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July 28, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Time for the award-winning thrill packed ever exciting.
Increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program.
We're celebrating our 20th anniversary of the EIB network this week.
The uh actual 20th anniversary day is Friday.
And during the course of the week, we're going to be building up to it with some excerpts and highlights from the past 20 years.
We're not going to overdo it until we get to Friday, but we're going to lead up to it.
And by the way, after certain commercial breaks, when we bump back into the content portion of the programming, uh got some greetings, some tributes of sort, uh, of a sort from people that have been contacted by my staff.
I don't know, do not know who they are.
They will not tell me who they are.
In fact, could you go?
Could you grab the Brett thing?
Because I I forgot that you guys are going to start that today, and I missed the first half of this, trying to figure out what you were doing up there.
Could you play Brett again for me?
Do you have it ready?
Is it Yeah?
Let me.
This is George Brett that uh that uh was the first official greeting that aired in the last hour.
Hi, Rush.
This is your friend George Brett from Kansas City.
Congratulations on twenty 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 out 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 uh, you've come a long way.
It's been great being your friend and cherish the things that you've taught me and uh 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 I 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.
That's George Brett.
Thank you.
Thank you again, uh George.
I I uh appreciate that these guys befriended a lost soul back in those days in Kansas City.
And uh they've uh George and a bunch of others have um have remained good friends throughout.
One more comment here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh talked about this in the opening hour of the program today.
As you know, the left is continuing its quest to find the liberal Rush Limbaugh.
The latest discovery was announced by the New York Times yesterday in a piece by Jim Rutenberg.
Now, apparently Jim Rutenberg went out and found three black talk show hosts whose audiences, if combined, get close to twenty million a week.
Although they can't be sure, but they think so.
This is just the latest effort to find the latest me.
I was thinking about this during during the top of the hour.
What has the New York Times done?
When you boil all this down, they have gone back, they have rolled back the clock, and once again they have established the notion that existed at the days of the founding of this country.
It takes three black guys to equal one me, so therefore the New York Times is basically said they're three-fifths of a person.
I don't even know that Rutenberg is aware that he's done this.
But this is clearly one way to look at it.
Takes three of these black hosts, ostensibly to equal me, three-fifths of one, or three of them to me.
Speaking of the excuse me, the black vote I also touched on this in the previous hour, from the Washington Post, hurdles to expanding black vote.
New voters are a key to his strategy, but return on investment is uncertain.
It's uh day lined out of Macon, Georgia.
Amanda Bass, a volunteer for Obama's campaign, had already tried once to get Wilmer Gray to register to vote, but when she glimpsed him in a black t-shirt and a white socks cap again on a recent weekday at the main bus stop in Macon, she was determined to give it another try.
This time, Gray, Wilmer Gray, 21, agreed, but his bus pulled up before he could fill out the registration form.
Wilmer Buss jumped on board, persuaded the driver to wait.
He was someone I had worked hard to get, said uh Amanda Bass, who is 19.
I couldn't let him go, not after seeing how far he'd come.
So at the at the at the heart of the Obama campaign strategy is a national effort to increase registration and turnout among the millions of Democrat-inclined Americans who have not been voting, particularly young people and African Americans.
The uh push began during the primaries, but expanded this month to a nationwide registration drive led by 3,000 volunteers dispatched around the country.
Now we all get soapy syrupy when we hear about voter registration because we all think, isn't it this wonderful?
All these new voters registering their preth pay the Democrat Pratt.
One of the things that astounds me about this, in every poll that you see, and I don't doubt these numbers, and Anywhere from 89 to 93% of blacks in a presidential poll say they're going to vote for Obama.
And yet here's a story, hurdles to expanding the black vote.
Now he's the Messiah.
Why do they have to go out and register anybody?
If there is all this excitement, if there's all of this palpable, pulsating desire on the part of all people to have the Messiah sit in the Oval Office, why do they have to go out and find him?
If we're being told the truth about the magnetism of the Obama campaign, shouldn't these people be flooding voter registration efforts on their own?
