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Aug. 20, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Folks, it is panic time in the Democrat Party and with the drive-by media.
It they are in full fledged panic mode.
McCain is up by six points in one poll.
The Messiah and oh McCain are tied in every other poll.
The LA Times Bloomberg poll that I previewed yesterday indicates that the Messiah is not attracting new voters.
And by the way, Obama's long-lost brother has been found living in a hut in Kenya.
In a shantytown hut in Kenya, proud to say he's living on less than a dollar a day over there.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you with us today.
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Just off the wires from uh LifeNews.com.
John McCain has reportedly confirmed that he will not be picking a running mate who takes a pro-abortion position.
And he has ruled out former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, whom media outlets promoted as a possibility.
McCain AIDS told Republican Party officials of the decision, and uh they confirmed that to Fox News.
So apparently the McCain camp is putting it out there that uh they're not gonna pick a uh a pro-choice guy uh to be on the ticket.
Now, a lot of people think that this is uh well, well, some people at the who is it?
Uh Mark Halperin of Time thinks that all of this has been a smoke screen to set up the eventual choice of Mitt Romney.
Now, from what I've been told, Mitt Romney is the number one choice of McCain aides, but the rhinos that are also part of McCain's team, Lindsay Graham leading the bunch, they're the ones who have been uh pushing Lieberman in the news.
Uh but they are from what I'm told, they're not the ones in that the empowered to help McCain make this choice.
Uh Tim Pollenty remains high on the list as well.
And as far as what Obama's doing, it looks like uh looks like Biden.
Uh might maybe Bert Birch Bay, uh what not, Evan Bai of uh of Indiana.
It turns out Evan Bye and Tim Kane flew out to Hawaii to visit their last interviews with uh with the Messiah when he was on vacation.
And I don't think it'd be Tim Kane because isn't there there's this Lieutenant Governor in Virginia who's Republican who would then launch uh himself to the governor's uh ship uh governorship in that in that state.
As for I hope it's Biden.
I really hope it's Biden.
We don't want to say that too loud, but I really do hope that it's Joe Biden, because we've got a mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden, plus the arrogance factor times two with Biden and the Messiah would just be delicious.
But I also have I also have a little bit of a desire that he choose Evan by.
Can you imagine the the name of that ticket?
Obama by Obama bye bye, Obama by So we've got so much stuff to do today since it is so much, it's just an incredible morning of show prep here.
I've enjoyed it immensely.
Let's go to the audio sound bites first.
The story that just won't go away.
Last night on ABC's World News Tonight, reporter Neil Karlinsky reporting on the troubles of children going back to school.
Along Historic Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, we found a close-knit community strapped by high food and gas prices and struggling to get their kids ready to go back to school.
Or definitely having to just buy the bare minimum this year.
Really the bare minimum.
Yeah.
Tanya Vaca's back to school budget is dropped this year from 250 dollars per child to just a hundred.
Wendy Powell says tough times have left her with only $20 per child for her back to school supplies.
They are using Lasher's clothes, absolutely.
But they're also using Lasher's crayons and different things that I have left over.
And buying them less, and they're not getting to pick out much this year.
For her teenage son, that means no new shoes.
The shoes are getting getting tired because the shoes prices are going up, so she can't afford new shoes.
Back to school on a shoestring budget.
An unexpected math lesson for thousands of parents and their kids.
Oh, it's getting really bad now.
Used crayons, ladies and gentlemen.
We are losing our souls.
Sending our kids back to school with last year's crayons.
My God, ladies and gentlemen.
It's unbelievable.
I don't know if they've got paste.
I read it's a good question.
We haven't seen any stories about paste, whether it's new or last year's paste, or whether there is any paste.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is this is the the anatomy of how a story is created and gets legs in a drive drive-by media.
This has been going on now for two weeks.
And it's all part of the misery and doom and gloom that people in this country are experiencing.
But hey, there's new polling data out there that suggests this may not be the case.
And it comes from Reuters.
Americans remain deeply worried about a faltering economy and their own financial futures, but their outlook improves slightly this month, according to a Reuters Zogby poll released today.
