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July 16, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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No pressure, no pressure.
Final hour on a Friday of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Rush is back on Monday.
Today's been a joy.
Everything's been very cool around here.
Been enjoying it.
Getting back to your calls here in just a moment.
Got a few things stacked up here, of things I intended to get to today and just haven't yet.
So we'll address those.
I have um it is I don't believe well, I don't believe it's required of the fill-in hosts, but I am a uh a similar uh the Apple devotee to Rush.
Um as such, uh I've recently gotten the iPad and the iPhone 4 and all of that.
And I will bring this up, not to just beat you down with more Apple talk because it's was it was it um Tom Clancy who said never ask a guy, or is that a falsely attributed?
I don't know, whoever it is, whoever said this is a genius.
Never ask a guy what kind of computer he has.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you.
And if it's not, why embarrass him?
Anyway, uh there's there's all this talk, and it's just a fascinating business story.
No matter where your allegiances may lie, it's just uh an interesting uh business story.
And we've got this news conference happening today.
Journalists poured into Apple's headquarters this morning for a surprise press conference for Apple to discuss the issues with the uh the iPhone 4 antenna.
Now, I have none of those issues.
I've heard Russ say that he's had none of those issues.
Some people I know have, a couple, and it's weird because I've heard that and I'm a big fan of Apple, but if they say something goofy, you know, I'll say so.
I don't need to hear my I don't need to hear Apple tell me I'm not holding the phone right.
There shouldn't be any way of holding the if I want to hold the phone upside down, you know, and put the speaker on and stuff it in my shirt pocket while doing a headstand, that should be okay.
Don't tell me I'm holding the phone wrong.
But that having been said, I think that um that these problems are largely overstated.
Oh, and it's been a week of uh of interesting evidence to that effect.
I guarantee you that at some point you and I were together on the Rush Limbaugh show at one of my fill-in stints, and it was in the middle of the Toyota debacle.
And I remember telling you, I know this looks bad, and I and I know it is bad.
There's obviously some issues in the Toyotas.
Fine.
But I will just bet you that more of these instances than you know, more of these instances than has been publicized, more of these instances that we now recognize are absolute driver error.
Absolute people d th I thought I was touching the brake, but it was the gas.
It it I just knew it.
And this week the Department of Transportation said they had a bunch of reports where they some of these cars have little black boxes, and I guess we can talk about that all day.
Do we want those?
Uh I guess for this we do, because it showed that these nincompoops were mashing the wrong pedal.
Oh, my Toyota went nuts.
It tried to leave the country.
You know, it's uh I it Now were there some cars, and was it even maybe a majority of them where there was some circuitry thing or something gone hanging on?
Sure, I'll I'll I'll live with that.
But I I just knew it.
I knew that as soon as people, as soon as people caught wind of that, I knew that there would be various offshoot phenomena.
One of them would be the person who hears ch and flat out fabricates a Toyota malfunction story.
And the other one would be the person who gave it no conscious thought, but just sort of, oh my gosh, is that the break really?
And then there's the other person, the there I don't know who coined this term, the oblivion.
The person who by obliviousness becomes well, you get my point.
And the person who literally, literally, is not aware that he or she is hitting the break or the gas.
They they just jam it and say, I hit the brake and the car went nuts.
Yeah, it was because you were hitting the gas pedal.
There is proof of this now.
Anyway, um, but I guess having started this, I might as well finish it.
Back uh back to some of the the reportage on this this morning.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn't apologize.
Oh, we have the apology fetish.
We must have an apology, no matter what.
There must be an apology attached somewhere, and didn't announce a software fix.
He did announce a fix of sorts, free cases.
Now this is interesting.
Cases for iPhone purchasers.
The the older iPhone, the iPhone 3, I I had a big rubber case on it, where the screen, of course, is available for, you know, for your human touch, which it needs, but the back of it was encased in kind of rubber and it had holes for the jacks and the plugs and all that, which is really good for me because I drop stuff.
I just I drop stuff.
And uh so that was great.
