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March 31, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
A happy Wednesday to everybody.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Just one more day, just one more day, as Mark Stein told you yesterday.
And the original plan was, and I was with you just on Friday.
So hello again from Deep in the Heart of Texas at proud Rush affiliate WBAP.
But Mr. Stein did yesterday and Tuesday, thoroughly enjoyed, and Monday, thoroughly enjoyed that, as I always do.
I'm back in today because the getting Rush back thing took a day longer.
And truly, truly, you have to know this.
I have no idea where the man is.
I think that's part of the fun of this.
He will return.
Not that I would, not that I'm untrustworthy with such things.
I could keep a secret.
But the whole deal is that Rush is somewhere in the world looking for a genuinely free market healthcare system either to move there or to speak well of that nation.
I don't know.
I'll let him tell you when he returns to the relief of all on tomorrow's show.
In the meantime, we are here together for today's show.
Again, Mark Davis, hi.
Nice to be with you.
Let's hop in.
1-800-282-2882.
Got a lot going on.
And as I always do, there's some specific stories and some broad themes that I'd like to explore.
You know what?
Can I give you one just specific story?
Because best to this wonderful woman.
Barbara Bush has come out of the hospital this morning, just down the road from me here downtown in Houston.
She's 84, right?
And George H.W. is 85.
Bless him.
They've been healthy.
They look great.
And she's coming out of the hospital.
So that's nothing but a good thing.
And best wishes, of course, to their whole family.
Let's do a couple of the broad themes first.
This has been a week.
And on the local show that I host here in Dallas-Fort Worth, and in listening to Mark Stein yesterday and going back well into last week's litany of shows actually hosted by Rush, there's a narrative growing here, isn't there?
The narrative is that to the left, conservative voices sound like bigotry.
Now, there is nothing new in this at all.
I mean, it is the oldest and tiredest trick in the book.
Well, it's an old trick.
I say it's tired.
The sad thing is, it probably is at least marginally successful.
There are people who believe that to be a Republican, to be a conservative, must mean that you hate minorities, probably hate women, certainly hate the planet.
And no matter how many thoughtful conservative voices are out there saying, we don't hate the planet.
We love the planet.
We just don't want to crush the economy on the altar of helping the planet.
Not only do we not hold people of color in low regard, we're the people who want to get government off their backs and lower their taxes and increase their opportunity too.
And I can say those things all day, and I guess I will now.
But there will still be people who will rise up to say, oh, no, no, no, no.
You stand against the president's health care bill.
It must be because you hate him.
And every single bit of this Tea Party Town Hall 9-12 group phenomenon, every single bit of it is just smoke and mirrors to conceal what is really, really driving these people.
And that is that they hate the black guy.
That Obama's president, he's black, and they just can't stand that.
So for the millionth time, let me tell you, can I find people in America who don't like black folks?
Sure, I can.
Just as I can find folks on the left who are outright communists or hate America or who think that the Pentagon should be firebombed, I can find those people.
Would I ever use those people in a blanket demonization of someone who comes at me with an argument for President Obama, for higher taxes, for any one of a number of things that is in his noxious agenda?
No, I wouldn't, because I want to go at you issue for issue, mano amano, and do things on the merits.
That's intellectually dishonest.
It is craven.
It is cheap.
And sadly, it is typical of many, not everybody, many on the left.
The thing that makes it so noteworthy right now is that the people who are doing this have big-time columnist jobs.
You know, have enormous media microphones.
Frank Rich in the New York Times, that's the stuff of legend now.
A gentleman named Colbert King at the Washington Post.
Now, I tell you what, should I just go ahead and do this?
Yeah, might as well.
Don't need to do Mark's Reader's Corner here.
It just takes a couple of minutes.
But if we're talking about writing columns, I do that too in the Dallas Morning News.
Go to dallasnews.com and find me under columnists, and there you go.
My column this morning is about this.
Let me go ahead and share it with you because it'll be a lot more coherent than me just vamping about it for three minutes.
