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Folks, look at him.
In the midst of all this political tension, it's time for a little break.
We need to take a breather.
I mean, just for a moment here.
You remember back, it wasn't that long ago, when we at 2 If by T, which remains the absolute best-tasting iced tea in this country, we had people make their own 2F by T commercials, videos, YouTube type videos that were put together by you in the audience.
We did this last year, and there were people in New Hampshire that dressed up in colonial gear and did a 2F by T rap RAP.
I mean, some of the videos that we got, we were jazzed by it, but I mean, the creativity and the passion and the ambition that was in these videos was a clear indication of just who the people of this country really still are.
There's a bunch of people with creativity and ambition just waiting to be turned loose and unleashed.
And it was really fun.
And we did it just to see what we would get.
I mean, it's a startup.
We're looking for people to do commercials for us for free.
I was walking around.
I was asking, do you believe in free speech?
Oh, yeah.
Well, fine.
I got a commercial for my tea company I'd like you to do.
No charge.
What are you talking about?
Well, you said you believe in free speech.
No, I'm just having fun.
We really just wanted to see what we would get.
And we were bowled over with the amount of effort that people put into this and the creativity and the production values that people put into creating these videos.
So what we've done, we've decided to combine that creativity with another phenomenon that happens with 2F by T. Have you ever covered the label of a bottle?
You've been with some liberals and they're ripping me or they don't like me and you know it.
Maybe my name hasn't come up, but you just know they don't like me.
You've got the tea.
You somehow want them to taste it because it's the best tea around.
You want to hear them say that they love the tea and then you can't wait to show them the label.
You can't wait to show them whose tea it is, El Rushpo's.
Well, you do that.
We get notes from people all the time that this happens.
Emails, people go to the 2FIT website, tell us these stories.
So what we're going to do, we combine that now into a YouTube contest for 2F by Tea.
And you can check it all out at the website.
It's on the homepage at 2ifbytea.com.
The YouTube contest is called You've Been Limbaugh.
We're actually creating a name for this.
And it's a takeoff on You've Been Punked.
And all the details are there.
All the requirements that you have to have to be eligible for one of your commercials to be judged in a final countdown, cut down as to which ones have a chance at winning.
But we're looking for humor.
But that we're looking if you want to do something serious, stately, patriotic, historical, you can, but there are requirements.
How many times you got to say two of IT even limbawed, all that kind of thing.
There are requirements that you have to meet.
And I think we're doing 60-second time limits on these things.
I mean, you got to, folks, it might seem tough to say all you want to say in 60 seconds, but don't forget Shakespeare.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Any artist will tell you that what makes his work great is what you take out of it when you think there's no more you can take out of it.
The continued editing.
It's like Andre Serrano.
Do you know that his exhibit is going back on display in New York at a new museum?
I read it just this morning.
Piss Christ, Andre Serrano and his crucifix submerged in a jar of his own urine.
I'm sorry if it offends you, folks, the name of the work of art.
It's the actual name of it.
It's going back on display at a New York museum.
A crucifix in a jar of his urine.
And he told me that what made it great was taking a little urine out, more than he thought was necessary.
No, I'm just kidding about that.
What's your question?
Well, Snergly has withdrawn the question.
The fact is that it's going back on display.
It's been dormant for 20 years.
They're bringing it back.
Some of you, I'm sure, have never even heard of it.
Anyway, just a little side note.
But don't be daunted by the 60 seconds.
60 seconds is plenty of time.
In fact, the more you say and the more punch you put in it, the more punch it'll have in 60 seconds.
And all the details, all of the rules are explained right there on the homepage at 2ifbyt.com.
We can't guarantee that you won't be arrested by the government for what you produce.
We would like to be able to guarantee that you won't be arrested, but given what happened to the video guy out in California, I can't guarantee it.
So you're producing your own video here at your own risk.
Can you just see it?
A 2IF by T, You've Been Limbaugh video being blamed for something by Obama.
We're not going to be responsible for any violence that your video causes or nor were, and we're not going to apologize either.
If your video that you produce, for you've been limb bawed for 250, if it causes violence, you are swimming alone.
You are on your own.
We're not apologizing for you to anybody anywhere.
So just go to the 2FIT website.
It's all there.
And all the rules are explained and the prizes and so forth.
