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Oct. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 15, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, folks, did you see that Obama, the Obama campaign, has sent out debate talking points already, even before the debate?
I myself have the debate talking points right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers that the Obama campaign sent out.
It's amazing when you read these talking points.
They sound exactly like what the drive-bys have been saying for the last month anyway.
This is what I think of the Obama debate talking points.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh from the EIB Southern Command, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Warning, ladies and gentlemen, I woke up in the middle of the night and I said, uh-oh, I'm coming down with something.
Now, my voice has been hoarse for the past couple of years.
I had one of these little hacking coughs in the upper respiratory tract.
And I have felt sleepy and watery eyes all day long.
And when that happens, it starts thinking flu.
But it's gotten somewhat better during the day.
I grabbed a couple Zycams since this all happened.
I swabbed my nose.
And we will see.
Every time I've tried this and it's been a cold, the Zycam has gotten rid of it.
We will see.
Feeling better during the course of what?
Well, that's not a bad idea because I have put parts of my body, such as hands and so forth, on surfaces that you guys use every day.
It wouldn't hurt for you guys to try some Zycam either.
All right, let's see.
Where do we start today?
The stock market down about 300 points.
Everybody's puzzled by this.
I am not puzzled by this at all.
The market's not going to turn bullish until we have some across-the-board tax cuts passed.
And it's the Treasury Secretary and czar who has the responsibility to take care of all this and promote economic growth.
I mean, you cannot consume when you don't have disposable income.
This applies to businesses.
It applies to people.
Now, this bailout was, everybody knows now, was short-sighted.
It ignored the fuel that the economy requires, and that's disposable income.
So I guess we're going to have to wait till we get a tax-cutting Treasury Secretary.
His job's to promote economic growth.
I've got the job description of the Treasury Secretary right here in the bailout, which I've shared with you on a couple of occasions.
We also know that if Obama wins the election, we're not going to get any kind of a tax cut whatsoever.
We're going to get Robin Hood.
We're going to get, well, we need to spread the wealth around, Obama says.
But here's the, under Section 2 of the Bailout Act, purposes of the act are, one, to immediately provide authority and facilities that the Secretary of the Treasury can use to restore liquidity and stability to the financial system of the U.S.
And two, to ensure that such authority and such facilities are used in a manner that A, protects home values, college funds, retirement accounts, and life savings.
B, preserves home ownership and promotes jobs and economic growth.
Well, I'm sorry, massive government debt leading to inflation is not going to promote jobs and economic growth.
Tax cuts do that.
Do you realize the roll we have been on the last eight years economically because of Bush's tax cuts?
And I've got a story here in the stack today.
Jerry Jones got his massive new $1.1 billion stadium down there in Arlington, Texas.
They can't find anybody to pay the freight for the naming rights.
And they're saying that this is part of the economic slowdown.
Corporate America having trouble coughing up the money for naming rights at Jerry Jones Cowboys Stadium.
They'll find somebody at some point because they'll come to an agreement on a price.
But about the only guy in the country that's not in debt and has the money to pay for the naming rights would be me.
That would be cool.
Limbaugh Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
I don't think they'd go for it, even though I know Jerry Jones is a good guy.
But look, this is very simple.
If the Treasury Secretary is going to preserve homeownership and promote jobs and economic growth, you don't do that by bailing out everybody but consumers.
You don't do that by bailing out the dregs of society.
You don't do that by bailing out the people that have been irresponsible in managing their own money.
Also, it says see here maximizes overall returns of the taxpayers of the United States and provides public accountability for the exercise of such authority.
Very, very simple.
They're having debate celebrations at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, the debate there tonight.
And get this description from Channel 2 in New York.
The entire campus is buzzing.
Historical reenactments were held 24 hours before Senators McCain and Obama take the stage.
There was Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, a mock slavery auction.
Women's rights activists and civil rights speakers all intended to engage debate.
And they're all excited at Hofstra.
There's going to be 3,100 journalists there.
They actually held a mock slavery auction yesterday at Hofstra in Hempstead, New York.
No wonder the New York Jets got out of there and moved headquarters over to Florham Park in New Jersey.
