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Feb. 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Do I know these people or do I know these people?
Well, we got the audio soundbites coming up.
Because as far as the drive-by media is concerned, I'm the one who used the R-word.
We have seven or eight soundbites about this.
I know these people, folks.
Do not ever doubt me when I comment on or predict what our lovely mainstream media will do.
Greetings, it's Rushlin Bohr and the fastest week in media already Thursday.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbaughebnet.com.
Let me check here, folks, just a second.
Oh, man, we're about to go down through the 10,000 level on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
We are down almost 200 points today.
And we have been trickling down ever since what, Snerdley?
Well, actually a little bit before, ever since Obama attacked the banks and promised to tax them for repaying with interest.
We want our money back.
We want to get our money back.
Now these guys are going after Toyota.
Thug politics.
The General Motors Chrysler owners are going, the government is going after Toyota.
And they're even accusing the Prius, the Prius, oh my God, the sacred Prius of having brake problems.
I didn't know if Prius went fast enough to need brakes.
And apparently there's brake problems in the Prius.
So we're heading down.
We're heading down, folks, down to below 10,000, 10,059.
It just keeps falling.
Down 211 now.
The market was on its way to 11,000 when Obama attacked the banks, promised to tax them for repaying TARP money with interest.
Then he released his economy-killing budget.
The market's voting.
It isn't even November.
These are people with skin in the game.
Obama says he's not a Bolshevik, and he says he's not an ideologue.
That leaves one other possibility.
He's an idiot.
The full-fledged idiot.
If he's not an ideologue, he's not a Bolshevik.
Now, some of the market experts are saying, no, Rush.
What's happening in Europe?
What's happening in Europe is spooking.
Don't give me that.
Maybe what's happening in Europe is spooking.
You can't take the, oh, and I'll tell you what else.
They're going to have a revive tomorrow is going to be a revised unemployment number.
Remember, we told you about this.
The government is going to have to revise it downward because they did not count over 800,000 jobs lost last year.
They did not count over 800,000, and they got to make that up in a revision.
And the Obama administration obviously been manipulating the numbers all year to keep it at 10% or below.
They don't want it going over 10%.
U3, that is.
U6 is 17.
That's the number of people who've given up looking and so are not counted on the U3 unemployment.
And I was reading John Crudell today in the New York Post and I learned something else.
One of the ways the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics model, computer model, handles unemployment numbers is that they assume that there are a bunch of small businesses that they can't get to, that are so small that they statistically figure are losing jobs.
So they throw that in there.
And at the same time, they also count a number of small business startups that they don't know about and add that number in.
Just wild guessing on some of this.
I know that, well, the Moody's bunch, the bond rating people threatening to lower America's credit rating from AAA.
And that, look at there, a whole lot of factors.
Why is that going on?
Why the hell is that going on?
Look at the budget, the deficit, all the borrowing that you're doing.
We're going to go through, they raise the debt ceiling at $1.9 trillion.
We're going to go through that by end of February.
It was supposed to last till March.
We're going to go through that by the end of this month.
And we're going to have to do it all over again.
This is scary.
To me, it really is scary.
Okay, Ram Emmanuel's policy apology apparently has been accepted.
The early news was that it was not accepted, right?
But the Politico has a story from Ben Smith and an update.
Emmanuel met yesterday with six disability advocates.
He sincerely apologized again for using the R-word, promising to sign an online pledge to end the use of the word.
Emmanuel also, to get this, Emmanuel also promised to examine congressional legislation that would remove the word from federal law.
Now, what kind of effing nonsense is this?
I'm just quoting Emmanuel here, folks.
You know what the drive-bys?
The drive-bys are just, they're trying to goad Sarah Palin into denouncing me, just like she denounced Rom Emmanuel.
But Sarah Palin knows I'm quoting Emmanuel and all that.
Oh, they're just, they're trying anything to get Sarah Palin, from Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, to everybody else at MSNBC and Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg.
Oh, they're all trying to get Sarah Palin to denounce me just as she did Rob.
And if she doesn't do it, she's a hypocrite, they're saying she knows that I do this kind of Sarah Palin is a lifelong listener to this program.
I have never told you people this.
It was in our Sarah Palin interview in a Limbaugh letter, but one of the years I'm out at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, a guy comes up to me and says, my daughter is a huge fan.
Would you sign a book for me?
