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July 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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In the last hour of the program, I shared with the audience an outstanding essay that you can find on the website of the National Review, today by David Cahane, he writes in the voice of a liberal.
The point he's making is for the left, the reason Sarah Palin had to be destroyed is they don't want to allow anything to get in their way of fulfilling the 60s radical radical dream, part communist, partisocial, part of ending everything that America was.
Part we hate the United States, so we're going to make it over in our own image.
We can't allow anyone who's popular to get in the way of that, so we'll destroy them.
And you conservatives, you're just too dumb to figure it out, and you're too dumb to play by our tactics.
I believe he's on to something.
How else do you explain that Teddy Kennedy survived in the United States Senate 40 years after drowning a woman and not calling the cops for 10 hours?
Imagine what it takes to bring down a conservative, and then imagine what it takes to bring down an American liberal.
And it isn't just in terms of destroying individuals.
It's in attacking their credibility and attacking their premise.
They play the game differently than our side does.
They have an advantage.
There's nobody to blow the whistle on them.
There's no referee for them.
The referee is the media.
When conservatives, quote, go too far, we're called on it, and it is considered to be hateful and terrible.
Look at the number of times they've tried to blow the whistle on Rush.
It happens always.
Nobody's blowing the whistle on them.
But that doesn't mean we should stop.
If we aren't willing to fight using the tactics that they use, we aren't going to win.
And I can prove this.
There's a story out today.
A new Gallup poll.
This is going to blow you away.
Gallup is out today with a new survey showing more Americans are moving to the right politically than to the left, including people in all three major groups, Republicans, independents, and Democrats.
Quote, despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans by a two to one margin say their political views in recent years have become more conservative than more liberal.
39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed.
The latest Gallup results also come soon after the organization reported that 40% of Americans now identify themselves as conservatives, the highest level since 2004.
You talk about a time warp story.
We've just elected a socialist to run the United States.
We've elected a guy who wants to nationalize health care, who's taken over the automobile companies, who owns a bank, who's essentially running Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae, and wants to tax American manufacturing out of existence.
We've elected a guy who blew up the federal budget with a stimulus plan that didn't stimulate anything, and we turned over the Congress of the United States to huge Democratic majorities, including 60 votes in the United States Senate, and it happens at a time in the polls that the people are telling Gallup, yes, we're more conservative than we've ever been.
How can that possibly be?
How can a country that is moving to the right politically elect a gang of radical leftists?
There's only one way it can happen.
And that's if the other side has figured out how to play the game better.
It'd be like a football game in which one defense gets to commit pass interference in every play.
You can tackle the receiver downfield, you can drag him to the ground, you get hit him with a ball, and the other team can touch the receiver.
Which pat team is going to complete all the passes and which team will complete complete none of them.
Right now, conservatives are playing by a set of rules that liberals have long abandoned.
And that's why, in a country that has not gone bonkers, every time you take one of these issues that we've been dealing with and lay out the case, the American public turns against it.
They all say they want health care reform.
But then when you ask them about every component in the Obama plan, they say no, I'm not for that.
They all say they want to reduce emissions.
But when you ask them if we should have massive taxes on corporations that exist in states with coal plants, they say no, I'm not for that.
They all say they want the economy stimulated.
But when you ask them if they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars on jobs that won't even be created for years, they oppose that.
This country is not going all lifty.
Every poll that's been taken shows that most Americans would rather identify themselves as conservative than liberal, and as time goes on, they become more conservative.
The only way liberals can win elections and win ideological battles in that environment is if they're able to get away with murder.
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Let's go to New Hampshire and Triss.
Tris, you're on the rush program with Mark Belling.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
I was uh I'm just, you know, hearing you hearing your latest bit kind of is I've modified it a little bit.
I I think what it has to be is you talk about that they were able to, you know, come up with these rules that are allowed them to to beat us at a game that we're not playing.
I I think we need to then be on the cutting edge beyond them then.
If you know what I mean, it's don't just go tit for tat with them.
Because going tit for tat with them, it's just people it it's too easy for people to dismiss it.
It's you know, it's oh, it's just politics as usual.
Um, you know, and we just we don't I don't think personally, I don't think we need the venom.
And I don't that you know that you saw with the whole tearing down of Sarah Palin, you know, Palin.
It just there was a there was a venom there that I just don't think serves.
Okay, well, whether Sarah survives or not, the fact of the matter is she isn't the governor of Alaska anymore, and a lot of people think that she's damaged her political future by stepping aside.
