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Sept. 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, that's right.
I was at the convention and lived to tell about it.
I even walked by the MSNBC booth once.
Yeah, we all made mistakes.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome back.
Second hour underway.
I am Jason Lewis.
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I'm walking by the MSNBC booth and I see these protesters at the convention.
And they're all chanting.
They're trying to time it to disrupt, get this, MSNBC.
Now, first of all, you don't need to worry about disrupting MSNBC because both viewers really don't mind that much.
But other than that, they were chanting as soon as they were ready to go on air.
They were chanting, 9-11, inside job, 9-11, inside job.
And I'm just thinking in my head, I want to shout out, going, why are you protesting the anchors on MSNBC?
They think it was an inside job, too.
Very, very strange scene here during the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
Obviously, it went very well for the GOP, but the protesters, nearly 850 or so, arrested.
They conducted a raid last weekend, which, of course, the weekend before, which the local liberal columnists and liberal media decried.
One city councilman in St. Paul even decried the police raid.
It would have been much worse had the raid not taken place the Sunday before, the Saturday Sunday before the convention, maybe it was Friday even.
They got mouthed off cocktails.
They got bags of urine and feces.
They got toxic solvents they were going to spray the delegates.
A couple of delegates were injured, in fact.
One protester tried to take a policewoman off her horse, dismount her forcibly.
Didn't go over too well for the protester.
The police did a pretty good job.
Law enforcement did a pretty good job.
They had help from the feds.
They had obviously helicopters in the sky.
But the raid over the weekend prior to the convention really helped as well.
It could have been some real ugly, an ugly situation, I should say, some real carnage out there.
But these people are lunatics.
They are.
It was the RNC Welcoming Committee.
Their idea, and I don't know why this is so difficult for people to understand, but the genius of the founding fathers came in defining our rights individually.
And the beautiful thing about defining rights individually as opposed to group rights is that your rights end.
Your rights are circumscribed when my rights begin or by my rights.
You don't have an absolute right to free speech.
You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
You can't even engage in fighting words.
If you provoke harm to someone else, and yes, even to the community, and that's a tougher call, admittedly.
But if, in fact, your action provokes harm, that is not a right by definition.
Rights coexist.
Rights do not require anything from anybody else.
When I have a birthright, that's why they're called birthrights.
When I have a birthright, I have a birthright to live my life.
I have a birthright to my liberty.
I have a birthright to the property and the estate I have accumulated.
That does not require anything from anybody else.
If, in fact, you say, I have a right to transportation, I have a right to health care, I have a right to housing, I have a right to food stamps, I have a right to education, all of that requires something from someone else, someone to pay the bill.
Therefore, their rights are infringed to exercise your rights.
That is incongruous.
That is not a right.
It's a non-sequitur.
That's not a right.
Rights coexist.
As Charles Murray used to say in a great little book, What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he said, you know, rights, real rights are non-obligatory.
They don't require anything from anybody else.
Therefore, they coexist.
Well, an individual right to speech is the same way.
You do not have the right to speak if, in fact, what you are doing is disrupting the Republicans' right to speak.
Any protest group in the country can get a permit for any arena in your town or any place else, and they can have their rights to speak.
That's not what they want.
They want to go where someone else is speaking and take away their First Amendment rights.
And they do it, of course, by breaching the peace.
They do it with illegal conduct, not First Amendment talk or speech.
It is such a joke that we get mired down in these silly little legal debates about, well, what about free speech rights?
Well, I really didn't know free speech was all about throwing bags of urine at people.
Maybe I just missed that out at Yale.
Maybe I missed out on that constitutional law class.
Call Alan Dershowitz.
It's absolute silliness.
And these people were a clear and present danger, and they were handled appropriately.
But at some point, at some point, somebody has got to make an example.
And I don't want to sound too vehement here because I know the caricatures that can be made.
But you had a number of these protesters arrested in the Twin Cities, and they were refusing to give their names.
I'm John Doe.
I'm not going to give you my name.
I got a news flash.
That's contempt of court.
If you've got probable cause for a search, probable cause for an arrest, they've gone through and you're getting your due process rights, you need to give your name.
And if you don't, they need to hold these people in the slammer for two, three, four, five, six months until they give their name.
