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Aug. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Silly season time, ladies and gentlemen.
Silly season time.
How many houses does McCain own?
Answer, I'll have to get back to you.
And the Democrats try to make big hay out of this.
As though they've never tried this kind of class envy stuff before.
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Telephone number 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com, the first half of this year, 2008, the coolest for at least five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the WMO.
The uh the whole year will almost certainly be cooler than recent years, although temperatures remain above the historical average.
The point is, it ain't getting any warmer out there.
The Farmers Almanac is uh is out with their forecast for the winter.
They say it's gonna be catastrophic.
It's gonna be so rotten, it's gonna be so horrible out there this winter, it's gonna just it's just gonna be terrible.
Also, a uh a positive thing has happened since yesterday.
Uh, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing off the lunacy that he suggested yesterday putting windmills on city bridges and rooftops after newspapers mocked the idea with photo illustrations of turbines on the Brooklyn Bridge in the Empire State Building.
Bloomberg said, Yeah, yeah, there are aesthetic considerations.
And number two, I have absolutely no idea whether that makes any sense from a scientific from a practical point of view.
Well, then why'd you say in the first place?
If you have no idea whether it makes any sense from a scientific or practical point of view, you know what this thing is.
I'll tell you what this wind business is, folks.
And I'm not putting down wind.
You know, we all have wind.
Uh, there's all wind, the wind's always out there.
I'm not putting it down.
I'm not, but I'm telling you that the people in the wind business, this little conference out there that Bloomberg was at in Las Vegas.
It's all about getting subsidies for this stuff.
It's all about getting federal subsidies to get this uh the wind projects going.
Boone pickings wants them and uh and and all that.
So you just follow the money on this stuff.
Forget the science, forget the uh the big heartedness, forget the so-called concern about the environment and pollution.
Always follow the money.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Dingy Harry sat down with the editorial board of the Las Vegas Review Journal, said some very interesting things.
According to Molly Ball in that newspaper, Dingy Harry defended Lieberman on Wednesday after the former Democrat vice presidential nominee accepted a speaking slot at the Republican convention in Minnesota.
Dingy Harry said he has a close personal relationship with John McCain.
I don't fully understand why he does.
I told him last night, you know, Joe, I can't stand John McCain.
He said, I know you feel that way, Harry.
And Harry Reid said that he would continue to resist calls from the Democrat Party's base to strip Lieberman, now an independent of his Senate positions for his disloyalty.
Listen to this.
All my close votes, he's always with me, said Dingy Harry, whether it's the budget or energy issues, no matter what it is, he's always with us.
He's done, he just he just doesn't vote right on a rock.
Well, why would I want to throw away a good vote like that?
Now, this is Dingy Harry who admits he hates McCain.
Just he hates McCain through and through.
What a bold statement, and nobody's reacting as he um honestly admits to hating McCain.
But I I mentioned this primarily to put in context that the talk is still out there about uh Lieberman uh being the vice presidential pick in the McCain camp still sampling people, getting their ideas on this.
I think you killed that.
Uh and and it's it's well, we may have killed it, but but uh the RNC's put out a statement.
We we shared that statement with you yesterday.
There will not be a pro-choice vice president to nominate, but I'm telling you there's some some uh you know, people not getting the message inside the McCain campaign, the rhino's in his campaign, and they're still putting it out there.
And I just I think it's important to understand he is good on the war, and he's a nice guy.
He's got a great temperament.
Lieberman, there's nothing wrong with him as a human being, but as a politician, he ain't us.
And when you've got the Senate majority of their dingy Harry, who is well known as probably the most partisan guy in town praising Lieberman on everything but one issue, then you have to say, what are we thinking about even putting Senator Lieberman on our ticket?
Yes, I know.
I was, I, you know, I did not turn on the TV last night, Mr. Sturdley.
I read a I read a couple of novels.
I got home yesterday.
I just I needed a I needed a chill out from this stuff.
So I read a couple of uh a couple of novels.
And then uh start, you know, checking the email now and then.
Talking about you again all over the place and Biden and all.
And I know, and uh Cookie sends me the audio soundbite roster.
