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"We are witnessing a conservative ascendancy here, and it is happening because the
people of this country are fed up and see clearly what their future is if they don't try to stop it."
"I'm going to tell you right now: There's no way a community organizer is a capitalist.
It's impossible."
"As I have long cautioned everybody: If you seek validation for your actions based on the
media being accurate in their reporting of your actions, you're going to be forever disappointed.
The media is as much the enemy as is the Obama administration."
"This is the most important thing to mention about Saturday: there was no leader who organized this.
People went of their own volition, because of their own passion. You did this. It's in your heart."
"Barack Obama is speaking again as we speak; he flew to New York to commemorate the crash of Lehman Brothers.
He refused to fly to New York for the twin towers crash, but he did fly to New York for this."
"This is not how this was supposed to go down. Obama was supposed to sail through,
and his health care plan was supposed to happen by acclamation. We were supposed to be on our hands and knees,
bowing down, thanking the Great One for fixing this country. Well, this country has never been more divided than it is now!"
"9/11 is not about 'community service'. 9/11 is about remembering the dead, remembering who killed the dead,
and what we're going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again. It's not about advancing President Obama's political agenda."
"All these jerks in the State-Controlled Media think you showed up on Saturday because of me.
You know how easy it would be for me to come here and say, 'I did it'?
But I didn't ask one person to go, and you know why? Because I knew I didn't have to!"
"I am overwhelmingly proud of what I saw on Saturday.
I'm busting-buttons proud! In fact, Bob, I'm just really proud that -- for once -- somebody is willing to stand up to Obama."
"I'm not going to play Obama sound bites because, frankly, I'm fed up.
I can't stand to hear the guy's voice anymore. I've been Obamaed out."
"We've been through this twice: a third party is not a vehicle for anything -- other than expressing your frustration."
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Saturday Afternoon in Washington: Conservatism on the Ascendancy
This is about left versus right. It's liberty versus tyranny.
No cult-like leader, just individuals fighting for freedom.
September 14, 2009
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RUSH: What an event that was on Saturday. In fact, folks, there were more people at that event on Saturday, according to the British press, than there were people who showed up at Obama's immaculation back in January. You will not find that reported anywhere in the State-Controlled Media in this country, but in the UK press, the British press, it's all over the place. There was something else about that event Saturday that is seminal, something that is crucial for me point out, and I'm going to do that because it's show time. Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Broadcast excellence is all yours for the next three hours. It's great to be with you. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Barack Obama speaking again as this program commences. He flew to New York to commemorate the crash of the Lehman Brothers. He refused to fly to New York for the Twin Towers crash, but they actually used the word celebrate the one year anniversary of the crash of Lehman Brothers. He's out there doing a speech on financial reform, and it's amazing. They ought to rename 60 Minutes to 60 Minutes with Obama. He's been on three times this year alone. Now, for those of you listening to the program right now, I have no idea how many of our affiliate stations, if any, have bumped coverage of us to carry Obama's speech on the financial sector. Well, you never know, there might be some who have done so. I don't know. But the point is, if any have, I'm not going to let Obama get away with this. For those of you listening right now be aware I'm going to repeat the first half hour of this program, not verbatim, I'm just going to do it all again once this stupid speech is over with, I may do it at the top of the next hour or what have you. But the attempts here to supersede the leader of the conservative movement shall not go unanswered by the leader of the conservative movement.
Anyway, a thrill and delight to be with you. Let's go straight to the audio sound bites. We'll start here Sunday morning, Joe Klein on the Chris Matthews Show, and Norah O'Donnell was the fill-in host, and she said to Joe Klein about criticism of Obama, "Why is this being voiced now in this health care debate?"
KLEIN: Because they're being egged on by demagogues in the Republican Party by boss Rush Limbaugh, and I call him the boss because there isn't a single Republican elected official who's willing to call him out on his lies.
RUSH: Let's stay with Sunday morning, CNN's State of the Union, Howard Kurtz talking to Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times. Kurtz says, "Today's leaders, at least in the media sphere is Rush Limbaugh, and you don't seem to have much respect for him. But look, Rush has got 600 radio stations and 15 million listeners, his message must be resonating with some folks."
TANENHAUS: In the notorious comment Rush Limbaugh made that he hoped President Obama would fail, he was actually alluding in a serious way to the way our two-party system works, which is that we have alternating periods of single party dominance and the in party, the sun party in the famous formulation is going to have most of the debate occur within its own ranks such as we saw with the stimulus package and the health care debate. Now, my concern is that Republicans have essentially vacated the field and conservative intellectuals are not holding their feet to the fire. This issue of Rush Limbaugh having emerged as the most conspicuous spokesperson for the right was actually identified 15 years ago by Michael Lind, great political commentator. This is something that's been with us for a long time.
RUSH: It's not 15 years, it's 21 but, you know, who's counting? Twenty-one years -- Rush Limbaugh's having emerged -- well, what is his point? Look, they're playing the race card right now. They are losing this debate and they're going back to their time-honored cliches and templates and they do not understand how it is that a Republican Party that's being silent for the most part can bring all of this to a screeching halt, can cause this much trouble. So what's causing the problem? They want all this passed, they want Obama to succeed. What's causing the problem? I am, in their view. This is where they're wrong. This is the seminal thing that I have to point out to you, but stick with me on this first because it keeps getting better. Then Saturday morning, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the host Pedro Echevarria spoke with Perry Bacon of State-Controlled Washington Post. The question: "To what would you attribute the success of this organization, this rally on Saturday and what they've done across the United States?"
BACON: I think that they've tapped into more than the party here as in Washington. They really tapped into this grassroots sort of frustration about the growth in government, bailouts and so on. They've really captured it. There's been a strong desire for more -- a bigger small-government advocate out there. There was a push for that. And the Republicans here in Washington for a while supported Bush and conservatives have supported Bush while he was growing the size of government and versus as now Republicans in Washington have sort of heard the grassroots in some ways, and they're acting more -- they're opposing everything Obama does and calling it sort of government takeover, the same kind of rhetoric you would hear on a Rush Limbaugh show.
RUSH: So, the general theme from the State-Controlled Media is that the people at these rallies on Saturday are there because of 15 to 21 years of conservative leadership by me, nothing to do with the Republican Party, and they are ticked off about it, they are Kanye West drunk disrupting the MTV awards, they're just fit to be tied. This is not how this was supposed to go down. Obama was supposed to sail through. This was supposed to happen by acclamation. We were supposed to be on our hands and feet or on our hands and knees, actually, bowing down and thanking the Great One for fixing this country. This country has never been more divided than it is now, contrary to what everybody thought Obama was going to bring, great unity and everyone getting along and end of the partisan divide. Now, let's go to the piece de resistance -- and, yes, the seminal moment of Saturday still yet to be pointed out by me and it's a key one so stick with me here, but first Saturday night, CNN Newsroom, the anchor Don Lemon talking with the author Tim Wise with about his new book Between Barack and a Hard Place. The anchor says, "Is race a factor? Is that the elephant in this room?"
WISE: It is the background noise of a lot of the opposition. You have Rush Limbaugh yesterday on the air saying first that community service is the first step toward fascism which is bizarre even for him, and then almost immediately after that saying one of the problems with America is too much multiculturalism. You wouldn't say that unless you were trying to stoke white racial resentment and so when you say those things I want to know when are Republican leaders going to condemn that kind of rhetoric because that's where race is being interjected.