The Reuters Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, climbed to 91.9.
Fe-8.7 in July, as six of the ten measures of public opinion used in the index rose.
The approval rating for Congress, however, dipped to 9% from last month's all-time low of 11%, as Congress headed off to an August vacation without progress on a host of issues, including energy prices.
So the American people's mood's going up.
I'll tell you what, one of the things that's happening out there, this I mentioned that Panic City that's going on in the Democrats in the drive-by media.
You can see the media start to circle the wagons now.
New York Times has a piece trying to cover up for Obama's infanticide decisions.
And they're blocked.
They're circling the wagons around this now.
We also are getting stories, analysis from the drive-bys, that the reason McCain is going up is because he's gotten nasty.
And his brutal attacks on the poor Messiah.
And Messiah is not responding in kind.
That is not why Obama is going down.
I think I think one ad might have been a factor, and that is the Brittany Spears uh uh what's her face uh Paris Paris Hilton ad uh accusing uh Obama being nothing more than a little flake celebrity.
But what's happening is people are seeing Obama, they're getting to know Obama.
They're saying you can't you can't hide.
He is an amateur.
It is obvious to a lot of people that his his his his I mean his depth is an inch thick.
That's how little experience he's got.
And the real experience that he does have as an executive running this foundation in Chicago as a street agitator is under Hawk and Key, and nobody can see it, and they're not going to release it.
Nobody knows how he ran this uh operation with his terrorist buddy William Ayers.
And then these stories like that look, I know Obama's not responsible for his brother.
I mean, and we all have you know oddballs in our families.
We do.
I mean, we we just and and there, but but there are family.
But there's something here, even though this guy is living in a hut, long-lost brother found in Kenya by Vanity Fair of all places.
I imagine that they beat the national inquirer to this story.
But what is it uh Obama's favorite biblical passage?
Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to me.
And Obama's a big believer in the redistribution of wealth, and there's one member of the Obama family that's done quite well, and that would be Barry.
But seems like every time we read of Barry's brothers, they are dirt poor.
And there are places that Obama doesn't even know where they are.
Now, I'm not making a comment on the brother.
I'm not making a comment about families and that stuff.
I'm just saying that Obama is presenting himself as a as a as a new savior who's gonna equalize things and uh rid the world of misery and so forth.
And yet, his uh this is the second lost brother.
The first one was a half-brother.
So the lost half-brother was found, and it's a pretty remote area too, with the economic circumstances far beneath those of the Messiah.
And now this uh this other this guy's name is George.
Uh George Hussein On Yango Obama.
That's right, George Hussein On Yango Obama.
Uh Senator Barack Obama's long-lost brother tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi in a shanty town.
Mr. Obama, this would be George Hussein Onyango Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brother spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democrat contender.
No one knows who I am, he told the magazine before claiming I live here on less than a dollar a month.
Well, I thought it was a day, a dollar a month.
This guy doesn't earn twelve dollars a year.
George Hussein Ongo Obama.
According to Italy's Vanity Fair, his two-meter by three-meter shack, for those of you this is what it says in the story.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's two by just think of it as two yards by three yards, or think of it as six by nine feet.
It's probably about the size of your average bathroom in Rio Linda.
Is this guy's the size of this shack?
It is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants, A.C. Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.
Vanity Fair also noted that George Hussein Onyango Obama had a front-page newspaper picture of his brother, born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., but to a different mother named only as Jail, J A E L. He told the magazine, I live like a recluse.
No one knows I exist.
Well, now we do.
Senator Barack Obama's brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, found living in a in a uh six by nine shack on the outskirts of Kenya on less than twelve dollars a year.
You know, it's got to be a sad day for Dan Abrams over at DNC TV, ladies and gentlemen.
We've had our little fun backs and forths with uh with uh Dan Abrams, but now he's gone.
Or soon will be.
Uh MSNBC is replacing Dan Abrams with Rachel Maddow, a fatal left-wing liberal radio talk show host, uh, with no proven experience garnering an audience at all.
