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Oct. 14, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Did you watch the uh the miners come up out of the shaft?
Uh ladies and gentlemen, last night did you see that?
You see the uh the president of Chile.
What are you whiners?
Who was whining?
Oh, well, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's that was a problem.
The guy with the wife and the mistress.
That one out of 33.
I mean, the human tolls, not a bad, not a bad percentage.
Anyway, the Chilean president, with a great speech, after the 33 miners are recovered, he thanked the British Prime Minister David Cameron.
He thanked the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by name at his press conference last night, but he never mentioned Obama.
He did not thank Imam Obama.
He did not thank the Messiah.
He did not thank the one.
Now, I know Obama hates mining.
He hates Great Britain and Israel.
So I'm sure he's not that upset about it.
I'm looking forward to November 3rd.
Maybe in this country we'll be able to see celebrations like down in Chile.
We all get hauled up out of our hole.
You realize we've been shafted here for what?
14, 16 months.
Uh, or longer.
Anyway, folks, great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882, the email address Ilrushbaugh EIB net.com.
There's a big long piece, I guess coming Sunday, the New York Times magazine.
Peter Baker wrote it.
It's about Obama.
And folks, you know, I saw a story of the National Inquirer.
I guess it was a week or two ago.
I mean, I don't read it.
Somebody told me about it.
That there were marital problems.
And uh and Michelle was laying down the law of the land, telling Obama you're not running for a second term.
I don't want any part of this.
I don't like living here.
Of course, we poo-pooed the story at the time.
And there were reports of strife, marital strife in the relationship.
Of course, you poo-poo all that.
But now, this New York Times story.
I wouldn't be surprised if uh if Barack and Michelle have some marital problems.
Because after reading this, it's obvious they're both in love with the same guy.
And I don't know if there's room for that.
We shall see.
It's an incredible piece.
It really is.
I I um kind of a Democrats are saying, you don't do this kind of navel gazing three weeks before the election.
And we were told that Obama arrived the most brilliant, the most aware.
We've never had anybody trod the soil like Obama.
Nobody who's gonna unify everybody, great postpartisan, post-racial, post-everything.
And this piece talks about the education of Obama.
Like he's gotten to Washington, he didn't know anything about it, and he's still learning.
Just an it incredible, as they're doing everything they can in the state-controlled media to limit the damage.
Interesting story here out of Reuters, Chicago, walking at least six miles a week.
Maybe one thing that people can do to keep their brains from shrinking and to fight off dementia.
This from U.S. researchers yesterday.
Study of nearly 300 people in Pittsburgh who kept track of how much they walked each week showed that those who walked at least six miles a week had less age-related brain shrinkage.
Have you ever heard of this?
I I've never heard of brain shrinkage related to or not related to walking.
Brain size shrinks in late adulthood, which can cause memory problems.
Our results should encourage well-designed trials of physical exercise in older adults as a promising approach for preventing dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
This is Kirk Erickson, University of Pittsburgh study appears in the journal Neurology.
Now I mention this because everybody is always trying to get me to exercise more.
And I've always maintained it's a it's you don't need exercise to lose weight.
In fact, the two are not related.
And I've proven it constantly, over and over.
People are still leaning on me.
Rush, you can you job is sedentary.
You've you've got to get more exercises.
Now they're gonna be all over me with this.
Rush, we can't afford for your brain to shrink.
And that's where you're wrong.
I do this program every day, have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
I've got all kinds of room for brain shrinkage to and I'd still be at the top of the game.
So this does not concern me.
Boomerang kids.
This is a troubling thing we talk about often on the program.
Getting a degree used to be stepping stone to limitless career opportunities, but now it's more of a hiatus from living under your parents' roof, stubbornly high unemployment.
What are the numbers, by the way?
New jobless claims.
Did they say unexpected?
The number of people filing new claims for unemployment insurance rose to a higher than expected.
462,000 in the last week.
Numbers of people still collecting jobless benefits fell to almost two-year low.
That's because their benefits have run out, and that's because they've stopped looking.
