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Oct. 26, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Very kind, very kind, thank you.
And all of you are very kind to tolerate me here during a fill-in day.
All yearning for the return of Rush.
And I have good news.
That will be tomorrow.
But I'm always grateful when we get to hang out together and always grateful when the little email bleep goes boop, can you fill in for us on this day or that day?
Because that's always, always an honor.
All right, if you're just joining the program, we've talked a lot about New York District 23, about the New Jersey uh gubernatorial race and the interesting phenomenon of the insufficiently conservative Republican, challenged from the right by the candidate who comes in and attracts two things.
Number one is uh praise and passion.
Hey, here's a real conservative, love that.
And the second thing that candidate's going to attract is derision, frustration, uh slings and arrows.
Hey, if you weren't running, we could get a Republican.
Aren't you going to split the Republican vote and uh give Democrats the seat?
Whether it's uh returning John Corzine to Trenton or whether it is uh handing the uh the New York 23 seat from a Republican, the outgoing John McHugh, to uh a Democrat, uh Bill Owens.
And uh one of the storylines of the moment at this time in American history is that where the Tea Party and Town Hall passions, if you want to call them that, uh seem geared toward recapturing every seat we can.
And there was a time when one could look at this, you know, an alien lands from space uh you know a few months ago and says, Whoa, what are what are these people trying to do?
Well, it seems that they're trying to win back Republican seats uh any way they can in order to do battle against Nancy Pelosi.
Well, that alien would be wrong.
A little myopic there, uh because what seems to be happening is that the occasional uh congressional seat, maybe even the occasional governor's mansion is something that many are willing to sacrifice in order to deliver a message.
A message that says that as Republicans, we want a return to consistent, unapologetic conservatism, and if you continue to offer us a watered down version of it, we will send those prospects packing.
Um I I suppose I'm here asking, how's that how's that gonna work out for everybody?
You on board for that, because I'll I'll tell you uh uh I I I will believe that Doug Hoffman can win when I see it.
I hope I see it.
Uh I believe that the split vote between Didi Skozafava and Doug Hoffman may well hand that seat to Democrat Bill Owens.
Now I don't go, you know, running off looking for sharp objects at that prospect for a couple of reasons.
It's one seat out of 435.
But uh maybe Republicans come back in the elections of 2010, which will be here before you know it, and then maybe Doug Hoffman can uh can be the Republican can be the Republican nominee.
Uh if if Bill Owens wins, then maybe we get him with an actual R by his name, and then maybe the NRCC can support him.
You know, and I've I've mentioned uh, you know, my good friend Pete Sessions.
I love Pete, and Pete is just getting pilloried right now.
And so are a number of Republican members of Congress who have chosen to cast their fate with Dee.
They are seeing it in a certain way that says uh look at what's in their faces every day.
The battle against Pelosi.
And we're with them in that battle.
We we want we want to help Republicans win that battle.
I I want to see House Majority Leader attached to a Republican Congressman again, please.
But at what cost?
And what these folks who are walking the halls of Congress and really want to make big Republican gains next year, November next year.
They want it now.
Uh what they're not seeing is a lot of you look out your windows and see the unfolding of your lives.
A long long storyline that will play out over the next several elections.
And rather than just take a few cheap Republican wins with 50-50 conservative candidates or worse, You are willing to uh endure these trials and tribulations even a little bit longer.
If it means that the Republicans we wind up getting are the kind that are really doing the Reagan-like work that we need.
And it's not about searching for another Reagan.
There will never be another Reagan.
But we're looking for that upbeat, unapologetic conservatism that he brought to the table.
It'll be in all kinds of different looking packages.
Some males, some females, some white, some black, some Hispanic, some whatever, whatever.
What matters is the ideas in the head and the compass in the heart.
And you start giving us those, and we will line up behind them passionately.
And that's why people are willing to line up behind Doug Hoffman, even though most vote well, I don't want to be presumptuous here, but please be honest with me.
Don't you know Doug probably cannot win that race?
And and I know everybody, I'm John, I'm driving.
I think of the guy, the guy who where was the guy driving from that we heard from last hour?
Driving from Cincinnati to be a pair of feet on the ground for Doug Hoffman.
I don't I don't think he'd be making that trip if he didn't think that Doug could win.
And again, nothing would please me more than to be filling in for Rush again sometime and say, wow, remember that October 26th show when I didn't say what I didn't think Doug Hoffman could win?
Well, love the Mulligan on that.
Give me the take back, because he did.
Nothing would please me more.
