Dec. 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your EIB anger baby, Mark Stein, honored to be uh here for Christmas Eve and EIB Christmas Eve, Anchor Baby under the tree. | |
| What could be nicer? | |
| Christmas Day tomorrow. | |
| It's uh authentic EIB certified seasonal music for three hours for your Christmas Day listening pleasure. | |
| Uh Boxing Day is not observed at the EIB network. | |
| That's a totally un-American activity. | |
| If you're even thinking of celebrating Boxing Day, you should be ashamed of yourself. | |
| Uh and then Monday, the great Mark Belling will be here. | |
| Mark Belling uh returns to the Golden EIB microphone on Monday. | |
| Uh we we have no Mr. Snerdley, you Alva sometimes I do the Boxing Day show, and Mr. Snurley always asks me what the meaning of Boxing Day is. | |
| It's w it's when and he's just done it now, even though I've just said there's no Boxing Day show this year. | |
| Uh and Mr. Surly just asked what Boxing Day is. | |
| It's uh uh it's the day it comes from the day when you would give presents to your servants. | |
| So you would give them a box of something uh that they would be being grateful servants, they would receive the box from his lordship humbly and thankfully and take it away. | |
| They didn't get their presents on Christmas Day like you big shots do. | |
| Uh they had to wait till Boxing Day when they would be they they would uh open up a box and inside there would be a groat or something like that. | |
| And they would uh yeah, there would be a bit of maybe a hand me down from her ladyship that she didn't want any more, so she left it for the chambermaid. | |
| That's what they did on Boxing Day. | |
| And actually, oddly enough, uh that's how it is at the Obama White House, too. | |
| There's a story uh in uh where where did I see this? | |
| Uh oh about why George W. Bush never left the Washington area until the day after Christmas. | |
| When when Bush, when the Bush family were in the White House, they used to stay in Washington until around the twenty sixth or the twenty-seventh. | |
| The reason being that they wanted all their staffers to have Christmas with their family before they flew off to Crawford on their vacation. | |
| Because the presidential entourage is so bad and so large that when it flies off somewhere, what it means is that uh all your vague all your footmen and all the other attendees upon his Imperial Majesty the President can't be at home with their families. | |
| And the Bush family used to wait to leave town until the twenty-sixth or the twenty-seventh. | |
| You can look this up. | |
| There's a story about it, uh I saw somewhere today. | |
| But you can look it up, and uh they always left the twenty-sixth or the twenty-seventh so that their staffers could enjoy Christmas with their family. | |
| And now Obama can't wait to hit the links in Hawaii, so he always leaves early, so none of the Obama staffers get to spend Christmas with their family, and none of the fawning journalists do either. | |
| The fawning journalists don't get to spend Christmas with their family. | |
| They instead have to spend Christmas in Hawaii uh watching Obama hit these golf butts. | |
| So uh yeah, no, I don't suppose a lot of these it's hard to imagine some of these grotesque grovelling hacks would be capable of forming a relationship that would lead to a family, but nevertheless, uh they don't get to spend Christmas they got to spend Christmas with their families in the Bush presidency, they don't in the Obama era. | |
| Nevertheless, Obama is the only guy who can save the country, according to Politico this morning, is saying, why Obama must reach out to Angry Whites? | |
| You know, we by the way, this phrase angry whites, we always hear this phrase, angry whites, angry whites. | |
| Whites are angry, whites are angry. | |
| There's not a lot of anger. | |
| There's a kind of uh sad despair and a fatalism about uh certain things. | |
| But this idea that it's a somehow incoherent rage that's just being expressed in the Republican Party. | |
| That's not what it is at all. | |
| What we're seeing uh in the Republican movement uh uh is actually a great happiness. | |
| Uh Trump himself is a happy warrior, Ted Cruz is a happy warrior, most of these Republican candidates are. | |
| The idea that there's a somehow a great angry rage, incoherent rage, people are actually being very calm about it. | |
| But politico is saying that white America is becoming a minority. | |
| And so they need to be reassured by somebody other than Trump. | |
| If they wait for Trump to reassure them, then we will uh wind up living in a racially divided country. | |