We've got it here, we've got all this stuff.
In fact, let's let's get started with that.
Let's start.
Here is Tim Kane.
This guy is is as big an empty suit as Obama.
They're doing I watched Obama this morning.
He had a little town meeting there at some uh some some place in Virginia with with Tim Kane, who's the governor, the eyebrow is what we call him here, a nickname.
And you know, for a moment, I got a little worried because Barry sounded like he got it.
He started off talking about how he loves America.
And he started off talking about how great America is.
He started talking about how great Americans are.
And then he was talking about all the hundreds of thousands he's met and all a hundred thousand he's shaking hands with, and all a hundred thousand babies he's kissed and hugged and so forth.
Uh oh, somebody got to himself he's got to start saying great things about the country.
Then it didn't take 30 seconds, and here it came.
We are just in a world of hurt.
There's so much pain and suffering out there, and we need to go back to the 90s.
We need to bring back Clintonomics and all it just and it just blew every bit of attempted upbeat positive uh message that he was on online.
They just can't help themselves.
They just, I know what happened.
He's going through this riff, talking about how great the country is.
It just didn't feel right to him.
He was kind of giving it a try.
It just didn't feel right.
I'm gonna come off as a phony on this.
I bet and so um uh off.
But do you know what I found out?
They've been putting teleprompters town meetings.
This guy is so bad off the prompter, it's even worse than we knew.
They've got prompters at town meetings with bullet points that scroll on the screens, and sometimes the prompters have uh malfunctioned.
Sometimes they've locked, and hey, he's lost.
He's literally lost without some words in front of him to remind him of the and that I think is large part of the uh which is of course the left is being telling us is uh nothing more than nuance.
Anyway, this guy Kane.
I really I I folks, I watched, I watched this thing with Obama, and I I thought I thought they let the cast of one flew over to Cuckoo's news nest outside.
Here's Kane this morning on uh CNN, John Roberts says there's a tremendous amount of discontent with the Bush administration.
You know, even though Obama's still slightly ahead, McCain seems to be doing very well in the polls so I mean, are you surprised at that given the track record of the Bush administration of people's discontent with it?
What is what does Senator Obama need to to kind of do to kind of reclaim the mojo here?
Understand that Senator McCain was asked yesterday this question.
How many houses do you own?
And he couldn't answer that question.
He couldn't count high enough, apparently, to even know how many houses he owned.
We've got Americans who are struggling with foreclosures, skyrocketing in Virginia and elsewhere, gas prices, job slowing down, the deficit at a record level.
We've got to have somebody who can change the direction of this economy.
Yeah.
And you guys are certainly not the ones to do it.
All you've done is race this.
You know, the Washington Post portrays both this guy and Mark Warner as these moderate uh kind of guys.
They're they're the full-fledged full liberal tax increasers, which is what's what Tim Kane's done there.
But this business about McCain not knowing how many houses he got, folks, which it turns out that Obama already knows.
Obama did an ad, he's got seven houses are worth $13 million.
That wouldn't even pay for one of John Kerry's houses.
And the second thing I have to point out to you is that I don't care how many houses McCain got or has, he and his wife did not get a sweetheart deal from a fraud embezzler like Tony Resco to buy their houses.
But the Messiah did.
The Messiah got all kinds of sweetheart deals with Rezco, and who knows who else.
McCain knows how many houses he has.
He just can't sit there and say he's wondering, you know, whose names they're in as he gets this question he knows is a prenup.
His wife's name.
I'll have to get the staff back to you because I don't know.
I know.
I just say, I don't know.
I don't care about that.
The question isn't how many homes McCain has, but how many homes does McCain have where he got a sweetheart deal involving Tony Rezco?
And his buddies.
I mean, if if Obama wants to talk homes, let's talk homes.
He got a special deal in Hyde Park.
He got a special deal on a prime piece of land adjacent to his home.
His preacher, Jeremiah Wright, $10 million property for what?
Nothing.
Let's go on.
Let's let's let's talk homes.
Maybe Obama's butt-kissing sidekick, the eyebrow Tim Kane can add his one cent worth.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest this morning outside.
Here is uh Barack Obama.