The latest Zogby poll is out, ladies and gentlemen.
And by the way, there's a spread here.
The New York Times CBS polls at, what is it, 14?
There's another poll at 11.
Let me tell you, what you do, if you take the top, Investors Business Daily is at 3.
So what you do, if you want to get a decent representation, you take the top and the bottom, you throw them out, and then you average what's left.
And when you do that, you come up with Obama by 6 or by 7.
Now, Zogby, which is the company that got the 2004 presidential rates the closest, now has it Obama 48, McCain 42.
He still leads McCain by 48 to 44 margin.
I'm sorry, 48, 44, four-point lead, 48 to 44, an advantage of 3.8 percentage points.
This comes after leading by 6.2 points the day before.
So Obama has dropped two points in Zogby in one day in the tracking.
But it's even more interesting than that if you go to the Zogby internals.
Obama lost ground among independents and now leads McCain by just eight points, 44 to 36 in independence.
The rest of the independents either favoring a different candidate or remaining undecided.
Obama's lead just yesterday among independents in the three-day rolling average was 17%.
Both candidates continue to perform well among their respective party members.
And it gets even better if you go to the internals of the Rassmussen today, Rasmussen poll among core supporters, those who are certain how they will vote and that they will not change their mind.
It's Obama 42, McCain 40.
Now, that two-point gap is much closer than the overall numbers.
It's also much closer than the 45 to 38 advantage among core supporters enjoyed by Obama heading into the second debate last week.
Just last week, this same poll had it 45-38.
Obama, that's a seven-point lead.
Going into tonight's debate, he has a two-point lead among core supporters.
Now, why is the New York Times and the CBS poll at 14 points and Newsweek at 11?
I'll tell you exactly why.
They're trying to depress you.
They're trying to dispirit you.
They're trying to make you think, along with everything else that they're reporting, that this is over, that the election is finished.
We've got Obama and Pelosi now already planning policy in the final three months of the year after the election or two months after the election.
We've got a professor at Harvard suggesting that Bush and Cheney just quit after the election and let Obama and Biden go ahead and be inaugurated and get going fixing the mess that is the United States of America.
We have all over them, no matter where you look, we have the Democrats and the drive-by media convinced that this is over.
Now, let me tell you something, folks.
Obama ought to be up in every poll 16 points.
As reviled as this administration is, as rotten as people think the U.S. economy is, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and what has happened to it over the past month, with a couple of other factors that I'm not going to mention here.
Obama ought to be up by 16 points.
This ought to be over.
But he can't close the deal.
And they're worried about it.
And the New York Times, another story today.
And Governor Fast Eddie Rendell says, yeah, McCain could win Pennsylvania.
They're worried about Democrats in suburban areas of Pennsylvania who won't vote Obama because of race.
That story is every day.
You can find that race story every day in the drive-by media somewhere.
That the Democrats are worried that a bunch of their voters, when the pedal hits the metal, when the rubber hits the road inside the privacy of the voting booth, that they are not going to vote Obama.
And this Acorn stuff, now in Pennsylvania, they have found irregularities and fraud.
In Ohio, the attorney general there with whom we had a run-in during Operation Chaos has been caught trying to cheat.
And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals told her, all these people that voted early and registered early, you've got till Friday to prove that they are legit.
And she said, well, I don't have the facilities to do this.
Well, you better find them, said the court, because you've got until Friday to prove that these registrations are all legit and that everybody that voted early in that six-day window is all legit.
A court investigations are popping up all over the place.
And this is clear cheating.
It's fascinating.
So Obama's not up 16 points.
He's up four.
He's up three.
He's up two.
He's up 14 in the CBS New York Times poll.
The New York Times again today is suggesting that their poll says attacks that McCain and Palin are making on Obama are backfiring.
The McCain's campaign recent angry tone.
What angry tone?
What angry?
Where is there any anger in the McCain campaign?
Especially with Senator McCain, where is there any anger whatsoever?
And the sharply personal attacks on Obama.
What sharply personal attacks?
All they are is people telling the truth about the little squirrel.
What personal attacks?
I'll say, Rush, there you go.
That's a personal attack right there.
