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April 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Thank you very much.
Thanks for having me.
Yes, with a face for radio and a voice for print, actually.
I'm here.
It will make you deeply appreciate El Rushbow returning tomorrow to the Attila of the Hunger and the Golden EIB microphone.
He will return.
The phone number here is 800-282-2882.
You can get me on Twitter at EWERIKSON.
Email Eric at RedState.com.
We're headed into the 24 midterms, obviously, and Republicans are battling each other.
You've got a lot of conservatives up and coming around the country.
In some cases, they won, and you have other elements within the Republican Party trying to pick them off.
The Democrats are coming after all of us, regardless of which side of the divide we're on.
There are four common principles, though, that conservatives within the party should latch on to.
And Mallory Factor has written a book on this.
Mallory and I, we run into each other the strangest places, all over the place.
It seems like we randomly bump into each other.
And Mallory has written this book, and I wanted to get him on here.
It's called Big Tent, The Story of the Conservative Revolution, as told by the thinkers and doers who made it happen.
Mallory, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Eric, thank you so much.
I'm bumping into you again on the air.
In fact, I think the last time we had a long conversation, you were on my show out of Atlanta discussing your last book.
I don't understand how you people, including Rush, turn books out.
I did it once, and it was a painful experience for me.
It is a very painful experience.
But some of us who do it, like Rush, try to change the world a little bit with these books.
Big Tent really gets into what is conservatism, what's the Republican movement, as people from all walks of it, from Newt Gingrich to Ed Mies, from Brian Paul.
So Al Miesa, a hero of mine, and you've got Ed Fulner in here as well, the former president of Heritage, where Jim DeMin is now.
So you mentioned, and I just saw your tweet about these four principles that all conservatives generally agree on.
What would you say those four principles are?
No question about it.
There's a theme that runs through the book, Big Tent, which explains what it is to be a conservative.
And there are four principles, as you so wisely pointed out.
One, respect for tradition and the wisdom of past generations.
Two, maintenance of the rule of law.
Three, protection of individual freedom and liberty.
And four, belief in a higher law above man's law.
All conservatives buy into that, even if they don't realize it.
The problem is, the conservative movement's noble in many ways, but in a number of ways it falls short.
You mentioned this.
Many conservatives would rather burn heretics from different wings of the movement than unite and fight the infidels who are actively trying to tear down our beloved country.
Well, in some cases, I'm there burning them.
But let me ask you this.
I have actually, I bought your book, believe it or not.
I have it on my Kindle right in front of me.
One of the things that I appreciate that you mention in the book is when I hear a lot of people writing about what conservatism is in America, they fixate on Edmund Burke.
But there really is a quintessentially genuine American conservatism.
And not to talk about another book while we're talking about Big Tent, your book, but Bernard Balin and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
Point out that this wasn't nonsense that the founders believed in, Balin being a historian, I believe, at Yale, but they really believed this life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and property stuff.
They sure did.
And conservatism really comes from four cities.
Jerusalem, where we get true law being divine.
Athens, social order.
Rome, the concept of a republic and the separation of powers.
And London, which is universality of law, law applied equally to everybody, even to kings.
And it all culminates in this great experiment, which we talk about in the book at length, which is Philadelphia, the American experiment.
Right.
Well, as we're heading forward, in this fight between the establishment and Tea Party activists, I get the sense that some of the establishment guys don't understand that Tea Party guys like myself, we really do have a sense of history and have studied it.
And perhaps some of the Tea Party guys, and myself accused of it sometimes, we don't appreciate our elders in the movement, so to speak.
What should we, both sides of this divide, learn from each other?
Well, the first thing we have to do is understand, Eric, and you understand this very well, having conservative principles and being a Republican are not one and the same.
Amen to that.
Conservatives need the Republican Party, and the Republican Party needs conservatives.
But conservatism is an idea-based movement.
Democrats and Republicans, they're parties, politics.
They're team sports.
