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June 14, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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In 23 hours, Rush Limbaugh will be back.
It is I, Douglas Rbanski.
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I'm going to talk about what it means to be a Hollywood conservative.
This topic comes up, and we had a debate whether we should be talking about that or not today.
And I want to take you a little bit behind the scenes into my world in Hollywood.
Yeah, Hollywood, you you think of Alec Baldwin and you think of Madonna, and you think of a whole uh list of Hollywood idiots, and there are use the word because the word is well used.
And yet not all of Hollywood is full of Hollywood Hollywood looks much more like the mall of America.
It's people trying to earn a buck.
It's not all celebrities, it's agents, producers, stage crew, caterers, writers, directors.
It's a lot of people in that infrastructure.
It's car salesmen, it's accountants.
And there are plenty of conservatives in Hollywood.
And yes, there are there are well known famous conservatives.
It's not my job to out them and tell you their names, although I have the list of their names.
Because eventually they all call it a long list.
Eventually they all call me up.
And they uh and they uh they they wanted to have a converse they want to have a conservative conversation, yet many of them have no idea what it means to be a conservative.
In fact, many in Hollywood became conservatives.
They're what I call 9-11 conservatives, meaning that they support the troops, they support our missions, and that was their gateway into conservative thought because they became really, really sobered up about these enemies who want to destroy this country, either from without or from within.
And they've gone down the journey of conservatism, really trying to understand what it means and get their hands around this idea.
You may recall the actor Ron Silver, who was a friend of mine, a very fascinating man, and you may recall that he gave uh very bright guy.
Ron Silver had been in the CIA, people didn't know this, he had been a China studies major in college, he spoke Chinese, and wonderful actor.
Before Ron died, before he was ill, he was very much of the belief that he had been blacklisted in Hollywood because he was an out of the closet public conservative.
He had given a speech at the last Republican convention, and it was a conversation he and I had had several times because I felt that he he was not blacklisted.
I don't see any such thing as blacklisting in Hollywood.
Not at all.
Because there were some very famous people who wouldn't be working, who wouldn't be working at all.
What I did know about Ron's life was this.
I own a talent management company, and I could tell that the reason he wasn't working had far less to do with his politics, and it had much more to do with the reality of what kind of jobs were available for him.
You know, Hollywood is a shrinking industry.
Fewer movies made every year, fewer television shows made every year.
Conservatives don't play place themselves in the mentality of being victims, and we shouldn't do that.
You gotta be more smart about it, you'll be wiser about why you may be working or may not be working.
Now to each his own.
If you're in Hollywood and you want to be out of the closet as a conservative, fine.
I shall never forget uh having one very, very famous star to our house to dinner, just before George W. Bush uh had his first inauguration.
And the star excused himself at one point, and he walked through my office, and he noticed that we were going to Washington for the inauguration, my wife and I. And he came back and he said, Wow, I didn't know you were a conservative.
And I said, Yes.
He actually said to me, Do you listen to Rush Limbaugh?
And I said, in between all my phone calls to the studios and celebrities on movies, you bet I listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Now, of course, the great thing is this you can podcast it, you can go on the treadmill, you can listen to it any time you want.
But in Hollywood, there are people who feel they must remain in the closet.
There are people who are developing in their conservative thought, and uh that's all a good thing.
It's not upfront, you know, all of Hollywood's founding fathers were conservative.
Louis B. Mayer, very serious conservative.
Uh you saw Chuck Heston, Jimmy Stewart, all of these famous people, and yet there was always this red streak that ran through Hollywood, a real, real red streak.
And you've always seen the the uh the double standard That existed in Hollywood.
This was Ronald Reagan's brilliance when he detected that in fact there was a communist infiltration in Hollywood.
And this was a formative thing in his mind.
And in that July of 1946, when Ronald Reagan had the light bulbs going off in his head saying, wait a minute, there really are communists in this town.
And he sort of went through the metamorphosis right then and there, that warm July night, where he said, I'm going to devote my life to the fighting of communism.
Amazing, 40 years before he actually impacted it the way he did.
But of course it's never-ending battle, as you and I know, because America ends up right now at a crossroads moment, a crossroads moment.
It's not even about the words capitalism or communism anymore.
It's about the words individual.
It's about the words free enterprise.
