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Aug. 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
I heard that uh I heard Barack Obama uh gave a speech last night rumor that uh Barack Obama he did get a speech last night.
I can't I can't find much uh about Obama's speech today.
Uh I've been looking at all of TV.
I can I can't.
It seems like it's just a rumor that he made a speech last night.
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We are waiting for Senator McCain to show up with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is his vice presidential pick.
And we are going to join the ceremony announcing her choice when it begins.
We will jip it.
Join it in progress.
We'll stick with it as uh as long as we can.
It's an inspired choice.
They kept this secret.
They totally befuddled the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign is now busy doing their opposition research, and they're coming out.
The one thing that just blows me away that just makes me laugh, and I haven't been laughing much this week, is that they're talking about how, oh, this is a bad pick because she didn't have any experience.
She's got more experience than Obama does.
She has more experience running things.
She's got a bigger story to tell than Obama has.
And she's got plenty of people who will tell that great story of hers.
Obama has nobody.
He wants us to hear tell his story.
He has to tell his story himself.
They really want to go on this qualification.
I think they've been rope-doped here.
I think McCain has made a brilliant move, folks.
Look what we got here.
We do have a woman on the ticket, but she's a Republican woman.
It's not Hillary.
And Sarah Palin doesn't have to wear pantsuits, ladies and gentlemen.
And her husband is not a crook.
This woman's nickname is Barracuda from her high school basketball days.
She takes no prisoners.
She's an a government ethical reformer.
She's been opposing Ted Stevens, who's got problems up there.
Her husband works in the oil business.
He helps to create the fuel that Obama uses to fly all over the country.
The fuel that Obama says he wants to get rid of in ten years.
And uh she's really this is, I think, tremendous.
And everybody Well, how was she gonna stack up against Biden?
It's not how she stacks up against against Biden.
It's how she stacks up against Obama.
You know, McCain has the experience versus Obama thing wrapped up.
And uh Well, what about foreign policy?
What about a she doesn't have any foreign policy?
Neither does Obama.
Our vice presidential choice is more qualified to be president of the United States than Barack Obama, the Democrat choice is.
Democrats today are not happy.
The drive-by media is not happy.
They're not crazy about the speech last night in the civil rights community.
I can't tell you how much drive-by media criticism there is of this speech from the AP and Reuters and so forth.
And there's, you know, Tom Brokaw.
He said, Democrats, don't be fooled by this raucous crowd.
These big crowds at these things don't mean anything.
It's going to be forgotten.
It already is forgotten, folks.
The speech last night is already...
We're gonna we've got audio sound bites of this that we uh that we're gonna get to uh in in uh in due course.
Uh I I gave up on it with 20, 25 minutes left.
He started getting mad, started getting angry, started shouting about things, and it's the same old I'd heard it all before.
And I just I just gave up on it.
And and uh, you know, watching the uh the crowd and so forth.
This is a laundry list of socialist ideas.
It's it's the same stuff we've gotten from Democrats for my whole entire life.
There wasn't any outreach.
This is a guy, big unifier, big this, big that.
He's a big mistake.
He didn't he didn't reach out to people that don't agree with him.
This was this was not a an exception.
This was a campaign rally.
Uh uh talk about me preaching to the choir.
What of what was that last night?
There was no outreach from the Messiah to people who might disagree with him.
I was watching Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington this morning, and she was she was talking to uh some some little Obama advisor.
And by the way, did you see they put all the black people up there in the upper deck?
There weren't any in a lower deck.
He didn't talk about the Martin Luther King anniversary or any of that.
Civil rights community's upset about this.
But Andrea Mitchell said she got back to her hotel room at two o'clock this morning.
And you can tell her voice is uh extremely weak.
She got back in her hotel room at two o'clock in the morning and uh ordered some tea, and and uh the room service woman who brought the tea up.
Uh Andrea said, Well, how what did you think of this?
I I you know, I I just I didn't I didn't think it was nice the way he attacked Senator McCain.
I didn't think that's what Obama was about.
I thought he was just way too mean.
