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Oct. 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 10, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Boy, what a day for the Democrats, folks.
I can't imagine a day that the Democrats could be happier.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 451 points.
It was down 600 earlier.
Something like 40% of the value in the Dow Jones lost in the past year from its previous high.
The biggest losers on Wall Street so far today.
ExxonMobil, National Oil Well.
Can you imagine how happy the Democrats must be, ladies and gentlemen.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
And we have an hour to go.
The telephone number 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
We go to the phones.
As you know, the content portion of the program is all yours.
Man, oh, man, oh, man.
Vet's coming back here.
379 is almost down 600 points just a few moments, and it was down 600 points in the first 10 minutes that the market opened today.
So all the entities on the Democrat Party enemies list, they're suffering.
Big drug, big insurance, big health care, big retail, big auto, big oil.
They're all suffering.
It has to be a red-letter day of happiness for the Democrat Party.
And despite all of the losses that these enemies of the Democrat Party are experiencing, you can count on one thing, and Democrats will continue to blame them for the remainder.
Well, for as long as Democrats don't change.
We have, ladies, and it was submitted earlier this week.
I meant to use this yesterday.
I didn't have a chance to get to it, but it's about time we threw this in here before time runs out to play it.
Sarah Kuda on the EIB network.
That's our old buddy Paul Shanklin and Sarah Cuda.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, just a brief departure here for something, a couple of soundbites, well, three soundbites I have I want to play for you.
Last Monday, this past Monday, the new federal courthouse in my hometown, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was dedicated to my grandfather, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Sr., he's now known as.
And it was an hour and a half ceremony, and I have three soundbites from one of the speeches, the speech, this particular speech made by my uncle, Steve Limbaugh Sr.
He is a retired federal judge, district judge, Eastern District of Missouri.
And we had a great weekend.
We had a dinner on Sunday night.
Senator Kit Bond was there, and the congressman for that area, Joanne Emerson, was there.
And then the ceremony took place at 10.30 in front of the courthouse on Monday.
But I want to play these excerpts from a speech by my uncle for a host of reasons.
One, it was one of the greatest tributes to my grandfather, and we've spoken about him on this program throughout the years.
He lived to be 104 as a lawyer and worked up until the time he was 102.
But in this first bite, this really hit me because I always cringe when I hear people, and you've heard me say this, talk about how tough times are.
And I've talked about how our parents and grandparents, they had it tough.
They went through the Great Depression.
They had to fight World War II, and the Korean War.
They had to fight the Cold War and take on the Soviets and so forth.
And our lives have been pretty cushy by comparison.
We've had to invent our traumas.
So here's the first of three.
I appreciate your indulging me on this.
This is my uncle again from Monday morning in Cape Girardeau.
Dad grew up, was born in 1891 on a farm in Bullinger County, about 25 miles west of here.
There were seven members of the family, four boys and three girls.
Two of the girls died of consumption, what it was called then, tuberculosis.
The four boys and their sister remained.
Their father died at age 47.
Dad was the youngest.
He was only seven years of age at that time.
We talk about the hardships and difficulties economically that we have today.
In 1891 and in the latter part of that century, in the early 10 years of the next century, times on the farm in the country were difficult.
There was no electricity, no plumbing.
There was really no refrigeration except what they might improvise on their own.
The water came from on high into cisterns.
The farm implements were simply muscle and a team of mules and rather unusual, antiquated farm machinery.
The ladies did all of the housework.
They milked the cows.
They rendered lard.
They made all of the clothes.
The men did the farming and all of the extremely hard work with the help of the ladies.
And they all managed to survive and make something of themselves.
Life was frugal and spartan and difficult in those days.
We can't imagine growing up in this kind of area.
My uncle Steve Limbaugh, who's 82, by the way, just retired from the federal bench at the dedication of the new United States courthouse named after my grandfather in Cape Girardeau this Monday.
Here's more.
