June 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| It is hour number two of the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| You and I are together today and tomorrow, and how deliciously opportune that is. | |
| Well, at least it is for me. | |
| I I hope you think it is for you. | |
| Because in the midst of the uh the Limbaugh honeymoon week, and the great Mark Belling will be with you uh once again on Thursday and Friday, but you and I are together today and tomorrow, which gives us a chance today to do previews of the various uh primaries underway. | |
| And tomorrow we'll chew on what the numbers actually are and chew on what people actually did. | |
| So given the choice of uh when do you want to talk to Michael Barone? | |
| I'll talk to Michael every hour of every day, but I I flipped the coin and went with today to get hi his view and to pick his huge political brain on things from Arkansas to California to Nevada to South Carolina. | |
| What a pleasure from the examiner and a career that's taken us through so many things through political almanacs and U.S. news and world report. | |
| It's wonderful to talk once again to Michael Barone. | |
| Michael, how are you? | |
| Well, very well and very good to be with you on the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| Before we dive into the meat of what we're talking about, I understand you will be at the Kennedy Center here in j uh a few days, and we're not keeping track of your social calendar. | |
| But rather this is when the Bradley Foundation hands out one of its prizes, which you are the uh the fitting uh uh beneficiary of. | |
| Tell us what that is. | |
| Well, I'm a lucky beneficiary. | |
| The uh uh Bradley Foundation, the Lyndon Harry Bradley Foundation will based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which has done some terrific work over the years. | |
| They've been leaders on things like the school choice movement and uh making things work, uh making uh you know life better for people who are deprived by having giving them choice rather than submitting them to the ministrations of centralized government. | |
| Um they is they have a board prizes every year for uh contributions to uh thinking over the course of a career and uh to people basically of a conservative leaning and I was lucky enough to be named one of the prize winners this year. | |
| So we're having a ceremony at the uh Kennedy Center on uh Wednesday uh uh June 16th. | |
| Now a week from tomorrow we'll be thinking about you that night, and it's it's richly deserved, and and I just want to make sure that got mentioned because everybody everybody ought to know the the kind of regard in which you are held. | |
| Now let's go to the things uh for which you were held in high regard. | |
| Some uh lightning analysis in a number of states. | |
| Does Blanche Lincoln's career end tonight? | |
| Well, Blanche Lincoln, who got started in her congressional career as a receptionist for a congressman, then she ran against him and defeated him, uh Bill Alexander, who was one of the leaders of the House Democrats for a while. | |
| Uh she's in severe danger of losing tonight. | |
| Um this is a fascinating case here because Arkansas uh is a state that did not vote for Barack Obama. | |
| Uh they are uh they're pretty conservative on the issues as they are uh are are here with us today. | |
| Uh and Blanche Lincoln uh is being opposed by the Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter, who entered the race only about the first of March, and he has been getting a ton of money from the labor unions and from the uh moveon dot org folks. | |
| This is a challenge from the left. | |
| Uh and uh he's uh Mr. Halter has been very uh careful not to say whether or not he's in favor of the union's card check bill. | |
| Remember, this was the bill that they were going to try and ram through the Democratic Congress, which uh would effectively abolish the secret ballot in unionization elections. | |
| And the unions wanted this because they wanted a lot more dues money coming into their coffers and they thought they could get it through the card check bill. | |
| All the Democratic senators uh supported it in the Congress when George W. Bush was president, including Blanche Lincoln. | |
| Uh but then when Barack Obama became president, and we had a president who would sign this bill rather than one like Bush who would obviously veto it, uh suddenly some of the Democratic senators, notably Blanche Lincoln said they weren't for it anymore. | |
| Uh so this is the unions trying to take revenge on her uh and um sp uh uh terrorize other Democratic uh senators who uh and Congressmen who might not go along with the unions, and so they're threatening to end her career. | |