But in the absence of that, uh do I do I want Didi?
I mean, it but I I use the same logic.
If Didi does win this thing, Didi Scozafava, uh, I'd I'd want Doug Hoffman to go challenge her in the primary in 2010.
Let's see how that works out.
I mean, whether Didi or Bill Owens win this thing, you ain't got to put up with either one of them for for all that long a time.
But the big picture is what a lot of voters, a lot in the public are looking at.
And I think that a lot of the people in the Republican power structure uh are looking at right here right now, looking at getting as just scraping and scratching and clawing for whatever kind of inroads we can make against uh against Nancy Pelosi and uh and and one party rule.
And I understand that.
I totally get that.
But they're just not exactly in the same sink as um as many of you whom I'm speaking with today.
Now let me uh this is interesting.
I found the arguments I was looking, uh we were talking about the arguments that the Doug Hoffman supporters using.
And across the river there in New Jersey, there's Chris Daggett, who I would suggest also has no chance of winning.
But there he is positioning himself to the right of Chris Christie and answering some of the things that people say about third party challengers.
Or so I'm it it's kind of an interesting uh page there on the on the Daggett for Governor website.
And uh it's little QA.
Not a wasted vote, he says.
It's it's sort of little uh the m uh they're attempting some myth explosion.
Myth.
My vote will be wasted if I vote for Chris Daggett.
And again, this is the gentleman running as a as an independent, uh, his argument being Chris Christie's not conservative enough, so vote for me.
My vote will be wasted if I vote for Chris Dagg.
Fact.
The only wasted vote is one in which you is the one you don't believe in.
One in which you don't believe in.
They need proofreaders at Daggett for Governor.
This much I know.
A vote for the same old thing when you want change, or a vote against someone rather than for someone.
Vote your conscience.
The truth is Daggett won't waste your vote, but his opponents would.
All right.
Myth number two, Chris Daggett is the best candidate, but I'm afraid he can't win.
Fact.
If every supporter we've met on the campaign trail at headquarters or through the website just went out and voted Daggett, we'd win by a landslide.
As the Met said in 73, you gotta believe.
Okay, that's lovely.
That's lovely.
Didn't the Met say that in '69, though, actually.
Notify Greg Chapin immediately.
Our Met historian back at EIB headquarters.
All right, the the other myth in the view of the Daggett candidacy, a vote for Daggett is a vis a vote for Christie, or a vote for Daggett is a vote for Corzine.
They offer the uh the following rejoinder.
The idea that we are taking votes from one party or the other just shows an arrogance on the two parties' behalf that they own those votes to begin with.
Recent polling numbers confirm Christie is now only one point ahead of Corzine when Daggett is not included in the poll.
Okay.
But he is.
And first of all, God bless Chris Daggett.
God bless third party people of any stripe who are out there trying to say, you know, l let's try to peel away from from this forced dichotomy of Republicans and Democrats.
That's all we got.
I mean, the Green Party's out there.
I mean, I I think Ralph Nader is a nutbag on several things, but but I I just admire the guy on on a couple of things that everybody's just so hardwired to the existing status quo.
The people with new and fresh ideas are just so shut out.
They're so completely shut out.
And listen, if we're going to invoke Brother Nader, uh we had an opportunity to have him on the show some weeks ago, the local show I do in Dallas Fort Worth.
And uh one thing that um uh that Ralph Nader wanted to to complain about, he but was all this this bailout nonsense and uh and some of the stimulus uh spending.
Hmm.
Talk about weird bedfellows of the moment.
Anybody plug your nose and going to see uh Michael Moore's capitalism, a love story?
I know me neither.
Uh I probably will at some point, just so that I could be conversant on the man's body of work.
You know, I think that's probably an educated way to go, whether you're liberal or conservative, rather than just bagging on people that you don't like, go see and hear and read what they do so that you can at least tell people why you don't like them.
Um but i if uh when when you know Michael Moore runs the Brinks truck uh uh up to some big financial institution because he wants America's uh you know, the American people's money back, uh that kind of resonates across party lines, a rarity for Mr. Moore.
But the these are real interesting times as we approach 2010 and 2012.
And the reason I bring this up going into the break here, we'll come back and let me hear some audio from the Sunday shows and the sound I really want to hear your voice on the phone at 1800-282-2882.
The reason I mention these things is that if we are going to make inroads and are going to to put up some Republican candidates who are going to succeed, I want them to be unapologetic and down the line conservatives.
But here's the interesting thing.
They need to have ways to reach out to the disaffected Obama voter who is drowning in buyer's remorse.