And I found in the book we talk about something that's very interesting, and I'm not actually answering your question thoroughly, but I find this to be fascinating.
19% of Democrats, people who vote Democrats, self-identify as conservatives.
Right.
35% of independents self-identify as conservatives.
30% of Republicans don't identify as being conservative.
Republicans.
Team sport.
Conservatism is an ideological movement.
Now, I'm going to pull a fast one on you, Mallory.
I'm talking to Mallory Factor, whose book just came out in Big Tent.
But you, I know from personal experience in talking with you, you know a lot about unions and you know a lot about pensions, and these are going to be big issues at play in 2014, beyond this great divide on the Republican side.
And I keep hearing whispers in the media that union activists, many of whom oppose Obamacare, aren't going to be all in for Obama in 2014 and that I just I tend to think that they are, even though they say they aren't, and you know more about these issues than me, and so I want to ask you about that.
First of all, the unions are a little upset about Obamacare, but the but the Dems and the Obama administration continually blame the Republican Controlled House and the Congress for the problems.
Obama, the Dems say we will, we could fix this thing if it wasn't for those Republican obstructionists right, so you need to support us, because if we lose any more people in the House or the Senate, you're going to be in big trouble.
You are right Eric, as always, you're absolutely.
Tell my wife that please, no.
Tell my wife that please, no.
What you're?
You're right, and that is big.
Labor is going to come out big for Democrats and the Obama administration folk, because they have no choice in the matter.
I mean they are scared stiff of Republicans giving workers the rights and freedoms.
Look what happened in Wisconsin with Scott Walker.
I mean, when he took over, they were in the hole $3.6 billion in their budget.
He gave workers freedom.
He gave workers some rights.
Now they have a $1 billion rainy day fund.
Big unions, the shadow boss is the name of my former book, but we've got to talk about Big Tent.
That's the big book now.
I know, but I've got you for these few minutes, and I've got to ask you these issues because they're coming up, and you're one of the best prognosticator on these particular issues.
Because I want to ask you about the pension issue in Chicago, too.
The unions are covering up the government there, and it looks like Chicago could go the way Detroit on this pension issue.
That's true, but Rahm Emanuel, who is an extremely smart politician, he's going to blame Governor Quinn in the Illinois legislature.
He's going to say, I'm all on your team, guys.
It's just those bad guys in the legislature and that bad governor.
Yeah.
I don't think he's looking for a bailout, and he's looking for a federal bailout.
I would think that Barack Obama would be inclined to bail out Chicago.
And you watch.
You're going to see it.
And you may even see some bailing out in Detroit.
More federal taxpayer money could be potentially on the way.
Money that all of our listeners here had to earn that the government's taken from them may be on the way to Detroit and the unions.
Yeah, I think so.
Okay, now that you've answered these questions for me, and I appreciate that, I will shift back to Big Tent because you make a point in the book that I make.
I just want to make one other point.
Okay, please do.
Can I do it real quick?
Yes, absolutely.
Big, big deal.
What happened in Chattanooga, Tennessee?
Unions were voted down at an auto plant at Volkswagen.
Yes.
Volkswagen did everything they could.
I had a buddy of mine who helped defeat the unions there.
Your buddy did a good job.
But Angela Merkel, who was supported heavily by the German unions, were putting pressure on Volkswagen to allow unionization, but the employees voted it down.
Then the union wanted a redo.
And the National Right to Work Foundation came in and started representing the workers.
And one hour before the National Labor Relations Board, which is fixed to begin with, one hour before that happened, they pulled out and said, okay, we give up.
That is a big, big win for workers' rights.
They were going to force them into unionism, force them to pay dues, and the workers would have lost a lot of rights.
They really wanted to build up.
No, no, I'm glad you did.
The unions have just become very emboldened.
And I laugh when I hear the media say, oh, they're not really in it for Obama this time.
They're mad with him.
Baloney.
I can't say the word I'd like to say on the air.