And I want to give you my thoughts for a second on what it means to be a conservative.
Because we hear it thrown around an awful lot, and you wonder if you are one, and you get into conversations with your friends.
I'm going to give you a very simple image that's in my head.
If you can imagine a very beautiful domed pavilion held up by three pillars, and that pavilion represents physically in your mind, conservatism.
What are the three pillars that hold it up?
Well, one of the pillars, of course, is national security.
Do you notice, by the way, how those on the left detest national security?
They'll spend on anything but national security.
And when it comes to the question of national security, America is always at fault.
Have you noticed this?
One of those three pillars is national security.
Another of those pillars is traditional values.
Traditional value is a very controversial thing because you say whose values?
We say our values.
The values of the founders.
Pretty good.
Pretty good stuff.
Built an amazing country, a country that we don't want to see torn down and changed here as we face the crossroads I was telling you about.
And what is the third pillar?
The third pillar is massively strong one.
It's called liberty.
Individual liberty.
You can put every concept you can think of, whether it's small government, individual enterprise, entrepreneurship, add it all behind the column of liberty.
And you are left with these three beautiful columns national security, traditional values, liberty, and what are they holding up?
They're holding up this dome, and the dome is the dome that is the belief in American exceptionalism above all.
Now, when Barack Obama was asked about American exceptionalism, he said, and I cringed, and perhaps many of you also cringed.
Barack Obama said, I'm sure the I'm sure the British also feel exceptional.
I'm sure the Germans also, he went down a list.
And it was a revolting list, and the list reveals what's wrong with the left, because if you believe that everyone is exceptional, then in fact what you believe is that no one is exceptional.
And this is the belief and the mindset of the President of the United States.
So my own views of conservatism simply stated, simply stated, I'm not a conservative scholar.
I'm a Hollywood person.
But I have learned by listening to Rush and others and reading and going down the journey of self-education, following where facts and reason will take you, to a simplistic idea that I have enormous reverence for, enormous reverence for.
You learn to love the Constitution, and you learn to scratch your head in wonderment about where these people get these ideas about what they can do with it, to twist it into a pretzel.
It's what I was talking about earlier.
Activist judges, and by the way, um, the point of activist judges.
You may not see their names on a ballot when you go in November or any other day, but the judgeship in this country is always on the ballot, always.
Always on the ballot.
And it is that institution, the courts, where the left take their destructive ideas and institutionalize them.
So they become very, very, very hard to turn back.
In California, we had elections, as you know, also on Tuesday.
And I heard a lot of moaning out there in conservative circles that Chuck DeVore did not win, that Carly Fiorino won.
Well, you don't know, because I live in California.
I saw it firsthand.
Chuck DeVore did not run a very good campaign.
Good campaign running is part of the deal, my friends.
If you can't run a good campaign, you don't deserve to win.
Carly Fiorina is going to give a real run for her money to Barbara Boxer.
Oh boy, is that going to be fun to watch.
They're already trying to turn it into a cat fight.
The media in California.
Of course, it's much more substantive than that.
Look, Carly is who we've got, and that's who we've got a rally behind in California.
Meg Whitman, amazing campaign.
Utterly amazing.
Let me tell you what her commercials were like.
If you didn't if you don't live in California and you didn't hear these commercials, she campaigned on the idea that she would create a law similar to the one in Arizona that's been so controversial, that she would create such a law and that she would crack down on what she called sanctuary cities.
And she named in her commercials by name.
She will crack down on San Francisco.
What does this tell us?
It tells us that there is some kind of internal polling that they must have had that tells us how staggeringly confident these numbers are.
Staggeringly confident.
It's Douglas Rabansky filling in be right back.
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I noticed that the good folks of South Carolina have had the good sense to elect for the Senate, arguably the most attractive Democrat candidate I have ever seen.
Mr. Alvin Green.
I'll go into more of his details in a few minutes, but I'm going to start the Alvin Green for president in 2012 campaign right here.
And I love this guy.
For reasons that will become clear as we continue, but I will go to the calls for a moment first.
Let's go to Steve here in New York City.
Steve, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Doug, how's it going?
Uh great to talk to you.
Um a former uh news producer actually used to work for Fox and had the pleasure of uh chatting to you a few times.
Uh what are you doing now, Steve?