No, Not a personal attack.
Himself, Obama, admits he's embarrassed by his ears.
What's the big deal?
Okay, but there have been no personal attacks by the McCain campaign on Obama.
In fact, McCain has nixed any mention of Jeremiah Wright.
Palin, a bunch of advisors want McCain to go after Jeremiah Wright.
McCain will not do it.
McCain will not use the Calypso Louis Farrakhan video in which Farrakhan says that the Messiah is speaking.
Oh, and you know the joke that I told?
What do Obama and Osama have in common?
They both know, they have both friends who bombed the Pentagon.
A Republican state leader in Virginia has been renounced by McCain for repeating the joke.
It's in the Washington Post today.
It's true.
This is not a personal attack.
It happens to be true.
Obama and Osama both have personal friends who blew up the Pentagon.
Funny.
It's funny.
And this guy used it now.
He's not backing down.
He's not backing up.
But McCain went out and denounced this guy.
Now, where are these personal attacks?
Anyway, the Times says that all these attacks are backfiring on McCain.
That also is an attempt to shut up McCain.
And like I told Governor Palin yesterday, it's an attempt to shut her up.
It's an attempt to make them think they're losing moderates, that they're losing independence.
But the Zogby poll, Rasmussen, I'm sorry, Rasmussen Poll Internals today show that it is Obama who is losing independence today.
Now, in this New York Times poll that shows Obama up 14, nine out of 10 were registered voters, not likely, but registered.
And I wonder how many were registered by Acorn.
See, you cannot take Acorn out of anything that is happening here.
How many of these registered voters in the New York Times CBS poll were registered by ACORN?
And I wonder how it was skewed.
You know, when Acorn, one of the things that the pollsters do is they weight the percentage of Democrat respondents, percentage of Republican respondents.
So if Acorn's gone out there and fraudulently registered far more Democrats than there really are, the pollsters are going to look at that.
Well, look at all the Democrats out there.
And their sample is therefore going to reflect it inaccurately.
So you can't take Acorn out of anything that has happened.
I mean, McCain hadn't attacked anybody except his staff.
If McCain goes negative on anybody, it's his staff for wanting to confront Obama with facts.
So, you know, I think that, oh, and this is so great.
Where's this from?
The Times Online, UK Times.
Political scandals slip under the radar with attention focused on election.
What do you think this is about?
It's about Tim Mahoney here in Florida.
With the eyes of the media fixed firmly on the race to the White House, the scandal of a Democrat congressman and the $121 grand paid to keep her quiet has slipped off the radar of most U.S. news channels.
Well, hey, Times Online, how come Mark Foley and Mokaka were on the radar for five weeks?
How come they didn't slip under the radar during the 2006 elections?
It just slipped under the radar out there, folks, and nobody, nobody can find it.
If you, ladies and gentlemen, live in Kansas City, you need to check your latest credit card bill.
A North Kansas City couple, Steve and Rachel Larman, say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month, a $2,300 donation to Obama's presidential campaign.
The Larmans say that they don't want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they're not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.
They're supporting McCain.
They said they notified Chase, the credit card bank, to report the fraud.
They said they'd seen they were familiar with this.
It was fraud, they believed, through telemarketing, but they were going to be doing some more investigations.
So everybody out there, check your credit card receipts, check your credit card bill for the last month to see if somehow $2,300 to the Obama campaign has been charged to either or all of your credit cards.
We'll be back after this.
Rachel and Steve Larman, the North Kansas City couple that found a $2,300 contribution to the Obama campaign charge to their credit card, they call the bank Chase, and they said that the bank kept saying, are you sure you wouldn't have gone to a site in support of Obama?
And Rachel Larman said, repeatedly said, I'm voting for McCain.
I would not be going to an Obama site.
Now, Chase dropped the charge from the Larman's credit card, but nevertheless, it would be well worth your time, ladies and gentlemen, to see if this has happened to you on your credit card statement.
They have a new ad from Senator Obama.
Listen to this, and then we will have commentary.
Now, why is Obama bringing up Ayers' name?
Why is Obama getting all defensive about Ayers?
I think that they've got some internals.