So unemployment continues to skyrocket.
There is no recovery.
The recession continues.
And now CNN Money.com has a story about how kids graduating from college, 85% are moving back home with their parents.
Moving back home.
So hard, yep, 85% of college seniors plan to move back home with their parents after graduation last May, according to a poll by 20 Something Inc., a marketing and research firm based in Philadelphia.
That rate has steadily risen from 67% in 2006.
This was not supposed to happen.
We were supposed to be out of the recession.
Everybody was supposed to be happy.
Jobs were to be plentiful.
Prosperity was to be boundless.
The economic restructuring of this country continues unabated.
Michelle, my Belle Obama, listen to this soundbite.
This was on a syndicated morning radio show.
And she's talking about her husband Barack and the 20-turn 2010 midterms.
Listen to this.
We got this man in office.
I think we're all proud of Barack and his accomplishments.
Everybody I know in our communities are praying for us.
Every day it means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us.
This election is going to make a statement about whether, you know, Barack's uh power and support is as deep.
There are people who are questioning whether his support is as deep.
You know?
They want to make out like, well, this is just a one-time thing.
Uh uh keep the spirits clean around us.
Pray to keep the spirits clean around us.
They're jumping all over Christine O'Donnell for supposedly dabbling in witchcraft.
So there's something about Obama and clean.
You remember uh uh Joe Bite Me said, I mean you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.
Bite me says that.
Now, Michelle says it means all the world us to know that there are prayer circles out there, and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us.
Now help me here.
Uh, folks, this is new to me.
I I I'm not versed in the hygiene of spirits.
I had no idea that was an issue for prayer.
I mean, I I'm it's always dangerous to start going down this road.
I'm unfamiliar with Christian spirits.
Uh my Bible doesn't make reference to Harry Potter or Halloween or spir I I'm I'm I'm I'm confused.
I mean, the fact is I I guess I'm gonna have to get caught up on this whole concept of identifying individual spirits and then get some tutoring on how to determine if my particular circle of spirits has access to washrooms and bathrooms and dental care, earwax.
So what is this?
The hygiene, keep the spirits clean around.
Look, don't get me wrong.
I'm just try getting me right on this.
I'm I'm a pro-clean guy, whether it's pollution, political candidates, ghosts, or goblins, but I've never heard of this.
I've never heard of prayer circles and Keeping the spirits clean around us.
I mean, I've been praying for things like my family and friends' health, uh the country, things of this nature.
And now I learned that we're supposed to be praying for the hygiene of the spirits.
I well, I don't, I I really I'm I'm no, no, no.
I I'm not I'm not trying to I just don't get it.
And more and more coming out of this White House and and uh policy wise and this kind of stuff that just makes me uh scratch my head.
Uh then, you know, we mentioned this yesterday, and and other people are just now picking up on it.
President Obama reveals in this New York Times magazine article that he is weighing what to do if Republicans win the House majority next month.
He's come up with a novel approach, and that is to make the Republican Party work with him.
Uh if the Republicans win, it's gonna be up to them to move in his direction.
Now I have to folks, I have to tell you, I've I've spoken in the last week or so to several additional ranking Republicans, in addition to the one I told you about last week, and they all, without exception, expect Obama, if there's this big Republican sweep, expect Obama to moderate, move to the center, as Clinton did.
And it's I I'm I'm stunned that they still have this neophyte vision of who and what Obama is.
If he was going to move to the center, he could have gotten health care passed a lot sooner than he did.
He couldn't get it, even after he lost the Kennedy seat when Scott Brown wins.
He could have easily given the Republicans two or three things.
That we could have found two or three of them that would have gone along with it, and he could have claimed he had a bipartisan bill, but he didn't.
He dug in, and he wanted to do it without them.
Uh I we're faced with a different animal here.
Uh, and Republicans are running around telling people, look, we're not gonna control a government, we're not gonna have all that much power.
They're not gonna be able to repeal things.
There's even a story out of Bill Mackinturf, Polster.