Uh the he was his Chester, Virginia.
They they hadn't given him the house line yet, still stuck on the saddleback five million dollar line.
Some of you saw the saddleback form uh with Rick Warren, he was asked, Well, who do you consider rich?
And he thought about it for saying, I don't know, maybe if you make five million dollars.
Five million dollars, then you're rich.
Which means I guess if you're only making three million a year, then you're middle class.
I guess that's what he meant.
This is weak.
You know, um, folks, all partisanship aside here, this second day in a row, this guy just recaptured a mojo.
They got a long, this this guy's near bottoming out.
This is it is becoming more and more apparent to me that if it's not written down and if he hasn't studied it beforehand, he's just wandering aimlessly in vain search of coherent syllables strung together to equal a meaningful thought.
Yeah, yeah, five men, get three million.
That's your middle class.
That would have been that would have been.
Uh Obama.
He was joking, and he said so later, and he predicted exactly what you just did.
Expect that comment.
Give me this started.
And Obama has just run with it.
But it's so ineffective.
They should have given him the house line.
They should have given him the line they gave Tim Cain.
Let's go back to Monday night.
Bill Hemmer hosting a special 2008 presidential character and conduct uh documentary here on Obama.
And they played this bite from March 14th, 2008, Chicago Sun-Times interview with Obama about his land deal with Tony Rezco.
My view was I either paid the appraisal price or one-sixth of what Tony had paid for the law, whichever was higher.
So I paid one-sixth of the price, which I was approximately $104,000.
At that point, it was clearer that he was going to have some significant legal problems.
I think there's no doubt that this was a mistake.
Uh I said it was a bone-headed move.
Yeah, but there's just so many of them.
There's so many bone-headed people he hangs around with, so many bone-headed things that his people have said that he has to say he never heard him say over 20 years.
At any rate, we were a little long here, a little brief.
Oh, one thing.
There's a new feature at the Zogby website.
An audio uh feature called the Zogby Minute.
It's not Zogby himself, but I took a listen to it this morning, and uh one of the things that Zogby says in his poll is he does not think this is gonna be a Democrat sweep.
This year is not gonna be this big sweep everybody thinks.
That for the first time, and this is interesting if this is accurate, for the first time, not only is all opinion of Congress negative, I mean nine percent, for the first time people are saying they don't even like their own Congressman.
And normally, in the in opinion polls and approval polls of Congress, people love their own guy but hate everybody else.
Now they're saying they hate their guy too, according to Zogby.
And this uh this goes against that long-held trend that we hate the institution, but we like our person in it.
So by the way, their panic, I told you yesterday, panic has set in, and it really has.
Leon Panetta's out there saying, uh, I don't like the way this is going.
Uh he's uh gotta get tougher out there.
Where's the Joe Klein Time magazine?
Where's the passion, Obama?
Can't you say something that makes it feel like you care about it?
You know, when your campaign has to be taken over by Joe Klein at Time Magazine, it ain't a good sign.
I predict to you, ladies and gentlemen, this whole business of Obama's campaign focusing on McCain's houses.
This is gonna come back, it's gonna boomerang them like they don't know.
See, this is what they get into trouble.
They just instinctively follow their own class envy narrative.
They had, they can't, they do not remember how they got creamed last year with the haughty John Kerry and his wife's five homes and his wife's corporate jet and so forth.
So here comes a media question.
I by the way, I don't did the media ever asked John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam.
Did they ever ask him how many houses he had?
No.
They did ask McCain, I don't know, the chef will give back you.
Prenup and I said, I don't know.
So the questions asked, McCain doesn't know the answer, and the the the instinctive reaction from all the lids, aha ha ha ha!
Guy, big rich Republican, seven houses, haha, out of touch.
You can't relate to the blue gulp.
They just fall right.
And so they run all this stuff.
They've even got an ad running on this now.
The problem is if they want to bring up houses, if they want to bring up homes, then we are going to be happy to remind everybody all over again about Mr. Tony Rezco.
And we're gonna have graphics and we're gonna have pictures.
And we're gonna have pictures of Obama's house.
