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July 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Ha!
How are you?
Well, we're going to have a hurricane out there, Hurricane Bertha.
But darn it, it's curving.
It's going to curve out the sea.
It's not going to hit and destroy anything.
Drive-by media is devastated.
Wrong, Snerdly.
What bottom track?
So I'm not watching C. I'm not watching CNN.
I mean, it's CNN.
They just took it.
Well, thanks for telling me in time so I can miss it.
There is.
I've looked at the track.
I looked at the track at 11 o'clock.
I've looked at the models.
This thing's going to zip out.
There's going to get nowhere near us.
CNN said it is.
Oh, come on.
Then they're two days behind.
Anyway, MSNBC just got it right.
What does that tell you?
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for...
I've got to change channel.
I just cannot stand to have CNN.
Excuse me.
Where's the previous channel?
There we go.
800-282-2882.
If you'd like to be on the program, the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
I'm sorry, El Rushbo.
El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Global warming stack today, folks.
Try this.
This is from, what is this?
This looks like it's, oh, it's ABC.
It's actually the Australian channel, but I think it's ABC.
Plasma L C D's blamed for accelerating global warming.
Why do these people have any credibility left whatsoever?
Just shared with you the story of the gigantic, wasteful carbon footprint that the Democrats are going to make putting on their convention in Denver.
All of these fires in California, a carbon footprint that dwarfs whatever automobiles out there are emitting.
And now plasma and L C D televisions are going to accelerate global warming.
A gas used in the making of flat screen TVs, nitrogen trifluoride, is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.
Almost half the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or L C Ds.
This boom could be coming at a huge environmental cost.
This gas, widely used in the manufacture of flat screen TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide.
Ironically, NF3, which is nitrogen trifluoride, is not covered by the Kyoto Protocol, as it was only produced in tiny amounts when the treaty was signed in 1997.
ABC News.
It is just ridiculous.
I also saw this.
This is from the UK Daily Mail.
I wish...
Well, we will link to this at RushLimbaugh.com.
It was...
It was posted on their website on July 3rd.
An architect has come up with an innovative answer to rising sea levels.
A city that floats around the world, a self-contained lily pad city, will be home to around 50,000 climate refugees from the worst hit areas, including London.
Latest research predicts that sea levels could rise by nearly three feet by the year 2100, putting many islands in the Pacific Ocean in danger.
The lily pad cities would be powered by renewable energy sources.
This dramatic rise of close to one meter would threaten huge areas of low-lying coastal land as well as major cities such as London, New York, and Tokyo.
And they have two different artists' renderings here of these lily pad cities.
Now, they look pretty cool, but this whole, it's an absolute joke.
Climate refugees, people that live near current shorelines, would have to move to these islands, which would not be anchored.
They would float around the world wherever the ocean's currents take them with renewable energy powering them.
I can't describe it.
It's a lily pad.
It does.
It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, obviously.
And they're huge in the artist rendering.
The thing is, they're already doing this in Dubai.
I mean, they're building islands, but they're putting homes on the islands.
But these are floating lily pad cities to house climate change refugees.
Can you do what?
No, I can't get out of paying taxes if you live on one of these.
I imagine a tax rate to get on one of these things.
The admission price is going to be steep alone.
This is only going to be the elites.
Do you think they care about people that get wiped out near the shoreline?
This is just for the elites.
No homeless people on this.
We used to see it.
It's hard to describe.
It's just ridiculous.
No, I'm not going to buy one.
They're never, ever going to be needed, is the point.
This is an absolute joke.
They're never going to be needed.
We've got a bunch of literally insane people working on a hoax of a problem that is never going to materialize, getting people all worked up, coming up with some of the dumbest, stupidest ideas.
Now, if they wanted to do this as a lifestyle option, you can live on your own island, which is essentially a cruise ship that floats around the globe, but you don't know where it's going because it's totally dependent on where the currents take it.
You could end up in Antarctic in this thing, if there still is one.
And here's a story from, what is this?
The Daily Mail, a UK Daily Mail again.
The headline says it all.
Research.
Wind power, pricier and emits more CO2 than thought.
It's an interesting look here at the overall effects of the use of wind power, but the bottom line, I've read the story, so you don't have to.
The bottom line is because of the variability of wind, the gas turbines used to supplement a wind plan will result in an overall net increase in CO2 emissions than if the power grid was planned as solely relying on gas turbines with no wind power contribution.
In other words, wind is variable, meaning some days there aren't going to be any.
