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March 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Great to be with you.
Rush is boycotting himself to express his disgust at Rush continuing to associate with himself.
But he will be back for a full week of authentic all-American excellence in broadcasting starting live 12 noon Eastern on Monday.
But it's Open Line Friday, and this is Mark Stein.
Glad to be here for Rush.
Oh, what have I done, Mike?
I've forgotten to cue up the old jingle.
Let's hear the jingle.
Live from Ice Station EIB, it's Open Line Friday!
Yes, that's why I'm not here Monday to Thursday, because Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist determines the content of this show.
Whereas today, there is no highly trained broadcast specialist.
We've outsourced the show to cheap foreign labor, and that's what you get.
The guy doesn't even cue in the jingle correctly.
But it is Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
You can talk about anything you want to talk about.
When I was here last week, by the way, I mentioned that I was going to be substituting.
It's a great honor to substitute for Rush, and I love substituting for Rush.
And when Rush wants to take a day off to boycott himself, I'm happy to be here.
I have no plans to boycott this show.
I love being here.
But I mentioned when I was here last week that I was, which is almost as great an honor, I'm getting to substitute for Dick Cheney in Toronto next month.
Dick Cheney was supposed to be appearing in Toronto, and he decided to pull out because he said Canada was too dangerous.
You know, this is a guy.
He has no fear of going to Iraq, no fear of going to Afghanistan, but Ontario alarmed him.
You know, he didn't want to, he'd heard tales crossing the border that there were these packs of wild mutant zombie moose patrolling the Queen Elizabeth way, and he didn't want to get mixed up with any of that stuff.
You know, wild mutant zombie moose being ridden by Gordon Lightfoot impersonators.
He didn't want to get into that.
So he pulled out because the whole thing was too dangerous and I got to fill in.
I mentioned casually last Monday that I got to fill in and there were news stories on this, like all over the world.
I mean, it was a big story up in Canada, but it made the New York Daily News.
Oh, Dick Cheney says Canada too dangerous to visit.
He made the news in the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Times had a big story.
And in fact, there is something quite serious about it.
He gave a speech in Vancouver and the police lost control of the situation.
So the mob outside had him trapped in the building for seven hours, seven hours.
This former vice president of the United States, he can't get out of a building now.
This is a guy who's used to Secret Service protection, big entourage, and he can't get out of a building for seven hours.
And this is a guy, by the way, with a heart condition.
I keep getting described now, since I agreed to fill in for him, as Dick Cheney's body double.
And I'd like a compliment as much as the next chap, but I mean, given the state of Dick Cheney's body, I don't think being Dick Cheney's body double is a compliment.
But anyway, so he's like, he's like trapped in the building for seven hours.
So you imagine if he has one of his little heart murmurs or something while he's giving a speech in Toronto, and he can't get out of the building for seven hours, and then the Canadian healthcare ambulance takes him to the Princess Margaret Hospital, and he has to wait in emergency for seven hours.
So now you're up to 14 hours before his heart murmur can be looked at.
So he decided to pull out because it wasn't too dangerous.
So I'm covering for Dick Cheney in Toronto.
That's April the 24th.
And I have said that It's a convenient 90-minute scenic drive from Buffalo.
So, if you're if you're listening to us on, I think WBEN, the affiliate in Buffalo, it's a convenient 90-minute drive.
And I have offered that if you buy the premium tickets for the first three rows, as I know it's a big disappointment, you don't get Dick Cheney and you get me instead, like the mini-me to his Doctor Evil.
But I will, if you buy prestige tickets, premium tickets for the first three rows, I will personally waterboard you.
So, that is my guarantee to you that if you buy tickets for the first three rows, you'll get a personal waterboarding live on stage.
Now, also, I want to mention, by the way, one of the one of the you read, you've heard all this thing about, oh, this advertiser is having nothing to do with Russian.
This advertiser is boycotting Russian, that advertiser is boycotting Russia.