And remember that there was a story, AP New York Times, I forget which, within the past couple of weeks, that uh Obama's not solving the race relations problem.
His candidacy is not is not bringing that about.
I was stunned they ran that story because he is the great unifier.
So here's what you can take from this.
The Obama's strategy, ladies and gentlemen, is to ramp up black voter registration.
But look where he's campaigning.
He's not doing it.
He's got these 3,000 volunteers out there, but where is Obama campaigning?
Obama is campaigning in white areas.
And when he's campaigning in these white areas, he complains about being a victim of stereotypes.
Either his preacher or his race or his terrorist buddy, Bill Ayers, or his name, or whatever these things.
He's running around portraying himself as a victim.
If you look at Obama campaign appearances, the crowd that they seat behind his podium is almost all white.
Why?
They've got the black vote wrapped up.
And well, plus, uh they want to make it look like he's moved and expanded beyond that.
So I think what's happening here is that Obama is running two campaigns.
There's an underground, a more underground campaign in the black community which plays up his race.
And then there is another campaign which is for the media and the broader population, which plays down his race.
This is what he's doing.
Playing it up in black communities where he doesn't go, he's got these volunteers, and then plays it down with the drive-by's and the rest of the population.
And this, by the way, is how the Saul Olinski types, the big liberal organizer of great reputation to liberals in Chicago, this is how they think and work.
Always strategic, always the ends justifies the means.
Do whatever it takes to a demonize your opponents forever, destroy them, not just defeat them, uh, and do whatever it takes to win.
And if you have to obfuscate your positions on Iraq and proclaim defeat and then say, no, you were always for victory, go ahead and do it.
Do it with confidence and a drive by us will follow right along.
You're not supposed to emphasize race directly.
This is from the Alinsky teachings.
Don't emphasize race generally unless it can be used to garner support through victimization.
And the media will do these stories, uh, and you're gonna see them wondering if white people will end up voting for a black, or they play, and by the way, look for a whole bunch more of those as the as we get closer to the election.
You're gonna as he doesn't, if he doesn't crack 50% of polls, I don't care if they put a third-party candidate in there.
Remember, this is the Messiah.
This is this is somebody never seen before.
This guy ought to be at 60% of polls or more given the media coverage.
And if he doesn't crack 50%, then we're gonna start seeing stories about is this country really willing to vote for a black?
Have we really shed a racist past?
You're gonna see hand-wringing stories from the drive-bys about this, uh attempting to shame people into uh abandoning their supposed bigotry.
They'll also, in addition to playing up the stereotype, wondering if whites will vote for a black, you're going to see stories about do Americans really think he's Muslim.
And they're going to go out and they're going to find the biggest kooks they can find to say, yeah, of course they're a Muslim.
Everybody knows the Muslim is a terrorist.
The drive buys will have those stories out there.
To try to impugn uh people who don't see Obama as the Messiah.
But the racial aspect will be emphasized in communities where it can be helpful.
And I I think because he's running two campaigns, this is why the stutters, this is why the uhs and ands and uh, because he's on edge when he doesn't have it written for him on the teleprompter, and he's out there live, this is why he doesn't want to do town halls with McCain.
He's walking the tight rope.
He is one syllable or two words or so away from a major gaffe.
And whether his lead is nine points or three points, as Rasmussen says, that's just one gaff.
He can wipe out his lead with one big gaff.
So he's he's thinking he's measuring every word, almost every syllable to avoid a screw up because he got two different campaigns going on.
In fact, maybe uh maybe more.
This this explains his his two-pronged approach to the surge.
It didn't work.
He doesn't have a chance of working.
If I knew now what I knew then, I'd still vote against it.
And the other hand, depending on the audience, he praises the surge and says he knows and knew that increased troop levels would reduce violence temporarily.
Plus, he's also said that increased troop levels would increase violence.
He's all over the board on this, because he's running a bunch of different campaigns into one.
He's not being genuine.
There's nothing messianic.
There is nothing unique.
It's a typical pandering populist campaign run by a liberal who is trying to disguise as much of his liberalism uh as as possible.