They've got to have some internals.
He ought to be up by 16 points.
He ought to be genuinely up by the 14 points the New York Times is saying.
I've been saying this all along.
If he goes into this election under 10 points ahead, he's in big, trouble.
But why bring up Ayers?
I think Ayers and Acorn are sticking, and they have the need to go out and be defensive about it.
And he's lying about his relationship with Ayers.
This business that when Ayers bombed the Pentagon and bombed the Murtaugh House and everything else, he was only eight years old, and he's denounced these horrible acts.
Ayers is still a buddy.
They sell pal around.
Ayers, Annenberg Challenge, Obama, Annenberg Challenge, the Wood Foundation.
And it's not that Ayers was a bomber all those years ago.
It's what Ayers is doing with education today that Obama supports.
It's what they tried to do with the Annenberg Foundation grant that Obama was a recipient of from Ayers.
So now they're out there and they know that Obama knows that McCain's going to bring up Ayers in the debate tonight.
So I just, I find this, I find this is a little bit defensive.
William Ayers is Timothy McVeigh.
William Ayers, the only difference between Ayers and McVay is that Ayers beat the rap.
Obama served on boards, knew him well, had his campaign launched from Ayers' living room.
And then there is the book issue.
More and more people who have read Obama's books and Ayers' books, and now they've done a timeline.
During the period of time that Obama's two books came out, Ayers did not publish any.
But prior to those periods of time, Ayers was publishing about a book a year.
Ayers makes a lot of nautical references in his books.
Obama does too, but he has no nautical experience.
Ayers does.
There are a lot of people beginning to think that Obama didn't even write these books, that Ayers did.
So this is something they're obviously defensive about.
They've either got some focus group stuff that's totally counterintuitive, or they're seeing that the issue is killing them.
But I don't see how this is a smart thing to do at all with this kind of thin, puny defense.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
You know, I wish the Treasury Secretary and the President and Bernanke would stop having public statements.
Stop making public.
Every time they go out and open their mouths about the economy, the Dow plunges.
What is it now now?
It was around 300 points the last time that I checked.
That's 372 now.
And Er Bernanke up there that says, shut up, you guys, or cut taxes or do something.
Because every time somebody involved in his bailout gets out there, it does not inspire confidence in anybody.
Now, Obama, in his ad promises that there will be no William Ayers in his administration.
By the way, Chicago Tribune with a profile on Ayers, who will be an unnamed Secretary of Education in the Obama campaign, I have no doubt.
They do a profile.
They go to Ayers' office, and here are some of the pictures on Bill Ayers' office door.
Abu Mamia Jumal, whatever this cop killer is in Philadelphia.
Shea Guevara, Malcolm X.
These are the admirable figures that exist today.
So according to Chicago Tribune, on the office door of William Ayers, who Obama's, I hardly knew the guy.
I'll tell you, Barry promises that there will be no heirs in the Obama administration.
Maybe what McCain ought to do is promise tonight that bin Laden will not be asked to serve in his cabinet then.
I mean, can you imagine the absurdity of having to reassure people you won't give a bomber a job in the administration?
Here's Obama said, this guy is not going to be part of my administration.
Who says he was?
Who says he was?
Well, what are you doing that for?
You think, why in the world?
I know McCain would never do it.
Wouldn't it be fabulous if he did?
I heard Senator Obama say to you, he's not going to have Will Ayers in his administration.
Well, I'd like to likewise assure American people, I also will not have bin Laden in my administration, because I will not have a bomber either in my cabinet.
Take that, Obama.
What do you get, huh?
Ayers, airs, airs.
It'd be nice if, you know, McCain likes to cross the aisle.
It'll be a great thing to do tonight.
Cross the aisle.
Shander Obama.
Can you agree with me?
Acorn's a bunch of frauds, and you and I must join together to get rid of Acorn throughout this country and stop paying for him as the Democrat Party has.
Will you agree with me on this, Shinder Obama?
Well, he wants to cross the aisle.
This would be a great thing to cross the aisle about, getting rid of Acorn.
The Drive-By media had a collective cow, ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Palin's appearance on this program yesterday.
Just a couple of examples.