RUSH: Race has nothing to do with this. Multiculturalism has nothing to do with race. This has to do with there being two or three completely different Americas now. We are trying to save this country as it was founded for anybody who wants to join us. We don't care what their race, their ethnicity, their religion happens to be. Community service is the first step towards fascism. When you take the event of 9/11 they leave this out. You take the commemorative celebration 9/11 and turn it into a community service day? 9/11 is not about community service. 9/11 is about remembering the dead, remembering who killed the dead, and what we're going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again. It's not about advancing President Obama's political agenda.
Now, the great seminal moment on Saturday, and Clarice Feldman at the American Thinker along with Rosslyn Smith say this better than I could. "We are witnessing a very rare phenomenon, the genuine, broad-based spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders. … Most significantly of all, those in attendance had not relied in any way on members of the current political class to get them there, nor had they showed up because their livelihood would be in jeopardy had they not agreed to demonstrate, as is the union way." This is exactly right. We are witnessing a conservative ascendancy here and it is happening because the people of this country are scared to death and fed up and see clearly what their future is if they don't try to stop it. We had a call on Friday from a guy who called and said, "I just want to thank you. My wife and I are going to this thing, first time we've ever done anything like this." Most people were doing this for the first time. They'd never done anything like this. And he wanted to thank me. And I said, "Sir, with all due respect, I'd love to accept your thanks, but I haven't told anybody to go to any of these rallies."
I haven't urged anybody to go to this thing Saturday in Washington. I didn't urge anybody to go to the town halls. All I've ever said was that what did happen in the town halls on Saturday is something that's going to have to be kept up for four years. If you're looking for validation from the State-Controlled Media, I say this again, if you're looking for the media to report on what you did fairly and accurately and be moved by it, if you're looking for Obama to be moved by it, it ain't going to happen. I think people know this now. Folks, I cannot tell you how important this is. I mean, look, being very honest, I have all of these sound bites. I've got four sound bites to lead this program. And all these jerks in the State-Controlled Media think you showed up Saturday 'cause of me. You know how easy it would be for me to come here and say, "Yup, I did it"? But I didn't ask one person to go. I didn't urge anybody to go to this thing. You know why? Because I knew I didn't have to. I've never asked you to make phone calls to Congress. Well, I did it once to demo what would happen if I did, I shut down the switchboard. But I don't tell you to write letters, I don't do anything. Maybe during the immigration debate was one noted exception. But I know that I don't have to.
You don't need a leader -- Clarice Feldman is exactly right -- you don't need a charismatic leader to get you out of the house and to spend money to drive or fly to Washington and get a hotel for Friday and Saturday night and show up as part of a two million people crowd on Saturday and then leave the place as clean as you found it, like Dan's Bake Sale. Some of the pictures after the event, there were no messes, just like Dan's Bake Sale. Now, one other thing about this. I was reading in the New York -- well, I had it pointed out to me by Ross Douthat in his -- I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I've never heard his name pronounced. It's D-o-u-t-h-a-t. So I'm just pronouncing it as it looks to me. He had a quote from Frank Luntz. And Frank Luntz said that this is not a Republican or Democrat thing, this protest. People are angry at both parties. Let me tell you something. I know Frank Luntz and sometimes I even like Frank but he couldn't be more wrong about this. I'm here to tell you that when the Republicans under George Bush were spending like never before you didn't have this kind of thing happen.
This is a conservative ascendancy. This most definitely is a Republican versus Democrat thing with Joe Wilson out there taking heat demanding to -- in fact, if I were Joe Wilson what I would say: "I'll apologize as soon as Pelosi apologizes to the CIA. I'll apologize as soon as she apologizes for calling half the country Nazis." He said he's not going to apologize anymore. Good for him. This most definitely is a left-right thing or if you don't like that formulation this most definitely is a capitalist free market economy versus a fascist socialist economy kind of thing or if you want a different formulation you could say this is freedom versus tyranny. This is liberty versus tyranny. That's what's driving this thing. It has nothing to do with people upset with how things are going in Washington on the part of both parties. I know that a lot of people want to look at this as the independents rising up. This is not the independents rising, there are some independents out there, some moderates. These are people who are fed up and want no part of the Barack Obama Democrat Party agenda, pure and simple.
You cannot tell me that people are showing up protesting Republicans because the Republicans aren't doing anything because the Republicans can't do anything, the Republicans don't have any power to do anything. They don't have the votes to stop one thing. Well, maybe in the Senate 'til they replace the swimmer, but nevertheless, nobody's in Washington upset with the Republicans here. You might have a few people they're going just 'cause they're mad at Washington in general but I'm telling you, Washington, as long as I've been alive, has been run by the Democrats. Washington has been run by America's left, and now it's in control of the most radical leftist bunch of people ever in our nation's history, not to mention our lifetimes. And so don't buy this notion that you're a bunch of mind-numbed robots showing up because some leaders got you there, that you wouldn't be doing this without that.
You're doing this on your own, and many millions more of you wanted to be there who for whatever reasons couldn't be. Don't buy the notion that this is a standard, people just upset at incumbents kind of thing, 'cause it has nothing to do with that. This has everything to do with people opposing The One, Barack Obama, and Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd. Now, you find a lot of corruption on the left, there's no question and people are upset with it, but what they're foremost upset with is Obama and what his plans are taking over the government, socializing health care, doing as much as he can to strip freedom from people and liberty. Liberty versus tyranny, that's what was on display Saturday on the part of the American people. It is a Republican-Democrat thing, and don't let anybody tell you that it's not.
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RUSH: Now, this is important, folks. There are a lot of phony conservatives out there. They get a lot of print in the New York Times. They got a lot of attention on broadcast TV. Any conservative who dumps on conservatism is going to be loved and focused on by State-Controlled Media. And a lot of these people are more interested in promoting themselves than the cause here, and so it's in their best career interests to keep attacking conservatives, dumping on conservatism -- i.e., the era of Reagan is over and so forth -- to pretend that there's something else going on out there. David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Frank Luntz, they've counted conservatives out there and they've insisted that conservatives change their principles or their message and they're being proven wrong. So they spin.
Others claim that there's not a world's bit of difference between Republicans and Democrats, and that's about as stupid as it gets. I'm not denying the Republican Party's lost its way, no question about that, on spending and other matters. But to say that there is no difference between the radical leadership of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party is just naive. It is irrelevant. These people that showed up Saturday did not show up protesting Republicans. It is not Republicans that have them afraid for their future. It's not Republicans that have them afraid for their children's and grandchildren's future. It's not Republicans that have them afraid for their jobs. It's not Republicans that have them afraid for the economy. It's Obama! It's the Democrat Party today. The Republican Party is irrelevant.
The Republican Party has got two or three people that show up now and then and say something but they don't have the votes to stop anything. The Republican Party is not doing diddly-squat. People don't show up and protest people who aren't doing anything. People show up and protest people who are doing things they consider to be dangerous and destructive. Now, what some of us have been arguing here for a long time is for conservatives to take back the Republican Party from these appeasers and these phony moderates who do not understand -- or maybe they do and wish to ignore -- the radicalism of Obama. And they're not willing or prepared to challenge it. What I'm arguing for here and what we're seeing is for the rise of conservatism, and there is a conservative ascendancy taking place -- and to deny that is to sabotage what is taking place.
