Oct. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| I tell you, it has been hilarious. | |
| It was hilarious. | |
| Well, no, the Family Guy trailer is hilarious too. | |
| But I'm talking about the buildup to Rahm Emanuel, a press conference and he's leaving, something everybody knew. | |
| My gosh, everything you've ever thought about state controlled media was confirmed in this. | |
| It's Friday, folks, so let's hit it live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line Friday. | |
| And open line Friday. | |
| Special day in the busy broadcast week. | |
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| It's your show. | |
| Talk about whatever you want. | |
| Whether I care about it or not, doesn't matter. | |
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| So everybody's known that Ram Emanuel's gonna leave the White House today. | |
| They've known it for a week. | |
| No he's gonna go back to Chicago, but he's known who his replacement is. | |
| There's nothing new today. | |
| Not one bit of news was going to be made today, and yet, and this this press conference to announce Rom's splitting the scene was scheduled at 1030. | |
| So CNN and MSNBC almost did a countdown type thing with a clock in the corner. | |
| We didn't have it there, but it was acting like it, nevertheless. | |
| And it was like these people weregasming over the fact that there was gonna be a big announcement in the East Room of the White House with Obama and Ram Emanuel's replacement. | |
| The graphic special announcer of the White House just minutes away. | |
| They were 50 minutes late. | |
| He didn't get to this until 20 minutes after 11, supposed to happen at 1030. | |
| I'm watching these people on the media, and it just cements in my it it it's I don't quite know how to express it. | |
| It's like groupies. | |
| The press is a bunch of groupies waiting for this thing to happen, and there's no news in it. | |
| It's just like with the ruling class is making something happen today, and so they all want to be in on it, they're making fools of themselves each and every day, acting like this is some big deal, acting like people care. | |
| And I guess that's the real point of it. | |
| Nobody out there in flyover country cares the chief of staff is, or that he's leaving, or that his replacement doesn't say much. | |
| It's irrelevant. | |
| It does the country's in the process of being destroyed, and the media is all excited about a staff shakeup in the uh in the White House. | |
| And then Obama last night, I'll tell you some weird stuff is coming out of this guy's mouth. | |
| It took time to free the slaves, he said. | |
| Obama says people are impatient, but now's not the time to quit. | |
| He's trying to rally young people to his base to his cause, trying to get Democrats excited about the election on November the second. | |
| Everybody on the Democrat side's apathetic about it. | |
| So he goes to a couple of different events and says it took time to free the slaves. | |
| Ultimately, we'll make progress. | |
| It took time to free the slaves. | |
| It also took a civil war to free the slaves and 500,000 dead Americans to free the slaves. | |
| It took time to free the slaves. | |
| The streets are gonna burn in this country if something doesn't happen. | |
| I mean, people are not just sitting out there tepidly taking all of this. | |
| People's livelihoods are affected by this man's policies. | |
| And he tells everybody, hey, be patient. | |
| You know that we didn't free the slaves overnight. | |
| What what a what what a reference? | |
| And he hires some rapper to to to excite the crowd, the rapper by the name of B.O.B. And this guy, I mean, we can't play a B O B tune on this program to bleep every other word. | |
| Every other word's the N-word or some other form of slang or some obscenity. | |
| Yeah, we have to we have to bleep it. | |
| In fact, we put it together to show you how much that we have to bleep it. | |
| But here's here's what he said. | |
| People are frustrated, they're anxious, they're scared about the future, and they have a right to be impatient about the pace of change. | |
| I'm impatient, but I also know this. | |
| Now's not the time to quit. | |
| Now is not the time to give up. | |
| We've been through worse as a nation. | |
| And we've come out stronger from War to depression to the great struggles for equal rights and civil rights took time to free the slaves, took time for women to get the vote, took time for workers to get the right to organize. | |
| I mean, to exhort a crowd to whip them into a frenzy to support economic policies that have led to depression level unemployment rates for minorities and young Americans. | |
| I mean, this is sick. | |
| Adults are supposed to look out for the younger generation. | |
| Obama's ripping them off and telling them to thank him for it. | |
