Rush Limbaugh Speaks in Philadelphia September 22, 2010

RUSH: Thank you all very, very much. It's great to be back in Philadelphia. What a beautiful place this Kimmel Center is. Look at it.

RUSH: "Performing arts." When I think of "performing arts," I think of Karen Finley dressed up nude in chocolate on the stage paid for with our tax dollars by the NEA.

RUSH: And this is very professional. There's actually, on this podium, a sign: "Please Speak Up and into Microphone."

RUSH: Honestly (chuckles) it's there. The last time I was here in Philadelphia... What was it? Three years ago, I think. How many of you were here that night?

RUSH: I have to meet and surpass audience expectations. Three years ago when I was here, it was the night that we announced that I was going to put Harry Reid's letter to my syndication partner up for auction on eBay. Remember that?

RUSH: Harry Reid, Dingy Harry. He could not get a vote on "don't ask, don't tell;" couldn't get a vote on cap and trade and a number of other things because he had to go to New York last night for a fundraiser for Democrats in the Senate. And he took with him Kirsten Gillibrand who is the junior senator from New York, a rubber stamp for Chuck-U Schumer, and he goes and he talks to all these senators up there and he's introducing them to the people and he gets to Kirsten Gillibrand and he says, "And what do we think of her? She's hot!" and he gets all embarrassed, because she's not that hot.

RUSH: But, but... No, I'm sorry. We're all friends here. Compared to the other Democrats in the Senate, she's a 10. She really is

RUSH: So I take that back. But she got all embarrassed. And, of course, we are the ones who are accused of being Neanderthals, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. And, of course, ladies and gentlemen, we -- if I can get serious for just a second here. We are all are in the midst of a disaster. No, we really are. Something has begun. I've been doing what I've been doing on this national radio show for 23 years, and every day, every week is a learning experience for me. I know a number of you would think it hard to believe that there's anything left for me to learn

AUDIENCE: (laughter) RUSH: But... (chuckles) For these 23 years I've thought that a whole bunch of people were on our team who really aren't, and it's become crystal clear. And we talked about this piece that was in the American Spectator by Angelo Codevilla called "The Ruling Class," which is just a brilliant, brilliant piece and it codified and it established exactly what's going on in the country today. It's not Republican versus Democrat. And by the way, this is not to say that there's no difference between the two because there clearly is. But we're in the midst here of a crossroads that I don't think any of us have ever faced in the country. I was thinking back the other day in my review of the 23 years: Make fun of liberals, talk about the things that they do and their policies. But we never, ever really thought that they would succeed to the point that the country as founded would be threatened.

But it is now. It is. This bunch -- the Obama administration, the regime -- is a disaster. They have succeeded in a year and a half. If we conservatives ever get power back, if we would implement as much of our agenda in a year and a half as Obama has succeeded in implementing, we would be throwing parties! Nationalizing car companies. Nationalizing the healthcare business. Daily assaults on freedom. And what we've learned that's shocking to us, is so many people on our side still don't see that. They still see it as a traditional Republican versus Democrat. "We'll share power here. We'll get some judges this year; you get some judges next year," and we're in a crossroads now where that's not the case. I was listening to Obama's speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Awards Banquet.

RUSH: You have to be a highly trained specialist to be able to say that without stuttering.

RUSH: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Awards Banquet. And Obama is up addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and he says (interruption), "You know, before we got here..."

RUSH: "Long before we got here, this great land was occupied by Mexicans, Spaniards, Dutch, Germans, French," Martians.

RUSH: You know, when you hear people talk about what was here before America was founded in a positive way, that's right out of the multicultural curriculum that has invaded public education in this country for the last 25 years. Now, to translate Obama, what he really means is: "Back in the good old days. Back before white Europeans arrived and brought syphilis, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and environmental destruction. Back in the good old days when the Indians were at one with the country, with the nation, with nature and so forth -- and back when everybody was hunky dory getting along." It's hard for people to get their arms around the fact that the country has elected somebody who has a grudge against the country.

RUSH: People still don't want to believe it. And I am as serious about this as I have ever been about anything. I have no doubt that for whatever reason -- and we can go through the list of what it is that Obama doesn't like about the country. I know he's been educated, informed and raised to not like this country from his father who didn't like colonialism. His grandfather was run out of Kenya, the Mau Mau revolution, the Great British revolution at the time and that's why Obama got rid of the bust of Winston Churchill first thing in the Oval Office. He didn't just put it in the basement. He sent it back to the British embassy. He has a genuine animus. It's not an accident that when it comes time to give a gift, he picks 25 DVDs at random from Amazon and doesn't even send the correct country codes so the Prime Minister can watch them.

He's got an axe to grind with the country. He doesn't like it. He has been raised that this country as founded was unjust and immoral and he is hell bent on a course to change it, to cause us to have to pay the price for this. Now, you say this -- and you've heard me say it on the radio daily -- and if you're immersed in this stuff daily and if you're honest, if you're honest with yourself about what you see and what you read; you can't conclude anything other than that. But a lot of people, even who voted for him who are not happy now, they just can't get their arms around the fact that we've elected somebody who has that view of the country. Sadly a lot of people on what I call "our side" of the aisle, the so called conservative media intelligencia inside the Beltway, they just think that he's misguided, wrong, doesn't understand economics, and is a little like a doofus.

And he may be all of that, but he's much more. He has a plan. He's the architect of reforming this country in a way that we wouldn't recognize it as founded. There's no way -- folks, there's no way -- anybody that has the ability to be honest with themselves can look at his economic policies after a year and a half of utter, from our perspective, failure. Job destruction. I mean, the unemployment rate continues to climb. People have stopped looking for work. It is a disaster out there -- and nobody in their right mind, after a year and a half of this, would say we need more of it. People would say, "This isn't working!" This is his fault. We've had a year and a half of debt that has accrued, in his year and a half, that is more than all the debt from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Yet he blames George W. Bush for it and he blames us! He blames the American people. He says, "No, the days of the American people, the days of America leading the world economically are over." The hell they are! They are not over AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: We all love the country. We all want for children and grandchildren, great grandchildren, the opportunities that we were all born to. I mean, that's the point. That is the purpose. The people who make the country work are in this room and in rooms like this all over the country. The people who make the country work are anonymous. They are not seeking fame. They are not trying to get noticed. They are not trying to get noticed on reality TV shows. They are not trying to get noticed on gossip columns in newspapers and so forth. They are out there struggling against the obstacles that have been placed in their way by this administration, trying to hold on and preserve the American dream. And now they have risen up and become a political force called the Tea Party.