I'm teasing.
Well, maybe I'm not.
But here, but here's the deal.
And it uses something I mentioned on Friday as the starting point.
April 15th, all over the country, wherever you live, there's probably not far of a drive for you to go to some event that the Tea Party people are doing or the 9-12 groups or some aggregation of a lot of folks who are going to gather.
And the evening of April 15th, maybe even the daytime of the 15th to check local listings, is really going to be something.
So I start with that and essentially make the case in the following way.
And it's as good a way as any to launch things into your thoughts and your calls about this.
And then we can go in a variety of other places.
On Friday, we talked a lot about and with Arizona, about the McCain and Hayworth primary.
Attention, people of Florida.
We need you today, and we also need people around America who are interested in Florida, interested in that Marco Rubio Charlie Christ race.
They met on Fox News Sunday, and this was just my take.
Tell me if it differs from yours.
Young Mr. Rubio mopped the floor of that studio with Governor Christ.
And if you either A, think I'm right about that or not, B, you either think that's a good thing or not.
So join me and hop on in because we can do that.
1-800-282-2882.
Okay.
Today's Mark Davis, Dallas Morning News Colin.
Not too self-serving.
A year ago, April 15th, I looked out onto a crowd at Dallas City Hall as the Tea Party movement launched.
On this year's tax day, I will again MC the proceedings, this time at Quick Trip Park, Grand Prairie, Texas, right between Dallas and Fort Worth.
We will again welcome speakers who will share passions, strategies, and yes, probably even some anger, all designed to give voice to the belief that America is headed in a very wrong direction in terms of government overreach.
Some people with some very loud media megaphones believe that I'll be conducting the equivalent of a Klan rally.
This is a lie, and their slanders driven by their political bigotry cannot stand.
I don't particularly care if some idiot on the street misreads the Tea Party vigor and invents in it a fictional, sinister motivation.
But when a succession of people who analyze things for a living weave such vast falsehoods, it is simultaneously sad and infuriating.
Frank Rich of the New York Times and Colbert King of the Washington Post are among the columnists willingly checking their honesty or their brains at the door to throw political mud.
Either these people are too ignorant to know their charges are false or they don't care and spit their bile anyway.
Mr. King wrote last week of looking at angry faces at Tea Party rallies and finding them, quote, eerily familiar, resembling protesters seeking to prevent a black University of Alabama enrollee in 1956.
Mr. Rich peppered his New York Times column with Third Reich imagery, eventually backing up his claim of racism with comparisons to those who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Leaving aside for the moment that much opposition to that measure came from Democrats, it cannot be said plainly enough today.
These men and their numerous partners in this smear should be ashamed of themselves.
If nothing else, for logical flaws that are beneath a fifth grader.
Their argument goes like this.
A, this movement is filled with vocal people displeased with the way things are going.
B, I can find examples in history of people whose vocal displeasure was fueled by racism.
Hence, C, these people must be fueled by racism.
Okay, boys, let's see how you like it.
A, you are in favor of Obamacare.
B, Castro is in favor of Obamacare.
C, you guys are communists.
How do you like that?
Logic and basic human decency prevent me from making that connection seriously.
I'd like to believe that even if these critics attended a Tea Party event, their testimony would change, but I doubt it.
There is a screeching that's born of panic, the need to demonize a movement rather than debate it.
Is the occasionally tasteless sign, t-shirt, or voice found at the occasional Tea Party rally?
Of course.
But they are but a tiny fraction of the hateful scope of venom heaped on President George W. Bush after the 2000 election or during the Iraq War.
Don't take my word that the Tea Party critics are full of it.
Come to any, I mentioned my local one here in the column, but go to anyone that's around you or near you.
You will find people looking for leaders who will reduce spending, reduce taxes, and obey the Constitution.
And they don't care what color those leaders are.
If the crowd is overwhelmingly white, and chances are it will be, it's not because the Tea Party has a problem with people of color.