One of the great virtues that dad possessed, some of which was just natural and some of which was acquired, was his memory.
At 12, he recited the Gettysburg Address and the second inaugural.
I remember when I first started practicing law in the 50s with Dad, one day he said, What day is this?
And I said, It's March, the 7th of March.
Of course.
And with that, he began the recitation of the opening Daniel Webster 7th of March speech before the Senate, which was credited with postponing the Civil War for 10 years.
And you remember, Webster approached his colleagues in the Senate and he said something that is always plagiarized today by so many of us.
I come to you, my colleagues, not as a Bostonian, not as a Massachusetts man.
I do not come to you as a New Englander, but I come to you as an American.
And after hearing that, then Dad went on for another five minutes, reciting part of his speech.
And here's the final bite from, and the speech went on for about 20 minutes.
These are just a couple, three excerpts from it.
Again, this is my Uncle Stephen Limbaugh Jr., Stephen Limbaugh Sr., rather, on Monday in Cape Girardo, Missouri at the courthouse dedication.
Another time during the President Nixon debacle, I was talking with Dad about it, and he said, yes, that reminds me of the great impeachment trial of Warren Hastings and Sir Edmund Burke.
Warren Hastings was the Governor General of India, and he was impeached before the House of Commons for high crimes and misdemeanors.
And at the end of the impeachment trial, Sir Edmund Burke, one of the most magnificent lawyers of the time, gave an hour and a half summation at the impeachment trial.
And lo and behold, Dad began to recite.
All this is true.
When we were growing up, it would be over at his house.
He would recite these things and give us history lessons and so forth.
He was just a dedicated lawyer.
He worked all the time, day and night, six days a week.
Sunday was for church.
He was absorbed with the law, loved it.
It defined him, along with his family and his wife and my grandmother.
And he just had this love and absorption with history that I think it's probably because of him that I really didn't need to do well in school.
Because by the time I got to school, I knew more history than I was going to be taught in five or six years.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
And we're back.
It's Open Line Friday, and it's time to head back to the phones.
Newport Ritchie in Florida.
This is Betty.
Betty, thank you for waiting.
You're up.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good to speak with you.
Thank you.
We live in Florida.
I am in my 70s, and my husband is in his 80s.
And he was in the Air Force and the big one, World War II.
Yes.
So he has something in common with your Uncle Steve, age.
Congrats also to Rush Sr.
I am disappointed in you, Rush.
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Well, we've been listeners, dedicated listeners to you for years and years and years.
We had gotten our family addicted to you and friends.
I think you think maybe at our age that we're idiots.
Do you think so?
You're asking me if I think you, because of your age, are an idiot?
Correct.
No, I don't think you're an idiot.
I actually think you're one of the people your age are probably one of the finest resources young people have.
Well, for years, Rush, you have pointed out to us and drummed in our heads.
Oh, she was setting me up.
You slide, Devil.
You.
I know where this is going.
Go ahead, Betty.
How unrepublican, how non-conservative that John McCain has always been for years and years and years.
That's right.
Okay.
So now, why are you boasting him?
Why are you building him up?
Why are you saying things about him that aren't true?
I'm not.
What I'm trying to do is build up voters who are depressed by the campaign that Senator McCain is running because, Betty, we cannot afford Barack Obama.
I think you're trying to down Barack Obama by doing this, Rush, truthfully.
And I think.
Well, of course I am.
Of course I'm trying to down Barack Orda.
What do you mean by that?
Well, I wonder if McCain was the head right now, that we'd be hearing all this nonsense about heirs, Reverend Wright, and everything else.
I don't think we would.
True?
No, because that's why Obama is eventually going to be down.
Oh, okay.
You feel as if the people that he palled around with all these years have a reason for him to stay out of the White House.
No, they want him in the White House.
I don't.
Okay.
Well, who do you think that McCain was palling around with in Vietnam?