And then that little strip of land right next to his house that he got for below market value from Mrs. Resco or Mr. What a guy is a felon.
If we want to talk about houses, we could talk about here's here's old, old, old Obama over there trying to make himself out to be some guy like Clarence Thomas who came up from nothing, he just gets back from a week on the beaches up in Hawaii, out in Hawaii.
Oh, yeah, and let's not forget you want to talk houses.
How about the sweetheart deal some countrywide that Chris Dodd got?
While a member of the committee that oversees the kind of business countrywide does.
Oh, this is fabulous.
That these want to, if these people want to bring this stuff up, go right ahead.
And Obama, they finally got the line to him out there.
Somehow managed to get it on the teleprompter at his deal today in Chester, Virginia.
Here's what he said.
Somebody asked, John McCain, how many houses do you have?
And he said, I'm not sure I'll have to check with my staff.
True quote, I'm not sure I'll have to check with my staff.
So they asked his staff, and he said, at least four.
At least four.
Now think about that.
I guess if you think that being rich means you gotta make five million dollars.
And if you don't know how many houses you have, then it's not surprising that you might think the economy was fundamentally strong.
Now, this does this not sound like somebody they either coaching him to get passionate, so now he's starting to yell.
Which does not equal passion.
Uh this sounds desperate.
Hey, Obama, yeah, you think I should admit how many houses I've got?
Let me count.
I have to count them up.
I don't can't tell you right off the top of my head.
Let's see, one, two, three, four, four.
I lost track.
One.
This is the New York.
One, and then two, three, four, seven.
I too, ladies and gentlemen, Snerdly.
You have three houses, Snurtley?
You got three houses?
Sterley has three houses.
All right, so so I'm sure McCain knew it's just the prenup, folks.
He's got a prenup with his wife.
He doesn't know whose names these things are in.
And he was probably being a little bit um too technical.
Here's the ad.
This is the ad that the Obama campaign put together today in response to this uh this question about how many houses does McCain have.
Maybe you're struggling just to pay the mortgage on your home.
But recently, John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
They are.
Then again, that same day, when asked how many houses he owns, McCain lost track.
He couldn't remember.
Well, it's seven.
Seven houses.
And here's one house.
America can't afford to let John McCain move into.
You know, it's it's I mean, it's natural for these people to go for this, but it's a mistake.
Uh it's gonna boomerang on them, and it's uh it's not something that says, you know, McCain's honor and his character are intact.
McCain's never made himself out to be something he's not, like John Kerry has or like Obama's trying to do.
The fraud and phoniness is always on the left in these kind of situations.
And they'll never figure that out.
Hi, welcome back.
Hey, here's another thing that we could do here, folks.
Obama wants to talk about numbers and houses.
Talk about how many babies have died because of Obama's support for infanticide.
They're trying to do anything they can to get away from that, and they're not going to be able to.
This is something, you know, this last thing that there's a bunch of things that have centered and and and uh uh appeared now in this campaign that the Democrats had no desire to show up and the I tell you they don't want the abortion debate.
They don't want it back, and especially with the candidate they've got.
Now the McCain people have issued a response to Obama and his uh his henchmen there at the eyebrow Tim Kane on this number of houses business.
McCain Camp says, does a guy who made more than four million dollars last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii, bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon, really want to get into a debate about houses.
Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people cling to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who's in touch with regular Americans.
The reality is that Barack Obama's plans to raise taxes in opposition to producing more energy here at home as gas prices skyrocket, show that he is completely out of touch with the concerns of average Americans.
This is true.
It is, and that is the essential definition of elitism.
Jim Garrity, National Review Online at his blog called the Campaign Spot, telling you over the uh past couple days that uh it's obvious to me, in fact, all week, that there is panic city setting in in the Democrat Party and the Obama campaign.
This is not how this was envisioned, even as uh little as two weeks ago, but certainly not two months ago.
They were just riding on the top of this wave of uh of uh messiah uh uh sort of belief about Obama, and it just is it's all crumbled.
And McCain is ahead in some polls, tied in all of the others.
Barry's lead is gone.
They're all asking where is Mojo and how's he gonna get his mojo back?
So Garrity writes about this today.