| I think there's at least a fifty percent chance she's gonna lose this runoff to Bill Halter. | |
| Uh she led him by two percent in the uh in the first uh primary, and uh the uh I think she's got uh uh probably an uphill race uh to go, but it's it's a real close one, and it could go either way. | |
| Can the actual Republican, Congressman John Bozeman, beat either one of these people? | |
| Well, Poland has shown John Bozeman way ahead of either Blanche Lincoln or Bill Halter. | |
| And uh, you know, this is a state where Barack Obama uh lost to John McCain by a fifty-nine percent margin for John McCain. | |
| Uh it's a state where Hillary Clinton carried the Democratic primary overwhelmingly. | |
| Um it's similar to a lot of the states what I call the Scots-Irish Belt, the Jacksonian belt going along the Appalachian chain from Southwest Pennsylvania through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the west uh west Southwest Virginia, and going West Arkansas, Oklahoma, and East Texas. | |
| That's an area where Obama did very poorly in both the primary and the general election. | |
| Hillary Clinton carried those uh areas over him by two to one or more. | |
| Um in those areas, John McCain actually ran ahead of Bush 04 uh showing, and uh that's an area where I think the Obama Democrats are very weak, and I think John Bozeman is uh in excellent shape to get elected Senator there. | |
| Let's go to South Carolina. | |
| Uh if it's not the first time it's happened, somebody has a nice strong lead. | |
| Maybe the good old boy network doesn't like the fresh new face, and and maybe that's what's driving some of the uh scurrilous and tawdery rumors about uh state rep Nikki Haley as she looks to become South Carolina's first uh woman governor. | |
| And and this would be two Indian American governors in the South, if she wins, uh she and Bobby Gendal, so pick whatever whatever angle you want there and take the ball and run with it. | |
| Well, the uh yeah, it is fascinating. | |
| She's uh descended from parents who her parents uh immigrated from India in 1963, I believe, and they are Sikhs. | |
| Um and uh she uh was elected to the uh State House of Representatives from Lexington County, that's a conservative Republican area across the river from the state capital of Columbia. | |
| Uh and uh she's been running as kind of an opponent of uh the Republican insiders in that Republican controlled legislature. | |
| She was a supporter of uh Governor Mark Sanford, uh, who many of us remember with fondness before he took that hike on the Appalachian Trail that ended him up in Argentina. | |
| Uh so uh interestingly, she's supported by Jenny Sanford, Mark Sanford's wife, uh now in the process, I guess, of a separation of divorce, uh, and uh who is uh was really Mark Sanford's political manager as well and a person with a career of her own. | |
| Um Mickey Haley jumped out to a big lead. | |
| She's got some uh you know significant uh opponents, Henry McMaster, who's been the uh state attorney general, Congressman Gresham Barrett. | |
| Uh and there's an interesting issue to watch here, Mark, in South Carolina, and I'm glad you asked Virginia and South Carolina uh first here because they are both states that uh where the polls close at 7 p.m. | |
| Eastern. | |
| They'll be the earliest uh ones reporting. | |
| And so I hope people are watching Fox News and uh looking for election results there. | |
| Um Gresham Barrett is a member of Congress voted for the TARP bill, the troubled assets relief program when that came to a vote in the House in September and October 2008. | |
| Um so did Congressman Bob Inglis, a Republican from the fourth district of uh of of South Carolina. | |
| That includes Greenville and Spartanburg. | |
| Um I think that uh, you know, the TARP in effect was passed by uh a bipartisan coalition of members who had safe seats or thought they had safe seats in most cases, and it's become a political liability now. | |
| Uh one of the issues that was raised against Republican Senator Bob Bennett in the Utah State Republican convention, where he did not get enough votes to get on the uh primary ballot, was his support of the TARP legislation. | |
| And Gresham Barrett, uh running for governor has been attacked for supporting uh TARP and in the uh fourth district, uh the uh Bob Inglis has a serious opponent trade growdy. | |
| There's a public opinion poll showing Gowdy actually ahead of the incumbent, highly unusual in a primary case where there's no scandal involved. | |
| And uh it again, he's going against uh Inglis for voting for TARP, and I think one of the things that tells us if we see a lot of TARP victims in the political landscape, uh that's gonna indicate to members of Congress that they aren't voting any bailouts any time soon. | |
| The examiner's Michael Barone is with us. | |
