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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.
I only talk about what interests me Monday through Thursday.
On Friday, talk about anything.
Questions, comments, whine, moan, cheer, what have you.
800-282-2882.
The email address is lrushbow at EIVnet.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 win.
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 having town on me.
Sit down.
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 got to 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.
What was I talking about?
Well, they succeeded in heckling the Messiah.
They unfurled large banners there that said, what about the black community, Obama?
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 saw this this morning, and I was just, I was blown away.
Obama wants another stimulus check sent to every American.
He wants the check to be in the amount of $1,000.
And you know who he wants to send the be responsible for paying for this?
Big oil.
Oh my God is right.
Democrat presidential candidate, the Lord Barack Obama, the Messiah.
What?
What?
What are you up for what?
Hello.
Oh, jeez.
The president... Mark Limbaugh?
Yes, sir, Mr. President.
President George W. Bush, calling to congratulate you on 20 years of important and excellent broadcasting.
Well, thank you, sir.
You've stunned me.
I'm shocked.
But thank you so much.
No, I just.
I'm here with a room full of admirers.
There's two others that would like to speak to you and congratulate you, 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 is my swan song.
If this is all you got for me, I'm moving on.
No, the show's yours.
Take as much time as you want.
Well, I'm just calling along with President 41 and the former governor of Florida.
We're fixing to have lunch here, and I said, listen, we ought to call our pal and let him know that we care for you.
So this is as much anything as a nice verbal letter to a guy we really care for.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
I'm overwhelmed.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate this and how much you surprised me.
Well, that was the purpose of the phone call.
Well, you succeeded.
Good.
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 no concerned about our economy, 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 Senator Obama wants that he wants another stimulus check of $1,000 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 most Americans understand now that an increase in oil, particularly here in America, will help take pressure off of price.
And I tell people I'd rather be buying American oil instead of sending our money overseas.
You know, Mr. President, it's amazing.
In 2004, during your campaign, Senator Kerry 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.
Apparently, they want it to remain high.
Well, 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 know, but you asked how I'm doing.
My spirits are high.
I'm going to finish strong.
I love my family, and I'm spending two days here with mother and dad before I head overseas.
Well, that's right.
You've got China on your agenda.
I do.
But listen, President 41, you might remember him.
I do.
Yes, I do.
We always do.
You know what?
He remembers you.
Good.
Fondly, I might add.
Anyway, here he is.
Congratulations.
Thank you, sir, very much again.
Yes, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Mr. President, sir, how are you doing?
I am never better.
I am so glad that you three called me.
I'm just stunned here.
It's great to hear from you.
It's been well time.
I've got some advice for you.
Tell me.
Slow down your backswing.
That's all I'm doing, is giving advice.
I remember playing with you and enjoying it.
And how are you?
I'm great.
I'm proud of you.
Well, thank you.
I'm doing great.
And you, you're looking well, too.
Well, yeah, I'm kind of on the sidelines, but I can't do golf and all that stuff anymore.
But life is good.
It's wonderful.
And it's great having the family up here in Maine.
And all is well.
Do you see our man Ailes at all?
Oh, yeah.
I saw Roger at Tony Snow's funeral.
Oh, did you?
Yeah, and a couple of times earlier this summer.
He's on the right.
We're on the radio, are we?
I didn't know that.
I'd clean up my act here.
I'm glad they tell me.
Yeah, we're on the radio.
You don't have to.
It's wonderful talking to you, I'll tell you.
Thank you, sir.
It says the same here.
All right, now wait a minute.
Jeb, Governor Jeb wants to speak to you.
Oh, that's that's got the whole family lined up.
Put him on.
All Limbaud fans.
I just say, here.
Hey, Rush, congratulations on your longevity.
Thank you, sir, very much.
This is a thrill for you.
One of the highlights of one of the great things about your show is broadcast in the Sunshine State, for which 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's your future?
What are you going to do?
I'm staying below the radar.
That's what I'm doing.
I love policy, and I have an education policy to try to help folks that are running for office be bold on education reform, which I think is a huge challenge and a great opportunity for our country.
So my political stuff is really focused on that, which I love.
