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Oct. 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
The omnipotent, omnivorous.
I'm everywhere.
You can't escape me.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be with you, as always.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
All right, the second part of the Today Show, which aired today, is now posted video and transcript at rushlimbaugh.com.
And they've also, somewhere, I don't quite understand this.
Coco told me that NBC has posted additional parts of the interview that didn't make the cut for the on-air interview at some website, and we have linked to that.
And there's an interesting there, interesting bit there about the backstory involving that dreaded day of ESPN involving Donovan McNabb and so forth that I wish it made the cut, but NBC's posted it, and we've linked to that website where all that stuff is.
So it's all up there.
Try this headline.
Obama quietly authorizes up to 15,000 more U.S. troops for Afghanistan.
In an unannounced move, the Pentagon is deploying thousands of support forces for the Afghanistan war.
Quietly unannounced.
Is he afraid that the Nobel gang will take back his peace prize?
Quietly unannounced?
By the way, the media hype out there creating a dreadfully wrong impression, of course, U.S. healthcare overhaul poised for big step forward.
That's the Reuters headline talking about the vote coming up in the Senate Finance Committee.
Actually, the headline should say U.S. healthcare overhaul poised to drive up costs, raise taxes, and drive down care.
That's what the headline ought to say.
That's what's going to actually be the result of this.
And the New York Times Congress split on effort to tax costly health plans.
They can't make up their mind of their who to punish.
And that's how you have to look at tax increases.
Who are they going to punish?
In the middle of this.
Oh.
And Reuters has also said that the recession depression is over.
10% unemployment is here to stay.
And there's a story I have here in the stack that let me just find it real quick so that I don't.
Yeah, when work doesn't pay for the middle class.
This is from Forbes.com.
This is a story about how the Democrats are making it not work the effort to work.
And there have been a couple of these.
You know what?
People laid off, can't find work, and they're actually having much closer family ties now.
They're improving their lives a whole lot.
It's really good that they don't.
The only problem is when the unemployment benefits run out, then a little bit of a crisis sets in.
I mean, it's amazing what's happening.
I think the best way to describe what's happening in America today is a circle of strife.
You know, the old phrase is a circle of life.
Circle of strife.
Obama attacks Americans at tea parties and town halls.
Americans attack Obama.
Obama responds by attacking Fox News.
The comedians are now attacking Obama.
So Obama comes back and doubles down on the attack on Fox News.
The post-partisan, post-racial, post-accomplishment, post-debate president who is going to bring everybody together.
Can you book all of the strife that is in this country today?
All of the strife, it is worse than I ever remember it.
And I was alive during the Vietnam War era.
Instead, look at what Obama's done.
He's created about a dozen miniature civil wars throughout the fruited plane.
He has written, produced, and is starring in his own miniseries.
The Circle of Strife.
Back in the spring, folks, Americans didn't like the tax and spend policies coming out of Washington.
They didn't like the talk of nationalizing the healthcare industry, taking over the car companies.
So they exercised their free speech rights.
They spoke out at tea parties and later at town hall meetings with their representatives in Congress.
Obama, accustomed to being bowed down to, didn't take kindly to criticism of the little people.
Sensing his healthcare takeover was in jeopardy, he released the hounds and union thugs on the protesters.
This attack enraged Americans exercising their First Amendment rights, so they ramped up their protests against Obama and they marched on the nation's capital.
The mainstream media saw it but tried to ignore it, but they failed.
America's seasoned citizens learned about Obamacare, rationing medical treatment, death panels, Medicare cuts.
So they defended themselves.
They launched an all-out attack on the AARP and the president.
And not wanting to get left out of the business of ridiculing the ridiculous, late-night comics began to lob comedy mortars on President Obama.
And then CNN starts fact-checking Saturday night live bits.
So Obama, not wanting to pick a fight with professional ridiculers, the late-night comedians, he retaliated by attacking Fox News.
Fox News is fired back.
Late to the battle, the private insurance industry is firing back as well.
Trying to get noticed, CNN exposed their flank by fact-checking that SNL comedy of the comedy sketch.
So the comedians have begun a hot war with CNN.
Polls now show the White House losing the war of words.
The White House is ambushing their own left-wing bloggers.
This is a friendly fire mishap, and now the left-wing cook bloggers are plotting their next move against the White House.