Nonetheless, okay, so in the last couple of minutes, Big Tent, your book, one of the other things you point out in the book that I particularly like because I say it all the time, and it really ⁇ people perk up when you say this, and the left really doesn't like it, even though it's true.
The American Revolution was a conservative revolution.
Sure was.
I mean, they wanted their rights and freedoms that they thought they already had from being English under the Glorious Revolution.
And it's the French Revolution and the chaos that ensued that was the progressive revolution.
You're absolutely right.
And again, one of the things in the book that you get from it, and it's important to understand it, is to continue to bring freedom and liberty to our nation, to restore our nation to a constitutional government.
We've got to win the right to govern, and we can't win the right to govern by continually trying to beat up each other.
Yeah, I totally understand that, although I think sometimes we've got to hold our side accountable.
Look, Mallory, I totally appreciate you joining me.
Your book, Big Tint, the story of the conservative revolution as told by the thinkers and doers who made it happen.
I actually bought a copy, and it is actually a very good read, makes some great points, and doesn't just rely on Edmund Burke like so many people do.
I am Eric Erickson.
We could.
I did know that.
Thanks for bringing that out.
Royalties.
Excellent.
All right, Mallory, we're out of time.
I'm Eric Erickson.
This is the Rush Lynn Baugh Show.
It is Eric Erickson.
This is not Rush Limbaugh.
He doesn't sound like this.
Thank God.
I can be critical of myself sometimes.
I get it from my wife.
Welcome back.
The phone number 800-282-2882.
I'm just kidding, dear.
The email address, eric at redstate.com.
You can get me on Twitter, E.W. Erickson.
The left is harassing me on Twitter.
They're all upset with my statements on global warming and whatnot.
I want to follow up on something I mentioned with Mallory Factor.
Now, my degree is in political science and history, also known as the Wall Track.
I went to law school, was a lawyer for a number of years, got elected to a city council.
Awful, awful job.
Oh, city council politics are terrible.
Nonetheless, one of my favorite history books, my professor, Dr. Scott, got us to read the ideological origins of the American Revolution.
If you are a Tea Party activist, you should read this book.
If you are a leftist, you should read this book.
You know, going into the 1950s and 60s, the common prevailing wisdom was that the American Revolution was a mercantile revolution.
That the American revolutionaries, they were just tired of sending their money to the Brits, that they wanted it for themselves.
Rich white guys in America wanted to keep their money instead of sending their money to richer white guys in England.
That's how history was viewed.
That's how history was taught.
Bernard Balin, in his Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, had this crazy idea.
Why don't we read the private papers of the revolutionaries and see what they really thought?
He read the private papers of the leaders, of the Hancocks, of the George Washingtons, of the Thomas Jeffersons, the Adamses, and the like.
But he also read the private papers of men who signed up to fight, of the women who stayed home and took care of the property, the farm, the business, while the men were fighting.
He read their private correspondence.
And you know what he found?
Believe it or not, I realize it may be shocking for some of you.
He found that they actually believed all this stuff that many liberals today think is nonsense the founders actually believed.
And it was so much more real to them.
It was a real living, dying thing.
They pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor for what they were doing.
Nowadays, we get upset if we can't get it in Netflix quick enough on our TV system.
They were willing to die for a belief in life, liberty, the right of private property, the pursuit of happiness.
They were willing to die for these things.
Things that we treat very flippantly these days.
They were not abstract ideas to them.
That's why some of these things are in the Constitution that make no sense to you that liberal judges want to run roughshod over without paying attention to the historic reason for why they were there, like the Second Amendment.
Did you know what the Third Amendment is?
No one ever talks about the Third Amendment.
It's a prohibition on quartering soldiers in your home.
The men who fought and died and funded the American Revolution believed themselves heirs of the glorious revolution from 1688 in Britain.
When William and Mary came over, when James II fled, they believed themselves heirs of that.
They believed themselves heirs of the Bill of Rights that came from that.
