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Feb. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yeah, I know it's hilarious.
It is uh it is hilarious, folks.
It just is unbelievably hilarious.
They out there the Gallup poll was doing polling me.
Approval ratings on Rush Limbaugh nationwide.
The Gallup polls out there doing a poll on me.
What is Rush Limbaugh's approval rating?
Great.
Hey, folks, it's great to be back with you.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh back behind the golden EIB microphone at the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Uh Barack Obama on the ground in South Bend, Indiana.
Is timing is impeccable.
He's starting a little town meeting to push this socialist stimulus package of his right when this program begins.
Ladies and gentlemen and our affiliates down the line, my first day back after being gone for a week.
We are not going to join in progress the Obama stimulus package.
No, we're not going to join.
You think I'm turning this program over to the president?
We're my first day back, snurtly.
No way I'm not going to do that.
We'll we'll be rolling on Obama's town meeting remarks.
He's losing it.
I think he's losing it.
He has these private meetings with uh with Republicans and Democrats, and he sees he losing his cool in there.
And he's uh he's uh what what did it has to can't stand being in the White House for two days.
Can't stay for two weeks, has to get out and go read books to the kids.
When's the last time we heard about that?
George Bush was reading books to the kids in 9-11, and the media still makes fun of him for it.
Obama gets out of the White House, goes to some scruel, starts reading books to the kids, then has to hightail it out of there up to um up to Camp David.
You know, I was thinking when I read this, I'm like if I were ever elected president, I would be so honored and proud.
I would immerse myself in the place.
I'd go room to room with somebody who could tell me everything that's happened in that room at the White House.
Such a historical place, and to look at it as some place where you're cooped up, and they have to get out of it.
It's just uh I don't know.
It's just difference me and and and uh President Obama, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Uh I did see.
I did see the president's plane land at Greater South Bend International Airport.
Now, folks, I have to be honest.
I have to be honest.
I think it's just it's it's Air Force whatever plane he's on, it's called Air Force One, but it's the 747.
And it looks smaller to me.
It just it did.
It just it looked smaller, it looked less regal to me.
For some reason, it did just it did not make the impression on me that it's always made with other presidents aboard.
Maybe it was the camera shot.
The camera shot had it basically cut in half.
All we saw was the nose, you know, because the drive-by photographers are so focused on the Messiah walking out of the thing.
They did a close-up on the door, but the plane just looked smaller to me, looked less significant to me as I was watching it taxi in for a uh stop at uh Greater South Bendational.
Well, you know, my approval rating.
You want to listen to this?
Did you know Gallup did approval?
Certainly didn't know because when I when I take the week off these people, you they just go on vague, go on vacation like you can't believe.
Here, uh Friday, last Friday, February 6th, on DNC TV, the anchor Jeff Rawson spoke with uh Alex Witt about a new Gallup poll about me.
Said, let's go to Alex Whitt now with some surprising poll numbers that show hits not only liberals that disagree with Rush Limbaugh, right, Alex?
Limbaugh has made headlines recently for openly criticizing the Obama administration.
The president himself last week said you can't listen to Limbaugh and get things done.
And according to USA Today Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds of Democrats agree.
The same poll found 60% of Republicans support Limbaugh.
Now that's not all so surprising, but nearly a quarter of his own party, the Republicans, 23%, do not support his views.
Now why'd they do this?
You know, Obama mentions me.
Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
I proclaim myself a de facto leader, not necessarily the desired leader of the uh Republican Party, and they go out and they poll a talk show host in terms of a politician's approval or disapproval.
They were hoping for horrible numbers.
They did not get horrible numbers.
I would venture to say the actual number out there, by the way, among Republicans is 62%.
I would say that makes me the most popular Republican in the country.
Can you name for me another Republican polling at 62% approval rating out there?
Can you give me one, folks?
The Gallup poll, I think they shot themselves in the foot here.
What we need to do is ask, you know, we need to do a poll of conservatives on Gallup.
You know, what do we think of uh what do we think of Gallup?
Uh here, folks, listen to this.