Now, when I got the iPhone 4, it's it's different, and it has that metal ring around it, and and it's not really meant for a big old wraparound the whole back rubber case.
What it came with was a sort of a rubber ring that goes just around the perimeter of it, with all the little buttons, the appropriate places so you can put volume up, volume down, jacks in, jacks out, all of this.
And um it still provides protection from you know clumsy morons like me, uh, but not as much.
But what it does do is it's right around the metal portion that is supposed to be the antenna for the actual phone.
So maybe I've done I did myself a favor.
Oh, by the way, that stinking thing was 39 bucks.
If radio ever falls through for me, I'm going to manufacture Apple accessories.
Love the company, but dude, 39 bucks for that thing.
Just a little wraparound thingy.
Anyway, uh as I've had no uh no drop calls, no nothing.
Nothing.
So Steve Jobs detailed for journalists its cell phone testing facility, a futuristic environment that he said contained 17 anechoic chambers.
A-N-E-C-H-O-I-C.
I may not even be pronouncing that right, but I know what it is.
A chamber without an echo.
Anechoic.
Anyway.
And uh Jobs explained that merely 0.55% of customers have been calling about the antenna flaws.
Well, uh half of one percent.
You know how many people half of one percent is of every of every Apple customer?
That's a lot of people beating them down with phone calls, man.
They say only two or three percent of a call of an audience calls a talk show.
You know, you know how many people that keeps us busy with forever?
Oh boy.
All righty.
Hey, speaking of ratings, and and speaking of Oprah, uh, the earlier guy who said Oprah got him elected.
No, she didn't.
I didn't hurt.
He would he would have won anyway.
I'm just so convinced of that.
I for those who don't know, I think I shared this story too.
I'm the genius who told the his local audience here in Texas, six months out from the election, well, well, here's the thing.
Here's what I said, and and I can spin this and spin it accurately, but I still end up looking like a goofball.
I considered Barack Obama to be unelectable, and I said he cannot be elected president.
And then since you never say never, I surrounded it with a little parenthetical uh addendum there, unless something happens that just changes the complete landscape of the election.
And usually that's some horrible scandal or who knows what.
Well, I I think history will record that that happens called the economy melting down.
Now, you know, I I'd love to hop into a time tunnel, have the economy not melt down and see if he still wins.
As time has passed, I'm probably convinced that he would have won anyway.
Which means I was absolutely and completely wrong about the whole unelectability thing.
But as we were um wrapping up the the last hour, and the gentleman talked about um how ill-served uh he felt we were by an ideologue and I mean he was a moderate Democrat.
He said that that uh the reason that happened is that people weren't paying attention.
Everybody got all caught up in the history and all caught up in the coolness.
I'm cool.
Got all caught up in that.
It was new, it was different, it was fresh.
And uh and people did not pay sufficient attention to what he would Actually, do he did us the favor repeatedly of telegraphing just how radical he was going to be.
And those of you who voted for him, if you are taken aback by this, if all of a sudden you have buyer's remorse, if all of a sudden you go, shall wow, didn't expect that.
It's because you weren't paying attention.
So I have a feeling in 2012, we're going to be paying attention.
And that's a good thing.
Now, the the Oprah story.
Newsmax.
Oprah Winfrey show fell below the 3.0 mark for the first time in the show's long run, reports HollywoodReporter.com.
Oprah still holds its place as the number one daytime talk show for the duration of its 24 year run, said a spokesperson for Winfrey.
But in the short run, the syndicated program averaged a relatively modest 3.8 million viewers for the week of June 28th.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Did Oprah hurt herself by by uh uh hopping in the tank uh for for Barack Obama?
I I think so.
And you know something?
I think she would have that that if anybody has an appeal that transcends politics, which is hard to have these days.
If you got that going for you, I mean you just your appeal massively transcends politics.
You might not want to endorse a presidential candidate because you're gonna hack off half your audience.
I mean, I know tons of conservative women who watched Oprah, and they knew Oprah was liberal, but they didn't care because she was gonna talk to all the nice people about all the nice things and give cars to occasional people and stuff like that, and that's fine.
