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June 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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It is true the great Maharashi will be back on Monday and things will be back to normal, which is what you and I wish.
I'm a listener.
I'm a listener.
I'm a member, paying member of the Rush Limbaugh website.
You get to go on that website.
I listen on the radio station in my town, which is Los Angeles on KFI, great big station, love it.
And you no doubt listen on your favorite stations, but the website also has other stuff.
He has got these dazzling and hilarious graphics, but you get Russia's stack of stuff.
It's got great links on there, and all the audio, and some of the shows are just keepers.
I mean, you just keep them forever.
I've still got a bunch in my computer.
So when I was flying back out here to do the Rush Limbaugh show, I started to tell you that I had and kept on the desk Saul Linsky's Rules for Radicals, which is a great thing to keep on the desk of the Rush Limbaugh Show, don't you think?
Rules for Radicals.
Now, and of course, I made the joke that I hope I keep it here, hoping that Saul Linsky is rolling over uncomfortably in his grave because this is where it is.
I was making the point that it, and it is Open Line Friday, by the way, 1-800-282-2882 is the number if I hadn't given it out.
That Alinsky's book is kind of brilliant in a demented way.
I mean, you only have to read to about page four to know how demented this book is.
It makes everything that Obama and his crew do absolutely understandable when you read Alinsky.
But it also makes it clear, as I started to say when we went to the break, that if they don't seize total control over everything, and don't think for a second that that's not what's in their minds, that the rules for radicals cannibalizes itself, that the new radicals are you and I today.
And the left hate this, and this is why the word anger comes up again and again and again.
In the New York Times, you see the word anger.
I've started counting it every day.
The word anger is almost every story that describes anyone who disagrees with this administration, including tea partiers.
Rules for, we are the new radicals.
We're the new activists.
We're the new community organizers.
And conservatives must understand and take on this mantle themselves.
So bravo to anyone who's doing that.
Coming up in about another half an hour, we're going to have star Parker on.
Her story is fascinating, and she is running for the Congress.
She's been endorsed by Sarah Palin.
It's one of the reasons we're having her on.
She's got an amazing story.
And she's a conservative activist.
The other book I was carrying on the airplane coming out is this superb book by Arthur C. Brooks.
And he goes through, and this is a very easy to read book.
And a good friend of mine put me onto it.
This superb book.
He's the president of the American Enterprise Institute.
This superb book explains to you that you and I, conservatives, free marketeers, individuals, free enterprisists, that you and I are roughly 70% of this country.
And he walks through with you how the other 30% have taken charge of you and I.
And it's fascinating, Reed.
If I ever welcome back here, I will have a chance to tell you more about what we uncover, what we uncover in that bank.
Oh, there's an update about Alan Alvin Green.
You know, it's been proven.
Now he's not a Republican plant.
You know this?
The guy most definitely got, he is the nominee from South Carolina.
He got the votes over Vic Rawl.
I watched an interview with Vic Rawl on Fox.
What a nasty looking guy he is.
Anyway, Rawl lost 59% to 41% for a guy who didn't even run a campaign.
I think that, Mr. Rawl, I got to tell you something.
I think it says something about your campaign and your personality because I saw it and I would have voted for the other guy.
And I'm not even a Democrat.
Of course I'm not.
But anyway, Alvin Greene is the legitimate camp.
People voted for him because they liked his name or because they knew someone of the same name or they once had a friend growing up who had the same name.
The reasons were that they were that, you know, Helder Skelter.
Alvin Greene is definitely the nominee of the party.
It's amazing.
Everyone is fighting over Helen Thomas's seat.
You know this, you know this?
Helen Thomas' seat is up.
Bloomberg wants the seat.
Fox wants the seat.
They're writing letters to each other.
They're writing letters to the White House Correspondents Association.
And they're fighting over who gets Helen Thomas' seat there.
I made the joke earlier that when she was flying out of town, they gave her the kosher meal instead.
But of course, there was no kosher meal.
That was a joke of mine.
John Edwards, also in the news, story.
They bury these stories, don't they?
