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Oct. 31, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
My gut is starting to talk to me, ladies and gentlemen.
As you know, and as I discussed over the course of the previous week, my gut was not giving me any indication whatsoever.
And my gut started talking to me last night.
Barack Obama's headed back to Iowa.
That should be a lock.
It's a dead heat.
Sarah Palin headed there on Monday to debuke Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Nevada.
We'll throw Pennsylvania out of there.
Florida, Ohio, Nevada.
Look like pretty good McCain certainties here.
Pretty good, depending on who you listen to.
It's Friday, and let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And we are getting a great indication today of just how Barack Obama will govern.
He has purged three newspapers which endorsed McCain from his campaign plan.
They are the Dallas Morning News, the Palm Beach Post, and the Washington Times.
He's going to replace them with Ebony and Jet and some documentary makers.
May put Maureen Dowdbeck on.
This is how Obama will govern, ladies and gentlemen.
Purging three newspapers that endorsed McCain off of the campaign plane.
The New York Post.
Did I say Palm Beach Post?
No, the New York Post.
I'm sorry.
The Palm Beach.
I don't think the Palm Beach Post is on the plane.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Open Line Friday.
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It is, folks, my gut's starting to talk to me out there.
There's a lot of movement, and even the drive-bys are starting to chronicle this.
And a lot of factors are taking place.
And now Obama is trying to lower expectations.
He's afraid that some of his mind-numbed robot supporters have all these utopian expectations.
He's trying to tamp them down.
We are not going to let him get away with this.
That's been his campaign for a year and a half or longer.
We're going to hold him to his expectations.
Radio is now being turned up coast to coast.
Volume being turned up because it's time for the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network.
By the way, newspapers endorsing Barack Obama see their earnings plummet.
Now, that's my headline to the story about, you know, the drive-by headlines are earnings problems at major newspapers.
Newspapers endorsing Obama see their earnings plummet.
The Washington Post earnings are down something like 85%.
Their earnings are in the tank just like their reporters.
The New York Times rating has been slashed to junk like their reporters.
And that happened, by the way.
Their Standard ⁇ Poor's junk bond rating occurred precisely when the same day they endorsed Obama.
And the Los Angeles Times also headed in the same direction because it refuses to report the news.
I saw something on television here just mere moments ago that I do not believe.
Study says that women candidates' looks are more important than a male candidate's looks.
That cannot possibly be true.
All you have to do is look at elected Democrat females to throw that one out.
If looks matter in electing women, there wouldn't be any of these, most of these current Democrat babes would not have one office.
I have to throw that in.
This is an attack on Palin.
What this is, it's another attack on Sarah Palin, who she was on fire in Latrobe, Pennsylvania today.
We have a full audio soundbite roster coming up.
And before we get into the meet, I've got to share with you one of the funniest things I have ever read.
It is by the blogger Iowa Hawk.
And it is one of the sharpest, most cutting, brilliant satires on the pseudo-intellectual conservatives who have gone over to Obama.
And it is a take.
Well, let me just read the opening and you'll understand where it goes.
It's by T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII, columnist, the National Topsider, membership chairman, the Newport Club.
When my late father, T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI, founded the iconoclastic conservative journal National Topsider in 1948, he famously declared that now is the time for all good conservative helmsmen to hoist the mizzen, pour the cocktails, and steer this damn schooner hard starboard.
In the 60 years since he first uttered it after one too many cosmopolitans at one of Pamela Harriman's notorious foreign policy black tie balls, Father's Pithy Bonmott has served as a rallying cry for conservatives from Greenwich to Chevy Chase.
Today, I say it's time for we conservatives to once again grab the rigging and set sail with the flotilla of the true conservative in this race, Barack Obama.
Trust me, I haven't taken this tack lightly.
No Van Voorhees has supported an avowed socialist since great, great, grandpa Craigmont Van Voorhees lent Peter Minuet $24 and a sack of wampum to swing a subprime mortgage on Manhattan Island.
It is, folks, it's the greatest send-up.
And we're going to link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
It is, I just, I don't know who this Iowa, I mean, I've heard of Iowa Hawk.
I don't know what his leanings are, but it probably lives.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter.
This whole thing is just wonderful.
It is just hilarious.
It sends up all these people on our side, these conservative intellectualoids, who have decided to join the Obama-Obama campaign.
Dead heats in two key swing states.
