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July 28, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I think it's true.
I think it's finally happened, ladies and gentlemen.
I think.
And we've been worried about this.
We've been concerned about it.
But I think President Bush has finally lost his mind.
He now thinks he's Barack Obama.
I heard the president's radio address on Saturday and Bush gave the thing.
Now, who does he think he is?
We all know that the president of the United States is Barack Obama.
We don't need any stinking election.
And yet there's Bush out there persisting in this belief, and he's still running the show.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Lindbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead.
Great to have you with us.
As you may know, we are commencing our 20th anniversary week today.
The actual 20th anniversary of this program is August 1st, which is Friday.
And on that date in 1988, we started with 56 radio stations, one of which was WABC in New York.
And we actually started there on the 4th of July.
So we've already had our 20th anniversary on our New York flagship in New York at WABC.
And there were 56, 55 other radio stations, and most of them very small and very tiny.
And as we go through the course of the week, we're going to be peppering the program with reminisces and remembrances of things that have happened over the course of the past 20 years.
I'll never forget this program started out, it was a fad.
It was not going to last.
And after the election of 1988, the drive-by media started their first refrain.
Well, now that Russia's guy won, i.e. Bush, what's he going to have left to talk about?
It was never supposed to have lasted this long.
The left has thrown the kitchen sink at this program in terms of other hosts.
And they are all but memories now.
And we will go back and remember some of those memories.
And I'll have some little stories about the early days.
Here's one, just to put the start of this program in perspective.
Now, I had moved from Sacramento to, yes, Snartly, we're going to get to Obama today.
We're going to get all this stuff.
It's a three-hour program.
You know, I said Friday.
We're going to start with his anniversary stuff.
1988, I go to New York from Sacramento.
And this is, it was a very odd arrangement.
It no longer has to happen this way.
But in order to get my program or the commercials that we were selling on our national program at 55 Stations to start, I had to do a local show in New York, essentially free of charge for WABC.
In exchange, they ran our spots.
That show was from 10 till noon, and then the national show was from noon to 2.
And it was that way for a year or two.
And of course, on these 55 radio stations, they were very small in a lot of markets.
No, no, no, they weren't.
I mean, this is back in the days, and nobody thought this would work.
I mean, the Wizards of Smart and Broadcasting wished me well, but they said, you don't have a chance.
Syndicated talk in the daytime is never going to work.
It's only worked at night.
People want to have local issues, local phone numbers, local this, local that.
We wish you well, but it ain't going to work.
So I figured if it didn't work, I'd just be the latest in a long line of valued efforts.
If it did work, it could revolutionize things.
So I would get in early in the morning, 7 or 8 o'clock at WABC, and I started doing my show prep for both programs.
And I shared a desk with the lovely and gracious Lynn Samuels, who was the resident left-wing cook, lovable and nice as she could be, but still a nut.
To this day, it had to share a desk, but she kicked.
She came in, she came in later.
Now, what had happened was that this program, when it first started on those 56 little radio stations, it was causing a hell storm in most of these markets.
The host that had preceded me was a very professional guy, but very bland.
And the local markets in which this show started started reading newspaper articles and outrage and shock and who the hell is this and what's going on.
And somehow those articles would end up sent to the program director at WABC, John Minelli.
So John Minelli would post these articles on the bulletin board.
Anytime anything happened to a WABC host in the media, in the newspaper, he'd go put it on the bulletin board.
And I remember after about six months of this, I got called into the general manager's office at WABC.
Name not important now.
And he sat me down and he said, You're going to have to make a decision.
Do you want to be a big guy in Allentown or do you want to be a big guy in New York?
Because you can't be both because we are never, ever going to carry your national show on WABC.
I don't want to hear from Hicks and Hayseeds outside New York.
And I just, I sat there and I took it all in.
He said, I don't care what's going on in Allentown or some of these other little towns.
I really don't care.
I'm told that Minelli should take those things down.
This back of Bob Grant was in the afternoon.
Dave Dawson was in the morning.
And Lynn Samuels was in the mix.
So it was tough.
I mean, I had, it doesn't matter where he is now.