Surge is working, so he can't be seen against it, but he was against it.
So he's got to qualify that.
So you say you were always for something, even though you weren't, but that it shouldn't have been necessary in the first place, because we shouldn't have been there in the first place, and this is how you obfuscate all this.
So the Obama campaign is built on foundations of deceit, and that's why the stuttering, and that's why the oohs and the ahs and the uh and uh because he's on a tight rope.
When he's off script, be right back, don't go away.
In a mere twenty years, you've helped end the isolation felt by patriotic, liberty-loving Americans.
We thought we were alone.
Because of excellence in broadcasting and your message, we've learned that there are tens of millions of Americans like us.
Congratulations, Rush, and hang in there until you convince every American on the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient.
Limited government.
This is Walter E. Williams.
Walter Williams, sometimes guest host on the EIB network.
Thank you, Walter.
Appreciate it.
Twentieth anniversary week here.
The actual day is Friday.
And uh more will be applied to our look back on Friday.
We're gonna start intensely on Wednesday.
Uh to the phones we go Laban in Baltimore.
Laban, thank you for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh hello to you.
Uh negadito from the most taxed state in the U.S. Yeah.
Yeah.
We're we're hurting here.
Um just wanted to ask uh and make a maybe make a suggestion uh to you uh how do Republicans reach out to the black uh uh black voters?
I mean, I'm a black Republican and you know I've been blessed for twenty years of listening to you, and uh and I come from a conservative household.
But how do you um think Republicans should reach out to the black voters?
Ah, well, um I th i the way I would reach out to black voters is the way I would reach out to any voter.
If I if I were actually campaigning, and I'm glad, you know, this is this is a fabulous, fabulous question because under the under the umbrella we're all Americans here, and we have a capitalist system that rewards certain applications like hard work and determination, education, ambition, passion, these kinds of things.
Uh and I I I would just do everything I could to uh if I had a chance to talk to a group of uh of black Americans or any other group, talk about the greatness of the country and remind people what it took to found it, and what kind of system that we have and how all obstacles can be overcome with application.
Right.
And I would tell them I'd point blank say the Democrat Party has destroyed your family, the Democrat Party has tried to make you as big a victim class population as possible.
They have tried to keep you angry, they've tried to keep you upset, they have told you that you don't have any chance in this country because we're inherently racist and discriminatory, and yet use your own eyes and look out across the country and find all of the great examples of black success, be it academic, economic, scientific, athletic, what have you.
Right.
It's out there for you to have, and I would expect to get all kinds of questions and protestations, and I would expect for them to tell me I don't know what their lives are like.
Because I uh what I'm seeing right now is a illegitimate vote.
And I think black voters should have to legitimize their vote.
And the reason why I say illegitimate is because it's not a vote on the issues, because you see forty, forty cents on a dollar, that big tax hike, the tax hike that he wants uh uh there will quite honestly destroy innocently black people, uh especially those who don't have adequate income to pay for that forty cent uh uh uh tax increase on gas and you know, just to heat their homes.
But it's not the issues that they're voting for.
It's the issue if it's just because he's black.
And and it's kind of embarrassing to me because when I talk to other people, they look at me like, well, you know, you're only voting for Barack because he's black.
You know, and what did he say that he was going to do for the black people?
I you know, none.
Nothing at all.
And like you said in uh uh that uh before you went on break.
Well, now but wait a minute.
I mean in the polls show eighty nine, ninety two percent of the black vote is gonna vote for Obama, why do you think they're voting for him?
I think it's just because um well we had the discussion uh yesterday when I got yesterday when I got my hair cut was uh it's only because that they that some people believe that at what if you're black, you have to st have to vote for the other black person, right?
Okay, so they're voting for him because he's black.
Whatever the reason is they gotta stick together, they got we shall overcome whatever it is, they're voting for him because he's black.
They don't know what he stands for.
Right.
Well, well, the problem that they come in.
You know, if if I'll tell you if I if if I were to if I were to come into an outreach to um a group, larger, smaller black people, I wouldn't even talk political party.
