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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.
Well, 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 911, inside job.
911, 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 uh strange scene here during the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
Obviously went very well for the GOP, but the protesters, nearly uh eight hundred and fifty or so arrested.
They conducted a raid last weekend, uh which, of course, the the weekend before, which the local liberal columnists and liberal media decried.
One city councilman in St. Paul even decried the police raid.
Uh it would have been much worse had the raid not been not taken place the Sunday before the Saturday Sunday before uh the convention, maybe even maybe it was Friday even.
Uh they got Molotov 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 to uh take a police woman off her horse, dismount her forcibly, didn't go over too well for the protester.
Uh the police did a pretty good job, law enforcement did a pretty good job.
They had a number of they had help from the feds, they had obviously helicopters in the sky, but the the raid over the weekend prior to the convention really helped as well.
It could have been some real some real ugly uh 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 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 dis 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 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 i 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 uh in a great great little book, What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he said, uh, 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 anybody 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 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.
Carl Allen Dershowitz.
Uh i 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 uh vo uh 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 flesh.
That's contempt of court.
If you've got probable cause for a search, probable cause for an arrest, uh 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, uh, Fifth Amendment or Fourteenth Amendment.
We're talking about uh basically making certain that our due process rights or our right to freedom and safety.
Uh and and, you know, I don't want to get too philosophical here in this monologue, but but the best definition of freedom is really the absence of force.
The 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.
Uh apparently the national security credibility gap is returning.
Old doubts about Democrats on security, after diminishing briefly, have begun to re-emerge 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 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 can 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 three, he's the commander in chief.
Or excuse me, Article II.
He's the commander in chief.
Well, the the re 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 democratic.
What what kind of social work have you done?
And in the minds of media.
The minds of the media just a bad.
We're going to focus on community organizing tonight on the 10 PM or 11 PM show.
We're gonna we're gonna 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 gonna focus on freedom.
So the Democrats have set set this up as a 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.
Uh 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 by thinking Democrats.
Only the left-wing loonies on the blogs and at 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, uh regulatory experience as head of the oil and gas commission, which he resigned in protest because of crony capitalism.
So they've 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, uh and we told South Vietnamese, the South Vietnam that we were leaving, but we'll keep 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 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 was he misjudged the Contras in Nicaragua when he when he opposed funding for the Contras.
He opposed Reagan's SDI.
He opposed the first Gulf War.
Uh he voted uh three years later to authorize Bush's um or not three years later, but then the the second time around, Bush 41, he voted for uh the Iraq war as of recently here, but s uh uh voted against the surge.
Said it would be it would be a horrible idea.
Voted against what?
Roberts in Alito, uh went after Bork, Clarence Thomas, the wife of Ed Meese.
He's opposed to 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 uh let's see, 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 uh show.
But the m the the McCain surge has started after the Palin bounce.
Now he's up by uh uh goodness gracious, this is quite remarkable, up by ten in the USA Today, Gallup poll, Erasmus and tracking has him up by one now, uh gallup has him up by five, the Gallup alone.
CNN has a tie, uh the real clear politics average has him up by uh three point two, I believe, or something along those lines.
The the 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.
Lori, you're on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
You've been here, I assume.
Many times.
Very good.
Uh 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 uh President Pro Tem of the Senate, Robert Bird.
Robert, okay, thank you.
Oh, Lord.
Well, like I said, between uh Sarah and Nancy, the choice to me is perfectly clear.
One understands the world as it works, and one understands uh her own fantasy world.
So Where were you 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 uh party and/or ticket?
Yeah.
Um I was going to be voting for McCain only under duress because there was really no way that I wanted uh Barack in the presidency.
With the pick of Sara 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 Fighting Republicans.
Made her way fighting Republicans.
Fighting Republicans fighting because I'm not thrilled with the Republican Party at the Titus measure.
And like I said, I have my issues with McCain and they are huge.
You know, think I mean, then you 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 uh during an election?
Where was the they spent more money than LBJ uh going from 2000, the government's gone up by fifty-five percent in the and we're now in a three point one trillion dollar budget.
We expanded Medicare.
You know, Medicare is already getting uh fifty percent of its revenue.
They've already put the Medicare trigger in and it's been invoked, but they're getting uh 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 w you know 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 what a perfect uh microcosm to have the vice presidential nominee run against that brand of Republicanism in Alaska.
Sister Show talk about it all the time about how one woman's very tough shoulders are bearing a lot of uh responsibility right now.
