You have got there still saying that the tropical storm is barreling through South Florida.
The streets are now drying from the sun shower earlier today.
It could be a tough drive home later, though.
They're saying seven mile per hour winds in Marathon, Florida.
Danger, danger.
Take cover.
Seven mile per hour winds as the tropical storm barrels through the keys.
By the way, can somebody tell me the difference between the summer of recovery and a nuclear winter?
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Ben Bernanke.
Folks, this is not insignificant here.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that extending at least some of the Bush tax cuts set to perspire this year would help strengthen the U.S. economy still in need of stimulus and urged offsetting the move with increased revenue or lower spending.
Well, Ben, you idiot, extending the tax cuts would increase revenue.
Anyway, Bernanke said, and you know how these guys in the ruling class speak?
Well, in the short term, short term, I would believe maintain a reasonable, reasonable, reasonable degree of fiscal support and the stimulus for the economy.
For those of you in Rio Linda, I can't translate it.
Bernanke said that many, many, many, many ways to continue to maintain the reasonable degree of fiscal support, stimulus.
The tax cuts is one way to do that.
And so now we ask, will Ben Bernanke get home this afternoon?
Safely.
He says, in the longer term, I think we need to be taking steps to reassure the American people and the markets that our fiscal situation is going to be well controlled.
Now, I know what's going on here.
I know what's going on.
I think Bernanke is trying to make up for the remarks he made back on Wednesday when he said the economy faced unusually uncertain prospects.
Do you remember when he said that?
Yeah, the prospects are unusually uncertain.
That's not what the regime wants to hear.
The regime's out there congratulating itself today.
I think one of the reasons Obama went out there to congratulate himself today on his economic recovery is because Bernanke was out there on Wednesday talking about the unusually uncertain prospects.
That caused DJI, the Dow Jones Industrial, to dip 110 points.
Reuters on July 21st, the market sold off because unfortunately there's no remedy provided in Bernanke's commentary to the rising threat of deflation, the excess capacity in the economy, and the malfunctioning of the credit system.
So it sounds like Bernanke's decided he had better the hell come up with a solution that would please the markets, which what are they doing?
The market's up 107 today, so it's almost picked up what he lost.
And how does he do it?
How did he get the market up 107?
Tax cuts!
Bernanke starts talking about tax cuts and the market goes up.
It's exactly what happens here.
So if guys like Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, are talking about tax cuts and Obama's out there congratulating himself on the economic recovery, these Democrats must really be getting desperate about holding on to their jobs.
He's got Democrats talking about extending the Bush tax cuts.
Now Bernanke says the tax cuts equal stimulus.
I can tell you right at Larry Summers' office, Obama's in there right now with Christina Romer, and they got a picture of Bernanke on a dartboard, and they are throwing darts.
This is the last thing in the world.
Can you, folks, this is momentous.
I know many of you think that I'm taking it too seriously, that there are no coincidences.
This is all coordinated.
Be very, very careful in doubting me here.
We have had the president of the United States for two and a half years blame these tax cuts for putting us where we are economically.
The president of the United States has said we need stimulus equaling government spending.
If we hadn't done his stimulus, his government spending, why that's created or saved three and a half million jobs, why we'd be a third world country if Obama hadn't done that.
We can't go back.
We can't go back to the policies that got it.
And here's Bernanke this week saying we got to continue those policies.
Tax cuts.
So George W. Bush is still stimulating the economy that Obama is trying to ruin, which means if not for Bush, we would really be in the tank.
This is not insignificant here.
He talks down, he says, unusually uncertain.
Obama and Biden, summer of recovery, and here's the Fed chairman, unusually uncertain prospects.
Market plunges.
Bernanke today says, tax cuts, yeah, good stimulus.
We got to think about that.
Democrats, yeah, they may not want to sunset those tax cuts.
Obama's out there going, ah, damn it.
Damn it, I'm being undermined no matter where I go.
So he has to go out there and join the chorus now saying we're coming back.
The economy got to applaud himself today.
There was a story, USA Today, I think it was yesterday.
