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Oct. 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this show, documented to be almost always right, 99.3% of the time.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
And a reminder, an ever-expanding list of great web links, stories, accurate portrayals, reactions to this NFL debacle this week is at rushlimbaugh.com.
The latest is from Bighollywood.com.
Andrew Breitbert unearthed that the latest owner of the Miami Dolphins, the rock troubadour Fergie, once had too many adult beverages prior to a concert, forgot to go to the bathroom and actually urinated on stage in the middle of her performance while singing about hump, hump.
And she was unanimously approved, well, approved by the owners this week to be a minority owner of the Miami Dolphins.
And, of course, there's some quotes from J-Lo and some others.
It's a great...
Snurdly, did you get the information necessary from that woman the other day that we gave the Select Comfort to sleep in a bed to?
Okay, so it is in the works.
That woman sounded as tired as I feel.
We got back on Wednesday night.
I hosted a family dinner, a special occasion, in Cape Girardeau.
I'd had to fly to St. Louis to pick up three family members and then bop down to Cape Girardeau.
And of course, you lose an hour coming back with the time zones.
We were scheduled to land at, what was it, 2.30.
And for some reason, nobody told us.
Nobody told the flight crew or anything else that PBI, the airport here, was closed until we're about 30 minutes out, which is that's when you begin your descent.
So we had to go to Fort Lauderdale.
And then they asked me, they woke me up.
I was trying to get some sleep.
I said, what do you want to do?
Do you want your car driven down here from the hangar and drive back to Fort Lauderdale or to Palm Beach?
You want to get a car service to take you back?
What do you want to do?
And I said, just park it.
How long is the airport going to be closed?
Well, we don't know.
Why is it closed?
We don't know.
Ended up sleeping on the airplane for a couple hours, so PBI opened.
Well, sleeping.
I think I had about an hour worth of sleep.
And then we got, anyway, rolled into home at 6 a.m.
And I intended to go to sleep last night and get a decent six or seven hours.
And I got a request from the Wall Street Journal to do an op-ed on this whole NFL thing.
So, okay, I got to write that.
I have finishing touches on it today.
And it's going to run tomorrow.
The Wall Street Journal in the newspaper and the website, which is good because it's the day before all the NFL pregame shows.
So anyway, well, good.
So did she tell you what kind of sleep number bed she wanted?
She hadn't figured.
Okay, well, I tell you what, the sleep number bed, my sleep number 75 to 85, I play with it now and then, depending on the kind of firmness you want.
But it really, folks, we've been talking about these beds for a number of years on this program.
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Barack Obama last night in San Francisco, after a four-hour touch-and-go in New Orleans, where residents in the town hall say, why are you nickeling and diming us?
Obama's not.
In fact, before we go to 18 and 19, let's see.
Yeah, number nine.
Number nine, and then we'll do 18 and 19.
This is a quick Q ⁇ A audience member.
My question is regarding FEMA reimbursements.
Why is it four years after Katrina, and we're still fighting with the federal government for money to repair our devastated city?
Now, I wish I could just write a check.
You know, you say, why not?
There's this whole thing about the Constitution and Congress.
You know, I'm mentioning the fact that, you know, I'm always, you know, one of the interesting things you find out about being president is everybody will attack you for spending money unless you're spending it on men.
So we've got to go through procedures.
I make no excuses for the fact that the federal government did not work effectively with state and local governments immediately in the aftermath of the storm to make sure that everybody got the help they needed right away.
Whoa, I wish I could write you a check.
You can.
You're writing everybody else checks for money that we don't have?
Well, there's this thing called a Constitution and Congress.
What does that stop you?
The Constitution is, he's not letting the Constitution get their procedures.
None of this stood in George Bush's way, did it?
None of these things were excuses for George Bush, were they?
So they gave him the Nobel Prize.
Well, that won't buy much.
He doesn't have that yet.
Well, that's going to get eaten up with the travel costs going over there.
Anyway, after the flyby in New Orleans, he then went out to San Francisco whining about George Bush's mess that he has to clean up.
What I reject is when some folks decide to sit on the sidelines and root for failure on health care or on energy or on our economy.
What I reject is when some folks say we should go back to the past policies when it was those very same policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
Another way of putting it is when, you know, I'm busy, and Nancy's busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess.
We don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way.
Why don't you grab a mop?
Why don't you help clean up?
You're not mopping fast enough.
That's a socialist mop.
