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Jan. 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists solacross, the fruited plane.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I swear.
MSNBC has hired an Obama lookalike as a commentator.
Snurdley and I just saw it.
Snerdley's in his office complaining about the civil rights movement.
Obama doesn't have any ties to it.
You know, and it's going in one ear and out the other, and I'm watching the different monitors in and I see this guy.
I said, Snerdly, look at that.
They just hired an Obama look alike as a commentator.
You believe that.
He looks up and he bursts out laughing and pounding the desk in there.
It's hilarious.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on open line Friday, 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I want you to imagine that you were on the U.S. Airways flight yesterday.
Something happens, you know it goes wrong, and the pilot says prepare for impact, and the flight attendants are making you bend over and do that routine, and they're passing out the um life jackets.
You don't know what to expect.
You have hope, but that's about it.
And then at the end of the ordeal, you are alive, but everything you had on that plane is gone.
Or it's destroyed, ruined.
Imagine if you had your computer on that plane.
Imagine on your computer was everything that mattered to you.
You had your future uh your will.
Your you'll say you had uh pictures, all kinds of important things, bank records, credit card, whatever you need.
Do your finances on your computer, it's gone.
Imagine that it's gone.
It needn't be the case if you back up online with carbonite.
People keep asking, but by the way, where when is the when is the Mac version coming?
It's coming soon.
They're still in beta, but it's coming soon.
This is this is the easiest way to back up your computer, and it's the safest way.
Your hard drive's gonna go, your computer's gonna get ruined, you're gonna lose it somewhere.
And the backup, once you do it the first time, it's automatic well, it's automatic the whole time, and it happens in the background, you never even see it, you don't have to manually do it.
Every time you're using your computer, it is backing up to Carbonite servers.
Just go to Carbonite.com use our offer code rush.
It needn't happen.
You needn't lose everything that's important to you just because your computer uh is lost, is stolen, or is destroyed somehow.
I got a request here from a major American print publication.
Dear Rush, for the Obama Immaculate Inauguration, we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists, to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency.
We would love to include you.
If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night.
That would be ideal.
Uh now, see here we're we're caught in this trap again.
The premise is what is your hope for the my hope and and and please understand me when I say this.
I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, well, I hope he succeeds.
We've got to give him a chance.
Why?
They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000.
Before he was inaugurated, the search and destroy mission had begun.
I'm not talking about search and destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year and a half.
I know what his politics are.
I know what his Plans are, as he has stated them.
I don't want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down.
And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him.
I don't want look, what he's talking about is the is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible.
From the banking business to the mortgage industry to the automobile business to the health care, I do not want the government in charge of all of these things.
I don't want this to work.
So I'm thinking of replying to the guy.
Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words.
I need four.
I hope he fails.
Well, what are you laughing at?
See, here's the point.
Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say.
Look at even my staff.
Oh, you can't do that.
Why not?
What why is it any different?
What's new?
What is what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails?
Liberalism is our problem.
Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here.
Why do I want more of it?
I don't I don't care what the drive-by story is.
I will I would be honored if the drive-by media headlined me all day long.
Limbaugh colon, I hope Obama fails.
Somebody's got to say it.
But what's, you know, were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded?
Or were they out there trying to destroy him from before he was even inaugurated?
Why do we have to play the game on their rules?
Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency that we uh we we want him to succeed?
It's a this is affirmative action if we do that.
We want to promote failure.
We want we want to promote incompetence.
We want to stand by and not object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin.
Sorry, I got past the historical nature of this months ago.
He's the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties or doesn't or ties he doesn't have to the you know being down for the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me.
We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids.
Why in the world we want to saddle them with more liberalism and social?
Why would he want to do that?
So I can answer to four words.
I hope he fails.
And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say.
That shows you just how far gone we are.
Well, I know, I know.
I am the last man standing.
I'm happy to be the last man standing.
I'm honored to be the last man standing.
I could, yeah, I'm the true Maverick.
I could do more than four words.