| And that would be terribly unpleasant. | |
| And we would have a horrible bipartisan we would have a partisan split right down the center of the country. | |
| People would be separated on the basis of identity politics and race and gender. | |
| And Trump is just this person who wants to divide people. | |
| So we what needs to happen is that somebody else other than Trump needs to recognize that all these angry, irrational white people out there need reassuring from somebody else. | |
| Somebody other than Trump has to be their voice. | |
| Because if we let Trump become their voice, then this will just become a horrible, unpleasant, polarized, divided nation. | |
| You probably can't even imagine an America like that. | |
| God knows what it would be like. | |
| It would be it'd be amazing. | |
| And there's only one person, says Politico. | |
| Who is this guy in Politico? | |
| By the way, what's the name of his show comments? | |
| I can't find this guy's name, but this is either the most brilliant parody ever written or uh or this guy is uh this guy is some kind of genius. | |
| This politico writer says there is only one person who can unite the country again, and he works in the White House. | |
| Yes, President Barack Obama, ironically, the man who is the personification of the fear Trump is exploiting is the one in the best position to quell the anger being stirred up. | |
| This is not something the president can do from the Oval Office or from a stage. | |
| What he needs to do is use the power of the office in a different way. | |
| Obama needs to go on a listening tour of white America to connect in person with Americans he has either been unable or unwilling to reach during his seven years in office. | |
| This is Isaac Bailey who has penned this, he's come up with the idea. | |
| He says and he writes as a black man who has spent the past decade listening to white Southern conservatives. | |
| People who many assume would hate me. | |
| I have the battle scars and rare friendships to prove it, including one with a member of the Sons of Confederate veterans who may help me in a criminal justice reform push. | |
| This guy is recommending that Obama go on a listening tour of white Americans. | |
| He's yeah, the this Isaac Bailey is saying that some of his best friends are not just some of his best friends are white, but some of his best friends are sons of Confederate veterans. | |
| This is this is the new line. | |
| It's not some of my best friends are Jewish, no, we don't do that. | |
| Well, some of my best friends are the sons of Confederate veterans. | |
| Some of my best friends are daughters of the American Revolution. | |
| This is the new line now. | |
| Uh that actually is what they're really worried about. | |
| And and that's that's right in theory, that Obama ought to be the president of all the people. | |
| It's not just that he hasn't governed like that, but that he explicitly announced that he's basically penance for the uh two and a third centuries of hell that came before him. | |
| He's the guy who uh told uh Hugo Chavez when Hugo Chavez and uh the the Castro, Raoul Castro were complaining about the Bay of Pigs, he said, Don't blame me, I wasn't even born then. | |
| It's like he's not he's not representing the United States of America. | |
| He's representing the United States of Obama. | |
| He's the guy who, when he went to celebrate the uh twenty fifth anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. | |
| He said, who could have foreseen that twenty years after the Ber a mere twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down, a black man would be president of the United States. | |
| Because If you're in the prison state of Eastern Germany, if you're banged up in one of those Warsaw packed prison states, all you were really working for was to get that wall down uh so you could see Obama elected as president of the United States. | |
| I don't somehow think this guy is a listening kind of guy. | |
| I just don't get that impression. | |
| So I don't think that's going to happen. | |
| But uh at heart is something interesting there. | |
| Uh that the idea would be we shouldn't just be appealing to our base. | |
| It shouldn't just be a base election. | |
| It shouldn't just be you get your uh you get your constituency and I get my constituency, and we have a great turnout opera. | |
| This is how American elections go. | |
| You have a great turnout operation. | |
| Romney uh was shocked that he lost on election night because he'd got a state of the art computer system that was identifying which voters were that people needed to call to get the little old lady to the polls to vote for Romney. | |
