Uh by the way, I've I heard National Review did review the Zeb Chaffet's book.
Um the Weekly Standard didn't uh none of the conservative columnist did.
And it didn't surprise me.
I'm just answering Snerdley's question.
They just I pretend I don't exist.
That's the easiest way to deal with me.
I'm just really not here.
Hi, how are you, folks?
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the Rush Limbaugh program, the email address uh is L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
So here she is second day in a row, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
She's over in Tehran.
She is interviewing Mahmood Ach, my Zod.
And she's over there wearing what a headscarf.
And Snerdley had a uh interesting observation.
American women, particularly news women, when they hit over there, they observe every sexist bigoted custom in these Islamic countries.
And in our country, they tell us to go to hell.
She is right now.
Where's it uh not quite a burqa, but uh headscarf.
You know, I wonder if Ahmedizad knows that she's Jewish.
She knows that she is she knows she knows what Ahmedini Zad thinks of her.
And yet there's over there cowtowing.
I remember when Mike Wallace remember this.
Some of you people be too young to remember this.
Mike Wallace interviewed the Ayatollah Homeini on 60 Minutes kept Imam.
Imam the way we address Obama now.
Imam.
And you'd ask him the question.
I mean, it's deferential as you could be.
And he come back, do a press conference here with Ronaldus Magnus, Jimmy Carter.
Hey, you stupid jerk.
And then uh then ask the question.
Have you folks?
There's something significant that happened out there.
Carla, is it Bruni or Brunei?
How did the First Lady of France?
How does she pronounce her last name?
B-R-U-N-I, doesn't matter.
She's written a book.
And in the book she lets the cat out of the bag.
Michelle Obama hates being first lady.
Hates the job.
Michelle Obama, this is from the uh UK Daily Mail.
Michelle Obama thinks being America's first lady is hell.
Carla Bruni, or Bruna reveals today in a wildly indiscreet new book.
Ms. Brunei reveals that Mrs. Obama replied when asked about her position as the president's wife.
Don't ask, it's hell.
I can't stand it.
Well, I got a suggestion then.
I don't know if she can't stand him, can't stand uh being the president's wife, doesn't like being first lady.
Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White House during an official visit by Sarkozy last March emerged in Carla and the Ambitious, a book written in collaboration with Miss Brunei.
Now you will not see, you will not see one domestic US news network or service covering this story, which tells me how big it is.
The media is going to ignore this like conservative people ignore me.
They're just going to ignore it.
They're going to leave it across the pond.
That tells me this is a big story.
Now then the next thing is why would Carla Brunei do this?
Why be this indiscreet?
Why let this kind of cat out of the bag?
Why publish a book that says Moochell Obama thinks the job is hell.
Now, if it's true, this should go a long way in explaining the endless string of lavish vacations and parties.
You know, I have postulated for the longest time that they're out of the White House so much of heat.
I don't think they like it.
I think the White House to them is not a positive historical place.
I think they look at the White House where a lot of really bad stuff was decided and bad stuff happened.
And I don't think they like being there.
And I I actually uh I I think that it's that White House to them is it's it's if I were president, I'd never leave the place.
I'd be so honored to be in there.
I every friend I have would be spending every week in there.
I I'd I'd be touring it every day in my off time.
Uh I I'd want to soak up every amount of history I could.
You couldn't get me out.
Maybe to Camp David for the same reason, but you couldn't get me out.
These people can't wait to get out of it.
Which has um always struck.
Well, it's on Jacob Tap's site on ABC.
Jacob Tap.
That's why that's what Obama calls him.
Jacob Tapper has got the Carla Brunei story.
Well, let's see how long that lasts.
Now, why?
You know, I mean, Muchel Obama could have said to Carla Brunei, don't ask, I mean, it's she could have lied.
She could such an honor, such a woman.
No, she said, It's hell.
I hate it.
So we did a little research.
The UK Sunday Times, June 5th, 2009, Barack and Michelle Obama declined dinner with the Sarkozy.
