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March 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey, welcome back.
Grace to have you with us.
My name's Rush Limboy.
You know that.
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As usual, my friends.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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You know, when you look through history, look back through history.
The Democrat parties never had any problems with enslaving people one way or the other.
And they even went to war to defend the right to live off the work of others.
They did.
They went to war to defend, it's called the war on poverty.
They went to war to defend the right to live off the work of other people.
Some things never change.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
Great to have you on the program.
Mike Pence in Politico today.
Time to pick the fight.
He had a um had a meeting with the House Republican conference today, and he told them.
He said, look, you got Dingy Harry out there defending cowboy poetry.
You got Dingy Harry defending spending federal money for cowboy poetry.
You got PBS on the run.
Planned parenthood is on the defensive.
Time to pick the fight now.
There's a budget vote at 3 o'clock.
By the way, Richard Luger, Republican Indiana, who faces a Tea Party backed challenge in his primary in 2012, has withdrawn his stated opposition to house pass spending cuts.
Luger said yesterday afternoon he made a mistake when he told reporters earlier in the day that he would oppose HR 1.
The Republican plan to cut an additional $57 billion from the 2011 budget, so Senator Luger's flip-flopped, apparently feeling the heat of a Tea Party challenger.
He's not mentioned, by the way, but still is.
From the political piece, the efforts to fund a federal government for the rest of the fiscal year represent just one small battle in a bigger fight that Republicans need to have, Mike Pence said today.
Time to pick the fight.
We have to win in this small battle if we're going to win the big battles that lie ahead.
His remarks come as the Senate prepares to vote on the budget bill passed by the House Republicans and another put forward by Dingy Harry.
Neither of which is expected to pass.
And as many people on both sides of the aisle begin to look for compromise.
A poll released Wednesday by Bloomberg News found that 77% of Americans would like to see a bipartisan budget deal that uh averts a government shutdown.
And but also that if there is a shutdown, it's the Republicans who profit from it politically, not the Democrats.
From our old buddies at Media.
Bill O'Reilly on GOP 2012 lineup.
If I'm Obama, I'm not quaking over there.
O'Reilly had Charles Crauthammer on last night.
They discussed George Wills column yesterday.
George Will's column yesterday claimed there are really only five serious Republican candidates for president in 2012.
Mitch Daniels, Haley Barber, Tim Polenty, John Huntsman, and Mitt Romney.
Crowdhammer agreed with Will on those five, which prompted O'Reilly to say, Well, if I'm Obama, I'm not quaking over there.
If it's one of those five.
Crowdhammer dismissed the possibility of Huckabee or Palin running, given that both have uh lucrative Fox News contracts and have shown no indication that they are taking steps to run.
O'Reilly was surprised that Newt Gingrich didn't make the list.
However, Krauthammer doesn't consider Gingrich serious.
Crowdhammer described Gingrich as somebody with little chance to win because he's undisciplined and not likely to wear well in the primary season.
O'Reilly dismissed all the serious candidates except Romney as people nobody knows.
Whereas Crowdhammer dismissed the possibility of Romney being successful Because of his illogical defense of Romney care in Massachusetts.
Now they both agreed that the election in 2012 be mostly about Obama, and that's why all Crowhammer wants is a Republican candidate who is steady and solid.
That was the that was the thrust of the of the discussion.
So I'm just going to put it out there to you.
Here the the uh George Will and Crowdhammer.
Two of the smartest guys in our room.
These are the five.
Mitch Daniels, Haley Barber, Tim Polletti, John Huntsman, and Romney.
Notice also that Huckabee's name is not in this list.
I is Huckabee serious at all.
I think Huckabee's serious.
Do you think he's not?
Well, forget hope here, Sturdley.
I'm just saying, well, what have you seen?
Does it look like Huckabee's?
It doesn't look like Huckab.
Okay.
Newt?
Obviously it does.
Newt's very serious about it.
Paramountly obvious that Newt is serious about it.
Yeah, Palin.
Um.
You know, uh I I keep hearkening back to Byron York.
I thought he had a great piece yesterday about 1991.
And now here comes H. W. Bush, Bush 41, 90% approval after the Gulf Wall.
And the Democrats, they they thought, let's let's sit the big names on our bench.
We're not going to win this year.
I mean, um there's no chance.
Got Bush here with 90% approval, uh Gulf War.
Why waste our guys this year?
Why why get one of our big guns defeated and thrown away?
So little did they know at the time that Perot was going to get serious, and of course, Bill Clinton didn't get the memo that Bush can be beat.
