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Aug. 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 27, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It is true the Doctor of Democracy is not here today.
He will be back soon, and he'll be totally rested and ready to guide us through the upcoming very dramatic election process.
It is I, Douglas Rabansky, a true honest and goodness paying member of Rush Limbaugh.com.
I do not accept it for free.
I'm a paying member.
I would be contaminated if I accepted it for free, and it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And that is true.
We are on the left coast, a very rare occurrence, unless uh L Rushbow himself is in the chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for making this all possible.
It is open line Friday, as you know, and that's the day where Rush, when he is here, takes what is commonly referred to as the biggest risk in the history of broadcasting by allowing you to guide the show.
Amateurs.
Of course, today he takes the second biggest risk in broadcasting by allowing me to be here.
I want to tease something in the second hour.
You've all heard about David Limbaugh's best-selling book.
Well, Crimes Against Liberty.
We're going to have a very rare interview here on the Limbaugh Show, because interviews are not a common thing here.
David Limbaugh will be joining us for a period of time, and we're going to ask him the questions the others have not about this.
I spent the whole evening yesterday looking at this book, reading it, the evening and the afternoon yesterday, outstanding.
Now, I want to um I want to tell you Jimmy Carter is back in the news.
Now, I am about 50 years old.
And in my generation, we believed for about 30 years that Jimmy Carter was going to be the worst president we had ever seen.
Do I need to finish the sentence?
Of course, we know that he has been surpassed, and this is obviously driving Jimmy Carter crazy.
Now, listen, when Jimmy Carter was president, just to give you some historical perspective, I remember credit card interest rates were about 18%.
And in those days, you didn't care what credit card interest rates were, because now listen to this.
Many of you will find this hard to believe.
Some of you will remember this.
Credit card interest was completely tax deductible.
Consumer interest was tax deductible.
Listen, you want to jumpstart this economy?
Let us deduct our credit card interest, my friends, as long as they're charging us 27%, 28%, 30%.
These usurism ounced.
You'll jump start the whole place.
I mean, Jimmy Carter, who I've already said we thought for 30 years was the worst president we had ever seen.
And I know I don't need to finish the sentence for you, folks listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Jimmy Carter has bungled again.
Now there's a leader, the little man in North Korea, never leaves the country.
He's there all the time.
He might leave two days out of every decade to go someplace.
Jimmy Carter goes to North Korea to make his grandstand on the one day.
He the one day Kim Jong-il is not there.
Mr. Carter, you didn't get your meeting or your photo op this time.
I uh the guy gets his foot put wrong all the time.
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Now, there's a few things bothering me over the past few weeks.
I feel a little bit like um like Lieutenant Colombo.
There's a timeline problem with a few things.
And I don't know if it's occurred to you at all.
The same timeline problem.
Let me go back to Ground Zero.
Now you can define ground zero any number of ways.
I hear a lot of people talking about the idea that this mosque is two blocks away from ground zero.
I hear other people saying that the mosque itself is part of ground zero, and their argument is that parts of the airplane and parts of victims hit this building, and therefore it makes it sort of sacred ground zero, ground zero ground, hollowed ground.
When we think of this story, we think of our president in this very strange uh kabuki dance he did, where at first he came out supporting the building of the mosque at ground zero.
And I'm gonna keep referring to it as at ground zero.
So our wildly unpopular president, and I I it's legitimate to use those words, is it not?
He is wildly the poll numbers support it.
So let's use the words.
The embattled president, the controversial President Obama.
These were the words that they attributed, whether or not to George W. Bush when he was not embattled or wildly unpopular.
So we'll just go back to, we'll use the accuracy today.
The poll numbers support what I'm saying.
So the controversial and unpopular Barack Obama came out apparently on the eve of Ramadan.
We all remember this when he had the Muslim Muslim event at the White House, announcing bizarrely in his dance, that he supported the building of the mosque down at Ground Zero.