Some days there's not going to be enough, even though there's a little bit.
Some days it's not going to come from the right direction.
And so on the days where wind is powering all the stuff that you need electricity and other things for, when the wind's not there, they have standby gas turbines.
And the gas turbines are going to make more pollution than if they just went with a relying on gas turbines permanently.
It's just like this whole ethanol thing, just like this whole mess with food prices.
Everything the left touches, every idea they have, just blows up all the so-called unintended consequences.
But they never get credit for the failures.
All they say is examine our intentions because our intentions are of big hearts.
We're good people.
We're only trying to help.
So we're never supposed to examine the results, the failures of their policies.
I want to go back to audio soundbite number eight, Republican National Committee ad.
I want you to put yourself in a position of a Republican member of Congress running for reelection.
You've got it tough this year because the template is the Democrats are going to pick up huge majorities in both houses.
Now, I know there's polling data to support that.
But can I ask you to also think about something else before we play the ad?
How many of you bought into that template that it's over?
I mean, the Democrats are going to get at least seven seats in the Senate and maybe 20 to 40 more in the House.
How many of you believe that?
Why does anybody believe this?
This is a template that's been created because winning is what Democrats do.
It's the normal thing.
When Democrats win, that's the essence of normalcy.
When Republicans win, Panic City, something's wrong.
But now we're back to normal.
Democrats are going to win everything.
Everything's hunky-dory, and nobody's challenging this.
Even though it's just polling data, and even though nobody knows what's going to happen in these elections, the experts think they have an idea because of the polling data and the retirements where they're coming from, which party has more seats up for re-election, more seats to save, and so forth.
But nobody really knows how this is going to shift.
The idea that the Democrats just walk away with all this this year is just a template.
It's become an action line.
It's just a matter of time now waiting for it to happen.
Frankly, I don't buy it.
But even so, imagine that you are a Republican member of Congress and you are running for re-election.
And in your district, you're at home on a break and you're watching a TV with your family and this ad comes on.
Record gas prices, a climate in crisis.
John McCain says solve it now with a balanced plan.
Alternative energy, conservation, suspending the gas tax, and more production here at home.
He's pushing his own party to face climate change.
But Barack Obama for conservation, but he just says no to lower gas taxes.
No to nuclear, no to more production, no new solutions.
Barack Obama, just the party line.
All right.
Now, the stuff on Obama's pretty good, but here you are, you're Republican.
You're running for reelection.
And this ad basically says that this guy McCain, your presidential candidate, is trying to get you to move in the right direction.
That John McCain is trying to push you.
You're a member of the Republican Party.
Trying to push you to get your mind right on all this stuff.
Which, you know, endorsing the whole notion of man-made climate change is an issue the Democrats own, and we should let them have it.
And we should use it to draw a distinction between ourselves with them.
Another audio soundbite here before we go to the break, just a little funny one.
This is from C-SPAN 2 in depth.
It was yesterday, host Pedro Echavarria interviewing political essayist Keita Pollitt.
He asked her, do you think feminism is more accepted today than it was in the past?
The word feminism has been, I think, successfully demonized by the media.
So that, for example, the word feminazi, which was, I believe, a coinage of Rush Limbaugh, that distinguished sociologist and political theorist.
Thank you.
I remember the first time I heard that word.
I could not believe it.
And yet, that has become a standard verbal locution that you hear all the time.
Used it like it's a word.
So I think the word people are very, many people are very afraid of the word.
Well, that's an accurate word.
The reason it's become a word, it has become a word.
It's in the dictionary now.
And it's because it's accurate.
And I am a noted sociologist and political theorist.
I thank her for pointing that out.
Last Thursday on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, we put together a montage of unidentified C-SPAN callers about the extension of my partnership agreement with Clear Channel.
I couldn't be happier.
I've listened to Rush for 20 years.
I feel like he's a friend.
He deserves it.
Rush is entertaining.
He's fun.
He's upbeat.
Rush brings out the best of our country, what the United States really stands for, what it means to be an American.
And it's so important for people to understand that the United States of America is the greatest country in the world.
We like him, and we're glad he's on.
We're sick of the constant negativity from the so-called mainstream media.
And I am so glad that Rush is here to stay.
I should take this occasion to thank all of you who have sent me similar messages in the email.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of them since last, whatever it was, Wednesday.
Yeah, last Wednesday when this whole thing became public.
It's been very, very gratifying.
One aspect of the new arrangement was discussed last Thursday on Kudlow and Company, Larry Kudlow's show on CNBC.