Nobody's talking about taking away due process rights, Fifth Amendment or 14th Amendment.
We're talking about basically making certain that our due process rights or our right to freedom and safety and, you know, I don't want to get too philosophical here in this monologue, but the best definition of freedom is really the absence of force.
Milton Friedman had a great series called Free to Choose, a book, and then it became part of a PBS series.
You know, it's called Free to Choose.
That's really what freedom is.
If you live your life and not afraid of force, illegal force, illegitimate force, the absence of force is freedom.
These people in the Twin Cities were hell-bent on using the power of force, fascist totalitarian force, to disrupt delegates.
They wanted to, there was really, there was actually talk, according to one of the memos intercepted, of hijacking or kidnapping a bus full of delegates.
They want to use the power of force to take away the liberties of everyone else.
There should be no compassion.
There should be no countenance.
There should be no tolerance for this sort of thing.
From the swamp, Chicago Tribune, Democrats regaining WIMP factor.
Ooh, that's not good.
Apparently, the national security credibility gap is returning.
Old doubts about Democrats on security, after diminishing briefly, have begun to reemerge concerning Democrats.
Well, I can't figure out why that would happen.
Let's see.
Vote for me as commander-in-chief because I've been a community organizer working with this pernicious group called Acorn or vote for the POW.
Hmm, tough call there, gang.
You want to know why the Republicans were mocking Giuliani and Palin et al., were mocking Barack Obama's community organizing.
A, A, I don't know what it is that the Democrats, I don't know why they elevate social work.
They played right into Republican hands.
We're electing a commander-in-chief.
In the old days, you know, when we used to go back to enumerated powers doctrine, that what is not in the Constitution directly, the federal government may not do.
Constitution does not define our rights.
You had a number of the federalists who were against the Bill of Rights.
Madison, Hamilton, Jay, they said if you put the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, and I'm not arguing against the Bill of Rights, don't get me wrong, but they made a good point.
If you put it in, people will think those are our only rights.
What they were arguing is enumerated powers doctrine, that if in fact the power for the federal government to do something is not in the body of the Constitution, Articles 1, 2, and 3, primarily, they can't do it.
That's the way we governed until the progressive era and Franklin Roosevelt.
Then all of a sudden, the Interstate Commerce Clause, the Liberty Interest and the Due Process Clause, we shredded the Constitution.
Now it could do anything it wants.
But it used to be it had limited powers, the federal government.
And first and foremost, in fact, primarily was national security and national defense.
Article 3, he's the commander-in-chief.
Or excuse me, Article II, he's the commander-in-chief.
Well, the Democrats for my lifetime have downgrade that aspect to the federal government's role and played the federal government as though it were a national charity.
That's really what the federal government's there, to take money from taxpayer A and give it to taxpayer B, using the power of government not to uphold rights, but to actually violate rights, using the power of force, which the federal government has a monopoly on.
They're supposed to use that force to repel illegitimate force, not in fact to invoke the force to violate your rights or my rights or anybody else's.
But yet, social work has ascended.
That's the most important thing in the mind of a liberal Democrat.
What kind of social work have you done?
And in the minds of media.
The minds of the media just a bit.
We're going to focus on community organizing tonight on the 10 p.m., 11 p.m. show.
We're going to focus on what you do and how much you care about your community.
I care about it.
That's why I'm for freedom.
Oh, we're not going to focus on freedom.
So the Democrats have set this up as a race against a social worker versus a guy who had his arms broken as a prisoner of war, a military man.
Why do you think they're regaining the wimp factor?
Duh.
They play right into it for crying out loud.
And all this talk about experience here and experience there for crying out loud.
Let's talk about Mr. Biden for a moment.
We know Barack Obama does not have any experience.
That's why the whole experience thing has been dropped by thinking Democrats.
Only the left-wing loonies on the blogs and a few cable stations are still talking about Palin's lack of experience.
She's got more experience over a decade at all levels of government, elected locally, statewide, regulatory experience as head of the oil and gas commission, which he resigned in protest because of crony capitalism.
So the smart ones have dropped that one.
But now they're talking about, well, Biden's got great experience.
They can't really talk about Barack Obama.
Really?
Well, let me get this straight.
After the Vietnam War, and we told South Vietnamese, the South Vietnam, that we were leaving, but we'll keep giving you aid to prop you up.