So he kept plugging away, even through Whitewater, even through Jennifer Flowers, all of that stuff, and the Perot thing becomes what it became, and lo and behold, a guy with 90% approval who was likable, ended up losing.
Now, there's a lot of factors here.
Some people said Bush 41 really didn't seem to want to be re-elected.
Uh, didn't seem to take either Clinton or Perot seriously enough early enough.
Uh what whatever.
Um Obama, you look at Obama too.
Obama, there was a lot of pre-Pub Obama way before Obama decided to do it.
And the same thing with uh with with Clinton.
There was a lot of, you know, but these guys get into it late.
So it's it's still a little early, I think, to start saying these are the five guys, and that's it, and without these five, if it's uh nobody else has a chance.
But that seems to be the conventional wisdom from the smartest guys in the room.
That if it's not one of these five, forget it.
We don't have a chance.
And O'Reilly thinks we won't have a chance, don't have a chance if it's one of these five.
I don't know anything about Mr. Huntsman.
All I know is he's the ambassador to China for uh for Obama, and he's now leaving because they just had a new ceremony here today.
This Chu guy is going over to China.
Gary Locke, I'm sorry.
Gary Locke's going, what's Chu doing?
Where's Chu?
Well, I get screwed up with Chu.
Well, Chu's.
I don't know, Chu's doing something.
Okay, but that might be right.
Chu may be going over to where Locke was, and Locke's going to China where Huntsman was, and Huntsman's coming back to run.
Now, Huntsman, uh you know what they try to do with with Romney being a Mormon, so they'll try to try to do that on Huntsman being a Mormon too, being from and plus Huntsman, big, wealthy family, huge industrialist, major, major wealth there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, but he's also considered a moderate.
Uh now remember the the Democrat candidates.
Remember 1988?
Let's go back to 1988.
They they called a Democrat candidates in 1988 the seven dwarves.
And who were they?
You had Bruce Bnibnibabb.
You had Joe Biden.
That's that's the Neil Kinnock election.
We finally accused Biden of plagiarizing Neil Kinnock.
You had DeCakis, the loser, you had Dick Gephart.
You had Al Gore running in 88, Gary Hartpen's, You had the uh Reverend Jackson and Paul Simon.
Now that's 1988.
That's the Democrat seven dwarves.
Now, those guys look like giants now, which you go back and compare to people today.
But Dukakis eventually prevailed in that in that group.
Gepart didn't last long.
Al Gore, of course, uh, problematic, Gary Hart Pence.
Yeah, Hart Pence's problem.
He got into an argument with Jesse Jackson over who could get us out of wherever first.
No, that was with Mondel in 84.
Sorry, I'm confusing the years.
Hart Pence was up against Mondal in 84 for the nomination, and he got his big argument.
Well, I'll get us out of South Africa.
Okay, fine, I'll get us out of Angola.
Well, I'll call you and I'll get us out of Kuwait.
Well, that's no big deal.
I'll get us out of Bosnia.
That's what that was their campaign.
We're just gonna divest everywhere.
Meanwhile, Mondel got the nomination, and at his acceptance speech in San Francisco promised to raise taxes.
Mondel said, I've just told you.
They're gonna raise taxes too, but they won't tell you.
I just did.
That was the end of Mondo.
Mondel never had a chance.
You know when I knew it was over from Mondel.
I don't remember the date.
It was during the middle of the campaign, and I'm watching the CBS evening news, which back then was uh hosted by Dan Rather, anchored by Dan Ramder.
And there was a story, it was after the conventions.
There was a story, well, best I can remember, uh Radder opened up with a piece of video.
And the uh the video was a private jet taxiing to a stop, and one guy getting off the plane.
Mondale.
In the middle of campaign.
And uh Rather's report was dry, perfunctory, was not filled with excitement.
Democrat presidential candidate Watermond deal.
In San Francisco, we have a shot of uh Wodomondale getting off the plane, and that was it.
And I said, Here's the presidential candidate getting off a small private jet by himself.
Something just told me.
I did my instincts.
What's he doing here?
By himself in the middle of camp, obviously going to see some money guy to do something.
I said, This is this is not this is not, this is not something that somebody expects to win or is leading the polls, is gonna do.
Gary Hart Pence was Hot Pence back then.
I mean, he was you remember the uh the monkey business yacht over there in Bemini?
Bimini Island.
The original Clinton is just ahead of his time.
Back then it wasn't cool.