This is all about conservatives ascending. This is not about people protesting simply Washington who come at it with no ideological point of view or frame of reference. The problem with this argument that says, "Well, you know, this is the independents rising up. It's not a right-and-left thing. It's not a Republican-Democrat thing," is that it encourages the creation of a third-party movement which is gonna guarantee the reelection of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party across the board. Now, one way we know that Obamacare is in trouble is that they have launched the race card. They have come out with this cliche once again. Obamacare is in trouble. The White House is in panic mode. The State-Controlled Media is in panic mode, and we have the ultimate tea leaf to approve it.
When all else fails, go to page one of the 50-year-old Democrat Party playbook and launch the race card. It's page one of their playbook. They would have us believe that there are no legitimate problems with Obamacare. There are no legitimate concerns. It's just racists who want to stop the first black president. I don't know who pressed the launch button on the race card, but you can see and hear and read those who got the message. Maureen Dowd in the New York Times yesterday, talking about Joe Wilson, said, "Fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air." You know, Wilson said, "You lie." Maureen Dowd says what she heard was, "You lie, boy." Newsweek, with a cover, "Is Your Baby Racist?" Your baby at six months learns to hate people of different races! This is a sure sign that they are in desperate straits and out of ideas.
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I thought Obama was going to make all this go away. I thought the election of the first black president... Actually, I didn't. If you'll remember, I predicted that exactly what is happening was going to happen. I predicted that the election -- 'cause I remember we had phone calls from people. "Hey, Rush, don't you think it would be a good idea because then they can never say we're racist again. They can never say America is a racist country." I said, "No, it's only going to get worse." Cookie, go to the archives and dig this up. I don't care where it is. It's last year, late last year. First part of this year, late last year would be better. Dig something out of the archives. I know I've said it a number of times, any criticism of Obama is going to be labeled racist. It's call the left knows to do is to call names and to impugn character. They do not discuss the substance of issues.
They would have us believe there's nothing wrong with Obamacare. There's nothing wrong with cap and trade. There's nothing wrong with bailing out the banks. There's nothing wrong with the government owning General Motors and Chrysler. There's nothing wrong with any of that. The only reason people oppose it is because they're racist? That's laughable. It doesn't fly any longer. Nobody is going to buy into this, and yet they continue to play the card. This story in Newsweek: Apparently being born white automatically makes you a racist -- which, to me, is just another example of what obsessive racists the leftists actually are. It's the left that refuses to let people be who they are. It's the left that looks at people and sees categories first rather than individuals. They see either women or gays or blacks or whites or Hispanics.
It is the left that gave us hyphenated Americans. It is the left that prefers "celebrating diversity" to the glory of the American melting pot. There used to be a distinct American culture that everybody who moved here wanted to be part of. Now that's not happening. This is why I say there are two or three different Americas. And I'll tell you this: If children were not constantly hounded about race it would never occur to them that it was an issue to be considered. Now, I've often said that these accusations I'm racist... I wasn't a racist 'til the media made me one! Was I a racist 'til the Democrat Party started focusing on all this stuff and they called me one. I wasn't a racist. There's a guy writing a book about me, and the last time I sat down and did an interview him. It was down here in Florida and he said, "I don't think you get it about race."
I said, "What do you mean?"
"Well, you know, there are a lot of people in this country whom the Constitution doesn't speak for."
"I know. Obama is one of them. He doesn't like the Constitution."
"Well, but how would you feel?"
I said, "Well, this is not 1864. This is not 1964.
He said, "I don't think... I think you got a blind spot."
I said, "No, you're using a liberal cliche. How long have you known me? Do you personally think I'm a racist?"
"Well, I think you've got a blind spot about it."
So I told him some stories about growing up. I told him about our maid that came in two or three times a week named Alberta. We called her Bertie. She was like a grandmother to my brother and me, and my mom and dad. My mother took her home and I'd drive in the car. I'm six or seven years old. I saw where Bertie lived and it made me sick. I talked to my parents about it. I said, "Why does this happen?" They sat me down and they talked to me about the circumstances. It was my father that enabled Bertie to buy a house outside of that neighborhood and get her a job at... I think it was at Woolworth's. I'm telling this author all this stuff and I don't know if it's registering at all -- and I'm, frankly, angry I have to tell it. I'm angry that I have to say this stuff.
Here's a guy doing a book on me who I don't know if he thinks so or if he's just asking the question because he thinks readers are going to want to know it. But I didn't become a racist until somebody called me one when I started this radio show. I wasn't a racist up until 1988, and then somebody called me one -- and ever since I was called a racist, I've been one, according to the media. And yet I never was one and I'm not one now. And all of you are racists, simply because you oppose Obama. Every bit of this was predicted.
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RUSH: Before we go to the break, February 22, 2008. This is what? It's 16 months ago. Sixteen months ago said I, El Rushbo, behind this (tap, tap, tap) the Golden EIB Microphone.
RUSH ARCHIVE: "If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be to just get it done, Rush, and then we could end the civil rights squabbles that we're having." It wouldn't do that. Folks, it wouldn't do that. It might even exacerbate them. Let me explain how. ...
RUSH: And I go on to explain to people how it is that criticism of Obama will result in more charges of racism that the race industry will gin up. Speaking the race industry, the Reverend Jackson in North Charleston, South Carolina, just this morning told a South Carolina audience the federal bailout has failed to create jobs in America. Now, this is only obvious to everybody. But the Reverend Jackson saying it has added impact to his audience.
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RUSH: You know those pro-amnesty rallies, immigration, were they called racist? Were those people called racists? I mean La Raza organized and sponsored those rallies. Were they called racist? Of course they weren't.
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"Everyone in the political class, journalists, consultants, elected Democrats and Republicans alike, needs to know this: Those countless little-known people who established the local e-mail lists, organized first one, then two, then three or more chartered buses, held sign-making parties and packed box lunches, are not going to go away any time soon. Continue to enact legislation that we cannot afford" and deprives people of liberty "and they will be back, perhaps in even greater numbers," and that's exactly right. Now, the rally in Washington on Saturday had the right content and it was the right location one. But I do want to posit an idea for the next series of public rallies -- and I do hope that these continue, and I hope that they grow. Now, I have often pointed out here that people don't fully react to stories and situations until they see pictures.
There's an illustration. I mean, we all know this but I'll illustrate it for you. Back when George H. W. Bush was president and we had all the starving going on in Somalia. It wasn't until the New York Times published a front page picture -- this is long before the Internet was a big deal. The Internet might have not been a deal for the public back then. The New York Times published a picture of a starving young Somali boy with the insects obligatorily flying around the head and everybody had an outrage. "Do something! Do something!" So we were mobilized to put the military over there as Meals on Wheels. Something about the reality of the situation sinks in when it can be seen on TV -- and make no mistake about it. The Obama people saw it. Axelrod saw it. Axelrod is out there saying, "Ah, these people are not mainstream Americans."
This White House continues to insult you. This White House continues to run and campaign and govern against you, which is going to keep all of you fired up. I do think -- even though I understand it, I do think -- one of the great and tragic issues of our time is the deliberate withholding of coverage and investigations of stories by the media that would hurt the left's agenda, such as this most recent ACORN stuff. The media is no longer reporters. They are repeaters. In fact, over the weekend on... What was it? It had to be Saturday because I was watching football all day yesterday. Saturday afternoon when they found the dead woman at Yale in the wall, you shoulda seen the press questioning the local authorities there as though they were lying through their teeth.
