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June 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, I hope to keep that string unbroken.
And it's a pleasure to be with you today on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Jason Lewis from up Minneapolis Way will be with you tomorrow, and Rush will be back on Monday after what I hope is a good weekend for all of you.
Meanwhile, it has been a fascinating week.
A lot of a lot of news just pouring out of the Obama world, whether it's the uh the Muslim women uh shunted out of view at the at the podium in uh in Detroit on Monday or Michelle Obama on on the view, the the show, and we got some audio from that,
or uh whether uh Senator Obama's uh decision to forego public financing is uh smart or not in the world of campaign finance, or what would Senator Obama's advisors say?
What would their spin be in view of this noxious and horrible Supreme Court ruling involving habeas corpus for uh terrorists uh detained at Guantanamo?
What might their view be of if we were to actually capture Osama bin Laden and bring him back and detain him in the United States, would he too uh be able to avail himself of of of this rabble of federal judges who would suddenly have the authority that currently is securely within the bounds of the uh uh uh of the people who are running Guantanamo.
The wonderful Bill Salmon, who has written no fewer than four uh New York Times bestsellers, my favorite at any cost, how Al Gore tried to steal the election, but also grab copies of Fighting Back the War on Terrorism from Inside the White House or misunderestimated or strategic, or just read them all the time in the Washington Examiner.
It's always a pleasure to welcome Bill Salmon, especially into the rarefied atmosphere of uh club limbaugh.
Hi, Bill, how are you doing?
I'm doing great, Mark.
Thank you so much for having me.
It is a pleasure.
And I know Rush is glad that you're on the show as well, and I doubly am, because I wanted to ask you about this article I'm looking at right now.
Obama advisors say bin Laden can appeal to U.S. courts.
How would that go?
Well, first of all, I was stunned when I asked John Kerry uh and Richard Clark, the former White House counterterrorism czar, uh, to answer that question.
I was stunned that they that they actually did, that they sort of bit and kind of rose to the bait, and I said, Look, if Osama bin Laden is captured, brought to Gitmo, should he get habeas corpus?
In other words, should he be able to appeal his military confinement to the civilian court system?
And they both said yes.
And and I think that opened up a a huge opportunity politically for McCain's campaign to jump in and say, wait a minute, you know, the w what what kind of nightmare scenario are we talking about?
We're talking about having Osama bin Laden, you know, appealing to some district court here in in Washington, some liberal judge, and you know, uh what are we going to figure out whether the guy had his uh Miranda rights read to him by the soldiers over in Afghanistan or Pakistan?
And if not, will we throw that out?
So it opens a whole Pandora's box of a nightmare scenario.
And what what really w the reason surprised me is because John Kerry of all people was on the receiving end of this kind of criticism in the 2004 cycle when he favored more of a civilian approach to prosecution of terrorists versus Bush's military approach, and here we are right back in that same argument.
When you were telling me about your level of surprise at the way they answered it, I wonder if they really had a choice, because that is what this horrible Supreme Court decision actually says.
This is the groundwork that the justices themselves have laid, so I wonder really how they could have answered any differently.
Well, that's a great point, because uh you know, the law of the land now is the Supreme Court ruling, and you know, the technical answer to the question is, well, yeah, if we brought him to Gitmo, he would be you know, uh uh offered the same privileges that we're now giving to the rest of the terrorism suspects at giz uh at Gitmo thanks to this uh Supreme Court ruling.
But the politically uh astute answer would have been to dodge that question.
And believe me, I've been in this game long enough that I thought that uh that this was just gonna get a you know, this is going to elicit a Dod answer.
And and so politically, not from a legalistic sense, but politically to say, well, yeah, of course we'd have to give him these rights, et cetera, et cetera.
It just gives this huge opening to McCain, and and if McCain's smart, he will continue to exploit it.
Let's work our way through some other things you've been writing about, taking a look at Examiner.com right now, or you can find the work of Bill Salmon.
Bush quietly advising Hillary Clinton and top Democrats, says new book.
What?