| Let's jump to Nevada and the who takes on Harry Reed Derby. | |
| Uh former assembly woman Sharon Engel, former party chair Sue Loudoun, businessman Danny Tarkanian. | |
| What happens there? | |
| Well, what happened the polling trajectory of this has been that uh Sharon Angle, the little known state representative who's taken some unusual positions in Nevada, including support of builting the nuclear uh depository in Yucca Mountain, um is a favorite of the Tea Party. | |
| She started off with none of the support. | |
| There's been a couple polls in the last week showing her at about the mid-30s and uh Sue Loudon, the former state Republican chairwoman and Danny Tarquini and the son of the uh UNL V basketball coach uh about the mid-20s. | |
| Uh so there's been a consensus building up that Engel is sure to win. | |
| Uh my own view is that uh is that uh she may be the favorite, but when you're looking at primaries, uh support can be very fluid. | |
| Uh yeah, there has been some early voting in Nevada, they allow that. | |
| Uh I think it's an uncertain outcome. | |
| There's a there's a significant margin of error, and there's the question of who turns out. | |
| I mean, I've been watching uh turnout in primaries this year, particularly in states where uh the where you don't have party registration, so that the turnout in each party's primary is a reasonable indice uh indicium of interest or degree of enthusiasm for the parties there. | |
| And generally rope Republican turnout has been more robust in that situation than Democratic turnout, which is a big contrast with the 2008 cycle. | |
| The word I hear is this that if you ask Harry Reid, and he's honest with you, he he he wants to run against Ms. Angle. | |
| Uh yeah, he's basically uh, you know, we can see in Harry Reid who started off with something like nine million dollars. | |
| Uh when you're when you're handing out bailout favors and you're the Senate majority leader, it's not hard to collect money, let's put it that way. | |
| Uh he's uh he basically the the idea is attack the opponent. | |
| Attack the opponent as a wacko, as crazy as being in favor of uh disastrous public policies. | |
| Uh when you don't have anything good to say about your own public policies, and the polling shows that the public policies of the Obama administration, the Democratic congressional leadership are wildly unpopular in Nevada, and that's a state where Obama got fifty-five percent of the vote. | |
| Um, then you go and try and attack the opponent. | |
| So that's what Harry Reid is doing. | |
| I think it's significant, however, that in the polling showing the general election pairings, uh Harry Reid hasn't been able to top 42 percent or 43 percent against any of these potential Republican nominees. | |
| Um basically a hundred percent of the voters know him, and 57% aren't voting for him. | |
| Uh that tells you that there's uh that even an opponent who can be characterized as being highly unusual uh has a serious chance to win that race, and that Mr. Reed's career that goes back to when he was uh elected uh Lieutenant Governor, I think in uh 1970, um, is uh maybe uh nearing its uh end, if not placidly, uh, at least with uh with something of a roar. | |
| A couple of final minutes with Michael Barone, read him in the examiner, get any book he's ever written, you'll be well served. | |
| And uh here's the challenge. | |
| It's it's 120 seconds, roughly, give or take. | |
| Uh California, and I want to do Senate and Governor. | |
| If Carly Fiorina takes this nomination and takes on Barbara Boxer, th this is an opponent like Barbara's never had before, uh a woman with a ton of her own money, and boy, the talk show hosting me really wants that. | |
| Well, Carly Farina seems to have uh sprinted out to a lead in the polls in California. | |
| You know, when you've got thirty-seven million people, it's it's hard for uh just a few activists to make an impression. | |
| Money talks in terms of television ads, and so Carly Farina seems to be leading the Republican primary for Senate, just as Meg Whitman is leading the Republican primary for governor, the former e-base CEO. | |
| Um and I think you know, the polling shows this is a state where Barack Obama was running at 61, 62 percent, and the polling now shows that basically uh it's roughly even. | |
| Barbara Boxer is down in the low 40s against potential Republican opponents. | |
| Uh And so I think this is a race that uh that could be uh very tough for a woman who got her start in public office as a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors. | |
| Um back in the days when Marin County was uh thought to be a symbol of trendiness and trendy left sort of viewpoints. | |
| Um yeah, Barbara Box has got big problems there. | |