So it's a move that makes total sense for a place like MSNBC.
But this has to really, really hurt Dan Abrams bad.
I mean, it's got to it it, folks, it gotta be humiliating to be replaced by someone who has more testosterone than you do.
And this is what has happened here to poor old Dan Abrams.
So we send out our condolences here from the uh EIB network.
All right, the polling data is is is in, and you know, they said yesterday this is uh this is the time of the campaign where polling data starts to have some some real meaning as we get you know the week before the convention start and then certainly afterwards, and there's panic in the city where the Democrats live and with a drive-by media,
because Obama is falling apart, and he is it's displaying himself to be a uh an amateur, uh a rank amateur, and they they keep now talking about how Obama is hurting in the polls because McCain pounded him.
Because McCain's out there, he's just being unfair, negative attacks.
We we were gonna have such a really, really above the fray campaign.
It was going to be, it was gonna be so perfect, and now McCain has blown it.
And uh Obama not hitting back hard enough.
So see, as far as the drive-by's are concerned, and I'll tell you something.
I think that in some deep dark back rooms, there is buyer's remorse going on at the Democrat Party.
And hey, by the way, we've been hearing about Obama's vice presidential pick for who knows how many days, and how come this hasn't leaked?
These things leak.
This hasn't leaked.
And if it hasn't leaked, there's a reason why it hasn't leaked.
Maybe it hadn't leaked because some people are not excited about it and are trying to change his Mind on whoever he has chosen.
Regardless, they cannot face reality.
They simply cannot.
They cannot accept the fact that Obama is dropping in the polls because of his radical views, because of his screw-ups, because of that ill-fated trip to Europe, his arrogance, his inability to speak off the cup.
No, no, no.
Can't be any of that because he's the perfect candidate.
Blessed by God are we to have Obama in our midst, so says Nancy Pelosi.
Now, this has all been caused by McCain's campaign tactics.
What is happening, ladies and gentlemen, is the people are getting to know Obama, and the more they know, the more they don't care for it.
It really is no more complicated.
By a fascinating story today on a blog called Death by 1000 Paper Cuts.
And this story, I think is a microcosm of the Democrat Party and their willing accomplices in the drive-by media.
Let me just share the details of this with you.
In August of 2004, John Edwards, the Breck girl, participated on a program on the Turner Movie Classics channel.
And they were doing a series, Party Politics and the Movies.
And this this aired in 2004.
And what these political personalities, uh, people who were asked to do by Turner Classic movies, was to pick their all-time favorite movie and explain why.
And so Edwards picked Doctor Strangelove.
And he said, I believe that one of the messages Stanley Kubrick was trying to send was that putting this kind of power and this potential Holocaust in the hands of human beings, no matter who they are, is an extraordinarily dangerous thing.
Well, here's the thing.
Edwards had never seen the movie.
Edwards had never seen Doctor Strange Love when he picked it.
And the next element of the story is that he didn't even pick it.
Edward's wife Elizabeth admitted in a slate magazine interview in December of 2007 that prior to the Turner Classic movie series, Edwards had never seen the movie Doctor Strange Love.
Elizabeth claimed that her husband was not a big movie buff, and that the campaign staff kicked around an appropriate film for the senator to introduce as one of his favorites.
Elizabeth told the writer Melinda Henneberger that her brother, a filmmaker, gave Elizabeth a list of films to choose from, and that it was Elizabeth who picked out Dr. Strangelove as one of her husband's all-time favorite movies.
Now, Edwards may have winged it during the film.
Elizabeth stated that she wasn't in charge of making him see it, even though by her own admission she was the one who picked it out.
So he may never have even seen the movie.
When he chose it as one of his favorites.
And you know, it's like it's like a Hollywood set.
Nothing is real, but it looks good when it's lit properly.
And that's the Obama campaign.
It's not well, I mean it's real, but the there's no substance to it.
But it really looks good when it's packaged and presented well.
You know, the old marketing and packaging uh uh rap here.
But I mean, this kind of brazen phoniness.
