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June 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 28, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Second day.
Must not have caused too much damage yesterday.
Everything seems to still be cool.
Everything okay?
Checking around, everybody all right?
Yes.
Everything will really be all right tomorrow because that is when Rush returns.
Meanwhile, welcome back to Texas.
Put on some shorts.
I know it's summer, it's warm everywhere.
We're looking about 101 down here and probably a fairly hot show no matter where you are listening.
All righty, 1800-282-2882.
Again, Mark Davis, hi, nice to be with you from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
And um yesterday we spent a lot of time on 2012.
I want to do some other stuff today.
Although please, your 2012 talk is totally welcome.
It has certainly been the twenty-four hours of Michelle Bachman, and there are developments since we last spoke.
I'll share how a little bit of yesterday's show went and then deliver those updates, and then we can either A, be totally done with that, or B, wallow in it as much as you want to.
It's like I do my entire career is open line Friday, just in case you know.
Oh, sure, I do the occasional guest, and there's the certain thing every once in a while that I absolutely want to do in my local show here in Texas, but for the most part, I show up here, I bring up stuff that interests me and see what interests you, and we just walk hand in hand through the uh through the talk show universe and just see how it all works out.
So 1-800-282-2882.
We're gonna talk a little bit about uh uh about the debt ceiling talks.
President Obama has now suddenly decided he wants to become engaged.
And at some point before we're done today, maybe sooner rather than later, Iran is sending a monkey into space.
I know, I I'm not quite sure how to react either.
It's it's it's part Leno joke, party serious global security concern.
I don't want Iran sending anything into space.
The article that I saw about this a bit a little bit ago this morning uh said that this was likely to send alarm through Israel and the West.
It's probably going to alarm the monkey as well too, because I'm guessing that Iranian spacecraft is something like a beat up sixty-eight Dodge dart, just saying.
But you know what?
You don't need a uh a Bentley in space to deliver a nuclear warhead.
And Iran's security chief, they have like an entire aerospace uh military operation, and I don't want I don't want to see the word aerospace attached to anything with regard to Iran.
I don't want them launching anything.
And in fact, I will tell you, in the last quarter hour of my local show here in the Metroplex, uh I I visited about something.
I'll I'll throw it down to you, because it's, you know.
Every once in a while do you find yourself involved in a little bit of a parlor game called If the election is really looking bad for this White House, what might they do in the last couple of weeks of October?
Ah, yes, the October surprise.
And usually there's not one.
I mean, it's kind of the stuff of legend, and everybody comes into the home stretch of an election and they go, Oh man, somebody's gonna do something.
And more often than not, they really don't.
I mean, the advertising gets a little more heated or some such or whatever, but every once in a while you'll get something.
Sometimes it's foreign policy related, sometimes somebody gets arrested, sometimes they're I mean, you know, there's some operation that's undertaken by uh an incumbent that's really looking to protect himself or a challenger that's looking to get particularly bold or something or something or something.
And I find myself in an interesting quandary.
Let me go ahead and offer you this up now.
You can take this ball and run with it if you want to.
Because I don't know what these people will do.
I I really, really don't.
And imagine the mixed imagine the mixed feelings if the Obama White House throws down an October surprise that really essentially is I mean, you know what the surprise would be?
Them waking up and doing the right thing.
If only for a fleeting moment, in order to snow a slumbering nation into thinking that they are actually worthy of the world stage.
Some of you have gotten ahead of me since I have invoked Iran.
But wouldn't it be something if around the third week of October?
We bombed the stuffing out of an Iranian nuclear facility.
That facility would explode, and so might my head.
Because number one, you'd know why they did it.
To win the election.
Bombing an Iranian nuclear facility?
These people?
Are you kidding me?
That's not in their DNA.
This pacifist accommodationist White House?
What?
Let's sit down with Mint T. Just give Ahmadinajad some time.
He'll come around to our greatness.
Come on.
But would they bomb an Iranian nuclear facility to win?
Are you kidding?
They'd bomb an American nuclear facility to win.
Kidding, officially kidding.
So um how would that grab you?
I I know it's a crazy fantasy game, but sometimes daily life is a crazy fantasy game in these days in this day and age.
There's stuff going on.
We could have played a crazy fantasy game a couple of years ago.