| You've had huge foreclosures in that inland empire around Riverside and San Bernardino counties east of LA. | |
| The Central Valley has got one of the highest unemployment rates, and they have cut off almost all the water from the California water system because of a uh judicial decision uh regarding protection of the Delta smelt. | |
| That's a three-inch minnow that is supposedly endangered by sending water down to the Central Valley rather than putting it through the Sacramento Delta and out to the Pacific. | |
| So we're losing some of the prime agricultural land in our country because of a three-inch fish. | |
| And I think that uh Barbara Boxer, who's been supportive of that, uh, is gonna have a hard time uh getting much support at all in the Central Valley. | |
| And finally, for Governor Meg Whitman is going to uh uh to beat Steve Poison, so but so once again, another deep-pocketed former CEO Republican woman. | |
| I'm fascinated by this uh uh political creature on the rise. | |
| Meg Whitman, uh everything old is new again, against Jerry Brown. | |
| What does he bring to the table in his early 70s? | |
| Well, Jerry Brown is uh was elected governor at 36, so I guess he wanted to be elected governor at 72. | |
| You know, he's had double the uh life experience now uh that he had then. | |
| It's it's a little bizarre, you know. | |
| One is tempted to say that uh Jerry Brown was uh elected first of all when he was too young, and he's now running when he's too old. | |
| Uh he's an original uh uh uh thinker, uh an interesting character. | |
| Um but I think one of the things that Meg Whitman may bring up against him is that Jerry Brown, as governor of California after Ronald Reagan, recognize the bargaining power and authorized the bargaining of the public employee unions, and it's the public employee unions that have been almost um single-handedly uh impoverishing what was once one of our richest states, | |
| uh, which once had a really vibrant private sector and now uh comes close to leading the nation in unemployment. | |
| Uh Arnold Schwarzenegger took those public employee unions on in 2005. | |
| They spent something like a hundred million dollars and beat him in the referenda that he sought to curb their powers. | |
| And of course, where did that hundred million dollars come from come from? | |
| It came from the taxpayers. | |
| All the dues money that the public employee unions get come from public employees who are paid by the taxpayers. | |
| So basically the citizens of California are being forced at the pain of going to jail to finance the people who were impoverishing uh their state's private sector economy and bankrupting many of it, uh some of his localities. | |
| Michael Barone, what a joy. | |
| Go to DC Examiner.com, the Washington Examiner, read anything if it has Michael Barone's name on it. | |
| You will be well served, as have we been by your appearance today, sir. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| It's an honor to have you. | |
| Well, an honor to be with you, Mark. | |
| Thanks a lot. | |
| Michael Barone. | |
| All right, there you go. | |
| Well, you're fully briefed on everything. | |
| Now let's take that ball and run with it. | |
| Your call's next. | |
| Mark Davis in for Rush. | |
| It is the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Mark Davis in for Rush today and tomorrow. | |
| Rush back next Tuesday. | |
| Mark Melling and uh some of them uh Thursday and Friday. | |
| A program to keep track of this uh Limbaugh honeymoon uh filling the host schedule, but uh let's focus on what I know in the short term. | |
| I'm here today, I'm here tomorrow. | |
| And glad you're here, hopefully for both days. | |
| Okay, there was uh Mr. Barone with all kinds of thoughts on all kinds of states. | |
| We got calls from all of those states on people weighing in on things. | |
| Let me add another couple of topical layers, may I? | |
| Uh this this is the audio of the day. | |
| How can I be an hour and a half into the Rush Limbaugh show and not and not have played this yet? | |
| What do you do when your leadership skills are dashed against the rocks and everyone's on to you? | |
| Well, I guess you drag out the potty mouth. | |
| Here is uh President Obama with uh Matt Lauer on the Today Show. | |
| Uh using uh you know, going a little gangster for us uh to feign uh the authoritative behavior. | |
| I was Down there a month ago. | |
| Before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf. | |
| A month ago, I was meeting with fishermen down there standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. | |
| And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. | |
| We talk to these folks because they potentially had the best answers, so I know who's asked to kick. | |
| Ooh. | |