RUSH: And... and... (chuckles) I watch this and I'm enthused and I'm optimistic about it each and every day. Let's talk about Christine O'Donnell for just a second.

RUSH: Now, people have asked me, "How come you haven't endorsed Christine O'Donnell?" Ladies and gentlemen, I generally don't endorse in primaries. I mean, politicians come and go, and you never know what they're going to do tomorrow. I am forever.

RUSH: But seriously. (chuckles) Here's a woman who hasn't done anything to anybody. She literally hasn't done anything to anybody, and look at what they're saying about her. It's a repeat, a recast of what they said about Sarah Palin, and all of it is just total BS. And I've gotten to the point where I don't care for it anymore. I'm really totally angry about it, and I don't think it's going to work anymore, and these people need to be shouted down on it.

RUSH: Because the real danger, the real danger facing this country is in power. The real danger facing this country is in the White House; it's in the Congress. The Republicans don't have the votes to stop anything and yet the Republicans are being blamed for all of this? It's patently absurd. I was watching Fox News the other night. I was surfing around. I don't watch cable news at night much anymore because Ted Baxter's act has gotten old.

RUSH: Did you see Ted Baxter is joining the blackmail brigade now? On Christine? Bill Maher's says, "I'm going to release a video a week until she comes on my show." O'Reilly has gotten into it and O'Reilly says, "Oh, yeah, she's been on this show. I've got some video. I'm not saying I'm going to release it, but if she doesn't come on The Factor, I may release it." What is this? What is the point? The woman hasn't done anything to anybody. All she has done is come from nowhere and get rid of a RINO that had no business being in -- was not going to be helpful at all in -- the United States Senate

RUSH: So anyway, I'm watching Judith Miller who, to the New York Times, is a conservative.

RUSH: She was on Special Report with Bret Baier and it was the day Obama went out and had that town hall meeting with his supposed supporters that told him, "Hey, is this it? Is this our new reality?"

RUSH: And he's secretly saying, "Yeah, get used to it. It's exactly the new reality." I mean, he thinks this country needs to pay a price for all of the oppression, all of the raping of the countryside and natural resources that we've done around the world. That's how he looks at the country. Why does anybody doubt this? Jeremiah Wright? He was in the church for 20 years. "Oh, he didn't hear what Jeremiah Wright said." Oh! Oh, yeah. Okay. Right. He was a member of the church for 20 years and he didn't hear a word Jeremiah Wright said. Why would we think he did? They did a poll on Obama. They did a poll -- how many Americans think he's a Muslim -- and they were stunned. The media was shocked that 20% of the country thinks he's a Muslim. Why did they do the poll? I mean, it wasn't our poll. We didn't do it!

RUSH: It was the State Controlled Media that did it. Why did they do it? It means there's some doubt. Now, let's see. Barack... Hussein...

RUSH: Father born in Kenya. Barack Hussein Obama who said that one of the most beautiful sounds in the world is the daily Muslim call to prayer. Why would anybody think he's a Muslim?

RUSH: I don't get the connection. Now, the media tries to -- and by the way, I don't know. This is the point. We know more about Christine O'Donnell than we know about Barack Obama, and he's president! AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: And that's not right. I don't know what he is. Now, don't misunderstand. I didn't come here -- because I'm sure that there are some media plants out there, and you people know who you are. They sneak in here. There were some people scalping tickets to this thing outside, I'm told. I hope whoever paid above face value is in the media.

RUSH: But I don't know whether he is, but the fact... Is it not a little disturbing, disconcerting about the president of the United States? People don't know. I mean, folks, somebody hasn't been doing their job -- and if 20% of the American people think so and the media has done their best to say, "Why, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, Obama's not Muslim. Why would anybody think that? Obama's a Christian!" Well, how would you know? You hate Christians! The media makes fun of Christianity. This is the contradiction. They run out and Christianity is the one religion you can mock, you can make fun of, you can insult a day long. No Christian will ever threaten to blow you up or blow up your building or whatever. They just sit there and take it. But you can make fun of them all day long. The media does it every day. Now all of a sudden they want to say Obama's one of us.

RUSH: It's right in front of our face the danger that we face here. And folks, really, when he was elected, I have to be honest with you, I was... I don't get depressed much, but I was on the verge of it. "What if this election means that we've lost the country? What if the election of Barack Obama means enough Americans have been convinced to invest in nothing?" His campaign was platitudinous nothings. (impression) "Todaaaaay! Todaaaay people will remember as the day the sea level began to fall." What?

RUSH: We're told he's the one that's brilliant and Christine O'Donnell's an idiot and he's out there saying, "I'm going to lower the sea levels. People will remember today." Really? Joe Biden, from Delaware, says he's second in line to the presidency!

RUSH: And yet it's all of our people who are supposedly unsophisticated, stupid. Obama thinks there are 57 states! He went to all of them and campaigned in them. Look at what Obama really believes: All this spending will create jobs. For who? Maybe the public sector is growing, but they don't produce anything. Oh, I keep saying that and I'm wrong. They do now. They make the Volt.

RUSH: Anyway, back to Judith Miller. I'm sure you thought I'd lost my place, but I haven't.

RUSH: So I'm watching Judith Miller on Fox with Bret Baier, and she's explaining how brilliant Obama's performance was at that town hall meeting on CNBC where his own supporters told him life sucks because of him. AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: I'm not going to lose my place. I actually got e mail from people who tell me I was being set up, that that whole thing was staged, that those people were to say that kind of stuff so we'd feel sorry for Obama. I said, "Look, you people are being too smart by half. You don't have somebody show up and say, 'Look, I thought you were going to help. I believed in you. I thought we were going to have all this wonderful stuff; we got nothing with you. Is this my new reality?'" That's not a setup. You know, and Obama sat there smiling. He took it as a compliment!

