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June 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, dominated is a relative term, but thank you, Johnny.
Appreciate it.
Hi, Mark Davison for Rush Limbaugh, and we are so very glad to uh be listening to me.
We're hauling out the editorial we I am so glad to be together with you, and we will enjoy a day together today.
Jason Lewis from Minneapolis Way, he'll be doing the show tomorrow and he'll do a great job for you.
So let's plug in and see what's going on.
You could say we have some Barack Obama news today.
We have some Barack Obama developments to discuss.
We have some Barack Obama related audio to work our way through.
And so let's just do that, and then wherever else we go, we can go.
Because every day there's so much to be talked about with regard to campaign 08.
Seems that so many news stories these last couple of weeks have had to do with judges.
I've had uh I've I've had judges on my mind a lot of late, as uh, you know, as well documented by all of our mutual friend Mark Levin and that wonderful Men in Black book.
What is up with the the judges and justices who envision themselves as crafters of law and uh instead of just interpreters of law?
And we got a couple of folks who are going to be with us today, and I'm just thrilled uh about this.
Bill Salmon is going to be with us, wonderful writer from the examiner, he'll be with us one hour from now, and he's got a great article that says essentially that Osama bin Laden himself could well be the beneficiary if he's ever captured, which would be nice.
Uh this may add to the logic that says we just need to kill him.
If we find him, we just need to put a bullet in him and just simplify everything, which I've advocated for a long time.
But if we should happen to capture him and bring him back and detain him, my what did the court have to say about detainees?
Is it possible that Osama bin Laden could be the beneficiary of that habeas, that horrific habeas corpus ruling from the Supreme Court last week?
Bill Salmon says, yeah, pretty much, and the Obama campaign says, yeah, pretty much.
So Bill Salmon with us from the examiner, just a wonderful uh writer, one of my favorite books on the uh 2000 election called At Any Cost, How Al Gore tried to steal the 2000 election.
That's a piece of work by Bill Salmon, and uh he's just a great guy, and he'll be with us one hour from now.
Then uh two hours from now, uh trusted White House advisor and former Republican National Committee Chairman and all around good guy, Ed Gillespie, we're gonna talk some drill here, drill now, pay less, and and certainly something that we can put on the topical griddle for today, and that is if you paid attention to the president yesterday, if you watched his address from the sun-splashed rose garden, did it occur to you as it did to me, and as it apparently it did to Rush as I was listening, this is an interesting moment in history.
And a very nearly unique moment in recent history.
There's President Bush addressing America, and you could almost sense a majority of Americans nodding in agreement, as opposed to nodding off or or shaking their fists in disagreement, which have been the usual reactions to many of the things President Bush has offered up of late, bless his heart.
I continue to be a fan of his.
Uh that community apparently continues to shrink.
Uh there are certainly things I've disagreed with uh with the president about, but I thank God every day that I voted for him twice, and I thank God every day that his steadfastness has kept my family safe in the post-9-11 world.
But whether it's more tax cuts or uh or the war itself, which has grown uh which has grown unpopular, uh, it's just been a tough ride for him.
And so here was a really uncommon event.
President Bush sitting there talking about that that four-point plan.
Let's do some more drilling in the outer continental shelf.
Let's uh do some more drilling and on war, let's burn some oil shale, and let's crank up some refineries.
And uh y home run, home run, home run, home run.
I really and and here's here's where it really gets giddy, because it's possible to go nuts on this.
And I addressed this in my local show here in Texas yesterday, and then Rush was on it and the show is listening to him driving around yesterday afternoon.
This may have the power.
This may have the resonance to to some degree fend off the Republican disaster that everyone foresees.
Now, what does that mean?
Does it mean we win back the House and the Senate?
Pfft, please.
I'm not stupid here.
But the wholesale bleeding that is foreseen for the Republicans in the House and Senate.
Uh And it's certainly helpful to Senator McCain as well, who I view as winning anyway, because Senator Obama is unelectable.
But all this talk about the Republican brand being in trouble is largely correct.
But nothing, nothing provides a salve for an open wound like something that has this kind of real grassroots populist appeal.
Usually the Democrats have all of that.
