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June 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
For all of you out there who are soccer fans, and I'm not, I mean, I'm not opposed to it.
I'm just not big into it.
There's a headline.
What does go through mean?
USA England go through.
That's the Drudge headline.
Let's say USA and England both won.
They weren't playing each other.
USA Wogan.
Why doesn't it just say USA wins?
This is go-through business.
Like they call a feel a pitch.
You know, instead of a feel.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh back in action.
This is the fastest week in media.
Here it is already Wednesday.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program.
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The email address, Lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
McChrystal, nobody knows.
Obama's really stringing this out to distract from all the negative economic news that's out there.
Sales of new homes in May plunged 33%.
You couple that with existing home sales plummeting.
And I don't know why anybody would say this is unexpected.
New home sales plunge 33%.
We've got lawlessness going on here at this administration.
Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary, after this judge yesterday ruled against the moratorium, said, screw it.
I'm going to announce a new one.
And I'm going to give the reasons why we're doing it.
The media is going after the judge because the judge has investments in oil and gas.
I mean, it is just, it's amazing to watch this.
So now they're at the Situation Room, this 1135 meeting, talk about what's going on in Afghanistan.
This is in the White House.
And McChrystal's not there.
McChrystal was at a 30-minute meeting starting at 9.51, and he split the scene.
And nobody knows what this means.
The best guess is, well, he was scheduled to be in a Situation Room meeting.
But if he's not in a Situation Room meeting, it must mean his resignation has been accepted.
Either that or Obama refused the resignation and just fired him.
Nope, I'm not going to let you get off so easy.
Quitting.
I don't accept this.
You're fired.
I'm waiting for Obama to summon this judge from New Orleans to the Oval Office to explain himself on this ruling that's going on down there with the oil.
Here's something else that's going on.
While everybody's distracted by this McChrystal business, a little email from the Dear Tea Party Patriots Disclose Act is back on the calendar for tomorrow.
Actually, this is today, June 23rd.
We have received information from Capitol Hill regarding the Disclose Act.
We must work to defeat it.
The vote's expected to take place on the 23rd.
We encourage you to find out more about the Disclose Act in the links below.
On April 29th this year, Congressman Chris Van Holland in Democrat, Maryland, introduced H.R. 5175, a democracy is strengthened by casting light on spending in elections act.
It's called Disclose.
That's the acronym.
Democracy is strengthened by casting light on spending in election.
There's also a story I have in the stack here that there are limits here on grassroots campaign contributions.
And I'm wondering why it never applies to unions and acorn type people.
Anyway, that's a different thing than this.
The bill is a direct response to the Citizens United case that the Supreme Court overruled and said, look, you guys in corporate America can contribute to campaigns.
So the Democrats have been trying to come up with another campaign financial reform bill to ace that out.
The bill is a direct response to Citizens United, a First Amendment victory in which the Supreme Court overturned the prohibition on corporations and unions using treasury funds for independent expenditures, supporting or opposing political candidates at any time of the year.
Simply put, the Disclosed Act will limit the political speech that was protected and encouraged by Citizens United.
Speaker Pelosi, the House Majority Leadership, are making it a priority to pass the bill, which is designed to take away the influence of Tea Party and other conservative groups in November.
We feel like this bill will be successfully challenged in the courts, but the ruling will not come before the November election.
Now, a couple teachable moments here.
First, the liberals love the courts.
It is the only place they can get their agenda passed without challenge.
And that's why they hate this ruling from the Supreme Court on Citizens United.
But sometimes the court doesn't go their way as it didn't go their way in the Gulf in this moratorium.
So now you've got Salazar.
You know, Salazar is a lawyer, and Michelle Mawkin has a really good piece today.
This guy needs to be disbarred.
He is a lawyer.
He's the guy who knowingly put the names of drilling experts to a false memo.
He put their names and their signature to a memo which said they agreed with the drilling moratorium when they did not.
I mean, this is classic Stalinism.
I mean, there's no other way to describe it.
And Michelle Mawkin makes the case, citing case law and statutes, that Salazar has committed a crime in the process here and could be disbarred.
And what he's doing with the moratorium on drilling, well, screw the judge.
We're just going to do another one.
And the judge said, we didn't explain why.
Okay, we'll explain why.
We'll just put another one in effect.
Independent judiciary is gone.
It really is.
And the rule of law is what holds this country together.
And there is, I mean, the rule of law, all the assaults that Obama and his team are making on every institution we have, the assault they're making on the rule of law is the most crucial.
