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Oct. 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 7, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What is this?
We're expecting, we're waiting on an Obama press conference on youth violence.
Was he going to come out for it?
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you with us, Rushland Boy.
And wow, this is already Wednesday.
Man, oh man, the time is flying.
It's great to have you with us.
Three hours, fun, frolic, and frivolity for all as well as the serious discussion of issues.
Get this from state-controlled Associated Press.
Al-Qaeda's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war.
Gone is the once formidable network of camps and safe houses where bin Laden and his mostly Arab operatives train thousands of young Muslims to wage a global jihad.
Their group is left with fewer than 100 core fighters, according to the Obama administration.
Wait a second.
None of this makes any sense.
Why don't we just declare victory and get the hell out of there then?
But more than that, and there's a bunch of stories like this out there today.
Al-Qaeda barely exists anymore.
Down to 100 and some odd core fighters.
They don't even really know where they all are.
Well, wait a minute.
What about Abu Ghraib?
What about Guantanamo Bay?
What about American values declining?
What about all the terrorists that we created by going into Iraq?
What about all the terrorists that we recruited and created by the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and at Club Gitmo?
I thought all during the Iraq war, ladies and gentlemen, that terrorist recruitment was skyrocketing because George W. Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld were torturing prisoners.
And I thought this meant that our values around the world had sunk to a new low and the rest of the world despised us and the terrorists were angry as hell at us.
And as such, they were recruiting new al-Qaeda members left and right.
It was the worst thing we could have done.
Those two prisons and go to Iraq.
And now, with Obama in charge in the midst of a total mess in Afghanistan, state-controlled AP runs a story saying that al-Qaeda is basically non-existent.
Have you ever seen so much bad news and evidence that Barack Obama has the inside track on becoming the worst president in the nation's history?
America will once again succeed when Obama admits his policies and his arrogance have failed.
And of course, neither of those two will happen as long as he's in the White House.
I don't have enough time here to list Obama's failures, much less comment on them.
And it's not even a list.
This is a catalog.
The demise of the U.S. dollar.
A planet that is getting cooler.
And the president says he has to impose a deeper recession on the country to stop non-existent warming.
The record-breaking cold weather stories alone would take three hours to report today.
Ski places are opening earlier than ever.
The first snow day in Idaho today because of overwhelming snow.
Global sea ice is normal.
There's not any more of it.
There's not any less of it than there has been in the past 30 years.
There maybe have been a decrease in the North Pole ice and an increase in South Pole ice, but overall global polar ice volume is the same.
The possibility of a double dip recession is really a probability now.
We have the likelihood that there's going to be a big dip in commercial real estate coming down the pike in the next three to six months.
And we got Bill Ayers out there.
This is really funny.
Bill Ayres is fishing for credit for writing Obama's so-called autobiography.
Yeah, I don't buy this for a minute.
Some blogger runs into Ayers at Reagan National Airport in Washington, identifies, I think, herself.
I think the blogger was a female.
The blogger identified him or herself as a conservative.
And Ayers blurts out, I wrote it.
Why are you telling me this?
I wrote it.
I think Ayers is very much aware that all these people, I think he's just trying to yank the chains of some gullible concern.
But still, even with Ayers doing this, the whole, it's out there now.
It's out there mainstream.
Ayers has put it there, whether it's a bogus story or not.
So we have that out there.
States like Illinois are billions of dollars in debt.
It's worse than it has ever been.
Unemployment is ascending.
It's not descending.
After Obama's non-stimulating stimulus plan, late night comics are pounding the man.
They said there was nothing funny about either him or his administration.
Stories about degenerate czars have got Democrats on the warpath.
The man who said he had all the answers for Afghanistan now admits he doesn't have a clue and has endless meetings about something he said he had solved a year ago.
We got the mess at Gitmo.
They're not going to close it down.
They're going to get rid of Greg Craig for supposedly botching it.
We got the Iranian situation and the nuke situation.