| Be patient while I destroy your future. | |
| Be patient. | |
| It took a while to free the slaves. | |
| Let me tell you something, folks, it will only take a few minutes to vote. | |
| It might have taken a while to free the slaves, and it might take a while for Obama to finish the job of destroying the private sector out there. | |
| But it'll only take you a relative few minutes to vote on November 2nd. | |
| Now is the time to begin diffusing the time bomb known as Obama nomics. | |
| You know, Lincoln, who Obama thinks he's like, Lincoln often remarked on how it was right of every man to enjoy the bread he earned by the sweat of his own brow. | |
| Yeah, the only thing I can think took time to free the slaves. | |
| You know, actually, some people might think we are in the middle of a civil war, the only thing not happening is bullets flying. | |
| But we are in the middle of a civil war. | |
| I mean, we we we um one of the political parties in this country certainly does want to secede from what this country was founded to be a Democrat Party. | |
| But I mean to run out and and exhort people into a frenzy to support your destructive policies by saying it took time to free the slaves, and then we move to other news items. | |
| Bin Laden, Osama bin Laden, the sheikh has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in Pakistan in an auto recording that hit the internet today. | |
| A number of victims caused by climate change is very big, bigger than the victims of wars. | |
| So here's Osama bin Laden again joining the talking point, talking parts of the Democrat Party and the American left, jumping all over, I mean, agreeing with with Al Gore. | |
| Osama bin Laden. | |
| Climate change worse than wars. | |
| Uh at Rush Limbaugh.com, we have a longer trailer for Family Guy. | |
| Fox has released this, and this has uh uh excerpts of a stand-up interview that I did with Seth McFarland after we taped the uh final taping session of the episode a year ago. | |
| So we put it at Rush Limbaugh.com on both the free and subscriber sides of the site, plus over at our Facebook page, and it's uh it's hilarious. | |
| And this is just the tip of the iceberg. | |
| You watch it, Brian? | |
| I mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the of the program Sunday night, Family Guy. | |
| It's uh it's hilarious. | |
| This is the first I've seen it. | |
| You know, I I I did the audio, but I hadn't seen any animation until they released uh you know short little 30-second promo earlier this week and now a two and a half minute trailer. | |
| So we've put it up there at Rushlinbaugh.com with family guys at nine o'clock on Sunday nights, Eastern time on the box, and nine or nine thirty, I think. | |
| Uh, and a major challenge going up against Monday night or Sunday night football on uh NBC, the Chicago Bears, and the New York Giants. | |
| But uh, it's funny. | |
| You should take a look at it. | |
| Now, I had a bunch of emails regarding my monologue opening the third hour yesterday. | |
| Do you remember that monologue startly? | |
| Remember what it was? | |
| It was me pointing out Obama's not unhappy at all with himself or what has happened here. | |
| That he's very happy. | |
| He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. | |
| And I also pointed out how Obama's looking forward to Republicans winning the House and maybe even the Senate, so that he can run against them in 2012 instead of having to run against his own party. | |
| Listen to these two emails. | |
| Your rush, both from subscribers to the website, Rushlimbla.com, assuming what you said on today's program is true, why vote in November? | |
| I mean, what's the what's the point of if we have no prayer if if what if even winning our side winning is what Obama wants, why even vote? | |
| Dear Rush. | |
| Your third hour monologue today I've found to be very depressing. | |
| I've always felt that elections were all we had to right the wrongs and make changes, and because of that I was enthused about the upcoming elections. | |
| You seem to indicate that our winning these elections are really part of the Obama's strategy because it'll give him an issue to run against in 2012, essentially. | |
| I heard your comments to say he's already won. | |
| We have very little we can do about including about it, including winning elections. | |
| Found this to be very depressing. | |
| I began to lose my enthusiasm. | |
| Do you really believe that all is lost, or am I misreading your comments? | |
| I think Obama's a punk, and I can't believe you think that he's whipped us by nature of winning the election two years ago, and there's no way to turn this thing back around. | |
| Now, I had not stopped to consider that anybody would react to my monologue that way. | |
| But when I read these two, and there were more than these two, but I when I read emails like this, okay now. | |
