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Sept. 1, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Hello, Rush.
This is Chuck Hesson.
You and I've had uh before you were Russian Limbaugh, really.
Uh well, you were Rush Limbaugh, but you hadn't become the king of the airwaves at that point.
And I remember our conversation very warmly and uh all the many, many times I've listened to you and exchange moments with you on the air since then.
You are a major, major figure in this country's exploration of the political scene.
And uh I wish you well on your tenth anniversary.
And I'll talk to you again on your 20th.
He he pulled it off.
He uh that was ten years ago, and he's uh, as you know, Charlton Heston passed away uh from Alzheimer's.
Uh Kit asked me today if you minded if we open the second hour with this, and I said, No, by no means.
Uh let's do it because the uh uh.
He wanted to wish me.
Congratulations in the next ten, and he was able to do it.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's keep moving.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It did, it did feel like uh a commandment.
Open line Friday, telephone number 800-282-2882, email address L. Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Reminisce look back.
Some of the highlights of the past 20 years plus your phone calls make up the busy broadcast today.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats shut down the house.
They went out, they know, got aboard their jets, and they left town without taking any action on the president's request to drill for oil and and uh uh other things.
Twenty-five members of the uh House Republican caucus nevertheless stayed behind and continued to make speeches and discuss on the floor of the House the need to drill here and drill now.
Nancy Pelosi ordered the cameras from C SPAN turned off.
She ordered the microphones turned off, and she ordered the press gallery cleared, and she ordered the lights to be turned down.
All of that happened.
However, I am just informed that the lights have come back on.
Having mentioned this a mere five minutes ago, the lights and the microphones have come back on in the House of Representatives.
The um the uh uh cameras have not yet, at least according to C-Span.
But this is good sign.
This is an excellent sign, and the I'll tell you the the bloom has come off the Obama rose.
The wheels have come off the campaign.
We've had a campaign from Obama that's basically been one of substance, uh a lack of substance, nothing but but but but rarefied air symbolism.
And when it's time now for some substance, he's having trouble getting there because they haven't put any substance in his mouth.
Whatever substance there really is, they're trying to mask and camouflage because it's so extreme leftist.
Let's go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
We have a uh seven and a half minute segment here from the era of this program around Dan's bake sale.
Hello to Dan Holberg in Dallas, Oregon, who turned me on to the show.
Yeah.
And thanks for sending me his used limbaugh letters since I can't afford a subscription yet.
Oh wait a minute.
He's sending you his used limbaugh letters.
Well, Xerox copies.
Uh what um I'll tell you what we'll do.
We will we will uh send you a subscription and charge it to our production budget.
We'll take it out of Johnny Donovan's budget.
That's what hang on, can you?
Yeah.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what, let's do.
I've got a better idea.
Dan, are you still there?
Yeah, I'm still here.
Okay.
Dan, here's what we're gonna do.
Okay.
You must organize a bake sale.
Have a bake sale.
Do you have are you married?
Yeah.
Does your wife bake?
Well, yeah, but she hates your show.
That's another reason I can't get the letters.
She won't let it put the finances to it.
Then it is up to you to go out and earn money independent.
Independently from your wife.
So have her bake some stuff and don't tell her why.
This is this is a great way to get even.
Bake some stuff.
Also, for this to work, your friend is gonna have to stop enabling you.
Your friend is gonna have to stop making copies of the Limbaugh letter and sending them to you.
And and And if he does not stop, you must not accept.
Now I'm serious about this.
I want you to go get the bake sale of the baked goods.
I want you to put them on display wherever you work or wherever you want to do this, you're out there raising money.
Have somebody take a picture of it so that we know you've done it.
We'll put a picture in the newsletter of you showing how hard you work based upon the desire you felt to have a subscription.
This you'll appreciate it so much more than if we just acted sorry for you and gave you a subscription.
Fran Hi, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
We have about a minute here, but I understand you want to donate to the guy out in Fort Collins.
Yes.
What do you do?