Well, good.
Keep at it because that's a, 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 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 breaks.
See, I knew, folks, I got a note from a friend, a little instant message flash right before the program started.
So you're going to have so much fun this afternoon.
I said, yeah, the thing is, I'm sure there's going to 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 given me a written on a computer monitor here, president's on the line, president's on the line.
And 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, Brian starts waving his arms and so forth, and that's 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 just have a hunch here.
We're going to have a little trouble staying focused on the news today, but I'm going to 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, and another $1,000 stimulus check to every American that qualifies, which would be most, certainly not me, but certainly 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 their villains are going to be.
When oil was approaching $150 a barrel, of course, the evil 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 50% of those profits reported by big oil are taxable.
That means federal taxation on the big oil profits.
So whatever you read, $11 billion, whatever, half of it already goes to the federal government, and they want a windfall profits tax.
There are a lot of things about this, 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 going to be done for five weeks, not a single appropriation bill, nothing on drilling.
And it was just four years ago.
Remember how John Kerry was hounding President Bush to go jawbone the 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 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 on current events, history, anything you want.
Highlights and transcripts from many of these programs over the years.
It's a gold mine, and this Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting is just 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, the little Rimco Caravelle toy radio that I played with when I was 10 years old.
We have the era of Limbaugh timeline.
Starts in the 80s, follows my career in world events up through today.
We have a rogues gallery of liberals whose careers ended during 20 years of this program.
People from Mario Kumo to Mikhail Gorbachev to Puff Dashel.
They have rooms dedicated to EIB One, the Harry Reid Smear Letter.
There's a theater and playing, there is a genuine theater in there now.
What's playing on the theater is my 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.
Guests will get to see a clip, and we will switch that out with a new video in the theater every month.
You got to go visit this: www.rushlimbaugh.com, the new virtual Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, we turn to the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley.
This is Bo Snerdley, 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-outs 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 hipness.
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 Ludacris 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 get out and vote, or the end will be near.
And the world is ready for change because Obama is here.
Yo, dog, this ain't cool, yo.
First, while all you homies are still trying in the hood and still trying to gas up their rides, man, full bucks of pop, you posing over in Europe, yo?
Then you head back to the Kribbie, and first thing what you do, you disludacris.
What's up with that?
Yo, man, you're the one that gave them his props in the first place.
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 slimmer.
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 Ludacris was trying to say, I guess I gotta do it.
All right, and Hillary hated on you, so that beats is irrelevant.
Now, Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
If you said it, then you mean it, how you want it, had a gut.
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 Ludacris for calling her a bitch?
Yo, man.
And you, what you go out and you talking about this is misogynistic.
You know what 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 Ludacris 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 or he wanted 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 Ludacris 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 them 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.
All of all of his speeches and just throw them like candy wrap.
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 talk radio, pushing an agenda that, in my view, has been very, very helpful to America.
Always 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 to you for the indefinite future, at least another 20 years of really very provocative and terrific talk radio.
Thank you, Mr. Giuliani, Governor and Mayor.
I appreciate that.
He's thinking about running for governor, I hear.
See, every year at our annual cigar dinner that Marvin Shankin puts on at the Fort Treason's in four seasons, rather, 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 in likely voters.
This is just registered.
But the 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 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 become clear that he's 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 who else.
But it's clear.
I mean, look at how this commercial that McCain ran with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton has got them totally discombobulated.
They don't know how to deal with it.
The drive-bys are discombobulated.
The media is 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.
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 they're out there saying, you know, this is really bad for Senator McCain.
This is drive-by is the Obama campaign.
This is really bad for Senator McCain.
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 celebutard.
But they're not.
They're trying to get this thrown out of everybody's mind as quickly as possible.
Also, something else.
As you know, and this is, I think, one of the reasons that the bloom is off the Obama rose.
Roll he got heckled today in St. Petersburg, Florida.
He goes over to Europe, 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.
We've got to 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 way offshore.
He didn't want to go get it.
And of course, we can't build a nuclear power plant.
Oh, no, we can't do coal.
That we got to build stupid windmills.
We've 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, an Uber fan of all things European, says that they're wrong about approximately 45% of the world currently operates nuclear facilities.