Grab a mop.
Let's get to work.
We are getting to him, folks.
We are getting to him.
I'm tired of hearing.
I don't want to hear people say, folks, decide to sit on the sideline, root for failure.
Root for failure.
There's only one guy that's done that.
That's why my little scheme that I'm hatching, I let you in on in the first hour of the program.
I'm going to decide one day out of the blue to come out and asking you to follow me along on this where I come in total support of Obama's policies.
The media will drop him immediately since they hate me so much.
Now, this business, Nancy, we're busy with dump on Bush.
And you're using Nancy's mop here.
And then he says, you're not holding them up the right way.
Well, there is a right way to hold them up.
If you are trying to mop up a mess with the handle of the mop and you're holding the actual mop.
And by the way, is he talking about the massive ordnance penetrator here, which is the new bunker buster bomb from the Pentagon?
Oh, man.
This guy, you know what?
He can't take it when you get When he's with his buddies, $34,000 a couple.
Yes, he let fly.
Let's fly.
They're hurting my feelings.
I'm not doing anything.
Woman in failure.
I'm using the wrong end of the mop.
It's a socialist mob.
Bush, I hate Bush.
By the way, let's go back May 7th, 2006.
Meet the press Tim Russert talking to Pelosi.
He said, here's the numbers in terms of lobbyist contributions.
2004 to 2006, lobbyists gave Republicans $20 million, Democrats 17.8.
Both parties get their money from lobbyists.
Well, let me say this: our party is standing for honest leadership and open government.
We will turn the most corrupt Congress in history to the most honest and open conference.
And maybe it'll take a woman to clean up the house.
Maybe that's what we'll have to have.
How's that working for everybody?
So I guess that's the mop that Obama was referring to, Nancy Pelosi cleaning up the house with her little mop.
Ras Musson reports.
Most Americans like state lotteries.
Most Americans think state governments should run them rather than the private sector.
A new Rass Musson report national survey finds that 56% of adults say states should run lotteries to generate revenue.
Just 27% disagree and think the states should not operate lotteries.
16% are not sure.
54% of all adults say it's better for states to run lotteries than to let private companies run them to generate income taxes instead.
Actually, you know what?
A lot of conservatives.
Here's the media tweak of the day, by the way, folks.
Media tweak of the day.
Flag it.
Put it up there on the website in prominence, Coco.
Red flag it.
Media tweak of the day.
We put everything up there so they can misquote it on purpose.
Most conservatives hate lotteries on moral grounds.
I happen to like lotteries.
I figure it is the one way we can actually get low-income people to pay taxes.
Everybody's out there talking about vaccines.
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To the phones, Columbus, Ohio, Jamie, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, man, conservative ditto since 91, Rush.
Thank you.
First off, I want to tell you my wife, she was a voter for Clinton whenever I first met her.
And we've been married 10 years now, and she would rather have dinner with you than anybody else in this world.
So, anyway.
Thank you very much, Myder.
I appreciate that.
My point I wanted to make was: you were fired from ESPN for comments made about Donovan McNabb.
Marcellus Wiley came on and called people who listened to you racist, basically because they said you operate racist radio.
Yeah, we had that soundbite yesterday.
What's the chances that you think ESPN will fire him for his inflammatory comments towards millions of Americans who also plan on that?
I wouldn't plan on Marcellus Wiley be anything other than applauded by the bigots at ESPN.
Well, I just, the unjustice.
I've never met Marcellus Wiley, and I'd lay a dollar to a donut who's never listened to this radio show.
I would probably agree with that.
Most people I talk to that don't like Rush Limbaugh are people who never listen to your show.
I know.
They don't listen on purpose.
They don't want their bigoted worldview shattered by reality.
But we have the, you know, Marcellus Wiley is one of these people who run, hey, the NFL is 70% African-American.
So?
That doesn't matter to me.
It's these people that look at things that way, see those numbers, those kinds of faces, that kind of breakdown.
70% African American, 70% African-American.
Well, how much of the fan base that pays Marcellus Wiley's salary and ever plays a salary, how much of that is white?
How much of that's racist, in his view?
This is just nonsense.
They're getting people who are ignorant to be serious commentators about things.
Thanks for the call.
Jim and Green Bay, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, big honor.
Thank you.
Hey, got a question for you.
Since the NFL and Reb Burnell are taking on properly vetting all NFL owners, since the Green Bay Packers have the distinction of being publicly held, I was just wondering if the process has started on vetting all shareholders for the Green Bay Packers.
