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June 23, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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All right, folks, I want to make a little prediction to you here.
It won't be long.
It may happen tonight.
It may happen tomorrow.
But somewhere in the drive-by media, there will be a story, probably Associated Press, and it'll be picked up and amplified from there.
One day after Obama warned that his critics would play the race card, Rush Limbaugh jumped right in and did just that by talking about how his wife Michelle has slave blood, but he ain't got no slave blood.
Keep in mind that when they do this, it was some guy that runs a Southern Christian Leadership Conference who said that.
They're going to say, Limbaugh jumped right in.
Obama warned us the Republicans are going to play the race card and Limbaugh plays the Magic Negro song.
Blah, I can predict these people.
I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
It's going to be fun.
You know, what Obama's doing is reprehensible in terms of telling people what is going to be said that hasn't been said.
It's planned a race card.
Nobody that I know of is saying anything about his race.
Nobody important on our side.
Nobody, it matters.
And the same thing about this Muslim business.
But the smoothness, the effortlessness with the way this guy weaves in and out of the truth, such as doing his flip-flop on campaign finance reform and public financing of campaigns, is breathtaking to behold.
It just is.
But I think, you know, frankly, and I was telling a friend of mine over the weekend that it seems like it's a never-ending process.
The process is always the same.
The left accuses us of either being something like racist or sexist or bigoted or homophobic, or they say that we're going to say something racist, sexist, or bigoted or homophobic.
And what happens is, is that we always end up on the defensive.
And I'm frankly tired of being on the defensive.
And so I'm not going to be on the, I'm not going to sit here and say, what is this?
We're not racist.
It doesn't advance anything whatsoever.
And frankly, you know, to sit here and call Obama a liar and a point.
I also told my buddies, I was chatting with Levin on the instant message, I said, I think the American public probably tires of hearing conservatives say of liberals that they lie all the time.
I mean, we said it about Clinton.
It was true.
It didn't matter.
They praised Clinton for being, Bob Kerry praised Clinton for being an exceptionally good liar.
The drive-bys are praising Obama for being an exceptionally funny and skilled politician by getting rid of these attacks the way he did by accusing the Republicans of making them before they did.
So to sit around, and I'm talking about in terms of, you know, how to respond to this, sit there and say that, gosh, Obama's lying through his teeth.
I just, I don't think people have, I don't even want to hear it.
Whether they know it or not, it obviously didn't bother them that Clinton lied until later.
So there has to be a different mode of responding to Obama.
And I think it's what Ronald Reagan said.
Just laugh at him.
Just laugh at him and just ridicule it because it is preposterous.
Now, I want to tell you a little short, little personal story here before we move on.
Over the weekend, I got some new candles.
And I'm a big Joe Malone candle freak.
And I found these ones when I got dragged into a department store long, long time ago, got dragged into a department store shopping.
I even forgot what the store was.
And they smelled pretty good.
And then I found out that they make these giant things.
They call them luxury candles, but they have limited fragrances.
Fragrances are good, but they got many more fragrances and they're little small candles.
Frankly, I have large rooms in my house, and I don't want to have to buy 15 or 20 little candles to scent the whole room.
These large candles do it.
So, every once in a while, I check the Joe Malone website to see if they've added.
What I'm looking for is Gardenia.
I love Gardenias.
I love Gardenia flowers.
I love the scent of Gardenia.
And they've got them in these little dinky things, but they don't have them in the big ones.
And I check the website every now and then to see if they've added.
I finally, on the website this morning, about an hour before the program, I clicked on the contact us button, and there was an option there.
If you want to get hold of somebody to make a fragrance recommendation, I said, Well, that's me.
So I clicked on it and I put in the email address and my name as they have it in my file.
And I got instantly a reply: Hi, I'm Beth.
How can I help you?
And I said, This has got to be a computer talking to me.
Nobody's going to respond this fast.
So I put in a couple of things, and I love the candles.
I wish there was a large one, a luxury candle with the Gardenia scent, blah, blah, blah.
And I got some perfunctory answers like a computer would be answering.
So I thought I'd throw a curveball in there and ask a specific question that a computer couldn't handle.
And lo and behold, it was answered specifically.
And I thought, hmm, this is a real person.
Beth is not a computer.
It's a real person.
So I made the request and other things.
She wrote back, Are you a big fan of Joe Malone?
I said, Check my file.
She did, came back, said, Whoa.
And then she said, I just have one question.
Is this the Rush Limbaugh?
