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July 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, Just call it a contract for America.
That's how it should be viewed and how it should be seen.
No, I'm not going to talk about it, snurdily.
No.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's the EIB network.
And why not?
Because I'm just now, we got other things to do here.
I am, you know what?
Well, no, they won't be mad if I don't.
Nobody talks about, no.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh from behind the golden EIB.
Would you people on the staff shut up?
I am trying to open the program.
It's Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address is El Rushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
I assume by now, ladies and gentlemen, you have heard about or seen the forthcoming edition of the New York Times magazine this Sunday with an 8,000-word profile of me.
That is now posted.
They've already posted it on their website.
And we've linked to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
So Dawn is reading it, frowning over her quotes.
I said, get used to it, Dawn.
Anyway, Zev Chaffetz was the writer, spent a lot of time down here this winter and spring.
And it's, you know, it's a nice piece.
At any rate, folks, we have lots to do here.
And it's the 4th of July weekend coming up.
And I must tell you that I will be out tomorrow.
And we'll have a best of show on Friday.
That's right.
Sign the contract for America and then take a day off.
I mean, you've got to establish these things.
You have to establish the pattern so that people are not surprised and shocked by this.
We have our usual, oh, one of the things, grab audio soundbite number one.
I haven't had a chance to tell the broadcast engineer the audio soundbite roster order yet.
This morning on PMS NBC, the discussion, what was this, the Scarborough show with Mika Bzezinski, Pat Buchanan, and Tucker Carlson.
And there was a leak of the New York Times story last night on Time magazine in which they quoted me saying a couple things.
One about McCain and one about Obama.
And basically the thing I told the writer about McCain is, look at when your team isn't in the game, you pull for the team that you hate the least.
That's McCain.
About Obama, I said, he's a liberal.
I oppose liberals.
That's all there is to it.
Those two things spawned a massive discussion on PMS NBC this morning.
Here's the first take.
It turns out that he despises everyone but McCain Less.
You know, I think there are probably a lot of conservatives who feel that way.
It's another indicator of where we are.
Take three steps back.
Here's the terrain.
Here's what he said, Tucker, and this is the New York Times magazine coming out this weekend, if I could get it right.
Rush is just getting warmed up is what it's called.
If your team isn't in it, you root for the team you hate less, and that's McCain.
Well, here's what he said about Obama.
He's a liberal.
I oppose liberals.
And that's all that's involved here.
Okay.
Well, John Manner knows what he thinks.
Not a lot of nuance there, but he probably speaks for a lot of conservatives in saying that.
But look, the truth is, Obama really needs to foul this up in order to lose, partly because he's a very talented guy, but partly because it's just a Democratic year.
Bush is super unpopular.
The Republican Party's in shambles.
Nuance?
They were stunned that there was no nuance.
I don't do nuance.
People ask me what I think, and I tell them.
As for Obama really needing to foul this up in order to lose, he's entirely capable of that.
As we have discussed over the course of many, many previous days of broadcast excellence.
Here's the second take.
And this time Buchanan and Mike Barnicle get involved.
Well, in terms of Rush Lamb Pat, I mean, he could be a factor.
He takes credit with this Operation Chaos for bringing down Hillary or whatever.
You know, I mean, he seems to take Hillary Street.
He's seen pretty well in West Virginia.
And Kentucky.
Look at that cover.
They just don't, I don't know.
They don't know what to think of this.
I mean, what's so tough to understand about what I said?
And what is so controversial about it?
What's controversial about it is that I said it.
That's what's controversial.
Yes, it is.
What do you think the controversy is?
Well, bringing down Hillary.
Of course, they don't know the story.
We sustained Hillary.
Operation Chaos kept Hillary in the game.
At any rate, let's take a look at the drive-by headlines today just to see where we're headed into the weekend.
Fewer companies plan to hire and give raises in the next three months.
That's USA Today.
Stocks off 2.1 trillion this year, USA Today.
For many, golden years mean less travel and more work, USA Today.
Chrysler closing minivan plant, USA Today.
Our big bets by speculators driving up oil.
Experts disagree.
USA Today.
June car sales plummet.
More declines expected.
AP.
Starbucks to close 600 U.S. stores.
Rain in growth, AP.
Wall Street zigzags on first day of third quarter, AP.
Blockbuster withdraws plan to acquire Circuit City, AP.
