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Sept. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, I hope everybody had a great Labor Day weekend.
Of course, how can you how can we still call it Labor Day?
Even a holiday, 94 million people are not laboring.
They're not in the labor force.
What are we celebrating here?
I know tradition.
Anyway, great to have you folks.
Great to be here following a best of program yesterday, a shortened week of broadcast excellence, jam-packed as always.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So basically five different categories today of news.
And in no particular order, the new ill papa, the Pope.
Man, oh man, oh man.
Now he's changing the rules on the nullification of marriage, making it easier and cheaper.
You realize if this guy had been Pope back during the days of Henry VIII, there would not be a Church of England.
He would have allowed Henry VIII to get divorced, nullify his marriage, and go ahead and marry Anne Boleyn, and there would not be the Episcopal Church in the United States today.
If this guy had been Pope back during the days, that's what Church of England's all about.
Henry VIII said, You won't let me divorce this hag?
And uh and the church said no, and then he put Cardinal Cardinal Woolsey was, you know, back and forth here in the middle here.
And uh church would not relent, and people ended up getting assassinated.
We would not have had the story of Thomas Moore.
Uh if if if this guy had been Pope back then, but the Pope then held fast, and so Henry VIII said, I'd screw the Catholic Church.
I'm gonna start my own so I can divorce this babe and marry Anne Boleyn.
And he ended up beheading her anyway, so what was it all worth in the end of the day?
Uh anyway, not only is the Pope telling priests out there to change the rules on the annulment of marriage and making it cheaper.
There are stories of an internal rebellion or revolt in the Vatican.
Oh, by the way, I asked a question last week and I have the answer.
You know, this uh this refugee crisis in the Middle East, it's really not what it is.
It's uh it's an invasion of Europe by the caliphate.
I mean, let's just call it what it is.
There's a massive attempt at a caliphate being formed here, and then taking advantage of the big-hearted liberalism of most of the Western socialist democracies.
Western European socialist democracy.
Anyway, more on that in a moment.
I asked a question, because the Pope is is urging everybody to, you know, let everybody in.
I mean, come on, uh rich nations, you uh you owe it.
I said, does the Vatican open its doors?
You know, the Vatican is a city-state.
You ever been, Snertley?
You ever been there?
Well, it's I it's stunning.
They actually have a wall around the entire city-state.
Or most of it.
I mean, an unscalable, very high wall that dates back in parts to the 16th century.
Trump didn't build the wall.
Uh, I don't know who paid for this wall.
Uh, but anyway, it's it's a wall.
And uh anyway, the Pope said they're gonna allow two migrant families in.
They're they're yes, they are.
I found that out.
They're gonna let two migrant families uh move to the Vatican.
Now, anyway, this there's in there's a there's apparently there's a rebellion within the Vatican among so-called conservative or right-wing cardinals who are very distressed at the direction the current Pope is taking the church, that he's actually single-handedly changing the faith.
The doctrinal faith.
So Fox News had their Catholic priest analyst guest on today, and he was asked about it.
He said, Oh, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Nothing like that going on.
The only revolt going on in Catholic Church is if it's if some priests in Germany are making a move that the church ought to recognize gay marriage.
So this the Fox News uh priest guest just poo-pooed the stories in the Washington Post, by the way, about the internal strife at the Vatican.
Nah, no, no, no.
The only rebellion is a bunch of priests in Germany and maybe Austria who want to really liberalize, which we hadn't heard.
So anyway, in relation to that, this I don't know what you want to call it, the refugee crisis, the migrant crisis, whatever you want to term this is overwhelming Europe has become its own stack today.
How many of you?
I'm relatively sure the answer to this is well over 80%.
How many of you saw the photo of the dead boy washed ashore and then picked up by a soldier?
And how many of you read and believed that this was a result of this immigration crisis of people not being wanted, being forced to leave home, uh, leave poverty, war-torn strife, and so forth.
Well, that story has begun to unravel about the drowned Syrian boy.
Details about, and this is important because it always happens.
Just like in um in one of the most recent periods of hostility between Israel and Hamas.
Uh, supposedly pictures of numerous Israeli attacks on schools and innocent children.