33% of new reactor construction exists within Europe.
The Matthiah, the erudite 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.
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 an email from good friends of mine, Steve and Kathy Abernathy, in New Orleans.
I met them both when she was the manager at Brennan's in the French quarter.
And she said, 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 is just, it's unfortunate.
We're going to have to do some major EQ work with it to make it airable because its sound quality is such that it would distract.
But we do have a number of excerpts of my grandfather discussing my career and me from a videotape that we put together called the Limbaugh Chronicles.
He was also part of the 60 Minutes 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 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 Rush's mother is.
And I would say that all of his humor comes from his mother.
When I hear 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, and 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 ever was 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, the early 90s, a montage of his appearances on the video that we put together, also on 60 Minutes from the A ⁇ E biography.
And I'd forgotten, I was stunned to think he didn't think he had any influence.
Quite the opposite.
Here's my mother.
And 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.
Somebody wrote that today.
I'm not making it up.
I forget.
Somebody wrote a column about the 20th anniversary today and made that point.
I guess it's National Review Online, I think.
At any rate, here's my mother talking about me in kindergarten.
We had four and five-year-old kindergarten here at college, you know, the trained school, they called it.
And 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 Rush doesn't change his ways, he'll never grow to be the man his grandfather is, or his father.
So I was a hellraiser in causing problems even at four and five years old when I had to be stashed away in prison in school.
Well, I don't know.
I was probably spitballs.
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 you're your captors, that you don't want to be there.
I 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 some of the soundbites from Nightline, how my mother was watching it with my dad.
And here's her version of the story as they were watching 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 thoughts about politics.
It's just like his dad all over.
He is just his, the political views are his dad's.
Although he said he got his smarts from his dad, and I'm going to say silliness from me.
All right, we got to take a break here.
We'll be back and continue on our 20th anniversary show right after this timeout.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
It's Open Line Friday and 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 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 in 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-bys find because every month when new economic figures or job figures or whatever come out, their experts are always surprised.
Whether the news is good or bad, they're always surprised at it.
The news is always unexpected.
So they've got this guy from Cal State, Sung Won Sun, 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.
Megadittos from the White Mountains of Arizona.
Thank you.
Congratulations on your 20th anniversary.
Thank you very much, sir.
I 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, along with her husband, the Messiah, and their two kids of virgin birth.
And they were in pictures and so forth.
They were invited to open themselves up to People magazine, which they did.
But they're doing a makeover on Michelle.
I don't think a physical makeover, but she's an angry woman.
And Obama is trying to put forth an image that's just the opposite of everybody around this guy's angry.
Jeremiah 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 offstage.
She's being coached, I think, on demeanor, perhaps wardrobe, not altogether sure, but they clearly are hiding her because they had evidence that she was a drag 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 trail.
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 not the message that's incorporated in the American dream.
It sounds like she may need a pretty in pink makeover like Hillary had back in the 90s.
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, there's some kind of makeover going on and in preparation for the Democrat convention.
John, in, it looks like Crofton, Maryland.
Welcome to the program, sir.
You're next.
Yes, congratulations, Rush.
I've been with you almost from the beginning, and you are the greatest.
And when you were saying that you've done a great job of educating people, and it's an ongoing thing, it reminds me of Babe Ruth, who was from up the road here, Baltimore.
That's where he was born and raised.
And he said, if you can do it, it's not bragging.
And you've done it.
And you've done it for over 20 years.
And when I hear you talk about your relationship with your father, it reminds me of my father.
He and I were both, I guess, mutual admirers, but he always let me know he was smarter than me, and he was right.
But 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 will 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.
It's hard to know, but I appreciate your sentiments.
One other thing about the McCain latest ad where they show fleetingly at the beginning Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
I hear all the pundits, the Democratic pundits say, you know, this is an insult to Obama because 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 Britney 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 going to change them.
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, the change that 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 that people this country want.
This ad, however you define it, 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 a brain-dead Paris Hilton and the audience in Germany, a bunch of brain-dead celebratars themselves, or whether that's Obama.
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.
I'll have the story when we come back.
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