We're the party that wants to do more for you.
The conservative pitch is always harder to make.
The conservative politician is the one who steps forward and says, I want to do less for you.
You can hear the crickets in the room, especially in uh today's America.
But on this particular point, it is the Republicans who are stepping forward and saying, hmm, four dollar a gallon gas?
How about we drill for some more of our own?
Boy, even a Democrat can figure that out.
That that is smart and right, and it's the kind of thing I enjoyed Russia's analogy yesterday.
He said this isn't like going to the moon, but it might be close.
And I even know that in that regard he's being somewhat hyperbolic.
But what he meant was that this is really truly something grand and uh and and uniting, and yes, even patriotic.
What possible thing could make us feel better about our energy future and better about our country than actually expending the effort to do something that immediately increases our ability to consume our own fossil fuels and thus rely less on fossil fuels from people who want to kill us.
So anyway, it'll so drill here, drill now.
We'll talk about that a lot with Ed Gillespie in the third hour first segment.
Uh second hour first segment, Bill Salmon of the Examiner, just a wonderful political writer.
Uh but most of the time is going to be you and me, so let's get this cranked up.
You certainly know the phone number by now.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882, and uh give us a buzz and we'll put you on a love of and thoroughly enjoyable multi-topic uh experience here.
All right, a lot of things from Camp Obama, so let's go there.
First is the breaking story uh just in the last couple of hours.
Uh what I have in front of me here is from John McCormick, who is uh on the blog beat there at the Chicago Tribune there in the Obama hometown.
In a widely expected decision, Senator Barack Obama announced this morning that his Democratic presidential bid will reject public financing, abandoning an earlier pledge to participate in the system if his Republican challenger agreed to do the same.
This is the first time any presidential nominee has not agreed to limit his spending and accept public financing since the system was put in place in 1976.
Now, if if you're thinking is this smart or not, smart for Obama, it may be genius.
Because obviously, if if you accept public financing, you've got to limit your spending.
And since Obama has an opportunity to make gazillions of dollars, you know, from all kinds of hopped-up people who have uh you know who are drinking the hope and change Kool-Aid, this may be something he could do not only without detriment, but that may accrue to his substantial financial benefit,
but even more okay, let's not say more than at least as important as the money, at least as important as the money, is that this will enable Barack Obama to point at the McCain campaign and say, look at them.
They are they are still beholden to lobbyists, pack money, etc., etc., etc.
So this is um this is gonna be interesting.
Again, in a widely expected decision, Senator Obama announced this morning that his Democratic presidential bid will reject public financing, abandoning what was an earlier pledge to participate in the system if McCain agreed to do the same.
So there's a little bit of campaign finance nuts and bolts.
But there are two things that are maybe a little more water cooler that uh on the front of mind of America.
So let's let's take a look at those in uh in rapid succession and in short form, and then we'll take the break and come back and start to uh examine your calls on this.
First would be Michelle Obama on the view yesterday.
Surrounded by friendly faces and voices, even the adorable Elizabeth Hasselbeck, the occasional conservative presence there on the show, even she seemed driven to make sure that she did not uh ruffle a pleat on Mrs. Obama's lovely springtime dress.
She actually did look great, and she is an impressive woman.
I I mean, please, come on.
Michelle Obama is a radical Democrat.
Uh ooh, knock me over with a feather, but but her accomplishments are amazing.
She's an attorney.
She I I I kind of like her.
Now, as First Lady, no, no, a million times no.
I happen to I'm I don't know if this makes me strange or praiseworthy or peculiar or some combination thereof.
I have a whole lot of friends and people whose company I enjoy, who I really disagree with about a whole lot of things.
You know, in another life, you know, maybe uh Mr. and Mrs. Obama might be two of them.
But when the question comes, hey, do I like sitting around and talking with you?
That's one thing.
Am I interested in you being president or first lady?
Oh my heavens, what a completely different question.
And Michelle Obama could have done herself an enormous favor some weeks back by stepping forward and saying, you know, there in Madison, Wisconsin, when I stepped forward and said that my husband's ascendancy was the first time I was really proud of my country.
Boy, did I screw up.