So Andrew Mitchell says, You guys in the Obama campaign, do you understand that average people might have seen that?
And this guy in the Obama campaign actually, oh, yeah, we're we're gonna track that woman down.
Well, we'll explain uh we'll explain uh to her what we'll we'll track her down and explain how she misunderstood it and so forth.
We'll f well find her, we'll do so meaning that they're gonna go out and try to find this one woman that works in a hotel uh because they're paranoid that this one woman got the wrong idea.
The the image that Obama wants to portray, Messiah unifier, his presence can bring all people together.
He made no effort to bring anybody together last night.
Just it's just a you know a sad straight laundry list.
Uh drive by media all upset.
Audio soundbite number one here, Mike.
Drive by media, all upset when they heard today about Sarah Palin.
This is CNN, Ed Henry saying this about Governor Sarah Palin.
If John McCain really was a maverick, he would have gone with someone like Joe Lieberman.
If they had floated that trial balloon of Joe Lieberman, an independent Democrat, uh, maybe Tom Ridge, a moderate Republican.
But as we all know, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives warned that that would lead to the destruction of the Republican Party.
It would split the party at the Republican convention next week.
And in the end, John McCain went with a conservative.
So you're gonna hear the Democrats trying to say, well, this is not really being a maverick that he, in their words, buckled to the right wing of his party.
Ed, you don't get it.
John McCain gets it.
She is a maverick pick.
She is a total maverick.
We're the ones that have the babe on the ticket, Ed.
We have and we have a conservative real woman.
This woman hunts moose.
This woman fishes.
This woman is an athlete.
This is an inspired choice.
This is this is absolutely fabulous.
And she is conservative.
She's pro-life.
Five kids, she had a Downs syndrome baby months ago, rather than abort it.
I mean, this is you know, here the Democrats are all upset.
The Clinton women are all upset uh because Obama dissed them.
And here's the party of advanced causes for women, the Democrat Party, doing all of these exciting things that they can uh to try to show that they are the place for women who want to advance.
And where does it happen?
It happens the Republican Party.
I knew I knew that it would be the Republican Party that first had a woman who works at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And let's let's see.
Let's see now if the drive-by's contrast McCain's choice of a woman to Obama's choice of a blowhard insider Alaska is about as far away from Washington as you can get.
Obama didn't have the guts to choose Hillary or any other woman for that matter, because he didn't think it would sell politically.
So now they're out attacking Sarah Palin's experience.
That's not they're attacking women.
What's going to happen here is, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrat Party and their accomplices in the drive-by media are going to attack women when they start attacking Sarah Palin.
There is no question the Obama campaign is hurting from this.
And uh it's it's gonna be interesting to to uh to see how easily we can predict what they will say about her.
Okay, they've started the video there in Dayton, Ohio.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back, and uh at some point when when they when they get to the announcement of Sarah Palin with John McCain, we will jip it and carry it live.
Our microphones are there.
Senator McCain just took the uh the stage of the podium with raucous music, raucous crowd energy.
Place is going nuts there in Dayton, Ohio.
Let's join it in progress and listen.
Let's join it in progress.
Senator looking genuinely happy today.
Well, I'm just describing this for those of you that can't see it.
His wife is hugging him.
Thank you.
Thanks for reminding me.
Thank you.
They won't let him talk out there, folks.
You're too excited about all this.
Thank you.
Thank you for that wonderful welcome.
And thank you.
Let me tell you, I'm very happy.
I'm very happy.
Thank you, twice is enough.
Crowd's trying to outdo Obama's crowd, that's what's going on.
Three times.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm very happy.
I'm very happy today to spend my birthday with you and to make an historic announcement in Dayton, a city built on hard, honest work of good people.
President Obama!
Like the entire industrial Midwest, Dayton has contributed much to the prosperity and progress of America.
And now, in these tough changing times, after all you've done for our country, you want your government to understand what you're going through, to stand on your side and fight for you.
And that's what I intend to do.
Hope he says what they're going through is too much liberalism.