All I know is they weren't communists, and they weren't anti-capitalists, and they weren't people that were bombing the Pentagon.
Well, if they were his enemies, and they treated him so badly and bruised him from head to foot, why did he want to become an ambassador and go back there to his so-called friends in Vietnam?
Because he likes to reach across the aisle.
Well, he told Obama not to reach across the aisle, to fight first and then reach.
Wrong.
Obama doesn't reach across the aisle anyway.
Obama is reaching across the aisle.
Betty, now.
Listen, have you been to any of his rallies, Rush?
I wouldn't get near one, but I see him on television.
Why don't you camouflage yourself and go on?
You just, when you go to those rallies, you come out feeling so proud, not only listening.
What does he say?
What does he say, Betty?
He says he talks not like John McCain, but he's solving the problems of the jobs, the economy, and things that people are going to die from today.
And, you know, all this nonsense about trying to dig him deeper in a hole is not going to help because McCain has proved himself year after year after year.
Thanks to you.
Well, I'm having trouble following you here.
Somebody's sending me a note that I can't read.
Do you consider yourself a communist?
I consider myself a Republican.
Oh, come on, Betty.
You asked me if I thought you were an idiot, and I said no, but now you're making me question my original answer.
I have a bumper sticker on our two cars that say Republicans for Obama.
That's sad.
No, it isn't.
I'm happy.
That is very sad.
Why is it?
Because you don't know.
Because Barack Obama is out to redesign this country in a way that you and your husband who fought to save this country would not recognize.
I am stunned that your husband fought in World War II and has the idea that Barack Obama is the one to preserve the America he fought for.
I'm just, I'm stunned at this.
This woman, ladies and gentlemen, she's very smart.
She's not an idiot.
She is perhaps the most elderly seminar caller that we have ever had here on the EIB network.
Very sly, very crafty, very tricky.
But I, as host, have yet to be fully tricked.
I always catch up to it at some point during the call.
Anyway, Betty, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Katie in Greenville, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
It's great to talk to you.
I want to thank you for delivering me from my political ignorance.
And I just wanted to comment, Sarah Palin came to ECU Tuesday, and Obama also came a couple months ago to the same place.
They both spoke of the same place.
And the crowd that Palin had was so much bigger than Obama.
They had to bring people out into the football stadium, and Obama couldn't even fill up the little Coliseum that we have.
So I just want to know why people really think that, you know, McCain is so far behind Obama in this race.
Polls.
It's just, it's a combination of things.
It's a polls.
It is the daily onslaught from the drive-by media carrying the narrative in the template that the election is over, that it's going to be a landslide.
That is why, like I told a previous seminar caller, who, can you believe what that woman did?
She starts out giving me grief for supporting McCain when that has not happened.
I mean, I'm supporting American people here.
I'm trying to convince the American people to stay motivated and inspired, hold on to this emotion, because we cannot afford Barack Obama.
I'm the guy saying we've got to drag this Yosemite Sam across the finish line and then deal with the challenges that presents us later on.
We've got to do this a step at a time.
But if Obama's the guy, we are in big trouble, folks.
Remember now, it's that time of year.
It's going to start getting cold and rainy.
Hard truth you have to face.
You're going to get a cold and you're going to go out and you're going to get all the cold remedies that you get that do nothing but mask it.
They don't work.
They don't even make you feel any better except the ones that put you to sleep.
There is a cold medicine that deals with the symptoms.
You know what it is?
It's called Zycam, Z-I-C-A-M.
They have a lot of products, but this is a little Q-tip that it's very easy to unpackage.
You swab the inside of both of your nostrils.
If you're like Henry Waxman, you might need two of these Q-tips.
But you do this every four hours and you will short.
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You've got to, the first time you think you're coming down with something, use the Zycam.
Keep it with you wherever you go, and it will shorten the duration and it will shorten the severity.
Zycam.
It works.
Back in just a second.