Now, even the Politico reporting this, North Carolina and Missouri, even though Obama is strongly outpacing McCain in two of those states' crucial battleground counties, this is a politico insider advantage poll.
I'm telling you, things are tightening up out there.
My gut tells me this can be one.
This is about turnout.
This is about voting.
This is about everybody showing up to vote.
I am getting emails from people who are literally scared of what an Obama presidency will mean to this country.
I have never seen this kind of fear among people.
I mean, what we were getting in reaction to Bill Clinton's candidacy in 1992 is nothing compared to the overall fear that I am seeing from people in the email.
And when I talked to him personally about the election of Barack Obama, and I got this email, this is just one of several that I received last night.
Dear Rush, forgive me.
I was once an avid listener, but I had drifted away for a while due to not being able to hear you at work.
I had a long business drive yesterday and I found you again.
I need to thank you for reminding me why I need to vote Republican.
I've always been a straight ticket voter, but this year I've been disappointed in McCain.
I was a Huckabee guy from the start.
However, when McCain was chosen as our guy, I wondered if this was the year for me to vote libertarian or not at all until yesterday.
Fortunately, you read the blog from the ex-Obama campaign describing how the propaganda campaign was running.
I felt so stupid to realize that I, too, have been caught up in the anxiety that he said what and dismayed at the prospect of a race already over.
But thanks to you, Rush, I will fullheartedly go to the polls on November 4th, and I'll touch the screen for McCain.
I have realized that the only way to beat the socialist Messiah will be to actually show up and vote.
Your message has reinvigorated my passage for this election or passion for this election.
Thank you, Dan Wooten, who is from Elyria, Ohio.
It is a county where McCain visited.
Obama did not go there, according to Mr. Wooten, because Obama's too elite.
Now, if you were with us yesterday and you remember the blog post at Hillbuzz by the Obama campaign worker named Sarah, who basically threw the lid off what is actually going on in the Obama campaign, they're not nearly as far ahead as they have convinced everybody in the media and a lot of voters.
Everything about their campaign, seminar callers, seminar bloggers, seminar responders on YouTube seminar, everything.
It is all image.
It is being done to craft this notion that there is no stopping Obama, that it's a fait accompli.
The only problem is Obama's not behaving that way.
Obama's not trying to lower expectations.
He's going to states that we're in the bag.
Let me share with you another post from another anonymous person.
This also from the Obama campaign.
It's a woman.
And what we're picking up out there is that there really are a number of angry Democrat women.
They are angry over the way this Democrat Party is treating traditional Democrat voters, trying to destroy Joe the Plumber, an average blue-collar guy, trying to destroy Sarah Palin.
These women do not like it.
Let me read you part four of this latest anonymous post from an Obama campaign worker.
This is a different one than Sarah P. from yesterday.
This is a long post.
I'm just going to read you this one point, number four, the Bradley effect.
Do not believe these public polls for a second.
I just went over our numbers, found that we have next to no chance.
This is Obama in the following states.
Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada.
Ohio leans heavily to McCain, but it's too close to call it for him.
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, and Iowa are the true toss-up states.
The only two of these the Obama campaign feels confident are Iowa and New Mexico.
But now Obama's headed back to Iowa on Monday.
The reason for such polling discrepancy is the Bradley effect, and this is a subject of much discussion in the campaign.
In general, we in the Obama campaign tend to take a 10-point percentage in allowing for this, a minus 10-point percentage for allowing this, and are not comfortable until the polls give us a spread well over this mark.
Let me pause here.
I granted an interview back in August with a guy from the UK Telegraph.
That interview was published.
It's a long story.
It's not bad.
The guy gets a lot of things wrong, but he's a better writer than a lot of our guys.
The things he gets wrong, he pulled out of the Nexus database.
They've got Chuck Norris living next to me and this sort of stuff.
But the quotes in it are good.
And one of the things I said to him, I said, the Bradley effect, I said, if Obama's not up 10 points or more going into this, then they're in trouble.
And here's this woman from the Obama campaign now posting saying the same thing.
In general, we tend to take a minus 10-point percentage in allowing for the Bradley effect.
Not comfortable until the polls give us a spread well over this mark.
That is why we are still campaigning in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
This is why Ohio is such a desperate hope for us.
What truly bothers the Obama campaign is the fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% refuse to respond result.
You can't possibly include these in the polls, but they are.
The truth is, people are afraid to let people know who they're voting for.
