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Nov. 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Sharp elbows.
Have you heard that on TV lately?
Amazing?
Sharp elbows.
That's how Ram Emanuel is being described by acolytes and sycophants in the drive-by media.
President Obama's new chief of staff of the White House.
Greetings, folks.
Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone, ready to serve humanity on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
All right, my good friends.
Here are the rules for Open Line Friday.
For those of you who are new to the EIB network and the Rush Limbaugh program, a tune-in factor the last two weeks have been phenomenal.
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This program is a benevolent dictatorship.
The only person on this program who has freedom of speech is me.
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If I don't care about it, I'll either act like I don't care or I will fake it.
So when we go to the phones, you own the program.
I turn over the content portion of the program when we go to the phones to you, a bunch of lovable rank amateurs, as opposed to me, a highly trained broadcast specialist.
I know you regular tuner-inners are well aware of the rules, but there's a new tune-in factor happening out there.
Gobs and oodles of people sampling the program in the last three weeks.
I mean, it's through the roof.
So here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
By the way, did you get that talk back thing fixed yesterday?
Is it working now?
Seems to be working.
How do we know?
It seems to you.
I didn't see you come in here and test it this morning.
A little inside baseball stuff going on here, folks.
Oh, okay.
So you did test it when I was out of the studio.
We had some problems earlier in the week.
I don't know if anybody told you this, Snerdley, but for those of you who are not familiar with big-time broadcasting, when I turn my microphone on in here, it mutes all of the speakers that I have, or it's supposed to.
But because of an engineering lapse and oversight that was not caught for three days, the speakers here on my desk were not muted.
And so when Snerdley was making some wise Alec remark or whatever, my microphone was picking it up and you people were hearing it, particularly on the podcasts each day.
And so we had to bring that to a screeching halt because people were complaining about it.
It was a distraction.
And so we finally got it fixed yesterday afternoon, and I was just now asking Brian if indeed it is fixed.
So, okay.
800-282-2882.
All right, let's do.
Snerdley, say something to me, whatever you want to say.
Let's test it.
Let's pretend here I'm in the middle of a brilliant monologue and you want to interrupt it because you think that there's something else I ought to say.
Just do what you would normally do in a situation like this.
Don't clam up.
All right.
Now, I purposely said nothing.
That was dead air if it worked.
Okay, so you didn't...
Nobody heard what...
Snurdily asked me, are you sure you want to go with this open line Friday thing?
What was the, because of all.
Oh, absolutely.
I want to go with Open Line Friday today precisely because there's so many new people out there.
Any of you Obama people want to call and gloat, I mean, give it a shot.
You, Obama, I imagine you Obama people just dying to tell me what for.
Go for it.
We'll put you in the mix out there, 800-282-2882.
I want to take you back to an Associated Press story Thursday, December 27th of 2007.
A little less than a year ago, A.P. Obama.
Barack Obama declared today that he is the only candidate who can bring true change in Washington, hoping to persuade Iowa voters to give him the first victory in the Democrat presidential race, making his case against Hillary Clinton without naming her, and this is the money part of the story.
Obama said, quote, the real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.
So Obama starts his campaign in Iowa by telling people, I'm an outsider and I'm not going to bring people into my administration who've already been in Washington.
That would be foolish.
That wouldn't change anything whatsoever.
And yet his first appointment is Ram Emmanuel as his chief of staff.
Now, let me say something.
I don't care who he picks as chief of staff.
It doesn't matter to me because nobody that he picked would surprise me.
I'm not arguing here with anybody about his picks.
I'm not trying to turn public opinion against Obama because of his pick.
We're just engaged here in pointing out a little hypocrisy.
I love this notion that so many people were duped into thinking big change is coming and there's no change coming whatsoever except we're going to move the country far more left.
I've been looking at Obama.
He's got a new website up, change.com.
And he's elaborating on what he's going to do on this website.
And it's pretty much what we would expect if you expect him to move far left.
