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Jan. 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome, my friends, to the fastest three hours in all of media.
I am your beloved benevolent dictator host, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy.
It is Friday.
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Because when we go to the phones, it's your show.
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It's actually one of our favorite days of the of the week.
And we've been doing an informal survey.
It's very odd that even on Friday we find somebody who wants to talk about something I don't want to talk about.
Because even when I sacrifice the leadership role on this program, I still hold on to it.
Something that occurs to me naturally.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, we very infrequently here have guests.
We do make uh occasions now and then today is one of those occasions.
Ann Coulter is here.
Uh and for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, we've got a new camera placement so that you see Anne and uh a view of me that seldom is ever seen, my rear.
But Ann Calder's new book, and I'm sure uh a number of you have seen her uh pilloried and abused on cable television uh for the past for the past week.
I I noted uh, Ann that the uh original or the initial appearances, uh the the Mount Wowers and the and the others basically attacking your right to breed.
Uh who the hell are you?
Uh and then when you got in the whenever they deigned to get into the substance of your book, you wipe them up, uh, and so they forget that and then it start attacking your tone, uh, which is where we are.
And I thought, you know, I've I've uh I've had time to reportions of the book and is always the case with Ann Colter books.
There is serious, unique substance in these books, uh, mixed in with the irreverent humor, which is what the critics harp on and uh overlook on purpose some of the substance.
And I want to talk to you about some of the substance in the book when you feel like being funny.
Um thank you.
I am so honored to be here.
I know you don't have guests.
It's a thrill to have you here.
The title of book is Guilty, Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America.
Now, you're prolific writer.
You come out with a book every eighteen months.
Is that about right?
Roughly.
Okay, so you s where did the idea for this book come what did it start out to be?
Is it what do you do you do an outline?
Your books end up as you envision them when you start them.
Not at all.
I do all my own research, and suddenly, you know, you'll find interesting things where you weren't expecting to, and you won't find interesting things where you thought you were going to.
Um, this was going to be more on on specific victims.
I mean, it started with authentic victims in America, the blacks.
Um, there really was slavery, there really was Jim Crow, but then you have all these pseudo-victims, fake victims, gloming on to the black story, illegal immigrants, the Muslims, the gays, the wimp my favorite victim group, um, wealthy white women living in Scarsdale who were bored by being housewives.
That's Betty Fridan victim.
But then, as I was writing it, it was during the 2008 campaign, and of course, the biggest victimizers of all are the media.
I mean, th they they are the only attack machine.
Um and yet they create villains, they tell these morality tales, and there's always a villain and a victim.
By the way, you are a big villain in these morality tales.
But of course, what they're trying to do is create an atmosphere of contempt.
What they're doing to me now, but at least I can then come and go on the Rush Limbaugh show.
I can't believe you did this without a Rush Limbaugh show for you to go on.
Okay, so what you mean here when you say that the victims are are really the victimizers.
Yes.
Victims are portrayed as helpless, sorrowful, sad sack minorities.
What you're saying is they're really power groups.
Yes, yes.
I mean, look at the Duke Lacrosse players.
They were supposed to be the victimizers of this poor single mother, of course.
Black woman strip stripper dancer.
Yes, and who was being victimized in that story.
And by the way, as I describe in this book, the New York Times was holding on to the bitter ends, telling the stripper side of the story, which was untrue.
Um and lying about it, but thanks to the internet, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize bait story on the Duke Lacrosse players, um, was torn apart apart within hours of it being posted online.
Um you had one of my favorite ones, um, which I described in the story, 95% world domination is not enough.
It's about how the media, the mainstream media is always claiming to be a victim of themselves of the media.
The media isn't covering this, the media isn't covering that.
And um I loved this when the New York Times exposed the SWIFT program.
Um remember that was the government following the terrorist financing, which coincidentally, by the way, which everyone has forgotten.
The New York Times wrote an editorial two weeks after the 9-11 attack, basically demanding that the Bush administration start tracking terrorist financing.
