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Aug. 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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Look, before we get to the campaign stuff, there's some stuff in the stack here, new stuff I just want to touch on.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, the uh economic news has resulted in experts being shocked.
U.S. producer prices unexpectedly soared at their highest annual rate twenty-seven years last month.
Uh as uh as as rising wholesale prices for energy spread to a variety of products.
Right.
That means inflation's going up.
Now, why is anybody surprised at this when we have an economic circumstance like we do?
Shouldn't people have been expecting?
With energy costs going up, shouldn't people experts have been expecting that other prices would go up as well?
Why is every economic report listed as a shock or surprise to the uh to the experts?
And again, ladies and gentlemen, it is just unconscionable what we are doing to our children.
I am reminded of the great Merrill Streep during the Alar hoax, asking on 60 minutes, what are we doing to our children?
From Providence, Rhode Island.
Faced with soaring diesel fuel costs, scruel districts are forcing students to use the old-fashioned way to get to class on their own two feet.
Many scruels are eliminating or reducing bus service because fuel had jumped to four dollars fifty cents a gallon.
Uh in California, it's happening.
Worried parents in Massachusetts have called walk Boston, a nonprofit group that promotes walking, asking for help.
After their communities cut back on busing, health advocates long have encouraged students to walk, of course, stressing the fitness benefits, but the Scrual and transportation officials say they fear that abruptly reducing bus service could lower attendance rates, increase traffic congestion.
How's that with fewer buses on the road?
What?
Parents driving into school?
Oh, well, so what?
The parents are driving anyway.
Somebody's leaving that house to go to work, we damn well hope.
If you remove a screw bus from the road, you're adding 40 to 50 cars in the morning and in the afternoon said Bob Riley's.
Look at all this is skirting the point.
I mean, you can this is this is all being reported from the context of how painful it's going to be on the adults and how painful it's going to be on the uh people who are not parents as their traffic's gonna go up.
What about the children?
What are we doing?
We already know that they are having to wear last year's clothes.
You know how humiliating that is for your average high school kid.
I don't care whether they're all you know not they're all not doing it.
The rich are being able and are able to buy their kids new clothes.
And so once again, the stigma of being poor or middle class will shock these kids right in the eye.
And we don't care.
We're doing it out of selfishness.
The uh Capistrano United School kids can get jobs.
Snertley.
Snertley snurly, you are exhibiting an insensitivity that stuns me.
Kids work.
You have lost touch with what America is.
It's better.
Well, you may have paid for your clothes, and it doesn't happen that way anymore.
You you I am just I'm stunned what we're doing to our kids.
We're making them walk farther to the bus stop.
We're making a wear last year's clothes, and it's happening all over the country.
The Capistrano United School District, Orange County, uh has eliminated 44 of its 62 bus routes to save an estimated three and a half million dollars.
The cuts will affect an estimated 5,000 students from kindergarten all the way to high school.
Leaders in three communities served by that district in Orange County, California have threatened lawsuits saying that the Scruwel officials are ignoring traffic and pollution implications, while cutting bus service is unpopular.
Uh the spokesman said that it's uh it's better than firing teachers and increasing class sizes.
Small towns feeling the pinch too, short on cash.
Scruel officials in Shirley, Massachusetts, are that's uh It's about 40 miles northwest of Boston, are going from eight buses to four to start the scrual year.
Students who live within two miles must walk, must bike, or get a ride, folks.
This kinds of hardships have not been known to exist in our country for I don't know how many years.
And now we simply tell them to walk two miles in Boston.
Cold, snow.
Well, it may cure the child he childhood obesity crisis, but uh it's going to increase pollution and cause uh global warming with all the additional cars and then the traffic and then the road rage and so forth.
Parents in Shirley are worried about safety and seeking help from walk Boston.
You believe this there is a there's a special interest group called Walk Boston, and its job is to help people walk.
And so they've been asked for help to help the students walk.