It would have been, it would have been a hoot.
Bunch of people sitting around, I don't know, you know, 1995, 2003, or whatever.
Say, listen, the economy is gonna just crumble.
All right.
We've had a housing uh we've had housing prices going way, way up, stock market going way, way up.
We had the dot com boom, dot com bust.
Well, the whole economy is gonna go bust.
And then stay with me here.
What if, what if a president took office and tried to solve the economic problems of the nation by spending a trillion, maybe two trillion once it's all done, and call it stimulus.
No, really, really, let me finish, and call it stimulus, and like half the country buys it.
Oh, it all of course goes straight to hell, but we let him do it.
And the and the party that he's a member of continues to argue that it was actually a good thing to do, while unemployment stays up at like 9%.
Wouldn't that be something?
Oh, and it gets even better.
Let's say we're playing this in uh well it let's let's go prior to uh we'd have to go back maybe 20 years on this one before Hillary care.
All right.
Or you know what?
No, let's make it right after Hillary care.
Hey, remember how Hillary's reputation essentially crashed and burned because she tried to essentially nationalize one-seventh of the economy?
We're gonna get a president who's gonna say he's gonna do that, and he's gonna win, and he's gonna do it, and we're gonna let him.
This is rich.
This is rich.
So I no longer feel peculiar.
Okay, I do it in some ways.
I no longer feel peculiar offering up certain scenarios.
It's hard now for me to even say, oh, that would never happen.
Are you kidding me anymore?
So, I mean, I yes, of course, I yes, there are some things, I suppose are truly beyond the realm of plausible possibility.
But uh so anyway, where'd that come from?
Oh, Iran sending a monkey into space.
Yeah.
If if Iran gets, and I will tell you, if they get particularly adventurous, and this is interesting.
What does Iran want?
One pre the easy narrative is that Iran wants a second Obama term, because all he'll do is talk them to death rather than a Republican president who's who's serious, who might actually bomb an Iranian nuclear facility, oh I don't know, repeatedly, or find some other sites after that.
You know what I call bombing an Iranian nuclear facility?
A good start.
And um one wonders how Iran might feel about losing a nuke plant, but having that proved sufficiently popular in America that they get what they really ultimately long term probably want, and that's a second Obama term.
Hmm.
Hmm.
I don't know.
You're welcome to uh it does get interesting, doesn't it?
You're welcome to weigh in.
1800-282-2882.
And always go to rushlimbaugh.com, please, even when the fill in guys are here.
There's always great stuff there.
All right.
Yesterday, I have time to do this.
Yes, I do.
Yesterday we got going, did some 2012 talk, and the legendary piece of audio from the Sunday news shows was the now completely familiar.
We can all quote it in our sleep.
Chris Wallace, are you a flake question to Michelle Bachman?
At the time, uh I offered up the following analysis.
Really bad moment for Chris Wallace.
Just stupid, and he's not a stupid man.
And he's a good guy and a good host of Fox News Sunday, and you know, and and and I I like that he does challenge the occasional conservative guests because I do not want, I don't want Fox News to be what John Stewart says it is.
A nurturing womb for all conservatives.
I want intelligent and probing and challenging questions asked of conservative candidates.
Conservative, yes.
I won't I want that.
Make some tougher, and it's good, and it's it's good to do.
I don't want the questions to be rude or insulting or impertinent, however.
And that was.
And the good news is Chris Wallace either understood it immediately or was made to understand it by opening his email the hour following.
Whichever way, they're two kinds of people people who realize when they mess up and those who don't, and he realized he messed up and went right into the cubicle, fired up the webcam, and said so.
Good for him.
Then the ball goes back into Michelle Bachman's court.
And during this show yesterday, she was uh brushing aside the opportunity to accept the apology.
Which led me to say, Michelle, please accept the apology, all right.
Don't create a landscape where for the next week we're talking about Michelle Bachman in a pitched battle with Fox News.
Oh my gosh, look at this squabble, look at his feud.
Oh, I just didn't want to do that.
I didn't want to do that.
And I asked on the show yesterday, what is she doing?
Just making him twist in the wind?
Answer is yep for one day.
You've heard I trust what happened after we broke camp here on the Rush Limbaugh Show yesterday.