Barack Obama says that he thought Bill Ayers had been rehabilitated.
Yeah.
In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host, and I don't know who it is, the story doesn't say, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former 60s radical.
Oh, it was Michael Smirkonish, a former 60s radical who would become a Republican target, blah, blah, blob Obama had assumed from Bill Ayers' stature in Chicago that he had been rehabilitated since his 1960s crimes.
Now, let me tell, folks, the door is opening wider here every day.
Ayers has gone now from a guy who would just in his neighborhood to a guy he knew to be a terrorist but thought he had been rehabilitated.
He doesn't really know very well.
He doesn't know him very well, but he's just a guy in the neighborhood and then now he's a terrorist that he thought had been rehabilitated.
He only worked with him at the Annenberg Challenge, this effort to socialize and revolutionize, revolutionaryize, the public school system in Chicago.
You know, with a guy like Obama, if I were the McCain campaign, this would be fun because lies are so much fun to disassemble.
Of course, this says nothing about Ayers' little visit to Venezuela.
This is nothing about Ayers and his continued radical designs on the public school system to teach kids to overthrow capitalism.
That's what Ayers is doing.
What do you mean rehabilitated?
This is why, ladies and gentlemen, I made the point earlier this week.
The terrorist past is not the big deal about Ayers.
The big deal about Ayers is who he is.
The big deal about Ayers is what he's become.
But now Obama is opening the door.
Some guy in the neighborhood.
I saw him now and then walking the dogs.
Now all of a sudden, well, yeah, I knew he was a terrorist.
Thought he'd been rehabilitated.
What a stupid thing to say.
By his own admission here, he says he knew a lot about Ayers, so much that he was able to assume he had changed.
When you say that you thought somebody had been rehabilitated, rehabilitated from what, Obama?
Bombing the Pentagon?
Bombing private homes with little babies and children inside?
Rehabilitated from what?
So he assumes that Ayers has changed, but he didn't ask him.
Never occurred to Obama that this man could be toxic?
Of course it occurred to Obama this man could be toxic, which is why he thought, oh, just some guy in the neighborhood that I knew.
This is so full of holes.
How often did you meet and talk with this guy, Obama, since now you thought he had been rehabbed?
When did you meet with him?
When did Michelle Mybel Obama meet Bill Ayers?
When did you guys meet Bernadine Dorn?
What does rehabilitated mean?
You think everything was okay when Ayers was photographed and published in the New York Times on 9-11 saying, gee, my only regret is we didn't do more.
I mean, that was only seven years ago, Barry.
Did you think that Ayers was rehabilitated when he went down to receive an education award from Hugo Chavez?
This is an admission, and there is so much more to answer for here.
He just keeps opening a door.
And I think this is why he is going to have bought this TV time.
I think everybody's, no, he's bought that TV time, Rush.
He bought that TV time to put an exclamation point on this landslide.
Nope, folks, if he's buying TV time, they got something telling him he has to.
And this Ayers business is going to be part of it.
And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if someday he has to come out and say, you know, these Acorn people I use.
Yeah, yeah, I've been.
Well, no, he can't because now he's lying about that.
Now he's saying he never knew him, never worked for him.
That's on his website.
So he can't denounce them without admitting he lied about not knowing them.
But clearly, Acorn, in Barack Obama's mind, is not the Acorn he once knew.
And Bill Ayers, of course, is not now the Bill Ayers everyone else knew, but Obama didn't.
Here is Roger in Pittsburgh.
Great to have you, Roger.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
What are you doing on my week?
Well, what I'm doing is hoping they get well.
Yeah, me too.
I'm with you on that.
Yeah.
Hey, Rush, first-time caller.
I'm a charter listener, and your show is just phenomenally well received in our household.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I had a comment, a brief comment that I want to make, but I kind of want to just respond a little bit to your last subject about William Ayers.
You know, do you think that possibly since he's being rehabilitated, been rehabilitated, that no, no, no, he has not been rehabilitated, Obama thought.