I mean, they weren't accepting anything. Now, in the old days, that used to kind of make me mad, but I started wondering: Where is that kind of skepticism of the Obama administration on health care? The media in Connecticut was going bonkers here questioning law enforcement as they were giving their theories on what happened finding the dead woman in the wall. I said, "Wow!" It's an illustration of what no longer takes place when leftists run the country. I understand it and I'm not lamenting it because I know reality. There have been hundreds and thousands of protests by conservative groups that haven't been covered, and tiny turnouts by the left that are covered. You know all this as well as I do. What about this? We're looking for a force multiplier. Yeah, the protest in Washington on Saturday was great, two million people.
But imagine what a force multiplier would be if the next one were held outside of local and national television networks and their headquarters where they can't miss it? Right there, on or next to the properties housing the TV networks! Dare them to cover what is right under their noses! Put the media in the spotlight and on the hot seat. Don't make them the protest. Continue to protest Obama. Protest health care. Protest the loss of liberty. Protest the coming tyranny. Just do it on their property or as close to it as you can get being law-abiding and all that. Link the press with the Democrats. Make them part of it but not the focal point. I'm not talking boycotts. I don't like boycotts. Just show up where they can't miss it. Show up in numbers where they can't escape it.
Now, these protests would be twofold. The topics being protested today with the addition of protesting coverage and lack of coverage, leaders of the media rallies should have a list of grievances by individual stations. Make the challenges substantive and adult and challenge their journalistic ethics. In fact, we own the Internet web domain DriveByMedia.com, and I'm thinking maybe this DriveByMedia.com might be a way of organizing such a thing. But I really do think the next time -- and I'm not trying to create it, I want this all to happen spontaneously. But the next time something like this happens... We've done Washington, that's great. We got the truth out. The British press, the so-called alternative media is getting the word out.
Michelle Malkin even found a picture that the nutroots on the left posted and said, "This is a fake picture. This is not a picture of the rally in Washington on Saturday." It was teeming with people, gazillions of people out there. The nutroots were saying, "This is the Kennedy funeral procession 'cause the flags are at half staff," and Michelle Malkin points out, no, the flags were at half staff over the weekend for 9/11 and commemorating the community service. (gagging) No, the picture of genuine. They know. They know what they're up against. Olympia Snowe is out there today saying, "No public option in the Senate bill. It isn't going to happen. It will not be the case."
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RUSH: Dana in Ottawa, Illinois. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm thrilled to speak with you today.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I admire you a lot. To get right to it, I did call to disagree with you in some respect about this not being a GOP versus Democrat movement. And to illustrate that, I'd like to go back to your point about there is no leader of this movement, and --
RUSH: You're nervous.
CALLER: -- many of the speakers the other day at the rally spoke to that point. And a lot of the people I spoke with were Democrats that are disgusted with Obama, and to a person the Republicans that I spoke with were just fed up with government in general. There was a lot of anger at the Bush administration. They had all the levers of power at their disposal and they did nothing. They did not represent us. There's just real anger out there, and so I really believe that this movement is bigger than the political parties. I really think there's going to be a movement soon to maybe form another party. I've been a Republican my whole life, but those people no longer represent me. And if I could, I'd like to talk to you about an 81-year-old man that was on the bus that I was on. There were 28 ragtag people on that bus from all walks of life. He took four shots of insulin a day and he made it on that bus. He did not have a leader. There was nobody telling him to get on a bus and go there. And, Herb, if you're out there I hope you're doing fine. And he went through that 16-hour bus ride, stood all day, and then the major media is not even reporting tens of thousands of people were there. I think people like Herb deserve better from our media. And I'm just outraged, Rush, and I'm thrilled that I was there. My niece and my sister and my husband went with me. And we didn't have anybody tell us to go there. We did not have a leader. We realized that we have to do it ourselves. Nobody in the Republican Party, God knows not on the other side, are going to help us, and we have to do this ourselves.
RUSH: Now, let me address the second thing you mentioned first, and that is all these people that showed up deserve better from the media.
CALLER: Yes, they do.
RUSH: Yeah, they do, you're absolutely right, it ain't going to happen. I have long cautioned everybody, if you seek validation for your actions based on the media being accurate in their reporting of your actions, you're going to be forever disappointed. The media is as much the enemy as is the Obama administration.
CALLER: Well, trust me when I tell you that I know that. I'm not surprised by it. But I am outraged by it because I mean this is verging on Pravda. I mean you look at those pictures on the television, you know, even MSNBC had a wide shot, an aerial view of this group of protesters, and they're trying to tell people there were tens of thousands of people there? I'm not surprised; the people at the rally were not surprised. But it's so disappointing, and I'm going to tell you, Rush, I spoke to a lot of people there, and we will come out in bigger numbers the next time, and I will do whatever it takes. I worked on Friday. I got on a bus for 16 hours, I knew it wasn't going to be fun. I'm back at work today --
RUSH: But it was fun.
CALLER: -- in Illinois.
RUSH: No wait. But it was fun. You did enjoy it.
CALLER: I did enjoy it.
RUSH: And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you've mentioned. But we've gotta be really, really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing. You mentioned third party, and we've been through this with Perot.
CALLER: I know that. I know that. And I think Perot helped Clinton get in, I don't doubt that. I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.
RUSH: But a third party is not going to do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third-party presidential candidate, still isn't going to have anybody of any significance running in that party for seats in Congress of the US Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country, and that's not what's happening. I respectfully disagree with you here. I understand the anger at the Republican Party. Hell, I've got it, too. I've had it for a long, long time. But don't make the mistake of thinking this is not a left versus right thing. This is a conservative ascendancy that's going on out there. You didn't show up and protest like this when the Republicans were in power.
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RUSH: Folks, we need to take the Republican Party back. The Democrat Party was co-opted, has been co-opted by a bunch of communists, socialist, fascists, what have you from the sixties and the seventies and that's what we're up against now. We have allowed our party to be co-opted by a slate of Ivy League elitists and country club, blue-blood Republicans who want to be thought of as enlightened and compassionate and so forth, they want to be thought of as liberal light, Democrat light. We've talked about what the divisions in the Republican Party are all about. It's about the social issues, the Republicans don't like the pro-lifers being in the party, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, if we just leave the Republican Party where it is, go third party, we're ceding defeat. The Electoral College alone, the Electoral College discriminates against third party like you can't believe. It's not the way to go. I realize a lot of you are going to be mad at me, but history repeats itself. But the one thing that you who have been with me for 21 years know is that I have never been anything other but a mainstream down the line rock solid bulwark conservative because that's who I am. And I know that the Republican Party has won big time when it has been as well.
I know that a third party isn't going to win diddly-squat. But, I am prepared for the next two to four years for some of you out there to hate me and despise me because of this. Because I'm well aware of the anti-Washington sentiment that exists and the desire to just throw the whole thing into the Potomac River and rebuild it. It does have to be rebuilt but you're never going to throw it all in the Potomac River. And if you discount the role of Barack Obama in ginning up all this passion that's leading to the protests, if you want to try to equate the Republican Party to what this radical bunch of leftists is doing, you're going to have a tough time convincing me that there's any similarity.