You gotta be real careful on this repeal stuff.
Gotta be real careful, Republicans, because there's some stuff in this health care bill that people like.
What?
What in the world is in this if people like every story we've got about it?
Premiums are going up.
Kids are not getting on their on their on their uh not being kept on their parents' policies, hospitals are shutting down.
Uh I I don't what is in this that people want so far?
Well, I don't nobody's out there celebrating and talking about aspects of it that they like.
Anyway, a lot to do here today.
You sit tight.
We'll be back and and uh get on with all the rest of the program.
We have the sound bites from Christian O'Donnell's debate last night with uh the bearded Marxist.
Uh quite a few.
And the comments on the on the Did you hear what Chris Matthews said?
Sturdly, did you hear what Chris Matthews said about the minors?
He said this proves that the Tea Party, let me get his exact quote here.
He said that the glasses on.
He said that the miners would be dead if they followed the Tea Party's every man for himself philosophy.
That the minors would be dead.
If they followed the T I mean, this is a it's incomprehensible.
This is along the lines of that review at Salon.com of the movie Secretariat.
Nothing in the movie to be mad about, nothing in the movie to detest, nothing in the movie to be angry about or even threatened by.
But now the rescue of 33 men who had been under the surface of the earth for 69 days, and these people look at this in terms of the P Tea Party versus the Democrat Party or socialism versus conservatism or what have you.
The miners would be dead if they followed the Tea Party's every man for himself.
That's not what the Tea Party's all about.
That's not what the conservative movement or conservatism is all about.
I don't know if you took the time to learn how they organize themselves in that mine.
It actually is quite fascinating what they did to survive, and they had one leader that everybody invested their hope in, and they trusted him, his natural-born leader.
Uh, and it all worked out, but to say that they would have died if they had been implementing Tea Party philosophies.
Anyways, that kind of day.
Yesterday was weird, this one is too.
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All right, Sturdley, wait a second here.
Ladies and gentlemen, the golf channel is here today with the with Hank Haney.
Sternley, are you going to screen calls on the program or are you going to grant interviews while the program is going on?
I know they asked you a question, but you do not you are screening?
Yeah, they're worthless.
I can tell by looking at them.
You need to refocus on the program.
These people, you know what always happens.
A TV camera comes along and snurdily turns into Chuck Schumer.
I mean, the most dangerous place to be when there's a camera around us is in front of Snerdly because he'll run right to it.
It's not, well, okay, Schumer, I can see as an insult.
What are they asking you?
Folks, he just don't.
All right, all right, all right, everybody, just don't give away any of the secrets.
I want to talk about the miners.
I really do.
Let's listen to Matthews here.
We have uh Chris Matthews last night, audio sound rate number 22.
And he is talking to Richard Trumpka, and they have this exchange about the rescued Chilean miners and the Tea Party.
This is uh folk, this is delusional.
It's deranged, it has it makes no sense whatsoever.
The message coming out of the Tea Party people, and a lot of them are good people, is every man for himself, basically.
No more taxes, no more government, no more everything, no more safety net, no more health care for everybody.
Everybody just get out there, make your buck, save it, screw the government, move on, right?
You know, that these people, if they were every man for himself down that mine, they wouldn't have gotten out.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
They would have been killing each other after about two days.
This is this is it's deranged.
These people are obsessed.
Tea Party, a lot of good people in the Tea Party.
The Tea Party is not a party.
The Tea Party isn't is not even an ideology.
The Tea Party's a force.
The Tea Party is huge.
Look at the amount of money congressional candidates are raising.
Michelle Bachman, 5.4 million.
I mean, this if the dirty little secret is that the inside the Beltway ruling class media types, their jaws dropped.
$5.4 million.
Sharon Angle, 14 million.
That's a gross number.
Uh direct nil campaign.
The Democrats aren't raising this kind of money.
And the and the Tea Party people are not going through the RNC or the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee to get this.
This is a genuine grassroots, effervescent movement bubbling up.
5.4 million.