As a single working mother, Mary Day said that she can drop her children off at school in the morning, but she can't pick them up.
Her street runs parallel to train tracks.
She fears her nine-year-old and twelve-year-old sons will be tempted to take shortcuts by darting across the tracks outside the official crossings.
Mary, tell them not to.
Just tell them not to.
I remember being a kid, are you going to walk a half mile down a street to cross at the appropriate way when you can see a clear uh way right there?
Her youngest son Quincy isn't thrilled with the idea of walking, especially when the weather gets cold.
I don't like it, he said.
Takes like 20 minutes to do it.
He's exactly right.
We're pushing these kids too hard.
Well, I just I just do not understand why we are pushing these kids so hard.
I it is it is I just what's becoming of us as a nation, ladies and gentlemen.
We lost our hearts, and we lost our soul.
Whereas everything used to be for the children, now it seems it's screw the children.
The New York Sun today, uh interesting story on economics increase is seen in wealth of autocracies.
The Council on Foreign Relations, also known as the CFR, just released a new research report.
That will be shocking to many people, but no surprise to Fulstein students here at the EIB Limbaugh Institute.
The wealth of autocratic governments is soaring and the wealth of liberal democracies is collapsing.
As recently as 2003, democracies had 400 billion dollars worth of more wealth than autocracies, 600 billion to 200 billion.
Today the autocratic governments have almost one trillion dollars more wealth than democracy.
Uh and and you know, trillions, billions hard to compare on radio.
Last year alone, autocratic assets grew 60%, and Democrat assets, democratic assets shrunk seven percent.
Now, this doesn't sound good, right?
This this is this just doesn't sound good.
But I think maybe we could all use a little translation here.
After all, what is an autocratic government?
And what is a liberal democracy?
Well, for the purposes of this story, autocratic governments are oil-producing nations, and liberal democracies are wimps like us waiting for alternative energy solutions.
So once again, I remind you of what our liberals have yet to figure out.
Autocratic governments doing everything they can to produce more energy from existing sources.
Our government's doing everything they can to prevent more energy from existing sources, and it is leading to a huge You want to talk about Boone Pickens talks about the transfer of wealth.
This is a transfer of wealth.
Because we're getting they're seizing wealth.
It's not even a transfer.
They're the autocratic, the oil-producing nations are simply seizing it.
And by the way, New York Times today, a story that essentially says Rush Limbaugh is right that this peak oil theory is misplaced, that it's misguided.
As oil giants lose influence, supply drops is the headline.
Here's the nut of the story.
Sluggish supplies have prompted a Cottage industry of doomsday predictions that the world's oil production has reached a peak.
But many energy experts say these peak oil theories are misplaced.
They say that the world is not running out of oil.
Rather, the companies that know the most about how to produce it are running out of places to drill.
There's still a lot of oil to develop out there, which is why we don't call this geological peak oil, especially in places like Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and Iraq, said our June Murti, an energy analyst at Goldman Sachs.
What we have now is geopolitical peak oil.
We don't have geological peak oil.
Where's all kinds of oil out there?
It's just that the liberal democracies are standing in the way of getting it.
And the oil producing nations are not.
Plus, as more like Venezuela when they start nationalizing all the oil that they have and kicking out oil companies in terms of exploration, and there's less defined and so forth.
And in the midst of all this, big oil still continues to get the blame.
This is hilarious.
This is from the Allentown Morning Call.
Walt Nedlinger spent years trying to keep a Walmart anchored shopping complex and being built near his wind gap home.
The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community neighbors argued.
So when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Nedlinger was ecstatic.
He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, what could be worse than Walmart?
Well, over the past year, Nedlinger says he's gotten an answer.
RPM recycling, the metal shredding plant on the same land that the Walmart was going to go on, causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street and frequent explosions that shake Nedliger's walls.
Last week, a fire at the recycling plant inflamed growing tensions between residents who say the plant has ruined their neighborhood.