We later found out that the pictures had been photoshopped, entirely made up, and even after the media found out about it, they continued to run them because of course the narrative was all so important.
And it's the same thing here.
Details about the Syrian family of the three-year-old boy who drowned as they made their way to Europe from Turkey on a small dinghy began to emerge recently.
Some things don't add up.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the little boy's father, Abdullah Curdy, was living in a relatively safe area in a Turkish town for three years while working on construction sites for about the equivalent of $17 a day.
However, Curdy, the father, Abdullah Curdy, told a Syria radio station it was not enough to support himself and his family, and he relied on his sister, Tima Curdy, who was a 20-year resident of Canada to assist in paying the rent.
Should be noted here that Tima told reporters Thursday the family had come, just came to Turkey last year, even though the Wall Street Journal points out that he came to Turkey three years ago.
Anyway, the whole thing is not what you think it was.
Tima Curdy, the daughter, told the Wall Street Journal that their father was still in Syria and advised his son to leave Turkey and go to Europe and have his teeth fixed.
It was all about getting affordable dental care that they ended up on a boat on the way to Turkey.
It wasn't that they were fleeing war-torn strife, poverty, or whatever else.
He just needed to go see the dentist.
Took the family to dinghy over capsized, and uh he and his whole family perished.
The father is the only one who survived.
Boat capsized on Wednesday, twelve passengers died as a result, including Abdullah's young sons and wife, he was the only member of the family to survive.
The photo of his three-year-old drowned child on a Turkish beach made headlines across the globe.
But the father sent them on that boat so the father could get dental treatment.
They were in no fear, they were in no persecution, and they were in no danger in Turkey.
Too late.
Now it doesn't matter.
I mean, you could you could blast this story all over.
It could be the lead story, the only story for a solid day, and it wouldn't change.
Public perception from the first time That picture was seen.
So what is the reason for this crisis?
What is this this so-called European refugee crisis?
What's this really what why why is this happening now?
What's at the root of it?
What's the cause of it?
How's it going to be stopped?
What does it mean?
And I'm also amazed at how very few people are in a drive by well, this shouldn't surprise me.
But a whole lot of people are missing the correlation between what we're seeing in Europe and what's happening on our own southern border.
They mirror each other in a number of ways.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
I um uh I got an email over the weekend.
Well, I get lots of emails.
I read, I read an email over the week.
Rush, do you realize you realize your show has just become nothing but three hours of Trump and Hillary?
Well, that's what's in the news.
Of course, that characterization is not entirely correct.
This program's discussed a lot more than that.
For example, whenever I discussed deflate gate, I heard about that from the stick to the issues crowd.
But Trump and Hillary big in the news today.
I mean, and in Hillary's case, how many do-overs does the woman get?
Here's the headline at the Washington Post after a wilting summer.
Clinton hopes for a full rebound.
Do you realize this this is gonna be the third or fourth restart for her campaign?
I think everybody's pretty clear who she is, and everybody knows how she behaves.
The real news in the Hillary campaign is the very public appearances of plugs Biden over the weekend.
And now plugs in a couple of polls has already moved past Bernie Sanders.
So the question, and Rupert Murdoch apparently tweeted out, hey, Biden is looks like he's gonna get the nomination.
Biden's gonna be tough to beat.
That's Robert Murdoch, tweeting.
So the question is, what's Biden?
Well, what is all of this?
Because I still don't, I mean, at this stage, I don't see anybody but Hillary.
And if it's if it's I just don't.
Um I'm not sure what this Biden thing is beyond dipping toe in the water, if it's strategic, if it's generic, if it's genuine with the Democrat Party, you uh you don't really know.
Then Richard Trump is out there talking about how his organized labor guys love Trump.
You know why they love Trump?
Because Trump's out there attacking trade deals.
Trump's out there attacking the Chicoms and all these other people that are importing from us.
Uh or not importing, but they're exporting to us, they're not importing anything from us.
And Trump says that Trump's buds like oh, speaking of Trump, now this is got me to thinking over the weekend.
Did you see the poll?
It was Survey USA, I think.
Trump's got 25% of the African American vote right now.
25% of his support is African American.
Did you see that?