| And he'd got this he'd found some hot shot software guy that had developed a software program. | |
| There's a great software program about getting his base to turn out, and instead Obama somehow in got hold of a guy who had a better software program, and the Obama software program was better getting the Obama uh little old lady out to the polls to vote for Obama. | |
| And again, Trump isn't doing any of that. | |
| Trump's just saying, hey, I'm Donald Trump, and this is what I think. | |
| And uh if you're interested in voting for me, uh I'd love to have you on board. | |
| And he's happy to talk. | |
| Rush mentioned this the other day. | |
| He's not someone. | |
| He's happy to go on any show. | |
| He's happy to talk to anybody. | |
| He goes on MSNBC. | |
| Uh he goes on CNN, he goes in front of hostile interviewers, and they all love him because he's great for ratings. | |
| And he but he's happy to take his message out beyond the base. | |
| He's happy to he d Hillary Clinton, you've got to undergo a background check to get into her events. | |
| You've got to provide a social security number to get into a Hillary Clinton campaign event. | |
| And if they admit you, if they let you in, you have to sign something saying you're gonna work for Hillary Clinton's election. | |
| Anyone can get into a Trump event. | |
| That's why he gets uh asked all these wacky questions from people uh from time to time that the media make a fuss about. | |
| So we have actually got someone here who isn't just playing to his base and isn't just taking it to whichever candidate happens uh w whichever part of his base. | |
| It's not a turnout model. | |
| He's happy to go and talk to hostile people, he's happy to go on hostile networks, and as Rush was saying, Rush described Trump as a happy warrior. | |
| He's enjoying the campaign, and he's not fighting one of these ones where he's just being directed by consultants down an error narrower path, dependent on a terr where you basically say, This is my little group, and we've got a great turnout model that is gonna ensure everyone in my little group turns out. | |
| We don't know whether it'll work. | |
| It might go belly up in Iowa, which is that uh caucus system, and you need to have great organization. | |
| In New Hampshire, he might pull lots of independence into the Republican primary, and it might work for him. | |
| We don't know whether it's gonna work. | |
| But it's different, and it's actually doing what that guy uh says in Politico that Obama We'll take your calls straight ahead on the EIB. | |
| Mark Stein uh for us, uh it's the uh it's Christmas Eve. | |
| It's just I love Christmas. | |
| I love Christmas music on uh on Christmas Eve. | |
| You can't people get upset because now they they start these, you know, these special Christmas channels and the restaurants put the Christmas tape on in the beginning of November and it's too early and people but uh Christmas Eve. | |
| If you don't like the Christmas music on Christmas Eve, you're looking at the whole deal uh all wrong. | |
| Breaking news, Governor Jerry Brown in California has pardoned Robert Downey Jr. for 1990s drug offenses. | |
| Robert Downey Jr. who plays Iron Man in Iron Man and Iron Man Two and Iron Man Twelve and whatever it's up to by now, uh and spent time uh behind bars on drug convictions, has received the traditional Christmas Eve pardon from uh Governor Jerry Brown for his past crimes. | |
| It's become an annual Christmas Eve tradition in California that he has now been pardoned. | |
| So Robert Downey Jr. is starting Christmas. | |
| He's been moved from the naughty list to the nice list for this Christmas. | |
| Let's go to Bob in Hubbard, Ohio. | |
| Bob, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Yeah, good afternoon, Mark. | |
| I I'd like to revisit George Will for just a moment. | |
| Several weeks ago, he appeared on the O'Reilly program and they were discussing O'Reilly's book about Reagan, and Will accused Rile uh O'Reilly of several inaccuracies in his publication, his recent book. | |
| And Riley proceeded to show him chapter and verse where he was correct in all his assumptions and his observations regarding Reagan. | |
| At which point um there was some raised voices back and forth and he called George Will exactly what he is a hack. | |
| He's not a Republican. | |
| He is a um an elitist um uh who is in the pocket of all of the rest of the elitists in Washington DC to purport himself as being anything but is a lie um he will be in the Clinton's pocket when it suits his his need. | |