So the government does it.
They invite the media in to be open, tell the media what's going on, um, a consortium of various international um financial institutions are tracking terrorist financing, but they ask various outlets of the media, do not expose this.
And of course, the New York Times puts it on their front page.
Right.
Making the easiest job in the world, head of counterterrorism, Al Qaeda.
You just have to read the New York Times every morning over your coffee and you're done.
Um and first the New York Times defended itself, was indignant that of course Americans were hopping mad and wanted to boil the New York Times editors and reporters in oil.
First the New York Times denied that that uh it it had done anything unusual because it was also on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Well, you know, the Wall Street Journal didn't appreciate being treated as the New York Times wingman and came out and said, yeah, we knew, but we weren't gonna print it.
And then that once you told Treasury that you were gonna print it, Treasury asked us to print our own version of it so that at least the facts would be right.
But the greatest thing was Frank Rich wrote two columns in a row um talking about how the New York Times, the poor little New York Times was being bullied by patriotic Americans, enraged that that they were revealing secret terrorists programs, and actually raised the issue of of anti-Semitism.
He quoted favorably um Chris Matthews on on Hardball saying, Oh, it's the old story, go after big ethnic New York.
I think we need a new name uh for cable news called the sanitarium.
Where are the insane people in this society?
They're working in cable news for the most part.
Well, you know, interestingly about this uh the the whole the the wireless wire the the wireless um uh warrantless wiretap situation, that's another thing Obama's gonna hold on to.
In fact, the New York Times had a story yesterday reporting that some intelligence court is gonna come out and say it's entirely legal after four years of trying to destroy Bush and any Republican, now it's entirely legal just in time for the Messiah to have access to if there's anybody who might spy on Americans using this, it would be this incoming.
And I agree with you on on Gitmo.
I've noticed that the mainstream media has suddenly started running articles in Newsweek, LA Times, not yet the New York Times, um, that are suddenly describing how dangerous the detainees are at Guantanamo.
I've never heard about that for the past seven years.
It will manifest itself further after the one accepts the oath of office on Tuesday.
It'll be a few short days afterwards that we will start hearing members of the administration say, we didn't know how bad it really was, the Bush administration.
Right, right.
Held out on us.
Uh it's worse than we knew it guantiness worse than we knew in the economy.
Uh, so that the th they'll they'll do what they can to continue to dump on Bush.
So this became so I I can see how you're looking out over our culture and you see these groups of cultural victims who have become as minorities majorities through intimidation.
Right.
And of course, Republicans are easy to intimidate these days.
And then the more you look into it, uh once again you end up with a book, not largely but significantly about the media.
A lot of it, yes, because they are the biggest victimizers.
I mean, they talk about the Republican attack machine.
I have a whole chapter on the Republican attack machine because it's one of the many imaginary phenomena that terrifies liberals along with global warming.
The conservative media has them and and the Republican National Committee, I guess, has them seized with terror.
Um and I kept hearing Republic every time I wasn't even trying to pay attention to what was on TV.
I kept hearing what are the Republicans going to do when the Republican attack machine.
Um so I looked up on Nexus how often Republican attack machine, the phrase had been used more than seven hundred times in a one-year period.
There isn't one, though.
Well, yes, that's the point of the chapter.
But But meanwhile, the Democrat attack machine has been used about seven times.
And there isn't even really a Democrat attack machine.
There is one attack machine.
It is the media.
And for example, I mean it isn't it isn't the Democratic National Committee coming up with the fake National Guard documents.
That was CBS News and then calling it into the Carey campaign.
It wasn't the Obama campaign inventing the story about at Sarah Palin rallies when she mentions Obama that pe members of the crowd were yelling, kill him.
No, that was a member of the media.
And the most striking proof of the media being the most powerful attack machine is once once they jumped ship from the old golden boy, Bill Clinton, and the new golden boy, B. Hussein Obama came around, you see who wins.
All right.
