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McConnell's office has also called a Davis Intelligence Group and told them that they have it all wrong, that McConnell's not telling donors that they're not going to repeal health care.
That is not true.
So McConnell's office calling all over the place to deny this as our Corker's office, Corker's office spoke with the Davis group, Davis Intelligence Group.
All right, now to this email.
It came in with not enough time to read it to you in the previous hour.
And it's just from a friend.
And in fact, at the end of the email, I said, just read this out loud from a friend.
Subject, oh, for goodness sake, what are you talking about Barone for?
Just admit that you taught this.
You've been the professor at the Institute for 22 years now.
You've taught people how to look at the news in a different way.
You have taught us by example every day how to dissect the news and the drive-by lies and separate them.
And then how to articulate the argument for the other side.
You've taught us how to love conservatism and how to be proud of it despite constant trashing from the elites.
You and the EIB, you've done this.
I'm not saying you are the reason for the Tea Party rush, but you are the reason the candidates who emerged are being articulated on politics and conservatism.
Just admit it and move on.
I'm tired of hearing about Barone.
You're the one that keeps teaching.
It all started with CPAC.
I'd say it arguably started before that.
But anyway, this is, so why am I spending time with this on Barone?
Well, again, just to share with you what Barone said, the Tea Party movement today has brought many new people into politics and many with sharper political instincts than their detractors in the press would have been able to understand.
Now, the headline gets it kind of wrong.
The headline says Tea Party neophytes outshine Democrats' old pros.
That's the examiner headline writer.
The actual quote from Barone is that the Tea Party people have sharper instincts than their detractors have been able to understand.
Not that they have sharper instincts than their detractors.
But I guess one would mean the same thing.
I also got an email.
I don't understand why you're doing this.
These people you're talking about, all they do, they never credit you with anything.
They always rip you to shreds on TV.
Why are you giving them all this?
I'll tell you why, because I've always assumed we're all on the same team.
You know, I've always assumed conservatism is a team.
And as you well know, I do not spend time criticizing other people who do this, particularly media people.
Success is what it is.
And I've always thought we're all on the same team.
But I know, I know there are territories, jealousy, envy, this kind of thing.
Barone, you know, even the New York Times a couple of months ago grudgingly reported Tea Party was amazingly educated.
Even they.
And by the way, I would say one thing to Carl Rove, and Carl and I are friends.
Carl was a guest at my wedding.
He's been to my house for dinner, the White House with Carl and George W. Bush.
One of the things Carl said, and it was to, was it their spiegel or was it some foreign press when he talked about Tea Party people?
Great, great people, but they're just not sophisticated.
They have not read Friedrich von Hayek.
This audience has, I can remember in the first two years of this program recommending two books by von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty and The Road to Serfdom.
Now, people in this audience have heard of von Hayek, and they have read von Hayek and others.
Milton Friedman to any of us who have been talking to people for 22 years here that there is a level of sophistication out there.
What it boils down to is that there's just nobody who can lay claim to it, who can say, I did it.
I saw it coming.
I'm the organizer.
I told my candidates a Tea Party was coming.
You better listen.
Nobody can say that.
So they are, I'm talking about no professional inside the Beltway political consultant or campaign specialist has said any of this.
Yet there's a disconnect.
This is the last thing I'll say about Baron.
And I, again, have all the respect for him in the world.
He's never said a thing about me.
I'm never, I'm not being critical of him now.
This just fascinates me.
I just, the way people think, the way they arrive at conclusions always has fascinated me.
But I think this is an illustration of how isolating and glimmering the Washington bubble is.
That even a guy as brilliant, indisputably brilliant as Barone, he's not arrogant.
He's not really an elitist.
He's not, he doesn't fit the template of any of this ruling class stuff we're talking about.
He knows the country, but even he drinks the D.C. Kool-Aid and parrots the talk from the inside the Beltway dinner parties about who these unsophisticated rubes are.
It just goes to show you how infectious it is inside the Beltway and how incestuous, I said, would actually be a better word.
Now, there are other things in the news here, folks.
And we're going to move on with those other things.
And I've got 47 soundbites, and I got to one of them so far.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to broom all the sound bites about me.