And I you know, and you don't do that by being more liberal, and you don't do that by uh by moving toward the mushy middle.
I mean, if that's what you want to do, go do it, and if that's where your heart tells you to go, see how it works in the electoral marketplace.
But um what I would just love to do more than anything else, i if uh speaking of the explosion of some myths, the the myth perpetuated by so much of our culture that conservatism is about racism, conservatism is about cruelty, conservatism is about hatred of the planet, uh just BS, BS, and BS.
And what we need are people that can skillfully explode those myths.
What an interesting time to be alive.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
Let's see.
Um let me tease this skillfully.
Uh here in the world of talk shows, we have all kinds of people whom we are fans of.
Uh Laura Ingram was on the round table with uh George Stephanopoulos.
I don't know if it was the first I don't think it was the first time she was there.
May well have been have been the last.
I'll give you the audio of why.
And speaking of the morning shows, uh Bob Schiefer uh talks with uh with John McCain about Dick Cheney.
And I want to talk to you about Vice President Cheney, too.
Um and your thought.
Uh I I mean, we all, I don't know about you, my heart swells.
I love this man.
And when he, you know, flat out speaks truth at some lectern or another, the latest example of which is that the dithering over the Afghan surge uh is is endangering American troops.
Uh part of what makes me love that so much is the degree to which others hate it.
Uh but sometimes the truth is kryptonite to some folks.
And um uh so there's a little bit of of of John McCain audio in there.
And because I and actually the in Arizona, so Todd, a little uh close circuit to you, probably coming to you next because you've got to th because when we talk about candidates trying to be all things to all people, batting only 500 or 600 if that on the conservative scale, hello, the Republican's last nominee kind of falls into that category.
So it's it's all going to seamlessly fit together.
I hope.
On the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, and we'll be back with you in just a moment.
Well, you know, this is what you get for immersing yourself in New York Mets imagery, because 69 was the year of the the miracle Mets, the amazing Mets, but uh apparently it was indeed 1973.
Uh in that uh that next burst of Met success where you got the you gotta believe I shouldn't be arguing with a guy in New Jersey about this.
Uh so anyway, the so the uh well, glad we cleared that up.
All right, let's um let's take a listen to a couple of things.
This I don't know how long it takes to clear this up.
So George Stephanopoulos is uh hosting this week on ABC on Sunday morning, and the subject comes up as it did on just about all the Sunday shows of this White House's interesting defensiveness in the face of uh uh of its critics, whether they are in the media or elsewhere, Chamber of Commerce, uh uh uh uh health uh care industry lobbyists, or of course Fox News, the evil enemy to this White House.
So um so here's Laura Ingram's point.
And in so making, uh, she invokes something that uh maybe etiquette doesn't really guide you to bring up right there in the ABC uh studios, and that is the I mean shocking failure of outgoing anchor Charlie Gibson, who I I've been around the man a lot, really good guy, pretty amazing career there, no doubt about it.
But when he was on the WLS and Chicago morning show with Don and Roma a couple of months ago, and Don asked him, hey Charlie, how about this acorn story where all kinds of stories of of skullbuggery and uh malfeasance are coming up?
And Charlie treated that uh as as if it was from the depths of bunker buddy conspiracy theories.
He didn't know about it, wasn't aware about it, and uh then derisively and dismissively said, well, maybe maybe we ought to just leave that to the cable network.
Well, uh so here's Laura Ingram on, on with Stephanopoulos, invoking that and hearing her do that, you can just feel George's discomfort and listen as George attempts to uh uh just recover a little bit for the for the Charlie Gibson legacy at the end.
I think, and and again, I might not be invited back, George, but when Charlie Gibson didn't know what the acorn story was all about, that was a collective gasp you heard across the United States.
Charlie Gibson is a esteemed journalist.
How do you not know about a story uh about a about a group where President Obama cut his political teeth that had been exposed to the extent that Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill were ready to pull the rug out from under them and their funding?
That's the kind of story that the White House doesn't want to have reported and repeated on other networks.
That's why they don't like Fox.
Well, you know, uh uh Charlie had had an amazing career.
Set aside uh that moment.
Well, guess what, George?
Let's not set aside that moment.
I mean, let's not use that moment to define Charlie's entire career, but you can't set aside that moment.
It is moments like that, the evidence uh of the self-serving liberal bubble of uh uh Bernie Goldberg, uh no lifelong conservative, he is writing all these books about media bias lately, and and and gave it a perfect sentence.