The UN speech still has people reeling as to how shallow and narcissistic it was.
And speaking of narcissism, we have the Olympics debacle and the speeches he gave.
I mean, this is a joke of an administration, except it's very, very real.
I could go on and on and on listing all these problems.
All this bad news, all of this evidence.
It's an endless stream of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Obama has failed already his country.
And the only way America is going to succeed is for Obama to admit his failures and embrace what's made the country great, and that ain't going to happen.
Oh, man, folks.
I get this.
When you were a kid in the park, the playground, and somebody said something that ticked some kid off, the other kids would say, hey, it's a free country.
It's a free country.
And say whatever I want.
Back off.
Lighten up.
I doubt kids say that to each other anymore.
Hey, it's a free country.
I have a story here for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Michael Jordan caught smoking.
San Francisco is asking basketball superstar Michael Jordan to snuff out the cigars after he was caught on the front page of the Chronicle Sporting Green breaking the city's ban on smoking on a public golf course.
City officials sprang into action after seeing the full-color photo Tuesday of Jordan enjoying a good cigar while he was not teeing off.
I saw the picture.
He's in a sand trap.
How can anybody look at that picture, see sand flying out of the trap thinking he's hitting a t-shot?
At any rate, they sprang into action after seeing a full-color photo of Jordan enjoying a good cigar at Harding Park's 14th hole during the president's crop practice round.
In an interview with PGATour.com, Jordan was asked how many cigars he planned to smoke during the tournament.
Well, depends, because I heard this is a public place, so they limit what you can smoke.
I'm not even supposed to be smoking this, but this was a practice round, and nobody said anything.
If he's permitted to smoke, Jordan said, it's a three-cigar round.
I try to keep it to a minimum of three.
What's the city's response?
Recreation and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg said, you mean about spare the air, Jordan?
I've already sent off an email to the PGA tour director.
It was sort of a gentle nudge reminding him that smoking is illegal and that we would appreciate their support.
City attorney Matt Dorsey was asked, well, the fine's $100 here when you get caught for doing this.
And the city attorney spokesman, Matt Dorsey, said, don't expect me to ask Jordan for the money.
But Rush, but Rush, but Rush, it is a city ordinance, and it's stupid.
We are talking about a golf course.
You know, I was at Heinz Field on Sunday night for the Steelers Chargers.
And I've been to Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska to see Nebraska football games.
I've been to a lot of states.
I'm sure you have too.
I'm sitting in the NBC booth on a 50-yard line, and I'm looking at the end zone, and there's just smoke all over the place, wafting all through the stands, wafting all up to the scoreboard.
So what the hell is that?
And it was a concession stand, and they were grilling something out there.
Burgers, hot dogs, whatever the hell it was.
It smelled great, by the way.
I love the smell of ballparks.
The only thing you can't smell at a ballpark anymore is a good cigar.
I used to go to Bush Stadium when I was a kid.
Dad would take my brother and I up there and we'd walk in there and just the aromas of these guys sitting there smoking cigars and the hot dogs and everything.
It was fabulous.
I'm looking out there and I'm literally, folks, this is thick smoke and it's thickest you can't see through it.
And I said, certainly somebody's going to go down there and make them stop this.
And I've seen the same thing at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
And I said, why didn't anybody stop this?
And then I got to thinking, if one person lit up a cigarette or a cigar, the police would be summoned in five seconds to head down there, march them out, frog march them out or what have you, and probably half the people around the guy who lit the cigarette or cigar would go get the cop.
Meanwhile, the concession stand can put all that smoke out there and nobody says a word.
It's idiotic.
So here's Michael Jordan, who's smoking a cigar on a golf course.
The average golf course, folks, is huge, and this one is.
But rush, but rush, it's a public park.
I know it's a public park, and these are stupid nami-state rules.
You add to this that they are raising tax revenue on the sale of tobacco products to fund health care programs for kids.