That'll cut it down to about 27 soundbites.
If I just get rid of the soundbites about me, like I don't care what Bill Maher and Joy Behar are saying.
Whoopi-Go, I couldn't care less what they say about me.
So I'll get you think it's entertaining to hear this.
It's a waste of time to me.
Okay, here we go.
Last night, Mess NBC last word, Lawrence O'Donnell.
He had on the supposed comedian Bill Maher, and talking about Christine O'Donnell, First Amendment, separation, church and state.
The arrogant, condescending Lawrence O'Donnell said, How do you think the crazier candidates, Christine O'Donnell, Palladino, how do you think they've been handling their liabilities?
Christine O'Donnell does a commercial saying, I'm not a witch.
They have real challenges in dealing with these liabilities like we've never seen before.
She thinks because she has been living in this Fox News, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh bubble for so long that he's the one who doesn't understand what the Constitution is.
Right.
It was at a law school, so they were all laughing at her.
She's saying separation of church and state.
The concept is not in the Constitution.
So when Chris Kuhn actually quotes the Constitution, she says, yeah, that's in the First Amendment.
Yes, Christine, it is.
Now, here's the arrogance and the condescension.
It's not.
Now, as I've told you, I live in Litteralville.
Now, not a whole lot of gray in Litterallville.
There's a lot of black and white in Litteralville.
It's not in the Constitution, conceptually, contextually, or otherwise.
The founding fathers never once wrote anything about there being a wall of separation between religion and government and the people.
These people are interpreting it to say Pat Robertson shouldn't run for office or Jerry Falwell shouldn't run for office or devout Christians shouldn't run for.
That's how they've interpreted it because they're scared of it.
But the wall doesn't exist.
This is classic.
These are the smart people.
O'Donnell and Bill Maher.
These are in their own self-appointed worlds.
They are the smart people and O'Donnell's a dunce.
That's the template.
Yet she's the one that's right.
And as I said yesterday, the scary thing is not what she said.
The scary thing is that a bunch of law students laughed at her.
A bunch of law students who obviously are being maleducated, ill-educated, or what have you.
Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Maher epitomize the ugliness of liberalism.
They are stupid and smug about it.
At the same time.
You know, I'm very curious to know if these liberal elites like Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Maher and all the rest of them wonder if they realize that a lot of states did have official churches at the time of the First Amendment's adoption.
Wonder if they even know that.
Why would they know it?
They haven't attended schools that teach the truth about this country.
Many, many moons.
To the phones, we're going to start in Crofton, Maryland with John.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
How you doing, Rush?
Very good.
Thank you.
You're a great man.
You followed after a great man, as your mother reminded you.
He wondered where you got it from.
And that's what mothers are for.
Tell fathers the half of the story they don't know about their kids.
You got it from him.
And I once told you that it's a good thing you didn't stay in college for the full four years because you would have been biased and maybe not as successful and as intelligent and as perceptive as you are because you would have been taken in by some of this influence.
Well, there is that possibility.
I like to think that I would have resisted it, but especially if I'd have gone home, if I'd have gone home and said, hey, dad, you know what?
You're full of it.
My professor said, I don't think that might be why I wouldn't be here, not that I had attended college.
Well, no, I just think that you went out, you struck out on your own.
It was something that was inside of you.
I'm a senior citizen.
I live less than a half hour from Washington.
I've been to almost every single tea party.
Nobody had to tell me to go.
Nobody had to tell me what to put on a sign.
I didn't take a sign.
I took my House American flag, and that, I think, says most of what we believe in.
We believe in this country.
And we're doing this because this election, this point in history, has to do with our future.
It has to do with our survival.
If you're a parent or a grandparent, you're thinking, I don't want to leave this world, this country, so messed up for my progeny.
Exactly right.
And I think everybody feels the same way.
I talk to people at the tea parties, and they've come from great distances.
There was a whole team there, an emergency room team from North Carolina, and they were wearing these green scrubs.
And I said, Oh, did you guys go to some costume store to pick up the scrubs?
Because they were against health care.
And they said, What are you talking about?