Now, at this stage, a lot of people say, come on, rash, it's too soon.
It doesn't mean anything.
Even you have told us all of these years, polls this far out really can't be counted on to give long-term forecasting what's going to happen.
Maybe so.
I think that that's probably true, and I would probably hold firm to that.
But still, when's the last time you heard of anybody other than a Democrat getting 25% of the black vote?
Anything an election, a poll, uh bake sale, whatever it is.
When's the last time you ever heard of it?
So let's pretend for a moment just for a second that it's real.
Let's say the poll is accurate, got it right, 25% of African Americans support Trump.
Why would that be?
Everybody's not trying to portray Trump as a racist because of this Mexican stuff.
They're trying to portray him as a bigot because it's Mexican immigration stuff.
Why does he get 25% of black support?
No, you're missing it, snurdly.
Snerdly.
It's a good guess.
It's a good guess.
Snerdley says, because he wants a strong economy, because he's right on immigration.
African Americans want to say there's a difference.
There's a the guy is a Republican.
It doesn't matter what they stand for, just because they're Republican.
They're disqualified.
You can't, if you're an African American, so Well, why is he not perceived as a typical if he's not if he's not perceived as a typical Republican, what you don't have to be typical, untypical, atypical, sort of typical.
All you have to have is that R by your name, and you are automatically disqualified.
In 90% of the African American vote, all you need is that name.
Doesn't that letter R. That's all.
That disqualifies you.
You are everything evil that there is in the world.
You're racist, slave master, bigot, sexist, homophobe, all of that, no matter what kind of Republican you are.
So why is Trump?
And he's not a Democrat either.
You want to say he's not your average Republican.
He's not a Democrat.
Well, now you're getting a little warmer.
Now you're getting a little closer.
Uh the answer to this, when I saw that, when I saw 25% of the African in this poll support Trump.
I was taken back to what I had heard was the establishment Republican theory on how Trump was eventually going to fade away and die out or be beaten.
And it reminded me of a couple things.
So look, let me take a break here.
I'll come back and give you the upshot of that as we make our way through all of these various issues today.
Oh another area of the Iran deal.
Uh short version here before we get into it in great detail.
It appears, and for this, I have to rely on people I trust who are extremely well informed on this, honest and objective.
According to people I trust, friends of mine that I know that are deeply, deeply deeply invested in this story.
There is a way for the Congress, for the Senate to stop the Iran deal, even despite the Corker deal.
And in fact, there is a portion of the Corker deal that makes it possible.
It can happen.
And it doesn't involve the treaty clause.
It can happen.
It involves sanctions.
It involves Obama failing to uh uh follow his own commitments uh back in the summer.
It's it's kind of in the weeds, but you know me.
I excel at making the complex understandable.
So all of that, plus your phone calls and whoever oh I was show prep today, start looking at my NFL stuff because the season starts Thursday, and lo and behold, you know what I saw, Brian?
The lead story at NBC Sports Talk is how the Patriots got away with so much more in spygate than anybody ever knew.
I mean, the league has it's incredible.
So the judge rules what he rules, and today the league is somebody at headquarters dumps the latest bunch of news on what a bunch of cheaters and the Patriots have always been.
I mean, I'm telling you out there, folks, there are some real deep divisions in this league.
Among the owners, it just has to, meanwhile, the judge, Richard Berman showed up at a mogul big-time Hamptons party.
Over the weekend where the Patriots owner was in attendance.
So we'll America's real anchor man, Rush Limbaugh, the doctor of democracy, 800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
In other political polling data, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald, Trump leads Hillary head to head.
This is Survey USA came out over the weekend, and it rocked everybody.
First time it's happened.
Trump beats Hillary head to head.
Trump beats Bernie Sanders.
Trump beats Joe Biden.
Trump beats Al Gore.
Trump's surge past Clinton makes a dramatic turnaround in the polls.
CNN orc sampling of national voters in late June, just days after the Trumpster entered the race, found that 59% supported Clinton to 34% picking Trump.
I mean, it doesn't matter if you look at the approval, disapproval, or the straight head up polling.
Trump has performed an amazing 180 in record time.
We spoke last week, back in May, Trump's favorables were 29, unfavorable 62.