| Does he think that this makes people lean back in their chairs and go, oh, I've been so wrong. | |
| He he is in charge. | |
| His thumb is on the pulse of this. | |
| He's looking at who. | |
| Oh, I've been so wrong. | |
| This is what leadership is about. | |
| This is what it's like. | |
| This is what it sounds like. | |
| What a joke. | |
| Why tell you next, Mark Davis Infrarush? | |
| And very thankful for that. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| It is the Tuesday, June 8th, Rush Limbaugh Show, and they're on the heels of that audio. | |
| I don't just want to play that audio, make fun of it, and just and then slide blithely into other issues. | |
| What is it that is just so galvanizingly off-putting about this president of throwing down uh and listen, I I I do not get overly worked up about uh profanity, quite frankly. | |
| I mean, if you're around me my house and I stub my toe, I will I'll, you know, commit plenty of sins. | |
| Um I would bet that most of our presidents have probably had potty mouths, and and and privately unprepared not to care. | |
| Uh this is just so contrived and so uh orchestrated. | |
| It's like, well, I'm sitting here with Matt Lauer, and I'm gonna make reference to, you know, pardon me, everybody, I know school's out. | |
| Uh I'm gonna make some reference to whose ass to kick. | |
| And that's gonna make me seem tough. | |
| It'll really make me seem like I'm in charge. | |
| I mean, uh what is this? | |
| It's it's like Urkel channeling Jay-Z. | |
| It doesn't work. | |
| And just having welcomed Michael Baron, let's show some love to his uh his publication, The Washington Examiner, uh, that has a magnificent editorial. | |
| It's brief, so let me share that with you because this is it's against this backdrop uh that all this nonsense rolls out. | |
| And the title is Obama Brings Nixonian Twist to Oil Spill, and they write. | |
| Nothing more fully reveals the essential character of a person or group than a crisis. | |
| Thus, the ecological and political catastrophe of the Gulf Oil spill has exposed a breathtaking level of incompetence, political opportunism, and mendacity at the heart of the Obama administration. | |
| Documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity make clear that the White House was told by the Coast Guard within 24 hours of the April 20th explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon platform. | |
| They were told that the equivalent of 8,000 barrels a day could escape into the ocean. | |
| Within three days, Obama and his senior aides were warned that the spill could exceed the environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez in 1989. | |
| Despite these warnings, over the next two months, Obama attended Democratic fundraisers, played golf, hosted basketball and football teams at the White House, and delivered commencement speeches. | |
| Two weeks passed before he could be bothered to go to Louisiana. | |
| On April 29th, Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Gendal declared a state of emergency as the oil spill covered 600 square miles and loomed only 16 miles from the coast. | |
| Jindal begged federal officials for permission to build a massive network of sand berms to contain damage to beaches... | |
| Washington responded, a month later, permission was only granted to build two percent of the berms requested. | |
| Meanwhile, as Obama dawdled and oil appeared off Florida's beaches, the president delivered a strident speech in Pittsburgh with a decidedly Nixonian twist. | |
| He should have been summoning political leaders across The spectrum to lay aside partisan concerns for the moment. | |
| But instead, Obama asserted that Republicans believe, quote, if you're a Wall Street bank or an insurance company or an oil company, you pretty much get to play by your own rules, regardless of the consequences for everyone else. | |
| This libelous mischaracterization marks a new low, even for a man so highly practiced in the ugly art of political demagoguery. | |
| Finally, as the thick black crude and natural gas continue to erupt into the Gulf waters, and public exasperation with BP's futile attempts to stop it, piled up one after another. | |
| Obama dispatched Attorney General Eric Holder to Louisiana to proclaim, quote, we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. | |
| Anyone who has violated the law, we will not rest until justice is done. | |
| Shortly afterward, Obama blasted BP for lawyering up in response to the government's threats. | |
| As ill-timed as it was, Holder's announcement nevertheless clearly confirmed what was plainly suggested by Obama's Pittsburgh speech. | |
| His top priority is not to stop the spill, but to shift blame away from himself, and to forever tar his opponents with responsibility for a catastrophe made far worse by his own spectacular mismanagement. | |
