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Sept. 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, yesterday, the Obama campaign said, you know, we're not, we're not really uh we're not we're not going to attack uh Sarah Palin personally, but we're gonna let the blogs and the media do that.
So Palin speaks last night.
Here comes Obama's campaign firing right back because they got nailed.
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It was really hard pulling audio sound bites today because the temptation was just to play her old speech.
I mean, what do you what do you what do you leave out of this?
I just my favorite lines, I don't remember it exactly, but she dug Michelle Obama.
She's talking about her town, her little town and so forth, and other places like her little town all across America, where regardless of the circumstances, the people who live there love and are proud of their country every day.
And then, as it was pointed out to me, you know, the uh the the uh uh military veteran from Lancaster, Ohio, to whom she blew a kiss totally natural.
This woman can be soft, cuddly, and then before you know it, you have a fist buried in your gut.
Mrs. Clinton, I don't think could pull that off.
Now, what of tonight?
Ladies and gentlemen, let me be honest with you, as I always am.
I'm just little old talk show host here, and you are the loyal, brave, beloved audience.
We all have a vested interest because that convention and this ticket represent our dreams and hope for the future in beating back the forces that we think are trying to redefine Americanism.
This can't this convention, these past two days has exceeded everybody's expectations.
There were a lot of people whose expectations were quite low, and they were quite depressed because we weren't quite sure whether this party would have the courage and the guts to try to unify the Republican base into the rest of the party and get get us all operating as one.
Well, lo and behold, it happened.
The last two nights, the McCain campaign has totally unified the party.
They have unified that convention, they have electrified it, electrified it, and have have sent it.
I mean, they're ready to go out and hit the streets, knock on doors, raise money, contribute money.
I'm thinking for the first time of my life, sending some some loot in.
I've never done that.
Not to the RNC, obviously because, you know, this is media business, but what the hell, folks.
I mean, it's not like nobody knows what I stand for these days.
So what of tonight?
Now, I don't think anybody expects Senator McCain to outperform either Rudy or Sarah Palin.
But being, shall we say, um, loyal to the theme that this convention has developed the past two nights, I think is crucial.
So what I'm hoping is that, because the the character and the honor and the and the person of John McCain has been well established.
I've heard things about McCain I didn't know.
I've heard the story of his POW period in a way I've never heard it explained by Fred Thompson.
There's a lot to build on here.
The last thing, there's just little old me speaking.
I'm not issuing orders, no threats here, sharing my thoughts that are worth no more than yours or anybody else's with you.
The worst thing that could happen tonight.
How do you want to put it in those terms?
The thing I hope doesn't have.
I hope for one night that the McCain campaign can broom from the speech, the notion of how well he crosses the aisle and works with Democrats.
They've already done that with Lieberman.
They got that established two nights ago.
That's fine.
For tonight, Senator McCain has got to join all the rest of us under the concept that we want to beat Democrats.
And we will be happy to work with any of them who are left over after November.
But for tonight, keep hammering on offense what this team is, what this campaign's agenda is.
Deemphasizing the notion that somehow the American people are hellbent on finding two parties that can work together.
This convention is proving that the members of this party that are the movers and shakers are not interested right now in working with Democrats.
That's not how they define a successful Republican politician.
Just one night.
Next week, go back to it all you want.
Send people out of there tonight, on television, around the country, and out of that convention hall, as fired up as they're going to walk in.
Because my only I don't even want to say hope.
It is my only request.
Is the only thing that I truly want to see tonight.
And I think McCain can do.
I think he's up for it.
He's got to be.
He's got to be more up, inspired, thrilled than he's been in a long time about all this.
I've I've seen him that that video of him greeting the Palin family on the tarmac yesterday.
How genuine was just walking up.
Oh, and there's a snarky.
There's a snarky AP story.
The bull places a Washington Times ran some AP cultural writer saying that McCain made it a point to go out and greet the 17-year-old girl who'd been knocked up by her boyfriend.
Or impregnate, or whatever.
Maybe not knocked up, but I mean that's that's how I interpret it when I read.
That's not what he was doing, you doofus.
What McCain was doing was comforting this family, welcoming this family, and assuring them that they're okay with him and they're solid because of the unmerciful attacks on that 17-year-old uh girl and her boyfriend.
So there's there's he's he's he he came out on that stage last night, and that place was rocking in.
I've you know, from last Friday forward, I've never seen McCain as happy as he is.
