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Oct. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Can you say it with me folks?
Can you say it with me?
Barack Hussein Obama.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at eibnet.com We want to go back to our archives, ladies and gentlemen, this afternoon, live on CNN, as the vote was being announced that Chicago was first, the first city to be rejected and eliminated.
This is how it happened with the anchor Tony Harris on CNN.
Let's take you to Copenhagen right now, where we're about to get an announcement of the first city out.
Let's have a listen.
Let's have a listen.
Books given 95.
Participants, 94.
Bond villain type guy.
Abstention, nil.
Void, nil.
Valid ballots, 94.
The city of Chicago, having obtained the least number of votes, will not participate in the next round.
Chicago is out.
Chicago is out.
Madrid is still in.
Tokyo is still in.
Wait a minute.
Chicago is out.
I want to hear the sound in the room.
Let's listen to the sound in the room.
Take us back to Copenhagen.
That was the anchor Tony Harris, who ran out of things to say.
So he had to go back to the sound in the room after Chicago was the first city eliminated by the Olympic Committee today in the Olympic voting.
Chicago is out?
Chicago's out?
Madrid's still in?
Tokyo's still in.
Wait a minute.
I just love it.
And don't forget CNN's Ed Henry today, right before the vote, they posted a story on their website.
Michelle Obama takes Copenhagen by storm.
All right.
Now, in the last hour, I was telling all of you, keep a sharp eye on the New York Times for talking points for the rest of the state-controlled media.
And here it is.
Rio wins bid for 2016 Olympics.
The Obamas were flying back to Washington at the time of the vote.
One of his spokesmen said Mr. Obama still believed it had been worth the effort.
The appearance by the Obamas was hoped to overcome some of those problems, but former IOC member Kai Holm told the AP that the brevity of his appearance may have hurt.
Holmes called it too businesslike.
It can be that some IOC members see it as a lack of respect.
The 10-person Chicago bid team led by Mr. and Mrs. Obama put on a presentation heavy on emotion and visual images without getting too deep into the details of the bid.
Well, naturally, the details of the bid couldn't be made public.
Nobody who attempts to fleece somebody tells them up front that's what happens.
I mean, the Obamas couldn't go over there and say, look, my chief aide, Valerie Jarrett, owns a bunch of slums here, and she's going to take the opportunity of your giving us the Olympics to sell them at a huge profit.
It doesn't matter that the residents will be thrown out in the wind and the cold with the rest of the homeless.
And, you know, I got some property myself here I'm hoping to capitalize on.
And Mayor Daly has sent me over here because this is how our city is run, full of corruption and graft and patronage.
And that's why we want the Olympics.
So instead, I got to sit here and tell you how I can't wait for the Olympics to come to Chicago so I can open the door, take my two little girls out, and see the world in our backyard.
And my lovely wife, Michelle, here is going to tell you about how her father had multiple sclerosis and how that relates to Olympic athletes overcoming all odds.
You're going to love it.
Boy.
So it's just happening out there, ladies and gentlemen.
The lickety split, the reaction coming in, the drive-by is doing everything they can to try to cover this and to make it look like it's something other than what it is.
Make no mistake about it.
Now, there are other things going on in the news out there.
And let me see, there's one more.
Here it is.
The article in the New York Times on the Chicago blowout.
I want you to try to square these two passages.
Because the bottom line is, the bottom line is they are reeling.
Do you know what it's like?
Have you ever thought something was in the bag in your personal life?
Something was in the bag.
I mean, you bought the car before you got the raise.
You bought the car before you got the job.
You did something, and then it didn't happen.
And you were left reeling.
How could I have misjudged this?
Well, multiply that times 100,000, because that's what you'd have to do to account for the egos of the Obamas.
And that's how they're feeling today.
So, passage number one.
I don't view this as a repudiation of the president and the first lady, Mr. Axelrod said.
It was worth the effort.
He'd do it again if he had the opportunity.
Then later in the story, for months, Mr. Obama and his crew have approached this competition with all the intensity of the Iowa caucuses.
Mr. Obama taped five video messages pitching Chicago's bid.
He created an Olympic office within the White House.
He hosted Olympic Athletes in the South Lawn.
For the past couple of weeks, he worked the phones, calling some heads of state.
He lobbied others at the UN opening session in New York and the Group of 20 Economic Summit in Pittsburgh.
He put Joe Biden to work making calls.
He sent Mrs. Obama to Copenhagen a couple of days early to buttonhole committee members.