And when they find out that Obama has quietly and unannounced sent 15,000 more troops to Afghanistan, all hell's going to break loose out there on the fringe level.
You talk about chaos.
This guy, Obama, has agitated the entire country.
Everybody is in a constant state of angst, tension, and agitation.
He even has the French president disgusted with his weakness.
Obama has, in the midst of all this, destroyed the economy.
He has destroyed the job creation mechanism of the economy.
He has exploded the deficit.
He has angered every conceivable group in the country.
And there's no end in sight to this.
The tension, the royal, just increases.
It was supposed to be just the, how's that hope and change working out for you, folks?
Here from thenation.com blog, the Obama administration really needs to get over itself.
First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant.
Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant.
These are not disconnected development.
This is a blog The Nation is a very left-wing place and, of course, one of the early supporters of President Obama.
They write, an administration that won the White House with an almost always on-message campaign and generally friendly coverage from old and new media now frustrated by its inability to control the debate and get the coverage it wants.
But before the president and his inner circle go all spiro agnew on us, they might want to consider three fundamental facts regarding relations between the executive branch and the media.
Number one, since the founding of the Republic, media outlets have been partisan.
Number two, presidents are supposed to rise above their own partisanship and engage with a wide range of media, even outlets that are hard on their administrations.
When Dick Cheney kept giving exclusive interviews to Fox personalities, there were those of us who ridiculed both the personalities and the former vice president for going through the ridiculous exercise of lobbying softballs and swinging at them.
Obama should be better than Cheney.
But AIDS are not helping the president prevail in what ought to be an easy competition.
My God, when they start comparing, when they start comparing him to Cheney on the left, folks, I'm telling you, there is utter chaos, total chaos.
The sad thing is, this is precisely what Obama wants.
None of this is accidental.
And if I say so myself, most of it was predicted by me from behind this, the golden EIB microphone.
The circle of strife.
I don't think they're happy with him being a target of jokes because that's, I pointed out recently that when that starts happening to you, when those people start laughing, remember the brilliant analogy I did with Johnny Carson.
When Johnny Carson started making fun of you, you were dead.
I mean, you were not dead, but I mean, you were officially a joke.
Now, Johnny, the reason why is that Johnny Carson didn't lead anybody.
Johnny Carson had the knack of knowing when the time was right to lower the boom on somebody, the time being right defined by a majority of the American people already having arrived at the same point of view.
Carson was not telling somebody months ahead of time that so-and-so was a jerk or a joke.
He waited until everybody figured it out and then he said it.
And everybody said, wow, this guy's smart.
He thinks just like I do.
I, on the other hand, and I'm not comparing myself to Carson, I, on the other hand, don't wait for people to form opinions.
I make opinion.
I move opinion.
I move the way people think.
I lead them to where I want them to go.
I am months ahead of the conventional wisdom.
I have been suggesting that President Obama is a dangerous joke for a year and a half.
And now, of course, predicting what was going to happen with the economy, predicting what was going to happen with all the racial strife in the country.
It was only going to be exacerbated with his election because his supporters would attack anybody criticizing him as racist.
And that's happening in droves.
And of course, in the case of health care, I opposed Bill Clinton and Hillary's version of healthcare.
And they are not black.
They are white.
Opposition to Obama, as I said on the Today Show, has nothing to do with anything other than ideas policy.
And I disagree with his in a profound way.
Get this.
More from the circle of strife from Massachusetts.
Lakeview, Massachusetts, the Secret Service, is investigating after a swastika.
I'm sorry, swastika, as Pelosi's, after a swastika was found carved into a green on a Massachusetts golf course next to Obama's name.
Authorities said the vandalism was discovered early Monday on the 18th hole of the Lakeville Country Club.
The assistant manager of the club said the person or persons responsible may have used a cleated shoe or some type of tool to carve out the letters and the symbol.
Secret Service has joined the local police in the investigation of the incident.
The Secret Service is investigating somebody in Massachusetts, folks.
I don't know if they got a statue of him.
In a green, in a green, the putty where you put?
They carved it right into the green.
I've got a picture of it here.
A picture of it is on Drudge if you want to go to the Drudge Report.
They've got a swastika next to Obama's name.
You know, like sometimes farmers will cut out certain symbols to freak out the conspiracy theorists, make them think the Egyptians landed there 4,000 years ago.
It's just like this.