They were able to pull that off.
The Sarah Palin that spoke at the Republican National Convention last year was an American phenomenon.
People who saw it loved her.
She was an everybody called her a breath of fresh air.
And look at how many Americans have changed their views of Sarah Palin since then.
There are a lot of us who still like her, but many have see her as this caricature of what she actually is.
They were able to do that.
And we weren't even able to let the American public know which party was primarily responsible for Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae getting involved in encouraging banks and almost requiring them to make subprime loans.
You see the point that I'm making here.
That side gets to communicate anything, including a pack of lies, while our side has gotten done very, very poorly in drawing attention to any dirt on the other side.
Why is it that most Americans don't know about the Tony Rezco land deal with Barack Obama?
Why is it that half the Republican Party said, Oh, back down, don't talk about Reverend Wright.
McCain himself, we shouldn't question a man's religion.
McCain took Reverend Wright totally off the table.
If Sarah Palin was a member of a wacko church led by an anti-American racist, do you think the other side ever would have taken that off the table saying don't touch a religion?
That's the point that I'm making here.
Right, and I I think it's it's a val I think what we just have to be careful, you know, in saying that we need to take a page for you know from their book or that we need to play their game.
There's a certain level of playing their game, which I think is you know is acceptable and reasonable to expect.
I just think it it's it's a very fine line for us to walk in trying to do that.
I know what you're saying, you know.
You don't want to be a jerk.
You think they're jerks and you don't want you don't want to be a jerk.
On the other hand, using the football analogy I had, if the referees aren't calling past interference or they're not calling holding, you probably ought to hold and commit a little bit of past interference, or you're gonna lose the game.
And I understand the referees are gonna blow the whistle on our side.
They're gonna say that the right is playing dirty.
They're going to say politics of personal destruction.
When you consider how little traction was given to so many of the allegations that were made against Bill Clinton, including how he simply allowed illegal Chinese fundraising to bankroll the DNC for years, and then take a look at the little tiny things that stymie Republicans and stymie conservatives.
It tells you that that side is just playing a different game than our side is playing.
I understand that there's going to be a backlash if conservatives start behaving the way liberals are.
But there are people like those of us who have talk shows who don't have to worry about getting elected.
You know, there are a few conservatives out there who give just as good as the other side does.
Ann Coulter's great at it.
Rush is great at it.
But you get a lot of Republicans who then seem embarrassed by us.
Oh, well, I'm not a limb Republican.
I'm not an Angolder Republican.
I'm a New York Times Republican.
I can still go to the cocktail parties in Georgetown.
You don't have to look at me as one of them.
I mean, I get them in my own community and doing my own program in Milwaukee.
We've got all sorts of country club Republicans who look down their noses at those of us who actually believe you ought to try to try to win these fights.
Those are the people that have bringing down a party that has positions that the majority of Americans hold and turning it into a minority party.
And I don't know how you get past this problem of feeling like you're doing something dirty by using their tactics.
What I am saying though is this that party is practicing the politics of personal destruction, and the Republican Party and the conservative movement is nowhere near approaching those kind of tactics.
And I think that's the reason why they won.
Look how they were able to mischaracterize Bush.
Look how they were able to turn the war in Iraq into a defeat rather than a victory.
Look at the things they tried to get away with that were stopped, like the phony National Guard story that Dan Rather did on Bush.
Those are the rules that they're willing to play by, and they're going to be even meaner with it now because they are so close.
They sense that they can nationalize health care.
They sense that they can shut down American manufacturing.
They sense that we can move away from a country in which we love our country to one in which we're all servants of the world.
That's what they've been dreaming for forever, and they think they're very, very close, and they're going to try to shut up anybody who gets in their way.
It's not a coincidence that right after Obama was sworn in, he immediately started telling the Republicans, don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
He didn't tell them don't listen to Mitch McConnell.
He didn't tell them don't listen to some member of the House.
He said don't listen to Rush Limbaugh because he figured that that was the one voice out there that actually is going to fight back and rather than acquiesce to all of these things.
Well, you can start by fighting back on the issues because the issues are on our side, but you've also got to be willing to defend your own people when they're under unfair assault and to give the other side some of their own medicine because I can guarantee you they can't take it because they've never had to deal with it.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
They've got the big Michael Jackson memorial service going on today.
If Michael Jackson was the one singer who was a political conservative and he was implicated in pedophilia, do you think you'd have the big memorial service with all the celebrities being willing to show up?