I say I hope he fails, and I could do a brief explanation of why.
You know, I want to win.
If my party doesn't, I do.
If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory, sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts.
Oh, I'm I'm serious about this.
Why in the world?
What is this?
You know, it's what Ann Colder was talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here.
We've got to make sure the victims are finally assuaged.
Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage anybody's victim status.
And the race industry isn't going to go away.
And the fact that America's uh, you know, the original sin of slavery is going to be absolved.
It's not going to happen.
It just isn't, folks.
It's too big a business for the left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country uh into groups that are against each other.
Yes, I'm fired up about this.
Reasons number 249 and 50, why I'm not a Republican.
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been chosen to introduce vice president elect Biden at a bipartisan dinner in Washington on the eve of the immaculation.
Biden was one of Hegel's closest friends in the Senate.
Uh that's the bipartisan dinners also held that night honoring McCain and Colin Powell.
Lindsey Graham of North South Carolina will introduce McCain at a different.
So all these Republicans are being honored on the night before Obama is immaculately inaugurated, as though they're part of the Obama administration.
This our presidential candidate is being honored.
I can understand liberals honoring their losers.
But I just, by the way, I predicted this next one here, folks.
This is from the Associated Press.
What did I predict?
I predicted that soon, maybe shortly after the immaculation, or right before it, we'll start getting little trickles of news stories and the drive-by media about how the economy is showing signs of recovery.
This is from today, January 16th.
The Associated Press.
Signs of credit market fall beginning to emerge.
As you predict to the drive-byers are starting to trickle out, folks, the news that things are starting to get better just in time for the immaculation.
Credit markets beginning to thaw after months of a deep freeze in a promising turn that could bolster the economy.
Companies are selling bonds at a pace not seen since last spring.
At the same time, companies are finding it easier to issue commercial paper, the short-term loans necessary for quick access to cash.
Told you, ladies and gentlemen, it is beginning to happen even before the immaculation.
Now get this.
This is another AP story.
Prospects for health reform drop significantly when Americans hear potential financial trade-offs associated with expanding health insurance coverage, according to a poll.
This poll is uh the Harvard School of Public Health.
Nearly 70% of people say they favor the concept of requiring employers to provide their workers with health insurance or contribute to a fund that pays to cover the uninsured.
In other words, not quite single payer, but but but but mandated national health care.
70% support it.
President elect Obama has called for such an employer mandate for medium and large businesses.
But what if people heard that the mandate would cause some employers to lay off employees?
Support falls dramatically to about 30%.
So 70% say, yeah, I want my my boss ought to provide my health care, every aspect of it that I want.
Okay, but your boss is going to have to fire some people.
Oh no, no, no.
30% say they only go only go for it that way.
That's according to the survey, but the Kaiser Family Foundation of Harvard Scruel of public health.
Similarly, about two out of three people favor requiring all Americans to have health insurance.
Now, that, what a question.
You know, frankly, folks, I don't care if you have health insurance.
You know what, I don't give a damn whether you have health insurance.
And I certainly am not going to participate in a survey says I think you ought to have it.
It's none of my damn business what you have or don't have.
Especially if you're going to take it from me.
I don't care whether you have health insurance.
See, this is another example.
Now my own staff said, you don't care about the kids.
Would you remember the premise of the question?
Two out of three people favor requiring all Americans to have health insurance.
What if the poll is two-thirds of Americans require favoring you to have a hybrid?
None of my damn business what you drive.
I don't care.
I care the motivation if you I don't want you to get hoodwinked and thinking you're saving the planet.
But if you want to drive, you know, some puddle jumper, go ahead.
It's your life.
But I don't have any right to tell somebody they have to have health care.
I don't have the right to tell my boss he must provide it.
I don't have a boss.
I'm the boss.
I ch I provided it my own option to myself when I go to the hospital when I go to the doctor.
But I don't care.
But two-thirds of the American people Think everybody ought to be required to have health insurance.
What does it matter?
But when this two-thirds, 67%, who favor people required to have health insurance, when told that some people may be required to buy insurance, it's too expensive.