I mean, these are fun stories, snurdily, to think back on this and to think how it all.
The guy was not a mean guy.
The general manager is not a mean guy.
It may sound mean the way he told me the story.
He was being protective of his radio.
I mean, New York's the number one market.
They don't care what's going on in Allentown.
Nothing new about that.
So anyway, as we all know, it all worked out.
I just stuck to it.
I called my syndication partner, Ed McLaughlin, and I told him his story.
I said, I'm just trying to prepare my program here.
And I got called in here and I'm told that they're never going to carry the national show, which was not the original deal.
It was just posturing.
It ended up, of course, they carried the national program in a year or two, I think.
And it was onward and upward.
But it was, think back, I've been thinking about some of these early days, and they seem like yesterday.
I mean, they really just seem like they happened yesterday.
And then some days, sometimes it seemed like it was 20 years ago when this all, yeah, furniture got lost.
Yeah, the driver, Mayflower, Mayflower driver just parked his van and got a strike.
He got mad at the company, parked a van at a truck stop somewhere in Indiana, I think, Ohio.
Nobody knew the FBI was called in.
They couldn't find, it was not just my stuff on this van.
It was all kinds of stuff from Sacramento.
Couldn't find it.
I got kicked out of the first hotel I was staying in, the Parker Meridian.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it was, I'll tell you, the first six months to a year in New York, I thought, this isn't going to work.
There's weird things happening here.
Well, I'll tell you the story when I got kicked out.
I got kicked out because of what I said about a Mike Wallace segment on 60 Minutes one night.
And all I did was quote Mike Wallace.
So anyway, I got kicked out.
You didn't know this story.
I got kicked out of the Parker Meridian.
The deal was I was going to live there for six months while I scouted around and found a place to live.
And after about three months, I got kicked out of the Parker Meridian.
Yes.
I got kicked out of the Parker Meridian.
Had to go find an apartment.
Then the furniture got lost getting to the apartment because the driver got mad at the company and parked it in some truck stop.
You have to, what was two months before they could find the van.
And then another week or two before they would release the contents of the van, which was just my furniture.
So, yeah, but yes, yes, right.
Now I own Allentown, and now I own New York, and now I could buy Mayflower van lines.
All right.
Well, one of the things we're going to do, and we're not going to do too much, we're going to start really in earnest on this on Wednesday, but we've got some things today because there was a story in the New York Times yesterday, I think.
Was it yesterday or Saturday?
It doesn't matter what you.
And my old buddy, the one guy I constantly praise, wrote this story, Jim Rutenberg.
And it's the latest installment in We Think We Found the Next Limbaugh.
Only this story is the next limbaugh is three black guys, three black talk show hosts who are balancing my anti-Obama status with their pro-Obama status.
So the drive-bys have given up on all of the white people, male and female, that the left has thrown.
And now they're trying to say that these three black guys and their shows.
And the way they're arriving at this is that if you add up the audience of these three black guys, you get 20 million.
Which it's just, it's just hilarious.
I wouldn't comment on it other than it's the 20th anniversary week, and we have some retrospective audio sound bites from the past 20 years when the left thought that they could take a shot at knocking me off.
We'll come back and show you or air some of those for you.
It's fun to relive these things to what people said and predicted right after this.
Do not go away.
Hi, Rosh.
This is your friend George Brett from Kansas City.
Congratulations on 20 years of helping so many of us out here in the country.
I know we go back to the late 70s, about 30 years ago, when you had that very important job of who was going to throw up the first pitch and sing the national anthem at Royal Games.
And every once in a while might have sold some tickets to a group.
But you've come a long way.
It's been great being your friend and cherish the things that you've taught me and the times that we've shared together.
And can't wait to see you again, pal.
I hope you have another 20 years.
And as my brother told me when he found out you got that new contract, he said, George, see what happens when you read and you kind of understand things.
My heart goes out to you, pal.
I'm proud of you.
I'm proud to call you a friend.
And I look forward to seeing you again in the very near future, pal.
Congratulations on 20 wonderful years on radio.
Now, this is another thing.