Well, you know, I I've been doing a series of books on the historic Bush presidency, and in the most recent one, he did tell me that early on, you know, months and months ago, he began quietly giving advice behind the scenes to not just Hillary, but to Barack Obama.
He's also was giving advice to the various Republican candidates before we got to John McCain and presumably is still doing so.
And I asked him, you know, why are you doing this?
I mean, you know, you're talking about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and he said, Look, I have an obligation.
Forget about politics for a minute, forget about, you know, uh obviously I'd like a Republican to succeed me, but you know, I have to be open to the possibility that won't happen.
And there's something more important here, and that's our national security.
And I have to start to bring these people into the loop and give them some behind the scenes guidance.
And what he was saying to the Democrats at that time was look, you know, you may want to give yourself a little wiggle room in all of your anti-war rhetoric.
You're you're kind of painting yourself into a corner here by saying you're going to just pull out our troops as soon as you take office.
You know, when you see some of the information that I have access to, you may want to, you know, fudge that a little bit because you you you're going to find yourself in a real pickle on January twentieth.
And and sure enough, uh, after he started saying this, I noticed that uh, you know, in some of these debates, uh, Hillary and and Barack Obama would say, well, I can't necessarily promise that I'd have Mountain, you know, by 2013, et cetera, et cetera.
So I think they were actually starting to take his advice.
And it was really interesting that Bush felt that way about it.
It was again bigger than politics, it was about our national security.
Now you wrote that article about advice to Hillary back in September, and of course a million things have happened since then, and she's just not the nominee.
And if indeed you have something in the pipeline that that deals with how the Bush years will be viewed in history, let's spend our last couple of minutes looking at that.
I hope I'm not just seeing things through my political glasses.
I mean, we all have no choice but to see things through our political lens.
But I I have this part of me that just really tries hard to objectively say that history will be kinder to President Bush than the current political wins.
And I have a feeling you're probably going to conclude the same.
So help me bolster that.
Okay.
Um, first of all, you're right, because it it that's not saying much.
I mean, he is universally looked at by there was a poll out from the historians the other day that said that, you know, I don't know, 99% said he's the worst president in history.
But let's look at the objective facts.
When all the noise clears away and all the smoke settles, and this we get some time and some clarity and look at the presidency of George W. Bush, liberated fifty million Muslims, eradicated two of the worst despotic regimes on the face of the planet, inherited a recession, turned it into an expansion that has not stopped yet, all even though it's slowed down, and that was by cutting taxes not once, not twice by but three times.
Uh appointing two solid conservatives to the Supreme Court, and their decisions will impact American society for a generation.
Um you know, uh deploying the first president to deploy, to begin to deploy a missile defense shield.
We've had people talking about this since the days of Ronald Reagan.
Bush finally got off the dime and started getting this thing going.
So I mean you can go down the list, and we can all talk about well, he's the worst president in history, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But these are demonstrably true facts and accomplishments that will loom larger as the seminal accomplishments of the Bush presidency as we begin to get some clarity to it.
I think it's clear to you, and it's clear to me, and it's clear to probably a lot of the listeners today.
But if you look at the mainstream media, this is heresy to say these kinds of things to my brethren in the mainstream media.
Bill Salmon Lewis uh from the Washington Examiner.
I'm fond of of weaving a little story in which I get into a time tunnel and go back to September twelfth, two thousand one, anywhere in America.
And I land, I step out of the H. G. Wells time machine, and I say, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
Come with me, six, seven years in the future.
America will not have been attacked again.
The economy will have remained amazingly strong, you know, up till about in the middle of two thousand eight.
But generally speaking, the markets will do great, the unemployment will do great, inflation will do just simply great by any measure, not just post-9 eleven.
And oh, by the way, you'll get two fantastic strict constructionist justices.
Now come on with me, let's go up to two thousand eight.
I would expect anyone making that trip with me.
What they would expect upon emerging is the big push for the constitutional amendment to allow a third Bush term.
Yeah, and and yet it's universally accepted today that when the Democrats talk about, well, it's a third Bush term, that that's a bad thing, that it's been a failed presidency.
And you hit on one of the accomplishments that I meant to, which is one of the biggest, and that is the fact that everyone expected us to get hit again quickly.
