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July 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
So I have here in my uh formerly nicotine-stained fingers a little blurb here by the pollster Peter Hart.
He says this is a president who needs a vacation.
No, we need the vacation from Obama's policies.
We need a vacation from Obama.
He needs a vacation from the destruction of the private sector.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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Email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com, the big beer conference, six o'clock tonight outside on the picnic table in the playground.
I wonder if this poor old cop is even going to be able to be taken into the White House.
Are they going to maybe put him into the back door, run him through the kitchen or something on the way out to the uh on the way out to the uh the picnic table?
Why don't we need a mojito conference here for Mid East Peace and a Jell O Shots conference on global warming?
I mean, once we start drinking to solve problems, there's no end to this.
I had somebody say to me yesterday, no, Rush, you're making too big a deal about the beer meeting.
This is just a photo op.
No, no, no, no.
You people who think that this is just a photo op don't understand.
Obama's a historic transformative figure.
All he's got to do is touch the hem on his jacket, and uh he can magically solve problems.
I know it's over.
It's they're big trouble.
New York Times polls, 69% people worry about Obamacare.
Now, we got all kinds there's there's deadly disastrous polling data for Obama today.
This New York Times new poll finds growing unease on a health plan.
Oh, really?
So I read the story.
New York Times what's the growing unease?
You have to go to the 17th paragraph of the story to find this.
New York Times polls, 69% worry about Obama care.
They're concerned that the quality of their own care would decline if the government created a program that covers everybody.
That's a detail very artfully delivered in the 17th paragraph of the New York Times today.
Obama, I'll tell you what this beer meeting today, uh he's he's starting to look like he's not cool.
And I've always thought he's a cold calculating guy chip on his shoulder anyway.
But he's he's he's starting, you know, he reminded me of, he's starting to remind me of Nixon walking the beaches at San Clemente in his suit and wingtips.
Remember how uncool that was.
You know, it in all candor about this healthcare thing, and and and I we will be talking about it again today.
Nobody wants this.
I I think it is profoundly useful to keep pointing out the American people do not want this crap.
So why is Obama and why are the Democrats doing it?
69% New York Times, the liberal Bible, uncomfortable, uneasy.
They're worried.
Nobody wants this, and yet they're still doing it.
Why are they doing it?
It's certainly not doing it.
I mean, the answer's obvious.
The answer is, but it underscores the divide between the people and these libs.
On the one hand, that's a heartening realization, but on the other hand, there's no way to stop these clowns.
Other than this recess, you know, folks, and you I'm you you've heard everybody talking about this.
But you really, it's uh it's up to you.
The August recess when these local yokels come back to their communities that they supposedly represent.
It is time to make them scared to death to return to Washington in the fall and vote for this thing.
And that is going to be up to you.
And I know that you're up to it because already when these town hall meetings have occurred, like Claire McCaskill's and uh uh the thing now when it is Camp Kathleen Sibelius was down there in reserve, Louisiana.
This is a powder keg waiting for the explosion and the August recess can make it happen.
I got another thought about this beer meeting this afternoon.
We we now know what kind of beer.
Obama's gonna have a bud light.
The uh the cop is gonna have a blue moon, and uh the professor.
The snob is gonna have a red stripe.
Those are now I got to thinking about this though.
Drinking beer before Dinner is the wrong message to send to obese Americans.
I mean, they're trying to tell us we need to fix our diets, right?
They have targeted and demonized the obese.
And they're doing it in a vicious way.
And now what is the mess drink a beer before dinner?
If if we're going to micromanage Americans' weight, we should at least start sending out body fat correct messages.
And that does not include drinking beer before dinner.
You know, I have studied beer commercials.
And there is only one beer that I can recall.
Now, I I could very well be wrong about this.
But I remember back uh, you know, when I worked for the Kansas City Royals back in the late 70s, early 80s.
There was a it was an Enheiser Busch product, and I forget the name of it, but they advertised that beer by showing a barbecue grill with sausage and burgers and vegetables and so forth being grilled, and it's for the first time that I had ever seen a beer commercial with food in it, other than at a bar with a bowl of peanuts or some such thing.
And I haven't seen it sit.
People do not drink.
When you go to a cocktail party, are you having people over for dinner, and it's very few, only ex-jocks and current jocks will sit there and guzzle beer before having a fine meal.
Most people do not, right?
Brian, you drink beer.
The last thing you don't drink beer before it's a horrible message to send uh to the to the obese and to make a huge deal about this.