Does a fish know he's wet?
Does a fish know he's wet?
That's the default setting for these folks.
And they surround themselves with nothing but uh the like-minded.
And um and as such stories that arise that that uh try to suggest accountability for the Obama administration, as Laura said, which I think uh this is what the media are supposed to do, uh those stories bounce off the bubble.
They bounce off the bubble.
And that's the double standard that we decry all the time.
Um let me give you the uh the McCain audio.
Let's move to CBS.
This is Bob Schiefer, uh, whose brother is running for governor of Texas, by the way, Tom Schiefer.
And just uh learn a little something every time I guest host.
Thank you so much.
Uh but so here's Bob Schiefer on um the uh uh face the nation with uh Senator McCain, and obviously this is fresh off a week in which Dick Cheney has uh come down pretty hard on uh uh on on Barack Obama.
Do you agree that we're endangering our troops and that this is dithering?
Uh I I I don't use uh I wouldn't use that language.
The fact is, as I said before, we already have men and women who are in danger there now.
The sooner we implement the strategy, the more we will be able to ensure their safety or the best uh way for them to pursue the same.
What did you think of the way that the Vice President put it?
Well, I understand uh the Vice President, I have great respect uh for him.
But I think we ought to look forward, and that is to support the president.
I intend to, when he makes the decision, which I believe he will, to implement McCrystall's strategy.
All right.
So what is the etiquette when members of a f of a former administration criticize the incumbents?
Let's talk a little bit about that as we begin our final half hour together in just a moment.
Mark Davis in for rush on EIB now.
It's the home stretch half hour, working our way to the top of the hour when you have the rest of the day to yourself.
Or to listen to whatever kindred spirits or whatever else you choose to do.
We're just thankful for these three hours.
I'm particularly thankful when I get to sit here in the chair metaphorically speaking, rush back in the chair that is properly his tomorrow.
Thanks for uh giving me an interesting Monday there, my friend.
Thank you so much.
Uh spending a lot of time in various parts of the country talking about uh uh various races and the the attention paid to things like New Jersey governor and uh New York 23 and uh Virginia Governor, of course, is is very, very big.
And uh we're gonna go to Virginia about that in just a second.
But having just played the audio of John McCain on with Bob Schiefer on Face the Nation, and uh you could just sort of feel Senator McCain's discomfort.
He is often made uncomfortable in the face of and let me just offer up the insular comment, the insulating comment.
Uh God bless Senator McCain for his service to our country and for the the pretty good-sized list of issues on which he is dead right.
There are few people who have been more uh more inspiring in their support of our troops, and that extends to right now, as as you just know, Senator McCain uh wants uh Barack Obama to do the right thing and uh and give General McCristol what he wants.
Uh I don't know if that's going to happen, and if it doesn't, I wonder if Senator McCain will continue to speak truth to that issue.
I hope he does.
Uh Senator McCain is sometimes, and this goes back to the actual campaign, um uh the entire can his campaign didn't need to be about Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, and more Jeremiah Wright.
But at least step forward and say, look, the guy who's running against me uh has just rubbed too many elbows with wheels off radicals.
I mean uh th talk show hosts all over the country were saying that, and that'll resonate to a degree.
Uh but the actual candidate needs to uh uh to to step forward and do this.
And I know that that every campaign is split into uh uh that's a big pie chart.
How much time do you want to spend speaking well of yourself, your good ideas, and how much time do you want to spend uh giving people reasons not to vote for the other guy?
That's a delicate balance.
Usually the most successful campaigns speak more po uh spend more time speaking positively of themselves than they do uh speaking ill of the opposition.
But when there is something in the opposition that is uh is just antithetical to so much of of what America is about and what many Americans believe, um you you you gotta go for it.
And the the measuring stick that I use is is it true?
Is it fair?
Uh i is it is is it appropriate?
You know, there are all kinds of negatives you can bring up about your opponent that nobody cares about, it doesn't matter, whatever.
But uh have these nine months of President Obama given you maybe a little bit of some smelling salts here, that it kind of does matter who you hang out with, that by osmosis some of this stuff travels from person to person.
And if you're spending your time around the likes of uh of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and look at some of these uh nominees, Van Jones and Kevin Jennings and and and some of these uh bizarroids and creepoids and and people from uh what deep animal of what kind of thought have some of these folks come from that you're properly judged by that.
Imagine a Republican president, you know, surrounding himself with folks with with these kinds of unsavory past connections.
You know, maybe some clansman over here or some uh uh some Nazi over there.