Probably not.
It's making the point that I make trying to make on today's program, and I've had a lot of requests from people wondering where they can find the essay that I read in the last hour.
It's written by David Cahane.
You can find it at the National Review.com.
It's on their cover page under the headline, I still hate you, Sarah Palin, Nationalreview.com, in which he's arguing that the left's mission to destroy Sarah Palin is part of their overall willingness to wage war and play the game by rules that conservatives will not use.
I think he's right.
And I'm not suggesting doing anything you can't defend.
What I am saying is that if standards are being put in place by the left as to what's acceptable and what isn't acceptable in the American debate, we've got to be willing to accept those standards, or we're never going to win anything.
Let's go to Moundsville, West Virginia, and Michelle.
Michelle, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, you're doing a great job, Mark.
Thanks for filling in.
I'm just that's kind of frustrated.
I've been to my second tea party, and um we had thousands of people there in Wheeling, West Virginia.
And um, you know, you come home and and it's just kind of like you don't hear anything about it, and nobody's fired up anymore, and I'm just frustrated and I was kind of thinking maybe you know, Michael Steele, he needs to go.
I'm sorry.
Um I just I was kind of thinking maybe that Sarah Palin, maybe she would run you know, maybe she would run the Republican Party and get things in order.
And I'm I'm really ready for people to start fighting back with these Democrats.
I mean, we should be fighting tooth and nail.
When they put something out there, we need to be fighting back.
And they can see us as a do nothing.
They think we're doing nothing.
We're not gonna do anything because we're too conservative.
Well, and the leadership can't come from the bottom on this, and not to imply that you personally are the bottom, but you're a citizen.
You're not an elected official, you're not a senator, you're not a newspaper columnist, you're a citizen who has strongly held beliefs.
This stuff on the left starts at the very top.
Major news organizations swarmed on Alaska after Sarah Palin was named, the vice presidential nominee of John McCain.
Nobody swarmed on Chicago.
Nobody swarmed on Acorn, nobody swarmed on the Bill Ayers story.
To the extent that we have opinion leaders and we have leaders at all, they need to go about and start doing some of this work.
Now my suggestion would be that some of the conservative organizations that aren't directly part of the Republican Party take some of this up on their own.
You know, you can form an independent organization that can do whatever it's whatever it wants.
You've got a couple of them that do that.
You've got the Club for Growth, which is a strong organization.
Grover Norquist Americans for Tax Reform is a strong organization.
We need one or two or three of those to go out there and simply get involved in fighting this fight aggressively.
The first thing that we can do is n when you see something like nationalized health care, not immediately do what business is doing, try to get a seat at the table so we can see if we can make it better.
Go out there and oppose it.
Tell the American public what's wrong with it.
Tell them what the consequences are.
With regard to cap and trade, we can oppose it.
I understand your frustration.
There are limits to what an individual citizen can do.
All of this stuff has to be done by a group, and it has to be done by leaders.
Take a look at what was done to Palin unfairly and imagine what could be done fairly.
I'm not even saying make up stuff and lie about it.
If you merely told the truth about Barney Frank and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, you would have discredited him.
How many people even know that it was Frank and Barack Obama that leaned on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and forced its regulator to back off when they were making the kinds of loans that help bring down the economy.
Those things have to be pointed out and those arguments have to be made.
I now see Al Sharpton talking at the Michael Jackson uh memorial service.
L. Sharpton came to fame by pushing a phony rape story told by Tawana Brawley.
Our side has not done a sufficient job discrediting a guy like that.
Can you imagine a conservative getting to the top by making up a fake story about a rape and then not having a dog him for the rest of his career?
It would not be done.
And the reason it would not be done is the left would never allow us to get away with it.
Michelle, I urge you to keep fighting, keep going to the tea parties, keep doing what you can, but there is a limit as to how much an individual can do.
This thing requires leadership, and it certainly doesn't need leaders of the Republican Party telling those people who have passion and who stand for things to shut up that you're somehow embarrassing us.
Thank you for the call to Toledo and Pamela.
Pamela, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Mark.
Hi You know, I want to thank you for reading that essay.
That uh I'll tell you that's inspired me like nothing has in a long time.
Because I'm getting really tired of the self-constraints that conservatives have put on themselves.
I had a I've been thinking about this Sarah Paler thing and uh Palin, and I'm starting to look at this in a different light now.
You know her nickname used to be Sarah Barracuda.
She was stuck in a tank of stinging jellyfish in the Republican Party.