RUSH: He did! He's standing there smiling. "Oh, thank you, thank you," because that's what he's out to do. So Judith Miller said, "That was very effective; I think what Obama did is going to really help the Democrats come back and win in November. Because what he did was he took the economic circumstances of today and he correctly said that it's the result of two unfunded wars and two unfunded tax cuts," and she, a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, was serious! She believes it. Folks, the ignorant stupidity... We're going to have to redefine "smart" because it's on their side. All these supposed Harvard- and Yale educated cookie cutters? They are the most ignorant. They don't know real life experience. They don't understand it.

RUSH: They make fun of it. They look down on it. They impugn it. Okay. So, Ms. Miller says two unfunded wars and two unfunded tax cuts have led to the current economic disaster. How about unfunded Medicare? How about unfunded Social Security? How about unfunded everything? Nothing the government is doing is funded. We're broke! We're in debt to the tune of, what, $4 trillion, or more. The national deficit is bordering on $13 trillion. Nothing is paid for. We're finding out nothing here has been real. Look at all these unfunded pensions and healthcare plans for state employees in California and Illinois, and she really believes it, believes that she can convince the American people that they don't have jobs because of two wars that "weren't paid for" -- one of them still going on by the way, in Afghanistan -- and two unpaid-for tax cuts. Well, nothing Obama has done is paid for, and this is the problem. The spending, the out of control spending -- which is putting every one of us with our children and grandchildren in debt -- is exactly why the spending is the issue. That's why there has been a rising up of average, ordinary, God bless them, American people who know that this is unsustainable and can't be maintained.

RUSH: You know, I love tweaking the media each and every day. It's easy. By the way, I like to leave the house lights up. A lot of people don't want to see the audience. They're afraid of audience reactions. They just want the spotlight on them. I like the house lights up because I like to spot the liberals in the crowd.

RUSH: It's easy. You can see them out there. You know who you are. You're sitting next to 'em.

RUSH: They've been dragged here. They are not really sure they want to come and they don't even want to enjoy it -- and they want to laugh so much that they just will not let themselves be seen laughing. They will not let themselves be seen having a good time because nobody should be having a good time. So it's not fair if you are if they're not. But I can see them. I like to know who the liberals are. And I'm looking at you. I've spotted you. I've spotted all of you.

RUSH: I love it. So I love to tweak the media each and every day, and it's easy to do. I even tell them I'm going to do it and they fall for it!

RUSH: They think, the media thinks that 20% of the American people believe Obama's a Muslim because I began calling him "Imam Obama."

RUSH: The problem is, they took this poll on how many people think he's a Muslim long before I started calling him Imam Obama. Why would anybody think Obama's a Muslim? He only wants to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed to trial in New York City and he wants to build a mosque at Ground Zero

RUSH: Now, you stop and think of that for a second. This is somebody who either doesn't understand why that's a bad idea, or does understand it's a bad idea and wants to just ram it down everybody's throats. Which? It's the latter, right? You think it's the latter

RUSH: It's perfectly understandable. Here's a guy and his absolutely insane attorney general, Eric Holder, who wants to bring a guy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- who said, Please kill me. Martyr me! I want to meet the 73 virgins. Kill me at Club Gitmo. Kill me." "No, no! We're going to bring you to New York and we're going to put you on trial. We're going to give you a three year forum to tell the world how rotten the United States is." That's what that trial's for, and it's going to cost $200 million a year that we don't have, unfunded security, for this trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a couple other of his henchmen? And everybody says, "Rush, don't worry about it. They'll never find a jury that will acquit." (chuckles) Oh, really? In New York?

AUDIENCE: (laughter) RUSH: But why would anybody think that Obama has a problem with America when he wants to do this? I mean, it's just, it's out there and it's so obvious and it's so serious and it's so real that people just can't face it. So they'll put it out of their minds or they'll delay thinking about it or what have you, but it really is an issue. We're at a crossroads here. Socialism, communism around the world has failed everywhere it's been tried.

RUSH: Even Fidel Castro -- did you see this? By the way, I got married. You see this? It's wife GPS, wife GPS.

RUSH: Do you know Joy Behar? If there's anybody ever inappropriately named, it's Joy Behar. There's somebody who's never happy. I used to work next door to her at WABC in New York. I mean, there's not a happy day in the woman's life.

RUSH: She's still -- Her butt's so tightly scrunched up because Elton John sang at my wedding. She just can't believe it!

RUSH: I remember the New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a couple of years ago, invited me to go out on the town with her on a January night in New York. You know, I just love going into liberal enclaves and just blowing the places up. It's like this. This is an electronic cigarette. Pull this baby out in an elevator and watch the liberals panic.

RUSH: I was over playing golf in Hawaii at a bar and whipped one of these things out. It's water vapor. There's no tobacco; there's no flame. And the manager comes up, "Mr. Limbaugh, really, I'm sure you know we don't allow smoking here in the bar." I said, "I'm not smoking. This is an electronic cigarette," and I unscrewed the filter, the cartridge to explain it to him he says, "Oh, oh, okay." He walks away fine. I keep puffing away at it. He comes back in five minutes: "Mr. Limbaugh, ummm, uhhh, people say you are setting a bad example. One woman said you're really enjoying it too much. Could you...?"

RUSH: So when Cindy Adams calls and says, "Would you like to go to an HBO private screening?" I say, "Yes."

RUSH: -- who was playing the character Doris Duke, the tobacco queen, and the screening was at the Time-Life Center... Well, it's Columbus Circle somewhere. So we go in there and, folks, it is the ruling class. I mean, these people we talk about, these self defined elites. But when we call them "elites," they are not better than us. That's not what we mean. They think they are better than everybody else, but they aren't. They are a minority. We're being governed, we're being ruled by a minority, and that's going to change starting in November. But more on that in just a second.

RUSH: So... So I walk in with Cindy Adams, and you could just see. Tina Brown and her husband Harry what's his face, Harry Evans. Harry Evans. Short little guy. Tina's about here. You see that and you wonder: How does it work?