We're still working on that, but we're close.
Okay, audio soundbite time.
Speaking of videos, you've got to do this.
We played this in the first hour.
$70,000 taxpayer dollars have been spent to run a TV ad in Pakistan where the rioting continues.
What is it, 12 or 17 people dead?
Now they're rioting at movie theaters in Pakistan.
And the movie hadn't even been seen.
And this is an ad in Pakistan.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama apologizing to the people of Pakistan for the video.
Here's the audio of the ad.
Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.
We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.
But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence.
None.
Let me state very clearly, and I hope it is obvious, that the United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video.
We absolutely reject its content and message.
America's commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation.
This to me is unbelievable.
The video is responsible for nothing.
Why, again, would you not want to hold the terrorists who did this, who killed our ambassador, hold them accountable instead of this guy with the video?
It is just, this is an example of the incompetence on parade.
It's also an illustration of who they think their real enemy is.
And it's us, folks, as conservatives who pose a bigger threat to the ambitions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than terrorists do.
We stand in the way of their acquisition of power far more than the terrorists do.
That's how they look at it.
And that's why they're trying to blame this guy all over the world in order to taint all of us.
Quick call here.
Very rarely do we do this, even on Openline Friday.
You're going to grab a call, the opening monologue segment.
Sheila in Mattoon, Illinois.
Great to have you, and I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Oh, Rush, thank you so much for taking my call.
I have talked to you at the radio for years, but now I actually get a response.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Listen, why I called was this morning I was listening to Martha McCallum and she was interviewing a reporter in Pakistan.
And of course, they were using the video as their rationale.
But Martha Prester, after saying she thought it was off and the gal, actually admitted that the film probably had not been seen, but had been heard about.
Well, Martha Carter.
Wait, wait, wait, just a second here.
I need to ask you a question.
You were an eyewitness to this.
I was listening.
Yes, I was watching.
Martha McCallum.
Yes, with Martha McCallum.
I need to ask you, because of that report at NBC last night, did Martha McCallum, was she attempting, because that's Fox News, was she attempting to incite anybody or anything with this deeply probing question?
Was she berating this poor Pakistani woman?
You said she pressed her.
Did she affect the heavy grapes against a wall and slapping her back and forth to get her to get the answer she wanted?
She wasn't close enough.
The gal was in Pakistan.
Oh.
Okay.
Oh.
Well.
Here's what happened.
After she pressed her, she admitted that, you know, that probably it had just been heard about that might have been causing the riot.
And my question was, well, who did they hear it from first?
Let's see.
Susan Rice, Jake Carney, Obama, Hillary Clinton.
Exactly.
They haven't seen it, and the woman in Pakistan admitted that nobody's seen it.
All they've done is heard of it.
I'll tell you where I first heard about it was when the Cairo embassy apologized.
But to your point earlier, and I'm so glad I had a chance to hang on.
So were they Carney Rice, are they informing or are they inciting?
That's my question.
Well, that is a brilliant, because I'm going to tell you what I think they're inciting.
I do.
And I think Obama incited at the Democrat Convention.
When he starts bragging about killing bin Laden 21 times, I think they are inciting.
I think, and Ted Koppel, if he had any guts, if he wants to talk about who's inciting who and what, he'd take a look at this administration and how all this activity in the Middle East, all this uprising, is due to some video.
Who is, you are exactly right, who's telling everybody about the video?
And who is characterizing the video as something horrible?
And who's bragging about killing bin Laden?
So, Rush, in essence, I mean, this is going to sound radical.
Who has blood on their hands?
Well, well.
I mean, really.
Well, but it only sounds radical because you're asking the question on talk radio.
That's probably it.
And you know, and another quick one, because I know I don't want to monopolize here.
It's taken me like 20-some years to get a hold of it.
You're not monopolizing.
It's up to me.
You're still on because I want you to be.
I've got to light my cigar anyway, so go ahead.
Well, and then another one, of course, it's that radical Fox News that I was watching.
However, she was talking to Ryan Crocker, who was a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, I think.
Yeah.
And when she was talking to him again about the video aspect and so forth, I thought he had a brilliant comment, and it was very controlled, but he said, simplistic explanations of the Middle East are almost always wrong.
Yep.
So what is, I mean.
Look, I think Sheila, all of this, everything that's happening in this regard is part of the campaign.
