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Oct. 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, you know, this would be a good day to do that, Snerdley.
Because there's about, let's see.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, uh, nine, uh, ten, uh, eleven.
I'll tell you what, look, let's through here.
Uh 12, 13, uh, 14, I could play for 14.
Hang on, folks, hang in there, wait for it.
Yeah, I got 14 in a row.
We can do 14 sound bites in a rest.
So I said the beginning of the program.
You know, I I'm not comfortable talking about me, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, and I I certainly don't like being distracted from the uh if heels of the day, but hell, I am one.
Live it.
Love it.
Learn it.
So here uh Mr. Broadcast Engineer, here's what I want you to do, starting now.
I want you to go soundbite number two.
I'm not even gonna, we're just back to back to back.
Doesn't matter who these people are, take advance, it's MSNBC.
Uh it's Al Sharpton, it's James Carville, it is Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton, and Mercury Morris.
You'll be pr uh former player for the Miami Dolphins.
You'll be particularly fascinated about that.
I'm not, I'm not even going to read the questions they were asked.
We're just gonna play sound bites two through fourteen.
Bam bam, bam, bam, whim, thank you, ma'am.
Are you ready at the broadcast engineer console?
Let her rip.
What is bad though is when Rush Limbaugh says on the air, what I hear so many people saying, a lot of Philadelphia fans off the air, and then he's fired from ESPN and branded a racist because he says on the air what everybody is saying off the air.
I'm not gonna say no on Russian IG product that starts with a D, sounds like my last name.
Fleep, you can't say it on TV.
I would like people to vote in.
Say, is that an appropriate word for Rush Limbaugh?
Yes or no, MSNBC viewers, please vote in and call it.
One clarification I want to make from Friday's show.
I repeated a quotation about slavery that was attributed widely to Rush Limbaugh on a recent newspaper column, Rush called me and said, do not believe this.
I never said this, and I take him at his word.
I look forward to speaking with him perhaps about my larger point of objection.
Limbaugh's perceived racist diatribes are too many to name, but here's a sampling.
He once declared that slavery built the South.
I'm not saying we should bring it back.
I'm just saying it had its merits.
For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
Critics are citing Limbaugh's racially charged remarks through the years, among them, slavery had its merits.
Should a person who says there are merits with slavery be able to have this privilege of owning a team.
The problem is it is not Russia's ideologies.
Some of his statements have just been very, very unsettling to everybody, and particularly to African Americans.
They also spoke with some nostalgia about slavery, which is, you know, not even gonna try to go there.
Slavery had his merits, and you're talking in an industry over two-thirds black players, and we're sitting around acting as though that uh this shouldn't be questioned.
Doesn't matter.
I think that he sells racial kind of uh statements, whether in his heart he means it or not, is really immaterial.
You cannot sell that in the daytime and then go to the conference table later and go against what you've sold as your personality.
He has to be the same person.
Are we gonna say that Russ is gonna say, now that's really just my sticking in here, I'm somebody else?
Of course not.
He put himself out of business.
I think the question is whether or not the NFL is gonna have standards.
I think when the players association came out this weekend and said that they objected because he was divisive.
Clearly, if you have someone that has attacked the players, you have someone that is gonna be one of the 32 owners if he was approved that would decide on a proposed walkout uh uh next year of by by the uh 32 owners.
You have to have some standard to say, well, wait a minute, this guy has offended the people that generate the money.
This guy would be sitting there deciding on a walkout that affects a hundred thousand employees at stadiums and all kinds of businesses.
This is a very sensitive position.
Ray's has nothing to do with it.
He has offended the players, whether they be black or white.
When you say these people are like Crips and Bloods without guns, you're gonna disparage these people's character.
And now I want to be one of the owners that will decide their contract, decide their future.
I think maybe Mr. Morris and I may agree on outcome.
I think he's right to put him in a harness nest at a time where we're gonna be making crucial decisions.
I think the NFL would be doing itself and those that supported a disservice to have someone who's expressed that kind of opinion on the people involved to be sitting at the table when we're going to see these crucial decisions, which is why I think the players association came out over the weekend and made the statement.
Well, you know what, Rick?
The answer to that is that when you look at what he said and how he said it, it actually makes some relevant sense.
In 1965, I graduated from high school.
The top three problems in the country were running in the hallway, talking in class, and being late.
Now, 1985, the top three problems were teen violence, teen pregnancy, teen drug use.
Two thousand five, it's still the same.
So a whole generation of young people have grown up under the stigma of the Crips in the Bloods, and some of these people are playing in the NFL now.