RUSH: And their eyes bug out. They look at me. They just can't believe it. They look at Cindy: "Why did you drag him in here?" So guess who I see taking off her coat and checking it? Joy Behar.

RUSH: And she doesn't see me. Now, we literally worked together at WABC in New York for, I guess two or three years, and I was very helpful to her. ABC was trying to get her a television talk show for years, and I went up to New Haven, Connecticut, to do a pilot with her and I flew out to Hollywood to do a pilot. I helped her every time she asked me to appear on her television pilots, and still she hates me!

RUSH: So I see her and she's with this guy that has been her boyfriend for 15 years. I mean, this guy, believe me, is so henpecked, the only thing he does behind her back is zip her up.

RUSH: If it weren't for his varicose veins, the guy would be totally colorless. So I see Joy over there and I walk up and I just give her a big hug: "Joy, how are you?" and she acts like she's being raped! She panicked. She freaked! "Oh, my God!" She sees me. "YOU! How did YOU get in here?" She really said that: "How did YOU get in here?" I said, "Cindy Adams brought me." I mean, it was the last place I was supposed to be. I love just tweaking these people -- and they sat me right behind Susan Sarandon in the screening

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause) RUSH: And right next to her daughter. And Susan Sarandon, of course, comes in late because she's the star. And she goes to the stage to explain this brilliant, moving role that she played, and comes down and takes her seat and sees that it's right in front of me -- and Cindy Adams is seated to my left. She turns to Cindy and she says, "This is one heck of a photo op." So I love it. I just love tweaking these people. You can do it each and every day because the truth of the matter is that they live in their little enclaves and they are insecure. At the end of the day they're all very insecure, and this is why they band together. But their insecurity has led to a pompous arrogance in the way they deal with everybody, and it has infected people on our side in Washington, D.C. You know, the liberals do run that town. They run it politically, they run it socially, and everybody wants to be part of it. In your neighborhood you want to matter, you want to live and be friends. You don't want to be antagonistic with people. So too many of our people have gone out of their way to try to say, "We're not like those Limbaugh wackos." Some of them, like National Review magazine. It used to be Bill Buckley's magazine: "Stand to thwart history and say, 'Stop!'" And now they're in this chorus that says Christine O'Donnell can't get elected. It's silly. I look at it: Here's a magazine founded by a man, William F. Buckley, whose intention was to have the countryside strewn with the carcasses of liberals everywhere.

RUSH: And now they're invoking "the Buckley Rule," the Buckley Rule which means "support the most electable conservative." Well, I don't know how you support Mike Castle. He's not a conservative. He's a RINO. Harry Reid couldn't wait! Harry Reid couldn't wait for Mike Castle to get there and join him in voting on cap and trade. So one of the points that I want to make about all of this and the tea party is that I still run into people. Despite the successes of the tea party and the overwhelming polling data that suggest a really successful November, people are still in some cases depressed and insecure because they don't see their values, their success stories represented in traditional media. Traditional media still impugns, laughs at, and makes fun of us all -- and they're not media folks. They really never have been. This is one of the things. I used to think there were not objective reporters. I knew there were liberals, but now they're activists and they are making no pretense. They don't report news. They are just activists now. They are out trying to further an agenda. It's Obama's agenda. It's the Democrat Party's agenda. So anybody who is expecting them to be fair or honest in recognizing things we succeed at, you're always going to be disappointed. Take solace in the fact that last week the three nightly newscast shows -- Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric -- lost 700,000 more viewers.

RUSH: That's big. Here's the difference. This, of course, will never happen, but if the radio ratings came out and I had lost 700,000 listeners, the last thing I would do is say, "Those stupid people." I'd say, "What am I not doing here? How have I failed to connect? How have I let the audience down?" They don't. The news business is the only business where the customer is not only wrong, he's an idiot!

RUSH: You call and complain and they say, "Well, I'm sure you can't understand the ways we do our jobs. You can't understand the process by which we put together the news. It's really, really beneath our ability to explain it to you." So they lose viewers, and they're happy about it because they think they're getting rid of the rubes. I watch. I have the news on during my show every day just because you never know. Some car chase might happen and you have to comment on it, some big news story.

RUSH: And I happen to see Andrea Mitchell (NBC News-Washington) and she'll have... did I say something wrong? Or it's potty time? Oh, good. Whew! (chuckles) The future of the country right there and I come this close to blowing it.

RUSH: So I watch these shows, folks. I watch and I realize -- like let's say she will have as her guest F. Chuck Todd.

RUSH: F. Chuck is the -- what is he? -- White House correspondent, NBC News political director. He's a journalist in good standing. And I see him talking to Andrea and Andrea talking, and they're not talking to an audience. They're talking to themselves and they're talking to other news people watching. F. Chuck is hoping Bob Schieffer's watching and is impressed. F. Chuck hopes Walter Cronkite's watching from the Great Newsroom Up There and is impressed. F. Chuck hopes that other news people are watching. He hopes the New York Times editors are watching. They do it for each other. They write their articles, their columns, news stories for each other. They don't connect with their audience. We in the new media present to them a giant question mark. They do not understand how it is that our enterprises are successful and growing. They have to say that you are my robots. They have to insult you. It can't be that you and I share the same values. It can't be that what I really do is simply validate what you already think. You know, I don't teach you anything.

RUSH: The secret... The secret to my success is I happened to come along in 1988. Back then look at what there was. There was ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, US News, local rag newspapers, and CNN. That was it. And I came along and there was no national conservative voice in the media. So I fill the void -- and our business plan did not say, "We're going to fill a void. We're going to be the only conservative voice." I just said, "I'm going to do a good show. I'm going to try to attract an audience. I'm going to be honest about the things I believe and roll the dice and see if it works," and it did. To this day people, even in talk radio on competing stations or on the leftist side, do not understand the recipe for success. It's so simple. It's right out in front. You be honest, you have a connection with the audience, you have credibility, and they believe you. You never, you never steer them wrong as a host. You build the loyalty. And we haven't lost any dollars, we haven't lost any audience in 23 years. We're growing while they're all plunging and falling apart.