Well, that's right.
But if he's thinking that, then you don't suppose that he's trying to, if he gets elected, he's not going to make Ayers director of Homeland Security, is he?
Because he knows what's going on.
No, I'm just kidding.
No, no.
But now that's it's a good question.
Guys like Ayers won't be there.
Guys like Ayers will be up in the Lincoln bedroom every night meeting with Obama to plot the strategy the next day that other appointees who don't have any public baggage who don't reflect this this radical temperament will then be in charge to implement.
Right.
Right.
Well, hey, I just want to get to my first point.
On the last debate, Obama had said that 95% of Americans will not see a tax increase.
Did I hear that right?
That's right, yeah.
That's exactly.
The math doesn't work on that, but that's what he said, yeah.
Well, yeah, but on the previous debate, I believe it was the previous debate, he said that he would take the taxes back to the Clinton era.
And when you roll back that tax cut that Bush put in, quite frankly, I've been in business in my own business long enough.
You can't take back a discount.
That's going to be a price increase or a tax increase.
It is.
It's a tax increase.
But he's going to go further than that.
He may roll back the marginal rates to the Clinton era, but then he's going to raise other rates.
He's going to raise the capital gains tax rate.
He's going to the effective rate.
People have looked at his plan, at least what he said, have concluded that the top marginal tax rate with Obama will be 40%.
And then if you, a 50%, 40% for McCain, if you work in a state that has an income tax, you can add on top of that, then your Social Security and so forth.
I think the Social Security taxes and the Obama income tax rates might be what get you to 50.
But even so, after, you think people are going to be wanting to pay more taxes after all this carnage in the economy?
I don't think so.
Something else here, folks.
When talking about Bill Ayers, you know me, I'm a communications specialist, a highly trained broadcast specialist.
And I don't think to refer to Ayers as an unrepentant domestic terrorist quite accomplishes what we want to accomplish.
Oh, yes, it's all true.
He is an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
But there's a better way to tell people who Bill Ayers is.
He is Timothy McVeigh.
Except Ayers beat the rap.
Bernadine Dorn is Timothy McVeigh, but she beat the rap too due to technicalities.
They admitted their crimes.
People did die when Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn and the Weather Underground said bombs.
And like Timothy McVeigh, there is no doubt that they are all domestic terrorists.
So Senator Obama, while McVeigh was convicted and executed, your buddy that you knew in the neighborhood, who you now thought had been rehabilitated, is now teaching kids, coming up with curriculum.
Imagine Timothy McVeigh running a very important Department of Education anywhere, Chicago, even Oklahoma.
Let's say Timothy McVeigh is running education in Oklahoma right now after having been rehabbed.
Yeah, we'll give Timothy McVeigh in this story, we'll give him a professorship after getting off for a technicality.
These are the kind of people Barack Obama is choosing to spend his time with.
You have a look of confusion on your face.
So Mr. Snirdley, do you have a problem with my comparison here of Bill Ayers to Timothy McVeigh?
They both blew up government buildings.
People died.
They both had big grievances against this country, maybe coming from different places, but they both had such grievances that they wanted to blow up government property.
McVeigh, you know, he's underneath the soil now.
Ayers is teaching kids how to oppose and overthrow capitalism in the Chicago school system.
And anywhere else his curricula can be taken into schools.
So if you want to have a genuine understanding of who this bill is, guys, just think Timothy McVeigh.
We'll be right back after this.
And this is Aaron in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Open Line Friday.
It's your turn.
Hello.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
You bet.
Thank you very much.
The reason I'm calling is I have a new call to action for all the Rush listeners in the nation.
Oh, goody.
And what I think we should do is from now until Election Day, if we are asked in a poll, or especially if we were approached by an exit poller and asked for whom we voted, we need to say we voted for Obama no matter what.
This is a fantasy I have long harbored.