It's not about, and this is the great disgust.
This is the great indictment of Barack Obama.
All of this is really being manipulated and used as a campaign issue.
It's not even about foreign policy.
That's playing second fiddle to the value all of this has in the campaign.
American foreign policy playing second fiddle, secondary, tertiary status to Obama's campaign.
That's the real disgusting thing about this.
Well, you're great.
You joined the parade of absolutely fabulous callers that we've had this week, and I thank you.
That's Sheila Mattoon, Illinois.
We got to go.
Thanks, Sheila.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Okay, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh at Cutting Edge.
Moving forward, audio soundbite number 16.
I like this next sound.
This is Ann Romney, and she is responding to the David Brookses and the Bill Crystals and the Peggy Noonans, all of these sideline commentators who are telling Mitt how to do it, telling him what he's doing wrong, when he shouldn't speak up and when he should speak up and how he's campaigned to know what it's doing and so forth.
And she's a lot of people are irritated.
Michelle Malkin had a great rate rant on this the other night on Hannity.
She called it chin pullers.
So they're pulling their chins, thinking deeply about all the cosmic ways that Romney's blowing the election and so forth.
And there are a lot of people.
It's one thing to be ripped and criticized by the Democrats, but you sideline armchair generals there.
Dial it back here.
This is well, let Ann Romney say, this is, I think, very well said.
Stop it.
This is hard.
You want to try it?
Get in the ring.
This is hard.
And, you know, it's an important thing that we're doing right now, and it's an important election.
And it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.
And I think she's right.
She's blasting these establishment types sitting here at their keyboards and their think tanks.
What she's basically saying, we are trying to save the country here.
This is not just the next election in the schedule.
We're trying to save the country here.
He's drawing huge crowds.
And there was a dinner last night at $100,000 a couple here, just as the crow flies thirdly.
It was only four miles north of my Oceanside retreat.
And it was overflow.
And there was a cocktail party prior to that.
And Sarasota, the crowds that Romney's drawing are huge.
You just never hear about it.
You don't see it, but they are huge.
Tom in Colbert, Oklahoma.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How you doing?
Hey, listen, I got a comment about Leia Acoca, and I don't understand why we don't hear more about what he did for Chrysler a few years back with no government money, no stimulus, no nothing.
He picked him up from nowhere and put him right back on the map.
You know, where are the American people at that don't remember that?
He did.
He paid it all back.
Yeah, everybody did.
We didn't have any government takeover.
We didn't have any guy putting leaders in there to a company like GM.
Where's Bob?
Yeah, you know what?
After that happened, Leia Coca was a hero.
He was a role model for a lot.
There was a real man.
There was a guy who took out the loan and paid it back and saved the car company in the process.
That's my point.
Everybody's running around like Bob Beckle acting like Obama's done something by saving GM.
He's done nothing.
You had a regular manner that went out and did it for this.
You are absolutely right.
The guy in the mom jeans who can't even throw out a real first pitch in a baseball game saved GM?
What a crock by spending other people's money and then screwing the bondholders over in the process and giving it to the auto workers save GM.
My tush.
That is an excellent point.
It's not paid back now.
It's not going to get paid back.
They tried to get out of it, GM, and they won't even let them because they want the ownership because they're out processing all the jobs to China.
I mean, I don't know where the American people are at.
But let me say this about one more thing, and then I'll get off the air.
I want to tell you about this leading from behind that he does, and you'll love this.
Take a quarterback.
He goes out on the field.
He tells the guys in the hoe, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to run up to the line of scrimmage here.
You're going to snap the ball to me, John, and we're going to stand up.
We're going to let them run all over our butts, and then we'll figure out what I'll lead you from behind.
Well, after they get about two plays, this team goes back mute, and he's quarterbacks down the field says, go lead, buddy.
You know what I'm saying?
That's what Obama does.
There's no leadership in him.
That's exactly.
That is true, too.
There isn't any leader.
In fact, there's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington.
There's a void of leadership.
I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country, Tom, is that there doesn't appear to be any leadership anywhere.
Just a bunch of followers and a people afraid of what the media are going to say about them or afraid of what other people are going to think about them rather than rolling up their sleeves and just doing it.
That's right.
And here's one last thing.
One more thing, please.