So you can't take away from that gene pool that they have to choose from because it's what society has to offer them.
Hey, I want him on there because I want him to see what it's like.
You know, you can drive a NASCAR and say, I like to get out there, but you put your butt in that seat and get out there with everybody else.
Then you get to see what it's really like what you're talking about you want to do.
I don't think he's gonna really understand that he's walking into a bee's nest here with these young brothers who think racism is when you don't get to go into the NBA when you're 18, you got to wait till you're 20.
That's not racism.
Racism comes from where an I came grew up in the 1960s, like Limbaugh did.
But it's a different set of circumstances out there, and I would love to see him jump in the middle of it.
The Washington Redskins was a segregated team until 1962.
The last soundbites there from Mercury Morris, uh, and he was on CNN's newsroom uh yesterday afternoon, and Rick Sanchez was could not believe what he was hearing from Mercury Morris.
Now, every one of these people, from uh, let's see, Rick Sanchez to David Schuster to Tamron Hall to James Carville, who really knows better.
James Carville knows me.
We have socialized together.
James Carville repeating this totally fabricated lie attributed to me about slavery.
We have tracked its origins.
Its origins are in 2005, a blogger who was throwing it all over the internet and then got it into my Wikipedia entry in the wiki quotes.
And even there it says uh unsubstantiated, but these people are still going there and using it.
These professional journalists, Rick Sanchez, Tamron Hall, David Schuster, who, by the way, NBC already suspended Schuster once for saying that the Clintons pimped out Chelsea Clinton.
Um there was a guy, a sports writer on MSNBC yesterday morning, Zierin was his name's Dave Zierin uh from TheNation.com.
Uh, and then we had um Brian Burwell of St. Louis Post Dispatch and a guy named Drew Sharp uh and uh numerous personalities on ESPN have repeated that quote and another quote, both of them totally fabricated.
Uh it is breathtaking to see that there is no way anybody could have made it, and they say the statement happened in 1998.
They all say that, well, the the the guy that posted it, his name is Cobra, by the way.
That's that's his moniker on the internet.
You can hide and be anonymous on the internet.
And he's been posting it all over the place, and he claims he got it from a book that was written by some guy, by the way, the publisher is nation books in New York.
And the quote is he said he got it from a book written by some guy named Huberman, 101 worst people in America, whatever, it was published in 2006.
The problem is he was spreading it in 2005.
We know who the source of this is.
We know that the guy that wrote the book did not source the quote.
Nobody can source it because it was never made.
I never said it.
And look at all of these people who are repeating it without checking.
And these are the people who tell us that they are the professionals, that they're the ones we should trust to weed out what's garbage and what's not garbage in the sewer, they say that is the internet.
They are the sewer.
They are the sewer, and they are in the midst of it.
They are waste.
And they are pro promulgating waste all over the place.
Oh, I'm told Mr. Zierin's name is pronounced Zyren.
Doesn't matter, Zyron.
He was utterly, utterly irresponsible on that program yesterday.
These people repeat lies because it fits their already prejudiced agenda.
They are the ones with prejudice and bigotry coursing through their veins, through their hearts, and through their souls.
They are consumed with jealousy and rage.
They are all liberals, and make no mistake, that's what this is about.
It is about ideology.
It isn't about race.
It is about their being jealous and attempting to discredit me, and they've now sunk to the low of repeating fabricated quotes that they cannot source.
So we have sent them all letters, but we're going to have to add Tamron Hall to the list.
We're going to have to add James Carville to the list.
We're going to have to add uh David Schuster to the list.
We're going to have to add Al Sharpton to the list.
Who else are we going to have to add to the list?
Yes, that's it.
Of all the other people, Drew Sharp of USA Today, the Zyren guy of the nation.
Uh Brian Burwell.
We're going to say you've got a few hours here to produce the site.
Produce the source.
Source this quote.
Tell us where you got it.
You prove to me that it was said, or else, we will demand a retraction and an apology.
I doubt that they care enough.
In their minds, mission accomplished.
They're laughing about it and having a grand old time with it.
But it is an embarrassment to them.
I mean, I could, in sounding like a parrot here, they ought to just be ashamed of themselves to call themselves professionals.
They're nothing but hacks.
I mean, everybody in the world knows you don't believe anything on Wikipedia, because anybody can go in there and put anything on it they want unless you succeed in getting your sight locked.
I don't even care about that.
Wikipedia is irresponsible as anything else.
Anybody can post anything they want on there.