Today they're just the exact opposite.
They're either 59 to 62 approve and in the high 20s disapprove.
That is major image makeover.
That is dramatic.
And everybody in politics, how the heck you just can't do that.
You can't change your public perception that fast.
How you it's not possible.
Takes years.
And it takes a series of glowing articles.
I mean, sick of fantic suck-up stories year after year before somebody's public image changes for the better.
And you can lose it overnight, but rebuilding it like that doesn't happen.
So it it then leads to, okay, how is it that Trump in this survey USA, I think it's survey USA, getting 25% of the African American vote.
Snurdly, what did you say your theory was it was a um celebrity?
Is that what your your explanation for why Trump's got 25% of the African American vote?
Um that's that's that's pretty close.
You know the Republican theory on Trump was that his name recognition was 100%.
He had nowhere to go.
Except down.
People already know him, and they know what they think of him.
And so the other candidates got a long way to go.
Get their name recognition up and their public image of Trump.
All they can do is fade.
Except that's not happening.
Why?
The key when we get back.
No, no, no, that's not why this is happening at all.
I just I was gonna comment during the break about this refugee crisis.
Look, it's very simple, folks.
This this refugee crisis or this this invasion, this migration, whatever you want to call it, this is not being brought about by famine.
It's not being brought about by disease, war-torn strife or any of that.
You know who's to blame for this?
And I know it's it's it sounds easy to say this.
Barack Obama is no Winston Churchill, neither is David Cameron.
Current Western leaders have nothing whatsoever in common with the strongmen that have run Western democracies in the past.
In fact, speaking of Obama, you know this is true as well as I do.
Obama came to office believing that the problem in the world was the United States.
And he's not alone.
Leftist after leftist in this country and in other countries believe that the focus of evil in the modern world is the United States.
We're just too big.
We're too powerful.
We're everywhere.
We take what we want, we leave poverty in our wake.
All of the that's why Obama runs around, did run around apologizing to everybody.
These guys actually believed.
Obama specifically, but other Western European democracy like David Cameron in the UK and so forth.
They really believe, but Obama especially.
That's why the world is in a constant state of uh anxiety and corruption.
Just get the U.S. out of everything, and everything will stabilize.
And that's what they really believed, and probably still do.
So once you once you understand that, and once you've come to accept that, they believe, remember Obama when he when he uh one of his speeches in the campaign, his election would mean that the earth would now heal, and that sea levels would now fall, and all that.
He was being dead serious.
His election meant that the United States was going to be diminished and present less of a problem to the rest of the world.
And as the United States retreated, as it got out of the which we've done.
As the United States became less consequential, less present, they believed the world would improve because we were the harmful agent.
We were the destabilizing agent.
How many times have you heard Madeline Orbright ru the day the Soviet Union imploded?
No, see, we needed two superpowers to keep each other on us.
The concept of the U.S. is the good guys is forever gone on the left.
There is no U.S. good guys.
We're the bad guys.
Or if not the bad guys, we're the troublemakers.
Just because of our own illegitimacy and the unfairness of our superpower status and our swagger all over the world, it created destabilization.
Get us out of these places, and they would just miraculous transform themselves into decent functioning countries and governments.
Because of the power and the influence and the charisma of Barack Obama and the gratitude these people would all have for Obama and his retreat of the United States.
There's no question that's what this is all about.
And so what happened was that the world's real bad guys lost any opposition, us.
There was no moral authority anywhere in the world where corrupt dictatorships and tyranny were the order of the day, and the dictators and the military junta thugs and so forth were allowed to run roughshod over their people, and this is what you get.
This is, I mean, we we you know Iraq was in a decent place.
Obama was he was even taking credit for the policies in Iraq.
That's that when he made the announcement we're gonna get out.
Never forget that day with Obama running around taking credit for the Iraq policy.
It was that stable.
It was so good, it was running so well that we could get out.
So while Obama tries to do away with America's arsenal of nuclear weapons and reduce the American footprint in the world under the premise that U.S. presence had been the problem.
The bad guys simply filled the void left by us.
The bad guys simply filled the vacuum.