Over the past few weeks, I've heard from folks who work in the other media and in GOP circles that team Obama was variously frustrated, scared, angry, panicking, etc.
Didn't put a whole lot of stock in it.
There wasn't a lot of outward signs of panic that I could see, but in the past few days we have seen three separate signs of panic.
First, in Virginia, a moment ago, Obama deployed a variation of his comments in San Francisco.
Now you want to win, he said, and saying it doesn't make it so.
It'd be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized, should never have been waged, it cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives that people would say, let's toss the bums out.
Just toss the bums out.
We're starting from scratch, we're starting over.
This isn't working.
So I understand why a lot of folks are saying this should just happen.
Why are we having to run all these TV commercials?
Why do we have to raise all this money?
Just read the papers.
Uh these are these are the knuckleheads have been in charge.
Throw them out, but American politics aren't that simple, he said.
I detect with that comedy.
He's getting tired of having a campaign.
He he this whole notion of having a campaign, he thinks is beneath him now.
Which is exactly the way the Clintons portrayed themselves when they rode into town in 1992 and 1993.
They wanted people to bend down, not look at them, bend down, you know, bow, but don't dare cast your eyes on the king and queen who had come to rescue America from all the horrors of the Bush administration.
And radio just a minute ago, Obama said it'd be great if the country said, let's throw the bums out and I didn't have to campaign.
So is um he's getting bummed out out there, folks, and he's having to do all of this minutiae in order to get to his kingdom.
He really is been out of shape about it.
Now the wheels are continuing to come off.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites, day two.
Rush Limbaugh threatening McCain, according to the drive-by media.
Here is Seattle's Fox TV affiliate, the correspondent there, Sabrina Fang.
Rush Limbaugh has threatened McCain, saying that if he puts an abortion rights running mate on his ticket, the GOP base will revolt.
A McCain official says that the presidential candidate is pro-life, has always been pro-life.
His administration would be pro-life, and his vice president would have to respect that thought.
Okay, so I'm threatening McCain now, according to the drive-by.
I'm not threatening anybody, I'm just predicting what'll happen.
Because I know what'll happen if the wrong choice is made.
I'm not going to have to do anything to cause it.
McCain, well, I'm not there's nothing I could do.
We don't do campaigns other than Operation Chaos.
The uh drive-by's all the way in China covering the Olympics are hoping McCain disses me this morning on CNBC's squawk box while reporting live from Beijing correspondent Carl Quintanilla said this.
And it'll be interesting too to see.
Does he go with the pro-choice VP pick and sort of uh diss what Rush has been saying on the air, Rush Limbaugh?
How much pressure does he does he give to uh to Limbaugh, and how much is he willing to be seen as a maverick if he goes against that?
It's very there's a lot of good narrative shaping up.
Good narrative shape.
There's no news here, but there's a really good narrative shaping up.
They're even talking about it at the Olympics.
Ladies and gentlemen, CNBC's financial reporters dragged into this story from Beijing reporting on the story, by the way, from Beijing.
That's one hell of a remote to talk about McCain's vice presidential choice.
And of course, he could burnish his maverick credentials even further by dissing me.
Drive by so hoping.
The drive-bys are so hoping that McCain does something that will allow them to say, see, he just flipped off Rush Limbois.
This is the McCain that we knew and loved.
Good morning, America today.
Here is Ron Claiborne and his report.
Anti-abortion Republicans are in an uproar over reports that McCain is considering picking Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman or former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.
Both abortion rights supporters.
McCain is anti-abortion.
He's gonna hurt himself by putting a liberal or a liberal Republican on this ticket, particularly pro-choice.
A pro-abortion rights running mate could help McCain with moderate, independent, and female voters.
But the risks are enormous.
A top McCain supporter asked some Christian conservatives in Michigan recently whether they would rather McCain ran with a pro-abortion rights running mate and win or run with an anti-abortion running mate and lose.
Many of them told him they would rather he lose.
I tell you, even when they hear this, they still don't get it.
And they don't understand what this is about.
This is this is not about this is not about just abortion.
This is about consistency.
This is about McCain letting people know that he says something he means it.