| I predicted on this very program the day that um uh Trump announced he was running that he was for real. | |
| He was in it to win it and he is and will be um the Democrats and the establishment's worst nightmare. | |
| And um one other thing I would like to add before I let you go is that I live out here in the rust belt of America and there's a lot of blue collar folks out here who work right now still in the mill, still in the steel mills and also for General Motors blue collar people. | |
| I'm hearing these people say to the man and woman I'm voting for Donald Trump the the establishment Republicans and Democrats don't seem to understand that the American blue collar person, the middle class American, sees his country being torn apart and going down the drain and his economic strength going down the drain with it. | |
| And this is a very um frightened populace out here and in the United States and the Republicans and the Democrats as well are going to pay the price. | |
| And I have to tell you and I will make this prediction on your program now if in fact Trump does get the nomination that he will go after Hillary Clinton with a vengeance and there is no one with more baggage than the Clintons and more dishonest baggage than the Clintons. | |
| So he can do a really fine job of dicing and slicing Miss Clinton and to for her to to um try to make the American female believe that they she's on their side women aren't that stupid. | |
| This is the woman that every woman that her husband raped she sent out private detectives to harass, threaten, cajole bribe, whatever it would take and uh the American people know this and and the longer she goes the more obvious it becomes so wish you a merry Christmas and a and a happy new year. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Happy New Year to you uh to you too Bob and you you're right I mean uh I don't know how people can swallow this when Hillary Clinton said uh a couple of weeks ago that uh female uh people females who say they've been the victims of sexual assault should always be believed. | |
| That's what Hillary actually stood up and said that. | |
| Yeah unless your name is Jennifer Flowers or Paula Jones or Kathleen Willie or any of the other ones uh Juanita Broderick uh you might want to put some ice on that nobody believes that no that we shouldn't believe it when uh when Juanita Broadwick Broderick said uh you might want to put some ice on that but every other woman should be believed. | |
| No, and you know what all the nice guys, the nice candidates, Mick Romney's too much of a gentleman. | |
| He wouldn't he wouldn't he's not going to go there. | |
| Uh and uh John McCain wouldn't go there. | |
| And Bob Dole wouldn't go there. | |
| And uh but it but if it's Hillary gonna uh against Trump it's gonna be no rules uh extreme presidential election like like you haven't said before like you've never seen before. | |
| Now Bob made an interesting point there that I want to pick up uh when we come back after the break because what he said about the Rust belt I'm I'm not in the Rust belt. | |
| It's essentially paper mills and pulp mills and uh uh forestry industry type mills that have been closed as sawmills and whatnot that are closed down in my part of New Hampshire, but exactly the same thing. | |
| That what you need to lead a middle class life in America is slipping because of uh economic factors beyond your control, supported by both parties, has been slipping beyond your uh grasp. | |
| So that what you need to live a middle class life in America is no longer achievable for large parts of the country. | |
| Hey, that's me. | |
| I was expecting that. | |
| That's me by pal uh Jessica doing the Mariah Carey uh song, All I Want for Christmas is you. | |
| You know, that's a two octave song. | |
| Uh it's a it's uh people think it's just you know an easy thing to see. | |
| It's actually a two octave song that says, and all the lights are shining somebody everywhere. | |
| That's way up there. | |
| I don't want it's all way down there. | |
| And it's uh I got to I got two octaves in me, and I'll I make no claim for my version of that song. | |
| Well, I uh I but I will say this is better than the Michael Bublet version. | |
| The Michael Bublé, he doesn't do the big high note at the end, right? | |
| You know that all I want for Christmas is I get up there. | |
| I don't want to tell you what's involved, but we had to go full Caitlin Jenner to get me up there. | |
| Uh but uh it's I did the high note that that uh my Michael, yeah, I do you you talk about Hillary getting schlong. | |