| What did I say that made people think it was a all I was trying to do, if you keep it in context, the discussion, there was a Rolling Stone interview that's now out today, and the discussion was uh about how things are falling apart for the Democrats, how things are falling apart for Obama left and right, and I was simply trying to disagree with people who were trying to make the point that Obama's reeling. | |
| I think it is incumbent upon all of us to know just who we're dealing with, just what we're dealing with. | |
| So I have a belief that it's still tough for a lot of people to get their arms around the fact that they elected a guy who has a grudge against the country. | |
| I think it's still difficult for people to accept the fact that the president of the United States doesn't like the country and is hellbent on changing it and making it a lesser nation and destroying the whole concept and notion of American exceptionalism. | |
| So my monologue yesterday was nothing more than an attempt to further inform and educate. | |
| I was not in any way suggesting he can't be beaten, and I was not in any way suggesting it's pointless to win the November elections. | |
| I guess what I assumed people would understand was that the only way to defeat this guy is not with Republican Party wins and Republican Party triumphs, but with conservatism. | |
| The man's ideas must be stopped. | |
| Now, I can understand if you get panicked when I say Obama's gonna relish his ideas being brought to a screeching home because and blame us for them. | |
| My point here was he's gotta be stopped politically. | |
| The victory in November's got to stand for something. | |
| He's got to mean something issue-wise. | |
| Uh after we win this, the people who do win are going to have to stand against this guy and and and buck up against the criticism that's coming. | |
| I was just warning of the kind of criticism that's coming. | |
| You know, our people tend to cave in at the first sign of criticism. | |
| Notion of bipartisanship, walking across the aisle, get along with everybody. | |
| Uh, Obama is counting on the Republicans caving to the criticism against them, mounted by himself and the media. | |
| I was simply delivering a monologue that was designed to get people to not chicken out and to not uh uh falter or waver after the victory. | |
| This is just the first of many of these elections that are gonna have to go this way in order to stop this ship and the direction it's going and then eventually turn it around. | |
| Let me quick uh a break in timeout, and I'll expand on this further. | |
| When we get back, it's open line Friday, so traditionally we try to get to your phone calls earlier than uh than normal. | |
| Uh we'll see if that happens. | |
| But regardless, three hours straight ahead, broadcast excellence as you've come to know, love, and expect it. | |
| Here's the the point that I'm really trying to make, and I'm going to expand on this. | |
| As I'm trying to inspire people Here, not trying to depress anybody. | |
| The real battle is going to start when and if the Republicans take the House of Representatives. | |
| All I'm trying to tell you is if you think the Republicans have been ripped to shreds in your life up to now, wait till this victory happens. | |
| It is going to be a daily avalanche. | |
| There is, you are, you have no idea what's coming. | |
| The lies, the distortions. | |
| Once the Republican Congress is sworn in, if it happens next January, and then Obama's going to submit a flurry of proposals designed to save the economy and get us out of the repression uh recession depression. | |
| And of course, it's going to be stuff that no Republican, no conservative could ever support. | |
| They're going to oppose it. | |
| And then the caterwalling of obstruction that it's going to be right out of the playbook. | |
| It isn't going to be anything new, but it is going to be oppressive. | |
| You're not going to be able to get away from it. | |
| And it's the kind of stuff in the past that Republicans have not stood up to very well. | |
| They've run away from it. | |
| They don't want to hear it. | |
| They want to be criticized this way. | |
| I'm simply predicting to you what the future holds. | |
| This win, if it happens, is going to intensify the battle. | |
| And it's going to be, if it means anything, the first of many such victories and elections. | |
| And as I say, the real battle is going to start after all of this happens. | |
| It's going to take a lot of energy. | |
| It's going to take a lot of stictuativeness. | |
| It's going to require a lot of commitment. | |
| Because the effort to get the Republican majority to break and a cave is going to be intense and unlike anything you've ever seen. | |
| Speaking of bin Laden, I mean, the scary thing is, Osama bin Laden could shave his beard, shave his beard, get rid of the Imam cap, and run around. | |
