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April 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my good friends, music lovers, thrill seekers, all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh and a cutting edge of societal evolution.
Nice to have you with us.
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I mentioned this yesterday, folks, uh, the French president Sarkozy, Nicholas Sarkozy, remember that headline from the uh from a UK telegraph yesterday recalling, you know, Obama's dog a mutt, that Chinese water torture, what a Portuguese water torture dog that Ted Kennedy gave.
It's not a mutt.
They called Obama's dog a mutt.
I mean, that the British press has not swallowed what's the phrase.
The Kool-Aid.
They haven't swallowed a Kool-Aid.
I mean, they're just the British press is reporting on what a failure Obama's G twenty trip was, that he got nothing.
That he dazzled no one, that they made out in public like he did, but but uh behind the scenes when it came time for substance, Obama came up empty.
And, you know, it's it's rare.
Thomas Lipson, anti-American thinker, points out that it's rare for a head of state to mock another head of state.
But there's a there's a pro-American French blog, and it highlights this incident for us.
According to the French newspaper L'Express, Sarkozy criticized Obama and his popularity.
Journalists have no memory, Sarkozy said.
In 2000, George W. Bush was so popular that Jacques Chirac had arranged to dine with Bush before he was inaugurated.
The French loved Bush in 2000 before he was inaugurated.
The French president who will host Obama on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th for the 65th anniversary of the Norman Normandy landing is ironical about Obama.
Sarkozy actually said to this blog, I'm gonna ask Obama to walk on the channel, and he will.
You know, I've I I thought I have to tell you something, folks.
I human nature is human nature, and heads of states are heads of state.
If you're head of state, you're an ego nut.
You have to be.
And during that whole G twenty, to see the fawning press that this rookie president got to eat these guys alive.
You know, they have to go along with it for the sake of appearances and the photo ops and all that, the public things.
But now that it's over, they're all talking amongst themselves.
What a lightweight.
This guy actually thinks he walks on water.
All right, I'm gonna take him to English Channel when we celebrate Normand, and I'm gonna make him walk on the channel.
The French president's saying this to the French media.
You know what?
I it lifts and points out here, I clearly remembered the promise that Barack Obama would restore respect for America overseas, but it doesn't seem to be working in France.
But don't hold your breath waiting for the American media to report this.
I learned something here because I wasn't quite sure.
I I thought Obama wasn't gonna go to Normandy, uh the 65th.
I thought I'd read that during the G twenty sometime, that Obama had no plans to go back over there for the celebration, but maybe he's changed his mind.
And uh, he's not gonna put rocks on the beach in the form of a cross like Clinton.
That's the funny, that's one of the funniest things.
Clinton's over there for the I guess what would it be?
55th.
55 no.
The 50th was 94, maybe it was a 50 fifth.
Clinton went over there, and there are no rocks.
I have been there.
I I was there a week before the 50th anniversary.
And the real, I mean, Omaha Beach is one thing, but Poin de Hoe is, or as for those of you in Rio Lindas, you would read it, point du Hoc.
Uh, but it it's pronounced Poinduho.
This is where the Germans, I mean, the that were firing straight down on the Army Rangers who were climbing straight up that cliff.
And Reagan's speech at Pointo during his term uh the boys of Puandu brought people to tears.
It wasn't to slight any of the other beaches.
But I was I was over there and I I got the lay of the land.
And Clinton goes over there and taking this lone stroll on the beach at Normandy.
And all the photographers are positioned way up on the shoreline, away from the well, not the shoreline, but beyond the beach.
And Clinton had a U.S. destroyer positioned perfectly out there in the English channel so that it would be in the frame of the photo.
And he's strolling along all pensive and filled with emotion of what happened there and so forth, and out of nowhere, looks stunned, and he kneels down, and he starts grabbing stones and rocks on the beach at Normandy, and he puts them into the shape of a cross.
There are no stones there.