Now, I want to give you a chance, because you just you say be Hussein Obama to your average cable news uh host, and they freak.
Now I happen as as a uh highly trained broadcast specialist.
I am to understand why you do it, but I want to hear your reason.
You're the only guy that could be Hussein Obama.
You tell them why you're doing it.
Um it is kind of funny that we just had this huge war against an enemy named Hussein, and the Democrats are running a candidate whose middle name is Hussein.
And by the way, when we ran J. Danforth Quayle, um Calvin Trillin wrote an article, I think it was in the New York Times, I'm not sure, some mainstream media, sneering at the Republicans for being so stupid to run someone with a name like that, and he sounds like a banker and it fits right into the image of of Republicans as the party of the rich.
Well, how's too we can't we can't mention because Democrats are kind of soft on terrorism.
And now they're running a candidate.
Well, he's about to assume the office of the presidency with a middle name Hussein.
Um I might have dropped it, except every time I said it, liberals would go crazy.
But it would be, I mean, as I've said before, it would be like Republicans running in 1948, a candidate names, you know, Thomas Hitler Dewey.
I think people would notice that.
There's a couple, uh, by the way, the couple uh in New Jersey, I think, that actually had a kid and they gave him the middle name Hitler.
I just saw this yesterday.
And I think he was taken away from the city.
I'd tell the family services was right in there.
Well, I tell you, we are going to broadcast uh Be Hussein, Obama's uh uh uh immaculate inaugural address on Tuesday.
And I have instructed the broadcast engineer during the oath, both when it is given and he recites it, to beep, to bleep when he uses the name Hussein.
Well, remember John McCain jumped all over people in his campaign review.
So uh to avoid any controversy whatsoever, we will bleep when he uses his own middle name just playing too.
Talking with Ann Coulter about her uh her new book guilty will continue after this.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh open line Friday with Ann Coulter and her new book, Guilty, Liberal Victims, and their assault on America.
This is a special I'll tell you.
For me, a timely topic because I have uh I I first became aware of this in the early nineties, well, late eighties when I started this show.
And um in the process of uh attracting affiliates and so forth, and this is in the middle of the AIDS uh the politicization of that disease and so forth.
And I, you know, would offer my opinion about it, and here came a distinct minority that was just doing everything they could to intimidate radio stations and even me from not saying what I wanted.
And I said, and I read into some news reporters about this.
They said, well, we must give them voice.
Uh they are a minority and they're just trying to attain the same rights everybody else has and so forth.
And uh I I heard the Democrats talk about the tyranny of the minority when when when the Republicans were in the minority, and now that they're in the majority, they don't care about the minority.
But uh it it it's it's amazed me how the majority has just caved.
Right.
I don't care what group of victims you're talking about.
Right.
It seems the vast majority and and uh all victim groups are liberals.
Yes.
It's it's a it's a part and parcel of their s political structure.
That's exactly right.
It amazed me how take this out of the realm of the media, because your examples there are great, but it it's amazing how many cultural conservatives who we would uh define descend from the true virtue of the founding of this country are caving to the attempt to destroy that very culture.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Well, that's part of the reason for this book, and I describe why I think that works in this country.
It actually is it sort of a nice thing about America.
Americans are incredibly charitable and kind hearted people.
And so when they see some some liberal claiming to have been mortally offended, their natural instinct is to rush in and, you know, aid the afflicted.
Well, I'm trying with this book to say these are crocodile tears, stop falling for it.
I know you're lovely charitable people.
America's a political tactic.
There's nothing genuine about it.
Yes, yes, and there is example after example.
But where's the Constitution where you have a right not to be offended?
Right.
Well, he who was offended first wins in America.
Right.
That's th that's precise.
How to stop it?
Well, to point it out, once people start n recognizing it and and chuckling at it instead of opening their wallets and their hearts, and as I describe, Americans are the most charitable people in the universe.
Um so I understand why it works.