Um I we're offset printers.
So you want to print the flyers advertising this guy's bake sale, and then you'll and but you got to ship them out there.
Yep, so what?
Your husband know you're doing this.
Yes, yes.
I'm trying to listen to him.
He's in the back running the press and donate t-shirts in the printing.
The t-shirts and printing for the cake sale.
He wants to donate some t-shirts?
Yes.
Yes, we'll ship them to Colorado.
I don't know if you can hear him in the back.
Yeah, I can barely hear him.
He's walking around with the headphones.
He's in Rush Land.
Root Outdoor Advertising, owner of all outdoor billboards in Fort Collins has offered to paint, design, and display a billboard for free.
Advertising Dan's bake sale.
We have heard from a printing company, Curry's Printing, in New Jersey.
They have offered to print flyers and t-shirts and ship these to Fort Collins, Colorado, to help advertise and promote the bake sale.
We have also heard from just now Kathy Abernathy, who's the general manager, runs Brennan's, my favorite restaurant in the world.
One of my favorites.
I mean, I have a lot of favorites, but this is in this is up at the top five, top two, whatever.
Brennan's in New Orleans.
Kathy and Steve Abernathy have donated the following.
All of this to generate 29 bucks to buy a subscription to the newsletter.
They think this guy called here all depressed.
They have donated chocolate suicide cake from Brennan's.
Now I don't know if you've ever tasted chocolate suicide cake.
I don't eat desserts very often at all.
I seldom consume sugar, but I have tasted this stuff, and it is dangerous.
Not only is Brennan's going to send some chocolate suicide cake to the bake sale, depending on the day of the bake sale, they'll send a chef out there.
They'll send Chef Mike.
This guy prepares some of the best Southern Cajun dishes you've ever tasted.
Chef Mike is one of the leading chefs of New Orleans, and here his services have just been offered.
And depending on the day, he's going to fly out to Fort Collins for a bake sale.
You know what's happening now?
People are calling in.
They want the they want the address of this bake sale so they can do mail orders.
So we have Mick from the high mountains of New Mexico on the phone.
Mick, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
How are you, sir?
That old cowboy up there in Fort Collins.
Yes.
We're going to his bake sale.
You're going to go to his bake sale?
Yes.
Wait a second.
Wait a minute.
You mean you have a donation for Dan's bake sale in Fort Collins?
Yes, sir.
Well, we're going to bake several small poodles.
Now, this is not going to make the animal rats people happy.
We're going to bake several small poodles and one mastiff.
We've got three German Shepherds, 14 cats, and one small pony that we're going to take up there.
Oh, Mick, nobody will show up if you do that.
Well no, they love it.
You know, you put a lot of iron fit seven on it, and you cook it in Coors Beer.
And they love it.
Yeah.
Mick, Mick, you're turning away customers here.
We don't need this kind of help at the bake sale.
You're going to bake poodles?
We're going to bake them, yes.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
If you want me to change that, well, Mama can make some Indian bread.
Yeah.
Now we're talking.
And we can do some of that.
Now, what kind of icing do you put on baked poodle?
Uh bake sale.
Gravy and cream potatoes and hot biscuits.
Oh, yes.
I'll let you go, bud.
I just said I had to throw my oar in.
I flew in about 1230 local time, which was an hour and a half after the bake sale began.
Uh, we then choppered over the the bake sale area, and when you see the aerial view of the people down there, and then look at they say the crowd was 20,000, you're gonna find that the estimate there is is way, way low.
We were as as uh I'm telling you, nobody does things the way we did this.
We rolled the dice.
We rolled it up.
We didn't know what was gonna happen.
We just have faith in this audience.
I have so much faith in the people of America who are this audience.
Think of the economic boost the United States got because of this event.
And it wasn't one government program, it wasn't one bit of policy from Washington or from Bill Clinton that caused this to happen.
Here's the truth of the matter.
These people show up 35,000 to 65,000.
They drop a hundred dollars in and around Fort Collins.