We all remember this, and we all remember how a day or two later he appeared to backtrack, and I think this was all part of larger kabuki dance.
Here's a here's the part of the timeline.
Here's the part of the timeline that I have not fully been able to connect or figure out.
Exactly.
Now he's interjected himself into this issue.
Remember in New York City.
I'm a New Yorker.
Don't live there anymore, but I'm a New Yorker.
And let us all remember that we were all New Yorkers in a certain sense when that hate crime, and is that is that controversial to call that a hate crime when that occurred on 9-11.
Barack Obama inserted himself into the conversation.
And yet, three thousand miles away in California, or if you're in Canada, 3000 miles away, in California, there was a judge, and you know what I'm going to say, he was overturning the voters of California on the topic of gay marriage.
And the topic of California's gay marriage law, Proposition 8, and the topic of this um this sort of renegade judge overturning the will of the voters.
And this is not a conversation, by the way, about gay marriage.
I'm not even logging in on it.
I'm just just reporting the news, you know, Russia's already analyzed what the judge did brilliantly, I may add, and if you go to Rush 24-7, you can hear that day's broadcast, it's a keeper.
But across the country, a judge was overturning the voters of California.
Now, I just find it curious that Barack Obama did not weigh in on this.
A genuinely controversial issue, and a genuine uh genuinely uh controversial issue in which voters and the electorate had spoken.
And yet Barack Obama has remained silent.
Now, why has he remained silent?
Well, one can hypothesize, well, let's take his own record.
His own record in the past, and I've not seen or found anything yet to uh dispute this, his own record is that he is not a supporter of gay marriage.
Now they don't want you to they don't want you to know that.
They don't want you to hear that, and they don't they certainly don't want you to be reminded of that, which is why the Rush Limbaugh show exists.
He is not on the record as a supporter of gay marriage.
Now he doesn't speak about it very often, hardly ever.
And one wonders if Barack Obama has had a change of heart on the topic.
I just wonder, because I speculate these things, one thinks these things in the night, because he could have come out, and he could have weighed in on what is a genuine controversy.
Should a judge be overturning voters?
Well, obviously, liberals love when judges overturn voters, because that's the only way they can get anything done, is the voters who would never agree to half of the things liberals want.
But he did not, in the same news cycle, that he was announcing that he supported the building of the mosque at ground zero, controversial and unpopular President Obama did not weigh in on this topic.
Now just stick with me here.
Imagine if he had, imagine for a moment, if he wanted a genuine outreach, he could have announced to those Islamic leaders assembled at the White House that night, he could have announced his support of gay marriage as a as an example of tolerance and understanding.
That would be the ideal place to, if you if you genuinely are interested in tolerance and understanding, that would be the ideal place to do it.
If you're interested in bridge building, and if you're interested in bridge building with the Islamic community, he will Take a view that says you do not in those countries stone to death homosexual men.
We in this country are tolerant.
And we are we have diversity.
We have the beauty of diversity, which is what unpopular President Obama could have said to the Islamic leaders that day.
You wonder how smart the guy is when you when you see things like this.
Now, this mosque that's being built at ground zero, being discussed being built at ground zero, I've already given you a definition of at ground zero.
You'll notice that the Imam in charge of the place is not giving any interviews.
He's not answering any of the questions, and boy, oh boy, oh boy, do people have a lot of questions for this character?
A lot of questions.
Where is the press?
Is the press completely admissing in action?
MIA, completely missing in action, not asking this guy a single question.
I would like to ask him a question or two myself.
Because if the rubric, and I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna make a joke here because others have joked about you know putting um hooters downstairs and all these things.
It's very funny stuff, but I'm not gonna joke about what I'm gonna say here.
I would like to ask this man if they are truly interested, if they're truly interested in bridge building and diversity and all the rest.
Bridge building, not knocking down bridges, but bridge building.
If they're truly interested, why have we not seen this very same Imam come out and support the building of, let's say, a Jewish temple next to Mecca in Saudi Arabia?
