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July 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, this controversy, folks, just will not go away.
This controversy about Obama and the prayer at the Western Wall, and that he publicize it in advance to various media, and was that prayer as it was found actually a campaign stunt.
I think I have the proper perspective on this.
I don't think that the Messiah went to the Western Wall to leave a prayer at all.
He probably heard that people go to the Western Wall to send messages to God.
So he showed up and said, I'm here to pick up my mail.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Happy to have you along, three hours straight ahead, saving the country.
We are now fixated once again in a crisis mentality because of the earthquake yesterday in Southern California.
The drive-by is all anticipatory that it was a prelude to the big one.
We have audio sound bites, a montage coming.
Also, as part of our 20th anniversary celebration, we're going to go back to 1992.
And my appearance on nightline debating then Senator Al Gore on the environment.
It was uh I I'd remember the appearance, of course, but I had I was looking at the transcript here of the uh sound bites and I had forgotten uh much of what was said.
It's really good.
So we'll have that.
We've got some other things to start the mixing in today as well as part of the 20-year look back.
Plus, as always, my friends, focused on the things that make sense to be discussed today.
We're not gonna let anything slide by and not discuss uh the things that matter and are relevant.
So we're gonna have a giant mixed job today of all this.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
The uh Reverend Sharpton yesterday has now reversed himself.
There apparently will be a uh a uh reuniting of the Justice Brothers.
The uh Reverend Sharpton defended uh Reverend Jackson who has come under fire for his recent crude off-air criticism of Obama.
Well, it was more than that.
He also used the N-word to describe black people, not Obama per se, but black people.
Uh Reverend Sharpton said we have all made mistakes.
We've all erred, and uh we we ought not to try to sugarcoat what we err.
He was uh speaking at a at a gathering of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Kenner, Louisiana, outside New Orleans.
He said we we should not throw away everything when we err, and to say that the uh Reverend Dax made a mistake is correct, but to act like the uh Reverend Dax is not pivotal to our movement, our history is wrong.
And then Sharpton said, Jesse Jackson is somebody.
That's classic.
That used to be one of Jesse Jackson's rallying cries.
He'd tell the people in the audience, I am somebody.
And so now the Reverend Sharpton has proclaimed that the Reverend Dax is somebody.
He also said this.
There is room for more than one leader in the ongoing fight for civil rights.
He called uh he called Obama a product of the civil rights movement, not the end to it.
The bias in the media is they try to act like we can't have multiple strategists.
We have never had a one-man movement.
That's Sharpton saying, that's right.
I've been part of this all along.
It hadn't been Jesse's show.
It's been mine too.
So while while picking Jesse up from under the bus, Sharpton then goes on to once again say, after he is somebody, he ain't what he was.
We're not no single guys running this show anymore.
I'm part of it.
Even the uh election of Obama would not constitute achievement of the dream, Sharpton said, because inequality would remain in health care education and criminal justice.
Exactly, my friends, as I have warned.
We elect Obama.
I got in fact the race business is going to get bigger after we elect Obama.
The biggest problem that the election of Obama is going to cause the people like Reverend Sharpton and Reverend Jackson is that the black community, which has been told by the left wing for all these many years that it is inferior.
And too many black people in this country grow up feeling inferior because they're told they are.
You've got a black guy in the Oval Office.
It could well be that they're not going to have as easy a time making their charges feel inferior anymore.
That could be one chink in the armor.
But nevertheless, any criticism of President Obama will be said to be racist.
It's only going to get bigger because the race business is just that.
It is a business, and they do not uh want to be put out of business and not going to put themselves out of business.
Also, the um Operation Chaos, ladies and gentlemen, now subject to academic study.
The limbo effect.
A rush to judging cross-party rating in the 2000 Democrat nomination contests.
Todd Donovan, Western Washington University.
Here's the abstract.
This paper examines the potential for strategic Republican crossover voting in the March 4th, 2008 Democrat primaries.
Some observers note that conservative media figures encourage Republicans to raid the Democrat primary in order to weaken the Democrat Party's chances in the November election.
Analysts of exit poll data from 38 states suggest that Republicans may have been voting strategically in Democrat primaries, but there is little evidence that March 4th was unusual in the scope of strategic behavior.
This is from the BE Press.com website, the Berkeley Electronic Press, Operation Chaos now, the subject of academic study, Ted Stevens.
You know, isn't it isn't amazing when one one one of our guys gets in trouble, the whole Republican Party is to blame.
And of course, a lot of people on our side rush to confirm the whole thing.
And we want to be first to throw our own people overboard.
The Democrats do not throw their people overboard.
They just don't.
