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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 sound bites 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 sound bites 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 Rush Linbohr and the fastest week in media already Thursday.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbaugh at EIB net.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, Snerdly.
Well, actually a little bit before ever since Obama attacked the banks and promised to tax them for repaying with interest.
We want money back.
You know, 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, the Oh my God, the sacred Prius of having break problems.
I didn't know a Prius went fast enough to need breaks.
But apparently there's break problems in the Prius.
So we're we're we're heading down, we're heading down, folks, down to below 10,000, 10,059.
It just keeps falling.
Down 21 now.
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 and he's not a Bolshevik.
Now, some of the some of the market experts are saying, no, no, no, no, no, Rush.
That's what's happening in Europe.
Uh the what's happening in Europe is spooky.
Don't give me that.
Uh maybe what's happening in Europe is spooking on them, but you can't take the oh, and I'll tell you what else.
They're gonna have a rev tomorrow is going to be a revised unemployment number.
Remember, we told you about this.
Uh the government is going to have to revise it downward because they did not count over 800,000 jobs lost last year.
Uh they did not count over 800, 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.
Uh they don't want to go on over 10% U3, that is.
U6 is 17.
That's that's uh 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.
They're just wild guessing on some of this.
Uh I know that you well, the Moody's bunch, the bond rating people threatening to lower America's credit rating from uh from triple A. And that look at there are a whole lot of factors, but why is that going on?
Why why the hell's that going on?
Look at the budget, the deficit, all the borrowing that you're doing.
We're gonna go through this raise a debt ceiling at 1.9 trillion.
We're gonna go through that by end of February.
It was supposed to last till March.
We're gonna go through that by the end of this month, and we're going to have to do it all over again.
This is scary.
Uh it it writ to me, it really is scary.
Okay, Ram Emanuel's policy uh apology apparently has been accepted.
The early news was that it was not accepted, right?
But the politico has a story from uh 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 what what kind of F and nonsense is this?
I'm just quoting Emmanuel here, folks.
Just you know what the drive-by is, the drive-by's are just, they're trying to goad Sarah Palin into denouncing me, just like she denounced Rom Emanuel.
But Sarah Palin knows I'm quoting Emmanuel and all that.
Oh, they're just, they're trying anything to get Sarah Pay from Andrea Mitchell, NBC Neil from Washington, to everybody else at M SNBC and Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg.
Oh, they're all trying to get Sarah Palin to denounce me just as she did Rom.
And if she doesn't do it, she's a hypocrite, they're saying.
She knows that I do this guy.
Sarah Palin is a lifelong listener to this program.
I have never told you people this.
It was in our Sarah Palin interview in the 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 I've had a couple of chats with her, uh, one on the air here and one for the uh Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in the country.
So they're trying to go her into denouncing me like they did Emmanuel because 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 Emanuel, 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-by's are also, they can't believe that I came to Emmanuel's defense yesterday.
They just do not get it.
Twenty 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 that the retards he's talking about are the liberal activists.
So they folks, I can't tell you, I'm not going to use the word anymore.
I uh I I I cannot, I cannot tell you what fun this is.
This is if if if if I 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 can't not answer about these people.
There's not one behavioral mode they can that I cannot predict, that I that I cannot not predict.
I just I just know them.
So because Ram Emanuel used that the 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 two hundred 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 uh highly likely.
For the record, I looked it up here.
Um, 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 words used nine times in the Senate Healthcare Bill.
So maybe that fact will kill it once and for all.
Maybe that's kill the Senate bill.
That you can't have to pass that bill.
I mean, look at the R word in there.
The president chief of staff just apologized for using it.
Uh so if if the R word is to be the new N-word, uh maybe Mr. Emanuel'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 uh no complaint about Mr. Emmanuel's use of the F-word.
And this is this not amazing.
Is that not amazing?
When you stop and think of all of this, he said Fing.
Well, no big deal there.
Ha ha!
That's not a problem.
Well, I don't know.
Rush uh is asking me a Dutch snerdly's asking me how many uh how many words are we gonna have to ban before this is I don't know, but we're certainly headed that way.