Overweight Americans are under assault as a drag on health care and as a drag on the budget.
And what's the president doing?
He's showing people how to pack on calories the easy way.
Have a beer with a cop and a and an elitist professor at a picnic table in the kids' playground before doing and by the way, I haven't heard anything about the cop or gates being invited to stay for dinner.
Have you?
Well, I know the cops bringing the family.
I I understand that, but you know what there, but but to do this, I mean, don't you think if you're gonna do this?
I mean, I can only put myself in Obama's shoes.
I wouldn't be doing this in the first place because I wouldn't have opened my mouth at the wrong time and said a stupid racial thing like he did.
But if it if I was gonna do this, it's the White House, dude.
You bring them into the oval orifice, and then you take them into the cabinet meeting for the big confab, and you let them for the I mean, this is a cop from Cambridge, the elitist professor, I'm sure has already been in the White House.
Um, may have even Yeah, and he paid for it.
But I mean, what they're gonna do?
They take the cop and the family to the back door, run them through the kitchen to get out to the picnic table where the playground where the And by the way, did Michelle grow the hops and the barley and the uh in the White House garden for the beer, and if so, who brought the yeast.
Yeah, I mean, if unemployment's not a problem right now, and the news on that is bad.
Oh, my friends.
We did some research on this.
You've seen the stories.
Jobless claims up again more than expected.
We researched that phrase more than expected, surprised economists and so forth.
898,000 times.
We Googled the phrase, and we come new jobless claims rise more than expected.
That phrase turns up 898,000 times just for new jobless claims rise more than expected.
Not just today, but over a period, we had a search period, but 898,000 times.
It's in the template.
Rise more than expected.
Getting a little ahead of myself here because my brain neurons are firing on all cylinders.
Obama says there will be no health care reform vote before autumn.
Before October said uh there'd be no vote.
Uh it's a setback.
The the who is this state-run uh state run who?
State run f uh state-run French news agency.
AFP.
A setback they say is costing the president more political capital with each passing day.
The bill, even in the best case scenario, will be not be signed.
We won't even vote on it probably till the end of September, the middle of October, Obama said.
We're just trying to get all these different bills out of committee.
So between now and then, we have time.
We have time, and this is gonna be a fun recess.
It really is.
Because I know you people are ready for this.
I know you're revved.
Now, before we go to our first obscene profit timeout.
How much what?
What?
Oh, geez, Snerdley, I, you know, I try not to make this show about me.
Today I weigh 211.
So I've lost 79 pounds.
I've lost seven pounds since Saturday.
Yeah, I'm still trying to lose.
My original goal was 210, but I'm going to keep going.
There's no reason to stop.
And I'm going to see what well, I'm going to see what happens at 210.
At 200, let's see what happens there.
They keep going.
I mean, I love this diet.
I don't even, it's, food is delicious.
And by the way, you know what?
There's one way for me to tell you how I'm doing this, because I can't describe it.
I've told you I cannot describe it.
It's too intricate, too detailed.
It's it be I can't, I just I couldn't do it.
So I'm going to tell you what the diet is.
One time, I'm going to tell you what the diet is.
Someone very close to me found it for me.
And it is it is based on actual food you buy at the grocery store, a couple supplements that they provide you, but it's a local thing down here in South Florida.
I do not know how many stores they have.
Up until this moment, they have not known it is me doing their diet.
I've had many, many security measures in place, but still I think the word has leaked out because a number of my friends have started the diet, and I I told not all of them, look, when you go in there, don't mention my name.
I don't I don't want I don't want my name associated.
Why don't you want me to just don't.
You know, it's not a business thing, it's a personal thing.
The name of the diet, well, for your to search it on the website, Quick Weight Loss Center.
QWL, Quick Weight Loss Center.
And they're they're mostly down here in South Florida, some of them up on the East Coast.
I don't know.
You can do it uh remotely by by email and so forth.
But you gotta cook.
Yeah, I mean you and it the the they have some of the most delicious recipe you will not believe if you try this, you will not believe you're on a diet.
Mm-hmm.
What?
If who?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You miss no no, Snerdley, you missed this yesterday in one of the sound bites.
Remember the remember that Mimi, uh Mimi, whatever, who was arguing with the plus size babe and accusing her of all kinds of horrors uh being exacted on our economy and say, you need to exercise, you're just too big.
You need to you, you need to eat fruits and vegetables.
She said the diet industry is making too many profits.
The pr the the diet, the food industry is guilty here.