And here we are seven years later, and we haven't gotten hit.
So yeah, I think that and I was with President Bush on September 11th, and I saw how his presidency was transformed, and I saw how it galvanized the country, and we were all sort of with him, and it's completely turned around now.
But but uh it I think we've we've been lulled into this false sense of security because we haven't been hit.
In other words, Bush is the victim of his own success.
You have well circulated in among your colleagues uh in agreement and disagreement sometimes.
It's been an interesting gig for you, the Washington Times, now the examiner.
I am guessing, though, you mentioned your Washington colleagues and such.
I'm guessing that there was not a phone or a pager that could be answered or that uh that no one was reachable yesterday because everyone was at the Russet service of the memorial.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's just I mean, this is this is the closest thing we've had to uh to a state funeral since uh Ronald Reagan or Gerald Ford passed away.
I mean, d this guy was a big deal.
Uh he he brought this city, you know, to a standstill and really has over the last week uh with people paying uh tribute.
I thought the funniest line yesterday was from Tom Broclaw saying at the uh memorial service that the largest contingent of people here are those who think that they're going to replace Tim be the press.
You know, people like David Gregory, etc.
You know.
Yeah, I think Chris Matthews was there, I believe, in his best suit as well.
Absolutely.
Oh, man.
And Luke, his son, his wonderful son, had a great line too at the end and said, I'll tell you what, says we part company this coming Sunday morning.
Just imagine special edition of Meet the Press Beyond St. Peter's Gates, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Byrd debating for the full hour.
Oh, my God.
It doesn't get any better.
And it doesn't get any better than Bill Salmon on the pages of the Examiner and the pages of his many books.
Thank you, Bill.
A pleasure to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show, and I look forward to talking to you nationally or locally sometime very soon.
Thank you, Mark.
That is Bill Salmon, S A M M O N, if you're Googling him, which he would like you to do and which you'll enjoy doing because his stuff is just great.
All right, he gave us some things to chew on, and I've got more, including the it's funny.
This is not so much Michelle Obama audio.
It is the moment from the view yesterday that was for me the most shameless attempt to sugarcoat Michelle Obama.
That's coming up next, and so are your calls at 1800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882 Mark Davis down here in Texas at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
In for Rush Limbaugh today, Jason Lewis tomorrow from Minnesota.
But no matter who's doing it, it's the EIB network.
And we'll be right back.
It's never really Thursday until you hear some earth, wind, and fire.
So there we are, it's now official.
Hi, Mark Davis, in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
All right, we've got calls gathering on a number of things.
I'm gonna get right to him.
This will take like a minute, but I know you crave it, and I've been plugging it like forever, so here it is.
Um The View actually did a thoroughly passable, but she did a fine job.
What was driving me nuts on the view, other than the fact that I was watching the view, was the um all right.
F first of all, you stuff you start with Barbara Walters, and she couches these questions, the phraseology she used.
First of all, the issue, of course, is Michelle Obama's now infamous quote, uh, that her the ascendancy of her husband uh that that that is the cause for her being really proud of her country for the first time, which is an insult to every American who thinks about it, who actually thinks about it.
What an incredible back of the hand to this great country to say that only her husband's ascendancy has made her really proud.
Now you notice I said really proud, because that is what she said.
Really proud.
Whoopi Goldberg goes off on this in the audio excerpt that I'll play here in a moment.
But before we got to that, Barbara Walters asked her why she felt, why she, Michelle Obama felt that she was the subject of attacks like this.
Attacks.
Once again, as Rush has chronicled for you many times, and anybody who does what we do for a living has done many, many times.
Only in the liberal world is it considered an attack to actually hold people accountable for what they actually say.
It is an attack to put up in front of a Democrat's face an actual quote from that actual Democrat and make him explain himself.
Well, that's an attack.
No, it's not.
It's it's an attempt at accountability.
It's an attempt to get at what makes someone really tick.
It's an attempt to get a magnifying glass to that person's soul.
So here's Whoopi Goldberg.
Within this clip, you will hear Michelle Obama's offending words, but they weren't offensive to Whoopi.