So just you know, just whisper that I don't want to say, just broom the talk of working with Democrats just for one night.
I know it may be hard, just broom it for one night.
Now, what about the Clintons?
Where are the Clintons here?
All of a sudden the Clintons have a dilemma.
All of a sudden, you gotta see imagine the Clintons and Chappaqua or wherever they are watching last week and now this.
And they have a dilemma.
Here's the bottom line.
The Clintons want another shot at this in four years in 2012.
What's the best thing that could happen to make that possible for her?
Here are her two choices.
Sabotage the Obama campaign as originally planned, securing its defeat, but then lo and behold, here's McCain and Sarah Palin and the likelihood that we could be looking at the first Republican president, first president of the country that's a woman that misses Clippy up against a woman in 2012.
If, on the other hand, the Clintons decide to sabotage the McCain campaign to take out Palin and her chances, they may not succeed.
They may not they could take out McCain's uh uh the whole ticket, but it may not, I don't think they're gonna see to it that Sarah Palin's future is gone at the same time.
But in the process of doing that, what do they do?
They elect Obama and Obama gotta figure going to be there eight years.
That's how everybody else would look at it.
So that moves Mrs. Clinton back to 2016.
So she really has no choice.
They have to stick with the original plan and sabotage Obama in this campaign and deal with that other woman later.
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Here we'll start in Memphis with Chris.
Nice to have you.
Hey, Rush of uh Mega U.S. Air Force Ditto's to you.
It's an honor.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
Hey, uh, I think we need to take a little bit of time out here to thank uh Barack Obama for bringing about the change that we've been hoping for.
Had that had he picked Clinton, uh, we wouldn't have Sarah Palin, and uh he may have single-handedly breathed twelve years of uh life into the conservative movement that uh he didn't intend to, which I think the irony is just beautiful.
That's an interesting perspective you've got out there, Chris.
I have to applaud you for that.
Had he chosen Hillary, yeah, we'd have gotten a Lieberman or somebody.
Uh you know what I think's funny.
I I really all these people talking about how long is it going to be before uh uh McCain has the dumber.
You know they're thinking about at the Clinton at the uh Obama campaign.
We gotta get Hillary on here somehow.
We got to there th believe me.
When CNN starts asking people about it, a lot of other people are thinking about it besides CNN.
Well, you know, I just I just really appreciate him because it him being a change agent like he is, you know, he just really uh he really did infuse a lot of change into this uh into this uh this campaign.
But uh my wife uh she said she had to get a point in here too.
She said, you know, that the new face of uh conservatism might be wearing a skirt and makeup.
And lipstick.
Yeah.
All right, Chris, that's great.
Obama, finally, change we can believe it.
I just love turning all of this back on these people.
I loved Rudy Giuliani last night.
Rudy was as good as I have ever heard him, and he had a smile on his face the whole time, and his teleprompter screwed up.
Rudy was fabulous last night.
Fred Thompson was great.
I mean, this whole this this thing has just exceeded everybody's expectations.
Muskegon, Michigan.
Uh sad day in Michigan today, as the mayor of Detroit has said to quit and focus his he's going to go to jail front of 20 days and be fined some money.
He's admitted to two felonies, so he's going to have to seek future elective office in Washington, perhaps as mayor there.
Bob in Muskegan.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Iraq war dittoes.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Uh, I was calling because I watched the Palin speech, and it was magnificent.
And the thing that's gonna make I think gonna surprise a lot of people is the way the media goes after this woman because she dares to be a woman who's been successful and is not a liberal.
She's a feminist, but she's pro-life, pro-gun.
She has children, she loves her husband.
I think John McCain won by putting her on the ticket.
No question.
There's not there's another factor about her, though, that you have to.
Daniel Henniger, a Wall Street Journal pointed this out today.
The one thing that will never be said of Sarah Palin is that she's a victim.
Hillary Clinton makes herself a victim and tries to play on that.
Other women, a lot of liberal feminism is based on victimhood.
A lot of liberalism, period, is based on victimhood.
Sarah Sarah Palin does not go into victim mode.
In fact, she doesn't complain.
She just doesn't seem to complain.
Yep.
Fights back is the point.
She just does she doesn't take it.
She's tell you what, mother with five kids, she's not going to sit here and and and watch those kids be destroyed by these uh you know little gnats in the media.