They love a disaster, whether it's a tsunami or I just didn't say love, but they they are almost greedy to help people who are who are in in herding um from a terrorist attack to a tsunami to a little girl down a pipe in Texas.
Americans are making sandwiches and raising money and donating blood, and the whole country will be fixated on the little girl in the pipe.
So Americans are sitting ducks for this the crocodile tears of the liberal.
All right.
Now, does this relate in any way?
We go back to 2006 elections.
I think one of the reasons we had a McCain in 2008 is because we lost George Allen in 2006 over a word, and I think we lost the House of Representatives because of uh of uh Mark Foley.
Nothing the Democrats did.
Well, the word was macaca.
Right.
What's what is the truth behind this and what did George Allen do that was wrong in the aftermath, if anything?
I described this first of all, George Allen was down in a uh not very wealthy area of Virginia, a rural part of town.
The richest person, the most privileged person in the audience was this kid who was called macaca.
So in the audience, the most privileged individual becomes a.
This kid's a plant, right?
Well, yes, he was from the the opposition research.
He's, as I call them, the Nazi block watchers.
They show up at the opponent's campaign with their little cameras.
And I think what Allen was doing was alerting these Americans in the audience, these lovely poor, mm-n not poor, but not wealthy people, that if they ask a stupid question, they were about to become YouTube celebrities.
So he interrupts himself, and it's actually a cheerful, nice thing.
And also, you know, there's this one glum kid standing in the middle frowning and filming everyone.
Um so he introduces the kid and says, you know, in a cheerful way, and at the same time, Jim Webb, George Allen's opponent, was out meeting with some Hollywood celebrities to raise money.
So um Alan makes a joke about that and says, this is, you know, I want to introduce, I don't know what your name is, macaca.
You're here for my opponent's campaign.
Tell them what real America is like.
He's out meeting with Hollywood celebrities.
Um the Washington Post ran hundreds of articles on this.
I don't know how Indian American oh, but the the macaca was a uh kid from a privileged family, went to good schools in a wealthy suburb of of Washington in Virginia.
He was going to University of Virginia.
How does he become the victim in this story?
He's trying to make fun of normal Americans showing up at a campaign rally.
Okay, meanwhile, Flash Two, um, Allen's opponent, Jim Webb, who was producing, and you will search high and low to find any news stories on this, um, what I think are are pretty clearly viciously anti-Semitic flyers against his primary comp opponent who was Jewish.
I described them in the book.
It shows his opponent with a in caricature like something out of Al Jazeera with a big hook nose and money coming out of his pocket.
He calls him jobs killer and the anti-Christ of outsourcing.
And in each picture, there's framed pictures of a dollar sign.
That raises absolutely no attention.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Well, we all know why, and that's because the Democrats are incapable of such things.
When even when they do them, well, no, they they don't they don't pretend to have any standards, they can't violate them, but they're protected.
Uh it's just like Geitner can get away with not paying his taxes, but you and I can't.
Right.
Uh two sets of rules, liberals and everybody else.
But I've never heard of the word macaca.
And I'm I was stunned to see weeks and weeks of exploration, in-depth investigative reporting and just What the hell a macaca was.
Well, they dig up.
Still don't know.
What is a macaca?
Well, they dig up some foreign language in which it means monkey, but A, no one in the audience would have known that, even if George Allen did, because his mother had once lived in this country, was from some African country.
I even if he he knew what it meant, no one in the audience knew, so it wasn't a way of getting people to laugh and root ridicule this kid, but moreover, uh when did Indian Americans become of special certified victim category?
What did we ever do to the Indians?
Which Indians?
The the Indi Indians from India.
Yeah.
No, the other Indians, I know what we did too.
And that was the Democrats, once again, Andrew Jackson.
She knows her history phone now.
That's exactly right.
Now, we got one minute.
Where did Alan go wrong in your opinion?
If you had been running his show, where'd he go wrong once the onslaught began?
Um not only he, but the Republicans around him, he he he apologized.
He should never ever have apologized.
Exactly right.