And so these people, Chris Matthews and so forth, are living in abject fear.
How you take what happened in that mine and suggest that self-reliance would have resulted in them killing each other?
What got them through that but self-reliance?
Self-reliance and prayer.
And I guarantee you they weren't praying for the cleansed spirits.
Or whatever that Michelle Obama's talking about.
I watched, you know, everybody watched this last night in various stages of awe and amazement.
You couldn't help but be moved and thrilled by this thing.
Not one hitch.
And you look at how much of this was American ingenuity, the building of the capsule, the uh the actual drilling, all of the uh the techniques used, the strategy to come up with it.
NASA was down there before Obama sent him out on their Muslim outreach.
I mean, this was as American as you could get down there, and the world was was was absorbed by it.
And this is a teachable moment what happened in that mine and the the whole rescue.
It's a teachable moment for Obama, the leader of Chile.
He didn't whine, he didn't complain, he didn't say, Yep, I'm on the job here day one.
He didn't complain about what he inherited, didn't say he inherited this problem, didn't bash his predecessor.
Uh he, you know, he didn't say that he was focused on the problem like a laser while out playing golf 52 times.
He didn't threaten to sue the mining company.
I mean, if you put if you put Obama as we know him in place of that Chilean president last night, he would have made a speech all about himself condemning the mine company, threatening to sue the mine company, talking about the entire coal, gold, and ore industries.
Now we've got to get out of that and go green because this is the kind of tragedy that happens.
But the Chilean president, he just had a problem and he solved it.
Without talking points, without spin, without a whole bunch of media guiding him through it.
Uh we're told Obama's a quick learner, despite this massive New York Times piece, quick learner.
Well, there's a lot to learn from this whole escapade in Chile last night, particularly from the Chilean president.
Back with more after this.
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Rush Limbaugh behind this, the golden EIB microphone, checking the email during the break.
It's typical.
I told you I do this.
I go to the uh email after the first half hour of the program and listen, read people, tell me what they think I should be talking about, or tell me where I'm wrong about what I'm talking about.
And a bunch of people said, Rush, how come you have to take this great rescue and turn it into a slam of Obama?
Why do you have to do I didn't do anything?
I'm sitting here talking about the Great Rescue.
I have to listen to Chris Matthews, trash, the whole concept of self-reliance, which had those guys protecting themselves, staying alive.
I got to listen to lunatics on the left try to politicize virtually every event that happens in the country, around the world.
This is a pure human interest story.
I didn't politicize this.
So let me go back and remind you what Obama said at the West Virginia mine collapse earlier on his administration, back in April.
And by the way, these quotes come from the Communist Party USA's People's World magazine.
Flanked by labor secretary Hilda Solis, assistant Secretary of Labor from Mine Safety and Health, Joe Maine, and Mine Safety Health Administrator Kevin Striss, Obama shows up with everybody in his regime having to do with mines and mine safety for a press conference.
And this is what he says to reporters.
There's still a lot that we don't know.
But we do know that this tragedy was triggered by a failure at the upper big branch mine, a failure first and foremost of management.
So he does.
He runs out, trashes the company.
That's his instinct.
Accident happens, runs out there and trashes management, trashes the company.
Failure first and foremost of management, also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled with loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions to continue.
For a long time, the mine safety agency was stacked with former mine executives and industry players.
Don't tell me that I do not know what this guy's gonna do.
And compare him to the Chilean president.
This guy, Obama wins up, blames Bush, blames his predecessor, blames management, blames the mine company, gets involved in all this.
I'm just asking you to contrast this with the way the Chilean president reacted.
He's in his first year in office.
And it's just a it's a stark, stark contrast.
And it takes me back to this New York Times piece.
I mean, this is epic.
This prints out to 16 pages.
And he's gonna run Sunday the New York Times magazine.
It's all about Obama's got a lot to learn, and Washington is not what he thought it was, and it's uh it's proving to be a bigger task than he thought.
And I I read this and I'm struck by the very same people, New York Times, Peter Baker, you name him, all told us this man was so brilliant he was going to lower the sea levels.