And it was a copy of my book, and it was to Sarah Palin long before she was governor of Alaska.
So, and I've had a couple of chats with her, one on the air here and one for the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in the country.
So they're trying to goad her into denouncing me like they did Emmanuel, but she knows that all I'm doing is quoting Emmanuel and highlighting that it's these people who say this kind of stuff.
Now, as for Emmanuel promising to examine congressional legislation that would remove the word from federal law, so because he used the term retarded as an insult, and remember he was calling his own party members, he was calling liberal activists the R-word.
And that's all the drive-bys are also, they can't believe that I came to Emmanuel's defense yesterday.
They just do not get it.
20 plus years, they don't get it.
They thought I was coming to his defense yesterday when I said, what's wrong with calling a bunch of retards a bunch of retards?
And the retards he's talking about are the liberal activists.
So they.
Folks, I can't tell you.
And I'm not going to use the word anymore.
I cannot tell you what fun this is.
This is, if I look at this, if I could just know women like I know liberal media people, well, how my life would change.
How it would have been different, because I know everything.
There's not one question I cannot answer about these people.
There's not one behavioral mode that I cannot predict, that I cannot not predict.
I just know them.
So because Ron Emmanuel used the R word as an insult, he's now going to decree that it must be stricken from the country's legislation over the past 200 years.
I mean, he's promised to examine congressional legislation that would remove the word from federal law.
I mean, what an arrogance of power and what a waste of money and time.
And that is, assuming that this is anything more than just an empty promise, which is highly likely.
For the record, I looked it up here.
We did a check.
The R word or a variation of it appears nine times in the Senate version of the health care reform bill.
Did you know that?
And we all know who wrote that bill, don't we?
Democrats.
The Republicans were shut out of the process.
So the R word's used nine times in the Senate health care bill.
So maybe that fact will kill it once and for all.
Maybe that's killed the Senate bill.
You can't have to pass that bill.
I mean, if we'll get the R word in there, the president chief of staff just apologized for using it.
So if the R word is to be the new N word, maybe Mr. Emmanuel's time could be better spent getting the term expunged from his boss's two autobiographies.
We checked into this too.
From Dreams of My Father, page 73.
The old white man sat down, retarded now or senile.
And when I looked again, he was a small black girl, her feet barely reaching the pedals.
From Audacity of Hope, page 22.
At times during his first campaign, Bill Clinton's gestures toward disaffected Reagan Democrats could seem clumsy and transparent or frighteningly cold-hearted, allowing the execution of a mentally retarded death row inmate to go forward.
Luckily, there has been no complaint about Mr. Emmanuel's use of the F-word.
And this is not amazing.
Is that not amazing?
When you stop and think of all of this, he said effing.
Well, no big deal there.
That's not a problem.
Well, I don't know.
Rush is asking me, Snirdley's asking me how many words are we going to have to ban before this is.
I don't know, but we're certainly headed that way.
Have this headline from the State Controlled Associated Press, Brown take it.
What?
You know, I'm getting bored with.
I mean, they've just become such a caricature here.
No, I'm going to play the soundbite.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about the latest unemployment report from both AP and Reuters.
The unexpected increase.
I mean, they're just becoming caricature.
I think they're doing this just to tweak me.
I think both news agencies using this unexpected every day just to tweak me.
Normally, I would have led off with the news.
Looky here, folks, unexpected again.
The experts were wrong, but it's now just become boring and a caricature.
No, what I was going to say here, state-controlled AP, headline, Brown taking over the late Senator Kennedy's seat.
In response to criticism from conservative radio hosts and newspaper columnists, Brown pressed Massachusetts officials yesterday to certify his election for the hurry-up swearing in to fill the last two years of Kennedy's term.
Whose seat is this?
Little-known Scott Brown, they refer to him as in this story, taking over the late Senator Kennedy's seat and the Secretary of State in Massachusetts today certifying the election.
William Galvin is all, I mean, I have the story here.
He's all but it's in the it's in the Boston Herald.
He's all about admitting here he didn't want to certify the Brown win.
And he uses the occasion to insist that Scott Brown vote the way Ted Kennedy would have.
He says, respect the rights of the majority.
We hope Brown will respect the rights of the, so the Secretary of State is basically, and he has no right to do this.
He's basically suggesting that Scott Brown vote the way Senator Kennedy would vote because this is still Senator Kennedy's term.