And and what I love about what she did is that she basically gave a good a a big middle finger to the conservative or sorry, not conservative, to the Republican Party, and I think she said, you know what?
I'm not being true to who I am, and I'm restrained by all these party rules and all this.
Yeah, I don't know, but I I don't pretend to know what what her strategy is here.
I uh part of me thinks that I just take her at her word that the cost of all of this were too much and that she was going to step back from the fight.
Maybe it's a repositioning of herself.
What I can tell you though is that the goal of the left has been to destroy her, not discredit her, to destroy her.
You don't tell jokes about a 14-year-old girl being raped unless you're trying to destroy someone and then come around after you got an uptick in your ratings and say, oh, well, I didn't really mean to say it the way Letterman did.
I'm Mark Belling sitting up a rush.
Having an interesting discussion about whether or not the conservative movement in America is losing vital ground because it is unwilling to play as dirty as the liberals.
What we have right now in America is a revolution.
You're talking about a radicalization of American way of life.
I mean, in just six months, Obama and the Democrats have succeeded in taking over a large stake in a huge bank, Citigroup.
They have succeeded in taking over a majority stake in a huge insurance company, AIG.
They have succeeded in taking over two American automobile companies in General Motors and Chrysler.
They are trying to nationalize health care in a way in which it will be the government that makes the determination as to who doctors can treat and when, who's going to be insured and when.
They are trying to impose a massive taxation scheme, taxing corporations literally on the air that we breathe in a way that will destroy certain American industries.
They have already blown the federal budget deficit four times higher than it ever was under President Bush, using stimulus as an excuse to lard up federal spending with more of their make work programs for their special interests, and they've done all of this in just six months.
They had a revolution without firing a shot.
This is not your father's Democratic Party.
The old Democratic Party, and I don't mean of the 1930s or the 1940s, the old Democratic Party never would have tried any of this.
Carter didn't even try any of this.
This is a radicalization of public policy that is much more akin to what was in place in Western Europe and even in the Soviet Union.
These are enormous things that we're fighting for.
We're fighting for the right to keep our own doctor.
We're fighting for the right to have a profit motive in this country.
We are fighting for the right to have American manufacturing survive.
We are fighting for the right to have corporations be held by the private sector, not the public.
They are using one economic downturn, and a bad one, as the rationalization to change everything.
And they do it because they say the American people voted for change.
Yet when you ask them, they never say that they voted for any of this.
Obama himself remains personally popular.
Why?
I think part of it is because nobody's been willing to truly go after him because they don't want the backlash with doing so.
Liberals have never had this shyness.
When liberals encounter a popular conservative, they set out to destroy that person.
The treatment given to Robert Bork signaled that it was a new ball game.
That was back in the mid-80s.
I think they regretted that they weren't able to destroy Reagan, so they tried to destroy anyone who would represent what Reagan brought.
They went after Bork, then they went after Clarence Thomas, then they went after Newt Gingrich.
They didn't much have to worry about anyone who was truly conservative after that, although they certainly despise W. Sarah Palin was a new challenge for them.
Rush Limbaugh is a new challenge for them.
That's why they love To bring back the fairness doctrine.
That's why they look for any type of misstep that a human being makes to try to blow that person out of the water.
That's the game they now play.
And it's totally one-sided.
Totally.
Look at the level of coverage given to Republicans right now involved in sexual misconduct, which I'm not defending.
And then look at the same media that heard zillions of reports that John Edwards was having an affair while running for president while his wife was fighting cancer and a news media that would not look into that story to save its life.
The National Enquirer forced it to be reported.
This isn't just a double standard.
It's a completely different set of rules that's being played.
It's the politics of personal destruction being utilized by one party at the expense of public policy.
This isn't just, well, is it fair to Sarah Palin, or is it unfair to Teddy Kennedy?
This is getting things driven through policy changes by silencing the voices of dissent.
To Houston and Dale, Dale, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Good afternoon.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thanks.
I think you're only partially correct in that uh Republicans can't win elections because they don't have a spine and they don't resort to hardball tactics.
But I think the biggest problem is that the Republicans have abandoned the conservative portion of their base and started with uh George Bush Sr. when he broke his new taxes law, and then when uh George W. got to be president, he immediately said, I want to share power.
You've seen it when they had control of the House and the Senate and the presidency when they passed a bill to build a fence on the border, but then they failed to uh pass.
Yeah, I mean, you're finding you're finding policy problems.
