violates the law?
No, it's because weddings take place.
They're religious things.
They're religious legal things.
Many of them are religious.
You take the oath under God before God.
Sometimes you do it before a croupier in Vegas.
But it's a solemn thing.
And you can't legally marry two people in the United States.
I don't know why not.
It's 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.
Are my lights on?
Because it's why?
Because the law says.
Is the law stupid?
Yes.
The real question here, Justin, this is what you ought to ask yourself.
Have you ever been married?
I'm married now.
Would you want a second wife?
Would you want to be married to two or three at the same time?
At the same time?
What do you mean if they're foreign?
If one lives in one country, another one lives in another country.
I don't want to bash American women on the air.
Why?
I mean, you're just bashed American talk show hosts as gateway drugs.
No, I was just trying to make an analogy how...
You know, you obviously want to marry somebody else, but you don't want to get divorced.
That's obvious.
Oh, yeah.
I love my wife.
Yeah, but you want to.
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?
Yeah.
More, I guess maybe it's pride, more power, had more babies, 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 I'm actually fasting right now because of it.
Trying to change my mindset, kind of.
Well, that's a real way to do it.
Deny your brain nourishment.
So you're going to 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.
All right, 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 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.
I'm going to have to translate this for you, which I'll be happily 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 upon 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 mouths 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. Sterdley.
This is a poem about dinosaur excrement.
This is a poem about dinosaur dung who left dry 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 getting 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 go through the whole thing, it actually is a very, very partisan poem 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.
We're 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.
Backyard.
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.
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