Biden was one of the liberals, the kind of the Frank Church liberals in the old days that not only tried to gut the CIA and did so, but of course removed funding to the South Vietnamese government and they were overthrown by the commies and we had the killing fields in Southeast Asia and all the rest.
That's good experience.
He misjudged the Contras in Nicaragua when he opposed funding for the Contras.
He opposed Reagan's SDI.
He opposed the First Gulf War.
He voted three years later to authorize Bush's or not three years later, but then the second time around, Bush 41, he voted for the Iraq war as of recently here, but voted against the surge, said it would be a horrible idea.
Voted against what?
Roberts in Alito went after Bork, Clarence Thomas, the wife of Ed Meese.
He's opposed offshore drilling.
National Journal ranks Biden the third most liberal.
It's not a problem of experience with Joe Biden.
He's got plenty of it.
It's just the wrong kind of experience.
I'm Jason Lewis in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back to the phones we go when we return after this break on EIB.
I really didn't get to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae like I wanted to.
I was a little long in that monologue.
I'll try to get to that maybe at the bottom of the hour or the top of the next one, but I want to get to all the calls as there's so much going on and all these new poll numbers out, as you all know about.
Or if you don't, we talked about it at the top of the show.
But the McCain surge has started after the Palin bounce.
Now he's up by, goodness gracious, this is quite remarkable, up by 10 in the USA Today Gallup poll.
Erasmus and Tracking has him up by one now.
Gallup has him up by five, the Gallup poll alone.
CNN has a tie.
The Real Clear Politics Average has him up by 3.2, I believe, or something along those lines.
The surge has started, and the surge has started because everybody misjudged the pick, except apparently for John McCain, or except John McCain, I should say, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the base of the Sandia Peak.
Laurie, you're on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
You've been here, I assume.
Many times.
Very good.
My observation was that I would much rather have a woman, Sarah Palin, who is one heartbeat away from the presidency, standing in between another woman who is two heartbeats away from the presidency, and that would be Nancy Pelosi.
And if you think you couldn't do worse than Pelosi, guess who follows her in the presidential secession?
I'm not really sure.
President of the pro, president pro tem of the Senate, Robert Burter.
Robert, okay, thank you.
Oh, Lord.
Well, like I said, between Sarah and Nancy, the choice to me is perfectly clear.
One understands the world as it works, and one understands her own fantasy world.
So where were you prior to the Palin pick?
Where were you on this ticket?
How energized were you?
What did you think of the state of the Republican Party and or ticket?
The party has totally depressed me over the last few years.
I was going to be voting for McCain only under duress because there was really no way that I wanted Barack in the presidency.
With the pick of Sarah, I feel that finally there's a voice for not just women conservatives, but people who are just sick and tired of the growth of government, of the intrusion on personal freedoms.
And I think when you go to Alaska and you pick someone like this who has made her way to a lot of people.
Made her way fighting Republicans.
Fighting Republicans, fighting, because I'm not thrilled with the Republican Party at the Tritis measure.
And like I said, I have my issues with McCain, and they are huge.
You know, think, I mean, you're absolutely correct about that.
The Republicans, why weren't we drilling in 2001 and 2002?
Why is it now the Republicans have only had their drilling epiphany during an election?
They spent more money than LBJ going from 2000.
The government's gone up by 55%.
We're now at a $3.1 trillion budget.
We expanded Medicare.
You know, Medicare is already getting 50% of its revenue.
They've already put the Medicare trigger in, and it's been invoked.
But they're getting half of their revenue from general fund.
The payroll tax isn't even covering half of Medicare anymore, or just about half.
And so what do they do?
They add a prescription drug benefit.
They don't get a handle on the borders.
The Republicans were their own worst enemy.
And how ironic is it, Lori, that the poster children for that were Representatives Don Young and Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska bringing home pork after pork after pork in the form of earmarks?
Well, what a perfect microcosm to have the vice presidential nominee run against that brand of Republicanism in Alaska.
I think we talk about it all the time about how one woman's very tough shoulders are bearing a lot of responsibility right now.
But the fact is personalities and people, each individual can make a huge change, and she has changed dramatically this election.
And like I said, God bless her and her family and my entire family, which is made up of a whole lot of very strong women, are very excited about this choice.