Hillsdale College in America, one of the great institutions, educational institutions, in part because it refuses all federal and state funding, because it understands a very basic principle, as we're now learning from Obamacare, that when the state has any kind of say over your funding, it basically controls, even if they only provide 2% of the funding, they control 100% of what you do.
So, Hillsdale College doesn't take any state or federal funding.
It's a great educational institution.
They have been loyal advertisers on this show, loyal supporters of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You know their name if you listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And I'm going to be out speaking in Hillsdale.
So, a Rush Limbaugh guest host speaking at the home of a major Rush Limbaugh advertiser.
I think that's the beginning of April, April 3rd, something like that.
That's in southern Michigan, which I believe is a convenient 14-hour drive from the Upper Peninsula.
So, if you're coming from Sault Ste. Marie, you'll be there in no time.
So, that's that's a that's I like to show my support for Hillsdale, the terrific stuff.
Larry Arn.
Every time I'm out there at Hillsdale, Larry Arn has dinner with Rush from time to time, and he who's the president of Hillsdale, a very bright man.
You know, by the way, the difference between Hillsdale and other universities.
You don't even have to enter a building just in like the quadrangle, just in in the in the grounds on the lawn, who they've got statues of.
They've got statues of George Washington, they've got statues of Thomas Jefferson, they've got uh statues of Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill, they've got statues.
This is like no, you think this cannot be an American college campus.
I must have wandered into some bizarro universe.
That's how different that's how different it is at Hillsdale College.
1-800, 282-2882.
It's Open Line Friday.
We talk about anything today.
We can talk about topics big and small.
I see the Little Rock Municipal Airport is now going to be renamed the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.
So, you won't be flying to Little Rock Municipal Airport anymore.
You'll be flying into Bill and Hillary Clinton National.
I think it should be Bill and Hillary Clinton International, shouldn't it?
She's the Secretary of State, and I think it would recognize her fantastic contribution to whatever she's been doing the last three years.
If that was it, fantastic contribution she made to introducing Sharia law to Egypt in the Arab Spring, whatever it was.
I don't know.
She's been doing great stuff for the last three years.
But it's going to be the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.
For some reason, this reminds me: do you remember after back in the impeachment trial?
So, this would be 1990, whatever it was, 1998, 1999.
And Bill Clinton was acquitted by the United States Senate.
And at that point, Tina Brown, a big New York liberal, she was running this new magazine called Talk Magazine.
And there was a story in Talk magazine talking to various aides of Hillary Clinton, which said that since Bill had been acquitted by the United States Senate, or they'd voted not to remove him from office, that Bill and Hillary's passion had been rekindled.
And the first couple were now romantically involved and a passion had returned to their relationship.
The aides were quoted in this piece in Talk magazine saying this.
The passion had returned to their relationship that close observers hadn't seen in years.
And I was writing about this, I think, in the Sunday Telegraph in London, and I said something like, That's great news.
Air Force One is back in the haggard.
And for some reason, the decision to rename Little Rock Municipal Airport as the Bill at Hillary Clinton National Airport reminds me of that Air Force One is back in the Hagger line.
Anyway, you can talk about that 1-800-282-2882.
We might also talk about this guy, Mohamed Meira, now deceased.
He's pushing up virgins in the hereafter, died yesterday in a police shootout, as Kathy Schadel, a Canadian blogger, said, Ah, at last, a Frenchman who doesn't surrender.
So Mohamed Meera didn't surrender, died in a hail of bullets.
He's the guy who killed four people at a Jewish school and some French Muslim soldiers as well.
And it's fascinating this, just in the trajectory of U.S. media coverage and Western media coverage.
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about the New York Times and the BBC, they both did this whole thing.
Oh, it looks like some right-wing nut.
Looks like some same thing they told us about the Washington sniper 10 years ago.
Basically, the same trajectory.
Remember, they were looking for an angry white loner then, and it turned out to be a guy called Mohamed, Alan Mohamed, I think it was, the Washington sniper.
This time around, again, they're looking for an angry white loner, and it turns out to be a guy called Mohamed.