The diet industry, she maintains she didn't say it specifically, but the implication was well, uh the my inference, my inference was that the uh uh diet industry is culpable in obesity because all they do is give you mechanisms to yo, yo, lose it, then gain it back, then lose it, gain it back, and so forth.
The diet industry came under assault.
No, remember remember the the the Obama administration official at the CDC who said, we have now confirmed and we believe it's official government policy, diets cannot be done.
Losing weight cannot be done as an individual thing.
Remember, they are going to recommend what calories you can have or how you can eat them, or what that that's their that's their eventual plan.
Diets can't be accomplished by individual effort alone, I think was the uh was the quote.
Okay, so there.
That's it.
Uh I'm sure we're gonna shut down these poor people's website for a while.
Um But no, Catherine found it, and uh and she looked long and hard for a bunch of them, and the reason we decided on this one is because it's real food.
I'm not this is not the because I've done every other diet, folks, that there is.
I'm not insulting any of them.
But for the first time uh for example, breakfast and lunch.
I mean, I ate breakfast in five minutes and lunch in ten.
There's no reason to ever abandon that.
Totally satisfying.
Uh it's just it's uh it's the easiest one.
And it's the fastest.
And I'm 58 years old.
I've never lost weight as fast.
Almost 90 pounds here since March 9th, not even six months yet.
And it was 40 pounds in like 45 or 50 days.
And then I started, you know, had a couple golf trips and uh varied off the diet two or three days that week, but didn't gain any weight, kept losing.
Uh but it slowed down some, which fine.
I've I've um I've enjoyed every minute of it.
I have no desire to stop it.
In fact, I I might even stay on this long enough that people think I have a deadly disease.
What are you sick or something?
Now, as I was saying before, snurdly rudely interrupted.
I have been receiving an increasing number of complaints from members of this audience that they cannot understand the sped-up sound bites of President Obama, Barney Frank, uh, Nancy Pelosi, and Maxine Waters.
And they've asked me to slow them down.
So, I have a couple sound bites here from President Obama because I always I hear the audience.
I respect the audience.
Uh I I've listened to you and I hear your your complaints.
I can't res you people are more important to me than you will ever know.
So here, uh, as a means of of making amends, this is from last night in Bristol, Virginia, at a Kroger supermarket, President Obama, another town hall meeting.
And by the way, I have an eyewitness account of that North Carolina thing yesterday.
No Democrat showed up.
The senator that beat Elizabeth Dole didn't show up.
Uh the uh the uh none of the blue dogs from North Carolina showed up.
Democrats don't want to be near this guy.
There's more going on out there than we know.
There's more problem in the Democrat Party we know.
Anyway, an unidentified female audience member asked the president, is the plan that you would be willing uh is this plan a plan that you'd be willing to put your family on?
Yes.
I mean, as I said, this is a plan that's similar to what I had when I was a member of Congress.
In terms of quality of care, yes, I would uh actually uh sign up.
Now I gotta admit, I won't just in the interest of full disclosure, as president, I've got this doctor who follows me everywhere.
Uh, seriously, and an ambulance.
And so uh, yeah, I don't want to pretend like I don't have super duper care.
Um, but uh I don't think that lasts after I leave.
Now, I have to tell you, and I hope you all understood that.
I have to tell you, folks, this is not true.
This is simply not he.
This is a plan that's similar to what I had as a member of Congress.
It's nowhere near the plan.
The members of Congress have 17 different choices they can make.
Their plan is not administered by the government.
Members of Congress health care plan is administered in the private sector.
It is paid for by you and me, but it is not run by the government.
There's no equivalent to Obama, you know, judging the quality of his doctor.
There and they're w members of Congress are not going to be part of the public options.
So the next the next question.
Rumor has it.
If we get this new health care system in that we don't, we we we won't get the health care our doctors and all that we have now.
Virtually older citizens will just be put out to pasture.
Please say that isn't so.
Nothing burns me up more than hearing some of these scare tactics directed at seniors.
You know, because seniors they're vulnerable and they get worried about some of this stuff, and and they get some you know, crazy flyer in the mail, and you know, they get scared that they might lose their care.
Just tell your mom, nobody's messing with her doctor, nobody's messing with her Medicare.
It's right there in the House bill.
Five years every five years, end of life counseling.
Really, what the Obama care plan contains is end of life.
Forget end of life counseling.
It does have end of life.
It's right there in the bill.
He said it himself a number of times.
Hey, 100 years old, pacemaker, no way.
Just give them a pain pill, loop them out.
I gotta take a break.