If you can't use a product that you can buy, you're not going to buy it.
Or you're going to break the law using it somehow.
These clowns are making it impossible for the most law-abiding among us to not break the law.
To enjoy your damn life and enjoy your damn day.
You're playing in a practice round on the president's cup.
You smoke a cigar and the San Francisco Chronicle and the city go nuts.
It's just a, it's, this kind of stuff has been building.
And now you've got Kathleen Sebelius saying you must take the pig flu vaccine.
You must take it.
Screw you, Ms. Sebelius.
I am not going to take it precisely because you're now telling me I must.
It's not your role.
It's not your responsibility.
And you do not have that power.
I don't want to take your vaccine.
I don't get flu shots.
I'm not going to mess around.
You must, she says, in Napolitano over at, where the hell is she?
Oh yeah, Homeland Security.
She's told Joe Arpaio to stop it.
He can't conduct raids to find illegals.
If an illegal happens to make himself available, is it illegal?
Arpaio can do something about it.
But the raids have got to stop.
So we cannot have raids to find lawbreakers.
We are going to have all kinds of a mess here with Sebelius.
Say, you must take the pig flu vaccine.
No, we don't.
How are they going to make me take it, Snerdley?
Wait, will they get control of my health care?
That's not going to happen until 2013.
Sebelius is saying today, you got to take it.
How are they going to make me take it if I refuse to take it?
What is this?
You must take it.
Who the hell do these people think they are?
You must take it.
You know, I'm just like, I'm a contrarian.
I'm a nonconformist.
You have some idiot government official demanding, telling me I must take this vaccine.
I'll never take it.
You must turn out the lights certain times of year.
You must change your light bulbs.
You must eventually drive a certain kind of car.
You must.
Have you heard about this Japanese airline?
I mean, the news out there, it's almost like David Letterman is writing the script for the news.
A Japanese airline, ANA Airlines.
Oh, did you see Letterman last night, by the way?
I didn't either.
But good old Cookie somehow saw Letterman.
You know, we had our 50-minute dropout yesterday on the phone line, but I didn't know about it for a couple minutes, I guess.
And the Ditto Cam's still on, so I'm viewed by people on the Ditto Cam.
You know, I'm just yapping away, but there's no audio.
Letterman plays that and says I'm funnier without the sound.
And then he goes in and starts attacking Sarah Palin again.
And yet I'm reading all over the place how I don't matter.
I got David Brooks saying, I'm irrelevant.
I got Howard Kurtz today echoing Brooks.
I'm irrelevant.
And yet I've got the government preparing to make a law to shut me up.
Yet I'm irrelevant.
I don't speak to anybody.
I don't have any influence.
Nobody votes because of what I say.
And yet they can't stop talking about me.
And the Congress can't stop focusing on me and all of my brethren.
So we got this Japanese airline is requiring people to go to the toilet before they get on board to reduce weight so that they can save fuel.
They want you to go in and eliminate your weight.
Here, I've got the story right here.
Sit tight.
Sebelius Arpile.
It's coming up.
Airline asks passengers to use toilet before boarding, save way less, and help cut carbon emissions.
A Japanese airline started asking passengers to go to the toilet.
All Nippon Airways claims that empty bladders mean lighter passengers, a lighter aircraft, and thus lower fuel use.
I'm not making this up, and I'm going to tell you something.
Why don't you people, I'm looking at a picture of the paint job of an all-Nippon Airways jet.
Why don't you strip the paint off the thing?
I'll guarantee you, the weight of the paint on your stupid jets weighs far more than the waste yet to be eliminated in the bodies of your passengers.
It's insane.
It's insane out there.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, as always, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I have not commented on this on this program, even though the news has been out there since, I guess, Monday.
I had to confirm it when I was asked about it.
It was reported Sunday on the CBS NFL pregame show by Charlie Caserly that I am part of a group with Dave Checkett's that has put in a bid on the St. Louis Rams.