But the fact is personalities and people, each individual can make a huge change, and she has changed dramatically the uh this election.
And like I said, I I God bless her and her family and my entire family, which was 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 uh uh liberals have uh 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 um supported by them.
End of story.
Well, that's a great point.
Thanks for checking in.
The the 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, uh tends to not only talk the talk but walk the walk, whether it's having the Down syndrome baby or whether it's uh you know taking on the Republican big spending establishment in Alaska.
You know, there's this false premise that the media were trying to put out uh 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 they've had the White House.
Now, you know, above and beyond the fact that the Democrats have had Congress now since 06 and things have gotten dr demonstrably worse.
I can't think of anything the Democrats have done since they took 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 the whole talk radio community, uh my show in the Twin Cities, all of that.
You know 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 and 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 they're now going beyond the scoop jacks and JFK, I'm uh, you know, a little bit interventionist at home, but I'm a uh you know anti communist sort of thing.
They're just going off into the pacifist hardcore left, the the the move on dot org Crowd, the George Soros crowd.
Well, the Republicans did is they kept moving left along with them.
And they the con was that they could always say, no matter how many promises they betrayed, no Hammond, and 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, you know, yeah, you're not an all-out Marxist, but you're moving in that direction.
And 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 set it out.
They were ready to sit it out until this convention, until this nominee.
They are rethinking that right now.
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Back with me, Jason Lewis.
Minnesota's Mr. Right.
Minnesota's real anchorman.
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.
Uh you're my favorite guest, though, so I'm really glad I get to talk to you.
Thank you, Josh.
Very nice.
I wanted to bring up a point.
It's really really got me energized.
It got my circle of conservative friends energized.
Is is hearing people call Sarah Palin Sarah.
I've noticed several callers today and several people I've discussed, women especially, uh, really hear the name, hear her and and talk about her, describe her simply as p as Sarah.
Not Vice President Palin or you don't get that kind of of um personal connection with John McCain.
You don't hear people calling him John.
You hear it, it basically Well, there's an old adage.
There's an old adage in the media business uh in Hollywood, quite frankly, that if you can establish your identity that it's become so well known and so noticed that people recognize you by your first name only, whether it's Elvis or Sarah, uh, then you've arrived.
And this is part of the phenomenon.
Now there's another aspect of this.
I can hardly wait for some political operative on the other side of the aisle to call her Sarah.
And she, you know, she can kind of look above those glasses and say, That's Governor Palin to you.
Yes, yes, and it's 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 Gindle, lovingly as Bobby Gendle.
You hear me.
Wonderful.
And I really think we 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 that think the the way 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 uh a very, very tough battle going on that some who are willing to wave the the towel of surrender think that if you don't get the endorsement of the Sierra Club that you couldn't win.
Uh she is disproving that.
Bobby Gendal is disproving that.
There is now been that's why this is so transformative.
Uh 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 Gendal, we are now actually able to r 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.
Uh Margaret High, 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, including denying Sarah, an appearance on that show.
She has absolutely those rights.
Let's just finish and you can go on.
Sure.
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 McKean'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.
I don't disagree with anything you've said.
I would 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 the bottom 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 that's an absolute right in my view, and I agree with you.
I don't have the right to tell the New York Times uh what to write.
They can write their 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 airway if she wants, 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 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 seventy-five percent of her audience is w is female.
Half of them older than fifty.
Clear clearly more attuned to Hillary than perhaps Barack Obama.
But she made her choice.
But now she's going to get No, you want to play Lumberjack, you're gonna have to hold up both ends of the log, or your end of the log, I should say.
And now she's gonna 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 uh 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.
I was good.
Actually, it's what was on at the gym.
So that was that was the uh but she was making a speech and and they were actually cutting back and forth from McCain and and uh Helene in Jefferson City, so they were being somewhat fair.
But Hillary was making uh a speech, obviously, for Obama, and with all of the um way that they've tried to compare uh 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 gonna vote for, and she said, and who it is that's going to help pick you up and uh and allow you to accomplish great things.
And and I just thought that was really interesting because Kennedy's probably most famous speech was that's not what you can do or what your country can do for you, but what you can do.
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 that it's just it's nuts.
I mean.
Well, Hillary, that was Hillary Clinton, you say?
Yes.
She's in a real conundrum here because on on the one side she needs to uh well, she really doesn't want I I can't speak for her.
I I mean that's kind of what we do, but my my guess is she really doesn't want Barack to win.