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RUSH: Folks, you gotta understand, let me put it to you this way: We are at the triage stage. We've gotta address the biggest emergency first, and that is stopping Obama. That has to happen. If that doesn't happen then all the rest of this is academic. The second thing is, Ross Perot gave the White House to the Democrats in two successive elections, and I can show it to you in polling data, which I think I'm going to do tomorrow.
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RUSH: From Boston.com, this is the Boston Globe January 22nd. "The National Park Service says it will rely on a media report that says 1.8 million people attended President Obama's [immaculation]. David Barna, a Park Service spokesman, said ... 'It is a record. ... We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever.'" Again January 22, Boston Globe. Yesterday, September 13th, the UK Daily Mail wrote: "Up to two million people marched to the US capital today, carrying signs with slogans such as 'Obamacare makes me sick.' As they protested the health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending."
Well, if the Parks Service relied on "a media report" to say the crowd was 1.8 million was a record, I, too, El Rushbo am going to rely on a media report, the UK Daily Mail to say the crowd Saturday was two million people. Audio sound bite time. This was just juicy. Saturday afternoon on CNN's Newsroom, the anchor Fredricka Whitfield spoke with the CNN Radio Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins (or Desjardins, I'm not sure how she pronounces it) with Joe Wilson, the Republican from South Carolina. Whitfield says, "You actually have some experience covering Joe Wilson within South Carolina. He's not new to South Carolina. However, he might be new to the national spotlight. Did this display this week seem kind of in concert with the Joe Wilson they know in South Carolina?"
DESJARDINS: Right now they're chanting, "Tell the truth."
CROWD: Tell the Truth! Tell the Truth!
DESJARDINS: They've been talking a lot to me about what they think CNN should air and here you hear them chanting.
CROWD: Tell the Truth! Tell the Truth!
DESJARDINS: Let's talk about Joe Wilson. I've covered him for a long time and I'll tell you, he is a man who does care about things like honor, doing the right thing.
CROWD: Tell the Truth! Tell the Truth!
DESJARDINS: He's also a man who displays a reaction reactionary tendency, something bothers him, and it builds up, I have seen him get passionate and fiery about it before like this.
CROWD: Tell the Truth! Tell the Truth!
DESJARDINS: So, it didn't shock me. I think people who know him, know him as more of a mild-mannered guy...
WHITFIELD: Hey, Lisa, I'm just going to interrupt you for a minute because the crowd is kind of overshadowing your words, so I'm going to ask you to speak a little but louder and give it one more shot.
RUSH: Fredricka Whitfield of CNN. Could you hear the infobabe's report? Could you hear what she said or were you drowned out by the crowd? Somebody tell me, because I could hardly make it out. Well, here's what she said. "Right now they're chanting, 'Tell the truth.' They've been talking a lot to me about what they think CNN should air and here you hear them chanting. Let's talk about Joe Wilson. I've covered him for a long time and I'll tell you, he is a man who does care about things like honor, doing the right thing. He's also a man who displays a reaction reactionary tendency, something bothers him, and it builds up, I have seen him get passionate and fiery about it before like this." What's reactionary about it? Everybody's reactionary using that definition. "So it didn't shock me. I think people that know him know him more of a mild-mannered guy," but the crowd Saturday was shouting at CNN, "Tell the truth." Now, a lot later on the reporter decides to ask the crowd about Wilson. This is the radio correspondent Lisa Desjardins (again I don't know how to pronounce her name). They had this exchange with protesters about Wilson?
CROWD (chanting): No more lies!
WHITFIELD: What do you think of Congressman Joe Wilson?
CROWD: (whistles and cheers)
DESJARDINS: So there are -- there are people who strongly support Congressman Wilson and many of them are right here.
RUSH: Once again the State-Controlled Media is drum up this whole notion of reactionary racism based on Joe Wilson's comment. Wilson, by the way, says he is not going to apologize any more for what he said. It's about time. And if he does apologize anymore, he ought to do it predicated on whether Pelosi apologizes first. You know, Pelosi's got a lot of apologizing to do. She insulted the CIA. Will she apologize to the CIA for what she said? Will she apologize to the half the American people for calling them Nazis? "House Republicans are starting to counterattack in Wilson's war." This is from ThePolitico.com: "Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who recently observed that 'white men' were being excluded from many Obama initiatives, is circulating a fill-in-your-name e-letter to House Republicans urging them to stiffen their spines and urge Joe Wilson to fight back against the Dem's anticipated motion against him next week" to make him, if he doesn't apologize, officially censor him or whatever. So it's a good sign here. The Republicans might be getting a little backbone here where Wilson is concerned.
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RUSH: CNN's Newsroom Saturday afternoon, the anchor Don Lemon speaking with correspondent Jim Spellman about the Freedom Works rally, and Lemon says, "What was the most extreme of what you've heard on Saturday afternoon?"
SPELLMAN: Really running through this whole sort of subculture that's developed around these tea parties is a bit of a dark undercurrent. You have the bulk of the people that are there for low taxes, less government control. But there really is an element that's got these kinds of outlandish conspiracy theories about death camps and about, you know, this takeover, people comparing President Obama to Hitler. It really is a sizeable threat. It's not just a couple of people on the edges.
RUSH: Now, the Obama is Hitler signs, those are the Lyndon LaRouche Democrats that are out there carrying around the Obama is Hitler signs. But it's a dark undercurrent. The bulk of the people are there for low taxes, less government control, but there's an element that's got these kind of outlandish conspiracy theories about death camps, this takeover, people comparing Obama to Hitler, there really is a sizeable threat, it's not just a couple of people on the edges. Nobody's talking about death camps. I know nobody is talking about death camps. Look, it's CNN. They are sucking hind teat. They are sucking hind teat on a boar hog. That's how low their audience is, and this is why, this is nothing but a bunch of cliches, a dark undercurrent, low taxes, less government control, conspiracy theories. I got a note from someone who said, "I disagree with you, this is not about Liberty and Tyranny, this is about love and hate. It's about deep love for their country and their hate and fear for where it's going." Ah, liberty and tyranny.
But the point is that love was what got everybody out there, love of country. I'm not disputing that. I think the two go hand in hand. But this passion was genuine, and I got a couple of e-mails, "Rush, Rush, Rush, this was led by them, there were people that led this." You're misunderstanding my point when I say this. I'm quoting from Clarice Feldman, by the way, who said, "We are witnessing a very rare phenomenon, the genuine, broad based spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders," that's right on the money. And the contrast here, don't miss it, the contrast is Obama can't get a crowd out like this on the substance of his ideas to save his life. Obama's crowds are directly the result of some charismatic leader and platitudes and a bunch of nothings. And now he can't even get those people out. So the people he has to get out there are drummed up, they're organized from the White House and from the unions and the union thugs are given orders to the union rank-and-file, you better get out there if you know what's good for you. And then when they do get out there they start beating up people that show at the tea parties. In fact, they beat up a black conservative and nobody called that racist. That happened outside St. Louis.
So, no, I'm not trying to deny anybody credit here. It's more than that. Why does every event like this has have to have some sort of credit attached to it? That demeans it. That demeans the people that showed up. They showed up of their own volition. People are not a bunch of mind-numbed robots getting marching orders here. That's the beauty of what happened on Saturday. So, let's see. We just played the sound bite here, the dark undercurrent, low taxes, less government control, conspiracy theories. So then the anchor, Don Lemon, said to their correspondent, Jim Spellman, "What do you mean by much darker thing? Tell me about that."