We drove 12 hours to get here, and we are an emergency team from Tommy the Hospital, and we're against health care.
Well, you know, most of the Tea Party people are against healthcare.
They're against the big deficit, this wild spending, the takeovers, the czars, everything that's unconstitutional.
Our playbook is the Constitution.
And the trouble is, we have a president in there that hates the Constitution.
He hates this country.
And I give you credit for saying he's doing all this on purpose.
Well, thank you, sir.
Somebody had to say it.
It's the only conclusion you can come to, especially after the passage of this much time.
Now, I want to ask you a question: How many of you heard any racism in what this man said?
Do you hear him say he opposes any of this because Obama's race or his religion?
No, it has nothing to do with that.
The opposition to Obama, the opposition of the Democrat Party, is entirely rooted in substance.
The issues, if you will.
John, thanks to the call to Brooksville, Kentucky.
Vicki, you're next.
Make it count on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
This is indeed an honor and a pleasure.
Thank you.
I've listened to you for years and years, and you are the greatest teacher.
Absolutely.
I wanted to tell you that I have never in my life heard anyone so concisely, so precisely, and so honestly put together a synopsis of exactly the way that the people out here in the flyover land feel.
I am so sick of the elitism and the condescension and the bull crap that is coming out of their mouths, and I'm scared to death for my children, for my grandchildren.
They're not going to have the country that I grew up in, and it's scaring me to death.
This really is what's driving.
Yes, it is.
It absolutely is.
And that's why we are exactly the way that we are.
It's because we believe in what our mothers and our fathers taught us, what we learned in school before they stopped teaching.
And we it's not just that.
It's not just that, Vicki.
All of you understand the exceptionalism of this country.
You understand the blessing of this country, the blessing it is to be an American.
And you see people who don't, who don't look at it as special, exceptional, or even a blessing.
Look at it as a problem.
And it ticks you off because America is not the problem in the world.
America is the solution to the world's problems.
And anybody cares, anybody who thinks of America as exceptional, thinks of themselves as blessed to be an American, certainly wants their children and grandchildren to have the same place, same opportunities that they had.
And they're living through a period of time where there are people who don't think this country is any good, not even exceptional, don't feel blessed, are trying to tear that to shreds.
And they're saying, ain't going to happen on my watch.
I'll never forget something.
I was a kid, I don't know what year it was, but I couldn't have been older than 12 or 13.
The day Ernie Banks retired from the Chicago Cubs, he televised it, the ceremony, from Wrigley Field.
It was in black and white.
Ernie Banks at the microphone, first thing he said, I want to thank God for making me an American.
I have never forgotten that.
Ernie Banks, African American, in the late 50s, early 60s, I want to thank God for making me an American.
And I don't want to get into the metaphysical or religious aspects of it.
Talking about the realization is a special place and that it was a blessing, act of good fortune, what have you to be born here.
On the contrary, I also remember Phil Donahue on his show regretting that he had been born in America.
I remember him wringing his hands, walking through his audience with his wireless microphone, talking about the accident of his birth and how unfair it was that if he had been born 50 miles to the south in Mexico, what a rotten life he would have had.
And how is it fair that people born mere miles from the U.S. border are consigned to rotten lives and we born in this country or not?
He felt guilty about it.
And I'm shouting at the TV, hey, Phil, you can't change it, so why don't you try to be proud of what this country is and spread it around the world so that being born in the world is a blessing.
Why do you want to tear this country down and make it like the rest of the hellholes in the country to make it fair?
Why?
What?
I've never understood this about the, well, I do understand it, but still sick.
Want to equalize people by lowering everybody rather than by elevating people.
So two contrasts.
Ernie Banks, I want to thank God for making me an American.
Phil Donahue, hands together, wringing his hands on television, lamenting the accident of his birth.
And of course, who is considered brilliant and compassionate and caring?
Donahue.
He's a man who had a lot, but he understood he shouldn't have had it.
It was unfair that he had it.
Those people living 50 miles south of Tijuana didn't have it.
Except Phil never gave away his to the people in Tijuana.
He always voted for people to take yours away from you and redistribute what you have.
Ernie Banks retired as a player December 1st, 1971.