And that's all I can say.
That's true.
But Goldman Sachs is handling the sales, a confidentiality clause.
None of the bidders can disclose anything, can't talk to anybody.
We don't even know who the other team, the bidders are.
And we can't do anything other than confirm it since it's leaked.
So it's out there.
And that is true.
Now, they're talking about this all over the media.
Let's go to ESPN.
Pardon the interruption, Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.
Kornheiser asks Wilbon, do you think the NFL would approve Rush Limbaugh as a team owner?
In a half second, Tony, yeah.
Money.
It's about money and how much do you have to spend or buy this team or be in the group that can buy this team?
I don't know that Rush Limbaugh's politics, in fact, I'm betting, aren't that much different than the politics of many of the owners in the NFL.
Now, they don't have his bombast.
They don't publicly offend as many people as Rush Limbaugh does with glee.
But when it comes to buying a team, I don't see what there's anything that Rush Limbaugh has done is going to make that off-limit.
Kornheiser next.
He's not going to disqualify himself in that regard.
He's going to sit in a room, and if they ask him, particularly about the Donovan McNabb incident, he's going to say, I'm an entertainer.
If I erred, I erred on the wrong side of the entertainment, but I don't really mean that.
In fact, I'll hire Donovan McNabb to be my quarterback if you let me own the Rams.
He'll sit in a room comfortably with many, if not most, of those owners.
And you're right, he's got bucks.
Finally, this exchange between the two of them.
Can you see Rush Limbaugh after the game hugging some sweaty brothers that would tape all over him and eye black in the locker room in a heartbeat?
In a heartbeat.
He didn't do that.
Of course he will.
He's a sports guy.
Kind of shocking.
The reaction here was enthusiastically supportive.
I'm not sternly.
I can't answer these questions now.
I cannot answer.
He just asks you, are you going to hire McNabb?
I can't answer.
Look at this.
This is so far ahead.
I can't answer this.
Don't even ask me anything more about it.
It shouldn't be out there now.
Somebody leaked it.
There are only two places it could have come from.
But it is what it is.
Then they have another show called Around the Horn.
And the host there, Tony Rialli, was speaking to Woody Page of the Denver Post.
And Rialli said the Rams up for sale.
Limbaugh interested.
Think he'd make a good owner, Woody Page?
Yes, I do.
You've heard of the Wildcat off it.
You've heard of the winged T. How about the right-wing T?
And how about that defensive team?
We've heard about them passing in the past.
Greatest show on turf.
I want an ultra-conservative defense out of St. Louis.
So I just look at, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, I really am reluctant to talk about myself.
I try never, ever to do that.
But this is out there, and I couldn't act like it's not.
So they've done that, got that out of the way.
Can't say any more about it.
You want to hear something funny now from Karachi, from the Pakistan news agency.
The city of Chicago was denied the hosting rights for the 2016 Olympics, not because of Obama or Michelle and their horrible presentations.
No, you know why?
You know why we didn't get it?
Because stringent security slapped after 9-11 to USA would make it next to impossible for teams and visitors from around the world to get into the United States, especially athletes from the third world.
They would be especially hard hit.
Yes, it's Homeland Security's fault, folk.
It's not Obama's.
It's just, now you know.
Hey, folk, did you know that youth gang violence is a problem in America?
You know that.
Yeah, they just had a string of bad incidents up there in Obama land in Chicago, where he and his community organizer buddies supposed.
And by the way, the city of Chicago is in debt like it never has been, and they're in trouble.
It's a huge, huge problem.
Chicago is just a mess.
And it's run by Obama and his buddies and cronies.
We get this youth violence all over the place up there.
And remember, the latest incident involved a little kid getting killed trying to break up a fight.
The participants were all black.
Dare I say this?
Dare I say that?
We've got 40 seconds to delete that comment.
I'm putting it up for a vote of the local staff here.
Should I delete the comment?
We got 30 seconds now.