| I'm now I'm dead serious about this. | |
| He could run as a Democrat anywhere in this country and get elected. | |
| Well, look at his agenda. | |
| America's the problem in the world, ditto. | |
| Democrats believe that. | |
| Global warming destroying the planet. | |
| America's responsible. | |
| Ditto. | |
| Democrats believe that. | |
| Global warming killing more people than wars? | |
| Right. | |
| And the second greatest killer of people is wars, and who's responsible for those? | |
| America and Republicans. | |
| You take that Imam cap off his head, you shave his beard, and Obama, Osama, could get elected anywhere in this country as a Democrat. | |
| And in fact, he wouldn't have to shave the beard if he ran in Michigan. | |
| He wouldn't have to get rid of the Imam cap, and he wouldn't have to get rid of the uh of the beard. | |
| He could still get elected as a Democrat most places in Michigan. | |
| Let me ask you a question, folks. | |
| Answer this question honestly. | |
| How many of you in this audience are embarrassed of Sarah Palin? | |
| How many of you are embarrassed, Carl Palladino? | |
| How many of you, or how many of you know other conservatives slash Republicans who are? | |
| If maybe you're not, how many of you are embarrassed of Sharon Angle? | |
| You know people snurredly who are? | |
| So do I. That's the point. | |
| I know people. | |
| I've I've I told you once at a dinner party at my house, a couple people started railing against Palin sounding just like they were Katie Couric, and I lost it. | |
| I literally I I never have lost it the way I lost it. | |
| I got kicked out of my own house. | |
| I had to fly somewhere anyway, so I got a head start. | |
| I got kicked out of my own house. | |
| I got in the car, I drove to the airport and got out of there. | |
| Because I was just flummoxed. | |
| How many of you are um embarrassed, or how many of you know people who are embarrassed about Christine O'Donnell? | |
| You know people embarrassed by Christine O'Donnell. | |
| I do. | |
| I run into people all the time. | |
| Can't we do any better than that? | |
| I mean, guys, these people don't even know the issues. | |
| They're really, you know, they're nuts. | |
| I mean, these people are real kooks. | |
| I mean, they're not even electable. | |
| They don't come off well on TV. | |
| I mean, you don't even know the issues. | |
| I mean, they respond, these people who are embarrassed respond to every criticism mounted from the Democrats and the media. | |
| I'm talking about conservatives. | |
| And I bet you know people who are embarrassed of the Tea Party in general. | |
| How many of you know people who the Tea Party even makes them nervous? | |
| And Tea Party rallies and gatherings. | |
| Yeah, it even makes you nervous. | |
| It's kind of embarrassing. | |
| It doesn't look, it doesn't look like the Tea Party people are political professionals. | |
| It's because it's kind of embarrassing. | |
| We really wish they don't know. | |
| How many of you know people that way? | |
| How many of you are that way? | |
| Well, we have a lot of people that way, and any time I encounter them, I get in their faces. | |
| And I throw some things back at them. | |
| I'll give you some examples of what I throw back at them when we get back from this. | |
| I know, and it's Open Mine Friday where we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. | |
| By the way, one of the places that Obama went to rally the troops last night talking about it took a while to free the slaves was at the home of John Phillips and Linda Douglas. | |
| Now Linda Douglas is a former reporter and the commentator for CBS News and ABC News. | |
| In other words, Linda Douglas is a journalist. | |
| She used to be a regular panelist on the Brinkley Sunday show this week with David Brinkley on ABC. | |
| She quit journalism to join the Obama White House to become the national spokesman for Obamacare. | |
| Because she said I'm paraphrasing, you know, I just can't get enough done as a journalist. | |
| I need to go where I have even more power. | |
| So Linda Douglas admitting that journalism is activism, but it's still she wasn't able to get enough done. | |
| She had to go right into the belly of the beast. | |
| So it's at her house with her husband, a guy named John Phillips, and they had this little deal for Obama, $30,000 ahead fundraiser for Obama. | |
| And it turns out these people, um, these people are very wealthy. | |
| Linda Douglas and her husband John Phillips, they have a um, they have a uh a vacation home in Italy. | |
| In Tuscany. | |
| And Obama actually said to them, kind of chided them because he'd never been invited. | |
| He'd never been invited to their Italian place. | |
| Says he needs a break. | |
| Would love a little Tuscan son, maybe a little pasta. | |
| So this is incestuous. | |