He had University of Virginia's political scientist Larry Sabato and Jonah Goldberg from the National Review discussing it.
Rush Lembaugh, you saw the headlines today.
$400 million contract out to 2016.
He's still the king of radio.
He's still an influential guy, isn't he, Larry?
Well, sure, with his audience.
But obviously, that's compared to the national electorate.
That's a small piece of the action.
How many people does he reach, Jonah?
I thought he reaches 100 million or something.
Oh, I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but I seem to recall it's something like 10 to 20 million people a week, something like that.
I mean, it's a big, big bunch of people.
You can do a lot of damage with that, Larry Sabateau.
Yeah, but you're going to have 130 million people vote.
All right, so yeah, you can do some damage or you can encourage that segment to get out and vote, but it's a small piece of the action.
Hey, Mr. Sabateau, what's the audience size of an average classroom of yours?
What's the audience size of the average cable show that you attend and appear on?
Anyway, a brief time out here, folks, and more of your phone calls coming.
I know you can't take these snarky little things personally.
You just can't do it.
No, it's eating them up snurtly.
It's a quick question for the University of Virginia's Larry Sabateau.
Dr. Sabateau, why bother writing books when only a few thousand people, maybe 100,000 people, are going to read them?
Why bother teaching in a classroom when so very few people, even over a course of years, are going to show up there?
Why bother wasting your time, Dr. Sabateau, on cable television programs that reach a paltry number of people?
It's such a waste of your time to engage in media that has such small audiences.
And now back to the phones.
Bert, Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
All right.
I call number one because I'm one of the screaming liberals they're always talking about.
Personally, I think big oil should be nice.
I don't believe you.
I don't believe you, Bert, because you're not screaming.
I can do that if you want.
No, no, no.
I like it this way better.
Okay.
Number one.
One of the things that Nutcase over in Iran said, which is what the only thing I've ever agreed with him with, is that there's no problem with oil supplies.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I didn't hear.
Who was the nutcase that said something?
Abujani or whatever his name is in Iran.
Who?
Oh, the president of Iran.
Ahmedine's not.
Okay.
Yeah.
There really isn't a problem with the supply of oil.
The problem is in America.
Yeah.
Number one, and this is the truth.
You can look it up.
Why am I not surprised?
Okay.
The problem is America.
Just leave it at that.
That'll cover everything you believe.
If you just leave it at that, Bert, we can save a lot of time here like Dr. Sabato could by not writing any more books or not going on cable TV.
The problem is America.
Well, number one, if you let me finish that.
Well, I know what you're going to say, but go ahead and say, in the interests of fairness and interest.
Okay.
Number one, oil is purchased in five-year contracts.
Is that not correct?
Not necessarily.
I mean, no, some companies do and some don't.
Southwest Airlines did it.
They got locked in low prices.
That's why they're profitable.
Some of the other airlines did not do it that way.
I'm talking about big oil.
When they buy oil from foreign countries.
Do you know how much of the world's oil supply is nationalized, Bert?
By that I mean owned by governments?
Quite a bit.
Give me the number.
Venezuela.
Give me the number.
I don't know the number off.
Try 95%, Bert.
That's how small the U.S. oil industry is.
95% of all oil in the world is nationalized, owned by the nations where it's in the ground.
Now, what is this?
What are you going to do now to big oil?
How in the world can big oil, whatever they do, impact the fact that 95% of oil is nationalized?
Okay, please let me finish this.
Why should I waste my time?
Go ahead.
Okay.
Oil purchased by big oil in five-year contracts.
So the oil we pay, we're supposed to be paying $145 a barrel for it.
They purchased five years ago for $15 a barrel.
This is raw.
It is when they signed up.
I get it.
I get it.
So they bought oil five years ago at $15 a barrel.
So they ought to be selling gasoline to us at 10 cents a gallon.
Now I got it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Got it.
Talent on loan from God.
We're here kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
This next is somewhat interesting.
It is pretty interesting.
It was from last Thursday on DNC TV, the Scarborough show, early in the morning.
Mika Bzezinski, daughter of Zbigniew Bzinski, was the, she's a co-host, and she had two strategerists on.
She had Liz Chatterson, a Democrat strategerist, and Brad Blakeman, a Republican strategerist.
To talk about me.
So Mika Bzezinski said to Liz Chatterson, Liz, do you believe Rush Limbaugh had an impact on the Democrat primary?
Do you think he will continue to have, if you think he did, an impact in the fall?