CNN Anderson Cooper 180 talking with the correspondent Gary Tuchman.
Palin gave an interview to Rush Limbaugh today saying the media wants her to be silent, which is an interesting perspective given our frequent offers to interview her.
We'll let you hear what Palin had to say to Limbaugh in a moment.
But first, Gary Tuchman on the trail cut off with Sarah Palin in Biden's hometown of Scranton today.
Well, at least he tried to catch up with her.
Governor, can you come to the microphone?
But no reaction at all from Sarah Palin.
Three weeks before Election Day, she keeps away from almost any unpredictable interview situation.
She prefers the predictable.
Like a radio interview with Rush Limbaugh.
Pleasure to speak with you.
Hey, thank you so much.
And ditto's from Scranton.
They just beside themselves.
They can't get their hands around her neck and choke her to death.
They just, they want to destroy Sarah Palin personally, and they can't stand the fact that they can't do it.
So Campbell Brown on CNN's Election Center talking with Gary Tuchman, the guy you just heard.
She said, let me ask you, though, about some of the stuff we've seen or heard from all these rallies.
You've heard some pretty offensive things being said at some of Palin's rallies.
In some cases, you heard reporters say they're isolated incidents.
One person here, one person there.
In other cases, people have said more than that.
I haven't been myself.
You have.
What's your sense?
There's an extreme amount of venom ever since the complaints about the mainstream media and gotcha journalism.
And when we walk into these rallies, we have people say to us, me and others, that we're communists and that we're not Americans and that we hate America.
And, you know, I'm a person.
I stop.
I say, I'm an American.
And, you know, we question Republicans tough.
We question Democrats' tough.
We question communists tough.
That's our job to be tough.
And when someone's running for president or vice president, we have to be tough.
That's everything's about these guys.
Everything's about you.
Do not question Democrat stuff.
You have not been questioning Democrat stuff for this entire campaign.
Once Mrs. Clinton was out of this race, you guys have questioned nothing about anybody on the Democrat side, Mr. Tuchman, and everybody knows it.
You know, have you looked?
Magazine ad pages are down.
Newspaper circulation is down.
Network television having a problem.
It's not going to take much to push drive-by journalism financially over the cliff.
And they still don't get it.
Now, one observation here that I saw at RedState.com today, Brian Fallman, this is a brilliant observation.
This is about Tim Maloney, the Democrat from West Palm Beach here in Florida.
And by the way, we had the tapes yesterday of Mahoney talking to the babe that he ditched and offered to pay the 121 grand to and park her in some office somewhere.
And she said, be a man, shape up and admit the truth.
Turns out that she said she was of the opinion he was having a second affair.
And he was, is the story.
The FBI is looking into this now, that he might have been having a second affair.
He started the affair with the babe he's paying $121,000 to during the campaign to replace Foley.
Now, people are saying you might conclude that Mahoney had treated his former girlfriend shabbily, but not for a Democrat.
She's being treated no worse than most other women Democrats find inconvenient.
From Sarah Palin to Hillary Clinton to Monica Lewinsky to Chandra Levy to Paula Jones.
How long before the drive-bys begin to notice that Democrats are perfectly happy to destroy the reputations of women who stand in their way?
And this is exactly what Mahoney is doing.
And yet this is the party and these are the people who are said to be so much for women's rights, so tolerant and compassionate.
But let a woman get in their way and they will wipe her out.
And they will do to them what they try to do to Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork.
And they'll do so with the help, Mr. Tuchman, of all of you at CNN, with one or two exceptions, and everybody else in the drive-by media.
When's the last time you questioned communist stuff?
When's the last time your Havana bureau chief had the slightest negative thing to say about what's going on in Cuba, other than the United States is selfish for not providing aid after a hurricane?
Question Democrat stuff?
Naomi Wolf, who has lost it, a genuine feminist lunatic, appeared on the Fox News channel yesterday afternoon with Martha McCallum, who just ripped her to shreds.
This is the question.
Martha McCallum said, if this were a man in the vice presidential position for Senator McCain, I highly doubt that you would call him everything equivalent to a Franken Barbie.
You probably would go after his policies.