And of course, Hot Pence, he forgot all you had to do here was grab the wife and go down to Virgin Islands and put on a couple swimsuits and start dancing on the beach.
Doesn't matter whether you have any music or not, just do it.
But he didn't learn that lesson because it was yet to be taught.
Uh that lesson was taught all of us by uh Bill Clinton.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh we have what do we have here?
A um media montage.
Obama had no choice on Gitmo.
It's like our New York Times story today.
Remember what we led with.
It's a shame.
New York Times very upset, but they really said, you know, it's it's Obama can't close Gitmo because of the legacy of torture that was left him by George Bush.
The legacy of torture, he just he wants to close it, but he just can't.
So here's a media montage.
Poor Obama.
He tried.
He tried, but he just has no choice.
In reality, he didn't have a choice.
For a variety of reasons, some of which are political forces that are outside their control.
They haven't been able to do it.
Didn't really have a choice.
He's stuck at the moment.
Isn't this just part of the reality therapy of becoming president of the United States?
The conservatives today are saying the big guy told you so, but in the end, in reality, he didn't have a choice.
See, that's just that simple, folks.
He didn't have a choice.
He promised he was gonna close Gitmo.
Greg Craig, executive order.
He promised it didn't have a choice.
He really wanted to.
Again, let's go back to me before Obama was inaugurated January 16, 2009.
Don't deal in things that aren't real.
Don't get yourself worked up about something that isn't going to happen.
We got real things to get worked up about here.
But closing Gitmo isn't going to happen.
It is not going to happen.
It is not going to happen.
And not going to close Gitmo.
How is it that I knew that?
And all these smart people in the media, gosh, you know, he really tried.
He really tried, he had no choice.
Really had no choice.
He never intended to close it, and don't doubt me.
To the phones, we return to Dallas.
Jed, great to have you, sir.
Thank you for calling.
Hello, Rush.
Conservative folk singer Ditto's from Dallas.
Thank you very much, sir.
I make my living playing uh folk music in Celtic and folk graph uh places.
And I sell albums and MP3s.
And a few years ago I had a new album coming out, and um, because NPR is uh where most of my music is broadcast.
I had a uh scheduled uh a series of uh interviews at the NPR station.
And the morning uh I arrived at the station in uh Louisiana.
I was listening to the station before I went in, and I heard a couple of the NPR um talking heads, the um analysts, saying that they'd they'd been accused of uh bias and they were poo-pooing that idea.
And a few minutes later, I walked upstairs into the office to be interviewed by the woman who was the NPR um director, uh regional director of news, and her Alpha's walls were absolutely um covered with hundreds of cartoons from newspapers and magazines, uh, all of which were anti-conservative and T G O P making fun of George Bush and and that sort of thing.
Just amazing to me.
Are you there?
Yes, anyway.
Oh, get her.
Um I'm I'm still I've I'm sitting here stunned.
Uh you say there's an NPR operation in Louisiana.
Uh, yes.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm amazed they could find anybody at NPR to accept a job that was in Louisiana.
Well, this was at the uh at the university hosted by the university, and that's oh yes, yes, yeah.
What university was it?
Uh I'm wondering if I should say that.
I guess I I guess it's okay.
It was at uh the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Louisiana and where?
Monroe.
Monroe.
Monroe, yeah.
Well and I I pointed out the irony uh of the uh of the comments that I just heard um and and you know, the cartoons on her wall, and the next time I and she just looked dumbfounded and didn't have uh even an answer for me.
And the next time I went back there a few years ago, the walls were empty.
Really?
Yeah, but I got a feeling I mean, she just didn't even have a clue that um Well, you know, just the other day, Vivian Schiller said that everybody's attacking NPR because they're too conservative.
She said that.
She said that you'd be amazed at the number of emails she gets from people who claim that NPR is too conservative.
Which I mean, I didn't believe it.
I don't think anybody did.
That's just a standard response.
Jed, thanks for the call.
Audio soundbite number uh six.
Here it is.
Vivian Schiller on a situation room with um I guess this is Wolf Blitzer.
But she's on the phone, and I don't know what the question was, but this is what she said.
The comments made by Ron Schiller are an affront to this organization and are contrary to everything we stand for as a news organization.
We stand for diversity of opinion and tolerance and open-mindedness, and his comments did not reflect those values.
Hey, Vivian, you need to get on the same page, Andrien Mitchell.
You need to call her because the story today is that the guy was a fundraiser.
Uh he had nothing to do with you.
He had nothing to do with the he was a fundraiser who said they don't need the money, by the way.