I would think that would be a magnificent first step or a Catholic church.
Are these inflammatory things I'm saying?
Are they controversial things?
Seems to me if you were interested in tolerance and freedom of religion and human rights.
This would be the way you would begin.
I've not even begun, by the way.
Many more comments to make on this and many other things.
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We'll be right back.
The mosque story does not just go away.
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You've got to go see what they've got.
Some of it's hysterical, the stuff they put up there.
You know this.
You've heard me say this before.
Absolutely hysterical.
I need to get all the archives of the Rush Limbaugh show.
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You know, more and more people are, when it comes to Barack Obama and the topic of the mosque, more and more people are realizing that there is something very, very wrong with a president who seems apparently to thrive on provocation, on division.
He advocates a mosque at ground zero, for goodness sakes.
He has addressed the nation without wearing a without wearing a flag.
He has he has stated that he does not believe we're a Christian country.
There was one moment, you may remember this where he he says we have 57 states.
Remember that?
That was an allusion to something specific.
Some of you know what I'm talking about.
This man is not comfortable with anything patriotic, and he does not reveal anything about his past except for a very carefully constructed scripted history.
And uh the continual parties, he continually campaigns.
There's something uh terribly, terribly wrong with this situation.
There's something wrong with the media and politicians who fall at his feet in absolutely blind adoration, no matter how unpopular and controversial the man is.
People don't want Obamacare, and as you'll notice, the left have stopped referring to it as Obamacare.
That's that's one of their talking points, as they go into any election cycle.
They can't call it Obamacare anymore because it's the disaster of it is being written in front of our eyes daily, before it even arrives.
Think of this.
The Obama administration sides with who?
It sides with Chavez.
When it comes to Iran, it sides with the Mulas of Iran versus the Iranian people who were protesting in the streets, who long for freedom and liberty.
The Obama administration sides with the illegals inside the U.S. and the Mexican government versus the people of Arizona.
He sides with his pal Gates versus the police of Cambridge, all the while admitting he didn't know any of the firsthand uh evidence.
Would it be um inflammatory to call the mosque a murder mosque if it's there on ground zero?
We've read somewhere that the commemoration date of the thing is supposed to be September 11, 2011.
I don't know how that will happen.
But that would be the tenth anniversary of the hate crime attack that killed, murdered, not killed, excuse me, 3,000 people.
And of course, it would be a great symbol, wouldn't it?
Great symbol of triumph.
One thing about this controversy becoming so political is that we have been distracted a bit.
Yes, you've got Bloomberg out there, you've got Obama out there, but we should be taking this opportunity to challenge.
We are told there are is an enormous moderate Muslim community out there.
And yet, as I said earlier, the Imam is ducking all interviews.
So challenge everybody else.
Have the care representatives explain why this cultural center is necessary when in fact it is so insensitive to so many people.
Ask Keith Ellison.
Ask every leader you can find.
Ask them why it is, how it is, that they have a tin ear.
Ask them why they're so why they are so insensitive to the feelings of others.
Ask them directly this question.
Why?
Why is it called the Cordoba Initiative?
And please relate to me what that means, what Cordoba means.
I wish some television network would go directly to Dearborn and conduct some man on the street interviews with average Muslims and hear what they have to say.
This is this is worth this is worth conversing about, is it not?
Is it not?
Now, I raised the topic a few moments ago of building churches and synagogues and temples inside Saudi Arabia.
Do you know that the Vatican, I have a story in front of me from 2008.
The Vatican started negotiations with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Pope Benedict wanted to have some religious freedom and tolerance in Saudi Arabia, and a top Middle East expert, Dr. Anwar Ashiki is his name.
He's the president of the Saudi Center for Middle East Strategic Studies.
He had the view, he said that unless Pope Benedict recognized the Prophet Mohammed, no churches should be built in Saudi Arabia.
No church is built in Saudi Arabia unless Mohammed is recognized.
So there are Saudi mediators, they've been working with the Vatican, they've been having negotiations.