But these are the professionals.
They're supposed to check this stuff.
The idea that somebody could reportedly say, hey, slavery was great.
You know what?
Well, I keep the streets safer right now in 1998, and it's only now surfacing.
I said that in 1999.
I guarantee you the Clinton war room would have been all over in 1998.
This quote sat dormant for eleven years, and all of a sudden shows up in a vengeance in conjunction with a report that I am a minority participant, minority participant in a bid to buy the Los Angeles St. Louis Rams.
You would think, you know, I'm not hard to reach.
My office isn't hard to reach, and a radio show is not hard to listen to.
You just find a radio and tune around, hit the seek button, and you'll find me all over the dial.
Whatever happened to journalists calling Pete.
Did you actually say this?
I want to.
I'm doing a story on uh blah, blah, blah.
Did you actually say this?
Didn't want the didn't want to take the chance it didn't say.
They wanted the excuse to run the fabricated quote.
They wanted the opportunity to do it.
These people are scum.
They are literal professional scum, and they are responsible in many ways for the deteriorating standards and quality of journalism.
They are leading the pack.
They are found on both the news side and the sports side.
And they are doing everything they can to promote disunity and discord throughout our culture and society while holding themselves up in their own minds as great unifiers, people who care only about social justice.
When they're basically just incompetent, irresponsible, impersonators of journalism.
Back in just a second, don't go away.
Let's keep this uh going, because I barely scratched the surface here at a soundbite roster uh that mentions me.
So up next is former St. Louis Ram player DeMarco Farr uh on a radio station in St. Louis, Chris Matthews and a couple of uh bites from the Pitt Yorkee, David Bunn.
You're all back to back.
Here they are.
I think it's scary.
I really do.
And uh I'm not sure you want to bring that brand of humor, because that's what I assume it is.
I I never listened, never met the guy.
All I know is about what I read about Rush Limbaugh.
But I do know what he talks about and the line that he tries to play.
It's an easy line to play.
It's a race line.
I don't know if you want to bring that into the NFL.
The NFL is all about bringing guys together, playing together, teamwork.
Why would you want to bring that type of divisiveness?
You know, outward divisiveness into the NFL.
It's so interesting, Rush Limbaugh 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 dollars.
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, you're spending all these years in Washington, which can be a tough city because you got wealthy people who moved here for national reasons, local African American community, which is not wealthy.
It is, you know, it's so 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.
What?
I think, you know, we do have to do a better job in counteracting these folks because in Russia's case, Rush Limbaugh, in this case, excuse me, uh, I'm not that familiar with him that I should be calling him Rush's case.
I I tend to think that he he he appeals to uh folks who have an intolerance uh of certain groups in our society, and I think that's a losing proposition for the future.
And I think that's one of the reasons they were not successful in this last election.
I think his reputation has been built to some extent, Rush Limbaugh, on his intolerance for gays, women, uh people of color.
Just because he calls us feminazis?
Uh there's a little bit more than that, and there's some obviously some other pieces that uh I mean the whole Donovan McNabb situation uh always is is indicative of the problem he has.
He's also had a drug problem.
I mean, there's a lot of reasons to disqualify him.
I don't think he has a chance in hell of getting uh this franchise.
That's David Banyer, who was the campaign manager for John Edwards, uh, who we all know has uh the John Edwards case, uh, if you will.
The first quote was DeMarco Farr, the former player for the St. Louis Rams.
Here's the guy that knows only what he reads.
He never listens, but I know but he knows what I talk about.
And uh the line that I try to, but he's never listened.
He only knows what he reads.
And we we we now know that what he reads is lies, dribble, and junk.
Oh, I forgot to include Jason Whitlock in this list, who repeated the these slanderous made-up, fabricated quotes, found in a sewer on the uh on the internet.
So the list and it's expanding.
I I'm sure there are more people than I have heard throughout the broadcast day on ESPN since the weekend when this all started, uh, who have uh repeated all this stuff as well.
But just amazed.
1998, they say the quote was uttered.
It only now surfaces eleven years later.
Just the right time, just the right time, right before Obama's gonna get his health care bill at the Senate Finance Committee, right before the NFL owners' meeting is taking place uh today.
Well, it just isn't amazing how these people who simply report the news.
Oh, no, no, we're not trying to shape the outcome of it.
Oh, no, no, we just report the news.
No, you make it up.
These people do not have the guts to listen to this program.
They don't have the guts to call me and ask me, did you really say this?
Or were you kidding?
Or what did you mean?
Do you really they don't have the guts?