John Edwards apparently is a very wanted man.
Specifically, he's wanted by a legal courier who during the past few weeks has been trying to serve him with court papers to compel him to give a sworn deposition in the lawsuit his mistress has filed against his former aide.
So John Edwards, let me remind you who he is in case you've forgotten.
John Edwards is the man who the left dubbed as the next Kennedy.
Do you remember the huge profiles that Christopher Hitchens and others wrote?
And he was the man of great integrity.
He was the man of great honor.
Why is it that the left always, almost always choose these people who once you scratch the surface, you discover they're nothing like who they appear to be.
Unfortunately, in the case of Barack Obama, he's exactly as he appeared to be, only his words mean different things to us than they mean to him.
I told you this.
When he said, I see in America, I see an America where we all have a chance at the American dream.
I want to know what's in his head when he talks about the American dream.
I don't think his idea of the American dream is what's my idea of the American dream.
You know what I'm saying?
So all of these rising stars of the DNC, all of them are based on a type of showmanship, a type of pomp and circumstance.
Substance, experience, common sense, proven moral values, leadership.
None of this matters when it comes to the Democrats.
All of those things.
What is up with that?
What is up with that?
Will somebody please tell me?
Anyway, John Edwards, I have a hunch.
He was the vice presidential candidate.
Was he not at some point in history?
You see how quickly we forget?
I have a hunch that he's at a loss as what to do with his life.
You know, he could always go take golf lessons from Tiger Woods, I suppose.
That might be a way he could spend some time.
Do you know that most Americans are backing the Arizona law?
Huge, huge poll on this.
Huge poll.
Half of, most Americans support the new controversial Arizona law, so says the Washington Post.
Now, they must put in the word controversial, just as they use the word angry.
They see anger when you're a community organizer.
They see anger when you're when Obama says get in their face and shout, that's not anger, you understand.
That's a response to the anger in their worldview.
Well, the Washington Post says most Americans support the new controversial Arizona law.
This law is not controversial amongst the people who believe in it, who are apparently most of America.
Most of America.
This is a Washington Post-ABC poll.
The challenge, they say, for Democrats is that public disapproval over how President Obama is dealing with immigration is edging higher, with 51% of respondents and 56% of political independents giving him negative ratings on the issue.
Those are very, very sizable numbers.
They're solid numbers.
You wonder, will they use the Obama steamroller bulldozer machine to push through immigration reform of a type that you and I do not want?
58% in this same poll, 58% of Americans say that they are 58% of them.
That's another big number of Americans say they are supportive of this new Arizona law.
And you've got Hillary out there.
I want to know what Hillary is doing in this story, by the way.
She's the Secretary of State.
She's not the Attorney General.
Thank goodness.
She is the Secretary of State.
And she's out there telling us the White House is going to sue Arizona.
What part of the job description of that is for her?
And she said this apparently from Ecuador, which is when you think of it, it's the natural place you would make this statement, isn't it?
It makes perfect sense.
Because we know, we know how Mexico treats illegal Ecuadorians when they come to Mexico.
The article, Washington Post, points out that there's a steep racial divide on the Arizona question.
It says 68% of whites back the law.
Now, why is race part of this conversation?
68% of whites back the law compared with 31% of non-whites, while Democrats are about evenly divided on the bill, 57 to 47%.
Why is race still an issue in this thing?
It still is.
It still is.
It still is an issue wherever you turn.
So let's see, we've got Edward.
Oh, I wanted just to tell you one other thing.
I got to kick out of this because I'm visiting New York City.
We watched Los Angeles Lakers win on television.
I'm very proud of that.
A man watching the World Cup in soccer.
This can reference my own house in its own way.
There's a South African man who watched the World Cup, and instead of the religious program that the other family members wanted to watch, and he ended up in the fight for the remote, he ended up getting beaten to death by his wife and two children.
Now, this is not a funny thing.
I don't mean to make light of this tragedy, you understand.
I do want to know what religion they are when they were, you know, that took them to the point where they killed the man who wanted charge of the remote to keep watching the World Cup.