So the first part of the story, crazed right-wing, crazed right-wing conservatives, probably inflamed by Rush Limbaugh and his war on women.
It's spread to France, and they're killing people over there now.
And when that proves to be non-operative, then the next thing they say is, oh, don't worry about it.
He's just a lone wolf.
Like the Times Square bomber was described as a lone wolf, and Major Hassan, when he gunned down his fellow members of the U.S. military, was just a lone wolf.
There's all jihad is local.
There's nothing to see here.
These people all just, there's no organization thing.
This guy who killed the kids in France, he claims to have been trained by al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda's official website says, yes, he was on our team.
He was one of ours.
But what do these guys know?
The media has pronounced him just a lone wolf.
Nothing to see here, folks.
They're all just card-carrying members of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves.
Don't pay any attention to it.
All jihad is local.
Nothing to see here.
And then we move on to the next story, which is that, oh, this is nothing to do with Islam.
Don't worry about it.
This is nothing to do with Islam.
And then we move on to stage four of the story.
Headline in De Spiegel that French Muslims fear backlash.
French Muslims fear backlash.
Which, again, is always the next stage of the story.
Whenever you have dead Jews, dead Christians, dead infidels of any variety, the actual dead corpses are not as important as the theoretical backlash it may provoke against Muslims.
And in fact, The Muslim backlash never happens, but for some reason, within 24 hours, it happened after the Bombay thing, happens after the London tube bombings.
Now it's happened after these dead Jewish school kids in France.
You can't wait to move on from the actual corpses to the hypothetical corpses that might be resulting from the alleged anti-Muslim backlash.
That never happens.
There was a wonderful parody of an English newspaper headline that actually sums up the way the media look at these things.
It appeared at an Australian website run by Tim Blair for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
It's a wonderful, note-perfect parody of this kind of media coverage.
British Muslims fear repercussions after tomorrow's train bombing.
That's right.
British Muslims fear repercussions after tomorrow's train bombing.
French Muslims fear repercussions after tomorrow's school shooting.
American Muslims fear repercussions after tomorrow's army base shooting.
It's always the same.
They all follow this same trajectory.
And at some point, at some point, when the guy in Norway, the white guy in Norway, killed everybody, he was somehow emblematic of the whole climate of hate, poisonous, festering hate spreading everywhere.
When Rush says something, that's somehow emblematic of everything.
But somehow, when it's all these guys, they're just isolated lone wolves.
There's no connection between the lone wolf outside this French school and the lone wolf outside the U.S. military base and the lone wolf on the other side of the planet.
None of these lone wolves have any connection.
It's just amazing how that happens.
So we can talk about that and we can talk about anything else that is on your mind because we do not allow sinister foreign guest hosts to determine the content of the Rush Limbaugh show.
It is in the hands of you, the all-American audience.
Whatever you want to talk about, I'm game.
If you're a liberal and you're loving it and you're thinking Obama's a shoo-in and you're having a grand time and you're chugging down that $4 a gallon gas like crazy, you can't get enough of it.
You want to put a cocktail umbrella in it and dance around the gas station forecourt?
Give me a call.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Steinin for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Lee in Panama City.
That sounds near the Canadian border too.
Lee, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Great to talk to you.
By the way, your accent may be different, but your ideas sound all-American to me.
So my comment on that.
I'm a father of 10.
Oh, good for you.
Been married to the same woman for almost 27 years.
We drive one of those huge, evil vans, a 15-passenger van.
We still have seven kids at home.
And I put it to people this way: per passenger mile, we get better mileage than if I had to drive two or three of those little roller skates.
Yeah, yeah.
You're absolutely right there, Lee.
And I mean, for a start, congratulations on the 10 kids.
You know, this is where Kathleen Sebelius, if she hears that, the black helicopters will be over your pad in Panama City and they'll be rappelling down to give you the free Obamacare compulsory sterilization.
But in fact, in fact, your 10 kids are the ones who are going to be paying for the baby boomers' retirements.
Every time you see these ads where retired people are going on cruises and whooping up it up and living it up and all the rest of it, it's your 10 kids who are going to be bearing the burden of this.