All right, I have to take a quick break.
Folks, also, I don't know what to do today.
I really don't know what to do.
The audio soundbite roster is, again, 95% about me.
And the reason for my indecision here is that, well, I've talked to you about this before.
People lob attacks at you, and when you respond to them, they think, aha, we've hit home runs here, blah, blah, blah.
There's so many outrageous, fabricated lies.
There is a genuine full-fledged smear campaign being orchestrated by liberal sports writers and picked up by other liberals in the state-controlled media that it's breathtaking.
And I'm used to being taken out of context, but we have sourced it.
We have found where it all started, these fake, totally made-up quotes attributed to me, which are being repeated without any fact-checking at all by liberal sports writers.
The interesting thing about this to me is I think back to Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman saying, oh, the Internet's a sewer.
Need us, professional journalists with filters.
The Internet's a sewer out there, and it can read anything.
And people believe everything that's out there, Tom.
And they need us.
And our professionalism, we're highly trained professionals.
Only we have the ability to filter the stench as a sewer of the internet.
All right, fine.
Only professional journalists have the ability to wander through the sewer and figure out what's valid and what isn't.
So a bunch of professional journalists are believing everything in the sewer.
They're not checking it at all.
They're not fact-checking.
They are embarrassing themselves.
And the soundbite roster today is largely about this.
And I'm in a dilemma here over whether to waste valuable broadcast time talking about some of this.
So I'm going to mix the two.
We will mix the two as we always do.
But I just want to warn you, as you people know, I'm very uncomfortable using this program to talk about myself.
I'd actually, you know, I've run a test.
I take an average-minute segment of this show and compare the number of times I use the word I compared to the number of times Obama uses the word I in an average 45-minute speech, and it's no contest.
I mean, I'm a piker compared to the personal pronoun usage of President Obama.
Anyway, just a warning about all this.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this, so don't go away.
More from the New York Times.
Congress split on effort to tax costly health plans.
A translation is: Congress can't make up its mind whom to punish.
And a dirty little secret is that we all will be one way or the other by expanding and creating a new entitlement.
We're all going to be paying for this.
Everybody is going to face increased taxes or increased costs or a combination of the two.
Now, listen, this, I mean, this is such a stretch, it's absurd.
Because in two paragraphs, the New York Times claims that there is going to be a reduction in spending because we are increasing spending.
Yes, you heard right.
Listen to this.
The tax, a provision of the bill to be voted on today by the Senate Finance Committee, is one of the few remaining proposals under consideration by Congress that budget experts say could lead directly to a reduction in health care spending over the long term.
Now, keep in mind, this score of this bill is fraudulent because there was the CBO score when they came, hey, we're going to save money with the Senate Finance Committee bill.
They didn't have a bill to score.
They scored a draft that was, it had, they didn't score legislation.
Baucus purposely put together a draft.
The CBO looked at it and he put phony numbers in it to get that report.
Oh, it's going to reduce the deficit.
It's not, it's no way it can.
The numbers don't add up.
But here's the New York Times, nevertheless, repeating the mantra: could lead directly to a reduction in healthcare spending over the long term.
How can anybody write that with a straight face looking at what's happened just in the first nine months of this year?
$1.4 trillion annual budget deficit.
10% unemployment.
No end in sight to this.
And we're talking about reducing the deficit and spending less.
Then they say it's a prime example of the major differences still to be bridged.
Under the Finance Committee bill, the tax would be imposed beginning in 2013 on employer-sponsored health plans with total premiums exceeding $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for families.
Critics say that would mean an increase in premiums or in out-of-pocket expenses for employees, raising medical costs for individuals and families.
And yet, two paragraphs earlier, they say that the finance bill could lead directly to a reduction in healthcare spending over the long term.
My head's about to explode here.
The Baucus bill is going to reduce healthcare spending.
And two paragraphs later, we are told that taxes are going to be raised on insurance plans up to $21,000, or that that would be the floor that the tax increases, benefits would start.
I'll tell you, folks, journalism's gone to hell.
It just doesn't exist.
Sports journalism doesn't exist anymore.
Mainstream news journalism doesn't exist anymore.
It's malpractice.
It is an abrogation of professional responsibility and a constitutional requirement.
It's just a disgrace.
What has happened to journalism?
Oh, no.
In addition to everything else out there, in the circle of strife, all of the chaos comes this news from Centerville, Virginia.