We're way long here.
We'll be back.
I hope everybody understood that.
Took about 25% longer to play it, but I don't think anybody didn't understand it, I hope.
All right, all right, all right.
I'm being inundated now.
You gotta speed them back up, Rush.
I mean, inundated with emails.
You gotta speed them back up.
That's horrible.
That just expands the length of time that we have to listen to it.
Folks, you gotta understand something about this.
I mean, this is a multifaceted, brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed plan here.
This is not to save time or extend time.
It's this simple.
Let me just finally say it.
When you take away Barack Obama's voice, it's the same thing as Delilah cutting Samson's hair.
It's the voice.
It's not what he says, it's how he says it.
You take that away, it becomes a mere mortal.
Friends, I am a highly trained broadcast specialist.
Please, when you don't understand something, please ask yourself, what is Rush really doing?
Because there's always an answer.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right.
I love this headline.
I love this whole story.
I want you to stop what you're doing.
I want you to listen to me.
I actually well, I don't want to go so far out of the way to say this.
Yeah, this guy, Barack Obama, may in fact do more to seriously damage liberalism than anybody ever has.
I want you to listen to this.
This is a state-controlled Reuters.
As U.S. recession bites, Ohio hopes fade for Obama.
Hope and jobs are in short supply in Ohio, eight months, after President Obama won the recession battered state in the 2008 election with a promise of a better future.
Jeff Fraver, 55, a retired train conductor on his way to breakfast on the outskirts of Toledo said people were looking for a savior to get us out of this mess.
That's why they voted for Obama.
I got nothing against him personally, but he's new to the job, and hope isn't gonna fix this mess.
Candidate Obama delivered his message over and over again in Ohio, a politically diverse battleground state that often uh decides presidential races.
Obama went back to Ohio last week with approval rating below 50%.
Now, Ohio's unemployment has nearly doubled from 5.7% in January of 2008.
That's not a good start for Obama in a state with 20 electoral votes that could be vital for his re-election effort in 2012.
Ohio has lost its hope for change.
Ohio has lost its hope for Obama.
They thought they were electing a savior.
And now they've got somebody new to the job, and hope won't fix it.
All right, folks, I heard you.
I checked the email during the break.
You said you didn't like those slow sound bites of Obama, so here they are again.
Yes.
I mean, as I said, this is a plan that's similar to what I had when I was a member of Congress.
In terms of quality of care, yes, I would actually uh sign up.
Now I gotta admit, I want just in the interest of full disclosure, as president, I've got this doctor who follows me everywhere.
Seriously, and an ambulance.
And so uh yeah, I don't want to pretend like I don't have super duper care.
Um, but uh I don't think that lasts after I leave.
All right, I I can't, I'm not gonna play the other one.
I just can't deal with it.
I th there's nothing truthful in any of this.
Um the plan he's planning for everybody else does not resemble in any way, shape, manner, or form the plan he has, or the elected officials in the House and the Senate, Rasmussen is reporting only 30% are giving Obama good marks for handling of the Gates uh situation in an effort to defuse a national controversy.
Obama's having a beer meeting today, the White House, but just 30% of U.S. voters give the president good or excellent marks for his handling of the situation over the past week, and a new Rasmussen uh National Television survey.
Now, by the way, the Rasmussen survey is likely voters.
Likely vote, not adults, as in many of these other polls.
Likely voters.
Forty-four percent believe Obama has done a poor job dealing with the situation in recent days.
And there's there's a person suspiciously absent, and that is Lucia Whalen.
She has not been invited to the White House.
She's the 9-11 caller.
She's the one that state-controlled media lied about when they reported that she mentioned race.
Her story did not contain that.
She did not mention race.
She she was as she couldn't tell what the race was.
It wasn't part of it, but the state controlled media did report that.
She not being invited to have a beer or uh or anything else.
Now remember, CNN and Newsweek magazine are reporting the recession is over.
From state-controlled AP, more than 90% of the nation's largest metropolitan areas saw their unemployment rates climb in June from the previous month.
The very people, uh, ladies and gentlemen that were Obama's biggest supporters, the skulls full of mush out there.
Do you realize how many smart, stupid people there are?
You know, there was a uh there was I had the story in a stack yesterday.
Some some big-time uh technology firm, I don't remember the name of it, was promised $2 billion in stimulus money or something during the campaign.
They have had that request denied now that Obama's elected, and the CEO says, Well, we don't understand.
I mean, stupid smart people.