They won't tell me who they've got for these little greetings is I cannot worm it out of any of them.
There are 23, maybe 25 of these through the week.
That's four a day, so we're not going to pound every break here with these.
But in fact, I forgot we were going to run these when I heard this today.
Ooh, I picked up and Brian starts shouting at me to look at the transcribe screen so I could understand everything that Brett said.
So anyway, in addition, in addition, thank you, George.
There's another guy.
I mean, we all joke about my days at the Royals, but those were lonely days.
And some of my closest friends today come from those years.
And it's sort of, well, it's a little emotional to hear these people say these things after the unkind teasing they gave me when I was stories.
Oh, of course it was all in.
Oh, God, it got so bad, I refused to go to the locker room for two homestands.
I just refused to go down there.
I refused to go.
And my job required me to go down.
I said, I told him I'm not going down there.
I can't put up with it.
And finally, George and his brother Ken came up to my office and said, wait, miss you, Downey.
What's going on?
At any rate, there are other items in the news that we're going to get to.
The AP, United States, now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.
Isn't it amazing, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama goes over to the Middle East, goes over to Iraq, and now the drive-bys notice that we are winning.
The problem is that the Democrat Party was invested in defeat, and they're giving Obama and the Democrats a total pass on this.
That's coming up.
In addition, remember Tammy Mae.
Tammy Mae from somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Well, apparently, she's upset in a local newspaper in which her original comments appeared were upset because on Sunday they ran a story, headline, Limbaugh quotes local woman, misrepresents her comments.
This is the woman who I was originally told had sent a letter to Bob Casey.
I was misinformed.
I later was found out that it was a letter to the editor in the newspaper.
That turned out not to be right.
It was a story that they had done at the paper, and she was quoted in it.
Bob Casey read, their problem is with Bob Casey, not with me.
He's the one that characterized what she said, and that's what we bounced off of.
Anyway, that's coming up, as well as all kinds of exciting things here in the stacks of stuff.
All right.
In addition, Jim Rutenberg in the New York Times, the next liberal limbaugh, is actually three black guys.
When you add up their audience, it equals 20 million, says Rutenberg.
What's a black population in a country, Snurdy?
It's 13% of 280 million people.
They're going to have, take the kids out of that.
These three guys are going to have to pretty much have sewn up every black person in the country listening to them.
And maybe some of those that aren't black enough might be tuning in as well, as not less than authentic.
What's interesting about that is this story from the Washington Post by Alec McGillis and Jennifer Agesta.
Hurdles to expanding the black vote.
New voters are a key to his strategy, but return on investment is uncertain.
This is the second such story that we have seen about Obama being unable to close the deal with the black people.
One story was he's not expanding racial relations.
He's not improving.
There's no improvement here.
And this story is that he's got to go out and work hard to register a lot of blacks to vote for him.
That a lot of black people have not signed up.
There's a whole lot of blacks.
They're just not signed up to vote and are really not on the Obama bandwagon yet.
This is the point of the Washington Post story.
And yet Jim Rutenberg in the New York Times says that these three guys are the new limbo.
Let's go back.
When I spoke to the freshman class, U.S. House of Representatives, 1994, Camden Yards in Baltimore, this is December 10th.
The Heritage Foundation put this thing on.
And after I spoke, I got some questions, Q ⁇ A. One of the questions was, Rush the Clinton White House wants a liberal talk show host.
Who are your top five nominees?
What do you think?
Well, there's only one, Mario Cuomo.
I think Mario Cuomo, I think he'd be the perfect guy.
Supposedly the greatest communicator the world has ever known, a person who lived off one speech longer than anybody in American politics.
And I think that Cuomo would be the ideal guy to show them just how easy it is.
The truth of the matter is that there are more liberal talk show hosts than there are conservative.
I think there are plenty of them out there.
They just haven't.
And you know why?
It's real simple.
What do liberals do?
Liberals wring their hands and look for things around America that they don't like, and they criticize it all the time.
And they end up criticizing the traditions and the institutions that made the country great, and people have just grown weary of it.