When I got in today, uh Snerdley said, Have you seen the audio soundbite roster?
He said, Yeah.
How many of the bites are about you?
And I said, All of them.
There's 40.
Well, not all of them, but 48 sound bites here, and I'll bet you 35.
35 or even when I'm not here.
Even when I'm not.
I mean, in fact, I was watching PMS NBC right before the program started, and they're still got guests on there to comment on my comment hoping Obama fails.
They're not letting go of this.
Uh now was that I did was that the LA Times story or f no, no, no.
There was some I did see that there was a story that that hoped I was forced, that I was removed to take a week.
I predicted all this.
We need to go back and get the sound bites from last week.
I predicted what would happen.
I predicted that when I had this normally scheduled vacation since last October.
I predicted that various media outlets would either say I was cutting and running and getting out of Dodge because the heat was getting too hot, or because I had been forcibly removed for some mind training.
Uh, some reorientation, if you will.
Neither neither was the case.
Yes, I did see it.
Here's here's probably the PS that resistance, ladies and gentlemen of the sound bites last week.
Uh typifying the drive-by media obsession with me.
It's a James Carville montage.
Rush Limbaugh's running this party.
He is the most influential and important Republican in the country.
Rush Limbaugh is the de facto head of the Republican Party right now.
I congratulate Rush on his position as the number one Republican in the country.
He is the most exalted Republican that is.
He is the leader of their party.
They quake at mighty rush.
He's the one that's set in the Republican agenda.
He is the most powerful person in that party.
He is the daddy, the daddy of the Republican Party.
And he has ascended to a political power that's unseen or unheard of in American politics.
He is the intellectual sen of the Republican Party.
I'm pointing out a fact.
I'm a weatherman.
No sense in getting mad at me if it rains.
I'm just telling you what the weather is.
Rush is very, he's very popular.
Rush is the person that they followed.
The modern Republican Party has is its most influential billboard, Rush Limbaugh.
Now, don't misunderstand this.
He's not giving me a compliment.
He he read the Gallup poll, see.
I'm Daddy Rush.
I'm Daddy Rush.
The reason he went on and on for so many many minutes in this montage is they think that claiming I lead the Republican Party is going to destroy it.
Well, I am the only hope it has.
In fact, there's a letter to the editor, not a letter to the editor, but there's a column in the politico today that is an open letter to me.
And it is written by John Feary.
John Fiery worked for the House Republican leadership from 1989 to 2005.
He's the founder of the Fury Group, a strategic advocacy firm, and that says he blogs at this website.
And I'm not going to answer it right now, but I'm going to answer it later to program.
I'll just give you a flavor.
Dear Rush, congratulations, you have been selected by the Obama administration, the mainstream media, and 20 million of your most passionate followers to be the new head of the Republican Party.
As such, you are given all the rights and responsibilities that come with being a true political leader.
Your mission is simple: restore the Republican Party to its former greatness by single-handedly helping Republicans to regain control of Congress and to offer a reasonable, viable alternative to President Obama.
And then there are paragraphs here where he asks what I would do to uh help the Republicans overcome various obstacles.
For example, he says this.
While twenty million listeners is an impressive number, Obama had nearly seventy million voters.
Fifty million is a pretty big gap to make up.
Well, Rush.
But we're certain that with your effervescent personality, you'll be able to close that in no time.
We'd also like to see your plan to help Republicans compete in the Northeast.
The upper Midwest, the West Coast in Florida, in the big cities and in the suburbs.
We'd also like to see your plan to attract more women's votes.
We always seem to get creamed by single women in elections.
Even married women though turned against us this time.
Not sure Russia calling female leaders feminazis really works in this atmosphere.
We would uh we'd like to see your plan to attract more women's votes.
We rush we we got comp.
We got completely demolished by the African American vote in his last election.
No surprise there, given the top of the ticket, but we're wondering how referencing our president's race in any way, shape, or form is productive or relevant to the current discussion.
Please let us know.
And do you have any good ideas you can share with us that can serve as a viable alternative?
Uh or or is it your plan to simply oppose every idea that comes from the Obama administration?