Right.
Yeah.
I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't try to I wouldn't show up as an emissary of the Republican Party.
I would not say I'm here for your vote.
I would say I'm here for you.
Right.
There's a whole country out there that's passing you by because you have been told incorrect things about it.
You have not been inspired, in fact, you've been depressed.
You've been told that this decks are stacked against you and you don't have a chance, and you've been convinced to rely on a political party to make things right for you, and they've been promising for all these years, and you still have the same complaints.
Don't you think it's time to start thinking a different way?
Not voting, thinking a different way.
Because if you approach them from the stamp, I want your vote.
Right.
He'd lose.
Right.
They're gonna be cynical and suspicious of anybody who comes along and wants.
But if you talk to them about them, and see, I would say things like this to them.
I notice when philanthropists donate money to start school voucher programs in inner city areas.
I note that the black moms and dads who want their kids out of these inner city schools are sh are the first to show up and they'll do anything to get their kids out of these rundown schools and into a better school participating in the voucher program.
Right.
Now I would say, why doesn't why do you not extend that to other aspects of life?
Yeah, you want a great education for your kids, but don't you want a better life for you?
Right.
I mean, if if if there's a if there's a if the public school system, you know, I might even remind them who runs it and why.
Right.
If the public school system is failing you and you know that, what else is failing you, or where else are you failing?
It it'd be dicey to say what else is failing you because that makes them dependent.
But they've they've uh I would love, I would I would love to do it just to see what kind of reaction I would get because that would prepare me for the second time.
Right.
Exactly.
That I went out and and and uh and tried it.
But I just the Democrats have been so successful for so many years in in poisoning the minds of a lot of minorities, not just blacks, that there's bigotry and racism and unfairness and discrimination and so forth.
And the basic problem is they're they're raised angry, they grow up angrier, uh, and that doesn't get anybody anywhere.
Rush, your buddy Vince Flynn here.
Congrats on 20 years of making us think, reminding us that we have the power to shape our own destiny, and most importantly, for making us laugh.
You're the best.
Here's to another twenty.
Vince Flynn, noted thriller author, ladies and gentlemen.
Told the staff that this stuff is going to get embarrassing.
It does, it's gonna get embarrassing.
I mean, it's ple it's it's it's great and it's nice, but it's gonna get embarrassing afterwards.
You know I don't like to be the focus of attention, Dawn.
You know this.
Anyway, I am here, ladies and gentlemen, doing the work, according to the New York Times, doing the work of three black hosts as one white host, Rush Limbaugh, and the EIB network.
I want to go back to an audio soundbite here.
This is from um.
Well, I don't have the exact date this.
This has to be let's see if I can find it in the news story.
The date It's May sometimes.
No, July 6th.
This is our old buddy Tammy May from Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania.
And Bob Casey, Senator from Pennsylvania, went on.
He was well for the Senate, C SPAN, was uh was covering this.
This was during Ben Bernanke's delivery of the semi-annual monetary policy report before the banking committee.
And this is what Senator Bob Casey said about one of his constituents.
Tammy May, a single mother of two in Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania, probably said it best in just one line.
I'm quoting her.
She's a single mother of two.
Quote, pretty much we have reprioritized.
The house payment is first, then daycare, then we worry about gas, then food, unquote.
In light of that economic misery that I've just highlighted.
How do we deal with this question of what is a recession and what it isn't?
And do we need some new definitions and some new terminology to better define what's happening to real families and real families?
And he's quoting from a newspaper story uh of the uh the lovely and gracious Tammy Faye, the single mother of two, who is reprioritized.
Now I heard about this from uh just a friend of mine who sent me a note, uh very sketchy note, did not explain any of the details, but I I I assume from the note that Casey had read a letter from extinguit.
Uh so that is what we went with.
And then I later found out during the show.
No, no, no, no, didn't send a letter to Casey that was in a newspaper story that Casey found.
Okay, now we got it right.
Doesn't the point is that we then discussed the reprior reprioritizing of Tammy May, and I did raise questions.