There's a pumpkin shortage.
When children leave Cox farms and other pumpkin patches across the nation this fall, they may go home with a gourd instead of the traditional orange pumpkin.
And that's because Cox Farms, which hosts one of Washington's largest fall festivals this month, is looking at a pumpkin shortage.
Oh my folks.
What are we doing to our children?
Pumpkin shortage.
And to show you, to illustrate, what I mean when I say you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution if you listen to this program.
Remember last week, we told you about the massive ordnance penetrator, the new bomb from the Pentagon that sounds like a tool that would be found in a porn movie, a massive ordnance penetrator?
Well, eight.
AP just discovered it.
Pentagon speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.
Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran.
The 15-ton behemoth called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator or the MOP will be the largest non-nuclear bomb in our arsenal.
And of course being developed here under the Obama administration after he receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
I'm still shocked that he was not elevated to sainthood on Sunday when the Pope elevated five to sainthood, including one from Hawaii.
But you knew about the massive ordnance penetrator last week on this program.
AP just finding out about it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites that people at MSNBC are unhinged.
It seems like MSNBC both yesterday and today was playing my Today Show interview in total 11 minutes yesterday, 12 minutes today, which is an eternity in television.
And the people at MSNBC are unhinged and upset that their network is running that interview and eating up their airtime.
Chris Matthews, who has been concerned and complaining about the right inciting violence, made a prediction this morning.
You guys see Live and Let Die, the great Bond film with Yafen Koto as the bad guy, Mr. Big.
In the end, they jammed a big CO2 pellet in his face and he blew up.
I have to tell you, Rush Lembaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big.
And at some point, somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head.
He's going to explode like a giant blimp.
That day may come.
I think he's Mr. Big.
I think Yafen Koto.
Are you watching, Rush?
Yeah, Chris, I'm watching, and I can't keep a straight face.
I am laughing myself silly watching you people come unhinged over this.
Now somebody, and what about all this talk of civility, Chris?
I mean, look at what's happening to our discourse, and you people are always blaming us on the right for this.
And now you're advocating that somebody pop my face with a CO2 pellet and blow me up like Yafet Koto in Live and Let Die.
Here's our next Matthews bite.
This is what really, really bugs them about all this.
It's so interesting, Rush Lembaugh having the financial power.
That's probably bothering a lot of commentators.
The fact that he's got the hundreds of millions of dollars from success on the right, that he's able to be even in the game of buying a football team or having a co-ownership.
And a salary, like, you know, he renegotiated his contract last year for $400 million.
It's a huge amount of money.
I don't know any other journalist that gets paid that much money.
It's interesting because the one thing about this city, spending all these years in Washington, which can be a tough city because you've got wealthy people who moved here for national reasons, local African-American community, which is not wealthy.
It is, you know, it's middle class in most cases these days, but it's tough.
And there's a lot of natural rivalries going around here.
But he comes into a sports team like St. Louis, which can be more, you know, a little more tough on the race front there down there, I'll bet.
They're babbling in.
I can't translate.
It's babbling incessantly.
It doesn't make any sense.
That was just pure drivel.
Look, the first part of the bite is what's telling.
Just this.
I don't understand how he's made that much money on the right.
We on the left are supposed to be the ones making that kind of money.
We're the ones that went to the right schools.
We're the ones that plotted career paths for ourselves.
We worked all the right media channels, went to Harvard, I worked for Tip Tip O'Neal.
I've written for the NEW YORK Times.
Oh, and I don't understand Limbaugh's making all that money on the right.
And you notice again who injects race into this.
It's them.
They can't escape it.
They are the ones who look at people and don't see human beings.
They don't see Americans, they see victims.
They see black here, a woman over there, they see a gay or transgender or an Hispanic or whatever.
And yet they run around saying they're the ones with no judgmentalism in them.
They don't they they.
They are the ones with all the compassion and all the heart and man that the hate that they are spewing lately is is is a greater quality than I can remember, maybe because it's all being directed at me.
Nancy Snyderman just continues to be beside herself.
Next, she found out that Bill Maher thinks that the government swine flu vaccine is something that should be avoided.
This is yesterday afternoon Dr. Nancy Snyderman on her show more politicizing today of the whole swine flu vaccine debate.