It was going to unite people, the world was going to love us, the terrorists would lay down their arms.
Although the whole planet would heal.
Uh we would be post-racial, it'd be no racial strife, no division, uh post-partisan.
It wouldn't be any partisanship.
We're a more divided country than ever before, particularly along racial lines.
We're being led by somebody who has to govern against the will of the people, knowingly.
We have somebody whose policies are, for whatever reason, accident or design, destroying the private sector, the job creation engine of this country.
And the drive-by is the state-controlled media, the flax are very much concerned.
Here's a typical example.
Peter or Richard Wolfe was on uh uh MSNBC last night.
Their new slogan, lean forward, lean forward, this won't hurt much.
Keith Olbermann talking to Richard Wolfe about Obama about this New York Times article.
Question, is there is there not the potential for de-energizing the base included in much of that interview with the New York Times?
Yes, of course there is.
You don't engage in this kind of navel gazing for a piece that is going to come out three weeks or or less before an election like this.
This is the kind of reflection you want to do after an election.
This isn't a sort of a third-party analysis.
He is the central figure in this election.
And I cannot for the life of me understand why the White House would want to engage with this kind of article at this point.
Well, let me tell you.
This is to me, I think this is fascinating.
These are the guys again that told us that we had never seen anybody like this.
We'd never seen anybody this smart.
Nobody this competent.
The one we had all been waiting for.
Nobody had ever trod the soil like Obama.
And now Richard Wolfe says, I can't for the life of me understand why the White House would want to engage in this kind of article at this point.
Grab Soundbite 19.
This will help explain it.
This is Doug Schoen last night on Fox talking about the New York Times interview of Obama.
It's pretty clear to me, based on this interview that the president is saying, uh, I've given up.
You're on your own.
Right now, what I'm hearing from Democrats is the president is only useful for fundraising.
And not much of that.
So the answer is for Mr. Wolf, I can't for the life of me understand why the White House wouldn't want to engage in this kind of article at this point.
It's all about him.
The party's going down the tubes, and he doesn't want to go down the tubes with them, and he's not going to try to help.
In fact, he's facilitating them going down the tubes.
You realize not one Democrat running for re-election is running on any of their accomplishments.
Not one Democrat running for re-election is proudly talking about what they've done.
They're not bragging about the new health care law.
They're not bragging about the stimulus.
They're not bragging about all the shovel-ready jobs they created.
They're not bragging about ending the recession.
They're not bra in fact, Democrats are running away from all of that.
And a lot of Democrats don't want Obama in town.
They don't want him.
He's not, he's he's actually not even that useful as uh as a fundraiser.
Now, it's interesting.
The uh the the drive-bys are trying to tell themselves that it isn't that bad.
Uh they got some internal polling results.
And they're sending these results to each other.
I have spies on their networks, and I get copies of emails they send to each other.
And here's one.
Hey, I wanted to get you these just released polling numbers, 20 days left.
Races are breaking in our direction.
Pennsylvania C-stack has pulled ahead of Pat Toomey, 4745.
After the Democratic senatorial campaign committee won on the air with TV ads.
They're trying to tell themselves that now the Democrats are spending money on TV ads, that the polls are moving in their favor.
I hate to tell you this, but Pat Toomey has pulled into a double-digit lead over C stack in Pennsylvania.
Nevada, Harry Reed's margin, has jumped four points.
He's now leading Sharon Angle, 4745.
Nope, that isn't true.
She's up by one.
It's in the margin of error.
West Virginia, Joe Manchin, continues to increase his lead over John Racy.
Latest poll has him up five points since the DSCC went on the air.
Our investments, your investments are paying off.
So they're lying to each other.
They're trying to raise money by telling people that they're already changing their fortunes at the polls simply because money is being spent now.
There's no indication at all.
I mean, they're making up the polling data about this.
And in Virginia, West Virginia.
Let's talk about this.
Joe Manchin is the uh, he's the governor.
This is the Robert Byrd seat.