Or that it's something they don't want, support falls to 19%.
It should never get to two-thirds in the first place because people ought to be smart enough in this country to realize that if you force people to buy health insurance, some people aren't gonna want it.
Why do they have to have that asked to them in a question to realize it?
Still it's a huge drop.
Sixty-seven percent think everybody ought to have it until they're asked, well, what if it costs too much, or what if they don't want it?
Well, only 19% support it.
About 47% were willing to pay higher insurance premiums or taxes.
Forty-nine percent were not.
And the headline, the story is actually accurate.
Public wary of uh health reform trade-offs.
I'm surprised the AP, I don't know how long they're gonna survive here.
Well, I know they know they didn't say Obama's health plan, but still to run this story.
You should I mean, it's give this given away the game.
Trade-offs are any trade-offs.
Nobody's talked about trade-offs till now.
You just everybody's gonna have health insurance, and we got a you got we got a utopia and everything's happy at the end of the day.
Oh no, trade-offs.
You mean some people are gonna have to give up something?
I mean, well, we have some people might lose their jobs.
But the again, what what really depresses me is that people ought to be able to figure that out on their own.
But I guess it's too much to expect.
One little soundbite here before we go to the uh before we go to the break.
Ron Brownstein, uh National Journal used to be the Los Angeles Times on PMS NBC this afternoon with Ann Ring, NBC Nino's Washington.
She said, Ronald Brownstein, you've written about the blue wall and the politics of this.
What Democrats have been able to achieve in the last election, Obama is right there in Ohio, which is one of the critical states.
Democrats have now won, Andrea, 18 states for at least the last five elections consecutively, plus the District of Columbia, 248 electoral college votes.
They haven't won that many states over that long a period since Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
Uh they also now hold, if Franken maintains his lead, 33 of the 36 Senate seats in those 18 states, over two-thirds of the House seats, two-thirds of the governorships, they have built their strongest electoral college base since the days of Roosevelt and Truman, and that is an important foundation for Obama.
And it's gonna be very difficult for Republicans, I think, to systematically challenge Obama and the Democrats over time if this much of the country is virtually off limits for them.
The Democrats own the country.
There's nothing anybody can do to stop it.
We should just lay down and accept it.
I've had some audio sound bites back up here.
I want to get to a couple of them.
We'll get your phone calls here at the uh next half hour, half hour.
This Chuck Schumer last night on WNBC Television News Channel 4 New York.
Uh the anchor, Jonathan Dean says the uh NTSB has a GO team arriving uh at Reagan International.
Senator, can you can you walk us through a bit of the procedure and how the NTSB will move forward to try to determine a cause for the U.S. air flight that crashed in uh Hudson?
Automatically, when there is a crash like this, the NTSB does a full-fledged investigation.
We'll have to wait and see what they have to say, but it's not too soon.
I'm gonna be calling the secretary, you know.
She I spoke to her in the middle of all this, and I said I'd call her this evening and talk to her about the future.
And I intend to do that in terms of what can be done about these geese.
Well, that's wonderful news to hear the uh uh Senator from New York is gonna see what he can do about the geese.
Apparently there's nothing we can do about the geese except global warming because Time magazine has a story today.
We caused this.
Climate change, global warming.
We have destroyed the migratory patterns of the geese.
Well, you can send Cheney up with a gun, but I mean, you uh that's what do you fire at?
I mean, if if I guarantee you, if Dick Cheney goes up there and starts shooting at geese, it's gonna be a far different reaction than if a goose flies into a jet engine.
No, we're causing this folks.
We have created uh uh a problem for these God created the sky for birds, not us.
We have invaded a pristine environment not intended for us.
We have altered that space, known as geese space, and uh until we uh reverse our evil ways, this is going to continue to happen.
I mean, that's what some animal rights wackers are thinking.
I get to half of California thinks that.
Half of California thinks that we are responsible.
We they feel sorry for the geese here.
Quick timeout.
Phone calls coming up.