Well, maybe.
You don't know what kind of turmoil has been stirred up here, tumult.
But those shareholders, they don't hold anything.
It's a symbolic.
The board of directors runs a team and they've got a president and so forth.
But it is an interesting question.
Thought you'd like it.
I do.
I appreciate that.
Thanks much.
But if Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Joe, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you, sir.
I'm a longtime listener, and it's the first time I've ever called.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate you speaking from the heart of this country and representing people like me who really don't have a voice as you do.
So thank you so much.
You're more than welcome, sir.
I wanted to, it's kind of a comment/slash question to you also.
I was born and raised.
I was born up in South Texas, moved to Arkansas in my young teenage years, and been around all types of people all my life.
I don't have a racist bone in my body, and I know a lot of people, and they represent people like myself who don't care what the color of the man's skin.
But we have to, I have to say, and I'm beginning to see it in myself.
I'm beginning to notice it in people that I know that are not racist by any means.
The more we get blamed for being racist, it's like we can't say anything.
We can't do anything without being labeled a racist.
It's beginning to incite.
I'm not going to say they're racist yet, but it's beginning to incite flavors of that.
And it concerns me because it's almost like they know exactly what they're doing, and they're trying to peg us all as racist, and they're trying to push us in a corner.
It's exactly almost like they're trying to get us to come out acting racist so they can sit back and say, I don't know what they're saying.
No, that's not why they're doing it.
That's not why they're doing it.
And why they're doing it has nothing to do with truth either.
And I address this in my Wall Street Journal op-ed tomorrow.
Race, the sad thing is that I predicted just this.
I sound like a broken record, but I predicted this when people asked me, hey, Rush, if Obama wins, isn't that the end of racism or isn't it really swept under?
No, it's only going to get worse.
What's happening here is that the subject of race is being used as a sledgehammer to silence opposition to liberalism.
It's not designed to silence opposition to black people or any of that.
It's being used to frighten people into shutting up and not opposing Obama, not opposing any liberal advancement of their ideas.
It's being used, and it is a cancer on our culture.
It's a cancer in our country, and it is growing.
It is being used specifically for that reason.
But it's not to eventually make you a racist.
Because remember now, a lot of these idiots on this side who follow the leadership of the left already think you are.
Just by virtue of being a conservative, Joe, they don't need any more proof.
In my case, when it was pointed out to a lot of these reporters, Limbaugh never said it.
They said it's not up to us to find that out.
It's up to Limbaugh to prove he didn't say it.
So you make up a quote, you attributed somebody.
The person didn't say that.
I never have ever said it.
Prove it.
We have a source that says you did.
That's how it works.
Most people don't have a microphone and three hours a day to address this.
Their only reaction is to either get angry like you're doing or shut up.
Because most people don't want the stress.
Most people don't want the hassle.
So they run around and the things that they say that they really believe are behind closed doors in a bathroom or in a house where they make sure nobody's listening.
It's hideous.
It's just an offshoot of political correctness, which is designed to silence opposition, to get people to shut up.
What do we do to keep from allowing this?
I mean, we got to, because that anger, I can see it stirring in people, and it's got to be aimed in the right direction.
So what do we need to do?
How do we handle this?
They just don't shut up.
You don't have to take any action.
You just don't shut up.
And if somebody tries to shut you up, tell them to shut up.
Okay.
All right.
If somebody calls you a racist, you know, tell them, I know what you're trying to do.
You're trying to get me to shut up.
You know, tell them you're sick and tired of their holier than now arrogance and condescension.
Okay.
That they're no better than you are and probably worse.
That's right.
And to mind their own business.
Do it with a smile.
Sure.
Last thing you want them to know is that it upsets you.
You want them to think that you think that you know that they are idiots.
Call them, you know, saying stuff like that to me, you're a cancer.
You and people like you are a cancer metastasizing in our country, or in your case, in our city of Fayetteville.
And we're not going to sit here and get the disease.
We're not just going to sit here and allow the disease to infect us.
So you take it someplace else.
Take it to somebody who already believes you and leave us alone.
That's, you know, they're not used to people opposing them because it's worked so well over the years.
Let's see.
Do we have 49 seconds?
No.
I want to try to squeeze a soundbite in here, and I could, but I don't have enough time before and after to do it up.
Let me give you this.