Well that because that see, this is oh no, we're nice people.
Right.
We're we're not racist, we're not any of these things you say.
And so I'm sorry I offended you and so.
Right.
And of course, the people on the side of the attacker won we want it game over.
The moment you apologize, you have admitted that that what they were attacking you for had some merit.
Well, it didn't have merit.
If you ever do something wrong, fine.
I'm not against apologizing.
But these are always synthetic scandals.
There's always a completely phony victim.
Like I say, the wealthiest person in the audience was the victim in this story.
Exactly right.
Well, I agree with you.
I don't apologize ever.
Helps that I'm never wrong.
Yes, you never make a mistake.
Um, in a political thing, you know, uh an apology is a tan-amount admission to the charge they're demanding you apologize for, and that's where Alan went wrong.
Are we gonna brief you got a couple more uh minutes here?
Yes, okay.
Well, Ann Coulter is the rare guest today, and we will be back.
And we're back.
It's open line Friday.
L. Rushball, the all-knowing old caring old sensing old feeling maha.
Rushi with Anne Coulter and her new book, which I'm kind of on, and we're actually discussing what's in the book uh for the first time in her uh week-long series of interviews, rather than her tone.
Title of Book is uh guilty liberal victims and their assault on America.
Now, and it's fast folks, it is a fascinating premise.
This whole business of how these poor, oppressed, victimized little groups are running this country with the aid of their willing accomplices in the drive-by media.
Now, George Soros, so two more people I want to ask you about here.
Uh George Soros, and as you say, B Hussein Obama.
Now everybody thinks well, not everybody.
A lot of people think that we know George Soros, that he funds a bunch of 527s for Democrats, and that he would s spare no expense uh to to get Hillary elected than be Hussein Obama or whatever, but you have uh a little bit more information about Soros in in your book than a lot of people know and how he does what he does.
Right, right.
Well, first of all, he does own the Democratic Party, um, thanks to campaign finance reform.
Thank you, John McCain.
Now now individuals have less power.
Plutocrats like George Soros have more power, and one of his minions said, We bought it, we own it, are it's ours.
Um when he switched from the Clintons to Obama, like the media, you see who wins.
Um he he he also what I th what I think is interesting about Soros and um Marcos, whatever his name is of Daily Cause and Ariana Hoffington are, you know, basically the three unofficial spokesmen of the Democratic Party, and they all speak in the foreign accents of their foreign upbringings.
You know, can't you wait a few generations later?
Let your grandkids do the America bashing.
You know, not not right away.
You can barely understand.
Yeah.
And George Soros.
Oh, uh yeah, him too.
I've never heard uh the Daily Cause guy speak.
Yeah, he was brought up in someplace in Latin America.
Um they all you you can't understand them.
They speak in foreign accents, they represent the Democratic Party.
Um George Soros, um, to show his great patriotism on 9-11.
This is all you need to know about George Soros after the 9-11 attack.
There was a big move on Wall Street to buy American, because there was a fear that when the the market opened the following Monday, there would be a huge stock market crash.
And short sellers who bet that American stocks will go down.
If a there are a lot of short sellers, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because everybody's trying to to not lose money by not short selling.
So there was a big campaign by, you know, uh um bond managers sending out letters to all of their investors saying um there's nothing that would I think would upset a lot of terrible people more than a big stock market rally on Monday.
Out across America, you had, you know, little old ladies and farmers and bankers and waitresses calling their banks.
They've never bought a stock before, finding out how to buy fifty dollars worth of stock.
And on Monday, the stock market opens, they sing the God bless America, ring the bell, and George Soros said sell, sell.
So he went short.
Yeah, and upset the whole thing.
When asked about it by Steve Croft, um, he said, for one thing, he finally um well, it's very clearly unquoted in my book.
He admitted to collaborating with the Nazis as as a teenager, and he said the same thing about selling America short as collaborating with the Nazis.
Well, if I hadn't done it, someone else would have.
That's the man who runs the Democratic Party.
