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July 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back.
We are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We do this daily here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A thrill and delight to be with you on the fastest week in media already Wednesday on the EIB network.
Telephone number, if you want to join us, is 800-282-2882.
The email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
We got a caller in the break here at the top of the hour who said that the guest on Larry King Live last night only said he wouldn't take a call because he was on the show with Larry.
He would take a call otherwise.
I misinterpreted his position as saying he wouldn't take the call because he was afraid of getting cancer.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, we are looking back over the past 20 years, all week long.
It'll probably be hot and heavy on Friday, the actual anniversary day.
But we've been teasing a little bit of what is coming with some highlights from previous programs.
And we'll have all the musical highlights, the bits, the songs and so forth, some of the parodies.
Just to give you an idea, we want to go back to 1992.
In 1992, the Clinton campaign was much like the Obama campaign is today.
It was just sailing along, and Clinton was thought of as something new and fresh and young.
And we, on the opposite side of Clinton, had very great problems with his character, his inability to tell the truth, and people's seemingly lack of interest in any of that.
Clinton's big campaign slogan was, it's the economy stupid.
And he kept talking about how this was the worst economy in the last 50 years when it wasn't.
We were coming out of a tiny, tiny little recession.
People's memories were so short.
The 70s under Jimmy Carter, the late 70s, were absolutely horrible.
And yet people were calling and saying, it can't get any worse.
It can't get any worse.
And I had spent all this time trying to convince people he's not what you think.
This guy is as disingenuous and is dishonest and is insincere and doesn't have a whole lot of substance whatsoever.
And it didn't matter.
They were just angry at George Bush.
They were feeling economic pain.
So I decided on a different tack.
Rather than tell people what I thought was wrong with Clinton, I thought that I would illustrate it.
I actually have the shakes.
I do not want to do the show today.
My friends, it's just this simple.
I've changed my mind on the presidential race.
And if the mood of this country is not where I am right now, then I'm the one that's going to have to change.
Here at 12 minutes after the hour on the 22nd of October, I'm here to tell you that I have decided to endorse the candidacy of Bill Clinton for president.
It's the only way I think the country can really truly be saved.
I've had to weigh my thoughts very carefully.
I've had to weigh this decision.
I've thought about it a lot.
I've talked to a lot of people.
I have not made this decision lightly.
Let's see, what else do I have?
I don't know.
Let me just go to the phones.
Camille in Brooklyn.
Camille, hi, Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome to the program.
Yes.
I'm surprised you said that you voted for Clinton.
I'm really shocked.
I can't believe you're chewing the time.
You have to do what you think is right.
But Clinton, I swear, how could you even think of running for that?
Oh, my God.
I just can't talk no more.
I just can't.
I'm sorry.
Well, see, that's just an indication of how tough it is for everybody.
What am I to do?
Am I supposed to come in here and make it up?
Am I supposed to come here?
I mean, just the charade is, I can't do that, folks.
Phyllis in the Bronx in New York.
Hello.
My name is Phyllis.
Yes, ma'am.
I am a conservative.
I am homesick today, but now I'm really sick.
Rush, what are you doing to us?
I'm sick and tired of the liberals in this country who are pushing our lives.
What are you talking about?
I mean, you're backing, Mr. You're backing Bill Clinton.
I am not.
I am.
You just said you're backing.
I never said that.
But I heard you say those words.
No, no, no, no.
This is, you're just trying to twist my words and turn them around.
I never said it.
What did you say?
Could you just tell me you said you couldn't?
You know, I can't even talk.
I'm so upset.
I'm practically ready for tears.
You keep talking about something that happened 23 minutes ago.
It's irrelevant.
You know, Rush, I know what I heard.
I'm sitting here and I'm listening to you.
I listen to you every chance I get.
Well, you're the guru of the conservatives.
You're going to have to listen a little bit more closely, Phyllis, and you're going to have to think about the future.
What happens in the past is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter.
Suzette from Chicago.
Welcome to the program.
You know, Mega Dittos and Accolades, you are wonderful.
I put on your show and I hit a coronary.
And I'm listening to you, and I start to think, no, I know what you're doing, Rush.
You're doing the Bill Clinton flip-flop.
You know, this is really sad.
No, You're going to deny it.