That, my friends, is called trickle down economics.
You should see the people who were at Dan's Bake Sale 93 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Because this is something it's just fundamental.
Uh what happened in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a microcosm of what could have happened all over this country.
Could be right now if we just had the right kind of leadership.
If we had somebody talking about how great people can be, had somebody talking about how good people are and decent they are in their hearts and motivating those people.
Take the people who play by the rules, take the people who are good and decent, hard working, motivate them, inspire them, don't punish them, motivate them.
Then you could have Fort Collins, Colorados all over America.
It's just overwhelming.
Dan's bake sale.
It all got started when Dan called and told me his friend was making copies of the limbaugh letter, a copyright violation because his wife wouldn't let him buy a subscription.
And he wanted me to give him a freebie.
And you know, these little kids are running around at that time doing bake sales, sending the proceeds to Clinton to retire the national debt, and Clinton was keeping the money and praising this as a good civics and good citizenship.
So that's where the bake sale idea came from.
And all of this happened to help this guy get 2995, and this guy, with all of this that went on in his benefit, this guy ran out of his own baked goods in five minutes.
In five or ten minutes, his bake the stuff that he had done was was all gone.
And then Dan tried to do Dan's bake sales all over the country on his own, which I mean he didn't have a platform to.
I mean, he had a golden opportunity uh to score big with the baked sale, but he ran out of his baked goods very quickly.
But it was there were sixty-five thousand people there, there was not one mess.
When this place was was when we were finished and everybody left, there was not a mess.
There wasn't one arrest.
70,000 people, there was not one arrest.
Not one.
It was a great day.
We'll be back and continue right after this here on the EIB network.
Rush, this is your buddy Mark Levin.
Congratulations on twenty years of the most informative and entertaining broadcasting in the history of radio.
You know, it's amazing the Clintons let you live for twenty years.
But I want you to know that you're like a brother to me.
A mentor, role model, a true patriot.
I don't know what the country would do without you.
I do know that conservatives would be lonely and leaderless without you.
You educate us, you inspire us, and you make us laugh.
You're an extremely generous man in ways that others don't know.
But I know I speak for millions and saying thanks for everything and don't leave us.
And by the way, if you play your cards right, maybe I'll nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize again next year.
God bless.
Akin, never take that away from me.
That's just...
Mark Levin, now star of his own radio talk show.
Um that originates from 6 to 8 p.m. each night from WABC in New York.
Uh a true genuine friend friend and a brilliant brilliant conservative.
Uh probably the smartest living, breathing conservative I know, other than me.
Open line Friday, eight hundred two eight two to eight eight two.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we talked about the state of New York, how they're out of money.
Their deficit is ballooning.
They've got a combined tax rate.
New Yorkers who own property and produce in New York State and New York City pay a combined tax rate higher than the tax rate in the European Union.
They pay a higher tax rate than Europeans, and the states broke, and it still isn't enough.
They want more.
And I said, one of the problems with New York is it's a welfare state within a welfare state.
Well, yesterday, the governor, David Patterson, appeared at the National Press Club.
I want you to listen to this.
I have been invited to go to the National Press Club a number of times, and I've always turned it down, and you'll hear why.
There'd be no point in me going there.
The National Press Club is the press, the drive-bys.
It's their club.
So here's Patterson in his press conference.
The president of the club, Sylvia Smith asks him, if New York is in such a fiscal crisis, uh, why does it continue to offer the Cadillac of Medicaid programs?
Or as Rush Limbaugh said yesterday, New York's welfare state is to blame for the state's recession.
Well, if Rush Limbaugh said it, then I know it's wrong.
That's a drive-by.
It's applauding it.
But in my continuing view that we can try to educate even in a financial crisis, we'll send Russia copy of how the Medicaid reformula is reimbursed.
You can send me whatever you want, Governor.
You can't hide the fact you've got the highest tax rates in the nation, and your state's bankrupt because you can't stop spending.