Mika, I actually do think he had a little bit of an impact on the primary in certain states, particularly Texas, where he asked his Republican listeners to go out and vote in the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton.
That was the nominee he thought would be, I think, easier to beat in the fall.
I don't know if it had a huge impact, but I think it probably had a little bit of an impact.
I mean, he's got a huge following.
You got to give it to him.
And in terms of the fall, you know, his listeners are not Barack Obama voters for the most part.
But does he have a huge following that could be impacted by what he says in terms of voting for McCain, not voting for McCain?
Absolutely.
He could play a huge role.
All right.
So that was Liz Chatterson, a Democrat strategerist, last Thursday on DNC TV suggesting, acknowledging that I have a major impact, contrary to Larry Sabateau in the previous unbike.
But listen now to Brad Blakeman.
Mika Bzezinski says, Brad Limbaugh has introduced a segment in which he uses a designated Obama criticizer, a man that he calls, quote, certified black enough to criticize Obama.
And that's in quotes.
With all the racial sensitivities out there, Brad, does McCain run the risk of a backlash if Rush helps him too much, pushes the envelope too far?
Well, if Rush becomes a lightning ride, certainly it's not helpful to the McCain campaign.
On the other hand, I think Rush Limbaugh wants to win.
He has much better fodder in the fall if John McCain is the president.
And I believe we'll still have a House and the Senate that's in Democratic control.
So it's in his best interest, selfishly, that John McCain be the president.
So the Republican strategist sounds like a Democrat blogger in one sense, and that is, I'm only in this for my own self-interest, that I don't really care about the country.
I'm just in this to make this show the best thing it can be.
The Democrat strategerists seem to have a correct me if I'm wrong on this, but just as I listen to it, the Democrat strategists seem to have a better handle on what goes on here than the Republican strategerist.
Would you agree with that?
Now, it could just be me.
Could just be me.
Here's Tom in Philadelphia.
Tom, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
I want to congratulate you on your new contract.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
Right.
You have accomplished a great feat.
I have to hand it to you.
You have turned baloney into $400 million.
Don't get caught up in that figure, Thomas.
It'll make you sick.
Listen, you are now America's highest-paid baloney merchant.
Highest-paid baloney merchant.
Right.
You ought to be proud of that, Rush.
I'm proud of that.
There's ain't too many people could do something like that.
Tom, let me tell you, I'm so proud of my achievements that you couldn't understand.
Yeah, but I mean, ain't too many people could do something like that.
Well, that's true.
That's absolutely right.
You're a great purveyor of baloney.
I got to hand it to you.
Tell me, what's the baloney that I purvey, Tom?
You name it.
No, no, you name it because you're the one that claims an opportunity.
As far as global warming goes, I mean, global warming?
What's your credentials?
It's a hoax, Tom.
What's your credentials?
You are smarter.
What are my credentials?
Yeah.
Talk about global warming.
Well, who has to have credentials?
Why?
That's a very elitist attitude.
If you've got a pain in the throat, would he go to Shoemaker or a doctor?
Wait a second.
Mike, Tom, now you're smarter than this.
Don't make my decision to spend some time on you show bad judgment on my part.
All right.
I mean, step up here.
Credentials?
Credentials.
I have an I have an official science climate advisor who is a scientist.
Now, Tom, I also have my own mind, and I can read, and I can think, and I can spot baloney, and the baloney is in the global warming hoax.
It is worse than baloney, Tom.
It is excrement.
It is excrement.
No, no, Tom, there is no man-made global warming.
And they can't prove it at all.
They cannot prove it, Tom.
You're sitting around and you're buying in to the growth of government and tax increases.
Wait a minute.
Let me ask you something.
Yeah.
And you keep pouring this greenhouse gas into the air, billions of tons every year.
Yeah.
Day after day, month after month.
And you say it has no effect on the atmosphere?
That's damn right.
It has no effect on the atmosphere.
What?
It doesn't.
Look at the amount of CO2 and other pollutants from nature, from a volcano, from these fires.
We can't compete with that, Tom.
Do you know how many?
Yes, they don't do it every day.
Tom, wait a minute.
The volcano doesn't explode every day.
But when it does, it cools the earth for years, Tom, because the suit flies all around the planet, Mount Pinotubal.
Let me ask you a question.
I'm doing every day, Tom.
You're missing my point.
You're missing my point.
The global warming hoax makes us out, the inhabitants of this planet, to be the greatest threats to it.
There's plenty of scientists to say it isn't.
