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Aug. 6, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day here at the one and only EIB network.
Looking forward to talking to you.
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I just saw a little blurb on Fox mere moments ago saying that after years and years of trouble, the dollar is starting to strengthen.
The oil price is down over a buck and a half today at $18, $118 and some change.
Yesterday, Cisco delivered terrific earnings.
And they said that their outlook for the next two quarters was good.
The IT spending, corporate uh information technology spending is not falling.
Dow Jones industrial average up 331 points yesterday, down six today.
NASDAQ is uh is up.
Federal Reserve decided to hold line on interest rates, meaning they're also not going to raise them anytime soon.
So there's a lot of economic news out there that's uh that that's good.
Gasoline price, national average below four dollars a gallon out there.
And folks, get this.
Muki's boys, the Mahdi Army have packed it in.
From the Wall Street Journal, good news out of Iraq is becoming almost a daily event.
In just the past week, we learned that U.S. combat fatalities, five, dropped in July to a low for the war, that key leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq have fled to the Pakistani hinterland.
Troop deployments will soon be cut to twelve months from 15, and that Washington and Baghdad are close to concluding a status of forces agreement.
And now this Shiite cleric Moktara Al-Sadr, Muki, is going to announce Friday that he will disarm his Mahdi army, which was reigning mortars on the green zone in Baghdad as recently as April.
If you couple uh Muki standing down with the near-total defeat of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, this means that the United States no longer faces any significant organized military foe in Iraq.
It also marks a major setback for Iran, which had used the Mahdi army as one of its primary vehicles for extending its influence in Iraq.
So what has happened in Iraq in a year or so is something nobody ever thought would happen, and that is we have won.
I don't know that they're close to declaring victory, but no, and and Muki, Mukhtadr al-Sadi, you know what he's gonna do?
The Mahdi Army is going to be restructured into a social services organization, if you can believe this.
The Mahdi Army is going to become a bunch of community organizers.
And because of the ego of Barack Obama, I fully expect at some point in the campaign, not too far from now, where Obama will suggest or make mention of the fact that in his discussions.
While he was in Baghdad, by the way, Mike grab that tune.
I want to hear this tune again.
We have one night in Baghdad.
We had that during Obama's little summer intern tour.
Just give me a quick flash when you have extricated it from the uh from the profit memory.
Thank you.
He's got it ready to go.
Obama is gonna say his discussions.
Well, he was in Baghdad.
He discussed with various elements the use of opposition forces in a productive way to help uh secure our policies in Iraq.
So now we got Mukey and his boys are going to become community organizers.
And of course, that's what Obama did.
And who better to advise Mukey than Obama?
Seriously, that's what he's gonna do.
They're gonna give social services, education, social justice.
Uh so I guess Muki's thrown his hands in with the left over there.
He's gonna well throw down the weapons and start disrupting the society, uh, much like the civil rights organizations here in this country have tried to do to ours.
That is white comedian Paul Shanklin has the Messiah, the one, the most merciful Lord Barack.
Obama.
It is true, ladies and gentlemen.
The only thing over inflated in this country is Obama's ego.
Not only could Obama's overinflated ego cost the country trillions of dollars.
Obama's overinflated ego could cost lives if a bunch of morons and dunderheads who want to show their patriotism and they're at oneness with the one and go out and start overinflating their tires.
And start having blowouts and accidents.
As I say, we need an ego gauge.
Not a tire gauge.
We need an ego gauge, ladies and gentlemen, to try to keep Obama's ego in check.
A rectal thermometer, perhaps.
Get this.
It's depressing.
A poll finds that 78% of New Yorkers, states in recession.
The state is in recession.
The state is a social services economy.
Quote unquote, Governor David Patterson.
A social services economy means it's a welfare state.
It is in a recession.
They have higher, a combined higher tax rate in New York than they have anywhere in Europe.
Yet a poll finds that 78% of New Yorkers favor raising the income tax on New Yorkers who make one million dollars or more per year as a way to get out of the state's fiscal crisis.
They're already paying the highest combined tax rate in the country, and still it's not enough.
78% of New Yorkers agree with this.
This the poll, by the way, shows support for a proposal by the New York Assembly's Democrat majority to help fill a projected $6.4 billion deficit for the coming year.
Opponents say a higher tax will drive employers away.
Is that Michelle my bill?
They let her they let her out.
She making a speech in Pennsylvania.
Must be desperate.
They let her out.
She'd been going undergoing a makeover of some kind.
Anyway, this is a this uh Quinnipiac University poll.