Um actually uh doing some political blogging and some computer consulting and you know, doing doing what I do, making ends meet.
Well, nice nice to talk to you, sir.
Same here.
Uh I wanted to say you had mentioned uh, you know, uh the double standard with the um with the celebrities, and and yeah, we have we haven't heard Kanye West saying uh Obama doesn't like white people, talking about the uh Nashville floods or anything like that.
But uh the the thing that really gets me is a double standard in news.
Uh when I was uh at Fox, I was covering Katrina pretty heavily, and also watching the competition c uh cover Katrina, and they would put on every cockamie, you know, theory about what happened to the levees and the levees got blown up, and there was a very famous sound bite from some woman who's in uh New Orleans uh that you could look up on the internet, I guess, of her or of her uh take on her witnessing.
Oh, Steve, we had Jesse Jackson made remarks as well.
So did a bunch of other people.
You name it, it it becomes like an episode of Columbo when these people start going.
I mean, they're gonna look for all sorts of stuff, but yeah, so what's your point?
So, no, I mean my point is is uh they only tote they tow the exact Obama line on this situation, where a multitude of things could have gone wrong.
Yet they're they're not they're not, they don't turn into Columbia Columbo in this case, as you put it.
Uh you know, but in the other case, because it was Bush, they'll entertain any sort of thing that could possibly be brought back to Halliburton or this or that, or guys blowing up levies or what have you.
Oh, I've already seen some stuff.
I didn't include in today's show, but I've already seen some stuff that actually blames Halliburton for part of this problem.
Yeah, allegedly they controlled the uh caps that were supposedly on the So yeah, I just I just thought it was funny.
I thought I should learn and also when you when you mentioned the war protesters, the other thing uh that that we would get in news is every thirty seconds you'd get you get like a blip.
It's an update from uh AP or the other wires, and they kept a I I swear to God it must have been every five minutes an update of the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Right.
It must have been every five minutes.
Right.
And you'd be really, I don't know if you heard me say this a little earlier.
I'm trying to introduce into the language that Afghanistan is being we were told that Iraq would be George Bush's Vietnam.
I'm trying to introduce it to the conversation that Afghanistan in fact is Barack Obama's Vietnam.
No, absolutely.
And we've learned, as you may have heard me say, that Osama bin Laden isn't even in Afghanistan.
Right, exactly.
Pleasure to talk to you.
All right, see, thanks for calling the Rush Limbaugh show, Douglas Rabansky filling in for Rush.
Let's go to Jerry.
Jerry, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh show.
What's on your mind, sir?
Hello, Doug.
Uh hey, real quick, you talked about that Al Green in South Carolina.
Maybe if you borrow Barack uh Hussein Obama's uh teleprompter, I mean he'd sound like a genius, too.
Well, you know, I'm gonna talk more about Alvin Green, because I as I said, I find him a very attractive Democrat candidate.
Um they're asking all sorts of questions about Mr. Green that in fact they never ever ever asked about Barack Obama.
They they're saying he's a Republican plant.
Well, did anyone ever ask who who was Obama a plant of anybody else?
We knew nothing about him other than the fact he voted present, present, present, which by the way, is kind of what he's doing about the uh oil spill.
He's voting present again.
He's awfully comfortable voting present.
But the the very questions that we want to ask about Mr. Green, or that the that the Democrats in South Carolina want to ask, they never have asked about Barack Obama.
Are you struck by that also, uh, Jerry?
Yeah, very much so.
Uh I mean, uh well, of course, I mean it's I mean, I know you saw the guy, and it just it was unbelievable.
I thought it would look like a skip from Saturday Night Live.
But Doug, the reason I called you was about the uh the oil situation with BP and what I feel that this liberal government is gonna try to do.
I really believe they're gonna try to seize the oil company.
No question about it.
We we've all seen you've seen that hilarious footage and heard the hilarious auto auto of Maxine Waters.
He was always good for comic relief, as you know.
Well that was back in two thousand eight, yes.
Yes, but beneath the comic relief, there's a horror story.
Isn't there, Jerry?
We've lost.
Yes, okay, Jerry.
Yeah, you finish your point.
Oh, yeah, Doug.
And uh anyway, so I really do I feel that they're gonna try to seize it, and and but at least the people here in Tennessee, we've we're throwing out two uh two political cowards, uh John Tanner and the uh the other coward Bart Gordon.