You'd probably go after the way he carries himself politically.
But I doubt that you would use derogatory terms like frank and Barbie, Evita figure, or talk show host about a man.
So that's why I see in the things that you have written about her something that disturbs me as a woman and smacks of sexism.
When I compared her to Evita, it was exactly making the point that in a closing society, you often have a telegenic, populist front person for the same gang of thugs who are holding power.
And that's what I fear a President Palin would be.
So McCallum says, well, when I look at her, I see somebody I would assume feminists would take some pride in.
I see somebody who worked her way through the system when she was a mom.
She worked in the PTA.
She ran for mayor.
She achieved that goal.
She ran for governor.
She achieved that goal.
So just aside from the politics, can you appreciate all this woman's achievement?
She's a mother.
She has all kinds of neat things going for her, regardless of what you might think of her political take.
There's part of me that's thrilled whenever a working mom or a mom of small kids at all gets to any kind of position of influence in this country.
I celebrate her life and her scope to do all the things she's done.
I just would be terrified to have her be president or vice president of the United States of America for a lot of very important policy reasons.
Whether it is not throwing around hate speech like terrorists and unspeakable.
Yeah, well, talk about hate speech.
I mean, you look at the stuff that has been hurled at her.
Talk about hate speech.
I mean, you know, I have never in my career covering politics heard anybody who's been so vilified.
And I find it, you know, very interesting.
And I also just would say, you know, I think your policy, if you disagree with their policy, I think that's perfectly legitimate.
But I would just stay away from terms like Frank and Barbie and stalking horse and talk show hostess because I think it does an injustice to all women.
Well, Martha's making the understandable mistake here that feminism is not about women.
It's about advancing liberalism.
And she's also talking to a brain-dead former icon whose latest claim to fame was dressing Al Gore in earth colors for the 2000 presidential campaign.
But I guess you got to get guests wherever you can get them, and Naomi Wolf slamming around the gutters and asking to be heard on these TV shows.
So they found a place for her at Fox.
Ladies and gentlemen, where do you take your kids?
Well, let me put it a different way.
Where does, in the case you're first and second graders, where does your school take your kids to field trips?
Dawn, when your daughters were six and seven, you remember any field trips they went on?
Where were they taken?
Went to the science museum.
They went to Publix, a grocery store to see how it works behind the scenes, maybe to an exotic animal place or some such thing as that.
First graders in San Francisco took a trip to City Hall a couple days ago to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher.
This happened on Friday.
First graders in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher on Friday.
This was supposedly about tolerance.
The school decided to do this to instruct the students on tolerance.
Other people think, wait a minute, wait a minute, what the hell?
Sixth and sixth and then seven graders here?
Six and seven year olds, rather, six and seven year olds, first and second graders.
This is an attempt to indoctrinate, some people say.
I don't know what the biology lesson was that day, but we can pretty much guess, can't we?
Hey, get this, folks, in Alabama's fifth Congressional District Democrat candidate Parker Griffith is out to educate voters on who America's greatest enemy is.
According to Alabama's fifth Congressional District Democrat candidate, Parker Griffith, America's greatest enemy is America and its imperialism.
He was speaking to the Colbert Lauderdale Baptist Association on September 15th.
And Parker Griffith decided to give everybody a clue on where he stands.
He was asked about radical Islam and its threat to the United States, forgetting all about 9-11, the USS coal bombing, Richard Reed, the coordinated plot to blow up American airlines over the Pacific.
Parker Griffith said the following.
I think America's greatest enemy is America and its imperialism.
And I think that we have nothing to fear from radical Islam.
We have nothing to fear from any other religion if we're strong in our own beliefs.
I don't fear radical Islam.
Now, the twist here is that Parker Griffith is running against a Republican who just might pick up this Democrat-leaning seat.
Wayne Parker is the Republican candidate.
Both Parker Griffith and Wayne Parker trying to succeed the Democrat incumbent Bud Kramer.
So another Democrat echoing the sentiments of the Democrat Party in Todo.
America's greatest enemy is America and its imperialism.
Thank you to Eric Erickson at RedState.com for digging this one out of the, well, you got to dig deep to find stuff like this, but they did it.