We have this desire that was the tendency we need to be seen as pure, clean and pure as the wind driven snow.
So we uh we dramatically weaken ourselves, thinking that that will be seen as virtuous by voters and that we can be trusted.
Uh and the Democrats say, hell with that, we're not is isn't is it not true, ladies and gentlemen, that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana is still serving.
Is it true?
Has there been there there were there were some shallow efforts suggesting that the Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, be thrown out of the house, thrown off his committee, but it was just words.
Uh and he has not resigned.
See, if Ted Stevens would he's got he's the easiest way out of this today for Senator Stevens is to simply announce a party switch.
If Ted Stevens declares himself to be a Democrat, he can hold on to his seat at least until the next election and avoid media scrutiny or scorn from his party or the media.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana set the standard for the appearance of criminal behavior.
Don't resign and accept the protection of fellow Democrats and their willing accomplices in the press.
So Senator Stevens, if you want to personally survive it, change parties.
Announce that you're changing parties because a Republican-run Justice Department is after you.
And you don't think this is right.
And you haven't done anything wrong.
Whatever you want to say.
If you have done something wrong, blame it on something else.
Blame it on Bush.
Declare yourself a Democrat and your odds increase.
Yesterday we had a caller on this program.
She was uh Janet from Maine.
This is what Janet said.
I just wanted to posit a new idea about Obama as to why he's not sleeping us all off his feet.
Uh off our feet.
Even though he was causing women to faint earlier this year.
Tell me, say it.
Say it.
He's not likable.
It's really simple.
The man is odious.
He talks like a girl.
You ran a clip yesterday of Gloria Steinem making uh Jane Fonda.
Jane Fonda, yes.
I mean, they're rather those two women are fairly interchangeable.
And making the case for women's radio.
Well, that could have been Obama opinion on or his version of foreign policy.
It's pure psychobabble.
Well, you know, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Normally I would discount any assertion that Obama is unlikable.
But when it comes to women assessing political characters' personalities, you gotta give it some weight.
We gotta give this some credibility.
It would have never occurred to me that Obama's unlikable.
But you don't doubt women on stuff like this.
Uh, one other thing, too, that I failed to notice during the call yesterday when she she said that um uh is not likable.
He talks like a girl.
And you know, i if you listen to Obama, he is sort of he is sort of uh metrosexual type.
I wouldn't use the word pansy, but he clearly is not the kind of guy that a real conservative woman is gonna find to be a real man, a real guy.
He's a touchy feely kind of guy.
And I think that's relevant too.
Now, in in in listening to that call again.
Now after that call, I got endorsed that uh woman's attitude, saying, Don't doubt women like this.
I got plenty of email from people saying, Rush, that it's crazy.
You're never gonna get anywhere by saying Obama isn't likable.
From the Chicago Sun Times today, Carol Marin.
Women voters aren't warming to cool Obama.
A few hours after leaving the women for Obama luncheon, I ran into Sarah, not her real name.
I've known her for a few years, a single mom.
She freelances, working as many jobs as she can to support two growing boys.
She dreams of a permanent gig with benefits, but it's still just a dream.
Thirty-seven-year-old Democrat, she's also a college grad, a news junkie who has watched this campaign like a hawk.
She surprised me with her anger Tuesday saying she's voting for McCain.
To Sarah, Barack Obama is like the organic chicken at lunch.
Sleek, elegant, beautifully prepared, but too cool.
My instincts.
Again, correct.
Dick Morris, real clear politics, Obama's women problem.
Problem is that older women don't like Obama as much as younger women do.
70% of women under 40 have a favorable opinion of Obama.
Only 58% of women in their forties feel the same way.
And only 52% of those over 50 see him favorably.
Usually the gender gap runs at least 10 points in each age group, and more usually averages of the 15-point differential.
The lower gap in this race does not indicate any special popularity for McCain or negatives on Obama among men.
Men are voting the way they usually do.
It's women who are making the big difference and keeping this race tied.
Dick Morris.
My instincts yesterday, totally correct in trusting the instincts of the caller.
Women, and as they get older, have a problem with this guy.
Los Angeles Times, Peter Nicholas and Mark Baraback.
Obama meets with key women is the headline.
And the uh thrust of this story is that he addresses sexism that existed in the Democrat Party.
The women are still angry at the sexist treatment Hillary got.
And as such, Obama has to go and mollify them.
So there is Trouble with Paradise.
And our caller Jane Janet from Maine yesterday put her finger on it.
Brief timeout, we'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Hi, Rush.
Mary Madeline here.
I can't believe it's twenty years.
Congratulations.
You've changed the world.
Before you, there is only darkness.