The fundraiser, we could we don't need federal money here.
We get by a fine without it.
But the uh the narrative today, Vivian is that this guy was a fundraiser and is now tainted all of the wonderful journalists at NPR.
Last night on the Situation CNN, uh, Brian Todd interviewed James O'Keefe, the punker.
And so why'd you pick NPR?
My colleague Sean Adela was pretty offended with what happened with Juan Williams, and he suggested uh looking into NPO after that incident back in the fall.
My other colleague, Simon Templar, came up with the idea to have a Muslim angle since Juan Williams was fired due to his comments.
So we decided to see if there was some type of greater truth or hidden truth amongst these reporters and journalists and executives.
So the uh new conservative media here has uh sort of turned the tactics of the left on them.
Uh Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes have a closet full of Emmys for doing this kind of stuff.
Well, they do.
You remember how everybody has a memory of a 60 minute story, be it a you know, a thug auto repair executive or a uh a thug in some other private sector capitalist endeavor or what have you.
I mean, they're famous for uh for this kind of uh this kind of stuff.
All right, we got a break here coming up.
I just remembered, I promised early on in the program some funny Wolf Blitzer sound bites, waiting for Qaddafi.
And uh we'll do those when we uh when we come out of the break, as well as yesterday afternoon on the Senate floor during a debate on the federal budget.
Senator Jim Dement gave a great speech on the Florida Senate floor or uh uh on the Florida Senate about America on its knees.
Uh South Carolina Senate will have that.
I and Wolf Blitzer, breathlessly waiting for Qaddafi, and waiting, waiting, and waiting.
Jim Dement on the floor yesterday afternoon of the U.S. Senate.
Other countries, even today are looking at us and wanting to be free as violence erupts around the world to try to overthrow authoritarian regimes so people can live in freedom.
But at the same time, other countries strive to be like America.
America seems to be determined, at least at the political level, to push our way towards a third world country that's so in debt and so dependent that we no longer can determine our own destiny.
Because today America is literally on its knees to China and other countries for the credit we need to run our economy.
We're also on our knees to the Middle East, which is very unstable right now, for the energy we need to run our country, to even take our food to market, the essentials here at home.
He went on and on and on.
The whole theme of the thing here was America on its knees.
I'm telling you, go back.
This number, 35% of our population living off of what others earn.
The answer to so many problems can be found right in that number.
The explanation.
How many of you, when you first heard about the subprime mortgage crisis?
I'll I'll admit to being naive.
You mean to tell me we had a program where people who demonstrably could not pay the money back were ordered to be lent money.
We had a government program requiring banks to loan money to those people.
And we knew they would never be able to pay it back.
Well, I first heard about that.
I said, that that that's I ran it through my filter.
Okay, liberalism on the march here.
Barney Frank, affordable housing.
This is how you equalize the unfairness that some people having houses and money and some people not having it, but it's a death knell.
So if you look at that, 35% of the people living off somebody else, what's the difference in getting a loan?
You never have to pay back.
It's all there.
America on its knees.
To the ChICOMs, to the Saudis.
I don't know about you folks.
There might be some people you wouldn't mind being on your knees for, but I can't see it here.
The Chicoms or the Saudis.
But that's just me.
You know, media still wringing its hands there.
What's Obama gonna do about Libya?
He's gotta do something.
He's gotta say something.
He can't.
Wall Street Journal had it right.
Obama came to power, ripping the whole notion of the United States getting involved in the Middle East.
It's not everybody's clamoring for him to do something.
Last night, CNN's in the arena.
They spoke to David Rodham Gurgen.
The question is there a coherent foreign policy message coming out of this regime.
It's not as clear to me what the strategy is.
What's the vision for where we want this all to go?
What kind of Middle East do we want to see?
I thought we were going to get a speech on Libya the other day.
I do think he needs to enunciate a general strategy for where he's trying to go, where the West is trying to go in the Middle East.
Do you think he even cares?
Do you think at the body at the end of the does he really care?
He's got another party tonight.
He's throwing another watching the viewing party for a basketball game.
He's in college basketball game.
He's bringing some people up.
You know, let Bush try this.
In the midst of all this stuff going on, have Bush throw a party on Wednesday night, and Motown guys come in one night, and then uh, well, not Motown, Charlie Daniels and the boys come in.
They get mad at that.
Uh maybe a little Ted Nugent.
They wouldn't like that.
But here come these guys watching a basketball game and the Motown guys.
Does he really even care?
