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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 anchor man 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, twelve noon Eastern on Monday.
But uh it's open line Friday, and this is Mark Stein.
Glad to be here for uh for Russia.
Oh, what do I I what have I done, Mike?
I've forg I've forgotten to cue up the uh cue up the old jingle.
Let's hear the jingle.
Live from Ice Station EIB.
It's open line Friday.
Yes.
That's 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 specialists.
We've outsourced the show to cheap foreign labor, and that's what you get.
The guy doesn't even cue in the uh cue in the jingle correctly.
Uh but it is open line Friday, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
You can talk about anything you you want to uh talk about.
When I was here uh last week, by the way, I mentioned that I was going to be uh substituting it's a great honor to substitute for Rush, and I love substituting for Rush.
Uh and uh 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 uh which is almost as great an honor.
I get I'm getting to substitute for Dick Cheney in uh Toronto uh next month.
Dick Cheney was supposed to be appearing in Toronto, and he decided to pull out because he said uh Canada was too dangerous.
You know, this is a guy he has no fear of going to Iraq, no fear of going to Afghanistan, uh, but Ontario uh alarmed him.
You know, he didn't want to he'd heard tales uh crossing uh crossing the border that there were these uh packs of uh wild mutant zombie moose patrolling the Queen Elizabeth Wayne, he didn't want to get mixed up with uh any of any of that stuff, you know.
Uh wild mutant zombie moose being uh ridden by uh 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'd I got to fill in, and and there were news stories on this, like all over the world.
I mean it was a big story up in up in Canada, but it made the New York Daily New Oh, Dick Cheney says Canada uh too dangerous to visit.
Uh uh he made the um 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.
Uh this is a former vice president of the United States.
He can't get out of a building now for seven 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 uh I 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 big Dick Cheney's boy 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, uh, 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 uh ambulance takes him to the Princess Margaret Hospital, and he has to wait in emergency for seven hours.
So now you're up to fourteen hours before his heart murmur can be looked at.
So he decided to pull out because it uh it wasn't too dangerous.
So I'm covering for uh Dick Cheney in in uh Toronto.
Uh that's April the twenty-fourth.
And I I have said that if you if you uh it's uh it's a convenient ninety-minute scenic drive uh from Buffalo.
So if you're if you're listening uh to us on uh I think WBN, the affiliate in Buffalo.
It's a convenient ninety-minute drive.
And um 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.
Uh 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.
Uh now also I w I want to mention, by the way, one of the one of the you've read uh you've heard all this thing about oh, this advertiser is having nothing to do with Rush, and this advertiser is boycotting Rush, and that advertiser is boycotting Rush.
Hillsdale College in America, uh one of the great institutions, uh 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, uh, that when uh the state uh has any kind of say over your funding, uh it basically control even if they only provide two per cent of the funding, uh they control one hundred percent 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, uh loyal supporters of this uh uh of of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You know their name if you listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh and I'm gonna be out uh speaking uh in Hillsdale.
So a Rush Limbaugh guest host speaking at the heart at the home of a major Rush Limbaugh advertiser.
I think that's the beginning of April, April 3rd, something like that, in uh that's in southern Michigan, which I believe is a convenient fourteen hour drive from the Upper Peninsula.
So if you're coming from Sault Ste.
Marie, you'll be there in no time.
Uh so uh that uh that that's a uh that's I like to show my support for Hillsdale, the terrific stuff.
Larry Arne.
Every time I'm out there at Hillsdale, Larry Larry Arne has dinner with Rush from uh time to time, and he uh uh 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, uh just in in in the in in the grounds on the lawn, who they've got statues of.
Uh they've got statues of George Washington, uh, they've got statues of Thomas Jefferson, they've got uh statues of Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill.
They've got statues th this is like no you 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 uh at Hillsdale College.
1-800, uh 282-2882.
It's open line Friday.
We talk about anything today.
We can talk about topics big and small.