Now, this Disclose Act, the Democracy Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending and Elections Act, would exempt organizations that have more than a million members, have been in existence for more than 10 years, have members in all 50 states, and raise 15% or less of their funds from corporations.
Those specifications keep the unions safe, but not grassroots groups like the Tea Party.
The Tea Party does not qualify under these proposals that exempt certain groups.
So it is a piece of legislation put together by Democrats, Pelosi, directed at one group and any other grassroots group that might grow up or grow out of it, similar to the Tea Party.
So the court doesn't go their way.
So now they're trying to sneak in this flowery sounding legislation to undo what the court did in Citizens United.
Democracy is strengthened by casting light on spending.
Yeah, you know, I happen to agree with that.
It's like, get rid of all campaign limits.
Get rid of all limits.
Let anybody give whatever they want.
Just tell us who they are and how much.
And I would agree with this idiot Van Holland.
Yeah, democracy is strengthened by casting light on spending.
But let's find out how much the unions are spending.
Let's find out how much Acorn's spending.
Do you realize there's this Planned Parenthood?
Planned Parenthood gets government grants.
That is an outrage in the first place.
Do you know they have lost $1.3 billion?
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has lost $1.3 billion.
They can't account for it.
Speaking of which, you won't believe this.
I got home yesterday afternoon, and as such, I go through the mail.
And I hate going through the mail because it's nothing but bills.
And you know how I feel.
I mean, they're what they are.
I just, the stack grows and grows and grows and then pay them and all this sort of stuff.
But I go through them and there's this letter from the IRS.
I said, oh no, here it comes.
The Obama audit shakedown.
I looked at the envelope and I said, what?
Do I open it?
Yeah, I got to open it.
Or should I just not open it, send it to the accountant?
Because I opened it.
It's not an audit.
They claim that I overpaid by a significant sum in 2007.
I mean a significant sum.
They claim that I overpaid.
I mean, we're talking seven figures.
And I looked at it and I said, this is not possible.
They have screwed up.
So I scanned it, made a PDF copy.
I sent it to the accountant.
The accountant looks at it, gets back to me in a couple hours.
You know, they really have made a mistake here.
They have credited a quarterly estimate payment.
And the claim that I had overpaid was equal to exactly equal to an estimated payment that I had made in 2007 that they credited to 2009 somehow.
And so, no, it's not going to get a refund, but if I hadn't said anything, I would.
If I hadn't said anything, I would.
Well, I don't know if it's a setup or not, but honesty is honesty and honesty.
And eventually they would have found their error and they would have just wanted it back with interest.
This is three years old, and they were not offering any interest on it.
It was an overpayment.
They said, look for your refund in four to eight weeks.
So the accountant says, if you get a check, don't deposit it.
I'm going to call these people and we're going to straighten it.
If their records are correct and somehow we screwed up fine and dandy, but I don't think so.
I think it's their error.
So we're going to point out to the IRS that they made an error in my favor.
And we're telling them, no, we don't deserve the money.
I did not overpay.
You screwed up.
Now, I'm wondering if this will buy me any goodwill when the eventual Obama shakedown audit comes.
And I asked my accountant, he said, are you kidding?
You think you can buy any goodwill with no.
Now, he didn't say it was a setup.
Snurdley thinks it's a setup.
I don't think it was a setup.
I think they actually goofed up.
And I looked at it.
This just does not happen.
And the three years it took them to find this just does not happen.
So at any rate, back to the Disclose Act.
The democracy is strengthened by casting light on spending at elections.
This is one of those little benign bills trying to sneak through while people are paying attention to the Gulf, the oil spill, General McChristie, the Kagan hearings.
But they can't sneak it past us here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
In the meantime, Planned Parenthood has lost $1.3 billion.
How do you do that?
Well, they say it's lost, it's unaccounted for.
Did somebody extort it or steal it or skim it over the course of a number of years?
Sales of new homes collapsed last month, sinking 33% to the lowest level on record as potential buyers stopped shopping for homes once they could no longer get government incentives.
The Commerce Department says that new home sales fell in May from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace, $300,000.
That's the lowest sales pace on record, dating back to 1963.
And Obama and Biden are talking about the summer of recovery.
Quick time out.
Lots to do on the program today, plus your phone calls.
And your host was upbraided and taken to the woodshed this morning on the floor of the House of Representatives by Baghdad Jim McDermott, who's upset over our plan to advise kids how to eat this summer since the schools are closed.