It's because so many people of color have a problem with limited government.
Anyone in that crowd will gladly make the case to any skeptic of any race.
I have no problem with anybody who disagrees with Tea Party politics.
Tell me limited government is too risky.
Tell me Obamacare is a great idea.
Tell me taxes need to be raised.
We'll have a lively chat.
But tell me the Tea Party people whom I have come to know and admire are racists, and you are a liar.
Dallas Morning News column by me.
Got a couple of columns from other people.
I'll share the work of others.
Scott Brown has a great Boston Globe column called The Healthcare Fight is Not Over.
But I tell you what, rather than hearing the sound of my voice or sharing the voices and writing of others, the next thing I want to do is hear from you in the vast Rush Limbaugh audience.
Rush is back tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis filling in today from Texas, 1-800-282-2882.
Some more topical material.
And yes, your calls beginning next on the EIB Network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Wednesday, March 31st, 2010.
It is the last day of March and the last day of Rush being away.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
No, it's not an April.
Watch it be an April Fool's joke.
And we get Mark Belling in here, the third of the Mark Trifecta of hosts.
No, no, no.
The plan is Rush is back tomorrow.
And I believe that the plan will be adhered to.
There's every reason to believe that he's back tomorrow.
And Judge, let me join with you in wondering where the heck he's been and what the heck he has for us.
Rush back in the chair tomorrow.
Phone number is 1-800-282-2882.
And always go to rushlimbaugh.com, even when the fill-in guys are here.
The timing of this, when I say calculated slander, I don't mean that Frank Rich and Colbert King and Mike Lupica, Mike, stick to sports.
Dude, please.
That they all get together and trade notes, essentially saying, let us slander and misrepresent the Tea Party movement and let's do it Monday.
They don't do that.
They don't have to do that.
There's a pre-wiring that comes.
I mean, it's just, it's in the, it's in the leftist index card of strategies.
I don't want to reach out to those of you who are listening who happen to be liberal and who would say, please, you're not talking about me.
I don't do that.
If you're driving around listening and saying, listen, I listen to Rush.
I agree with nothing, but I listen to a bunch of shows and other people are conservative and I'm liberal.
If that's you and you've never slandered people for their views, good, thank you.
That's the way it needs to be.
But some of the most visible people in the American left in media and in government itself are playing this hand and doing it with impunity.
And they're doing it because they think it works.
So maybe one of my questions to you is, does it?
Does it work?
I know that if there's one thing that's true of America, and I think everybody would agree on this, there are tons of Americans who aren't paying a lot of attention at any given time across the political spectrum.
They're putting on their pants in the morning.
They're just trying to get to work.
You got four kids.
You got this, got a doctor's appointment, got to get to the post office.
The basement's leaking.
Oh, politics, what's that?
Maybe I'll hear one show today.
Maybe I'll see one thing on TV.
Maybe I'll read one thing on the web.
And if you have enough people saying those Tea Party people are bigots, well, that'll sink in somewhere.
What?
My congressman says the Tea Party people are bigots.
Well, it must be true.
This is why they do it.
What if a big guy like Frank Rich at the New York Times says that these are people who just hate blacks?
Well, it must be true.
He's got a job at the New York Times.
It must be true.
Except that it's not.
And then you get something like this, which is just a gift from the current events gods.
And that's these Hatari freaks.
It's the nine militia folk.
Is it a story?
Of course it is.
Is it a really bad story?
Of course it is.
But there's Eugene Robinson just waiting to pounce.
And there's his Washington Post column that had to be written while these people were being fingerprinted to hit the website this quickly.
The Hatari militia and the rising risk of far-right violence.
I just have a challenge I want to put out to you because here's something Mr. Robinson does.
He wants to reach out and spank those of us who would say, look, everybody's got their crazies.
The right has its crazies.
We get the occasional abortion clinic bomber.
The left has its crazies.
We have the occasional William Ayers.