On Air Force One William on Friday, Obama brought a couple cabinet officers from Illinois, Ray LaHoud, the Transport Secretary, and the Education Secretary Arnie Duncan, as well as Senator Dick Turbin.
Before leaving Washington, Mrs. Obama made clear how seriously the first couple took the matter.
Take no prisoners, she vowed.
Remember the first statement.
I don't view this as a repudiation of the president and the first lady, Axelrod said.
It was worth the effort.
He'd do it again if he had the opportunity.
Trust me on this, my friends, they are reeling out there.
And they know full well this is an utter disaster.
The ego has landed.
Whatever bloom was still on the rose is gone.
The myth has been shattered.
The myth has been exploded.
The reality of the truth has landed like a sledgehammer dropped from the International Space Station on the International Olympic Committee hearing at the podium where the Obamas gave their me, me, me, III, Barack Hussein Obama presentation to get the Olympics into Chicago.
But don't worry, he met with the general from Afghanistan on the plane for 25 minutes.
Coming up with new strategies out there to not win the war.
Like I say, I wonder whether Obama has a new understanding of victory now that he has lost big time.
And don't forget the BBC.
Oh no, BBC.
Obama didn't fatal Chicago.
Chicago's bid fatal Obama.
That's actually BBC.
F. Chuck Todd says, Daly, mess this up, and it's going to be a long time before anybody in Chicago gets any favors from this White House.
Andrea Mitchell says, well, at least he had a big victory there in the talks with Iran.
CNN, Michelle Obama took Copenhagen by storm.
If there is any truth to that, it was the shock and awe at her wardrobe that took them by storm.
We'll be back in a sec.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, a man, a legend, a way of life.
Does the name Steve Schmidt ring a bell to anybody out there?
Steve Schmidt was the campaign manager for John McCrazy, McCain, in his presidential campaign in 2008.
Steve Schmidt has told the Huffington Post that Sarah Palin in 2012 would be a catastrophe for the GOP.
This is one of the things that I was asked to comment on by a member of the state-controlled media today.
And here's what I wrote back: I think it's time for the McCain crowd to acknowledge that they're losers and pack it in.
They've done enough damage to the Republican Party already.
Move aside.
Let a brighter, more principled, and more competent generation of people clean up the mess that the McCain people helped create.
And that is exactly where we are right now.
Now, McCain, it is reported today that he is trying to work behind the scenes to find candidates like himself to remake the Republican Party in a moderate center sort of way.
And I guess Schmidt talking to the Huffington Puffington Post is part of that mix, saying that Palin in 2012 would be a catastrophe for the GO.
Why would anybody listen?
This would be like the Democrats taking advice from Dukakis.
What in the world?
This is just more and more of the left trying to pick our candidates like they picked McCain.
And it's time to stop that garbage.
So there, that's my answer to it.
Here is Daniel in Greencastle, Indiana.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing today?
Very well.
Thank you very much.
Well, first of all, I'd like to say I've been a listener of yours for many years.
And I want to salute you, sir, for standing up and making a stand and telling the truth in spite of the media that's controlled by the state and its propaganda.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it, Dyer.
I really do.
Well, I appreciate you, sir.
I am a 20-year retired Navy veteran, and I am proud to be an American.
I have two young boys, and I teach them to be proud Americans, despite what they hear in the media and despite what Obama is going around and telling the world.
God bless you, sir.
It's a risk.
I believe in the American people, and I believe in our republic and the morals and values and ethics on which that was built.
And I believe as an American people, we will survive this administration.
I'm just wondering how much damage that it's going to do in the meantime.
Yeah, we're all wondering about that, but imagine, look at what you just said.
The American people will survive.
This administration, normally it's said about, we'll survive during this conflict.
We'll survive despite Hurricane Katrina.
We'll survive despite the 9-11 attacks.
Now we're out there saying we'll survive, Barack Obama.
Well, sir, I took a pledge to make a stand against any enemies, domestic and republic.
And right now, I believe that we have enemies that are domestic.
The first thing that I'd like to talk about is this Letterman affair.
Which one?
Apparently, there were many staffers with whom he did the down low and the nasty.
Well, you know, I'd like to comment on his rebuttal against him admitting that he did it.
First of all, he is not remorseful.
And it's obvious that he will continue to do it.
And it's also obvious that he is a tyrant among his staff.
Now, in any big corporation and the military, we have a word for this.
It's called fraternization.
And sex with subordinates definitely falls under that.
In fact, that's the word.
Yeah, we've heard about the tail hook stuff.