Anyway, congratulations on this big promotion.
We're proud of you.
Of course, we're all ditto heads.
Please get us your plans as soon as possible.
We have a lot of work to do.
Sincerely, the Republican Party, uh, as authored by John Fear.
I'm going to answer this.
I mean, I've been I the the gauntlet's been laid down here.
Oh, because why why am I gonna why am I gonna answer?
Because it'll be fun, Snurdly, and because it's a it's a teachable moment.
I've got a Republican leader in the House.
What is this title?
Uh worked for the House Republican leadership 89 to 2005.
I have a golden opportunity to tell him why he and his merry band of Republicans are losers.
He has asked for my input and my advice.
I shall be forthcoming uh in mere moments.
I've got some ideas.
Look at my ideas.
All he has to do is turn on this radio show and listen to the ideas.
Uh but I'll I'll I'm gonna avail myself of this opportunity because it's a uh it's a teachable moment.
Also, Tom Dashell.
Anybody else would be indicted.
Anybody else, and by the way, this Obama business, I purposely didn't start with Obama so that the media wouldn't think I'm obsessed with Obama.
I started with me, so they'd think I'm obsessed with me.
But I'm watching Obama up here.
Uh he actually said, if we don't do this porculus bill, we are never gonna recover.
Our economy is never going to recover.
That is an out and out lie.
Fear and panic are setting in.
This is the great unifier.
This is the guy that was going to make love and happiness and contentment flow to each and every one, and they're just using fear and crisis uh to keep people on edge.
This is not presidential, what this guy's doing.
The way he's acting, the things that he is saying.
Uh it is it is not presidential the way he's approaching the American people.
Tom Dashell, you and I, we would be indicted.
Here, listen to this.
This is Dashell.
We've put together one of our classic montages here as uh as Dashel excuses what he did while we found audio listing what he did.
The Obama administration has put a very high standard on public service.
That's especially true when it comes to taxes.
Failed to report 73,000 in 2005.
All of my life I've assiduedly tried to pay my taxes.
In full and on time.
When I realized the mistake, I notified officials and I paid the tax in full.
Car and driver, he was given by a close friend.
My failure to recognize that the use of a car was income and not a gift.
Failed to report $83,000 in income.
But that's no excuse.
He's made more than five million dollars in the private sector.
I deeply apologize to President Obama and to the American people.
You know what I think?
I think Dashel Knew about this all along, and I think we know that he knew about some of this last summer.
And I think he waited to see who won the election before deciding whether to pay this stuff off.
And after Obama won, he knew he was gonna have to pay some of this stuff off if he wanted to be in the Obama administration.
If Obama had lost, we would never know.
None of this would have ever come up.
Remember, this is just like the torch.
The challenge, my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never television set.
Ever.
Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits.
At any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house.
To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
Bob Torricelli, Tom Dashell, all these no wonder, you know, I've always wondered.
We've we've talked about this here on the program.
Why did Democrats not care about tax increases?
We now know they don't pay taxes, period.
By the way, Obama's town hall meeting is not in South Bend.
It's where he landed on a seemingly smaller Air Force One 747.
He's actually in Elcart, Indiana.
This is a place with the highest unemployment in America.
You know why?
Why do you think El Cart, Indiana is the highest unemployed area in the country?
What?
Say it say it slower.
Well, not only not just that.
Elkhart is the RV capital of the world.
And who killed the RV?
Which party killed the RV?
Which party said the RV is a gas guzzler, it's a polluter, it causes global warming.
Obama's party.
Layoffs, this is from USA today.
Layoffs are happening across the USA, but nowhere as fast as in this once thriving area, used to be known as the RV capital of the world one year ago.
Unemployment in El Cart County with 4.7% today.
It's the highest in the nation at 15.3% fueled largely by the rapid decline in the recreational vehicle business.
And who do you think wiped it out?
There's only one political party that's going after cars, folks.
There's only one political party going after vehicles of any kind, and it is the Democrat Party.
I've been thinking more on this Gallup poll business.
They tried to come up with negative numbers on me.
