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Aug. 1, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Time for the award-winning thrill-packed, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And it is also the 20th anniversary of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We have been building up to this day all week long, and we're going to do a combination of things.
We're going to keep it as normal as possible because there's a lot of news out there.
A lot of stuff that deserves commentary.
Plus, we're going to have our retrospectives.
We're going to go back in time and examine things that have happened on this program over the last 20 years.
And a few reminisces and a few thank yous.
And you.
When we go to the phones today, the content of the program is all yours.
That's what open line Friday is.
So you're not limited, as you are Monday through Thursday, by my dictatorial manners.
Only talk about what interests me Monday through Thursday on Friday.
Talk about anything.
Questions, comments, wine, moan, cheer, what have you.
800-282-2882.
The uh email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
We have, among other things, a special edition today of the official Obama criticizers.
Speaking of the Messiah, he was heckled today.
The Messiah, heckled in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Hold on a second.
What's happening?
Hold on a second.
That's all right.
That's all right.
Listen.
Excuse me.
And went on.
Hey.
Hold on, sir.
Hold on, everybody.
Excuse me, young man.
This is going to be a question and answer session, so you can ask a question later.
Let me make my statement.
Why don't you all sit down?
Then you can ask a question.
That's why we're out of the town all mean.
Sit down.
You you'll have you'll have a chance to answer your question, but you don't want to disrupt the whole meeting.
Just be courteous, that's all.
All you gotta do is be courteous.
That's all.
Just be courteous, and you'll have a chance to make a statement.
Just relax.
That's all.
Just relax.
You'll have a chance.
All right.
Where was uh what was I talking about?
Well, they succeeded in heckling the Messiah.
They were unfurled large banners there that said uh, what about the black community, Obama?
Uh, and he was clearly shouted down.
This is something that we haven't seen before on the campaign, ladies and gentlemen, and that is the Messiah being heckled.
In addition to that, I uh uh I uh saw this this morning, and I was just I was uh blown away.
Obama wants another stimulus check sent to every American.
He wants the check to be in the amount of 1,000 dollars.
And you know who he wants to send the uh be responsible for paying for this?
Big oil.
Oh my god is right.
Democrat presidential candidate, the Lord Barack Obama, the Messiah.
Why?
What?
What are you the rubber what?
Hello.
Oh, geez.
Uh uh the President.
Yes, sir, Mr. President.
President George W. Bush, calling to congratulate you on twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.
Well, thank you, sir.
You've stunned me.
I'm shocked.
But thank you so much.
No, I didn't.
I'm here with a room full of admirers.
There's two others that would like to speak to you and congratulate you.
Who uh people who consider you friends and really appreciate the contribution you've made.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Put them on.
How are you doing?
Well, this uh this is my swan sauna.
This is all you got for me.
I'll move it on.
No, the show's yours.
Take as much time as you want.
Well, my I'm just calling along with uh President 41 and the former governor of Florida.
Uh we're fixing to have lunch here, and uh I said, listen, we ought to call our pal and let him know uh you know that we that we care for you.
So this is this is as much anything as uh is a nice verbal letter to a guy we we really care for.
Well thank thank you, sir very much.
I I'm overwhelmed.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate this and how much you surprised me.
Well, that's that was the purpose of the phone call.
Well, you succeeded.
They were waving at me, trying to tell me you were on the line and I didn't know what was going on, so it was a you succeeded here in the surprise.
How are you doing, sir?
I am great.
We're doing very good.
Thank you very much, sir.
And uh no concerned about our copy, obviously, but no, we need to be drilling for some oil and gas in order to take the pressure off the gas prices, and I'm pleased with the progress in Iraq.
Have you heard what uh Senator Obama wants that he wants another stimulus check of a thousand dollars to every American paid for by the oil companies.
Yeah.
Well, what we ought to be doing is encouraging oil companies to find oil, and that's the best way to take the pressure off the gasoline prices, and we're on a very strong push to get the Congress to allow for there to be offshore drilling.
And uh most Americans understand now that uh an increase in oil, particularly here in America, will help take price uh pressure off of price.
And I tell people I'd rather you know be buying American oil instead of sending our money overseas.