Jonathan Alter has just posted, I guess this would be on the newsweek slash MSNBC blog.
This pretty much confirms.
Jonathan Alter, pretty much I want to read this to you, pretty much confirms that the that a media will not be doing its job unless they take her out.
This is a two paragraphs.
I'd imagine that Palin will dodge press conferences in favor of interviews with people like Sean Hannity, Larry King, and Ellen DeGeneres.
Then when the media complain that she's being kept away, the McCain campaign will cite the half dozen or so interviews that she's granted as proof that the campaign press is just belly aching.
Brief press availals on the plane will be useless unless reporters ask open-ended queries designed to elicit proof of real knowledge.
That should get Palin through the next three weeks.
By the end of the month, the McCain camp can say that she has to go around to prepare for her debate, where expectations will be so low for Palin that she will likely emerge intact.
It'll be up to the press And the public to raise enough of a stink about this that Palin is forced to submit to real interviews with real questions that show whether her real life experience is any preparation for assuming high office.
In that sense, the Palin nomination is as much a test of us as it is of her.
So here's Alter speaking for the drive-bys.
Her nomination is as much a test of the media as it is her.
It is their self-appointed role to take her out to prove that she is not qualified, to prove that she has no experience.
They sought no such action toward Barack Obama.
They just accepted it.
So this is um this is a testament, they're not going to have succeeded in their minds unless they take her out.
Alder has already made up his mind about it.
Here's Gene in Warren, New Jersey.
Hello, Jean.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, you've been a companion and an inspiration since August 15th, 1988.
Wow, almost from the beginning.
Thank you very much, sir.
Oh, yeah.
Well, first of all, I appreciate what you were saying about Sarah just a moment ago with regards to Jonathan Alter.
She doesn't take it.
She does fight back, and from this point forward, I'm calling her Sarakuda, the Arctic Fox.
Sarah Kuta, the Arctic Fox.
You know, I think I don't know when I don't know when when uh when Alter posted this.
What's the date here?
Uh it's gonna be today, so it's after her speech last night.
These guys continue to lie to themselves and tell themselves that she's a fraud.
After two of these speeches, after seeing the response last night, they're still going on their narrative, their template that she's a fraud, that she's unqualified, that she's a phony.
Meanwhile, they're looking at two huge phonies on their side of the aisle, Barack Obama and Biden, and they see the exact opposite.
It's a total disconnect.
Now, ladies and gentlemen.
As I mentioned earlier, the conservative base, I've never seen happier in 14 years.
1993-94.
I really believe the blue blood Rockefeller types, the elite pro-choice Republicans, they're the ones, not us, who are damaging the Republican Party.
It isn't Bush.
Bush is not the enemy.
The elite Republicans of Washington, New York, Southampton, Aspen, Vail.
They're the culprits.
There's the blueprint, folks, for sweeping landslide GOP conservative victory, Ronald Reagan.
And the Republican Party of today, in too many places, too many sectors of it, disdains that and wants to be rid of it.
But we see what happens when conservatism unites around the Republican Party.
The country club blue blood types are incapable of that kind of excitement last night.
They're incapable of that kind of energy.
The conservative base, according to the 12 most recent consecutive battleground polls, is 60% of the American electorate.
Our base is not shrinking.
Our base is not being marginalized.
But our base has been ignored.
It's been impugned.
Our base loves Sarah Palin, because they know she has lived a rich, full American life.
She has hundreds of people to vouch for it and for her.
And the base is as angry as I've ever seen them at the blatant attempt to destroy Sarah Palin and her family.
It's a rallying point.
Some people are asking, why couldn't we get somebody more experienced?
Like oh, Bluger or why.
That's an easy question.
You go get a senator to put a ticket with her saying you're getting somebody that has no identity to people outside their Washington careers.
I don't know a Washington senator who's willing to take the battle to the left.
I haven't seen one.
Why put one of those on the ticket?
Why focus on the elites of Washington, the elite, even our elites, the elite governing class of Washington, as the source?
There's the bench, the farm system for future Republican leadership.
It's not the answer.
These people are all Fine people, I'm sure, but not going to electrify anybody.
The base is tired of losing.
Our base consider the Washington governing class, the Democrat Party to drive by media to be the enemy of the traditions and institutions that have defined the greatness of this country.
They see these elements as out to destroy these things.
They haven't up until this convention seen the Republican Party defending them, but that's all changed now.