And RPM co-owner Nolan Perrin, who says he spent 200 grand to help calm the noise and wonders why he's being criticized for bringing industry to an industrial park.
Nedlinger said the shredding operations payback for opposition to the Walmart project.
What could be worse than Walmart?
Here's a guy who didn't want a Walmart.
Fights and succeeds to keep Walmart out, and then gets the, of course, politically correct recycling plant, and it recycles metal.
This is funny.
I about peed my pants.
I just love this kind of jabbing these people, learning lessons the uh the hard way.
NBC, ladies and gentlemen, uh, worried about ratings for the Olympics this week since Phelps is finished.
Phelps has got all these medals, a swimming competition is over.
NBC's second Sunday night of Olympic competition, its first after Phelps' historic gold medal run came in flat compared with four years ago.
And NBC is worried.
Now, there's a life lesson here.
What is NBC?
NBC's hoping that the excitement generated by Phelps' metal pursuit will translate viewers feeling excited about the other events.
But NBC's worried that Americans won't do as well in track and field, and therefore there won't be such an order.
Now, what does this mean?
It means, ladies and gentlemen, that Americans like achievement.
Americans like excellence.
They like the pursuit of it, and when they don't see it, they're not gonna watch it.
This ought to be a news flash to bury Obama.
Americans do not hate achievement.
In fact, they're inspired by it.
Americans do not share your passion for losing and punishing winners.
Remember from the movie Patton?
George C. Scott is patent saying, Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war is a lot of horse dung.
Americans traditionally love to fight.
All real Americans love the sting of battle.
When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, to big league ball players, the toughest boxers.
Americans love a winner and they will not tolerate a loser.
Americans play to win all the time.
I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed.
That's why Americans have never lost and ever will lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans, not to the Democrat Party.
Losing is a victory.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, my friend.
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100 college presidents support lowering the drinking age to 18, ladies and gentlemen.
Those of you who have has scruel seniors getting ready to go to college next, a year from now.
Stop and think about this.
I mean, it's one thing for the kids to suggest lowering the drinking age to 18, but for the college presidents to do it?
Do we not hear daily stories about drunken binges and sorority and fraternity initiations and just overall college life?
This is what Moynihan called defining deviancy down.
When you can't control something going wrong, just say, okay, it's not wrong anymore.
Speaking of drinking, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The Republicans are coming to town for their convention.
Twin Cities bartenders working when the Republicans hold their national convention should listen up.
Republicans like their drinks straight up and they arrive early for happy hour.
There was a survey of Washington, D.C. bartenders commissioned by a leading liquor company.
It breaks down Democrats and Republicans when it comes to their adult beverage selection and bar behavior.
And here's what the survey found.
And I want to warn you, Republicans, it's not good for us.
We don't do well at drinking, it appears.
Who are the better tippers?
Democrats, 60% to Republicans 38%.
Who is more likely to order a drink straight up?
For those of you in real end, they know what that is out there.
Republicans 82%.
Democrats 14%, which means the Democrats watered down their booze with the rocks or mixers.
Who is more likely to order a fruity pink drink with umbrella in it?
Democrats, 58 to 34%.
Who has better pickup lines at the bar?
Democrats 74%.
Republicans 14%.
Devastating on that one.
Who is better at giving a toast?
Democrats 63, Republicans 36.
Who's more likely to arrive first for happy hour?
Republicans.
50 to 40%.
Who is more likely to be the last to go home?
Democrats, 53 to 46%.
They surveyed about a hundred bartenders in the Washington area.
By beam global spirits and wine, they make uh Jim Beam bourbon Canadian Club Whiskey and Covocier Cognac, among others.
We bring up the rear on all of that.
And by the way, what one more thing here about the Olympics, ladies and gentlemen.
Do you remember it was just a year ago, a week ago, last week, on this very program.
I endeavored to indulge you in a detailed explanatory conversation on women and the Olympics, and how women who normally couldn't care less about team sports or follow statistics or get into fantasy rotisserie leagues like men will do.