There aren't any stones at my beach.
The White House put the stones there.
Of course, the drive-by is ate it all up.
And there's Clinton, and here come the bitten lower lip and the uh the fake tears, so forth.
And the same thing happened when they got the Italian cemetery, the Italian version of uh of uh Arlington Cemetery.
Clinton's walking through there and darn it, if they won American flag had not fallen over.
Darn it.
Isn't it amazing how that happens, and no you hate it when that happens.
American flag, it's fell over and it was on the ground, just happened uh minutes before Clinton got there.
So he kneeled down and uh put the American flag back in the ground, the small little flags at the tombstones, and again the fake tears and the uh so I don't know, Obama, if he's gonna pull something like that off, he's got a major, major accomplishment to do.
I mean, finding stones that don't exist on a beach, putting them in the form of a cross.
If Obama's gonna do something like that with some great symbolism, uh that's like Sarkozy said, well, maybe maybe he'll walk ashore.
Maybe they'll build a glass platform just underneath just underneath the surface of the water, and Obama will walk ashore on the water.
No, he really can't walk on uh water, uh, English channel notwithstanding, he can't walk on water, Mr. Snerdley, so they'd have to build a glass platform underneath there that but he still have to get out there on it.
They get they could drop him off from a uh maybe a PT boat.
Bring one of those out of the museums.
PT PT 110.
You know, John Kerry retook the Boston uh Harbor uh as he was heading over to the Democrat convention in Boston in 2004.
They could have it could be a it could be a swift boat.
Uh, it could have John Kerry drive Obama to the platform and gets off and it walks across the English Channel, you know, for ten paces, that's all it would take, with Sarkozy waiting there to greet him.
But it's interesting, Sarkozy mocking Obama.
Obama's leading, leaving today, is going down to Meiko, is going down to um Trinidad and Tobago, and this he this is where he's gonna be with his buddies.
Now the teleprompter says teleprompter has a website, Barack's teleprompter.com or Barack Obama's teleprompter.
And I read, I read the teleprompter's website today.
The teleprompter says that Obama is really excited to meet Daniel Ortega, the communist leader of uh Nicaragua, and that they're probably gonna make a lot of apologies for the United States.
We'll probably apologize to the Mexicans for the guns that are leading to the to the drug problems down there and the strife on the border.
Well, the teleprompters what he's gonna say.
The teleprompter is tells him what to say.
And this is what the teleprompter's website says, and we'll probably see a uh uh uh quite a relaxation of um uh the what?
The uh uh travel restrictions at Cuba.
And uh so forth and so on.
When we come back, I'm gonna grab some phone calls, but do not think I have not forgotten Janet Napolitano.
That's coming up with I have a a couple of um interesting points to make about Napolitano.
She's running around trying to defend her report, and she's not taking any of it back.
She's not taking any of it back.
But your phone calls are next when we come back right after this.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
Again, the telephone number is 800 282 2882, and this is Paul in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
You're up first today, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, ten over ten thousand tea parties in as in attendance.
Ditto's from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Thank you, sir.
It is an honor to talk to you.
This is awesome.
Um I called because uh it's it's really as one of the organizers of the Albuquerque Tea Party, it's really burning me up to hear these reports that uh this is.
I didn't know that you uh I didn't know you worked for Fox News.
Yeah, well, um and I'm kinda mad at you too, because I haven't received my check from you or Fox yet.
I don't know uh I'm wondering where that was.
You were supposed to call and bolster me on all day yesterday.
What happened there?
But yeah, this was we had I want to say about seven or eight people in our core group.
This couldn't have been a more grassroots, this couldn't have been a more all volunteer um function.
And yeah, we had sponsorship.
We had local businesses come out of the woodwork, mine included, that's how I originally got involved to help get this thing off and help get it going.
Um by the way, what the hell what the hell's wrong with that?
What the hell is a local business getting involved with this?