There's a fringe everywhere, and some folks in that fringe are going to snap and do bad things.
Now, Mr. Robinson's point is that that is a false equivalency.
You can find his Washington Post column.
It says the Hatari militia and the rising risk of far-right violence.
It hit the web, WashingtonPost.com yesterday.
His point is essentially, I'm making that up, that I am concocting an equivalency that's not there.
And I'm always sensitive to the notion of phony equivalency because I think it's a logical flaw that we should all avoid.
American nuclear weapons, Soviet nuclear weapons back in the day, there were people who said, hey, same thing.
No, it's not.
Soviet nuclear weapons existed to tyrannize the world.
American nuclear weapons existed to thwart that tyranny.
All guns bad, implying that a gun in the hand of a cop is the same thing as a gun in the hand of a criminal.
That's a false equivalency.
Mr. Robinson is accusing me and those who agree with me on this of a false equivalency when we say that the left and the right both have their crazy and potentially violent fringes.
And the Hatari story gives him a springboard from which to say, look, there's some right-wing violence.
Okay.
But then he goes on to essentially say, well, he says that there's a shocking rise in this.
There is?
His words, there has been explosive growth among far-right militia type groups that identify themselves as white supremacists, constitutionalists, ooh, can't have that, tax protesters, ooh, really can't have that, and religious soldiers determined to kill people to uphold Christian values.
Where is the explosive growth of that?
Now, is there a lot of growth among constitutionalists and tax protesters?
Well, constitutionalists, yeah, and I guess I'm part of that.
I'm not looking to blow up anything except one-party rule in Washington, and I look to do that at the ballot box.
But this is the anatomy of the smear.
When people, you know, you say the word constitution, that must mean that you're packing heat and looking to put a bullet in some Democrat's head.
This is the slander that is in progress from these folks.
Tax protesters, I'm a tax protester every day.
Not the kind that doesn't protest his taxes, doesn't pay his taxes, the kind rather that protests a system that needs to be changed.
So let me get into a little more of this on the other side, more of your calls.
Mark Davis, in for Rush.
It is Wednesday, and glad you're here.
Glad Rush is back tomorrow.
You're glad.
I'm glad.
I'm guessing he's glad.
And we're about to hop on to some of your calls.
And in fact, some of the calls we're getting are: you're getting ahead of me, and that's always permitted because there's only so much, only so much time in the day.
Was I going to get to the Obama-Virginia drilling story?
Yes.
Why don't we do that?
In fact, let me say, I'm like stacking planes over the airport here.
In just a second, we'll do the drilling story.
Here's my last point about the slander campaign that's underway right now.
And I have something that you can go find, a little bit of EIB listener homework.
Okay.
And in fact, this will resonate with a Proud Rush affiliate in Kansas City.
So, attention, KMBZ listeners, because you know where I'm going.
It is primary season in a lot of, I mean, obviously, Arizona.
There's primary for the seat to replace Kit Bond in Missouri, and a bunch of people are running.
So, it's just all kinds of campaign advertising.
No matter where you live, you've either just come through it like we did here in Texas.
Oh, piece of local news that's important to everybody: Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announcing this morning she is staying for her full term to 2012.
She had said she was going to come out for the governor's race against Rick Perry.
That didn't go so well for her.
But what has gone well for her is the love that we've shown her here in Texas for what she's been doing in the Senate fighting Obamacare.
Like McCain, Senator Hutchison is very, very popular, but among some conservatives, we wonder how consistently conservative she is.
But she's right about this and valuable right now.
So she's at the top of her top of her game right now.
And so she has said that I'm not coming out.
She had said, no matter how the governor's race primary goes, I'm going to come out.
Well, it didn't go well, and she ain't coming out.
She's staying until 2012.
Most folks that I talked to this morning on the local show are fine with that.
So anyway, we came through leading up to a March primary.
Oh, man.
In the local show that I do, there were commercial breaks that were filled with nothing but political spots.
Often two or three candidates running for the same race, sniping at each other in the same commercial break.