| It's a roving door. | |
| Linda Douglas was always a spokeswoman for the Democrat Party, wherever she lived and worked, be it ABC, be it CBS. | |
| She just didn't have the title until Obama hired her to be the official spokeswoman for health care. | |
| She had her husband very, very wealthy, home in Italy, $30,400 fundraiser. | |
| Obama says, I've never been invited. | |
| I uh I need a break. | |
| I know he's trying to be funny, but that is who these people are. | |
| Time to free the slaves. | |
| All right. | |
| No, no, I haven't forgotten. | |
| Just trying to cover many things in the scope of a few busy broadcast minutes. | |
| So I want to speak to those of you who are embarrassed of Sarah Palin and Christian O'Donnell and the Tea Party in general, Sharon Angel, maybe Carl Paladino rubs you the wrong way. | |
| You think they're nuts. | |
| They uh embarrass you. | |
| I mean, they're conservatives and they're Republicans, and so are you, and you think they're a little kooky, you don't even think they can win, they don't come off well on TV. | |
| And I hear from people who think this a lot. | |
| I'll tell you what I've started doing. | |
| When people start, because when they tell me they're incredulous, they come, you really? | |
| You really are you just saying this on the radio, you really think Sarah Palin's got it all together? | |
| You really you really not bothered by Carl B. You really think you I mean, Rush, this Paladino guy has a 10-year-old daughter from an illegitimate sexual relationship. | |
| You really I mean, really, come on. | |
| Christine O'Donnell rushed. | |
| I mean, she was the IRS is you really the people come to me with this, wondering if I'm being genuine and serious here on the radio? | |
| What I've started doing, I'm gonna do it right here. | |
| What would happen to you? | |
| Because this is the point that I was making yesterday talking about the dust up that Palladino had with Fred Dicker and Nathan Deal in Georgia and a number of Christine O'Donnell? | |
| All of you, and I don't know how many it is, but you know who you are? | |
| All of you who sit out there acting holier than thou, saying that these Tea Party people are kooks? | |
| How would you do if suddenly your life was uncovered and plastered all over television? | |
| How would you do if cameras were following you and the express purpose was to catch you in embarrassing moments? | |
| How would you do if the media was giving you an anal exam for the express purpose of making you look like an idiot? | |
| How many of you would look like Albert Einstein? | |
| How many of you would look like Winston Churchill? | |
| How many of you would look like paragons of virtue? | |
| How many of you would look like brilliant Mensa members? | |
| How would you feel for army of motivated people looking to destroy you was following you every moment of the day, examining everything you've ever done, trying to find every event in your life from junior high to the present? | |
| How many of you could withstand what these people are having done to them? | |
| And then when it was happening to you, how many of you would say to yourself, well, I hope people understand everybody's got skeletons in their closet? | |
| I hope people understand the media's trying to make us look bad? | |
| I hope how many of you would be hoping and praying that normal people would understand that what's going on is not quite fair? | |
| How about you? | |
| You've had a couple divorces. | |
| Katie Kerr talking about that on TV, you want Katie Current going to your ex-spouses, finding out why your ex-spouses don't like you, you want it all over People Magazine, you want it all over the New York Times, the New York Post, the Washington Post? | |
| How about all the speeding tickets you got? | |
| You ever knocked anybody up? | |
| Have you got any illegitimate kids running around that you know of or don't know of? | |
| What are you gonna happen if you don't, but some woman pops up and says that you do? | |
| And the media following you around can't wait to put that out there as a possibility? | |
| What if you happen to be somebody who had to get married 30 years ago? | |
| You're living in a loveless marriage, you had to get married because you had some little accident take place? | |
| What happens if the media following you around found out about all that, and everybody in your neighborhood and everybody in your town and everybody in your church found out about it? | |
| Would you not be saying, well, come on, that's a long time ago. | |
| It doesn't say who I am today, and look, I did the right thing back then anyway. | |
| How many of you could withstand the Democrat Party from the White House on down going through all of your tax returns? | |
| Every job that you've ever had? | |
| Oh, how many of you would look clean and pure as the wind-driven snow if they start looking at everything your kids have gotten into and have done? | |