I'm I'm just, you know, how could how could how could it be that so many of us were able to see the brazen phoniness, the fraudulent fakery of the Breck Girl, and and and the drive-by's and the Democrats couldn't, because they wanted to believe the story.
They wanted to believe the Hollywood set.
They wanted to believe how great it looked when it was all lit up.
Let's start with the audio sound bites.
Ladies and gentlemen, last night, Greenville, Delaware.
This is Joe Biden speaking to reporters outside his home.
I'm not the guy.
You know that for sure?
Joe Biden last night, I'm not the guy.
Then a couple hours later, he says he didn't mean that.
I promise you, I don't know anything.
I have no idea, if I've spoken to no one.
Okay, he's looking with it.
He said it's not me.
I have not spoken with anyone.
I have not spoken with anyone.
You're not ruling out that you're still being considered, then.
I have no idea.
No as well as I do.
Here we go.
I mean, so two hours prior, I'm not the guy.
Get out of my driveway, leave me alone.
Two hours later.
He changes his mind, says he didn't mean that.
Says he still could be in consideration, he doesn't know.
It there's a pattern here, ladies and gentlemen, when discussing these people.
Uh let's go back.
We have a montage here of a uh 1988.
The last time Biden ran, well, first time he ran for president is when he got creamed because he plagiarized a socialist labor party member in Great Britain named Neil Kennick, actually plagiarized part of Kennick's biography as his own.
That was, it was, it was stunningly embarrassing.
And here is a montage of a 1988 Joe Biden for president ad.
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
A president has got to know the territory.
Joe Biden sees the presidency as a pulpit from which America sets an example for the world.
He believes that developing nations once saw America as more than a place.
They saw us as an idea, a goal to reach for.
He knows they've lost confidence in us, that they see us losing our way, our resolve, our ideals.
Joe Biden thinks it's time to remind the world of what America stands for: freedom, equality, justice, opportunity.
1988, folks, this is coming off.
Eight years of Ronald Reagan.
Tax rates had come down, equality and freedom were ringing all over the place.
The Berlin Wall was soon to come down.
And note the theme.
Even back in 1988, here is a Democrat ripping his own country in terms of what people around the world think of it.
Plus, he basically disqualifies Obama in this 88 ad.
Back in a minute.
They got so much stuff in the stacks today, folks.
It's just literally hilarious.
Yes.
We get audio sound bites that are literally hilarious.
This is a hilarious day.
For example, Obama was in Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday doing a town hall.
And he said McCain doesn't know what he's up against.
Now, this is this little man child standing up there talking about McCain doesn't know what he's in for, doesn't know what he's up against.
I'll tell you what is Obama doesn't know what he's up against, and that is his past.
I mean, who is McCain?
McCain's a war hero.
He's not going to put up at high gas prices or racist or bigots or terrorists or infanticide.
He's not going to put up with any of this.
You know, McCain's the kind of guy that, you know, here's Obama talking to Putin.
Well, I think uh we've both agree that uh those aggressive acts, uh, Georgians and you took are both wrong, and hey, you're both uh just retreat.
McCain would call Putin and say, Hey, fled.
Don't make me come over here.
Something like that.
Obama has no clue what he's up against.
Barack Obama's closest associates hate America, folks.
Bill Ayers and Jeremiah.
I mean, stop and think of this.
To top it all off, Obama lobbied for infanticide and doesn't have the guts to admit when he's wrong, such as the surge, for one thing.
I think McCain not only knows who he is, he knows who and what he is up against when he sees the man child Obama.
As is this is his pure arrogance.
It also makes it makes what if he has a surprise for a as a VP.
I don't know.
And then the other thing that he did in Raleigh, Obama calls on McCain to acknowledge his patriotism.
Obama demanded that McCain call him a patriot.
This is the stuff that happens in the sandbox.
Little Barry out there demanding, after he just got through yesterday's stalking to the VFW, assuring them that he loves his country.
I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, you have to go before a veterans group and assure them you love your country.
There must have been some question about that or some doubt.
So he leaves the VFW, heads up to Raleigh, North Carolina, and demands that McCain call him a patriot.