This is really pathetic.
You're going to deny it, but you can.
Well, you know, of course I'm going to deny it because I didn't say it.
I know.
I'm going.
And you can't.
We cannot move forward.
It's to continue to try to make me the issue here.
This is really sad.
I know.
Isn't it terrible?
And, I mean, what you're doing is really great.
You can deny it.
That's okay.
But what Billy is doing.
You mean I can deny it.
I am denying it.
I do deny it.
I never said I was for Clinton.
I know.
Bro, you people out there.
You are so worried about my conservative views.
You think I'm such a maniac out there.
Now you're hearing me say things I've never said.
You want to play the tape?
I can't play the tape.
I know what I said.
I didn't say that.
Okay.
You know, I'd like to say one thing, though, is that you really bring home a point.
I don't know what she's talking about.
This is going over and over.
She just keeps making the same point here.
And it's, you know, we've been patient.
You can deny it, dear sir, but I know what you're doing.
I didn't say it.
I mean, you still.
I've had you on the phone here for, what, five minutes, and all you want to talk about is something that happened, what, 45 minutes ago?
I was younger then.
That was in my youth.
You can't hold me accountable for what happened in my youth.
It doesn't matter.
We've got to move the country forward.
I had people calling from all over the country.
They were going to cancel their Rush to Excellence tour tickets.
They weren't going to go.
At any rate, it didn't work.
Clinton, of course, was elected with 43% of the vote.
Maybe it did work.
This was the parole election, as you recall.
So we got a lot more of these kinds of things, ladies and gentlemen, as we look back over the past 20 years of broadcast excellence hosted by me, El Rushbo, and the EIB Network.
A brief time out now.
We'll come back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
Hi, Russ.
This is Larry Vanderdeen.
Congratulations on 20 remarkable years of the Russian Boy Show.
And for single-handedly recreating AM Radio in the process, it's been a privilege to work with you for most of those years in your fight against the blood cancers for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
Your curathon broadcast and your personal generosity have helped save thousands of lives.
Your heart is truly as big as your talent, Rush.
Thanks very much, Larry Vanderveen of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
All these tributes that can start going to my head.
If I am not careful, back to the phones.
This is Pat in Washington.
You're next.
It's great to have you on the program with us.
Hello.
Ditto's Rush.
My name's actually Patsy.
I grew up, still live southeast of Pittsburgh.
I was telling your screener there, I remember the first time I heard you.
I was listening to you on the radio, and I thought you were a local person on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh.
And I was doing something around the house, and I had the TV on, and all of a sudden, I heard your voice, that unmistakable voice, and I ran in, and you were on the Donahue show.
And that's the first time I realized that you were naturally syndicated, but I have been listening to you for years.
And, of course, I'm thinking, here's a man that articulates things that I've been thinking for a long time.
And I was tickled to death to see you on there.
And you kind of brought that memory back.
And I remember him trying to, they were trying to set you up there.
Of course, they had the big liberal audience stacked, I think, on purpose that day.
And I remember thinking how you handled yourself and probably end up showing Donahue up there as much as they, you know, he tried to.
Yeah, you know, I remember that.
They had asked me on that show a number of times, and the taping schedule did not coincide with the time I had to be on the radio.
So I actually, when I finally did it, I think I had to take a day off of the radio to do it.
I'm not sure.
They taped, I forget.
It was sometime near noon in the morning or shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
But when I finally got over there and did it, I met the producer, his right-hand woman that was the producing thing.
Nicest she could be.
Oh, we're so happy to have you.
Oh, the audience is going to just love you.
And I had had enough experience in green rooms and pre-interviews by then to understand what that was really all about.
That was to try to relax me and set me at ease for what was coming.
And Donahue finally showed up, and he said, the only thing you got to let me get a word in now and then, you talk and you never shut up.
You got to let me get a word in.
And of course, the whole program, most of it was about abortion and related subjects.
Because, you know, Phil was huge back on his feminist rantings then and there.
It was kind of fun to do.
And he kept telling me what I was going to say.
And he asked the question.
I said, Phil, I know what I'm going to say.
Will you let me answer the questions?
He had a habit of doing that, trying to put words in your mouth to steer you in a direction or else to get you in some sort of confrontation.