What's wrong with that?
For crying out loud, General Electrics joined the the damn global warming movement.
You know, screw these people out there, Paul.
I don't let them you know you know they're gonna lie about you.
You know they're gonna try to discredit what you do.
And when when you're when you when you put yourself out there like you did, you've got to expect what's gonna come back at you, and you've got to learn to ignore it, particularly when it isn't true, and you can't let them make your focus change to convincing them.
You don't want to play this, not saying you are, on their field.
Just keep doing what you do and screw them.
But I mean that what they want you to do is be all upset the way they report.
They want your responding and pandering to them.
They want you worried that they're disrep uh misreporting it.
Just be above them.
Which is not hard, because you are.
You're smarter, you're more involved, you have a you have a much more open mind, and you're clearly more informed than half the journalists that in a CNN combined.
Journalists are not even informed anymore.
They're just activists.
They're just agenda drivers.
They don't bother to inform themselves.
Kim in Chicago, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush, I just want to say you are a true gift to the citizens of the United States.
Thank you for your service.
Well, that's very nice of you to say.
Thank you very much.
I want to say, um, I heard your comment earlier, someone standing out uh in the in the drive-by saying, Where are the African Americans?
Where were the African Americans?
And I just want to say, my husband and I were in Chicago at the tea party yesterday, and if they would have been in Chicago, they would have seen some.
Um we were really encouraged to see a great mix of ages and ethnic groups.
We saw Hispanic Americans and African Americans.
There was a man on the street um from Russia telling um his concerns about what he's seen in his country and what's uh being paralleled here.
And I think the only thing uh the only group that was missing was the media.
Well, the media has its templates.
And the CNN babe shouting, there's no African American, they're no A It's just the template.
There are no African Americans because conservatives are racists, and that's why African Americans, they're smart.
They don't show up at these things.
Well, and and in fact, you said there's some there.
Yeah, they were in Chicago, and and I was encouraged to see, like I said, uh a mix of ethnic ethnic groups, a mix of ages, and these people were angry, but this was a peaceful crowd, and it was an amazingly polite crowd.
If people bumped into each other, they said, Oh, excuse me, sorry, we were talking to each other, and I have to say the thing I thought was the greatest is at the end of this rally, the people that were organizing it asked us all to look down and if we saw any litter at uh on the street at our feet, would we please pick it up and dispose of it properly on our way out?
And everybody did it.
And it was just I was proud to be a part of it, and I'm just really sick to see how they've misrepresented this.
But you knew it was gonna happen.
Oh, yeah, we knew it.
But it was encouraging to these people are not as smart as you do not think that they're any smarter just because they're on TV.
They're not.
These people these people are such narrow minded, so so narrow minded in their focus.
Uh they show up th they don't even have to see.
They just know it's gonna happen because you're you and they're gonna report that it happened, whether it did or not.
Well, I hope that the people that were there will be encouraged uh to come out even even more of us the next time.
They will, because they all had a good time.
Yeah, we did.
All had a good time, and it was worthwhile, and it was worth the effort, and it had substantive meaning.
You know, this was about substance.
You you guys are not following some personality cult out there.
This is not about that.
You were out there on your own.
I think it was fabulous.
I appreciate your phone call.
Dorothy in Salem, Missouri.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
It's good to talk to you.
You bet.
Uh tell you what, I want to thank you, and you know, you talk about God, you're a gift from God.
You are.
You are, you are, you are.
Well, thank you.
Talent on loan from God.
I appreciate it.
You're very very kind.
I appreciate that.
You have the guts, the courage, and the boldness to stand up for what you believe in.
Uh we had uh I'm from Satell, Missouri, and we had a little gathering in our park.
I didn't get to go because I was working yesterday.
Uh but I would like to have been there.
And I watched yesterday as much as I could of ki of uh Glenn and different ones, and I also saw the reporter.