This is a little boy trying to act like a man.
This this is a this is a passive aggressive little guy who's trying to grow up real fast and act like A man.
And he just is he's not he's not able to pull it off.
And I want to go back to this Joe Biden soundbite because I think this is interesting.
The first thing he says here, it's in is 1988.
Joe Biden running for the White House for the first time.
And of course, the first thing he says here, the narrator in the ad says the White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis.
The balance of power, war and peace, the economic future of the next generation.
In that ad from 1988, which we have dusted off from our archives, and I'm sure the Republicans have it, McCain has it.
That ad, whether Biden's chosen as the VEP or not, this ad is a Democrat, Joe Biden, essentially saying that a candidate in the same circumstances as the Messiah ain't ready.
He's not qualified.
Then you throw all the other things that Biden has said.
Yeah, we got a mainstream black guy clean and articulate, first time in a long time, it's good.
That that stuff in there.
Oh, we hope it's Biden.
But listen, more importantly, after essentially disqualifying Obama and somebody like him for the presidency, listen in 1988 to Joe Biden sound just like Democrats in 2008.
Twenty years ago, the same complaints about how the rest of the world hates us, and it is time to relight that magic flame that attracted people all over the world to America.
And the one thing consistent is that in both instances today and 20 years ago, a Republican was in the White House.
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
A president has got to know the territory.
Joe Biden sees the presidency as a pulpit from which America sets an example for the world.
He believes that developing nations once saw America as more than a place.
They saw us as an idea.
Yeah.
A goal to reach for.
Oh, yeah.
He knows they've lost confidence in us.
Who has that they see us losing our way, our resolve, our ideals.
Really?
Joe Biden thinks it's time to remind the world of what America stands for.
Freedom.
Equality.
Justice.
What the hell did he think America was back in 1988?
A gulag.
You know, this is it's it's striking.
These people cannot find it in themselves to say anything positive about the United States of America at the time.
It always was greater some other time in the past, but they never say when it was better.
We're going to stick with Biden here for just a couple minutes here on the audio sound bites because last night, or Saturday night, actually, uh, at the Saddlesore Church, Pastor Rick Warren and the and the uh and the forum, and I went when I heard Obama, remember now, I have a theory that Obama's a vessel, that he's just he's just an amateur, and that he is a almost a robot who has been programmed uh and has learned very well what he says.
He's able to regurgitate it, but an independent thinker he is not.
We saw evidence of it yesterday.
He verbatim used words of Boone Pickens talking about Boone's idea to make natural gas, the replacement for gasoline in automobiles, threw out that 700 billion dollar transfer of wealth line is not a transfer of wealth, it's a transfer, it's an exchange of wealth.
But anyway.
When when I heard Obama use the phrase above my pay grade, and I'd never heard him use that phrase before, not saying he hasn't, my mind went to work, ladies and gentlemen, and I recalled that Biden had used that phrase somewhere when he was chairing some committee at some time about it might have been a judge,
judicial hearing or something, but he was, I know he was really ragging on somebody and telling them that what they were doing was above their pay grade.
Well, we found it.
But here first is Obama saying, in answer to the question, when does a baby get human rights?
I don't know.
Ha ha ha, you know, I don't.
I mean, answering that question, specificity, you know, above my pay grade.
Here's what he said.
Answering that question with specificity.
Uh, you know, is above my pay grade.
Either way, you Democrats and dry bears, you want to know why he's plummeting in the polls.
You need to look at this answer right here.
You know, abortion's one thing.
Infanticide is quite another.
And it is now widely known that Obama was all for infanticide.
It's the only way you can put it.
Anyway, there is that uh is above my pay grade.
We did a nexus search, and uh we've we've we found that Biden uses this phrase all the time.
And Obama has talked to Biden about being V. So I'm wondering what Obiden, you know, if Obama picked it up from O'Biden.
But here is here is uh this is September third, nineteen ninety-eight, foreign relations committee hearing.
You remember Scott Ritter, the uh weapons inspector who eventually he turned turned left on us all, but uh he was he was answering questions about uh U.S. policy towards Iraq.