But yeah, it was fun.
That was back in the days when doing television shows was fun, but that wore off.
It didn't take long for it not to be fun anymore.
Well, you figured them out pretty quickly.
Rush, I go back further than that.
I remember you as Jeff Christie on Out of Pittsburgh, back way before that, even, I guess.
Oh, that was KQV.
That would have been the stretch out of Mechisport.
Mechespark, Rush.
Metgas, Mechisport.
Mechisport.
Rush, thanks for all the good work that you've done.
Okay, Patsy, look at it.
I'm looking every day.
It's the first time I ever got through.
I've been calling for years.
I got lucky.
I'm glad you got through.
What are you doing at Washington?
I'm a salesman.
I'm on the road.
I still live up in Fayette County there on the mountain.
How's the economy treating you and your sales?
Well, I'm in the housing industry, and of course, housing is off now, as you well know.
So we sell building products.
Doesn't matter.
He just got bailed out.
Everybody is fine.
Everybody is cool.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to have to look up.
I'm going to have to look my mortgage up here.
I just built a house two, three years ago.
I might be able to get a free pill out here or something, huh?
It turns out, you know, it turns out I have been reading about this bailout bill, and it turns out that a lot fewer people are going to get any benefit from it than one people think.
And there's a story, part of this bill deals with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
You remember we had the little detail about Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae had made political donations to the Reverend Jackson over the years that totaled like $1.25 million.
It turns out that the only way Harry Reid would allow some legislation to go forward is if the provisions that allowed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to make political donations was kept in.
There were people that wanted to take that out.
So here you have two agencies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which are ostensibly there to help stabilize the mortgage market, are actually just vehicles for liberals to make federal donations, campaign money from a supposed private business owned by the U.S. government.
What a scam this has turned out to be.
What an absolute scam.
And they run in a fraudulent manner.
Franklin Raines, Clinton's budget director, had to be thrown out of Freddie Mac, or it was Fannie Mae, after there was $6 billion plus dollars in fraud found, and there was hardly any penalty for it.
It's just classic.
I mean, I don't understand how you can have a private business run by the government anyway, but that's what these two things are.
And they have been making political donations and other kinds of donations.
And that provision will stay as part of this bailout legislation.
Here's Barry in Atlanta.
Barry, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing?
My name is Barry Brooks, calling from Atlanta, and I had a couple of things I wanted to talk about.
Fire away, my brother.
All righty.
I believe that Obama is really gaining momentum by the negative press that you're giving him, as well as other talk show hosts.
I believe his trip to across seas has I believe the negative comments and just what you have to say about him has put a magnifying glass on him, and he's actually gaining momentum from this.
That's what I believe.
And I know, say what?
It might be an interesting theory, except he's not gaining momentum.
This is the problem.
He can't get over 50%.
He can't close the deal.
The Democrats are worried he couldn't close Hillary Clinton out.
And he's having trouble here with all of this attention and all of this press coverage.
His momentum is largely in the media because they're his disciples, but it's not materializing out there.
And a lot of it, especially with women.
I believe it will materialize because the focus is on him across the world and in the United States.
Yeah, but the world doesn't vote here.
No, the world doesn't vote here, but it helps him.
And I think the nation is going to vote for him.
You know, I'm going to tell you something, Barry.
I actually think that Europeans idolizing this guy and going bang gangbusters over this guy is going to hurt him more than it's going to help.
The American people are sick and tired for the last five years hearing how we've got to bend over and grab the ankles for the Europeans.
And now we've got a guy running for president who has just done it.
And the American people do not think of their country the way Obama and many of his supporters do.
The American people do not think that we need to exist so that Europe likes us.
And that's what he's, and that, if you want to think, anything is going to slow him down, he'd better stop cultivating all of this worldwide support from people that the American voter will be offended in telling we've got to emulate.
Me personally, I would rather have a president that is liked worldwide.
I think it'll hit the United States.
We do.
We have a president.
Now, Castro doesn't like him, and Hugo Chavez doesn't like him.
The tyranny dictators of Iran and the Middle East don't like him, but why should they?
Why do we want a president that all these reprobate thug dictators are going to like?
Well, I mean, we have to build our ally support.
What is it about Obama you like?
I like Obama's.