So what do you think of Oprah Winfrey basically censoring Sarah Palin?
Well, I think it just gives lie to and rise to the fact that liberals have one agenda and that is a liberal agenda and it matters not color of skin, gender.
If you're not liberal, then you're not supported by them.
End of the story.
Well, that's a great point.
Thanks for checking in.
The bottom line, that is what's driving them nuts.
The fact is you've got an accomplished, competent woman who tends to be conservative, tends to not only talk the talk, but walk the walk, whether it's having the Down syndrome baby or whether it's taking on the Republican big spending establishment in Alaska.
You know, there's this false premise that the media were trying to put out at the convention in St. Paul last week that, well, the Republicans can't be the party of change because they've controlled the Congress and they've had the White House.
Now, you know, above and beyond the fact that the Democrats have had Congress now since 2006 and things have gotten demonstrably worse.
I can't think of anything the Democrats have done since they took over other than trying to raise taxes, other than causing more energy problems.
Now, that doesn't mean the Republicans are not complicit.
They were complicit from 2000 to 2006 and they got their comeuppance as, well, they should.
There was great, I mean, great angst.
I know I've heard Rush talk about it.
The whole talk radio community, my show in the Twin Cities, all of that.
People were absolutely demoralized.
The base was more demoralized as I've seen it.
You know what?
What had happened was people were finally fed up with, quite frankly, the con game.
People were finally fed up with some sort of neo-Marxian Democrat, whether it's Al Franken in Minnesota or pick your favorite liberal, it doesn't matter, drifting further and further to the left.
And the Republican response was not to say, gosh, they're now going beyond the Scoop Jackson JFK.
I'm a little bit interventionist at home, but I'm an anti-communist sort of thing.
They're just going off into the pacifist, hardcore left, the moveon.org crowd, the George Soros crowd.
What the Republicans did is they kept moving left along with them.
And the con was that they could always say, no matter how many promises they betrayed, no matter how many liberal programs that they latched on to, they could always say, well, yeah, but we're not as bad as the Democrats.
Well, yeah, you're not an all-out Marxist, but you're moving in that direction.
And I think a lot of Republicans this time around said, you know what?
I'm not going to look at the way you compare yourself with the Democrat socialist opponent.
I'm going to look at you objectively and say, if I vote for you, Mr. Republican, are you going to limit government?
Are we going to get less government and more freedom?
Or will you move to the middle once again, thinking it's safe because your Democrat opponent is so far to the left?
And they were ready to sit it out.
They were ready to sit it out until this convention, until this nominee.
They are rethinking that right now.
1-800-282-2882.
Back with me, Jason Lewis.
Minnesota's Mr. Wright, Minnesota's real anchor man.
Talent on loan from Rush.
Great to be back in the Attila the Hun chair.
El Rushbo, back tomorrow on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Right now, though, down to Atlanta we go.
Josh in the great state of Georgia.
You're on EIB.
Great to talk to you, Jason.
You're my favorite guest host.
I'm really glad I get to talk to you.
Thank you, Josh.
Very nice.
I wanted to bring up a point that's really got me energized and got my circle of conservative friends energized is hearing people call Sarah Palin Sarah.
I've noticed several callers today and several people I've discussed, women especially, really hear the name, hear her and talk about her, describe her simply as Sarah, not Vice President Palin.
You don't get that kind of personal connection with John McCain.
You don't hear people calling him John.
You hear it basically.
Well, there's an old adage.
There's an old adage in the media business in Hollywood, quite frankly, that if you can establish your identity that has become so well known and so noticed that people recognize you by your first name only, whether it's Elvis or Sarah, then you've arrived.
And this is part of the phenomenon.
Now, there's another aspect to this.
I can hardly wait for some political operative on the other side of the aisle to call her Sarah.
And she can kind of look above those glasses and say, that's Governor Palin to you.
Yes, yes.
And it's the same way.
I really feel like the conservative movement in the Republican Party has turned a corner because you hear people refer to Bobby Jindal lovingly as Bobby Jindal.
You hear people refer to Sarah Palin as Sarah.
Wonderful.
I really think we've turned a corner moving in the right direction.