And God bless you for having 10 people who will be contributing to Social Security and doing your bit to lessen the aging of the United States.
But you're right, too, you know, that if you were living in a European country, it would be actually incredibly difficult and incredibly expensive to find a vehicle for you to drive your kids around in.
That's why people don't have kids like that.
You're not one of these people.
I mean, I trust Panama City.
It's not one of these deals where, which often happens when if you walk through, say, fashionable parts of Manhattan with four or five kids, you're a parent of four or five kids, people will stop you and ask if you're running a daycare.
We've been asked that before.
We just moved here from New Mexico very recently.
But no, you know, one of the things I love, and I've lived in northern Italy for a short period of time, not when my family was working over there, but in America, I have that freedom.
And I've heard you talk about coming to the States and how different it is.
And the ability to raise my children, to be generous.
And if demography is destiny, I'm optimistic for conservatism because when I meet other big families, they're usually conservative and liberals don't reproduce, which is what you were talking about earlier in the program.
No, that's true.
And as I say in my book, which is a very basic truth, the future belongs to those who show up for it.
San Francisco, the most liberal city in America, registers more dogs than it has children in its school district.
If you go to Vermont, I used to joke that Vermont was America's leading Canadian province.
It's actually worse than that.
It's a candidate for membership of the European Union.
If you go up so-called historic Route 100 from the Massachusetts border to the Quebec border and you stop in any schoolhouse en route, you will understand that those school districts are emptying out because in Howard Dean's Utopia of Vermont, young families can't make a living there and they move elsewhere.
The future belongs to those who show up for it.
And Lee, you've done a great job.
10 kids and all by the same woman.
So you haven't done the Hollywood thing of trading your wife in for like a celebrity for like a trophy wife every half decade.
And actually, we did something very strange.
We actually got married first.
I know that's weird.
That's a cool thing.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You're being judgmental.
You're being judgmental now.
Just take a couple of Kathleen Sebelius' contraceptives and call me in the morning.
You should be feeling all right.
Thanks for your call, Lee.
Great to hear from you.
And wow, he's had Ted kids.
He's going to be propping up the TED kids are going to be propping up the entire Social Security Medicare budget of Pad of our City single-handed.
God bless you, sir.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on Open Line Friday.
Don't forget, Rush is taking the day off to boycott himself, but he will be returning live for a full week of All-American Excellence in Broadcasting starting Monday at 12 noon Eastern.
Hey, great to be with you.
America's Anchor Man is away.
Your undocumented Anchor Man sitting in.
But don't forget, don't forget that even though Rush is not here, he is still giving away a new iPad every day to a randomly selected person following him on Twitter.
It's entirely random.
It's not like Obamacare opt-outs.
You don't need to know someone who's in on the inner circle to call and get and work it out.
This is entirely random.
He's picking them out of a hat.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I don't think Rush isn't a hat-wearing type.
But however, he's doing it, he's randomly selecting a guy to give away a new iPad to every day to a listener.
They're engraved on the back with the EIB logo.
So they're exclusive EIB iPads.
You can't get these in any store.
And the only way you can get one is to follow Rush on Twitter.
Because Rush is on Twitter right now.
He's tweeting Upper Storm.
You don't have to send him a tweet or anything like that.
You just have to use his Twitter handle, Limbaugh, or Rush Limbaugh with no space in between.
That's his Twitter handle.
This is the way they talk, these guys, Twitter handles.
And if you go to when you're in the tweeting biz, and if you go to his Twitter handle, Limbaugh, and just announce that you're following him, then you could be in the running for one of these new EIB engraved iPads exclusively from the Rush Limbaugh show.
You'll not only get all Rush's tweets, but you will also be in the running to win one of these exclusive EIB iPads.
If you go to Rush, his Twitter handle is very easy.
It's Limbaugh.
It's not one of these complicated.
I think I've got a Twitter.
My Twitter handle is so complicated, I'm not even sure I can reliably say it myself.