Yeah, the tail.
You know, that's when it all started.
That's when the military really got on board and started cracking down and training us that this will not be tolerated.
It promotes contempt, distrust, jealousy, and undermines the overall productivity of his whole staff.
Right.
And it leads to extortion attempts.
Exactly.
And in the military, especially if it was an officer or any supervisor, and also in any big corporation today, they teach this.
That person, if they were found to have done this, would be forced to resign.
No.
Used to be, maybe, but not in the White House.
No, sir, not in the White House.
In the White House as well.
If it weren't for the success of me and my buddies in the vast right-wing conspiracy successfully getting hold of some of Clinton's semen and then getting hold of Monica Lewinsky's blue dress and then putting that semen on the blue dress waiting for it to be discovered, do you realize where we'd be today if I hadn't pulled that off?
Well, sir, you exposed that and I take my hat off to you.
Thank you very much.
That was an excellent job, and I was listening to you way before that happened.
Well, anyway, what I was saying was an officer that is found guilty of that or any big supervisor or CEO would, first of all, he'd never make another promotion.
And he would be forced to resign because he would never make another promotion.
Well, you know, that's one of the great things about the military.
It's one institution that has not been corrupted by the collapse of societal mores.
As I mentioned earlier today, the AP has a review.
This is Letterman's greatest show ever.
It is only rivaled in greatness by the Tonight Show episode where Hugh Grant came on and admitted and explained why he had picked up a slut and a prostitute on some back alley neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Great television.
The corruption and fraud of the United States media, breathtaking, happening now in real time.
Daniel, thanks much.
An honor to have you in the audience, sir.
I'm glad you called.
This is Valerie in New Orleans.
Nice to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
My boyfriend thinks I'm crazy for waiting two hours to talk to a man I've never met.
Is Valerie one of the names that you like a lot?
Your boyfriend is jealous.
Well, in any case, I'm calling because this whole concept of equalizing everything.
I started thinking the other night about what about people who are happier than other people.
Is there a pleasure tax coming our way?
A way of people who have better lives with their families, their loved ones, intimacy.
Well, you know, what do you think an attacks on achievement is?
And attacks on achievement is an attack on a better life.
It's a tax on a better life.
It is a tax on happiness, pleasure, and the pursuit of it.
We are going to be taxed in our pursuit of happiness.
Well, because some of us pursue pleasure and happiness better than others.
David Letterman's case, the tax rate's going to be sky high.
Yeah, what a rude man.
Well, I just thought I'd float that idea.
It's just a bit Orwellian, but you could see.
It's very persuasive, very shrewd on your part.
And yes, Valerie is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Really?
Are you kidding me?
No.
Because I know one of them is Rachel.
Right.
Yeah.
I've been keeping track of what you say about those names.
Yeah.
Right.
And you really like Valerie.
All right, then Rush.
One of my favorite all-time tunes is by the monkeys, Valerie.
Hey, why did your show today revert briefly to an earlier segment?
What do you mean?
What do you mean, what do you revert briefly to an earlier segment?
What happened?
About 30 minutes ago on your show, it replayed a part that was from about an hour earlier.
Is that right?
Yes.
Well, we didn't do that.
I just was curious.
I thought they'd yanked you.
I thought they'd just taken you away, Rush.
No, if they'd taken me away, they wouldn't have played anything.
Well, that is what happened.
And it was very odd.
And I know because I've been listening with the station for somebody.
Was it a really, really good portion of the show they replayed?
You replayed.
You didn't, but what was replayed was the part where the man was speaking about the Olympics, the one with the accent and the votes.
And you could hear the noise in the room.
And that was all replayed.
Wait a second.
I have played that sound bite twice.
Yeah, I thought.
I thought it was on purpose.
Yeah.
But it was also all your commentary.
Yeah, well, because there's some people.
See, I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist.
And I know that there's some people listening in the third hour that might not have heard the first.
And the first hour today could not be contained.
But all the things you said were the same, Rush.
It was the exact same stuff.
It was weird.
No, it wasn't the exact same stuff.
All right.
I'll let that go then.
Just tell me real quick.
You like New Orleans?
Yeah.
I've always loved New Orleans.
Really?
No, I just made it up.
There's not much in the way of golfing here, and our football team and all that.
Well, there's not bad golfing there, and football team's kick-buck team this year.
Dude, you're going to go see Pittsburgh this weekend.
What are they playing?
I'm going to Pittsburgh.
I'll be flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow afternoon.