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
But I have to give the man that she was talking to that had the little child in his arms, he had uh manners, even though she was coming against him.
He had enough manners to let her go on and just just make a fool of herself, to be honest.
She did.
Yes.
And uh I admire um Sarah Steelman and Joanne Emerson of Missouri.
I admire those women very much.
The rest of them as a whole, to me, if I had anything to do with it, would kick them out and we'd start a news.
Well, now this is an interesting um reaction that you were having.
I remember now, I don't know if you heard the uh first half hour of the program, but I I and I d uh I'm gonna say it again here, but I don't mean to be throwing cold water on things.
But one of the things I sense is um effervescing out there on these tea parties is turning this into a third party movement.
And there are a lot of people who want that to happen because they want to be in charge of it.
They want to get the credit for leading it, creating it, or what have you, or they want to uh use it to create a niche identity for themselves.
Not gonna mention names because it's not the point.
Uh the the point is that third parties lose, a third-party candidate will end up electing the alternative.
Parole elected Clinton, for example.
What instead needs to be the focus is largely what happened in nineteen ninety-four.
And that is just get rid of as many incumbents as you can, because that's the problem here.
For incumbents in Congress, incumbents in the Senate, that's the big problem.
And right now, aside from putting little boulders in the road to try to stop Obama, there aren't the votes in Congress to stop anything he's doing.
And no way to stop the Democrats on this, and there's no way to stop the media.
That's why these Tea Parties yesterday are important, because this is the first step.
This is something is gonna pop up from neighborhoods, from the the the grassroots, and this is the kind of thing that leads to the election of enough new members of Congress 2010 that can maybe perhaps have a difference.
Don't forget this, that a lot of, if not most of the stimulus package, the pork spending in the porculus bill doesn't really kick in till 2010 and after, and if you get significant enough majorities, and it's a long shot, but you might be able to write legislation that cancels some of that spending.
Obama would veto it, and it would depend on the majorities uh uh the Democrats have enough votes to override it.
But uh these these these little movements that started yesterday that were actually not little, eight hundred of them, hundred and eighty-nine thousand people is what I heard.
So that's hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The Democrats kind of characterize this as something that it wasn't, but they're just they are frightened of it.
And I I'll tell you a lot of other people look at this and they're probably a little surprised too, because the casual observer and the someone that pays casual attention to politics probably buys the media notion that Obama's universally popular in this country, that he's just and uh uh everybody loves it, loves his policies, loves him, and this kind of stuff happens to people, what like the guy that called the 19 year old that called yesterday from Texas.
Why uh why Obama doing such a good job?
Why why is everybody so upset?
Which was a great opportunity for me to try to uh explain it.
And the and the more people think realize there are a lot of people that are not on line with this, the better the opportunity to oppose it.
Hey, folks, a couple of reminders.
Tomorrow is our annual curaton for leukemia and lymphoma, the leukemia lymphoma society.
We do this once a year, every April, where we uh raise significant amounts of money that go toward the research of uh uh cures eventually for and and and but expanded uh uh lifespans after diagnosis uh for all of the blood cancers.
A new drug has just uh come out, which we'll be telling you about tomorrow too.
But I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow on Open Line Friday is our annual curathon for the leukemia and lymphoma society.
Also, I just learned this morning that uh my buddy Mark Levin's book, Liberty and Tyranny will uh remain number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
This will be the third consecutive week, and this week, the third week of sales of Levin's book is higher than the other two.
So the arc is continuing to skyrocket out there.
And the the s the sale of this book uh in the midst of all that is happening and these tea parties is a great indication of just how much energy there is in this country to oppose what is happening to it via Obama administration policies.
Now, this book, I mean it's it's just been out three or four weeks, and it's it's that there's eight hundred and fifty thousand of them in print now.
And I would just love it if Levin sells a million copies of this book.
Because I gotta tell you, you know, Obama, sorry, sorry, sorry, Oprah is out there pushing all kinds of books.