You've got your own welfare state there, and still the tax rates aren't enough.
But you hear the drive-by's laughing and applauding over the fact that he says, well, when Rush says it, you know it's wrong.
But listen to this next bite.
The governor continued.
One of the problems in New York is that when your manufacturing jobs leave, you do, uh, to give Russia a little credit, have a social service-based economy because now you have individuals who have gotten older and their tax dollars provided the broad revenue base from which there can be derived some claim on to them and their retirement.
He just said I was right.
He just in his own words, I'm right.
He just said I was right.
A social services-based economy, a welfare state.
And we've got to give Russia's due.
A little credit here.
There was no drive-by applause on that soundbite.
No other drive-by's did not clap, they did not laugh, they did not erupt in happiness.
Here's Paul in Buffalo, New York, as we go back to the phones.
Nice to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, New York over tax dittoes.
Thank you, sir.
I was going to mention we have uh one month to go before the opening day, but uh you got me all cranked up with our tax situation here, so thank you, sir.
Congratulations, and it's uh an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
I just yeah, I'm I'm addressing a sea of liberals up here, and you're my lifeline, so I listen daily.
Uh just one observation from earlier in the week, and I wanted to know if you got any kickback from me, any feedback from you you used your Donovan McNabb analogy with Barack Obama's name in in the exact same place in terms of the press's interest in seeing originally it was the black quarterbacks succeed.
And now it's the the black presidential candidate succeed.
And it went by without much mention.
But I thought it was the exact same comment and observation, and I think back to the original count, it still holds water.
Of course it's true.
Both both comments were true, and the one about Obama is exp is especially true.
I've got I've got so much to try to squeeze in here today.
I've got let me see if I can find it in the well, I'll take the break to find it because I couldn't find it enough time and play it.
Andrea Mitchell, some of these drive-by people doing everything they can to save Obama from two things the fact that he threw the race card down at McCain and the and the uh and this Britney Spears Paris Hilton ad that McCain is running.
They uh let me tell you these people, the drive by media liberals are obsessed with race.
You saw it in the Democrat primaries.
They're the ones who are obsessed with race.
They have this collective guilt as liberals that you cannot understand.
And so this this the campaign is historical.
This is an historic Obama campaign for one reason.
It's not because of his qualifications, it's for one reason only.
It's his race.
And they want to make history.
They want to say they be made it made it happen.
To do that, they have to prop him up.
They don't think he can do it on his own.
They're ultimately discrimination artists.
They're elitists.
There's no question they want Barack Obama to win precisely and exclusively because he's black.
There's no doubt about it.
Hey, Rush, this is Ed McLaughlin.
Congratulations for both Pat and myself.
It's been an incredible twenty years, and you deserve what you're getting today, all of these wonderful accolades.
Actually, Rush, our anniversary goes back a little earlier by a few months when we first met in San Francisco.
Talk about syndicating your program.
You recall how important it was for us to acquire a New York affiliate.
And fortunately for us, the program director of WABC, John Manelli, recognized your talent, and we were off and running.
Rush, I think we're all a little surprised by the effect you had on the radio audience.
I always enjoyed listening to young listeners recalling how they discovered you and how much they learned from your show.
Rush, you always said you'd keep doing radio as long as it was fun.
So may it be fun for many years to come.
My best.
The founder of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Ed McLaughlin.
And I have some comments coming in the next hour about Ed, and I'll respond to his really, really nice message there at that time.
We've got, ladies and gentlemen, the two bites I knew we had in the stack here, Andrea Mitchell doing her best to defend Obama.
The first one here, this is from Scarborough Show this morning, and this is Andrea Mitchell doing her best to tell the audience of this television show, Nobody that was with Obama when he was talking about he's going to look different than any other president of the dollar bill.
Nobody thought he was talking about race.
I have to tell you that the people who heard Barack Obama say what he said Wednesday night, and it is very similar to things he said in Paris and Berlin and at a lot of other stops.
It's very self-deprecating.