AUDIENCE: (laughter) RUSH: But in truth, in truth what it is is a very...almost humbling thing for me to have this large an audience. I mean, they put out 15 million listeners. It's more like 23 to 25 million in a week. To have people like you show up here, I'm in awe of it every day. I don't... When I say, "I have to meet and surpass audience expectations every day," I do. I do not take you being here or on listening on the radio for granted for even a moment.

RUSH: It's not just that I love you all knowing what you believe and what you want for the country. It's I respect your intelligence. I don't talk down to you, I don't assume that you're ignorant or a novice, and a lot of people in the conservative media are the same way. We're just real people. We have a genuine connection, and it drives them nuts -- and when they have to resort to impugning you, me, all it does is strengthen us, and it makes us more committed than ever to oppose them and defeat them. They have created this monster themselves.

RUSH: You know, every day is a learning experience for me, and I want to tell you a little bit about how I got started doing this because I was in radio for a number of years as a disc jockey. I was only allowed to speak over the intros to music and then only allowed to talk about the music. I was at Pittsburgh at a station owned by ABC, and the program director's admonishment was: "Music over music," meaning if you were to play a Michael Jackson song, you were to talk about Michael Jackson -- and if it was Billie Jean, you had 15 seconds to talk about Michael Jackson. So I would love to play The Show Must Go on by Three Dog Night that had a 45 second intro. That was my first opportunity to do what I'm doing now came in Sacramento in --

RUSH: Eleven? LADY: (unintelligible) I listened when I was eleven. RUSH: You listened when you were 11 but your parents probably had you listening before then. So she's a genuine, literal Rush baby, okay? And look. Look where she is

RUSH: You know what? She works for the tea party. Stand up! Stand up, stand up. She works for the tea party.

RUSH: Now, I got to Sacramento, and I don't want to belabor this, but I had never been allowed to do a radio show the way I wanted to -- and nobody in radio really was except for morning people. People who did morning shows, they were allowed to have a little bit more leeway. But it was always program directors saying that you have to do this. And the thing I faced when I first started the show is you have to have guests.

"Well, it's because everybody does, and I want to do something nobody else does."

I said, "I don't care about authors. I'm the expert. I don't want to have to defer. I can't get any better guests than they can get down the road in San Francisco. Why? I don't want to talk about carrot cake recipes during the holidays or the problems with the fire hydrants in the city. Why do I want to talk about it?"

And this was October of '84. This was the reelection of Reagan's second term, and I surveyed the market, and nobody was talking about it. So I lucked out. I won't tell you how, but they finally left me alone. Well, they stole a morning team from a competing radio station across the street and then left me alone. They just forgot about me. It was the best thing that ever happened, because I was able to do three hours the way I wanted to do it. No guests, just... I mean whatever I wanted to do: News, commentary, play music and so forth. And I always tried to... You know, I love parody and satire. Now, some of you may have heard this story, but for those of you who haven't it will explain a little bit about how I approach what I do, how seriously I take it. There was a news story, just a tiny little paragraph news story. An Ohio minister was demanding that the TV show Mr. Ed be banned because he had played the theme song backwards and found a Satanic message. (laughter) No, honest. It was just a little blurb of a story and I looked at that and I said, "Okay, now, if I just say that and a couple of laughing comments, I have, what, five minutes worth of stuff out of it." Well, at the time there was a thing happening called The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, and it was a bunch of wild eyed dope smoking long haired FM maggot type people who were marching from California to Washington. And when they got to Washington they were going to stage a die in on the steps of the energy department building and they were going to basically pour red paint and depict themselves as bloodied at the very moment of a nuclear blast. And I was chronicling this. I mean, this was a daily event and I'd call people in the various cities that they were stopping to get reports on it and I came up with a theme song by Slim Whitman, Una Paloma Blanca, One White Dove, and I was playing that as the update theme to the daily news story of the global peace march. Then this Ohio minister's story hits. I said, "What if I find a Satanic message in the Slim Whitman song?" Now, how many of you have heard this story? Can I see a show of hands? Okay. So a lot of people have. So those of you who have heard it please indulge me. So I went into the production room and there's no such thing as a turntable that plays records backwards, and there wasn't then. You had to put the song on a tape recorder and play that backwards, and I had the production director, a guy named Don Grant put his voice through a harmonizer, you can make it sound however you want. He recorded a message that you could only hear if you played the song backwards. So the next day I started the program telling people that I had been saddened and shocked to learn that I had been used, co opted by evil during my peace march updates and I was seriously thinking of resigning because I had unwittingly exposed all of you to it, evil. And I didn't know what to do about this and I said, "Even though I've realized it now through the grace of God, who's to say it won't happen again? I didn't know it would happen this time. The devil had got me once; the devil can get me another time. Now, I'm not going to tell you what it is that I said to you, the audience. Just trust me, it's bad, and I'm sorry and I'm really at a crossroads here. I'll decide what to do about this by the end of the week." So naturally the phones start ringing off the hook: "What did you do? What happened?" "No, I'm not going to tell you. Just trust me." Then the management of the station started getting phone calls from local pastors AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: Congregations were calling, "There's some guy on the radio saying that he was spreading Satanic messages, Satanism." So this was working out great

RUSH: I hadn't done anything but everybody's talking about it. So after three days of this, the general manager of the station walked into the studio at a commercial break and said, "How long are you going to go with this?" And I said, "I think we have at least another week to milk this."

RUSH: He said, "Okay, well, just use your judgment here, be careful." I said, "Okay, I will." So I finally relented to public pressure and said, "Okay, I've been pressured, local ministers, station management has demanded that I reveal what I have discovered about how I have been a tool of evil. They think you have a right to know. I'm doing this under protest and under duress; I do not think I should be doing this." I said, "Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to the brilliant work of a minister in Ohio who discovered a Satanic message in the Mr. Ed TV show theme song, I have found a Satanic message in Slim Whitman's Una Paloma Blanca, my update theme song for the global peace march."

And people said, "Well, you've got to play it." I said, "No, that's as far as I'm going to go. I am not going to subject you. You already have heard it. Don't you understand? That's the point. It's there. It's a subliminal thing. It hits you, and I've exposed you to it!" "No, we want to hear it. We want to hear it." I had them in the palm of my hand. I knew exactly. So I said, "Okay, I'm going to do this but," you know, the usual cautions and warnings, "just be careful with this. This could shatter everything you hold dear. It can shatter every belief that you've ever had. I know you can't sign a release, but I want you all to understand here that I think you're probably safe, since you know it's coming, you can steal yourself, you can prepare yourself for it."