Manufacturers struggle to overcome rising prices, AP.
Is there any good news out there?
You think you can find any good news in the drive-by media?
Well, no, they have not.
No, my new deal is not in the news roster.
The drive-bys are ignoring it.
The TV people are all calling their agents frantically.
The drive-bys are ignoring them.
There's no good news.
Here's AP making up news as they go along.
What's so funny, Snurdle?
Folks, I apologize here for the distractions.
People who are supposed to be doing them.
The TV people are calling their agents frantically.
Right, exactly right.
Snurdley is getting a big kick out of that.
AP, making up news as they go along.
You people in there, you making me feel real guilty here trying to do the program.
I'm trying to execute broadcast excellence.
I'm trying to meet and surpass the audience expectations.
And you, I am taking tomorrow off.
I just announced that I'm taking tomorrow off.
But it had been long planned.
I told the audience last week, have you forgotten?
You guys get a day off tomorrow.
You don't even know.
You forgot.
I told the audience rather than take two weeks of a vacation or summertime because things are too hot and heavy and they're percolating and too many summer spectaculars here required, take a couple days here and there.
I'm doing this for the audience.
Not for me.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
And we are back.
I have just made an executive decision here, folks, since the next two days, we'll have a tape on Friday.
We've got best of show Jason Lewis in here tomorrow from Minneapolis.
We're going to do Open Line Friday on Wednesday today.
So, whatever you wish to call about, as is the case on Friday, feel free and give it your best shot.
We go to the phones.
The content of the program is all yours.
It's the same career risk that I take on Fridays.
Just now moving it to Wednesday.
Telephone numbers: 800-282-2882.
Now, the drive-bys are making up news now as they go along.
That's what a poll is for to help them make up news.
And I got two examples here: people would rather barbecue burgers with Barack Obama than with John McCain.
That's right.
In a new poll, Obama beats McCain as a barbecue guest.
While many are still, and these people in the drive-by media wonder what in the world is happening to their audience and where are they going.
This is mindless pap.
This is not news.
It is speculation.
It is irrelevant.
Who cares?
Well, many are still deciding who should be president by 52 to 45 percent.
They would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer cookout, according to an AP Yahoo news poll released yesterday.
Men are about evenly divided between the two, while women prefer Obama by 11 percentage points.
Whites would prefer to have a barbecue with McCain.
Minorities would prefer to chow down with Obama.
Obama is a more popular guest with younger voters, while McCain does best with the oldest.
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo!
Get this quote from Wesley Welborne, 38 systems engineer from Washington, D.C.: Having Obama to a barbecue would be like a relaxed family gathering, while inviting McCain would be more like a retirement party than something fun.
And the next poll, this next poll, this next story leads me to conclude, ladies and gentlemen, that we can expect a lot of hit pieces on Cindy McCain very soon.
Soon, this is another AP story, this one by Alan Fram.
The public hasn't taken yet to Michelle Obama, especially whites.
And it's got a question about Cindy McCain.
Who is she?
People are divided over whether they like the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Obama, 30% seeing her favorably, 35% unfavorably, according to an AP Yahoo poll released yesterday.
So let me summarize this for you.
Basically, people are divided over whether they like the wife of Obama or whether they like the wife of McCain.
They tilt positively toward the spouse of Republican hopeful McCain, 27 to 17%.
In other words, while the two women are about equally liked, Michelle Mybel is twice as disliked as Cindy if you read this whole piece.
Cindy is a mystery.
And so expect some hit pieces here, because this is why the drive-bys do these polls.
They go out and they find out who, if the Republican spouse, the Republican candidate, is more popular than the Democrat candidate, then it's time to rev up the smear machine.
Now, McCain has finally had it with Wesley Clark.
He was taking questions aboard his Straight Talk Express, the airplane it is.
You see what McCain did?
Went out and bought a 737 or chartered one or released one and painted it with the McCain logos and stuff all over it.
And he's decorated the inside of the 737 to replicate his Straight Talk bus, his Straight Talk Express bus.
He had people on the airplane the other day, and he said it was time for Obama to cut General Wesley Clark loose.
That's right.
I think it's up to Senator Obama now.
Not only repudiate him, but to cut him loose.
McCain said this to a small group of reporters somewhere between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Cartagena, Columbia, on board the plane.
McCain was asked if Obama, who did not reject Clark's comments Monday, had done enough to repudiate the general.
