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July 31, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Hiya, folks, and welcome back after 21 hours of being away.
Back to being together again.
So happy to be with you, Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies 20th anniversary celebration week, getting closer to the big day, which is actually tomorrow.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program.
It's 800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
It is a horrible, horrible week for the Democrats.
The drilling for oil thing they are losing.
Obama is losing it.
Obama is now playing the race card again, and the uh the GDP number came out, and we're growing at 1.9%, almost 2%.
So there's no recession.
There's no re I know it sounds impossible based on the media coverage of the economy.
In fact, you know the story that fat cat that they found roaming the streets of New Jersey, that 44-pound cat that they named Princess Chunky.
It took them a while, but they found out it's a male.
There were a lot of folds to go through there to get there to find that out.
That cat is a product of foreclosure.
An old woman lost her house and simply threw the cat out when she moved.
And then a cat was roaming the streets.
It'll find a new home.
So we've got all these stories about how rotten the economy is, and that we're in a recession, and we had 2% growth.
Bad news.
Democrats in total disarray, ladies and gentlemen.
And then there's this.
You you you parents who have sent your kids or whose kids are at present in Ivy League schools.
You might want to think about the education they're getting just by listening to Barack Obama because he is a walking, talking example of the kind of education you come out of Harvard or any of these Ivy Leaf schools.
This is Obama yesterday at a campaign event in Springfield, Missouri.
We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling.
If everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups, you could actually save just as much.
This is unbelievable.
My friends, this is this is it's it's laughable, of course, but it's stupid.
It is stupid.
How many of you remember the 70s when we had these shortages all through the Jimmy Carter years?
And we had all these tips, all these tips on how to save gasoline.
Avoid Jack Rabbit starts, keep your tires properly inflated and all that.
And there's a list about 10 or 12 of these things.
And I said, Well, you if I follow each one of these things, I'll have to stop the car every five miles, siphon some fuel out for all the fuel I'm gonna be saving here.
Ridiculous.
This is a presidential candidate, and he's talking about keeping your tires inflated and getting regular tune-ups, and that would save as much oil as drilling would produce.
And this guy is the Democrat presidential nominee.
That is who is filled his head with this stuff.
One of my favorite stories of the day comes from the UK.
A rich Arab sheikh sent his Lamborghini on a 6,500-mile round trip to Britain for an oil change.
This is my kind of guy.
This is my kind of guy.
This car.
Oh, wait, I'm almost done this myself.
You just wait.
I want to tell you that I'm going to tell you the story here.
This guy put his Lamborghini.
It's and it's a it's a black and gold Lamborghini.
He put this thing on a on a uh a Cutter Airlines cargo plane and shipped it to London because it can only be serviced by licensed dealers.
He had to get the oil changed.
The oil change costs something like uh $7,000.
The oil change in the service, well, that's nothing.
You know this this uh there's a there's a there's a car, a Lamborghini, not Lamborghini, what is it?
That's a Verone.
I'm having trouble thinking of the uh anyway.
It's it's it's a million and a half dollar car.
Simon Cole or Cowell, however you pronounce it has one.
The tires on that thing are $22,500 each.
$22,500 each.
Because of the speeds the thing that will uh it's it's a Bugatti Verone, I think is what it is.
So anyway, $7,000 for an oil change in a service.
And this guy sends his sends his Lamborghini on a on a on a seven hundred-seven or a cargo plane to Britain to have it done because only licensed dealers can do it.
Well, this this has the green people, this funny, it's it's in the UK sun, and this story has the green extremists fit to be tied.
By the way, this the car is the is the same Lamborghini driven by Batman in the movie The Dark Night.
The Bugatti Veyron, that's right.
Bugati Vayne is what it is.
It's LP 640.
So on Monday it was flown 3,250 miles back from London after it had been serviced.
A cargo handler at Heathrow blasted the car's environmental damage.
He said it would have been far more efficient to fly mechanics out there.
Jenny Evans of the pressure group Plain Stupid, P L A N E Stupid said, This horrifies me.
It's another example of how rich people exploit and pollute the planet because of their money.
She said the role of the super wealthy in climate change was not properly recognized while poor people were wrapped for going on holiday.
Friends of the Earth's transport campaigner, Richard Dyer said flying a car thousands of miles for service is ludicrous when planes are one of the most polluting ways to transport goods.
We urge the individual to get their car service closer to home.
But David Price of Lamborghini in UK, the Lamborghini Club in the UK said if an owner wants to service his car in that way, it is his choice.