What this poor CEO doesn't understand, he's not going to get the help until he hires a bunch of laid-off union workers and acorn people on his payroll, and then they might talk to him.
Stupid, smart people, skulls full of mush, the people have been hit the hardest by Obama's war on prosperity and Obama's war on jobs, and these figures do not include the impact of the new minimum wage.
The recession isn't over for many Americans.
In fact, it's just getting started.
To those just losing their jobs, it's just getting started.
They may, in fact, some of them might even be accurately described as uh mired in a depression.
The Gallup poll shows that Obama's approval numbers with young people are falling, and that trend is going to continue.
Gallup says when the unemployment data is seasonally adjusted and viewed over the past year, all three hundred and seventy-two of the largest metro areas saw their unemployment rates move higher in June for the sixth month in a row.
This from the labor department.
Lifeguards are even laid off left and right.
It's uh one of the coldest summers that we have had.
Now, here's Gallup, and this is a this is a very sober analysis.
Uh the findings show that Americans are not buying Obama's claims that legislation would improve quality, expand access or access and reduce costs among the general population.
The numbers get worse when people are asked how they think the proposed changes would affect them personally, specifically.
The Gallup poll found that a minority, 44%, thought legislation would improve the nation's medical care.
Only 26% said it would improve their own.
Forty-seven percent said it would expand access overall compared to 21% who said that it would expand their own access.
If you put all this stuff together, it means that Obama's arguments have failed to convince a skeptical public.
And his approval ratings continue to get worse with each passing day.
He's out there 24-7.
He's talking and selling this, and people aren't buying it.
In fact, the more he talks, the more disapproval of the plan there is, and because people know that he's not being level with them.
He's not telling them the truth about this.
That the bottom line is the people do not want this.
So why is Congress and the White House, why is Obama doing it?
The people do not want it.
Now the answer speaks for itself.
But the thing to take away from this is that all these socially conscious leftists, with all this compassion, and want only the best for you.
They don't care what you want.
You're just another obstacle in their way that you have to uh be and you have to be swept out of the way.
NBC Wall Street Journal, more devastating polling data.
Despite his public relations blitz over the past two weeks to promote his plans to reform the nation's health care system, President Obama Has lost ground on the issue with the American public.
Pluralities now say the president's health care plan's a bad idea, that it will result in the quality of their care getting worse, and what's more, just four in ten approve of the way he's handling it.
These numbers are pretty close to gallops.
The uh NBC Wall Street Journal poll also finds that Obama's overall job approval rating has dropped to 53%.
And this is uh Peter Hart who said this is a president who needs a vacation.
Now we need the vacation.
We need the vacation from President Obama.
Okay, the brief timeout.
Well, come back.
I'll grab some of your phone calls when we get back and continue with um just a tremendous stack of stuff today.
So sit tight.
We'll be back before you know it, my friends.
Sorry, trying to regain my composure here.
From the obscene profit timeout, uh just uh just hit the wires here, state-controlled associated press, apologies are not expected at the Obama Beer Summit.
Well, now, if if apologies are not accepted, expected, if nobody's expected to apologize the Beer Summit, then why the hell do this?
What is the point?
Do you realize how this diminishes the office of the presidency?
None of this would be happening had not Obama opened his mouth and said something very uh stupid, but ill-timed and uh ill-thought.
So why have these guys up there if there's no apology expected?
And I really wondered as the family split the scene with the cop and Gates and uh whoever's with him stay for dinner with Obama and Michelle.
No mention of dinner here, but Nancy Pelosi has lashed out at the insurance companies.
I thought Nancy Pelosi wanted to want to debate.
But she today ramped up her criticism of insurance companies, accusing them of unethical behavior and working to kill a plan to create a new government-run health care plan.
Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Is she admitting it?
It's government run?
Because Obama's out there denying that.
Well, it's almost immoral what they're doing, Pelosi said to reporters.
Of course they've been immoral all along and how they've treated the people they insure.
They're the villains.
They have to, they've been part of the problem in a major way.
They're doing everything in their power to stop a public option from having government run.
This is their this is their modus operandi.
Attack villains.
Yesterday, Barney Frank threatened the banks that if they didn't volunteer to save more homeowners from foreclosure, Congress will make them.
In a sternly worded statement, Barney Frank said Congress will revive legislation.
In fact, I was in a fog much of yesterday because the soundbite roster was so big.
Cookie, I know you're monitoring out there.
Was Barney Frank in this thing from our stack yesterday?
If it was, give me the bite.