And in fact, you know, I I can't, I can't quote this exactly.
But when Gallup reported her own poll, basically here is how it came out, Brian.
62% approval among Republicans, 23% disapproval.
Among moderates and independents and Democrats, it was it was just the opposite.
22% approval, 62% disapproval.
And then they they had the audacity.
I didn't see a fail a male-female breakdown.
I didn't see that, Don.
They might have done that, but I didn't see it.
At the end of their story, when they reported this, they actually said something, and I got to paraphrase this.
They actually said something along the lines of, but since most Americans are only marginally interested in politics, the mention of Limbaugh's name barely barely caused a ripple out there in our poll.
Well, okay, fine and dandy, but why is that only applicable when they take approval numbers of me?
If Americans only marginally interested in politics, why doesn't that close apply to every politician?
And they're obviously that they're they're trying, they're trying to slap me down out there, folks.
But let me put this in perspective for you because I've been thinking about it even more.
I had a 23% disapproval rating among Republicans.
Now, I maintain if the Democrat primaries had gone on for another 10 minutes, Obama probably would have lost.
You remember Operation Chaos was working like a champ.
Operation Chaos practically gave Hillary the nomination at party.
It kept her in the game.
She had to be bought off.
Now we know with the Secretary of State gig.
She had to be bought off to convince her not to demand a delegate count at the convention because Obama was concerned about how weak his support was.
It was very close.
The delegate count was very, very close, and they wanted to not have that so as not to show how close it was.
They wanted to portray Obama's a landslide winner in the in the Democrat primaries, but his support was not that strong among Democrats.
Tell me, when did Obama ever have 77% approval among the Democrats?
Did he have 77% approval among the Democrats during the primaries with Hillary?
Does he have 77%, 62% approval of the country now?
His approval numbers are 60%.
Now that's nationwide, but I got a higher approval number among my guys than Obama does.
And his stimulus numbers are falling rapidly, according to Rasmussen reports.
The support for the stimulus package has fallen to 37% for the first time, according to Rasmussen, a plurality of voters nationwide oppose the plan.
Now, today, the Treasury Secretary was supposed to announce the details of TARP two.
But they've put that off until tomorrow.
You know why they've put that off until tomorrow?
Because it's another trillion dollars.
TARP II is another trillion dollars aimed at the banks, added to this thing, which Dingy Harry is now bragging is gonna be close to a trillion.
We're gonna have two trillion dollars, and both of them are gonna pass.
We have two trillion dollars of inflationary socialist stimulus porculus spending.
And Obama's up there telling these people in El Cart, Indiana things right now which aren't true.
He's saying that most of the jobs are gonna be created in the private sector.
Uh that is not true.
It's impossible when you read the details of the bill.
He actually said, by the way, this is hilarious.
He said people cannot spend money if they don't have it.
Well, that's never stopped.
The government has it.
You know, I was gone all last week.
I'm sure many of you painfully uh aware of that.
And is always happens, and I was in Beverly Hills, I was on the golf course, I was in Hawaii.
And there's real anger.
I mean, there is genuine almost frothing at the mouth anger at Washington at Obama at the things he's proposing, the things that he is saying.
And I and I had people come up to me and say, how come you're not mad about it?
You seem you're just laughing about it.
I said, No, I'm I'm mad about it, but I'm resigned to something you guys.
It's gonna happen.
It's the this stimulus bill of his is going to happen.
He's got Olympia Snow, he has Susan Collins, and he might have Spectre.
He's he's got he's not even gonna get a filibuster in the Senate.
The the chance to really shape this thing and make it less onerous will be in the uh in the conference when the House and the Senate try to make their bills uh somewhat somewhat similar when they come try to compromise on the in the conference.
Uh and she said if they if the conference bill isn't to her liking, she might not vote for it.
Well, whoop big whoop.
I mean, it ought not be to her liking now.
You know, why have to wait for the conference?
It ought to Susan Collins ought to be able to look at this thing and say it's a stinker.
It does, it's not anything it pretends to be.
It is not a stimulus bill of any kind.
It's not gonna put money in people's pockets.