He said he didn't take the bait.
That's up to others to decide.
I'm not going to worry about the comments that General Clark made.
Now, we've got, let me find the, here it is.
Go to audio soundbite number nine.
Let me see if we're going to...
Yeah, let's go to 9, 10, 11, 12 looks like it here.
Here is McCain on the Straight Talk Express airplane, and this is what he said.
I think it's up to Senator Obama now to not only repudiate him, but to cut him loose.
Now, it's interesting.
You couldn't hear what he said?
Well, then McCain needs to get a quieter airplane so our soundbites will work.
Here's what he said.
I think it's up to Senator Obama to not only repudiate him, but to cut him loose.
That's what he said.
You couldn't hear that.
I can hear that.
How could you not hear it?
I'm deaf.
I am deaf, and I heard it.
This is really strange.
So this morning on DNC TV, co-host Mika Bzezinski was interviewing Obama spokeswoman Linda Douglas.
Now, you know who Linda Douglas is?
Linda Douglas is a drive-by reporter.
Linda Douglas has worked everywhere.
She worked at CBS.
She has worked at ABC.
She used to be on the roundtable now and then with this week with Brinkley and then this week with Stephanopoulos.
She's been at various magazines.
I think she's been some time at CNN.
And it wasn't long ago that Linda Douglas said, you know what?
You know what?
It's time that I really went to work trying to implement the things I believe.
I want to go to the camping.
Really?
Linda, when did you not do that?
Are you trying to tell all of us that when you were in the drive-by media, you were not trying to influence and implement your beliefs?
So she finally, I guess, got sick and tired of the lack of influence, even though she tried to exhibit it.
She got out of the way.
She joined the Obama campaign, and now she's a spokesman.
So the drive-bys call another drive-by for an opinion or a statement from Obama.
And Mika Bzezinski said to Linda Douglas, Wes Clark, McCain's saying Barack Obama ought to cut him loose.
Your candidate going to do that.
The question is, what does cutting him loose mean?
I mean, he's not a member of the campaign.
He doesn't have any official role in the campaign.
Senator Obama said that he rejected what he said about John McCain.
There's not much more that Senator Obama can do about, you know, General Clark, who's certainly expressed his own opinion on cable several times over and over again, but he's not part of the campaign.
I don't know quite how you cut loose somebody who's not really part of the campaign.
How stupid do you think we are?
You mean to tell me, Linda Douglas, that if Obama were really distressed about what Clark said, which he's trying to make everybody believe that he is, the drive-bys are already running cover for this operation, claiming that he's already rebuked Clark when he hasn't.
You mean to tell me that if Obama really detested this and called Clark and said, hey, look, man, I know you're not part of the campaign, but this isn't helping.
You got to dial it back.
That Clark would say, screw you, Obama.
I'm going to go out there and say what I want to say.
No, you can't, General, because you say that stuff, you're hurting me.
You don't say that stuff about McCain.
You can say it about him.
And Clark says, you think Clark would actually argue with Obama?
The idea that Clark's an independent contractor and a surrogate is another one of these myths that float around and are attached to the Obama campaign.
And here's Linda Douglas, drive-by media extraordinaire, now spokesman for Obama, insulting everybody's intelligence.
Well, what's there to cut loose?
I mean, he's not attached.
We can't make him stop.
How do you tell somebody in a campaign to stop?
It happens all the time.
Yesterday in Zanesville, Ohio, Senator Obama held a press conference, unidentified reporter.
I wonder what you think about General Clark's comments both Sunday and today.
And even further, I'm wondering if you can say if you really think those kinds of comments are much different from the Swiftboat types of questions Senator Kerry faced about his Vietnam experience.
I don't think that General Clark had the same intent as the Swiftboat ads that we saw four years ago.
I reject that analogy.
But what I've also said repeatedly is that Senator McCain deserves the utmost honor and respect for his service to our country.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, this is a big non-factor statement.
In the first place, I don't think General Clark had the same intent as the Swiftboat ads.
See, the Swiftboat ads were the truth.
They're trying to now equate somebody being Swiftboated to being unfairly lied about, attacked, if you will.
And of course, the drive-bys are eager to help promote that myth and that revision of a definition.
But then he goes on to say, look, I've also said repeatedly, Senator McCain deserves the utmost honor and respect for his service to our country.
Fine.