And so whatever I saw was during baseball season.
I remember he's in uniform.
So it might have been the following season when they had a ceremony for him that I saw in 1971.
So I would have been 20.
Well, that's the time flies.
Anyway, he is nicknamed, of course, Mr. Sunshine.
Hey, let's play two.
Ernie Banks, always wanting to play a doubleheader.
Maryland's Democrat governor calls illegal immigrants new Americans.
Martin O'Malley, first televised debate, illegal immigrants are new Americans.
This is why there's a tea party.
All right, this Martin O'Malley thing is great.
Gets even better.
The headline alone, Democrat Governor Maryland, calls illegal immigrants new Americans.
This is Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley.
In his first televised debate with Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich, repeatedly referred to people who come to this country illegally as new Americans.
It happened on Monday night.
In response to a question, O'Malley called illegal immigration a huge challenge for our country.
He said the federal government needs to do a better job of enforcing a nation's borders.
He called on Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform, quote, so that people who are here can apply for citizenship, obey the law, and pay their taxes, and live in the full light and openness and transparency of our American society.
I do not believe, as the former governor has said before, that multiculturalism is bunk.
Well, Angela Merkel does, and the Brits soon will.
They've lost it.
They've lost their country.
Angela Merkel trying to save hers.
Multiculturalism is ripping this country's heart out.
That's just me.
Back to O'Malley.
I believe that we are a multicultural people and a multicultural country.
Wrong.
There is, was a distinct American culture.
It's what differentiated this country from any other.
Immigrants melded.
They assimilated to that culture happily, gladly.
They wanted to be Americans.
They did not immigrate here to undermine this country.
They came here to become Americans.
Not multicultural.
The failures started touting the multicultural curriculum because they couldn't succeed in this new culture, felt resentful and mad, and for a host of other reasons began their curricula, which is destructive by design and on purpose.
O'Malley said, I believe that we are a multicultural people in a multicultural country, and from many comes one strong nation.
I also believe that we should not blame new Americans for the problems our country is going through right now.
It's wrong.
This is where it gets good.
New Americans did not drive Wall Street into a ditch.
Nobody's saying they did.
New Americans did not have regulators look the other way while credit markets were crashed and driven into the ground with false vehicles for investment.
No, the Democrats did that, Mr. O'Malley.
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd authored that, along with Bill Clinton and Andrew Cuomo, Mr. O'Malley.
Nobody ever said illegal immigrants did this.
He then continued, New Americans did not get us into a series of unfunded wars that have driven up debt.
Nobody ever said they did.
I believe we're all in this together.
We've got to find a better solution to our immigration challenge.
But don't try anything old Americans want.
We're not going to put up with that.
Ehrlich responded, America is a pro-immigrant country.
The current debate should be about a singular American culture, capitalism, equal opportunity, unlimited opportunity.
That's what we should be engaged in.
Why should we pretend laws don't count, Ehrlich said?
Driver's license laws count.
In-state tuition laws count.
Taxpayer dollars count.
Enforcing law counts.
Why should it not count in this case?
And if O'Malley was to be honest in an answer, because we need them to vote for us, Ehrlich said the situation in Arizona is out of control because both Republican and Democrat administrations have failed the country, the taxpayer, and our way of life.
From San Diego, this is a Washington Post story.
When a major Mexican drug cartel opened a branch office in San Diego, U.S. authorities tapped into its cell phones and then listened, watched, and waited.
Their surveillance effort captured more than 50,000 calls over six months, conversations that reached deep into Mexico and helped build a sprawling case against 43 suspects, including Mexican police and top officials, allegedly linked to a savage trafficking ring known as the Fernando Sanchez Organization.
Are these the new Americans, Mr. O'Malley?
Are these the new Americans that you're talking about?
U.S. law enforcement officials say the most worrisome thing about Fernando Sanchez' organization was how aggressively it moved to set up operations in the U.S. working out of a San Diego apartment it called the office.
The Fernando Sanchez organization, San Diego Venture, functioned almost like a frenzy.
Prosecutors say, giving the group greater control over lucrative smuggling routes and drug distribution networks north of the border.