The idea is to allow some places of religious worship to Christians.
And of course, you have this this you have this problem here.
And he further went on to say it would be possible to launch official negotiations to construct a church in Saudi Arabia, but only after the Pope and all the Christian churches recognize the prophet.
Now, my friends, I don't want to go into a deep theological religious conversation, but every religion believes that it is the truth.
I mean, that's the whole point of being involved in a religion.
You believe that you carry the truth, and you believe you may carry it on to others.
But not every religion believes that it is superior, and that all other religions must bow down to it.
And this, my friends, is the rub.
And this is why the Imam and the others who are preaching tolerance at ground zero will never call for the building of a church or a synagogue in Saudi Arabia or near Mecca.
You're not even allowed to travel on the freeway if you're if you're not of that particular movement.
Of course, there's a lot of debate about how many Christians actually live in inside Saudi Arabia.
So we ask ourselves the question.
You see Time magazine this week.
Time magazine Asks if we're uh if we are a country that's full of Islamophobia.
Well, I'm a Christian.
I experienced a lot of Christophia in this country.
But that's the new that's the new theme of the left.
You're racist, you're Islamophobic.
That's the word you're going to be hearing repeated again and again and again.
Islamophobic.
Who here remembers any Islamic backlash in the year following 9-11?
Well, there really wasn't very much of a backlash after 9-11.
I don't remember hearing about it then.
I barely hear about a backlash now.
But I never hear the question asked, what about the intolerance of this administration towards the American people?
It's Zagrebansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
1800-282-2882 is the number, and it is open line Friday.
It is Rbanski here, 1-800-282-2882.
It's open line Friday here on the Rush Limbaugh Show program note.
In the next hour, David Limbaugh is going to be here.
You know, in order to have David Limbaugh here appear on the Rush Limbaugh Show, bearing with me a mere guest host.
We had to make an application, fill out the forms and have it all approved by the by the big man himself, and happily he did approve of it.
So I'm very thrilled that David Limbaugh will be here.
Show with very, very few guests.
A moment ago I was talking about the EIB iPad giveaway, and of course the wedding pictures.
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There's a link right there, and then you'll get a peek at what the website is like, and then you'll be tempted as I have done, you'll be tempted to join it.
We're talking about Islamophobia before I go to your calls, I want to finish talking about it.
Jonah Goldberg wrote a very interesting piece about this yesterday.
Uh, and he talked about the supposed anti-Muslim backlash.
And he talked about the fact that it was a myth, and I made the point earlier, and Jonah makes a point in his piece as well, that 9-11, in fact itself, was the ultimate hate crime.
That in fact there is the idea that there is Islamophobia here, and that there's a um anti-Muslim backlash, it's a huge myth.
We're very, very nice tolerant people.
But if you read the pages of the New York Times, or uh, or watch various television news reports, never not even including the left wing blogs, you'll hear much more uh bigotry, open talk toward anyone who's a Christian constantly.
You'll hear uh Christians referred to as the Taliban wing of the Republican Party.
I have a story here, I don't know if I'll get to it today, but the New York Times is referred to Teabarty people as insurgents.
They've upped it.
They used to be anger, they were angry, lots of anger.
Now they're insurgents.
Now, um, there's no question, by the way, that that young Middle Eastern men are being scrutinized at airports.
Well, of course they are.
Uh if you are given the dangers and the complexities of war and a complex war on terror, of course, of course.
That's what happens.
Nothing personal, nothing personal.
But when you listen to Barack Obama, and Jonah makes this point in his famous Cairo address, you would think that America has been at war with Islam for 30 years, and only now, and only he, of course, can heal the rift.
Strange argument, given that Americans have shed a lot of blood for Muslims over the past three decades, ending the slaughter of Muslims in the Balkans, feeding Somalis, liberating Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Afghanistans.
Millions of Muslims all around the world would desperately like to move to the U.S. This is the land we are told by Time Magazine is a land of intolerance.