Liberals can't look out and laugh at anything because while one person is enjoying himself with all this misery, nobody should be enjoying themselves.
I mean, they just, there's an assault on achievement, there's an assault on enjoyment, there's an assault on people who are enjoying themselves and having a good time because it's just not morally right that this should happen when there's so much suffering in the world.
And therefore, you put somebody on the air who's going to wring his hands every day about that, and he's not going to acquire a large audience.
I do not feel threatened by liberal talk show hosts in America.
That's December 10th, 1994, 14 years ago.
January 6, 2003, MSNBC, remember the Donahue show?
Donahue and Vladimir, what was his name?
Vladimir Posner.
And Governor Cuomo was a guest.
Donahue said, Governor, what were you saying about Rush?
Rush Limbaugh tells one side of the story.
He exaggerates it.
He hyperbolizes.
He is a master entertainer.
There's no question about that.
He's very bright.
He's probably a very good fellow, too.
He does not discuss the issues.
He does not debate the issues.
He doesn't want to give you a full view of the issues.
We believe in subtlety.
We believe in telling the whole truth.
We don't want to exaggerate.
He said, look, they write their message with crayons.
We use fine-point quills.
That's what I mean.
Going back and listening to some of these things.
Here is Professor Dershowitz.
Now, this is from CNBC when Heraldo Rivera had his show over there.
And Heraldo is saying, in Boston, the equally brilliant Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who appears live and well, despite the fact that Rush Limbaugh read a letter on his program the other day that Alan Grodin and I would all have, and I quote, live simultaneous strokes, which leave them without the gift of speech for the rest of their lives.
Somebody had sent me a letter and I had read that.
Here's Dershowitz's reply.
This is the man who Ronald Reagan said was the voice of conservatism and who William Bennett said was one of the great men in America.
He has dragged talk show America down to such horrible depths.
And he is the guru.
He's the standard by which these dregs of talk show radio are judged.
I wish him no ill in his personal health, but I hope Americans will start turning off his radio show.
The exact opposite happened.
Professor Dershowitz, that's March 2, 1999.
April 26, 2004, Mark Walsh, CEO of Air America audience member, asked Walsh, will your talk network change minds?
Will we change minds?
Some of the numbers you see out of the right wing are massive.
Yes, Rush Limbaugh gets 15 to 20 million listeners per week, about a million and a half a day.
Yes, the number of stations he is on is staggering.
Yes, the number of hours available per day for the right wing to shove their vitriol and bile down the throats of unsuspecting listeners continues to grow.
But let me suggest to you that entertainment that is successful will overtake this wave that we missed the timing on.
That was Air America, which has undergone three ownership changes.
That's a good question.
I don't know if they're still around.
I don't know.
Anyway, we've got a break, my friends.
Sit tight.
We'll have to check and see.
It's a good question.
As I go back and I relive these soundbites from Cuomo and Dershowitz, I'm struck by something, ladies and gentlemen.
These guys articulated their hatred masterfully.
They really, when they veered into their hatred, I mean, they articulated it and spoke it very well.
Now, what do we have?
What's the left?
CodePink, moveon.org.
That ill could barely put six words together in a sentence.
The left-wing hate business has lost a lot of its intellectual vitality.
As I go back and I listen to some of these audio soundbites, one more.
This is September 12, 2006.
It's today show Ma Oauer interviewing Jane Fonda, who was on to promote her new women talk radio network, Greenstone Network.
And Matt Owa said, You started the women's radio network in a statistic that I found kind of startling.
Women between 25 to 54 listen to 10% less radio today than they did just 70 years ago.
Why is that?
Women are leaving radio because radio has left women.
95% of radio programmers are men.
85% of general managers of radio are men.
In order to know how to program for your audience, you have to look like your audience.
You have to live like your audience.
You have to empathize with your audience.
And men just don't know how to do it.
The Greenstone Network lasted about six months and is now history.
Gloria Steinem was part of the network.
Jane Fonda, they're gone.
So, and we're going to be doing this during the course of the week, ladies and gentlemen, revisiting a lot of moments from the past 20 years here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Now, Senator McCain, Senator McCain is out there saying the truth about Barack Obama.