She put food last.
She put housing first.
Now it turns out she did not write a letter to the editor of the newspaper.
Uh she uh was quoted in a story.
Well, this is July 6th, this happened.
Last Friday, an infobabe reporter at from the newspaper, the Central Daily Uh Central Daily Central Daily Times, Anne Danahe, or Danny, I'm not sure how she pronounced, she wrote the original article too, called the EIB offices of the EIB building in New York, and wanted to to uh talk to me about this from July 6th to July, whatever it was, 25th.
26th, whatever Friday was.
And I was on the way out, I didn't have chance to uh to speak to her, and I knew it didn't matter, it's the drive-by media anyway, even as local drive-bys.
So here is the story that ran yesterday in the Central Daily Times or Center Daily Times by Anne Danahe, Limbaugh quotes local woman misrepresents her comments.
When a mother of two in Pleasant Gap agreed to talk to a reporter about an article on rising costs, she didn't know her comments would end up on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Or that they would be misrepresented.
Tammy May was quoted in an article that appeared in the Center Daily Times on July 6th.
She talked about how she's trying to handle a rising prices of gas and food along with the cost of housing and child care.
Senator Casey saw the article, read her comments aloud during a July 15th hearing with the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke.
From there it made its way on a Limbaugh syndicated radio show.
While Casey said he was quoting from a CDT article, Limbaugh initially said that May's comments were made in a letter she wrote to Case.
This is what I was originally told, and we were we were at the seat of our pants with this, because the point it didn't matter, you know, how the Casey ended up with this, whether she had written it or whether she was in a newspoorry, and we didn't focus on that.
We focused on what she actually said, which was brought to our attention not by the Center Daily Times, but rather by Senator Casey.
And Senator Casey did quote her accurately, however and wherever it appeared.
But what this story is about is correcting the errors that were made by me because I we were on the fly here and and uh just didn't have a chance to check out what we thought were, you know, not the important detail, what what she said was what's important.
So I said, in fact, May didn't write a letter.
She was contacted by a reporter and in response to the reporter's question said she's cutting corners where possible.
Pretty much we've reprioritized.
The housing payment is first and the daycare, then we worry about gas, then food.
Limbaugh jumped on that.
This constituent of Bob Casey's put food last on her list of new priorities.
And then it says, Well, May is trying to save money.
She didn't say she's budgeting enough for food or isn't budgeting enough for food.
Likewise, she wasn't asking Casey for help, as Limbaugh suggested.
He also suggested she wrote the letter to tell others how to reorder their priority.
Well, what does we need to reorder our priorities mean?
What is it?
What is this we need to reorder our prior?
I don't care if she said it in a letter to the editor or in an in a as a quote, talking to uh a drive-by infobe.
Limbaugh's chief of staff, H.R. Kit Carson in New York, said, Well, they regret the improper sourcing of the information.
Our discussion of the issues, values, and politics surrounding the story is something that he stands by, and I do.
When asked about all this, Tammy May said it's just a shame he took that and made it into something it's really not.
He doesn't even know me.
Uh now look.
Their grievance, I'm telling you, the gr their grievance here is with Casey.
Because Casey is the one who read her comments to the Federal Reserve Chief.
We need to reprioritize, pretty much we have reprioritized.
The house payment is first, then daycare and so forth.
And Bob Casey was using her comment to try to convince Bernanke and anybody else who is listening, just exactly how rotten the U.S. economy is, how hopeless and horrible it is.
A single mother with two having to put food last.
That was his point.
And using people is something that the Democrat Party has excelled at.
Usually they parade them up to the Senate or to the House of Representatives as uh as uh visual and personal personal props.
At any rate, TJ in Chicago.
TJ, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Mega, former Army Ranger, currently stuck in Liberal Insanity University Ditto.
Thank you, sir very much.
I feel for you.
I just wanted to tell you a quick story, Rush, about uh two great men, yourself and my father.
Um I'm one of those infamous bathroom readers, and I have been for my whole life, basically.