No place on earth is there more open and intentional tolerance of everyone than in the United States, and nowhere is there more in is there intentional intolerance than in places like Saudi Arabia.
From in their words and deeds, it doesn't make me happy to say it.
So we've got the Ground Zero Mosque story.
We're again discussing America's Islamophobia, which doesn't exist.
When will uh Time magazine, by the way, devote an issue to This administration's intolerance of the American people, to its tone deafness of the American people.
That's that's the question.
There is no place in this country.
And I was always I was fascinated by the fact this was not asked of Miss Kagan during her hearings.
Do you think there is a place in this country for Sharia law?
Is there?
Miss Kagan was not asked.
Now you may say that my phobia, and I do not have a phobia, but I am also not an irrational person.
I have fear of things, sure.
After Lockerby, after Daniel Pearl, Fort Hood, the Achille Laurel, Cobar Towers, the Shoe Bomber, the embassies in Nigeria, Tanzania, and the 9-11 course.
I don't think it's irrational, my friends, to be wary and concerned about a movement.
If you don't want to call it a religion, let's call it at least a political movement.
Fearing something that is dangerous, by the way, is healthy.
It's normal.
Normal reaction.
If you fear people who are part of a movement, a movement whose followers, by the way, will kill torture, fly fully loaded planes into buildings.
I won't even list the sort of things that we know, because I I can't take it.
Stone people, etc., car bombs.
The list goes on and on.
All in the name of this movement.
My friends, there's a there's a uh healthy aspect to being concerned about it.
You'd have to be crazy if you didn't.
All of this makes me then wonder how uh how just how smart is Barack Obama.
Rush brilliantly yesterday encapsulated an answer to this conversation in about five or six nifty sentences.
I'm not that gifted.
So it's going to take me a little while to explain the difference between intelligence, smarts, wisdom, and cunning, but it is open line Friday.
So I promised I would go to your calls.
Uh we have people holding.
John in Indianapolis has been holding for a long while.
John, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show and Open Line Friday.
Hey, Doug, I wanted to make a point about President Obama's religion, and I take him at his word that he's a converted Christian.
But folks on the left who um are very hypocritical as we know say that um that we are wrong for suspecting he may be a Muslim, yet it was the New York Times that published an article that said because his father was a Muslim, according to Islam, he is a Muslim.
And so my point is it's and and the left uses this, the administration uses his Muslim roots to advantage when they try to quote reach out to the Muslim world, and yet we are supposedly Islamophobic or bigoted if we suspect that he may be a Muslim.
And I compare it to uh the political correctness that allows a black person to use the N-word and then it scoriates white people who do the same.
It just makes me sick.
It's hypocritical.
Uh I'm not sure.
Well, John, John, you raise the point of the New York Times.
You're familiar, of course, are you not with the Stephanopoulos interview where he corrects Barack Obama?
Yes.
And you're also probably familiar with the 2007 piece in the New York Times written by Nicholas Christoph.
Rush talked about it last week.
I've had it in my continual stat just in case since 2007.
You know the piece I'm talking about?
I I don't remember that specific.
This is the piece where uh the controversial and unpopular Barack Obama was asked um what the most beautiful sound in the world was.
And he said the most you know what I'm talking, you know what I'm about to say.
And he then recites in flawless uh Arabic, apparently, that the most beautiful sound on earth is the Muslim call to evening prayer.
And Nicholas Christoph sort of winks at us in that piece where he says this would drive the people on the right crazy if they only knew it.
Yet he writes it there in the there in the story.
I'm waiting, John, for a um for some enterprising reporter, I'll probably wait till I'm dead, uh, some enterprising reporter to ask uh controversial and unpopular Barack Obama in what language does he actually conduct his conversations with the King of Saudi Arabia.
I made you laugh there, John, but as it's it's it's funny, but it's also a serious question, isn't it?
Well, it is.
Um I thought Rush made a good point the other day, too, uh, with regard to there are moderate Muslims, but how moderate really is Islam?