So I play the song backwards, which is better, by the way, than when you play it the regular direction. Slim Whitman yodels Una Paloma Blanca (singing). So at 30 seconds into the song, the message that we recorded came on. It was this: "Beeeeeeeelzebub. Yes, it's me, the old devil himself lurking right here in the Slim Whitman record grooves. You know, me and my disciples are wondering where you got a turntable like this to hear this message that play records backwards. Well, we're just glad you did, and I have to be heading on the way down the line." Now, I'm playing this and I'm thinking I have just pulled off one of the most brilliant pieces of parody and satire. I'm thinking Johnny Carson's going to be calling to have me as a guest on the Tonight Show. And the phones are ringing off the hook and I'm looking and the call screener is in a panic -- because people believed it.

RUSH: Well, some people. Some people calling believed it. Now, I was not prepared for that. I mean, Beelzebub, it's the old devil himself lurking here in the Slim Whitman record grooves. But this has a point. This taught me something. So now what do I do with this? I thought something was going to establish me as something -- one, they don't get, at least these people calling. You know the percentage of people that listen to a talk show that call it is less than 1/10th of 1%. Ninety-nine point nine percent of people listening to a talk show never call. So you never do the show for callers. You do it for the audience. And the callers end up being props one way or the other. They're good props, bad props. All of the callers make the host look good, not by complimenting but by setting up like these people. So I said, "Gosh, what am I going to do?" So I had to change gears. People would say, "I've got every Slim Whitman record! Do you think there are other Satanic messages? What should I do?"

RUSH: I said, "Ma'am, look how easily I was co opted. I wouldn't take a chance. I'd throw them away. I'd burn them." Thank God that there was no Dittocam. I mean, I'm laughing myself silly. I'm losing my composure doing this. And these people kept calling and thanking me and telling me that I was not going to have to resign, that God had stepped in and saved me, had alerted me to this. This was a good sign that I was helping people also learn that they had been exposed to evil and they didn't have to succumb to it. My head's sinking. And so I'm accepting their thanks, and the ministers are still calling the general manager and finally a guy calls, skeptic.

RUSH: We did. We finally got a skeptic. He said, "You know, I have that Slim Whitman record. I don't believe this for a minute. There's no Satanic message in the song; it's not possible. In fact, I have the record and I don't have a turntable that plays backwards but I put the needle on, I've been spinning it backwards and there's no Satanic message there. You can't fool me. I think it's a crime, it's an insult what you're doing." I said, "Sir, what year was your turntable made?"

RUSH: That's the only thing I could think of. He said, "I don't know, maybe 1982." "Well, that's the thing. See, your, your turntable has disgronification circuitry in it." "What's that?" I said, "Well, what it does, it cancels the high end and the low end, the bass and treble and it compresses them in the midrange and Satanic messages are on the high end and the disgronifier takes them out of there." "You mean, if I go get a new turntable and I spin it backwards?" I said, "Yes, sir." We had a sponsor that sold us one. I said, "You go to Philco and buy one; you'll hear it." Now, there are two factions of the audience on this one: The people that didn't get it, which is a minority, the people calling; and the people who did, who were in on it who had the sense to understand it was a parody and so forth.

But what it taught me was that in my case, why did people believe it? They believed it because I said it. They trusted me. And they may not have understood that I was trying to be funny with it, because I hadn't spent a lot of time on the Ohio minister. I did not make fun of the guy. I just reported it as a news story the same as any other news story. And from that day forward, I've made mistakes in this regard, I've done parodies and not closed the loop at the end of the day and gotten into some trouble with it, but I've never taken for granted the fact that you and the rest of the audience have a trust in me that I should never, ever tamper with and play with or take for granted. The worst example of this was sometimes I assume everybody listens three hours a day every day and they're with me and they know and they understand totally what I'm about and so forth. (applause)

And not everybody does. I think they will understand my frustrations and anger about various things. A guy called while we're discussing the defense budget. I had moved to New York, it was my national show. We were discussing the defense budget and the guy calls up and says, "You have no right to talk about a defense budget. You didn't go to Vietnam. You had a chance to go kill commies and you didn't go. I mean, you don't have the right." I said, "What is this? People who haven't served can't talk about military policy?" "That's right. You can't talk about it." I said, "Sir, you know what? You actually have a good point. You know, I come from a very small town, powerful family in a small town and I didn't go kill commies. You know why, sir? My father went down to the draft board and wrote them a check for $3,000 and I got a 4 F." Now see, it was the last call of the day. I'm thinking, I dealt with that guy, you know, dealing with idiocy with idiocy, illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Well, I get home and my dad calls and says, "What?" just screaming at me.

AUDIENCE: (laughter) RUSH: Family members from Memphis to Chester, Illinois are calling him demanding that something happen to me because I've so sullied the reputation of the family name and so forth. And I said, "Come on, you mean people believed it?" "Yes, son, because you said it." So my point with all this is that now, when I tell you that I think Barack Hussein Obama has a grudge against this country, thinks it was founded in an immoral, unjust way and is hell bent on making us pay the price for whatever he thinks we have done in an unjust, colonial, immoral way, I mean it. I am not being outrageous just to get a reaction.

RUSH: That's right from my heart. As I said earlier, during the course of my 23 years liberalism has always been something to laugh at. They are more fun when they are out of power because that's when they get hysterically ridiculous. When they're in power they're dangerous. You have to take them a little bit more seriously. But never, never did I think that a majority of people would elect somebody who had as his objective to fundamentally change and reform the country because he resents it. I never thought it would happen. So that's a big shock, and to try to convey this to people, I ask myself, "Have I been too lackadaisical for 22 years? Somehow was I not serious enough at the right times?" You know, I ask myself, you and I, we are immersed in reality every day. Whatever it is, it's a hard, cold reality. We don't live in euphemisms. We don't live in fantasy worlds.