I like what he's going to do for the U.S. as far as that.
I like his idea about raising taxes on the rich.
It's going to give me a break.
I don't make over $250,000.
It's not going to help you.
It's a lot of people out there.
Barry, Barry, wait a second.
Barry, you've got to hear me on this.
If the rich taxes go up anymore, we're going to get bankrupt in this.
The rich are maxed out.
The rich are already paying 40% of the top 1%, already paying 40% of all taxes.
If the rich get another tax increase, which will happen, it's not going to change your life at all.
How's it going to change your life?
It's going to change my life because I'll get a tax break being in the middle.
No, you're not going to get a tax.
You're not going to get a tax break.
Nobody's going to get a tax break.
Well, it's going to help the lower class and the middle class.
No, it's not.
It's going to cause job losses, Barry, because the people who hire in this country are going to be paying money to the government they can otherwise pay to hire people.
We can't lose any more jobs than we already lost under the administration that we have now.
Barry, Barry, we're practically statistically full employment in this country.
Well, if you count McDonald's and Wendy's, yeah, but we've got a lot of people out here that lost jobs at IBM and a lot of major companies that are having to take lesser paying jobs.
I understand that.
That's why the economy is the way it is today.
I mean, they're giving out all these extra refund checks to pump money back in the economy.
And that's what.
Those are bribe checks, Barry.
That's Democrats and Republicans bribing voters in an election year.
Those are just bribes.
They're not stimulating the economy at all.
But if Obama does what he says he's going to do, you're going to get hurt, Barry, not helped.
Back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
Back to the golden grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Hey, look back at much that's happened over the last 20 years on the EIB network as we approach the 20th anniversary, which is Friday.
And now, another golden classic from the Rush Limbaugh radio program.
Runaway monkey has eluded police armed with nets and bananas in Osaka.
Is that not a little prejudicial to think that a banana will automatically catch a monkey?
Isn't that a put-down of monkeys?
To assume that they're all going to fall prey to bananas?
Anyway, police have continued their hunt yesterday and today for the monkey.
You know why?
Because it is terrorizing the children and abducting pets, ladies and gentlemen.
This runaway monkey is stealing people's pets.
No injuries have been reported yet since the three-foot-tall monkey first appeared Tuesday.
Police cornered the monkey at one point yesterday.
I get this.
They had it.
They had the monkey cornered.
But they had to back off after it seized two kittens.
They backed off because they feared the monkey might harm the other animals, said the city officials.
That's right.
The monkey then escaped and with the kittens, the kittens' fate was unknown.
What do you have here, folks?
In a nutshell, you have a runaway monkey in Osaka terrorizing kids, holding kittens hostage, so the police let him go.
I mean, it is incredible.
He sees two kittens and the cops back off.
They may not want to end up going to jail for 12 years if anything happens to the kittens and the American animal rights wackos hear about it.
Maybe they're just not dangling enough bananas.
If they tried a monkey of the opposite sex, I mean, there's any number of things they can do here, but as long as this monkey is smart enough to know that by holding kittens hostage, it can keep the cops at bay.
I don't know how they're ever going to catch it.
Rush Limbaugh celebrating 20 years of broadcast excellence.
Many things happened over the course of the day.
One of the things that the animal rights update, we were told by whoever wrote the song Born Free that we were denied permission to use it in that fashion.
Andy Williams, who portrayed the song vocally, said he was cool with it.
He would love it.
He loved the airplay.
But they didn't like us putting bombs and explosions and gunfire in the animal rights update.
So we had to stop it.
And one of the sad things that happened as this program became more and more successful and got larger and larger and larger is that a number of people who were not politically sympathetic to this program decided to assert their rights and deny us the ability to use certain musical things.
Others didn't, but that's why the animal rights update, as you heard it there, sort of, we sneak one in now and then.
And then we deny it, if anybody says that we did it.
To Des Moines, this is Jared.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Lumbaugh.
How are you doing today?
Fine and dandy.
Thanks much.
All right.
Hey, I got a comment for you.
I noticed here in West Des Moines, the gas prices dropped about six to eight cents overnight.
They're hovering around $3.55 for the cheap stuff.
And I think that's a good thing.