Michael J. Fox's book and uh uh other books.
And Levin, you know, he's doing some book signings and he's doing he has done some radio interviews, but he doesn't have any big names pushing his book, of course, other than me.
Uh and he's out selling all of them.
And I'll tell you why.
It's not because of the publicity, it's because of the content.
It's because of the substance of the book.
It's called word of mouth.
The best thing it can sell a book is word of mouth.
People read it and say to themselves, my gosh, others need to read this, and they either buy a copy or two to give away or they tell their friends about it.
And that's what's propelling Liberty and Tyranny.
It's great book.
And the timing of this book is ideal.
So I couldn't be happier.
I could not be happier.
850,000 copies in print, third week number one New York Times bestseller list.
Uh, and I sincerely hope the momentum keeps going as this book.
If uh you know, I've I've said this before, people ask me, what's your reading list, Rush?
Where do I go to learn about the basics and the foundations of conservatism?
There is one now that can actually sum it all up from the ancient conservative philosophers and the application of conservatism to present-day issues, and not going to give this away, but the end of the book, there are ten things that Levin says need to be done to move the country forward, some of them quite fascinating.
But uh congratulations to Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny, third week, number one New York Times list.
Uh sales this week, previous weeks uh higher than the previous two weeks, and there's no end in sight.
And now Nathan in Dallas, I'm thinking I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It is a pleasure to speak with you.
Thanks for taking the call.
And uh I just want to say, first of all, I acknowledge You and I thank you for being the voice for so many that just really don't have one or they can't find their voice to stand up.
So thank you.
Um the point I wanted to get to though is uh the reason I think that the liberals are so put back and so upset and defensive about yesterday is I think it's because up until now they've had the exclusive right to activism, and now non liberals, whether it's you know, so called independents or conservatives, they're stepping up and they're finding a way to use what liberals have used for so long.
Yeah, but you know, there's a there's even even with that, you're right, but even with that, there's a difference.
Most not most, but a lot of liberal protests are rented, rent a mobs.
Do you remember a couple three years ago, supposed a million people came out to protest illegal immigration and so forth?
That's all put together by the unions.
The unions get hold of their members, say you will show up at X and X location.
Uh this nobody had to be cajoled or prodded, nobody had to be threatened to show up at these tea parties yesterday.
There's a there's so many substantive differences.
The public protest you're right is the liberal province.
They've owned it, and they use it as a tool, and they pay people.
That's why the name Rentomob exists.
In fact, you know, the uh there's this Nancy Pelosi in her uh comments said that this is not a grassroots movement, this is an astroturf movement.
Now, Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light.com informs me, and I didn't know this, that the term astroturfing was invented to describe actions by none other than David Axelrod, who is essentially Barack Obama's teleprompter.
David Axel Rod had PR firm and he worked in the private sector.
One of the things that Axelrod did was to create phony grassroots movements in order to pressure business uh competitors of uh his clients or to push the uh concerns of his clients.
And Astroturfing is it pretty much as Nancy Pelosi described it as phony.
AstroTurf is the creation of the image that there's a big ground swell of grassroots movements when there isn't one behind it.
Sort of like a wag the dog kind of thing.
And astroturfing, from what I understand is the term described or invented to describe the practices of David Axelrod.
So they're out there, Pelosi in the media trying to diminish what happened to what you people did yesterday by calling it astroturfing, which means fake grassroots.
Phony grassroots.
When again, as is the case in so many things, when the Democrats start accusing you, when the Liberals start accusing you of something, the odds are they do it themselves, and you don't.
Who's next?
Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Mike, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I want to first off say thank you and uh prostrate my myself at the feet of the master.
Well, that's not necessarily I am not President Obama.
Get up.
And I want to apologize for being one of those rich Republicans from Bucks County.
But uh the the real reason for my call is You don't really mean that.
You're just you said that with a laugh.