Back after this, America's real anchor man, the doctor of democracy, America's truth detector, general all-round good guy, a well-known media racing, Rush Limbaugh, the epitome of morality and virtue, a bulwark of solid conservatism.
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So they have stopped building the sand berms down in the Gulf.
The feds have ordered the building of these sand berms to trap oil before it gets to the shoreline of Louisiana.
Stop.
You know why?
They don't like where the dredging is taking place to get the sand.
They also shut down.
We had a call last week about shutting down some of the skimmers.
They did shut down some of the skimmers because the boats did not have proper life jackets.
Bureaucratic rules were not being met.
And now there's a Florida senator, this guy Lemieux, who used to be very tight with Charlie Crist is now on his own.
And Christ has gone trying to become a good Democrat.
Florida Senator Obama told me we can't take oil skimmers from other parts of the country because they might need them there.
This is what the senator from Florida is saying.
We can't take any skimmers from elsewhere around the country because they might need them there if there's another spill there.
It makes total sense, Snerdley, if you don't want this thing solved.
If you want this ongoing as an indictment of the private sector, an indictment of big oil, if you want continued chaos, and now the drive-by media is playing right along, there's this possibility of some tropical storm out there in the, I guess it's the southwestern, I haven't been checked today.
The chances it might form into something last night.
Last time I looked were 30 or 40 percent.
So now we're getting the obligatory stories from all the experts who disagree on what a hurricane would mean with the oil on the surface of the Gulf.
Would it disperse it?
Would it send it inland?
Would it be a great thing?
Would it be a gift from God?
Or would it be an additional disaster?
Waiting to happen.
Look, if anybody still thinks that what this administration is doing is oriented toward economic, hell, Angela Merkel had to give Obama a lecture on economic growth and how to cause it, how to make it happen.
I kind of like this.
You know, because we've had Obama running around telling Merkel, you need to spend more.
You need to bail Greece out.
You need to do this.
You need to do that.
Andrew Merkel said, you know what?
You need a lesson in economic growth.
Obama knows how to create economic growth.
He just doesn't want to do it right now.
Anybody, anybody with any honesty, anybody with half a brain would realize that all these policies that have their stated purpose is improving things are not doing anything but the opposite.
And anybody with a brain knows this.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Here's Baghdad Jim McDermott on the House floor this morning during one-minute speeches.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today out of disgust over recent comments by Rush Limbaugh about child hunger.
A few days ago, I was sent Mr. Limbaugh's response to the news that more than 16 million children will face, quote, a summer of hunger, quote, because they won't have access to free or discounted meals they usually get at school.
Mr. Limbaugh ultimately recommended these children dumpster dive.
Dumpster dive to find food until school starts back up in the midst of a deep recession that has forced millions of Americans to face the daily fear of losing their homes and failing to provide food for their kids.
All Mr. Limbaugh can contribute is another awful example of shameless and callous commentary.
Ask yourself, when is the last time that Rush Limbaugh missed a meal?
Take a look.
You judge for yourself.
Baghdad Jim McDermott this morning on the House floor, you people will remember that we had this story, and it was an astounding story: that kids are going to starve because the schools are closed.
No breakfast, no lunch, no dinner, as though they don't have parents, as though their parents have no idea how to feed them, as though their parents have no idea it's their responsibility to feed them.
And that the kids don't know where to go to get food.
So we have this bid.
We're going to tell them where to go.
It's called a kitchen, and there's cupboards in there, and sometimes there's a refrigerator in there.
And if you have responsible parents, there's going to be food in there.
If you find that doesn't work, go to a neighbor's house.
Then there's also McDonald's and a happy meal.
Oh, McDonald's is being sued.
McDonald's being sued over happy meals.
McDonald's is being sued now by left-wing activists.
And then we said, if that fails, dumpster diving, because the homeless advocates, we had this back in the 90s, homeless advocates actually produced a video for homeless people to healthfully, quote unquote, dumpster dive.
This is a leftist idea, Baghdad Jim.
It's not mine.
I'm just trying to bring it forward and make it relevant to 2010.
I mean, you guys claim to have all this compassion defined as giving homeless people a shopping cart.
Hey, man, I love you.
Take this shopping cart.
Make this your home.
And then here's a video on dumpster diving: how to get in there and find the healthful stuff.
All these great liberal ideas.
I'm simply saying, well, if you're a kid, you can't find food, do what the left do, what the Democrat Party is advising homeless people do.