If he picks somebody pro-choice, then everything he said out there with Rick Warren is throw through thrown out the window.
And there's another thing about this, too, and I keep pounding this point.
The drive-by's keep hoping that McCain, they hope.
They keep hoping McCain will pick one of these, one of them, you know, a pro-choice Democrat as a vice president, because they know it's going to kill his candidacy.
They know it'll ensure defeat.
Besides that, McCain's already accomplished the task of going across the aisle and attracting moderates and independents and disaffected unhappy Democrats.
We don't need two people on the ticket to do that.
The top of the ticket guy, McCain has nailed that down.
If if if what McCain has done is not enough to attract moderates and an independents, then it can't be done.
Not with two of them on the ticket.
If McCain can't the bottom of the ticket is the bottom of this ticket, as far as McCain camp has got to know, is to get that conservative base staying with it.
The bottom of this ticket, the number two is all about keeping the conservative base aligned on election day with the McCain campaign.
Now, here is uh this is Chris Matthews.
This is uh this is Drive Byz on Me, day two.
This is last night on Hardball, and this little uh little exchange took place.
Rush Limbo rang the conservative four alarm fire bell on word that John McCain might pick a for VP, Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman.
People that don't really support or do support abortion rights.
Listen to Rush Limbaugh warning about this.
If he picks a pro-choice running mate, it's not going to be pretty.
If the McCain camp does that, they will have effectively destroyed the Republican Party and pushed the conservative movement into the bleachers.
The bleachers.
Anyway, when's the last time you signed the chief seats, Rush?
It's been a long time, Chris, and I don't damn well want to go back to them.
That's what this is all about.
Want to listen to this audio sound but again here from Ron Claiborne of ABC's Good Morning America this morning.
Now, what what's happening here, too?
The the two things going on.
The drive-bys are trying to goad McCain.
That's why this is day two of limbaugh versus McCain.
And the drive-bys are essentially uh challenging McCain.
You're not gonna let Limbo determine your pick.
You got more guts than that, don't you?
You're the member.
You're not gonna respond to this guy.
That's what they're trying to create.
And then they're trying to consumment the notion in people's minds that McCain will lose if the nominee is a pro-lifer.
Listen to this Claiborne clown again.
Anti-abortion Republicans are in an uproar over reports that McCain is considering picking Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman or former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.
Both abortion rights supporters.
McCain is anti-abortion.
He's gonna hurt himself by putting a liberal or a liberal Republican on this tick, particularly pro-choice.
A pro-abortion rights running mate could help McCain with moderate, independent, and female voters.
But the risks are enormous.
A top McCain supporter asked some Christian conservatives in Michigan recently whether they would rather McCain ran with a pro-abortion rights running mate and win, or run with an anti-abortion running mate and lose.
Many of them told him they would rather he lose.
Yeah, hey, Ron, you know, you need to go back and look at some recent electoral history.
Ron Clayborg, here's an assignment for you, buddy.
Go out and find for me the last pro-life Republican presidential candidate who lost.
Go find for me a pro-life Republican presidential candidate with a pro-choice vice presidential candidate who won.
You can't find it, buddy.
You might want to say that George H. W. Bush back in the early Reagan days might have gone both ways on this.
Doesn't matter.
Reagan was such a dominant force at the top of the ticket.
There was no question of the base not being unified, no question that Reagan defined the party.
That's not the case now.
McCain does not define the party.
That's why this pick is so important.
But you see, this this is the this is classic.
Okay, so you want to you want to pick a pro-choice guy win?
Or do you want to pick a pro-life or lose?
Well, pro-life Republicans lose.
Ron.
You keep this up, Ron, and you are going to be qualified to work at MSNBC.
Here is Charles as we start on the phones.
Charles in Las Vegas.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Meg mega ditto, Rush.
I've been listening to you since 1990, and I'm your uh uh self-loathing gay person from uh Las Vegas is a conservative and help hates himself because he's gay and conservatives.
Well, welcome back.
Well, thank you.
Um, I was listening to the show, and in the midst of it, I don't know if it was a local feed or the national feed, but there was uh an Obama commercial.