Chris Wa Michelle Bachman accepted Chris Wallace's apology when he called her and apologized in person.
Ladies and gentlemen, the genius of Michelle Bachman.
Because yesterday, as I sat here and said, Oh, please, oh God, don't let not a week long feud where we're not even paying attention to your uh your agenda because it looks like you're trying to show your toughness by refusing to accept a genuine apology.
Oh She knew exactly what she was doing.
Campaign could have emailed me and saved us a whole lot of I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Well, actually I'm not, but but I'm I'm I'm half kidding, but only half.
Because as it turns out, as the entire day plays out yesterday, she gets the best of both worlds.
She graciously accepts the apology when Chris Wallace steps up.
It's kind of funny because I think the webcam apology was for the viewers.
Oh, he was apologizing to us, those of us who found the question insulting and inappropriate.
An apology to her is best delivered to her, and that's exactly what he did.
And it is on that occasion that Michelle Bachman accepted that apology, creating one day in which she said, uh, which she seems to say, Oh, that's nice.
He's apologizing, that's good.
You know, tell me when the phone rings.
And it did.
And the greatness of that one day of discomfort that I know Chris Wallace endured and deserved to endure.
I wonder when the next time is that some snarky questioner will ask her about what's about the substance she brings to the table.
I think Congresswoman Bachman has created a landscape in which we will judge the substance she brings to the table by the substance she brings to the table.
Instead of asking her, you know, about whether her views are flaky or flighty or this or that.
She's out there now.
And listen, anything she says deserves to be put under anybody's microscope.
And some of those microscopes are going to come from the left.
Gotta deal with them, and she better deal with them with skill and grace.
And I trust she will.
Okay, so there we are.
Now we can get on with the rest of our lives, and Michelle could keep running for president, and Chris can go have a vacation week and uh and come back and host the show, and we could all just uh just settle down, just settle down.
Or get as worked up as you like about this or various other things.
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Mark Davis in for rush.
Here comes a big burst of topics and a whole bunch of your calls, I'm guessing, on the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Tuesday.
Back in just a moment.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Tuesday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in just like I did yesterday.
With hopefully similar results.
We had a good time yesterday, and I hope to uh boost the enjoyment levels for you today.
But of course, uh the smiles return to our faces fully tomorrow with the return of Rush.
And I thank him and all the the EIB folks, Mike and HR for tolerating me for a day, and thanks to you as well.
Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth as we dive in to find out where you are and what you want to talk about from things I've brought up to things you want to bring up.
Got a bunch of news stories in front of me, but let's put people on the radio first.
Shadowly.
1-800-282882.
Let's do a little Ohio action.
Say hi to Joe.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, sir.
Mark Davis, how are you?
It's an honor and a pleasure, sir.
I just wanted to give you a quick call.
In regard to uh, first off, Michelle O'Bachman, classy woman.
Look at the way her she took that in grace.
That's one one thing I wanted to say.
She didn't.
You were asking about the how what could he do to postpone or whatever the election.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
God, please, please, please, please, please.
A lot of people dork out, he's gonna invoke martial law.
Oh no, no, no.
I'm talking about the textbook October surprise, in which a candidate does something with the normal election schedule, that's why it's called an October surprise, a couple of weeks before the actual election day in order to sway the election his way.
Right.
Here's a theory.
You know, he is very, very tight with the obviously with the unions in this country.
Why can't he just get the unions a little uproared like they did in Wisconsin, and then all of a sudden he's got to say we need to postpone their not riots, but necessarily riots, but such a massive protest from all the olunion organizations across the country that he says, you know what, we need to postpone the election, and then oh, you know what, we're not ready yet.
And then you know, like you did in grief.
Joe, you know I love you, right?
It's just a clear, I don't trust this man.
Well, I I don't either, but let's not write bad movie scripts.
Okay, I hope you're right.
No, I trust trust me, I am.
There will not be a general strike by unions that results in rioting that forces the postponement of the election.
Now watch it happen.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in for rush, and loving every blessed minute of it.
Let's head down to Horse Country in Central Florida.
How I do love the hills of O'Cala.
Hey, Chris, Mark Davis in for rush.
How are you doing?
Fine, how are you, sir?
Good.
I just wanted to comment that I think it's wonderful timing that uh Supreme Leader Obama has gotten rid of the space program now that Iran obviously has one.