I'm not surprised.
Thankfully, the age of excess in some areas continues.
Now a Lamborghini UK spokesbabe, Juliet Jarvis, said there could be kudos for a Middle Eastern owner in servicing a car in London.
She said the exclusive Italian brand had a network of authorized dealers around the world, and most cars were looked after in the country where they were bought.
This thing is not unheard of.
I love it.
I absolutely I'm not endorsing it, but I absolutely love it.
The guy puts his car on a jet, flies it to London, brings it back to the Middle East after an oil change.
I love it simply because it makes the environmentalist wackos mad.
There's no carbon footprint associated with this.
There's no economic damage.
There is certainly no climate damage with this.
I I just because these people are all, as we know, promoting a hoax, but this guy was just following Obama's suggestion for crying out loud.
Obama just got through telling us keep your tires inflated and get your car tuned up so we won't have to drill.
So here's an oil shake.
This is who?
Obama.
Middle name, who's saying?
Guy must know what he's talking about.
I'm gonna send my car in and get it tuned up and make sure they check the tires.
This guy deserves praise.
This guy deserves accolades.
He didn't want to risk a bunch of mechanics coming to his country.
He had to send it back to where it came from in order to get it serving.
Look, I've thought about doing this in a different way.
Three three or four years.
I know there are people starving.
There's people starving in the region over there in in in in in the UK.
Sure.
No, and in the Middle East.
Sure, sure there are.
Sure there are.
So, what about the people starving?
Don't give me this.
You're just you're just trying to play this this this uh devil's advocate liberal with me.
Three or four years ago, in November, I went, I was invited to attend a uh a pro club pro golf tournament put on by Taylor made down in Puerto Vallarta.
So I went, went with some good friends, and we got down there, checked in the hotel.
It was pretty nice.
But they they had these cheap little uh bus to get us from the hotel out to the golf courses.
And it was a long drive, and the roads were horrible.
Potholes and all kinds of things, and the buses were not air conditioned.
And I said, if I come back to this next year, I'm gonna buy a I'm gonna charter a C-130, and I'm gonna put my My Buck in it, and I'm gonna have it waiting for me here.
I'm not gonna be driving around these vans again.
Hells Bells, folks, the president flies his limousine all over the place in advance of where he's gonna be.
You don't think there are presidential limousines in every City, you wouldn't believe the hole that they have to do to get everything necessary for the president to be on the ground somewhere, and it goes hours or days before the president does.
This guy just shipping his Lamborghini.
I just love it.
I just I just absolutely simply because it makes these environmentalist wackos nutty.
And it's not doing any damage.
Yes, it's excessive.
Yes, it's insensitive.
Yes, it's but the guy's got the money and he can do with it.
If he wants to waste his money this way, spend it this way, so what?
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
We'll continue with much more on the EIB network right after this.
Don't go away.
Hello, Rush.
This is Dick Cheney.
I'm a big fan of your show, as you know, and I'm sending good wishes to you as you mark your 20th year on the air.
This great achievement testifies to your hard work and to the high standard of excellence that's become your trademark.
You are without question one of the great names in broadcasting history.
I'm proud to know you, proud to call you a friend, and I look forward to listening for many years to come.
Congratulations.
Keep up the great work.
Wow, this is this is this is cool.
I just I just goosebumps as I hear these accolades and these tributes.
Plus, I know it's irritating Jennifer in uh Colorado Springs, who called to tell us this is the woman that uh has to go to the doctor for high blood pressure medicine caused by listening to this program, yet she won't turn it off.
Therefore, she's the first audience member I've had who has called and admitted to me the show is killing her, and she won't stop listening to it.
It's a it's a slow form of suicide.
Anyway, thank you, Mr. Vice President.
I um uh appreciate it more than you know.
You missed that snerd snurdly we'll find it if we got a lot of stuff.
We got Snerdley wants to hear the call played back.
Well, we got a lot of old stuff to play uh this week and the rest of today and and tomorrow with a in fact, grab Mike if you would grab 20th anniversary archive number seven, the uh one from January 1993.
Meant to tell it in this or in the commercial.
Let me know when you have found it.
Uh here it is, folks.
January 1993.
Here is uh Pete Miniola, Long Island here, New York.
Welcome to the program, Pete.
Rush, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
Good.
I just wanted to let you know you missed the boat on uh Clinton's uh cabinet.
How's that?
You don't think that Hillary was gonna let him hire anybody that looked good?
Well, I you know, I'm gonna tell.