We're sending them up to Ned Lamont home for a display wearing liberals.
Oh, Jerry, that's the secret code.
Thank you so much, Jerry, for calling the Rush Limbaugh show, Douglas Rabansky filling in 1-800-282-2882.
With the Ned Lamont nursing home.
What a what a wonderful story that was.
Oh, man, thank you so much, Jerry, for that.
We we are talking about uh Alvin Green and where he got the money, the questions being asked to run for Senate, the in north in South Carolina, this pressure mounting the Washington Post is saying.
They're saying that he may be a Republican plant.
The Washington Post is saying there's an element of intrigue involved in the story.
Uh there's he by the way, he's he's an African American, uh, as you may know, and no one's been able to find any evidence of meddling in the story.
Uh they'd like to suggest it because he didn't run a campaign.
Have you been following the story?
Amazing story.
Um the guy, uh who was uh the former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman, his guy named Dick Harputlian.
He said uh recruiting an African American in a primary is not a novel idea.
He said, we've seen it before.
He says it raises the question, did somebody assist him in filing?
Given all that, intriguing minds want to know.
Now, this is a guy who says that he saved the money from his army payment and money he earned in the army, and that he used that to file.
The guy lives with his with his father, and yet the Democrat Party in South Carolina wants to know they don't like the fact there's an element of racism involved in the story.
To see South Carolina Democrats tearing up an African American veteran.
Typically you'd you would see someone like that trying to support him.
You know, I love open primaries, by the way.
There's a lot of talk about us getting them in California.
There are serious people.
Governor Schwarzenegger is behind it as well.
They'd love to see us have open primaries.
If you have open primaries, the other side is always gonna choose for you.
Alvin Green or John McCain, you know, uh they're whining, the Democrats in South Carolina, about how he got the money, how man of his background couldn't possibly have any money.
Couldn't possi the element of racism is is blatantly blatantly clear here.
This is he is the legitimate uh candidate, you know.
He is the he is the legitimate candidate.
And it's gonna be amazing to watch how hard they work to have this guy removed.
Utterly, absolutely amazing to see what they try to do with him.
He how he got his money is of no no consequence.
He got the votes to win.
He this game may backfire.
He may go on and win.
He may he may well go on and win the seat the general election.
I don't think he'll beat Jim DeMint.
Not possible.
Not possible.
But man, oh man, it's a story of great intrigue.
Al Alvin Green in South Carolina, Douglas Rabansky filling in for Limbaugh.
Back after this.
Ah.
All right.
Well, we're going to talk when we come back about the China's military threat, because no one's talking about that either.
There we go.
1-800-282-2882 is the number if you want to join me in conversation.
I'm talking about Alvin Green.
I got to finish talking about him here for a moment in South Carolina because the story has such uh it's got such amusing dimensions.
He's been legitimate he's an African American.
He's been discharged from the Army.
He is a gentleman who um who the Democrats in South Carolina are accusing um they're speculating at least that he's a Republican plant.
Now, did any of us other than Rush come up to the idea that McCain may have been a Democrat plant when he ran?
The whole issue was that the New York Times and others in the media helped select and package the presidential candidate who voters rejected last year, two years ago.
And yet there were no screams, was he a plant by anybody?
There were no screaming about Barack Obama, junior senator, with a very little attendance record, even in the Senate.
You stack him up against any number of people, and the the record is shocking.
No one said he's a plant.
No one said where'd he come from?
Not at all.
The Democrats are whining about how he got the money to run.
They're saying, how did a man with his background they say a man with his background couldn't possibly couldn't possibly have a bank account that allowed him to file.
That alone sounds a little racist to me.
It's very funny.
Funny in a sad way, of course, to see the Democrats tearing up uh an African American veteran.
They should be trying to support him.
The criminal charges against him are uh are amazing.
Amazing, because the criminal charges are the sort of charges that when you they they have to do with some sort of um some sort of scandal, it's a minor scandal, but they're always the sort of charges that it's about it's it's about sex, that's right.
It's about which is no one's business, and it's always the sort of scandal that Democrats seem to uh to have no problem with when it's one of their own.
He ran legally and he won.
Doesn't matter who paid the money, who paid for who were half of the backers.