Should I bleep the comment that I pointed out that all of the participants in the most violent crime spree Chicago were black?
Should I have the broadcast engineer bleep it?
I got 15 seconds in order to.
Okay, we're not bleeping it.
We're not bleeping it.
It's too late to bleep it now.
The 40 seconds went by.
So guess what?
Today, in Chicago, there's a meeting of community organizers being led by Eric Holder, the Attorney General, and Arne Duncan, the Education Secretary.
And Holder just now said something to the effect, I read it on the closed captioning, the level of violence, youth violence that's springing up in our country clearly is an indication that there needs to be a national focus on this.
Ah, see?
Any little bit of chaos, any problem whatsoever, a city cannot handle its own streets.
So now the federal government's got to go in there.
This is not about youth violence.
This is not about any of that.
This is a mere show put on by Obama's administration for another grab of what should be dealt with as the local crime problem.
It's going to be nationalized now.
National folks.
And this is also, by the way, going to be an excuse to spend more money.
What do liberals always say?
The problem with anything is there's not enough money.
There's gang violence out there because there's not enough money being spent on programs to discourage gang violence.
We're going to get more money.
But Arnie Duncan said, now look, money alone is not going to solve the problem.
Nothing's going to solve the problem as long as you guys tackle it.
Dirty little secret.
It is liberal policies which create the socioeconomic circumstances that lead to this kind of culture.
It is liberal cultural policies.
It's liberal economic policies.
It's liberal welfare policies.
It is liberal fix-it-up policies.
They create the circumstances.
The cultural problem, can't judge anybody.
Nobody's right.
Nobody's wrong.
People who are from a poor background engage in bad behavior.
It's excused.
Oh, they got every reason to be.
You'd be mad too if you lived like they do.
We have to understand their rage.
Now it's getting a little bit over the top.
It's embarrassing Obama.
He didn't get the Olympics.
Black on black violence in Chicago, where he's from.
Oh, my God, we've got to go and do something about it now.
National attention on youth focus and a chance to spend more money.
And another power grab.
And I wonder if at this meeting of community organizers, they will address the fact that the vast majority of this stuff is black-on-black crime that's taking place in Chicago.
Bet they don't.
And I'm probably going to be accused of racism for pointing it out.
But I, of course, ladies and gentlemen, am fearless when it comes to articulating and expressing the truth about this.
William Tate, the American spectator, Gallup, has unintentionally revealed how they and other polling organizations have been pushing the public to accept Obamacare.
The revelation came in a report late last month, which revealed that a significant majority of Americans believed that individuals themselves and not the government should be responsible for ensuring they have health insurance.
According to Gallup, 61% of people that they surveyed believe that health insurance should be left to the individual, not the NAMI state.
Unsurprisingly, 89% of Republicans held that view.
So did 64% of Independents.
Only the Democrats at 62% wanted Big Brother to shoulder their responsibility.
Now, even though the survey was released on September 30th, not too many people have seen these numbers.
As they do with most anti-Obamacare news, the Democrats' big media acolytes have avoided the report like it was carrying swine flu germs.
Gallup's dismay at the results is palpable throughout their report on the new survey.
They even gave the release a misleading title.
Many in U.S. see health insurance as personal responsibility rather than the more accurate majority in U.S. see health insurance as personal responsibility.
When they spun the title, Gallup couldn't actually spin the hard number, so they quickly pointed out other national polls on this topic have found a higher degree of public support.
So they dissed their own poll.
They put a poll out that's horrible for Obama.
And they said, you know, a lot of other polls are different from ours.
These poll question wordings do not provide a non-governmental alternative.
In other words, the Gallup release admits that its previous surveys about whether the government or the people themselves should be responsible for their health insurance omitted the half of the equation dealing with individual responsibility.
Now, how's this even possible?
How can you ask somebody which do you prefer A or B if you don't mention B?
Well, it isn't easy.