This is a headline today from the Miami Herald.
Sinking home prices, lost jobs fuel rising bankruptcy rates in Florida.
So far this year, Florida is second only to California in the number of bankruptcy filings thanks to sinking home prices and lost jobs.
Hey, Barack, can't you just come in and write some people some checks?
I thought we had a foreclosure prevention program.
Oh, we do.
But we reported this week how utterly failing it is.
How's that hope and change working out for you?
We've turned our economy back from the brink, though, folks.
And you know what?
Stimulus.
Larry Summers, you'll hear the soundbite coming up very soon.
The stimulus bill, 30,000 jobs.
We have saved or created 30,000 jobs.
Look over there.
A job saved.
Turn around.
Look, there's a job saved over there.
And over there, a job saved.
30,000 jobs with the stimulus plan.
Whoopee?
Okay, Mike, and the soundbite's coming up 20 and then 10.
Welcome back to Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Now, this is the genius that is going to fix our economy.
This is on CNBC's National Economic Council.
Our CNBC.com, rather, Lawrence Summers, the National Economic Council, is one of the advisors, said this about the stimulus and its effect on the economy.
We saw data today for the first time to show that the first $16 billion of the stimulus created over 30,000 jobs.
So this is working, and the majority of the funds haven't yet been paid out.
I think you have to recognize that we're in a very different place than we were nine months ago.
No one talks about the economy being in free fall.
GDP growth is actually likely to be positive for the next six months.
I think we're turning a corner.
As that corner is turned, I think you'll see recovery gather speed, and you'll start to see the unemployment rate coming down.
We've been turning the corner since freaking June.
30,000 jobs.
And most of the money hasn't been paid out.
Whoa, we're doing great.
This is working.
No one talks about the economy being in free fall.
They don't.
Food banks running out of food.
Let's go to Fort Worth, Texas, KTVT, Channel 11, CBS Eyeball News, a montage of a report by Carol Cavazos about where the federal stimulus money is going.
You also hear a financial expert in there, a guy named Jim LeCamp.
Case in point, creamy peanut butter.
According to the government stimulus website, Clements Foods of Louisville received $891,500 in stimulus money.
They said it helped create or save eight jobs to produce 972,000 pounds of creamy peanut butter.
That's a lot of money per job.
Fort Worth-based Lockheed Martin received more than $4.6 million and said it created or saved 2.2 jobs.
Most of the money went to paint hangar floors at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
And Applied Systems Engineering in Benbrook received more than $400,000 stimulus dollars without creating or saving any jobs but to buy six microwave transmitter tubes.
Their marketing director, who wouldn't talk on camera, said it would keep people busy.
There's your stimulus money at work for you.
An enterprising local eyeball news team in Fort Worth, Texas doing the dirty work.
Did you hear this now?
$891,500 in stimulus money to create or save eight jobs making peanut butter.
My favorite $4.6 million to Lockheed Martin to create or save 2.2 jobs painting hangar floors.
Keep people busy.
There's your stimulus money for you, folks.
Oh, by the way, Grab Soundbite 21 this afternoon on Enrique Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
She interviewed Austin Goolsby, another one of these elitist egghead Ivy Leaguers, economic advisor.
I think he's economic advisor.
Sure, it's not foreign public.
Oh, by the way, the Vince Flynn book, I forgot to mention the title, Pursuit of Honor is the Vince Flynn book.
So she's talking to Goolsby, and she said, what concern do you have about pay and bonuses?
We see that the pay czar is clawing back money from Ken Lewis at Mancom.
Stop and think of this.
They are taking back what he has earned this year.
The CEO of Bank of they are taking the money back.
They're not just banning his salary next.
They're taking money back from him he's already earned.
So she's asking him about that.
At this stage, do you think there needs to be a new policy, especially for firms that took bailout money, even though they paid it back in terms of business?
Ken Feinberg's role is exactly to be the person to provide some sensible analysis to figure out what is appropriate and what is not for recipients of government money.
I think it points to the importance of financial regulatory reform that the president has been pushing, and that is in a coherent financial system, people should be getting rewarded for performing well, not for performing badly.
And this should be a matter between shareholders and the executives at the companies that they hold the shares of.
Well, what the hell have you got a Pesar involved for?
You say the Pesar is going to decide what pay is appropriate.
Then you say it ought to be between the board of directors and the shareholders.
And what happens if the board of directors is you?
Which is what's happening here.