I won't attempt to give it because I'll give the wrong one.
But a lot of these people have normally you just use your name or your initials, like Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, for example.
If you want to follow him on Twitter, I think he just is VI Lenin.
You know, that's the way he likes to do it.
But they all do, you know, he doesn't do, he doesn't do, you know, People's Revolutionary or not.
Stalin doesn't do, I think Stalin's just Uncle Joe, his Twitter handle.
He doesn't do, you know, mass murder or whatever.
Mao, I don't know about Mao's.
Mao's Twitter handle, I think, is he doesn't mention, he's got a simple one too.
I think he might just be Mao.
But anyway, well, no, no, yeah, no, Little Red Book is his corporate Twitter handle.
I'm trying to think of Mao's simple one.
Nehru, he's just got a corporate one too, Neru Jacket.
That's his corporate one.
But anyway, if you go to, there's a simple Twitter hack, couldn't be simpler, Limbaugh.
That's his Twitter handle.
And if you follow Rush, you could be running for one of these great EIB engraved iPads.
Let us go to Greg in Eureka.
Eureka, what's that?
Eureka, South Dakota?
Yes, it is.
And that's actually Naira.
Which bit of South Dakota is that in, Eureka?
It's the north central part of South Dakota, about 30 miles from the Missouri River and about 12 miles from the North Dakota border.
Okay, that sounds great.
The north part of South Dakota.
Great to have you with us.
If we've got someone listening in the south part of North Dakota, call us.
We'll maybe hook you up with Greg.
What's on your mind, Greg?
There's been a lot of discussion about the Excel pipeline.
What I would like to see is an American built and owned pipeline that pumped American oil.
We have huge reserves in North Dakota, and it just seems like that would be a lot more practical than a collaboration with the Canadians.
You know, I wouldn't disagree with that, Greg.
In a sane world, you would be doing that.
Do you know, by the way, you go back to the end of the, go back to the 1940s, late 1940s.
Do you know what percentage of the world's oil supply the United States was responsible for?
Take a wild guess.
I would say 60, 70%.
Yeah, it's actually more than that.
I think at one point it touched 83%.
This country is awash in energy.
And it doesn't matter whether you're talking about the Dakotas or whether you're talking about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or whether you're talking about American waters.
There's oil all over the place.
But America, as I said earlier, has taken a decision that it can afford to live as a kind of giant Sierra Club, and it actually can't.
And interestingly, that's why, I mean, I respect your kind of visceral canadophobia on this.
And I think it's admirable in some ways.
But I mean, given realistically, given that, American liberals do not want America to produce any energy, then it becomes a question of who's the least worst person to buy it from.
So the choice then is not whether we can have American oil or whether we can have sinister foreign oil.
The choice is between Canadian oil or Hugo Chavez oil, Canadian oil or House of Soud oil.
You know, realistically, the world you want the way America used to be, when it was good news, when you drove through Oklahoma and you saw some guy putting in a new oil rig and you thought, wow, that is great.
You drove through Texas and you saw some guy with a new oil rig.
That is great.
American liberals don't want that anymore.
They've got this whole sort of not-in-my backyard thing.
They'd rather.
Obama flies down to Brazil to announce that American taxpayers are going to be funding an oil project in Brazil that he would not allow, an offshore oil project in Brazil that he would never allow in a million years to take place in American waters.
That's just when you think of yourself as the kind of stuffed owl club of the world, you know, and your nation as just some giant pristine environmental reserve, then the idea of actually not just drilling for oil, but coal or hydroelectric power.
I mean, we're now blowing up dams.
In my part of the world, in New Hampshire, everyone is bothered about this Northern Pass.
The Liberals are all up in arms about this so-called Northern Pass, which is Hydro-Quebec bringing down electrical power through New Hampshire down to Massachusetts and Connecticut and beyond.
And liberals are up in arms about this.
Well, if you're not going to generate electricity, if you're not going to mine coal, if you're not going to drill for oil, if you're not going to even chop down trees to go back to wood-fired trains, where do you think the energy is going to have to come from?