That makes me feel incredibly secure.
Yeah, you know, uh wow, that's do we know each other, Chris?
Let me thank you for that, and let me let me tell you why I I mentioned that.
Because that's going to give me an opportunity for a a brief uh a brief rant.
Uh you have stumbled across the Rush Limbaugh show hosted by the space geek of the ages.
Uh I was eleven when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon July twentieth, nineteen sixty-nine.
And I I bludgeoned my parents so mercilessly about this subject that I wound up that that that my buddy Fred Daly and I, his parents and our parents, they took us down for the Apollo 14 launch in January 1971, the Apollo 16 launch in April of 1972, the third and final Skylab crew launch in November of 1973.
I remember all those dates.
I can tell you all twelve guys who walked on the moon in order, but I can't find my car keys.
I'm an idiot savant in this way, with heavy emphasis on the idiocy.
However, as STS 135, the final shuttle mission gets ready to go on Friday, the 8th of July.
Ferguson, Hurley, Magnus, and Walheim, which sounds like a law firm, but is in fact the crew of four.
That's smallest crew in the longest time for the shuttle.
It's, you know, the the shuttle missions are kind of whimpering to a close.
And I could I could go on at length.
Oh, trust me, I could go on at length, about how I thought for sure we would have had footprints on Mars, and maybe they might have been mine.
That's how how geeked out I was.
And basically and I love the shuttle and I love the International Space Station.
That's great, but what?
I mean, this is all we've done.
We've done nothing beyond Earth orbit in like four decades?
What?
And now we kind of gear things down.
Now there is there's all kinds of their projects on the drawing board and things being done right now that involve colonization of the moon and maybe human footprints on Mars before I'm dead.
But there's their reasons for this, and some of them are strategic.
My reasons are because I believe that man's nature is to explore and the universe is there for us to explore.
But I don't want other countries, especially evil ones growing more space proficient as we fall asleep at that switch.
You want to talk about that some today?
Oh.
I'm right there with you.
All righty, but we have these and plenty of other things right around the bend.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush on the EIB network.
Stick around.
More of your calls are next.
Thanks everybody.
Enjoying a Tuesday together, and yet I feel that even though we've brought up some more presidential politics and invoked some debt ceiling talks that we're going to talk about, and even though the Republic stands uh you know, hangs by a thread and all these perils lie uh you know lie in our path, then I have a feeling at least half the audience is Googling about the Iranian space monkey.
I I don't know.
It's it's the power of the Rush Limbaugh show.
I really need to be careful about oblique references and how arcane we get.
Leave that for my own gig for crying out loud.
Don't muddy the waters of the limbaugh show with stuff like that.
That having been said, I have made myself chuckle during the commercial break, and I'll just offer one thing.
Um if Iran is going to put a um a monkey into space, there is and they really are looking at this like within days.
I don't know how that's gonna work out.
Um there's no chance whatsoever that the monkey will be named, that they will honor the first actual space monkey that America sent into space.
There's no chance that they will honor uh with the same name, because our monkey was named Ham.
A little religious dietary humor there.
Alrighty, 1800-282-2882.
The ham for our monkey, though, that was January 1961.
We stuffed this chimp into a Mercury capsule.
Uh Ham was an acronym for the Holliman Aerospace Medical Center, uh, which was located at Holliman Air Force Base in New Mexico, so there's where the ham thing came from there.
And the Mercury capsule, this was four months before we put how must Alan Shepard have felt about this.
Because uh as you know or should know or may know, April 12th of 61, the Russians beat us, and we made it all right eight years later by beating them to the moon.
Ha, scoreboard.
Uh but Yuri Gagarin went into space on April twelfth of nineteen sixty one.
And um a few weeks later, and boy, I I was three, so I have no no memory of that, but um I remember my dad telling me about it.
My dad worked at the Pentagon and um had been involved.
It's funny, my dad never was 20 years Air Force and uh never went to war.
Um but uh I mean if he'd been sent he would have gone.
But dad was a personnel guy.
Uh from Randolph Air Force Base, which is why I was born in San Antonio, to uh to Andrews to Bowling in Washington to the Pentagon, where he did a huge amount of personnel things, evaluating people for certain things, among them uh being part of the Air Force attache, uh essentially spy work in London where he was stationed for from 63 to 65.