Boy, did I misspeak, and I'm really, really sorry.
Because there's been so much to be proud of my country for during my adult lifetime.
And so wow, that was just a major, major mess up on my part.
And it won't happen again.
But no, instead of doing that, it has been the sugarcoating express.
Attempts by her and by others around her, like Whoopi Goldberg yesterday on The View to make it sound like she did not in fact say what she said.
Well, yes, she did, and she meant it.
The other thing that's interesting are the Cindy McCain versus uh Michelle Obama poll numbers.
Michelle Obama has higher positives and higher negatives, because everybody has been getting a snoot full of her because she says something controversial about every two or three weeks.
Cindy McCain, you uh Cindy McCain could walk into a room and not be recognized in most of America.
Michelle Obama's actually out there saying things, sometimes to the chagrin of her husband, I feel.
But we'll talk a little bit about the the whole question of is our first ladies fair game.
Of course they are.
They are in many ways the closest if you have pillow talk with the president, you are fair game.
If you uh I know, insert your own Bill Clinton joke here.
But uh it is Hillary herself, the vanquished Hillary herself, who reminded all of us that First Lady matters, delivered us the initial lesson that first lady really, really matters.
So if it matters, okay, we're gonna pay attention to what these ladies bring to the table.
America's also paying a lot of attention to a story that broke on politico right at the beginning of yesterday's Rush Show, and he drew attention to it, talked about it some, and we're gonna talk about it some more, and that is the weird uh event at the uh Obama event on Monday, where we had the two ladies in the Muslim headgear, and they were looking for people to sit behind the candidate to make that human tapestry that always appropriately reflects what the campaign wants reflected.
And the two ladies in the um in the in the Muslim scarves, uh that wasn't gonna fly.
And so the question now arises: was the campaign staffers move to disinvite them a good move or a bad move, a hindrance or an actual help to the Obama campaign.
If you are confused by that question, I will delicately answer it next.
It is 1-800-282-2882 here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, glad to be here, look forward to talking to you here on the EIB Network.
1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis out of WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth filling in and very, very glad to be here.
Okay, let's tiptoe through this one, but we're going to to take some truths of life and face them head on.
And it all stems from Monday and the Barack Obama campaign event chronicled on the politico.
Uh they were looking for people to put behind Barack Obama.
And listen, in North Carolina, they needed some white people.
They went and got white people.
There's a famous story now of a Hispanic guy who at a McCain event.
Both parties do this.
They went to a Hispanic guy and said, Boy, we really need like some more Hispanic people behind McCain, would you mind?
And he apparently took some umbrage.
You can either be flattered or put off by such a request.
But if you've actually come to the event, I don't mind.
I mean, if they want to make it actually look like there's such a thing as a white person that's an Obama supporter, good for them.
They'll have a challenge making that point anyway.
So if you find actual Caucasians at an actual Obama rally, then by all means, stack them up behind the candidate and knock yourselves out.
But it's when you start to disinvite people that it becomes a little bit problematic, as it did on Monday, as campaign staffers were they were at uh talking to some guys.
And they, I guess, uh, you know, as much as someone is visibly Arabic or Muslim or something, said uh uh we we get some friends with us, and they said, uh, do they look like you?
Don't know what that means.
But uh the gentleman, one of the gentlemen said, Well, uh one of them is a woman and a couple of them are women, and and they have uh uh a uh the the the Islamic scarves uh in addition to um in addition to their suits.
And uh that point they were disinvited.
So look, so the Barack Obama campaign is making all of the right contortions as they recover from from this embarrass embarrassment of of barring two headscarved Muslim women from behind the podium Monday night.
The volunteers who refuse to allow these ladies onto the stage have been predictably thrown under the bus by Obama's staff.
But here's the uncomfortable point I want to make.
Those staffers, in at least one sense, did Barack Obama an enormous favor.
No one will admit that, or no one will call it that at the campaign, but please follow what would have happened if the image of two women wearing hijabs behind Obama hit your TV or your laptops all across America.
The internet would have exploded.
And you know it's already clogged with a bunch of reckless lies about Obama, and they would have all sprung to life as every nut bag out to spread garbage like this would have had an instant gift.