One of the things that Senator McCain is saying, and he said this last week, he said it's apparent to him that Senator Obama would rather lose, would lose a war in order to win an election.
And of course, the drive-bys and the Democrats are outraged by this, and they're all coming to Obama's defense.
All McCain did was state the obvious.
What is truly outrageous about this is it wasn't just Obama.
The entire Democrat Party was invested in defeat.
And they did not mince their words about it.
And they have never been held to account.
It was only a year ago that Harry Reid said that we had no chance to win, that Harry Reid said this war is lost.
And it was all about the surge.
They were waving the Democrat white flag.
They were threatening to defund the war.
It was only six months ago that they were demanding funding limits on this.
And here's the problem for the media in this.
The media endorsed the Democrat position that we'd already lost in Iraq, and thus we need to get out of there as quickly as we can.
So hold the Democrats to account.
To do that would be to hold the drive-bys to account themselves, which they will never do.
How many, you remember watching these shows?
How many pundits did they publish or have on the air as guests, including former generals under Clinton, insisting that all is lost?
I think even Colin Powell was among the people complaining in the wings that we had no chance.
And yet, today we have the AP, read this to you again.
The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.
Now, why this?
Why now?
A, it's inescapable.
B, they finally went over there.
Why'd they go over there?
Because they went over there in hot pursuit of the most merciful Lord Barack Obama himself with their tongues hanging out, dragging along the pavement, hoping for some FaceTime with Lord Obama.
And so now all of a sudden, Barry goes to Iraq and they notice that we are winning.
McCain comes back, and McCain's comment about Obama preferring defeat in order to get elected was simply Obama's obstinance in refusing to suggest that knowing what he knows now, he would support the surge.
The surge is what brought us victory.
Obama has been in a total state of denial about it, and the press is circling the wagons for him as quickly as they can.
It's exactly what it is.
The question remains, is any of this going to matter?
You know, I sit here and I'm working feverishly on show prep and I get, you know, people send me their thoughts on what Obama said here and how he's flip-flopping from what he said a year ago, two years ago.
And it's these, if you go back and you actually put a list together of all these things, they are amazing.
This guy has been sold all over the ballpark on virtually everything.
But I wonder if calling attention to the so-called flip-flops, I don't think that's the way to do this.
I think to go about this is to continue to hammer away at his incompetence and his inexperience.
Why does a guy have to go to Berlin and tell the audience he loves his country?
Why is thatness not assumed?
He trashes his country.
I'll never forget this, folks.
This is the one thing about that speech that I'm not going to forget.
I don't care flip-flops in the past.
I don't care what he said about the surge then versus now, except in terms of it shows his inexperience.
But to go over there and say to these people that his is an imperfect country, we made a lot of mistakes.
We've got a lot to pay for.
And to be routinely praised for this, especially to a country and a group of people who we have saved in any number of ways, it just rubs me raw.
It just offends the hell out of me.
And this is something I think should be focused on, as well as his inconsequential inexperience or his inexperience and his inconsequentiality in the whole war.
He had nothing to do with it other than suggesting a loss.
The drive-bys are out now trying to say his plan's the one that's been endorsed by Malachi.
His plan's been endorsed by everybody else, and he's the one that's bringing victory.
I'll tell you something else.
I'm going to go out on a limb.
You know, this prayer when he went to the Western Wall, and he writes this prayer out, and he sticks it in a wall, and then some Jewish student comes along, supposedly, goes digging around in there and finds it and releases it, and everybody's up in arms over the invasion of privacy.
I would not be surprised, and we will probably not learn this, but I will not be surprised to learn this whole thing's a campaign trick, that that note was written to be discovered, that note, that prayer was written to be, because I tell you that this party and Obama himself are as cynical as it takes to get where they want to go.
And if it is ever learned that this whole thing was part of a hell I had campaign signs up there at the Western Wall, a sacred shrine for crying out loud, if I learned that this whole thing was done as part of a plan, and by the way, student won't, I don't think he's, has he announced his name?
I don't, I don't, he's being secretive about some things.