Where did all those small donations come from in the election of Barack Obama?
The Democrats look actually ridiculous, spitting, sputtering about this guy.
Yeah, there's gotta be a lot of people who come out of the work and will want to donate to Green's campaign.
He might need some help.
But I think Green would be a welcome addition to the circus known as Washington, D.C. So the Democrats are extreme.
They're behaving racist.
They, by the way, they accuse anyone, and I've been called a racist to my face because I don't like Barack Obama.
They accuse anyone who doesn't like Barack Obama, is a racist.
Or if you don't like his policies, you're a racist.
And yet the very same people can't cope with the fact that an African American man won the Democrat nomination for Senate in South Carolina.
All because those dastardly Republicans are at it again.
I can't figure out how they did it, but we know they're at it.
Let's go to Roy in Bakersfield, California.
Roy, you've been holding a long time, sir.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh good morning, Doug.
Is this Doug?
It is indeed, sir.
That's on your mind, Roy.
That's hilarious, isn't it?
What's on your mind?
It could be.
Anyway, my just straight to the qu um question I had was, you know, you're talking about Hollywood and stuff.
And they're only showing just quick sound bites of this on the Kevin Costner thing.
And I I'm wondering what you're what you know about that.
Yeah.
If it's actually real.
No, you know, I I have not been following it as closely as I should, the Kevin Coster story.
I'll tell you this, though.
It sounds interesting, and one of the things that's notable about it is I don't see Kevin Costner sort of out there grandstanding.
He's saying, apparently that his brother, who is not an actor and who's not in show business, but who is who knows something about how to clean up oil and has some technology to do it.
He's offering, and he's offering money apparently also to put into operation the system that's been devised.
And I don't see him out there grandstanding.
He's offering it, and he's he's just another and he's using his famous face, of course, to help push it because he's concerned about it all.
But he apparently is another in the long line of people who have all sorts of ideas and solutions.
There what can you imagine, Roy, in the days after this.
If there was no idea what to do in the White House, and we've been down this road before, by the way.
What if the president had merely said, I'm going to create a Manhattan project type of a committee, who will have the best resources available to them, who will be able to come up in a very short order of time, the solutions for us to for us to evaluate over the next course of the next ten days.
Can you imagine the sort of people that he could have put together and the sort of ideas that may have come out of it?
Didn't happen.
Roy, did it?
No, it didn't.
No, it didn't.
Thanks, Roy.
What's that ro I said and it and it's gonna turn it turns out bad.
But we I just I don't understand why it's not more, of course, it's m mainstream media, and I just wish he could get out there.
You know, you make it makes all of us a cynic when you hear things like never let a crisis go to waste, doesn't it?
And then you then you sort of have it confirmed before your very eyes.
Roy, thanks so much for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Anthony, in Richmond, Virginia, sir, one of my favorite places to visit.
How are you, Anthony?
Doug, how are you?
Thanks.
What's up?
Well, I've got I've waited so long, I've gone from singing uh New York, New York to uh old Al Green songs.
I hope you're not gonna do that.
But anyway, uh you know, guys, we've changed you've changed subject since I called.
But you know, I mean uh why can't we act like this this this thing just happened yesterday and uh and get on and clean it up right away.
I mean, what's the big deal that it took so long?
Why not act like it happened yesterday and and take all the shrimp boats that are idle at the dock and put some fuel in them.
BP has plenty of fuel, send them out with some booms and start cleaning this mess up.
You know, aren't you struck, uh, Anthony, that no one is actually asking the president of the United States that question?
Heaven forbid this was a nuclear accident, huh?
Yeah, heaven forbid, heaven forbid.
What do you what do you think of my idea, Anthony, that there should have been a group like a Manhattan Project put together to immediately come up with a response to this in the first five days, ten days.
Well, I'll put it to you this way.
I know that if I pump fuel overboard, that if I don't call the Coast Guard within thirty minutes, there's an immediate fine, and we have a group that's on standby twenty-four hours a day for even as much as five gallons of fuel overboard, and they come and they boom it off and they clean it up.
You know, and uh I mean I thought I thought that I'll find out.
Anthony, you're a commercial fisherman.
A community organizer should be able to at least organize, you know, at least stay with stay within your expertise.
Uh Evan, you are a fisherman, yes?