And uh going back about 15 years, I know you're celebrating the 20th anniversary this week.
Uh my dad put two books in the bathroom.
One was the uh Book of Virtues by Bill Bennett, and the other was The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh.
And uh I I was instantly hooked.
Well, thank you for that very much.
Uh you you um you're making my day here with this kind of guy, because you're you're um how how old do you say you were teaching?
Twenty-seven?
Twenty-seven, yes, sir.
Twenty-seven years old.
Well, you got a great foundation there.
Don't don't cave.
Don't waver, and don't go wobbly in the knees.
Uh I I won't, Rush.
And uh I listened to the other day on my way to and from school, and uh I just wanted to pass that story on to you and uh tell you that, you know, for every story like mine, I'm sure there's a million others.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, look, just like you.
You remember exactly where you were when you first read that book.
You exact you remember exactly where you were when you first took this program, so does everybody else.
Uh, you're absolutely right, sir.
And I, you know, some of the things that I read in that book and uh the the sarcasm and the satire and uh the entertainment value of it while still making the point, that's uh that's just a great way to get the job done.
Appreciate that.
Thank you for getting it.
Thanks, Russia.
All right, TJ.
Brief time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Stay with us.
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Zero mistakes.
This is Elizabeth in Allen Park, Michigan.
I'm glad you waited.
You went on hold a long time.
Thank you for waiting.
Oh, Rush, congratulations for your 20th anniversary.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, the reason why I'm calling, I happen to watch the view after I've taken my dog for a walk.
And Nancy Pelosi was bad.
And uh Elizabeth asked her, why can't Barack Obama met that the surge is working?
And she goes, the surge isn't working because Iraqis aren't taking control of their country or something like that.
Wait a second.
Was that today?
Yeah, it was today.
Nancy Pelosi said the surge isn't working.
Yes.
Well, grab audio soundbite number eight.
Let me know when Soundbite Number Eight is ready to go because this is from Meet the Press yesterday.
Tom Brokaw said to Obama, this is what USA Today had to say about your position on the surge.
Why can't Obama bring himself to acknowledge the surge worked better than he and other skeptics thought that it would?
That's a conditioned response on their part.
What is the what is a stubbornness say about the kind of president it would be?
There's no doubt that the violence uh has gone down more than any of us anticipated, including President Bush and John McCain.
Uh if you if you if you had talked to them uh and and said, you know what, we're gonna bring down violence to the levels that we have.
I think I I I suspect USA Today's own editorial board wouldn't have anticipated that.
Now, Elizabeth, did you hear that?
Yes, I did.
I heard a nasty Pelosi directly say that the search isn't working because Iraqis aren't taking full control of their country.
But then she goes on to say that Iraqis wants us to leave Iraq.
And President Bush is gonna sit down and talk about polling out.
And then Joe Joe Behart, the stupid liberal.
Wait, wait a minute.
I don't care.
Uh I mean I care, but I really don't care what Pelosi said.
What I care is the the the one hundred percent contradiction here.
Pelosi today on the view says the surge isn't working because the politicians of Iraq have not taken control of their country.
Obama's it has worked better than even Bush or Cheney thought or McCain thought.
Right.
Now he that's the first time he said this.
I mean, this is I'm telling you, he is running a dual or maybe a triple campaign.
He is saying one thing to one group of people, another thing to another group of people, and he's trying to have it both ways is why he's stuttering around.
Pelosi's just an idiot.
Well, that's not true.
She knows that the audience to the view is idiots.
At present, you excluded Elizabeth, of course.
But it doesn't take much to figure out if people watch that show or are are you know, cup and saucer short of a full play setting.
So she knows who the audience is.
Snerdley has a question, the official program observer.
Yes, what's the question?
Mm-hmm.
Why plan a mission that you think is not going to work?
Well, who what are you talking?
Oh.
He's because Snerdley wants to know why plan something that isn't going to work.
This is Obama said it wasn't going to work, had no chance of working.
Uh then he said it's done really okay, but really because the politicians came together.