The Obamas turned up in Paris this evening, but have declined a dinner invitation from a couple next door, the Sarkozy's.
President Obama's reluctance to spend more than a minimum time with a French leader on his visit for the D-Day anniversary has come as an embarrassment for Elise Palace.
America's first family will not be dining with President Sarko Sarkozy and his wife, even though they are staying at the residence of the U.S. ambassador, which is just right across the street from Elise apartments where the Sarkozy spend their weekends.
Mr. Sarkozy's staff were trying yesterday to arrange another private moment between the couples.
Mr. Obama due to fly back to Washington tomorrow night or on Sunday.
Mr. Sarkozy's dream date would be dinner somewhere spectacular, such as the Yule Verne, uh the Elaine Ducas restaurant in the Turifel.
The Obamas were reported on French celebrity websites to be planning a meal there by themselves.
So anyway, a Sarkozy's the president of France says to the President of the United States, hey, we'd like to take you to dinner.
And the President of the United States says, oh, sorry, not going to be here long enough.
So maybe Carla Bruma, maybe the Sarkozy's, this is how they get even.
Now Jacob Tapper, uh, White House uh is denying the story.
Spokesman for First Lady Obama, Catherine McCormick Lelyveld tells ABC News the first lady never said it.
Well, now we have a dilemma.
Who do we believe?
Do we believe Sarkozy's wife Carla Brunei, who once dated Mick Jagger, and who fell in love with Sarkozy, who's about five feet shorter than she is while on a tour of the pyramids in Egypt.
Or do we believe Muchell Obama via her spokesman, Catherine McCormick Leleveld, through Jacob Tapper at ABC News that she never said it.
Who do we believe here?
I mean, I look at Carla Brunei, to me she's got an honest face.
All outward appearances.
...
You are tempted here to go with a French babe.
I mean, you you really you're tempted here to go with the French babe because we know that the Obamas are liberals and we know that liberals lie.
And see, the problem with this is that it's believable.
This is the problem that Catherine McCormick Lelyveld has as the spokeswoman for Muchel Obama, and that is that what Carla Brunei said is believable.
It's hell.
I hate the job.
Anyway, so that's the the fact that only Jacob Tapper at ABC News is covering this tells me how big this is.
Although this was from the uh what is this uh the political Democrats spend on anti-health uh reform episode?
We had this story yesterday.
More Democrats are coming out against Obamacare.
They had the story yesterday that all 34 of House Democrats have voted against it, won in their primaries.
Where the Democrats were afraid that people who voted against it were lose.
The Democrats that voted against it are winning big.
Democrat candidates are spending three times more advertising against health reform law than they are in support of it.
Democrats don't want Obama anywhere near them on the campaign trail.
They're out spending more money advertising they oppose Obamacare than they are advertising how great it is and how much they support it.
And yet the story, of course, is what?
The internacine warfare inside the uh Republican Party.
Brief time out.
We've got to come back after this and continue.
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Get this.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation's floating the idea of charging an additional tax on food purchased at drive-throughs.
The idea was discussed Monday at a meeting of state legislators.
It would be an extra five percent added to the six percent customers already pay.
It could bring in tens of millions of dollars for roads, according to official estimates.
Some restaurant owners fear it would hurt business.
I uh I'm not kidding here.
Drive-through restaurants an additional five percent sales tax.
You know what's going to happen.
People are gonna go inside, they're gonna stop driving through.
These idiots do not understand the dynamics of their tax law.
And what is this bring in millions of dollars for roads?
You know, this is the kind of stuff that is driving incumbents into the hitter lands.
Roads, we just were told we spent a trillion dollars in stimulus on infrastructure.
And then we had to hear a couple weeks ago that we need 50 billion more for infrastructure for schools and roads and bridges and highways.
Now we're not idiots.
We're sitting out here and saying, okay, a trillion dollars for roads, bridges, and stimulus and uh infrastructure, and we all know it didn't work.
There isn't any infrastructure rebuilding going on.