And I said, Well, yes, indeed it is.
Well, I'm stunned.
I said, Why?
Because you have mostly female customers.
She said, No, that I'm actually talking to you.
And she said she was in Virginia.
And the point is, she's going to forward the request on to the higher-ups, which is all I wanted.
I don't know how to get all of the Grand Poobahs at Joe Malone.
I mean, they're in London for crying out loud.
But so anyway, I've been searching on the internet for Gardenia-scented Snerdley.
Do you know what's happening in the audience right now?
Limbaugh gas prices are approaching five bucks and you're telling us about candles.
I know, folks.
Anyway, I've been looking for large Gardenia-scented candles on the internet, and I can't find any big ones.
Everybody makes these tiny little things.
By tiny, I mean like three inches diameter, three inches tall, so forth.
So we'll see if Beth she said she was a big fan.
She and her father were big, she was very nice as she could be.
Said she was going to forward the request on to the Grand Poobahs up at Joe Malone to see if we get a Gardenia.
And I'm not looking for anybody to tell me where to get a Gardenia scent.
I've got it under control.
That's not what this is.
I just wanted it because it was a nice chat, and I started off thinking it was a computer.
Because responses just came to, and some of the responses had clicks for various areas on the website.
Whoa, we do have a Gardenia candle.
Go here, even though I'd said I know, but do you have big ones?
So, what's it?
Size does matter, Snerdly, especially in candle.
Well, when you have a large room, absolutely size matters.
Why would 18 little things here?
Well, that's about the only bright side, but the big carbon footprint with 18 wicks burning.
That's true.
But I mean, they don't last as long as the big ones do.
Anyway, what do you mean what's happened to me?
Oh, candles, kitty cats.
What's happened to me?
What do you think's happened?
I remember the staff and the IFB folks very sensitive.
I've always been sensitive.
What is this?
I'm getting.
That's why I asked her.
She was stunned because a guy was asking her questions about candles.
I have always loved lots of candles in rooms scented with different fragrances.
Ever since I was in Pittsburgh, when I moved out of the house, it's nothing new here.
I've spoken of this before in the program.
You people started making me, I'm talking about the staff here.
What's happened to me?
You guys sound like a bunch of liberals.
Limbaugh tried to soften his comments on Obama by then discussing his troubles in finding large Gardenia-scented candles.
Staff continuing to give me grief over my confessed affection for scented candles in my home.
Levin says, what are you going through, menopoise?
Or are you just a pyromaniac?
Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you, only a man secure in his masculinity would ever admit that he loves Gardenia-scented candles.
This is not metrosexuality.
People are getting a little wacko.
At least I didn't go to a baby shower like somebody here did.
Iraq war news.
New York Times, Brian Stelter, getting a story on the evening news isn't easy for any correspondent and for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's especially hard now, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News.
So she has devised a solution when she's talking to the network.
Generally, what I say is I'm holding the armor-piercing RPG, and it's aimed at the bureau chief.
And if you don't put my story on the air, I'm going to pull the trigger.
What's happening here is that a decline in violence has taken the urgency out of the coverage.
This is what news executives are saying.
A decline in violence has taken the urgency out of coverage.
Therefore, success in Iraq is not a story because the template, the narrative, the action line does not include success in Iraq.
And so these foreign correspondents, some of them, who want to report good news, say they can't get their stories on the air.
Then USA Today has a story today.
Roadside bombs decline in Iraq by almost 90%.
Roadside bombs decline by 90%.
That is a story.
But only in USA Today, it seems.
So the good news that's happening in Iraq is purposely and studiously being avoided by the drive-by media.
As we knew, we're not surprised by this at all.
Here's Paul in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Paul, thank you for calling.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah.
Hi, Rush.
Yeah, the reason I'm calling is I, you know, not a big supporter of John McCain, but one of the things that's kind of getting me to think about voting for him is my concern that Michelle Obama will be the next Hillary Clinton.
Not true, because Michelle Obama has slave blood.
Hillary didn't, doesn't.
Well, that's what makes her better because of the fact that.
What do you mean the next Hillary Clinton?
What do you mean the next woman trying to take over when her husband gets someplace?
Well, I think the thing of it is now that the media kind of threw Hillary under the bus, I mean, a lot of them, it's hard to kind of go back after they trashed her, and they're going to need a woman to replace her.
And as you well know, for the Democrats, the only qualifications, well, Barack's none.
And so, but, you know, so I think the thing of it is, is that they'll need that.