78% of New Yorkers raise taxes, income taxes, on people who earn a million dollars a year or more.
Back after this, my friends, with much more sit tight.
I have to say it is hilarious.
It is hilarious.
Have you seen this ad?
The ad for the Nissan.
A bunch of uh bunch of Arabs in full Arab dress are outside the front of a hotel, either getting into their limo or getting out of their limo, but there's a huge stretch, white limousine.
And one of these Arabs notices this puny tiny little new Nissan car, and these Arabs look at it and they start pointing at it, and they attack it.
One guy, one Arab actually jumps on the roof on the windshield in the hood and starts beating the car, claiming you you made me lose my home.
You you you you you made me lose my air conditioning or whatever it was.
I've I've not been able to hear the whole thing.
And it's hilarious.
And now a leading Arab commentator on Saudi TV who works at the pleasure of the royal family, has has demanded a worldwide Arab boycott of Nissan.
Because of this ad.
But it's it's clever.
It's clever.
I mean see this one Arab go nuts attacking this car.
At any rate, uh, ladies and gentlemen, back to the phones.
People here patiently waiting.
Oh, oh, before we before we couple things.
Couple things.
We have a hurricane forecast revision.
Yes, we do.
A combination of factors has spurred the veteran meteorologist William Gray of Colorado State University to boost his predictions for the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
These elements include an early tropical cyclone season in the deep tropics, hurricane enhancing ocean surface warming in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, and a low pressure patterns at sea level in the tropical Atlantic.
Gray predicted that uh now predicts there'll be 17 named storms this season rather than 15.
They have boosted the number of hurricanes by one to nine, and the number of major hurricanes from four to five.
Dr. Gray is calling for very active season.
He predicts that there is a forty-three percent chance.
At least one major hurricane packing sustained winds of at least 111 miles an hour will make landfall on the eastern seaboard, including the Florida Peninsula.
So what Dr. Gray is saying is that there is a 57% chance that no hurricane will make U.S. landfall.
Simple math tells me this.
Time magazine.
Remember the cover?
The story they did when they discovered that boys and girls are born different.
Couldn't believe it.
Laura Blue writing in the latest uh issue of Time Magazine.
Why do women live longer than men?
This is Time Magazine.
Why do women live longer than men?
This is as easily understood.
This is as this is this is known just as it is known all over the world that boys and girls are born different.
Tell me, Stuart, why why do women live longer than men?
Tell me.
Nope.
Let's turn it around.
Let's turn.
Why do men die earlier than women?
That's the question.
Why do men die earlier than women?
Because they want to.
John.
In West Germany, we have a call from from from West Germany here on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Air Force did us from Stangal and Air Force Base.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Did you see Obama when he was just there?
No.
No, he bypassed us, remember?
That's right.
Sorry.
I forgot.
I forgot.
I you know, I don't understand why Obama is stopping with the tire inflation.
I really think they should make it mandatory now that car companies make all new cars without air conditioning.
You know, air conditioner is a huge waste of fuel.
Oh, yeah.
That is huge.
You turn on the air conditioner, you are impacting your gas mileage a lot.
Absolutely.
By tons.
And I I I've turned out I've turned off my air conditioner now completely.
Well, I guess you're being a good citizen.
I would never do that.
I don't care what they do.
I don't care what they do, I'm not doing that.
I won't.
I'm not, I'm not.
And but you know, you're right to point these kind of things out, though, because this is the kind of control that these people want to exert over us.
They'll try and pass it.
They will.
They'll make it voluntary and get some wacko environmentalists living in San Francisco where they never need air conditioning and do it and say, see how much money we're saving.
By the way, folks, let me let me ask you a question.
Did you know that if you used a Renae tankless water heater, you could save as much oil as there is in an war.
Absolutely right.
If you use a Rennai tankless water heater, you will save as much energy as we would get drilling in an war.
And if you use a Renae tankless water heater and inflate your tires, you are going to discover oil underneath your house.
That's right.
You no longer need to start wasting money.
I just love throwing this stuff right back at them.
I just so silly.
Anyway, the Renee Tankless Water Heat is a brilliant invention.
It does heat water only when you need it.
It doesn't waste a lot of energy, heating water you will never use.
It won't blow up.
That water tank you have, folks, if it's over seven years old, it's just waiting to blow up on you.
But a Renee tankless water heater will not do so.
And you don't want 30 or 40 or 50 gallons of a ruptured water heater tank all over your basement or kitchen or wherever you have the thing.
Never happened with a Renae Tankless water heater.
Plus you'll have all the hot water you need, no matter who's in the house doing what with the hot water.