He says, you know, I don't look like other people who have been president of the United States.
Most people who watch that, I don't know very many people who've watched that, and the people in the audience, the reporters, have never interpreted it, never inferred from that that he is making some kind of racial statement.
But that's the way the McCain camp says that they took it.
What the hell else could he possibly have been talking about?
His ears.
They think we're that dumb.
They think we're that stupid.
They're they're the ones that are out of touch.
They're looking at him in a totally different way than everybody else.
He's running a racial campaign.
He started out trying to be a post-racial candidate, didn't fly.
But this is just this is incredible.
What what could he possibly be talking about?
When he's when he says uh they're gonna say they're gonna try to scare you, and they're gonna say it I don't look like uh all those other uh, you know, I don't look like uh those other presidents on the dollar bills up.
What the what what did they think he's referring to?
His ears.
They knew exactly.
Now here is Andrea Mitchell, NBC News on MSNBC Live yesterday afternoon, fighting for Obama on the Britney Spears Paris Hilton ad.
What we did is we looked at three of the top celebrities of our time.
And if you look at what the campaign that Barack Obama has waged, you would have to say that he's become one of the global celebrities of our time.
Why compare him to two pop books?
Do you not believe that Barack Obama is a celebrity?
I mean, I when I'm in a way I would define him.
I think the word celebrity has a certain pajarity.
He's on the front cover of every tabloid, he's on the front cover of every magazine, he's on the front cover of every celebrity journal that you see.
Well, that's Rick Davis of the McCain campaign.
Is that not exciting to hear him fighting like this?
I mean, that there's some passion in his voice.
There was some enthusiasm in his voice there.
Now he's not gonna get thrown under, he won't get thrown under the bus.
I predict you, McCain will not throw him under the bus.
Positive, this ad's working.
This ad's working.
They're not, they're not going to throw him under the bus.
He's exactly right.
And she she looks at the term celebrity as a pejorative.
See, they are so offended because that's why they're out there saying, This is going to diminish McCain.
This is going to make him look small in so many people's eyes wrong.
It's correctly identifying Obama and his audience, his audience a bunch of celebutards, and he's a celebard.
And they know it.
And if they are so concerned about how this is diminishing McCain, then they should ask McCain to keep doing these kind of commercials.
If these commercials hurt McCain, why they ought to be out there saying, Great ad, Senator, you need to expand on this theme that Obama is nothing but a celebritard.
Back to the audio sound bites and the archives.
One of the funniest montages that we have ever put together, April 18th, 2001, New Jersey Senator Bob Torricelli denying everything.
To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never.
Television set.
Ever.
Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits.
At any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house.
To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
That was uh an attorney for uh David Chang who had lowered the boom on the on the torch and cooking glee put that together.
It's just it's we laugh ourselves silly every time we hear it.
In 1995, I went to speak to Gopak, which is Newt Gingrich's group, and uh this was during the budget battle of 1995, of course, and uh during that period of the school uh the school lunch fight and so forth, and I stood up and I uh greeted uh all the members of GoPac by saying, I'm happy to be here.
Uh I'm I've uh very much uh aware of the budget snaffos that we're gonna have the the Democrats are saying that so many cuts that you guys are making that uh in the House that uh senior citizens are gonna have to choose between medicine and dog food uh to eat instead of real food.
I said, I in this in this, I want to show you how compassionate I am.
I went out and I got my mother a new can opener for the dog food.
And of course the Gopak people left.
So Patsy Schroeder on the floor of the house in 1995.
And they had the big kahuna of Gopak come speak, none other than Rosh Limbaugh himself, who stood there and said to all these people who paid all this money to keep Gopac rich, he was hailing the GOP budget.
He said, according to the paper and according to the C-SPAN tape, he thought it was wonderful because it would starve the poor, and it would drive Medicare recipients, including his mother, to eat dog food.
But not to worry, Mom, he says, I'm sending you a new can opener.
Wow.
That tells you what today's about.