I mean, it was oppressive.
You know what I'm talking about.
Radio stations are guided with a very heavy hand on what they must do during a political season.
Ask any radio station sales manager, and he'll tell you his favorite thing is the obligation to pretty well carry any spot that someone wants to buy, and there is a mandated rate that is just bargain basement.
So woof.
So in this economy, paying customers are often shunted to the obscure wilds of the broadcast day so that they can have everybody running for everything.
We got to do it.
It's a rule.
There you are.
There's another interesting rule.
It's called whatever is in the ad, we have to run it.
Now, if somebody's dropping F-bombs or something, I guess there are basic rules there.
It's while the FCC finds us if we don't run it, the FCC finds us if we do run it.
Welcome to federal broadcasting rules.
But no matter what the view is, no matter how incendiary it might be, no matter how bizarre it might be, the station has to run it.
Now, I'm okay with that.
Please, I'm Mr. Liberty, right?
I don't want to impanel some group of grand poo-bas at every radio station that passes judgment on which political commercials are okay and which ones aren't.
God save us from that.
How'd you like to have some politically biased group of people at a radio station saying no to a perfectly good Republican ad because they just don't like it?
Or the other way around.
That would be bad too.
So if your check clears at the bank, your political commercial runs.
Well, at KBMZ in Kansas City, KMBZ, excuse me.
I'm dyslexic on call editors.
KMBZ in Kansas City.
There's a guy running named Glenn Miller, just like the Lost at Sea band leader of the 40s.
But that's where the comparison ends.
I heard it for the first time, and I thought it was a bit.
I thought it was a Saturday Night Live parody.
I don't know.
Something some wacky morning show would have done.
No, I mean, it is, and seriously, and I ain't going to play it for you.
You got to go do your own homework because it's just, it's just, it's just too much.
And I'm a guest in somebody else's house on my own show.
Show.
I played it all day, but I'm a guest in somebody else's house, and I'm just going to be tactful in this regard.
But I'll tell you where to get it.
Go to YouTube or Google KMBZ and Glenn Miller, two N's, KMBZ, Glenn Miller.
So here's KMBZ, proud Rush Limbaugh affiliate, good people working hard there in the Kansas City area to serve that talk show audience.
And this guy's spot arrives and his check cleared at the bank.
They've got to run it.
They've got to run it.
And they put a disclaimer on the front and on the back.
And the disclaimer says this does not represent our views.
It may be, I love this, it may be inappropriate for children.
Inappropriate for children?
What's in there?
Well, it may be inappropriate for any thinking person of any age.
It is, this guy is from Central Casting.
He talks about the dark foreigners and the mud people.
Mud people?
There's some things I won't even repeat.
You know, it really is.
There was the old bit from the guy, wake up, what people?
It's him.
It's Daniel, the old Stern character or something.
I mean, it's not literally him, but they're kindred spirits.
Whitey, you're a yellow coward, letting the Jews overturn the.
Well, God, I'm paraphrasing the spot.
I might as well play it.
But trust me, just go and listen to it yourself.
Why am I going on about this?
Because to Eugene Robinson, to Frank Rich, to tons of other people I could name, Rush sounds like that.
I sound like that.
Hannity sounds like that.
But more importantly, you sound like that.
See, that's the thing.
As talk show guys, you can pick on us all day.
We're going to be fine.
Attacking our views, I live to have my views attacked.
That's a good day for me.
But when people do it in a certain way, what they're really doing is attacking your views.
That's why all this fairness doctrine BS, I mean, yeah, it obviously has a professional ramification in my life, and I'm unwisely though it may be, expect to survive in the industry.
It's not that it seeks to shut down my views or Rush's views or anybody else.
It is so that your views are not heard to the degree that you wish them to be in the marketplace that should be the radio dial.
So, anyway, on this station, they've got the disclaimer essentially says it essentially tells you, we've got to run this.
Sorry, but we've got to run this.