We were wandering in the desert with no purpose in the dark, and now we can see.
You're a leader, you're a visionary, and you're so darn funny.
I love you more than life itself.
I love you, Rush.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you, Mary Madeline.
Hey, dear, dear close friend.
I met Mary way back.
Jeez, this has to be early, late 80s, early 90s, somewhere around there.
Brilliant as well.
Twentieth anniversary, all week long.
We're celebrating it.
Uh, and we're gonna be delving a little bit more into the archives today than we have up till today.
But before we get into any archival stuff, you've got to hear this.
There is a new song out by the rapper Ludicrous.
Now, Obama likes this guy.
Obama says he admires the artistry of ludicrous.
In the nah, he does.
Now, in this ad, Ludicro basically says that Hillary is a B.I. itch.
Now, Cookie Bleeped Net.
I wish she hadn't, but it's beeped.
In this ad, Ludicrous says that McCain should be paralyzed, and that uh Bush is mentally handicapped.
A new ad supporting Obama by the artist ludicrous.
Slight correction, uh, this is not an ad, ladies and gentlemen.
This is just uh a tune, a song recorded by the artist ludicrous, who is uh uh I guess he's on Obama's iPod.
Obama likes the guy.
Uh let me translate some of this for you in case you weren't able to hear it all.
Hillary hated on you, so that B.I. it is irrelevant is how it began.
McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed.
Yeah, I said it because Bush is mentally handicapped, ball up all his speeches, and I throw them like candy rep. Well, you talking I hear nothing even relevant, and you the worst of all 43 presidents.
I suggest that the Obama camp keep this coming.
I do.
We need more of this.
And by the McCain does have an ad.
Let's go to Summit 23 here.
Um this ad has video of Brittany, what's her name?
Britney Spears and Paris uh Paris Hilton.
But it's not them endorsing McCain.
This is an ad that questions whether or not Obama is ready for leadership, and it's a juxtaposition of photos of the throng of 200,000 in Germany at the Victory Tower, with uh little shots of Brittany Spears of Paris Hilton.
It's made to make it designed to make the audience appear it is to be a bunch of pop culture bozos who have no substance to them whatsoever.
Here's the audio, the ad.
He's the biggest celebrity in the world.
But is he ready to lead?
With gas prices soaring, Barack Obama says no to offshore drilling and says he'll raise taxes on electricity.
Higher taxes, more foreign oil.
That's the real Obama.
I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
And you got just imagine the pictures of the throng of 200,000 there at the uh at the Victory Tower with uh what it made it look like victory or Britney Spears and and and what's her face, Paris Hilton, are uh are part of the uh part of the mix.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, a quick quickly of story today from Time magazine.
Now I've seen this referenced uh a number of times.
There might be a lazy gene.
Uh those of you who are couch potatoes, it there may be nothing you can do about it.
You may be genetically wired for that.
Have you ever wondered why you can't get off the couch and exercise despite paying for a gym membership, despite all your New Year's resolutions, even despite the doctor demanding that you do it at your la at your last checkup.
It turns out that your inertia may be coded right into your genes.
They're studying this.
J. Timothy Lightfoot, a kinesiologist and his team at the University of North Carolina is Charlotte suggests that genetics may indeed predispose some of us for sloth.
Using mice, especially bred and selected according to their activity levels.
Lightfoot identified 20 different genomic locations that work in tandem to influence activity levels.
It's a pretty long story.
Uh it talks about how the mice uh behaved, some gen genetically predisposed to exercise and some not.
Uh and it uh pretty much, according to them, the mice behavior substantiated the uh the the findings and the theory behind all of this.
But the the last paragraph here is what posed the interesting question.
Chemistry is not destiny, of course.
Lightfoot hopes to use his research to help determine which patients may need a bigger boost to get moving.
He thinks that perhaps close supervision by trainers or rewards for exercising will encourage genetic lazy bones to go to the gym.
And maybe one day he speculates there might even be a drug to compensate for laziness.
Then the question would be so the thing, maybe a j a drug to make you exercise.
I got to think would I take such a drug?
If they ever have a pill that makes you exercise, makes you want to exercise, would I take it?
Because I hate exercise.
I despise it.
I walking, as I have shared with you on many occasions.
But if somebody gave me a pill and made me want to exercise I don't even want to want to exercise.
I don't think I would take it.
Hey, Obama has just picked up another endorsement, ladies and gentlemen.
Phil Spector, another brilliant uh participant of the music industry, of the musical arts.
This is from the Los Angeles Times blog today.
Uh they just keep coming these dubious endorsements for Obama.