You know, Mr. President, it's amazing.
In two thousand four, during your campaign, Senator Carey was constantly criticizing you for not jawboning with the Saudis enough to bring the price of oil down.
Now four years later, they're doing everything they can to keep the price from coming down.
They want they apparently they want it to remain high.
Well, I I that that uh you know they may want to, but the American people want to see some relief.
It'd be like a massive tax cut when the gasoline prices decline, and so we're in times of economic uncertainty, and the more money people have in their pockets, the quicker we'll be able to recover in my judgment.
And so you ask how I'm doing on my spirits are high, I'm gonna finish strong.
I'm uh you know, I love my family, and I'm spending some uh one or uh two days here uh with mother and dad before I head overseas.
Well, that's right, you've got China on your agenda.
I do.
But listen, President Forty One, you might remember him.
I do very yes, I do.
We only know what he remembers you.
Good.
Bondly, I might add.
Well anyway, here he is.
Congratulations.
Thank you, sir, very much again.
Yes, sir.
Hey Rush.
Mr. President, sir.
How are you doing?
I'm never better.
I am so glad that you you you three called me.
I'm I'm just I'm stunned here.
It's it's great to hear from you.
It's been one time.
I got some advice for you.
Tell me.
Slow down your back swing.
That's all I'm doing, is giving advice.
How are you?
I'm great.
Proud of you.
I'm always well thank you.
No, I'm doing great.
Uh and you, you looking well too.
Well, yeah, I'm so kind of on the sidelines, but I can't I can't do golf and all that stuff anymore.
But it's life is good.
It's wonderful.
And it's great having the family up here in Maine, and all is well.
Do you see do you see our man Ayles at all?
Oh, yeah.
I um I've I saw Roger uh at Tony Snow's funeral.
Oh, did you?
Earlier this summer.
Uh he's uh he's a we're on the radio, are we?
I didn't know that I would clean up my act here.
I'm glad they told me.
Yeah, we're on the radio.
You don't have wonderful talking to you, I'll tell you.
Thank you, sir.
So it's the same here.
All right, and wait a minute.
Jeb the Governor Jeb wants to speak to you.
Oh, that's that's the whole family lined up.
What him on?
All all all Limbod fans.
Now just say, here.
Hey Rush, congratulations on your uh longevity.
Thank you, sir, very much.
This is a thrill for all.
One of the highlights of uh one of the great things that uh about your about your show is broadcast in the Sunshine State, for which uh a whole lot of Floridians are very grateful, including me.
It's a great place to live, Governor.
It really is, as you well know.
We got a few challenges, but it's not a bad place at all.
No, what do you what's your future?
What are you gonna do?
Oh, I'm I'm um staying below the radar.
That's what I'm doing.
I love policy and I'm I have an education policy to uh try to help uh folks that are running for office be bold on education reform, which I think is uh a huge challenge and a great opportunity for our country.
So I I uh my political stuff is really focused on that.
Which I love.
Well, good, keep at it because that's a um if there's something that needs reform in this country, it's certainly that.
Absolutely.
Particularly public education.
Well, thank you guys so much.
This is this is uh un unexpected and a real honor for me to hear from all of you guys at the same time.
All right.
Take care.
Thanks, sir, very much.
Bye bye.
Wow.
And as I was saying, as I was saying.
Anyway, we got to go to commercial break.
See, I knew folks, I got I got a note from a friend.
Uh little little uh instant message flash right before the program started.
So you're gonna have so much fun this afternoon.
I said, Yeah, the thing is there I'm I'm sure there's gonna be lots of surprises, and I don't know what they are, and they always make me nervous.
And when they were waving their arms, they had put they'd given me a written, you know, on a computer monitor here, presidents on the line, presence on the line.
And I was I was looking at my story here talking about Obama and his stupid idiot idea for big oil to give everybody a check for a thousand bucks.
And then finally, uh Brian starts waving his uh arms and so forth, and that's uh when I noticed it.
So we're off to a rousing start.
Who knows?
What's coming?
Certainly I don't.
Back in a second.
I have a I have a I just have a hunch here we're gonna have a little trouble staying focused on the news today.