But this is just a little too, you know, with all these, the sensitivity this campaign has, and you know they have it, about whether or not he's a Muslim.
You know that stuff bugs them.
It really bugs them.
Now, what better way to dispense with that?
And then Jeremiah Wright and Farrakhan and all these other associations that he has.
Finding that little prayer can go a long way toward showing all those claims that he's not really a Christian.
By the way, none of that's been stated on this program.
I'm just telling you what the campaign is concerned about.
But I believe these people, and McCain's right, they'll do whatever it takes to win an election.
They're doing it now.
They're standing in the way of progress any which way, matter, or form.
And then they're defining progress in a way that, well, we're going to, this mortgage bailout.
Last time I looked, 95 to 96% of Americans were paying their mortgages.
So now we've got a spending bill and a plan and a system behind it that rivals the New Deal in terms of government involvement in people's lives.
This is going to come back and bite us in any number of ways.
This bailout is an absolute both parties are making a mistake on this, but the sad reality is that we are here for one reason.
We don't have any leaders, and Obama's not a leader.
We don't have any leaders on our side.
We have panderers.
We have populists.
We have people who are gauging what the American people want, and they're in a race in both parties to give it to them, rather than to say, we can't do that.
That's not what we do in this country.
We're not going to bail you out.
You made a mistake.
We can't bail out 600,000 to 1 million mortgage owners and have it not affect us and our system.
The American people don't want to go to war.
Fine, we won't go to war.
The only thing, the only thing, two things.
The American people want lower gasoline.
Democrats will not help you there.
And if you want to get rid of illegal immigration and close the borders, Democrats will not help you there either.
But other than that, members of both parties are running around, total populace, listening to whatever people want and giving it to them.
And this is going to pay.
We're going to have a price to pay for this, and we will pay it.
And somewhere down the road, there's going to be another conservative uprising to stop all this, because the direction this kind of populism and pandering is going to take, the country will break it.
And there's going to be a couple generations down the road that are going to see this coming, and they're not going to pay for it, and they're not going to take it anymore.
So the problems that we face today, economically, and a government that's just out of control, too large, the people who have created these problems, the political class, both parties who've created these problems, these problems are simply passing them on to future generations so that people alive today will not have to deal with the very mess they created.
Back after this.
Okay, let's start on the phones.
We're going to start in Fort Hood, Texas.
This is Amy, one of my all-time top 10 favorite names, female names.
Amy, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rej.
It's wonderful to speak with you today.
Thank you.
I just wanted to make a comment about your points with McCain and his flip-flopping and the tactics you take with Obama.
There's an article in this week's National Review by Rich Lowry and Ramesh, I'm going to murder this.
That would be Ramesh Panuru.
Panuru.
And essentially, they were writing that the flip-flop issue is not what's really going to drive it.
That McCain should take a page out of Hillary's book once she got her act together in the later part of the primary and to really hit hard on the incompetence and the inexperience of that.
They wrote that, did they?
Yes, they did.
It's a very interesting article.
It's very well worth a read.
Wow.
Well, I'm, you know, I'm glad to hear they wrote that.
One of the times in my life I'm happiest is when I'm on the same page of National Review.
And this is a point that I've been making for quite a while here.
Amy, you know, just focusing on, and same thing we did with Clinton.
I mean, Clinton lies.
It didn't hurt anybody.
It didn't hurt Clinton.
His voters didn't care that Clinton was a liar.
They liked that he got away with it.
Obama's supporters are going to like that he gets away with flip-flops.
He's the Messiah.
People, it's too macro.
It's too macro to start talking about what Obama said in 2003 about the surge when people care, or four, five, six, whatever it was, when they're most concerned about domestic issues.
Do you find it interesting, folks?
We got, according to Gallup, Obama is up by nine, 49 to 40 over McCain.
Rass Musin, he's up by three.
Do you find it interesting that no matter what, Obama cannot crack 50%?
He cannot, he cannot get beyond 50% in the polls.
So he's up nine, up three, whatever.
He didn't, this is not a big bump.