Go to ForeverHotwater.com and uh check the savings.
There's a little calculator there.
You can see how it works.
You'll be fascinated.
Foreverhotwater.com.
You find out how much you will save every month, which will lead to even more oil from NWA.
Sam in Pittsburgh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Ross.
Yeah.
Thanks for taking my call.
Long time listener.
Thank you, sir.
I want to bring up the subject about gasoline.
I think we need to switch back to leading gasoline, and we'll have more fuel in our tanks at cheaper price.
Yeah, but we'll probably need the Lord to overturn the laws of the EPA pushes on.
I mean, you'd have to you you we start polluting, they they say you get you destroy the catalytic converters.
Well, Calic converters were designed for lead gasoline.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, sir.
That's right.
Obama told me that.
I it slipped my mind.
Um with leaded gas, and what you're getting at, we wouldn't need all these different formulas for various pollution control areas throughout the country.
Right.
That's that's more of the shortage.
We're wasting more oil by uh getting all the lead out of the gasoline.
Well, you know, I I it's it's a great idea.
As we're gonna turn back the hands o'clock of time, let's do it.
But the the problem, the problem, Sam, and I don't don't don't misunderstand this.
But then the kids, you know, they would start drinking it and they'd get lead poisoning.
It's bad enough the stuff from China coming in.
One of my old-time favorite bumper tunes, the Isley brothers fight the power.
Here's a red letter day.
I mean, this a red letter day, another C, I told you so.
Way back in the spring, it might even it might even uh predate that.
We had a call on this program from somebody who said, but rush, but rush, if Obama is elected president, isn't that gonna just take care of most of the racial strife in this country?
Because I mean, how could how could they keep calling us racists if a black man is elected president?
I say, you don't understand the race business.
It will get worse.
If Obama is elected, the race business will expand.
The accusations of racism in this country will increase.
But rush, but rush, you say, how can this be?
Well, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a printed story from the far-left wing leaning editor and publisher website.
The question of how strongly race will play out in the November election, that is, how many whites will prove to be colorblind, has dominated the discussion of racial politics in the Obama McCain race so far.
But coming this Sunday, the New York Times magazine looks at what the Obama candidacy ultimately means for blacks.
The cover story by frequent contributor Matt Bye is titled Post Race at the Times, and its preview asks, is Obama the end of black politics.
From the New York Times teaser, for older black leaders whose road to Washington began with civil rights marches in the Southern Jails.
The prospect of a Barack Obama presidency is gratifying but unsettling as well.
In post-race, contributing writer Matt Bye asks what a black president would mean for black politics.
The slowness of old Washington hands, Charlie Wrangle, John Lewis, the uh Reverend Dax, to embrace Obama as a torchbearer as a torchbearer was one sign of wariness in the absorption of black politics into American politics.
The absorption of black politics into American politics.
What the Sam Hill is that mean?
The absorption of black politics into American politics.
Now get the rest of the way the sentence finishes here.
There's one sign of wariness that the absorption of black politics into American politics could ironically mean a decline of black influence.
See, I told you, they are worried about this.
Because once Obama gets in there, if it happens, the biggest problem they've got is that you know, black black people have been raised to be inferior.
They've been told they're inferior.
That's what keeps them in line.
That's what keeps them angry.
It's what keeps them agitated.
When you're inferior, when you're told you're inferior and you feel you're inferior, you're blaming somebody else for being better than you, and it keeps you all upset.
And this is what the race industry and businesses relied on, among other things.
But how do you keep people inferior when one of their own quote unquote's the president?
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the great fear that the race industry has about Obama's election.
Not to mention the fact that Jesse Jackson is jealous as hell of him.
Jesse wants to, you know, castrate the guy.
And don't think that's gone away.
Just cause he got caught.
Now here's the truth of the matter.
It is not going to mean the end of black influence.
Mark my words.
If, indeed, Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States.
Virtually every criticism mounted against him, his policies will said be said to be rooted in racism.
I guarantee you.
It's already happening now.
All you've got to do is mention his stupid trip to Germany.
It's racist.
All you got to do is run an ad that puts Paris Hilton and Brittany Spear racist.
They're already doing it.
Some skinny.
You run an ad that says Obama's skinny, or you do his stories, he's that's racist.
Because you're focusing on how he looks.
And when you're focusing on how he looks, you're noticing his skin color.
That's who wrote that?
That Noah Timothy Timothy Noah's Slate magazine.
Noah, you forgot the ears.
That's what some of us just can't avoid noticing about Obama's the dumbo ears.