You got somebody out there speaking for you who's saying just the opposite, and you don't want him to shut down.
So Obama gets it both ways.
Obama gets to have it both ways.
He gets to stand on the pedestal.
He has the angelic, heavenly light flowing from the mountaintops, the countenance making him look like he is surrounded by a halo.
He gets to say all the right things while his thugs head out there and do all of the dirty work.
And who are these thugs?
They are the standard issue, regular, predictable Democrat Party hacks from previous administrations.
Now, one of two things is either going on here.
Either Obama is an empty suit intellectually and doesn't quite know how to deal with this, or this whole thing is an orchestrated plan to have all these things said by people other than Obama.
Remember, remember, my friends, what did Obama do?
What was it late last week?
Obama went out there and he said, you wait.
The Republicans are going to use race against me.
They're going to start attacking me and they're going to do racial things and they're going to attack my preacher.
They're going to attack my wife.
Meanwhile, who has been attacked?
McCain.
Who has not attacked Obama on anything, much less race?
McCain.
And so preemptive strike, claim you're going to get hit while your thugs out there do the hitting.
Sounds to me like an orchestrated plan.
Back to the audio, sound by tear ladies and rush limbo, by the way, another summertime spectacular.
And as usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Yesterday in Zanesville, Ohio, we have Obama echoing McCain, echoing Clinton, saying Clark's comments don't keep Ohioans up at night.
Unidentified reporter, do you not feel that General Clark owes McCain an apology?
And then secondly, I'm just curious, why have you not spoken to him?
Have you tried to reach him?
We're here to talk about how we can make sure that kids in Zanesville and across Ohio get the kind of support that they need and communities that are impoverished can start to rebuild.
The fact that somebody on a cable show or on a news show like General Clark said something that was inartful about Senator McCain, I don't think is probably the thing that is keeping Ohioans up at night.
Very, very, very smooth, very clever.
So let's throw some money at communities that are drowning in money.
And let's make sure we continue to throw money at education systems that are drowning in money so much that we know money is not the answer here.
And let's just say what Clark said was inartful.
See, I knew he hasn't called Clark to tell him to shut up, and he's not going to.
There's another point about all this, though.
You know, this campaign is irritating to me in a whole lot of ways.
I can't tell you how irritating it is.
This campaign's not getting to the substance of anything that needs to be addressed in this country.
It really isn't.
But then above and beyond that, it seems like every day or every week, one of these two candidates is asking for somebody to be repudiated or denounced or renounced.
Come on, guys.
This is the major leagues.
This is as big as it gets in the politics business.
To run around and act like a bunch of little Namby-Pamby college kids who just got out of conflict resolution class is demeaning.
It's demeaning to both of you.
It's demeaning to the race.
I know why Obama's doing it.
Obama's out there to demean that you can't talk about anything.
You can't talk about his wife.
You can't talk about his mother.
Can't talk about his middle name.
You can't call him a liberal.
Can't talk about his financiers.
You cannot talk about his preacher.
You cannot talk about his terrorist buddy that blew up the Pentagon.
You can't talk about virtually.
You can't talk about his big ears.
You can't talk about anything.
And he's doing that specifically because he's an empty suit.
He wants his image of Messiah continue to be what is noted about him.
And it'll be easy because, as our official Obama criticizer, Bill Snerdley, said the other day, the Republicans are so afraid in this campaign that they won't even call nighttime dark.
Much less getting into any substantive criticism of Obama other than, I think it's time he cut him hush.
I would renounce, if ever it was me, I renounced what that was.
It's like a couple of kids.
Here is yesterday, this is a conference call with reporters.
Former prisoner of war Orson Swindle said this during the conference call.
We all know that General Clark, as high-ranking as he is, his record in his last command, I think, was somewhat less than stellar.
The point being, General Clark ought to be ashamed of himself talking about a fellow serviceman.
He's not ashamed of himself.
He's doing this on purpose for a reason.
He's a political hack and he's playing hardball and they're out there trying to win.
And they're trying to take away from McCain the number one attraction that he has, and that is his character and dignity and heroic war service that has contributed to this status.
They know exactly what they're doing.
And then they tell McCain his supporters need to renounce or he needs to renounce some of his supporters who say, you know, oddball things.
In fact, there's a story here from Politico.com from last night.
And the headline, McCain game plan worries insiders.