I'm maybe talking about not only eight years if Barack were to win and could win again, but just like Hillary go on afterwards.
Because the one biggest fear I have, Rush, is this.
Let's say Barack Obama wins.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
And the governor of Illinois, well, he's not going to be senator anymore.
Who's going to take his place?
Well, you think they'll put Michelle Obama in there?
Well, as I said, she has the qualifications, just like Barack did.
They're not going to.
No, no, no, no.
It wouldn't.
By the way, given the fact I forgot to ask a question.
I'm not trying to take away your call.
We'll get back to your business.
But I got a quick question here.
If the Southern Christian Leadership Conference guy in Atlanta says that Obama has no slave blood, but Michelle does, ain't got no blood.
She got blood, slave blood, then is Obama going to have to apologize for slavery at some point?
Well, I would imagine he would, but it wouldn't be for because the only slave blood he has, didn't he have relatives on his other side?
Bleep that.
Bleep can't talk about the who you're talking about other side.
What other side?
What do you mean?
Well, one side of his family.
Which side?
Which side?
Which to be specific?
Well, his mother's side.
The white side.
Yeah.
We can talk about that.
There's no slave blood on the white side.
That's right.
Well, except they might have owned them.
Another question: will Obama have to pay reparations if he authorizes them to Michelle?
Well, that's, you know, he can get the same write-off there, I imagine.
But, you know, yeah, there you have it to her.
But, you know, I really think that with Michelle, they might really think about grooming her to take over the place that Hillary Clinton had.
And even the threat, as I said, it scares me to think about if Barack Obama were to win.
Here's one thing about it.
If you're having trouble, if people are out there with, if you think $4, $4.50 a gallon gasoline, you can't afford Obama.
I mean, that is the way to run this campaign.
Oh, I can't.
I mean, you can sit there and we can talk about policy, this, and policy.
We can't afford Barack Obama.
We personally, individually, cannot afford Barack Obama.
Our lifestyles cannot afford him.
Our tax increases, the price of fuel that's going to go up, the punishment that he's going to wreak on the true entrepreneurs in this country.
We can't afford it.
We simply cannot afford Barack Obama right now.
Only one problem, though.
What?
John McCain says almost except for the drilling offshore, he's almost the same on many issues.
Well, except taxes.
Yeah.
Except taxes.
McCain's going to make permanent the Bush tax cuts.
He's going to try anyway.
And he's not going to raise taxes other than his global warming stuff.
We work on that.
But we really cannot afford Obama.
It's just that simple.
Oh, no, I agree.
But the problem of it is, and you've talked about this many times, McCain doesn't differentiate himself enough, and that's the problem.
He's losing Obama.
Hey, hey, hey, now, come on.
McCain has, he's trying.
He has shifted on the offshore drilling.
He's taken a position here that will allow a direct contrast between himself and his party and Barack Obama and the Democrats.
He says he's open to perhaps changing his mind on and war and so forth.
I think he's going to realize soon he needs some issues to contrast himself with Obama.
And the more Obama makes speeches and policy recommendations, they're just going to break everybody's bank.
McCain is going to have an opportunity here to draw distinctions between himself and Obama.
And he took advantage of it.
So, you know, let's cool it here for a minute and see what follows and what happens next.
In terms of it being very simple, we cannot afford Obama.
I would not say that about McCain.
Seriously.
I would not say we cannot afford John McCain.
I'm talking about financially, folks.
I'm talking about your back pocket.
I'm talking about your family budget.
I'm not talking about the country's security.
That's a whole different thing, but you can throw that in there if you want.
But I'm speaking strictly economically.
If you're having trouble, look at there's a story in the Washington Post today, Montgomery County.
Diesel has gone so high that they're going to start making more kids walk to school when school starts in the fall.
They're going to expand the distance kids can walk because they can't have.
We can't afford Barack Obama.
Who's given us these high prices?
Who has stood in the way of exploration and drilling already that would have allowed us to have our own supply?
I know Montgomery County is one of the wealthiest counties in the area.
I know it is, Mr. Sturdley.
I didn't fall off the turnip truck.
I know that.
That's the point.
But they're going to expand the distance that kids can walk to school.
Now, some people may be saying, good, I'll walk to school 10 miles to snow with no shoes.
We've all heard that from our parents and grandparents.
You know, walking never hurt anybody except me.
I hate it.
I'm not in a position where I have to walk to school because I don't go to school.
But the kids and so forth, that's what they're actually talking about doing because the diesel costs have gotten so high.