Stay with us.
Well, this is interesting.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen.
A website called Pointer Online has a little posting today under Al's Morning Meeting why the number of aircraft bird strikes is increasing.
The reason why the U.S. Airways jet ditched in the Hudson River Thursday afternoon has not yet been confirmed, though it may have been caused by bird strike, as MSNBC.com's Bill Deadman reports, bird strikes are fairly common and often injurious to even very large aircraft.
Dr. Richard Dalbeer told MSNBC.com that such bird aircraft collisions are on the rise.
Now they may be, and I think they've got stats for this, but I don't remember a bird collision in recent days, years bringing down an airplane.
Do you?
Not like we've heard of it.
Anyway, anyway, here's here's what the experts say.
The key thing is that we've seen a remarkable increase in populations of many or most large birds.
Birds such as the great blue heron, the osprey, the bald eagle, the snow goose, the Canada goose, said Dolbeer, retired ornithologist with the Department of Agriculture at the wildlife services in Sandusky, Ohio.
These populations are increasing because we've done a really good job of wildlife conservation in North America for many species because we've cleaned up the environment.
We have gotten rid of DDT, yeah, and have spread malaria in Africa as a result.
Uh we have enacted the Clean Water Act, all good things, but because of these, we've had incredible surges of many species that are hazardous to aviation.
See, this is what offends me.
Who were the original aviators?
Birds.
How can the original aviators be responsible and hazardous to aviation?
Man can't fly without artificially doing it.
Birds can.
They're the original aviators.
And it's just a little minor sore spot of mine.
At the same time, these species have adapted to being around people in all of our activities.
Well, they I guess they haven't figured out they die when they get close to jets in the air, have they, Mr. Dolbeer?
Uh, bottom line here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is that the wackos, the environmentalists are thus responsible for this, not new migration patterns or what is too many birds.
Too many birds.
We've done too good a job of conservation.
Now, the wackos would say there can't be too many birds.
Birds, animals, and nature are pristine.
It's humans that are too numerous.
And airplanes that humans make in the sky are what's too numerous.
The birds are in the skies.
They were the original aviators.
And they don't use oil to fly either.
That's what half of California's thinking.
And half of a lot of other wacko left estates.
Back to the phones, it's open line Friday.
Dan in Temecula, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Great honor to speak to you, Rush.
I want to get right to the point.
Don't want to waste time because I know you're a busy man.
Want to talk about this uh uh shortfall that we supposedly have in California, 42 uh billion dollars.
Rush, I've lived here since 1961.
I've watched in the last 10 years, the state government has doubled here in California.
In the last Five years, the general fund spending has gone up 30%.
I have to pay they have run the business and middle class out of California.
We've lost a net loss of population every single year.
We have the highest gas tax in the country, the highest business tax, the highest sales tax.
We are spending right now, Rush, 15 billion a year in Medicaid, 7 billion a year in public assistance, 11 billion dollars a year for illegal immigration in California.
We're spending $600 million a year to keep illegals in our prisons.
I said we right now, Rush Schwarzenegger had a nine billion dollar surplus in the year 2006.
He and these morons up in Sacramento spent every dime of it.
They have increased our budget in this state every single year.
I want to show you how ludicrous this is, Rush.
They're talking about $42 billion deficit.
These morons have set a budget for a hundred and eleven billion dollars for the year two thousand and ten, which is eight billion dollars more than what they spent this year.
What it look, Rush, I'm not the smartest guy, and I'm not the sharpest pencil, and I'm not the brightest crayle in the box.
I'm an average guy, but I've had it.
And I'm sick and tired of it.
And I'll tell you, the only reason I'm not, I don't leave this state like all the other people who pay taxes, meeting the middle class in business, is I'm stuck here for for reasons I can't control.
But you can tell you this as soon as I get the chance, I'm out of here.
And if I sound mad, I am.
Wine, wine, wine, wine, wine.
That's all people are doing these days.
The whining and whining and moaning, and I'm getting tired of it.
Now I'm just teasing out there.