Uh B. Hussein Obama, again, as you refer to him.
Everybody knows that uh well again, I think everybody listening to this program knows that in his race for the U.S. Senate in uh 2004.
It was 04, right?
I think that's right.
Because he's only been a senator for what, six or seven minutes.
Yeah, that's right, because uh Roland Burris moving on up.
Well only have two years in the sense right.
So uh the media helped Obama get private divorce files of one opponent, but there were two.
There were two.
There were two.
Well, that's been one of Obama's modus operandi is to clear the playing field.
Not so that there is nobody you have to beat.
And I mean, this is the power of the media and why they're running the Democrats rather than dem the Democrats running the media.
Um Obama and other liberal Democrats can always stand up and give magnanimous speeches about how I would never go after my opponent's family.
Well, of course you don't have to.
You got the media doing it for you.
And so both times, first with Obama's primary opponent, who was way ahead in the polls, he was very wealthy.
Um he was going to win the primary, and so the the media go in and get div his his sealed divorce records unsealed.
And by the way, speaking as a lawyer, I don't understand the point of sealing records if all that has to happen is for the media say, we think they'd be interesting.
Could you unseal them for us and get them unsealed?
It's Chicago.
Well, and then California, in the case of Jack Ryan, a stunning Republican candidate, and this is another example of um why um well you and I may be the last Republicans in name only, because the actual Republican Party completely dumped a magnificent candidate, Jack Ryan.
Um, luckily for Obama, his opponent was divorced.
And so the media fly out to California.
They get his divorce records.
Actually, the custody records in this case unsealed.
There is a highly implausible claim in the divorce records from his ex-wife, a member of Star Trek Voyager.
Um he accused her of having an affair, and she responded the only reason I had an affair was because he took me to sex clubs in New York, Paris, and and I think New Orleans.
So once again, we have a Republican sex scandal that doesn't involve anyone having sex.
Um he was accused of propositioning his own wife.
Um and by the way, then when Obama's running about si against Sarah Palin, I notice once again Obama has a tough, a formidable opponent, which John McCain was not.
Someone's divorce records would have to be unsealed.
Of course, Sarah Palin wasn't divorced, so it wasn't her divorce records.
Reporters fly into Alaska, they unsealed the divorce records of um Todd Palin's business partner with whom Sarah Palin was accused of having an affair.
Alas, she was not.
What is the miss traces back to Chicago and and uh Illinois politics?
What's what is the media, local and national?
What's their real attraction to Obama?
Is it race?
Part of it definitely is.
For one thing, the media is more left-wing than probably the average of the Democratic Party, even elected officials.
Certainly could be tough to be.
Well, and certainly people who call themselves Democrats.
The media is very, very left wing.
You have with with Obama the most left-wing pre president we've ever had, so they like that he's at least what he said he was gonna do, um, but we're hoping he's going to be have been lying to Daily Cause.
And also there is the fact that he's black, because as I point out, I mean, when it mattered during slavery, during the civil rights battles, the Democratic Party was on the wrong side.
So, you know, forty years later they want to do over, which is why they're constantly creating fake ra racial hoaxes in this country, so now they can finally come out and take a stand against racism at the precise moment when no one is defending racism.
So thanks, Democrats.
Now, speaking of of all this, uh Obama will be um immaculated on Tuesday.
What do you I mean I the Republican Party to a person is out saying we hope he succeeds.
We want the new young president's success.
What do you think's gonna happen?
Let's go current events here.
I know you didn't touch on this in the book.
Well, what do you think is gonna happen in the uh Obama administration?
I think you are right from what uh um you were saying in the first part of your program.
And I I hope he succeeds in the sense that if he succeeds, that means he was totally lying to the New York Times and you know, code pink.
That means he he was lying to them, and he will have to govern like a conservative.
And I uh I I suspect he may be doing what what you were talking about in your program, backing down from closing Gitma, we'll just you know, rename it Obama Vale, um, backing down from pulling out of a rock, not raising taxes on quote the rich, i.e., people who work for a living.