| I tell you uh I was way up there, whatever that is, top, top G, top A, I think, and uh Michael Bublet ducks out and and goes down. | |
| So uh anyway, from from my Christmas album, that's from my Christmas album, uh uh the name of the album is Making Spirits Bright. | |
| But uh if you don't i uh and it can be purchased uh at uh at Abbason at iTunes at all those places. | |
| And while you're at it, pick up my cat album, Feline Groovy, too, because uh that's good fun. | |
| So from uh this is one of those uh this uh oh yeah, people can reach me at Twitter how my Twitter handle is uh Mark Stein Online, and I'm also you can follow me on Facebook and you can find me on the internet at uh Steinonline.com. | |
| Uh but the easiest way to reach me is to just uh fax me on my motorbike. | |
| So uh that's that's the quickest way to get hold of me directly. | |
| Uh this is one of the the uh that would be yes, uh Mr. Snerdley is probably here. | |
| That's S T E Y N as in why do I have to listen to this crazy foreigner promoting all his social media sites. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now this is one of those complete transitions that only a trained professional broadcaster could master. | |
| From my singing to camel urine. | |
| Uh the Saudi uh the Saudi authorities have closed down a shop selling uh traditional camel urine drinks after discovering that the owner had been filling the bottles with his own urine. | |
| Camel urine, I should explain that camel Mohammed recommended drinking camel uh urine. | |
| Uh i the prophet Mohammed says in the Quran, some people of Uki or and Urana tribes came to Medina and the climate did not suit them. | |
| So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of camels and to drink their milk and urine. | |
| And so ever since then, because Mohammed told them drink the camel urine, it's great for you. | |
| It does wonders for you. | |
| Drink you can't go wrong if you drink a nice couple of pints of camel urine every day, it'll perk you right up. | |
| And so ever since Mohammed told them to drink, the Prophet, peace be upon him, uh told them to drink the camel urine. | |
| Uh they've been drinking, they've been face down. | |
| The discriminating Saudi has been face down in the camel urine. | |
| It's like and Mr. Snerdley is looking at me saying, This cannot be true. | |
| It is like you going to uh the fanciest restaurant in New York, Mr. Snerdley, and ordering a bottle of the 2009 Chateau Margot or something like that. | |
| Uh and and uh it's it's like yeah, it is. | |
| It's like you'd get like you ask the sommelier if you were at uh the rainbow room. | |
| You'd ask the sommelier to br to bring you to bring you the wine list. | |
| When you're in a fancy Saudi, upscale Saudi restaurant. | |
| This is, by the way, in the port city of Al Kunfunda. | |
| Uh if you're in the city of Al Kunfunda and you're at a fancy restaurant, you ask the Sommelier to bring you the list so you can pick out which is the your preferred uh best kind of camel urine. | |
| Because they're like years for it. | |
| There's like the I said the 2009 Chateau Margot was a particularly good year, and you would be annoyed if you were at the uh at the cafe Carlisle and you ordered the 2009 Chateau Margot and the waiter just went into the kitchen and peed in a glass and brought it back to you, you would you would be saying, hey, this is this is pretty uh this doesn't taste right for uh uh for six thousand bucks, this doesn't taste right. | |
| And uh and that's what happened, this guy. | |
| This guy uh runs the best camel urine joint in Al Kunfunda in Saudi Arabia, and they discovered that uh when people were going in saying uh I'll have uh I'll have a magnum of your best camel urine, and he would just be going out into the kitchen and filling it up himself. | |
| And how now he has been uh uh arrested. | |
| But there is a serious point to this. | |
| The World Health Organization has uh blamed uh the spread of Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus on the practice of uh drinking camel urine. | |
| So although John Kerry has assured us that all this Jihad business is nothing to do with Islam, Obama has assured us it's nothing to do with Islam. | |
| Hillary has assured us it's nothing to do with Islam. | |
| Uh maybe we could maybe we could look into whether it is actually caused by excessive intake of camel urine. | |
| Uh, because certainly in uh Saudi Arabia it appears to be causing certain I don't know what the symptoms of uh Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus are, uh, but it uh does appear to be causing uh causing some problems. | |