And once again, this is important to me for the simple reason that so many people on our side have got these blinders on, thinking that we're going to get this great centrist government because its economic circumstances are such that Obama can't do all that he wants to do and all that.
And I just, the naivete after all of these years perplexes me.
Okay, Ram Emmanuel, who is he?
Well, you know, big-time enforcer for the Clinton administration.
This guy is a mean-spirited, he destroys people in his way, just like Obama does.
He is Obama.
But Obama gets away with being this great, mellifluous, soft-spoken, whippet, wispy, harmless little guy, almost messianic.
While, well, Emmanuel here has this reputation of throwing his weight around and getting enemies out of the way no matter where they are.
That's Obama as well.
Obama has chosen his mirror image.
Obama's chosen, again, somebody to do the dirty work Obama wants to not have his fingerprints on.
Barack Obama, November 7th, 2008, this is ABC News, Brian Ross, president-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rah Emmanuel, served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at Freddie Mac and the board failed to spot red flags,
according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com, according to a complaint letter filed by the SEC, Freddie Mac misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.
Emmanuel was on the board.
He was not named in the complaint, but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, OFAO, of having failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.
So we have a mortgage crisis brought about precisely by Democrats running Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, forcing banks to make loans to people who had no prayer of paying them back, forcing banks through thug behavior from the Clinton administration, Janet Reno, promising investigations if they didn't follow through on these new dictates.
And right there in the center of this is entirely a Democrat scandal.
And I say this, I mean, not out of partisanship.
I mean, folks, if they could have found a Republican to blame this on, that guy would be in jail today, frog-marched up before Henry Waxman's committee and then sent to jail.
They couldn't find a Republican.
This is Chris Dodd.
This is Barney Frank.
This is Jimmy Carter.
This is Bill Clinton.
This is Franklin Rains.
This is Jim Johnson.
And now Ram Emmanuel's in this as a member of the board.
And he's now on Obama's team.
And don't forget, Obama says, going into Iowa before the Hawkeye cauckey, the real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.
He was telling people in Iowa, I'm not going to have these usual people up there.
I'm changed.
I'm bringing new people in.
So far, the people he's talking to are not new.
I've heard of every one of them, and most of them are Democrats.
Let's listen to the drive-bys describe Emmanuel.
Now, as you listen to this montage we have of the drive-bys, keep in mind how they describe Karl Rove.
Karl Rove was the evil genius.
He was manipulative.
He engaged in criminal behavior.
Karl Rove needed to be frog-marched out of the White House.
Karl Rove was the epitome of evil.
Here is the drive-by's assessment of Rah Emmanuel.
Rahm Emmanuel, a Washington veteran known for sharp elbows.
A masterful politician with very sharp elbows.
Sharp political elbows.
I hope he takes his partisan elbows and keeps them close by his body.
He has sharp political instincts and sharp elbows.
You mentioned sharp elbows.
A reputation for a sharp elbows.
And once again, the drive-by media in unison deciding to agree on this descriptive phrase, sharp elbows.
Claire Shipman this morning on Good Morning America.
Like all good characters, Emmanuel's got quirks to spare.
And if you look closely, you'll see he's missing the middle finger of his right hand.
He sliced it off as a teen working at a fast food restaurant, but instead of going to the hospital, he went swimming.
The wound became so infected, he almost died.
Wow, what a man.
What a man.
Claire Shipman.
This is how tough.
This is how manly Rah Emmanuel is.
He cut off his middle finger in a fast food restaurant and went swimming.
He almost died.
That's how committed he is to what?
I don't know if he sued McDonald's or wherever else he was working.
This is salutes with the other hand, obviously.
Here's David Rodham Gergen.
Larry King alive last night to fill-in host with John King.
David Rodham Gergen was asked, what is the role of the chief of staff, and what does it say about Obama that he picked Rah Emmanuel?
I think it's an extremely interesting choice.
I mean, a couple of the things I think are interesting about this.
His close relationship with David Axelrod, almost like a Karl Rove kind of position.
They're such good friends.