Uh how this headline from the uh state-controlled associated press.
Brown take it.
What?
You know, I'm getting bored with the I mean I I it's it's they've just become such a caricature here.
No, I'm gonna play the soundbites.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about the latest unemployment report from both AP and Reuters.
The unexpected increase.
I mean, I they're just becoming caricatures.
I think they're doing this just to tweak me.
I I I think 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 gonna 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.
Uh 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 uh Secretary of State in Massachusetts today certifying the election, William Galvin, is all ad I mean I have the story here, is all but it's in the it's in the um uh Boston Herald.
He's all a bit admitting here he didn't want to certify the Brown win.
And he 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 uh the son of the late Senator Kennedy, is a Democrat from Rhode Island.
Patrick Kennedy, Scott Brown's win is way overblown.
I mean, Brown's victory over Marsha was way overblown.
It's not that big a deal.
This is way overblown.
Bottom line is it just it just served a lot of people's political interest to spin this story the way they wanted it.
Okay, uh Patrick, let's talk about what's overblown and spun for just a second, like your dad.
Uh 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 quite says it all.
Uh your uncle's totally overblown, your cousin Caroline tried to tell us how smart she was, overblown.
Uh 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 us.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, the audio sound bites 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 uh you ran in Rhode Island.
Uh, what happens?
It's 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 gonna find out when he said it.
And Rom Emanuel, we we told you this yesterday, but Rom's gonna 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.
Other words, the Obama Justice Department says, if you're just like us, we want you.
So Rom, you're gonna have to get in there, buddy, and uh change some of the verbiage in the job applications early listings at the Obama Justice Department.
Here was here was it yesterday.
This is what I said, proving do I know these people or do I know these people?
I've been here twenty plus years.
You've got to know that I know that that's for Jordan Comment.
It's the reason I kept repeating it is to never let people forget that it was Rom Emanuel who said it.
It's like Harry Reed in the 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.
You know, 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 of it, it's fake.
All this fake outrage.
They know exactly what I was doing.
They just can't help themselves.
They are they're 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-by's what I was doing.
I'm merely reminding everybody, I'm just quoting Rom Emanuel.
I'm just quoting him.
I'm just quoting Rahm Emanuel.
I went on it for a full hour.
I told him what I was doing, and still they fall for it, and still they run their stick.
Here's Margaret Carlson last night on MSNBC.
Question Can Palin really get away with not calling Limbaugh out now?
I'm gonna 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 are they have more followers than any other faction in the party.
Hasn't Rush Limbaugh claim a hundred million listeners?
So certainly he is a public figure of the sort Sarah Palin had in mind when she called out Rahm Emanuel.
Not 100 million listeners yet, uh Margaret, but soon.
I'm I'm just wondering if the change of life has not hit her particularly hard.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, because this two sound bites are just what's gonna happen to Limbaugh's rankings in the conservative.
We have yeah, Andrea Mitchell.
In me seeing Washington.
Uh, on the Today Show today, said this.
Rush Limba 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 and 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, Zhaw uh 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 is mentioned in this morning's brief.
The uh 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.
Uh in other words, uh the Obama suspended Haiti Medevac flights for the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl.
And they say Bush hated black people.
And I didn't, as the guys at foreign policy is right, didn't get much um well that's the first I've heard of it.
The president suspended evacuation flights, medevact flights because they needed the equipment for the Super Bowl to 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 and it really 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's 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 ten years.
If our response ends up being, you know, uh because we don't want to stir things up here, we're just gonna do the same thing that was being done before.
Then I 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 uh every bank out there.
We've got to be the party Of business, small business, and large business because they produce jobs.
Uh, we can't we can't demonize every bank.
Yeah, no, we gotta take God back too.
And then we've got to get the values voters on our side, and then we gotta.
I mean, this is 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 ten 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 uh that's gonna help the stock market.
Well, you have it, President Obama.
Ten years of anxiety.
Make sure that our party understands it.
Uh, we gotta have a financial system, we'll like it or not.
Like it or not.
I don't 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 assume she'd been hired by the Obama administration to be in the like a lot of journalists have been.