Oh, duh, of course not.
But the reason Whoopi would like for it to be non-offensive to all of us is she A feels that there's a an exculpatory word in there.
One word that Michelle uses that really makes it all okay.
And we've all gone needlessly nuts about a thoroughly innocuous quote.
Uh and then Whoopi does something uh I don't know how much in character it is, but she just absolutely flat out lies.
Let's enjoy.
I wanted to clear up that quote because one of the things that's happened with that quote is it has been word, a word, a very important word, even for me, because I'd never seen the original of the quote.
Can we run it right quick?
Because I think it has a different feel once you hear it.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
For the first time I'm really proud.
This is not the first time you're proud of your country.
This is the first time you're really proud.
So I just wanted to point that out.
Oh, how wrong we've all been.
Oh, stop the presses she said really.
She didn't say ever proud to any degree.
She said really.
Now this is kind of funny.
Listen as Joy Behar and Barbara and everybody just are just kind of knocked completely off the track as their wheels shoot straight off.
Because they just I don't know if they consider Whoopi's assertion to be as preposterous as I do, but they truly just don't quite know what to say.
That way.
Yeah.
Well, we like to say it because what has been reported has never been really.
It's always been taken out.
It's this is the one.
Now there's the lie.
What?
You know, Whoopi, you've made some okay movies.
Not lately, but you have.
And your stand-up was pretty diverting back in the day.
But that's just a damnable lie.
No one has redacted or or edited out Michelle Obama saying really.
The quote is as bad as it is, even with really in there.
First time I'm really proud of my country.
Well, silly, stupid me.
Maybe it's just a white man thing, but I was really proud when the Soviet Union was defeated.
I was really proud when the Berlin Wall fell.
And let's take it beyond my limited white man purview.
I'm gonna guess that out there in America, there are a bunch of people.
A bunch of people of color and a bunch of people who are female, incredibly proud of the strides this country made for women and minorities in the eighties and nineties, otherwise known as Michelle Obama's adult life.
I mean, uh seriously, we talk about what it would be like to be black or be a woman in 1920 or 1880.
I gotta tell you, it was wildly different being a woman or being black in 1978.
I mean, even post-Civil Rights Act, even uh you know there was a ton of enlightenment that happened from the beginning of the sixties to the end of the sixties.
A ton.
But it was a continuum.
It continued, as continuums are wont to do, uh, through the eighties and and even through the nineties.
I mean, th this is a sea change in American enlightenment that is without peer in human history.
But apparently that doesn't rise to the level to make Michelle Obama excuse me, not proud, really proud.
Because that that modifier is so very, very important.
Well, what is very, very important is that neither Michelle Obama nor her husband dares refer to the America of the recent Past as a good and decent place.
You know why?
Because America of the recent past, pick a year, a Republican is probably president.
Obviously, you got eight years of Bill Clinton in there.
Uh the where the economy even did well, but that was the second year of the re the second decade of the Reagan boom.
But uh whether it's the Reagan years, the the the Bush 41 years or the Bush years, America must be portrayed as a horrible, unlivable, demonic place that only the Obamas can save us from.
Mark Davis in for Rush, be right back.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's dive into some calls, see what's going on.
It's going to be you and me for the back end of this hour, and then at the beginning of the next, fresh from the White House, Ed Gillespie, trusted advisor, former RNC chairman.
It was said when Ed ascended this post uh about summer about a year ago, that he was sort of taken sort of filling part of the Carl Rove shoes.
He is, of course, the immediate successor to the wonderful Dan Bartlett.
Uh, but it's kind these are interesting times to be sort of a uh a pitch man for this White House.
And I don't say that uh that's not a term of derision.
That's uh one of the most noble callings you can have is to be the deliverer of a White House's message, whether it's one I agree with or don't agree with, that is uh a fascinating science and art, and uh Ed Gillespie is just a neat guy, so we'll talk to him about drill here, drill now, various campaign oh eight things and whatever else Ed and I want to talk about.
That'll be the beginning of next hour.
Ed Gillespie here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis joining you from Texas at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Let's see who has called us at 1-800-282-2882.