You just said that was the last thing.
Lee, I know that, but I lied.
I got some Obama blood in me too, see?
But here's how this goes.
American leaders are born.
Leaders everywhere are born.
They're not made.
I don't care what anybody says.
And if you don't think so, you take a leader, and he may not ever become a leader in this country.
He has the potential.
But if he is a leader and he becomes leader, he'll lead.
A guy like Obama who's put into a leadership role because he thinks he's a leader will fail, just like he does when the pressure's down.
That's why nothing is happening in the Middle East and North Africa right now because he's trying to lead from behind, and all he's trying to do is wait around to see what will happen in there later.
What is his lead from behind business anyway?
I don't know how to hurt my life until he built it up.
I was lead from behind.
When they sent the airplanes in later and never got to Iran because they were leading from behind, you know, I don't know what the hell leading from behind is, but I just have to think of it on his term the best I can.
Now, Obama's a community organizer, and Saul Alinsky said that organizers are not leaders by definition, and they got that right.
Monica Lewinsky, it is reported, is going to do the real tell-all book this time for $12 million.
I have it here from a National Inquirer, Monica Lewinsky, is set to reveal shocking new secrets about her affair with President Clinton in a bombshell $12 million tell-all.
What?
What affair?
What do you mean, what affair?
You don't think there was an affair?
She thinks it was an affair.
She thinks Clinton loved her.
She's going to tell all the, apparently, there were orgies and stuff.
Apparently, there's more than just an occasional Lewinsky in the study.
Apparently, there's more than that.
For years, Monica tried to protect Bill out of a misplaced sense of loyalty, a close pal told the Inquirer, but she no longer feels that way.
And her memoir is his worst nightmare.
Monica already has several publishers interested in her book, which will reveal graphic, never-before-known details of her sleazy sex trysts with Derschliechmeister.
While Monica revealed some details in her 1999 biography, she never got into explicit descriptions of her encounters with Clinton.
Now she's finally set to tell all.
I mean, there is talk about a secret abortion, orgies, but it's the Inquirer.
However, The Inquirer had it all on John Edwards.
The Inquirer had it all on the Brett girl.
Dawn's in there cannot believe.
A fair, give me a break.
A fair.
If Monica is not care, she's going to have as many autobiographies as Obama.
Was he up to two?
He's up to two.
He'll have a third when this is all over.
If it ever is all over.
Fairlawn, Ohio.
Barnes, great to have you.
Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
It's great to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
I've been listening to you since 1989 and haven't stopped listening to you since.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
Thank you so much.
I came up in the 60s from Chicago.
I came up in the 60s and we had Black Pride with the songs of the great songs of the 60s from Motown.
And I went to all-black school in Chicago, graduated from an all-black school.
And from that point, we created an Afro-American group in high school to start learning the blacks about being pride, taking care for the women to take care of their bodies and stuff and be proud of themselves.
We listened to James Brown.
Yeah.
And from that point, I went to Gremlin at the time.
Gremlin was a college in Louisiana.
We went there, and we formed a group called the Yuhuru Group, which is Swahili for Freedom.
And there we supported...
What was the name of the group?
Yuhuru, U-H-U-R-A.
You pronounced it.
Oh, Yuhura.
Yuhura.
Okay.
Exactly.
And we supported Children.
We helped Gramlin at the time.
Gremlin wasn't, Gremlin was more like a Chelsea Uncle Tom school.
But we helped Gramlin get black courses to teach blacks to be proud of themselves.
From that, I came back and we helped Harold Washington become the first black mayor of Chicago.
And later, after helping Harry, I realized, because I was always conservative.
I came back from my mother and father who worked hard.
They took care of their families.
Then in the 70s and 80s, I realized that the Democratic Party, because I was a Democrat at the time, I became a registered Republican in 89 when I listened to you.
I realized the Democratic Party was the biggest coverage on destroying the black race.
At that time, I was kind of brainwashed.
I just felt that black pride, Democratic Party is for the blacks.
But it wasn't.
I realized that as long as they kept blacks on welfare, kept blacks on drugs, they didn't kept the black people stayed on drugs.
Wait, wait, let me explain.
You need to explain how that happened.
By they, you mean the Democrats?
The Democrats and society itself.
How did they keep blacks on welfare and on drugs?