SPELLMAN: One of the things that we heard over and over again is that it's sort of the death panels thing taken to several degrees past that where the president's going to set up these death camps, where they're going to do forced sterilization and that the government is taking over the Internet to stifle, you know, speech and that there's going to be forced vaccinations. There's just so much sort of disinformation or misinformation out there that it really creates a significant part. You did you not see as much of it today here in Washington but in these towns across America that we went --
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, hold it a minute, wait a minute, CNN, this is why you are the hind teat on a boar hog, you go through all this dark undercurrent conspiracy theories, low taxes -- well, what do you mean by a darker thing? Well, you know, these people believe in government taking over the internet, you didn't so much see it here today. Well, then what the hell is this report about? This is absolute journalistic malpractice. You see this at these town parties in individual cities, not so much here today. By the way, it was Jay Rockefeller who has written a bill that would allow Obama to take control of private Internet networks in event of a cyber-emergency, with them left to define what cyber-emergency is. There are two Americas. There may be three, and the State-Controlled Media definitely part of it. Sunday morning, here is a montage of ABC's Yunji de Nies, CNN's John King, and CBS' Bob Schieffer talking about a sign at the Freedom Works rally.
DE NIES: Some even called to bury Obamacare with Kennedy.
KING: I'm going to show you one right here that I found particularly distasteful, "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy."
SCHIEFFER: People carried signs such as "Bury Health Care With Kennedy."
KING: Here’s one of the things, I don't even want to read the words.
RUSH: And he didn't read the words. I'll say them for you, John King, "Bury health care with Kennedy." That upsets them. We got a liberal feminist columnist saying maybe Mary Jo Kopechne would think it was worth it to pass away in order to further the career of the Kennedy family. It is okay for these people to say horrible, rotten things about George W. Bush. It's okay for them to do movies and books on assassinating George W. Bush and they have no problem, in fact, when they report on that they tell us, "Yeah, it may be hard to take, but there is a cultural lesson here. We must learn from this. We must learn to appreciate the art in this." But "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" is beyond the pale to these people. Now, Bob Schieffer has written a piece about this and I know I had it in the stack and now I can't seem to find it. It's about this very type of thing. He's never seen anything like this before about how the American people are divided. Here it is. Bob Schieffer: "'Not America's Proudest Moment' -- Forget Bipartisanship, Comity or Civility - Schieffer Says Mindless Meanness Has Invaded the Public Commons.
"That was not a State of the Union speech we heard the other night, but it had all the trappings - and when that Congressman hollered 'You lie!' at the President, we did get a snapshot of the nation's state. It was not a pretty picture. The country is in an angry mood - people are frustrated, tempers are short, congressmen are being shouted down at town hall meetings (where constituents sometimes show up with guns), and at rallies like the one yesterday in Washington where people carried signs such as 'Bury Health Care with Kennedy.' The irony of a congressman trying to heckle a president in the midst of a speech that was, among other things, about the need for civility is just one ugly sign of the mindless meanness that has settled over our politics.
"How different it was in the aftermath of a far more difficult time, those days after 9/11, whose anniversary we marked on Friday. I remember watching then, not far from where that congressman hurled his insult, as Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott put his hand on the shoulder of his Democratic counterpart Tom Daschle to announce the Senate had passed a $40 billion emergency appropriations bill, and passed it unanimously. That day the country came together as it had not done since World War II. It made us proud to know what we could do when we had to. It brought out our best. Put aside for the moment who is right and who is wrong in the current debate, and ask yourself: Can anyone really be proud of the side of America this argument is bringing out?"
Bob, putting aside who's right and wrong… see, this is the trick. Put aside who's right or wrong. You know, Bob, I gotta tell you something. For one person, I am overwhelmingly proud of what I saw on Saturday. I'm busting-buttons proud. In fact, Bob, I'm really proud that for once somebody is willing to stand up to Obama and to Pelosi and to Reid and all the horrible things they're trying to do to the American people via their agenda. Mr. Schieffer, I am proud of the tea parties and the protesters at town hall meetings. I am proud people are trying to save this country from fascism. What is it, Bob, are you shocked that conservatism has a backbone? Are you shocked that people are finally showing up? See the inside-the-beltway mentality is it doesn't matter, doesn't matter what gets done. It just matters that we all like each other as it gets done. And, of course, in Schieffer's mind what gets done is the advancement of liberalism and statism and big government. And, gee, wouldn't it be nice if Republicans just agree with us on this? Wouldn't it be nice if there were no opposition? There was no meanness, Bob, in Joe Wilson's words to Obama at Congress on Wednesday night. Obama was lying. There was no meanness in Washington on Saturday.
You know when the meanness started, Bob? You want to know when it really started? Your buddy Ted Kennedy savaging Robert Bork, that's when the meanness started. And they continued trying to destroy Clarence Thomas, and then George H. W. Bush. Throw me in there, blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing and anything else they don't like. Calling half the Americans Nazis, Bob, Nancy Pelosi. Harry Reid calling the president a loser and a liar. You didn't worry about the meanness of any of this, and I mean these examples are legion. I could go on. You didn't worry about the movie that won an award in Canada on how to assassinate Bush? You didn't worry about the book that came out, how to assassinate Bush. You weren't bothered when Dick Durbin called interrogators at Guantanamo Bay the equivalent of Pol Pot's guys and Soviet gulag types, Nazi thugs, that didn't bother you, Bob, you didn't think things were mean there?
You weren't bothered, Mr. Schieffer, when Jack Murtha accused Marines at Haditha of rape and murder, later exonerated and equated? You weren't bothered when John Kerry equated our troops to terrorists storming the homes of Iraqi women at night? That didn't bother you, Bob? You didn't think that was mean? You didn't think that it was mean for the left to be calling George W. Bush Hitler? All Joe Wilson did was say, "You lie." He was lying! And Obama's admitted it by coming out and trying to tell us now, oh, by the way, there's only 30 million uninsured and we're going to have a provision in there that the illegals are not covered by health care. Well, Bob, doesn't that tell you that Wilson was right?
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RUSH: Joe in Grand Prairie, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos from rain-soaked north Texas. Listen, when Joe Wilson yelled "You lie," he only yelled it once; I must have yelled it about. But let me tell you something I heard. Obama is slick. He said he's going to leave this illegal alien out of this health bill. Well, Judge Napolitano on Fox News made the comment that California passed a measure on their ballot on eliminate illegals from receiving medical care out there. Two courts turned it down, reversed it, and the Supreme Court refused to hear it. So he knows what he's doing. He's going to leave it out of there and they're going to say, "You can't do that."
RUSH: Exactly right. Obama is going to try to get credit. In fact, they had a big document dump on Friday afternoon at the White House, and when one of the things that they dumped was verification is needed to ensure that illegals don't receive health care benefits. It's not in the bill; they need to put it in there. I mean, they were admitting that Joe Wilson was right. But Joe here in Grand Prairie, Texas, is also right. Illegals were left out in California, the Supreme Court said, "No, no, no, you gotta cover 'em," and this is what Obama knows as well.