Last week conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told Health AND Human Services secretary Sebelius, screw you, I'm not getting the H1N1 vaccine.
Quite elegant conversation from him.
Now liberal Bill Maher has added his two cents.
Conservatives always say about health care especially.
You know you're gonna let the government run health care.
They screw everything up, so why would you let them be the ones to stick a disease into your arm?
I mean, I would never get a swine flu vaccine.
What is wrong with these guys?
What's wrong with you, dr. Snyderman?
The question needs to be asked of you.
We are independent thinkers.
We don't follow the horde, we are not sheep and we don't look at government officials as infallible.
We look at them with suspicion.
We always.
You should too look at anybody with the kind of power government officials have with a little suspicion.
In fact, it's what the mainstream media's constitutional job is, and they've totally abrogated it.
And so when there are people like us who do look with suspicion and curiosity at the power of people in government, you find it outrageous.
You want us to just bow down and and kneel and follow every order issued by people who have no competence or experience in any area in which they are working, many of them the Czars, without any constitutional, um or or congressional approval, because they've never had to go before confirmation hearings.
Yes, I know about dr Snyderman's history with Bill Clinton and Hillary I.
I know all, I know.
I know all about.
I'm not going to get into it because it's not about you.
Didn't know it?
Oh well i'm, i'm not.
I am not going to engage in vicious gossip about people, whether it's true or not.
Dr Snyderman is challenging my intelligence here and my honesty and credibility uh, when it is hers that needs to be looked at.
She is somebody who looks at the government, listens to what somebody says and we must obey.
We must obey, we must not even question.
And I say the hell with that.
Grab a quick phone call, Thomas in Kettering, Ohio.
Welcome to the EI B Network, sir.
Great to have you here, Rush.
It's a pleasure and an honor to talk to you, sir.
Thank you, I can't tell you what you've done for me in my life and how I raised my child and lived my life, and but uh, about this NFL thing rush uh, it's almost like I know we've put a lot at your feet and you've fought the fight for us, but it's like if you don't fight this, Rush, if you don't, because we agree with you, we're not racist, we're not bigots, we're not homophobes, and this is a time where we need to stand up with you, our leader, no question about that, and say, no, no, I'm going to do this.
I had this.
I've worked hard for this, and I'm going to get this.
What do you think about that?
Well, this is the dilemma that I admitted having when the program began.
I've talked about this a bunch.
Well, brief history.
When I started this radio program in 1988, I had never been called a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a homophobe.
People who knew me never.
Well, I mean, it was ridiculous.
But then I got on the radio as a conservative, and all of a sudden, I start being attacked as a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
And I didn't know what to do about it.
It had never happened, and there was nobody that could give me any guidance.
I just got a bunch of advice.
And there were basically two pieces of advice I got.
Rush, you got to hit back.
You can't let people make those claims about you and try to ruin your reputation and smear you.
You got to fight back on that.
And so I would take that advice and I would respond to it.
And the critics would just laugh with glee.
Aha, we must have hit a home run.
Limbaugh is upset.
And they would just add to the smears.
And then other people say, look, you're bigger than all that combined.
You just have to ignore it because if you acknowledge it, you just elevate it, and more and more people hear about it and otherwise would.
And those are always the two options that you have.
Now, there are mitigating factors.
That is, I think, when race is brought into it, that you can't let stand.
I mean, if people are trying to destroy your reputation and your credibility, your life and your career by tagging you as a racist, then you have to stand up and fight that.
Now, we are in the process behind the scenes working to get apologies and retractions with the force of legal action against every journalist who has published these entirely fabricated quotes about me, slavery, and James Earl Ray.
I never said them.
We have tracked them.
We know where they came from.
We don't know the identity, but we know where they came from.
A single blogger who posted the stuff on my Wikipedia page with wiki quotes, unsourced.
Wikipedia says, well, this is in dispute.
It's not in dispute.
They were never uttered.
I never said them.
And I've even told reporters, I never said them.
One reporter said to me, Oh, don't worry about it.
You're just, you've created a masterful publicity stunt here.
Meaning, my effort to buy the St. Louis Rams is just a publicity.
Enjoy the controversy.
I'm not going to retract it.
Why should I?
This is good for you, he wrote.
He's black.
Jason Whitlock.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
I've got to say something about the Rams till we come back, so don't go away, folks.
Be back in just a moment.