You can see it in your own mailbox now.
The evidence is in.
He's a Muslim.
Look who shows up to support the closet Muslim.
Now, if you if you doubt that this kind of inane barrage would have happened, please you have not checked your inbox lately.
I mean, there's almost as many Obama uh urban myths as there are, you know, mail order Viagra pitches and the scam from the Nigerian Prince that wants your bank account number.
It's it's insane.
And this climate of absurd and and ham-handed slurs against Obama should be particularly lamented by those of us who are trying to build a rational case against him, that he is a radical liberal, that he is soft on terror, and that he will jack our taxes to the moon.
But every day that seems more like shoveling sand against the tide.
There's simply too many hate mongers sending out reams of this nonsense and too many idiots forwarding them to everybody they know without checking their validity.
So the politico online story that detailed this awkward exclusion of Shema Abdelfadil and Heba Aref describes that one volunteer did invoke the political climate as a reason for not wanting recognizably Islamic garb in view of the cameras aimed at the podium.
This was understandably offensive to these shunned women, but the far more complex truth is that the the volunteers' instincts had a sound basis, and not just because of the Obama bashers and the Islamophobes who would have leapt to their keyboards.
The fact is that there is ample reason to believe that an Obama presidency would be far too accommodating to potential enemy regimes in the Islamic world, and any recognizable Muslim supporter who gets on camera anywhere close to Barack Obama will fortify that concern in the minds of any voters who might harbor it.
And the Obama campaign's not stupid.
They're aware of their candidates' baggage in this area, and they were put in a horrible spot on Monday night.
Now they will surely be, you know, lampooned and criticized for not handling the dilemma well, but I would assert that while the bruised feelings of these two Islamic women supporters will fade from the public's mind by the weekend, the image of them actually sitting behind Obama at the Detroit podium, ladies and gentlemen, that would have been blasted across the world every day until the election.
So there is the call it awkward, call it uncomfortable, call it undeniable truth about uh about that event.
All right, let's dive into some of your calls and let's do it next.
1-800-282-2882-1800-282-2882 on the EIB network.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
It is great to be with you, and you folks are next on the phone, so do stick around.
I'm Mark Davis, be right back with you.
From deep in the heart of Texas, we greet you, kind of a stormy summary day down here.
But boy, when you talk about weather, I know everybody joins me in wishing the best and prayers and good wishes for our fellow Americans in the Midwest, Iowa, Illinois, now Missouri.
Whew.
Doggone it, man.
They're um you know, we talk about hunger around the world and we talk about suffering in various far-flung parts of the globe.
And yes, we should all have human caring about that.
But every once in a while, our own countrymen, families in our own country just lose everything from nature's wrath, and uh so just every every prayer and every good wish for those folks who are dealing with the flood waters.
A uh metaphoric flood of your calls lies ahead, so let's get going.
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
We are in Bloomington, Illinois, speaking of the Midwest.
Hi, Scott, Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
It's pleasure to have you.
Hello.
Pleasure to speak to you, Mark.
Megados from Bloomington, Illinois.
Thank you.
Hey, Mark, uh a point I wanted to make about the uh Michelle Obama uh appearance on the view yesterday.
I don't think it was so much I I've heard some other radio shows this morning, and I don't think it was been so much uh of Michelle trying to make the point of these are the changes that are coming.
But I think it's more along the lines as uh these are the things that that Barack needs to change in order to be c you know, in order to sell himself to more of the American people.
Because you know as well as I do that the you can't get any more wet than he is, basically.
So in order to that effect.
In order to appear more moderate, you have to uh kind of like reinvent the wheel.
Well, all right.
I I've did you see her?
Because I pretty well watched the whole thing.
And w where do I can think of her genuine graciousness to Laura Bush for sending a letter of support and I've the first thing I want to do is get a hold of Laura Bush and say, I love you, but what were you thinking?
Uh in the in the wake of the never been proud of or never really been proud of my country.
But what what else struck you in Michelle Obama's view appearance as a as as as a bit of attempt to stoke some moderate appeal?
Well, just I did I did not see it, I'll tell you that, but I heard the uh the uh soundbite from I I'm not a view watcher.