There are plenty of scientists on the financial take, Tom.
That's why you want to talk about credentials.
There are plenty of scientists on the financial take, and if they don't spread this hoax, they don't have any money.
They can't earn money on their own like I do, Tom.
They have to rely on a bunch of people.
There are no experts.
There is no science.
There are too many people that disagree here.
You've got as many scientists that agree as disagree.
There is no consensus, Tom, because science cannot have a consensus.
Tom, let me ask you one question.
Let me ask you one question.
Since you're not going to listen to me, you don't want to listen to logic.
You don't want to listen to reason.
All you want to do is insult.
Tell me this.
With all the CO2, how many parts per million, molecule, parts per million, out of 100,000 in the atmosphere are CO2?
I have no idea.
32.
Well, 32.
32.
All I know is you keep throwing that crap in the air, and sooner or later, something's going to happen.
That's all I say.
Well, it's not common sense.
It's not crap.
What it is is common sense.
You were chase in Denora, Pennsylvania, many years ago.
There's all this stuff, all this pollution was in the air, and all these people died.
You remember that?
Oh.
No, we're not talking about pollution that kills people.
I'm not denying any of that occurs.
I'm not denying that we pollute.
I'm not denying.
What I'm denying, Tom, is that we're destroying the planet and warming it up.
We don't have the power to do that, Tom.
How long have we been doing this?
200 years or 200 years, the most?
150 years.
Doing what?
Throwing all this stuff up in the air.
When it's been far warmer in the past before we started doing all this on this planet.
That's another thing you say.
When it's cold, you say, hey, that shows you it's a hoax.
But you never say nothing when it's cold.
Thank you, Mr. This is what, to the woman who called and said, you need to get on TV and do 30-second spots to reach the people that don't listen to you.
This is who you want to reach.
These blockheads who have, I mean, we're not talking about, we don't even have a rudimentary second-grade understanding of things in this guy from Philadelphia.
It is impossible.
This guy is not to be brought into the fold.
He is to be defeated.
And people like him.
This is what we don't understand.
I gave it my best shot, but he wasn't even interested.
All he wanted to do was insult me.
Baloney this, baloney that.
My credentials don't have any.
See, that's an elitist attitude.
I can't have any credentials on this because I'm not a global warming scientist.
So this is what we're up against.
This is, these are, and by the way, I will guarantee you, coming from Philadelphia, this guy's a rock rib, lifelong Democrat.
And all global warming is to him is a partisan political issue.
And he wants to believe the notion that other people are killing other people and destroying the planet and destroying America and so forth.
I mean, who are his credentialed leaders?
Al Gore?
Yeah, right.
Who's next?
Looks like Tony with an I from Fountain, Virginia.
Hi, Tony.
Great that you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Russ.
I'm calling about your caller, Faith, that called a little while ago.
And I'm so glad to listen to all the little sound bites you had because I want to talk to her directly and say to her that I think she's just desperate.
I think that she's looking to you because we are desperate out here.
And let me give you an example why I feel her desperation and I need you to help me.
But I'm only saying that in a figurative way.
I'm a professional, master's level professional worker.
My husband's professional.
We have three children.
We make a wonderful income.
And the Democrats tell me that I make too much and I need to give to everybody else.
And I'm watching as my food bill and my gas bill are eating away at my income.
We put ourselves through college.
We did everything on our own.
We never asked for help.
We paid back our student loans.
And now I'm living paycheck to paycheck.
And so if anyone like you could get out there with us and say, hey, you know, even on TV, help us.
You guys are being lied to, lied to.
That's where I think she's feeling desperate.
I don't think she was a plant.
I think she's really just feeling desperate like I am as a professional worker.
I'm being scared.
I'm scared that I'm going to lose everything I have that I've worked for because of a man like Barack Obama, who, by the way, is half white and nobody talks about that.
It's only his blackness that everyone's talking about.
Oh, yes, they are.
Some Democrats are talking about it that he's not authentic.
He doesn't have slave blood, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, but they're doing it selfishly so they can continue to promote the race.
Well, let me confide something in you.
I feel the same thing.
I feel the same thing.
I feel like they're going to take everything I have away from me.
I feel like that's what Democrats want to do to anybody who is their target or their enemy.
And that would mean anybody who has enough money to be independent from any type of government involvement in their lives.
I think they're going to target.
I'm afraid they're going to try to take away the radio show with afraid.
I'm very scared.
I have three little children, and I'm trying to show them what we've accomplished because we did it on our own.