| Washington Examiner editorial. | |
| All right, Tate. | |
| To the phones to the phones. | |
| 1-800-282-2882-1-800-282-2882. | |
| We're traveling on a lot of uh we're on multiple tracks today. | |
| Lots of primary elections going on, a lot of things going on in Nevada, California, Arkansas. | |
| You don't have to just be from those states to weigh in because today is a good day to take stock of Tea Party clout, uh, the states where it's really going to work well, and the states where maybe it might not be the greatest thing to have going for you, whatever that means. | |
| Uh just uh just a big mishmash of talk show narratives that we can have with regard to today's elections. | |
| And in fact, along those lines, let's go to Cedar Rapids, Iowa David. | |
| Mark Davis, you are on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Mark Davis filling in. | |
| How are you? | |
| Very good. | |
| Thank you very much, Mark. | |
| Uh appreciate you filling in and wanted to offer my congratulations and best wishes to Rush and married myself for 21 years to my lovely bride in the hope that he has as much happiness and satisfaction that we've had over the years. | |
| That's very kind. | |
| Thanks. | |
| I know he appreciates that. | |
| Uh very thank you very much. | |
| Um, as far as what's going on here in Iowa, I just wanted to uh you know voice my public support uh for Rob Getamy in Iowa's second congressional district, and want to encourage as many voters as I can to get out and vote for him before nine tonight here in Iowa. | |
| You talked earlier about the Tea Party movement and uh, you know, those candidates who will stick more to that core ideal, and I definitely believe Rob is that sort of candidate, and he's the type the person that has said many times that we cannot be the country that Obama wants us to be and be the country of my founders at the same time. | |
| So tell me a little bit about the the return of a formerly familiar name Terry Branstad, uh former governor, uh he was a veteran like four terms uh in the eighties, and he is leading businessman Bob Vanderplatz. | |
| How's that all working out? | |
| You know, it's it's interesting here. | |
| Uh you see a lot of attack ads in in Iowa, and you'd think that those might be being run by the candidates amongst themselves, but they're actually being funded by our current Democratic governor, Chuck Culver or some of those 513 type organizations. | |
| Why why is he in trouble? | |
| All I hear is that Governor Culver, uh, is in his first term, uh, as his approval ratings are teetering. | |
| Why? | |
| Uh what's going on across the country is definitely going on here in Iowa. | |
| You know, we have high unemployment, uh, we have a state government similar to California that is overpromised, you know, it's overspending, um, and therefore needs to start turning to uh the people and saying, well, we're gonna have to increase your taxes and you know, cut funding for certain key initiatives and key items that people believe very strongly in, | |
| and you know, that's where he's really struggled, I think, over through his first term as he's just done too tried to do too much to please too many people, and and now we're just we're overextended like a lot of states out there. | |
| All right, since you're here number one, thank you for your call, but I if I can have another minute of your time, there you are in Cedar Rapids. | |
| I it seems like only yesterday and in a way it seems like a hundred years ago that I landed in the four degree chill of Des Moines to cover the Iowa caucuses, eventually won by uh by Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. | |
| And uh and I'm nearly halfway to coming up your way again for the 2012 Iowa caucuses to say I can't wait would be an understatement. | |
| So here's my question for you. | |
| As a good Iowan, you and and the with all the focus on this year's elections, November 2nd, 2010, you know that November 3rd, 2010, like locusts, uh, Republicans will be descending on your state running for king or queen of Iowa. | |
| Are you ready for that? | |
| Is there advanced buzz about that? | |
| And who whose pitch are you most interested in hearing? | |
| Um as far as whose pitch I'm most interested in hearing in that regard, uh, you know, I'm not sure yet. | |
| I think that the eventual candidate on the Republican side may yet to emerge. | |
| There's a lot of people that I think are making a good name for themselves, um, whether it's, you know, our vice presidential nominee from the last election, or whether it's the new governor in New Jersey or the current governor in Louisiana. | |
| I think there's a lot of very viable candidates. | |