And that's jump into a dumpster.
Of course, this is pretty close to Patsy Schroeder falling for another joke I made.
He'll let you hear that.
We come back after this.
All right, we just sent the YouTube video link up to Coco at RushLimbaugh.com that has from our TV show the original dumpster diving video.
I'm sure we have that on our website, video archives anyway, but I wanted to make it easy for Coco to find.
So, Coco, I want you to put that up there in the orange banner of the website on the homepage.
Put the link up there.
When you get it done, let me know.
And you can go see the original dumpster diving video that homeless advocates put together.
We played portions of it on my television show back in the 90s.
But you know, this Baghdad Jim McDermott and people like him have to constantly, and this has been going on my whole life, portray this nation as a soup kitchen nation.
And the truth is they're driving us that way, and they lash out at others because of it.
These people are really stupid, and they have no sense of humor.
But that's beside the point.
They have tried to cast this country as a soup kitchen economy, especially the last 10 years.
And they're at it again now.
And this portrayal of people as being helpless, starved to death because the government-run schools are closed, and people have no idea where to go get food.
How stupid is this notion?
I want to take you back to 1995.
I was invited by GOPAC to make a speech.
Big budget battle was going on at the time.
It always seems to be.
And the open to my speech was a bit of humor in response to the current crisis that the Democrats back then were trying to promote.
And that is that the economy was so bad and the Republicans were trying to cut the budget so much that old people, senior citizens, were soon to have to choose between food and dog food.
And I told the GOPAC people to open the speech that I had heard about this dilemma and because I'm a good son, I had sent my mother a new can opener so she could more easily eat the dog food.
And of course the crowd laughed.
They got it.
A few days later, Patsy Schroeder, then a congressperson from Colorado, took to the House floor, much like you just heard Baghdad Jim McDermott.
And they had the big kahuna of GOPAC come speak, none other than Rush Limbaugh himself, who stood there and said to all these people who paid all this money to keep GOPAC rich, he was hailing the GOP budget.
He said, according to the paper and according to the C-SPAN tape, he thought it was wonderful because it would starve the poor and it would drive Medicare recipients, including his mother, to eat dog food.
But not to worry, mom, he says, I'm sending you a new can opener.
Wow.
That tells you what today's about.
And folks, if I'm making this up, it's actually how it happened on the House floor.
Not to worry, Mom, I'm sending you a new can opener.
And she thought it was for real.
Somebody got to her and said, Limbaugh is making a joke about you and the Democrats.
And she went to the floor, I think, oh, Limbaugh was making a joke, but we know what he really meant.
We know what's in their heart.
Limbaugh was joking, but if he had his way, old people would need new can opener.
This is the kind of stuff that they have been doing.
Along these lines, I mean, they've been trying to discredit me for all these years.
Chris Matthews at Mess NBC has been begging for weeks for any Republican to come on and condemn me.
Last night on Hardball, he had this exchange with Representative Steve Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, about Joe Barton's apology to BP.
It's been 42 days now since we've been asking Republican members of Congress to stand up and say Rush Limbaugh doesn't speak for the Republican Party.
Congressman Scalise, here's your chance.
Is it Rush Limbaugh or your leadership that's right on Joe Barton?
Joe Barton has apologized.
I spoke with him the other day, and I accept his apology.
What frustrates me is that you still don't see the sense of urgency from this administration, and they've got the legal responsibility to direct the efforts on the ground, and they're just not doing it.
That's what angers people back home in South Louisiana, where I just came back from over just earlier today.
Matthew is not satisfied.
Well, my job is to ask these questions.
Do you think that Rush Limbaugh's right?
It was a shakedown.
Is he and Barton Wright or is the leadership right in saying it was wrong to apologize on the part of the Republican Party to BP?
Well, unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to listen to his show.
I like his show.
I think he offers a lot of good, interesting commentary.
So rather than condemn me, Scalise endorses in a moderate way.
Matthews was beside himself.
Well, what about the big news that the federal government has asked BP to set aside a $20 billion escrow account?
Some Republicans like Joe Biden have said that that is a shakedown, that that's wrong.
It's a slush fund.
Rush Limbaugh agrees with that point of view.
Your party leadership doesn't.
Who speaks for you, your party leadership on that point or Rush Limbaugh on that point?
Who's your leader?
Well, Chris, I speak for myself, and John Boehner's the Republican leader.
But if you look at what's going on out there, we haven't been given any details on how this money is going to be spent.