We're all excited about gas prices dropping, but I can pretty much guarantee what we're going to be hearing about instead of this, the job losses in the green industry.
What job losses in the green industry will happen if the gasoline price goes down?
Well, as gas becomes cheaper, people aren't going to be necessarily interested in buying hybrids.
They're not going to be looking at switching over to alternative sources of power like wind turbines and things of that nature.
And as those things start to sell less, those companies are going to have to downsize.
Well, that's possible.
But I don't know that's going to happen right off the bat.
Look at how many people.
You know, we really don't know how many this is because the reports were in the drive-by media, and we were told this was a national trend of panic.
People getting rid of their SUV is because of the high price of gasoline now.
If gasoline continues to go down, let's say it gets below $3 a gallon.
Let's say it does.
Could it be that people go back and get SUVs again?
Now, the drive-bys and the environmentalist wackos are cladding their hands together, and they're as happy as they can be because they think that they have buried the SUV.
I think what's going to happen if the price of gasoline continues to fall, as does the price per barrel of oil, I think the first thing the drive-by media is going to do is join the Democrats.
Say, see, we don't need a drill.
We don't need a drill.
We don't need to drill our own oil.
We don't need any of that.
And they will use this to advance the liberal agenda, which is the dependence on foreign oil.
That is the left's agenda, despite what you think, because they're doing everything they can to oppose becoming less dependent on foreign oil.
Donald in Valley Stream in New York, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
Congratulations on 20 years.
I've got to tell you, I've been listening to you for all 20 years, and you're like a member of my family.
I feel like you're my brother.
I see you.
Thank you so much.
I love you like a brother.
I really, very much.
You're very welcome, sir.
The reason for my call is part of it was sparked by that last, two callers ago that you had this guy talking about he really likes Barack Obama.
There is a series of articles this week in Investors Business Daily, and it's called The Audacity of Socialism.
I've got one.
I've got one right here called Obama's Global Tax.
And it talks about what I mentioned earlier, his Global Poverty Act, which is just to cure global socialism.
He wants tax increases on the American people to quit and retire poverty around the world.
No mention of free markets, no mention of market economics at all to boost people's lifestyles.
No, nothing like that.
Did socialism create the United States of America as the greatest, most prosperous nation in history?
Not at all.
Not at all.
So why does Obama and his party want to spread socialism all over the world and bring more of it to this country?
Well, part of it has to do with yesterday's part of the article, which is his ties to socialism and communism to his mentors, which brought him to this space where he is today, the place where he is today.
He also wants to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour and pin it to inflation, which would kill small business.
I'm a small business owner.
It would kill me.
I can't believe this guy is even thinking of doing this.
And if he gets control as president and then has Congress following him, my fear is that they will change things, that we will have no way out of these things that he sets up.
Because nobody's going to come in and say, well, we're going to take these things away because we're going to have this fear of starving children and hurting the poor and everybody.
We can have these things in forever.
Well, if it's as drastic as you say, they won't work.
And one of two things will happen then.
The Democrats will lose en masse in elections and stuff gets fixed.
But the problem is that it's going to take a long time to roll it back if it ever gets implemented to the degree that Obama wants to.
You saw this news story yesterday that the Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban any more fast food restaurants in South Los Angeles.
Oh, yes, I do.
Because of obese.
Now, right along the lines of what you said, who do you think is employed by these restaurants?
The very people in South L.A. who need jobs.
So this ban, ostensibly, this is liberalism on March.
If this ban ostensibly to keep people healthy and stop them from eating any more fast food is actually going to lead to more people not having work.
I agree with you, but you know something?
It brings me to another point I would like to make.
What's that?
And here's my fear.
The Democrats, after being out of, truly being out of power for the past few years, I really believe will never want to relinquish power again once they get back in.
If they control both houses of Congress and the presidency, it's going to be a dream state for them.
And my fear is that they somehow will set up some kind of a commission or something to monitor elections so that we don't have any hanky-panky in elections and set it up so that Republicans never win.
And that way we're trapped in this endless stage of Democrats constantly winning and perpetuating these things because if they instituted any of these things, they would fail, like you say, I know a lot of people who have that fear that the Democrats, once they get their power back, they're not going to go through another eight years like this.
They're not going to let a Bush get elected.
It's not going to happen.