But when Oprah came out that one day and essentially insulted the sensibilities of every conservative woman, every conservative man, and a couple of those, watching yeah, how many conservative men are watching Oprah?
Okay, every conservative woman watching the show.
Uh I I I absolutely heard from people who said I'm never watching Oprah again.
And I know a huge percentage of them were back watching her the following week.
But if only 10 or 15% of those folks uh said, you know what, I'm just not walking back into that environment.
If Oprah's gonna uh thumb her nose at virtually everything I believe in, so very demonstrably by backing Barack Obama, then guess what?
Maybe I need to find other things to do middle the way through the afternoon.
Some have apparently done that.
All right.
Well, I know what I'm gonna do, and that's take more of your calls, and we're going to do it next.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in on this Friday.
Rush is back on Monday.
All righty, let's hop in, see what's going on telephonically at 1800-28282.
Let us head to uh Farmington, New Mexico.
Karen, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm doing just terrific.
Good.
Uh you were talking about that list from uh the illegal aliens from Utah earlier, and I was telling Snurley, it's kind of strange that we've been told that these people are living in the shadows, we can't find them to deport them.
Somebody found them.
Guess so, didn't they?
Yep.
Because that's funny.
It's uh Karen, you mentioned this.
The first thing I want to know from the good people of Utah in that office, and again, uh for now, irrespective of whether it was proper or improper the way they got that list, how did they know, with the list in front of them?
Here it is, here's the list.
How precisely did they know that it was a list of illegal immigrants?
Yeah.
I mean, whatever methodology that is, that's valuable intel.
Yes, it is.
You know, so and then this goes to show we can find them, and we can get rid of them.
Of course we can.
It's about will, it's about spine, and it's about time.
Karen, thank you.
I got uh one other call on this.
Uh 1 800, 282-2882.
We are in Augusta, Georgia.
Eileen, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
How are you, Mark?
Great, thank you.
Uh, thank you.
Um, yeah, considering that the Utah 1300 had social security numbers.
Uh no one seems to be questioning that.
And maybe they were checking social security numbers and they were of deceased person.
Well, I don't know.
And then that's the thing is that which brings us brings another huge problem into light, and that's the number of illegal immigrants who somehow have managed to uh to carve out a little social security number Action for themselves.
Fraudulently.
So I love that you've attached a number to the Chicago 7 and the Utah 1300.
We now have that.
Oh man.
Okay.
Hey, thank you.
As we uh go rolling uh steadily along, let's visit Omaha.
Ed, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
Good afternoon.
How are you?
Good, Ed, thank you.
Well, I I I just had uh a question.
And what I was trying to find out was you were saying that Meg Whitman has to run or present herself more as a centrist or win in California.
And I mean, is that what Scott Brown did?
Is he did he portray himself more as a conservative to get that to get elected to that office?
As a single call screener, he he pretty much sold everybody up the river.
And when I called his office, they said that he didn't read the bill.
I I thought his thing was he was gonna return the seat back to the people because it's the people's seat.
And uh I I don't really I I mean who can you trust?
I I know.
And and he but here I I don't think that I don't think that Senator Brown ha has snowed anybody here, because if we go back and look for evidence that Scott Brown ran as someone absolutely dedicated to oppose Obama at every turn, he never said that.
He absolutely did run as the 41st vote against Obamacare.
That was one thing, that was one thing that he absolutely said that he would oppose, and I believe that's a huge part of why he won.
If anybody took from that a commitment unspoken, parenthetical, that he would oppose everything this president did just because he was a Republican, we need to remember that he is, after all, still a New England Republican.
And from Susan Collins and Olympia Snow in uh in Maine to to to Rhode Island to uh oh gosh, it's uh the New England Republican is a is a different kind of critter, and uh of whom different things should be expected, unless they tell you otherwise.
That's fine and good.
But like I said, what I mean who we elect them then.
I I I think I did due diligence and researching the guy.
I mean, I didn't have a say in it because I can't vote in their election.
Right.