As you know, a Jewish wedding, a long tradition, is to have a ketubah where the bride and groom each sign and then two of their closest friends sign as witnesses.
David Axelrod signed the ketubah at Rah Emmanuel's wedding.
That demonstrates their closeness.
Whoa, whoa, man, that means a lot.
That is really interesting.
David Rodham Gergen said so.
That is really interesting.
David Axelrod signed the Ketuba at Emmanuel's wedding.
Are we a lucky country or what?
Have Axelrod and Emmanuel so close.
Here is the, let's see, former counselor President Clinton on trade, Bill Daly of Chicago, talking to Joe Scarborough.
Rom Emmanuel, somebody who can reach across the aisle, your thoughts on that?
I've known Rah for 20 years.
There's no question he is extremely able not only to reach against across the aisle, but be somebody that can drive the agenda for President-elect Obama and work with all factions that are involved in the issues.
One of the most partisan, tough, smart people in Washington over the last 30 years was Jim Baker.
Lots of people talked about Jim Baker as this partisan guy who ran the recount in Florida.
Tough, smart.
Yes, he was.
Very partisan, very direct, but somebody that was able to reach out and be bipartisan and also show that there sometimes are issues that rise above partisanship.
Rahm's given up a safe seat where he could be forever.
He wanted to be Speaker of the House, but Obama tricked him.
He named him before he'd even asked him to accept it.
And Emmanuel knew he couldn't turn it down.
It would not look good for Obama.
So he may have a job he doesn't even want.
Now, as far as this bipartisanship, I looked it up.
Rah Emmanuel has a 98% voting record in the House of Representatives.
This is just flat-out BS that he's bipartisan.
I just, I just laugh at this.
I just, it's just, there are so many people.
There's a little Schadden Freud building in me.
So many people.
This is, by the way, this has to happen.
This will happen.
There are so many people who are going to be shocked, surprised, and disappointed at Barack Obama, people who supported him and people who elected him.
There's no way around this.
His support group is too varied and disparate.
He's got Jew haters that support him, and he's got a lot of Jews that voted for him.
Something's got to give there at some point.
There's either the Jew haters are going to hating him, or the Jewish people that voted for him are going to be shocked.
One of the two, and they both cannot be made happy here once Obama gets going.
Now, CNN has decided to talk about me, ladies and gentlemen, Campbell Brown, introducing a story on right-wing rage.
Notice no stories on post-election stress syndrome.
No, It's right-wing rage.
She's on with Joe Johns, and she said, We all saw the pictures at election night, people all over the world dancing in the streets.
But some Americans, particularly conservatives, have very different feelings about President-elect Obama, many of them feeling really, really angry right now.
And Joe Johns have been listening to what can only be called right-wing rage.
Joe, tell us what these conservatives are saying.
There is a certain amount of hand-wringing, and there are those who are already comparing this to the early 90s when Bill Clinton won.
As everyone remembers, Republicans regrouped, and it wasn't long before Newt Gingrich and his conservative army swept to victory in the House.
And guess who's already hammering away at the Democrats?
Rush Limbaugh, blasting both Rah Emmanuel and Barack Obama hours after the polls closed.
He is good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug.
On the night of the Clinton election, Rah Emmanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign.
Rah Emmanuel grabbed a steak and he began rattling off a list of betrayers.
And as he listed their names, he shouted, dead, dead, dead, and he plunged the stake knife into the table after every name.
This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center.
So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again.
Where was the rage?
I want to know where was the rage?
They set that bite up as right-wing rage.
Where was the rage?
I simply told a story about Rah Emmanuel that they will not tell.
If you're thinking the country's now unified.
Look at the election returns.
We are back on Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be getting to your phone calls quickly.
I want to get some in this hour.
We normally don't get the phone calls on Open Line.
Well, any day until the second hour, but I'm interested in finding out what's on your mind.
And Open Line Friday gives you a chance to go places I have not gone this week, if you wish.
By the way, Rahm Emmanuel used to tell people that he lost his middle finger while fighting with the Israeli defense forces.