In Crofton, Maryland, John, hi, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Nice to have you.
Hello.
Thank you, Mark.
Uh I'm a little bit uh worried about the Supreme Court decision.
Of course, any court relies on uh legal precedence.
They uh they follow the previous case law, and apparently um the whole history of the United States over 200 years of case law doesn't wouldn't allow this decision that they made as far as giving uh constitutional rights to the people at Guantanamo.
And so they didn't look behind in the past and they didn't look forward to see how this thing's gonna be implemented.
And what it does, and Rush mentioned this yesterday, is that it it's it presumes that these people are all innocent until proven guilty.
And the ironic thing, it's it's it's just paradoxical that our guys that are in uniform that are trying to uh oppose these terrorists, they don't have the same rights as the people that they're risking their lives to protect us uh uh from.
People at Guantanamo who would kill you and me as soon as they'd say hello will now get a better treatment in the wheels of justice than the U.S. Marines got in the Hadith story.
Well, the the thing is there's a a parallel system of justice, and when you join the military, ironically you say that you uh pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, but it doesn't apply to you uh in full strength.
What you have is uh an implementation of the Constitution modified for the military called the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Yep.
And you don't have uh a trial by jury, a trial by your peers.
You have three judges sitting up there, and uh you don't uh you know get the best lawyers in the world, I'm uh sorry to say.
Uh and I think you you're probably guilty until proven innocent, because when you get in trouble criminally in the in the service, usually end up in the stockade of the brig.
So here we're giving these guys the best treatment of the world.
Now we're saying that you know you guys can get uh free if you get uh uh a good ACLU lawyer, you're innocent until proven guilty.
The burden of proof is on us, on the prosecutors, and all that is reversed for the our guys our servicemen.
Correct.
There it therein lies the incredible danger of this court ruling.
John Thanks, excellent points, one-eight hundred-two eight two-two eight eight two.
Here's where the the presumption innocence point is extremely vital.
In American justice, wouldn't you agree with me, and I think that's a fairly popular old adage, we'd rather a few guilty people go free than one innocent person be improperly imprisoned.
Haven't you said that?
I don't know.
It's kind of funny lately.
I don't know if I mean it as much as but but we've all said that.
We rather some guilty folks go free than have one per uh the notion of an innocent person imprisoned is so antithetical to to the way we look at jurisprudence that that is probably woven through the American fabric.
When you are dealing with combatants plucked from the field of battle, being detained while the war is still going on.
The opposite is true.
Then, and pardon me, and then I'll run this out the flagpole and see if you folks want to salute or condemn me for it.
I'd rather have some innocent folks at Guantanamo.
I'd rather find that maybe seven or eight of them are as pure as the driven snow.
And I'd be very sorry about that, but I'd rather have that than to have one of these animals go free to kill my family or yours.
The presumption of innocence is something that is in that wonderful gift pack that comes from the moment of your birth as an American.
None of us did anything to earn it.
It is by pure accident of birth.
We're born in this country and not some other country where our rights are probably not as vast.
So in view of that, there are certain benefits that we derive, and among them are constitutional protections.
These constitutional protections are not to be conferred onto an Nora Geneva Convention protections, by the way, onto combatants plucked from the field of battle during an ongoing war.
Amazing.
And I think New I mean Newt Gingrich is right.
A lot of people said that this was shock talk when he said, you know what?
This is a Supreme Court ruling that could cost us a city.
I'm not saying it will, and Newt's not saying it will.
But that's exactly how high the stakes are.
Let's go just a few miles to my east, right here in the old hometown.
We're in Dallas.
Hey, Kevin, Mark Davis, how are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
How are you today?
I'm good.
Boy, you just beaten to death with five hours of me today, local show, Limhaw show.
Lord, you should be tired by that.
I'm a truck driver, so I enjoy it.
Thank you, man.
Yeah.
The bounty then is on uh Osama bin Laden.
Is that dead or alive?
Do you know?
Uh either.
Either.
So there will be a sizable sum uh that goes into the bank account of whoever uh is contributes to his uh killing or capture.