The Republican Party is defending them and fighting back and is now on offense.
One speech.
One speech.
They hear and saw themselves in Sarah Palin.
The elites, Republican, Democrat, wherever.
Media, New York, Washington, they're not our friends.
Our people, our base here quite enough each day from the Democrats and the media, their beliefs, impugned and trashed.
They don't want to hear their views.
We don't want to hear our views.
Impugned and trashed by people we think are on our own side.
Here is the bottom line, ladies and gentlemen.
This is a war.
It is not a battle.
This is a war over the future of our country.
We, the good guy, we don't want compromise.
We don't bypartis bipartisanship.
We don't want getting along.
We want to kick butt, not take names, not again to the thoughtful discussions on premises advanced by the left.
We want to refuse to accept the premises of the left and refuse to discuss things on their terms.
They see all of this in Sarah Palin and they will defend her to the death as the choice.
Our people look at Sarah Palin, they say somebody's not going to accept the premises of the left.
Not going to sit there and take it.
She is extremely popular.
It's not just about guns, babies, Jesus, abortion.
This is about Americanism triumphing over forces that are trying to redefine Americanism.
Make no mistake, that's what this election is about.
Americanism from our founding, triumphing over forces that want to redefine it.
Our base, the Republican base, has not changed.
I keep hearing commentators on our side, supposedly, who have no contact with the grassroots, have no idea about winning elections.
They don't even know anything about punditry.
And they sit there, all these former campaign directors or whatever.
And they sit there, the Republican base is changed.
It's not the same as it was back in the 80s.
Our base is not changed because the foundation of conservatism, individual liberty, and freedom has not changed.
And it never will.
Because freedom will never go out of style.
Not about nuance, not about who is the smartest person in the room.
This is about defending the traditions and institutions that have defined our greatness and attacking those who seek to limit freedom and liberty.
You do it with ideas.
You do it in the political arena.
It's not about being collegial with them.
You do it the way Sarah Palin demonstrated it can be done last night.
Presidential elections are important for a host of reasons, but one of the main reasons.
Presidential elections are the only thing we have that comes close to a national referendum on where our country is headed.
And the base of the Republican Party believes Sarah Palin can help to defeat those who threaten their way of life.
This is not sculpt.
It's not celebrity worship.
This is based on authentic, genuine ideas, an authentic, genuine lady, who inspires confidence, i defines leadership by her very essence.
That's why there is so much support for her.
And it's not thin, and it's not based on anything to do with simple personality or anything else like it.
It's based on entire true substance.
This base, you and I, we're more energized than we have been in 14 years.
that's what's on the line tonight on the finale night of the Republican National Convention.
Jerry in Mount Pleasant, uh, what is this, Ms. Mississippi?
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, greetings from Mount Pleasant, Mississippi.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for all you do for us conservatives across the trade.
I I know it's a tremendous amount.
It's more than anybody could really ever catalog.
I appreciate your uh recognizing it.
Thank you.
Russ, in my 75 years, this was the first election where I didn't have a dog in the hunt.
Uh or as we say down south, I I had my diaper down.
Yeah.
Last night, last night I listened very carefully to what Sarah Palin had to say.
About halfway through that speech, they panned her youngest little daughter, who was had the baby in her lap, was licking her hand, and was fixing that baby's hair, and I came out of my chair.
Yeah, that that was just I mean, you can't it it it was I know it was great.
There was a heart rendering.
It speaks volumes of her.
The love she has for the foot for her family, the love she has for this country.
Uh it it just speaks volumes.
Well, now wait a minute.
One thing, Jerry.
You're you're a Southern guy, probably an ASCAR fan.
You're supposed to be some racist guy and sexist guy that doesn't like women in strong positions like Sarah Powell.
What am I hearing out of you?
I have I have lived with a strong woman all my life.
For fifty fifty-four years I've lived with a strong woman.
And I love her.
Good.
I had did you like Sarah's line last night?
After twenty years and five children, he's still my guy.
Yeah, you betcha.
And I now have a dog in this hunt.
Yes, we do.
Yes, you better.
That's exactly right.
Way to go, Jerry.
I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
Mark in Columbus, Ohio.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh, Buck Eye Diddle's.
You bet.
Thank you.
Uh, I just wanted to tell you that you've inspired me today to donate to the RNC.
They hound me a little bit sometimes, but uh after watching the treatment of Bristol Palin yesterday, I was furious.