Unless you want to wind up living in a cave, it's going to have to come in from foreign countries.
And New Hampshire liberals are kind of baffled suddenly.
Why is this hideous Hydro-Quebec power line going to be defacing our beautiful state?
Well, one reason it is, is because you liberals successfully prevented Americans from generating any energy within the United States.
And that's simply the way they look at these things, Greg.
Yeah, it's a shame that America isn't number one in more things.
We have the capacity to be that way.
It's just too bad we have slipped.
Well, it will come again, Greg, because necessity, it will come again through necessity.
I mean, just to pull the picture out a bit, China is basically annexing.
China is a resource-poor nation that's going to be the world's biggest economy, perhaps as early as 2014, according to the latest figures, maybe 2016.
2014, China is going to replace America as the world's biggest economy, according to some predictions.
China is a resource-poor nation.
That's why it's got its eye on the Russian East, the underpopulated Russian East.
Russia can't enforce that eastern border with China.
And at some point, the Chinese, I think, are just going to go in there.
They're already in Africa.
It's fascinating if you go almost anywhere in Africa and you pass any kind of development, any energy development, it will say, including oil, it will say this project funded by something, you know, Sino Corp or whatever, and it will turn out to be some Chinese company, of course, ultimately controlled by the Politburo.
So you're right, you're right.
You know, we wouldn't have to worry about bringing in oil from Alberta if we were to produce more ourselves.
But the reality is that liberals essentially want to live in a kind of theme park, in a kind of pristine environmental theme park.
Hydroelectric power.
That's water.
That's water.
Liberals like Al Gore do not regard water as a renewable resource.
Officially, in the Al Gore way of looking at things, water is not a renewable resource.
So they don't want dams.
They don't want coal.
They don't want nuclear power.
They don't want any power.
They want you.
Al Gore still wants his place, his pad in Tennessee.
He wants it lit up like a Christmas tree across the night sky in Tennessee, but he wants you down by the river, beating out your clothing on the rocks, singing chants with the native washer women every week.
That's what he wants you to do.
And if you follow the logic of environmentalism, that's where it's going to lead.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
The stock of the Etcher Sketch stock is like going through the roof since this guy who works for this guy who works for Mitt Romney compared Mitt to an Etcher sketch.
And they haven't had publicity like this in years.
Ohio Art, maker of the iconic Etcher Sketch, its stock, I think, has nearly tripled.
It's gone up.
It was basically three bucks before Mitt Romney, before Mitt Romney's, what's he called this guy?
Eric Fernstraub.
Eric Fernstraub, he compares Mitt Romney to an Etcher Sketch.
Now, these guys, like Etcher Sketch is one of these kind of heritage brands.
And Ohio Art, I'm sure, has hired all these slick Madison Avenue guys and said, what are we going to do with Etcher Sketch?
And they're probably going, you know, you can't do anything with it.
It's like the iPad age, man.
You can just get rid of the Etcher Sketch.
And then, and that, no, no, Etcher Sketch were not turned around by Bain Capital, no, as far as I know.
That would be great if they were.
They're actually Etcher Sketch.
Here's the good news.
Like everything else, they're built at a factory in China.
So Romney's guy comparing Romney to an Etcher Sketch has actually done wonders for the economy of whatever neighborhood in China this thing is built in.
But who knew it was that easy?
I would love, you know, I'm not a conspiracy-minded guy, but I think it's very suspicious that, you know, these big money Wall Street guys, these fat cats around Romney, they mention Etcher Sketch, and next thing you know, the stock has gone up 300%.
You're trying to tell me that's coincidental.
I wouldn't be surprised if like the Romney campaign, this Romney guy, they bought a ton of Etcher sketches beforehand and then they went out and do this.
There's some insider dealing on this whole Etcher Sketch thing.
You know, we've all heard the thing that the Republicans are in the pay of big oil and big pharmaceuticals and big this and big that.
But I reckon it's the toy companies who are just running everything now.
I mean, I just wouldn't be.