When I saw that headline, I said, well, I'm going to be fascinated about this.
Four months have passed since McCain effectively captured the GOP party nomination, and the insiders are getting restless.
Top Republican officials, frustrated by what they view as inconsistent messaging, sluggish fundraising, and an organization too slow to take shape, are growing increasingly uneasy about the direction of the McCain presidential campaign.
Whoa.
The insiders?
The insiders are worried?
Now?
How long did it take them to catch us?
and get up to speed.
This is laughable.
The insiders are getting restless.
The insiders got exactly what they wanted.
The insiders have a candidate who's going to go out and appeal to Democrats and Independents.
That is exactly what they wanted.
And now all of a sudden they're up.
Why are they upset?
What is the what do they expect?
What did they expect?
While the practice of second-guessing presidential campaign decisions is a quadrennial routine, interviews with 16 Republican strategerists and state party chairmen, few of whom would agree to talk on the record, reveal a striking level of discord mounting criticism about the McCain operation.
It's not just message or not having just one single meta theme to compete with Obama as a veteran strategerist.
It's not the fundraising, which is mediocre.
And it's not even just organization, which is just starting or non-existent in many states.
McCain's campaign seems not to have a game plan.
I don't see a consistent message, said Ed Rollins, a veteran of Republican presidential campaigns.
As somebody who's run campaigns, this campaign's not running smoothly, he said.
But none of this matters if they get their act together.
It's not running smoothly.
Why is it not running smoothly?
These insiders should pay a little more attention to what those of us who really care about winning these elections might have to say.
You have, you know, let me put this in perspective for you.
We know that Obama, and some of you are going to get mad at me here, but it's early and this is, if you want to explain why the insiders are mad and why there's no game plan here, why there's no organization, here you go.
Pardon me.
I got a little bit of a throat cold that started yesterday.
The voice is just a little weak.
Hang in there and be tough.
We know that Obama thinks of himself as a messiah.
We know that he thinks that the power and the force of his personality will carry the day.
The dirty little secret is that McCain has a little of that in him, too.
He thinks not of himself as a messiah, but just his existence, just his presence on the scene is enough.
It doesn't have to be a whole lot of organization.
In fact, we've discussed on this program before, do you think McCain's going to have any GOP coattails?
Does he seem interested in running around and helping House candidates either raise money, Senate candidates raise money, get re-elected?
I mean, there are some people who think that McCain has it in for the Republican Party and has had it in for the Republican Party since 2000.
That would be tough to prove and tough to quantify.
But if you don't have a message, and if you don't think you need a message, and if you don't have organization, and if you don't think you need organization, then it's got to tell you something.
Has to tell us something.
And that is that isn't necessary.
We don't think we need all that because we have the power of persona.
We have the power of our own record.
We have the power of my lifetime of public service.
That's what'll launch me.
So you've got two massive egos in check here.
One of the things that McCain did was farm out all these local or state party operations to freelancers.
There is no national hub organizing all these states.
And, of course, the states are saying, what do we do?
Because there's no leadership or guidance and no memos.
Nobody's suggesting do this or that.
So everybody's on their own on the Republican side.
Quick phone call.
Who would you suggest first?
Sternly.
Bob in Philadelphia.
Bob, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Yes.
Yesterday, I was trying to get through all day.
It seemed a bit strange.
I'm going to paraphrase Obama's when he discounted what he said, McCain went to torment for five years.
Now, torment to me is when I can't find my car keys.
Being a great Democratic liberal like he is, he refuses to use the word torture.
Unless, of course, you're wearing panties on your head and you're an Iraqi.
Now, that's torture to them.
But for what McCain went through, it's torment.
I couldn't, I can't believe that no one else picked up on that.
You know, I actually, I don't remember, I'll have to check the transcript.
I don't remember specifically, not denying it.
I just don't remember specifically Obama using the word torment.
Don't take this personally.
But I do know that if he did use it, it's not surprise.
That whole patriotism speech, that speech, you know what the template for that speech was?
The race speech in Philadelphia, where Obama essentially threw the preacher under the bus and his white grandmother under the bus.
I mean, that was the same template.
I still maintain anybody that has to schedule a speech during the 4th of July week to explain their own patriotism must have some question about whether or not people believe they are patriotic.
And I think they've got some focus group data, some polling data that shows that a whole bunch of Americans think the Democrat Party has a different definition of patriotism than most Americans.