That was the old story.
Now it is that he sliced it off working at a fast food joint and was so manly and so fearless, he went swimming, almost died due to infection.
Also, this is somewhat humorous, too.
From Obama's own book, The Audacity of Hope, after paragraph after paragraph castigating the Republicans for being so damn partisan, we get this paragraph.
Of course, there are those within the Democrat Party who tend towards similar zealotry as the Republicans, but those who do have never come close to possessing the power of a rove or a delay.
The power to take over the party, fill it with loyalists, and enshrine some of their more radical ideas into law.
It just happened.
It just happened, folks.
And it happened actually long before Obama came along.
Obama's the stamp.
He's the dotted I. He's the cross T.
I just have to laugh.
So many people have been fooled.
So many people have just been swamped by what has happened here.
And I do.
I eagerly anticipate the day where the lights of realization go on inside the dimwit skulls of so many of these people who unwittingly and for the stupidest of reasons voted for Obama.
Now, you think it's bad that I call Obama and Emmanuel Chicago thugs?
Let's go to CNBC Squawkbox this morning.
Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick are talking with CNN correspondent Steve Leesman and Messero financial chief economist Diane Swonk about the Obama transition.
The few people who have been named to his team, Emmanuel Podesta, Pete Rouse from Dashell's office, aren't exactly a post-partisan party.
I mean, this is hardcore Chicago politics from the Democratic side.
Why isn't Bill Ayers at the table?
Remember, this is what I said.
This doesn't have to listen to me.
This is McCanny Talen.
Hey, sign up.
Why isn't Bill Ayers at the table?
Sign up.
No, I don't want to hear about Bill Ayers.
All right.
Why isn't Bill Ayers at the table?
He is.
Bill Ayers is a silent advisor.
Don't think he's not.
So's the Reverend Wright.
This, folks, this next is just too juicy.
It is from the Detroit News.
They're Lansing Bureau.
Obama taps Granholm and Bunyer.
Michigan governor and former congressman will serve on economic transition team.
The governor of the state of Michigan, a state that long before this economic crisis set in, was in recession.
A woman who is the architect of the recession in Michigan has been signed on to the Obama.
Fresh face, too, eh?
Well, by the way, here's why they say this is what her strengths are from this story.
Granholm's strengths are that she's charismatic.
She's a good public speaker and she's outgoing.
Well, what job could Obama offer that takes advantage of that Democrat National Committee?
It sounds as Miss America pageant contestant or maybe even Obama himself.
Some of the Obama people are putting out now along with the drive-by media.
By the way, welcome back to Open Line Friday.
Rushland bought talent on lawn from God.
What is this, H.R.?
Was this New York Times or Washington Post today?
The story about never before, never, ever, ever, has a president-elect been forced to govern before he was inaugurated.
The New York Times, never, never, ever, ever before has a president-elect been requested to govern before he was inaugurated.
The pressures, ladies and gentlemen, the pressures and the expectations.
So wonderful is the one that we can't wait for January 20th for his munificence and for his countenance.
We must have Lord Obama, the most merciful, governing ASAP.
And as a result of that, Lord Obama meeting with his economic advisory team here.
And the theme of the meeting basically could be summed up right.
What the hell do we do now?
We actually won this thing.
Now what do we do?
So here we have Jennifer Granholm, architect of a statewide recession, named to the Obama economic team.
This is like naming Elliot Spitzer your attorney general.
I mean, this is too good.
And again, this article in the Detroit News, her strengths are, she's charismatic, a good public speaker.
She is outgoing.
Wow.
You mean she's cute and she speaks well like Sarah Palin?
She's destroying an entire state.
Maybe they can make Michael Bloomberg the secretary or the leader of the Council of Economic Advisors.
You heard what Bloomberg is going to do?
Bloomberg, he's not for raising taxes.
He wants to tax every plastic bag you take out of a grocery store in New York five or six cents.
Claims he can raise gazillions doing this.
People are going to start taking napkins from home and putting this.