The vast majority of these respondents are McCain supporters.
Obama's the hip choice, and we all know it, and they're worried that hip does not translate on election day.
She continues here: as part of my research duties, I scour right-wing blogs and websites to get somewhat of a feel as to what's being talked about on the other side.
Much of it's nonsense.
Now, there are some exceptions which give the campaign jitters.
A spirited campaign has been made to infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them.
A more disorganized but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts among the unapologetically right-wing sites such as RedState.com.
Don't you guys get it?
This has been the Obama campaign's sole strategy from the beginning.
The only way he wins is over a dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition.
This is how it's been for all of his campaigns.
What surprises me is that everybody's fallen for it.
You may point to the polls as proof of the inevitability of all this.
If so, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book.
How did we skew the polls, you might ask?
It all starts with the media buzz, which has been generated over the campaign.
The media is now factoring the public mood in their weighting of poll results.
Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground game and how many new voters were registered.
None of this happens by coincidence, all part of the poll skewing process.
This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democrat voters.
What is not mentioned or reported is not the underreported cell phone users or young voters we hear so much about.
What's underreported is you, the American people.
That's underreported.
I changed my somewhat positive opinion of this campaign during the unfair and sexist campaign against Sarah Palin.
I'll never agree with her on anything.
I'll probably never vote for her, but I'm embarrassed at what's happened.
I can't ignore our own hand in all this.
What I do know is I'm not voting Obama this time around.
Treat that as you will.
Yet another anonymous pollster from the Obama campaign to go with Sarah P from yesterday, which was on Hillbuzz.
And by the way, Sarah P's back.
She's got another one today, and there are additional posts like this.
Now, you might be saying, Rush, are you sure this is not a setup?
Well, tell me something.
I share this stuff with you.
I tell you it comes from the Obama campaign, disaffected female members, the Obama campaign.
Does it depress you?
Does it inspire you not to vote?
Or does it do the opposite?
What could be in it for Obama to have people going on websites putting this stuff out?
I can't think of anything.
If you can, let me know.
Anyway, a quick timeout here.
We got lots to do on the EIB network.
Sit tight.
We'll be right back.
Back to this political story for just a minute, because this is Obama's greatest fear.
Obama and McCain evenly matched in the swing states of North Carolina and Missouri, but Obama's strongly outpacing McCain in two of those states' crucial battleground counties.
In North Carolina, Obama and McCain tied 48% of the vote.
Only 3% of voters remain undecided.
In Missouri, McCain led Obama 50 to 47, an edge that was within the margin of error.
But in North Carolina's Wake County, part of the politically competitive Research Triangle area, Obama is up by 53 to 39.
Now, what all this means is that Obama's greatest fear is big turnout in mostly ignored rural areas for McCain.
And not enough of a turnout, not a big enough turnout in these urban areas and in the inner suburbs.
Now, this article talks about North Carolina and Missouri, but I have to assume the McCain people think the same scenario could play out in Pennsylvania because they're there.
They have been there for the last week.
Also, it has a large population in rural and small towns.
And it was in this state's primary that Obama made his bitter clinger remarks at the billionaire fundraiser out in San Francisco.
Look, folks, the thing to keep in mind here is that these reports that we're getting from inside the Obama campaign from Mirtha's.
Mirtha's asked for a million dollars in campaign donations.
I mean, he's in trouble.
Jack Murtha's in trouble in his racist redneck district, quote, Jack Murtha, unquote, near Jonestown.
He's in trouble.
And there's a lot going on here that the drive-bys are not reporting because they've been swept up in all that we have learned here from the Inside Obama campaign.
That the entire campaign has been to create an illusion.
The entire campaign has been to create an illusion, starting with skewing pollsters and co-opting the drive-by media to make it look like this is a fait accompli from the get-go.
And this is why, in the past week to 10 days, I've made the point repeatedly here not to fall prey to what you see on television and read in the dwindling editions of newspapers that are out there.
Here's Mirtha.
His campaign fundraiser, Susan O'Neill, wrote in an email, We need to raise another $1 million to compete.
We need money immediately.
Murthy's spokesman blamed Republicans from outside Pennsylvania for Murthy's problems.
Of course, the left never blames themselves for their problems.
But Mirtha has sent out a last-minute plea.
By the way, his opponent's name, for those of you in Mirtha's district, is William Russell.
William Russell is opposing Jack Murthy.