So what how is the Supreme Court justify us being able to put a uh death warrant out on the man, then if he's captured instead, still give him all these rights if he's brought to Kitmo.
Because it's okay, there's an answer to that, because it's not a death warrant.
A death warrant is that is what happens after someone is adjudicated guilty and given the death penalty, and and that is the method of execution.
Uh if this is in in this is another important way in which this is not like uh an old West sheriff, even though that wanted dead or alive imagery exists, and it's not an American criminal case.
This is uh uh a time of war, and President Bush and others talking about uh I mean issuing the bounty out there in the Middle East is saying essentially you kill him or you help us catch him, and we've got cold hard cash for you.
Uh that's that's not that that's not anything I don't believe until they try that the Supreme Court could constrain.
Okay.
And I have one other uh comment.
I've I found a bipartisan way to cure global warming and the immigration issue that we're facing.
Oh, do it do I sense listener humor?
Yes, we're gonna get a good thing.
Okay, and I think five hundred carbon credits for every illegal alien you turn in.
Wow, how how kinky freedman of you.
Okay.
Now for those who need that reference, explain, Kinky Friedman, famous writer, uh okay, famous around here anyway, writer, author, songwriter, and just interesting guy, uh author of magnificent songs like They Don't Make Jews Like Jesus anymore.
The cigar chomping Kinky Friedman uh had an idea when he was running for governor, and of course he didn't even come close to winning, but this one idea make idea did make some people go, hmm, and I mention it only because it has nationwide significance along our entire southern border.
But what he suggested we should do for border protection between Texas and Mexico is take five very high-ranking Mexican officials, generals, if you will, five of them, and just place them equidistant along the border, Give them each a region, just a one-fifth of the border stretch between Texas and Mexico, and give them each ten million dollars.
And withdraw a dollar, or two or five or ten, whatever you want to do, withdraw from their account every time an illegal alien crosses from Mexico into Texas.
He was serious about this.
And you know, when you think about it, is the guest worker program elite really, really any more wacky?
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882 Mark Davis in for Rush Lindbaugh.
Let us head to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Laurie, Mark Davis, hi, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Nice to have you.
Hi Mark, how are you today?
I'm sorry, Lori, go ahead.
I said, how are you today?
I'm doing great.
My family lives in Stephenville, and so we we discuss Tinky uh occasionally.
Very cool.
Um I called today to um tell Mary, I think she was your caller right before Bill Salmon.
From Massachusetts.
Right.
She needs to stiffen her spine and not leave because what we need to do as the American people is realize that our politicians are not representing our views and I think we showed a whole bunch of power in the immigration issue.
I think we're beginning to coalesce around this drilling issue.
And I think we need to show the world that it is not the politicians who represent America but it is Americans who represent America and I think Mary needs to get on the phone and spend at least one hour a day or however much time she has calling her state, local, her r uh Senate and from Washington and let her voice be heard.
And if we all did that and overwhelmed them, just like we did with the immigration issue, we would show them the power that the people have.
We are tired of them not having a spine but apparently we have also lost ours.
And in a year or two pick up the phone.
And boy couldn't agree more Laurie great pep talk thank you.
Uh one year or two into a a a hypothetical Obama presidency, which is the only kind there will be by the way at least this year, uh a whole bunch of America may find the I mean if Obama should win, if I'm just dead wrong about this and Obama actually wins, boy am I interested in the congressional elections of twenty ten.
Because once everybody gets a snootful of what this guy is really about and what and I'm not talking about the Muslim conversion of you know just none of that email in box nonsense.
I mean just the radical liberalism, the softness on terror, the jack in your taxes to the moon, the real guy that I say without a shred of of of racism or derision or or or whatever.
It's just what the guy has in his bag.
Soft on terror, unbelievable radical uh liberalism, as measured by the National Journal, which cited him as the most liberal Senator more than Hillary, more than Ted Kennedy and then when you throw all that in and then put taxes as high as he would try to do there may be a lot of discontent very soon after the Obama inauguration.
But again, that's all moot because he's not going to win.
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Steve Mark Davis in for Rush how are you?
Hey Mark it's a pleasure talking to you.