No, it's uh well it was my first experience in a long time too.
But but um, what jumps out at you?
Well, just you know, some of the things that she was saying is as along the lines of, you know, you know, we have to do this, we have to do that, speaking as if the American people have to do it.
But I heard it, you know, just for the first time thinking that you know, these these aren't the things that the American people are going to want to do.
I mean, it sounds more like you know, you and Barack were talking over dinner and you were uh trying to figure out a way to uh, you know, appeal, you know, to become more palatable to the masses.
Well, exactly right, because if they ever spoke truth, if they ever actually told us what they intend to do, there are even some Democrats who would recoil.
I've got some some hard examples of that.
Scott, good point of departure.
Thank you very, very much.
In a Wall Street Journal uh interview with Bob Davis and Amy Chosick just uh a couple of days ago, long detailed discussion that they had in Flint, Michigan with uh with Barack Obama, and he had a ton of quotes uh globalization and technology and automation weaken the position of workers, making it clear that a strong government hand is needed to assure that this wealth is distributed more equitably.
And he talks about taking advantage of economic growth in a certain way.
I found the phraseology and circled it.
There are things that he says about uh oh, here we go, capturing Some of the nation's economic growth.
If you have sensible policies, he said, that say we're going to capture some of the nation's economic growth and reinvest it in things we know have to be done.
What?
First of all, who agrees on what has to be done?
I'll tell you what has to be done.
Defend our borders, you know, do the various other things that the Constitution requires government to do, and after that, pretty well let it go.
We could have Ron Paul size government.
One of the things that I absolutely admire, Congressman Paul about is his constitutional view of what the size of government really should be, as envisioned by the founding fathers.
But you you hear a candidate talk about capturing some of the nation's economic growth.
Gee, economic growth, what's that?
That would be your income and mine.
And reinvesting it, yeah, not tax and spend, but reinvesting it, in things we know have to be done.
Examples?
He gave some in his interview.
Things like science and technology research, or fixing our energy policy.
All right, science.
There's a lot of privately funded science out there, but if government, through its benevolence, wants to, you know, toss some money at uh you know cancer research and things like that, please.
Who am I to differ with that?
Technology research.
Now, what exactly does that mean?
Funny thing about technology.
I've always believed that if we need it, someone will invent it.
And this is absolutely the way I feel about cars.
If someone actually invents a car that'll run on something else other than fossil fuels, someone will make it.
And if it works like gangbusters, we will buy it.
Thus the person who invented it and the company manufacturing it will make gazillions of dollars.
Everybody buying it will be happy because hallelujah, they will have found a car that runs as well as it does on those nasty fossil fuels.
Wow, happiness in the valley.
Notice anything about the scenario I've just painted?
Not a dime of government money is needed for any of it.
So when we hear about investing in alternative fuels, no.
No.
No investment of and by by the investment, I mean the Democrat uh connotation of investment, which means tax and spend.
Real investment, real people in the private sector, spending a million here, a million there to try to find some car that runs on something else.
Fantastic.
Salute it all day long, succeed, fail.
Those are bold entrepreneurs, and that's a wonderful thing.
But investment in the Democrat lexicon, which means taking your money and mine and pouring it down some ethanol rat hole or some other similar dead end of some uh system that runs your car on something that nobody wants to run a car on.
Well, that's that's just horrible, horrible policy.
The free market provides virtually everything we are going to need.
The government, our tax money, should go to only those things envisioned by the founding fathers.
They are clearly there in the Constitution.
Walter Williams will tell you a thing or two about that.
If it's in the Yellow Pages, government shouldn't do it is another wonderful quote.
I don't know who coined that.
I'd like to shake his hand.
So 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
The gentleman's point, a very good one, that both Barack and his wife are going to be spending some time talking about enormous stratospheric tax and spend increases, but try to couch it in ways that sound so benevolent and so benign and so innocuous that we're all just supposed to nod our heads and go along with it.
We are in Music City, Nashville.
Mark, Mark Davis, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Pleasure to have you.
Hello.
Thank you, Mark Southern Pride Megadettos to you, my friend.
Thank you very much.