Uh I thought of that response halfway through your call and I was dying to use it.
Look, I have I have total understanding for your situation out there.
I frankly, I used to live in California for three and a half years and I loved it.
And I love visiting out there.
It's one it's just I'm just one of those places I love.
I would love to live there, but I I'm not going to give away what I've earned.
I I'm just to it to it to a to drain.
You know, just an endless bottom bottom uh endless pet.
And I uh, you know, you're propping up all kinds of uh uh non citizens.
I I saw something the other day which will illustrate Dan your point.
I had it in the stack as had a chance to get to it, so I'm gonna recite this from memory.
But the ballot initiative process is alive and well in California.
It was a ballot initiative.
You might remember the name of it, but I'd know the number of it.
I don't remember.
But basically, uh uh the animal rights people out there spread the news that chickens and turkey well, primarily chickens were being mistreated in the process of uh of the egg farmers were were were mistreating them by putting them in cages where they couldn't spread their wings.
I remember.
And the people of California, after being inundated with uh stories for years about how mean they were being to the chickens, uh, whose objective and only the only reason the chickens are alive is to lay eggs so that human beings can live.
And that that's what's insulting to these people.
And so they they're they mandated brand new cages that the egg farmers are gonna have to invest in and buy at their own expense, which is gonna add in total and then the egg the the egg business in California, like any other business out there is huge.
The number of eggs that the California egg industry produces and ships is just it's incalculably large, so it's going to cost hundreds of billions to the these egg farmers, chicken farmers and egg farmers to retool, and this and the story was might have been the Wall Street Journal, that a number of them is gonna say heck with it like you, and they're just gonna leave, and they're go to cheaper states to do business because their business is laying eggs, they are not these chickens are not pets.
Rush, why is it that these people who want to do this, they always claim the high moral ground, like we're in caring, insensitive people.
Let me ask them, who do you think's gonna pay for those eggs?
The poor people that they say they represent.
That's who's gonna pay the price.
Schwarzenegger wanted to put a 9.9% uh a cent tax on every barrel of oil that came out of California.
And they want restrictions on automobiles made to be driven in California to raise the cost of those.
At the same time, the state legislature wanted to raise the price of gas, the same people that want to cry to high moral ground, twenty-one cents a gallon.
So the poor are going to pay for the gas, the poor are gonna pay for the eggs, and they think they're doing them a service.
When we've got billions of gallons off the coast of this country, it's estimated a hundred billion dollars worth of oil.
Well, look, I don't want to I don't want to unbelievable.
No, I don't want to oversimplify this, but in the case of the you know the animal rights nut cases who succeeded with that ballot initiative by tugging the heartstrings of people who like animals.
And we all like animals.
I mean, animals, you know, if if you're a movie star, they always say the last thing you want to do is be in a movie with an animal, because the animal will upstage you every time.
They just everybody just loves and we try to humanize every be it a tiger, be the jaguar trying to humanize them.
I mean, we even Jack uh I I remember as a kid watching a Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons, while E coyote, and we we humanize the coyote, and so we we end up loving all these things and and uh chickens too.
Doesn't matter what the animal is.
So what what happens is I I I I firmly believe, uh Dan, that in large measure what's happening is leftist activists are seeking the destruction of capitalism.
I think that's what the militant environmental movement is all about.
I think that's what the militant cultural rot movement is all about.
I think it's all aimed at destroying individual liberty.
I think it's all aimed at at uh destroying what they think is the evil of capitalism, and that's the inequitable distribution of resources.
And I I think it's been a long, slow, stealthy procedure and strategy that they've employed.
If if all this had happened in one big gulp or in one week or one month or even a couple of years in California, you wouldn't put up with it.
But since it's been happening incrementally, uh it's it's gotten to breaking point now, but it's it may be too late to stop somebody.
You ask, how in the world can they have such an out-of-control budget deficit and still increase spending by eight billion dollars next year?
Very simple.
It's called baseline budgeting.
It's very simple.