That's a very salient point there, Josh, because I don't know how many times filling in for Rush I've spoken about the crisis in the Republican Party, the idea that we're battling for the heart and soul of the country, but also there's this great fight for the soul of the GOP.
You've got the moderates led by a number of Republican governors, led by former Bush speechwriters like Michael Gerson, led by some pro-life liberals in the evangelical movement, although they're a minority, that think the third way in going forward is to disavow Reaganism and to literally adopt the sort of Dick Morris triangulation on steroids approach.
Well, if you want to be Democrats, adopt their policies.
And primarily, it's been in the environmental sector where you've got a very, very tough battle going on that some who are willing to wave the towel of surrender think that if you don't get the endorsement of the Sierra Club, that you couldn't win.
She is disproving that.
Bobby Jindal is disproving that.
There has now been, that's why this is so transformative.
This is the most consequential pick in my political lifetime because not only has it turned the race around, but going forward with people like Palin and Jindal, we are now actually able to restore, or there's a possibility of restoring the roots of Reaganism to the GOP.
And, you know, moving away from that has demoralized the people that actually win elections.
So that's a great, great point in Clarkston, Michigan, which is definitely in play.
Margaret, hi, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Mr. Lewis.
I'm calling to stand up for Oprah.
Yes, go ahead.
Oprah, I believe, supports Obama because of her beliefs, because of his beliefs, his agenda, and not because he is black.
And Oprah has the right in America to choose the guests on her show.
Yes, she does.
Including denying Sarah an appearance on that show.
She has absolutely those rights.
But wait, let me just finish and you can go on.
Sure.
Because I've waited a long time.
But Rush will not be told.
And if you look at the last paragraph, the last few sentences of John McCain's speech, he says, stand up for each other.
And he believes in a culture of life.
Stand up and defend each other.
Stand up for beautiful, blessed, and valuable America.
And Oprah has worked hard.
She's had courage.
And she's had everything to fight and hard work to accomplish where she's at.
And if she doesn't want our Sarah, whom I believe in with all my heart and soul, if she doesn't want to have her appear on her show, that's her right as an American and a businesswoman.
I don't disagree with anything you've said.
I would take a little quibble with the idea of her image.
I mean, there's the image and then there's the actual person, and we really don't know the latter.
But the bottom line is this.
Of course, she has that right, and we have the right to disagree with her judgment.
But who are the people, who are the people, Margaret, lecturing us on the fairness doctrine for talk radio?
You mentioned Rush has the right to govern his own program.
And obviously, that is an absolute right in my view.
And I agree with you.
I don't have the right to tell the New York Times what to write.
They can write whatever nonsense they want, and they do, and they lose subscribers.
But the bottom line is that's their right.
Well, why is it then that the Democrats in Congress are flirting with the idea if they get control, they get Barack in power in the White House, they're going to reinstate the fairness doctrine, which would directly tell Rush whom to have on his program, would directly tell me and other local affiliates whom to have on their program.
So these are the same people that are now defending Oprah.
She has the right to have anybody on her public airwave she want, but talk radio has got to be regulated.
That's the hypocrisy.
That's the classic liberal double standard that I am railing against.
Of course she has that right.
But let us not or let us disabuse ourselves of this notion that Oprah plays it down the middle with her program or her magazine.
She doesn't.
She refused to have Hillary Clinton on when she's got a 75% of her audience is female, half of them older than 50.
Clearly more attuned to Hillary than perhaps Barack Obama.
But she made her choice.
But now she's going to get, you know, you want to play Lumberjack, you're going to have to hold up both ends of the log, or your end of the log, I should say.
And now she's going to get it.
As well, she should.
Tommy and Amarillo, you're up next on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hi.
Hi, how are you today?
I'm very well.
Thanks.
Thank you.
I just wanted to make a point.
I was just watching MSNBC and Hillary was giving a speech in Kissimmee, Florida.
Wait a minute.
You said you were watching MSNBC?
Yes.
So you're the one.
Yeah, I was the one.
Actually, it's what was on at the gym.
So that was the one.
But she was making a speech, and they were actually cutting back and forth from McCain and Kalin in Jefferson City.
So they were being somewhat fair.
But Hillary was making a speech, obviously, for Obama.
And with all of the way that they've tried to compare Obama to John F. Kennedy, I just found this really interesting.