And being an expert in this uh field of communications, I want to ask you, why do you think they would spend money to advertise during your show knowing the target audience that you have?
Uh precisely because they know the kind of audience that we have.
Uh take you back to 2002, after I could share our own audience research with you, but we keep that uh close to the vest here and use it for our internal purposes only.
Uh but uh it would it would amaze you, but we don't have to release our own because Joe Joe uh what's it in Puff Dashel.
Remember that 2002 was so much like this, it was not a presidential year, but the Democrats just convinced they were just convinced that everybody hated Bush and we were gonna go to war and they were gonna be for it.
We're gonna take back the Congress.
We're gonna take back the House of Representatives and they did a Wellstone memorial, and it blew up in their faces.
And after a couple days after the election, Puff Dashell did a press conference in which he expressed shock and amazement that his experts had told him that Democrats, lots of Democrats actually listened to Rush Limbaugh.
He actually said this in his press conference.
And he made reference to the fact that some of these Democrats eventually changed their minds on things.
They also thought, just as you thought out there, Charles, that this program is preaching to the choir, but it isn't.
I don't know.
I'm I I've I don't think Obama's buying any national he might be hearing a local buy.
Uh but if he is, if he's buying the show in local markets, that's even a better indication that he knows who the audience is that his people do.
Here's Carl calling from Tokyo, Japan.
Carl, it's nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Well, hello, Rush.
Uh, thanks for taking the call.
You bet.
Um I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about uh uh McCain and his uh endorsement of cap and trade.
It really has me worried.
Yeah, it's absolutely insane.
It's stupid, it's silly.
Uh I don't know how I can vote for a guy who's going to put something in effect like that's going to create a pure autocracy.
Well, here's the way you look at it.
Here's the way you look at this.
With with with McCain, we I think it's got less of a chance of happening.
Obama's for two on this issue.
Uh when it when it comes to climate change, as we stand now, McCain and Obama are not that much different.
So you almost throw that issue out, because we're going to get that no matter who wins.
And you got you gotta I I think I think when you look at McCain's other positions that he's taken on energy recently versus Obama the Democrats, uh it's it's far more advantageous McCain's campaign is for his position on this and it's a winning issue.
Okay.
I I understand that.
But you're asking me to trust the guy who's sitting there telling me that he wants Lieberman as his his VP, and he says he wants to have uh and he tells me that he wants to have conservatives or uh strict constructionists on the Supreme Court.
And and and how am I going to trust him if it if he's gonna have Lieberman?
What's the message that we're we're we're we're trying to get through here?
It's it's if he if he if he does pick a pro-choice, and by the way, he has not said this isn't now this is I know this it's uh fine point, but McCain himself has not said he wants Lieberman in his people campaign want Lieberman.
He's not said one word now, obviously he's he's he's not gonna come out and reject it, but it's other people that are planning this, trial balloon or what have you.
I'm sorry, but uh I'm sorry, but McCain uh, you know, I've been following this guy for years, you know, a gang of uh was it fourteen?
Uh I I've been following for a long time.
This man plays the cameras.
I can't see, I mean, I can see him talking the talk right now, but is he gonna walk the walk once he becomes should he become the president?
That's my concern.
How can I believe this?
I sorry, I can't help you.
Well, that's my concern.
You are you.
You are identifying a lot of people's concerns.
You do we're doing the best we can here.
You know, and I I I think some progress is being made in this vice presidential pick.
That that would be utter disaster.
If if if he does it, don't forget there's Bob Barr lurking out there running on a libertarian ticket.
And if if if uh if this pick goes the wrong way, that's gonna get Bob Barr some additional percentage points, and it's gonna guarantee old Obama a win.
Sure.
That's utter disaster awaits.
So we very why should I vote for this guy?
I don't get it.
I don't know.
Yes, you know, okay.
Well, if you why should you vote for McCain?
Yes.
Very simple.
Two words.
The Messiah.
We don't want Barack Obama anywhere near the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. We want him getting more street agitator experience in the United States Senate, but we do not want Obama and the people running him in the White House.
Have you heard about the real real people?
The Democrats are going to put on display at their convention?
Oh, folks.
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