So go grab that at your leisure.
KMBZ Glenn Miller.
You'll find it on YouTube.
They've got some video pieces up there with just the audio of the spot.
And I mean, it is cartoonish in its excess.
But as you're listening to it and maybe engaged in some odd comparison of laughter and shock, remember that this guy is what conservative talk radio sounds like to all of these folks because there's Mr. Robinson's column.
Let me go down to the bottom as the slander continues.
It is dishonest for right-wing commentators to insist on an equivalence that does not exist.
The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction, the right, not the left.
What is the evidence of that?
Is it the nine guys in the Hatari?
The vitriolic anti-government hate speech that is spewed on talk radio every day and quite regularly at tea party rallies.
Really, Eugene?
Really?
How many have you been to?
And maybe that answer is one or two.
Maybe he has.
I'd love him to roll tape.
Maybe he did.
Play me back.
The hate speech.
Now, it's funny, and he says it regularly happens at Tea Party rallies.
Once again, we have to define our terms.
What is hate speech?
To me, hate speech is some of the stuff that I just paraphrased from the Glenn Miller, you know, write-in candidate for Senate ad.
But to the Eugene Robinsons of this world, government is out of control and must be reined in is hate speech.
This administration is trying to take my liberties away is hate speech to these people.
Guys, if we are going to, pardon me, screw with the language like that, I don't know where we can go.
I don't.
Hate speech is hate speech.
Passionate advocacy for something that you don't agree with is passionate advocacy for something.
Mr. Robinson wraps up.
They have a right to free speech, which I will always defend.
Oh, thank you, sir.
But they shouldn't be surprised if some listeners take them literally when they talk about their country being taken away, that their elected officials are traitors and their freedom is at risk.
Mr. Robinson, my freedom is at risk, and so is yours.
The difference between us is I care, or I recognize it.
And all this stuff, according to Mr. Robinson, again, is calibrated not to inform, but to incite.
Hmm.
Incite.
Hmm.
Well, I guess the dictionary definition is to encourage or stir up violent or unlawful behavior, as in to incite a riot.
No, it is designed to spur people to action.
That action takes place at the ballot box.
Or on November 2nd, 2010, these Tea Party voices, 9-12 voices, town hall voices, others who choose not to identify themselves in whatever way, a lot of them, people who actually voted for President Obama now have a good case of buyers' remorse.
These people's voices will be heard, and that scares Eugene Robinson to death and Frank Rich.
And so rather than take these people on for the content of what they say, they must be marginalized, they must be defamed, they must be slandered.
Shame, shame on them.
They want to write a column that contains things that I disagree with mightily or that I find just crazy.
It's fine.
I'm sure my columns make them scrunch up their eyebrows.
But they write a column that puts me in bed, essentially in bed with, I'm a charter member of the Hatari because I'm a Christian and I love the Constitution and I'm real skeptical about government overreach.
Liars.
These people are liars.
All right.
Let's put some folks on the radio.
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You're next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in on the EIB network.
Okay, I promise the drilling story.
Let me give it to you quickly and take some calls on it and other things on the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Rush back tomorrow.
Associated Press in a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling.
President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shorelines.
At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that have been planned in Alaska.
Obama's plan offers few concessions to environmentalists who have been strident in their opposition to more oil platforms off the nation's shores.
Environmentalists?
Strident?
Nah.
Congrats to the AP for actually using that word.
Hinted at for months, the plan modifies a ban that for more than 20 years has limited drilling along coastal areas other than the Gulf of Mexico.
Obama was set to announce the new drilling today, apparently, at the military base where I grew up, Andrews Air Force Base here, Camp Springs, Temple Hills, Maryland.
They have a renamed Andrews.
Is it outside the Joint Reserve Base, something or other?
I don't know.
Don't jack with history.
Nonetheless, under Obama's plan, drilling could take place 125 miles from Florida's Gulf Coast line, too, if lawmakers allowed the moratorium to expire.