And I was like I said, you know, he's yeah, he's not a he's not a Southern uh uh or Midwest conservative.
But it seems to me, and I don't support the guy.
Barack Obama's the only person you can trust on what he says right now ahead of the bigger.
That's it.
If there is one thing you can say about this administration, they beat you over the head with what they're going to do, and then they do it.
Uh Ed, thanks very much.
Obviously, let's let's not be too glib about that, because th the White House did us the favor of telling us it was going to change America.
Well, how's keep the change is the uh is the the growing sentiment?
Um he told us a lot of th it some of it was in code language, but decipherable by almost anyone.
Now, obviously, obviously, President Obama did not do us the ultimate favor of telling us exactly what he was enthusiastically going to do.
Attack the private sector, own a car company, uh energize terrorists the world over with a lackadaisical defense of America, the abandonment of American exceptionalism.
No, those weren't exactly on the brochures or uh or on the website.
Oh, speaking of stuff on the website, here's something I wanted to share with you.
I uh I get weekly, sometimes m more than once a week, emails from the Barack Barack Obama.com from uh from organizing for America, whatever that is.
Mitch Stewart, their director, sent me something this morning.
Now you may be thinking, whoa, what?
How how are you getting these things, talk show boy?
Well, leading up to the uh the Denver convention, the Democratic convention in Denver in 2008, uh, all these stories were whizzing about uh about the amazing Obama campaign online uh presence and all of the things they were doing and outreach and how they really stayed on people and really got people to and all of which was true, by the way, and something which we absolutely need to emulate in 2012.
We need to have the not just uh the Republican outreach needs to be not just, hey, here's our guys, learn about them.
Hey, here's what we want to do.
Vote for us, thanks.
No, no, no.
It needs to be outreach that says, here's what we need and want you to do if we're gonna win.
And then of everybody that does that, you get them back the next day and say, that was great, thank you.
Now here's the next thing we need you to do.
We need you to show up here, do this, organize that.
A call to action.
Well, I got on their email list, and I still get emails from them.
And I'll read the latest one for you, because it's about the Wall Street reform bill.
There are a couple of things in it that are, shall we say, telling.
So my email from uh from organizing for America coming up next.
And in the final half hour of today's Rush Limbaugh show, a bunch more of your calls.
Mark Davis in Farush, stick around.
Home stretch half hour.
Once we're done with this hour, we are done for the day, done for the week.
Here comes the weekend, little hot summer mid-July.
See what's going on.
Kagan uh the Kagan ascendancy probably happens.
That lies ahead.
Will they be able to keep that thing capped in in the Gulf?
Well uh and it's funny, it's so funny watching White House reaction to the successful capping of the uh of the oil spill.
Uh because when it was just raging, they seemed to never rose to actual responsiveness, but they seemed to wallow in it, literally, if not figuratively, just, oh, this is so awful.
This is what you get with drill baby drill.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, conversely, the capping of this problem means that it's it's kind of kind of like post-Christmas letdown.
You know, Christmas comes and you get all the gifts, and then the following day, it's kind of like, oh, what do I do now?
Well, in the land of Barack Obama, then all they can do is hope that the oil spill is the gift that keeps on giving, freaking people out sufficiently about oil that it becomes oil's three-mile island, and everyone rushes out in search of alternative energy sources, which I'm fine with.
I'm good with the alternative energy sources if they are tested, if they work, and if we're, you know, looking at them objectively.
But if everybody is just dying to have uh, you know, solar panels on top of their cars because fossil fuels now terrify them.
Well, you know, that's that's not clear thinking.
So anyway, uh my obvious hope, first and foremost, just as a human being and as an occupant of the planet, is that the oil spill is done, and please no more damage to the Gulf or its fragile ecology.
Um let's have cleanup efforts that work, and that's great.
And um it'll be interesting to see how the White House handles this.
Just the first couple of days, the president didn't see I mean, and I don't need the president to be, you know, whooping and hollering and high-fiving and saying, Well, we got it, it's all done, because BP ain't saying that.
I'm not saying that.