They treated her as if, like you said, trailer trash.
And it just angered me to no end.
They're trying to make the whole family trailer trash.
That's what the US Weekly cover is out to do is to make Sarah Palin trailer trash.
Yes, sir.
And I will be donating.
I lost my job recently due to economics, but I do start a new one pretty soon, but I'll take some of my severance pay, and I will send it to RNC today.
And to make sure that McCain and Palin have my little bit of support in getting into the White House.
Just wanted to let you know that.
I love hearing it.
I I love to hear this juice.
People are juiced.
Well, that's a that's a bad term.
That means steroids.
People are excited.
They're I'm I'm I'm glad to hear this.
I uh I really am.
Look at I have never given money to the RNC pr predominant, not because of the R and C per se, it's predominantly because quote unquote media people don't do that.
But then I'm finding out all these Democrat journalists have been giving money left and right, like Jan Winter and all these clowns.
And it's not as though people don't know what my point of view is these days.
So I'm thinking about it too.
I got this solicitation in the mail at my personal address, which I didn't know that they had because I've never I've never sent them anything.
I've made appearances now and then for candidates, as you know, but I've never sent them in.
I'm thinking about it too.
Now, Ed Lasky at the American Thinker.com has a post up, Obama's Vanishing Money Advantage.
We've heard quite a lot over the last year about Obama's fundraising prowess, but the good times may be over.
Wall Street Journal is reporting on the state of the money race.
It appears that Senator Obama's money advantage is smar far smaller than it was assumed to be early on.
Fundraising reports through July show that the DNC and Obama have raised about 150 million dollars, but spent much of it already.
Going into August, the campaign reported having sixty-eight and a half million on hand.
A reports also showed that in July the campaign was spending at a rate that was faster than donations were coming in.
The Obama campaign declined to comment on its fundraising or its spending in August, one major donor said it's likely the campaign has only a small cash cushion at this moment.
So Obama is and by the way, McCain and the RNC have more money on hand than Obama and the DNC.
Now you we've all heard the uh the uh Hosannis over the all the money Obama's raising us.
Whoa, it's really bad.
Don't forget, here's a guy who promised to accept federal campaign, and then when he saw his money coming in, he bopped out, broke the promise.
And we hear all these stories.
Well, look what a great fundraiser this guy is.
Well, this is a love.
People love this guy, all the money comes.
Whoa.
We've come to find out that Obama and the DNC have less money than McCain and the RNC.
So Obama running a campaign, spending too much money, failing to deliver the promised benefits.
Kind of like the Chicago Edinburgh Challenge, Democrat social programs.
Now one other thing, ladies and gentlemen.
We keep hearing that Obama's primary qualification for running for president is his experience managing his campaign.
They abandoned a community organizer line yesterday and replaced it with, hey, I'm qualified.
I've been managing my campaign for 18 months, year and a half.
I mean, uh, I know what I'm doing.
I'm Barack Obama.
Well, if the management skills of Obama are such that all these movie sets, phony presidential seals, fancy paint jobs on the airplane.
If his running the campaign and it's running out of money and it's spending more money than is coming in, what kind of thing are we supposed to learn from this?
What kind of experience does this demonstrate?
It means it's just a typical liberal Democrat who is happy with deficits, will take any amount of money you will send him and spend more of it, and then come back to you for more.
And we're learning that if he's the one actually managed the campaign, he's doing a lousy job of it.
Here is Lisa in uh Orange County, California.
Great that you waited.
Appreciate it, Lisa.
Thank you, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
It's about the sixth time I've been able to call you, and I it's just a thrill every time I get to talk to you.
Thank you.
One thing I need I need to ask a favor.
For those of you who call here and get through quite frequently, please don't say so because you are hurting the feelings of those who've been trying for 20 years, who got nothing but a busy signal.
Well, it should be incre well, I'm sorry.
But I'm on the high school government teacher uh here in Orange County that has talked to you a few times, and I am so pumped up about last night.
I think Sarah Palin is just exactly what we needed.
But the call, uh the point of my call is last week during the uh Democratic convention, every after every single star study performance or whatever happened, you had the polls out there measuring, trying to measure the bounce.
There wasn't any bounce.
There wasn't any bounce to speak of.
Exactly.
But this this week, I haven't I haven't seen any of the liberal pollsters coming out because I think the bounce is too huge to measure.