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"Federally funded, federally funded abortions are not part of my health care bill and never will be and they haven't been." Then why aren't the feminazis showing up with tanks and bulldozers at the White House? By the same token, "My health care bill, Joe Wilson said I lied? He lied! My health care bill does not cover illegals." If that's so, how come La Raza was not storming the gates of the White House? How come the pro-amnesty crowd was not up in arms? They all know the truth. They all know that abortions are covered and will be covered in any Obama health care plan, and the same thing with medical coverage for illegals. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we've gone through the sound bites today here on the EIB Network and the leftist State-Run Media is talking about "the dark mood," the conspiracy theories, the dark undercurrent. "Death camps! People comparing Obama to Hitler." Of course that was the LaRouche Democrats doing that.
The point is they're always out there talking about the nut ball fringe of the right. Think the whacked-out birthers or the wing nuts. And, you know, we got some people on the edge on our side. I'd be a fool to deny that. We got some wackos on our side. But here's the difference: The left's wackos now hold office. The left's wackos are making the nation's laws. The left's wackos populate the White House. You want to talk about fringes, you have to mention the leftists. They've got their "truthers," their 9/11 nutcases, but they've got Pelosi. They've got Harry Reid. They've got Maxine Waters. They've got... What's this woman that replaced Mickey Leland? I'm having a mental block. Well, Barbara Lee is from California. She's a nutcase. But... Yeah, and they hired Van Jones. So, we have our wackos and they're safely out on the fringe. The left's wackos are in Congress and in the White House, and they are writing the nation's laws. That is the big difference. You want to hear from one of these leftist wackos? Face the Nation yesterday morning, Bob Schieffer talking to White House advisor David Axelrod. "What do you make of the big protest out there on Saturday?" What's the message?" Number ten.
AXELROD: I don't think it's indicative of the nation's mood. In fact, I don't believe that some of the angriest, most strident voices we saw during the summer, uhhh, were representative of the thousands of town hall meetings that went on around the country that came off peacefully, that were constructive, people, uhh, voicing their, uhhh, points of view. One of the great things about our country is people can express themselves, even if they're not representative of the majority. Your own poll which was taken after the president's speech suggests that they don't represent, uhhh, a mainstream view, uhhh, of this health care plan, and so, uhhh, you know, I -- I don't think we ought to be, uhh, distracted, uhhh, by that.
RUSH: What? What poll? The only "polls," plural, I've seen show a majority disapproval with the Obama health care plan. Now, he did get a bump after the speech in Rasmussen. He did get a bump, but he got the bump personally, not health care-wise. But what poll is he talking about here? The opposition to Obama health care is in fact mainstream. Then Bob Schieffer said, "Well, why doesn't the president just say, 'We don't have the votes to pass this? We have the votes, perhaps, to pass a lot of other things'? Just put that aside and say..." These guys are just so obsessed with the process. You know, that's Bob Schieffer and all these Beltway types, they're just obsessed with the process. They think the greatest thing in the world is when somebody proposes "a bill." Then there's "a bill" out there to talk about. The piece of legislation. And what's the process? "Is the president going to win? Are we gonna get the bill?" We don't need the friggin' bill! We don't need this friggin' bill! We don't need the cap in cap-and-trade bill! We don't need half the bills or any of the bills Obama's proposed. Screw the bills. This is the bottom line. These guys all get caught up in the process, "is Obama going to get the bill passed?" It's a rotten bill! It stinks, Mr. Schieffer. It's stupid. This is not a game. It's not a horse race. We're talking about the future of the country. That's why people are out there in droves. So anyway he asks Axelrod, "He said the public option wasn't crucial to the plan. He said he still liked it, why didn't he go for something that will pass?
AXELROD: He continues to believe it's a good idea, continues to advocate it. And I'm not willing to accept that it's not going to be in the final package.
RUSH: Bottom line is: "Screw all of you who don't want the government running health care! It doesn't matter what you want. You're not representative of a majority of America anyway." But here's Olympia Snowe on CBS Face the Nation yesterday morning. Bob Schieffer: "Did the president take the public option off the table the other night or should he be more specific about it?"
SNOWE: He should be more specific. In fact, now I urge the president to take the public option off the table because it's universally opposed by our Republicans in the Senate and therefore there's no way to pass a plan that includes the public option.
RUSH: Remember they were reporting Olympia Snowe was all for the public option up until last week when she came out and said: Wait a minute, I'm not for the public option! She says it's "universally opposed by the Republicans in the Senate." Well, that's a problem. But, no, it's not. No, it's not. They'll replace Ted Kennedy soon enough. They get back to 60 votes, but they're not going to go the 60 votes route. They're going to go 61 votes. They're going to go reconciliation. "Screw you" is their motto.
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So he's up there taking all this credit for saving the world economy and saving the United States. That's what he was doing up there. I've got the sound bites. I just don't want to play 'em. 60 Minutes has become "60 Minutes with Barack Obama." It's his third appearance this year. The guy's on television every day, and every day it seems he starts whatever remarks he's going to make at the same time I start this program. If this guy's trying to ace me out then I'm going to, you know, hit back twice as hard. I'll just stop playing Obama sound bites. People are fed up hearing them anyway. There's nothing new in them -- and, you know, hearing somebody lie to you repeatedly is a grating thing.
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RUSH: As promised it's now time to go to the phones. We'll start in Chicago. This is Patricia and nice to have you here, Patricia. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Been a long-time listener, first-time caller, public school teacher, back from Washington, DC, the most electrifyingly exciting experience of my life.
RUSH: I have gotten tons of e-mails over the weekend from people saying the same thing.
CALLER: Yes. I went with my brother who is a retired firefighter, assistant fire chief. My first observation is the numbers. I could not see the end of the sea of people. It was a tsunami. It was like watching an erupting volcano.
RUSH: Yeah. And it was peaceful. And there were some of the funniest signs I've ever seen. One guy had a sign that said: "Doesn't matter what this sign says, they'll say it's racist anyway." Just an absolutely fabulous sign and people were making some of the most creative signs out there. There was a picture of George Washington with a bubble like in a cartoon, with George Washington saying, "WTF?" (laughing) "What the... is happening to our country?" (laughing) It was fabulous. And when it was all over it was clean, just like Dan's Bake Sale. Now, the UK press, you talk about the numbers, folks, I saw the Drive-Bys, they said "tens of thousands of people." Eventually somebody got the number pretty close to being right but the UK media saying two million. Others on the conservative side, "You know, it's tough to estimate." You do the best you can with previous crowds and what they have said, but you look at the pictures and you try to estimate the grid, the number of people. It doesn't matter. The place was teeming and it makes no surprise State-Controlled Media would try to diminish it.
Warren, New Jersey. Gene, hello, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. I was not only in the march, I was part of the contingent that actually led it up Pennsylvania Avenue. And anyone who sees the YouTube video will see a group of, it looks like Continental soldier reenactors with a fife and drum Corps. I was one of the people that helped organize that to lead the parade, and we were supposed to meet up there at eight, but what a lot of people don't know is that the crowd for the march were supposed to meet at Freedom Plaza at nine o'clock in the morning. The reenactors were supposed to be there at eight o'clock. I got there at 7:30. When I got there at 7:30 there was over a thousand people in the plaza.
RUSH: You mean to tell me a thousand racists showed up an hour-and-a-half early?
CALLER: I like to think of them as a thousand patriots and they just kept pouring in. Now, the parade itself, the march itself wasn't scheduled to begin until 11:30. But by ten o'clock, there were several thousand people, and they were still pouring in. I could see them coming in from every avenue leading to Freedom Plaza, and the district police were going crazy, they didn't know what to do, traffic was being blocked, Pennsylvania Avenue was being blocked, and --
RUSH: I know a lot of people on the ground in Washington were stunned by the size. You weren't, and I wasn't. I know the rage that's bubbling up out there, and it's real, and it's not going away.