And unfortunately, I didn't see it yesterday.
Because frankly, folks, I must be honest, USA Today is not in my must-see when doing show prep.
It just isn't.
So, but for some reason, USA Today arrives at my home every day, or somebody goes and picks it up.
And when I get home in the afternoon, I check the mail.
The USA Today is generally on top of about four or five newspapers.
I don't read newspapers anymore.
I look at all of them on the internet.
I mean, the only time I open a newspaper, sometime a sports section, if I'm having a quick bite to eat late in the afternoon, I'll turn the pages and so forth.
I never read a newspaper anymore.
I saw this.
Welfare agencies see wave of voters is the headline.
This is a front-page story.
USA Today yesterday, welfare agencies see wave of voters.
Obama gains possible.
I looked at that.
It was by Richard Wolfe.
Now, I don't know if this is the Richard Wolfe.
That is the British-sounding fellow that is an NBC correspondent at Mess NBC.
Don't know if it's the same Richard Wolf.
I looked at this.
Welfare agencies see a new wave of voters, meaning the welfare rolls are up.
The state-controlled media, the fake media, the flax for the ruling class, look at this.
It's good news for Obama.
It's good news.
And they even call these welfare recipients voters.
Welfare agents, this is a huge headline.
They're happy about this.
Welfare agencies see wave of voters.
Obama gains possible.
And I see this, and I put myself in the position of president.
And I asked myself, would I want my electoral chances improved because I'm running a country where more people have to sign up for welfare and that benefits me?
You remember we had the, earlier this year, or maybe it was some point last year, when they were passing out vouchers for a portion of $15 million from Obama's stash in Detroit.
We had our man on the street from WJR in Detroit out talking to these people.
Are you excited?
Are you excited?
Oh, yeah, where's the money coming from?
He asked.
Well, it's coming from Obama, Obama's stash.
Now, these people were thrilled to have a chance to pick up a portion of 15 some.
And I remember saying at the time, if I were president and I had people in my country that were as desperate and hopeless and in such dire circumstances that that was what they looked forward to, I'd be embarrassed to be president of a country under those circumstances.
And we get the same thing here.
Welfare agencies see wave of voters.
Obama gains possible.
Just amazing.
You know, I'm trying to figure out why do I get USA Today?
I don't order it.
I'm trying to figure out how does it end up at my house?
Maybe USA Today thinks my house is a hotel and they deliver it because they think it's a hotel.
I don't know.
I don't know why I get it.
I've never questioned why.
I've never thought it was sabotage.
I know welfare is the new Obama motor voter registration drive.
Look at it.
I'm just, to me, it's a symptom of everything that's wrong.
The media look at this.
Welfare agencies see wave of voters.
Obama gains possible.
It's positive news.
And they tell us we have no compassion.
This is not compassion.
Counting the number of people we're adding to the welfare rolls is compassionate.
And we have a media clapping their hands.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
It may help Obama.
In November, the welfare rolls have more voters coming in.
Voters?
This may be the first time in my life, and I'm sure it's not the first time it's happened, the first time in my life, I have seen welfare agencies see a new wave of voters.
I've seen welfare agencies see new cases, welfare agencies see new recipients, or whatever, but voters.
This tells you exactly where we are and exactly how all this is being orchestrated.
Now, folks, Mad Men starts on Sunday night, season four, 10 o'clock on AMC.
Madmen, you don't know what it is, Snerdley.
Oh, Snerdly, you have got to watch this.
I would suggest, Snerdley, that you go out and get the DVDs.
You don't need to have to seen the previous three seasons to start this one.
It would help.
I have never in my life seen a television series that does a better job of putting a period together.
This is, they've got the 60s down path.
This is about Madison advertising, Madison Avenue advertising, madmen in New York.
It is, I mean, the homes, they smoke at the office, they drink at the office.
The women smoke when they're pregnant.
They drink when they're pregnant.
The kids play with plastic bags from the dry cleaners.
But besides the appliances, the furniture, the wardrobe, it is to a T.
It is identical.