And um i there doesn't seem to be a lot of tolerance as you indicate for a synagogue or a Catholic church in Riyadh.
Well, that's what I would like to see the Imam from Ground Zero call for.
Thanks so much, by the way, John, for calling the Rush Limbaugh show.
Uh we have um we have coming up Darrell from Evansville, Indiana.
Darrell, welcome to the show.
Hey, Doug, it's Darrell, and I'm glad to talk to you.
You know, I can see the screen very well.
Happy to talk to you too, sir.
Uh regarding Islamophobia, there absolutely is Islamophobia in the world, but it's on it's 180 degrees out of phase.
Islamophobia li lies on the on the behalf of 180 degrees out of phase in which way?
Or if you're Sheila Jackson Lee was 360 degrees out of phase.
Yeah.
Well, it's not uh the Western world fearing uh the typical Muslim.
It's the moderate Muslims who fear and have therefore have Islamophobia for the extremist Muslims who they fear for their lives every time they go up against them.
They dare not go up against the extremist, their extremist Muslim brother.
Whereas the extremist Christian is met with scorn and repudiation every time that something negative happens on their behalf.
So, yeah, there is Islamophobia, but it's not among Christians, it's among Muslims.
Well, all I experience as a as a Christian as a Catholic is Christophobia, experienced quite a lot of it.
People have quite bigoted to your face about it without even realizing it.
Very nice people, well-intended people are quite bigoted about it.
Anyway, do you experience that as well, Daryl?
Not so much.
Not so much.
Well, thanks for calling the Rush Limbo Show.
Good to talk to you, Darryl.
Call again someday.
And um it's Douglas Rabansky filling in for Rush.
It's open line Friday.
1-800-282-282 is the number.
We'll be right back.
Douglas Rabansky filling in for Rush, who will be back the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Remember, my friends, he will be back and rested to help guide you through what's going to be a very dramatic election season.
And it's Doug Banski Open Line Friday, 1 800 282882.
You know the number coming up, a surprise guest at after the top of the hour, David Limbaugh lots to discuss with him because of his book.
I will spend a few minutes talking about his book before he comes on and give you uh my take on it.
Now, listen, there are certain things that happen in the news, even when you're a guest host.
And it's almost unbelievable.
It's it's surreal.
We are in Alice in Wonderland, my friends.
We're in we're in upside down land.
Here we are talking about this very topic.
And I was just about to get into the question of how smart is Barack Obama.
Of course, the danger if you open that topic is um you could hijack the whole show discussing that.
Actually, it could be a very short conversation, couldn't it?
But what we see appearing now in the Washington Post is that the administration has the administration, the Obama, the controversial and unpopular Obama administration, has if you haven't heard it, you won't believe it.
They have shelved the planned prosecution of the alleged coordinator of the 2000, October 2000 suicide attack on the USS coal in Yemen.
Let me say that again.
The unpopular and controversial Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of the man who planned the bombing of the coal.
This will be an evolving story that we will follow.
And we'll ask David Limbaugh about that when we come back after the top of the hour.
This story is just now appearing in the Washington Post.
Amazing.
Almost unbelievable.
And you've I mean add that to the list of what we've been talking about here all morning.
So the question you ask yourself when Obama starts doing this two-step is just exactly how smart is this man.
We know he's got his groupies around him.
We know he's got the sycophants around him.
We've always he's got his admirers around him.
They believe in it all.
They will refuse to accept that there is any intellectual uh fault of this man who's their idol.
But man, oh man, this guy can't move fluently through conversation unless he's reading from a prepared text.
The teleprompter is the life buoy of this man's ability to speak.
When he's not scripted, he stumbles, he mumbles.
When you watch him not speaking, these excursions of unscripted talk are a sort of torture to watch.
He would take uh he'd be very well advised to take a few speech lessons from Sarah Palin, who in fact is very well spoken.
It's infuriate people on the left that hear me say that, but it's true.