Mr. O'Malley, are these the new Americans that you're talking about?
Are these new Americans, Mr. O'Malley, that you so eagerly tell us?
We should violate the law for.
You know, Comedy Central, I got Jon Stewart out there and Stephen Colbert, and they're having a couple of rallies on October 30th.
Stewart's is Restore Sanity and Colbert's is the March to Keep Fear Alive.
There's a problem.
By the way, the story indicates that they are expecting 65,000 people.
65,000 expected attendees.
This is not good.
This is in response to the Beck rally.
Everybody is talking about that being over 500,000.
Now, these guys claim they're going to get 65,000.
But the big problem is there aren't any port-a-potties.
The Marines have snatched them all up for a marathon.
Comedy Central organizers having a hard time finding port-a-potties for their rallies after the Marine Corps marathon planners snatched up about 800 of them for the same weekend.
The organizers have asked the marathon staff to share the portable toilets with their 65,000 expected attendees.
That would be embarrassing if that's all that shows up.
With all of this pre-pub, with all of this ramp-up, with all of the drive-by media support, 65,000?
I mean, Ariana Huffington has chartered $250,000 worth of buses to transport freeloaders free of charge to these rallies.
65,000.
The Marines, however, are not budging.
They plan to lock the toilets until the morning of their race the day after.
According to the New York Times, the National Park Service requires port-a-potties for events expected to exceed capacity of comfort facilities on National Park Service property, according to a department document.
They recommend one toilet for every 300 people.
And there aren't any.
The Marines have snatched them up.
Kay in Livermore, California.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yes, sir.
It's Ray in Livermore.
Thank you for your.
Sorry about that, Ray.
I misread it.
How are you?
That's quite all right.
I'm doing well.
Thank you for the work that you and your brother are doing, bringing the influence of your father to all the American people.
You're doing a great job.
Yesterday, you had pointed out the pictures of Obama, and a lady called in and talked about how he would be going nuts after the election.
I would just like to remind the listeners of what Peter Jennings said in 94, that America had thrown a temper tantrum.
And I have a feeling the media is going to go berserk and make what Obama does look pale, and that it won't be a referendum on Obama and his policies.
It will be about racism.
In fact, in fact, let me find a, yeah, grab audio soundbite number seven.
F. Chuck Todd on Morning Joe Today makes this very point.
Now, these people are living in fantasy land.
Here's the question from Scarborough.
In the polling, is there any question about what you think Republicans will do or what would you like to see Republicans do?
Do you think that's relevant at this point?
This isn't a referendum on the president himself.
A lot of people want to say it is.
It is a referendum on Congress.
It is a referendum on Washington.
It is a referendum on the Democratic Party.
It's less on Obama.
That's F. Chuck Todd of NBC News.
It's not a referendum on Obama.
No, no, no, no.
Referendum on Congress.
A referendum on the Democratic Party, but not Obama.
So that's already being set up.
Already being set up.
Template is.
No, no, no, it's not about Obama, whether it's a template or not.
It's already being set up.
Now, this rally, these two rallies, comedy rallies from Stewart and Colbert, they can't find any port-a-potties.
The Marines snatched them all up.
Actually, this could be helpful.
The attendees at the Stewart and Colbert rallies can go ahead and crap in their pants as practice for what's going to happen on Election Day.
You know, Maureen Dowd had this column Sunday in the New York Times that was just incoherent.
It was about these mean Republican women.
And it led people to openly, they've been privately speculating, what happened to Maureen?
What went wrong?
And of course, I, your host, El Rushbo, know precisely what happened.
I know who did it.
I know how it happened.
I know what the reason for it was.
And I can't, because I have manners, I'm not going to give you any of the details.
But I know precisely what happened to Maureen Doud.
It actually is a shame, in a way.
But regardless, she's back.
She has a column out there today, her latest screed.
And I'm only going to mention this to you because the first lines raise a good question to my mind.
The title of Maureen's column today is Making Ignorance Chic.
Here's how it begins: Casanova's rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman that she was beautiful.
Now, the question obviously is, what on earth would Casanova have said to Maureen?
Here's John in Minton, Iowa.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
Just wanted to ask you if you think an idealist could survive in Washington.