The debate still goes on.
Everyone says there's a middle ground.
I'd like to see the middle ground.
Conservatives and Republicans meet.
I'm more comfortable with the middle ground.
There's a huge, huge divide, huge divide.
And it goes way beyond a difference of opinion.
I said at the end of the last hour, conservatives plan while liberals scheme.
Conservatives, you and I believe in elections to change things.
Liberals believe in lawsuits and judges to fix and institutionalize things.
Could go on and on with the list.
It's Douglas Rebansky.
It's Open Line Friday, by the way, on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
1-800-282-2882 is the number.
We'll be right back.
El Rushboard will be back here on Monday.
The world will be put aright once again.
It is Douglas Rybansky, Open Line Friday, filling in for Rush.
1-800-282-2882.
Not merely if I mention it, is it fair game, but if it's on your mind, it's fair game.
There's some good news, by the way.
Shall I tell you what it is?
The Democrats have had a caucus yesterday, and there is no clear consensus yet on the fate of energy and climate legislation.
This is temporarily good news.
I mentioned earlier, as a lame duck session goes into session, meaning after the elections in November, these people might, who know they're out, just might do anything at all.
They'll use that small window in ways the American people clearly do not want them to use.
Now, look, here's what's happening with this climate legislation, because you can't change the climate.
The Democrats have demonstrated that they want to save the environment one Gulfstream jet at a time.
They want to save the environment one private jet at a time.
So as a result, it was released in financial disclosure forms on Wednesday.
And I love private jets.
Love them.
And you've heard Rush Limbaugh here, in one of his great monologues, tell you about the private jet industry.
It's a very important and amazing part of our economy.
Financial disclosure forms released Wednesday show that, now imagine this, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Barbara Boxer all hitched a ride in one private jet.
Can you imagine this conversation?
It's like the beginning of an old joke.
You know, I've got one Irish guy, one Polish guy, and a jet.
This is Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer hitching a ride on Christmas Eve because they couldn't book commercial flights because of a blizzard.
Now, I have a personal theory about this.
I happen to believe that our elected politicians should be required to fly commercial.
No private jets, even if they're paying.
If you think of these folks like the Chinese Mandarins of old with their ruling elite power, they take their private jets to wherever they need to go.
I think they need to go through security like you and I.
And I remember the comment that Nancy Pelosi made that it's just not secure for her.
Well, if it's not secure for her, then why the heck is it secure for me when I go on a commercial airliner?
We are told to watch our thermostats.
Remember that?
The Carter administration is going to be back.
Put on a sweater.
Lower your thermostat.
You're told to clip your coupons.
Don't go to Las Vegas.
Buy yesterday's stale bread.
Maybe.
You can have an austerity program on that.
Make your vacations close to home.
Don't travel too far.
Never fly is what they would like you to do.
They will assault your money, your own personal health care.
They will assault your security.
They do it at every front.
They will assault your freedom.
They assault your future.
I'd love to see some good conservative with a montage of these things in their election ads.
I got some faxes and emails from my little appearance here on Monday.
A lady wrote me a very long letter telling me that Chuck DeVore ran a good campaign in California.
Madam, and I tell this to all of you, I live in California and Chuck DeVore did not run a good campaign.
If conservatives are to win, it's time to start running good campaigns.
Rush has said it before.
Conservatism, when well articulated, always wins to the phones.
Let's go to Spring Branch and speak to Maria.
Maria, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Dittos.
It's Marta, M-A-R-T-A.
Marta, thank you very much.
You said Dittos.
I'm only a guest host.
I know, but you're doing a great job.
I don't think I'm allowed to accept your Dittos yet.
I've only been here twice.
Well, you can pass them on to El Rushka when he returns.
Oh, they will tell him, I'm sure.
I'm sure.
I have a comment on your assertion that we on the right have become the revolutionaries.
I want us to be.
I think one of the reasons we have is that we're living in such a time of deceit and lies all around us, and we're bombarded with untruths all the time that it's become a revolutionary act to actually tell the truth.
People are not used to hearing it.