That's why I'm running for president to fight for you.
To make government stand on your side, not in your way.
All right.
Against the Libs.
Say it.
My friends.
I've spent the last few months looking, looking for a running mate who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people that are counting on us.
Yeah!
I'm sure you know.
All of them dedicated to this country and to getting us back on the road to prosperity and peace.
And I am very grateful to all of them and honored by their willingness to serve with me.
And I'm going to continue to rely on their support and counsel during this campaign.
And after we win this election, when the real work begins...
But I could only choose one.
And it's with great pride and gratitude that I tell you, I have found the right partner to help me stand up to those who value their privileges over their responsibilities, who put power over principle, and put their interest before your needs.
He just bashed the liberals!
Someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies.
Someone who has fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past.
Someone who stopped government from wasting taxpayers' money On things they don't want or need and put it back to work for the people.
Someone with executive experience who has shown great tenacity and skill in tackling tough problems, especially our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.
Someone who reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats, and Independents to serve in government, someone with strong principles, a fighting spirit, and deep compassion.
*crowd cheers*
Someone who grew up in a decent, hard-working middle class family, whose father was an elementary school teacher, and mother was the school secretary.
They taught their children to care about others, to work hard, and to stand up with courage for the things you believe in.
Both of them were coaches, too, and raised their children to excel at sports.
Be careful.
Biden will blow your nose.
And I'm sure they taught them skills that will surely come in handy over the next two months.
Yes, right.
The person I'm about to introduce to you was a union member and is married to a union member and understands the problems, the hopes, and the values of working people, knows what it's like to worry about mortgage payments and health care and the cost of gasoline and groceries,
a standout high school point guard, a concerned citizen who became a member of the PTA, then a city council member, and then a mayor, and now a governor.
Listen to the story.
Obama cannot do this about himself.
Nobody can tell us this about Obama.
Except Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.
And he doesn't want them to tell what they know.
This is a great story.
That's exactly what I told you.
Who beat the long odds to win a tough election on a message of reform and public integrity.
And I am especially proud to say in the week we celebrate the anniversary of women's suffrage, a devoted...
Thank you.
A devoted wife and a mother of five.
She's not...
She's not from these parts, and she's not from Washington.
But when you get to know her, you're gonna be as impressed as I am.
She's got the grit, integrity, good sense, and fierce devotion to the common good that is exactly what we need in Washington today.
Thank you.
Everybody knows who it is.
Bring her out there.
She knows where she comes from, and she knows who she works for.
She stands up for what's right and she doesn't let anyone tell her to sit down.
Thank you.
She's fought oil companies and party bosses and do nothing bureaucrats and anyone who puts their interests before the interests of the people she swore an oath to serve.
She's exactly who I need.
She's exactly who this country needs to help me fight.
To help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second.
My friends and fellow Americans, I am very pleased and very privileged to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States.
Thank you.
Governor Sarah Palin of the great state of Alaska.
Thank you.
Okay, there she comes.
She's coming out with her family and her husband who works in the oil business, hoping to create the fuel that Obama uses to fly all over the country.
We'll take our commercial break here so as not to screw up our affiliates.
This applause is going to go on for a while.
We'll come back after the break and jip her remarks.
And listen when we get back.
This is going so well.
She's wearing a skirt, too, folks.
Just introduced her family, her husband and her celebrating 20th anniversary today.
We now join her remarks in progress.
...most in this world.
Woo!
Along the way, Todd and I have shared many blessings.
And four out of five of them are here with us today.
Our oldest son, Track, though, he'll be following the presidential campaign from afar.
On September 11th of last year, our son enlisted in the United States Army.
Thank you.
This could not be better.
TRAC now serves in an infantry brigade, and on September 11th, TRAC will deploy to Iraq in the service of his country, and Todd and I are so proud of him and of all the fine men and women serving this country.
Thank you.
If you're just joining us, this is Sarah Palin.
Alaska Governor McCain's VP choice.
USA!
Next to Todd is our daughter Bristol, another daughter Willow, our youngest daughter Piper, and over in their arms is our son Trig, a beautiful baby boy.