I'm playing the San Diego Chargers.
The Chargers.
All right.
Well, I know there's other people anxiously waiting to talk to you.
It's such a pleasure.
And I've been listening to you for about a year, and I've learned an awful lot from you.
I've learned how to look at the information that is floating around, information and disinformation.
And you really provide a great service.
Well, thank you very much.
Go get them, Rush.
I shall.
Thanks very much, Valerie.
All right.
Now we're going to look into this.
She is insistent that a segment was replayed.
Now, we've got to find out if somebody's monkeying with our satellite feed out there or if somebody at our New Orleans affiliate is playing games.
We have to look into this.
Call the affiliate relations people right now and get an answer on this.
Folks, I'm sitting.
I just had a sudden thought.
My mind's exploding today.
The neurons are firing at a record rate today.
With Roman Polanski out there being defended for not rape rape with a 13-year-old girl and with Letterman being applauded and getting laughter admitting affairs with members of his staff, could there be a better time for all Republicans to come out and admit every affair they've ever had or every date rape that they have ever engaged in?
If they've got that skeleton in a closet, this would be a great time.
They might get a hero's welcome from everybody for doing it here today.
I mean, if the Republicans worried about, can you imagine if Mark Foley could have just waited till now for this to come out?
I mean, for credit, look at all the things that are defended now by the left.
Letterman having a fair, yay, Dave, way to go, buddy.
Ha ha ha ha.
Roman Polanski, hey, come on.
It's a long time ago.
So he raped a 13-year-old.
Give the guy a break.
He's been through a lot.
If you are a Republican with a skeleton in your closet, today is the day to announce it.
Get it out of the way.
Nobody can say a word to you.
All right.
Here it is.
Wait for it.
Newsweek magazine.
Katie Connolly.
Losing the Olympic bid is good for Obama.
Just posted Chicago's been eliminated in the first round of voting.
Wow, I did not see that coming.
The way I figured it, this White House is far too protective of the president's strategically crafted image to allow him to travel all those miles only to fail on the world stage.
That's right, Katie.
That's why we're being led by an imbecile.
I thought it was a done deal, says Katie Connolly.
Who's better at vote counting than the Obama people?
Who's better at vote stuffing than the Obama people?
I add.
She doesn't write that.
I would have bet money that Rahm and Axelrod knew they had the numbers in the bag before they let him step on Air Force One.
I was so very wrong.
Not only did they fail, they failed in the first round.
It's a bad look for the president, especially coming on the heels of this morning's depressing unemployment numbers.
This is pretty embarrassing for the White House, especially letting Obama having to fail in front of his wife.
Ouch!
Hey, Katie, she was part of the tag team.
She's part of the failure, too.
What do you mean, fail in front of his wife?
She was over there for two days with the Oprah.
Back to Katie Connolly in Newsweek.
But ultimately, it's a good thing for Obama.
As I wrote on Monday, the Olympics are notorious for running massively over budget.
The organizing committees are always rife with infighting and power games as all manner of colorful cronies badger members to get their paws on some of those coveted Olympic dollars.
Hey, Katie, that was the whole point.
So Valerie Jarrett could sell her slum and get big money for it and kick the residents out with the cockroaches.
No, actually, cockroaches would stay.
The residents get thrown out.
And now back to Katie Connolly Newsweek.
Public support for the Olympics in Chicago itself was already lukewarm.
Residents would have been facing seven years of disruptive construction and roadwork as their city raced to prepare itself.
It's a recipe for serious disgruntlement.
Obama would have been extricably tied to all of this.
The budget overruns, the construction hiccups, the predictable corruption.
By going to Copenhagen, he became the public face of the effort.
Already, some of his closest supporters and friends were on the bid committee.
His campaign's national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, and a co-chair of his inaugural committee, Patrick Bryan, both had key roles.
Senior advisor Axelrod's communications firm was one of the contractors for the committee.
And Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett had been involved in supporting the bid.
Again, because she wanted to unload slums that she owns for big-time Olympic dollars.
When problems would start to arise in the planning of this mammoth event, and they invariably would have, Obama would be implicated regardless of his actual involvement.
Now get this.
This is a bigwig at Newsweek, Katie Connolly, saying losing the Olympic bid is good for Obama because Chicago's a cesspool of fraud, deceit, and corruption that he now will not be tied to because the fraud, deceit, and corruption will not happen because the Olympics aren't coming.
Don't ever doubt me, sternly, when I start predicting what the media is going to say and how they're going to spend something to make their guy look good.