But I'm I'm gonna give it I'm gonna give it my best.
Open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
Seriously, Obama wants a new windfall profits tax on big oil because of these huge profits that they announced yesterday.
Uh, and another one thousand dollar stimulus check to every American that qualifies, which would be most, certainly not me, but certainly uh uh paid for from this windfall profits tax.
This is idiotic.
Once again, it's pure pandering and pure populism, and these guys can't figure out who they're gonna villains gonna be.
When oil was approaching 150 dollars a barrel, of course the evil uh villains were the speculators.
Now it's back to big oil.
And even the Los Angeles Times today got it right.
In an editorial, nearly fifty percent of those profits reported by big oil are taxable.
That means federal taxation on the big oil profits.
So whatever you read, eleven billion, whatever the number half of it already goes to the federal government, and they want a winfall profits tax.
Uh there are a lot of things about about this uh the whole business of oil that a lot of people do not understand.
But I just I find it fascinating that Nancy Pelosi and the gang have left town.
There is nothing gonna be done for five weeks, not a single appropriation bill, nothing on uh on drilling.
And it was just four years ago.
Remember how John Kerry was hounding President Bush to go jawbone the Sotis Saudis and bring the oil price down.
And now four years later, all they want is for the price to remain high.
They want you miserable, they want you suffering.
By the way, before we move on, we have inaugurated something today that uh website people, Coco and the crew have been working on for months, and I guarantee you you have not seen anything like it.
It's at my website, Rushlimbaugh.com, and it is the virtual limbaugh museum of broadcasting.
Now, if I may say so, my website as it is, is a gold mine.
My website is cutting edge.
It is encyclopedic.
There is more information available there uh on current events, history, anything you want, uh highlights and and transcripts from many of these programs over the years.
It's a gold mine, and this limbaugh museum of broadcasting is just it's indescribable.
I guarantee you haven't seen anything like it.
We have a series of featured exhibits in the lobby, the golden EIB microphone, Clinton trashing me on Camo X, letters from President Reagan, uh the little Rimco Caravel toy radio that I played with when I was ten years old.
Uh we have the era of Limbaugh Timeline, starts in the eighties, follows my career and world events up through today.
We have a rogues gallery of liberals whose careers ended during twenty years of this program.
People from Mario Kumo to Mikhail Gorbachev to uh Puff Dashell.
They have rooms dedicated to EIB one, the Harry Reed Smear Letter.
There's a theater and playing on there is a genuine theater in there now.
What's playing on the theater is My uh appearance on Firing Line with William F. Buckley in 1992.
Now, if you're a website member, if you're a 24-7 member, you get the whole show.
Uh guests will get to see a clip, and we will switch that out with a new video in the theater every month.
You gotta go visit this www.rushlinbaugh.com, the new virtual limbaugh museum of broadcasting.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, we turn to the official Obama criticizer, Bosnerdly.
This is Bo Snerdly, official Barack criticizer for the EIB network, certified black enough to criticize with non-homogenized organic slave blood.
I have a statement.
Mr. Obama, your trip to Europe, marred by your gross insensitivity to our wounded troops, ego-based photo ops with foreign leaders, and a speech about nothing to a large crowd in Germany, has now been overshadowed by the rapper Ludacris.
It was you who connected Ludacris to your election efforts, touting his music was on your iPod and seeking to establish your hypnosis.
Now Ludacris is coming back to bite you.
Instead of throwing Ludacris overboard with your grandma, you could have bridged the gap, sir, by putting the comments of ludicrous in proper perspective.
Thus bringing the two Americas you Democrats have created together.
And at the same time, taking on the mainstream press, who have attacked you by blowing up this silly little song out of proportion.
Sadly, sir, you've let us down once more.
And now a translation for EIB brothers and sisters in the out and vote or the end will be near, and the world is ready for change, cause Obama is here.
Yo, dog, this ain't cool, yo.
First, while all you homies are still trying in the hood, are still trying to gas up their rides, man.
Four bucks of pop.
You posing over in Europe, yo, then you head back to the Kribby, and first thing what you do, you diss ludicrous.
What's up with that?
Yo, man, you're the one that gave him his props in the first place.