So, okay, what do we think about that?
Imagine this: instant skepticism.
Speaking of Florida, let's head down to Melbourne, Florida, and Madeline Mark Davis on the Rush Limbaugh Show filling in.
How are you?
Oh, just irritated more each and every day.
Tell me.
I was telling your screener I wanted to mention about this offshore thing, but you've been talking about the tea parties and Eugene Robinson and everything.
This has really been bugging me for all week.
You know, the supposed spitter?
Where is this guy?
I mean, somebody has anybody found him to question him because I'm beginning to wonder if he was a plant himself.
Nobody has seen him, nothing, unless I've missed it.
Have you?
No.
And then there's a story of John Lewis of Georgia walking across the street to cast his health care vote, and he said that people were dropping N-bombs on him.
And then somebody aired some video of people walking across the street with him, and that word is nowhere to be found.
So, you know, this is where we find ourselves.
Rather than debate us, rather than take us on on the issue, which some people will do, but there's a ton of that that is being shunted aside so that they can simply attack us and make stuff up about us.
Well, wouldn't you think they'd want to get the facts out if they would try to find this person?
And supposedly, like you said, the N-word name callers.
Okay, well, the short answer is yet.
First of all, keep in mind who the reporters are that you're asking to find the truth about.
Well, yeah, those are the things that you're doing.
It's a much better story if there are N-bombs being hurled at John Lewis.
It's a much better story if people are, you know, hawking lungers at members of Congress.
That's just a much better story.
Don't mess with that.
And the other thing is, just to be really fair here, if you're in a crowd and someone does something, somebody either does something or doesn't do something, how do you go back and how do you find that person?
That's just, on its face, hard to do.
So don't be surprised if we're not suddenly able to provide a mugshot of the misbehavior of the moment.
Yeah, silly me.
Anyway, give me 60 seconds on 60 seconds on drilling.
Yeah, I was just wanting to say, I hope the American people aren't fooled by this croc because, like I said to your screener, you know, he's pushing this all of a sudden now.
He was totally against this.
I thought he voted against this in the Senate with George Bush.
And then he ran on this in his campaign that he was not going to drill.
Now, all of a sudden, because he's trying to get more votes, I don't know what he's doing.
There's a method to their madness over there.
It's just very curious right now, all of a sudden.
And what's going to happen is they're not going to be able to drill.
They're saying this so he can get some moderate Republicans, like, of course, Lindsey Graham, our hero, and Olympia Snow, any one of them, to vote for this stupid bill, climate bill, and it's not going to happen.
They'll come up with some reason, ecology, ecologists or whatever they're called.
I've got a theory, Madeline.
I'll share and thank you because I think you're headed down the right path here.
And, you know, it's not that presidents of every party haven't done this at some point.
You throw people a little bone so that when you're attacked for something, you can say, yeah, but wait a minute, I did this so that when people come after President Obama for the wild-eyed environmental extremism that is guaranteed to emanate from him as long as he's in office, he will seek to insulate himself.
But I let him drill off of Virginia.
I let him do that.
And then people go, oh, well, then I guess he's even-handed.
Uh-huh.
Well, let me tell you why that shouldn't work, and I'll tell you about that next.
Mark Davis in For Rush on the EIB Network.
Closing out the first hour of the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show, I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
He is back tomorrow.
So the goodwill that President Obama seeks to garner among conservatives, wow, all of a sudden he's on board for drill, baby, drill.
Well, you know, not as much as those of us who really favor aggressive energy exploration would like.
But please understand that all of this, and they're even talking about some federal assistance for constructing nuclear power plants.
Hello, nuclear, once the whipping boy of the left, now embraced by some on the left because dog on it, it seems to be clean and safe.
But, but here's the thing.
Please remember that their overall goal is to cut greenhouse gases by 17% by 2020.
And if that happens because we're choosing green technologies, great.
But if they're forced on us, it's an economy wrecker.
More detail on that and a few other things as we progress through the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
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