I see.
The uh 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 her fantastic uh contribution to uh whatever she's been doing the last three years, if uh if that what 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 gonna be the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.
For some reason, uh this reminds me, uh do you remember uh after back in the impeachment trial, so this would be 1990, whatever it was, 1998-1999, and Bill Clinton was acquitted uh by the United States Senate.
And at that point, Tina Brown, uh big New York Liberal, she was running this new magazine called Talk Magazine.
And there was a story in Talk Magazine, uh talking to various aides of Hillary Clinton, which said that since uh since Bill had been acquitted by the United States said, or they'd voted not to remove him from office, uh that that uh that hi Bill and Hillary's passion had been rekindled, and the first couple were now romantically involved in and and uh a passion had returned to their relationship.
This was the aides were quoted in this piece in Talk Magazine saying this.
Uh passion had returned to their relationship that uh close observers hadn't seen in years.
And I I was uh I 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 Hagar.
And for some reason the decision to rename a Little Rock Municipal Airport as the bill at Hillary Clinton National Airport reminds me of that uh Air Force One is back in the hangar line.
Anyway, you could you can talk about that 1 800-28282.
Uh we we might also talk about this guy, uh Mohammed Mira, uh now deceased, he's pushing up virgins uh in uh the hereafter, uh died yesterday uh in a uh police uh shootout, as Kathy Shadel, a Canadian blogger said, Ah, at last, a Frenchman who doesn't surrender.
So Mohammed Mira didn't surrender, uh, died in a hail of bullets.
He's the guy who killed uh four people at a Jewish school and some French Muslim soldiers as well.
And it was f it's fascinating this just in the trajectory of US 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 uh right wing nut, looks like some uh the same thing they told us about the Washington sniper ten 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 Mohammed, Alan Mohammed, I think it was, the Washington sniper.
This time round, again, they're looking for an angry white loner, and it turns out to be a guy called Mohammed.
So the 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 uh when that proves to be uh non-operative, then the next thing they say is, oh, don't worry about it, he's just a lone wolf.
Like uh the Times Square bomber was described as a lone wolf, and Major Hassan, uh, when he uh gunned down his uh fellow members of the US military was just a lone wolf.
There's all jihad is local.
There's nothing to see here.
These 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 uh he was on our team, he was one of us.
But what are these guys know?
The media has pronounced him just a lone wolf, nothing to see here, folks.
Uh 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, don't 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.
Uh 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 uh dead Jews, dead Christians, dead infidels of any variety, uh, the actual dead corpses are not as important as the theoretical backlash it may provoke uh against Muslims.
And the and the and in fact the Muslim uh the the Muslim backlash uh never never happens, but for some reason within twenty-four hours, it happened after the Bombay thing, uh happens after the London tube bombings, now it's happened after these uh uh dead Jewish school kids in France.
The f you can't wait to move on from the actual corpses to the hypothetical corpses that might be resulting uh from the alleged uh anti-Muslim backlash uh that never happens.
There was a wonderful parody of an uh of an English newspaper headline that actually sums up the way the media look at these things.
It was uh it appeared uh uh at an Australian website uh run by Tim Blair for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
It's a wonderful note perfect parody of this kind of media coverage.
Uh 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.
Uh 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 uh if if a if uh 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.
Uh when when Rush says something, uh that's somehow emblematic of everything.
But somehow somehow, uh when it's all these guys, they're just isolated lone wolves.
There's no connection between the lone wolf uh i uh outside this French school and the lone wolf outside the US military base and the lone wolf uh 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 loving it, and you're thinking Obama's a shoein, and you're having a grand time, and you're chugging down that four dollar 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.
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Mark Steinin for a rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Lee in Panama City.
That 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, uh your accent may be different, but uh your ideas sound all American to me.
So my comment on that.
I'm a uh I'm a father of ten.
Uh button.
Well, good for you.
Been married to the same woman for uh almost twenty-seven years.