I'm with a slot in the president's iPod.
Obama shouted him, said I handle my biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers.
We'll give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer.
Better yet put me in office, make me your vice president.
Now, check this out, yo.
Since you won't give America the 411 on what ludicrous was trying to say, I guess I gotta do it, I and Hillary hated on you, so that beats his irrelevant.
Now Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
If you said it, then you meant it.
How you won't it, head of cut, and all you other politicians trying to hate on my man, watch us win majority vote in every state on my man.
All the brother was trying to say, yo, and you could have just explained this to everybody, was that Hillary's camp was dissing you.
True that?
You know, she vexed you, man.
You know that.
She sent her crew out to destroy your world, man.
Talking about that Muslim thing, you know, your coke deal, you know what I'm saying?
Then she was trying to even imply, yo, that you might be dealing.
You remember all that, don't you?
Then, Bill, yo boy, homeboy, totally came out on you.
So now you dissing ludicrous for calling her a bitch.
Yo, man.
And you what you go out and you're talking about.
This is misogynistic.
You know it was misogynistic, brother.
The way Bill illed all those women up in the White House, yo, that was misogynistic.
How about those women that are talking about, yo, he raped me?
Okay, put some ice on it.
Yo, man, you should have just went out there and said, yo, boys, you boys in the press need to put some ice on this man, because ludicrous ain't the one that's misogynistic, yo.
It ain't him.
Now, for Jesse, yo, what did he say?
All Jesse said that he wanted to cut your baby makers off.
You want to cut your nuts off, brother, and because you're talking down to the niggas.
That's what he said.
I'm not saying it, that's what he said.
Okay.
Everybody's making him backtrack, yo.
But this is the same kind of stuff we rappers say every day.
You know it, brother.
I know it, brother.
So you tell the press, tell all them boys, man, what y'all getting ill with ludicrous for?
This stuff is on my iPod.
This is one of my American constituents, yo, and ain't got nothing to say about it.
Get off your ass, black people.
It's time to get out and vote.
Paint the White House black, and I'm sure that's got him terrified.
McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed.
Now, yo, check this out.
Who is it that's been saying the boy is old?
It wasn't ludicrous first.
It was your boys in the press.
Old.
Okay.
That's all Homie was saying.
That's all Homie was saying.
As for Bush.
Bush is mentally handicapped.
Ball up all of his speeches and just throw them like candy raps.
Cause what you talking, I hear nothing even relevant.
And you the worst of all 43 presidents.
That's all everybody has been saying in the Democrat Party since he was elected.
My statement is over.
That is the official Obama criticizer.
Bo Snerdley, the Obama campaign, also very much upset over the successful McCain ad that portrays Obama as nothing but a class B celebrity punk.
Back in a second.
Rush, this is Rudy Giuliani.
I'm congratulating you on 20 years of very interesting uh talk radio, pushing an agenda that, in my view, has been very, very helpful to America.
Always uh being willing to make your positions very clear.
And you're a good friend, and you're someone that I really admire.
And I hope that you have another 20 more years of provocative talk.
I listen to you very often while I'm in the car traveling from one place to another, and I'm looking forward to listening for the indefinite future, at least another 20 years of really very provocative and terrific talk radio.
Thank you, Mr. Giuliani.
Governor and mayor appreciate that.
He's thinking about running for governor, I hear.
See him every year at our annual cigar dinner that Marvin Shankin puts on at the Fort Treasons in uh in four seasons, rather, in uh in New York, benefiting the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
It's the 20th anniversary program of the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB network, looking at the polling data.
Obama and McCain are tied now in the Daily Gallup tracking poll, 4544.
What do you mean, oh no?
Does that mean you like McCain being ahead?
Well, no, this is this he probably is unlikely voters.
This is just registered.
But point is this.
Something's happened.
The bloom is off the Obama rose.
The drive-bys cannot save him.
This whole Messiah thing is blown up.
I think the trip, the world tour was a disaster.
The American people, you know, there's I'm telling you something, folks.
He had a 15-point lead.
The American people just don't want to vote for a rookie, somebody they don't know, who shows up on across the pond and starts trashing this country.