We can't afford Barack Obama.
I'm telling you, you might want to sit there and blame George W. Bush for the high gasoline prices and so forth.
It ain't the Republicans here.
Bush has been trying to get an war drilling passed for the longest time.
Bush has tried to come up with an energy policy that actually produces more energy.
The people stand in the way of this: the Democrats, the leftists, and Barack Obama.
Herb, Paul, thanks for the call.
This is Tim in Columbus, Ohio.
You're next, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I've been a listener since 1989.
I called you today because I got a question about my son who's going into his junior year in high school.
And he was assigned over summer to read a book called Hardball by Chris Matthews.
Yeah.
And I'm a little leery of this without reading the book, you know, to allow him to do this.
But I was wondering if you have read it.
Nope.
Nope.
I already know how to spit.
I guess my take on it would be: without reading it, he's trying to tell people how to get power or how to get it.
He's trying to spread liberalism.
The professor is simply trying to spread a new way of left-wing media happening and having it be accepted as liberal opinion disguised as true journalism.
It's no different than your kid having to watch Gore's movie.
Other than, well, Ember back having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, here is Obama Friday in Jacksonville, Florida press conference talking about drilling for all.
Believe me, if I thought there was any evidence at all that drilling could save people money who are struggling to fill up their gas tanks by this summer or this year or even the next few years, I would consider it.
But it won't.
And John McCain knows that.
What's John McCain going to do?
Once again, we are faced here with questions for Senator Obama.
When I hear this attitude from him, what I want to say is, who are you, pal?
The last thing you did was organize communities in Chicago, and we all know what that means.
And then you spent some time in the Senate.
You haven't done much of any substance whatsoever.
Now, all of a sudden, you are the oracle around whom all ideas flow for judgment.
Barack gives a thumbs up, Barack gives a thumbs down, and that's it.
If I thought there was any evidence at all that drilling could save people money who are struck, this is striking in its ignorance.
By this summer or this year, or even the next few years, I would Senator Obama.
Can you tell me what of anything in your energy plan?
I assume there's an energy plan he's got.
What in your energy plan is going to reduce prices?
And what Senator Obama is going to produce more energy tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, even the next few years.
You know, Senator Obama, if I thought there was any evidence that you had the slightest clue what you were talking about when it comes to energy, then I might consider what you have to say.
But I don't think anything you're proposing is going to cut prices or increase supply at all.
And you know it.
To hell with what John McCain knows.
Anti-progress, anti-liberty, anti-freedom.
Ms. Obama, they want you hurting.
They want you suffering.
They want these prices up even more.
They want kids walking to school.
They think that's going to equal their being elected president.
But this is ignorance personified, coupled with arrogance.
And that's a very, that's arrogance, one of the most off-putting human characteristics, at least to me personally, that I run into.
Here's Bill in Delta, Colorado.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Mega Doodos.
Thank you, sir.
We have seen in the last few years just how much power the president really doesn't have.
How so, sir.
And how much Congress has when they can roadblock everything the president wants to do.
But I think that what we really need to do is flush out all these 10 and 20 and 30-year incumbents in Congress because they are the people who have created the problem.
Yeah, well, you know, I don't institutionally disagree with that.
Flushing them out is one thing, but people who elect them are going to have to be the ones that do it.
And one of the interesting things when you go poll people about Congress, I hate Congress.
Congress is screwed up.
Congress is horrible.
I love my guy.
But everybody else in Congress is horrible.
So it's going to be very tough to do.
We tried it with term limits.
It didn't fly.
It didn't work.
But, you know, the president, I have to say, for this guy in a lame duck situation and to be so damn stupid, why he got his FISA bill, he's gotten a couple other things through the House and Senate that he got his money for Iraq just in the past couple of months.
For all this talk about him being a lame duck and being a bystander and not caring anymore, he's still running rings around these guys.
And he's still out there doing what he can to bring focus to the fact that they're the ones standing in the way of energy independence.
Now, you may be saying institutionally Congress has more power than the president, but when they have a majority of seats in the opposite party from the president, that is to, you know, that's one of the things to be taken into account.
But the president also has veto, and he's been using his veto pin lately when he didn't the first six years.
A lot of people kind of like this gridlock that's forestalling things, but he's getting what he wants for the most part.
Not on everything.
But can you imagine getting the FISA bill done with these clowns?
And that's caused Obama to have to do another flip-flop on that.
And he got funding for Iraq.
All these people are trying to proclaim it a defeat and so forth.