You're not apologizing for being rich.
You're darn right I'm not, because I work 14 hours a day to be there.
And besides you won't be for very much longer.
So enjoy it while you can.
Yeah, that's the that's the real point.
But the uh the what the media is trying to do is say, hey, this uh tea party was only how many hundred thousand, a hundred and eighty thousand.
Did you go to one?
No, and that's one of the reasons for my call is because I I was actually working uh as I have to do.
So the point is not how many people showed up, but how many people agree and really back these uh the same kind of sentiment like myself, and believe me, there's a lot.
Quite a few.
And this is this was only the the the first volley, the first shot over the bow.
Because let me tell you, you know better than I do what's going to happen.
The taxes that will follow the cigarette tax, the liquor tax, the the price going up for uh gasoline, uh social uh socialized medicine, uh schooling, uh one thing after the other is going to break the camel's back, and you talk about the sentiment bubbling up.
Pretty soon it's go it's going to be like a volcano erupting because it's going to pile on and pile on and pile on.
And I believe all of these taxes, all of this money being taken from those who have is going to actually set a second wave of foreclosures on houses to be able to do that.
Well, what Obama wants.
I think Obama wants the largest welfare state he can he can get.
I I really do.
I think I think this is about as much federal control as as he can secure for himself and the Democrat Party.
Now, Mike, I'm going to end your call right now because you're talking about the first shot over the bowel.
Don't forget, Department of Homeland Security is monitoring us now.
And you've identified yourself as coming from Bucks County.
And you've admitted that you are rich.
I mean, you couldn't make yourself a bigger target by having admitting all this on the program today.
In addition to that, we have learned here that the National Security Agency does all the monitoring of phone calls and emails, has been collecting even more information than usual on domestic phone calls made by us, made by Americans.
So I'm going to try to protect you from any more risk that you've put yourself under by being so open about this.
If you're right, if Mike is right, if there are going to be more of this, and I've heard that they're going to try to gin these things up again on July 4th.
If that happens, I have a funny little suggestion for you.
Because you know the media will show up again.
The Susan Rosejins of CNN and all the rest will show up.
When they show up to start asking you questions as Susan Rosgen did with a guy holding a baby in Chicago yesterday, here's what you need to do.
Promise me you'll do this.
And if you want to answer the questions, that that's fine.
You want to try.
But what you need to do first is say, where are the journalists?
I don't see any journalists.
Well, there's somebody from CNN with a camera and a microphone in your face, and they ask you some stupid where the journalists.
You know, and look around like you're trying to find where are the journalists?
I don't see any journalists here.
Oh.
That will be fun.
Nobody will ever see it on TV.
They will edit it out.
But you can have a friend of yours videotape it or whatsoever and uh and then post it on YouTube, like those two idiots at Domino's.
This is just you know, I I our kids, I don't know that they're being born dumb yet.
I don't know that the average IQ is is being reduced in this country.
Uh, but I'll tell you, where they're being dumbed down by somebody.
They're being dumbed down in school or whatever.
How why in the world would anybody go to a party underage, start chugging brewski's, and have it posted on their My Face page or MySpace so that their parents could see it.
We were never that stupid.
If we got caught, it was legitimate police work by our parents.
It wasn't because we were idiots.
Good grief.
I I this but these these clowns that I think it's it is Domino's, right?
Yes, yes, yes.
It's Domino's Pizza in um Conover, North Carolina.
A gross video, it says here from the AP, posted on YouTube showing a Domino's pizza worker stuffing cheese up his nostril and waving salami under his rear end as he is making sandwiches that led to charges against him and a co-worker who recorded him.
Christy Lynn Hammonds, 31, and Michael Anthony Setzer, 32 of Conover are each charged with distributing prohibited foods.
The police chief Gary LaFone says it's the same North Carolina statute that forbids any tampering with Halloween candy.
Spokesman for Domino said that uh the workers were fired.