A right to religion, a right to bear arms, a right to not have soldiers quartered in their houses, a right to jury trials.
These things that are in our Bill of Rights, they are things that our American founding fathers believed in and were willing to die for.
It was a very conservative revolution.
They didn't want new rights.
They didn't want to throw off the old.
They were originally willing to petition the king, and it was only later that they gave up on the king and drafted the Declaration of Independence and were willing to move on believing that they could secure their rights from the glorious revolution better than a king could preserve them for them.
It was not the French Revolution.
It was not throwing out the old and bringing back, bringing, creating something new, throwing out religion, throwing out the monarchy, throwing out democracy, throwing out other things, championing egalité, egalitarianism, equality.
No, this was a revolution about rights they believed they already had, rights they believe that their grandfathers had won for them.
When the left runs roughshod over so much in America today, they are disrespecting our history.
They are disrespecting our founders.
And frankly, there are a lot of people on the Republican side who are right there with them.
And that's where Mallory and I, to some degree, disagree on this.
I believe that you have to hold your own side accountable.
I really believe there are people on the Republican side, like some U.S. senator wants us to be the iPhone party.
Really?
I want to be the Freedom Party.
I want to be the Leave Us the Hell Alone Party.
Get Washington out of our lives.
Let the American people lead their own lives.
The problem is too many people in Washington on both sides of the aisle think, as I said earlier, the problem is the wrong party being in charge of government.
No, the problem is government itself.
And that's what the founders of the country understood.
The founders of the country understood we needed checks and balances to keep everything in check.
We needed checks and balances to keep the government from taking too much of us.
Too much of our property, too much of our liberty, too much of our work, working for the government.
They knew these things, so they restrained the government with a series of checks and balances, with federalism, so that the federal government had to compete with the states.
We have lost so much as we've become so ignorant of this history.
But it's all there.
It's there in their diaries.
It's there in their writings.
Their concerns, their worries, their fears, their desires.
When many people, whether it's David Brooks in the New York Times or whoever write about conservatism, they tend to ignore or they disdain the conservatism so-called of Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin or myself or Ted Cruz or others, when they are the most authentic expressions of American conservatism.
A conservatism that has a populace underlying it, a populism for life, for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness, for the right to own property.
A conservatism that isn't just about respecting traditions, as so many people cast conservatism as just a respect for traditions.
You've got people saying, well, in 50 years, conservatism will be defending Obamacare because it's a respect for the tradition.
No, American conservatism underlying it all is life and liberty.
That's what we have to pay attention to when we go out into 2014.
These primaries on the Republican side, they matter because of these things.
They matter because it mattered to the men and women who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create this country.
That's why when conservatives head into these primaries, they shouldn't fear holding their own side accountable.
They shouldn't fear willing to stand up and say, that's not right.
We'll continue these thoughts and take your calls after this break.
You know, I just have to tell you, as a guest host, Rush always says it's the fastest three hours in radio.
And maybe it's gone slow for you today, but I'm looking at the clock and wow, it goes by fast.
It does when you're behind the microphone rambling on.
I should let some of you speak now, for better or worse.
Let's go to Dennis in Citrus Heights, California.
Welcome to the EIB Network, Dennis.
Happy Earth Day.
Happy Vladimir Lenin birthday to you.
Well, thank you.
And I'd just like to say I don't, okay, I know global warmings.
I don't agree with it.
Climate change.
Yeah, climate change.
I just agree that the earth is being the earth.
It's just doing its thing.
But I don't agree with our everyday living.
It has some sort of effect on the earth.
Would you agree with that?
Parker drives in cars and people just throwing trash out their window, you know.
Well, you know, I mean, depending on the trash, of course, it decomposes and gets recycled.
But the beer cans and stuff, yeah.
Now, I would encourage my children not to trash the side of the road.
Well, yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, it's just.
All right, Dennis, I since you really want to say something to me.
Just let it out.