Been listening to you since Florida 2000.
Thank you so much.
I was watching the Fox News channel with Brit Hume last night and the they were running a video clip of the Michelle Obama tape and where she said I am not proud this is the first time I've been proud of my country.
So they didn't use the word really it wasn't an edited thing.
It was a video and it was dated February eighteenth.
So not only, so not only was Whoopi Goldberg just flat out lying when she said that they they edited it out, but she was also ignorant of the fact that Michelle Obama delivered that speech a number of times, including twice that same day, uh uh February 18th, 2008, one in Madison, one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
And yes, in one of them, she says for the first time, I'm really proud of my country, but that really modifier is not there in the other speech.
You are correct.
That is correct, sir.
Would you like audio evidence?
Thanks, Steve.
Let me get everybody else up to speed on this, and here we go.
First, we'll have it without the really, and then we'll have it with the really.
Whoopi, I hope you're listening.
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
No really there.
applause But here it comes.
Let me tell you something.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
And not just because Barack has done well.
Now, I this is funny.
I suppose we are starting to enter the suburbs of not the beating of a dead horse, but just the making of a point for the 934th time.
And I guess that this will happen sometimes.
This quote that won't die.
The reason it won't die is because there are partisans lying, deceptive partisans who are out there in the Obama camp trying to make you believe that she didn't say it or she didn't mean it when she absolutely said it and absolutely meant it.
In Lancaster PA, Eric, Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for having me.
My pleasure.
Proud, proud citizen.
And your whole adult life, I'm guessing.
Thank you, man.
Um I just wanted to say I want to chime in since we were talking about uh George Bush.
I did not vote for him and wasn't really uh partial to him at all.
But I'm really in support of the way he's tried to step up and protect the country and under all the circumstances think he did the best he could do, which was get busy and start kicking some butt.
I'm intrigued.
What was it then in 2000 and or 2004 that led you not to vote for him?
Or not in did you not vote for him in 2000, but you didn't know for or how old are you, or how does that all work out?
Uh I'm I'm 38, and I haven't been uh particularly a voter.
I kind of have that lesser of two evils curse thing going on.
Oh, well.
But uh I've definitely it's been it's it's been eight years of change for me, that's for sure.
Uh, have you have you become Morgan?
Have you sort of become a Republican as you've grown older?
As maybe I think I think that's the case, yes.
Thank you.
The reason I asked, and and I I got to scoot here for time, but Eric, thank you.
The reason I ask is I just know, you know what, I I just know that there are people in this country who don't agree with Republicans about anything.
You uh or don't agree with me, don't agree with Rush, don't agree with President Bush.
Uh that you think that government can be bigger, taxes can be higher.
Uh the the the Al Gore global warming nonsense is true, and you're a liberal as much as the word means anything.
But doggone it, you know President Bush is right about the war, and you thank him as I do for keeping your family safe.
I know you exist.
Is Joe Lieberman the only one of you with the courage to say so?
Mark Davis in for rush.
Be right back.
Is moshing actually allowed during the Rush Limbaugh show, even during a guest host?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush, one more hour.
Jason Lewis with you from Minneapolis tomorrow.
Uh listen, we got like 30 seconds for I got a scoot.
So Daniel in Pennsylvania, hang on, he's got an interesting point about where maybe the Gitmo terrorists ought to be sent elsewhere.
I'm a huge fan of Guantanamo.
Don't want to be a name-dropper, but I've visited it and have much to say about it.
Maybe I'll share some of that next hour.
But we'll also visit with Ed Gillespie, close advisor to the president, talk a little drill here, drill now, pay less.
But as we close this hour, um having invoked Haditha, the uh the very unfortunate story in which Marine after marine after marine after marine is being cleared or the charges dropped.
Is there anything recorded in in audio history that's more despicable than Jack Murtha's derision of them as cold blooded killers before the evidence even came in?
And I say that not because he agrees or disagrees with me.
Somebody could say Clinton's a great president, or I love Roe v.
Wade.
Okay, you're entitled to that.
You are not entitled to slander our troops that way, Congressman Murphy.
Shame on you.
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