| But it's something to look out for. | |
| If you're sitting around the Christmas table tomorrow and uh you're celebrating, and everyone says, Well, I've just actually I've just flown in from Saudi Arabia, and I was fortunate to be able to pick up a bottle. | |
| I was in Al Kunfunda down at the port, and they gave me this fab. | |
| Why don't we have it with our big uh Christmas uh turkey, and we'll have this fabulous bottle of uh really primo camel urine. | |
| I only paid 12,000 bucks for it. | |
| Be warned that this guy has just been taken into custody because he's just been filling all the bottles himself. | |
| This is uh this is the uh this is uh breaking news out of Al Kunfunda this moment right now at uh at Al Kunfunda. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush. | |
| Uh before we go, I do I I I want to remind you that if you are still because we're now getting it's like 2.40 Eastern time, that's 1140 Pacific time. | |
| It don't even think about going out and trying to get your loved one a uh bottle of prestigious Saudi camel urine for Christmas. | |
| It's too late. | |
| The they've run out of the good stuff, they've just got the lousy cheap camel herders' own urine in the stores. | |
| You go to the Mall of America, uh, you go down Rodeo Drive, the best liquor store on Rodeo Drive, they're all out of the premium camel urine. | |
| Don't even think about it. | |
| Instead, what you need to do is go to Rushlimbaugh.com and buy your loved one a rush 24-7 subscription. | |
| You can get Rush uh any form you want to get him in. | |
| You can get him three hours a day on the Ditto Cam on your schedule. | |
| So if you want to watch Rush on the Ditto Cam, nine o'clock at night, two in the morning, whenever you want to do it, you can do it. | |
| All you gotta do is go to Rush247.com and sign up, your loved one for a rush 24-7 subscription, and they will thank you for it. | |
| They will be popping the camel urine corks for you if there's a rush 24-7 subscription in their Christmas stocking tomorrow morning. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, lots Well, Chipotle, I think Chipotle, actually. | |
| Yeah, Chipotle does seem to have a a I think that's the special Source, isn't it? | |
| The uh that's that's the old uh yeah, it's like when you have the camel urine in a cooley form, I think that's when it becomes particular. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So you might want to skip the uh the camel year in dressing at Chipotle over there season. | |
| That's true. | |
| Mark Snide for Rush, lots more still to go. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, Christmas Eve on America's number one radio show. | |
| Uh Mr. Snurdley uh doesn't quite get the whole cabal urine thing. | |
| He's wondering after you've been with your 72 virgins, uh is it really that's it? | |
| You celebrate with a couple of bottles of camel urine. | |
| Yeah, nothing, nothing when you're out with uh your 72 virgins, just it's camel urines all around. | |
| That's all you need to help the party go with the go with the swing. | |
| By the way, um if you're in Saudi Arabia uh and you're thinking of uh ordering the eggnog and it tastes like it's got a little something extra in it this Christmas, that might uh that might that might be the issue there. | |
| I want to just say, I want to just say one thing because uh I had uh uh uh some tweets from some lady who's a Rick Santorum supporter, and uh and so switched off the show because I was talking about all the non-Romneys in the season of 2012. | |
| Uh there was uh Michelle Bachmann, there was Rick Perry, there was Herman Cain, there was Newt Gingrich, and she said, What about what about Rick Santorum? | |
| You didn't mention Rick Santorum. | |
| So I'm I'm this is just part of Russia's conspiracy against Rick Santorum. | |
| You're not telling the truth about Rick Santorum, so we're switching. | |
| I got nothing against Rick Santorum. | |
| I I've I've met him, I think once in New Ham in Southern New Hampshire uh at some event and uh just before the New Hampshire primary, he's a delightful man. | |
| We talked about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is where I think his grandfather came from, and we had uh very pleasant conversation. | |
| He's uh he's a very interesting man. | |
| He has an he's staked out some interesting turf in this particular election uh because he's recognized that the Romney message basically uh for people who are downwardly mobile, which ought to be a phenomenon that doesn't really exist in America but is now widespread for downwardly mobile families, | |