They would appreciate perhaps even a little thanks from somebody who seeks to be their leader and their president.
But I think it's it's become clear to have been revealed as nothing more than your average closet variety liberal who perhaps is more dangerous than anybody suspects because of his associations.
This guy's views are clearly reflected in the people that he's hung around and have mentored him, such as his preacher Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, his terrorist buddy, and Tony Rezco, and who knows?
Uh who else?
But it's it's it's clear that they I mean, look at how this commercial that McCain ran with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and it's got them totally discombobulated.
They don't know how to deal with the drive by's are discombobulated.
The media's doing everything they can to point out that he's not a B celebrity, he's not one of these pop culture icons, brainless celebutards.
Uh, they're just they're circling the wagons, but it is hit and it is stuck.
And you can tell it's stuck by how much the Obama campaign keeps trying to brush it off.
If it were, and and they're out there saying, you know, this is really bad for Senator McCain.
This is the drive-by is the Obama campaign.
This is really bad for Senator McCain.
Why this this is diminishing Senator McCain?
Well, if that's right, then they should want him to do it even more, right?
They should be asking McCain to produce more commercials like this that portray Obama as nothing but a celebard.
But they're not.
They're trying to they're trying to get this thrown out of uh everybody's mind as quickly as possible.
Also, something else.
As you know, and this this is, I think one of the reasons that the blooms off the Obama arose.
And he and his buddies in the Democrat Party have made it plain since 2000, 2004 that we need to emulate the sophisticated Europeans, the European elites.
That's what we need to be like.
Because those people don't like us right.
We gotta make sure we change America so that they like us.
The Europeans are so far advanced.
Now let's contrast one thing.
Let's contrast energy and how it is provided in Europe versus how it is provided here in the United States.
As you know, Obama wants everybody to inflate their tires and get a tune-up so we won't have to drill for oil.
Seriously.
He made this as a serious policy statement.
Inflate your tires, get a tune-up, and we'll save as much oil as what we would get from drilling.
We have about four Saudi Arabia's worth of oil, if you count the shale and war and the uh way offshore.
He didn't want to go get it.
And of course we can't build a nuclear power plant.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, we can't.
We can't do coal.
We got to build stupid windmills.
We got to drive smart little bubble cars that don't make left turns.
We have to do, we have to downsize, we have to reduce our footprint.
Well, get this.
How much of the world currently operates on nuclear facilities?
World citizen and Uber fan of all things European says that they're wrong about they approximately 45% of the world currently operates nuclear facilities.
33% of new reactor construction exists within Europe.
The Matthias, the Aerodite world citizen opposes nuclear power.
And yet he wants us to emulate the Europeans.
The Democrats have made it clear, ladies and gentlemen, that we will not be moving forward as a nation, as a society, if they end up in charge.
And I'll tell you something, it's looking more and more like there's big trouble.
Because I have to that there's a dirty little secret out there that the pollsters will not tell you.
But I, ladies and gentlemen, the brave and courageous host that you have come to know and love and respect will tell you.
If Obama doesn't have at least a 10-point lead in the polls, he's toast.
When he had that 15-point lead, that was actually going to end up as a five-point victory if the election had been held that day.
Because there's the Bradley effect.
I am telling you that there are people telling pollsters they're going to vote for Obama, but they're not going to.
When in the privacy of the voting booth.
If he doesn't get that poll lead back up to 15 points, and they know it, he is in big trouble.
Audio soundbite time.
I got uh uh an email from good friends of mine, Steve and Kathy Abernathy in New Orleans.
Uh met them both when she was the manager at Brennan's in the uh in the French quarter, and she said, You've got you've got to play some of the interview that you did with your grandfather on his 100th birthday.
And the copy that we have of that uh is just it's it's unfortunate.
We're gonna have to do some major EQ work with it to make it arable because it it would, it's the its sound quality is such that it would distract.
But we do have a number of excerpts of my grandfather discussing uh my career and me uh from a video tape that we put together called the Limbaugh Chronicles.
He was also part of the 60 Minutes uh profile they did on me, and from the AE biography piece.
So this is from the early 90s, and this is a montage of my grandfather who uh worked until he was 102.
He died at age 104.