These people scare the hell out of me, folks.
Stuff that's happening here.
Ted Turner says he wants to buy CNN.
He couldn't do any worse than whoever's running the place now.
At least when Ted Turner ran it, people watched it.
He was on CNN.
No, Bloomberg Television News, Betty Liu, interviewed Ted Turner, and she said, Summer Remstone, this is cut to 11, Summer Redstone said earlier this year at a Milken conference that you selling Turner broadcasting at Tye Warner was your downfall.
Yes.
I don't know if you saw that comment from him.
No, I didn't, but he was right.
I made a mistake.
I was tired.
And then she said, what do you think about the government bailout of banks and also the auto industry?
I hate to see stupidity being bailed out because the auto industry in the United States was building cars that if they'd looked ahead, could have told you that those great big cars were going to be a lot of trouble.
And what about Wall Street then?
What about the banks?
Well, they were lending too much money.
It used to be that you had to have equity to borrow money.
You had to put equity in your house.
And you couldn't get a car for no money down either.
You know, you had to have equity.
I'm used to that, and I think it was a pretty good system.
But I'm an old man now.
You know, I'm an old fuddy duddy.
But I do know that you can't forever spend more than you make.
Oh, yes, you can.
We're doing it.
Oh, Ted's become an old fuddy duddy.
What?
Yes, I'm a little stuffed up.
I am.
I was waiting for one of you guys to notice it.
Did you notice it?
Earlier this week, I started getting this tickle in the throat and so forth.
And I ran and grabbed the Zycam.
I have it on stack.
On a stash of it.
And I used it because it works.
And that was two or three days ago, I think.
And I woke up today.
It took me about a half hour after I woke up.
I said, guys, it's cold.
It's still here.
So I kept taking the Zycam.
Now, we'll see.
It's gotten progressively, I feel much better as the days go.
We'll see.
We're doing an on-air test here.
You realize what a risk I'm taking here.
I took Zycam when I thought I was getting a cold.
And if I miss any days next week, I'm in big trouble.
Yeah, I think I'm going to get some sleep.
We're going on a trip this week, and I'm going to get some sleep.
But I'm going to do that.
But in the meantime, folks, it is working.
It is working right here in the midst of, there's a cold, a cold, a ravaging cold virus is trying to grab hold of me.
But the Zycam is keeping it from happening, as it always does with me.
They've got all kinds of different forms and flavors that mix, like there's a sore throat reliever along with the ingredients that arrest the progress.
It won't cure it.
It's not going to get rid of it, but it'll deplete the symptoms.
It'll reduce the length of time that you suffer from the cold.
Cold Remedy Plus, they've got Liquila's form, and they've got various flavors here.
So go to Zycamp.com and look at what they've got and just get some and try that because we're entering that time of year where this kind of thing happens.
And with all this paranoia about the swine flu and stuff out there, you're going to probably be feeling some symptoms.
If you have some of this stuff on hand, the first moment you think you've got, my eyes are getting a little watery or what take it.
And follow the structures, and you'll see it works.
Okay, what was it?
Larry Summers just said, oh, it's working.
We've turned it around.
Nobody's saying the economy is in a free fall.
Everything's hunky-dory.
30,000 jobs created.
We haven't even spent most of the money from the LA Times today.
California posted higher than expected job losses in September.
There must be a key on the time printer to keep it that they just hit it and it types out higher than expected job losses.
They've probably got a macro shortcut for it.
California posted higher than expected job losses in September, a sign that the state's employment woes continue, even amid signs of a broader economic recovery.
You people are a disgrace.
You're not even the media.
It's not even the media.
You are just all communications directors from the White House.
You just have satellite offices around the country.
So the author, Alana Samuels, Deputy Assistant White House Communications Director at the Los Angeles Times.
So how's that hope and change?
California job losses continue to climb.
LA County joblessness soars to 12.7%.
And by the way, all of this talk, they keep denying Gibbs and Obama, they keep denying that Obamacare will pay for abortions with taxpayer dollars.
That is not true.
It will.
Obamacare will force you to fund abortions.
Heritage Foundation has been running a series all week long of this.
Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.
Or so Obama promised in his health care address before the joint session of Congress on September the 9th.
But the Catholic bishops send a letter to Congress October 8th saying no one should be required to pay for a participation in abortion.
No current bill meets this test.
Who's telling the truth?
The president or the bishops?
And Gibbs was asked about the question during his press briefing.