He was born just in April.
Thank you.
His name is Trig Patson Van Palin.
Some of life's greatest opportunities come unexpectedly.
And this is certainly the case today.
I never really set out to be involved in public affairs, much less to run for this office.
My mom and dad both worked at the local elementary school, We both grew up working with our hands.
I was just your average hockey mom in Alaska.
Hockey mom.
Pistol packing hockey mom.
We're busy raising our kids.
I was serving as the team mom and coaching some basketball on the side.
I got involved in the PTA and then was elected to the city council.
And then elected mayor of my hometown, where my agenda was to stop wasteful spending and cut property taxes and put the people first.
She's a conservative.
Success, folks.
Success here in this pick.
I was then appointed ethics commissioner and chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
And when I found corruption there, I fought it hard and I held the offenders to account.
Thank you.
Along with fellow reformers in the great state of Alaska, as governor, I've stood up to the old politics as usual, to the special interests to the lobbyists, the big oil companies, and the good old boy network.
*crowd cheers*
When oil and gas prices went up so dramatically, and the state revenues followed with that increase, I sent a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska.
And we are now embarking on a 40 billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
Hubba, hubba, hubba.
Thank you.
I signed major ethics reforms, and I appointed both Democrats and independents to serve in my administration.
And I've championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
In fact, I told Congress, I told Congress thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere.
That's where she fought Ted Stevens.
If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we'd build it ourselves.
Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo.
But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built.
Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties.
The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons.
Again, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin McCain's vice presidential pick.
They're in Dayton, Ohio today.
And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.
Thank you.
Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington, but we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's hear.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, no leader in America has shown these qualities so clearly or present so clear a threat to business as usual in Washington as Senator John S. McCain.
Thank you.
This is a moment when principles and political independence matter a lot more than just the party line.
And this is a man who has always been there to serve his country, not just his party.
And this is a moment that requires resolve and toughness and strength of heart in the American presidents.
And my running mate is a man who has shown those qualities in the darkest of places and in the service of his country.
A colleague once said about Senator McCain, "That man did things for this country that few people could go through." Never forget that.
And that speaker was former Senator John Glenn of Ohio.
Thank you.
You know what?
I want to see Sarah Palin age in office.
John Glenn knows something about heroism.
And I'm going to make sure nobody does forget that in this campaign.
There is only one candidate who has truly fought for America, and that man is John McCain.
You think Hillary was depressed watching Obama?
Ha ha.
Imagine Hillary watching this.
This is a moment.
This is a moment when great causes can be won and great threats overcome, depending on the judgment of our next president.
In a dangerous world, it is John McCain who will lead America's friends and allies in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Thank you.
It was John McCain who cautioned long ago about the harm that Russian aggression could do to Georgia and to other small democratic neighbors and to the world oil markets.
It was Senator McCain who refused to hedge his support for our troops in Iraq, regardless of those political costs.
Thank you.
And you know what?
As the mother of one of those troops, and as the commander of Alaska's National Guard, that's the kind of man I want as our commander in chief.
This is an honest, authentic speech.
It is not about promises.
It's about accomplishments.
This can hardly be better.
It can hardly be better.
USA!
Profiles encourage, they can be hard to come by these days.
You know, so often we just find them in books.
But next week, when we nominate John McCain for president, we're putting one on the ballot.
I've never seen McCain look this happy.
No, that's a good thing.
Don't misunderstand.
To serve as vice president beside such a man would be the privilege of a lifetime, and it's fitting that this trust has been given to me 88 years almost to the day after the women of America first gain the right to vote.
Thank you.
Radarado Rado also gave us the welfare statement.
I think as well today of two other women who came before me in national elections.
I can't begin this great effort without honoring the achievements of Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
Who is very excited about this, Mother Ferraro is.
Senator Hillary Clinton, who showed such determination and grace of his presidential campaign.
And where is she today?
She's gotta be just beside herself.
It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America.
But it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all.
Yes, sir, rebound.