And they're not ever going to let the House of Representatives go.
They're not going to go for another 14 or 15 years not in power.
That's not fun.
It's their birthright, blah, blah, blah.
Here's the thing about that.
I guess it's a understandable fear.
The thing that worries me about that is not what the Democrats are going to do, but rather what's becoming to the Republican Party.
The Republican Party doesn't seem to have any desire to contrast itself with this extremism.
They instead seem to have people who want to go in that direction because that's where they think the American people are.
They think the American people want bigger government with more entitlements and more benefits, and they don't.
And so the idea the new Republican Party is going to pander and show those Americans out there that we don't think they're bad and we don't have any hard feelings for them.
We want to give them what they want and we're better at it than the Democrats.
That's the thing that bothers me because this is a golden opportunity for contrast with the right candidates to wipe all this stuff out.
This is not a guaranteed win for the Democrats, but so many Republicans think that it is.
Look, I appreciate the call, Donald.
Thanks.
Thanks very much.
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They do.
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Earlier in the program, ladies and gentlemen, we played you a song by the rap music artist Ludacris, real name Chris Bridges.
Ludacris is a good friend, a close associate of Barack Obama.
The Obama campaign has now responded to this song.
This song has been responded.
That's a rap song.
It's typical.
There's nothing surprising about it.
But here's the statement from the Obama campaign.
As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn't want his daughters or any children exposed to, said spokesman Bill Burton.
The song is not only outrageously offensive to Senator Clinton, Reverend Jackson, Senator McCain, and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear.
While Ludacris is a talented individual, he should be ashamed of these lyrics.
And everybody's going, oh, wow, man, Obama, they shut this down.
Obama didn't say anything.
As usual, Obama hasn't condemned anything.
Bill Burton did.
And by the way, it may have happened, but I haven't heard Obama condemn all those rap lyrics that often.
Have you heard him condemn rap lyrics?
Now, I don't read people, and I don't read us weekly, and I don't watch e-entertainment or whatever these, you know, 6.30, 7.30 p.m. little mindless entertainment shows are.
So, you know, when the Obama family was exposed on television, they may have said he doesn't like rap lyrics.
He may have said it in his book.
I haven't read the books.
But I haven't heard him making, he may have said it at the NAALCP convention.
I haven't heard it.
All I know is Obama did not condemn this.
Bill Burton did.
Obama met with Ludacris in 2006.
In November of 2006, the disgustings.
They met in Obama's Chicago office.
They disgustings, had many important things to discuss.
Ludacris' political activism and some programs.
Typical mindless pap charities.
Yeah, well, you had this guy in with Jeremiah Wright, and you had this guy in with Bill Ayers.
And the next time Obama does speak about this, this is not the ludicrous I knew.
Anyway, Tom in Knoxville, we got about a minute here, and I wanted to get you on.
I thank you for waiting.
Hey, Rice Dittos from East Tennessee.
Hey, let me be your voice of reason here in the listening audience.
I think it was Jennifer a few calls back accusing you of being sexist.
You know, either she doesn't listen often or really doesn't have discernment to pick up.
I obviously don't know you, but I think a lot of what you do is pang in cheek.
And so I just wanted to echo that.
Well, I appreciate it.
Jennifer, he's referring to a woman, ladies and gentlemen, a sad case.
It was a very troubling call for me.
A woman admitted that she had to take high blood pressure medicine prescribed by her doctor because she listened to this program and she couldn't stop listening because she hated it so much.
She needed the agitation, the irritation.
That led her to needing blood pressure medicine.
It's a slow form of suicide that she was committing.
And it was clear.
She was in Colorado Springs.
It was clear that Jennifer had no sense of humor and certainly no appreciation for satire, particularly when the satire and the humor is directed at liberals.
She accused me of being a sexist and that it just infuriated her.
So this is what Tom is calling about to point out that she was just wound really, really, really, really tight.
Just didn't have any sense of humor.
But it was more troubling than that for me.
I mean, first time I've had a caller has actually said my show is killing them, and they kept the radio on.
Okay, I got to skate out of here, folks.
People coming by to screen a movie this afternoon.
Henry Poole was here.
Luke Wilson, the latest starring role.
We'll be back tomorrow.
See you then.
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