The storylines, the dialogue, the mannerisms, they have totally, I think the guy's name is Matt Weiner, totally captured the period, totally captured the era.
Of course, the 60s is a very nostalgic time for me.
That's when I was a teenager growing up.
And I got into radio when I was 16, 17 years old.
I started becoming familiar with the advertising business, and it's got it down to a T.
And season four starts on Sunday night.
Now, there have been a lot of reviews.
The reason I bring this up is that there have been a lot of reviews.
The fake journalists in entertainment media get the early first four episodes to review to write their stories.
And there's one that ran in the LA Times yesterday.
It is by Megan Daum.
And I want to, when I take a break, I'm going to come back.
I'm going to read this to you because this woman writing is just amazed at how much things have changed from the way women lived, the way they dressed, the way they behaved in the 60s.
She's stunned by it, such as women smoking when they were pregnant.
My mom smoked.
Look at me.
Look at my brother.
Yes, look at my brother.
My mother drank when she was pregnant.
We played.
We played with the dry cleaning plastic bags.
We knew not to suffocate ourselves.
They let us go outside for hours in the neighborhood playing with friends who were riding bicycles all over town without a second.
In fact, they kicked us out of the house to do this stuff.
There was no such thing as a play date.
I remember when I was in a little league baseball, after my first year, you make the league, you make a team, and then the tryouts, the next year I show up.
I'm a catcher for the tryouts.
I'm a big guy.
I'm already in.
Here come the young schlubs.
I'm 11.
Here come the 10-year-olds.
And I'm already in.
I'm catching for batting practice.
These kids are trying out.
And I got my head tangled up chasing a wild pitch in the backstop.
The fence backstop.
It had the corrugated, not corrugated, but it was my descriptive powers are failing me.
But the typical chain link backstop.
I cut my head, a pretty big gash.
And the coach just put some dirt on it and get back in there, Limbaugh.
And that's why I grabbed a handful of dirt, rubbed it on my head, and went back in.
Today, this guy would be sued.
He would be fired.
He would be run out of town.
And here I am alive to talk about it, my friends.
Things are still bad in Kansas City.
I talked to a friend and I know Obama was in there not long ago for some, well, I guess he was at the NAACP meeting, was there or something.
Anyway, the poor blind prostitute still working the streets in Kansas City.
You really, really have to hand it to her, folks.
It was Chain Link Fence since I cut my head on Little League Baseball.
And put some dirt in there.
Just throw some dirt in.
Don't cry about it.
I wasn't crying, by the way, folks.
Just throw some dirt in there.
Now, this Mad Men story, this is Megan Dawm.
The fourth season of Mad Men starts Sunday, and with it, another round of opportunities to both marvel and gasp at how much things have changed since the early 60s.
Much of the genius of the show, of course, lies in its ferocious attention to period details.
From the entrenched womanizing and non-stop drinking and smoking, even while pregnant, to children who play with plastic dry cleaning bags and family picnics that end with a flourish of litter shaken insuciently onto the grass, Mad Men leaves no antediluvian stone unturned.
I just laugh myself silly when I read these feminazis looking back on that period and they can't believe it.
They're appalled.
I played with dry cleaner bags.
My mother smoked when she was pregnant with me.
And believe me, I don't remember a thing about it.
Didn't bother me at all.
She smoked when my brother was British.
She drank when both of us were pregnant.
It wasn't that long ago, and it wasn't the end of the world.
We knew not to suffocate with the play.
I remember we were driving down to see my grandparents in Kennett, Missouri.
And I got mad at my brother and I started pouring talcum powder down his mouth.
And my mother's looking from the front.
What are you doing?
I said, I'm trying to make my brother pretty.
He's ugly and I'm trying to sweeten.
I want him to smell good.
I have talcum powder pouring in his mouth and his nose and so forth.
And my mother said, give me that.
We didn't stop the car.
We didn't go to the emergency room.
These are things that happened.
We ran around on bicycles.
They were not.
Now, granted, you can't do that today, what with all the rapist purse snatchers and muggers and stuff out there.
But no helmets.
No helmets whatsoever.