I just think people should be more aware of what they're doing throughout their day to help.
I mean, I'm not all hugging hippie, you know, love the earth.
Well, yeah, you should, but, you know, just be aware of what you're, you know, throwing out the window or driving your car.
Well, but, you know, I think most people are aware of that.
I don't throw trash out the window, and I don't know anyone who intentionally does.
Well, you'd be, I do a lot of bicycle riding, and you would be.
You're one of those.
Okay.
But, hey, I'm doing my share.
Now, do you go through the urban corridor tying up traffic and running stoplights?
Yeah, I love doing that because I think cars are the most rudest people ever.
So now, wait, wait, so you're saying we shouldn't litter, but you're willing to run stoplights on a bicycle.
Sure.
But so why should you live to one standard and we not to another?
What's that harming the earth?
Well, you are running the red light and you're causing cars to slam on their brakes and then they've got to reaccelerate and expend more gas and are less efficient because of it.
No, see, I'm aware of that.
I won't do that.
But if I can go through a stop sign a little bit quicker or kind of jump ahead a little bit.
I just'm concerned here because you say more people are polluting than should be polluting.
And I think that most people don't pollute.
Most people don't go out of their way to throw their trash on the side of the road.
We have trash cans and some of us even recycle.
Now, I myself don't because that's just way too granola for me.
But nonetheless, many other people do.
Okay, look at it this way.
You're paying for that recycling thing.
They charge you for that.
Yes.
Yes, they charge me for a lot of things.
Like, my kids are in private school, and I still have to pay for public education and the rotting of children's minds.
Okay, but why not get that extra cash back for your kids?
Do you give your kids allowance?
No, I don't give my kids allowance.
They have to work.
That's what I mean.
Go pick up some cans off the side of the road, and that's your next nickel.
Now, that's a fantastic idea, except mine is five, and he might run into traffic, so I can't let him do that.
I'm waiting for Timon and Pumba to break out Hakuna Mantata in this conversation here.
I mean, we're talking the circle of life and the recycling and the environmentalism and all that.
And you talk about evolution.
Yeah, I don't think we've evolved into humans, but I think we still act like monkeys.
So are you saying we came from monkeys and that we're behaving like monkeys?
Pretty much.
That's what I think.
Okay, so basically, Dennis, I think, surprisingly, this is actually shocking.
I found someone who has a worse opinion of mankind than myself.
This is actually rather impressive.
Well, I mean, I just try.
But yet, I don't run stoplights even on a bike.
Well, excuse me?
I don't run stoplights even on a bike, though.
I will point that out to you.
Well, hey, I'm a rebel.
Well, I'm a rebel by not recycling.
Okay, well, just, you know, anybody out there among your millions of listeners, and I just want to say hi to my mom right now.
She loves me.
Oh, your mom listens.
That's fantastic.
Yeah, and she loves you guys to death, and she listens to you guys every day.
I'm really sporadic, but I do listen to you guys.
Well, I suspect if you listen to the doctor of democracy more often, you would have a finer appreciation for not breaking our laws on your bicycle and a finer appreciation for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Dennis, look, thanks for calling the EIB Network.
I appreciate it.
I'm just, I'm somewhat staggered by the conversation.
And I just, any minute, I was expecting to hear like the circle of life from the Lion King start playing here and Timon and Pumba break out the Hakuna Matata song over, we got to recycle, but we can run red lights.
And people are monkeys, but they're not monkeys.
And that's Dennis from California.
So he's probably not racist when he says it.
But if it came from anyone else, the left would be having a conniption fit.
But he was calling, trying to, trying to correct our behavior when I follow the law, and he doesn't.
I bet he thinks he's a moderate, too.
That's how all liberals behave.
They think themselves moderate.
I'm just, this is a fascinating, when you fill in for Rush Limbaugh, it is a fascinating encounter and exercise with humanity, with what some might call, not meaning it disparagingly, the other.
We should go to, oh, I don't know, Houston, Texas, and Richard.