They have courage to go on TV and shout their invective and spread their lies, and then get the applause from fellow journalists who, yeah, you had a way to hit limbo.
We'd hit and they think they're big shots.
They're small fry, insignificant, and wish they mattered.
But they don't.
John in Mokina, Illinois, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, you're welcome.
I'm glad uh you're taking my call.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
You're welcome.
Say, with the uh with the war on race and the race baiters like the Jacksons and the Sharptons, it just seems to me like like uh they're fighting the battles that actually prolong the war.
Well, I think a lot of people They just want that war to end.
And it's like for them, race comes first, and content of one's character comes second.
Well, how how uh do they earn their money?
How do they earn their money?
Their living.
No, they earn their living by thriving in the race business.
Right, right.
Jesse Jackson, in fact, shakes or has shaken businesses down, threatened boycotts, a number of things.
Uh Al Sharpton has run hoaxes and ended up having innocent people put in jail.
Didn't Jackson's son get the uh something with the brewery for the liquor license for maybe the stories are too numerous, but the point and one thing about Sharpton, you know, his comments that we played here having to do with the players association, the NFL Players Association that the contract's about to expire with the league, and Sharpton essentially said that the the Players Association making this move now just for leverage, you know, against the owners.
We all everybody knows what's what's uh what's going on here, but uh the the idea that these people have credibility only exists because their brethren in the media bestow it upon if the media ignored these people, if the media applied the same standards to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and all the rest that they that they apply to all of us in conservative media.
Those guys couldn't stand twelve minutes of scrutiny.
Sure.
If they had to stand up to the same scrutiny we have to go through each and every day, they couldn't survive it.
They exist because they are promoted, and uh all of their shortcomings are ignored, and uh they they are they are said to have every excuse in the world to hold the positions they have because they're representing the minorities, disadvantaged the poor and so forth, and so they have a little extra license.
It's it's all a scam.
It's all a game.
And that's how they earn their living.
We will be back, stay with us.
Now, you want to hear something really funny, and I think quite telling, and I think this is uh uh doesn't require a whole lot of intelligence to figure out.
Let's say that you are one of these bigoted racist left-wing radical sports writers, and your agenda is to paint me as that.
And you're willing to go so far as to use fabricated, made-up quotes that you don't even check.
Then you say, why this league is 70% African American?
Why we can't allow racists to owning teams.
If I'm a racist, why do I want to be part of a business that is 70% African American that pays them millions of dollars a year?
The two do not go together.
Do they, Don?
If I am this horrible person, why do I want anything to do with the business that is 70% African American?
That pays them millions and millions of dollars.
Let's see.
Oh, folks.
Have they had the vote yet, Snodley?
I have been distracted for the past half hour.
Have they had the vote at the Senate to find they're still yapping away.
We know what the vote's gonna be.
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Port Charlotte, let's see, uh Port Charlotte, Florida.
This is Bob.
Welcome to the uh program, sir.
Great to have you here.
Afternoon, Rush.
Uh pleasure to talk to you.
I'm so furious with Olivia Snow today, I could scream.
You know, this uh Well, why wait a what what I m I want to help out here?
I can understand the temptation to get mad, but why waste the energy when she was going to do what you knew she was going to do in the first place?
Well, I I I'd like to encourage every Republican to send money to defeat this woman the next time she's up for re-election, be it in the Republican primary or the general election, because I'm sick of a Republican stabbing the party in the back at every opportunity.
She was only one of three Republicans to vote for that stupid stimulus bill, which hasn't stimulated anything but the national debt.
She sat on that committee for two months, watched every reasonable amendment defeated by on a party line vote, watched every attempt at transparency defeated, watched every attempt to get a final scoring by CBO on this bill before it was passed, defeated.
But yet she's still gonna vote for it.
I'm sick of it, Rush.
I don't need a Republican like that in the party.
Join the club.
I mean uh uh look, my brother, this is why uh I have been uh beseeching people to forget this moderate direction, the Republican Party wants to go.
That's gonna take us right to the direction of Olympia Snow.
I mean, what if the situation was the opposite?
We had sixty Republicans in in the Senate and and there were forty Democrats.
She would be the lone Republican to mess things up.
No, nope.
Not the loan, not the loan, not the loan, not the loan.
McCain, uh maybe McCain.
If that were the case, no, no, they would all they would feel guilty about our majority.
Hey, Lindsey Graham's already gone south on cap and trade.
Yeah, Lindsay Graham's out there uh you know, talking about the new friendship he's got with John Kerry on this.