| But as far as whether or not I'm looking forward to it, you know, Iowa works very hard to continue to be first in the nation status, um, and that's a good thing for our economy and our state, uh, but it's a bad thing for our airways because it's two straight years of uh you know hearing that. | |
| We get very, very uh wore out uh of that process by the time the actual caucus uh occurs. | |
| It was crazy. | |
| I mean, we all know no matter where we live, we all know what the what the what commercial breaks on TV and radio can be like, often with candidates sniping at each other from the same commercial break. | |
| But I've never seen anything like uh, you know, being there at the uh the embassy suites on locust speaking of locusts, locust street there in downtown Des Moines. | |
| I rolled in a couple of days before the the caucuses, and of course, on the Democrat side, you've got Obama ads and Clinton ads, and on the Republican uh side, you got me know McCain ads and Huckabee ads and Romney ads. | |
| I mean, it was I I God help you if you're a furniture store. | |
| I mean, there was just or or or a car dealership. | |
| You couldn't find time in those uh in in those commercial breaks. | |
| So well, brace yourself, sir, and stay in touch with the Rush Limbaugh show and know he'll be interested in your thoughts because Iowa becomes uh uh just becomes such a focal point uh literally the morning after the November 2nd, uh after the November 2nd election night, the 2012 presidential race begins the morning of November third, 2010, because then everybody hits the ground knowing the way the field is going to be striped. | |
| All righty, thank you very, very much. | |
| 1800-282-2882, Mark Davis Infor Rush, and back on the EIB network in just a moment. | |
| It's the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth. | |
| Let's get back to some more of your calls. | |
| We are in McMinnville, Oregon. | |
| Sean, hi, Mark Davis in for rush. | |
| Happy Tuesday. | |
| Nice to have you. | |
| Hey, it's a real pleasure. | |
| So what's up? | |
| Well, um, I don't know how many of your listeners today have had the chance to watch that uh interview that Matt Lauer did on the Today Show this morning with Obama. | |
| Well, actually they did it yesterday, but it's aired today. | |
| Uh, but I'm encouraging them all to watch it and actually pay really close attention to about eight minutes and twenty-five seconds in, starting about there. | |
| It's uh Obama makes a pretty telling flip-up about this whole oil disaster because his administration is admittedly kind of in bed with big environment, you know, oh, we gotta we've got to protect our shores, gotta, you know, blah, blah, blah. | |
| But Obama himself admits that if this was a shallow water rig that had blown up instead of like the deep water horizon, like, you know, however many miles out and five thousand feet below, he admits that if this was a shallow water rig that the problem would have been solved weeks ago because they could have simply just gone out, put a cap over the top of it with people instead of trying to use these little robotic rigs that are really clumsy and awkward, and it would have been done. | |
| Well, he he's correct about that. | |
| I have a feeling that he doesn't consider himself to have thrown his own uh environmental extremism under the bus. | |
| I I I think one has to objectively admit that this would be an easier uh an easier cat to skin if if the thing were not forty-some miles out. | |
| But President Obama is glad to have these things 40, 50 miles out. | |
| He'd like to have them on the moon if he had any interest in going there, because the guy just hates oil. | |
| Well, exactly. | |
| And it's what this what this has done is it's created the perfect I mean, and to be honest, this is kind of conspiracy theory territory, almost info war tech, you know, talk, But it almost seems to me like he he would like this to go on as long as humanly possible because the longer it goes on, | |
| A, the more it damages BP stock and you know, and public image, and B, the longer it goes on, the more it turns people so rapidly against oil that they're just gonna wanna be willing to jump into any environmental legislation that comes down the pipe, | |
| like cap and trade, or oh, we need to just you know cut ourselves off from oil totally and get on electric cars and solar panels, which I mean, honestly, you know, I'm all for alternative energy, I'm all for nuclear power, I'm all for solar panels, whatever was. | |
| But at the same time, it's got to be done in a way where it's like you know, we we augment what we're already using with that technology so that we have like an overarching energy portfolio. | |
| Sean, go back, go back, Sean, two minutes because I want you to undo uh it wasn't self-criticism, but I want you to to backtrack on something for me because you set up those those observations that you made by saying it seemed kind of like wacky conspiratorial info wars kind of stuff. | |