Russia's not funny.
People are going to be.
It is funny, folks.
It's funny because all this, you know, those of us, we warned you.
You were warned about all of this.
And you did not heed the, well, I know most of you in this audience did heed the warnings, but some of you people did not.
You people were warned time and time and time and time again what was going to happen here.
It's happening even before the one is inaugurated.
Now, I'm going to go back and play an audio soundbite here.
This is Campbell Brown introducing a story on right-wing rage last night on CNN talking to Joe Johns, the reporter.
This is crucial here to understand how it is that the Democrats and the drive-by media distort things.
Dissent when the Democrats are in power is rage.
It is derangement.
It is unbalanced.
We all know that the real hatred, the real rage in this country for the last eight years, if not longer, has been the exclusive property of insane lunatic fringe Democrats.
And as I so brilliantly asked on Wednesday of this week, where is that rage going to go?
It has to go someplace.
It doesn't vanish.
People who live their lives enraged and angry all the time need to be enraged and angry to feed off of it.
People who are pessimistic have to be pessimistic all the time.
They've got to find something to be unhappy about.
There are people like this, people who are happily miserable.
The Democrat Party is full of them.
And where in the world is that rage and hatred going to go?
It may be tamed for the moment, but some of it's going to go right to Obama when he doesn't pull out of Iraq, when he doesn't close Club Gitmo, when he doesn't do something.
He's going to do some things that will satisfy him, though.
I've been looking at his change.com website.
Wait till you hear the community service he has planned for every damn one of us.
So-called volunteer community service.
But this notion that right-wing rage is now, there is no rage.
I'm not mad.
I'm laughing.
I've been laughing since Wednesday.
What they call rage is nothing more than dissent.
Now, remember, one of the ways they're going to go after talk radio is to call it hate radio.
Rage, right?
They just distort these things and they call dissent or disagreement things that they are not.
If you dissent from liberal prescriptions, why you must be insane.
You must be enraged.
You must be hate-filled and so forth.
This is the Stalinist type of mentality that they have.
So here's Campbell Brown introducing this piece with Joe Johns as the correspondent on right-wing rage.
It contains a clip of me from earlier in the week.
And I want you to listen to this and tell me where is the rage.
There is a certain amount of hand-wringing, and there are those who are already comparing this to the early 90s when Bill Clinton won.
As everyone remembers, Republicans regrouped, and it wasn't long before Newt Gingrich and his conservative army swept to victory in the House.
And guess who's already hammering away at the Democrats?
Rush Limbaugh, blasting both Rah Emmanuel and Barack Obama hours after the polls closed.
He is good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug.
On the night of the Clinton election, Rahm Emmanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign.
Rah Emmanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers.
And as he listed their names, he shouted dead, dead, dead, and he plunged the steak into the table after every name.
This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center.
So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again.
So where's the rage?
If there's any rage in that story, it's what you conjure up Rahm Emmanuel doing, grabbing a steak knife and plunging it into the dinner table.
And each time he plunges it, he shouts dead and then mentions a betrayer's name.
Dead, dead.
The rage in this story is Rah Emmanuel.
There is no right-wing rage in this story.
I'm smiling even now talking about it, but this is how they're going to try to mischaracterize and how they've always done it.
And they'll have their willing accomplices in the drive-by meeting to help spread the myth.
Here's more from Joe Johns on Obama and me from last night on CNN.
Hours after Barack Obama was elected, Rush Limbaugh, known on his show as the man who runs America, was back on the radio breathing fire, taking Obama and his now-named chief of staff, Rah Emmanuel, to the woodshed.
He is good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug.
So if you were thinking the country is somehow unified, think again.
There are still deep divisions.
Just because the president-elect says he's going to listen to conservatives, they say, doesn't mean he's going to govern from the middle.
You can listen all day long, do nothing about it, right?
There's no unity with Obama.
Now, what they left out of that was Obama said, you may not have gotten your vote.
You may not have voted for me, but I'm going to listen to you.