Nor will women bother to park themselves on the couch on a Sunday for NFL football or college football.
But when you get to the Olympics, it's just it's women are just they're in there all the time and they look for certain things they're looking for different reasons, and lo and behold, the New York Times today validates old El Rushbo once again.
Olympics draw high percentage of women viewers and ads intended for them.
It could be considered the sisterhood of the traveling Olympics every two and a half years.
A group of female friends gathers for a viewing party to watch the skating events in the winter games and events like gymnastics and swimming in the summer games.
I don't typically follow sports at all, said one member, Jocelyn Simpson, an editor at a consulting company in New York, explaining in an email message that her interest lies in the sense of occasion.
I called this, folks.
It is just it sometimes even I am dazzled by my own understanding and insights into the workings of various aspects of American culture.
Another member of the group, Lisa Williams, a professor of literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Said the appeal of the Olympics came from watching the results of all that determination and training and focus.
I also got swept up in the Phelps frenzy, she said.
It is kind of superhuman.
And then the article goes on to describe many of the ads in the Olympics aimed at women, such as Evista, a prescription drug approved for treating osteoporosis and reducing the risk of blood cancer, L'Oreal Bear Natural Mascara, the Venus Embrace Razor, the Match.com dating service, and the movie Mamma Mia.
Also multiple commercials for Johnson and Johnson baby products, cleaners from companies like Arm and Hammer, Clorox, and S. C. Johnson, a new Chevrolet, the Traverse Crossover, featuring a shirtless hunk who irons, scrubs a toilet, and makes reservations for an anniversary dinner, as an announcer says it's everything you ever wished for, and then some.
You can you can tell who's watching these shows by who is advertised.
Okay, we'll come back.
Just had to get some of this stuff out of the stack here.
All this other stuff going on besides the political stuff.
That's coming up next.
Stay here.
Okay, the drive-bys are obsessing on who the Messiah will choose.
To be his vice presidential running mate, we're hearing names mentioned from Joe Biden to John Carey to Hillary Clinton.
And again, if he if he picks Clinton, he may have to pick Clinton in order to win this thing.
But the the big problem there is that he's gonna have to have somebody taste everything he eats before he does, if he chooses her, and he's gonna have to have somebody else start his car every time he gets in it.
If he chooses her.
You know, this this it's it's a mess.
And one of the reasons it's a mess is that everybody's resume that Caroline Kennedy is inspecting is twenty times that of the nominees himself, Barack Obama, who has a thin resume of nothing, and the real stuff that identifies Obama as who he really is, what he did back in Chicago with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, that stuff's under lock and key.
Nobody can get to it, presumably because it's so embarrassing, and would be such an indictment of his linear radical existence when he moved to Chicago.
So he's got a he's got a very thin resume.
He's surviving on hope, change, and all these platitudinous nothings that he says so well, and even those are failing to stir people.
So all this talk about the vice president.
Now I know he's got to do it quick because a convention is next week.
But I have to I I think all this talk about his vice presidential uh running mate is a is an attempt to distract everybody from the miserable performance he gave Saturday at Rick Warren's church out in California.
I did and I think it is an effort to distract everybody's attention from the infanticide legislation that he supported, the killing of babies, the resurrection of the abortion issue.
The Democrats want no part of that.
Barry has given it to the Republicans on a silver platter.
And it's uh it's so it's time to distract.
It's time to go out there and get that uh Colin Powell endorsement.
It's time to go out there and name a VP.
It's time anything to distract.
Meanwhile, the drive-bys are carrying Obama's water by furthering the notion that McCain cheated.
They will not let it go.
We put together one of our famous montages, ladies and gentlemen, of various drive-byers speculating on the cone of silence.
They were obsessing on it from uh late yesterday through last night.
Here's who we have here: Brian Williams, Wool Blitzer, Larry King, Ed Henry, uh, let's see, Howard Feynman, Tony Perkins, David Schuster, Molly Henneberg, uh, Jeff Bernbaum, Jack Cafferty, all talking about the saddleback civil forum's code of silent.