| How many of you took seven years or eight years to pay off a $10,000 medical bill? | |
| How many of you have been audited with the IRS? | |
| How many of you have had it said that you tried to cheat the government? | |
| How many of you could withstand this kind of treatment yourselves? | |
| I mean, it's one thing to sit here and say that all these people are embarrassing and they're kooks, and they don't come off well on TV and they're unelectable. | |
| Well, how about you? | |
| Because these people are just like you. | |
| They're just like us. | |
| Okay. | |
| How many of you have had the uh electricity turned off at your house because you didn't make a payment, or how many of you had the Phone turned off? | |
| How many of you have gone to um psychics to have your future predicted? | |
| How many of you have done any kind of thing? | |
| If anybody found out about it, you'd be embarrassed as hell. | |
| How many of you can sit there and say that not one thing has ever gone wrong in your life? | |
| How many of you can say that you've never been in? | |
| How many of you can say you never wrecked a car? | |
| I don't mean all of you. | |
| I'm talking about those of you or the people that you know who are sitting there from their lofty perch of perfection saying they're embarrassed by Sarah Palin. | |
| And why, by the way, are you embarrassed about Sarah? | |
| But what do you actually know about her? | |
| And then at the end of the day, even with all that, are you really saying, yeah, I'd rather have Obama for four more years? | |
| I really wouldn't rather have Harry Reed, I really would have Pelosi, yeah, because I'm so embarrassed of Palin and O'Donnell and Carl Paladino, I can't vote for them. | |
| They embarrass me. | |
| If anybody found I voted for them, I couldn't live with myself. | |
| I'd be people be laughing at me. | |
| I can't I have to say how stupid they are so people think I'm not stupid. | |
| Okay, fine. | |
| Then I assume all this means you want four more years of an assault on the American private sector and the economy. | |
| You want four or six more years of wild spending, dooming your own kids and grandkids to having any opportunity for prosperity, all because Paladino or Palin or something embarrasses you, they're not electable, they're kooks. | |
| How many of you would even have the guts to run for office to put your beliefs in it? | |
| How many of you would have the guts to go do what they're doing rather than sit on the sidelines and complain about how those who are doing it aren't doing it the right way? | |
| You can tell I'm getting a little ticked off more and more each time I describe it because I run into these people. | |
| I don't know what they expect my reaction to be when they tell me this. | |
| I know, I know I'm supposed to agree with it. | |
| I'm supposed yeah, privately, I know they're a little kooky botya, they're all we've got. | |
| I mean, I don't like arrogance wherever I find it. | |
| Is it not the professional politician that has created this myth? | |
| Is it not the people who look good on TV and who sound good on TV and sound smart on TV and look like Kendall's and buy hairspray by the case? | |
| Is it not those people and Botox by the case? | |
| Is it not those people that have created the problems that we are in? | |
| So when average, ordinary life happens people decide they don't want to put up with the pros anymore and they want to get up and roll their sleeves and get involved in this and try to fix it. | |
| Why do we demand of them standards that we do not demand of even Obama or Harry Reed or Dingy Harry or Robert Bird? | |
| I mean, how many of you can somebody tell me what Ku Klux Klan group Carl Paladino ever belonged to? | |
| Can somebody tell me what shifty land deal Harry Reed made gazillions of dollars on exists in a Republicans? | |
| Somebody give me one. | |
| One of these Tea Party people, can you tell me where is the equivalent to Harry Reed in the Tea Party? | |
| Where is it? | |
| Where is the equivalent to Pelosi? | |
| Where is the equivalent to Barack Obama? | |
| Where is it? | |
| See, what doesn't compute for me is the vitriol I hear people describing Democrats? | |
| They're destroying the country. | |
| People say this to me. | |
| Rush, they're ruining the country. | |
| They're destroying the country. | |
| Right, but we prefer that to Sarah Palin or Christine O'Donnell because they just embarrass us. | |
| You know, they're just they're kooky. | |
| Where's the equivalent to either of the Clintons in the Tea Party? | |
| I thought we wanted people in Washington who look like everybody else in America. | |
| We want people in Washington who have had negative encounters with the government, the bureaucracy, the oppressive elements of this regime. | |
| So they can relate to it and stop it. | |