Remember?
I will never, I as long as I live, I will never forget the Clinton eulogy for Robert Byrd.
Yeah, you know something?
He's a good man.
He's a good man.
He came from the hills of the Hollers of West Virginia.
And then back then when he ran for office, he admitted the rest of his life he had to do some things that he really wasn't comfortable with.
He spent the rest of his life apologizing for it.
But you know what?
He did it for you.
He did it.
He had to do it to get elected.
What was Clinton talking about?
He's talking about Byrd as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a grand Kleagel or Cyclops or whatever is a recruiter.
Byrd was a recruiter.
And here's Clinton at the eulogy, talking about how he did it for you.
He had to become a member of the Klan to get elected for you.
Now you would never have any, if a Republican tried to say anything like that about a candidate, somebody in a eulogy or whatever.
Press would have been all over it.
Of course, if Clinton, the press is swooning.
So Joe Manchin, the governor, wants the bird seat, and they're putting out news he's running ahead of uh of John Racey.
What's he doing?
Have you paid any attention to the to the Manchin camp?
He's running against Cap and Trade.
He's running pro-minor.
He's running away from Obama.
If you didn't know better, you would think Joe Manchin is a Reagan Republican.
John Racy is a Reagan Republican.
And that race is much closer than the uh the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee would have you believe.
That race can be won by John Racy.
Now, uh full disclosure, I happen to know John Racy.
He's a part-time resident here in Palm Beach, and he's got a locker right across the uh right across the bench from me at a prominent local club.
I've never played golf with him, but I've uh I've met him.
And he's the real deal.
He's uh he's tremendous amount of uh humility, but he's extremely competent.
Uh very successful private sector businessman.
And he's not afraid to tackle controversial things.
He said yesterday or the day before, I had it in the stack yesterday, I didn't get to it.
He wants to eliminate the minimum wage.
He actually said it's been counterproductive.
Now that's the kind of thing most Republicans are afraid to go anywhere near because the minimum wage is actually seen as a welfare program for the for the poor.
And if you talk about eliminating it, they can say that you're you're being cold-hearted, mean spirited of the poor.
But the bottom line is that that uh telling the truth, it hasn't helped.
Fifty years of evidence.
It what how's it helping now?
Minimum wage?
What's it doing?
Is it helping the unemployment problem?
Not a whit.
So these races, the Democrats are telling themselves, yeah, we're getting closer, we're pulling ahead.
This is just an attempt by them to raise money and try to limit the losses.
Here's some reality.
Reuters, September home foreclosures up 100,000, a top 100,000 for the first time.
Yep, it's getting closer.
Looking better for the Democrats.
There's a reason to vote for him.
September home foreclosures, top 100,000.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee scales back in Missouri.
According to a Republican source who tracks ad buys, the decision removes from across the state an estimate of 1.3 million dollar reservation for television ads against Roy Blunt.
So taking money away from the widow Carnahan's family.
I mean, they're the and they're giving it to Harry Reid.
That's the next story.
Way to go, Snerdley.
That's exactly right.
They're giving it to Harry Reid.
They're taking the money from from uh from the widow Carnahan's family in Missouri and they're funneling it to Harry Reed.
They're they're sit they're sending money and people into Delaware.
Now they supposedly up by 20 points over Christine O'Donnell, and they're sending people in there.
And you hear the reason they're sending Obama is, well, this is just this is too great an opportunity.
Uh, make the Republicans look like idiots, make them all look like a bunch of uh Christine O'Donnell.
Yes, we've got sound bites from that um that debate coming.
Did you see any of it?
Did you watch any of it last night?
I didn't either, so we're gonna be listening to this uh together for the first time.
Uh DSCC makes large ad buys on Reed's behalf.
Uh Senator Harry Reid hit with an ethics complaint.
That's a yawner, but I mean it's Still uh is still a headline out there.
So they're trying to tell themselves that uh all this movement is taking place in the direction of Democrats when it's not.