Now remember in 1998, Bill Clinton was in office, and he was saying about Saddam Hussein the same things that George W. Bush said about Saddam Hussein in 2002, and in 2001.
And back in 1998, all of the Democrats were gung-ho to go get Saddam.
He posed a great threat.
We have to get rid of Saddam.
Saddam is not living up to the promises he made in the ceasefire for the 1991 Gulf War.
They were all on the same page back then.
And this Ritter guy was uh was saying things the Democrats didn't want to hear, and here is Biden chewing him out.
I recommended the president have at it and let the chips fall where they may.
A reasonable position for the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State to take.
But I respectfully suggest, uh Major, I respectfully suggest they have a responsibility slightly above your pay grade.
Slightly above your pay grade to decide whether or not to take the nation to war alone, or to take the nation to war part way, or to take the nation to war half a halfway.
He went on and on.
He just ripped Ritter a new one because Ritter was saying things about potential uh action in Iraq that they didn't want to hear.
Remember, they were all gung-ho for it back then.
So here's Barry picking up a phrase above my pay grade from someone else.
Also, ladies and the drive-bys went nuts yesterday with uh when when they got wind of my analysis of what would happen to the Republican Party in the conservative movement if McCain chose either Lieberman or Ridge.
I mean they went nuts out there.
On all these cable shows, good morning, America.
They just went nuts.
And it got funny.
I say it this is hilarious.
Here is a uh uh a montage with the drive-by's buzzing over my warning to McCain.
Rush Limbaugh making it clear he would not be very happy if a Tom Ridge or a Joe Lieberman were selected as John McCain's running mate.
Rush Limbaugh says John McCain could destroy the Republican Party with his choice of a running mate.
Today Rush Limbaugh fired a warning shot that McCain's running mate better not be pro-abortion rights.
Rush Limbaugh said picking a pro-life candidate would destroy the Republican Party.
A choice Rush Limbaugh today called suicide.
There's our buddy Dan Abrams, by the way.
The last voice you heard there again, he's been replaced by uh Rachel Maddow, or will be in early September, losing his show to somebody with more testosterone than he has.
It's just a shame.
But anyway, you see, it it I said what I said yesterday, said this a warning shot across the bow to McCain, and every damn media outlet picked it up.
It is it is it is I hate to say they're so predictable, but I know how to to do this.
Complete these people like a strativarius.
They are so predictable.
And once they get on something, they all get on something.
Now, Wolf Blitzer got hold of Tom Ridge, and he confronted Tom Ridge with what I said.
Rush Limbaugh, he really went after the notion that Senator McCain should pick anyone as his running mate who supports abortion rights as you do.
Listen to what he said on Monday.
It just would be a shame.
It would just be a sad thing if he chooses a pro-choice vice president, or even a Democrat, because he could just obliterate all the success and all the progress that he uh experienced on Saturday night with the wrong choice.
And uh Blitzer said, Well, it looked like you were one of the guys that Russia was referring to, Mr. Ridge.
Russ is uh never been known to be shy about giving his opinion, and I'm sure uh uh his point of view may be held by other people within the party.
Uh all I know is that my friend of twenty-five years, John McCain is strongly and forever pro-life.
He also believes that uh you shouldn't be judgmental on other people's point of view with regard to this and some other very difficult issues.
And as I said before, I think he'll make the right choice for his vice presidential nominee at the end of the day.
I think Rush and everybody else hopefully can see that there's a clear choice, regardless who the vice presidential candidate, a choice that says John McCain is needed now as president of the United States in this perilous time.
Now, Wolf wanted to throw Tom Ridge a little lifeline, so he said, uh, well, i if he did pick you, he'd be the president, he'd be calling the shots, you'd be the vice president, you'd be doing whatever the president asked you to do.
That's an interesting situation.
If everybody would be proud to serve as vice president, but at the end of the day, you're only a private independent voice giving your opinion in counsel to the president in a private way, but at the end of the day, publicly you echo the president's position, and I think every vice president understands that and appreciates that's the rule.