That wouldn't fly for a for a New York minute.
Now, let's go to some modern day etiquette involving people who are not in office anymore.
Um Dick Cheney can't talk enough for me.
And it's funny I draw a distinction between him and President Bush.
I think there is at least until Jimmy Carter shattered it against the wall, of a little bit of an etiquette of former presidents speaking ill of their successors.
I I kind of like that.
I mean, Lord knows, you know, rious presidents of various parties could have had all kinds of juicy and appropriate criticism, uh, or whatever they wanted to say, you know, uh, about uh about the people who are president after after their terms.
I think it's just a better country when we don't do that.
I don't need to hear, you know, George W. Bush or George H.W. Bush busting Barack Obama's chops.
But I sure don't need to hear Jimmy Carter opening his foul mouth either.
So if if that's one standard that I like, and maybe you do too, um, are vice presidents different.
Al Gore has certainly been out uh, you know, beating the drums, or certainly was during the uh during the Bush years.
Um, you know, made my teeth itch, as the average comment from Al Gore does, but I thought, you know, dude, you were vice president.
That's a lot of difference.
That's a lot of difference.
So in order to be even-handed about this, if Dick Cheney going after the Obama administration's okay, that means that that need to be okay for Al Gore to go after uh you know Bush 43.
And you know what?
It was.
I judge both guys by the content of what they say.
I don't throw down some big thing that says no sit no former vice president should ever say anything about a sitting administration.
Nah.
Nah, free country, do what you want.
So let's go to the content.
And from the willingness to criminalize, criminalize interrogation procedures, uh things at Guantanamo, uh, various domestic initiatives designed to keep us safe.
You can disagree with them if you wish, change them if you wish.
Obama won.
Fair and square.
He won.
He gets to change everything, do everything differently if he wishes.
And even retroactively disagree and say, boy, I really think it was wrong when my predecessor did this, this, this, and this.
Hey, whatever.
But to chase these people down and uh and terrorize them, pardon the verb with the specter of prosecution.
That just stinks.
And Dick Cheney has said so.
There's something else that he's not fond of, and that is this president twiddling his thumbs trying to figure out what to do with something that has at least a likelihood of working in Afghanistan.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's guaranteed to work, but I think the success of the surge in Iraq gives it some credibility.
Afghanistan's not Iraq.
I know that.
Every country's different.
But why not try?
You have a guy who does know more about it than the president does, saying, listen, give me some more troops.
Well, you better have an incredibly profoundly good reason for denying him those.
And you know what?
If you are going to deny him those troops, could you please do it right now and maybe just pull us out of Afghanistan and just let the Taliban and Al Qaeda have Afghanistan, because that's what's going to happen anyway.
But if you are willing to give General McChrystal these troops, then get off your presidential duff and do it, please.
And don't tell me about this upcoming runoff with Karzai and Abdullah.
There's not a whole lot of difference between those guys in terms of their uh expected receptivity to additional American troops.
They'll be fine with it.
All they want is something that helps their country be a little uh less likely to be uh uh riddled with uh you know the pot marks of IEDs.
So the notion of, you know, well, we're waiting for the elections uh d simply does not hold water.
So Dick Cheney's out saying these things.
Good for him.
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Let's take a pause, come back, put some more people on the radio before we wrap up today's Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth filling in just today.
Rush is back tomorrow, and you and I are together again in just a couple of moments on the EIB network.
Let us move to a Conga line of calls, which will extend for about another twelve minutes.
And then this day is done on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and Rush is back with you tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Appreciate you greatly.
Let us head down to the tide water area, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Noel, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey, Mark, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thanks.
Uh well, first of all, I like to say, you know, as far as term limits go in Virginia, it kind of sucks because we're the only state that has one term governor.
Yeah, Tim Kane can't run.
No, no, that's only one term.
We're the only state, and they've tried to change it, and no luck.
You know, it hampers the you know limits Virginia on the national stage.
It's you know, it may it's hard because one guy starts to get the programs going to make things better, and then a new guy comes in and says, Oh, I don't like that.
It's not my idea.
Scraps it.
What would people thought of this?
Did they think that it would be great to have someone elected who instantly the one good thing you say about a lame duck is they're not worried about re-election.
You get the real guy.
Uh he's not posturing just to um make himself attractive for re-election.
You you get a look at his real soul.
Right, pretty much.
I mean, that's I mean that's me.
That's what they were thinking.
I mean, only one guy I think uh has ever done two terms, and only Miles Godwin only because he changed from Democrat to Republican.
