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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.
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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 twenty years, all week long.
It'll probably it'll probably be uh hot and heavy on Friday, the actual anniversary day.
But we've been teasing a little bit of what is coming with uh 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 uh 1992.
In 1992, the Clinton campaign was uh much like the Obama campaign is today.
It was just sailing along, and uh Clinton was thought of as something new and fresh uh and young, and uh 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.
Uh 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 fifty 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 am I'm a 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 gonna have to change.
Um here at twelve 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'm I'm I don't know.
I'm let me just go to the phones.
Um Camille in Brooklyn.
Camille, hi, Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome to the program.
Yes.
I'm I'm surprised you said that you're voting for Clinton.
I'm I'm really shocked.
I can't believe you're killing the town.
You have to do what you think is right.
But Clinton, that's fine, boy.
How could you even think of uh voice for that?
Oh my God.
I just can't talk more.
I just can't.
I'm sorry.
Hmm.
Well, see, that's then that's just that's an indication of how tough it is for everybody.
What am I to do?
Am I supposed to come in here and and and and make it up?
Am I supposed to come here?
I mean, how I it just the charade is I can't do that, folks.
Phyllis in the Bronx in New York, hello.
Hello.
Hello, my name is Phyllis.
Yes, ma'am.
I am a conservative.
I am homesick today, but uh 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.
What are you talking about?
I mean, you're backing, Mr. You're ba uh backing uh Bill Clinton.
I am not.
I am just said you're back.
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 could you just tell me you you you said you couldn't you know, I can't even talk.
I'm so upset.
Um I'm practically ready for for tears.
You keep talking about something that happened twenty-three 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 gonna the guru of the six conservatives.
You're going to have to listen a little bit more closely, Phyllis, and you're gonna have to think about the future.
This what happens in the past is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter.
Suzette uh from Chicago.
Welcome to the program.
You know, mega dittoes and accolades, you are wonderful.
I put on your show, and uh 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 uh flip flop.
You're uh You know, this is really sad.
Now don't no no no this is this is really pathetic.
You're gonna deny it, but then again, you can well, you know, of course I'm gonna deny it.
Because I didn't say it.
I know, I'm going and you can't we cannot move forward.
It's you know to continue to try to make me the issue here.
This is really sad.
I know, isn't it terrible?
Um and uh I mean what you're doing is really great.
You you can deny it, that's okay.
But uh with Billy I can deny it.
I d I am denying it.
I do deny it.
Uh you know I never said I was for Clinton.
I know.
Bro, you you people I think you are so worried about my conservative views.
You're so you think I'm such a maniac out there.
Now you're hearing me say things I've never said.
Uh 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 uh you really bring home a point that I don't know what she's talking about.
You keep you this is going over and over.
She just keeps making the same point here, and it's you know, I've we've been patient.
Uh you can deny it, dear sir, but I know what you do.
I didn't say it.
I mean, and uh you still I've had you on the phone here for what's five minutes, and all you want to talk about is something that happened to what, forty-five 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 might have the country forward.
I had people calling from all over the country.
They were gonna cancel their rush to excellence tour tickets.
They weren't gonna go.
Clinton, of course, was elected with uh forty-three percent of the vote.
Maybe it did work.
This was the parole election, as you uh as you recall.
So we got a lot more of these kinds of things, ladies and gentlemen, as we look back over the uh over the past twenty years of broadcast excellence hosted by me, L. Rushball and the EIB Network, a brief time out now.
We'll come back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
Hi, Rush.
This is Larry Vanderveen.
Congratulations on twenty remarkable years of the Rush Limboy 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 and 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 and it can start going to my head.
If I am not careful, back to the phones.
This is uh this is Pat in Washington, your next.
It's great to have you on the program with us.
Hello.
Still live southeast of Pittsburgh.
I was telling uh your screener there.
I remember the first time I heard you.
Uh I I was listening to you on the radio, and I thought you were a local um person uh 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 Donna You show.
First time I realized that you were nicely 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 uh 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 uh showing Donahue up there as much as they uh you know, he tried to do that.
Yeah, you know, I I uh I I remember that.
I they had asked me on that show a number of times, and that and they the taping schedule uh did not coincide with the the time I had to be on the radio, so I I actually when I finally did it, had to I think I had to take a day off of the radio to do it.
I'm not sure because they taped.
I forget.
It was uh it was sometime near noon in the morning or or shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon.
But when I finally got over there and did it, uh I I met I met the uh the producer, his this uh his right hand woman that was the producing thing.
Nice as she could be.
Oh, we're so happy to have you.
Oh, this the oh, you're just gonna 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 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 gotta let me get a word in now and then.
You talk and you never shut up, you gotta let me get a word in.
And of course, the whole program, uh, most of it was about abortion and related subjects.
Because, you know, Phil was was huge back on his uh his uh feminist rantings then and there.
That was it was it was uh it was it was kind of fun to do, and he kept he kept telling me what I was going to say.