Nobody is saying that.
This thing could start to gush somewhere else tomorrow.
Um, but they're they're just rest assured, just know that uh while the environmentalist listen, we're all environmentalists when things like this happen.
We all care about the environment and don't want the uh the spill to hurt uh uh aquatic life or birds or or human jobs.
Um but this White House wants to make sure that if this thing is finished, if the spill is done, that it has sufficiently damaged the reputation of oil, that there are a few million Americans who are saying what they were not saying, you know, 90 days ago.
I hate oil, I'm done with it.
Fossil fuels, puh.
So, anyway.
Now, to the email I've received from organizing for America.
Mitch Stewart.
Mark, he writes.
The Senate just passed Wall Street reform.
The bill will become law the moment President Obama signs it.
This reform represents the boldest financial regulation since the aftermath of the Great Depression, and the strongest consumer protections in history.
Ah, yes, let us couch it.
In the comforting language of consumer protection.
Every door you knocked in in Iowa, every phone call you made in Ohio, every dollar you dug deep to give, it's all for this.
The Recovery Act, health reform, now Wall Street reform on top of everything else in a year and a half.
This administration has made bigger, bolder progress than any president in decades.
We have a president who fights for all of us every day.
We have you, the best organizers this country has ever seen, who flooded Congress with calls and letters, had millions of conversations with friends and neighbors, went toe-to-toe with the country's most powerful special interests, and won.
And we have members of Congress who bravely stood with the president, even as right wing groups pledge 200 million dollars to defeat them in November's elections.
You got that right, Mitch.
First, take a moment to celebrate.
This is an achievement that will make American lives better and protect our economy for generations to come.
And it absolutely wouldn't have happened without you.
God.
But you know something?
This is genius.
It's genius.
Make people feel all swell about themselves.
Make just be, oh, I'm a part of it.
Oh, they love me.
Then, and I don't mean to mock this.
Don't don't don't let my mockery of it make you think that I don't want to do exactly the same thing.
Except I want it to be for things that actually do help the country.
I want to send stuff like this to Republicans and tell them way to go, all of you.
You stopped this pernicious agenda.
You helped us repeal and replace Obamacare.
You helped us uh re patch the rent fabric uh of the American culture that this that these people sought to foist on us by turning America into some kind of odd neo-European socialist experiment.
You did it and you deserve the credit.
I guess that would be the exact f flip of the coin of what I'm reading right now.
Anyway, it goes on.
Take a moment to thank the members of Congress who stood with us and supported these landmark reforms.
In the coming days, they'll be taking a lot of heat for defying Wall Street, and they need to know they have our gratitude.
Here's my favorite uh paragraph.
You ready?
Organizing for America supporters are signing a note of thanks to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, and all the allies in Congress who stood up for reform.
Will you add your name?
And there's a link.
We'll deliver these signatures to leaders in Congress who supported reform after the president signs this into law.
Thanks for all you did to get us here.
I'm so grateful to be making history with you, and I know the president is as well.
Mitch.
Mitch Stewart, director, organizing for America.
Now, what is uh OFA?
Uh it's a project of the Democratic National Committee.
And uh so there you are.
I knew it would pay off being on the Barack Obama mailing list, because they uh again, they I learned stuff about how they think, how they talk, what they do, and um hopefully seriously, oppose what we need to oppose, emulate what we should emulate, and the online presence and the online motivational skills of this campaign, both before and after they won, is uh is is just absolute genius.
So what we need to do is bring that kind of energy, that kind of uh of talent to the online community, social networking, websites, this, that, every candidate website, all of this, and um and pound the internet pavement as skillfully as these folks did, and as these folks still do.
But let's do it with a message of actual liberty.
Let's do it with a message of undoing some of the horrific things that have been done.
Let's do it with a message of fiscal responsibility, and yeah, Republicans, this time when we say it, how about let's actually mean it.
Let's do that, huh?
Who's with me?
Who's with me?
Let's see who's with me on the phone.
Mark Davison for Rush at 1800-282-2882.
We are in.