I was watching uh the appearance.
I was waiting for it the other night when Gore went out.
Cause of course I live here were the inventor of the internet and uh global warming layout.
Absolutely, you should be proud.
And was watching it, and I was already finding it interesting that there wasn't a very long, didn't seem to be a large Muslim presence there.
Because what Obama did, and this was before this came out about them asking those two ladies to move.
What he does, he goes into the backyard of the largest Muslim community in the United States, right there in Detroit, Michigan.
And then asks them to move, and he wants to represent, quote, all Americans?
Well, he does, and he's not going to get to represent all Americans if there are internet and TV images of him addressing a crowd even in Detroit with a couple of women with scarves on sitting behind him.
He'll he'll get slaughtered, and he knows it.
So you've really properly identified the quandary that they were in.
If you're Barack Obama and you hold a rally in Detroit, you are going to get some Muslim attendees.
The question is, what do you do with them?
And the answer that they arrived at was, well, we're we love that they're here, we'll take their money, we'll take their votes, but we will be doggone if we will seat them behind the candidate because we know that that would just absolutely kill us coast to coast.
Absolutely.
And one thing about Michelle, if people think that she is not going to have input into Barack's policies, they are they're from Mars.
She will have just as much, if not Emble, I believe, she'll have just as much, if not more input into his policies than Hillary did into Bill's policies when they were in the White House.
That's an interesting comparison because uh Bill Clinton proudly said, you get two for one.
You know, you get me, you get her, she's smart, she's bright.
And before she became uh a palpable negative, it was something they were proud to say on the campaign trail.
I don't think any candidate will ever say that again for the foreseeable future for fear uh that the wife, or in some cases maybe the husband, if it's a woman candidate, may well become a detriment.
I don't know.
It could be in the, the, the model of the modern marriage is that you have a man and a woman who engage each other and intellectually challenge each other and talk about things.
There's, there's nothing that says that should be any different if you're president of the United States.
But I'll tell you, I have a feeling that, that, that Laura probably bends George's ear on a couple of things.
But the glory of that marriage and the glory of his presidency is that we don't know it and they don't wear it on their sleeve and they don't jam it down our throats and beat us to death with it.
Ultimately, Laura may indeed fill him with all kinds of opinions, but ultimately what he does is because he has wanted to do it.
Good, bad, like it, don't like it.
Whatever it does, it has George W. Bush's name on it, and you don't feel like there's Laura's marionette strings operating from uh from backstage.
How an Obama marriage slash presidency would how the marriage and the presidency part would would intermix, I do not know.
The good news is we will not have to find out.
Appreciate it very, very much.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB Network, and we'll be right back.
It's the EIB network.
That never changes, even though Rush occasionally takes a day or two off, such is the case today and tomorrow.
Hi, I'm Mark Davis from WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth.
Tomorrow, the wonderful Jason Lewis from up in Minneapolis at KTLK, he'll be with you tomorrow and take you into the weekend.
And Rush will be back on Monday.
A little adamant there, right?
Goody two shoes, don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?
It's the official motto of the Dallas City Council.
I'm wrangling with a local issue here that I know will resonate in some of your towns.
We can cover this if you want to.
How many of you, whether you're let's say LA, New York, Houston, I know it's all over the place.
It's epidemic, smoking bans.
I'm a big fan of liberty.
I'm I I really kind of like freedom.
You know, I've really embraced those concepts.
And silly me.
Now here's the thing.
I'm an occasional cigar guy, never smoke cigarettes in my life, and after a meal or with a meal, I prefer a no-smoking environment.
So you know what I do?
I find restaurants that provide one.
I do not expect government to provide one for me, absolutely everywhere, at the expense, you know, to the detriment of those who may wish otherwise.
A clientele that wishes to smoke in an establishment that wishes to allow smoking.
This is insane.
And uh Dallas restaurants, as well as please good, just try to go to Los Angeles.
I was out in LA once, and it was the middle of the week, and I was uh driving around with some guys, uh some business related, some convention or something.
And I said, Man, some of these, you know, bars out here on sunset must be really popular because they got they all got lines outside them.
And it's like Wednesday night at 9 30.