I'm not disagreeing with you.
I just want to, how does that actually happen?
Well, it happens from, it starts with no education.
They never, blacks all of a sudden stopped.
When they stopped the war, the draft in 72, when they stopped the draft, from that point, I had graduated from college.
From that point, I seen that the Democrats will come and campaign.
They'll get the blacks to vote Democratic.
They started in line.
And the blacks started selling drugs more in the 70s.
Why would they want that, though?
Why would they want to do damage to the black family and create drug addiction among black people?
Because they wanted the votes.
They wanted the vote starting.
They create dependency.
Is that what you mean?
Exactly.
Exactly.
And it's been going on ever since the mid-60s.
And I've seen it in the 70s and the 80s all the way to today.
They felt that the black people was going to be dependent on the Democratic Party.
So black pride morphed into black victimhood.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And that's why the Democratic Party get about 95% of the black votes because they didn't care if the blacks stayed on drugs, have abortion.
They felt as long as the blacks didn't get no education, they wouldn't worry about the blacks moving up and moving into good neighborhoods.
They keep the bad schools open, that's for sure.
Exactly.
Keep the bad schools open and everything.
And organizations like the Urban League, NAACP, the Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, they was there to make sure that the blacks kept voting Democratic.
And it's still the same way.
Now, that's true.
I know the deal.
And I first became made aware of it during the fight over Clarence Thomas nomination of the Supreme Court.
Paul Weirich took me aside.
He said, let me tell you what's going on.
What's going on?
The Civil Rights Coalition has its seat of power, the Democrat Party, and it's got to do a bunch of things in order to keep that seat.
And one is turn out the black population voting Democrat.
And the biggest threat, the biggest threat to that is to show an independent African American rising to the top who's not a liberal Democrat, who didn't use affirmative action, who didn't get propelled there by the Democrat Party.
That was the biggest threat to the existing civil rights coalition.
Clarence Thomas is going to be the most powerful black man in the country if he made it to the Supreme Court.
And that's how it was explained to me that he had to be destroyed because it would upset way too much that had already been put in place to keep people like Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nees, at people from the American Way and all these civil rights people at their positions of power and value at the Democratic Party.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Well, so what happened to you?
I mean, you fell out of this.
Yes, well, I was always conservative.
How could you have always been conservative when you're involved in Black Pride movement?
Because my family was born in the South.
They were born in the South.
And at the time, it was a family.
The blacks had families.
You support each other.
Then my family moved to Chicago when I was young, when I was three years old.
And so I came from the old school where you had parents and mothers and fathers who stayed together.
And they developed a family.
Ain't that a shame, the old school?
Yeah, we had together.
We had fun.
We believed in Christ.
That's a shame.
The old schools or parents stayed together.
They stayed together.
Or at least there were two adults in the household.
We went to church every Sunday.
We believed in morality.
We believe in doing our fellow people right now.
Well, what do you think we're headed for?
I mean, I've got about a minute max I've got left here.
Where are we now?
Obama running for reelection, second term, there it is right in front of us.
Yes, and it's sad because I'm in a Tea Party in Ohio, and I'm doing everything I can to help defeat Barack.
Wait a second.
You are in the Tea Party in Ohio?
In Ohio, yes.
Have any union thugs come along and tried to beat you up?
They be acting up, but I haven't came across them yet.
I don't care what the president is.
If this president is so bad, I don't care what nationality he is.
He's one of the worst presidents besides Jim McCarter.
And it's hurting blacks all over.
And they had 27 abortions in the black race.
I know.
It's incompetence, too.
Well, look, I'm really glad you called, Barnes.
I appreciate it.
You know what?
I've got an engraved EIB iPad here, and I'm going to send you one if you don't.
Well, even if you do, I'll send you one.
You give it away if you've already got one.
Hang on.
Snurdy's going to get your address.
We can send it out to you.
Maybe even for Saturday delivery.
Don't go away.
Let me give you some facts here.
Republican voter registration is outstripping Democrat registration in the border states.
And this is according to a news report a couple of weeks ago.
In fact, folks, Republican registration is up nearly record highs, and Democrats are near record lows in terms of new registration, despite what you're hearing out there.
That is the reality on the ground.
Yoko Ono, a new peace grant has been awarded to a group called the Vagina Riot, except substitute the P-word.