It's it's um uh it it's a scheme.
It's nothing more than a scheme to expand government and put government more and more in control of people's lives.
So I have people asking me why are you laughing about that?
Sometimes I can't help it.
I'm just during the breaker.
I'm I'm watching Obama.
Now I'm sorry.
Yeah, folks, this makes me mad, but he's doing this town meeting, and he looks small up there.
Have you been watching this just like Air Force One pulled in at South Bay, looks small to me.
He does it looks he does he doesn't even look like he has the stature during the campaign.
He's doing this town hall meeting, and there's not the effervescence and excitement among the audience.
And he's trying to sell this plan, and he's basically talking about what his opponents are saying about it, and saying, that's not true.
But I heard the most amazing thing.
I just I if you those of you watching on the ditto cam, you probably watched me go nuts, and you're probably trying to figure out what just happened.
It's caused Rush to go nuts in there.
Well, I'll tell you what it was.
Obama's sitting there explaining, he says the important thing in the stimulus bill is to make sure that the money is spent wisely.
Got to make sure the money's being spent wisely.
Well, that's an oxymoron that never happens when the government spends it.
The original number they tell us, they say 850 billion, it's going to be over a trillion.
You know what these programs costs are, always underestimated on purpose.
But then Obama said, look, we're going to put up there a website.
We're going to put up a website and you are going to be our eyes and ears.
And if you know that X numbers of millions of dollars have been earmarked for school construction here in Elkart.
And if you're driving around, he actually said this.
And if you're driving around and you don't see any school construction going on, you let us know on the website.
And that's how we're going to know the money's being spent, Rod.
And there was there was tappid applause because these are people, his supporters are the people waiting around for things to happen.
He just made them brown shirts.
He said they're supposed to go around patrolling the neighborhood, making sure the money that goes there is being spent the right way, and then let him know.
Now the average American citizen, it's up to us to tell you whether your money is being spent right.
How come you can't possibly know?
You're allocating two million dollars to El Cart for schools to pick a figure, and if no school construction happens, how come you won't know about that unless we tell you on your website?
Of course, the correct answer to this is it's all smoke and mirrors.
He's just trying to make them feel like they have some input when they don't.
But this just it's it makes me laugh.
Because this is not, this guy is not carrying himself in a manner that is uh that is presidential.
I really, you know, I've told you I'm conflicted about this guy.
And the conflict is still there, but I'm there's a part of me that says that we he's just over his head in all of this, and is uh coming to that realization and is is uh this I I'm sure that this job is not in any way, shape, manner, or form like he thought it was going to be.
And I'll bet you it's not nearly as easy as he uh as he thought it was gonna be.
So here we have now I'm gonna go back to this Gallup poll business.
Because the the bottom line on trying to understand my relationship to the country's thoughts and feelings about politics can be stated this way.
More people agree with me and not Obama about tax cuts.
More people agree with me and not Obama about the porculus scam.
Thirty-seven percent now support it, according to Rasmussen.
And of course, everybody that pays attention to this stuff knows the huge danger we're we're we're getting into with all these large deficits, the inflation that's bound to come uh with with uh with with things like this.
And then this there's a poll here from um Rasmussen.
Let's see, the the popularity of newly elected president Barack Obama, combined with the willingness of most voters to give him the benefit of the doubt, is a powerful political force working in favor of the economic rescue plan now being debated on Capitol Hill.
At the same time, even in the troubled economic times we face today, 48% of the nation's voters say more government spending is generally bad for the economy, even though they're trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
And see, this is what really grates on the people trying to uh give me little grief here over my willingness.
I hope his policies fail.
I hope he fails.
I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt, because I have no doubt.
I have no doubt about what his plan is.
I have no doubt about what his intentions are.
I am not some like some American citizens are that are just blind-eyed and they're just little puppy dogs, and they think change means automatic improvement.
They don't think that change can mean something much worse.
And so we're supposed to sit by the new president, give him the honeymoon.
Sorry, I have crashed the honeymoon.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I've I've hijacked it, in fact, and and so that the more and more people instinctively know this stuff isn't gonna work.