We don't see his black skin.
He does.
He talks about it all the time.
You people talk about it all the time on the left.
As did E.J. Dion Jr.
Yesterday afternoon, MSNBC Live, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, said to him, Does Senator Obama have any responsibility for the way the campaign shifted toward race last week for having opened it up with his saying, you know, they're going to come after me and mentioning John McCain by name.
Race is going to be an underlying factor in this election, whether we uh like it or not.
I think uh Obama is going to have to deal with a certain amount of racial feeling among those voters who aren't pure racists but may feel, as they would put it in polls, uncomfortable.
And so I think to have this warning now uh might actually help uh Obama in the long run.
All right.
So here's E.J. Dion Jr. suggesting that uh Obama's gonna have to deal with a certain amount of racial feeling among voters who aren't uh pure racists, pure racists, pure racist.
Uh aside from the pure racists, people who are uncomfortable voting for Obama are racist too.
See how this works.
Of course we have the pure racists and wink wink.
We all know who they are, don't we?
Yeah.
We all know where they live, don't we?
Yeah.
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi.
Redneck Riviera in Florida.
Yeah, we know where they live.
Gun wrecks in the back of pickup, go to church every day.
Yeah.
The bitter clingers, we know who they are.
We know who the bitter, bitter racists are, but also, says Dion.
People who are uncomfortable voting for Obama are racists as well.
So what they're setting up here is that anybody who doesn't vote for the Messiah is a racist.
Were we racist because we were uncomfortable with the haughty John Carey?
This is you know what what they're the ones that keep this alive, and I'll tell you why.
It is a distraction.
They're trying to keep everybody on defense.
They know that the Republican Party has certain elements in it that will do anything to avoid being called racist.
No, please go marry.
No, no, I'm not having a good I really I a lot of friends with black people, I'm not a racist, we don't go in.
They know that.
They want to intimidate them into not criticizing anything else about Obama.
His stupid tire gauge plan.
I I still, folks, I am fifty-seven years old, and I cannot believe that I spent an hour and a half of this program talking about that idea.
Hi, welcome back.
Nice to have you on the excellence in broadcasting network, Rush Limboy here.
Looking for it's gotta be another stack.
Let me uh grab a quick phone call.
Chester Spring, Pennsylvania says, Judd.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Welcome.
Thanks, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
I I I think today is the best show you've ever had.
It's been it's been terrific.
I've really enjoyed it.
You know, it's it's interesting you say this uh because I'm we we are I'm I'm setting an email record in the in the public email account.
Uh uh, we're getting five times what we normally get in the course of the three-hour program, or this tire gauge garbage.
What have you liked about today's show, Judd?
Well, uh I'll tell you, being on hold is terrific because we get to listen to all those bumper things, and those are terrific, and then so you don't get you don't get the commercials.
But but more importantly, I mean any if nothing else, Clinton talking about being monogamy being important, uh, followed by Mookie uh, you know, turning into a social service organization, and this total nuttiest nuttiness about the tire gauge.
It has been a fun show.
I'll have to agree with you since you put it that way.
And it's been but I have to be it's been frustrating to me.
I like I'm 57 years old, and we're discussing something that that that six-year-olds understand.
It just it's it's just silly.
You know, I I've found myself on the edge here of coherence a couple times.
Well, Rush, I'm 66, and uh unlike you, I've actually figured out what the strategy is, what Obama's strategy is.
There's a there's really a subtle nuanced strategy to this tire gauge thing.
What is it?
It involves an oil company conspiracy, a government program, and a campaign slogan.
Now, the oil company conspiracy is known by anybody who's ever used one of these 50 cent fill up your air, uh fill up your tire with air gauges at any fast food place or anything.
None of those things come close to working.
They they you either put in too much or too little, it's you know, you you have no idea how much you put in.
It's just kind of, you know, and the few times that I'm used a minute.
Right, and how do you know if a gauge is even accurate?
Exactly.
You can't trust that either.
So obviously.
You've got an oil company conspiracy here, because why else would it be so inaccurate?
The oil companies are obviously putting out these kinds this kind of technology that's gonna cause you to either overinflate and underinflate and never have your tires correct.
So that's the conspiracy.
Well, what's in what's in it for the oil companies to do that?
Oh, is it like is it like big tobacco, the oil companies want to kill their customers?
Yeah, of course.
I mean that's it.
Now now the the government part of it is this is gonna lead to a government program because now once this problem is is identified, not just identified it, now you're gonna have to have a government program to fix these things.