| Rick Santorum has given some thought uh to some kinds of uh economic reinvigoration that might actually uh give life some purpose and meaning for families who are who right now are going nowhere. | |
| I got nothing against Rick Santorum. | |
| But this idea that because somebody doesn't mention Rick Santorum, you switch off the radio show is actually one uh is actually one of the problems here. | |
| You're not gonna get this isn't about a messiah. | |
| This isn't about uh electing uh Obama. | |
| This isn't about wanting to buy uh wanting to follow your favorite pop star like Justin Bieber. | |
| Uh in uh I I mentioned in parliamentary systems uh the other, if you if you're in Canada, the thing about head of state and head of government is is that they're separate. | |
| So the head of state is the Queen and the Prime Minister comes and goes, and you you're not in a parliamentary system you don't get invested in it. | |
| I read some survey in Switzerland that something like 29% of Swiss people couldn't name their prime minister because he's he's actually not that important. | |
| He's just some dull guy in a suit and they come along once in a while, and then there's another dull guy in a suit. | |
| And here, uh, because it's a presidential system, this uh this guy looms larger in all our lives because he's there all the time. | |
| You're basically electing someone who is going to be in your face for the next four or eight years. | |
| But you will never get uh a dream candidate, and you shouldn't be looking for a dream candidate. | |
| Uh whoever you see whoever you eventually becomes the nominee of the Republican Party will be someone who has pluses or minuses. | |
| And you hope they have more pluses than minuses, and you also hope they're able to win. | |
| But this idea of investing everything in someone who happens to be running in the Iowa caucus or the New Hampshire primary is a very weird way of looking at politics in life. | |
| And the point about conservatism is that politics isn't all consuming. | |
| In on the left, politics is everything. | |
| Politic, which is Why suddenly things that don't have never seemed political ever in human history, like the bathroom a transgendered person uh uses is suddenly a burning political issue on the left because everything is political. | |
| Everything is political on the left. | |
| And what Rush said before he checked out on Tuesday about how uh over these next few days, think about what's important, turn your eyes to God, spend time with your family, spend time in the non-political space of your world. | |
| Because the left wants everything to crush in on that, so that a bakery deciding whether it's going to cater this event or that event, that becomes political. | |
| So that bakers get sued because they don't want to bake a cake for this particular event. | |
| So eventually, 99.99% of life is politics, and there's no space for life life. | |
| And Rush's message, uh, which is very important on Tuesday, was that over these next few days, s live in live in the non-political space of life. | |
| And then when we all come back after the holidays, when Mark Belling is here on Monday, let's try and grow that uh non-political space. | |
| Let's try and reclaim it uh from the left. | |
| Because politics isn't everything, and the point about being a conservative is to keep politics walled up in the corner and not from infecting and contaminating 100% of human existence. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, we'll close things out in a moment. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush. | |
| Uh thanks for keeping us company today, as uh as Hillary at Al Gore always like to say today, uh tomorrow is the day we celebrate the birth of a homeless child. | |
| Always remember he wasn't homeless. | |
| The only reason he had to go to Nazareth uh is because you had to go and register for the census in the town of your birth. | |
| And that's the sort of cockamamy bureaucratic scheme uh that only a big lefty blue state would cook up. | |
| So uh don't let them tell you this thing that Jesus was a homeless child. | |
| Jesus' dad was a hard working carpenter, and they had a uh a perfectly uh a perfectly good uh home back in Nazareth, and they only had to go to Bethlehem because of the big bureaucratic requirements of the big government Roman Empire. | |
| Uh have yourself a merry little Christmas. | |
| I hope Santa brings you everything you want. | |
| And uh don't forget that there's Christmas music tomorrow. |
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