I got to go to first and second grade with all the other American military brats in London.
It was great.
But Dan also got a first whiff at the early personnel funnel of things like our U-2 spy pilots and the original Mercury astronauts.
People like Alan Shepard and John Glenn and Wally Shira and Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, who never got to fly.
Well, he did.
Yes, he did later in the Apollo Soyuz test mission.
Enough, enough.
Stop me, stop me now.
But I'm thinking what must Alan Shepard have been thinking, and as he was training, when they stuff a monkey into the same kind of capsule, and the and the capsule loses pressure.
Now Ham's little monkey space suit kept him alive.
And uh and he came back, and he was about five years old at the time.
You know Ham lived to 1983.
How long did chimps live?
I don't know, is that a long time?
1956 to 1983.
Good going there, Ham.
So the Iranian space monkey, an enormous theme today in history.
All right, let's do some other stuff.
Let's see what's going on in the world.
1800-282-2882.
Now this is kind of interesting.
Um Bristol Palin is was she interviewed by somebody.
She said um that her mom has definitely made a decision on whether to run or not.
But you but quote unquote, you keep some things in the family.
So Bristol says, Mom has decided, but I'm not telling.
Someone thinks they have a and and I I have said that I don't believe she will.
With counterpoint to this, we go to Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
Mike, Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Schlimbaugh Show.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
How are you?
Great, welcome.
I wanted to disrespectfully disagree with a couple of points you're going to be.
Too disrespectfully disagree.
Thanks for being up front about that.
I mean, respectfully disagree.
No, that's fine.
Be disrespectful if you like.
It's okay.
Okay.
Um you said yesterday that you didn't think the Sarah was running, and you also didn't uh weren't sure that she would be our best candidate.
I want to disagree with you on both of those.
First of all, I I don't think Sintera's nature to uh run away from a challenge.
I I think she's spent her whole life um disproving her critics uh as to what a woman can and can't do, what a mother can and can't do, and what she can and can't do.
And when you tell her she can't run or she can't win, I think that's a challenge that she'll take.
Well, but but she did but she doesn't need to be listening to I I mean, listen, there are a million people with a million opinions out there, from people who are absolutely certain she can win to people who are absolutely certain she cannot.
I just wonder about her in a lot and please let's let me make clear five thousand times how much I love her and admire her, but I I don't know if if she has the the magnet for crossover voters, independent voters that that we're gonna need.
I don't think she needs to pay any attention to to what I say or others say or whatever.
That's not running away from a challenge, and and if she chooses not to run, it it shouldn't be portrayed as running away from a challenge.
If she does not run, I thoroughly expect her to be wildly energetic in and and and free with her opinions and anointing her own favorites and telling us what she thinks about the field and traveling the nation in the 2012 campaign and helping the nominee or helping us decide who the nominee should be.
She'll be everywhere, and I totally welcome that.
She is she's not gonna just you know stay up in Alaska and uh and hunt moose.
Right.
Well, my my second point is that uh people uh seem concerned that uh her negatives are too high and that the damage has been done.
But I really look at it another way.
I look at it that whatever damage can be done to or has been done, and it was never justified in the first place, and so it's fairly um correctable.
Whereas uh any new candidate comes along, you're gonna see whatever that amount of money that Barack Obama raises, whether it's a billion or something close to that, is gonna be used to do exactly to him or her what they did to Sarah Palin.
I think that's a fantastic point.
That that the day that how much how much worse can it get for her?
How much crueler can people be?
And might it start to backfire?
I believe it already has.
I mean, from the the attempt to go through all those emails and and the newspapers saying, you know, hey readers, help us find embarrassing stuff in these emails, which totally backfired.
That's a thoroughly good point.
The one thing I would say though, when you talk about when negatives are are unwarranted, yeah, sometimes that doesn't matter.
Negatives are negatives, and sometimes they're fair and sometimes they're unfair, but even when they're unfair, they still exist, and you ignore them at your peril.
Uh, I'm not saying that she needs to look at that and go, Oh, my negatives are high.
There's no way I should run.
If she if it's in her heart to do it, she should absolutely do it.
Well, you know, I just uh remind you of Ronald Reagan, because boy, this is similar to what happened in 1980.