Don't ever, ever doubt me.
Don't any of you either.
Olympics-related screw-ups may have no concrete bearing on Obama's capacity to govern, but they do make easy campaign ads.
It's not hard to imagine attack ads tying whatever planning ineptitude that was making news back to the White House.
And while most voters outside of Chicago wouldn't care all that much, such issues provide an unwanted distraction for the White House.
They can dominate news cycles and pull advisors and possibly even the president into debates that divert attention from more critical.
What do you think they just did?
They just diverted themselves, Katie.
They just went over there and diverted themselves from the economy, from unemployment, from Afghanistan, from practically everything that's important.
Think about how ACORN sidetracked political debates on health care reform.
Think about how Acorn sidetracked political debates.
I don't remember Obama getting tied to that.
People tried, but this is a tad humiliating for the president, writes Katie Connolly of Newsweek.
But his embarrassment will be short-lived, especially if he demonstrates some good humor about it.
Republicans will probably criticize him for skipping the country for a day instead of focusing on Iran or Afghanistan, but those attacks won't stick.
He wasn't even gone 24 hours, and General McChrystal joined him on Air Force One.
That will be fodder for late-night comedians and talk back radio for a day or two, but winning the Olympics could have bogged down his entire presidency.
And this way, next time he goes to Tokyo, he'll have something in common with Prime Minister Hatoyama.
There you have it, my friends.
The latest wisdom from Newsweek magazine, state-controlled, losing the Olympic bid is good for Obama because Chicago is a shining cesspool on a hill.
Corruption, fraud, thuggery, RICO investigations, RICO crimes, deceit, intricate webs of deceit woven throughout the city that would invariably harm Obama's image.
So it's good that we lost the Olympics.
It'd just be a couple days of people will laugh at it, and then they'll be back to saving the world.
Who's next?
Eric in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hey, it's an honor to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you.
Yeah, I have a question.
If Obamacare goes through, why do I keep hearing that it would be impossible to go back even if the conservatives take over in 2012?
You know, I mean, like Prohibition was overturned.
Yeah, Prohibition was overturned, but has any social program that has gotten started with its tentacles dug deep into the fabric of society, has it ever been rolled back?
Has it ever been fixed?
Has it done anything but get worse?
No.
All right.
Now, with healthcare, the thing about health care is that it will not be implemented until 2013, four years after it is signed by Obama.
Now, that means that if Obama could be defeated in 2012, then there could be an effort made to not implement it.
Congress can go back and do it.
But once it starts, look, it could be rolled back.
It's going to take a long time.
It depends on how long it is entrenched.
I mean, has Medicare been rolled back?
It's done nothing but get worse and worse and worse.
So, I mean, is that the future of our country?
Every time the Democrats pass something, you know, we can't roll anything back or are we just going down that road of socialism eventually?
One of the sad realities is that both political parties these days have gotten accustomed to the Washington culture, just trade, you know, sharing power now and then.
But everybody in Washington believes that you got to get the bill.
You got to get a bill.
You can't not get a bill.
A bill can't fail because if a bill fails, a lobbyist will get paid off.
So, but look at.
It kind of depresses me.
No, no, no, no, because we're in a conservative ascendancy now and conservatism is what's going to roll this back.
Conservative, before you roll it back, it's got to be stopped.
You know, that's a hard-cold reality.
It's like we're on this giant cruise ship, and okay, pull the engines.
Just go to a dead stop.
You're still going to coast for a while out there because of momentum.
So same thing here.
Look, we did succeed in the 90s.
I'll give you an example of this.
We succeeded in welfare reform.
And it worked.
And guess what?
It is a target now for reform to get rid of all the reforms that made welfare reform work.
So the Democrat Party wants as many people in dependency and need as possible and get them to vote for the people who are making it possible for them to live.
And so it's a mighty task.
In this case, rather than even think about rolling it back, you deal with that when it happens.
The thing now to do is stop it.
And believe me, there are people working their butts off trying to stop it all over the place.
I got to run.
I appreciate the call out there, Eric.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Senator Thomas Carper, Democrat Delaware member of the Senate Finance Committee, told the Cybercast News Service that he does not expect to read the actual legislative language of the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill because it's confusing.
And anybody who claims that they're going to read it and understand it is fooling people.
I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever done in my life, he said.
A Democrat member of the committee says he won't read the text of the bill.
Says anybody who claims they'll understand it is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
Stephanie in Charlotte, North Carolina, nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
I was called today to ask you why you're not on Twitter.