Well, but you know, it's it's not like Tim Kane was invisible on the uh on the national stage.
I mean he's the chairman of the DNC for crying out loud.
He's a DNC chairman now.
Yeah, exactly right.
So it apparently didn't uh you know cripple him too much.
So in in the uh in the in the deeds versus McDonald thing, uh, how's that working out for you?
Well, I'm always from McDonald.
I said I've met the guy several times, he's a great guy, and uh he's gonna make a great governor of deeds is kind of well, I don't know.
Well, i he's uh this is if this is a purple state smackdown.
What is Virginia going to be?
Uh there in the portion of the state where you are, it's gonna be uh you know pretty decidedly McDonald territory, as will most of the counties in Virginia, but the re but the big population centers, those DC suburbs, man, that is deeds, deeds, and more deeds.
Well, the White House wrote deeds off pretty much, it's gonna be kind of hard.
Yeah, it's I I'd I would n nothing would please me more than uh because any any governor's mansion that can uh can hit into Republican hands, I'm I'm I'm loving on that.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it a lot.
You know, here's something that we uh didn't talk about much at all.
Speaking of Republican governors, how will it affect gubernatorial races if the public option, and I know you've seen a couple of these stories, are you hearing that we may see at some point a bill on health care reform that contains the public option, but also contains and boy, I'd need to hear fifty more things about how this would work.
And an opt-out for it.
An opt out.
Uh can you see Republican governors from C to Shining C, and maybe Republican candidates for governor, uh tripping over each other, crawling on broken glass to run so that they can run on a platform that says, oh, you can pass that public option if you want to.
But it'll enter my state over my dead gubernatorial body.
So maybe this is something that takes flight a little bit this week.
Uh just um uh do a little googling of of health care, public option, opt out, and you'll see the big the the embryonic uh uh beginnings, the early embers of of something that may take flight.
Now, uh my first choice is for this entire thing to to the entire idea of the public option, the the entire Obamacare concept to simply be defeated fair and square by a country that's decided it doesn't want it.
But if we are doomed uh to to p fail at that level, uh lucky me, I'm in Texas.
I I live in a state that almost certainly would opt out.
And I wonder, you know, but if you're in the the various purple states, from Virginia to Ohio to Florida to various others.
How might that affect governors' races in 2010 and 2012 if we wind up with a public option that contains an opt-out provision?
What the first thing you hear is my skepticism.
The Democrats don't do opt-out.
They don't do choice.
They do sledgehammer.
You're gonna do it our way.
Boom.
This notion of, well, let's see, some states will have it our way, and we're willing to entertain a sort of a petri dish and an experimental playing field in which some states will have it our way and other states won't.
Oh, how in the wor Harry Reed can't stand for that.
Nancy Pelosi can't stand for that.
Barack Obama can't stand for an opt-out.
Don't you know that just as patients are are are pole vaulting across the Canadian border to get into New York and Washington State and Minnesota just to get to American health care.
You'd see a similar of influx of people from the public option states into the non public option states.
And that v that's a side by side comparison that no Democrat of consequence will allow to happen.
So I'm I'm curious about where, if anywhere, that goes.
I know where I gotta go into this final commercial break.
We'll come back and see what there's time for on the other side.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
Rush is back tomorrow, back in a moment on the EIB network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in for just a couple of more minutes, and then we head down the road to tomorrow's Rush Limbaugh show containing Rush Limbaugh.
He will be uh back tomorrow, and for that we can all be thankful.
Uh in these last uh few minutes, uh the show's been filled with your words and my words.
Let me give you the words of a guy I just love, and it's on a subject that Rush talks about a lot, that all of us with talk shows have talked about a lot.
Uh and it's not just about Fox News, Fox News, Fox News, but it is about a White House that that seeks to lecture people without a deserved basis for doing so.
And that is the wonderful writing, the most recent column by Charles Crowdhammer.
He writes, Fox and its viewers need no defense.
Defend Fox compared to whom?
To CNN, which recently unleashed its fact checkers on a Saturday night live skit, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark that CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh?
Defend Fox from whom.
Fox's flagship six o'clock evening news out of Washington with Brett Bear, formerly Britt Hume, is to my mind the best hour of news on television.
Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn.
She's been attacked for extolling Mao's political philosophy in a speech at a high school graduation.
But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point.
She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one's own choices.
Mao is a champion of individuality.
Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history?
This White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities.
She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity.
Speaking of Rush, he's on Fox News Sunday this Sunday and back with you tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis filling it.
It's been great.
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