Yeah, I said, do you encounter that in your own personal life?
Yeah, although I am fortunate to live in a county here in central Texas that's about 70% Republican.
So we don't really run into that many flaming liberals around the world.
Oh, that sounds like a wonderful place.
It is.
It sounds like a type of heaven on earth.
It is.
Marta, I want to share with you a story.
Can I share with you a little story?
Certainly.
My wife emailed me, and she had dinner with a friend of ours the night before last.
And the friend of ours began dinner by saying, let's not talk politics.
I like you too much.
My wife is a conservative.
Now, you'll notice how glibly and easily this type of thing slides off of them.
Have you ever encountered that before?
Where the assumption is somehow that there's a superior moral or political or intellectual force at work.
And so they begin by inoculating the conversation, I like you too much.
I'll think less of you because I'm already superior.
Have you encountered something like this ever?
Yes, of course.
My whole life, and I'm 61 years old, my whole life I have heard you shouldn't discuss religion and politics.
Well, religion and politics are the two things that shape the world that we live in.
Oh, well, don't get me started on that.
I mean, listen, you know, it's no secret that I'm a Catholic.
When Mel Gibson's movie came out in Hollywood, I can't tell you the offensive things people felt at liberty to say to me.
People, strangers at dinner parties, just come out.
I had a charity event at the house recently, and there were some people there who I knew vaguely.
They'd never been over before.
And I tend not to have liberals to the house.
You know, it's a health issue.
And this nice couple was there, and they said, oh, Mr. Bansky, you're very nice.
They said, but it's hard to believe you're a conservative because you're so nice.
Now, look, they glibly, Marta, say these things.
Yeah, they believe it.
Later on in the night, I was walking around the property with her husband.
He wanted a little 75-cent tour, which I gave to him.
And he said to me, come on, he said, tell me.
He said, I know you're a conservative.
He said, but you really are a nice guy.
He said, don't you think that there's just too much free speech without any regulation for comfort?
And this is told to me by a serious, grown adult person with children in school and someone in their 40s or 50s.
Don't you think there's too much free speech?
Marta, do you believe the story?
Yeah, of course I do.
Of course you do.
Because you're a good listener to the Russ Limbaugh Show.
Thanks for calling, Marta.
It's been very good.
You have to be careful of that secondhand liberalism.
Yes.
Well, because my wife put the word to it.
The word is bigotry.
Would you dream of going into someone's house and making those comments if they were a different race than you are or if they had a different sexual orientation?
Would you dream of saying to somebody, oh, you're so nice.
I didn't know you were gay, but you're still so nice anyway.
You would never dream of saying that.
No, of course not.
But the last thing other than Catholicism, the last thing you're allowed to openly criticize is, I gotta go, Marta.
Bye-bye.
Open Line Friday, and I will finish up with your calls in a little while.
It's Douglas Rubanski filling in for Rush Limbaugh, who will be back on Monday.
As you know, everything will be back to normal and all will be right with the world when the Maharushi is back behind the golden EIB microphone.
The phone number is still 1-800-282-2882.
I don't want you to get Star Parker confused with Star Jones.
They are two different people.
Star Parker has just been endorsed by Sarah Palin for Congress.
This is amazing.
It's an amazing story.
And in a rare appearance, Star Parker is going to join us right now in the Russ Limbaugh Show.
Welcome, Star, to the Limbaugh Show.
It's good to be with you, Douglas.
In the district I'm running, my daughter is hoping that some people actually do get me confused with Star Jones so that they'll vote for me.
Now, your district happens to be not too far from where I live, because, you know, I live in Los Angeles.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Los Angeles has its seductions.
You know that.
I absolutely do.
It's one of the reasons that I'm running in the south part of that.
Okay, so you're in the 37th congressional district, and just briefly, where is that?
It's Compton, Carson, and Long Beach.
It's right at the tail before you get into Orange County.
But next to my district is the 17th largest port in the world.
So we have some very unique challenges and some very unique opportunities.
And you know, we hear the word Compton, and you know what comes to mind.
We think of a very rough area.