So she was only one of three Republicans to vote for the stimulus bill.
And that didn't teach her anything.
We're the jobs, Olivia.
Show me the job.
Well, what she cares about every six years is voters in Maine, not voters in Florida.
Well, that's an that's another whole story.
Maine.
What's wrong with those people?
Well, that was a part of the country that traded the American Revolution.
I'll tell you what it's time for.
Goldwater had it right.
Let's just saw the state off and let it float out to sea.
I don't know.
They need to look up their heritage, the people of Maine, and uh look at the effect that they had on the American Revolution, you know, and uh go back to their roots because somehow along the way they've lost their way.
Hey, you're a preaching to the choir here, my brother.
Gee.
You're preaching to the choir, and there are millions, millions more Americans with you than you possibly know.
We just don't have enough votes in uh Congress right now to stop any of this.
That's the problem.
It's up to us.
Okay, Charles in Fort Lauderdale, two calls from Florida in a row.
Great to have you here, Charles.
Hey, Russ, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I was calling with the uh interpretation of the New York Times.
Uh uh their mindset on what it means to reduce health care costs from uh from their point of view.
Uh uh.
What what what is your interpretation?
Well, my interpretation is that this is going the increase in taxes, which you and I would call tax and spend, is going to reduce the health care costs for the government.
Are you I'm I'm are you supporting that?
Certainly not.
To me, it's a horrible thing, but I'm just I'm you know, you said your head was exploding because you you read that what you said were contradictory statements uh that taxes were Going to go up.
I think we lost him.
I'm I never got my arms around this guy's point.
Was he was he talking about something I said in the first hour?
Uh the well, it was the New York Times story where they said costs are going to go down and go up.
Or something they contradicted themselves within two paragraphs.
It was good, we're gonna it was we're gonna spend more, but costs are gonna go down, is what they said.
And uh Well uh well, of course it's it's the the idea I mean this uh uh I don't know how anybody with one half a brain I can get by with it, but I don't know how anybody with even just half a brain can ever believe that the cost of anything the government's involved in is going to go down.
When they raise Oh, yeah, look at all the times that McCain's Commerce Committee, cable guys here ripping people off out there.
We're gonna have legislation here that's gonna reduce cable race.
Have your cable charges gone down ever.
Oh, yeah, if you drop some service.
I mean the idea that okay, so we're gonna raise taxes, and that's going to make the government spend less.
The theory from the New York Times is okay.
The government has its own stash of money here.
It has it automatically.
By d which it does because they have a printing press, but then the government's gonna tax us more, which will give the government even more money, so the government outlays will theoretically be less.
That's the point they're trying to make.
It's all it's just it's as convoluted and nonsensical and ignorant economically as anything that you would see in a junior high school economic paper.
We'll be back in just a second.
And back to the phones we go, El Rush Bow, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This is uh Ted in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Hello, Ted.
How are you doing?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
I just had a short comment about any accusations that they're trying to make against you, what over the purchase of a sports team.
Yeah.
Um by trying to justify yourself or to them, you're actually playing into their hands in a way by giving it credence.
And the best thing to do that I found in life is just ignore the whole thing.
As best you can.
Sometimes you can't, but in just why.
Don't do it.
Just ignore the whole thing.
Well, I addressed this earlier today.
Yes.
Uh I've I've been faced with this dilemma since I started this program.
And there are two ways to do this.
One is to ignore it, because all you do is elevate the criticism and please the critics.
The other is to address it.
But like you said, you have to sometimes.
What I have found, and the very few times I've done this involves race.
When they are trying to make a racist tag stick, you can't let that happen.
No, I I heard that.
Yeah, I was I was listening.
That's what this is these are not race baiters, these are irresponsible journalists.
Yeah.
These are people dis these these are left-wing radical activists who are sports groupies, so they become journalists.
So they get to hang around with players and all that.
And they're nothing but left-wing ideologues.
So they try to make this racial stuff stick.
Uh just when Bill Clinton tried it at the White House Correspondents Dinner back in, I forget 1993.
He told a joke.
And the room, 1200 people in the room at the Washington Hilton just they couldn't believe it.
There was nervous laughter, but there was more of an audible gasp.
And what that was about, this was shortly after the Waco invasion authored by Janet Reno.
And Clinton, when asked about it, said, well, I uh that's the attorney general's decision.
Ah, I didn't have anything to do with that.
You have to go talk to uh Janet Reno.
I mean, he never even wanted her in there.
It was Hillary's higher.