We drive one of those huge evil uh vans, a fifteen passenger van.
We still have seven kids at home.
And uh 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.
That's uh you're absolutely right there, Lee.
And uh I mean f for start, congratulations on the ten kids.
You know, this is th this is where Kathleen Sibelius, 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.
Uh but in fact, in fact, your ten kids are the ones who are going to be paying for the baby boomers' retirements.
Every every time you see uh these uh these ads uh where retired people are going on cruises and whooping up it up and living it up and all the rest of it.
Uh it's your ten kids who are going to be bearing uh the burden of uh burden of this, and God bless you for having ten people who will be contributing to social security and uh and doing your bit to lessen the aging of the United States.
But you have you're you're right too, you know, that uh you you i if you were living in uh in a uh in a European country, it would be actually incredibly difficult and incredibly expensive uh to find a vehicle that w for you to drive your uh your kids around in, and that's why people don't have uh kids like that.
You're not one of these people I I mean I trust Panama City, it's not one of these deals where uh which often happens when if you walk through, say, uh fashionable parts of Manhattan with four or five kids, uh you're a parent of four or five kids, people will stop you and ask if you're uh running a daycare.
We have been asked that.
We've been asked that before.
We just moved here from New Mexico uh very recently.
But no, you know what one of the things I love, and I've lived in northern Italy uh for a short period of time, not not with my family, was working over there, but uh you know, in America I have that freedom.
Uh and I've heard you talk about coming to the States and and how different it is.
And the the ability to to raise my children to be generous.
Uh and if if demography is destiny, uh I'm I'm uh I'm uh optimistic for conservatism because when I meet other big families, they're usually conservative, and liberals don't reproduce, uh which is what you were talking about earlier in the program.
No, that's that's true, and uh as I say in my book, uh it which is a very basic truth, the future belongs to those who show up for it.
Uh San Francisco, the most liberal city in America, uh registers more dogs than it has children in its school district.
If you go to Vermont, I used to I used to joke that 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 uh so-called historic Route 100 from the Massachusetts border to the Quebec border, and you stop in any schoolhouse uh en route, you will understand that those school those school districts are emptying out because under in Howard Dean's Utopia of Vermont, uh young families can't make a living there and they move elsewhere.
The future belongs to those who show up for it.
And uh and Lee, you've you've done a great job.
Ten uh ten Kids and all by the same woman.
So you haven't done the Hollywood thing of like trading uh trading your wife in for like a celebrity for like a uh a uh a trophy wife every uh every uh half decade.
And actually we did something very strange.
We actually got married first.
I know that weird that's a couple of things.
I know.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You're being judgmental.
You're being judgmental now.
Uh just just take uh just take a couple of Kathleen Sibelius's contraceptives and call me in the boarding.
It'll soon be feeling all right.
Thanks for your call, Lee.
Great uh great to hear from you.
And uh Wow, he's had Ted Kids.
He's gonna be po he's gonna be propping up the uh his Ted kids are gonna be propping up the entire Social Security Medicare budget, a part of our city single handed.
God bless you, sir.
Mark Stein, Info Rush on uh Open Line Friday.
Don't forget, Rush is taking the day off to boycott himself.
Uh but he will be returning uh live for a full week of all American excellence in broadcasting starting Monday at twelve noon Eastern.
Hey, great to be with you.
America's An Command is away.
Your undocumented Anchorman 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 uh it's entirely random.
It's not like Obamacare opt-outs.
You don't need to know someone who's uh in on the inner circle to call and get uh and and work at that.
This is entirely random.
He's picking them out of a hat.
I don't know.
He probably I don't think so.
I don't think he's uh I don't think uh Rush isn't uh 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.
Uh and the only way you can get one is to follow Rush on Twitter, because Rush is on Twitter right now.
He's tweeting up a storm.
You don't have to send him a tweet or anything like that.