That was Patsy Schroeder, who has since retired from the uh from the House of Representatives.
I remember funny story about Patsy, but she says they just bought it.
She uh she somebody had to run to the floor, House force.
No, no, no, because he was joking.
She had run for president in 1988.
Was it 86?
88.
It had to be 88.
Ran for president, 88.
And uh she announced that she was no longer going to continue her candidacy somewhere at the base of the Rocky Mountains out in Denver.
And as she announced that she was pulling out of the race, she started to cry.
I can't I can't go up because I can't win.
I just can't win.
And then she buried her head in the shoulder of her husband.
And I'm saying, wow, what a victory for feminism.
Crying because she can't win feminists, don't cry.
And then why even have her husband there?
Feminism was teaching us that you don't need men in your life.
You certainly don't need marriage, and you don't need a relationship.
All you need's a sperm bank if you want a little kid, but you don't need some Guy's baby makers to come around, as the official Obama criticizer refers to them.
And yet there she was falling apart, hysterically crying and burying her head in the arms of her husband Jim.
Let's go back to October 16, 1995, Washington, D.C., the Million Man March.
Calypso Louis Farrakhan, keep in mind on this day, October 16th, 1995, a young Barack Obama was in the audience.
He has admitted so, listening intently to uh uh Calypso Louie.
In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial.
Each one of these monuments is 19 feet high.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, Thomas Jefferson the third president, and 16 and three make nineteen again.
What is so deep about this number nineteen?
Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today?
That number nineteen, when you have a nine, you have a woman that is pregnant.
And when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded.
Abraham Lincoln's statue, 19 feet high, 19 feet wide.
Jefferson, 19 feet high.
Sixteen, and the third president, nineteen, standing on the steps of the Capitol, in the light of the sun, offering life to a people who are death.
I know they went on for two hours.
They carried it all.
CS C-SPAN carried it all, and they they had some crowd shots now and then.
And these guys, the million man march guys, just had the blankest looks on their face, like they were clueless when they got into this 19 business.
But we the reason we replayed this, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is that Barack Obama has proudly admitted being there that day and listening intently.
Back after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, talent on lawn from God.
December 10th, 1994, Baltimore, Maryland, at the Heritage Foundation Freshman Orientation.
The freshman class of the 1994 House elections, the uh Republican House that was uh sworn in in 1995.
This was at their orientation.
They asked me to speak.
The first thing I'm like tell you, you're coming into the beltway inside the beltway.
And as we're all human beings, and we all are susceptible to human nature, and we all want to be liked.
We all want to be loved, and you all want to live in surroundings which are not hostile.
But inside the beltway for people like us, this is not possible.
And so sometimes to avoid the hostility, we say things and then begin to do things designed to gain the approval of those who are hostile toward us.
I want to warn you against it.
I want to warn you, you will never ever be their friends.
They don't want to be your friends.
Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch.
And you'll think, wow, I'm only a freshman.
Koki Roberts wants to take me to lunch.
I've really made it.
Don't fall seriously, don't fall for this.
This is not the time to get moderate.
This is not the time to start trying to be liked.
This is not the time to start gaining the approval of the people you've just defeated.
That was 1994, December 10th.
The freshman orientation House of Representatives at Camden Yards in one of the uh big meeting rooms there.
Here's Edgar in Nashville, Tennessee.
Edgar, thank you for waiting.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Rush, I'm delighted to get to on this special day and to uh give you back my vote to continue running this country.
If you'll remember, I called you and unjustly chastised you last year.
Uh because I thought you were defending the Republicans for bringing to closure McCain's immigration bill.
I was misinformed by the media.
I was under the impression that that closure, like the previous one, had the previous gone through, would have brought about unlimited immigration.
But I was wrong.
So I have called to say that I was wrong.
You were right, you know it, and I know it, and I asked you to continue running the country.
I remember Edgar.
You were so mad you were so mad.
You know it, and I know it.
You said it must have said that five or six times in that call.