And uh the driver said, uh, uh, those aren't people waiting to get in.
That is the smokers exile.
And you are kidding me.
In bars at the Viper Lounge, you can't uh, you know, fire up a Marlborough, even if they want to allow you to?
That's correct.
And you know, that's lamentable enough, but you know what just compounds it?
Is it not nearly enough people care?
And so I was in the some uh I don't remember where it was, some other large establishment somewhere uh where smoking was banned, and I thought surely them the employees, surely the employees will object.
They'll say, I'm just miserable, I can't believe it.
You know, would they they should be able to let people smoke in here?
The employees loved it.
It's great, I can breathe.
What?
Well, well, hooray for you.
If smoking is a problem for you as a waiter or a waitress, go work somewhere that's no smoking.
If this establishment wishes to allow it, I mean, who in the world is anyone to say that they can't?
So they're they've gone from restaurants and they're trying to work on the bars now, right here in uh right here in Dallas, ten miles to my east.
Uh joining in from Arlington, right between Dallas and Fort Worth.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Rush, and let's get back to your calls.
And I've got the um, let's see either this hour, well, we've got um a little guest action coming up.
So yeah, next segment, let me promise this to you.
Whoopi Goldberg trying to cover for Michelle Obama with the uh with the not proud of my country comment.
So stick around for that because it is just it it's it's just a hoot.
Whoopi fancies herself the comedian.
This is one of the funniest things she's ever said.
It is unfortunately unintentional.
To go to Danverge, Massachusetts, Marie, Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh.
Hi, welcome.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
I I'm so appalled at what Michelle said about this is the first time that she's proud to be an American.
This is the first time I'm I'm ashamed to be an American that this guy stands up and he says absolutely nothing.
And we're eating it up.
Like, is it me?
I mean, I'm not calling I'm not super smart, I don't know a lot of things about politics, but I know that this w when this man is speaking, he is saying absolutely nothing.
Like he's not solving any issues.
He's not I I don't understand it.
Like, I know Marie, there's an easy answer.
It won't be a satisfying one.
But you you've looked around enough to know that ours is a country that will frequently lunge for style at the expense of substance.
We we love the sizzle, but ignore the stake.
That's that's what's driving a lot, and I don't want to give short shrift to this.
There are a lot of people who have studied Obama's positions, they love him, they like him, they want him to be president, okay.
But a whole lot of these rallies are filled with people who have no idea what hope or change even mean.
They don't even know what kind of hope and change they want.
And that sadly is epidemic in a country that's become kind of short attention span, kind of shallow, and not paying attention a whole lot.
No, it's really sad, Mark.
It really is.
I I I never thought I would see the day where I would say, like I want to move out of the country.
Well, okay, well, let's let's if he becomes president, I gotta move out of the country.
I don't know if you're not gonna be able to do it.
Oh, don't go Alec Baldwin.
Do not go Alec Baldwin on me, Marie.
We will need you.
Here's the thing.
Tap the brakes on all of that.
You you and I, I'm gonna go way out on the limb here.
You and I both survived eight years of Bill Clinton.
We survived the Jimmy Carter presidency.
Now, I don't mean to be, you know, uh do this for shock value, but obviously a president as soft on terror as Barack Obama is, we may literally be talking about surviving this presidency, and I am not kidding about that.
But no matter what happens, we're still the greatest country in the world, and don't lament the culture until he actually wins, which Marie, he's not going to do.
God bless you, my best to everybody out there in Massachusetts.
He's just not.
And it will be because there's a big difference between enormous poll numbers, uh with the leads that he has in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Florida.
Okay, we'll see about that.
And he may win a couple of those states.
He may win, you know, X number of states, and it'll probably be pretty close election.
But he will indeed lose it because there is a difference between what you say to a pollster in June and what happens in the secrecy of your polling place in November.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'll be right back in just a moment on the EIB network.
As Mick and the boys tell us to start it up, what I really need to do is wrap it up, as in this hour.
That means the Michelle Obama excerpts on the view are all coming up at the next hour, an hour that will begin with our chat with the wonderful White House correspondent from the examiner, Bill Salmon.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
Lots more to come.
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