| How do we want people in Washington who really want a flat tax or a fair tax and are not concerned with the power they'd be giving up in getting rid of the current progressive tax? | |
| I thought that's what we wanted. | |
| So if you couple this, what I'm saying now with the monologue of yesterday. | |
| This folks, it's serious. | |
| You gotta know the re if you think the Republicans winning the House in November ends, Obama, you got to, I beg you, think again. | |
| It only just begins. | |
| The real battle just begins. | |
| Because if you think that you think the things they're saying about Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin, Carl Paladino et al, if you think the things they're saying about them now embarrass you, you wait until they're elected, if they are. | |
| See what they say about them. | |
| And then see how tough it's going to be for you and your perfection, your flawless life to sit there and continue to stand with them and support them. | |
| People who have never made wrong decisions have never made decisions. | |
| People who have never made mistakes have not lived. | |
| I want people who have lived lives, who have made mistakes, don't care who knows it, they have learned from them, they've made amends, and they've moved on with their lives. | |
| I'm tired, frankly, of Republicans throwing candidates under the bus for not being the political equivalent of Mother Teresa, or not being professional enough to get elected. | |
| And I really lose my patience with abject neophytes who don't understand the first thing about politics, criticizing people for getting involved in trying to improve what is a terrible situation in this country. | |
| The people who wouldn't lift a finger to do it themselves. | |
| Back after this. | |
| We're back open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network to Springfield, Illinois. | |
| Kathy, great to have you on the program. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi, Russ. | |
| This is a real pleasure and honor. | |
| Um I just wanted to tell you that I've I've been listening to you for the past uh many years. | |
| My mother got us turned on to you, all of us kids, but I just think you're brilliant, and I think that the the um the tirader, whatever you want to call it, John right now, I think it's just absolutely wonderful. | |
| And and I just want to tell you real quick why I think I'm I'm qualified to call you brilliant. | |
| I have a PhD in humanities and I've taught at Florida State, Florida AM and some other uh universities, and I'm married to a football coach who is Emmett Smith head coach. | |
| And and I just uh I just love the way that you do not excuse the patriotic behavior of the Tea Party people, that you that you aren't embarrassed by their enthusiasm and that you stand by your principles, and I love the way that you are able to analyze uh a political situation, you kind of distill it and hone into the heart of the matter, and that um is why I keep listening to you because you are the best at doing that. | |
| I think. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| You're great. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| I I really uh appreciate it, and I am passionate about it. | |
| I run into it all the time, and and it it gets more and more frustrating each time I run into this. | |
| And then I look at John Edwards. | |
| How you look at the Democrats, the media where this man was flawless to America's, he had the compassion. | |
| Why, wife, even though she had cancer, they were willing to put their family concerns aside for the country. | |
| They're a couple of frauds. | |
| But boy, he looked good on TV. | |
| And he didn't embarrass anybody until the truth came out. | |
| Ah, this has been delectable. | |
| I can't tell you the number of people I knew who thought Edwards was it, and now they've read that book out there by Andrew Young, and they find out what a total fraud this guy is. | |
| I say, okay, there's one Democrat down. | |
| Now, if you can think about all of them, The way you've learned about John Edwards, then we'll be making progress. | |
| Think about it. | |
| Sorry for the short segment. | |
| It's short because the previous one went long, because I was on a roll, and I didn't decide to stop myself in the middle of the roll because of the programming format. | |
| So that's why this is a shorter segment. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| You know the kind of people that we have running for office now are the exact kind of people the founding fathers had in mind. | |
| The exact kind of people the founding fathers had in mind. | |
| I'd rather have somebody speaks his mind, not talking points. | |
| And I certainly don't want some hypocritical crook or some destructive liberal in charge of this country any longer than necessary. |
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