He said the reason the surge worked is because the the Great Sunni awakening and the Sader army and the Shia, and they all came together over there.
This is while he was there saying this.
This is there all over the place.
And Pelosi, a day after he says this, goes out and says it didn't work because the politicians have not gotten their act together.
Now, again, I don't in Pelosi's case, because she's not the candidate here.
In Pelosi's case, she knows the audience that's an ultra-left-wing audience.
They don't want to hear about success.
They don't want to hear about how things work.
They want to hear nothing but failure.
She knows that most of the hostettes on that show want to hear nothing about failure.
Now, here is Obama saying on Meet the Press yesterday.
No doubt the violence has gone down more than any of us anticipated, including Bush and McCain.
And if you would have talked to them and said, you know what, we're going to bring down violence at the levels we have, nobody would have.
That was the objective.
Why do you think plan it, Senator?
What was the point of the surge?
This is this is where his inexperience and his real lack of intelligence and judgment display themselves.
Why plan the thing?
They've got some polling data that says he's on the wrong side of the surge business.
The American people love hearing about successful military operations.
The American people don't want to lose military operations.
They don't want to lose wars.
And Obama as he's got to give himself the right.
So oh, you've got to work better than anybody ever thought of, but you talk to Bush is the why plan it.
You think you think they planned a 50% success surge?
Why even plan the operation if you don't plan for it to succeed as wildly and and as as thoroughly as possible?
At any rate, uh Kay in Putnam, Connecticut.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Ray, I'm sorry.
That's all right.
Listen, George Brett is not only a great ball player, he's also a great judge of character.
He's a great guy.
He uh George Brett is a is he makes fun of himself, you know, for being uh all that not informed.
He's he's he's a he's he's far more informed, intelligent and and so forth than he likes to portray himself to be.
Yeah, and he's got you pegged right.
Listen, this this Obama guy is a danger to the to this country.
I can't understand how anybody could even think of voting for this guy.
He has zero experience.
I spent 32 years in the military serving this country, and I don't want to hand it over to some.
They're not thinking about it.
This is this is something that it's hard for people to understand.
They're not thinking about it.
It's an emotional thing.
It's party loyalty, it's uh uh ideological loyalty, it is devotion to a personality in a cult.
Uh it's it that most people are not thinking about Obama.
They just think they want change.
The Bush administration's been bad.
They've been uh led to believe country's going to hell on a handbasket, he's gonna fix it, it's gonna make the rest of the world like us.
That's gonna make us safer.
Uh there isn't a whole lot of thought going into Obama's support.
His campaign illustrates it.
I mean, he's all over the ballpark.
He's saying five different things about every subject.
Right.
Listen, I'd love to debate the guy.
And I know.
But he won't debate you.
Huh?
He will not debate you.
No, well, he can't debate anybody as far as I'm concerned.
I think it's going to be interesting when he does get down at debates before the election, because I think McCain, if he plays his cards right, can care this guy.
Tear this guy apart.
Has he has he ever even uh registered for the draft?
Does anyone know?
Who, Obama?
Yeah.
I don't think so.
I don't know.
He's required to.
But that isn't gonna get you anywhere.
What that's that's the kind of pointing that out.
That's not all that's gonna do is steal the support for him among people.
You're not gonna you're not gonna talk anybody out of supporting Obama, whether he's registered for the draft or not.
Well, it it goes to a little bit to patriotic duty, doesn't it?
Well, they got a different definition of patriotism on that side, and it certainly had nothing to do with the military.
Yeah.
Their definition of patriotism is not wearing the flag pin.
Yeah.
Right.
Their definition of patriotism is taking the the flag logo off of your newly painted campaign plane.
There you go.
I'll tell you another thing that we need we need leadership in this country right now.
We're in we're in dire straits.
Connect.
Somebody ought to be telling them that.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
The way they're currently constituted, get them out of their...
Heartland Institute.
Dude.
Scientists predict global warming will reduce the number of hurricanes.
The Heartland Institute, I kid you not, scientists predict the global warming will reduce the number of hurricanes.
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