And you're gonna have to have an agency of testers, people to go out and test them, monitor 'em, make sure they're working, find the fast food people who are not taking care of it.
So you've got an entire government program to make sure because now that it's it's been identified that proper inflation of tires is so important, obviously we're gonna have to spend an awful lot of money in the government to take care of that.
Tire pressure checkpoints.
Absolutely.
And you can have a whole agency and then helps employment and all the other things.
And then the most subtle nuanced thing about the whole process is he gets a campaign slogan out of this.
Because it's gonna take ten or fifteen years for the government to get these pressure things tested and checked and everything else.
So in the meantime, people are gonna have to either go out and buy expensive handheld measuring devices, or uh they're not gonna be able to do that.
And that's gonna create a tire gauge gap.
Kind of like the missile gap of the of the that never existed back in the back in the sixties.
You're gonna have wealthy people who can afford the tire gauges and poor people who can't.
So No, no, wait, wait, wait.
You have wealthy people who have staff to use the tire gauge to measure the tire pressure.
Yes.
No, no, that's that's why you're the host.
You you picked see, I picked out the subtleties in in what Obama has to be.
Well, you were talking nuance.
I wanted to stay online here with So there it is.
There's Well I can totally believe it, but what I know is true is that somebody was talking to Obama and he mentioned this tire gauge thing and Obama w has never heard it before.
And he went out, whoa, really?
Whoa, that's cool.
That's cool.
And then he goes out and says it.
And now he's now he's now he's backed up into defending it.
And the drive bys are circling the wagon.
I don't want to start with this again though.
I just I'm telling you folks, this whole do you realize this whole thing is premised on the fact that someday soon we're not gonna need oil.
Do you realize what will happen to your life if there is no oil?
You have no clue.
It's not just gasoline and motor oil and stuff.
Here is uh Joy in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Hi Joy, nice to have you with us.
Well, hi, Rush, Megadetto from beautiful East Tennessee.
Thank you.
Uh I I just love the humor that uh has been on your show today and and the humor that's being interjected into the campaign.
Uh and um I wanted to tell Obama that I learned from my father forty years ago to check the tire pressure in my uh uh tires.
And uh Yeah, see that's another thing.
Th this elitist runs around assuming everybody's driving on flat tires.
Yeah, I that was crazy when I heard that I had I laughed all the way down the road.
I was like, you know, I never check my own, I don't check my terri uh tire pressure.
But uh uh one of the other reasons it's called I must have missed a show where you uh talked about uh gasoline but you uh not gasoline but oil that's used in plastics and your screener also mentioned cosmetics and while I'm on high oil oil is used in candles, paraffins.
Yeah, yeah, you're you're uh everywhere.
Oil is everywhere.
Johnson's baby oil.
KY Joe, it's all oil.
Yeah.
So you know, I I haven't heard figures on how much is used in that, but I think uh while I was on hold, it just kind of hit me.
Uh the cosmetics industry, it would be interesting if oh you know, if Obama got into the president, you know, okay ladies.
Do away with the makeup industry.
That's that's uh that's uh I got a guy here I think wants to list some of these things.
Yeah.
Jo Joey, thanks.
Oh, he's gone.
He's just she Oh, Susan.
Susan in in uh in Paradise California uh Pasadena, sorry.
Nice to have you on the E I B network.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Congratulations on twenty years and twenty years more.
I've been listening to you for twenty years.
Thank you.
Um I um my husband works or h owns a plastics company, and he was just saying the other day, if you raise or you know, don't have oil, everything in your house, everything in your office, there are so many things that are made of plastic that is oil-based.
And if you look in your office, your computers, your um Trash bags.
Everything I mean, opened your refrigerator.
It's a hole inside of the refrigerator is made of plastic.
Yeah, everything in there, and look in your car.
But I mean, oil is everything.
And, you know, I I'd love to find a substitute for it, but it's it's there isn't.
It's organic, it's a commodity, and the earth keeps making it.
It's like getting mad at cotton.
Getting mad at sugar.
But the liberals hate it.
They hate a commodity.
And look at what we do.
We go out and we take a commodity and we convert it, because we think we're smarter than God and nature into something called ethanol.
So we create moonshine out of corn, and it's h it's just causing all kinds of problems, residual ancillary problems, whereas there's nothing wrong with the original thing.
It's just the hubris, the ego of the left.
Sometimes difficult to deal with.
Quick time out.
All right, remember for we'll be back tomorrow, rearing up uh reared up, revved uh revved up, raring and uh ready to go and all that.
But remember, we cannot inflate ourselves out of this.
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