There is no evidence any of the tampered foods were served to the customers.
He said the company may also pursue a lawsuit against these two idiots.
The CEO Patrick Doyle posted another video in response saying the store had been sanitized.
Sanitized top to Bottom.
Jeez.
I say, have any of you seen the movie Idiocracy?
This is right out of the movie Idiocracy.
Oh, well.
Timeout.
We're a little long in the segment here, so let's take it.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
No, I think it's these kids want fame.
And I'm I'm I I am troubled by it.
I I really am.
Uh my space, is that what it is?
And fake Facebook and all the YouTube stuff.
Look at I'm I you can't fight technology.
I'm not fighting it.
I'm all for technology, but I'm telling you, all of these stupid things these people are doing is just so other people will see them.
If they can't get on Jerry Springer, the next best thing to do is, you know, mess up your work at Domino's and put it on YouTube.
Start chugging beers when you don't think your parents can see.
Put it on YouTube.
You want it to be seen if you do that.
It may be the new form of rebellion.
Take this, mom.
But regardless, it's I I think the root of it is that everybody wants fame.
The pop culture's caught up.
There's a Jerry Springer show, there's Oprah, and let's say everybody famous is in pictures.
I am probably the most famous non-video person in the country.
That's no mean feat.
And I still am.
These people, and and they think that this fame is gonna get them all this treatment like Britney Spears gets or all the idolatry the entertainment press gives their heroes in movies and music and so forth.
They haven't the slightest understanding of it.
I um I once saw an actor who's a friend of mine, page six, New York Post, pictured in the China Club, no longer in existence, in New York at two o'clock in the morning with a bevy of sweet young things around him.
And I next time I ran into him, I said, what what you what he's married.
I said, Well, what in the hell you doing?
Gotta do it.
Movie coming up.
That's where you go to get yourself photographed.
That's the audience that's gonna go to the movie.
Gotta do it.
I'll tell you, if you're a youngster out there and you're obsessed with fame, I'm gonna give you a little piece of advice.
The worst thing you can do to yourself is to establish a career or identity or whatever that requires the media to cover you every day in order for you to stay successful.
Because while they may love you one day, at the next day they're gonna tear you apart and they're gonna try to destroy you.
It's just the nature of the beast.
And it's uh, you know, all this fame stuff when you're young, because everybody wants to be known, everybody wants to matter and so forth.
It's uh ask these two lunky 32-year-old, I call them kids, 32 years old.
I'm not even gonna comment on the fact that 32-year-olds are making pizzas at one o'clock in the morning.
Uh you know, that's entry-level stuff, nothing against dominoes.
That uh Ashland, Ohio.
Bill, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
I'm uh 82-year-old World War II Navy vet, and I'm glad to be part of the shot across the ball.
God bless you, sir.
Um it's the first protest I've ever attended in Ashland, Ohio.
Um about five hundred gathered there.
It's a small uh farm community.
And a young lady marine read your I think grandfather's article on the Framers of the Constitution.
That would be, I think my father, who on the sign the signers of the declaration.
Right.
Somebody at the Tea Party read my dad's speech.
It's on my website.
She read my dad's speech on the signers of the declaration at the tea party.
Yes.
Yes.
And you could have heard a pin drop.
Was a very, very respectful crowd.
And when she finished, there was cheering for quite a while.
Wow, that is cool.
You you you've made my day out there, Bill.
I tell what we're gonna do.
Cook uh Coco, I want you to, because that's in our archives.
That's in the stack, the essential stack of stuff at rushlimbo.com.
Put put the link to that speech, the text of it on the free side of the uh website tonight, so people can uh put it up as soon as you can put it up there.
In fact, put it up at rushlimbo.com as soon as you can.
Signer's declaration.
This this will bring you to tears reading this speech.
A top Democrat, Benny Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, really dumbfounded by the Department of Homeland Security report on extremism.
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