People smoked in restaurants.
I remember, it wasn't that long ago.
Loved to go to 21.
Love to go into 21 at New York and have a cigar after dinner.
Everybody else was doing the same thing.
Have some B and B, maybe a little port with the cheese course.
It wasn't long, though, as some NAMBY Pambies came in and started complaining about it.
But what was great was that the waiters always said, well, if you don't like the cigarette or cigar smoke, move over to another part of the restaurant.
They didn't tell me to move.
They told the person they didn't like the smoke to move.
And that was in the early 90s.
But it's fun.
You ought to read some of these reviews of Mad Men, the women reviewing the way this show is depicted, and it's dead on.
And they can't believe any of these people survived five years.
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It's like I told you earlier today I had to go get a key man insurance physical today.
These things are required for key people.
And I am the key man at EIB.
Because if something happens to me, there is no EIB, which is a problem.
So get the Keyman insurance.
And doctors, and I love the doctor, don't misunderstand.
This is just an example of the way things are these days compared to the way they used to be.
I went in there and gave it a blood test.
They do that and stress tests and all this.
And this happened.
It also happened in Hawaii back in December when I had that faux heart problem.
It turned out not to be a heart problem.
Blood test, the cholesterol yesterday or today and back in December, normal.
Both cholesterol, the good and bad, on the low side of normal.
And the doctors and nurses are looking at that as it can't be.
It just can't be.
I said, why?
Well, look at you.
I mean, you've had roller coaster weight all of your life.
You're 59 years old.
You ought to be on the Lipitor.
So they test it again.
And the cholesterol is totally normal.
Blood sugar is normal.
And they get frustrated.
It shouldn't be that way.
Well, you know, you really ought to be on the Lipritor.
Why?
Well, because you should have high cholesterol.
And you don't have it yet, but you will have it.
Well, okay, we'll deal with it if I ever do.
I just find it, you know, everybody gets caught up in all of the panic.
Everything is a crisis.
And everything is going to kill us.
And it's a power that the ruling class has to keep us all under some sort of control.
In New York, they want to abandon salt from the diet, trans fats and so forth.
All of this is just absurd.
At any rate, it is Open Line Friday.
People have been waiting patiently.
Here's Ryan in Troy, Michigan.
Ryan, thank you for waiting.
I appreciate it.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You, sir.
I'd love to speak with you.
Like you said, I live up in Michigan, and as you know, we're really struggling right now.
We led the nation in unemployment for three or four years now, and our governor is really just a wacko.
We have a Republican primary coming up in August, and one of the leading candidates really set himself apart last week by saying he would make Michigan a right to work state.
I've heard a lot of different things about right to work, mostly positive amongst conservatives, but some of my friends who are union members and even other candidates are saying negative things about it.
So, Rush, I'm interested to hear what you think about right to work, and I guess specifically what it could do for us here.
All right, now this is a classic example.
This is a classic.
Today, I don't care.
I have literally no interest in the whole topic of right to work.
Yet, I have a challenge.
I have a caller who wants to know what I think about it.
I don't give a damn today.
Now, normally I would fake it and act like I care and answer your question.
Today, I would say, you know, I really don't even want to talk about it.
I'm just kidding, Phil.
Snurdly's looking at me.
I can't believe you're doing this.
Now, you want to know whether right to work would help Michigan.
Yes.
Yeah, it would.
Republicans would help Michigan.
The first thing to do in Michigan is get rid of every Democrat in elective office.
If you look at that state, that state has been run unchecked, Detroit, most of the cities, by liberals, by Democrats, for how many decades?
Almost forever.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And look at the circumstances.
You know, the whole, one of the problems that the country faces in a number of places is public sector unions are bleeding cities, states, local communities dry with the pension plans that they have, the salaries.
And the reason that they're being bled dry is because it's taxpayers who are paying these salaries.
And these public sector unions are not producing anything.
There's no production taking place.
It's just a transfer of wealth from the private sector to the government sector.
And if you're going to mandate that people become members of unions in order to work, you're going to limit the number of people that want to work in certain fields, and you're going to limit the options that people do have once they get in there.