Not so much.
Uh I mean, there's I mean, no two stories are alike.
Reagan had doubters uh and and a certain amount of detractors that any conservative candidate would have.
Uh Governor Palin, again, fairly or not, has a high wall of detractors, and they're not all Democrats.
So listen, thank you, and And Lord knows I'm not one of them.
I I just I really hope I'm being clear as a as as as a as a as the Liberty Bell on this.
Uh I love this woman.
Her passion, her magic, her draw, her appeal.
I mean, people are like moths to a flame in a room that she walks into.
No other candidate that we have now or in the future can or will have the ability to match that kind of electricity.
However, um there is a commodity.
We talked a little bit about it uh yesterday.
There's a commodity that's easier to recognize than describe.
Uh Paul Ryan has it.
I think probably Chris Christie has it.
Um I pray our eventual nominee has it.
Uh it's I guess we can call it the ability to take people who have never voted Republican in their lives and make them kind of nod and go, you know what?
I like this guy.
He makes sense.
I might vote for him for president.
There are two things our nominee needs.
And I would like to think it's possible to display both at the same time.
One is the ability to please the base.
Can can those of us who are actual down the line, consistent conservatives, can we have a candidate like us, please?
Can we give that a try?
Please.
But you know the other thing I want?
I I want a candidate who in the debates and in his advertising and in his talk show appearances will make people who have never voted Republican in their lives.
Think about it.
That's what I want.
Am I asking too much?
All righty.
Well, I hope I'm not asking too much and asking for your calls at 1 800-282-2882, and here comes some more of them next.
Mark Davis in for rush on the EIB network.
All right.
Go to Rush Limbaugh.com, see all the cool things there in Rush Land.
Rush returns to the show tomorrow.
I'm Mark Davis saying howdy from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
And uh let's do a little Texas call action.
San Antonio, Brian, hey, Mark Davis.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Hey, what's going on?
It's actually Colin from uh Louisville.
Holy cow.
Well, you seem the same to me.
Nice to have you.
What's going on?
No problem.
I wanted to address what you were saying about the Iran uh space program.
Yeah.
About how uh the October surprise could be a potential bombing of of their space program.
And I think that's a good thing.
Well, you're careful, not their space program, ideally a nuclear facility.
Them sending a chimp into space.
A chimp into space doesn't bother me.
A nuclear warhead in Jerusalem does.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh no, I I I completely agree.
But I think bombing has really been, you know, the Republican sort of uh mil you, you know, for the past you know several decades.
And it seems just bombing seems a bit twentieth century to me because I mean we could just you know set up a cyber attack and turn the whole damn thing, you know, into a uh into a you know an Amazon server selling shoes.
Yeah, that's that's very clever.
Okay, I I I do.
Uh okay, I'll I'll hop into the Tom Clancy novel with you here for a second.
Uh why drop ordnance on stuff when you can perhaps disarm a country with a cyber attack.
Might be a little simplistic.
Not that you don't have a bad idea there.
Lord knows Al Qaeda and everybody else with whatever stone knives and bearskins technology they might have, and it's probably a little better than that, is looking at a uh a cyber attack on us every day.
Why not what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
I would suggest that moving forward in warfare into the rest of the 21st century, we'd probably better keep our eye on both.
We'd better maintain proficiency, we better develop proficiency in cyber warfare and defending ourselves against it, but we probably need to remain pretty good at surgical strikes too with actual bombs.
New school a lot of money.
Well, but but that yeah, but you know what?
That ain't the guiding force.
The guiding force needs to be it needs to be what works.
And if a cyber attack doesn't, I'm gonna turn it into an Amazon website selling shoes.
We are unable to launch the nuclear attack, sir.
But we have Espadrills for 1999.
I've listened if if it I am always on board for technological answers that will save lives And money if they are equally effective methods of warfare.
And that's a big if, but uh, I think you have a very, very good point there in terms of uh uh of the way to plow forward with uh with modern warfare.
All righty, let us uh let's shall I give this a second try?
Shall we attempt to uh head down I thirty five?
Shall we attempt to do let's do a little uh action in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Keith, hey Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Hey, I'm all right.
How are you doing, Mark?
Good.
Good.
Hey, got a question for you.
Tell me why this won't work.