Almost 25% of the American people in a poll suggest there's a whole big difference in the way Democrats define patriotism and the way average Americans do.
So there's no question Obama had to go out and do that in the process of doing his own definition of patriotism to, of course, match his life and behavior.
Believe me, there is a concerted effort here to destroy this whole prisoner of war, honor, integrity, service, sacrifice aspect of McCain's resume.
That's the purpose.
So if he did, in fact, refer to what McCain went through as torment, that was just exactly trying to downplay what it was.
What do you think?
You think they're not coordinating?
If Obama actually said torment a couple days after Wesley Clark says, hey, riding a jet, riding, not flying it, riding a jet and getting shot down and being a prisoner of war, that doesn't qualify you for anything.
So that's what they're trying, because they know Obama is small compared to McCain in terms of life achievements, accomplishment, character, they got nothing.
And as the case with liberal Democrats, they succeed or they operate not by building themselves up, but rather by hiding themselves and trying to destroy the character and reputations, credibility of their opponents, wherever they might be.
And welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to speak to you from my heart as well as my mind.
I do this most of the time anyway.
I'm terribly conflicted here.
I'm getting advice from both staff and many of you in the email to acknowledge what was headlined on the Drudge Report today.
And these things are always tough to talk about.
I mean, I can tell you that I have extended my partnership with Clear Channel through the year 2016.
I am not going anywhere.
I am going to be here with you.
I think it is, I'm just ecstatic that this has happened.
And I'm happy that I can be able to tell you about it during the 4th of July week.
Because, and I've said this on many occasions, none of this would have been possible without you.
And I can't thank you enough.
It's a debt that I can never repay you, just like we can never repay the debt that we owe the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces.
And I'm constantly in awe of the bond, the loyalty, the length of time people have been listening to this program, 20 years coming up on August the 1st.
So yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have extended through 2016.
And yes, for the most part, what you've read is true.
But I want to say a couple things.
It's actually a cut because I was projecting much more.
And since I didn't get what I was projecting, I'm looking at this not as a raise, but as a cut.
Because I was expecting twice this.
What I am going to call this is the contract for America 2008.
I know that the liberals and others will resent this, the class envy crowd, but don't resent it.
I earned it.
And if Obama becomes president, I won't keep much of it.
For example, his Social Security reform will take how many millions?
Who knows, but a lot.
His first tax increase, which will take us back to the Clinton tax rate of 39.6, that'll take at least another 5%.
Who knows how many millions?
Then Obama's second tax increase, the one he never talks about, but the one there will be, will take, I mean, heaven knows how much more out of what already is a cut.
And then his Medicare bailout.
And then a tax increase on whatever else he hasn't thought of.
Who knows?
I mean, I am proud.
I will be honest.
I am proud of my new much-deserved contract, which, of course, is a cut.
But, well, I'm just telling you that I am proud that I will still have some of it left so that I can still be told I am not paying my fair share.
I hope to have enough of it left.
That's as if Obama is elected.
Seriously, this is hard for me to talk about.
I'm trying to joke about it here with the, you know, make a point and a little satire on the way baseline budgeting works in Washington, D.C.
But this is a to me, the great thing about it is another eight years all the way through 2016, not going anywhere.
I've told all of you that I am not retiring until every American agrees with me.
This is the United States of America, and we are celebrating our independence this week.
And the things that have happened to me in my life are the reason that I am so optimistic and the reason that I have such love for this country and the reason I don't want anybody messing with it.
And the reason I don't want anybody tampering with the capitalist system, the entrepreneurism that's founded in freedom and ambition and creativity, that lets people fail and fail and fail and try and try and try again until it works.
The notion that these are the people we need to punish in this country offends me to no end because these are the backbone of the country, the people who make it work.
They're not people seeking fame.
They're not people trying to get noticed by anybody.
They're just living their lives, doing the best they can, for the most part, what they think is right.
Nobody can be perfect.
But this little thing that's happened to me the last 20 years, how could I not be optimistic?
And for everybody else, it happened to me.
It can happen to a whole lot of people.
But if there's nobody around to inspire you, and if all you're going to hear every day is how it can't be done, America's going to hold a handbasket, well, that's bad, and I don't want to put up with it.
Rush Limboy, your host for life.
A brief timeout.
Windfall profit timeout, in fact.
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