And that's why, oh, yeah, fairness doctrine, you're going to listen to us while shutting us down.
And that's what good old Joe Johns did not include in his reports.
They're our breathing fire again.
Hear that?
Breathing fire.
And Anderson Cooper could not let this go.
He also spoke to Joe Johnson.
He says, so much for any honeymoon there for Barack Obama.
It's sort of all over the place on Obama.
You heard Rush Limbaugh.
That's one view.
And the RNC chimed in as well.
David Keene, the guy in the piece from the American Conservative Union, makes a point that, hey, Barack Obama was elected the very same way Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980.
You got to give a guy a chance before you go after him, at least.
And when he does something you disagree with, you go after him then.
The point is, Rahm Emanuel is one of the things conservatives would go after Barack Obama about.
Yeah, but why, Joe?
I mean, there's a reason for we're not just going after the guy to go after the guy.
You guys, you guys cut it under the rug.
You're the guys that did not tell anybody about Obama.
We know who Obama is.
We know who his associates are.
We know who his alliances are with and so forth.
And you guys didn't.
We're not trying to define.
Maybe we are.
Maybe we are trying to define Obama since you guys, Joe, didn't.
And now we got Brokaw and Charlie Rose.
I don't know anything about him.
That's the last soundbite in the list.
Let's play that again.
New tune-in factor.
Some of you people may not have heard this.
That is a great example of drive-bys covering their rear ends now, folks, because they're way, you know, if Obama goes way off a deep end on the left, they don't want to get any blame for it.
And so they're, we'll just listen to this.
This is illustrative of the kind of thing I'm talking about here with Joe Johns.
Of course, we're going to try to define Obama for people so they have some idea what's coming.
We live in the United States of America.
It's going to be governed by a bunch of far leftists, extremists, and radicals.
And not like he picked Lieberman as chief of staff, by the way, could have reached across the Alfa Democrat, found Lieberman, could have made him Secretary of Defense.
I was thinking of Chuck Hagel for that, by the way.
Chuck Hagel's name is on the list.
Anyway, here's Tom Brokhan, Charlie Rose from one week ago on Charlie Rose's show on PBS.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't know.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who are advising them?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
Well, Jeremiah Wright, we know a lot about him.
And so did these guys.
They knew about it all along.
And how about that stuff yesterday we had from the Newsweek guys?
Evan Thomas and John Meekum.
That stuff yesterday is pricey.
You got to grab that stuff.
People need to hear that again because here's all this right-wing rage being aimed at people like me and so forth.
And the drive-bys trying to act like we're trying to take Obama down before he has even been inaugurated.
We're not trying to take anybody down here.
We're just trying to define him for people since you people like Joe Johns and others would refuse to do so.
Here, one more bite before we go to the break.
Also, Anderson Cooper won 80 last night.
He spoke to former Clinton advisor David Rodham Gergen, and they had this exchange.
They were talking about me.
Does Obama need to worry about what conservatives like Rush Limbaugh are saying about Rahm Emanuel right now?
Not very much.
I think he's going to get a good honeymoon from Republicans, unlike the situation that faced George W. Bush, and very unlike what faced Bill Clinton.
Neither man had a honeymoon.
But in this case, you know, with the first African American going to the White House, this deep reservoir of support from the country, Republicans know it'd be suicidal to start attacking him from day one on an all-fronts basis.
I don't think it'd be suicidal, but we're not attacking him on an all-fronts basis.
And by the way, Mr. Gergen, if I may just make this clear, Barack Obama is my president of the United States.
He's not black.
He's not white.
He's not Asian American.
He is not Mexican.
He's not Chavez's brother.
He is not Islamic.
He is my President of the United States.
It is his ideas I am terrifically, tremendously worried about.
I couldn't care less where he was born.
I couldn't care less what his name is.
I couldn't care less how old he is.
I couldn't care less about the color of his skin.
I couldn't care less about his family.
I don't care where he lives.
I don't care where he plays basketball.
I don't care about any of that.