I'm too famous to be on Twitter.
If I started a Twitter page, that's all I'd have time.
People would be demanding Twitter this, tweet this and tweet that.
And I'm busy enough.
I really, I've looked at people who tweet.
I've gone there, and I don't have the urge to tell you, okay, I'm going to bathroom.
I'll be back in 10 minutes.
I understand that.
But when you dip the president during your program and you add your commentary, it's one of my favorite things that you do.
And when I think about when he's giving primetime speeches, which is all the time now, it would be nice to have your thoughts and your humor.
It would make so easy to listen to, to be honest with you.
LC and I've now you are very shrewd and I am flattered that you are excited about the possibility that I would tweet.
You know tweet, Facebook, all this stuff.
I've never been a joiner.
And whatever the conventional wisdom is, I'm out.
And if the hordes are doing it, I don't.
It's just I'm not a sheep and so forth.
Besides, there is a strategic reason.
If I start tweeting every night, what I think of what Obama said, why shouldn't I listen to me the next day?
Oh, I doubt that you would run out of thought and commentary.
I mean, it's 140 characters, quick.
Yeah, but you're not just talking about one tweet.
You want a whole series of tweets during an Obama speech.
Really, honestly, I'd settle for a good laugh.
You're so good at providing that.
I'm not giving up on you here.
That's not a bad idea because I do sometimes with friends, you know, be an eye-chatting or instant messaging with people while I'm watching one of these speeches, and those things are pretty funny back and forth.
I don't doubt it.
I'd like to read them.
Well, think about it.
Don't say yes right now.
Just think about it.
All right, put it in the hopper and ponder it.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
First question I've ever had about tweeting.
Well, there's so many twits out there tweeting.
It'd be nice to have good commentary from time to time on that.
I know.
I mean, it's a vast wasteland, isn't it?
Yeah, and then, you know, a fresh perspective, speaking to the, I'm 26 years old.
I've been listening to you since I cannot remember a time when you were not on the radio between noon and three.
It's been a part of my education, so to speak.
So to have you enter into another medium that I am a part of would just, it would be great.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
Well, thank you.
My dad had me listen to you all through summer break.
Actually, when I was in elementary school in the mid-90s, I requested from my social studies teacher to be able to call you to ask your opinion as a part of a project.
He sent me to the principal's office.
The principal heard my question, sat me down at his desk, and for five days let me call you between noon and three for a whole week.
I never did once get through to you.
What was the question?
What was the question?
Do you remember?
Oh, I don't think that was as important as the fact that I was trying to call you.
I think it was about the conflict in Bosnia.
I think that's what it was.
But you, I mean, I was shocked that I didn't get suspended or something.
If I tried that today, I'd be suspended, expelled, you know, I'd get sent to the principal's office for a totally different reason.
But he let me sit in your office for five whole days, tried to do three hours a day, five days.
Amazing.
Yeah, I learned more in that week than I probably did in the rest of my public education.
By the way, do you have a cold?
No.
Must be your phone.
You sound like you've got a cold.
Sorry, I'm on a cell phone.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's not even your phone.
It's the way my cochlear implant hears cell phones.
Sometimes they're not, I mistake things.
It's not all stuffed.
I was going to suggest you go out and get some Zycam.
Nope, got it in the house already.
We love it.
We use it all the time.
Oh, it works, right?
Yes, it does.
It does.
My husband gets colds all the time.
Terrific.
All right.
Well, hey, Stephanie, I'm going to seriously consider this tweet stuff, or tweet stuff.
You know, there are a bunch of fake Rush Limbaughs out there already tweeting.
I know, but you can tell they're not you.
I mean, there's only one Rush Limbaugh.
Well, you can.
Yes, I can.
Some of the sponges that are out there tweeting all day may not know the difference until the real one showed up.
You might be right about that.
Right, right.
Think about it.
We appreciate you so much.
You've had such a positive impact on me and my family and my life.
So I'm looking forward to having you around until everybody agrees with you.
Well, that's not gonna, I'm not leaving till that happens, so that'll be a long, long time.
Thanks, Stephanie, very much.
I appreciate a brief time out.
We'll be back.
We'll continue in just a second right after this.
He said we all must have to make this country strong again.
Barack Hussein Obama.
He said once we're here today, equal work means equal pay.
Barack Hussein Obama.
The ego has landed, my friends.
Going to Pittsburgh tomorrow for the Steelers Chargers Sunday, but we'll be back here Monday morning.
Can't wait.
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