Exactly right.
It's gonna be a woman from the Republican Party first working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
So for my part, the mission is clear.
The next 67 days, I'm gonna take our campaign to every part of our country and our message of reform to every voter of every background in every political party or no party at all.
If you want Change in Washington.
If you hope for a better America, then we're asking for your vote on the 4th of November.
My fellow Americans.
Come join our cause.
Sarah, we got a commercial break.
Join our cause and help our country to elect a great man, the next president of the United States.
And I thank you, and I God bless you, I say.
And God bless America.
Thank you.
She kept the format clock intact, folks.
Oh, this is just this has just been fabulous.
Governor Sarah Palin.
McCain hit the break at the bottom of the hour.
She hit the break here.
We'll be right back and continue right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Hey, crowd in Dayton, Ohio is still going crazy, ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, with just a magnificent speech after having been chosen as vice president, her nominee by John McCain.
Just a fabulous day.
That praise for Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton was genius.
We could almost say, folks, that this speech today and Sarah Palin have taken the women's issue away from the Democrats.
I want to watch this woman age in office.
This was an honest, authentic speech, because it's not about promises.
Her speech was not about promises and platitudes.
It was about achievements.
It was about accomplishments.
She has a story to tell.
She has people who can attest to that story.
She has people who can vouch for that story.
Her story is real.
Her story is America.
She doesn't have to leave parts of it out.
She doesn't have to leave uh leave out the any put any holes in her story.
Unlike Obama, who has to leave out his history in Hawaii, his history in Indonesia, his history at Harvard from his video last night.
And talk I tell you, she is more qualified.
She has more executive experience running things than Obama has.
Liberals are gonna go nuts.
They already are.
The drive-by's in the Democrats are gonna go nuts trying to find ways to destroy this woman in the process, they are going to destroy themselves if they're not careful.
This is a just a ter terrific, terrific choice.
Uh I uh I I you look at Democrats rejected a woman.
Obama could have picked one, but he bypassed Hillary.
He didn't even vet her.
He disrespected Hillary Clinton big time, and look at what has happened today for all his talk about a new kind of politics.
He chose Biden.
And he could have picked Hillary or some other woman.
You know, this uh Sarah Palin, she she knows about getting knocked down.
She's gonna be debating Joe Biden, who was proudly announced that he loves the bloody people's noses.
Uh when he was a kid, this woman knows about getting knocked down, it's what she's done to her opponents.
She has knocked down her opponents.
This woman is a competitor.
She loves to mix it up.
Middle America is gonna love her when they get to know her.
Uh Sarah Palin lives their values.
That family, do you see her family?
If you if you didn't have a chance to watch it on television, family look like they just came from an average day at work and school and so forth for this little announcement here today.
Uh it they that family lives their values.
She's clinging to nothing.
Looks like she's living life to the fullest of me.
Family, community, faith, sports.
She doesn't talk about what others have done.
She experiences it herself.
She isn't afraid to uh to talk about it.
Came on extremely confident woman.
You might say is the face of feminism, except that she's not a liberal.
And see, that's the thing about liberalism and feminism.
Only liberal women are counted as true feminists.
But this woman, you talk about inspiring other women.
Uh, you talk about uh the the healthy role model that she can be.
Uh, this is just an inspired, inspired pick.
And there's so many things that she could teach Barack Obama.
For example, if if they ever got together, I just sample questions that Obama might have for Sarah Palin.
Governor, can you show me the proper and safe way to handle and fire a gun?
Governor, are all NRA members as pretty as you are?
By the way, she showed up in a skirt today, folks.
No pantsuit.
Obama to Governor Sarah Palin.
Governor, is hunting scary?
And when fishing, do you ever you ever cut your finger when you bait bait your own hooks?
Governor, when when you when you found out that your baby would be born with Down syndrome, did you consider aborting it before or after the due date?
Wait, wait till you wait till you hear this statement the Obama people have put out on uh on Sarah Palin.
I don't have time to give it to you, and I will give it to you that and keep the discussion going and involve you in it.
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