I sure hope it doesn't become some kind of slush fund where Washington bureaucrats spend the money on things that aren't related to people on the ground.
My main concern is that the money gets in the middle of the money.
What is that?
So he uses the word slush fund while Matthews is asking him to condemn me for using the same terminology.
Go, go, go, Scalise.
That caused Matthews to start foaming at the mouth.
What is that attack you're making here?
Will you answer the question?
Is Rush Limbaugh right here or wrong?
Well, again, I didn't listen to his comments earlier, Chris, but what I've said is I want real transparency in the middle of the day.
He's called it a shakedown.
Is it a shakedown?
I wasn't in those meetings, Chris, but I mean, again, where's the money?
Why do you guys say that?
Why is everybody in the Republican Party afraid of Limbaugh, a radio talk show host, when he says something totally contradicted to your party leadership?
Can you say I'm with the party leadership?
I speak for myself.
I've told you who I speak for, and that's myself.
Nobody else speaks for me.
And ultimately, I'm trying to solve problems on the vote.
Okay, so you're still getting suspicious.
Okay, just to make it simple.
Rush Limbaugh does not speak for you on the issue whether BP was shaken down or not.
No, he doesn't speak for me.
I speak for myself.
Okay.
Oh, my friends.
I just am so sad my parents are not alive to see this.
And go, go, go, Steve Scalise.
I mean, well, you know, the easy thing would be under that onslaught.
I mean, you got Spittle, everything else coming out of Matthew's mouth there.
He's foaming.
The easy thing would be, oh, yeah, Limbaugh's a little off the beaten path on this.
And Matthews could, I mean, that would have made his last six weeks.
This is what he's been looking for.
Scalise wouldn't give it to him.
And it ruined his whole show.
I mean, after that, the show went to hell.
It was just, I don't know.
These people, Baghdad Jim, Patsy Schroeder, we've had Tom Dungheap harking on the Senate floor denouncing me on Armed Forces Radio.
It's been going on for, I don't know, Harry Reid and the phony soldier business.
Even Sergeant Schultz on MSNBC.
I know nothing.
Nothing.
Even Sergeant Schultz called it a shakedown and applauded it.
Sergeant Schultz thought it was a great way to go about getting even with BP.
Sergeant Schultz out there saying, Obama, you are the dude.
President takes BP behind closed doors, shakes him down for $20 billion, gets an apology.
They think it's a great thing.
So, I mean, you got a certified liberal there, Sergeant Schultz, calling it a shakedown, and the rest of his network doesn't want the term used and wants me indicted and Barton indicted for using the word, I can't, you know, minding my own business, folks, and trying to serve humanity, be America's real anchorman.
But last night on the Fox News channel on the record with Greta Van Susteren.
Rush Limbaugh is very rich, very famous, and very powerful.
So he must be able to get anything he wants, right?
Apparently not.
People are getting their iPhone 4s today.
Yes, the official launch date's not till Thursday, but some people are getting their iPhone 4s today.
It's random customers.
They're getting them today, and a lot of people are reporting that their FedEx tracking information shows delivery tomorrow.
And here I sit, a powerful, influential member of the media, and my hands are empty.
No iPhone 4.
I'm not going to get mine tomorrow.
I couldn't get in.
Remember, I spent all day here during the program at home.
I had three other people, four other people trying to get through and make an order on the website.
No, no, that didn't happen.
Yet I got here this morning, and FedEx shows up around what time was it, Snerdly, 9:30.
Snerdly opens the box, and for those of you watching on the DittoCam, look what I got.
A day early.
Yeah.
Fascinating.
Right.
Right there it is, holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers of my left hand.
You can see it right there if you're watching on the DittoCam.
It is just good to be me, folks.
What can I say?
Okay, let's go to the phones.
And where we're going to start mainline, Alabama.
Mayline, Alabama.
And Ron, great to have you on the program, EIB Network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Congratulations on your wedding.
I wish you and Catherine the best.
And thanks again for being a voice for us for things that we don't get a chance to say.
Thank you, sir, very, very much.
I appreciate that.
I'm calling us.
I'm the uncle of the young man who died on the rig that called earlier.
Oh, yeah.
It upsets us very much when we had a memorial service in Jackson, and the president was invited to that, but he chose to go to Barbara Boxer and raise money for her campaign.
But we were at a very moving memorial service, one of the best I've ever been with.