Then unemployment rate skyrocket, so they come back another 50 billion dollars for infrastructure, and they passed that.
And now West Virginia wants an additional 5% sales tax on drive-through restaurants to build roads.
Well, how how stupid do these people think we are?
We just finished being told that we spent a trillion dollars to revive and save an economy to build roads.
And we're still raising taxes to build roads.
Why are there any problems with the roads anyway, given how much taxes are already being paid and spent on building and maintaining roads?
I'll guarantee you every road with Robert Byrd's name on it in West Virginia is probably not in state of disrepair.
Who's next on this program?
Madera California Joe, thank you for waiting, sir.
You are on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey Russ, how are you?
Very well, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I'm calling today about the limbo laws.
the limbo laws basically vote the conservative, doesn't matter if they're a Republican or not.
Better to have a liberal that we know than a rhino.
No, no, no, no.
That's not the Where did by the way there is no limbo law, there's a limbo rule.
So when faced with a liberal or a conservative on a ballot, always vote the conservative, period.
I'm talking about, say, the in the O'Donnell race.
It was Counselor O'Donnell, and everyone was saying that O'Donnell isn't electable.
Only uh only my castle is because he's a rhino.
And you said uh, you know, better vote for the conservative than for the rhino, even though the conservative is uh there's a good chance that they're unelectable.
Well, no, but I don't believe the conservatives are unelectable.
I didn't put that in there.
That's not my my rule does not s stipulate, even if somebody loses.
What I said was it does us no good to have a 51 seat majority if eight or four or five of the votes are liberal Republicans or rhinos.
Because 51 votes is not enough for a legislative majority.
You need 60 votes in the Senate.
So if you, unless you're talking 60, you're whistling Dixie.
Well, 51 seats.
My point was to illustrate these people are not really interested in a policy agenda.
They want their chairmanships.
51 seats give me 51 seats.
This one, 51 seats.
Now, of course, they don't want 51 seats if the 51st seat's gonna be O'Donnell for some reason.
But it does no good to have rhinos agreeing with liberal Democrat policies and voting for because it waters down conservatism, it waters down and destroys the brand of Republicanism, and it gets error and we end up being blamed for liberal policies.
Because our guys vote for it.
The limbaugh rule, you got a liberal or a conservative running, you vote the conservative.
Period.
End of story.
But who knows who's electable?
This was my point.
The Buckley rule that these guys are all quoting.
And by the way, half of these people quoting the Buckley rule couldn't carry his typewriter.
A lot of these guys want to assume that they're the new Buckley.
None of them are the new Buckley.
There is no new Buckley.
These guys have not made names for themselves, so they want to associate themselves with Buckley, the Buckley rule here.
Buckley violated his own rule.
Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online, had a great post.
Impromptu's.
He said the Buckley rule was really for presidential races in the first place.
It's not meant to be applied in all these hinterland places, midterm elections and all that.
But the bottom line is, you know, William Buckley, as the Godfather of conservatives.
Somebody new shows up on the scene.
He welcomed them in.
Movement was the movement.
He's all happy to have them there, promoted them if they were worthwhile.
And by the way, if they weren't, he dissed them.
He got rid of the Birchers.
He wasn't particularly fond of Ayn Rand, but didn't, and and but for the most part, you know, Buckley didn't pretend other conservatives didn't exist.
There is no new Buckley.
These guys invoking the Buckley rule, but limbaugh rule, you got a liberal or a rhino or a conservative, you vote conservative.
Pier E. Oud.
Excolumation point.
That's the Limbaugh rule.
We don't get into electability because we're not clairvoyant.
And we don't tell ourselves we can't.
Just yesterday, Christine O'Donnell had 50 grand on tap, and she was down 25 points and had no prayer.
Today she's got over a million dollars and she's only down 11.
In one day.
Don't tell us we can't win.
That's another thing you people in the establishment have got to stop.
You gotta stop telling us who can't win and who can because you don't know.
Nobody knows till the votes are counted.