Uh you just have to uh use his Twitter handle, Limbaugh, or uh Rush Limbaugh with no space in between.
That's his Twitter handle.
I like that this is the this is the way uh they uh they talk uh these guys, Twitter handles.
And uh if you go to the when you're in the tweeting biz, and if you go to his Twitter handle, Limbo, and just uh announce that you're following him, then uh you could be in the running for one of these new EIB engraved iPads uh exclusively from the Rush Limbaugh show.
You'll not only get all Rush's tweets, uh, but you will also uh be in the running to win one of these exclusive EIB iPads.
That's uh if you go to Rush, his Twitter handle is very easy, it's Limbaugh.
It's not one of these complicated uh I think I've got a Twitter.
My Twitter handle is so complicated, I'm not even sure I I can reliably say it myself.
I probably I won't attempt to give it because I'll give it the wrong one.
But a lot of these people have normally you just use your name or your initials like uh Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, for example, if you want to follow him on Twitter.
I think he just is uh VI Lenin.
You know, that's the that's the way he likes to do it.
But they all do, you know, he doesn't do uh he doesn't do uh, you know, people's revolutionary or no Stalin, Stalin doesn't do he's 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 uh Mao's Twitter handle, I think is he doesn't mention he's he's got a simple one too.
I think he might just be Mao.
But anyway, VI well, no, no, yeah, little little no little red book is his corporate Twitter handle.
I'm trying to think of Mao's uh uh uh simple uh simple one.
Neru.
Uh he's uh he's just got a core corporate one too, Neru Jacket.
Uh that's his that's his corporate one.
But anyway, if you go to uh there's a simple Twitter hat, couldn't be simpler.
Limbo.
That's his Twitter handle, and if you follow Rush, you could be in the r running for one of these great EIB engraved iPads.
Let us go to Greg in Eureka.
Uh Eureka, what's that?
Eureka, South Dakota?
Yes, it is.
And and that that that's actually near uh which bit of South Dakota is that in, Eureka?
It's the north central part of South Dakota, uh, about Thirty miles from the Missouri River and about twelve miles from the North Dakota border.
Okay, that sounds uh that sounds great.
The North part of South Dakota.
Great to have you with us.
If we got someone listening in the south part of North Dakota, uh call 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 XL 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 d I wouldn't disagree with that, Greg, uh in a sane world.
You would be doing that.
Do you know, by the way, uh you go back to the end of the go back to the nineteen forties, late nineteen forties.
Do you know what percentage of the world's oil supply the United States was responsible for?
Take a wild guess.
I would say sixty, seventy percent.
Yeah, it's actually more than that.
About it, I think it's uh I think at one point it touched eighty-three percent.
This country is a wash in energy.
And uh it doesn't matter whether you're talking about uh the Dakotas or whether you're talking uh about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or whether you're talking about American waters.
Uh there's oil all over the place.
But but America, as I said uh 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 I uh r I respect uh your your uh your kind of visceral canadophobia on this.
And I think it's admirable in some ways.
But I mean, given realistically, given that, uh American liberals do not want America to produce any energy.
Uh really then it then it becomes a question of who's the least worse person to buy it from.
So the 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.
Canad you know, they're they're realistically, the world you you 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 uh oil rig and you thought, wow, that is great.
Drove through Texas and you saw some guy with a new oil rig, uh, that is great.
Uh American liberals don't want that anymore.
They they've got this whole sort of not in my backyard thing.
They'd rather uh Obama uh flies down to Brazil to announce that American taxpayers are gonna be funding a uh an oil project in Brazil that he would not allow an offshore oil project in B in Brazil that he would never allow in a million years to take place in American waters.
That's just uh when when you think of yourself as the kind of stuffed owl club of the world, you know, and and uh and r uh and your nation as just some giant pristine environmental reserve, uh then the idea of actually uh not just uh drilling for oil, but uh uh uh coal uh or uh hydroelectric power, I mean we're now bluring up dams.