As she was winding down her speech, and you can go back and get the exact verbiage, but she basically said, at the end of the day, you've got to sit down and take a long, hard look at just exactly what's in it for you to determine who you're going to vote for.
And she said, and who it is that's going to help pick you up and allow you to accomplish great things.
And I just thought that was really interesting because Kennedy's probably most famous speech was, ask not what you can do, what your country can do for you, but what you can do for you.
You can do for your country.
And now she takes it and says at the end of the day, you've got to sit down and look before you vote and say, hey, what's in it for me?
And that contrasts so starkly with McCain's country first that it's just nuts.
I mean.
Well, Hillary, that was Hillary Clinton, you say?
Yeah.
Yes.
She's in a real conundrum here because on the one side, she needs to, well, she really doesn't want, I can't speak for her.
I mean, that's kind of what we do.
But my guess is she really doesn't want Barack to win.
She wants to run again in four years, doesn't want to wait eight more years.
But the flip side to that is she doesn't want Sarah Palin to get ahead of steam going because she will compete with her directly for the female vote.
She's really in a conundrum here, doesn't really know what to do.
But if your overall point is, and I'll be the first, let me just say something that a lot of people have not commented on vis-a-vis the JFK speech.
I think you had it wrong on both accounts.
The goal in a free country is not what your country can do for you.
You're, of course, right.
We're not a bunch of dependents.
But it's also not being a slave to the state.
You shouldn't expect anything from your government, and you shouldn't have to be a slave to the nanny state government.
The purpose of government is to keep us free, and that's it.
It is to make certain we enjoy the absence of force, not that we have to be little brown shirts and go do community service and make certain we tattletail on anybody smoking in a no-smoking zone and hand over half our check every week.
That's not doing something for your country.
No, that's not the goal of America.
That's not the Western ideal upon the American experiment.
So I disagreed with JFK on both of his points.
But you're clearly right, the Democrats' view of government.
And this is why it's so funny to hear these guys go through their litany of promises, like Barack did at his acceptance speech in Denver.
I promise health care.
I promise more teachers.
I promise early childhood.
I promise transportation.
I promise everything under the sun to half the American people.
Of course, the other half will pay for it.
That is about as divisive as you could possibly get.
18 in front of the hour, Jason Lewis in for El Rushbo on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Absolutely have to get to Freddie and Fannie.
We'll do that in the next hour.
This is a colossal bailout, putting your tax dollars at risk.
There's a case to be made for it, but there's not a case for this to ever happen again.
In short, I'll give you a little tease, as they say in the news business.
Privatize, privatize, privatize.
These quasi-government agencies should have never been created.
The moral hazard has been induced.
And all the critics of Freddie Mac and Fannie may warning the conservatives, many of the Republicans, a Wall Street Journal editorial page, a number of people saying this is a time bomb.
We're right.
We'll get to that next hour, I promise.
In the meantime, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Tony, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Jason Lewis.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Jason.
Greetings from the home of the 82nd Airborne.
You got it.
I just kind of want to make a quick point.
You know, I was listening to all the DMs say the other day about Governor Payton's lack of experience and everything.
And one thing that kind of crossed my mind was that she's responsible to over 9 million people, the citizens of Alaska, as opposed to Biden and Obama.
How many people they got combined?
Probably had a million, a little over a million, that they have to answer to, and she answers to over 9 million people daily.
There aren't 9 million people in Alaska.
What are you referring to?
Well, I think I heard that there was 9 million, that the population of Alaska was approximately 9 million.
No, My point is that, you know, on a daily basis, she answers to a whole lot more people than Biden.
Well, I wouldn't go down that route.
Alaska is a small state when it comes to population, nowhere near 9 million, of course.
The bottom line, though, is if you want to compare executive experience, she runs the National Guard.
Correct.
She's the chief executive of a state that is more analogous, if you will, to being the chief executive of the country than sitting in a legislative body, albeit the Illinois State Senate for those years and just a few years out of that.
I don't think the experience thing, I think it's done.
I think the experience argument is done.
And it was done when Barack Obama was chosen as the nominee for the Democrat Party.
I don't know how any of the Obama supporters can say with a straight face, Tony, that she doesn't have the experience when she has more varied experience than the top of the ticket on the other side.
Correct.
Correct.