I noticed you put it on your web the next day, and I appreciate that.
And my kids, I think, ordered some t-shirts.
Well, Edgar, it takes a big man to call and say uh he's wrong.
It happens to me rarely, but when it does, I do it, and it's I know how uh how uh it's it's a big thing to do.
Well, I I appreciate you.
I listened to you in 1988 when you first came to Nashville.
I've followed you since so I compliment you.
I hope that you do make another twenty years, and uh the only request I'd have is if you ever get a chance, give us where the money rests in the global warming fraud, the transfer of tax credits and glow and the carbon offsets.
People don't understand where the money flows.
So God bless you, and uh I again apologize and say once more.
You're right and I was wrong.
You know it, and I know it.
Thank you.
Thanks, Edgar, very much.
By the way, he mentioned we did put him on the website.
I've only mentioned this one time.
This is this really is incredible.
If you haven't done so yet, you've got to go to Rush Limbaugh.com and take a tour through the virtual limbaugh museum of broadcasting.
You've not seen anything like this.
It is indescribable.
I would not do it justice trying to describe this.
But the web team has been working on this for months, and it is stunning.
It is it it it will captivate you.
A website, of course, Rushlimbaugh.com, already the best value on the web.
What's everybody panicking about in there now?
What?
Okay, all right, all right.
You just had the same look on your face when I didn't notice that you were telling me the president was on the phone in the first hour.
Oh, the pulp's here.
Fine.
Don in uh in in Glen Allen, Illinois.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, great twenty years, Rush.
Thank you.
Listen, why doesn't that President Bush fire back at Pelosi and call him back from Congress back from vacation until they work on the oil bill?
He could slap it right back.
It's about time somebody did that.
What do you think?
Well, that's not President Bush's style.
He is uh he's he's he's gonna continue, I think, to make uh you know press conference type appearances, speech appearances for the what the what the House Republicans today are doing, there are twenty-five or thirty of them in there, and they're just ramming it down the Democrats' throats.
I mean, when the speaker of the House, who controls all this, when the speaker of the House orders the cameras turned off, the lights turned off, the uh uh microphones turned off.
Uh that's you know, this r this is reminiscent of what happened back in the uh in the eighties with Newt Gingrich and his boys leading the special orders at night.
Tip O'Neill finally got fed up with it and ordered the house closed.
It's a special orders, they're just in there making speeches to an empty body, but as long as somebody's speaking, C SPAN contractually had to carry it.
Well, Pelosi ordered all that shut.
Now I understand the lights have come back on and so forth, but this is great.
The House Republicans, the 25 or 30 of them in there, and they're just continue to hammer away, and they're demanding that the Democrats come back and debate them and talk about this and take action on this thing that the American people care so adamantly about, and that's the supply of oil, and providing it for ourselves to make us less dependent on foreign oil.
This is this is not gonna redound to the Democrats uh good, folks.
This is they claim to be for the little guy.
They claim to be for the great unwashed and the downtrodden, the homeless hungry and thirsty, and they've abandoned them.
And they've abandoned them with four dollar a gallon gasoline.
They want the price to stay high.
The American people are starting to figure this out.
The only people making noise about taking market action that would lower price is Republicans.
Obama is in big trouble on this.
I mean, to sit there and and to take no action whatsoever, and then to say as he did today, he wants another stimulus check to every American, a thousand dollars, and he wants it to come from oil company profits.
Taxes increased taxes on oil company profits.
The American people don't want the oil companies paying more taxes.
The Federal Government gets fifty percent of all the profits that the big oil companies report anyway.
So this is a winning issue.
And I suspect the president and the Republicans are content to have the Democrats out of town and showing that they care nothing at all about the American people.
All they care about is their own re-elections and their upcoming convention.
Nancy Pelosi, otherwise known as Manuel Noriega in drag.
No guts to come back and debate oil.
The Republicans are there waiting for we may have killed Eamon Al-Zawahiri in an attack yesterday.
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