He said, well, I don't want to get me in trouble at church, but I would mention it as a law that precludes the use of federal funds for abortion.
It isn't going to be changed in these health care bills.
And then another reporter asked Gibbs about it last week, and he said, my answer is no different than it was on Wednesday.
There may be a legal interpretation that's been lost here, but there's a fairly clear federal law prohibiting the federal use of money for abortion.
It's exceedingly clear.
Well, the Heritage Foundation Heritage Foundation people, who are the best in the world at what they do, looked into this and said, how to put this politely, it is safe to say that Gibbs above statement is less than true.
The next time anybody tries to convince you that the White House is telling the truth, ask them where exactly in the federal code it says this, because it doesn't.
There is no federal law that says taxpayer money cannot be used for abortion.
The law doesn't exist.
They're just making it up.
Well, but what about the Hyde Amendment?
As mentioned by the White House reporter, the Hyde Amendment must be passed every year as part of a health and human services appropriations bill.
And even then, it only applies to current HHS programs, which has nothing to do with the new health care.
But the bottom line is they're making it up.
You will be paying for abortions as part of Obamacare.
Heritage Foundation has it.
That these people are good.
Askheritage.org.
That's where I got it.
And you can get it too just if you become a member there.
It's $25 is the introductory membership price.
You fund their work.
You fund their research.
And they are invaluable.
AskHeritage.org.
Phil in Cincinnati.
Welcome to the program.
Brunch, thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
I appreciate very much all the work that you and your staff do.
They don't do much, but I make them think they do in order to keep them inspired.
Whatever works.
Yeah.
Whatever works.
I am a huge conservative.
In fact, my friends say that I am so conservative, I make you look liberal.
Funny.
For the first time in my life, I actually agree with Barack Obama in that I'm tired of people complaining about having to clean up this mess.
I'm tired of listening to Democrats complain about having to clean up this mess that they created.
And the whole time that they're complaining, they're pouring more and more milk on the mess.
It doesn't work.
We don't buy it.
I don't buy it.
I work too hard to listen to these guys complain about cleaning up their own mess.
Let me tell you something.
More and more people are not buying it.
His approval number in Rasmussen.
Oh, no, Fox.
The Fox Opinion Dynamics poll yesterday, 49% approval.
Gallup's got him at just hovering around 50.
They're doing everything they can to keep him there.
The Rasmussen index, he's minus 11.
It's a disaster out.
That's why they're trying to hustle all this stuff in there and get it done before the elections a year from now.
That's precisely why a lot of people understand this.
The Democrats know full well.
And it's, by the way, it's very immature to run around and go, clean up this mess that I inherited.
Whatever mess you inherited has been compounded and made worse.
But again, folks, all this is by design.
There can be no other reason why this is happening.
Nobody who really wanted to prevent this kind of suffering would do what we're doing.
Quickly, Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Rush, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
This NFL thing this week has really served as a distraction from a much more important issue, and that's the tragedy that is the Michigan economy.
And it got me thinking.
I wanted to propose an idea to you to not only show how magnanimous of a talk show host you are, but also to expose the fallacy that is liberalism.
I think you should set aside a time next week to have an hour, maybe two hours, for only Michigan callers to call in.
And just like Jennifer Granholm sat around for hours and hours and listened to laid-off workers air their grievances to her, and she felt like she had done something.
I think you could also help the citizens of Michigan feel better about themselves by just listening to them.
Okay, let me tell you something.
Because you are, you may be psychic.
That's not a bad idea, even though we'll have all kinds of people faking, saying they're not, you know, they're from Michigan when they're not.
We'll know who they are because they'll tell us how great it is.
But we need to do more than listen.
And I am, right now it's just in the thought stage.
Jim Ursa could relate to this.
I'm watching my thoughts on this about actually doing something somehow, somewhere in Michigan, Detroit.
But I'm not ready to pronounce anything yet, but I am looking at it.
Great thought, Eric.
We'll be right back and wrap it up in a minute.
Obama blaming Bush for his mess, complaining about it.
Don't forget, Obama voted for all of the Bush spending as a senator.
He mentioned Katrina four times in his book, Audacity of Hope, talking about how not enough was done before or after Katrina to help inner city poverty.
And the prediction for you, be ready for it.
The next hit piece of the media will be to take me out of being a judge of the Miss America pageant.
You will see that rev up over the weekend or first part of next week.
Bet you.
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