Oh, that is an interesting thing to ponder, and that is her role in in all this.
But I I I I want to say something here because when I when I left the studio after after pointing out to you feminist undeniable truth number 24, and talking about how there are no babes in the Clinton cabinet that I've seen yet.
I went in and talked to Diana Schneider, who's editor of the Limbaugh Letter, and she gets mad at me every time I do this stuff.
And she said, What about Warren Christopher?
Huh?
What about Warren Christmas?
I said, for crying out loud, I'm telling you.
What about Warren Christmas?
Well, he's ugly.
I said, so what?
There is no movement out there that has been organized in part to see to it that ugly men are not discriminated against.
I said, it is one of the many building blocks of feminism.
This is institutional.
It's not that Clinton purposely went out and found a bunch of unattractive women.
Don't misunderstand me.
It's if you're going to choose feminists, that's your pool.
Rush Limbaugh, celebrating 20 years of broadcast excellence.
By the way, folks, you know, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house got this book out.
It's 899 on Amazon.
It costs 16 bucks.
It's at 899 on Amazon.
She is the most powerful woman in Washington.
Earlier today, her book was at 860 something on Amazon.
It has fallen 30 slots after Drudge put it up.
I was afraid when Drudge put it up that the libs would run out and start buying the thing in mass.
But fewer people are buying it since the sales figure went up.
Oh, this is she's an historic figure.
They're telling us she's An historic figure.
By the way, on the on the shake that's flying his Lamborghini around for oil changes.
Seriously now, folks, for those of you that are irritated by this.
What's the difference?
This car travels much less than Al Gore does on private airplanes.
Al Gore's out there flying around far more than his car does.
You want to talk about footprints, carbon footprints, excess and so forth.
This car has probably the first flight the car has uh ever taken.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, the whole the whole tone of the Obama campaign has changed.
And it is amazing to see some of the uh manifestations of this.
You know, for the longest time I here behind the Golden EIB microphone have been telling you that this election is going to be a referendum on Obama and up or down on Obama.
And Obama doesn't like this.
He's in uh Lebanon, Missouri yesterday before getting on his campaign bus outside a restaurant.
He said this to a bunch of reporters.
I don't pay attention to John McCain's.
Although I do notice that he doesn't seem to have anything very positive to say about himself, does he?
He doesn't.
He seems to only be talking about me.
You need to ask John McCain what he's for, not just what he's against.
Whoa, they're getting testy out there on the Obama camp.
They really are.
They're getting testy.
They're getting defensive out there on all of this, and it's about time you talk.
This is a specious, vacant campaign.
There is no substance in the Obama campaign whatsoever.
This is a campaign totally built on a foundation of celebrity.
And that McCain ad that we played the audio for from you uh for you yesterday that has Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in it to equate the audience in Germany at the Victory Tower to nothing more than an American pop culture celebrities dead on right.
We were talking about this two weeks ago on this program that the Obama cult is nothing more than a celebrity cult, a pop culture celebrity cult, uh, based on him being presented as a celebrity.
And what does he do?
He furthers the Nostin by by having the e-entertainment people or whoever did it come by, do a television interview with uh Michelle My Bell and the kids, and then he grants people magazine access.
He's on a cover.
I mean, he's he's following the route, exactly blazed by people like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
And he's upset about this.
He's upset that McCain's called him on this.
And this this referendum stuff on on Obama up or down is is thin skin is starting to show here.
And that's stupid, stupid, stupid comment.
Four dollar a gallon gasoline, the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot and they're maybe aiming a little higher by opposing drilling for oil anywhere new.
And Obama tells people to inflate their tires and get tune-ups.
That that it's insulting, it is weak, it blows me away.
It's so stupid.
It's so out of touch for the Messiah to tell people to get their tires inflated, so that we don't have to drill for oil.
In Springfield, Missouri, Obama dropped the race card yesterday.
What they're gonna try to do is make you scared of me.
You know, he oh, he's not patriotic enough.
He's got a funny name.
He, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know.
He's risky.
That's the argument.
That's essentially the argument they're making.
It's like the argument is I I know you don't really like what we're doing, but he's risking.
Seriously, right, Claire?
I mean, that's basically the argument.
It's like, well, we don't have much to offer, but he's risking.
I sense the real Obama coming out here, and this is a very sensitive, angry, uptight little guy.
This is this is Barry Obama now dropping the race card.
What do you suppose that's all about?
This is not accidental.
The dropping of the race card, the s this the the is to distract people's attention from the singular pocketbook issue in this campaign, the price of foreign oil.