We'll go to you next on the EIB network.
Richard, how are you?
Hey, Eric.
Hey, first thing I want to say is that a bicep is supposed to obey the same traffic laws as a motor vehicle.
I know, but they're more evolved than you and me.
Oh, L.
I mean, their tight shorts and tiny bike have squeezed off parts of the evolutionary cycle.
So now we move on.
Okay, I have two things.
First thing is, I don't have all my facts today, but I was told that there was a billionaire in California.
I don't know who it is, though, Barack Obama.
If he would dismantle the Keystone Pipeline or shove it away or not let it go through, that he would donate $100 million to the Democratic Party.
Have you heard anything about that?
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, what's his name?
Oh, gosh, I'm jumping over to the Washington Free Beacon website.
I'm sure they've got it.
Yes, there is a liberal billionaire.
Now, he's really not a liberal so much as he's a crony capitalist.
He's made his money off of liberal causes, and the Keystone Pipeline would be a competing interest from his.
Styre, that's his name, I believe.
Steyer.
He's given money to Democrats around the country.
I don't understand.
I mean, good grief, you mean they'll sell out me and my kids and our grandkids just for money and to get elected?
That's why I just can't believe it.
Yes, they will.
Richard, you're dealing with liberals.
And I realize in Houston, you and I, being in Macon, Georgia, we encounter them less than most, thank God.
That's why we live where we live.
But there are these people called liberals around the country, including in Washington, D.C., and they believe they're better than you and me.
And they believe that because they're better than us, that they should be able to control and rule the country and tell us what to do, and that they can make us comfortable in what they perceive as our squalor.
They don't want to elevate us up.
See, the left hates competition.
And so they talk about income inequality, but they don't really want to solve income inequality.
They profit from the masses being whipped into flames and excitement over it.
They don't really want to solve the racial tensions in this country.
My God, Al Sharpton would be out of a job if we ever had racial reconciliation in this country.
The man and his ilk, they profit from keeping people in an us versus them scenario.
That they keep being in power because they divide the country and they whip people into a frenzy over these things to keep generating votes.
The left, the styre guy, he's making money off environmental causes.
He's making money and he's keeping Democrats in power so that they will keep him making money.
He doesn't like the Keystone XL pipeline.
That's why the president's delayed it because this guy gives lots of money to Democrats to keep himself fat and happy.
He looks on you and me and even poor what's his name, who thinks we're all monkeys.
He looks on all of us and says we're not rich.
We should be controlled by the rich.
He looks on us and thinks he can tell us what to do and he can use the Democrats to do it.
And if we don't like it, well, we don't have the money to compete against him.
And he will use the Democrats to stack the deck against us so that we can't compete against him.
But that's okay.
Their cause is pure and noble.
And whether we like it or not, they're doing us a favor.
I'm Eric Harrison, filling in for Rush.
We'll be back.
My oldest sister is lecturing me that her girls go to public school.
I should not knock them all.
I'll just knock the ones in my area.
How about that?
I've got my mom and my sisters all lecturing me, or at least saying they're listening.
I shouldn't say lecturing.
They love me.
By the way, before we get out of here today, I should point out Ira Einhorn.
Do you remember him?
Ira Einhorn.
What's that?
Yes.
Yes, yes.
Snerdley knows he's the founder of Earth Day.
Ira Einhorn founded Earth Day 100 years to the day that Vladimir Lenin was born.
He was a Marxist environmentalist.
It is no coincidence Earth Day is on Lenin's birthday.
Einhorn's also known as the unicorn killer.
He murdered his girlfriend.
Yeah, beat her to death, then stored her body in a locked trunk in his apartment for 18 months before her body was discovered by the police.
Naturally, of course, he fled to Europe.
And he's now, well, he was in 2002 convicted and serving a life sentence.
The founder of Earth Day.
Talk about a real advocate of population control.
Now, I need to have you people, mom.