So he comes back from his summer intern tour, and the first thing he announces today, he's going to put together this great council of economic advisors and start focusing on domestic economic issues.
Now, why is that?
Because he didn't get a bump out of this trip, and there are a lot of people concerned about some of the things.
You know, the American people, liberals and conservatives, I used to be able to say this, and I think I can, I think liberals would love hearing their country trashed overseas by Clinton, by Gore, by Obama.
I'll tell you, a lot of independents don't want to hear it.
A lot of independents do not want to hear somebody who's not even the president, who's not even the formal nominee of his party, go over rip his country apart in front of a bunch of Europeans.
The idea, you know, the elites in the Democrat Party may fantasize about being Europeans, but the American people don't.
And so they did the truer, you know, did the requisite, I got to go work out instead of seeing the troops, did the requisite bashing of his country to get all the Europeans on his side to come back starting to work on economic issues.
And the reason is the gasoline price, the oil price, and the unpredictability in it.
I mean, yeah, gasoline prices nationally may be under three bucks now, but are they going to stay there?
The reason prices are down is because people are not using as much.
The airlines are not using as much.
People are not driving their automobiles as much.
And so the spot market price on oil is coming down in the commodities market, but it's creeping back up.
It's around 124 today, 125, down from its top of 140.
But nobody's sure it's going to stay there.
And nobody's sure it's going to keep coming down.
But one thing people do know is that an effort to increase our own domestic supply would go a long way to alleviating this problem on a permanent basis.
And they know that Obama and the Democrats are standing in the way of it, or they should know.
Those are the kind of things to plug.
Those are the kind of things to tell the American, not what Obama said in 2005 versus today or 2006, and his associations.
And when he goes over to Berlin, trashes his own country, okay, who else thinks this way?
That he runs around.
Jeremiah Wright.
Obama just says it in a little bit better way, but Jeremiah Wright thinks the same thing that Obama thinks and Bill Ayers.
This is why character and these associations matter.
These may be little things to a lot of people, but not to me.
The reason Obama's flip-flopping and all this stuff is because he doesn't know what he's talking about, folks.
He had no military experience.
143 days in the Senate.
He's spouting a line guaranteed to get him a Democrat Party nomination when he opposes the surge.
He can't afford for the military to be victorious while seeking the Democrat Party nomination.
He simply can't afford it.
Here is Davis.
I'm sorry, David in Toronto, Canada.
Great to have you, sir, from north of the border.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Russia, it's a pleasure.
Thank you.
A pleasure.
The AP story you were mentioning, it makes a lot of sense that they release that story now because it basically supports the Obama plan for withdrawal.
In other words, we're winning the war, so hey, Obama's plan is right.
It just, I can see why they would do that now.
It fits their agenda.
Yes, good point to report that the war is being, what somebody said two years ago couldn't happen.
The Iraq war is now being won.
But, you know, this is the Associated Press, and this is a, this is something, I'm, I frankly was surprised to see the story, except within the context of Obama has just been there.
And so, no, okay, we can say the war has been won because the Democrats are now on the right side of it, with Obama having gone and appeared to be a statesman.
And you could have a point.
This may be a way for the drive-bys in Obama to facilitate, okay, we've won, let's get out, but here's the dirty little secret.
And I have warned you people about this.
I've warned you Democrats.
Forget all this talk about 16 months.
Forget all this talk about a timeline of getting people out of there.
Obama let it slip over the weekend.
He let it slip that all this is going to be decided by circumstances on the ground.
And we don't know what those circumstances are going to be.
So there's no way of knowing right now when we're going to get out of there.
There are too many things that are unknown.
And there's still a presidential election to happen.
And if Obama wins it, I can just see him saying sometime next February the Bush administration didn't square with us.
It didn't tell us everything we knew.
They knew.
They didn't tell us exactly what was at stake here in Iraq.
And I can just see all this coming.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, David.
Brief time out.
Back and wrap up the first hour this.
You guys, you remember the story of Tammy Mae in Pennsylvania.
Turns out Pleasant Gap.
Pennsylvania's single mother of two.
Quoted by Bob Casey on the floor of the Senate.
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