It is killing Obama, it's killing the Democrats.
The singular national security issue of our time, that we are winning in spectacular fashion in Iraq, is killing Obama and the Democrats.
So the best way to address those issues, since you will not open up the outer continental shelf and and water drilling, since you will not respond to the American people in ways that they support.
No, you accuse McCain of running a racist campaign because you know that your slaves, your disciples in the drive-by media will just eat that up because they are obsessed with race.
So they'll pick it up and they'll run with the fact that McCain's being mean, and McCain's chasing his tactics.
Why is McCain doing this?
What's happened to McCain?
When in fact, what's happening to Obama is nothing.
No bounce out of Germany.
World tour, summer intern camp.
Apparently, it was a big bomb, ladies and gentlemen.
There is more Gallup poll information today.
Is that after that little bounce he got, which is not much of one, the race is tightening up now?
We've got more straight ahead.
Right after this.
Well, hey, this is Joe Buck from Fox Sports and uh calling to congratulate Rush.
You know, they say you can really judge how a person truly is when the cameras and microphones are off.
And I can say hosting my own children's hospital golf event here in St. Louis.
Rush, at his own expense, six years in a row, paid for himself to fly in.
He was a part of it.
He was great to everybody involved.
He is uh truly a genuinely good guy.
And so I want to say congratulations uh to a guy who might be as sickly involved with a game of golf and as obsessed as I am.
Here's the 20 more, man.
Congratulations.
Joe Buck, Fox Sports, the uh he's their number one announcer for uh baseball and the National Football League.
I got to know him through his uh his dad, Jack Buck, who I admired tremendously.
Thanks, uh thanks, Joe, very, very much.
Uh appreciate it.
You know, the uh the thing that's happening out there, folks, reality is killing the Democrats.
The race card is a fiction, it's a distraction from reality.
What's the reality?
Obama goes on this summer intern tour when he goes to Germany, speaking to 200,000 Europeans, he trashes his own country.
He canceled a scheduled visit with wounded American soldiers.
He hinted to minority journalists that reparations may be needed to make the U.S. a more perfect union.
He has carried himself around as an arrogant, elite, out of touch politician who looked down his nose at voters and told them to put air in their tires to deal with four dollar a gallon gasoline.
Of course he got to throw down the race card.
He's having a very bad few weeks here, folks.
He's supposed to be burying McCain.
Instead, McCain is picking up ground and in some polls leading, and in Florida and Ohio, the race is pulled even, according to polling data.
So he throws the race card.
By the way, contrast something, President Bush, at a recent press conference, you know, a drive-by reporter and new Castrati stood up.
Mr. President, Mr. President, are you going to advise the people to drive their carth left and to get smaller cars if they've No, I'm not going to do that.
They're adults.
They know what to do to save money, know what to do to deal with this.
I'm not going to tell people how to live their lives.
They're adults.
Contrast that with Obama.
Put the right amount of air in your tires and get tune-ups, and we will not have to drill for oil.
Black and white difference, ladies and gentlemen, between the Democrats and the Republicans.
And that's not a racist comment, by the way, when I say black and white difference.
I don't Obama would think it is.
And the drive-by's might.
I mean, you know, before it's over, for Obama and a Democrats are going to be telling us when to poop and when not poop based on environmental damage.
They're going to be telling us what kind of toilet paper to wipe with after we poop.
Well, that's true.
That's right.
They already do one sheet of toilet paper.
What wacko that what what woman did?
Cheryl Crow.
That's right.
Cheryl Crow.
Exactly right.
And the drive-bys know that there's trouble in paradise.
From McClanche newspapers, David Lightman.
Experience called poor predictor of presidential success.
This is like the stories we got in the 90s.
Lying is okay.
Spares people's feelings.
Yeah.
McClatchy newspapers experience called poor predictor of presidential success.
So I guess we can infer that inexperience is a good predictor.
The less experience a candidate has, the better president they will be.
This is too good to be true.
By the way, Chuck Schumer, ladies and gentlemen, very upset.
Chuck Schumer, uh actually Chuck Yushumer, very, very he teed off about Exxon Mobil and their huge profits.
Or shocked about how the oil companies are spending those profits.
They tell us they want to do more domestic production.
They tell us they need to drill offshore.
They tell us that they can find oil on the mainland.
And what do they do with their profits?
They buy back their stock simply to increase their share price.
He doesn't like how private businesses operate themselves.
Who are the shareholders, Chuck U?
The shareholders are people.