Well, it is, and that's my lost sheep area.
I'm not expecting too many votes to come from that particular part of my district, but Long Beach is very healthy, and so is Carson.
But that is my lost sheep.
I have spent my life talking about issues that will help this community.
My personal story embodies American exceptionalism.
So the message that I have for that particular part of my district, I believe, will resonate because what they need is a steadfast leader that will be honest with them about what it takes to build a prosperous environment for themselves and for their children in a free country.
I live the lie of the left.
They're living the lie of the left now.
I dwindled my life down so badly with meaninglessness that I ended up in the welfare state.
Seven years in and out, three and a half years consistently, and it wasn't until a Christian conversion and I started changing my decisions that my life changed.
I completed college and I started a business.
So I'm a part of that district.
And Compton, although today they don't know they need me, tomorrow they will, because once I beat my opponent, they will begin to see what limited government, market-based solutions will do for them and for their grandchildren.
Now, Star, you are an African-American woman.
You're running in an area that is traditionally liberal and Democratic and that relies upon handouts and all the rest of it.
You've been endorsed by Sarah Palin, and that's sort of a superstar move.
Do you think that you have a good shot to win?
Oh, I not only think it, I know it.
Sarah Palin's endorsement is very meaningful to me.
In fact, I'm grateful because we have a lot in common.
I have not met her, but what we have in common is that we're both moms, we're both grandmas, new grandma, and we have a passion for this great, wonderful country that we want to keep it free for those children and grandchildren.
So when I look at this district, when I look at the opportunities that Jane Barnett and John Cozen and others that are part of the political apparatus there in Los Angeles County came to me, I not only prayed about it, but I thought about it.
And I looked at the demographics of the district.
And although it seems safe Democrat, the population of the district's voters are on my side.
Although it might be 70% Latino, 36% black, the others, the 170,000 registered voters, they're the rest of America.
They do not want to see this country destroyed.
And I have to just go in there and tell them my story.
When you think about what it takes to win a seat, I think the Democrats forgot it.
That's why they say that some seats are safe and they're not even thinking about it.
It takes four things to win in the political arena these days.
You need a message.
Well, my personal story is that message.
You need management.
I am bringing on a tremendous managerial team.
You need manpower.
Well, I've been on the front line and in the political world for about 25 years now in public life, and so multiple hundreds are already signing up.
And you need money.
And we have developed out a 50,000 friends campaign.
50,000 friends at $50 a piece will give me twice what the political class is saying that I need to win this seat.
I have a very weak opponent.
Laura Richardson is new.
She's a new incumbent.
She's weak.
She's broke.
I have more money than she has right now.
And she has about $400,000 of debt, and she's very unpopular in the district.
Starr, I have been called by grown-up, intelligent, sensible friends of mine a racist because I disagree with Barack Obama and don't like his ideology and don't like his politics.
Have you found that there's any reverse of that occurring because you're an African-American woman who is now running as a conservative, as part of the GOP?
Have you found that there is a sort of reverse thing going on where your own community doesn't like you because of that?
Well, they not only don't like me, you know, you're right.
To be a black conservative today is social suicide, and this has been true for an awful long time.
But there are signs of hope right now.
A large pastor in Chicago, a friend of Barack Obama, and a state center for the Democrats just endorsed vouchers out there.
We're starting to see the black political establishment get challenged.
But every time, you're right, somebody that says very loud with a large microphone that there's something gone wrong here with liberalism being so pushed down in the black community and this idea of entitlement and welfare state that is hurting the very community they say it's trying to help.
Well, we know that they get stopped down.
Look what happened to Bill Cosby.
Look what happened to Clarence Thomas.
But that said, we are talking now about a pushback from the American people across this country that are saying we want to live free.
So in wanting to live free, there are many that are in the grassroots of these communities that are also saying we want to live free too.
We've already experienced their side last 45 years.
Now what we need is somebody that will be honest with us, that will tell us what it takes to be prosperous.
We need someone that will fight every obstacle in the way of getting us schools that work.
I'm their person.