And Patrick Kennedy, who is the son of the late Senator Kennedy, he's a Democrat from Rhode Island.
Patrick Kennedy, Scott Brown's win is way overblown.
I mean, Brown's victory over Marshall, this is way overblown.
That's not that big a deal.
This is way overblown.
Bottom line is, it just served a lot of people's political interest to spin this story the way they wanted it.
Okay, Patrick, let's talk about what's overblown and spun for just a second, like your dad.
Your dad, totally overblown in your mind and the Democrat Party's mind, but not in everybody's.
He was a self-centered, well, Chapter Quit says it all.
Your uncle's totally overblown.
Your cousin Caroline tried to tell us how smart she was.
Overblown.
Your whole family here is a fairy tale.
It's been spun for decades just the way Patrick Kennedy's family wanted it spun.
We're all pretty much over the spinning of the Kennedy family, but the Brown victory is one thing that we recognize is not overblown.
The one thing that is genuine and real.
You do not take snatching a seat from a Democrat 47 years and call it overblown.
You call it shockingly real and happily real.
We'll be back.
Stay with me.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Lumber.
You have the audio soundbites are coming up here in just a second.
And we're going to get to your phone calls as well.
Patrick Kennedy, Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts overblown.
Patrick, I noticed that you ran in Rhode Island.
What happens?
Is it too hard to win in Massachusetts now for Kennedy?
Well, I'm just asking.
Obama quote of the ages.
We got to make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that's healthy and functioning so we can't be demonizing every bank out there.
Now, I don't know when he said it, but I'm going to find out when he said it.
And Ron Emmanuel, we told you this yesterday, but Ron's going to have to get hold of Eric Holder in the Justice Department and change the way they are advertising for jobs over there.
Remember, the Obama Justice Department is advertising for civil rights trial attorneys, encouraging applicants who suffer from mental retardation and mental illness.
Here's the listing itself.
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply.
Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and or spine.
In other words, the Obama Justice Department says, if you're just like us, we want you.
So, Ron, you're going to have to get in there, buddy, and change some of the verbiage in the job applications or the listings at the Obama Justice Department.
Here was yesterday.
This is what I said, proving.
Do I know these people or do I know these people?
I've been here 20 plus years.
You've got to know that I know that that's Prejordian Comet.
The reason I kept repeating it is to never let people forget that it was Ron Emmanuel who said it.
It's like Harry Reid in a Negro dialect.
I kept talking about that.
Yeah, he's light-skinned and he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect except when he wants to.
And sure enough, the next day, I caught grief as though I had originated the comment.
That's the way the press works.
That's right.
It's a classical press shtick, and that's all it is.
And Tony Blankly had it right.
All of this feigned outrage, all it's fake.
All this fake outrage.
They know exactly what I was doing.
They just can't help themselves.
They are on a search and destroy mission where I'm concerned.
So, state-run media coins a new term here.
This is a little montage.
It's now the R word.
What mental health experts call the R word.
The R word.
There are defenders of the R word.
For using the R word.
Using that R word.
The R word.
The R word.
Why Sarah Palin is not calling for Rush Limbaugh to be fired after he repeatedly and unapologetically used the R word.
See, even before I went on the shtick, I told the drive-bys what I was doing.
I'm merely reminding everybody I'm just quoting Ram Emmanuel.
I'm just quoting him.
I'm just quoting Ram Emmanuel.
I went on it for a full hour.
I told them what I was doing, and still they fall for it, and still they run their shtick.
Here's Margaret Carlson last night on MSNBC.
Question, can Palin really get away with not calling Limbaugh out now?
I'm going to go out on a limb here.
I think because it's a matter of the heart for her, I don't think she wears this child on her sleeve, the way she kind of faked being offended about David Letterman's remark about Bristol.
I don't know how it will come about, but I bet Rush Limbaugh quickly apologizes himself, knowing that she will have to treat him the same way.
Actually, his words were so offensive.
The word retard is worse than the word retarded.
It is a real insult.
And these feelings that family members have are so tender for the people in their family.
And there are a thousand slights that these kids receive in a lifetime, and the parents never stop trying to make up for it.
Next question.
If you're right, what happens to Limbaugh's power in the sense of the rankings in the Republican Party and the conservative movement?
Certainly Rush Limbaugh and some other talk show hosts literally run the Republican Party now.
They are the kingmakers.
They have more followers than any other faction in the party.