They are spreading their profits and wealth around their investors, Chuck U. Schumer.
As as far as this experience called poor predictor of presidential success, how about this?
Experience is called a poor predictor of journalistic measure.
Veteran reporters, the most experienced, are being let go in the downtimes that are occurring in the drive-by media.
By the way, Pelosi's book, I figured out why it's not selling.
In addition to the fact that nobody cares what Pelosi says or writes about her life, the economy is so bad people can't afford the 1699 the book costs.
Back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
One of the most controversial bits.
Well, actually, at the time it was controversial and it was well appreciated and understood.
Tax the poor.
It is time to get serious, and it is time to get tough about tax policy in this country.
The middle class coupled with the rich make this country work.
Those two groups working together in unison what make this country work.
Now, what's slowing this country down?
Tell you who it is.
The poor.
The poor and the lower classes of this country have gotten a free ride ever since the Great Depression.
When it became noble to be poor.
Look at how we treat the homeless.
While we celebrate them.
Why we make romantic figures of them, while we make movies about them.
We teach them to dine in dumpsters now because America is so impolite.
America doesn't care.
America's so rude.
My friends, we have the wealthiest poor in the world.
They're the ones who get all the benefits in this country.
They're the ones that are always pendered to.
We have been encouraging poverty because they need government.
And Democrats love giving money away to the poor because it creates a need.
And boy, have we created a dependency class.
And do they give anything back?
Do they pay any taxes?
No.
They don't have to file any income taxes.
They don't pay a thing.
They contribute nothing to this country.
They do nothing but take from it.
It is serious.
It is time to get serious about raising taxes on the poor.
Now I know what you're saying.
You're saying, but Rush, what do we do if we can't collect the money they owe?
What if we don't?
What if they just can't pay?
The poor in this country have an average of three television sets in their house.
Let's go get two of them.
I am sick and tired of playing the one phony game I have had to play, and that is the so-called compassion for the poor.
I don't have compassion for the poor because I think they can do something about it.
What if we all decided to be poor?
What if we all said, I don't want to pay taxes, I'll just be poor, and I'll rely on the Democrats.
And I'll derive my happiness by watching the news on my television set that the rich are going to be punished.
Yeah.
My friends, may I uh have your attention, please, for just a moment.
As you know, today is uh April Fool's Day, and I've I have in the past steadfastly avoided playing in these April Fool's games because everybody else does.
And I I was unable this year to resist the temptation to do it, beginning today with my now infamous morning update, which suggested raising taxes on the poor as a means of finally being tough with the economic problems need to be faced.
And of course, on today's show, I have expanded my philosophies and have uh spoken at great length about what I consider to be the true problems in solving our economic melee's.
I am continually surprised and amazed at the power of this microphone.
The whole proposal of raising taxes on the poor to balance the budget.
In fact, the entire diatribe today blaming the poor and bashing the poor has all been an April fool's play.
Now, many of you out there are so desperate that you will latch on to things that you don't even understand.
And then when somebody tries to explain them to you, you don't want to hear it.
If it is going to in any way, shape, matter, or form, change the substance of your belief.
And I find that to be truly alarming.
I didn't say dangerous, and I'm not going to worry about any of this, but I find it fascinating.
I find it fascinating how easy it is to pull something like this off.
There are some things in it that are absolutely true.
There are some points I made that are absolutely right.
Some things that we've got to do that are absolutely a must.
But do I think the poor should pay more taxes?
No.
They don't have anything to pay taxes with.
Do I think that they are the wealthiest poor in the world?
Yeah, but it doesn't mean they're well off.
And you people who bought it, hook, line and sinker, ought to ask yourselves, what else are you buying that may not be true?
What else are you willing to believe?
How about ozone depletion?
How about global warming?
What do you really know about it?
You just think of somebody who sounds authoritative, says it, oh man, it must be true.
You want to believe the worst.
You want to believe the worst is happening.
You want to believe the worst in people.
Ask yourselves about all of these things that you just accept.
You should have heard some of the comments that they were getting at the switchboard.
From people who've listened to me for three and one half years.
Now, I know what's going to happen.
We're safe.
And then the press.
You know this is going to end.
The press is going to say, yeah, you may have been just kidding.
Yeah.
April Fool's joke, yeah.
But look how easy it was for him to say it.
It really is in his heart.
It.
As always, my friends, it was a brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed Rush Limbaugh.
And I was right.
The press went with it.
Without explaining that it was an April Fool's joke.
Patrick Schroeder referenced it on a floor of the House of Representatives, a bunch of other Democrat and liberals uh uh went up.