You know, I don't like any prerequisite of, in order to do this job, you're going to have to be a member of the union.
Reality is what it is, and it is the case.
But I think the evidence is in that it's time to try something else in the state of Michigan.
Why should anyone be denied in any way the right to work?
Stop and think of this.
The whole note, you've asked me about, is right to work a good issue?
The right to work?
Why should that be an obstacle?
Why should we put all kinds of things in people's way?
Do we not need people working today?
We have people who want to work.
Why put all kinds of ridiculous obstacles in their way?
Definitely.
I think we have a.
The Constitution says we have freedom of association.
Oh, God.
The Constitution does not say we have to become a member of a union before we're free to associate with somebody or take a job somewhere.
Even the United Nations, even the United Nations, Ed Bunch of Wackos says that there is a human right to work.
So, yeah, I think it's an issue.
It's a winnable issue.
Anything, anything that is directly linked to liberalism today or the Democrat Party is a winning issue.
They're bankrupting the country right before our very eyes.
Appreciate the call, Ryan.
Thanks much.
This is looks like Lilia.
I've never heard that name, but Lilia in Palm Beach.
Yes, sir.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I am a high school senior this year, and I have been bullied for the past three years by liberal teachers because I'm conservative.
And, you know, I've had issues this past year with a teacher who had a Cheguevara flag hanging in her classroom.
And, you know, now I'm editor of the school newspaper.
And I was wondering if I would be able to ask you a few questions and run an article about it.
Oh, you want to interview me right now for an article for the school paper?
Yes, sir.
Absolutely.
In fact, I'll tell you what.
Let me take a brief obscene profit timeout right now so we'll have a little bit more time for this when we come back, okay?
Okay, thank you.
And I'm not even going to cheat and ask you in advance what the questions are.
Okay.
All right.
See, this is great.
Way to go, Snerdley.
This is a perfect open line Friday call.
We'll be back and get to it right after this.
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What is your real point about madmen?
Very simple.
Our lives are to be lived.
But we don't live our life.
Well, I live mine, but everybody else manages their lives, or you let somebody else manage your life.
But life is to be lived.
Now, folks, the Heritage Foundation's researchers are following Senator Jim DeMint's attempt to permanently do away with the death tax.
Dement introduced a bill to permanently remove the 55% death tax that has applied every year until this year goes back into effect on January 1st of next year.
Now, this would be the ideal year to remove that tax from our laws and allow beneficiary money to move into our economy instead of going to big government.
The Senate voted 59 to 39 to say no.
And it was pretty much a party line vote.
And you know that the regime, Obama's regime, is behind this.
Anyway, the Heritage Foundation researchers make an excellent point to all of their members, pointing out the difference in the European and the American economies over the past 50 years and why one has grown and the other has not.
One is based on big government, big social services, the other hasn't been, although we're emulating Europe all too closely.
One economy is in the tank and another has not been, but for how much longer with this kind of administration, we don't know.
The death tax is not something most of us think about every day, nor know about, but the debate on it is indicative of the kind of administration we have right now, sending yet another message to business.
Imagine if Steinbrenner's family had to pay 55% of the billion dollars they have in assets from the New York Yankees as one business example.
We talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Those kinds of family business stories are in the hundreds of thousands in our country.
New York Daily News today has a story and the opening line is, should the Steinbrenner family make a gift of a portion of their Yankees estate to the government since there is no death tax?
As though our first obligation ought to be to government, not our families, not ourselves.
It's absurd.
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Okay, now back to Lilia in Palm Beach, editor of her school paper, wants to ask me four questions for an interview in the paper.
Welcome back, Lilia.
What's the first question?
How do you feel about First Amendment rights for students in a public classroom?
How do I feel about First Amendment rights for students in a public classroom?
Well, now this is interesting.
The First Amendment says that the government can't do anything to abridge your speech.
It doesn't say that your teacher can't.
It doesn't say that your boss can't.
There are many instances in a workforce or in a classroom or any other place where you can't say certain things if you want to remain either an employee or a student.