Well, I think there are idealists in Washington, but I have a problem with idealists.
I don't mind idealism as something way out there to aspire to, but ideal, by definition, is not possible.
Ideal pretty close to utopia, and there's never going to be a utopia.
I don't mean to complicate your question here, but I know what you're saying.
Is Washington so corrupt that it's going to just suck up everybody if it's good?
It's just going to suck the decency out of everybody.
That's basically what you want to know, right?
Yeah.
No, there's plenty of good people there.
Plenty of good people who have remained decent.
Reagan did not end up being corrupted by D.C.
I don't believe Reagan survived and prospered in Washington because of his sunny disposition and a number of other personality quirks.
Reagan really had what I would wish for a lot of people.
He really didn't care what people said about him.
He really didn't care.
A lot of people say they don't care.
He really didn't.
When he said, if you don't care about who gets the credit, what you can accomplish is limitless, he meant it.
But more people really do care about what people say than even they would realize and believe.
And that's what ends up being corruptible.
When you start worrying about what people think of you or what they write about you or what they say about you, the underlying is that you think you're supposed to be perfect.
Somebody criticizes you, you're not perfect, therefore you've fallen.
Or you're living secrets and somebody discovers them and writes them and the secret of your life is blown.
Everybody gets caught up into this stuff and none of us are perfect.
None of us will ever be the ideal.
Not one of us.
Not one of us could ever run for office and undergo the typical media anal exam and have nothing found that would be embarrassing.
Not one of us.
But I think it's possible.
The next question, oh, why don't you do it?
I don't want to.
I don't want to even subject myself to it.
I would become cynical.
While optimistic at the same time, I still would become cynical.
Here's Terry in Finlay Park, Illinois.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Thank you.
I just got a phone call from my brother telling me that his friend who attends a community college in the area was told by his professor that he needs to go and vote and bring three people with him to early voting in order to get 100 points, which is not extra credit.
Oh!
I meant.
Oh, this is a grade requirement.
Yes, it's a grade requirement.
It must be early voting.
Now, how's he going to prove it to the professor?
You know, I'm not quite sure because my brother's friend, once my brother tried to explain to him that that's not right, he got really upset and he stopped talking to my brother.
He hung up on him.
So I'm not really sure how they're supposed to show that they voted.
I don't know if you need to bring in that sticker that says, you know, I early voted.
I've never early voted, so I don't know if there's a sticker.
I don't usually get a sticker.
You get a sticker when you early vote?
I've never early voted.
Tell you what's happening.
This early vote was a trick.
This stems from the 2000 Florida debacle when the Democrats think that everything was stolen from them.
But this is cutting both ways now.
There was a story, I think it was in the Washington Post yesterday in Nevada, that all the early voters are going angle.
Early voters, it's not the way it's supposed to happen.
Early voters are supposed to be Democrats.
And I think this is a way, I mean, if you figure how many students could she have, you know, say on the low end, 100 to 150 students, if she gets all those registered, anybody who's registered to vote has to get three other people.
People that aren't registered, kids that aren't registered to vote have to show that they registered and show proof that they went in and voted.
Well, that's no handle registration in Denver.
That's not an impediment to Democrats.
I mean, if illegals are not an impediment, certainly unregistered voters is not an impediment.
Let's see.
There's a story out of Cincinnati that something similar is happening with Haskrill students.
They're actually being taken on field trips to polling places to vote.
I'll find this here.
I think it's back.
Look, there's I don't want to jump the gun here, but I don't think there is enough fraud out there that they can pull off to prevent what's going to happen.
On November 2nd.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Here is the audio.
What I have, I don't have the audio.
I'm going to read you the audio from a video from David Axelrod on Real Clear Politics.
He says, as I said, I think you're going to see an election where, you know, people win who perhaps you didn't expect to win.
People lose who perhaps you didn't expect to lose on both sides.
So, I mean, what I would suggest to you is you stay up for the full night and total it up at the end.
So what is this?
I mean, Axelrod is admitting they have a plan to cheat.
I mean, that's what this is.
They're going to be people who win, you don't expect to win.