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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 guard, 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 gonna say Limbaugh jump right in Obama, warned us the Republicans are gonna play the race guard, and Limbaugh plays the magic Negro song.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's it's I can predict these people.
I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
It's um it's gonna be fine.
I you know that what Obama's doing is reprehensible uh in terms of of telling people uh what is going to be said that hasn't been said, uh it's it's planned a race card.
Nobody that I know is saying anything about his race.
Nobody important on our side, nobody that matters.
And the same thing about this um about this Muslim business.
But I, you know, the the this the smoothness, the um effortlessness with the way this guy weaves in and out of the truth, uh, such as doing his his flip-flop on uh on campaign finance reform and public financing of campaigns, it's breathtaking to behold.
It just uh it just is.
But I I think, you know, frankly, and I was telling a friend of mine over the weekend, that what what 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 bigot, or homophobic.
And what happens is that we always end up on the defensive.
And I'm frankly tired of being on the defensive.
And so I'm not gonna be on the defense.
I'm not gonna sit here and say, what is this?
We're not racist.
It doesn't advance anything whatsoever.
And and frankly, um, you know, to sit here and and call Obama a liar and a point.
I I I also told my buddies, I was chit-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 Bob Carey praised Clinton for being an exceptionally good liar.
The drive-bys are praising Obama for being an exceptionally funny and skilled politician by 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 think they want to hear it.
Uh whether they know it or not, it obviously didn't bother them that 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.
Uh over the weekend I got some new candles, and I'm a big Joe Malone candle freak.
And I found these once at a when I got dragged into a department store.
Long, long time ago, got drabbed into a department store shopping, I think you forgot what the store was.
And they smelled pretty good, so and then I found out that they make these giant things.
These 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 is um um Gardenia.
I love gardenias.
I love Gardinia flowers, I love the scent of gardenia.
And they've got them and these little dinky things, but they don't have them in the big ones.
And I checked 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.
Uh if you want to get hold of somebody to make a fragrance recommendation, they said, Well, that's me.
So I clicked on it, and I put in the email address and and uh my name as they have it in my 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 as fast.
So I put in a couple of things, and I love the candles.
I wish there was a large one, uh 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 the 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 uh other things.
She wrote back, Are you a big fan of Joe Malone?
I said, check my file.
She did, came back and 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 hold of the Grand Pooh Boss at Joe Malone.
I mean, they're in London.
For crying out loud.
But Sony, but I've been, I've been, I've been searching on the internet for uh Gardenia scented.
Snerdly, 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.
Um 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 Pooh Boss up at uh at Joe Malone to see if he could get a gardenia.
And I'm not looking for anybody to tell me where to get a gardenin' sending.
I've got it under control.
I've got that's not what this is.
I just I just wanted to, because it was it was a nice chat, and I started off thinking it was a computer.
Because responses just came too, and some of the responses had clicks for various areas on the website.
Well, we do have a gardenia candle, go here, even though I'd said I know, but do you have big ones?
So that's it.
Size does matter, snurdly, especially in candle.
Well, when you have when you have a large room, absolutely size matters.
Why would you why would eighteen 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 uh 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'm the staff and the IFB folks.
I'm very sensitive.
I've always been sensitive.
What is this?
I'm getting it.
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 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 and 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, menopause?
Or are you just a pyromaniac?
Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you, uh, only a man secure in his masculinity would ever admit that he loves gardenia scented candles.
This is uh 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, uh, and it's it's aimed at the Bureau chief, and if you don't put my story on the air, I'm gonna 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 so they can't get their stories on the air.
Then USA Today has a uh a story today.
Roadside bombs decline in Iraq by almost ninety percent.
Roadside bombs decline by ninety percent.
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, uh 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 uh uh Michelle Obama has slave blood, uh Hillary Hillary didn't, doesn't.
Well, that's what makes her better.
Um, because of the fact that what do you mean the next Hillary Clinton?
Hmm?
What do you mean the next You mean a woman trying to take over when her husband gets someplace?
Well, I think the thing of it is now that uh 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 gonna 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 what 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 Russia is this.
Let's say Barack Obama wins.
Yes, yes.
And the governor of Illinois, well, he's not gonna be center anymore.
Who's gonna 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 gonna no, no, no, no.
It wouldn't t by the way, given the fact I I forgot to ask a question.
I'm not trying to take away from your call.