Having the place on fire over there, uh unrest and chaos.
Does he even care?
Why do we assume let me ask an even better question?
Honest, honest to God here, folks.
We make so many assumptions about the president and the presidency and the people who run for that office.
Would somebody explain to me where in the past and the history of Barack Obama, is there any evidence that he has the slightest understanding or idea what's happening there or why, or does he even care?
Where is the track record?
Hell's Bells, we can't even get his law review records or his grade transcripts at Harvard for crying out loud.
How do we know?
We make all these wild assumptions.
Well, Rush, even if he doesn't know he's got some advice, that's even scarier.
You mean like that clapper guy?
Who said, Muslim Brotherhood?
Harmless.
Not even ideologues.
Well, where is it written that he even has the slightest clue?
I mean, obviously, David Rodham Gergen thinks, well, he's president.
He's got to have he's got to have a philosophy.
He's got to have a vision for the Middle East.
What do we want the Middle East to be?
The last president that we had that articulated such a vision with George W. Bush and look what they did to him for it.
What's Obama's vision for the Middle East?
The Cairo speech?
What is it?
Do we have to ask Reverend Wright?
I mean, who in the world do we know that's had any influence in Obama where this stuff happens?
I'm not being casual here or throwing it off.
You know, Obama's very tied up with the Clintons these days.
He's he's he's he's uh he's got basically a lot of Clinton staffers, and we still don't know who has given money to the Clintons for their library and their foundation and massage parlor.
Uh okay, so Obama says he took a course in international relations undergrad.
Fine, okay.
My mom made me take out the trash, so I know about waste removal.
Wolf Blitzer, the situation room, CNN.
We have a montage.
Wolf Blitzer talking about an upcoming press conference held by Libyan leader Moamer Qaddafi.
Still, they're just so excited.
Gaddafi's gonna speak.
Yeah, man.
Gaddafi's gonna speak instant ravings for CNN.
It's it's it's beyond me what excites these people.
But Wolf could barely keep his pants up.
Here's the montage.
Breaking news we're following right now.
Mummar Gaddafi may speak to reporters any minute.
They rolled out the red carpet for Muammar Gaddafi.
He shows up.
We expect him to start speaking to reporters literally any minute now.
It's getting closer and closer to midnight.
He could be speaking at 11 at midnight at 1 a.m.
We have no clue.
We're all waiting.
We're watching for Muammar Qaddafi to speak.
We expect that soon.
Breaking news out of Tripoli, Libya, awaiting Muammar Qaddafi.
Stand by for that.
Muammar Qaddafi behind that curtain over there.
We don't know when he's gonna speak.
We anticipate that we'll be soon.
we're standing by.
We're awaiting Muammar Qaddafi.
He's getting ready.
We're told to speak to journalists.
It's a dramatic scene.
Awaiting Qaddafi is no simple matter.
Waiting and waiting and waiting.
It reminds me of Wolf with breaking news on Bush's approval numbers going below 40.
Remember that soundbite.
They could do a movie.
Driving Miss Nancy while waiting for Qaddafi.
Waiting and waiting.
Breaking news is dramatic scene.
Awaiting Qaddafi's no simple matter.
Well, the erstwhile Nick Robertson's on the case, folks over there.
He's one of 100 reporters invited by Qaddafi to answer questions.
He reports they've been stood up.
Qaddafi snuck out the back door in a white beamer.
And to awaiting uh BMW or white BMW 7 theory.
Knock out of a side door.
He's knocked out of the side door and avoided all the questions of all these more than a hundred reporters here.
People he has invited to the country to answer that question.
The audacity.
How dare he?
This is why he's still a colonel and not a general.
He's invited a hundred reporters to ask questions.
And he was gonna answer me.
Sneaks out the side door in a white beamer series seven no list.
Not a five, not a six, the big daddy, the series seven beamer.
What's important about that?
Why do you have to stipulate what kind of beamer it is?
Well, so we know how much it costs exactly right.
So Wolf Blitzer, having now presided over an hour of programming down the drain, clings to hope that Qaddafi might return.
Nick Robertson has to give him the bad news.
Is it your sense that he's gone for the night that's now past midnight?
It's past 12 30 uh a.m. where you are, or is it still possible, based on what you're hearing from other Libyan officials, that he might come back tonight?
Wolf, I think I say he's gone.
I don't I really, folks, I can't keep a straight face.
I really can't.
These guys, uh can you imagine getting that excited over Qaddafi's?
Even so what if he shows up?