Um because if he doesn't, he's gonna be another Jimmy Carter, and it's gonna be a four-year term.
So he gets elected, as you say is the cult figure.
They're all they're all getting on the comet.
Um but then for him to succeed, I mean, as in his heart, he's a liberal, so I don't know where the liberalism is going to come out.
Maybe it will be in things like abortion and gay marriage.
But if he raises taxes, no question the economy will collapse.
Abortion, gay marriage, uh uh same-sex marriage roles.
Right.
Uh well, uh, there's a third element to this, and I'm having a middle block on it, but there are three pillars to the cultural overhaul that they want to engage in.
Look, the guy is a full-fledged leftist.
Right.
He's just a full-fledged leftist, but he couldn't he he won't be able to get away with getting what he wants if he talks that way.
That's why these cabinet members are moderate figureheads.
We all know that Bill Ayers will provide primary advisor education.
They can never put him in a cabinet.
Um, and that does show the victory, by the way.
I mean, I'd like more of a substantive victory, but but the victory of conservative ideas in America.
Even Obama um runs claiming he uh runs on tax cuts.
I mean, he says he's going to give tax cuts to everyone, including people who don't pay taxes, which was a little suspicious to some of us.
I think that's called welfare.
But he doesn't run saying I'm going to raise taxes and raise welfare benefits.
He says I'm cutting taxes.
Well, he's still saying some dangerous things, though.
Government is the only element that can fix the economy.
All these sorts of things.
So it's gonna be interesting to uh interesting to see.
He's gonna have no opposition.
Republicans are laying.
Right.
Republicans are bending over forwards, they're bending over backwards and grabbing the ankles.
And blaming you.
I knew it was your fault that John McCain lost.
Well, Colin Powell blamed me.
So the Republicans need to stop listening, which they did long time ago.
Who was it?
It was it was uh Chris Matthews on Hardball last night who said or no, it was uh one of his Steve McMahon.
You know, one of these Kendall inside the Beltway uh Democrat strategists.
And he said the problem with the Republican Party is that Rush Limbaugh's dragging him to the right.
If oh, I that's right.
Well, look, you uh your your book how it's been out what you're debutting at number two on the New York Times.
Number one on book scan.
Number one in book scan.
Uh well, after this, we'll take care of what was number two is and number threes and all that.
Uh wish wish you the best with you are prolific writer, and you've got uh you have a lot of admirers out there because you don't take the guff and you do not allow yourself to be manipulated or or um intimidated uh by these people, and you say to some of these people who interview what a lot of Republican conservative voters wish their elected officials would say.
Plus you make people laugh, and there's nothing wrong with that, especially now.
So, great that you came by.
Good luck with the book.
Are you you got an idea for your next one?
You work that far in advance?
Um not exactly a few ideas.
And I have to say, when I was writing this, I kept thinking this could be the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I can't put it all in.
But I think George Will told me Shelley said, the poet, a poem is never finished, it's abandoned, and that's what I always end up doing with the books, because I can think of seventeen more chapters for this book.
Well, put them in the paperback.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Ann Coulter, we've got a brief timeout.
We'll come back and get to more of your phone calls right after this.
Stay with us.
I ask you people patiently.
I asked you kindly.
And I have been rebuffed.
Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the woman that called within the past year, who said she had a little puppy, a little dog, and she was thinking about naming it after me.
And I asked her not to do it.
It was a male dog, and I said, please, I'm honored, but please don't do it because I don't want you calling the vet saying, hi, I need to bring Rush in to be neutered.
Well, I have a story here from PMS NBC.
They have a uh uh there's a the apparently veterinary pet insurance, the nation's largest and oldest provider of pet health insurance, scoured its database of more than four hundred and sixty-six thousand insured pets to find the most popular dog and cat names of two thousand eight.
Number one most popular dog name.
Well, no, most unusual, not most popular.
The most unusual name is Rush Limbark.