Ah, that's a nice trick that Wolf played there, folks, but that's not reality.
That's not how this shakes out.
The actual making of the decision would be destructive of the whole effort to get elected because it would be so at odds with what McCain so plaintively has believed as a core value for all of his life.
Then there is the possibility that the number two guy can always become president someday.
You know, the old heartbeat away business.
So it does these things do matter.
Then I think vice presidents don't end up just a sycophants.
Back in a minute, folks, lots more straight ahead.
And we're back, El Rushmore, serving humanity with half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, Lorraine X joins us, ladies and gentlemen from San Diego.
Hi, Lorraine X, nice to have you back.
Thank you, Russ.
Hear me out today.
Let me tell you something.
I am tired of that wrinkly old man who made all those outrageous claims at the Satellite Forum the other night, and no one in the right wing factory.
You know what?
Hang on a minute.
What outrageous claim?
He didn't make any outrageous claims.
Matt, maybe I'll tell you.
I'm gonna give you two examples.
Just give me one.
We'll deal with one of them.
I'm gonna give you two, because these were the most for example of Rush.
John McCain stated that he is saved.
Well, in order to be saved as a non-Christian or non-Jehovah Witness Christian, for example, you must be baptized, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost.
Now, I want that old man to tell me and the American people when did he ever get baptized under what church and when did he speak in tongues?
That's number one.
Number two, the final one.
John McCain claimed that because his father was a high-ranking military officer, he was offered an opportunity to be released early from his torture.
And you know what that he said, Rush?
He said that one of those communist torturers, by the way, turned out to be a Christian that drew a cross in the sand.
Why isn't someone calling this man on these wild war stories?
There is an October 75 coming up, and we're gonna suck it to him in October regarding the right story.
I am telling you.
Lorraine.
Lorraine, get back on the meds.
You're having a bad day.
The uh the the story is true.
We've looked into this.
You people on the left cannot handle real.
You can't handle reality, you can't handle yet can't handle genuine.
You nominate frauds, you nominate fakes, you nominate flakes, you nominate amateurs.
And then you present an absolute fraudulent picture of the nominee that you people come up with.
I don't care who the nominee is.
We looked into this McCain story, and the left-wing bloggers tried to say that McCain lifted that from Alexander Solzhenitson, who they said wrote about it in his book, The Gulag Archipelago.
Well, guess what?
It's not in the Gulag archipelago, and a scholar who has studied Sol Janitson and knew him, said that he's that the Sol Janison never ever told that story.
He never told us the whole left wing belief system here for McCain lying.
See, McCain had to cheat.
McCain had to lie.
Barry did.
That means Barry's great.
Barry's wonderful.
Why, he's a messiah.
He cannot lose.
And McCain wiped the floor with him.
Well, it has to be McCain had a cheat.
McCain had to make things up.
He didn't make this story up.
There are veterans from the uh early 70s who were with McCain who said they he remember him telling them that story back then.
Solja Neitson never told the story to anybody.
It never happened to him.
The left-wing blogs, however, are saying, well, okay, Solja Neeson didn't say it, and Soljan didn't write about it, but the rumor's been out there for a long time that Solskjaer Neitson said it, so maybe McCain heard the rumor that Soljan said it and stole it from the rumor.
These people are beside themselves, and you too, Lorraine.
I'm surprised that you have disappointed me.
Normally, when you've called this program before, you were reasonable.
You were fun to talk to, but you've gone mad.
And what is it that's driven you crazy?
Christianity.
Christianity.
Somebody openly expressing their beliefs.
Drives you nuts.
And a lot of libs nuts.
Anyway, as I say, Lorraine, if the med's gonna be called back sometime next week and we'll try again.
Well, they're out there patrolling the beaches, looking for turtle nests because the stakes that they put in the beach, some of them got wiped out by the uh by the tropical storm, and a whole layer of new sand lopped on top of the turtle nest.
They may turtles may not be there, they may have been swept away.
They're out there checking even as we speak, ladies and gentlemen.
If they're gone, I'm turning on the lights tonight.
We'll be back.
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