Many and more and more people lying to pollsters, either pre-election exit poll, call them on the phone or whatever.
I have long harbored that this would happen on its own.
Now you have announced their call to action.
I have, and I think it's important that it, you know, we can give it a name if we need to, but for a couple of reasons.
One is I think it's, I've always hated exit polls.
I think they're misleading, and I think they're easy for journalists to use to call elections well before they should.
So I think they should wait to count the votes.
But also, you know, if word got out past our radio stations here that Rush listeners were going to make a concerted effort to do this, then I think, you know, even for those people who aren't amongst the group participating, they would say, wow, those polls show a 10-point lead, or these exit polls are showing Obama, you know, ahead in this county by 15 points.
Oh, but you know what?
You know, those 20 million Rush listeners, how much of that will that account for?
You know, I mean, just like the whole Operation Chaos thing, had people second-guessing what the results were that they were seeing, the same thing could happen from this.
Yes, you're exactly right.
And it would also be fun to watch the daily tirades of the drive-by journalists accusing me of inserting myself into the political process by tampering with their hugely scientific and precise work.
Well, you can tell them, you can blame it on me.
All right.
Look, I appreciate it.
Aaron, by the way, Erin's one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Oh, well, thank you very much.
I feel so honored to be a part of that group.
Well, it's great that you called, Erin.
Thanks very much.
Hey, folks, before we get to another call here, I'm running a little bit behind.
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You have a computer, and especially if you're relatively new to a computer, there's a thing in it called a hard drive, and it's where all your data is.
And I don't know what kind of data you have on your computer, but if you're like most people, first off, family pictures, you probably have some important documents, this kind of thing.
Maybe anything.
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They don't have to back up the dishwasher.
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Brian in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Lush, Gulf Coast Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, 20-year listener, first-time caller.
Just wanted to say that your analogy tying Bill Ayers to Timothy McVeigh was absolutely brilliant.
I know, and that's why I did it.
Because the word domestic terrorist just doesn't cut it.
That's right.
I'm 52 years old.
I remember the Weather Underground.
I remember the kind of terror that they brought to people when they were bombing all these buildings.
I mean, the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, there's no difference between any of them.
Oh, I remember the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Donald David DeFreeze was the big kahuna there.
He is out of Cleveland.
They kidnapped Patty Hearst, and they ran all over California.
They killed a guy playing, what's that wacko game?
La Crosse.
Some guy blew the judge's head off.
Yeah, the Symbionese Liberation Army.
I can't remember what the name he actually called himself, but the SLA.
That's right, Sinq.
Sin Q.
And Weather Underground.
But you see, the difference of what the liberals would tell you, Brian, is, but the Weather Underground realized that we were waging an unjust war and killing innocent people of color in a place that we weren't desired, and our government was immoral and unjust and improper, and we had to stop them.
So it was for them, the Weather Underground was a morally just cause.
And of course, Timothy, the McVeigh Ayers analogy is interesting.
They both had grievances against the government, but from different angles.
But McVeigh, you know, he was also, the government was killing.
I mean, what drove McVeigh nuts was the Waco invasion.
Janet Reno blew up and burned to the ground and all the people inside the Branch Davidian compound.
And the FBI under Janet Reno, somebody, you know, taking pot shots at people at Ruby Ridge.
And this guy had been in the army and he worried what was happening here with the government.
Same thing.
Same analogy, the Weather Underground, not the government was killing people it shouldn't have been killing.
So that's why, so I decided to make the analogy because people, Bill Ayers, domestic terrorist.
I've seen pictures of him.
He looks like an old hippie, but not me.
Timothy McVeigh.
And by the way, his wife's terrorist too, Bernadine Dorn.
And if I were the nags, I'd be offended that she's not getting the proper credit for her terrorism either.
She's being shorted on this.
Have a great weekend, folks.
And we'll see you back here on Monday morning and watch the Dow drop another 500 together.
See you then.
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