Doesn't Rush Limbaugh claim 100 million listeners?
So certainly he is a public figure of the sort Sarah Palin had in mind when she called out Rahm Emmanuel.
Not 100 million listeners yet, Margaret, but soon.
I'm just wondering if the change of life has not hit her particularly hard.
Ladies and gentlemen, these two sound bites are just...
And the question, what's going to happen to Limbaugh's rankings in a conservative move?
We have Andrea Mitchell in BC Washington on the Today Show today said this.
Rush Limbaugh apparently used the R word on his radio show Wednesday repeatedly.
So far, no comment from Palin about that.
Oh, folks.
Oh, Lord, thank you for my enemies.
Thank you, Lord, for my energy.
Thank you for such predictable stupidity on the part of my enemies.
Rush Limbaugh repeatedly, reportedly, reportedly, apparently, so far, no comment from Palin.
And of course, Zhaja got in on this as well, Ariana Huffington.
So there's a couple more sound bites.
We got to take a brief time out here, folks, coming back right after this.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, listen to this.
Foreign Policy Magazine, as mentioned in this morning's brief, the U.S. has resumed medevac flights of injured Haitians to Florida hospitals, but I'm surprised how little attention Pro Football's role in the story has gotten.
The need to be ready for a mass emergency or a disaster at the Super Bowl or Pro Bowl played a part in the decision, as did the fact that South Florida hospitals were getting saturated with evacuees.
In other words, Obama suspended Haiti medevac flights for the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl.
And they say Bush hated black people.
And it didn't, as the guys at Foreign Policy is right, didn't get much.
Well, that's the first I've heard of it.
The president suspended evacuation flights, medevac flights, because they needed the equipment for the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl.
Anyway, here's that quote.
It was yesterday morning, this Obama quote for the ages.
Senator Blanche Lincoln, Democrat Arkansas, says, Are we willing as Democrats to also push back on our own party and look for that common ground that we need to work with Republicans to get the answers?
And it really is the results that are going to count to our constituents.
Does anybody know what that question means?
She's asking this of Obama.
Her question is irrelevant.
Here, listen to this.
This is her answer.
Part of the reason people are feeling anxious right now, it's not just because of this current crisis.
They've been going through this for 10 years.
If our response ends up being, you know, because we don't want to stir things up here, we're just going to do the same thing that was being done before, then I don't know what differentiates us from the other guys.
Blanche is exactly right.
We've got to be non-ideological about our approach to these things.
We've got to make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.
So we can't be demonizing every bank out there.
We've got to be the party of business, small business and large business, because they produce jobs.
We can't demonize every bank.
Yeah, no, we've got to take God back, too.
And then we've got to get the values voters on our side.
And then we've got to – I mean, this is incredible.
Did you hear what he said here?
Part of the reason people are feeling anxious right now is because they've been going through this for 10 years.
People have been feeling for 10 years this job anxiety, which is not true.
Like it or not, we need a healthy financial system.
Like it or not, who wouldn't want that?
Like it or not, we need a healthy financial system is either, if he's not a Bolshevik and he's not an ideologue, there's only one other possibility, and that is he's an idiot.
Whether you like it or not, we have to have a healthy financial system.
We can't demonize every bank out there.
We've got to be the party of business.
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo files civil securities fraud charges against Bank of America, former CEO Ken Lewis, and former CFO Joe Price, the party of business.
That's going to help the stock market.
Well, here you have it, President Obama.
10 years of anxiety.
Make sure that our party understands it.
We got to have a financial system.
We like it or not.
Like it or not.
I'm going to have trouble keeping my composure today, folks.
Like it or not, we have to have a healthy financial system.
By the way, Margaret Carlson, you know, I didn't know Margaret Carlson was still around.
I honestly didn't.
She'd been wrong for so long.
I just assumed she'd been hired by the Obama administration to be like a lot of journalists have been.
I guess 17 or 18 journalists have been hired by the Obama administration.
And Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
Andrea, you better be careful because washed up reporters get sent over to MA.
Oh, I'm sorry, she's already there.
She does have her own show at 1 o'clock.
Okay, now back to the back to the R-word soundbites.
Where do we leave?
Oh, yeah, Zhaja.
Here is Arianna Huffington, and this is this morning on MSNBC.
Sarah Palin is being absolutely ludicrous.
This is like the extreme of political correctness.