We might dream and we certainly do, but we don't live in them. We don't promise ourselves a utopia. We understand the obstacles that we face. We accept them. We love the challenge; we love overcoming them; we love teaching and raising our children to do the same thing. We love telling people you're better than you think you are. We love to tell people that the country depends on you, the country's greatness is because of you, you're the ones making it work. We now have an administration and an entire government who thinks the country is what it is because the people of this country are somehow inferior, stupid, idiots. And that offends the hell out of me. And I asked myself, "Did I not take these people seriously enough long ago, could we have prevented this?" How is it that a majority of people in that campaign -- I mean, maybe it was hypnosis? How is it? I ask myself how is it that people actually will believe some guy who says he's going to lower the sea levels. Why does even one person believe Al Gore on anything? I'm serious. That movie of his, the book, all of it is a fraudulent lie.

RUSH: And then I'm watching the opening weekend of the NFL. By the way, a shout-out to Kevin Kolb. Did you see the headline in the Philadelphia paper today? "Michael Vick, Top Dog"? Whoa! I saw that, I said, "What does Vick think of that?" I mean, I came out dressed in black today in honor of Andy Reid.

RUSH: Oh, gee, I've gone over the limit. So I'm watching the opening week of the NFL season. There's a Nissan commercial of a polar bear. There's a polar bear walking through the countryside of a little town, the highways and byways and going through the neighborhoods. A polar bear, and cars and trucks are driving by it. No big deal. Polar bear, hey. Polar bear, hi, how are you? The polar bear shows up on some schlub's driveway who happens to be driving one of these electric hoax cars, the Prius or whatever. The Prius, by the way, if you want to drive one that's fine and dandy, just don't think you are saving anything. It's like people who wear these ribbons: "See this ribbon? I'm better than you. I care more than you." That's people driving Priuses, "I care more." You know what? I drive a Maybach and it gets four miles to the gallon and I love giving those Priuses anals. I get right behind, flash the lights, zoom around them.

RUSH: Folks, it bothers me that so many Americans actually think that the light bulbs they use, that the appliances they use will cause the climate to change. It bothers me that people are that gullible and stupid. I understand how it happened. Everybody wants to matter. Everybody wants to think their life has meaning. And a lot of people don't. But if they are told that they can save the planet by putting in some stupid spaghetti light bulb or drive around in a little accident waiting to happen car, well, they will do it. And it shouldn't bother me because it's freedom, but if they're doing it because it's a political statement, if it's a political decision, it bothers me because I know I'm looking at a stupid liberal behind the wheel, and I just...

RUSH: I have compassion. Don't misunderstand. I have compassion, but I'm getting to a point in my life I don't suffer fools as easily as I used to. So I'm watching this Nissan commercial and the polar bear finally gets to this guy's house and he sneaks up on the guy who's coming out to go to work, get in his little lawnmower with four seats on it. And the polar bear comes up, and this guy: "Oh, my God, it's a polar bear!" The polar bear hugs him. Thank you. Polar bear: "Thank you for driving this little piece of crap car and saving my iceberg."

RUSH: I look at that and I think, "My god, we are losing this country." This is a company trying to sell cars with this. Their marketing people think this is a way to get people to buy that car, and it probably is. And I'm thinking this is irresponsible because somebody is going to see a polar bear and try to hug the thing and they are going to get killed! And it's going to be Nissan's fault. But ultimately it's going to be Al Gore's fault. This whole global warming thing is classic, quintessential liberalism. It's a lie. All of liberalism is a lie. It's a hoax! It is.

RUSH: It's like anything else in liberalism. It has as its purpose to control our lives, to have power over us, and it plays on the common human emotion of guilt: I'm going to make them feel guilty for destroying the climate, but I'm going to also tell them they can save it. All they've got to do is drive around piece of crap cars and pay higher taxes. All they've got to do is move into smaller houses. All they've got to do is buy one sheet of toilet paper like Sheryl Crow. These people are idiots! These people are stupid and we have to sit here and listen to Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin be insulted, and these people are absolute nimrods. So I go back and forth, how in the world did this guy get elected? Then I see the Nissan commercial and I realize we have a battle here, and some of us look at the objective: Okay, we've got to go out and change people's minds and get them to join us. I looked at the Obama CNBC thing and I saw these people ostensibly expressing problems with his policy say, "Now, there's somebody. We can go get that person." This Velma Hart was her name. This woman is ripe for the taking if we somehow get to Velma. "Yes, your answer, this is your new reality. On purpose. No future. No economic future. Yes, and you were looking right at the man, the president of the United States who's giving it to you. Yes." I wonder, "Could we convert the woman?" Then I say, "Do we have time?" The first objective is to just vote against anybody with a Democrat behind their name.

RUSH: That's what has to be done. It's time to stop being defensive and think we need to explain ourselves to them.

RUSH: They're the one at some point who we are going to call upon and we're going to demand an accounting for the damage they have caused the country and the future.

RUSH: The days of us being defensive and thinking we have to make explanations, justifications for what we think. Folks, I want to tell you we are the epitome of decency and normal, and the people that we are facing are the ones who are the odd balls and kooks, and they are a minority, but they have the media on their side so that what they do and believe is made. They have movies and books, TV shows. What they do and think is made to look mainstream but it's destructive as it can be. It is damaging, and have you ever seen a happy liberal? No, I'm being serious. They're not, and they're almost constitutionally unequipped for it because they don't feel happy if there's any misery anywhere. So what they want to do is spread misery equally and call it civil rights. Call it equality. You know, we've given one life. I ask people at each of these addresses, and I did it in Philadelphia three years ago. You ever ask yourself how is it, what is the reason that a country of 250 million people came to lead the world in virtually everything, decency, goodness, economic prosperity, opportunity, you name it, in such a short number of years compared to civilizations that have been around thousands of years. How did it happen? We're not any better human beings. I mean, there's nothing different in our DNA than Europeans or Africans. We're not anything better. There's nothing special. We're all human beings. What is it that enabled this collection of human beings to run rings around everybody else? And I mean in a decent way. Not in the Obama way. We didn't plunder the planet. The United States of America is a solution to the world's problems. Obama thinks we are the problem.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause) RUSH: We are a good, decent, just country with wonderful people. Yeah, we got our ne'er do wells, every country does, but we are not a country that need ever apologize for itself.