I don't see Americans the way you do, Mr. Gergen.
I don't see groups of people.
Oh, there's the women and they're the blacks and there are the Hispanics and they're the poor and there's the home.
I see Americans.
I see human beings.
He's a human being and now he's president of the United States.
He is attempting to consolidate the most radical left-wing policymakers and administration of my lifetime.
I am going to oppose his ideas.
I am not going to wait until you people in the drive-by give your approval as to when this can happen.
It is Open Lion Friday.
I am your highly trained broadcast specialist and host, Rush Limbaugh, with half my brain tied behind my back.
By the way, a little side note here to David Rodham Gergen of CNN.
You better get on the phone and tell some of these left-wing kooks that it's too soon to criticize Obama.
I mean, some of these people out there, like at the Daily Cars and the Democrat Underground, and even that nutcake rabbi up there, Michael Lerner, whatever his name is, remember the politics of meaning that Hillary Glomdondo?
They are livid, Mr. Gergen, about the choice of Rahm Emmanuel.
Now, you better get on the phone tonight or better get on CNN.
It's too soon for the left to be criticizing Obama over this as well.
By the way, we're digging out of our archives to remind you of Mrs. Clinton literally screeching.
This is back in the days when she thought she's going to be president.
And she sounds like your first and second ex-wives, yelling and screaming, redefining patriotism, cookie digging it out of the archives even as we speak.
But let's go to the phones.
It's Open Line Friday.
We have a Democrat who loves the fact that Obama was elected.
His name is Cedric.
He's from North Haven, Connecticut.
And it's great to have you on the EIB network.
Cedric, welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Happy Friday.
Same to you, sir.
Yeah, it used to be Friday.
It was a payday, but now we're paid bi-weekly now.
one other thing that slows us down here.
But I wanted to...
Don't worry, that's going to change.
I wanted to thank you.
You're going to get paid every day, Cedric.
The gas tank's going to get filled up.
Your mortgage is going to be paid off.
No worries.
Yeah, I called it the thank you, honestly, because I had been for about five years with a co-worker who was a Republican every day arguing and debating the ideology of the parties.
But, you know, he was a listener.
You know, Russian, Hannity, he listened, and he pretty much got turned off by the daily smears and no real Republican message.
What, your Republican buddy got turned off by the Daily Smears?
Yeah, he voted for Barack.
I was amazed.
You know, it wasn't because of me.
It was because of you.
I'll bet you a dollar to a donut if we'd had a nominee that had been articulating what your Republican buddy's ideas, core principles are, that he would have voted for that nominee.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Well, how do you blame me for that?
I didn't nominate our guy.
No, but he was turned off by the daily smears.
What daily smears?
No message, just daily smears.
Who's used for me?
Yeah, you and Hannity.
Oh, come on, Cedric.
All we did was tell the truth about who Obama is when our colleagues of the drive-by media.
We're not smearing anybody.
Is it a smear to play Reverend Wright?
It's a, you know, it's an association game, and it had no place.
It's no game.
It's his pastor.
He chose him for 20 years.
Pastor baptized the two kids.
His wife's sitting there.
Everybody around Obama was angry.
Let me ask you, did you ever see the PBS interview, the Moyers interview with Reverend Wright, which put everything in perspective?
I did.
I heard about they took the snippets.
There aren't snippets or not.
None of that was out of context.
When you say, God damn America.
It was out of context.
It wasn't out of context.
It wasn't out of context.
When you say after 9-11, America's chickens are coming home to roost and we got what we deserve.
I mean, there's no out of context there, Cedric.
No, but it's historically the point he was putting across is that we can't go out and do things around the world.
No, he's wrong.
We didn't.
Blaming.
See, there you go.
Blaming the United States and saying we're guilty and responsible for the terrorist attack against us.
That's not smearing.
That's trying to tell people the truth.
Glad to talk to you, though, Cedric.
Thanks so much.
If there's any right-wing rage out there, and they can't even call it right-wing rage, what the McCain campaign is doing to Sarah Palin.
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