But frankly, when you look at the demographic shifts in the community and the independence, I mean, my goodness, my community, my district has more than half of the votes I need are already registered independents there.
I can win this district.
I hope that you start an avalanche, a landslide of conservatism.
You know, Republicans, in the circles I travel in, Star, they often write off California and Los Angeles.
And I think that they're making a big mistake because I think many of these places are, in fact, gettable.
Well, you know, you said, Douglas, you're from here, and you know that I was just joking with you about Los Angeles.
This is one of the most international and beautiful communities in the world.
You backpedal.
You backpedal society.
We live together.
We play together.
We work together.
It works, except the political part of it.
But people are fed up now and we're taking it back.
We have already experienced what this administration and the political class in Washington wants for the nation.
Hey, I've always, Starr, I've believed for years, Starr, that even Henry Waxman, if the right campaign was launched against him, that he would be very vulnerable.
I'm a contrarian in this sense.
I don't believe that these people are ensconced in their positions at all.
We just haven't taken them on.
And that's why I'm taking them on.
I'm going to fight them back.
And frankly, I'm going to motivate and excite the people that are sitting there whispering that they're under the thumb and let's come and be free.
Star, are you currently raising the money you need to do this?
I am.
Six weeks into announcing that I was running.
I raised a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Well, that's wonderful.
Wonderful news.
And being on, what's your website, by the way?
If you want to mention it, you're going to mention it to everybody right now.
Everybody.
It's starparkerforcongress.com.
They just go to starparker.com.
Starparker.com will familiarize them with me.
It will tell them what our $50,000 campaign is about.
And if they will help me, then I will vote for them when I get to Congress.
I'm a guaranteed vote when it comes to traditional values, limited government, free markets, and a strong national defense.
And if they're not in my district and cannot vote for me, they can be sure that if they help me, then I will vote for them when I get there to Washington.
Star, you're sounding very official at this point.
It's great to know you.
I hope we get to meet each other when I'm back in California.
And good luck with the campaign.
We'll be watching very closely because it is a harbinger of the potentiality of California that is often written off by conservatives.
It's Douglas Zerbaski Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We'll be right back.
Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You know, Sunday is Father's Day.
Very special day.
Dads and fathers across the country.
Sunday is Father's Day.
I'm being told, I have much better judgment than this, that I should mention to you a story that's appeared in the news.
I can't.
I'm flying in an airplane in a little while.
I'm going to pick up the book about Rush Limbaugh.
I'm going to read that on the plane.
I'm going to take my.
But of course, I'm going to be thinking about this news story.
There's an airline that's had a, I think it's a box of heads, of human heads.
Have you seen this in the news?
It's a horrible story.
Everyone here loves this story.
They have a grisly sense of humor behind the scenes at the Rush Limbaugh Show, as you may know.
You know, there's potential war on the Korean Peninsula.
The Middle East is blowing up.
You've got the Euro crumbling before our eyes.
We've got our own terrible financial woes.
And who the heck knows what's coming down the road?
And we've got a national emergency in the Gulf.
And my goodness, my goodness, doesn't it just fit beautifully into the left's playbook?
I promise you, some of you have been holding a long time.
But I'll leave you with this, though, before I go to the calls.
Think of the people: Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Jim DeMint.
Put all these people around the table and draw numbers and say, one of you be in charge.
One of you be president.
You couldn't go wrong.
You couldn't go wrong compared to what we've got right now.
It's an embarrassment of riches.
Flip a coin.
Any of these people would be better than what we have now.
And the rest would be a wonderful support team.
And of course, you've got to start watching Jindal now because he's showing, dare I say it, Giuliani-esque leadership down there.
Okay, to Illinois to your calls.
You've been holding a long time.
Don, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
John?
Yes.
Yes, John is the name.
Oh, it's John.
That's okay.
That's okay.
They sound similar.
That's okay.
You mentioned early in the program how Obama may be out of touch with reality, I think.
That's delusional, believing something contrary to fact.
And there's three points I'd like to make if you're commenting on it.
He believes, honestly, that Obamacare can work despite all the historical evidence that things like that don't work.