Well, the Limbaughs are not inclined to be people who have fun laughing and all that, but Russia's mother is, and I would say that all of his humor comes from his mother.
When I hear uh Rusty, I can't help but think of his father.
Who he is so much like when his father had a conviction about a thing, he didn't hesitate to say it.
And he was like Pitt the Elder.
If a thing needed to be said, he wanted to say it with emphasis.
I can't help but believe that there Is in this generation than there will be in future generations.
A conviction that those values are, after all, basic.
And that they ought to be preserved.
I have been an active citizen in politics.
And I think that I had something to do with instilling that idea in Rush Jr.
Now, as far as Rusty is concerned, I don't remember that I uh ever was uh in a position where I caused my ideas to prevail with him, but I'm sure that his father was responsible for giving him that idea.
And I think that he has lived it and he is now I'm glad to say giving it to a large segment of the American people.
Rush Limbaugh Sr. grandfather of the early 90s, uh a montage of his uh appearances on the video that we put together, also on 60 Minutes from the AE biography.
And I'd forgotten, I was stunned to think he didn't think he had any influence.
Quite the quite the opposite.
Um here's my mother, uh, and you know, I've often told you how much I hate school.
Hated it.
I mean, literally despised it.
And isn't it amazing, ladies and gentlemen?
I, having hated school, have become one of the finest teachers ever to exist in the somebody wrote that today.
I'm not making it up.
Somebody wrote, I forget.
Somebody wrote a column about the 20th anniversary today and made that uh made that point.
I guess it national review online, I think.
At any rate, uh here's my mother talking about me in kindergarten.
We had four and five-year-old kindergarten here at the college, you know, the train school, they called it.
And uh one day, the teacher, who is now gone, had me in for conference, like she did all the parents.
She said, if Rush doesn't, she called him Rush, if Frush doesn't change his ways, he'll never grow to be the man his grandfather is, or his father.
So I was I was a hellraiser in causing problems even in the in the uh at four and five years old when I had to be stashed away in prison in uh in school.
Well, I don't know.
I was probably spit balls.
Who knows that I was harassing the other kid, probably not taking a nap when I was supposed to take a nap.
All I know is I didn't want to be there.
And when you don't want to be someplace, you let them people know that you think are your captors, that you don't want to be there.
You know, didn't want to drink the Kool-Aid, I didn't like anything about it.
Now, I told the story the other day after we played uh some of the sound bites from Nightline, how my mother was uh watching it with my dad.
And here's her version of the story as they were watching uh Nightline with my debate with Al Gore.
And that's when Rush Jr. turned around to me and said, Where did he get that?
And I said, From you, of course.
And that really pleased Son Rush that his dad finally realized that it was a wonderful thing to know that he had absorbed his uh thoughts about uh politics.
It's just like his dad all over.
He is just his the political views are his dad's.
Al Paul said he got his smarts from his dad, and I'm gonna say silliness for me.
All right, we got to take a break here.
We'll be back and continue on our 20th anniversary show right after this time out.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
It's open line Friday in the 20th anniversary of the excellence in broadcasting network.
Remember, we had a story yesterday, I think yesterday the New York Times referred to the 1.9% economic growth rate as tepid and that the stimulus had failed.
Here's the Washington Post headline today.
Economy grows on impact of stimulus.
The exact take, the exact opposite take.
Yesterday the economy tepid stimulus didn't help.
Washington Post, the economy grows on impact of stimulus.
Troubles expected as effect wears off.
The department said the uh commerce department said the economy shrank at the end of last year, revising an earlier estimate of growth, and there's evidence that the decent growth of the second quarter will come at a cost.
We essentially traded strong growth now for weak growth later, said Sung Wan Sun, an economist at California State University.
As a result, said economist Sung Wan Sun.
By the way, I discount all these economists that the drive by's find.
Because every month, when new economic figures or job figures or whatever come out there, experts are always surprised.
Whether the news is good or bad.
They're always surprised at it.
It was the news is always unexpected.
So they've got this guy from Cal State, Sung Won Son, who says, as a result, this may turn out to be a longer recession than we're used to.
We're not in a recession.
We simply are not in a recession.