If you're listening still, if I haven't, it bores you to death.
Mr. Snerdley encouraged me to talk about this next article.
My mother is an artist.
My eight-year-old is very much into art.
I'm disturbed by this.
Apparently, there is an artist in, of course, it's in Europe.
Milo Moray.
She creates abstract paintings.
This is very timely for Easter as well.
She pushes eggs filled with paint and ink out of her.
I can't say that word on the air, I don't think.
The feminists think that I should be able to, the V-word, let's just say the birth canal.
How about them apples?
She births art by squeezing paint-filled eggs out of there.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can Google this woman.
This is art for her.
Apparently, maybe it's parody because it's apparently supposed to be a powerful feminist statement about women, fertility, and creativity.
Yes, passing paint-filled eggs out of her nether regions.
How about we say that?
I'm turning red just discussing this article.
This is very painful.
So this is from The Guardian.
This is the latest in performance art.
You know, I've got a buddy of mine who wrote a thesis in college about the further we've gotten away from, well, the sacred where art really originated as we've gotten more into the secular humanist nonsense, art has descended.
It's like the janitor at the museum in Italy threw away an art project.
He thought it was trash.
It actually was a pile of trash.
And so he threw it away, thinking it was what it was.
But apparently it was a very valuable piece of art, according to people who see these things.
I'm sorry, people.
If you think that passing a paint-filled egg out of the nether regions of a woman who's squeezing it with her muscles to squirt the paint out to create a picture as it's happening, if you think that is art, there are a whole host of, well, mental health programs you can check yourself into.
This is not art.
I don't know.
Hard-boiled or soft-boiled.
My question originally was, was it a decorated Easter egg to begin with?
I don't think so.
I don't know.
I mean, they're not her own eggs.
I mean, what came first?
The chicken or the birth canal there?
Apparently, you people have led me down a dark path.
I am ashamed.
I'm going to tell Rush as soon as I get off the air that I don't know how people can even, who comes up with this idea in the story that is talking about another woman.
These are feminists, by the way.
I'm sorry, I should be using my feminist voice.
There's another feminist.
Her art project, I kid you not.
Her art project in the same story about this woman is to run full speed into an aqueduct, like a Roman aqueduct, this is in Europe, and knock herself out.
And that's art for her.
People stand around and watch this woman.
No, this is not art.
This is mental health issues.
It's amazing that we can, in this day and age, confuse artwork and mental health.
I mean, I realize Picasso had issues and stuff, but nowadays, I'm sorry, lady.
Passing eggs out of that, squeezing art out of it, that ain't Picasso.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Your parents must be proud.
I don't even want to ask that on air, Mr. Sterdley.
You will cause people to descend into the gutter even further than I've already caused.
I'm going to like, I'm Presbyterian and I'm going to have to go to confession this afternoon.
The thoughts we're having here.
I'm Eric Erickson.
This is the Rush Limbaugh show, although he can't be proud of that right now.
I honestly, I'm still struggling with what else there could be that you people need to know after that egg story.
I'm, I, you know, Snerdley did ask, I mean, during break, would I rather go see that or the ballet?
And that's a tough one.
I'm thinking egg art.
I'm thinking that.
Next, it'll be Mr. Potato Head or something.
I just, oh my goodness gracious.
You know, I'm still stuck at the end of the show here with the kid who believes that all happy meals must be destroyed because of her.
And I'm not even sure if I should refer to her as a her.
I might refer to her as a he or an it, but because she seems very upset that she might be asked whether she prefers a girl toy or a boy toy.
It boggles my mind that the people who say it's science really don't like that part of science there when it comes to you're either a boy or a girl.
My goodness.
Well, my friends, I hope you haven't been destroyed by this egg story.
I am Eric Erickson.
Fill it in for Rush Limbaugh.
I thought Rush was coming back tomorrow, but apparently I guess I did such a horrible job.
He's going to let somebody else clean up the damage tomorrow and be back on Thursday.
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