I've been to quite a few police ones, helped in some of them for police officers that died, and this was probably the best one I've ever been to.
The CEO of Transocean went to the individual houses of each person, got to know each person's family individually, and he got up and gave a eulogy of each person as he had their picture on a big screen behind him.
And the man actually choked up, and you could see tears coming down his face.
More emotion than I've ever seen from Barack Obama since he's been in office.
Well, he's a cool dude.
Yeah, well, another thing they wouldn't want is they wouldn't want any of these families don't want the other members to lose their jobs out there.
They know that this job, I've done it myself, is a hard, dirty, long job.
You mean do it to the moratorium?
Right.
They don't want this to happen.
These people counted on these jobs to provide for their families.
It's tough work.
It's hard.
It's dirty.
But you can make a good living and you can provide for your family.
And they wouldn't want this to take this away from other family members.
That would be the last thing that any of these people who are.
Well, now, let me ask you a question here, Ron.
Maybe you've heard of this.
Part of the BP shakedown of $20 billion was a $100 million fund from BP to pay workers of these rigs shut down during the moratorium.
Right, for six months.
For six months.
They do after that.
Well, where do they go to get it?
Ostensibly, the moratorium is going to be lifted after six months.
That's the theory.
The problem is, the moratorium goes on for six months, the employers are going to move.
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Where do they go for a job after the six months is over?
They go on welfare.
They go on unemployment, make about a quarter of what they were making in the oil field.
That's not going to help their families any.
Well, Obama might throw in health care.
Yeah, well, none of them want that.
These people are independent people who work for a living and work hard for a living.
They're used to that.
They don't like that attitude.
I never wanted it.
I worked out there for a long time.
I want to say hard, dirty work.
Let me tell you something, Ron.
This whole thing is just unacceptable.
First place, the moratorium is senseless, and it was based on lies.
They backed up the moratorium with statements from experts who were lied about.
Experts' signatures were attached to a statement that they did not make.
Ken Salazar was behind it.
The second thing is there's no reason for the moratorium in the first place.
Oh, Joe, we find out what caused the leak here in the Deepwater Horizon.
There's a safety reason.
We're going to shut down all offshore drilling, including up in Alaska.
Now, there's no common sense behind this.
Somebody tell me the safety concerns override things here.
Anybody with half a brain knows the damage they're doing to the Gulf economy by having this moratorium.
And by extension, the Alaskan economy.
This is why people like me think, you know, these people are not stupid.
They are committed ideologues, and this is part of it.
And look, all you have to do is remember all of your lives.
How many times have they dumped on big oil and portrayed them as evil and demonic?
So this is just a natural extension of it.
And it's another bit of evidence.
These Democrats run around think they make you think they're for the little guy, the downtrodden.
It's just the opposite.
They create the downtrodden.
They create little guys, and they prevent little guys from growing.
That's who they are.
Elmira, New York, this is Amanda.
Great to have you on the Rush Windbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi there, Rush.
It's the greatest honor to get to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm actually calling about your comments earlier about dumpster diving.
I don't know if you've ever heard of a group called Freegans.
A group called what?
Freegans.
It's kind of like the word free, no charge.
They're called Freegans, and it's this group I watched the documentary about.
It's a socially progressive group that goes around diving in dumpsters in big cities due to all the waste of restaurants and this kind of thing.
And it was all about how they find all these great unused fruits, vegetables, bread, and this kind of thing.
And just how they go through and find all this stuff.
And they're completely financially viable people.
They're not homeless people.
They're usually pretty rich people.
But they go around doing it.
Because restaurants have laws.
Whatever's left on the plate, they have to throw out.
Oh, absolutely.
Well, it's not even just that.
It's like bags of fruit that just passed their expiration date, so they can't, and that kind of thing.
And I just love it that they're giving you a hard time for saying these things.
That's actually what I thought you were talking about yesterday.
Yeah, that's the other day.
No, they give me a hard time just for the sake of it.
You know, they got so caught up in their clichés that they're just trying to portray me as some heartless person with no compassion.
And it's silly.
They've been trying to discredit me for years on this basis.
It never works.
I appreciate that.
I'd not heard of the, what is it?
Freegans, dumpster diving freegans.
Wow.
Hell, it's even more widespread than even I knew.
All right, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, will have a statement about a half hour from now, 1.30, in the Rose Garden to announce whatever he's going to announce on the general, McCrystal.
Now, what, can we read anything into this that is being done in the Rose Garden as opposed to the oval orifice or the press room?
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