I worked my butt off through school, and my parents couldn't help me out, and I did it.
And now I might have to go to socialized medicine.
I mean, what the heck?
I'm just so, here's an example of why I'm desperate.
My father's not.
Let me make a prediction to you, by the way, before you finish that.
And this, not trying to add to your desperation.
But at some point with his brain cancer, Senator Kennedy is going to pass away.
And I just want to prepare you.
Shortly after that happens, the Democrat Party will advance officially socialized, nationalized medicine, and they'll call it the Ted Kennedy, whatever it is, bill.
And they will use the sentiment and love that the Democrat Party has for Ted Kennedy to get that passed.
And if we have some weak-need Republicans who will not oppose the bill because Senator Kennedy's name is on it, well, it may not happen, but I think it will.
I think it's the exact kind of thing that they'll try.
Well, it's not out of possibility for sure.
Can I ask you a quick question?
Yeah, fire away.
Okay, my father, who listens to you forever, and he's the one that got me into both you and Sean Hannity.
We were at a weekend, 4th of July celebration at my brother's house, and he confided to me and said, you need to put money in your house, cash, get it out of the bank, put it in your house, because if Barack wins, you don't know if the banks are going to fall.
Should I listen to that?
I mean, I'm nervous.
Do I take this?
There's so much panic out there.
I don't even think that has to do with Obama.
I think most of this has to do with the media.
I think a lot of this doom.
I've got a stack of media stuff here today.
I didn't bother getting into it.
It's just one story after another.
Nothing but doomed.
You're going to lose your house.
The banks are going to foreclose on everybody, and the banks are going to get foreclosed on by the Fed.
Everybody's going to lose credit.
We've got nothing to look forward to.
It's really a shame because all of these things are not traumatic.
I mean, they're not apocalyptic or catastrophic.
But your life situation, the circumstance you describe, is real.
And there are reasons for it.
And you are desperate because you think it can get even worse with the wrong people running the show.
That's right.
That's right.
And I don't rely on my government to help me survive.
And the Democrats are making everyone believe that we should rely on you.
Well, they don't realize.
And that becomes worse.
I mean, I could lose out of it.
They don't care about you.
They don't care about you.
You've just described yourself as somebody outside their control.
They don't care about you.
They're going to get you in their control if they can by taking enough of your liberty away and taxing you enough to where you're going to become dependent on them.
That's what they care about.
But how do I stop that then?
How can I sit?
How do I, that's what I feel like faith is saying to you.
We're at a loss.
I don't have any power to tell.
Who am I going to tell?
My neighbor that?
I mean, you know, they don't listen to me.
Well, what does your neighbor think?
Oh, I'm in Northern Virginia, Rush, and I can't believe the amount of Obama stickers I am seeing on cars.
And my dad's like, that's the state that really counts.
And you wouldn't believe how much Northern Virginia is becoming.
I'm afraid to say who I vote for because I'm on the street.
I know.
I'm well aware of it.
So I just feel her frustrated.
That's because so many damn many government employees are living there.
And the government's growing left and right.
It's a very weird area to live in Northern Virginia.
You should see the immigration problem we have here.
And it's just amazing.
But I just wanted to tell you that I don't think she was a plant.
I think she just is desperate.
And we're all desperate, like people like myself who are educated and we put ourselves where we put ourselves here.
Let me tell you, I've got to confide in you again.
I am just as frustrated as you are.
I've tried to make it plain without doing damage.
I mean, do you think, how can I say that?
I mean, do you see anybody ready to release balloons over our nominee?
No.
And I keep saying great.
But here's my sister, my younger sister, who's an educated woman, saying to me that she was going to vote for Barack because she can't stand McCain.
I'm like, are you really?
You cannot do that.
I don't understand.
And then my dad's like, well, if he gets in, at least then, at least then we can blame it on them if things fall apart.
Well, I can't live like that.
I have a one-year-old daughter.
I need to be able to give her something to look forward to.
Okay.
Look, Tony, I appreciate this.
We're down here to a mere 25 precious broadcast seconds.
Okay, well, thank you.
I appreciate listening to me.
I'm going to address this, obviously, tomorrow when I have a little bit more time.
Because I appreciate you spending this and being honest about your circumstance here.
But there are answers to this, and I'm going to try to give you as many of them as I can when we meet tomorrow.
But I have to run now.
Thanks.
Okay, folks, it's been great.
It's great to be back with you, and I look forward to tomorrow as the You Need to Do More Rush Limbaugh does more broadcast excellence then.
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