Back to the phones or to the phones.
We'll start in Lakeside, Arizona.
Brett, you're up first today on Open Line Friday.
Nice to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Megadiddles from the White Mountains of Arizona.
Thank you.
Congratulations on your twentieth anniversary.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Hey, Rush.
My question is today where has Michelle Obama been lately?
Haven't heard from her or seen her anywhere.
The most recent appearance of Michelle Obama was on the cover of People Magazine, uh, along with her husband, the Messiah, and their two kids of virgin birth.
Uh and they were uh they were pictures and and so forth.
They were invited uh to to open themselves up to people magazine, which they did.
Uh but she's they're they're doing a makeover on Michelle.
I don't think a physical makeover, but they're they're you know, she has she's she's an angry woman.
And Obama is trying to put forth an image of just the opposite of everybody around this guy's angry.
Jeremia Wright's fit to be tied, Bill Ayers is mad, everybody is mad that's around this guy.
And this guy has not been able to unify even the people in his closest circle that he claims to be able to unify us with the world.
But I think Michelle is is uh is uh uh off stage.
Uh she's uh being coached, I think, on demeanor, perhaps wardrobe, not not altogether sure, but they clearly are hiding her because uh they have evidence that she was uh she was a drag on the on the campaign.
I mean, she's out there telling women stay poor, do not go to law firms, do not go to corporations, do not follow the capitalist trails, stay poor and stay in the service industries and help your other man, fellow men and women, and that's how you'll define success.
And that's just you know, that's that's not the message that's incorporated in the American dream.
It sounds like she may need a a pretty in pink makeover like Hillary had back in the nineties.
Well, that pretty in pink, that was a result of my appearance on Nightline discussing their health care plan and saying, why would we believe anything these people say?
They're the Clintons.
And so she's uh there's some kind of makeover going on and and in preparation for the for the Democrat convention.
John, in uh I will say Crofton, Maryland, welcome to the program, sir.
You're next.
Yes, congratulations, Rush.
I've been with you almost from the beginning, and uh you are the greatest.
And uh when you were saying that uh you've done a great job of educating people, and it's an ongoing thing, uh, it reminds me of Babe Ruth, who was from uh up the up the road here, Baltimore, that's where he was born and raised.
And he said, if you can if you can do it, it's not bragging.
And you've done it.
And you've done it for over 20 years, and uh when I hear you talk about your relationship with your father, it reminds me of my father.
He and I were both uh, I guess mutual admirers, but he always let me know he was smarter than me, and he was right.
But uh, I was born in 1940 and we got our first TV set in 1950.
I said, Well, we'll throw out all the radios now because we don't need them anymore.
And he said, No, there'll always be radio, and I think you can be given credit for rejuvenating the AM radio industry.
Without you, I think people would have thrown out their radios by now.
Well, thank you.
That's uh it's it's hard to know, but I I appreciate your sentiments.
One other thing about the uh uh McCain uh latest ad where they show fleetingly at the beginning uh Brittany Spears and uh in Paris Hilton.
I hear all the pundits, uh Democratic pundits say, you know, this is an insult to Obama because he's they're saying that he's like them, he's an airhead.
And my take on it is when they show them and then they show the audience behind them in Berlin, I think they're saying that that is the composition of the crowd.
Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears are representative of the airheads that are listening to this guy who's got no experience, but yet they think he can improve things because he says he's gonna change them.
They know how can you change something when you've never done anything?
And that's the take I have on it.
Well, he can.
You know, that the change that the change in Obama's talking about, if he has enough Democrat support in both houses of Congress, the change they're talking about is a move toward pure socialism.
And that's not the kind of change of people this country want.
This ad, however you define it, with no question it's effective because you can gauge the Obama's reaction to it.
Whether your analysis, hey, Obama voters are no different than Britney Spears and and a brain-dead Paris Hilton than the audience in Germany, a bunch of brain-dead uh celebutarge themselves, or whether that's Obama, it the connection is still made.
They know it's effective because they know their guy is an empty suit.
They know him.
Nancy Pelosi has turned off all the cameras, all the lights, and microphones in the House chamber while Republicans, 25 of them, debate oil drilling.
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