Uh in my part of the world in New Hampshire, everyone is uh bothered about this northern pass.
The liberals are all up in arms about this uh so-called northern pass, uh, which is Hydro Quebec bringing down el electrical power through New Hampshire down to uh Massachusetts and Connecticut and beyond.
And liberals are up in arms about this.
Well, if you if you're not gonna generate electricity, if you're not gonna mine coal, if you're not gonna drill for oil, if you're not gonna even chop down trees to go back to wood-fired trains, uh, where do you think the energy's gonna have to come from?
Unless you want to wind up living in a cave, it's gonna have to come in from foreign countries.
And and and and uh New Hampshire liberals are kind of baffled uh suddenly, why why why is this hideous Hydro Quebec power line going to be uh 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 they look at these things, Greg.
Yeah, it's a shame that America isn't uh number one in more things.
We have the capacity to be that way.
It it's just too bad we have slipped.
Well, it will come again, Greg, because uh necessity, it will come again through necessity.
I mean, uh d just to uh pull the picture out of it, uh China is basically annexing it.
China is a resource poor nation that's gonna be the world's biggest economy, uh perhaps as early as twenty fourteen, according to the latest figures, maybe twenty sixteen.
Twenty fourteen, China is going to replace America as the world's biggest economy, according to some predictions.
Uh China is a resource poor nation.
That's why it's got its eye on uh the Russian East, uh the underpopulated Russian East.
Russia can't uh enforce that uh that uh eastern border with China and uh at some point the Chinese, I think are just gonna go in there.
They're already in Africa.
What it's fascinating if you go almost anywhere in Africa uh and you pass any any kind of uh development, any energy development, uh it will say, uh including oil, uh it will say this project funded by something uh, you know, Sino Corp or whatever, and it will turn out to be some Chinese uh company, uh of course, ultimately controlled by the Politburo.
So you're right, you're right.
You know, we wouldn't have to worry about uh bringing in oil from Alberta if we were to if we were to produce uh more ourselves.
But uh but the reality is that that liberals essentially want to live in a kind of theme park, in in a kind of pristine environmental theme park.
Hydro hydro uh electric power, that's water, that's water.
Uh th the 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.
Uh so they don't want dams.
Uh 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.
It's kinda he would 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 uh clothing on the rocks, singing chants with the native washer women every every week.
That's what he wants you to do.
And and if you follow the logic of environmentalism, that's where it's gonna lead.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Uh the stock of the Etchasketch stock is like going through the roof since uh this guy works for uh this guy who works for uh Mitt Romney uh compared Mitt to an Etchasketch.
And uh th they haven't had publicity like this in years.
Ohio art, maker of the iconic Etchasketch, it's uh its stock, I think, has nearly tripled.
It's gone up it was basically three buc before Mitt Romney before Mitt Romney's uh what's he called this guy?
Eric Fernstraub.
Eric Fernstraub, he compares Mitt Romney to an Etchisketch.
Now these guys like Etchasketch is one of these kind of uh these heritage brands.
And i i Ohio Art, I'm sure has hired like all these like slick Madison Avenue guys and said, What are we gonna do with Etchasketch?
And they probably go, uh, you know, you can't do anything with it.
It's like the iPad age, man.
You could just gotta get we get rid of the Etchisketch.
And then and that uh no, I I no Etchisketch were not turned around by Bain Capital, no, as far as I know.
That would be great if they were they're actually Etchasketch, here's the good news.
Uh like everything else, they're built at a factory in China.
So Romney's guy comparing Romney to an Etchisketch has actually done wonders for uh whichever uh the economy of whatever neighborhood in China this thing is built in.
But um but who knew it was that easy?
I would love you know, I'm I'm not a conspiracy minded guy, but I think it's very suspicious that uh, you know, these big money Wall Street guy, these fat cats around Romney, they mention Etchasketch, and next thing you know, uh the stock has gone up uh three hundred percent.