Even though I'm going to repeat uh uh uh report this, if we have that bite of Barney threatening the banks, I want you to hear it.
A sternly worded statement.
Barney Frank said Congress will revive legislation that would let bankruptcy judges write down a person's monthly mortgage payment if the number of loan modifications remains low.
We don't have audio of that.
This is just a statement.
Do you understand this?
Here's a guy who this week alone has said it's not his job to help anybody make money.
Here's a guy who created, was part of the creation of this very problem that has led to the subprime mess led to the foreclosures.
And now here's Barney Frank saying they, the government will require bankruptcy judges to tell banks to lower monthly payments, so keep people stay in their houses.
So what?
Barney is going to write legislation requiring banks to lose money.
And again, he is going to write legislation that will make banks do things they would not otherwise do.
You know, this way I went a call yesterday.
You why are you defending the I'm not I'm not defending these charlatans that did folks, this is not how we fix this, though.
You do not have leftist radicals who are clueless about how life actually lived, is lived, who are clueless about how markets work.
You just don't have them running every aspect of the private sector because nothing they've ever run ever works anyway.
But philosophically it's wrong, morally it's wrong, constitutionally it's wrong.
I in fact I would go so far as to say that the entire Obama approach is immoral in its scope.
Not only is it unconstitutional, and you throw Barney Frank and the rest of these clowns in, and we're dealing with here that there's something that is just it's it's breathtaking to behold what these people are doing, and I think the more they keep doing this, the more damage they're gonna do to liberalism than has been done in decades.
They're going to make it impossible for people not to see who and what liberals are and do.
To the phones.
We're gonna start with Larry in Plymouth, Indiana.
Great to have you, sir.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Uh, thank you, Rush.
Long time listener.
Thank you, sir.
Followed you from Atlanta to New Orleans to Chicago, and now I'm in Plymouth, Indiana.
Sounds like you've been running away from hurricanes.
No.
Look, uh, need to tell you something.
Appreciate your program, but uh voices have gotta go.
We're a mature audience, and that is a very ativistic attitude, just like the president is atavistic.
You were describing it yesterday.
A very what kind of attitude did you say?
Atavistic.
Childlike, immature.
Oh now, you accuse me of being atavistic.
With those voices?
Yeah.
Well, you accuse me of being childlike.
You how long have you listened to this program?
Since almost the beginning.
I caught up with you in the late 80s.
Well, that's almost the beginning.
Well, by now, 21 years later, 20 years, you should know that everything like that that's done here is done for a purpose.
I understand that.
And I understood the purpose the first one thousand times.
Uh, we I don't think we've done this a thousand times.
But look, I've got those voices gotta be well into the hundreds.
I've heard them.
I've I've turned you off a couple of times because I was tired of hearing it.
Well, that's uh that's not good.
That's that's not good.
You should never turn the program off.
Well, it just irritates me.
I'm trying to enjoy my retirement and listen to you and some other people, and like you were describing the president's yesterday.
If if uh did you vote for Obama?
No.
If I if I'm supposed you're in your retirement, uh uh the uh well, maybe I should stop playing any of these sound bites, not stop playing them.
No, no, no.
Play the sound bites.
I enjoy them, but I don't enjoy you messing with the voice, slowing down, speeding up.
Well, but you got a you got a mature audience.
I know we do.
That's precisely why I do this.
There's a re we're not I'm not trying to be funny or childish here.
Look at I explained this mere moments ago, and I will do it again.
If you take away Obama's voice, it's the same as taking away Samson's hair.
It's the same thing as Delilah going in there and whacking Samson's hair.
Take away the voice.
Look, I'm this man's point.
This man deserves to be ridiculed for what he's doing.
I understand that.
All right.
Well.
But it's hard to listen.
I mean, you know what he's saying, and we're here and let me tell you something.
He's hard to this.
Let me tell you something.
Larry.
Okay, cut to the chase.
He is hard to listen to at whatever speed.
It is so darn hard to listen to what this man says, what he is doing, how he is not telling the truth about what his various plans are.
It is hard, period.
That's why we need the vacation.
Okay.
I'm sure many of you are wondering, okay, Rush, what are you gonna do?
Well, what I've always done, if I listened to every suggestion, criticism, or whatever, I would have long ago been committed into a padded cell.
I had 22 million people here telling me how to do it.
And if I tried to satisfy all of them, I would cease being who I am.
So the sound bites stay.
Tack in a second.
First hour already gone fastest.
Three hours in media.
And do you realize this already Thursday?
Hubbahubba.
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