The point that I'm making is you're you're worried about how conservatives have, you know, not appealed to their base.
All of that is true.
The point that I'm making is that nobody is voting for the ideas that Obama and Congress are trying to push through.
Virtually nobody shares the views of Sonia Sotomayor that you ought to throw out a test simply because no blacks scored well on that test.
Very few people believe in that.
I'm looking at the bigger picture than you are as to how a party that is far more out of the mainstream that whatever you want to say about the Republicans could possibly win an election.
I'm talking about how a guy like Barney Frank is still a major American public figure.
I'm talking about how a party can give a chairmanship to a guy as knee-deep and scandal as Charlie Wrangle.
You're talking about a guy who said, Well, I didn't know what the tax law was, I didn't know I had a report this as income.
No Republican could ever get away with those things.
I don't quarrel with you that some Republicans aren't conservative enough.
The point that I'm making here is that you have one political party that has been able to get away with murder and has used that ability to advance its own agenda.
That's the point that I'm making, Dale.
Thank you for the call.
To Jesus and El Paso, you're on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
How are you doing?
I'm great, thank you.
Hey, listen, uh, a couple of things.
It it seems to me that uh and you and you talked about this to a certain extent.
We're losing the PR battle.
And you know, for most people, perception is reality, and the perception out there is that these guys, these scoundrels, the liberals are for the little guy.
Somehow that perception comes across uh to to everybody that's non-conservative.
And on the conservative side, we come across as the stuff shirts, the people that only care about the guy.
And that's why they hated Palin.
Because you could not pass her off as one of the stuffed shirt rich guys.
She comes from this town in Alaska that nobody knew how to pronounce.
She's out there, you know, she's out there hunting for moose.
She's as small town as you possibly could be.
It was pretty clear that her family didn't have a lot of money.
She represented total populism, and she talked about things that a whole lot of Americans appreciated.
That's why they had to go out and get her.
You're right.
They like to claim that they stand up for the little guy, but it's the ultimate party of the elitists.
It's the party that believes that you have to go to the Ivy League institutions or otherwise you're stupid.
It's the party that mocked Bush because he mispronounced the word nuclear.
It's the party of total elitism.
They use the masses to empower them to do what they want, and then they want to control everyone.
You're exactly right about the public relations battle, and I know the reason why.
It's loss.
They control most of the forms of communication in this country.
The internet is changing that.
Talk radio changed it, but still most people get their information from news and entertainment sources controlled by liberals.
Every one of the late night comics is a lefty.
David Letterman would have never done to a liberal what he did to Sarah Palin.
So the popular culture, all the references that people get, the entertainers, the celebrities, all of them, they're all communicating from one side.
Saturday Night Live has never done to a Democrat what they did to Sarah Palin.
I know they've made fun of Democrats in the past, but there was a level of viciousness here that they simply hadn't done before.
Those are all problems that we have to overcome.
But it doesn't mean that you can simply back out of the game by thinking that, well, if we're just fair, in the end, truth and justice will prevail.
It doesn't work that way.
Playing fair and playing nice isn't a guarantee that you're going to win if the other side is will is able to get away with all this stuff.
And I'm not suggesting that you do things like lie and cheat and steal.
We could simply start by going with actual on the record information against Democrats, against liberals, and using it.
You don't have to make it up.
Look at what Elliott Spitzer gave us.
Look what John Edwards gave us.
Look what Tony Rezco and Barack Obama gave us.
Look at the statements of Jeremiah Wright.
Look at the associations with Bill Airs.
Look at who Obama's been hanging with his entire career.
He's been hanging with radicals and now he's governing as radicals.
You don't have to dig up dirt that doesn't exist.
I'm merely suggesting that we be a little bit more willing to use all the dirt that they've already given us.
Thank you for the call, Jesus.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Russian ball.
Trying to do a substantive program here, and all the staff wants to do is harass me on my comments on the BCS.
By the way, I've gotten clarification.
The Pope's infallibility comes only when he speaks on issues of faith and morals.
Other things are considered papal opinions, trying to cover all of our bases here.
Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about in terms of how the gloves are just off when it comes to liberals, particularly the Obama administration.
On Sunday, Joe Biden went on ABC's This Week program.
They can't, he was on for like 12 minutes.
Every time he talks, it's a train wreck.
This is what he said with regard to Israel and Iran.
This is Biden.
The U.S. cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do.
Israel can determine for itself it's a sovereign nation, what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else.
That's Biden on Sunday.