We'll get back to your news.
But I got a quick question here.
If the Southern Christian leadership conference guy in Atlanta says that Obama has no slave blood.
Right.
Uh, but Michelle does.
Mm-hmm.
You know, 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 bleak can't talk about the can't can't talk.
Can't who you talking about other side.
What other side?
What do you mean?
Well, one side of his family.
Which side?
Which side?
Which be specific.
Well, his uh mother's side.
The white side.
Yeah.
Oh, we can talk about that.
There's no slave blood on the white side.
That's right.
Well, except they might have owned them, so but you know, and I'm not sure.
Another question will Obama have to pay reparations if he authorizes them.
Well to Michelle.
Well, that's an 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 I really I really think That uh 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 if if you if you're having trouble if people are out there with if you think four dollar four fifty cents a gallon gasoline, so you can't afford Obama.
I mean that that that that is the way to run this campaign.
Oh, I d I think.
You know, you can sit there and we can talk about policy, this and poly.
We can't afford Barack Obama.
We personally individually cannot afford Barack Obama.
Our our our our lifestyles cannot afford him.
Our tax increases, the price of fuel that's gonna go up, the punishment that he's gonna wreak on uh 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 McCain's gonna make permanent the Bush tax cuts.
He's gonna try anyway.
Uh and he's he's uh he's not gonna raise taxes other than this global warming stuff.
Work on that.
But we really cannot afford Obama.
It's just that simple.
Oh no, I 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 over.
Hey, hey, hey, now come on.
Let's we we got it, we've got a McCain has d he's he's trying.
He has shifted on the on the offshore drilling.
He is d he's taken a position here that will allow a direct contrast between himself and his party and Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Uh he he says he's open to perhaps changing his mind on and war and and so forth.
I think he's gonna realize soon he needs some issues to contrast himself with uh with Obama, and the more Obama makes speeches and policy recommendations, they're just gonna break everybody's bank.
Uh th uh McCain is going to have an opportunity here to draw distinctions between himself uh and Obama, and he took advantage of it.
So, you know.
And uh and and what happens next.
I uh uh in in 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 gonna start making more kids walk to school when school starts in the fall.
They're gonna expand the distance kids can walk because they can't afford we can't afford Barack Obama.
Who's given us these high prices?
Who has stood in the way of expiration and drilling already that would have allowed us to have our own supply?
The dem I know Montgomery County is one of the wealthiest counties in the area.
I know it is, Mr. Sturdley.
I didn't fall off a turnip truck.
I know that.
That's the point.
But they're gonna expand the distance that kids can walk to school.
Now some people may be saying, good, I'll walk to school ten miles in the snow with no shoes.
What I would uh 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 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.
They re Bush has been trying to get an war drilling passed for the longest time.
Uh 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, uh Paul, thanks for the call.
This is Tim in Columbus, Ohio.
You're next, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Russ, I've been a listener since uh 1989.
Um I called you today because I got a question about my son who's going into the uh his junior year in high school, and he was assigned over summer to read a book called uh Hard Ball by Chris Matthews.
Yeah.
And I'm a little leery of this uh without reading the book, you know, to allow him to do this.
But uh I was wondering if you have read it.
And if my uh nope, I already know how to spit.
If i I guess my take on it would be without reading it, um he's trying to uh to tell people how to how to get power.
Um how to get the water.
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 it's not it's no different than your kid having to watch Gore's movie, other than well, and we're back having more fun than a uh human being should be allowed to have here is Obama Friday in Jacksonville, Florida to 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?
John McCain.
Uh once again, we are we are faced here with questions for Senator Obama.
My 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 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 any thing 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 you're proposing is going to cut prices or increase supply at all.
And you know it.
The hell with what John McCain knows.
Anti-progress, anti-liberty, anti-freedom, this 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 gonna equal their being elected president.
But this is ignorance personified coupled with arrogance.
And that's a that's arrogance one of the most off-putting human characteristics, at least to me to me personally, that I run into.
Here's Bill in Delta, Colorado.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Mega dudos.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, 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 ten and twenty and thirty-year incumbents in Congress because they are the people who have created the problem.
Yeah, well, you know, I I don't uh I don't institutionally disagree with that.
Flushing them out's one thing, but they're people who elect them are gonna 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 horrible.