The belief that all these foreign leaders and other these other countries, European and otherwise, were superior to us, where they just never had the chance to show it because of our omnipresence.
Don't doubt me on this.
And that's the root of this.
Now, if you you can you just are you serious, Russia?
You really want to blame Obama?
Yeah, folks, I nothing in it here for me to come here and make this up, lie about it.
What's there to gain?
I just don't think there's any question whatsoever about this.
That's why Cheney and his daughter have written a book.
And why American leadership is required worldwide?
It's a responsibility we have.
A lot of Americans may not like it.
May not like that this is our role, may not like that this is what we have to do, but leadership and power often require this kind of presence.
In the process, we also defend ourselves when we are standing for liberty and freedom, anti-tyranny and dictatorship all over the world.
We are also making the same statements about our own domestic life.
But I'm just telling you, all of this that's happening, all of this that you see, these refugees, whatever you want to call them, it's man-made.
You know, after World War II, Adolf Hitler, I mean, the world was a genuine mess.
Who put it back together?
Who established a sense of worldwide Order among the Western Democratic and Free Nations of the world.
Who did that?
We did.
Who's who's torn it apart now?
Who has unraveled it?
Who has basically come along and said that it was illegitimate, should never happen.
It's not our job, not our responsibility.
We don't have the right to tell other people how to live.
We don't have the right to impose freedom on people.
Never knew freedom was an imposition, but now back to Trump and the 25% of the black vote.
And the Republican theory, the establishment theory is that Trump has only one way to go when it comes to name recognition and uh public image, and that's down.
Since he's got 100% name recognition, then people have already formed their opinions of him.
And so they think that he's just going to eventually fade away as the other candidates start spending money to let people know they exist, get their names out there, that Trump will eventually fade away.
This was, and this is the consultant class favored theory to explain Trump.
And all of it went out the window when they saw this massive reversal from unfavorable to favorable from May to the present.
Trump.
Then 25% of the by the way, 30% of the Hispanic vote in the same poll where Trump was getting 25% of the African American vote.
Well, let's look at Trump maybe a different way.
What if I always politics, I've always said, is showbiz for the ugly.
Politics.
You know the White House correspondence dinner.
That is the political equivalent of the Oscars.
They're big soiree of the year.
But look at what has to happen for that party to have any glitter at all.
They have to import real celebrities.
Because political celebrities are not really celebrities.
They might think they are.
And there are a few who are exceptions, like Bill Clinton.
But even at that, you wouldn't put Clinton in the A-list in the same way that a movie or TV celebrity is a star.
Now, how do most people know Donald Trump?
They know him through a bunch of things, but primarily through a television show.
Actually, two TV shows, The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice.
And what happens on those shows?
Have you ever watched them?
You haven't.
Well, of course, the you're fired slogan is the one.
But on those shows, Donald Trump's the boss.
There are people of all races on those shows.
Contestants, people of all genders, orientations, ethnicity, nationality.
They're all treated the same.
They're all treated with respect.
They're all treated as they are, winners or losers.
And if they're losers, Trump's tells them they're losers.
Gives everybody a shot, though.
There's no favoritism.
There's no special treatment.
He is the commanding presence.
He is perceived as the expert in everything and anything that comes up for discussion on either of those shows.
He's seen as likable.
He's seen as fair.
There is no racism on that show.
There is no bigotry.
There is no homophobia or any of that.
And it is also what?
Reality TV.
It's not scripted, although it is, but it's not perceived as scripted.
It's perceived as real.
And I'm telling you that millions and millions and far, I mean, millions more people have seen Trump on those two shows than have ever seen the Daily Show or the Colbert report.
Millions, millions more.
So you have that.
That's people's real life experience with Trump, watching him on TV, which is a big deal.
People think big TV is a big deal.
It makes you starving on TV.
So here comes over here, whoever it is in the media or in the party saying Trump's a racist.
Or a bigot, because of what he said about the Mexicans or that, but that conflicts with what the people who've watched him on TV have seen.
And they haven't seen any of that.
They haven't seen any bigotry.
They haven't seen any mean-spiritedness.
They haven't seen any extremism.
They've just seen a very successful, funny guy, dead serious about people succeeding.
Okay.