| No, sir, it does not. | |
| What you then unfolded for us was thoroughly rational analysis on what might be motivating an administration that hates oil so much that part at least part of them loves every day of this spill because it is oil's three mile island that will hopefully freak people out and cause the ab as Three Mile Island did uh the abandonment of an industry that did not deserve to be abandoned. | |
| That that's not uh that's not from the fringe. | |
| That uh that shows clarity, and um it just does. | |
| So anyway, listen, thank you. | |
| Let me scoot. | |
| I need to, and I much appreciate it. | |
| Best everybody up there in the beautiful state of Oregon. | |
| Oh hey, let's go to New York. | |
| Let's go to the mighty WABC. | |
| Let's see what's going on. | |
| Joe, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show, Mark Davis filling in. | |
| How are you? | |
| Hey, very good, Mark, and how are you? | |
| Fantastic. | |
| And mega diddos to Rush, and of course, congratulations on his writing. | |
| I'm very happy. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| So listen, I was listening to this morning the president on Fox, and the whole day something has been going through my head. | |
| I think the president, without even knowing it, has actually just coined the rallying cry for conservatives everywhere, whether they're Republicans, Tea Party members. | |
| He's just created the he basically coined the entire phrase for everybody. | |
| Now, to look at what he said, to again, you used the word potty mouth, but essentially he used the words ASS. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Now, if you look at the uh the Democrat symbol, it's a donkey. | |
| Now, what's another word for a donkey, which is linguistically correct is an ass. | |
| So he he actually if he wants to know who's asked to kick, he should kick the asses out of office in two thousand and twelve. | |
| I was expecting this would happen. | |
| So I tell you what, there is there is some poetic sense to this, and and it's certainly in terms of the the various logos of the parties, it follows. | |
| Thank you, man. | |
| I appreciate it a lot. | |
| Best everybody of the big apple. | |
| Will this uh cause because that is that is certainly what uh what Republicans are looking to do uh in November. | |
| Will they, will they? | |
| I mentioned I was at an event last night with uh with Polster and uh Word Maven Frank Luntz. | |
| Um let's do this. | |
| Uh let's take our last break, come back. | |
| I'll throw you a couple of things Frank told us last night, uh, and then uh throw sprinkle in another call or two for the top of the hour. | |
| Then we got another entire hour for more of your calls and more uh let's talk a little bit about message because Frank's uh Frank's message was sure things are looking pretty good. | |
| The pendulum is swinging back in a Republican direction. | |
| But can we still screw this up? | |
| You bet we can. | |
| And I'll give you some of those thoughts next. | |
| Mark Davis, in for rush on the EIB network. | |
| It is the final minutes of uh the second hour of the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| We radio guys, we know clocks, man. | |
| We know clocks. | |
| We don't always obey them, but we know them. | |
| So in our final minute here before we give way to some top of the hour news that will serve you well, I'm sure. | |
| On whatever proud limbaugh affiliate you're listening on, uh we'll tell you what's coming up in the next hour. | |
| We've got uh if uh obviously I'm interested in talking to somebody in South Carolina, uh, but I'm particularly interested because here's somebody from Michigan who has uh apparently dr gone to South Carolina to do some uh some some traveling volunteer work and will be back in Nevada, so we got all kinds of things uh uh that are lining up for our next hour. | |
| So I mentioned that I was at a Congressman Sam Johnson event, third district of Texas, just an enormous hero. | |
| And Frank Lunz was in the house, and I'm gonna give a little bit of a tease here. | |
| There's a word that he doesn't want Republican candidates to use ever. | |
| It's a thoroughly good word and one that uh makes me glow with pride. | |
| That word is capitalism. | |
| But he says don't use that word because it can carries a negative connotation. | |
| And listen, fairly or not, you've got to play the field the way it's striped, right? | |
| So what word shall we replace capitalism with? | |
| What term? | |
| I'll tell you what Frank recommends and see what you think next. | |
| Mark Davis in for rush. |
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