You're you go out into a boat into the sea.
Yeah.
Do you have any thoughts about little Abbey Sunderland out in the Indian Ocean?
You know, I always wondered about the people wanting to uh you've never been as as a sailor, doesn't it strike you as extremely odd to push someone out into the ocean?
Yes, because I will tell you what that's the one place that if you've ever been scared, that's the place to be.
It's the only place I've ever been where I actually feared for my life.
And it's no fun.
And I I just don't understand what the deal was for her to uh for for it to be so important for her to risk her life to sail around the world, you know.
I mean, what were her parents wouldn't have let her play on the freeway?
No, no, that's right.
No, but they but they did say, Anthony, she was a good sailor.
Good sailors die all the time, you know.
I mean, it's not about being a good sailor when the seas get to be, you know, thirty to fifty feet and the winds are seventy miles an hour.
Okay, well, you're a sailor, you know about these things.
It's a it's uh the more you talk to sailors, the more you realize how wacky that whole story is.
Something completely crazy there.
It's no fun.
A good example is to go out of Oregon Inlet in North Carolina.
An inlet that is it it's wrapped in controversy about building a jetty, and to leave every day and to know that when you came home, you were gonna take a risk your life on being able to get back to the inlet.
Right.
I mean, that I mean, not everyone worries about dying on their way home.
I know traffic, I can't.
No, no, Anthony, the ocean's a big place, isn't it?
Full of big waves and storms and sea creatures and Lord knows what else.
And that All right, Anthony, thanks for calling the Rush Limbaugh show.
It's Douglas Abansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be right back.
Dr. Sabansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
The President of the United States is still the topic.
He's going to, as you know, talk at the nation tomorrow.
He's going to tell us his latest ideas on the oil spill, who he's going to meet up, how he's going to solve the issue.
Do you think there's going to be anything new from this guy tomorrow night?
Be very surprised.
I'm not sure I do think there would be.
I think it'd be the same old spin.
He may even try to weave in 9-11 to the story.
He may even try to weave in 9-11.
Obama was talking about fossil fuels.
And he made the point that he thought we had to transition out of a fossil fuel-based economy overnight.
And of course he's stuck on the idea, in fact, that oil is a fossil fuel.
The matter is hardly a settled piece of science that oil is a fossil fuel.
Do you know that?
A lot of people don't know that.
The big thing you need to think about with oil is this.
We use it for a lot more than fuel.
I want to tell you some things.
A partial list of items that oil is essential in the manufacture of you have it all around you.
Clothing that is made from synthetics, acrylic, nylon, polyester, buttons, running shoes, jeans, shirts.
All have petroleum in them.
That's not being used as energy.
That's being used to create products.
It makes our lives better and easier.
Sunscreen, aspirate, ibuprofen, shampoo, hairbrushes, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap.
All of them have petroleum in them.
And you can go on and on.
This is not just that we're an energy-based society, as they will have you think that we are addicted to fossil fuels for our energy, the so-called fossil fuels.
He says we need to develop domestic oil cons we need to continue to develop domestic oil consumption.
He says.
He says we're still going to need oil exports.
He said if it's safe, then offshore drilling can be a part of that.
This is what the President had to say.
He said accidents are going to happen.
He said they may need may not be of this size or scope, but he said they may continue and we'll see big problems.
Petroleum is used in a lot of other things.
A lot of other things.
He says we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies.
We need to spend more money on technology and r to respond to cases like this.
Very man who didn't get together a team to respond to Do you know where this president was, by the way, when the oil splinter when the memorial was for the men who died on the oil rigs?
The President of the United States was in the air on the way to a fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer in California, uh, when they had the May 25th memorial.
He was in the air flying for a fundraiser.
So that's why he did not attend the 25th of May Memorial Service.
It all just came out recently, a couple of days ago.
So even the idea of being presidential and going there was not trumped by the fact that he's the fundraiser in chief.
He loves the idea of being cool, being hip, but he had to run to Boxer's fundraiser instead of showing the representation that you might have expected in such a controversial event at the memorial service.
And um, you know, you start to wonder if indeed uh tomorrow night, when he speaks at you and I from the Oval Office, if indeed it's one natural disaster speaking about another.
That's what you wonder.