And if they don't, they're gone.
They are there to make him look good, and it's his job to get the best to do what has to be done.
And if they don't qualify, they're gone.
It doesn't matter if he knows them or not.
There's no favoritism, there's no special treatment, everybody's treated the same.
In fact, who was one of the biggest stars to come out of those TV shows?
A black woman named Omarosa Stalworth, who is still a recognizable celebration.
I think she's got a cameo type appearance still on one of those shows.
So the whole Republican establishment theory about what's going to take Trump out is maybe challenged a little bit by the reality of how it is that PME's got a name recognition of 100%.
His favorabilities now have moved up to the 60s.
The people that were being polled back in May, unfavorable favorability may have been strictly people that make judgments based on politics and so forth.
But whatever, there's been a dramatic shift in Trump's favorable and unfavorable numbers.
And he's doing things that candidates on the Republican side haven't shown in polls or elections in decades.
And so you can either say, well, it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't matter.
It's so early, it's just people having fun.
Nobody's taking Trump seriously.
It's like Schwarzenegger rush.
Ain't gonna matter.
In fact, if he wins, it's gonna be disaster, blah, blah.
Or you can say it's real and start asking why.
Anyway, I take a break here a little long here in this segment, back in just a second.
To the phones, and we are going to start Toledo, Ohio.
This is Norm.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey, hey.
How are you doing?
I'm great, sir.
Thank you for asking.
Man, it's just such an honor to talk to you.
Well, thank you.
Very well.
I understand I appreciate that very, very much.
I didn't even actually think I'd be this soon, to tell you the truth.
Well, it happened anyway.
It happened.
You need to make it count.
The thing I wanted to talk to you about today is Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, yes.
And the thing that I just don't think that people understand is that they just don't get it.
The columnists, the writers, the people, the talking heads, uh, all these people that think they know politics and and tradition and how it's done and all this other stuff.
I just don't think that they understand that the people that support Donald Trump, they want John Wayne in the office, an American, a man's man.
You know, I have a uh a really it's a it's a long piece.
It's a good piece here by a website uh called Conservative Treehouse, no doubt inspired by me.
Uh well, most of the conservatism in the media is inspired.
I mean, there wasn't any of it until I came upon.
Of course.
I mean, it is what it is.
Conservative Treehouse and open letter to Jonah Goldberg, R. E. the GOP and Donald Trump.
Jonah Goldberg at National Review wrote a piece recently saying, if Trump's conservatism count me out, I'm not conservative, and these guys are responding to it.
It's actually quite good.
Yeah.
And I'll share it with him.
They've got more time in the next hour.
Let me ask you a question of another guy, Ben Shapiro, who is a young conservative columnist, admittedly inspired by me.
Says he's got he likes Trump, but he's a little frightened because he sees parallels to this and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In the sense that Schwarzenegger goes on TV one night, Jay Leno tonight show, and all of a sudden, the next thing we know, he's a governor of California.
He's a candidate, and Everybody's going, my God, this is exactly what we need.
Exactly what you said, John White, tough guy.
No nonsense.
But what happened?
Well, Schwarzenegger ended up hurting the Republican Party and conservatives, if you want, to the point now that the left and the Democrat Party literally own the state of California.
According to Ben Shapiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger was an abject total disaster because he really wasn't a conservative, and it mattered.
He really wasn't, and when he got into office, it was too easy.
Warren Buffett was able to bully him out of it, and a bunch of other people were able to bully him, and he became just what every Republican today is.
Like me, love me, whatever it takes.
Do you have that?
You see any kind of similarity to that and what Trump is and could be?
No.
Well, that is.
Not today.
That was then.
That was then.
This is now.
This is this is now because I want to tell you something.
Trump is not Schwarzenegger, that's what you're gonna say.
No.
And this country, and I you know what I love about him, is that he says what he says, and he means what he says.
There's no qua look, I have to be rude and interrupt because of time.
I gotta go.
Really do.
We're out of time.
I don't mean to be rude.
I really wasn't being rude.
I had to do it.
Okay, sit tight, my friends.
We got much more straight ahead here on the always exciting, never, never predictable Rush Limbaugh program here on The Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Lots coming up.
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