When to answer the question, I know what I said, Phil, let me I know what I'm gonna say.
Will you let me answer the questions?
He had a habit of uh of doing that, trying to put words in your mouth uh to steer you in a direction or else to get you to con uh in some sort of confrontation, but it uh yeah, it was it was uh 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 uh Jeff Christie on uh out of Pittsburgh.
Back way before that, even I guess.
Oh, that was KQV.
That would have been the station out in uh Mechisport.
Mechy Spark, right.
Rush, thanks for all the good work you're gonna do.
Okay, Patsy, look at them 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 in Washington?
I'm a salesman, I'm on the road.
I still live up in Fayette County there on the mountain.
Uh's your what how how's the economy treating you and your sales?
Well, I'm in uh housing industry, and of course housing is off now.
Uh as you well know, so we sell building products.
Doesn't matter, he just got bailed out.
Everybody is fine, everybody's cool.
Yeah, you know, I'm gonna have to look up I'm gonna have to look my mortgage up here.
I just built a house two, three years ago.
I might be able to get a free uh bell 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 gonna get any benefit from it than one people think.
Uh it's it's and there's a there's a story the uh part of this bill deals with Feddy Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
You remember we had the little detail about Freddie Mac.
I think it was Fannie Mae had made political donations to the uh Reverend Jackson over the years that totaled like a one point two five million dollars.
It turns out that the only way Harry Reid would allow some legislation to go forward is if the provisions that allowed Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae to make political dump donations was kept in.
There were people that wanted to take that out.
So here you have two agencies, Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae, which are ostensibly there to help stabilize the mortgage market, are actually just vehicles for liberals to make federal donations and campaign money uh 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 Rains, Clinton's budget director, had to be thrown out of Freddie Mac, or I think it was Fannie Mae, uh after there was six billion plus dollars in fraud found, and there was hardly any penalty for it.
It just 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 um had a couple of things I want to talk about.
Fire away, my brother.
All righty.
I I believe that uh Obama is really gaining momentum by the negative press that you're giving him, as well as other talk show hosts.
Um I believe uh his trip to across seas has I believe uh the negative comments and uh 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 um I know say what.
It might be an interesting theory, except he's not gaining momentum.
This is the problem.
He can't he can't get over fifty percent.
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 his press coverage.
Uh he's he's it his his momentum is largely in the media because you know they're his disciples, but there it's it's not it's not materializing out there in a lot of it, especially with women.
I believe it will materialize because the focus is on him across the world and in and in the in in the United States.
Yeah, but the world doesn't vote here.
No, the world doesn't vote here, but it it it helps him.
And I think uh the nation is gonna vote for him.
Um, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something, Barry.
I actually think that Europeans idolizing this guy and we'll going bang gangbusters over this guy is gonna hurt him more than it's gonna 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 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 is and uh that if you want to think of anybody anything is gonna 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 I think it it'll help the United States out.
We do.
We have a 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 gonna like?
Well, I mean, we we we have to uh build our ally support.
Um What is it about Obama you like?
I like I like Obama's I I like um I like what he's gonna do for the U.S. as far as what is that?
I I like I like his idea about raising taxes on the rich.
It's it's gonna give me a break.
I I don't make over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
It's not gonna help you.
It's a lot of public out there that Barry, Barry, wait a second.
Barry, you gotta hear me on this.
If if the rich taxes go up anymore, we're gonna get bankrupt in this because they they're the rich are maxed out, the rich are already paying 40% of the top one percent already paying 40% of all the taxes.
If the rich get another tax increase, which will happen, it's not gonna change your life at all.
How's it gonna change your life?
Uh it's gonna change my life because I'll get a tax break being in the middle of the case.
No, you're not gonna get a tax, you're not gonna get a tax break.
Nobody's gonna get a tax break.
Well, it it it's gonna help the lower class and the middle class.
I mean, rather giving out all these dealers.
It's gonna cause it's gonna cause job losses, Barry, because the people who hire in this country are gonna be paying money to the government they could otherwise pay to hire people.
This is the thing you got to lose any more jobs than we already lost under the administration that we have now.
Barry, Barry.
We've got pr we're practically statistically full employment in this country.
Well, if you count McDonald's and Wendy's, yeah, but we got a lot of people out here that lost jobs at IBM and a lot of major uh 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 a lot.
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 if 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.
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?
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 what's right.
The monkey then escaped, and with the kittens, the kitten's 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 in the American animal rights wackos hear about it.
Maybe they're just not dangling enough bananas.
Have they tried a monkey of the opposite sex?
I mean, there's any number of things they could 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.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Many things happen over the course of the day as well.
One of the things that the animal rights update, we were told...
Uh, by whoever wrote the song Born Free, that we were denied permission to use it.
Uh as as in in that fashion.
Andy Williams, who portrayed the song vocally, said he was cool with it.
He he would 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 that we had to stop it.