He's a 46-year-old Iraq war vet.
He's a retired Army colonel.
He has outraised Mirtha so far.
As of October 15th, William Russell had raised $2.9 million compared to Mirtha's $2.2 million.
Murtha begging for money.
This is delightful.
A Boston Housing Authority director says that Obama's aunt, Ann Zattuni, who has lived in a slum in Boston for five years, is an exemplary resident.
And only recently did anybody know of her connection to Obama.
Folk, this sickens me.
This poor old woman who is living in her slum suite slum is called an exemplary resident.
And nobody knew until yesterday when the UK papers got on it that she was related to Obama.
God almighty, help me.
I am so deeply sickened by this statement.
This woman lives in squalor.
She lives in a place no human being should be, not in this country.
She doesn't even have a decent cane to help her limp around her slum.
Her slum was created by liberal policies and politicians.
Her slum in Boston.
I mean, she's Barney Frank's close neighbor.
Barney Frank, this subprime mortgage molester, the champion of all things liberal, this twisted bureaucrat in Boston calls her an exemplary resident.
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A Boston Housing Authority director, that means the slum lord, says that Obama's aunt, Aunt Zatouni, has lived in her slum suite slum for five years.
So she is an exemplary resident, and only recently did anybody know of her connection to the presidential contender.
This housing authority guy, this slumlord, is not flabbergasted about her living conditions.
He's flambergasted that she's lived there for five years and he didn't know who her relative was, Barack Hussein Obama.
This is how they look at everybody.
And by the way, let's go back to Obama's book, shall we, ladies and gentlemen, a portion of his own book, reading from his own book, Dreams from My Father, a story of race and inheritance.
Listen, my friends.
If Jane or Zaituni ever fell ill, if their companies ever closed or laid them off, there was no government safety net.
There was only family, next of kin, people burdened by similar hardship.
Now I was family, I reminded myself.
Now I had responsibilities.
Well, you haven't met him, old buddy old pal.
No safety net for Aunt Zaitouni.
I think there is a safety net.
It's called a Boston slum.
Slum sweet slum.
She's lived here for a whole bunch of years.
She'd been in this slum for five years.
Your aunt Obama has been living in a slum for five years.
Your brother is living in a hut in Kenya.
And he says, I am my brother's keeper.
I am my sister's keeper.
This kind of stuff matters to me because there's so many people in this country who think Obama's going to take care of him.
I don't have, well, I don't think I've got the audio.
Once again, I have this humongous audio soundbite roster.
It is great, and I want to try to get to it.
But there are people who have been interviewed on the street who are saying Obama is going to pay for my gas.
Obama is going to keep me in my house.
There are people who believe this.
That's Obama's trying to dial back the expectations now.
No, of course it's not true, Snerdley.
What do you think he's going to keep you in your house and fill your gas tank?
There are people who actually think this.
You can find them out on the street if you walk out there with a microphone and ask them.
Well, that's exactly right.
Snerdley has a rare but brilliant point.
Why wouldn't they think that based on Obama's campaign?
Why wouldn't they think that that's exactly right?
They're not thinking it, but they're feeling it.
If they were thinking about it, they know it's not possible.
But here's the point.
And I know, I know that so many of you, many of you in this audience are Obama voters.
And I know that you, many of you are probably not all of you Democrats and liberals, but some of you are that are going to vote for Obama.
Don't you think it's meaningful?
You think it's relevant here?
Place down by number one again.
Here is Barack Obama reading his own book.
If Jane or Zaituni ever fell ill, if their companies ever closed or laid them off, there was no government safety net.
There was only family, next of kin, people burdened by similar hardship.
Now I was family, I reminded myself.
Now I had responsibilities.
Well, not meeting them.
Aunt Zaitooney is living in a slum.
Folks, Obama has lots of money.
Barack Obama has lots of money.
Ask yourself, if you had lots of money, would you have a brother living in a tenement someplace, a one-room hut that you would not help?
Unless, of course, the brother, you'd already given the brother countless dollars and made every effort to get the guy to help himself.
And finally, after he didn't, okay, Bal, you want to live in squalor, it's up to you.
But if you have a real world experience here, you have a real-life experience with Barack Obama and two relatives that we know of living in absolute squalor.
And he is the man of great compassion, the man of great caring and concern.
And he's going to unify everybody and he's going to eliminate poverty, except in his own family.