The so-called cone of silence that was supposed to surround John McCain.
What are you hearing about the so-called cone of silence?
McCain was not in the cone the whole hour.
McCain violated this cone of silence.
Three little words that are getting bigger by the hour.
Cone of silence.
It wasn't a cone of silence, the cone of silence.
He was not in the cone of silence.
A cone of silence.
McCain was not in the cone of silence.
The entire event has been overshadowed by the cone of silence.
There you have it.
Drive by is obsessing.
They know their guy is in trouble, doing everything they can to buck him up and to help him by accusing not only, by the way, Rick Warren of lying, but McCain as well.
Because it's Rick Warren that came up with the term cone of silence.
So Rick Warren yesterday had had it.
After two days of the drive-bys challenging the integrity of his event.
He went on Hannity and Combs last night.
And Combs said, Did you know McCain was not there yet?
And would you have phrased it differently had you known?
It was just a joke.
It was just being silly to say the cone of silence.
We knew that the moment he came, the Secret Service was with him the entire time, and then they put him immediately in the other building.
So I wasn't even sure that he hadn't arrived by the time we were moving on stage.
I knew probably ten minutes before the time that he wasn't there yet.
But by the time we got on the stage, I assumed he was there.
There was there was cone of silence.
He would just, it would just, that was a phrase that uh Warren used to suggest that McCain would not be listening to what Obama said.
So it is uh patently obvious, uh, ladies and gentlemen, drive-bys know that Obama is in trouble uh from this performance on Saturday night, and they're trying to do everything they can to erase uh from people's m memory the fact that McCain did so well, and practically eliminate for people's memory the event occurred at all.
Now, the drive-bys, when it comes to McCain, we're all excited that he might actually choose a pro-choice and or liberal pro-choice running mate.
Last night on PMS, NBC, Dan Abrams spoke with Jonathan Alder of Newsweek, two drive-by's, speaking to one another.
Abrams says we don't expect McCain to announce his decision until next Friday.
Real distinct possibility, or at least something not to be ruled out, um, that McCain could go for a pro-choice uh running mate.
He doesn't care about ticking off uh, you know, a few uh loudmouths in the base.
And you saw he floated Tom Ridge's name to kind of see how big the reaction would be.
It wasn't really that big.
And you can't rule out Joe Lieberman either.
It wasn't really that big.
See, the drive-bys are just hoping for this.
They're just hoping for it because they know it's not just a few loudmouths in the base.
They know the base will totally turn on McCain if this is the case.
It's not that they want somebody pro-choice on McCain's ticket.
They've got pro-choice, and you know, they got more than pro-choice.
They got somebody who believes in infanticide running atop of their ticket.
They couldn't be happier.
And you know that Obama's not going to pick some some uh some uh pro-lifer.
So it's not about it's it's not about them being uh true to uh uh a belief, it's about finding a way to persuade McCain to make a decision that will guarantee his defeat.
As I said yesterday, McCain, if he does this to please the drive-bys or for whatever advice he's got.
I I can't imagine the people around McCain are this dumb, but they might be a bunch of yes men.
But if he if he if he picks if he picks a pro-choice running mate, it's not going to be pretty.
And the drive-bys know it.
And they're trying to encourage him to do so.
Last night on uh on Hardball, we had John Harwood from the New York Times talking with Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.
And Robinson said, I can't imagine the Republican convention is gonna be very interesting if he picks Tom Ridge because he's pro-choice.
Is that a deal breaker?
What's the fallout going to be?
Look what's happened to James Dobson.
James Dobson over the last several months has gone from saying there's no way I could ever vote for John McCain to, oh, well, maybe I will after all.
I think the McCain campaign might be able to calculate that the same thing would happen if they pick Tom Ridge.
They may be calculating that, but it's a severe miscalculation.