The Times eagle-eyed Harriet Ryan spotted Phil Spector, the famous rock entrepreneur and infamous date, showing up for a court hearing in Los Angeles wearing a very obvious Barack Obama rocks pin.
So from ludicrous.
We will continue to play that song, by the way, during the course of the uh upcoming days.
From ludicrous now to Phil Specter endorsing the Messiah, the most merciful, Lord Barack Obama.
They're gonna go back to the archives.
We have not played this song in at least 18 years.
It came in one day over the transom.
This is not a professional entertainer.
This just happened to be a citizen in Las Vegas who had become a huge fan of this program.
We don't know who the artist ever was that just came in.
Over the transom, as they say.
Way back in the very early days of the EIB network, as we look back over the past 20 years, all week long, people lining up here to discuss the female view of Obama.
After this, they're gonna go to the Al Gore sound bites, uh Al Gore and me debating the environment 1992 nightline.
Here's Sarah in Lancaster, California.
Nice to have you, Sarah.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, hi, Russ.
Oh, I'm thrilled to talk to you after, I don't know, nineteen years.
Um, first, can I correct a faux pas that I made?
The first time I talked to you.
You you you made a faux paw 19 years ago and you want to remind people.
About two years ago, but it's regarding my husband of 15 years.
He's the one who introduced me to your show.
And when I talked to you two years ago, I forgot to say hi to him.
So you've been paying the price ever since.
Uh, huge faux pie is just terrible.
Poor man.
Anyway, can I say hi to him?
Yes.
You yes, you may uh go right ahead.
Okay.
Uh his name is Andrew.
Hi, honey.
Love you.
Thank you for introducing me to Rush.
Anyhow, so I had to correct that.
Okay.
My point about Obama and why older women say 40 plus are losing our taste for him.
We know a smooth talker when we hear one.
We may not want to admit that we're being fed a line or you know, empty words, but we know it when we hear it.
We're experienced enough, we're smart.
We have so much going on in our lives, we get to a point that we want to hear substance.
Well, now wait, wait, wait, wait a second here, Sarah.
Hang on.
You're conservative, right?
Yes, I am.
So, no, no, no.
No, no, no, but wait, but therefore Obama would never appeal to you, correct?
Actually, the first time I saw him uh at the Democrat convention years ago, the first thing I said to my husband was that man's gonna run for president.
Because he is shiny and new.
He he he gives a good line.
He's attractive.
And, you know, people who do not, mostly women, who do not pay attention to the words coming out of his mouth.
Yeah, but you see that how it's no, but that's that's that that's what that's what this news is all about.
Women are paying attention, and the and they and the older, more informed and more mature women are not buying the act.
They're not buying into it at all.
And the reason, according to Dick Morris's polling data, anyway, the reason why everything is so close here is because women have not swallowed this thing whole and signed up, and they're on the Kumbaya Express uh for hope and change in the future.
By the way, Jonathan Wiseman is a bit of a uh a controversy brewing among the drive-by.
Some of the drive-bys are getting uh should I say this?
I think they're I think they're they're starting to fall off the wagon here when it comes to Obama.
Some of them are beginning to see some signs we have always seen, and are now becoming doubtful.
Jonathan Wiseman, Washington Post blog called The Trail, in his closed door meeting with House Democrats is.
Oh, by the way, the the uh the House of Representatives yesterday issued an unprecedented formal apology to black Americans for the uh wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who uh suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.
Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, a Democrat of Michigan said today represents a milestone in our nation's efforts to remedy the ills of our past.
Yeah, right okay.
So can we move on now?
Okay, can we move on?
Or does this set the stage for reparations?
This, when the House of Representatives officially apologizes, then we've set the stage for reparations here.
I wonder if the House of Representatives would apologize to me for the actions taken by Senator Dingy Harry Reed, using the power of the federal government to intimidate my syndication partners into essentially silencing me.
Certainly not slavery, not Jim Crow laws, but clearly a giant footprint of the federal government and the private sector attempting to silence one figure.
And we beat it back.
I'm saying they're going to start apologizing for all these things.
How about apologizing to me?
At any rate, Obama is traveling around Washington like he's already the president.
Multiple SUV motorcades, intersections, shut down for blocks and blocks so he can get by.
Dana Milbank today at the Washington Post has a mock piece on how all of this has just gone to Obama's head.
It's just, it's just it's getting too much to bear.
Jonathan Wiseman at his blog of the Washington Post says it is closed door meeting with House Democrats this evening.
This is yesterday.
Uh Obama delivered a real zinger.
According to a witness, he was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe when he said, This is the moment, as uh Nancy noted, that the world is waiting for.