Why don't our uh House and the Senate can't quite seem to get together on how we're gonna take the take care of this budget?
Why don't we just go in there straight ten percent across the board?
Every department, every agency, with the exception of Social Security and the military.
Those two, nope, nope, nope, we just don't touch those.
Everybody else now that's fair.
You get a ten percent cut on your department, your agency, straight across the board, and some of you guys this time next year won't even be here because you're you're worthless.
You don't really provide anything for us anymore.
I think that's a wonderful idea on its face.
Let me suggest something to you, because I I think I've made clear, even in just uh you know the the occasional high there I'm filling in appearance, uh that I am a an enormous fan of the military.
That said, I think you will have um you you will garner enormous additional political advantage if you subject the Pentagon to maybe just about the same thing.
Not in an attempt to reduce weapons programs, not in an attempt to make us weaker around the world.
Lord knows this administration is doing a good enough job of that.
But but there might there might be an occasional base we don't need.
There might be an occasional cost-cutting measure that even the Pentagon that you and I love should pay attention to.
And if you get out there and you and you offer yourself up and say, look, no sacred cows.
Uh my love for the military the candidate says my love for the military knows no bounds.
But in order to save America, even the Pentagon that defends us, even the military whom we love, and we're not going to cut veterans' benefits, and we're not going to cut military pay, and we're not going to have our guys going out in uh in Humvees that are under armored.
But there might be a little something in there that we can find and do more efficiently.
If we did that, we we'd get all kinds of even additional support.
Wow, Republicans willing to make the Pentagon tighten its belt too.
Uh, we'd get some love for that.
Yeah, perhaps that might work.
You know, well, wait, wait, wait, I've got more too.
Why don't we go and take a look at four and eight?
That's another thing you can look at.
Go look at the voting record.
Just uh call up on Google who all we pay, all the different countries.
Now go look and see when they vote at the UN, see how many times they go along with it.
It's appalling.
Other than Israel.
Uh there's there's my other sacred cow.
Uh that's it.
No, I mean, if you if if if you are with us, then we'll write you some checks.
If not, we won't.
Just so everybody understands what a tiny tiny sliver foreign aid really is.
But you know what?
As soon as I say that, I will say some things just mean something.
Some things are uh some budget cutting is important because it just saves you billions and trillions of dollars.
Some budget cutting is important because of the message it sends.
Uh foreign aid is is nothing.
It's nothing.
But it's it's enormously meaningful.
It is a statement.
If we write a check for ten bucks to a country that's willing to urinate all over us, that's ten bucks ill spent.
And when you finally close that checkbook and say, you know what, guess what?
You're not getting you ten bucks.
Ha ha.
Maybe you don't need to add that last part of the end, or maybe you do.
Uh it says something.
It just says something.
All right, um, I'm gonna say more things, and you get to say them back when the Rush Limbaugh Show continues.
Mark Davis filling in, back in a moment on the EIB network.
At our closing segment of the first hour of the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show, one down, two to go.
That is exciting.
We'll talk about President Obama getting into the debt ceiling talks.
Where do you want the line drawn in the sand?
What do you want the Republicans to do just to to just say no, as Nancy Reagan would say, to raising the debt limit, or grudgingly do so as long as there are corresponding and real spending cuts.
Mm-hmm.
And we'll uh talk about various other things as well as we plow through the remainder of the show today.
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Alan, hey, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Mark, I'm great.
Uh great to talk to you.
But uh I got a bone to pick with you.
I I can't believe your statement about Sarah Palin.
You're doing the same thing that Rush rails about all the time.
You're letting the other side pick our candidate.
In what way?
Well, you you talk about how you love her, you uh admire her magnetism, the way she can draw a crowd.
Right.
And then you say, but y she can't uh she can't be the candidate.
I hope she's not the candidate, or words to that effect.
No, I I'll tell you exactly.
Let's let's not do words to that effect.
Let's do the actual words I've said.
I said, I do not know about her ability to attract crossover or independent voters.
I am unsure of that.
Uh and there are other candidates whom I whom I feel f fairly strongly about in that regard.
That's not letting the media pick the candidate.
Come on.
No, I'm just I mean, I'm just saying.
Uh and with that, we'll say some more things to each other in just a moment.
Mark Davis in for rush.
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