She wants to run again in four years, doesn't want to wait to eight 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.
So she's really in a c in a conundrum here, uh doesn't really know what to do.
But if you're you know if your overall point is and I'll be the first let me just say something that 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 bunch of uh dependents, but it's also not being a slave to the state.
Uh 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 tattletale 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 on both of his points.
But you're you're clearly right, the Democrats' view of government.
And and 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 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, Inver El Rushbo on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Absolutely have to get to uh Freddie and Fanny.
Uh 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 Mack and Fannie may warning the conservatives, many of the Republicans, a Wall Street Journal editorial page, a number of people saying this is uh 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 uh home of the 82nd Airborne.
You got it.
Um I just kind of want to make a quick point.
You know, I was listening to uh all the uh Dim say the other day that uh you know about Governor Palin's lack of uh experience and everything.
And uh one thing that kind of kind of crossed my mind was that she's re uh she's responsible to over nine million people, the citizens of Alaska, as opposed to Biden and uh and Obama, how many people they got combined, probably at a million, a little over a million that they have to answer to, and she answers to nine million over nine million people daily.
What do you what do you there aren't nine million people in Alaska?
What are you referring to?
Well, uh I think I heard that there was nine million the the population of Alaska was approximately not.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Uh my point is that you know, on a daily basis, she answers to a whole lot more people than Biden.
Well, uh n th I wouldn't go down that route.
They're not Alaska's a small state when it comes to population, nowhere near nine million, of course.
The the the bottom line though is if you want to compare executive experience, she runs the National Guard.
That's correct.
She's the the chief executive of a state.
Uh 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 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.
Uh I don't know how any of the Obama s 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 one quick thing, I'd just like to give a quick shout out to all the liberal media that gave the all the attention to Sarah Palin prior to her acceptance speech, so she had all the viewership that she did.
Wasn't that something?
And McCain had higher Nielsen ratings apparently than Obama.
Palin had forty million people tuning in.
That's why I say when you're in a qu when you're in a whole quit digging media, all of the attacks, all of the attention uh 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 and Broadcasting Network.
Thank you for having me.
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 was uh she took some punches from from Barack Obama.
Uh we saw her crying in front of the uh uh of the millions of uh supporters on TV.
Uh not only America, it's even uh if you know in the entire world.
And I don't think uh she was I mean, uh someone who who has that you know broken wheel uh just because a couple of functions to herself, not to the family, not to mention the family, her career, everything, uh uh is not ready to be commander in chief.
I really saw Palin is more than ready to these were the crocodile tears that uh Hillary was shedding when uh she had that press conference.
I can't remember where it was, up in the Northeast someplace, I believe.
Yes, sir.
She was getting roughed up and and how 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 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, uh 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 this shield, political shield around her.
So once again, a brilliant pick by McCain, you gotta say.
Well, I think they sound the alarm.
They have a a whole uh, you know, the whole uh uh battalion of of women fighting for the Democrat Party when they 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.
Uh if I may I have a little comment about something that I saw yesterday uh last night on CNN, if you all know how to do it.
Quickly, we're up against the the clock.
Go be quick, please.
Uh uh probably many people saw the uh the uh the y YouTube uh video of Didi, the uh the rapist, the rapist, uh uh you know, making fun on uh on McCain and and Sarah Palin and Alaska.
Uh, he said that there are no no black uh no black men in Alaska.
Uh I I'm asking this uh to the audience that you have over there, uh I get their their opinion.
Um is he actually isn't he isn't that a racist comment?
Because he you we all know that Alaska has a lower uh crying rate in in North.
Well, I don't know.
Look, I gotta let you go, Miguel.
We're up against the clock, but there are plenty of Eskimos in Alaska, obviously.
I don't know they'll take kindly to being to being kind of dissed in this sort of way that they don't matter or something, uh, and though 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 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 sail uh Sarah Palin.
By the way, people forget the way we did over Margaret Thatcher.
The issue has never been gender with a conservative movement in America.
The issue has been uh is she a conservative or is the candidate a conservative?
The reason the GOP and large 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 gotta have a woman if there's uh 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 it, got one, and I would say she's being welcomed into the party uh with open arms, wouldn't you?
I'm Jason Lewis, in for Rush Limbo, 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.
Uh 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.
Um as opposed to the attacks on the um Mrs. Palin's child and the future child of her daughter, uh neither, none of the above should be attacked at all, but uh trying to weed her out of the herd, uh they're picking on the 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.
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