But for some reason they don't have the guts to stand up and say show just now.
They'll wait for a hundred days, they'll wait for six months or what have you when it's going to be too late.
The popularity of the newly elected Obama combined with the willingness of most voters to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Attention drive-by's.
I am not giving him the benefit of the doubt.
I have no doubt his plan will work.
I have plenty of doubt that it won't.
Plenty of doubt that it I'm not there's no doubt at all.
I am ontologically certain that the plan won't work.
There's no benefit of the doubt being extended here.
But Rush, but he the new president, you gotta give him a chance, not to screw up the country.
Why should I automatically sit by and let people, anybody openly give it give a chance to screw up the country.
That's something that needs to be opposed from the get-go.
Forty-eight percent of the nation's voters say more government spending is generally bad for the economy.
The tension between these competing forces is highlighted by the views of unaffiliated voters.
A majority of unaffiliated approve of the way Obama's doing his job.
At the same time, a majority of unaffiliated believe that the more government spending is generally bad for the economy.
This puts elected politicians from competitive states and districts in the spot they hate the most, having to make a decision when there is no clearly safe political answer.
And that little statement from Scott Rasmussen illustrates the precise problem we have.
We got people sitting around waiting for the safe political position to adopt rather than following their hearts, their minds, and their principles.
It is so much easier to do that.
Brief timeout, we'll grab some of your phone calls.
Lots more audio sound bites when we come back.
Stay with us.
I'm sorry.
I'm a little late getting back here because I'm listening to the commander in chief.
Look, folks, I I support the president.
I just don't support his policies.
This is embarrassing watching this town meeting today.
Well, it is.
He's not even up to campaign standards here.
This this is um it just does it just it ain't happening up there in Elkhart, Indiana.
He just he just got a question on it, and I turned in halfway through the question.
Some some poor guy asking about green energy and technology, and Obama's trying to remember what all's in this bill and so forth to please this guy.
This is we're gonna double, we're gonna double our uh production of great energy.
This bill.
And there's tepid applause.
I mean, it's just it's not working up there.
At least the little segments that I tune in and uh and listen to.
Look, this this bill, this reckless bill, is supposed to be about the economy and jobs.
This bill is not a litmus test for people to find out who's willing to blindly follow the president off the economic cliff, which is where we're headed with this.
We are not lemmings here at the EIB network, nor the 62% of the Republicans that support me.
We are according to Gallup, we are not lemmings.
The bottom line is this when you throw politics out the window and focus on the problem and the solution, you are representing a majority of voting Americans in their rejection of Obama's partisan uh non-stimulus bill.
This became clear last week, even when I wasn't here.
I, ladies and gentlemen, have been perfectly consistent.
The drive-by's can report any day of the year what I say, and it will not change.
Whatever the topic is, whatever I say about it from core belief and principles is gonna not change from report to report to report.
But Obama has been perfectly dishonest in his advocacy of this bill.
Uh, and he's he's now out there saying he's scaring people half to death, saying that if this bill doesn't pass, that uh this catastrophe will never end, that the recovery will never happen.
Let me tell you some just two things that survive in this bill.
4.1 billion dollars to acorn survives in this bill.
This is a job bill.
This is a bill to create jobs.
4.1 billion for acorn stays in.
There was a an amendment to throw it out, but it it failed.
There's also this, and you may not have heard about this yet.
A Little press release I'll just read to you here very quickly on page two of two pages stuck together.
Today, U.S. Senator Jim Dement, this is from February 5th.
Today, U.S. Senator Jim Dement, Republican South Carolina, made the following statement.
Uh after Democrats voted 43 to 54 against his amendment to strike language from the economic stimulus bill that discriminates against students of faith.
In essence, this stimulus bill bans universities and colleges from using funds to renovate buildings where students engage in religious worship.
The stimulus bill bansities and colleges from using funds, using money to renovate buildings on campus where students engage in religious worship.
It could be the student center.
It could be a dormitory, it could be a fraternity house.
It could be wherever students gather for religious worship.
No federal money can be used to renovate that building.