The question here, folks, really is how to get the message to McCain.
McCain is a uh 71 years old.
I mean, he's he's who he is and his personality is what it is.
And you don't get in McCain's face and say, don't do that.
That's a dumb thing to do.
It's that's that's I I think maybe the way to go about this is to say, Senator McCain, we know you're smart, and we know you're gonna do the right thing here, and we know you do not want to lose.
Well, I tell you, it's it's uh it's amazing all of these drive-byers, who, by the way, folks, as you well know, know nothing about us.
They don't know what makes us tick.
We're we're aliens to them.
And they think that we're gonna, at the end of the day, sit around and vote for McCain, regardless.
And this is where the miscalculation is huge.
How about somebody like Rick Santorum, other than Tom Ridge?
How about some discussion from the McCain campaign uh campaign about a conservative who can be counted on across the board who can help lead the country in the right direction, who can help rebuild the Republican Party.
Lieberman can't do that.
And rebuild a conservative movement, neither McCain nor Lieberman nor Ridge can do that.
What what what is this?
This is crap.
What is this about picking a liberal Democrat or a liberal Republican?
McCain has already seen to it that he can walk across the aisle, he's the top of the ticket.
If anybody's going to attract moderates, it's going to be the top of the ticket guy.
It's not he's not going to help himself any additional way.
He's going to hurt himself by putting a liberal or a liberal Republican on this ticket, particularly pro-choice.
If they do that, if the McCain camp does that, they will have effectively destroyed the Republican Party and pushed the conservative movement into the bleachers.
And there are a lot of people who think that that's been the aim of the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party for many years.
Now, if if this is if all this stuff is not just a trial balloon, and I'm late, a lot of people now think that all this is just smokescreen to set the table and set the stage for Rudolph Giuliani as the vice president.
Meanwhile, uh Mike Huckabee is out there trashing Mitt Romney to as many evangelical groups.
We're committing suicide in the midst of two events that could launch this party to sweeping victory in November.
Won the energy and gasoline price debate, and the Democrats are nervous on that.
They start to abandon Pelosi on it.
We own that issue if played right, and then McCain's performance Saturday night with Rick Warren out there at the Saddlesor Church.
And we're gonna one wrong selection as vice president can wipe all that out because everything that McCain said Saturday night, the reason he's getting such rave reviews is why?
Because he was a conservative.
McCain's conservatism, sometimes hidden, surfaced loudly, proudly, and valorously, valorously last night or Saturday night, and it can it could be undone by choosing a liberal Democrat pro-choice or a liberal Republican.
And people will say, well, what what was all that Saturday night?
If if if he really believes that how can he put a pro-choice, especially his answer on abortion?
Life begins at conception.
He's going to nominate somebody that could become president who differs from him on such a core issue as it makes no sense.
I just I don't I don't understand the thinking on this, no matter how I look at it, but you know there is thinking.
There are people thinking strategically, or people thinking this would be a good thing to do.
For what?
To destroy the Republican Party?
Because it certainly is not how they're going to win the White House.
This would be somewhat more understandable if McCain had not done so well Saturday night.
Why are the drive-by so scared of what what McCain did?
Why are the drive-bys trying to say he cheated?
It's not just that he did well, it's what he did well.
He articulated core conservative values and principles.
Doing it all summer, and he's two points away.
He has closed the gap on the Messiah.
The drive-bys know it.
See, here's the dirty little secret is that everybody but the Republican Party seems to know what it is that wins for them.
Values-based, free market-based, conservative principles.
McCain's been focusing on those all summer long.
He's pulled to within two points in some places he's tied.
He came out way on the top Saturday night.
And the drive-by's the Democrats know it.
They know that they can't compete with conservatism when it is articulated the way Mark McCain did on Saturday night.
And so that's why they're urging him on to pick somebody who would just totally cancel the effect among Republican voters.
What they heard from McCain on Saturday night.
Back after this.