Let's look at the question asked in Gallup's recent survey, the one that showed Americans think that people ought to be responsible.
Which comes closer to your view about health insurance?
The government should be primarily responsible for making all Americans have health insurance, or Americans themselves should be primarily responsible for making sure they and their families have health insurance.
It's a little wordy, but given the multiple choice nature of the question, otherwise relatively plain.
And when given a clear choice, a majority of people chose individual responsibility.
Now the question which Gallup says it has asked in previous surveys.
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, or is that not the responsibility of the federal government?
That was the poll question they used to ask.
When they changed the question, they got far different results.
No mention of any other option, just a government one.
Should the government be responsible or should they not be responsible?
This is the equivalent of during last year's election to a poll asking, who do you plan to vote for, Barack Obama or somebody not named Barack Obama?
The Gallup release highlights that similar polls from the New York Times, CBS, and Fox News asked the same question in almost identical language.
None of these surveys gave people an option other than government responsibility for health insurance.
And when they were finally given the option, in the most recent Gallup poll, most Americans side with individual responsibility over government oversight when it comes to health care.
Now, this is a little lengthy here, William Tate and the AmericanThinker.com, but the reason here I wanted to mention this to you is because this is how pollsters are pushing people to accept Obamacare.
And I have warned you people several times over the years about this.
I don't care whether the poll is presidential approval or a poll on individual presidential policy.
The purpose of polling today is to create and make news and to further the agenda of the network doing the polling.
In this case, Gallup, pro-Obama, up until the most recent question, all the other networks that do polls ask questions designed to get the answers they want.
And then they report this as though it's somehow big news.
Public opinion is public opinion polls and the reports of these polls have nothing to do with reflecting public opinion.
They are all about shaping it.
They're all about making public opinion and shifting it.
And I frankly pay no attention to any of it, except when some of it makes an interesting conversation piece like this.
As if you believe all these polls, you get depressed.
And you're ready to cash into chips, move to New Zealand, start spending all the money you have so the Omama people can't take it from you, and then make sure the last check you write is to the IRS and it bounces.
It just depresses people when they see it because it makes the majority think that they're the minority.
Which is the express purpose.
A brief time out.
Back with more after this.
Now, here's another example of polling, and this is from the AP today, and this is straight kiss-butt polling.
This is pure polling designed to shape and move public opinion toward Obamacare.
Hell, look at this headline.
Healthcare overhaul has a pulse.
AP is excited.
Healthcare overhaul has a pulse.
First paragraph, the fever has broken.
The patient is out of intensive care.
But if you're President Obama, you can't stop pacing the waiting room.
Healthcare overhaul still in guarded condition.
And the results of their poll?
40-40.
A 40-40 split for and against healthcare legislation.
And it's so obviously bogus.
They only sampled adults, not voters, not registered voters, just adults.
Some Harvard guy is quoted to support their BS template that everything's turning around for Obama on healthcare.
It's very significant that there's an upturn in support for the plans because after August, there was a sense that the whole effort was beginning to decline.
It would not come back in terms of public support, said Robert Blendon, Harvard professor who tracks public opinion on healthcare.
This is all fascist propaganda.
It ain't 40-40 in anybody's poll except this one.
The patient has a pulse.
Healthcare has a pulse.
Obama pacing in the waiting room.
They don't even tell us that the deal stinks.
They don't tell us that everything Obama said about it is a lie.
It is going to raise everybody's taxes.
It's going to cut Medicare.
It is going to raise the deficit.
He said he's not going to sign anything that adds a dime to it.
It's going to do everything he said it won't do.
Do we get that from AP?
Hell's bells, no way.
We get cheerleading, fascist propaganda, stalomist, state-controlled media propaganda from the AP.
Get this from Reuters.
Americans will have to save more in the future, transforming the global economy.
And Europeans and Japanese must work to boost their domestic demand.
This from the U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, quoted as saying this today, he's in Berlin.
Everybody's going to have to come to terms with everybody.