So I wouldn't write off President Bush so quickly.
Grant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Yes, hello.
Hey, it's good to talk to you.
My point is that all global warming types, Dr. Hanson included, confuse their own mortality with the end of the world.
So his PhD cannot protect him from his own approaching death.
And he deals with that anxiety by pretending the Earth itself is in danger.
You might be right in terms of the personal psychology of the deranged to Dr. Hansen.
Right.
I prefer to chalk it up to the fact or not exclude yours, but I rather think that even to the extent that you're right, that he's deranged and is confusing the death of the planet with his own death.
He's just a liberal.
And he's being paid.
He's being paid by George Soros types.
He got $250,000 as a grant not long ago from the Heinz Ketchup people.
That's Teresa Heinz-Carey from one of their foundations.
Absolutely.
This guy's bought and paid for by the left.
He's been on the government payroll as long as McCain.
Yeah, that's another thing.
People in the government payroll, people at NASA, are prohibited from speaking out politically from one administration to the next.
This guy's done so and apparently has gotten away with it.
But all this radicalism in the Democrat Party, you are going to find often, not all the time, but oftentimes you're going to find George Soros at the root of it.
And Soros is behind Hansen.
This is all about destroying the country as it exists today.
George Soros has an inbred hatred for this country, and he is supporting causes and people that will advance as close as he can get to the reordering and changing of the institutions and traditions that have made the country great.
Now, whether or not Hansen thinks he is the planet and thinks he's the planet because he's the only one that cares about it.
And if he dies, so goes concern for the planet.
Hell.
Nothing would surprise me when we're talking about the left.
There is no rational explanation for liberalism, folks.
One of the biggest mistakes we all make is trying to explain it rationally.
Some young person, some little crumb crunchy, when you try to explain it rationally, it doesn't work.
How do you explain insanity rationally?
How do you explain a mental disorder?
What is disgust and hatred for your own country when it's the best place in the world?
What is that?
It's not dissent.
It's not greatness.
It's not free speech.
It's sick.
To those of us who care about nationality, who believe that America is great for the country, great for the world, great for the most people ever, to hate it and despise it and to have to invent reasons for it, what in the hell is rational about it?
And so to try to explain liberalism, and I've tried it myself, and I've done a damn good job, as good as anybody else can do, in explaining what liberalism is.
But after a while, you start to realize you're beating your head against the wall.
You're trying to explain the inexplicable in a rational way when it's very simple to say they're just off.
They're just, there's something desperately wrong with these people, emotionally, psychologically, or what have you.
To that extent, you know, I think most of these people have meaningless lives.
They're trying to establish meaning, make themselves feel important because they know that they're really no different than a gnat in the big scheme of things, and they want to be more important than a gnat.
And they want to have power over the gnats.
And so they want to think of everybody else as a gnat and themselves, you know, as the can of raid.
Which is poison, which is true in their senators.
It has been brought to my attention, something I apparently need to clean up.
Been brought to my attention that because of things I have said today on the program, there are people who think I am still dating liberal women.
Now, and this is not true.
This goes back to the beginning of the program where we played a soundbite from a former Oklahoma congressman who essentially was on New York Radio Wednesday, who was a Republican, One of the original trustees of the Heritage Foundation who's flipped.
He's gone to the bad side.
He's gone to Dark Side.
He's at Harvard, been there 11 years.
Big lib now.
And it happened.
I mean, I don't know when it happened.
He got thrown out of office after the House bank scandal, the bank scandal in 88, 89, and then signs up immediately at Harvard, at the Kennedy School, a number of other things.
And his wife turns out to be a huge lib herself, which prompted me to say there's always a woman involved in these guys that end up flaking out.
There's always, and I made the statement, you know, how come I'm the only one that can convort with literal women and not be affected by it?
And that gave the impression that I am still doing so.
I am not.
Ladies and gentlemen, not that it matters, but I mean the candle thing didn't help.
That candle thing proves that I am confident in my masculinity.
Not that I'm running around with liberal women.
My only point was that when I have done so, I have remained firm.
I have not had my back broken.
I have not buckled.
I have not shrunk.
My principles were never watered down.
And I just was making that point.
And I have, but it's in the past.
I mean, my old buddy Andrew McCarthy, you know, says, I don't know.
Now he's talking about candles and dating liberal women.
And I don't know.
Maybe the fragrant cigar smoke he's talking about is candles.
This is getting out of hand now.
All I had to do was mention candles.