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RUSH: Val in Philadelphia. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you.
RUSH: I can understand things are probably depressed in Philadelphia today what with the injury to the quarterback Donovan McNabb.
CALLER: Well, we'll see. It's always a first game and we won. What I'm calling --
RUSH: I find it interesting the guy's got a cracked rib. A cracked rib! Have you ever tried to walk with a cracked rib much less broken rib? Have you ever tried to walk? Have you ever tried to breathe with a broken or cracked rib?
CALLER: You can't laugh.
RUSH: And the coach is saying, "Good chance he's going to play." Whew!
CALLER: That's right. Well, we'll see. You know, we're always the bridesmaid, never the bride, so we'll see what happens this year.
RUSH: I didn't mean to introduce a downer into what was obviously a very upbeat call.
CALLER: That's okay. We have the Phillies.
RUSH: I'm sorry for that.
CALLER: What I was calling about is this was any first protest march in Washington and I want to say I was just so uplifted by the entire experience. I was dead center on the lawn. I never heard one foul language. I never saw anything of the kind. I just saw good protesting going on. One of the signs that caught my attention, and there were numerous ones, was: "I am here representing people that could not make it," and I thought to myself: "There is one difference here between this protest and others. These people all vote and they are serious."
RUSH: Well, but there's another bigger difference. There's another bigger difference. These kind of rallies, like the big pro-amnesty rally back in 2007 or any other Obama rally, they have to actually send out marching orders and instructions to get their people out. It's tame thing for pro-Obama health care rallies. They are staged and organized. People of their own passion do not show up. This is important to mention, I think. I think this is the most important thing to mention about Saturday, the most important thing -- and that is: There was no leader who organized this. There was no charismatic leader who was speaking. There was no person out there telling you to get your tail in gear and get to Washington.
Yeah, there were some e-mails and websites you could go to to find details and so forth. But people went of their own volition. They went because of their own passion. (interruption) Yes, the program observer with a question. Well, if I had given out marching orders, the event would be discredited as being illegitimate, which is why I didn't. You think more people would show up? There's no question, but I purposely did not stay a word about this. We had a guy call on Friday. Snerdley, you were still out sick. We had a guy call here Friday thanking me for this whole thing. I said, "Look, sir, you're going on your own. I've never asked people to go to this thing. I haven't even talked about it."
I didn't talk about it on purpose. I didn't talk about it on purpose because I didn't want State-Controlled Media using me to denigrate the whole thing. If I had urged people to go, then the whole process would have been called illegitimate. (interruption) Well, I know they're -- no, they're not. They're not saying the event was illegitimate. They're trying to say it wasn't as loud as it was. I know they're trying to blame me. They're blaming me anyway. I knew this was going to happen, but if I had actually done it -- if they had tape of me, is my point. If they had tape of me actually urging people to show up, then all weekend long they'd say, "Well, this didn't mean anything. This is Limbaugh's mind-numbed robots." I knew I didn't have to say anything. Look, my friends. I am a powerful, influential member of the media. If I wanted to, you know, first three sound bites of the program today in our first hour were the Drive-Bys ripping me for inspiring this thing.
One of them ripped me for being the inspiration for "15 years." I am the leader and spokesman for the last 15 years. Actually it's the last 21, but who's counting? So I knew that was going to happen anyway. If I wanted to, I could have opened this program, taken all the credit. I could have made this about me. But this is the seminal point. It wasn't about anybody. It wasn't about any charismatic leader. This is so distinguishing us from the left and their mobs which are cult-like blind to Obama. You understand? You did this. It's in your heart. This passion is genuine, bubbling up from the grassroots. It is a conservative ascendancy based on the substance and the premise: liberty versus tyranny. People don't want tyranny. So don't let anybody tell you this thing was not legit. It is so legit, it embarrasses everybody else.
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RUSH: Colleen in Virginia Beach, hello and welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. My husband and I went to the rally in DC and on our way home in the Metro station this young liberal guy was standing next to us, and he kept looking at this sticker I had on that said, "Abortion is not health care;" and he got really angry and started arguing with me, insisting that abortion services were not going to be in any health care bill because Obama said so. He was just really adamant about it and so I finally, very calmly -- I stayed very calm -- and I said, "Well, if that's true, why did the Democrats in the House vote against every amendment the Republicans tried to put in the bill that would specifically prohibit abortion services?" And he told me I was being overly paranoid. So finally he just got so upset he turned away and started I guess doing research on his BlackBerry because a few minutes later he turned around and apologized and said that I was right, that it was in the House bill. He just hadn't known that. And after that was very pleasant and actually spent the rest of the time talking about basketball with my husband. So he wanted to fight and argue and I just stayed calm and actually I just gave him some factual information.
RUSH: Wait a minute, now. This is almost unprecedented.
CALLER: (giggles)
RUSH: I wonder where this guy went on his BlackBerry to find out what was in there.
CALLER: I don't know. It was like five minutes and I kind of glanced over and I could see what it was and there was a lot of wording and he was going through it and going through it and going through it and he finally just turned around and apologized, and I thanked him, and said it was nice of him to apologize, and after that he was very pleasant.
RUSH: That just doesn't happen. I was worried you might be shot like this abortion guy was.
CALLER: (giggles)
RUSH: My gosh, I mean, that guy decided to get on the Internet via his blackberry and researched it and found it and said, "I'm sorry, it is in the House bill"?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Well, he couldn't have called one of his buddies because his buddies the same thing. I mean, they all believe whatever Obama says. I wonder who he called. Did you ask him?
CALLER: I didn't. He looked like he was just researching something online, but once we talked -- and then after that he was willing to talk a little more and he said he had worked on health care legislation, and I said winning, "Well, did you work on the House side or the Senate side?" And he said he had been a fellow in Senator Kennedy's office when he was an undergraduate and then he had gone on to get his masters at NYU. And I thought, "Well, golly, no wonder. He's been programmed to think government is good," and what the president said it's not going to be in there and Senator Kennedy thought this was all wonderful, well, he did, too. He was 20-something, you know. Maybe 24, 25 years old.
RUSH: I'm still stammering into near speechlessness here. You were talking to a former Kennedy staffer who believed that abortion services were not covered because everybody had told him that, and then on the spur of the moment he decides to look it up and apologizes to you. I believe it happened; I just don't believe it.
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I did not agree with Rush today, I have been to 2 Tea Parties, and the common theme is people ARE tired of Republicans, Democrats and incumbents. Most people want a new congress and a fresh start. Rush just wants to turn this into a Democrat/Republican issue and keep us divided IMO by party identification. I was really upset with him today.
Now if we had a party of hard core Reagan Republicans it would be different, but many in office would rather bend over to Obama and the Democrats, than give Reagan principles the time of day.
RUSH FOR PRESIDENT! PALIN FOR V-P!
No need to taint Rush's message by making him a politician, PALIN/BACHMANN would make for a GREAT team to promote conservatism and give RUSH some supportive talking points!
Many in the Republican party are fighting the rise of conservatism. They’ll suffer for it.
(In fact, I've already donated money to both!)
Awesome, glad to know you called in about it! I only listened to like the first half hour, I couldn’t take any more of it today.
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