And so you people are naming, some of you people are naming your dogs after me.
Uh I just beg you, please, when you when you go to the vet, please don't call and say Rush needs to be neutered.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Laurel Merylon.
Ivan's been holding on for a while.
Great to have you here, Ivan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm I gotta say I'm a little bit nervous, but uh it's my first time calling.
But at any rate, I'm a uh proud black Christian conservative.
And um I just had some um uh you just talking to uh uh with Ann about uh uh taking blame, and I think strategy wise, to me to me, I I I think uh some of the talk show hosts, including yourself, could probably take some blame that Ob Obama's gonna be inaugurated.
Um because back in the back in the primary, um when Huckabee uh there was a time in the election when everybody wanted Huckabee to drop out, so the conservatives could coalesce behind Romney, but then as as it turned out, uh Romney dropped out first, but then you know nobody coalesced behind Huckabee.
And and if if to me, if if you were gonna have to uh hold your nose and vote for a conservative, Huckabee would have been a far greater uh candidate than than uh McCain.
Let me uh let me help you with something here.
I you you're you're you are asserting uh here that that I had the power to coalesce people around Huckabee, and since I chose not to do it, we got McCain, and therefore you are somewhat blaming me.
Yes, I am that we lost because McCain and his nominee.
Right.
You you tell me what uh I am supposed to do when I am sent an email quoting a Huckabee campaign advisor speaking anonymously, saying, We don't care about Limbaugh.
He's just part of the Republican National Committee talking points.
He just tell he just says what he's being fed to say by the Republican establishment.
I mean, the the the email I got was entitled Huckabee Forces Attack Limbaugh.
Now, what am I supposed to do there, Ivan?
Well, Russia.
And I don't endorse people, I don't endorse people during primaries anyway.
I'm it candidates are supposed to win elections, not me.
You're absolutely right, Rush, and I'm and I'm gonna I'm gonna say I I I agree with what you said, but at the same time, I I I believe that, and for the sake of the country, I believe that you're bigger than that.
To j you know, jump past what they you know, and you have to look at what's best for the country.
And I think, you know, but while I don't know a lot about Huckabee, and I I just know that Huckabee would have been a b a better candidate than uh than McCain.
Well, you I should be a bigger man than that.
That's not that it insulted me.
It's not that I was pay being petulant and saying, Oh, yeah, you you send your guys out to anonymously insult me, then screw you, I'm not gonna do that.
That wasn't my attitude.
My attitude was why do these guys need to start taking shots at everybody else in the Republican Party?
This it showed a temperament and a campaign organization that kind of you know did not inspire confidence.
So it had nothing to do with it.
That I was offended and decided I wasn't gonna support.
Besides, at the end of the day, what happened out there, Ivan, was that McCain and Huckabee teamed up because Huckabee at some point realized he was not going to win the nomination, and both McCain and Huckabee hated Romney because of the negative ads he was renting.
And so they they sort of combined forces, starting in West Virginia, where Romney won in the first ballot, but not enough to win.
So Huckabee and McCain combined forces in the second ballot to beat Romney, and that that's uh that's pretty much what started the uh the Romney decline.
And then of course there's what happened in Florida with Charlie Christ on the Saturday before the election endorsing McCain uh when he had said he was going to endorse somebody else.
It was it was a it was a comedy of errors.
But really, what you know the the whole what it what it boils down to uh and the the reason Republican prime, and I will agree with you by the way, Ivan.
I will agree with you that I have the power you uh uh uh have assigned to me.
I I I don't doubt it at all.
And it's just a question to me of the responsible use of the power.
And I must tell you, as I as I well, I'm I'm long here.
I gotta take a timeout.
Nobody inspired me as the point.
So Obama goes to the Washington Post yesterday for his first interview there, and he gets applause.
As no, he got applause as he walked in the door.
And Howard Kurtz writes, Oh, that wasn't reporters so much.
It was clerical staff and and so forth.
No, folks, just get used to it.
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