Let's do a little cell phone action in Louisiana.
Kelly, hey, Mark Davison for Rush, how are you?
I'm all right.
How are you doing, Mark?
Very fine.
Nice to have you.
Um minute ago, you were talking about the Apple iPhone 4.
Yeah.
And talking about a something like a 0.5% rate that they were saying they had the problem with the antenna.
Yep.
Uh well I've got an iPhone 4, my wife has one.
A friend of mine has one, his wife has one.
I'm an engineer working with a bunch of other engineers.
There's several iPhone fours in the office.
And without exception, every one of them has the antenna issue.
The difference is a lot of them have cases covering them.
If you don't if you don't have a case, I would be on your iPhone that you have the antenna issue as well.
Eh, I don't know.
I uh maybe I'll walk around with it without the case for a while and see if I do.
Um But the the issue comes, antennas are electrical conductors.
They take magnetic waves or radio waves from the air and they convert them to electricity, basically.
Right.
Well, when you bridge the gap between the two of the antennas on the iPhone, it destroys the signal on the antenna that you're trying to use, the cell phone antenna.
What is happening?
Which which makes sense.
Even with my feeble electronic understanding, that makes sense.
Here's the funny thing.
Here I am on the phone with you, knowing very little.
Here you are, probably knowing a little more than me.
You mean in Cupertino, California.
The geniuses, and I don't throw that around lightly.
At Apple, didn't see this coming, didn't know what an antenna was, and then a human hand holding the phone a certain way would drop a call.
I agree.
And my wife has complained incessantly.
I was waiting on the cases we want to come out, but now we're going to go ahead and take advantage of the free bumpers or free cases that they're giving out.
Um but my wife or my little girl, when she picks up the phone, yeah.
If my little girl gets on a phone, the call will be dropped because you can't teach necessarily an eight-year-old that you've got to hold this flag.
You may have started another talk show.
Does your eight-year-old have her own cell phone?
No, my little girl does not have her own cell phone.
Okay, good.
Not until she can afford it.
Boy, because this segment was going to go a couple of minutes longer if she did.
Love you, man.
Thank you very, very much.
Great.
Scolding people on the Rush Limbaugh showed.
All right.
I'll I'll leave that to the actual host.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis InfoRush, and we'll continue in just a moment.
Friday Rush Limbaugh show, waning minutes.
Mark Davis filling in down here in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, on WBAP.
Hope you have a fantastic weekend.
Enjoying some midsummer action.
Um we're thrilled down here.
The Texas Rangers are actually good.
We don't even know we beat the Red Sox.
Man, on the road.
We're we're giddy.
And uh, but obviously it all leads up to football.
I know Rush is quite the uh quite the NFL devotee, as uh as are we here in uh here in Dallas Cowboy Land.
And I mention this as I look out the window of where I sit.
I'm in Arlington.
I'm literally across the interstate, interstate 30.
Uh the Super Bowl highway are they?
It was it's it's it's I-30.
It's already the Tom Landry freeway for reasons anyone around here will know well.
But it's also now the Super Bowl highway or something like that, because look at us.
We have Super Bowl, was it 45 coming up in um in February.
So much excitement around here with the pending NFL season.
How that World Cup worked out for you.
I know it's the job of almost every American to be haughty about the World Cup, and I'll confess to you if it's soccer, just makes my brain turn to jelly.
You know, two and a half hours scoreless, please.
That's all you and and uh and they say, well, it's like a pitcher's duel.
No, it's not.
Because there's something happening in a pitcher's duel.
It's called pitching.
What happens in a zero-zero soccer game, sure there's good defense, and then every once in a while it's like, oh my gosh, uh and I I don't I'm I don't give it the back of my hand.
I enjoyed a bunch of games and including uh the final.
Uh but every four years, oh, this is it.
Now it's gonna become huge in America.
Guess what?
No, it's not.
What I just enjoy what it is.
Every four years, Americans who are willing to do so, and I'm one of them.