By the way, there's a new poll out today from Survey USA, it was conducted August 13th through the 14th.
Polls about now do matter.
A year from a year ago, you know, polls were irrelevant.
If the polls a year ago were accurate, we'd have Hillary and Rudy as the two party nominees.
But now going into the conventions, this is this is when polling data starts to take on some relevant, at least with me.
The drive-by's rely on polling every damn day for every damn thing.
Uh most of it's meaningless.
But there is a new poll from Survey USA Today between August 13th and 14th that shows McCain has pulled within two points of Obama in Minnesota.
He is also closing the gap on Obama in New York.
And I've got a story with a funny headline here.
Uh it says Oklahoma is not, I forget it's not he Obama not doing well in Oklahoma, which is no surprise.
The drive-bys know he's not going to do well in the South.
Much closer race, and so as far as the vice presidency concerned, we've heard the name Tim Polenty being bandied about.
Now, one thing about Polenty, a lot a lot of people are not convinced of his uh conservative bona five.
But you put him up against any of the other people being named, uh, and it's a stark contrast.
Uh Polletti, he is a solid pro-lifer.
Minnesota is in play.
He's the governor there.
Tim Pollenty has uh appointed a pro-life majority on the state Supreme Court.
He uh might be able to deliver a toss-up state like Minnesota, you never know.
But that is another name that has been bandied about as a potential vice presidential running mate for McCain to the phones.
We're gonna start in Dallas.
This Olivia.
I'm glad you called Olivia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, hi.
Hi.
Well, uh, I remember about like a week ago when I tried to call in that you were talking about why does the media presume that Obama should be um president or really far ahead in the polls.
And I remember an essay written by Robert Nozick.
It's called Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism.
And my what I would say with what he's saying is that both the media and Barack Obama are Wordsmith intellectuals.
And intellectuals by definition are people who think ideas are more important than people, and wordsmith intellectuals are people who think or believe that everything has a verbal solution.
And so, um what was I gonna say?
Oh, that's my theory.
Hello.
Yeah, I'm I'm listening.
Okay, well, um, part of Barack Obama's reason why he's a wordsmith intellectual is because of his like elitist schooling.
Schooling kind of breeds this sense of entitlement and superiority among that wordsmith intellectual because in the classroom there's a central planner.
The teacher distributes the awards by how she sees fit.
She teaches with books written by also Wordsmith intellectuals.
Well, you know, I'm not I'm not familiar with this writer, this this essayist you're talking about, but what he says makes makes total sense.
Is I've been I've been yesterday spent a lot of time analyzing who Obama Obama is.
I've been doing it for quite a while, and I've said he's not a thinker.
Now, when I say that by he's he's learned well, and he's able to regurgitate what he has learned from his Harvard class uh professors and from Bill Ayers, the anti-U.S.
terrorist who is his good friend, and from Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama is a linear result of a life spent hanging around and learning from people who have a presumption of guilt associated with this country.
This country's wrong, this country's guilty, this country needs to learn a lesson or two.
Uh this country deserves to lose wars and and so forth and so on.
And they do think they're smarter than everybody else.
And they carry themselves that sort of elitist air of uh of a condescending arrogance.
And uh and and Obama is is uh very typical of this.
But you see, Obama really can't think well, and we see it constantly.
When he's off the teleprompter, he is a stuttering uh Mike, grab that piece.
Well, play this again in the next hour.
We put together all the uhs and ahs and ands and you know's from a 40-minute press conference that he had a couple weeks ago or three weeks ago, and a full seven and a half to eight minutes of it is uh and ahs and uh you know's and uh.
And what Obama is trying to make people think he's doing during all those pauses is deeply thinking.
He's thinking.
He's smart.
He is trying to arrange his syllables.
That's not what he's doing, but that's what he wants people to think.
Well, the American people do not want a thinker.
The American people want a doer.
We'll be back.
Governor Schwarzenegger of California supports Obama's tire inflation plan to keep from drilling oil.
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