I think it's going to be over the top.
I want to uh want to warn you of just the opposite.
Really?
Yes.
Who runs polling units?
Who pays for them?
It's the ABC Washington Post poll.
Right.
Who is their candidate?
Obama.
The New York Times CBS poll.
Obama.
Right.
This is my point.
The NBC Wall Street Journal.
No, just follow me on this.
Okay.
I'm host.
You're a veteran caller, but I'm still more experienced than you.
You are, and you're the king.
NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
Who you think their candidate is?
Obama.
Okay.
USA Today, Gallup.
Who thinks their candidate is?
Obama.
Uh Fox News opinion dynamics.
Uh I I gosh, that's a tough one.
I want to say Obama, but Fox is just they're too fair.
And Rasmussen is just does it on his own.
He's he's not tied to anybody.
And his his polls and their Zogby.
No Zogbees with Reuters.
And Reuters is a bunch of communists from Europe.
So here's how these polls are used.
All of these polls want credibility at the end of the day.
They want to be right on the presidential results.
So their poll, the only poll you should pay attention to are these polls in the last seven days.
Maybe even fewer days than that.
Maybe the last two.
Because up until those two days before the last weekend before the election, these polls are going to be used to shape public opinion.
The last poll I saw that had Obama up five had a twenty-six percent Republican voters sample.
I don't remember which poll it was.
So be very careful on these polls.
You were not, I will be stunned if I see a huge, huge McC well.
Bounces are sort of traditional.
But this is a new time because this is the first time we've had back-to-back conventions in a long time.
So the bounces, the the conventional wisdom is, which means you can forget it, is that the polling bounces are irrelevant because there's not enough time between the conventions for voters to settle down and then get reignited.
So I would just caution you, if you see polling numbers that shows McCain still two points down after Sarah Palin, the reason is to depress you.
Exactly.
Yeah, I I hear you.
And I I just uh you know, when I look at Sarah Palin and her smile and her her her just demeanor, and I think of Michelle Amarosa Obama, her angry demeanor, you know.
Well, she was masking the the anger.
You could just here's another thing about the polls, though.
If the polls in the next uh say three or four days come out and they get McCain and Palin get a huge bounce, be very wary.
Yeah.
They can create this big bounce, and then over the next weeks, it can erode, and they can use the polls to show that Obama and Biden are really fighting back, and that they have the momentum.
It's all polls today, Lisa are designed to do one thing, and that's create news under the guise of uh sampling public opinion.
They're just they're just they're just the ability for the editorial page to get its opinion on the front page.
Yeah, I agree.
I I absolutely agree.
Uh once again, I do not disagree with the rest.
Well, I and it's hard to disagree with me, I know.
Some people still try, but it's very hard.
You're a wonderful rush, Aaron.
The only place I'm ever wrong is like every man, and that's at home.
Well, you you are pr playing such an important role for us and for our country, and I just really truly appreciate you.
And it's again, I'm gonna be using your your knowledge and your wisdom in my class this this fall.
I cannot wait to get in the classroom and terrific.
Appreciate that.
That makes me happy.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Have a great day.
You do the same.
Last night at the Republican convention, Sarah Palin slamming the drive-by.
I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here's a little news flash for those reporters and commentators.
I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion.
I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this great country.
You don't know what music to the ears of Republican voters that is.
You do not, yes, you do, because you are Republican.
That is the sweetest music.
I'm not going there to be liked.
I'm not going there to be approved by these people.
Going there to do what I said I was going to do during the campaign.
There was one point during the uh speech when she ripped the media and the audience started shouting, NBC.
We have time to squeeze one more in here before the break.
Drill baby drill.
Our opponents say again and again that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems.
As if we didn't know that already.
But the fact that drilling, though, won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January in a McCain Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines and build more nuclear plants and create jobs with clean coal and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.
We need American sources of resources.
We need American Energy brought to you by American Ingenuity and produced by American workers.
Now, remember that part of the speech.
Today, the Obama campaign or last night put out this panic fundraising email saying that we didn't get one word from Sarah Palin on the energy problem in America today.
Blatantly mischaracterizing it, lying about her.
Why do we all love Sarah Palin?
Because we all know her.
These kinds of women are all over our neighborhoods.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Once again, comments by me, your beloved host, became the focus of analysis by several networks last night.
We have audio of that, more of Sarah Palin, and some of Rudy.
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