Tony in College Station, Texas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Rush, hit us to the highest.
It is great to talk to you.
Uh if living in the White House is hell, I am done with church.
I can tell you right now.
Uh, but I can I can see what her point is, and it's because she's accountable for what she's saying now, and that really kind of ties into why I called to begin with.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
Who are we talking about here?
Uh Michelle Obama.
Okay, Michelle Obama, and you can see her point that living there is hell.
Yes, yes, because she's finally accountable for the things she's saying.
And that's kind of why I called to begin with.
You uh said earlier that you struck the nerve.
Oh the thing is, is the is the media has been able to almost act like a skinner, a filter, and go, well, no, that's not what they meant.
But they've been so overboard that there's there's not platitudes to point to anymore.
You can point to it to things they're saying.
Nowadays, when you argue with the liberal, you don't have to go through stuff.
You can point, you can point to a street corner, you can point to the paper, you can point to anything and prove them wrong pretty quickly.
It's almost gotten to the point that I think the ought to like find people with Obama stickers and revoke your license right there because uh they're not responsible enough to drive.
I don't know.
It's pretty sad.
You may in all of that have a point.
There may be a diamond in all of that.
Because essentially, here what Tony said was one of the reasons Moochell might might not like it is she is she's accountable.
They've never had to be accountable before.
They've had non-show-up jobs, no show jobs.
Um you might even say, folks, this guy is lighting bulbs all across my brain.
Not only could it be that they don't like that there's accountability that people actually listen to what they say and react to it, sometimes criticize it, they also have to work.
It could well be that this is the first time in their lives they've had to work.
A no-show jobs and no show job.
325 grand for having your name on the mast head at a hospital.
Law professor, University of Chicago teaching Alinsky tactics work.
Having somebody at Harvard turn your C into an A, putting you on a law review at work.
Over in uh in Tehran, she's wearing the head scarf, and I'm just remembering when he came to the United States and the people at Columbia University invited him to speak there, and he he asked, he was asked a question by a student about uh gay rights in Iran.
Oh, we don't have any of those.
The crowds, I don't know what made me think of this, but he said we don't have any homosexuals in Iran.
And his students in the in the hall started laughing and snickering.
And Ahmedini's odds, oh, really?
Well, if you if you know of one, could you tell me where they live?
Remember that?
We don't have any in Iraq.
What on that doesn't happen in a row?
Oh, well, you know, but perhaps you can tell me where they live.
I don't know what made me think of that.
I was just I guess it's an American newswoman showing profound awe and respect for this little guy.
They don't have homosexuals because they kill them.
Or back to the audio sound bites we go.
Rush Limbaugh wants purity in the GOP.
This morning CNN's American Morning, Jim Acosta, the CNN correspondent reporting about the Delaware race.
The co-host Kieran Chetri said Carl Rove had some harsh things to say about Christine O'Donnell.
He said that she serious character problems went on to say, why did she mislead voters about her college education?
Serious questions about how she makes her living uh went on to say he doesn't think Republicans can win that seat.
Right, purity.
Mr. Acosta, could you tell me the last time the Democrats actually campaigned for the Reagan Democrats?
You know, back in the 1980s, there was this phenomenon known as the Reagan Democrats, and uh, of course, we welcomed them in the Republican Party.
We welcomed them.
I don't remember the Democrats campaigning for them.
I don't remember the Democrats suggesting we should vote for Reagan Democrats.
So why, Mr. Acosta, should we go out and promote Obama Republicans?
Where is our future in that?
We're not talking about purity here.
We're talking about loyalty.
We're talking about right versus wrong.
If you if if you're for Obama to become a Democrat.
And don't tarnish our brand.
So then the fill-in co-host Drew Griffin said, Well, voters didn't vote for Carl Rowe.
She got the votes.
So is there a power shift going on in Washington?
Thank you.
Yes, folks, to answer your question, it still is funny to sit here and listen to these people talk about me.
I already already said I told you so, but the second book was see I told you so.
I've already um anyway.