Well, one quick thing, I'd just like to give a quick shout out to all the liberal media that gave all the attention to Sarah Palin prior to her acceptance speech so she had all the viewership that she did.
Yeah, wasn't that something?
And McCain had higher Nielsen ratings, apparently, than Obama.
Palin had 40 million people tuning in.
That's why I say when you're in a hole, quit digging media.
All of the attacks, all of the attention just did a massive favor for the GOP.
You're quite right about that.
Tony, thanks for calling.
Appreciate the call.
Let's go to Miami, Florida.
Miguel, you're next on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Thank you for having me on.
Listen, I have a quick comment.
I would like to make a small comparison between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.
My opinion is this.
When Hillary Clinton during the primaries, she took some punches from Barack Obama.
We saw her crying in front of the millions of supporters on TV, not only Americans, even in the entire world.
And I don't think she was, I mean, someone who has that broken will just because a couple of punches to herself, not to the family, not to mention the family, her career, everything, is not ready to be commander-in-chief.
I believe Sarah Palin is more than ready to go.
These were the crocodile tears that Hillary was shedding when she had that press conference.
I can't remember where it was, up in the northeast, someplace, I believe.
Yes, sir.
But she was getting roughed up and how difficult it was.
I can't recall if it was about the beating in the media, but there's no question that the Democrats are now being devoured by the identity politics monster they created.
For literally decades and decades, they have been women, hear me roar.
And the fact of the matter is that they created this notion that how dare you attack a woman?
If you do, you must be a sexist, not to mention misogynist.
The bottom line is they've created that.
Now they don't know what to do with a conservative woman who's tough and strong because they can't turn around and attack her.
They've created this shield, political shield around her.
So once again, a brilliant pick by McCain, you got to say.
Well, I think they sound the alarm.
They have a whole, you know, the whole battalion of women fighting for the Democrat Party when they attacked woman in the primary with this kind of sexism.
Now they are using Hillary Clinton again just to support, who attack her and make her cry.
If I may, I have a little comment about something that I saw yesterday, last night on CNN.
Quickly, we're up against the clock.
Be quick, please.
Probably many people saw the YouTube video of Dee Dee, the rapist, the rapist, you know, making fun of McCain and Sarah Palin and Alaska.
He said that there are no black men in Alaska.
I'm asking this to the audience that you have over there.
I get their opinion.
Is he actually, isn't that a racist comment?
Because we all know that Alaska has a lower crime rate in North America.
Well, I don't know.
I got to let you go, Miguel.
We're up against the clock.
But there are plenty of Eskimos in Alaska, obviously.
I don't know if they'll take kindly to being kind of dissed in this sort of way, that they don't matter or something, and their heritage doesn't matter.
Look, there's another myth that needs to be dispelled real quick here, too, that you brought up or touched on tangentially, and that is the notion that, well, Republicans and conservatives must be sexist.
They've never believed in strong women.
Well, wait a minute.
Now you're accusing us of going gaga over Sarah Palin.
By the way, people forget the way we did over Margaret Thatcher.
The issue has never been gender with the conservative movement in America.
The issue has been, is she a conservative or is the candidate a conservative?
The reason the GOP and to a larger extent the conservative movement like Sarah Palin is her stance on the issues had nothing to do with her gender.
And that's the difference.
The categorical representation crowd that says, you got to have a woman if there's a plurality of women in a congressional district, they don't get it.
They don't get it.
Republicans or conservatives have never dissed women.
They just wanted a conservative one.
Now they've got one.
And I would say she's being welcomed into the party with open arms, wouldn't you?
I'm Jason Lewis in for Rush Limbaugh, and you're on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The Democrats got their bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
We'll discuss that next hour.
Obviously, more phone calls coming right up.
Up against the clock here.
So John and Palm Springs, be brief on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey there, the infant brought back to the United States by Mrs. McCain needing that operation, now being introduced as part of the family, and I think that's beautiful.
The now young lady.
And as opposed to the attacks on the Mrs. Palin's child and the future child of her daughter, neither, none of the above should be attacked at all.
But trying to weed her out of the herd, they're picking on what they think is the vulnerable Mrs. Palin and family.
All right, that's it.
We're up against the clock, buddy.
You made your point.
Thanks for calling.
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