Uh we put our toe in the pool and we'll sit there and watch, you know, Italy and Uruguay and certainly watch the Americans for as long as they're in, and it's always better when they are when they last a while, and Landon Donovan and the Americans did us very proud this year, and I thoroughly enjoyed that.
I loved when we beat Algeria.
I was bummed out when we lost to Ghana, would have would have loved it.
And uh Netherlands and Spain in the final.
I watched it.
I confess I watched it.
I said, listen, if if m the this is the biggest watched thing in the world, I can check it out so that I can at least be conversant about it.
That's a good thing.
And four years from now, they'll tee it up.
And I'll I'll care a little bit again.
Until then, though.
And that's and it's true.
In all these other countries.
Well, why is soccer so huge everywhere and not so much here?
Because we have other things.
I'll watch our kids play soccer all day long.
I mean, you know, we have a bunch of people playing softball.
That doesn't mean we don't watch softball on TV all day.
We've got football.
We've got basketball.
We got baseball.
We even have hockey.
We got other stuff.
We got we got NASCAR.
God, ultimate fighting, I guess.
What is that about?
I don't mean to go going Seinfeld on you.
What is with this ultimate fighting?
I don't know.
Didn't this used to be just discredited backstreet brawling, and now they've cleaned it up and given it organization and now you got things like UFC, chapter 5024, Menendez versus Gregorian or whatever.
These people I've never heard of in my life, and all I know is that everybody I know watches it.
And I I I I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe there's something I'm missing out on.
Maybe I'll check that out and we'll do a quick segment on it next time I fill in.
Or or maybe not.
Let's go.
Let's go to the phones.
We are along.
Oh, this is a beautiful drive, man.
I wish we could see what Ron is seeing.
He's out on I-81 in the mountains of Virginia.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, sir.
Mark Davis filling in.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Mighty fine.
I just wanted to make two quick comments on the Meg Whitman situation you mentioned earlier.
Number one, if uh she doesn't understand the existential threat to the survival of our country from illegal immigration, quite frankly, I don't care what uh what else she has on her uh on our agenda.
Number two, if there's one thing conservatives should have learned in the last ten years beyond any shadow of a doubt, is that backing rhinos is a complete waste of time.
It drives you right into the ditch, and in fact, is the rhinos that set the stage for the ascendancy of the crowd that's in the White House right now.
So that's the two things I have to say on this.
I appreciate it.
Give me a substanti I I've heard people say that, and I've often said it in some form myself.
I'm always interested in exactly what people mean.
Uh in California, are you telling me in California that Meg Whitman is sufficiently distasteful to you that you would sit out that election?
Uh uh I don't know exactly.
I I'm just based on what I heard on from you earlier today that some conservatives said that she's that she's going so off that uh and I guess the the the term is uh she said she's quoted saying there's no difference between her view and Governor Brown's view.
Exactly right.
Jerry Brown's view on Link.
And if that's the case, then let Jilly Brown get elected.
Look, here's the fact so that what?
How does how does that help us if we uh if we if we if we punish Meg Whitman, who's maybe uh wrong on thirty percent of things, how are we helped by electing Jerry Brown who's wrong on 100% of things.
Is that a rhetorical question?
Is this a way of saying, hey, get to the break?
Then I will do so.
I'm smelling an iPhone four call.
Uh kidding.
What's it'll you want, Ron, next time I'm back, we'll move you to the front of the line.
Well, I don't know when that'll be.
We'll see.
All righty.
Actually, it was pretty convenient because I kind of do need to take the last break and have some final words right after these.
Mark Davis in for rush on the EIB network.
Precious seconds remain, so let me just thank everybody.
Thank Mike and HR back at the HQ for uh facilitating this for me.
Thank Rush for the honor of occupying the chair.
Thank you for listening.
Rush will be back on Monday.
I've made a lot of reference to the NAACP story this past week.
The column I wrote on that in the Dallas Morning News, I just popped up on Twitter, which you may follow me there at Mark Davis, all one word, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S.
God bless our country and our troops, and I hope you have a fantastic weekend.
Rush back on Monday, and I'll see you sometime, and I look forward to it.
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