You're trying to tell me that's coincidental.
I would I wouldn't be surprised if like the Romney campaign, this Romney guy, uh they bought they bought a ton of Etchasketches uh beforehand and then they went out and do this.
There's some insider dealing on this whole Etcher sketch thing.
You know, we've we've all heard of the thing that the uh the Republicans are in the pay of big oil and big pharmaceuticals and big this and uh and big that uh but I reckon it's the toy companies who are just running everything now.
I mean I just uh I wouldn't be the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, by the way.
If if uh if somebody compares Rick Santorum to the Vermont Teddy Bear Company and the Vermont Teddy Bear Company's stock goes up three hundred percent, 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 Etchasketch business.
Anyway, they're now all appearing with Etcher sketches.
Uh Rick Santorum had an Etch sketch while campaigning in Texas.
And uh Newt had an Etcher sketch.
He uh he has wherever he's campaigning now, where is where is he?
Guam no, we've had Guam.
Wherever he Newt's comparing uh campaigning, he had an Etch a sketch.
Has Ron Ball been seen with an Etcher sketch?
And uh 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 uh Obama will have an edge etch a sketch in the uh in the presidential debate.
It's better I like I do I would love it by the way if someone snuck in and replaced Obama's teleprompter with an Etcher sketch.
I think that would be I think that would shake up, literally shake up a lot of these uh a lot of these things.
We could just sort of twitch it and uh and reorganise all the all the sort of key phrases he uh uses, like there's no silver bullet.
That's his what that's his line on the old gas prices.
There's no silver bullet.
I don't I don't even get that, by the way.
Uh isn't the silver bullet something to do with werewolves?
I don't know what I don't even know what it is.
Anyway, he he's got you could get the old uh the old Etcher sketch is going through the roof.
Etchasketch is going through the roof.
So if you want to talk about it in other campaign news this is tragic.
Michelle Buckman I loved Michelle Buckman when she was uh when she was uh campaigning.
Uh and I regret that she's not she's not in, 'cause I thought she was terrific in the debates.
She owes she owes more than one million dollars from her unsuccessful bird 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 he do 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, uh uh, okay, uh I think you need to raise a million dollars to cover your debts.
Uh that'll be half a million dollars, please.
Anyway, uh I hope if you're in Minnesota, uh I want m Michelle Bachman back in Congress uh in November.
Uh she's a terrific Congresswoman, and actually she was a great uh campaigner, and she had a made a great contribution to those debates.
So uh so if you can spare if you can spare half a million uh dollars to get this fundraising consultant off her back, then please go and please go and help.
But that's that's American politics for you now.
You uh you get 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.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1800-282-2882.
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Uh I was uh I was uh 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 uh couldn't figure out what he was trying to say, because silver bullets are something to do with uh werewolves.
Uh that's how you uh if you're if you're out in the uh uh in Transylvania on Valpurgis knucked and some big hairy beast comes lumbering towards you, you want to make sure you got a uh you got a uh uh uh a couple of uh silver bullets holstered.
Uh that's that's uh what uh Obama's been going around saying.
He's supposed to be saying.
Mike uh 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 uh the uh the cure for gonorrhea, I think.
That was the it's what it's it became a medical term uh as a way of uh you know, selectively targeting some uh some difficult uh bacteria like uh like gonorrhea.
So there's that's that's what he meant to use, the old term uh instead of silver bullet, there is no magic bullet for gun for for uh gas prices.
Uh not there instead he keeps going around saying there is no silver bullet for gun uh 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 range the lone where's the lone ranger?
He's he's lone, so he's not gonna get gonorrhea.
Why would he need magic bullets?
So there's no there's no need th there's no need yeah, he's uh 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're if you follow Obama's speeches and you are out in Transylvania on Val Pergasnacht, and uh you have got a magic bullet instead of a silver bullet in your gun and you fire it at the werewolf, you're gonna 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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