Either that or he's going to have us do it after he raises our taxes.
By the way, this is hilarious now.
As you know, we have chronicled Obama's ceiling on tax increases.
I should say the floor, whatever.
That number's 250K a year, and it goes down to 150 if you listen to.
By the way, they have sent Biden to the backwaters on the campaign.
Biden is, well, you can't find him out there.
He's in states, but you don't know where he's in, Delaware.
He's in a lot of other places out there, and they have enforced the teleprompter on him.
They have enforced the teleprompter.
I knew he would be the gift that kept on giving Stephen Greenhouse here in the New York Times for incomes below $100,000, a better tax break in Obama's plan.
The center-left tax policy center in this story tries to help out the Obama campaign.
They say that, and I get this.
We've all heard Obama talk about a tax cut if you make less than $250,000.
They say in the New York Times story today, when Obama says he'll cut taxes on families $150,000 or less, that part is true.
And this is in the New York Times.
They're essentially calling him a liar.
But not totally, because anybody making less than $150, I mean, it's pretty true.
Obama's plan, pretty true.
This story ought to be called the Incredible Shrinking Obama Tax Cut.
But the dirty little secret is, once again, ladies and gentlemen, there will be no tax cut for anybody.
The Bush tax cuts of 2001, 2003 expire in 2010.
Everybody's tax rates are going up to the Clinton levels in the 90s.
And if you're not paying income taxes, and about 40% of Americans aren't, how can you get a tax cut?
How can you get an income?
You can't.
You're just going to get a wealth transfer.
You're going to get an income transfer.
You're not getting a tax cut.
So this is all smoke and mirrors.
And it's all now starting to trickle out.
Now, this story on Obama lowering expectations is, again, a UK story.
The Times Online.
It's by Tim Reed in Washington.
I got to tell you something, folks.
The British papers are coming up with much more relevant news than our news media combined.
Barack Obama's senior advisors have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week.
This is because they're concerned that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve, such as he's going to keep them in their houses and keep their gas tanks full.
He's going to pay for it.
The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of hope and change are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.
We need to be very careful about this, folks.
Obama lowering his expectations.
We cannot let him get away with this.
There are two reasons, if not more.
Obama has spent, what, a year and a half or two years making these promises, raising expectations.
He has been the candidate of the lofty rhetoric.
He has been promising hope and change.
He's been promising to wipe out all problems.
He's going to make the United States loved by everybody in the world.
He has been lying about our country.
He has been lying about his vision.
But more importantly, he will go far in implementing his left-wing agenda of massive welfare redistribution and tax increases.
He wants a single-payer national health care plan, all of those things.
The point of this is Obama's going to get most of what he wants to implement, but most of it won't work.
This is the key.
He's going to get most of it, and most of it will not work.
All of it so far will not work, not in the long term.
So they're putting out stories.
He's got to lower expectations.
People are expecting utopia out there.
This euphoria.
He created it.
Obama created these expectations.
Now he's got to lower them.
The sad thing is this whole campaign of fluff and imagery has succeeded, but Obama has never been about the middle class.
He has always been about destroying American society as it's constituted and punishing success.
What Obama wants to do is destroy capitalism and expand government.
And that is the truth that this illusionary campaign has covered up throughout the past year and a half.
There's a book Bill Ayers wrote.
I've got it.
I've got copies of pages of it.
Back in the 1970s, this book by William Ayers is dedicated in part to Sirhan Sirhan.
Name, ring a bell.
Okay, let me ask you who was it that headed up Obama's vice presidential selection committee and which prominent member of that same family led the Democrat Party endorsements for Barack Obama.
Do you know?
That's right.
Ted Kennedy endorsed and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg headed up the VP selection committee for Barack Obama.
Obama's good friend, William Ayres, dedicated his 1974 book to Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert Kennedy.
We'll be back after this.
You know, you could argue, ladies and gentlemen, that the unholy alliance between the radical left and militant Islam was launched in this country when Bill Ayers dedicated his book.
The name of the book is Prairie Fire.
It's got a bright red cover.
It's hard to find a copy of this thing.
It's from 1974, I think, but they've gotten it out of the way.
But he dedicates it to Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert Kennedy.
Bill Ayers, Obama's friend, dedicated his book, Prairie Fire, to Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert Kennedy.
There's Teddy Kennedy endorsing him.
I wonder if Teddy Kennedy knew this.