To the phones, we go to Detroit.
This is Don.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
18 years in waiting ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Great to have you here.
Hey, I got to tell you, I live in one of the most blue-collar areas of Detroit, and the apathy here is palpable.
I mean, you cannot drive through.
Four years ago, there was carry signs everywhere.
There is not one single Obama sign in my entire neighborhood.
There's two in probably a 600-house radius.
Maybe a dozen McCain signs.
I'm not saying he's got, you know, gung-hole support here, but the apathy is huge.
It doesn't show up in the polls.
Neither does the 9 million Hillary voters who, as of yesterday, have hundreds of websites.
If you do Hillary 2012, you will see that those aren't showing up in the polls.
And I just think that...
Well, you know, Sarah Palin had a fundraiser yesterday.
A bunch of Hillary supporters showed up for it.
But Don, you're sure you're not lying to us here because the drive-bys tell us the election's over, that the nation can't really wait to have Obama.
In fact, the nation's so excited that Harvard is suggesting that Bush and Cheney resign on November 5th and let Obama go ahead and be inaugurated on that day.
Well, I think the media forgets four years ago Kerry was supposed to be a slam dunk, and conservatives showed up in record numbers.
And I think this time around, the cry for the conservatives is we're not voting against Obama.
We're voting against the media.
It has come down to this for me and a lot of my family.
We are sick and tired of having this stuff rammed down our throats.
And it's now, we don't want to beat Obama.
We want to beat the ABCs, the NBCs, the deadheads.
Very, very admirable, but let me amend this.
We do want to beat Obama.
Oh, yes.
I know you're thinking we're going to knock off two birds with one stone here, but we do want to defeat Obama.
We cannot afford Obama in a host of ways.
Well, I think McCain tonight could knock it out of the park with two things.
Not attacking Obama, but looking in that camera like Sarah did to the seniors and say, hey, I'm one of you.
I feel your pains.
Literally, every day when I wake up, I have the aches and pains, and I will not let the Democrats go.
No, no, If he says something like that, they're going to do stories he's unfit.
He's unhealthy.
No, no, no, no.
Let me ask you a question.
I want to do a little test with people today.
Now, seriously, I don't, this is not a game.
Well, it's a game, but I mean, there's no trick answer here.
Can you tell me who Barack Obama is?
Well, other than everything I've read on him beneath the surface.
No, no, no, no.
Tell me after what you've read, tell me who he is.
He's a socialist.
No, wait.
He's a United States Senator.
What are his accomplishments there?
Zero.
He's not passing.
But he ran law review at Harvard.
What have you read about anything he did while in law school in Harvard?
Well, the thing that I see is I haven't seen any leadership role.
This guy has never played a leadership role.
In fact, the only reason he won his Senate seat was due to the fact that the Chicago political machine took out his opponent.
So you can't tell me who he is.
You can't tell me what he did at Columbia University.
You can't tell me what he did at Harvard.
You can't show me anything he's written.
You don't know his medical records, do you?
Have you seen those?
No, and we don't even really know what his school records are.
Have you seen his doctoral thesis from any place?
We've seen his wife's, but have you seen his?
No, not at all.
Nothing.
Well, then, why is this guy said to be the savior of America in the world?
Who is he?
Well, I think the media doesn't want us to know who he is because I think underneath the surface, they really do know.
Yeah, but you don't.
No, and they don't want me to know.
No, no, I mean, well, when I say you don't, I'm saying.
I'm saying none of us know who he is.
We know the image that has been manufactured for us, but we don't really know who he is.
We've had to dig deep on our own, and we have great fear about who he really is.
All of these associations that he's had.
I wonder if ESPN will fire Hank Williams Jr.
He does the song intro for Monday Night Football.
He's out campaigning for McCain Palin.
I wonder if they will can him.
Well, you know, ESPN doesn't like getting involved in political things.
And so it's going to be a, we'll see if the problem is they've got all these songs already in the can.
They record the whole season way in advance.
Speaking of which, I want to talk about the economy and sports and related things.
And have you noticed we're not hearing anything about global warming during this economic slowdown?
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