Could you be a little bit more specific?
Is your teacher denying somebody or you or your students an opportunity to say what you really think?
I have been singled out by teachers.
You know, I quit Latin after two years because my teacher would call me out in the middle of class and, you know, she told me to not listen to my parents because their conservative views are wrong.
So, I mean, that and the censorship with newspaper, too, because we've run into that a lot.
Well, these are good life lessons for you.
You're going to run into people that want to censor you throughout your life.
Your political correctness is all about censorship.
There are a lot of people who simply don't want to hear what they don't agree with, or they don't want to hear things that will challenge the little cocoon in which they live has their little worldview.
I would try to rise above this.
I know it's infuriating, and I know that it's got to be very offensive to boot, to have a teacher tell you to forget what your parents are telling you.
Oh, yes.
But there's certain things that you can do things about at the moment and certain things that you can't.
This, I think, is a teachable moment for you because these kinds of things are going to happen to you as you continue.
In fact, as a conservative, and the more outspoken you are, the more there will be attempts to shut you up or to intimidate you or what have you.
Learn to deal with it now and do not fall prey to it.
Do not let them shake your faith in what you believe.
Do not let this teacher shatter what you know to be right.
You have to deal with her because right now she is the person of authority in that classroom.
You can test it.
You never know.
This teacher might be testing you.
She might be wondering how far she can push you before you'll rebel against her.
She may be trying to get you to do that.
These are things I don't know.
I'm not in the classroom with you.
Yeah.
But I don't, you have to respect the authority in the circumstance that you're in.
I had a similar circumstance to you in a math class in junior high.
I just had a personality conflict with the teacher.
I just, I couldn't handle it.
I was close to flunking out.
And I would call every night the head of the department, another teacher whose class I wish I was in, and she would tell me how to solve the problems.
She said, the important thing is here for you to learn the math.
If this teacher is not helping you to learn the math, I'll do it.
Yeah.
So, and the important thing for you here is to learn.
This is a great teaching opportunity, a learning opportunity for you here.
And don't let it shatter your belief in yourself.
What's the next question?
How do you feel about First Amendment rights for teachers?
Okay, the third question is: how do I feel about First Amendment rights for who else?
What's the third question?
The third question is: how can we push back against the liberal monolith?
That's what I do.
What's the fourth question?
So many kids think that being liberal is cool and hip and whatever.
And what can we do to combat that?
Okay, let me try to combine questions two, three, and four.
Okay.
First Amendment rights for the teacher.
She runs the classroom.
She has whatever First Amendment rights that she wants.
She can run that classroom however she wishes.
When you get to college, you're going to run into some college professors who will be merciless to you.
If you become a lawyer, you're going to have a judge.
You have a series of judges and you can't do that.
You have to do what they say.
They run the courtroom.
It's part of life.
Now, what can you do about kids who think that being liberal is cool?
What can you do to combat it?
Laugh at them.
Mock them.
Make fun of them.
Ridicule is the single greatest rapier.
Ridicule is the single best way to embarrass somebody, get other people laughing at them.
Whatever you do, do not be defensive.
Don't let them set the agenda.
Don't let them make you always be reacting or responding to what they do.
Be on offense.
Be assertive.
Be confident.
They say something you disagree with.
Laugh at them.
Tell them you feel sorry for them.
Tell them when they figure it out better, you'll be happy to talk to them, but you don't have time for them right now.
Look, Snerdley, would you get her number?
We're going to call you next week when we have more time.
I'm out of time now, Lillia, but I want to talk to you further about this.
These are great questions you've got, and I would like to have a little bit more time with you, okay?
That would be wonderful.
Wonderful.
We'll do that next week.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Now, just one thing before we get out of here.
If I'm Lillia's parents, she comes home and says a teacher is telling her not to listen to me and her mother.
I go to the school.
I mean, that is intolerable.
I go to the school and I get that rectified.
But we'll talk to her more next week about this because these are, this all goes back to being in the big click, not being in the big click.
How do you survive?
She's in the right place at the right time, and I'm going to tell her that.