Remember this one?
I was in fifty-seven states, I've got one left to go.
And there were people who speculated that that was part of a Freudian slip because there are there is an entity of 57 states.
It's called the Islam, it's called the organization of Islamic of the Islamic Conference, by the way.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
I've told it maybe a few brief moments in the night.
But that is what some people believed he was referring to.
So he has this a propensity to jump feet first before thinking into saying whatever he wants.
Do you remember this?
I mentioned it earlier.
He accused the Cambridge police of stupidity in the Gates incident, and then he admitted that he didn't know the circumstances.
He got into the Manhattan Mosque controversy, as we've been talking about.
Does it take a genius to figure out that coming down on the unpopular side of the issue?
He is at least consistent in this, he's unpopular, that coming down on the unpopular side of the issue, contrary to the will of about 70% of the American people, that this could be perceived as a sort of political blunder, particularly with midterm elections, you know, coming up in two months.
Amazing.
So what is it?
Is it infantile?
Is he ideologically driven?
Does he simply say, I want it, I need it, this is what I say.
Or is he some sort of mad political genius?
And his unpopularity is all part of his fascinating plot.
Very hard.
These endless golf games, basketball outings, all these musical occasions at the White House, vacation upon vacation economy, vacation in very fancy posh expensive spots.
Michelle's expensive junket.
Now up at some very elite place in Martha's Vineyard.
My goodness, at a time when people are hard hit by recession, and the president's popularity just tumbles and tumbles.
Totally tone deaf.
Now you ask yourself if those things are signs of to uh of intelligence.
Because they're not.
It's Open Line Friday.
I'm Douglas Rabansky, 1800-28282.
Coming up after the top of the hours, David Limbaugh will be right back.
Open Line Friday, Douglas Rabansky here.
Coming up at the top of the next hour, I'm going to make a few remarks about David Limbaugh's staggeringly excellent book.
But don't be intimidated because you hear me say it's staggeringly good, by the way.
It is a page tender.
It is accessible.
It is not uh lofty and dense, it is factual and gripping.
And we'll be talking to David Limbaugh, and we'll we may even take some of your calls for David when we come back.
I'll take one more call as we scoot out the rest of this hour.
Sucat in Hartford, Connecticut.
Welcome to the Rush Limbo Show.
Yeah.
Sir, how are you?
Good.
How are you?
Very, very good, sir.
What's on your mind?
Well, what I'm hearing is that that the way that the talk is going on is blaming the everybody who is Muslim, which is not which has become a ratio.
Oh, sir, I I I I are you hearing that kind of talk from a lot of people?
Because I know you're not hearing it from me.
I am I'm hearing from the radio and and some news media and everything.
Oh, that's terrible.
I I I I condemn that sort of talk, sir.
Some Muslim have done some bad words doesn't mean the whole is on the world are bad.
No.
This is what this is what is going on around.
And that that's a ratio because uh when you when you see incidences of that occurring, you should write a letter because that's unacceptable.
I should write a letter to who?
Well, when you hear the incidences, you should cite them and put them down on a piece of paper and send a letter in to the to whoever's making the offenses.
That's what I'm calling you to.
Yes, well, tell me who they are and what well I'll sign a letter if I hear these offenses.
I heard you saying that the Saudi Arabia doesn't allow the church, but I am the Muslim, not from Saudi Arabia.
I am in the United States, US citizen, and to practition Islam here, that doesn't mean I am I am from Saudi Arabia.
And I No, no, no, no, no.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't say you were from Saudi Arabia.
Are people are people accusing you of being from Saudi Arabia, truthfully, are they?
No, no, what I'm saying, I'm hearing is that being the Muslim is bad.
That's what I'm hearing.
Because if some Muslim has done some bad work, that doesn't, but I know from your I know from the Tumbra of your call that you that you condemn them, sir.
I know that I speak for you.
You do condemn them.
It's Douglas Rabansky Open Line Friday, filling in for Rush.
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