The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, by the way, if somebody compares Rick Santorum to the Vermont Teddy Bear Company and the Vermont Teddy Bear Company's stock goes up 300%, you will know that the Republican Party is in the pay of Big Teddy.
This is just, this is just, there's something else going on here with this whole Etcher sketch business.
Anyway, they're now all appearing with Etcher sketches.
Rick Santorum had an Etcher sketch while campaigning in Texas.
And Newt had an Etcher sketch.
He has, wherever he's campaigning now, where is he?
Guam?
No, we've had Guam.
Wherever he Newt's comparing, campaigning, he had an Etcher sketch.
Has Ron Ball been seen with an Etcher sketch?
And so they've all got, like, it's like booming now.
It's booming.
I bet they'll have them in the presidential debate.
I bet Obama will have an Etcher sketch in the presidential debate.
I would love it, by the way, if someone snuck in and replaced Obama's teleprompter with an Etcher sketch.
I think that would shake up, literally shake up a lot of these things.
We could just sort of twitch it and reorganize all the sort of key phrases he uses, like there's no silver bullet.
That's his line on the old gas prices.
There's no silver bullet.
I don't even get that, by the way.
Isn't the silver bullet something to do with werewolves?
I don't even know what it is.
Anyway, you could get the old Etcher sketch is going through the roof.
Etcher sketch is going through the roof.
So if you want to talk about it in other campaign news, this is tragic.
Michelle Bachman.
I loved Michelle Bachman when she was campaigning.
And I regret that she's not in, because I thought she was terrific in the debates.
She owes more than $1 million from her unsuccessful bid to become the Republican presidential nominee.
Here's what I love.
This is one of those only in America moments.
Half of her debt is owed to a fundraising consultant.
Don't you hate it when that happens?
You hire a fundraising consultant, and then not only did you discover you're a million dollars in debt, but half of that is owed to the fundraising consultant.
That's the consulting he did.
He came in and he consulted with you and said, okay, I think you need to raise a million dollars to cover your debts.
That'll be half a million dollars, please.
Anyway, I hope if you're in Minnesota, I want Michelle Bachman back in Congress in November.
She's a terrific Congresswoman, and actually she was a great campaigner, and she made a great contribution to those debates.
So if you can spare half a million dollars to get this fundraising consultant off her back, then please go and help.
But that's American politics for you now.
You are a fundraising consultant, and then your campaign flops, and you owe half a billion dollars to the fundraising consultant.
Go over to Minnesota and help her.
Mark signing for Rush.
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I was referring to the way the president says, when it comes to gas prices, there's no silver bullet.
And I couldn't figure out what it couldn't figure out what he was trying to say because silver bullets are something to do with werewolves.
That's how you, if you're out in Transylvania on Valpurgisnacht and some big hairy beast comes lumbering towards you, you want to make sure you got a couple of silver bullets holstered.
That's what Obama's been going around saying.
He's supposed to be saying, Mike in New York told me that he's supposed to be saying, he thinks he's supposed to be saying magic bullet, which is, of course, the cure for gonorrhea, I think.
That was the, it's what it's, it became a medical term as a way of, you know, selectively targeting some difficult bacteria like gonorrhea.
So that's what he meant to use, the old term, instead of silver bullet, there is no magic bullet for gun, for gas prices.
Not there.
Instead, he keeps going around saying there is no silver bullet for gas prices.
Unless you're the Lone Ranger, of course.
The Lone Ranger has, the Lone Ranger has silver bullets, not magic bullets, because the Lone Ranger's lone, so he's not going to get gonorrhea.
Why would he need magic bullets?
So there's no need.
There's no need.
Yeah, he's Obama as the Lone Ranger, Joe Biden as Tonto.
I can see that.
It's all too plausible.
Anyway, I'm just saying this because if you follow Obama's speeches and you are out in Transylvania on Valpergasnacht and you have got a magic bullet instead of a silver bullet in your gun and you fire it at the werewolf, you're going to still be in big trouble, but you will have cured his gonorrhea.
So I just thought we ought to get that straightened out.
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