He's essentially saying that the United States believes Israel is a sovereign nation and if Israel wants to deal with the Iranian situation, it has every right to go ahead and do that.
That was Sunday.
By Monday, the State Department was having to clarify.
And today, Tuesday, let me quote, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday strongly denied that the United States had given Israel an approval to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.
Asked by CNN whether Washington had given a green light, given Israel a green light for such an attack, Obama answered absolutely not.
In the interview which was broadcast in Russia, where Obama is on an official visit, he added, we can't dictate to other countries what their security interests are.
What it also is also true, it is the policy of the United States to try to resolve the issue of Iran's nuclear capabilities.
This would be achieved through diplomatic channels, he added.
So here you've got an administration that once again is saying one thing on Sunday and another thing on Tuesday.
It's because Joe Biden can't be trusted to talk about anything.
He screws up the administration's mess administration's message all the time.
Yet I remember a presidency where we had a vice president that was ridiculed every single day because once there was a question about how he spelled the word potato, and because he appeared a little bit too enthusiastic when he was introduced to the national scene.
Joe Biden Can't be sent out by Obama to talk about anything ever without fouling it up.
Can you imagine if the Republicans produced a twerp like this guy in the vice presidency?
Well, we need to be pointing that out.
And we need to be making fun of Joe Biden because he's the one giving us the material.
Unless the administration literally doesn't know what its policy is on Iran.
I understand that President Obama is so in love with this notion that he can talk Iran off the nuclear cliff that he doesn't want to allow Israel to take matters into its own hands.
But you've got an administration that when this situation is very, very uncertain in the world, in which the vice president of the United States is saying one thing and the president of the United States has come back and clarify his comments.
That's a foreign policy train wreck.
That's something that the most basically competent administration would be able to pull off.
But when you've got Obama trying to nationalize health care and cozy up to the Russians and apparently spend the whole week in Moscow, when is he leaving Moscow, by the way?
I think he wants to stay forever.
He's happy as can be there.
These things need to be pointed out.
And we shouldn't be so afraid of criticizing the president or criticizing the administration because guys like Michael Steele are going to run around on a talk show and say, Oh, I understand that there's a backlash.
Why is our side getting a backlash?
Their side's trying to nuke out a woman solely because she wanted to serve her country.
They want to destroy her family, they want to pretend that she's involved in scandal when she's lived one of the most ethical political lives ever, and we're supposed to be worried about a backlash.
And the leader of the Republican Party at a time that the country is moving toward open socialism is standing up and saying, We've got to be careful about how we say things because people might be offended.
You can't be more wrong about this stuff than that.
I'm Mark Belling and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Stein will be here tomorrow.
The staff is just demanding that I put somebody on to debunk my comments on the BCS.
Okay, go for it.
Bruce in Barstow, California, how are you doing?
Hey, I'm doing good.
This is Buffalo and uh Buffalo?
Yeah.
Oh, that's your nickname.
I thought I thought that the staff might have put up a caller from the wrong city.
What's on your mind, Bruce?
Hey, well, you're all, you know, with uh with respect, you're all full of fluff about your comments about the BCS.
Okay, thank you for the call.
I appreciate it.
Now getting back No, no, no, no, no.
I I said I'd take the call and we heard it.
Uh goodbye.
Uh Rush would not have done that.
I understand that you told me to do the show the way I do it in Milwaukee and in Milwaukee, I would have blown him off.
So now you oh, well, we don't do that to callers here.
Well, what are you going to do?
Fire me?
I've got a minute and fifteen seconds left.
I made the comment on yesterday's program that Obama is at home in Russia because he prefers to deal with tyrants.
He is uncomfortable with the democracy movement in Iran because he wants to work with Ahmadinejad.
That's his desire.
He feels comfortable with totalitarians.
Liberals have a long history of this.
I've come up with just a short list of contemporary totalitarians, contemporary tyrants that liberals are not only okay with, but admire and support.
Castro, Chi Guevara, whose t-shirts they still wear, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Robert Mugabe in Africa, African self-determination, Edie Amin in Africa, African self-determination.
Ho Chi Minh.
Mao, remember how they were running around in the 60s with a little red book?
Hugo Chavez hanging around with Bobby Kennedy Jr.
You can go on and on and on.
And remember that they've never felt any guilt over what Paul Pott did after we bailed out of Vietnam.
Liberals and tyrants go hand in hand because liberals and tyrants share something in common.
They want to control the lives of everyone else.
I'm glad you listened to me.
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