He claims and he believes that the federal government was in control from the beginning of the BP offend, which is obviously not true.
And then he also believes, I think he honestly believes that raising taxes on high-income part of taxpayers will raise revenue.
And historically, that's just not proven to work.
And the danger is, I think he really believes these things.
He's not lying.
And it's not political.
I think he really believes it.
Well, Don, there's a type of illness here, obviously.
Ronald Reagan said this.
I don't want to invoke the big, big, big word, but he said communism is a form of mental illness.
Ronald Reagan said it.
I want to invoke that word because it invites all sorts of conversation that I'm not interested in right now.
But did you, by the way, John, get to see any of his speech the other night?
I watched it all, unfortunately.
Yeah, and did it strike you the way it struck me, and remember, I'm a motion picture producer.
Did it strike you that the whole thing was very badly staged managed, that he looked weird, that he looked small behind the desk, that the whole thing looked odd?
Yeah, he looked lying.
He was very diminutive.
He's very diminutive.
And of course, if it was me, if it was me as a motion picture producer producing it, of course, the first puzzlement you have to face is what do you do about those ears?
It's the first thing you've got to deal with.
Well, you make very good points, Don.
Thank you for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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I'm Douglas Szerbanski filling in for Rush.
Let us go to Ed in Canfield, Ohio.
Ed?
Hi, Doug.
How are you?
How do I sound?
All right.
How's everything going?
Well, how does it sound like it's going?
It sounds like you're doing a wonderful job.
Ah, that's what I was waiting for.
Thank you, Ed, for calling.
Do you have anything else to add?
Well, I'm going to get right to the point.
You had a young fellow on there earlier in the show about an hour ago, and he was trying to make some points.
And as usual, everything comes back.
Yeah, that was Ryan in San Diego.
Yes, Ryan.
It comes back to the Bush bashing and so forth.
And I get infuriated because of the Republicans not defending Bush's last couple years in office.
If we can go back to his first four years, they were probably four of the best years that this country had.
You know something, though.
You know something, though, and I'll tell you, I agree with you in part, but I also think that this notion that they're still running against a man who is long gone, who's not there, and who has not contributed to any of this damage, this has got to be shot down.
I mean, who of us wouldn't turn back to the Bush years?
But I'll make the question even worse, who of us wouldn't actually turn back to the Clinton years at this point.
The thing is that when he started to go down and when his popularity went down was the last two years of his term, which was the Congress was controlled by the Democrats.
The Democrats are the ones that changed all of these laws that brought up all these things, and he did not have enough power to stop a lot of people.
Look, Ed, it's a great point.
It's a great point.
Don't you wish, along with me, that you'd like to see Republicans fight back and argue with the skill and aggression that the liberals do?
This Bush bashing, if they would have just came out and said, wait a minute, George didn't do that.
He actually fought against it.
It was Dodd and some of these other Democrats, and nobody ever blames these people.
Ed, it's great that you made the point.
I thank you for making it.
I'm running a little bit late for time.
I've got a plane to catch.
It's Douglas Zubanski filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
He's back in a moment.
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My little visit here at the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It goes way beyond a difference of opinion.
I said earlier, conservatives plan while liberals do the opposite.
Liberals scheme.
Conservatives believe that laws are there to be followed.
Liberals believe that the laws are there to be scrutinized and to have ways found around them.
Conservatives believe in the will of the people.
Liberals believe in their own will.
Conservatives believe in the sanctity of life, human life.
Liberals believe in the sanctity of themselves.
This goes way beyond a difference of opinion.
You and I believe in capitalism.
The acceptable words for this is free enterprise.
Liberals do not believe in this.
They believe that a government should control the product of your work, the money.
The government has no money on its own unless it confiscates it from you and I. When conservatives establish a rule, we follow it.
It's for everyone.
When liberals do so, they do it so that everyone else can follow it.
We play by the rules.
Liberals play by their rules.
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Back to normal.
Five days of a week.
Rush Lumbaugh Limbaugh will be back there.
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It's Doug Gerbanski.
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