There isn't a government in the world that will do with less next year than it had this year.
It doesn't exist.
And look and look at how they're scaring you in California.
Well, we have to increase the but if we have to cut the budget, what's the first to go?
Police.
What's the next to go?
Firemen.
What's the next to go?
Trash pickup.
What's the next?
All the things that you interact with every day.
They'll never tell you they're gonna get rid of Mortimer snurd and his merry band of bureaucrats who doesn't do diddly squat all day long.
One last thing, and then I'm gonna shut up Rush.
I want to thank Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and you folks down here in the Florida, the east side, for your 10,000 oil rigs, while California has 23.
But we don't want to mess up our prestige coast.
And I want to thank the other states that provide our electricity with their coal-burning plants in Nevada and Utah and all out in there, because California, you see, doesn't want nuclear power.
We want you to dirty your state, but we'll buy your power.
Well it takes sense, doesn't it?
I'll tell you what, you're gonna we're gonna be running out of oil and coal pretty soon because uh Obama is gonna re-implement uh the ban on offshore drilling that was raised during the campaign that was lifted, and uh if he does his cap and trade program, that's the end of the coal business.
If he actually does the cap and trade program, if he gets it going, gets it up and running, then that's the end of the coal business.
So we'll be looking enviously at you with all your windmills.
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Pfizer cutting up to 2400 sales jobs, Hertz sheds more than 4,000 jobs, GE Capital up to 11,000 jobs gone.
GE Capital, and now it's no longer Bank of America, it's bank owned by America.
They're the the the U.S. government's the largest shareholder In Bank of America now.
So it is the United States Bank of America.
Now the this the this stimulus package that is in the wings, if people, and it's going to happen.
I mean, everybody at Circuit City at Pfizer at Hertz at GE Capitol, they know it's coming.
They know the bailout package is coming.
Everybody knows that there's going to be an $850 billion to $1 trillion stimulus.
They already know that there has already been a $750 billion, $850 billion stimulus back last fall.
And they are telling us that these stimuli are nothing.
They are firing people, they're closing stores.
It's not working, folks.
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Snerdley wants to know if uh you should take the spread on Pittsburgh and Voldabo.
What are these it's six points?
Steelers again give giving six.
There has only been one game, regular season and playoffs.
Uh one game in the last three years or maybe four.
That that the uh margin of victory has been well two or three no, I I don't I don't think I I don't think I'm I'm kind of conflicted.
I've got I've got two things in my head on Baltimore Pittsburgh.
I think it it's got a potential to be a 27-13 game Pittsburgh.
You know, a 14-point game.
It's also got this potential to be another one of these four to three-point games.
It's gonna be cold.
There's a 60% chance of snow showers, not much accumulation.
That's not gonna affect either team because they're both from cold water, cold uh cold air climbs.
Uh, but it's, you know, this is smash mouth.
This is the closest thing to a blood rivalry that the NFL has.
It pales in comparison, like to the Steelers Raiders in the 70s.
Uh I mean, those were you'll read about those.
I mean, that rivalry was so bad that Chuck Knoll accused or said of Jack Atkinson, a cornerback for the uh Raiders, not Jack, um George Atkinson.
There's a criminal element in the NFL after he took out Lynn Swan with a clothesline to the head on a pass route that Swan wasn't even the target.
And of course, George Atkinson sued Knoll uh and a jury found for Null, which is a criminal element out there, but it's still gonna be a great game.
I'm gonna I I here's Super Bowl will be the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Quick time out, my friends.
We'll come back.
We'll wrap it up right after this.
Look, folks, it's this simple.
When you when you get down to analyzing Super Bowl, and I've got people saying, Rush, you know it's gonna be Steelers, Eagles, you just you just you just you just you're trying to rip on McNabbig.
And I'm not telling you what I I would love to see that.
I'm telling you I think it's gonna happen.
Steelers, Cardinals.
But I will tell you this.
If the Steelers lose on Sunday, a bird is gonna win the Super Bowl, either a Cardinal, a Raven, or an Eagle.
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