By the way, the uh the uh condition of the poor has vastly improved since the tax the poor update.
That was April 1st, 1991, by the way.
Uh they now have flat screens and uh and two cars, on average, uh in the average American poor household.
And by the way, one thing before we go to the break about the sound quality, some of these old bits are were only originally recorded on cassette.
And that's why you think the voice might sound different.
It was just not the highest.
We didn't start going real to real uh right off the bat.
We just used cassettes and we've mastered, we've tried to EQ and master some of the cassettes, and we've done the best we could with it, but that's why the Eschy Shanshwish and uh the quality is a is a little a little off.
Uh just so you understand.
Back after this, don't go away.
October 19th, 1994.
The New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women is targeting the New York Times.
The New York Times, because they've chosen right wing roundabout, Rush Limbaugh in a TV commercial promoting the paper.
Uh, Diane Welsh, now gang New York City Chapter President said, quote, we are urging our members to exercise choice and not by the Times while Limbaugh is being used.
Now the question is, will the Times cave?
This is a gonna be a real interesting thing for the Times.
Do they cave to the now gang or do they hang tough?
In fact, it we if the Times knows what's best for them, they will delay the start of the Jackson campaign flight and stick with mine.
And watch subscriptions soar.
Rush Limbaugh celebrating twenty years of broadcast excellence.
But they caved.
The New York Times caved to the nags and pulled the ad that I had.
I got a note from Penn Schultzberger personally asking me to do this, and I think the Reverend Jackson was also part of the uh campaign, but they threatened to boycott the New York Times, and that was the end of my commercial flight.
These were TV spots in the New York Times.
I'm watching Obama.
He's somewhere making a campaign appearance during the commercial break here.
And the Democrats are back to blaming big oil.
They just last week it was the speculators.
Now they're back to blaming big oil.
They are fit to be tied.
Fit to be tied over Exxon's profits.
11.7 million or whatever, billion, whatever it was.
Mad as hell.
Obama's sitting there saying we don't need to give them any more tax breaks.
We're we're through giving them tax breaks.
We gotta stop.
We gotta stop having an energy policy that works for big oil.
We have an energy policy new energy policy works for you.
And I said, please, please remind them again how to deal with these Exxon profits.
Proper inflated tires.
Please, Obama, tell your audience inflate their tires and get tune-ups.
To the phones we go, David, Richmond, Virginia.
You're on the EIB network.
Up first today, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Uh, listen, uh, I wanted to talk with you a bit about the oil drilling issue, but before that, I wanted to thank you for your obtuse upside-down inference from the comments about experience in the presidency.
Great example of the kind of sophistry that you peddle every day.
What sophistry did I pedal?
And the sophistry is from the McClanchy News Service trying to say that there it's got a heavy breather.
We've got a heavy breather.
Yeah, you were suggesting, as I understood your comment that because experience didn't correlate with with uh failure, that it therefore correlated with success.
No.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
I what all I think is what you said.
No, it's not what I said.
You didn't hear me right.
Oh, okay.
Tell me right.
All I said was we've got this story.
Okay, we've got an inexperienced buffoon running for the presidency on the Democrat side.
We've had that for several years, yes.
No, we haven't.
We have one now.
And so the McClatchy people, knowing they got an inexperience.
Buffoon does a story saying that experience is a bad predictor.
If so, if experience is a bad predictor, maybe inexperience is a good one.
That's exactly the ignorant inference I was referring to.
It's not no, the ignorance is the newspaper trying to pass along a silly notion that experience doesn't count.
This is called illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
Your assessment of that was a correct and logical and and uh uh proper argument with respect to that information.
Is that right?
Yes, it's not even it's it's inarguable, David.
I don't I don't know.
I don't know what you got your underwear in a wad about.
The illogic of your argumentation, which is usually present.
But on the on the oil issue, uh I do not wish to let me know when you're finished.
I'm I'm I'm just breathing.
Uh-huh.
On the oil issue, uh I do not deny that drilling is a useful activity.
Oh, how big of you.
I do sound as arrogant as Obama does.
I do wonder if you're aware of the current administration's energy department position on drilling.
Uh yes.
Okay, well, what is it?
Uh the president just rescinded the executive order energy department's position.
Well, That's it.
That's it.
No.
The energy department's report most recently states that drilling will have out of time.
Try this headline: shoppers to face higher prices on holiday goods.
It's already time in July to start scaring everybody about Christmas prices.
Much more straight ahead.
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