It's a feeble attempt at fundraising, and here dozens charged with the largest Medicare scam ever.
I mean, the the news on Obamacare every day is worse and worse and worse.
Now, Harry Reed is the second highest ranking Democrat in the land, Obama being first.
Harry Reid is second, and the Democratic National Committee has to parachute money into him.
Have to take money out of Missouri, parachute into his home state to saving, and he is running against a supposedly wacko Tea Party person.
Who would have killed all the miners if she'd have been down in the mine shaft with them, according to Chris.
I mean, these people are coming unhinged.
And you would be too.
I mean, if you had if you had dreamed, all of these years, finally, finally, these kinds of supermajorities.
And you've got your messiah, the one we've all been waiting for.
Supermajority to implement every socialist Marxist idealistic utopian idea ever.
And you get a bunch of them passed, and it doesn't work.
And the country hates you.
You'd be deranged too.
You'd be coming unhinged.
You'd be questioning your own existence, which is in truth uh what Matthews is doing.
It's fun to see.
You know, I've always said that liberals are really fun and deranged when they're out of power.
When they're in power, it's they're dangerous.
But now it's a combination.
Because they know they're going to be out of power pretty soon, and it and they're they're coming unhinged.
And it's a very entertaining thing to watch.
All right, a quick break.
I'm a little long here this segment, so the next one will be a little shorter than usual.
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And we're back.
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Let's grab uh a call.
John and Ogden, Utah.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to comment on uh Chris Matthews.
Uh I loved how he uh assumes because the Chilean people are south of the border that they just can't make it without big gov without big government.
I lived down there for two years.
Right after it's about 1975, 76, right after the coup when they uh threw the communists out.
Uh Pinochet took over, and it was a hard uh road of hope for those people.
Uh you know, they were just uh I mean Iend he was gonna throw in with Castro.
Uh they chased Pinochet around the world for the rest of his life because he threw the communists out.
Yes, I've uh remember them chasing Pinochet all over the place.
They did.
And uh, you know, all he did was save that country.
Those people are more conservative than we are now.
They are rough and uh rugged, rugged individuals.
And I think that's why they were able to survive down there.
My wife, uh I lived, I actually lived in Copia Poe for uh uh four months and uh knew those uh know those people well.
You know, my wife watched the rescue last night, and she caught him she commented on the people.
And she uh talked about how proud they were when they came out.
And uh well, they should have been.
I mean, it was it was a that was a tremendous achievement.
I mean, you talk about they got in, got it, and got out.
There wasn't a bunch of hand wringing, there wasn't a bunch of how did this happen?
Who can we sue?
What are we gonna do?
The lawyers weren't the first ones on the scene, the politicians weren't the second ones on the scene.
The first on the scene were the Americans.
With the knowledge and the technology to make the rescue work.
Well, that was American company Pittsburgh that drilled, came from Afghanistan, private sector companies.
But look, that that's not that's not to diminish the Chileans.
Uh your your comment about about Matthews and everybody south of the border being uh uh dependent on government.
This is the way they envision most people.
I mean, this is the thing that's it's always been so frustrating to me is that the the people who claim to be looking out for the little guy.
In order to look out for the little guy, you have to think the little guy can't look out for himself.
You have to think he can't get anywhere without you.
And that's Matthews and and uh and much of the American left.
And you have to view people with a condescending contempt uh in order to have a belief that they can't get anywhere without you and your help, and that's how you derive your power.
So there I think all kinds of positives to uh to glean from that rescue last night uh and its aftermath.
And a brief timeout again of Scene Profit Center timeout here, back right after this.
Okay, when we come back, we'll get into the uh soundbite roster.
It's a lot of them, which is why I um I wanted to move it to the second hour.
A number of other things I wanted to get to first, but we'll get into the sound bites of the uh Chris O'Donnell or Christine O'Donnell, Chris Kuhn's, the uh bearded Marxist debate last night.
Uh I don't really have I didn't have not seen it myself, but I've just heard brief excerpts of this, so we'll be listening to it together for the first time in some cases.
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