He's a lunatic, he's in insane asylum with a mouth.
And Wolf is genuinely disappointed.
Is it still possible?
Based on what you're hearing, Nick, for Libyan official, is it possible he could show up?
Is it possible?
Sorry, uh Nick.
Sorry, Wolf.
I think it's it, he's gone.
But hey, Nick Walfer, hey Wolf, I got I still got Mustafa here from Cairo.
You want to have you still asking about Obama?
Well, I could go, I could go talk to uh Ahmed.
But Wolf said, nah, never mind.
Rumsfeld on CNN last night got really taken to the well.
Rumsfeld, it turns out, did not call his wife from the Pentagon after 9-11 when and after it happened.
And a CNN presenter, Piers Morgan, could not believe that Rumsfeld was such a CAD.
We have the audio sound bites, plus more your phone calls coming up.
You know, the thing about Qaddafi, uh, you know, what's worse?
Waiting for the guy to show up and start talking, or waiting for him to shut up.
Once he starts talking, here's Rumsfeld.
This is a Piers Morgan last night's CNN.
Morgan says on 9-11, you didn't call your wife.
Of course it's true.
Tori Clank said, Have you called Mrs. R?
And I said, No.
She said, You son of a bitch.
And I said, Well, you may have a point.
Why didn't you?
Well, I was busy.
My goodness gracious.
The building was burning.
They were still pulling people out of the building.
It was a terrible, tragic day for our country.
She knew where I was.
She's terrific.
She's lived with me for 56 years now, is my wife.
When people say, How could you stay married to him for 56 years?
She says he travels a lot.
There you have it.
That's Rumsfeld.
The Very immature answers.
Wife knows where he is in the Pentagon.
The only problem is the thing just got blown up.
Says he's still in the Pentagon.
Most but 56 years, wife might not care.
You know, whether I'm just kidding, Don.
You understand it's it's a bit a long three hours.
I'm just teasing here.
So Morgan says there's some old things here.
Odd things.
If you if you emerge from this book, what one is you've always liked to work standing up.
That's not odd.
It's very odd.
It's not odd.
It's totally normal.
It's not normal.
I wonder why people sit down all the time.
I don't know.
Anybody else in the history of employment?
He's ever standing up.
There's all kinds of naval officers who do it.
Stand up desks, of course.
I mean, I didn't invent Thomas Jefferson had a stand-up desk.
Why do you act like that's odd?
It's just weird.
It's not uh weird at all.
Sitting is weird.
I can't imagine why you do it.
Sitting is not weird.
You still get up a full fancy in the morning to do workout.
I do.
You're seventy-eight years old.
Didn't they tell her to take a rest?
Well, no.
Why would one want to do that?
So here you have the former uh Secretary of Defense talking about stand-up desks.
Who's next?
Shirley in Seattle.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Good morning, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you for taking my call.
You are quite well excited.
You bet.
You bet.
Um, I originally called about one other thing, but then I had um said something about that I had unfortunately gone over to the dark side for a few years, and now I'm back because I have seen the light and I just I went over to the Democratic liberal side,
and 'cause I I saw, you know, Clintons and I saw Hillary, and for some reason being a female, I was driven, you know, kind of really liked Hillary and what she was going through and how she stood by her husband and you know, didn't let that get her down and stuff.
So I was taken in by all the and then um that's true.
I can't imagine the last time he ever had her down.
But that's nice too.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh what what you mean you were a conservative all this time.
I was.
And then the Clintons uh inspired you to leave and become uh Democrat.
Yeah, you know, um what brought you back?
Well, Obama.
Why?
What about Obama?
Well, I just I don't know.
I think now, you know, I was taken in by the whole the Obama thing at first, you know, and he's just this really great guy, and he's new and he's different, and he's gonna do wonderful things for our country.
And you know, he lied just like all the others.
To me.
You know.
Well, I I hope you don't ever do this again.
I promise.
And if you if if you are ever tempted like this again, call me.
I promise.
You realize how many years of your life you've wasted.
A lot.
Oh, it's just a lot.
You can't get them, can't get them back.
No, I know, I know, but I'm gonna try really hard.
And you know, as far as the election coming up, I kind of hope Sarah Palin runs, you know.
You've done quite a transformation, Shirley.
That's quite a trip.
Thanks much.
Back after this.
Gotta go.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellences in the can, but we gotta go.
Not enough time left.
And uh but be patient.
It's just twenty one hours, my friends.
More broadcast excellence awaits you then.
Been great to be with you today.
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