There is Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, who was in West Palm Beach this week campaigning.
And Al Gore is here now.
Al Gore among our midst across the bridge.
It's starting to warm up here, Sturdley.
It is, but Gore brought the cold weather with him.
There's no question about it.
Audio soundbites this morning on our Denver Blowtorch affiliate, KOA, Governor Bill Richardson.
What Obama wants to do is he is basically looking at $120,000 and under among those that are in the middle class, and there is a tax cut for those.
Well, all good, Governor Richardson.
They've buttoned up Biden, but you've taken his place.
They got Biden on the teleprompter.
Now here's Bill Richards saying now it's down to $120,000, down to $120,000, anything above $120,000, and you get a tax increase.
Let's go back.
Here's Obama, July 7th.
If Senator McCain wants a debate about taxes in this campaign, then it is a debate I am happy to have.
Because if your family making less than $250,000 a year, my plan will not raise your taxes.
That's July 7th.
It was $250,000.
Richardson just today at KOA Denver, $120,000.
Later in the campaign, just recently, very slyly, Obama reduced the number to 200.
If you have a job, pay taxes, and make less than $200,000 a year, you'll get a tax cut.
And then the ChiaPet Joe Biden TV interview, October 27th, this week, lowered it again.
It should go like it used to.
It should go to middle-class people.
People making under $150,000 a year.
In Obama's infomercial taped last week.
Mr. President, here's what I'll do.
Cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year.
So, as president, he'll cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000.
So we've gone from $120,000 to $250,000 to $200,000 to $150,000.
Now we're back to $200,000.
Here's Obama yesterday.
How many people make less than a quarter million dollars a year?
Raise your hands.
All right, that would appear to be the majority of you.
Now, no matter what Senator McCain may claim, here are the facts.
If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime.
Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax, no tax.
The last thing we should do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle class.
Well, you're going to do it.
You're going to raise taxes on everybody, Doofus, when the Bush tax cuts expire.
Let's go back to Bill Richardson.
This campaign cannot get this straight this morning in Denver via phone on KOA.
What Obama wants to do is he is basically looking at $120,000 and under among those that are in the middle class, and there is a tax cut for those.
So you can't keep a lie straight.
This is the problem.
The fact is, everybody's going to get a tax increase.
None of these numbers are right.
I got an email.
Now, this is fascinating.
Very seldom people ask me how we do what we do here.
They just accept it.
This is broadcast excellence.
And they think this just happens, which it does.
I mean, it's taken a lot of years set up the system.
Rush, how are you so able to go back and get sound bites that you played years ago?
We have an excellent filing system, and we keep them.
We call it, it's a great archive.
Cookie Praeus does this, and it's magic.
And you know what else?
We back it up, folks.
We back it up.
If we lost this, we would be up a creek.
We back up the audio file.
We back up the transcripts.
If we didn't back this stuff, just the other day, this is about carbonite.
You should back up your computer too.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I got an email note last night from somebody.
What are you laughing at, Sterdle?
This is all true stuff.
I got an email last time, somebody who went out and got Carbonite on my recommendation, just a brand new computer.
The first thing they did was fire it up, load whatever they wanted to do, and it backed it up, and the hard drive blew up a day later.
The hard drive one day after getting a brand new computer.
It happens to somebody every day.
It's going to happen to you too.
But it was backed up, and it didn't take long to restore it.
Carbonite has backed up over 11 billion files.
They've got the Mac version coming early next year, and they're getting even more storage.
It's a great, great program.
You can try it risk-free at carbonite.com.
Don't even need to give them a credit card if you use offer code Rush.
Carbonite.com.
I cannot.
Folks, I've got backups of this computer here that you can see in the DittoCam.
I've got six of these babies scattered around my various residences.
Residences that some people don't even know I have.
I, yeah, in fact, I got one on EIB1.
I've got a laptop on EIB1.
They're all backed up.
I take zero because I've lost hard drives.
They have blown up.
And if a recovery program doesn't work, and most of them don't, you just don't want it to happen to you.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
I just got a note from our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville.
He said, why would I use carbonite when it's so dangerous to Superman?
That's kryptonite.
Carbonite will not hurt you.
Carbonite will save you.
Speaking of Dr. Spencer, a great story today.
Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous worldwide increase in methane levels.
This is the first increase in 10 years.
And what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating that man's the primary source of increases in greenhouse gas.
Scientists are baffled.
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