The 200,000 people who thronged to his speech in Berlin came not just for him, he told the enthralled audience.
He said, I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
I, Lord Barack Obama, the Messiah, have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
Now, at first blush, this seems like staggering arrogance.
Besides favoring high gas prices and not acknowledging the success of the American military in Iraq.
His arrogance is tamping down his poll numbers.
This this is the breezy arrogance of a person who has never earned anything.
Like an irresponsible young adult who has unexpectedly inherited millions of dollars, there's nothing attractive about arrogance in a public servant, especially one who has endorsed high gas prices.
The only thing that Obama said bothered him about gas prices were how fast they got the four bucks.
However, there now is controversy over this interpretation of Obama's remarks.
A Jake Tapper at the ABC News blog says, The Washington Post has an interesting quote this morning from the meeting Obama held with House Democrats yesterday afternoon.
And they quote the statement, I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
and However, Democrats in the room suggest that the quote is out of context and that it twists Obama's meaning to mean the complete opposite of what he was saying.
A House Democrat staffer said his entire point of that riff was that the campaign's not about him.
Left out of the uh first half of the sentence, which was something along the lines of it has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign that the crowds, the enthusiasm 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all.
It's about America.
I have just become a symbol.
And Jake Chapper said other staffers with whom he spoke back that up.
And a Democrat congressman who isn't a particular fan of Obama agrees, saying that the um Obama preceded that quote was something along the lines of these people in Germany.
They weren't excited about me.
They were excited about the prospect of America getting back to being all it could be.
I don't care which is true.
I really don't care which is true.
I think it is presumptuous as hell to say either of these things.
I mean to say that I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
What?
What best traditions?
Massive, massive tax increases, massive growth of government.
Who the hell?
I I'm I'm so frustrated at times to listen to this guy Obama and other Democrats run around and basically kiss the rear ends of these Europeans, particularly citizens, so he can say, I have become a symbol.
Yes, I am a symbol.
Because I represent these people being excited at the prospect of America getting back to being all it could be.
Which brings me to another subject.
Obama's campaign, real change.
Change that makes a difference, or change that whatever his campaign slogan is.
It got me to thinking, what would be real change in this country?
Because Obama ate it.
More liberalism is not real change.
Bigger government is not more is not real change.
New entitlements, that's not change.
What would really be change?
And I think either of us, any of us could answer that question.
And our answers would show that it's nothing Obama is talking about.
These people in Germany were excited by the prospect of America getting back to being all.
It could be once again Obama meeting with Democrats, has to slam his own country.
He did it in front of that German crowd.
He did it to the House Democrats, and they were raucously applauding.
Doesn't it irritate you?
The Democrat Party's presidential nominee gets his biggest applause lines when he rips this country to shreds in any number of ways.
We'll be right back.
Hi, welcome back.
L Rush Ball.
Serving humanity simply by showing up.
I want to go back to this ludicrous song.
Ludicrous, of course, uh a rap artist admired by Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.
And this is uh a song endorsing Obama, but it is the attitude that's in this song that I think is actually representative of the attitude of many in this country on the left, and perhaps uh even among those uh that would serve in an Obama administration.
A rap artist uh ludicrous, uh a giant uh supporter of Barack Obama.
Now, what is the attitude here?
And I know it's rap, but I think I think the attitude, and the attitude of rap is anger, kind of it's anger and rage.
But isn't that also the attitude of the Democrat Party today?
Elected officials, high-ranking Democrat officials, Democrat voters, coop fringe bloggers, they are angry, and they've been angry since 2000.
They are enraged.
And so the change that Obama talks about is basically we're gonna pay you back.
We are gonna pay you back for what you stole from us in 2000.
We're gonna pay you back.
We're going to get even.
We're going to write the injustices that have happened to us because of what happened at Florida in 2000.
The change that Obama is talking about is being interpreted by many of the dingbats that want to support him as vengeance, as revenge.
And it is rooted in hatred.
Now, I'm I'm the ludicrous song is a standalone thing, but I think it is uh exemplary, representative of the attitude throughout.
It is callous, it is cold, it is mean spirited, uh, it's insulting, and of course, this just carries forward the uh attitude of much of the Democrat political hierarchy throughout the uh this, especially since the Iraq War began, but but uh really after Florida 2000, it's been seven and a half years of it now, if not more.
So that's the change.
But when you talk about real change, what would be real change in this country?
What would be real change?
Back.
I have the answers, of course, as I always do.
Back in a second.
And uh, ladies and gentlemen, Obama did meet with the rap artist ludicrous, real name is Chris Bridges, in his Chicago office in November of 2006 to discuss things.
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