Interesting, however, that the press are slowly starting to point some of these things out, because let's face it, he appears after all the transparency, all the talk of hope and change, the talk of transparency, that this president may just in fact be the same old politician like all the rest, running around to fundraiser.
It'd be nice if if they'd done this kind of reporting during the election, wouldn't that wouldn't that have been wouldn't that have been preferable than to what we have now?
Hope and change, transparency, all the rest.
Just tells you what he's really concerned about.
Just tells you what he's concerned about.
I don't remember this sort of frank talking about the Fort Hood tragedy either at the same time.
Let's go to uh Potomac, Maryland Heath.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thanks, Doug.
Hey, um, you know, you keep bringing up the point about the government-controlled media or state-controlled media.
And I would suggest that what we have is more of a media controlled state.
Because even in situations like this, we see that Obama and the Democrats can't control the media because the media throws them under the bus.
And what we end up with is a situation like what we have now, where they're trying to compare the situation in the Gulf to 911, not because of the type of event, but because of the bounce they're hoping for in the polls.
Right, and because they're not going to be able to do it in the polls after 911, but Katrina tanked us in his numbers.
Yes, and because they believe that by associating Barack Obama with 911, it will make him h by the use of word magic that it will make him somehow uh appear heroic.
Right.
Right.
That's your point, Heath, isn't it?
Yeah, and like I said, they they the media has more control over who gets elected than who gets elected has over the media.
Well, there's no question that we saw the media had a lot of control over who the candidates were when when that whole cycle was going.
Because people are still baffled about how John McCain became the candidate of choice.
I know I still am.
Thanks so much, Heath, for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
John, also in Maryland, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Douglas Ranski here.
What's on your head?
Hey, Doug.
Hello.
I love your delivery.
Thank you.
Are you old enough to remember Walter Winchell?
No, I I I know who he was, of course, but I don't know.
Yeah, he had a staccato delivery.
He was terrific.
He uh used a typewriter, and I guess he was some kind of a gossip.
He was a columnist for in New York, of course.
Yes, he did very good things and very bad things.
We're gonna we're gonna look for a typewriter to bring in for you, John.
But the only reason I mentioned the typewriter is because he talked like a typewriter, too.
But anyway, the reason I called is uh for the last uh two uh talk radio days, Monday uh Friday and now uh Monday, one of the uh Rush affiliates, uh prime Rush affiliate in Washington, D.C. with WMAL has been discussing this Alvin uh Green story.
Yeah.
And uh I called Jim Dement's office to get it.
Are you with me that Alvin Green should be the ideal Democrat candidate for president in twenty twelve?
Definitely.
The trouble is he's just got to be a little bit more loquacious.
I think what he's doing is No, he's the anti-candidate.
Well isn't that what we want?
The every man, the anti-candidate.
Yeah.
He's beautiful.
But the topic.
John, I gotta s I gotta scoot.
Hurry up and make a point.
I think that, you know, he's a Republican plant or that Republicans crossed over to elect him.
Uh that's easily uh uh disproved if they would just go to the uh the people that voted.
I'm sure they know uh that ninety.
Thank you, John for calling the Russian boss show.
Got a scoot it's Douglas or Bancy, we'll be right back.
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I know you haven't elected me, and I'm here by accident.
Of course, you know that already.
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We're all thinking about it, because we could have missed it in the news in the past weeks.
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Our best wishes, good thoughts, prayers are with you both for many, many happy years.
Have you seen the story, by the way?
Yeah, we're going into all of this gusher of deficit spending.
Um that in England, they're having a plan that Canada successfully did uh they put in operation in the nineties of cutting spending in order to have a surplus.
That's absolutely true.
Uh in England, the Chancellor is announcing a once-in-a-generation revolution in public spending that was inspired what by what Canada did in the nineties to turn the deficit into a surplus.
And how they do this is they cut spending by twenty percent.
Now just think of what that means for you and I here in uh the United States of America.
Can you imagine how amazing it would be with all of these deficits?
Of course, now once you have Obamacare coming in, that means that they would be cutting your health care also by twenty percent.
But I th I say this if you live in California as I do, if you live any place where officials have voted for tax increases and more spending, elect them out once and for all.
Once and for all.
These crazy programs make no sense.
So in Canada, in England, they have actually done it successfully.
Will we have the guts to do it here?
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