Rahm apologized.
It's a complete non-issue.
This is absolutely manufactured indignation.
And the sooner we stop talking about it, the better.
Sarah Palin suddenly waking up and discovering that Rahm Emmanuel used a word that Rush Limbaugh has used consistently, but she has nothing to say about that.
I have not used it consistently.
Merely quoting Rahm Emmanuel yesterday.
And by the way, I don't have any manufactured indignation.
I'm laughing about all this.
In case you people don't understand, you know, guess what?
Guess what else the libs are just roiled about?
Proving that there's a new generation of libs that's populating the media as well as the old generation.
Well, when I said on Gretchen Carlson's show yesterday, I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.
Folks, I've only been using that line since 1986.
I've only been using it since 1986.
I've been using it for over 22 years.
Yet there are some libs in the media who heard it for the first time.
This is why you got to keep repeating things, folks, even if you get bored with them.
And then they hear things I haven't said repeatedly, and they make up things I haven't said, and they get they have no sense of humor.
I mean, everybody, even in Sacramento, and that was an ad-lib line in a debate with a mayor of Davis, California on a TV station in Sacramento.
And I came up with it just in the heat of the moment, and everybody, even Mayor Davis, started laughing on the show.
Nobody got mad about it back then.
But look, we're so wound tight with political correctness now.
All right, let's go back.
Let's go back.
Here is, again, MSNBC trying its best to turn this into Sarah Palin versus Rush Limbaugh.
Someone who supported Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, went on a tirade.
I want to play what he said.
As you know, Ken, people are asking if Sarah Palin's going to call out Rush for these remarks.
Let's play it.
Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taking place by calling a bunch of people who are retards retards.
I think our big news is that he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters effing retards.
There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.
Has Sarah Palin commented on Rush's words there that he said on his radio show yesterday, Ken?
We haven't heard that yet, but she clearly is very active on Facebook, so I wouldn't be surprised to hear from her soon.
We'll see if it turns from, as the headline says, Palin versus Limbaugh, or if it will stay Palin versus Emmanuel.
That's the NBC discourse monk, Ken Vogel.
Palin versus Limbaugh.
Sarah Palin knows how this program works.
She knows that we were making fun of Rahm Emmanuel and highlighting that it's people like Emmanuel who do say these things.
They hardly ever get called on it if it hadn't been for Sarah Palin.
And this comment was made last August.
Now, we're not through here, folks.
Yesterday afternoon in Washington at the White House, Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton held the daily press briefing.
And the Fox News correspondent Major Garrett says, why bring in this larger group of people here to Rahm Emmanuel?
Is there something the administration is trying to get across to this larger group of interested parties on this issue of the R-word as a result of what was published about what Rahm said last year?
This is something that happened in August.
It's something that Rahm has apologized for.
It's issues of derogatory comments that make fun of one group or pit one against the other don't do anything to further our political discourse.
And for that, Rahm apologized, and we're looking to move forward here.
Did the president ask him to apologize?
I don't know what conversations Ron had with the president.
Now, they're saying this is a non-issue.
It's a non-issue now.
Jazja says it's a non-issue.
Because Rah has a party diet.
Rush Limbaugh since a contingency.
If it's a non-issue, why did he apologize all over the place?
And why did they arrange an R-word summit for Rah to apologize?
I feel like an idiot.
The R-Word summit.
Barney Frank attacked me on the House floor yesterday.
Here's a portion of what he said.
The Washington Times says Schumer and Frank have plans to ramp through legislation that will produce universal voter registration.
And they say it'll be on the floor of the House in two weeks.
It's the lie repeated.
Rush Limbaugh joined in.
This begins with a totally fictional accusation by John Fund with no basis whatsoever, repeated by the Washington Times and repeated by Rush Limbaugh, none of them having checked what we were talking about, none of them seeing if it was accurate.
I was asked by a constituent why I had done that.
My response was, done what?
I didn't do it.
It begins with a lie from this editorial writer from the Wall Street Journal.
It is then a lie repeated by all of his right-wing colleagues.
Now, let's remember the last time Barney said with ontological certitude that there's no way Scott Brown's swearing in will be delayed.
There's no way to certainly, there's no provision in the law for it.
There's no way.
That's silly.
He can't be delayed.
If he wins, he wins and he's sworn in.
He'd been delayed being sworn in.