I it's just it is.
It's it's fun to listen.
Now last night, Rolf was back on Fox.
He was on Fox this morning, he's doubled down against Christine O'Donnell.
I got I got emails last night.
I I was I was not watching Fox last night.
I was sitting there, Catherine and I were talking about some stuff I got to do in the future, and all of a sudden, iPhone starts going nuts.
I look at it, and I'm getting emails.
Oh, Greta's talking about you, Rove's talking about you.
Greta's playing your comments about Rome.
And I said, I'm sorry I'm missing it.
I'm not watching it.
One email said, Rove's committing political suicide.
We don't understand this.
Can you help us understand what's going on?
I can't explain this.
So on the Greta replay, I stood up or stayed up to watch it.
The Greta replay is one o'clock.
So I watched it, and we got a few sound bites from it.
This is um before talking with Rove, she played this sound bite for him to react to.
And this is Carl Rove's reaction.
Greta Van Sustran said, Well, is Rush Limbaugh right?
Big tent.
And uh then turns his sights on Christine O'Donnell again.
Uh, Van Susterin says, Well, look, if it's a big party, and I guess I'm not so sure how big I would be in a similar situation, but would you not think Congressman Mike Castle would have called and congratulated her, endorsed her or something.
I think this is being I think all that's being denied.
Uh anyway, clearly, clearly there's something personal here to explain all of this.
Um at any rate, we now move on to MSNBC, where I'm gonna move on.
Well, this is Snerdley, that's this kind of stuff was in the campaign throughout the last week of it.
I mean, Castle was saying weird things like she wants to take your pornography away from you.
Uh it was going back and forth.
It was a traditional.
It's like Castle went out and said that I was accusing him of voting to impeach Bush, and I didn't.
Anyway, so now they're talking about this at uh at Mess NBC on Hardmall last night.
Chris Matthews was speaking with F. Chuck Todd.
Uh Matthew said, is Rush right?
Uh Carl Rove right.
Bad night, good night.
I let me okay, let me weigh in on this, because I don't, I think people are missing what this is all about.
And I don't know, this is just a wild guess.
Well, we had the comments from Mike Murphy earlier today that I share.
Mike Murphy, Republican consultant, has got his underwear in a wad, because people are suggesting that the inside the beltway Republicans are out of touch.
Uh, that they're too moderate, that they're they're ruling class types.
So, and Mike Murphy's a campaign consultant, worked with McCain a couple times, I believe.
And so Murphy, okay, okay, okay.
You you palin demand, you know how it's done?
You know how to do my job, fine.
Then you go to Delaware right now and you camp out.
You live there the next two months, and you show us.
You show us Georgetown cocktail party types, you show us how it's done.
All right.
So obviously, some people, these consultants have got their noses out of joint that the unprofessionals like you and I claim to know better how to get people elected and how to govern than they do.
Now, what is the difference between us and them?
They are well, it's not a game to us, but B, they are numbers crunchers.
Both these guys, Murphy and Carl, deal with 15% to 20% of the electorate.
The precious undecided independence, whatever you want to call them.
And they live and breathe in figuring out ways to get those people voting for their candidate.
It's not ideological.
It's the furthest thing from ideological.
It is pure numbers politics.
It is, it is pure.
If you have to have a candidate say he's pro-life when he's not, you do it.
If that's what it's going to take to get.
If you have to, if you have a candidate who uh doesn't believe in immigration and amnesty, but but you need that vote.
Okay, he's gonna he's gonna allow that he might vote, you do that.
At 15 to 20 percent, that's where they live.
Their selling point, the reason they get hired, in their minds is to deliver a majority of that 15 to 20 percent.
They're numbers crunchers.
They live and breathe in the belief that the rock-ribbed on the left and the rock ribbed on the right are immovable, and they're a given percentage in every election, and that the only thing that changes their numbers is turnout.
But they live, and I, you know, at this dinner party that I keep quoting on Saturday, I launched into all kinds of people Saturday.