Sit tight.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
St. Louis Rams.
One of the funny things about this, it's been reported in such a way that leads people to believe I am the primary guy in the group, that I'm the major bidder in the group, and that's not the case.
You know, I was, I'm from Missouri.
I'm from town, Cape Girardeau, 100 miles south of St. Louis.
And I remember when the St. Louis Football Cardinals decamped and moved to Arizona.
St. Louis is a great sports town.
Now, Rams, what?
Yes, it is.
A great sports town.
St. Louis really is.
Oh, it is.
But don't distract me.
The opportunity was presented to me to become part of a group that was going to make a bid on the Rams.
I've always had a dream of being involved in the National Football League.
I love it.
I love the people who play the game.
I admire them.
I wish I could do what they do.
I wish I could experience what they experienced.
You realize how few people are ever part of a championship team winning a Super Bowl or a World Series compared to the percentage of the population they are.
I mean, with 300 million people and there are 53 players on a Super Bowl team, that's really a rare thing.
I've always admired the people who are the best at what they do, and the people in the National Football League are the best at what they do.
So I was given an opportunity to be a part of a group and to help perhaps keep the team in St. Louis.
So I eagerly accepted.
And now it's being portrayed that I'm the primary owner of the frame, which is primary bidder, which was not the case.
I'm just in the group.
I can't say who else is in the group except Dave Checketts.
It's leaked out, but that's what it is.
It just boggles my mind.
Now you've got the Justice Brothers, Reverends Dax and Sharpton.
I mean, Reverend Jackson rode a bus in Chicago today to the school where the violence took place as though that's going to do anything.
I mean, these guys are hustling race exactly.
I predicted this would happen with Obama's election.
I mean, there are people that profit from all this.
Reverend Sharpton is one.
He wanted to get into radio.
I didn't try to stop him, even though he's got a checkered past.
He was the author of the Tawana Brawley Hawk hoax.
But I believe in freedom and I don't discriminate.
And if he wants to get into radio, fine and dandy.
But look at these people running around trying to prevent people they don't like, don't even know, from engaging in an activity which might actually improve current circumstances.
Right?
Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson, who wanted to neuter President Obama at one point during the campaign.
These guys could no more survive being held to the same standard they apply to everybody else.
And especially when they get involved, they start telling lies about people.
So it's a fascinating thing to go through.
It's a fascinating thing to watch otherwise professional journalists totally embarrass themselves by repeating fabricated, made-up quotes I have never said.
And we found out where it all came from, and we're going to do two things.
To everybody who has repeated these lies, we're going to send a letter and say, back it up, source it, prove it, find out where I said it.
I want to know.
If they can't, which they won't be able to, then we're going to demand an apology and a retraction.
That is the least that some of these people could do.
Eric in Philadelphia.
I've got about a minute here, but I wanted to squeeze you in before the break.
Hello.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
How are you, man?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Listen, this is an honor.
Real quick, you've got to go ahead with this thing, man.
You've got to buy the Rams.
If there's any way you can get that deal done, you've got to get it done.
Now, I want to revisit real quick this Donovan McNapp thing.
Man, I've been trying to get to you for like four years to say this, okay?
When you made your original comments, Tom Jackson, Michael Irvin both were on board with what you said.
It took about three days for the deal to unravel.
And what happened was Sharpton and Jackson got to those guys, if you recall, and they started making political things about it and what have you.
And then the whole thing came undone.
We're having some phone line.
Every caller we're taking has got static in it.
Is it our phone line or is it the yeah, okay.
Well, we're um we're working on that.
We just we just lost the call.
All right.
Well, but I know I know full well what happened with that phone.
There's more to it than even Eric in Philadelphia said.
It's farming.
But anyway, I got to take a break.
I'm up against it here on time, so sit tight.
Back with much more right after this.
We barely scratched the surface today, so don't go anywhere.
Try this headline from this is a CBS MarketWatch.
Lost jobs will not return until 2012.
And yet Reuters says the recession is over.
Economists say the recession is over and we're bounding back.
How do you have an economic recovery when people do not work, when jobs are not being created, when people are not going to work and not producing anything?
How in the world can you have any kind of an economic recovery?
It's just, it's mind-boggling.
And here's AP survey.
Most economists see recovery beginning after economists also see no jobs returning until 2012.
Most economists see recovery.
Is this surprising or unexpected?
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