And it was one of the one of the sad things that happened as this program begot uh became more and more successful and got larger and larger and larger, is that uh a number of people who were not politically sympathetic to this program that decided to assert their rights and deny us the uh ability to use certain uh musical things.
Others didn't, but that's why the animal rights update as you heard it there, uh sort of we still we sneak one in now and then.
And then we deny it, if uh if anybody's we did it.
To Des Moines, this is uh this is Jared.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Lombaugh.
How are you doing today?
Fine and dandy.
Thanks much.
All right, hey, I got a comment for you.
I noticed uh here in West Des Moines the gas prices uh dropped about six to eight cents overnight.
They're hovering around 355 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 gonna 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 as uh gas becomes cheaper, people aren't going to be necessarily interested in buying hybrids.
They're not gonna be looking at switching over to alternative sources of power like uh wind turbines and things of that nature.
And as those things start to sell less, those companies are gonna have to downsize.
Well, that's that's possible.
I I I but I don't know that that it's that's gonna happen right off the bat.
Look at how many people.
We know we really don't know how many this is.
Because the reports were in the drive-by media, and we we were told this is 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 three bucks a gallon.
Let's say it does.
Uh could it be that people both go back and get SUVs again?
Now the drive-by's and the environmentalist wackos are just plaiding their hands together and there's 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 and say, see, we don't need to drill.
We we don't need a drill, we don't need to drill them our own oil, we don't won'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 um 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.
Um I gotta 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 swear to you.
I love you like a brother.
I really do.
Thank you very much.
You're very welcome, sir.
Um the reason for my call is uh part of it was sparked by that last uh this two callers ago that you had this guy talking about he uh 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 uh got one right here called Obama's Global Tax, and it it talks about what I mentioned earlier, his Global Poverty Act, which is uh cure global socialism.
Yes, he wants tax increases on the American people to quit and retire poverty around the world.
No mention of free markets, no mention of uh of market economics at all to boost people's lifestyles.
No, nothing like that.
They what did socialism create the United States of America is 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 as 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 ten dollars an hour and pin it to inflation, which would kill small business.
I'm a small business owner, it would kill me.
Uh I I can't believe this guy is even thinking of doing this.
And if he gets control uh in in 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 gonna come in and say, Well, we're gonna take these things away because we're gonna have this fear of starving children and hurting the poor and everybody have these things in forever.
It's well, if it's as drastic as you say, they won't work, uh, and one of two things will happen then.
The Democrats will lose en masse in elections and it stuff gets fixed.
But the problem is that it it it'll it's gonna take a long time to roll it back.
It i if if it ever gets implemented to the degree that Obama wants to.
You you saw this uh 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 obese.
Now, right along the lines of what you said, who do you think is employed by these restaurants?
The very people in South LA who need jobs.
So this ban ostensibly for this is liberalism on March.
If this ban ostensibly to keep people healthy and stop them from eating any more fast food is actually gonna 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 that and here's my fear.
The Democrats, after being out of truly out of 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 gonna 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 haven't gotter all over again.
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, eh?
Not going to 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 the thing about that.
I guess it's a it's 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 of the new Republican Party is going to pander and show those Americans out there that we don't think they're bad, or 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'm uh I appreciate the call, Donald.
Thanks.
Thanks very much.
People have been writing.
They do.
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Earlier in the program, ladies and gentlemen, we played you a song by the uh the rap music artist, Ludicrous, real name Chris Bridges, ludicrous is a good friend, a close associate of Barack Obama.
The Obama campaign has now responded to this song.
This song has been uh responded that's a rap song, it's typical.
There's nothing surprising about it.
Um 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 fast 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 ramp lyrics that often.
Have you heard him condemn ramp 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, six thirty, seven thirty P.M. little mindless entertainment shows are.
So, you know, when the Obama family was exposed on television, I 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 money 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 discussed things, had many important things to discuss.
Ludicrous's political activism and some programs, typical mindless pap charities.
Yeah, well, you had this guy in with Jeremia Wright, and you had this guy in with Bill Ayers.
And uh 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.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey, Rice Diddle's from East Tennessee.
Hey, let me be your voice of reason here in the listening audience.
Um the uh I think it was Jennifer a few calls back, uh accusing you of being sexist.
Uh, you know, either she doesn't listen often or really doesn't have discernment to pick up.
I 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.
She Jennifer, he's referring to a woman, ladies and gentlemen, a sad case.
It was a very troubling uh 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, 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 she uh it was clear, uh, she was in Colorado Springs.
It was clear that Jennifer had no sense of humor, and certainly no appreciation for for satire, particularly when 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 what Tom is calling about to point out that she was just it 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, I first time I've had a caller who's actually said my show is killing them, and they kept the radio on.
Okay, I got to skate out of here, folks.
Uh people coming by to screen a movie this afternoon.
Henry Poole was here.
Luke Wilson is the latest uh starring role.
We'll be back tomorrow.
See you then.
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