So when Barney is speaking with this kind of certitude, folks, the evidence is maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about here and is trying to diffuse things.
Obama was at the national prayer breakfast this morning, made it all about him and his petty political problems.
I don't think it worked.
We'll have sound bites of that.
Plus, your phone calls coming up, Rush Limbaugh, off to a rousing start.
Again, thank you, Lord, for my enemies back in the state.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh, and service to humanity and all of mankind, animal kind as well, here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
An email from a subscriber at Rush 24-7 today, and I had to run the numbers here.
And I've had my, we have a math expert now on staff that runs the numbers since I had to hire one because nobody else on the staff could ever run the numbers right, including me.
So I got an off-site mathematician here that runs the numbers.
Rush, use George Clooney to explain the magnitude of the Obama $3.8 trillion budget.
Clooney's telethon for Haiti raised $66 million.
Big number, right?
Well, George Clooney would have to have a $66 million telethon every day for the next 158 years to match Obama's spending in this budget.
Does that help put it in perspective?
A $66 million telethon every day for the next 158 years.
Wow, shocking, shocking, shocking.
But it is a great way to illustrate just how much money that we don't have that Obama is spending.
All right, folks, especially you guys out there of all ages, the clock is ticking now for every one of us making a decision on where and how to send Valentine's Day for Valentine's Day.
Now, or flowers for Valentine's Day, and I have to tell you something.
I have been proven wrong.
My philosophy on Valentine's Day was to skip it because everybody does.
I don't ever go along with conventional wisdom.
I never go along with a crowd.
If everybody's stampeding to do something on a particular day, I do it a different day.
Why do something when it's expected?
Well, that's why you do it.
I have learned my lesson.
The expectation is there.
So what you have to do is find a way of seriously, sincerely with your heart, but easily conveying your thought.
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Tom in Englewood, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Glad to be here, Rush.
I'm a longtime listener and a big fan of yours.
Thank you very much, sir.
When I was talking to Mr. Snerdley, I pointed out that it seems like every time you, or let's say even Sarah Palin, bring up an issue, you're one voice, and there's like a thousand or two other voices in the mainstream media that would love to just tear you or Sarah Palin down.
And all it's like a science fiction movie, you know, where they keep shooting these high-pressure or atomic rockets into this big blob in space, and the only thing that happens is gets more powerful.
And that's what your voices and Sarah Palina's voices are doing.
Every time they attack you, the only thing they do, and like you say, thank God for my enemies, is make you stronger and make you increase your.
You know, it's amazing.
They've been making this mistake for 20 years.
I like this.
Yeah, they don't get it.
I like this analogy to a sci-fi movie.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, I don't know.
I watched one, you know, I can't even remember what it was, but, you know, they shoot their big powerful laser or whatever it is into this giant blob and they get stronger.
Yeah, they would energize.
They were shooting it with what it lived on.
Yes, exactly.
In my case, false criticism.
Yes.
I live on false criticism.
I mean, it's my favorite meal.
So you remember the movie Mars Attacks?
Yes, I do.
Jack Nicholson.
Jack Nicholson and all these little Martian people coming around and everybody.
They had them fooled into thinking that they wanted peace and love and all that.
Yeah, right.
And they were firing everything they had at these little Martian people and their big ships and so forth.
Finally, what brought the Martians down was Slim Whitman music.
Yes.
I thought that was tremendous.
Slim Whitman music caused little Martians' heads to explode.
So hopefully they won't find the Slim Whitman equivalent to taking out Sarah Palin and me.
Thanks, Tom, for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
You always heard me talk about the free market, how much I love that the free market will tell you everything you want to know.
Forget the polls.
Here is tangible proof.
The Obama honeymoon is over from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
One sign that Washington, D.C. had been home to Obama mania was a number of independent retailers selling all sorts of Obama merchandise.
Every street corner had Obama wares or Obamaware for sale.
Now, most of the winter caps for sale are not emblazoned with the Obama logo.
You can barely find anything, Obama, in Washington in terms of licensed merchandise.
The market will tell you what's going on.
I just got an email from another web subscriber, Thomas Morley.
Subject line, I am offended.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, you just said you feel like an idiot, as if that were a bad thing.
Mr. Limbaugh, I am a recovering idiot, and I am totally offended.
That's Tom in St. Paul.
I see, I didn't know I was offending idiots by saying I felt like one, having to say the R word, so forth.
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