I was the only guy saying what I was saying.
I felt like I was the circus act at this dinner.
I was talking about how I resent this attention being focused on independence and modern.
I can't stand so much money and attention being spent on people who won't have the guts to tell us what they think, who sell their votes for slick campaign tactics or what have you.
Who are these people?
I'd rather go out and try to persuade these people to join us on the basis of principle and ideology rather than play a numbers game and get these people voting every election, however, we want them to vote based on something that has no staying power.
I said, I, you know, give give me the committed, principled liberal or conservative every day.
I rather talk to them.
Because I think this, I think we've elevated this great unwashed independent group, the the moderates, the independent, whatever, the undecided, we have elevated them to superhumans that they think they're smarter than everybody else.
They think they're more mature than everybody else, they think they're more important than everybody else because consultants of campaigns have told them they are.
Every damn one of them, I don't care.
You pick a campaign consultant on any television cable network at any campaign time, and what do they focus on?
The independence.
They don't focus on ideology.
If they if a campaign consultant thinks that he has to be a conservative to get your voter support, he'll do that.
He has to call himself a conservative, but now all of a sudden there's a the the the the dynamic is different.
Nobody in this cycle is is is at all conservative independent.
We're concerned with saving the country.
There is an ideological principle at stake here.
A fact-of-life serious matter at stake here.
And I don't think these guys know how to deal with that in their world of numbers crunching.
So maybe they're just trying to hang on.
Maybe this cycle is sort of passing them by.
I'd look at guessing here, but I know where they live.
And Murphy, okay, you show us how it's done.
Us Georgetown cocktail types of obviously he sees with resentment at being called ruling class cocktail party Washington, D.C. insider.
Okay, Palin, okay, Dement, you go to Delaware.
You show us how it's done.
So there's there's a this is the professionals versus the amateurs.
This is not moderates versus conservatives or liberals versus conservatives.
This is the professionals versus what they think are a bunch of rubes.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Yeah, you can just uh put it there on the chair.
That is a great dress.
That is a fabulous, that's a classy Dress and shoes.
It really is.
Welcome back, folks.
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She just uh dropped in the door here.
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Mark, Wilmington, Delaware.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Ross Megadetto.
Thank you.
And uh I just wanted to say I think you're a little bit wrong on the uh race in Delaware.
Um it's considered from the Democrats as Joe Bite Me seat.
And I believe that they wanted Castle to win, because in the next cycle, they can have Joe Biden's son Bo, who is the attorney general, run for that seat and win.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait.
Well, I'm gonna follow you on this.
Because they think Bo Biden could beat Castle in two years.
Yes.
Okay.
And now they have their but they don't know what to do because if um Christine O'Donnell does not be Coons, then you have two Democratic senators, and there's no room for Joe Bite Me's son Bo Biden.
But I thought I thought uh Bo Bitney said he didn't want the seat anyway.
Well, he didn't because he's he's new on a political scene.
He's the new attorney general.
Yeah.
He hasn't really proved himself yet.
He's had a couple setbacks.
That's not been a setback for his dad.
That has not been a setback for a half of Democrats in the Senate.
What do you prove themselves?
Look, I know what you're trying to say.
Yeah.
So you're so you're saying that because the Democrats say there's no way they're going to elect Christine O'Donnell now.
Now, secretly they want to elect her because they want him to run against her.
He has no room to run in the next one.
Okay.
Well, okay, then if if that's if the Democrats, and we're told the Democrats are on the show, if the Democrats wanted to win, she'll win.
Ha!
Case closed, it's over.
And just yesterday they told us she couldn't.
See how easy this is?
I mean, that's really laughable.
Bo Biden hadn't yet proved himself like Obama has.
Obama proved himself.
If that last caller from uh from Wilmington was right, and I don't doubt it for a minute, if if the game was Castle, wins for two years with Bo Biden, I'll guarantee Mike Castle would have probably gladly stepped aside for Bo Biden.
And so now we find out that the whole game is in an upset there.