What are we going to save?
Just what are we supposed to save?
Does he not realize there are the unemployment, the real unemployment rate's 16% and climbing?
There's no end in sight.
There aren't very many people getting wage increases.
What in the hell are we supposed to save?
And then this paragraph, everybody is going to have to come to terms with the fact that we are going to save more in the United States.
Who do you mean by we, little Tim?
Just who is this we?
You mean you, the government?
Because the only people I say I see engaging in profligate waste are you and Obama and Reed and Pelosi.
We're $12 trillion in debt and you tell us we have to start saving.
Save what?
Why don't you get your buddies in a room and say that to them instead of preaching to us and especially doing it from Berlin?
We got to save more.
I could find you two stories a week from a month, two months ago, that said we're saving too much.
We're not putting money in the economy.
We're saving too much.
People are hoarding their cash and putting it under the mattress or they're leaving it in the bank, but they're not spending it.
And we need people to spend for the economic recovery to take off.
We need spending.
We were ripped for saving too much.
I can get the stories.
We reported them.
And now little Geithner's over there in Germany.
You got to save more money.
Speak for yourself, little man.
Speak for yourself.
These geek ickheads tick me off today, folks.
Totally ticked me off.
I'm going to go to the phones to, what is this?
You find more places I have never heard of.
Certainly, you know, I just, I wonder if other talk show hosts get calls from places they never heard of.
Nothing, nothing wrong with it.
I just, somebody I never heard of, like Peoria, Arizona, or Syracuse, Utah, or wherever the hell it is.
So Canal Fulton, Ohio, this is Mary.
I'm glad you called.
You're up first.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hey, I want to ask you to rethink your refusal to get the swine flu vaccine because I'm thinking that they know that if they tell you you have to get it, they know that you won't get it just despite them.
And then you'll get the swine flu.
And then what will all the rest of us do?
Look, I have a healthy ego.
It's not out of control like Obama's, but I actually don't think that that dork, Kathleen Sebelius, is playing a mind game with me.
I don't think she's saying, you must take it, knowing full well I won't, and then I will get the flu.
Well, my mom always said, don't cut off your nose despite your face, so just be careful out there.
Look at, see, I have, I'm not seeing these mass deaths from the swine flu.
I'm sorry, I don't really don't want to insult the pork business from the H1N1 virus.
All I see is a bunch of typical government panic and hype.
Remember the bird flu.
Remember the monkey flu.
Remember the pig flu of four years ago.
Every year, there is some disease, some disaster is going to wipe us all out.
And the life expectancy keeps going up.
I've never had a flu shot in my life anyway.
Approaching the threshold of what?
What threshold am I approaching?
The age threshold?
Oh, it's every age threshold.
Then why are they closing schools in panic?
Why are they this one hits the young harder, huh?
That's right.
So another reason why, then why are you even telling me about the age threshold?
Well, you know, I really can't relate.
Even some of my own staff here are now warning me against my obstinance here.
Let me ask you a question.
Who put the notion that you got to have this shot or this nasals, whatever the hell vaccine is?
Who put the notion in your head that you got to do it?
Government did.
The Obama government, to be specific.
It is my one of my fervent objectives and goals that before I do move to New Zealand, start spending everything I have before they take it away from me, is to convince as many people as possible that the damn government is not God and nobody in it even comes close to being as competent as you are to run your life.
And yet, oh my God, the government report says the next time you hear the government says, don't believe it, you'll be healthier.
Trust me.
Coming up at the top of the next hour, we have a sad, really sad, depressing, yet at the same time uproariously hilarious soundbite from Detroit, where yesterday residents got a chance to line up for stimulus money.
Stimulus money was made available in Detroit for low-income, homeless Detroit residents.
It's and they lined up, I think it was at Cobo Hall where this happened.
And our affiliate, WJR, sent their news guy, Ken Rogulski, down there to interview some of the people in line for the stimulus stash.
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