And then McCarthy's talking about dating liberal, which I don't do.
I'm not doing.
Even if I were, don't worry about it.
That was my point.
Nothing's changed.
They do.
What, Snerdly?
now snartily says you've goofed from this up He said, these public denials only fuel the rumors.
After Obama warned I played the race card, I played the race card.
And I'm trying to soften my image here.
Okay, speaking of the race card, do you remember the story where the AMA or the Food and Drug Administration was going to ban all flavorings and cigarettes except menthol after they learned that 75% of blacks smoke menthol cigarettes?
So they didn't want to ban menthol flavor because they thought it'd be racist.
Guess what?
The country's largest organization of doctors last week refused to challenge a controversial tobacco bill that would ban many flavor additives and cigarettes sold in the U.S. but exempt menthol.
So the AMA has gone along with the FDA.
Fine, we're going to leave menthol flavorings.
Under a bill before Congress that gives control of tobacco products to the FDA, flavor additives like mint, clove, vanilla, gardenia, which appeal to young people, would be banned, but menthol flavoring would be allowed.
Menthol preferred by more than 75% of black smokers.
Hey, Obama, this is made to order for you, bud.
The AMA, FDA, want to ban all flavorings except those preferred by blacks.
Can we infer from this that the AMA and the FDA would prefer blacks continue to smoke?
Well, why?
And smoking does what?
It makes people sick.
It shortens their life.
And the FDA and the AMA, we infer here, want blacks to continue to be able to get the flavor that makes them smoke the most.
So does Obama smoke menthol?
That's a thing.
He smokes.
He tried to quit, but he got off the wagon.
The Nicorette didn't do it for him.
I don't know if there's menthol nicorette.
What do you mean he's not?
Oh, that's right.
He's not authentic.
This doesn't apply to him, sternly, because he has no slave blood.
So if Obama smokes menthol, he's exempt because he's not really black, according to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Michelle black because she got slave blood, but Obama isn't black, not authentic anyway.
So, but still made the order for him.
I mean, here's two powerful agencies: one, a government agency saying, you keep pumping out the menthol, big tobacco.
Keep pumping it out.
You draw your own conclusions.
Here's Steve in Frederictown, Missouri.
Steve, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh.
My name is Steve Hogan.
I'm an RN that works at St. Francis Medical Center in your hometown in Cape Girardo, Missouri.
I was calling today to welcome home my brother, Staff Sergeant Jacob Hogan and his team of soldiers from Iraq.
They returned Thursday last week.
They're part of a medical group that was stationed at Camp Spiker in Tekrit.
And with your help and the reach of your program, I just wanted to congratulate their efforts in the war and to tell my brother he's a hero to me, my family, and this country.
Well, I am so glad you got through.
Fredericktown, folks, is right up the road from Cape Girardeau.
And Steve here works as an RN at St. Francis Hospital, one of two in Cape Girardeau.
So they got home Thursday last week.
Are they back home?
Yes, sir.
They're in Missouri.
Yes, sir.
That was the day they actually flew in from Minnesota, I think.
They were up there for a few days, and then they got to come home last Thursday is when they flew in.
And they were in Tikrit.
Yes, sir.
Saddam's hometown.
Well, you just got to be ecstatic.
Yeah, it's great to have him home.
How old is your brother?
How old is your brother?
He's 30.
He's going to be 31 the 26th of this month, actually.
How many tours did he serve?
This is his first, but he's, I think, the fifth out of my family with cousins and all that has served over there.
We've got two other cousins over there right now.
So what does he know what he's going to do next?
He's going back to school.
He's got two degrees already, but he's going back to school.
And I think he's going to continue to serve in the reserves and keep military in his life for a while.
You know, we continue to hear people try to define what it is that's great about the country, particularly, Steve, in light of current times of presidential campaign when way too many people are trying to rip this country apart for a whole bunch of reasons.
But your brother and his buds are one of the most shining examples we can point to to what is great about the country.
And for you to take time, try to get through here to welcome him home and express your honor and your pride in him.
I'm glad you got through.
You've made our day here.
God bless him and your whole family.
You said your family's devoted to this.
There are Americans all over the place that are in awe and have tremendous reverence for you and your brother.
And to have this one of the last moments on the program today, I'm glad you called.
Thanks much.
Give him all of our best, and God bless.
We'll be back after this.
Well, folks, it's great to be back here in the distinguished Attila the Hun chair at my own think tank, the Limbaugh Institute.
And looking forward to tomorrow already.
We'll see you then.
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