That's from Nancy Pelosi's office, blindly supported by Obama.
That's the kind of stuff that's in this legislation.
Who pays for everything that's going to be in this bill?
Who pays for everything that's going to be in this new school he's talking about in El Cart, Indiana?
The teachers, the equipment, all the fixed costs for the next several years, the homeowners to their property taxes are going to buy this and build this building.
There are costs associated with this down the road, and people aren't even aware of this.
They just think the government's going to come in and spend the money and then going to affect them.
But at any rate, we're rolling tape on the Obama town hall here, and we'll have some audio sound bites for you.
And I look at I could be wrong.
I'm catching segments here during commercial breaks.
What I'm seeing is not the Obama I knew during the campaign.
And I don't see this in this jazz-up effervescent crowd out there.
And I see a guy who doesn't know what's in the bill because he doesn't.
He didn't write it.
He let Pelosi write the bill.
He's blindly supporting it because he doesn't care what's in it as long as it spends a trillion dollars mostly on government.
Here is Denise in Charlotte, North Carolina, as we grab a phone call before we have to go to the break.
Denise, I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi.
I think the poll that they're doing of you is dangerous.
And I think that because I think they're using the left is trying to thrust you more and more into the political process.
And actually, the more support you have, the more of a threat you are.
And I know that sounds kind of paranoid, and I don't mean it to, but I see that it's not so much to diminish you as or discount you in any way, but look what Russia's doing.
He's generating all the support against our beloved president who's just trying to do the right thing.
He's become such a threat now.
And they're going to want to deal with you sooner or later.
Um, I appreciate your having that concern.
Uh this is a this is a concern that uh people have shared with you over the course of the the past twenty years of especially for from the Clinton years uh forward.
But I don't think that's what this is about.
I think you're partially right.
Well, when's the last time they took a poll of you?
Why'd they take a poll of me?
No, when was the last time that they took a poll of you in this context?
Uh it's happened once before.
I don't remember in 93, I think I for I forget when it happened.
It happened the last time the president made a big deal out of me, and that was Bill Clinton.
But what I think what's going on here, Denise, by the way, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
What uh what's happening here is that the president mentions my name.
I then take it and run with it.
Okay, I'm the guy the president does not want you to listen to.
The president's more frightened of me than Bahner or McConnell, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And the media, oh, okay, Limbaugh wants it a political process.
Well, let's give him a treatment.
Let's give him a mini anal exam.
So they first start out with a polling data.
But the express purpose of this, remember, polling units can go out and poll in order to find a conclusion they already hold.
And the conclusion they have is I think they're jealous.
I think they're upset that Obama singled me out.
I think they're up.
I'm the guy on the radio.
Radio to them is the lowest rung of the show biz ladder.
Television's up there than print radio, radio, AM radio.
And the president's afraid of a guy.
AM radio.
So they want to take me out professionally what they're doing.
They think the whole country hates me.
They think that I am a fringe marginal figure.
If I were indeed a fringe marginal, totally hated figure, Obama would have never mentioned me.
Nobody would be talking about me whatsoever.
They would be just, they would be encouraging me to go on and on and on because they would think that I'm screwing them.
They are genuinely afraid.
They've got the Republicans where they want them.
The Republicans are active, or had them, the Republicans showing some gonads now.
They had the Republicans write where they want them.
They were all doing the McCain Lindsey Graham dance.
Now the Republicans are standing up for themselves, and that's not right.
The Republicans are going to be intimidated, and they hope by associating me with Republicans, Republicans will cut and run against uh run from me.
It's designed to split me off from the Republicans so that they're not inspired and motivated.
Um, you may be partially right with your theory as well, but we got that handled as best we can.
I'm glad you called a brief timeout and a quick return.
Stay with us.
Couple of interesting posts from uh last week.
One at the weekly standard, Barack Obama is not making sense.
He went way off script.
Joseph Curl, the Washington Times.
Obama now in combat mode.
And on a tough day, Obama escapes for a while to go read books to the kiddies in the screw with his wife all this and uh continuing audio soundbite raster.
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