So John Conyers of Michigan does some showboat hearings on the Waco invasion.
Ostensibly to get some information.
What the hell happened here?
And what he ended up doing was berating Janet Reno, which is understandable, but he wasn't getting to the he wasn't getting any answers.
He wasn't really trying to get to the bottom of anything.
He was taking the occasion of the cameras being on him to act like a big tough guy.
And so I on a on a television show.
You know, I criticized Conyers for running a showboat hearing that uh didn't accomplish anything, is all he did time sp spent time doing was uh was attacking uh Janet Reno.
So Clinton's joke is hey did you rush your rush defend Janet Reno's program in tonight?
I couldn't believe it.
Then I realized it's only because she'd been attacked by a black guy.
Now, I we called the White House the following Monday, and we got as close to an apology as you'll ever get.
Uh I was a guest of uh the Washington Times, I think, uh that night.
And uh maybe no, it might be USA Today, Judy Keene, I think I forget, but but uh you you can't let that stuff stand.
You just can't let the and this particular, I mean you you and I would love to be able to ignore this.
I told everybody at the beginning of the program, and I've I've told the staff here during breaks, I'm very uncomfortable doing this because I it's not it's not the normal way I approach this.
But this you can't let stand, especially these people are going after my livelihood.
These people are going after my business.
Now they've always done that for whatever reasons, but you there are times and they are very few when you have to stand up to it and beat it back.
And this actually is a no-brainer, with all of this based on utter lies, 100% character assassination, purposefully done.
It can't stand.
So I understand the theory, ignore it and so forth.
Um I don't care if I'm giving them what they want.
The fact is I'm not giving them what they want.
They're the ones they're probably not even gonna feel bad.
At least I don't think they have any conscience.
If they did, they wouldn't have endeavored, engaged in this uh in this manner in the first place.
But I appreciate I appreciate the call, Ted.
This is Trace in uh Cleveland, Tennessee.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Professor Limbaugh inspired.
Uh you're glad to be a uh student of the Limbaugh Institute.
But I'm gonna add, I'm a little tore because I'm a diehard speed blue and speed blue Colt fan originally from Indianapolis.
But I want to be the first to get your take on a national headline that's gonna sweep the nation that says, through conservative principles, Rush Limbaugh turns around the terrible St. Louis Rams to win a Super Bowl, and he's headed to Washington, D.C. to meet President Obama with a number 44 St. Louis Rams jersey.
Can I get your take?
You know, at this point, I have to put the brakes on.
No, because I can't I can't I appreciate your your call, but I I can't say anything about this whole process.
I can't Well, then you can say he held your jersey just like uh President Bush held your bag.
Obama's gonna be holding your jersey.
Uh not going there.
You know it, Rush.
You know what you want if it's your invitation to the White House.
Can you imagine if you didn't go?
Uh no, I would go.
As I as I as I told Jamie Gangell in the NBC interview, I would go.
She said, Well, what would you say?
I said, Hello.
No, no, no, what would you say?
I said, Well, it would depend what he wants to talk about.
But I would owe him the uh dignity and the honor of telling him the truth.
I mean, being honest about what I thought if he had me up there.
But I told her, don't look for it.
Uh everybody's under the illusion that President Obama wants to get along and have unity in soil.
Obama clears the playing field of people who are opponents.
I mean, look, there's a survey.
Some somebody in the in the drive-by's did a survey of presidential travel, and eighty percent of it has been to blue states.
Eighty percent of it has been to places that he's going to need for his re-election battle in 2012.
His campaign for 2012's already begun.
He's not going to places, say, where there are people who don't like the health care plan and trying to persuade them.
He's not going anywhere, hey, here's my plan.
Look on page 44, it says right here, we're not going to kill grandma.
He can't do that because the plan doesn't exist, number one.
But he's not out trying to bring everybody together.
He says that, but that's not what he's doing.
Liberals don't do that in general.
It's not just Obama.
Liberals are not about bringing anybody together.
They're about wiping the slate clear.
They're about wiping our butts politically.
It's what we ought to be about, too, but we're not.
Well, that's it, folks.
The fastest three hours in media, I mean, it's gone.
Into the ether.
However, it will be reproduced for posterity at rushlimbod.com later this afternoon when we uh update the website for today's contents.
It's been fun, it always is, and we'll be back tomorrow.
Same time, same station, and revved up, ready to go.
Ah, the Senate Finance Committee has passed the healthcare.
Big news!
14 to 9.
Big whoop.
Big surprise.
On to fascism, folks.
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