I think it's 17 or 18 journalists have been hired by the Obama administration.
And uh Andrea Mitchell, NBC News on Washington.
Andrea, you better be careful because washed up reporters get sent over to M. Oh, I'm sorry, she's already there.
She does have her own show at uh one o'clock.
Okay, now back to the uh back back to the R-word sound bites.
Where do we leave?
Oh, yeah, Zha.
Uh, here is Ariana Huffington, and this is this morning on MSNBC.
Sarah Palin is being absolutely ludicrous.
This is like the extreme of political correctness.
Ram apologize, 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 Ram Emanuel used a word that Rosh Limbo has used consistently, but she has nothing to say about that.
I have not used it consistently.
And by the way, um 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 royaled 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 the women's movement, especially walking behind it.
God, 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 gotta keep repeating things, folks, even if you get bored with them.
And then they hear things I haven't said repeatedly, uh, and they make up things I haven't said, and they get they have no sense of humor.
I mean, everybody, even in Sacramento when I, and that was an ad-lib line in a debate with a mayor of Davis, California on TV station in Sacramento.
And I came up with it just in the 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 uh again, MSNBC trying its best to turn this into Sarah Palin versus Rushlin Bull.
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 insults taking place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards.
I think their 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 uh 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 uh as the headline says Palin versus Limbaugh, or if it will stay Palin versus Emmanuel.
That's the uh NBC News Corps Mont Kent Vogel.
Palin versus Limbaugh.
Claylin.
Sarah Palin knows how this program works.
She knows that we were making fun of Rom Emanuel 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.
Uh and this this comment was made last August.
Now we're not we're not through here, folks.
Yesterday afternoon uh in Washington at the White House, Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton held a daily press briefing.
And the Fox News correspondent Major Garrett says, why bring in this larger group of people here to Rom a manual?
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 Rom said last year?
This is something that happened in August.
It's something that Rom has apologized for.
It's um, you know, issues of uh derogatory comments that make fun of one group or pit one against the other.
Um it do anything to further our political discourse, and for that, Rom apologized, and uh we're we're looking to move forward here.
Did the president ask him to apologize?
Um, I don't know what conversations uh Ron had with the president.
Now they're saying that this is a non-issue.
It's not an issue now.
The Jazia says it's a non-issue.
Rush Limbo since a contingency.
Uh if it's a non-issue, why did he apologize all over the place and why did they arrange an R-word summit for Rom to apologize?
I just 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...
Uh, that there's no way Scott Brown's swearing in will be delayed.
There's no way the certificate, 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's been delayed being sworn in.
So when Barney is speaking with this kind of certitude, folks, uh, the evidence is uh maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about here and is trying to diffuse things.
Um 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 a second.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh, and service to humanity and all of mankind animal kind as well.
Uh here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I got an email uh 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 a higher 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 Cloney to explain the magnitude of the Obama 3.8 trillion dollar 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 telephone every day for the next 158 years.
Well, I uh 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 of Valentine's Day, and I have to tell you something.
I have been proven wrong.
Because everybody does.
You know, I I don't I don't ever go along with conventional wisdom.
If ever I never go along with the 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.
Proflowers the way.
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And meet and even surpass the expectations of your sweetie.
Tom in Englewood, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Uh, glad to be here, Rush.
Uh 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 uh it seems like every time you, or let's say even Sarah Palin, uh bring up an issue, uh you're one voice, and there's like uh a thousand or two other voices in uh in the uh mainstream media that would love to just uh tear you or Sarah Palin down and all it.
It's like a science fiction movie, you know, where they keep shooting these uh 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 Payne'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.
No, no, you know, it's it's amazing.
They've been making this mistake for twenty years.
I like this.
Yeah, they don't get it.
I like this analogy to a sci-fi movie.
Yeah.
And you know, I I don't know.
I yeah, I I watched one, you know, I can't even remember what it was, but you know, they'd shoot their big powerful uh laser or whatever it is into this giant blob and they get stronger.
Yeah, they would energize, they were shooting up uh 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 but you remember the movie Mars Attacks?
Yes, I do, uh 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 uh 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 Obama wear 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 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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