I love my guy, but everybody else in Congress is horrible, so it's gonna 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 I have to say, for this guy in a lame duck situation and to be so damn stupid, why he got his FISA bill.
Uh he's gotten a couple other things through the House and Senate that he's uh he got his money for a rock 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 and uh 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 that's one of the things to be taken into account.
But the president also has veto, and he's been using his veto pen lately when he didn't the first six years.
A lot of people kind of like this gridlock that's uh you know, 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 a rock while these people are trying to proclaim it a defeat and so forth.
So I wouldn't, I wouldn't write off uh President Bush so quickly.
Grant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, nice to have you, sir, on the uh EIB network.
Yes, hello.
Hey, it's good to talk to you.
Uh my point is that all global warming types, Dr. Hansen included, confuse their own mortality with the end of the world.
Oh, his PhD cannot protect him from his own approaching dust, 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 derange to Dr. Hanson.
Right.
I prefer to chalk it up to the fact, or not not exclude yours, but I I rather think that uh 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 uh from the Heinz Ketchup people.
That's Teresa Hines Carey from one of their foundations.
Absolutely.
This guy's bought and paid for by the left.
He's he's been on a 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 Hanson.
This is 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 what 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, 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 crunch, what is it, liberal?
When you try to explain it rationally, it doesn't work.
How do you explain insanity rationally?
How do you deploy 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, or it's sick.
To those of us who care about nationality who believe in America's 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 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, they're just there's something desperately wrong with these people emotionally, psychologically, or 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 as everybody else as a gnat and themselves, you know, as the can of raid.
Which is poison, which is true in their scenario.
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 what this and this is not true.
This 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 is a Republican, original one of the original trustees of the Heritage Foundation, who's flipped, he's gone to the bad side, gone to dark side, he's at Harvard, been there 11 years, big lib now.
And it happened, I mean, he did I don't know when it happened.
He got thrown out of office after the House Bank scandal, post office the bank scandal in uh 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 in these guys that end up flaking out.
There's always and I made the statement, you know, I've I've why how come I'm the only one that can convert with covort with little 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 the the I don't get the what do you 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 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 and stuff.
This is getting out of hand now.
All I had to do is 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.
I oh my that was my point.
Nothing's changed.
They do.
What, Snowdley?
Now, since I started that...
Snardley says you've you've goofed this up.
He said these public denials only fuel the rumors.
Yeah.
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 in 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 if they want and 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 up big off the wagon.
The Nicarette didn't do it for him.
I don't know if there's menthol Nicarette.
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 what if Obama, 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 uh 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 Fredericktown, Missouri.
Steve, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, that's Mr. Limbaugh.
Uh, my name's Steve Hogan.
I'm an RM that works at St. Francis Medical Center in your hometown in Cape Garada, Missouri.
Uh I was calling today to welcome home my uh brother, Staff Sergeant Jacob Hogan and his team of soldiers from Iraq.
Uh they returned Thursday last week.
They're part of a medical group that was stationed at Camp Spiker and uh to crit.
And uh 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, uh, my family in this country.
Well, I am so glad you got through.
Fredericktown, folks, is a right up the road from uh from Cape Girardo and and uh Steve here works as an RN at St. Francis Hospital, one of two in uh 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 uh in from Minnesota, I think.
Um they were up there uh for a few days, and then they got to come home last Thursday is when they flew in.
And they were in to crit.
Yes, sir.
Saddam's hometown.
Well, you just got to be ecstatic.
Yeah, it's great to have him home.
Uh how's how old is your brother?
Uh he's 30, he's gonna be 31 the 26th of this month, actually.
How many tours did he serve?
Uh this is his first.
Uh, 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 um does he know what he's going to do next?
Uh he's going back to school.
He's got two degrees already, but he's going back to school, and uh I think he's gonna, you know, continue to serve in the reserves and uh keep the military in his life for a while.
You know, we we uh 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 your brother and his buds are the are one of the one of the sh 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 um your honor and your proud your pride in him.
I'm just I'm glad you got through.
You've made our day here.
God got God bless him and and your whole family.
You said you've uh your family's devoted to this.
Uh there are Americans all over the place that uh are in awe and and have have tremendous reverence for you and your and your brother, and to have this uh one of the last moments on the program today.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks much.
Give him uh 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 at Tilla the Hun chair at my own think tank, the Limbaugh Institute.
And uh looking forward to tomorrow already.
We'll see you then.
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