RUSH: And we certainly don't need the president of the United States who is the most inexperienced guy in any room he talks into apologizing for us. What is it? What is it that has enabled us? I really think it's in our founding documents. Our founders acknowledged that our rights and freedom are inherent in our creation. They come from God.

RUSH: And they put it right there in the preamble of declaration: We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. If the government doesn't stand for life, who will? The Democrat Party doesn't. Life in the hands of the Democrat Party leads to what? Death. Happiness? You want to invest your happiness in the Democrat Party? They're not happy; they don't want you to be happy. Liberty? Every policy coming out of Democrat Party is designed to shrink our liberty, to take it away and transfer it to the state for command and control. So Obama shows up at the Hispanic Caucus Institute awards banquet and cites the preamble leaving out the Creator. We're all "endowed with life, liberty, pursuit of happiness." Yada, yada, yada he might as well say. So we folks, you and I and all the rest of us like us around the country, it's time to start thinking of ourselves as the majority because we are.

RUSH: Time to stop thinking of ourselves defensively. We don't need to seek validation from people who are never going to acknowledge who we are in the first place, the media or Democrats. We don't need Mike Castles and John McCains to cross the aisle. We don't need it. When you admit, when you say, (imitating McCain) "That's right, Limbaugh, I can reach across the aisle. I'm the only one who can do it." That means that you are inherently saying you're not good enough, McCain. You're only going to be good enough if you get those people to join us. Well, those people are destroying us. Why do you want to join them? I had a big dinner party in New York at Roger Ailes' house. I haven't hid this on the radio. Karl Rove was there. Christine O'Donnell's name came up. He didn't say a word. Mike Castle's name came up and Judge Napolitano was there and Neil Cavuto.

RUSH: And Roger Ailes, you would love Roger Ailes. I wish everybody in the room could meet Roger Ailes. He's just one of the most naturally funny people. And he directed the conversation at this dinner, and he actually started by saying, "There are two people --" and this embarrassed me. He said, "There are two people --"14 people, 16 at a circular table. "There are two people who changed America. One of them is Ronald Reagan and the other one's sitting here, Rush Limbaugh." And I'm saying, "No, no. No, no," embarrasses me.

RUSH: He runs around the table and he asks Cavuto and Judge Napolitano and Rove and everybody, "What do you think is going on in the country?" And they all said what they said. And then when he got to me: Rush, what do you think? And of course what I said nobody else had said. That's usually the way it is. I said, folks, I think... I think it's time to stop thinking of ourselves as Republicans and start thinking of ourselves as conservatives because...

RUSH: I'm sick and tired of hearing I'm the problem in the country. I'm sick and tired of hearing people like me are the problem. I'm sick and tired of hearing I'm racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. I'm tired of people in the Republican Party acting as though we're guilty and we have to go show these other people we're not there. And I quoted Jack Kemp. God bless him. May he rest in peace. Remember the debate when he was vice presidential candidate with Bob Dole. He was debating... whoever the hell it was. Oh, Al Gore. And Al Gore -- now, this is classic, classic liberal elitism: Al Gore: By the way, Jack, I just want to say you're not like all those other Republicans, you're not a racist. And Kemp, rather than say, "I beg your pardon?" Kemp said thank you. This is what too many of us are undefended and when they praise us, "Oh, thank God they don't think of me that way." And I said we have got to stop being defensive. We have got to stop I said everybody, I hear the Republicans say we've got to get a 51 seat majority, we've got to get a majority and that's why we've got to support Mike Castle. I said, if we have a Senate with seven or eight Mike Castles that give us a majority, we are in the minority. We're electing a bunch of liberals. Why do you want to do this?

RUSH:? And I said it about like that. And, of course, there's a hushed silence, and in the usual obligatory, Rogers says, why don't you tell us what you really think. Somebody always says that. And I said, look, I... Judge Napolitano said, you really, really think, do you really think that Christine O'Donnell's got -- I said, Judge, Judge, let me tell you something. What I think is that we have got to get rid of Barack Obama and anybody who's going to vote with him. Do I think that Christine O'Donnell's better than a Barack Obama? Damn right. Do I... what is hard to figure out about this

RUSH:? What's so hard about this? Don't get mad at the judge. I mean, he was just he was just trying to keep the conversation going. He was not arguing with me. But it's the same thing people say: Rush, really Sarah Palin doesn't embarrass you? No. Palin doesn't embarrass me. Obama scares me. We have got to get rid of Obama. We've got to get rid of the Democrat. This notion...

RUSH: You know something, folks? I have to tell you one of the truest tests of where we are, it is the women in the conservative movement, the Republican Party who have the guts right now

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause) RUSH: We got a bunch -- you know, Ann Coulter was right. We got a bunch of girly men on our side running around. You think Sarah Palin, you really think Sarah Palin can -- let me tell you something. I don't think it's even close. When we're talking -- look at what's -- we're in the midst of losing the country and you want to talk to me about whether somebody went to Harvard or Yale? The fact they went to Harvard a Yale's a problem. They don't have any real life experience

RUSH: So anyway, the trashing of the tea party, the criticism of people like Christine O'Donnell on -- from our side is going to continue. And the reason it's going to happen -- and people have asked, why is Rove doing what he's doing. I really don't know. I mean, I can understand before an election, but after she's won? Why, why give the Democrats fodder for their own TV commercial? I don't understand it. We're told that when these RINOs win like Specter and these people --

RUSH: We're told we have to -- come on now. We have to join forces and be unified. We have to... fine, okay. And we always do, don't we? We grit our teeth, we mutter some obscenities, but we do it. Okay. So here now the terribly sophisticated, brilliant erudite Mike Castle, won't dane call Christine O'Donnell and congratulate her. He did call? He did call? Wait a minute now. One voice at a time. He called, did he call and tell her to go to hell or did he call and congratulate her? Did he say he's going to endorse her? Yeah, okay. So what we found out was that Obama and Biden called Castle to commiserate after -- really? Now, see, I'm just some hick from Missouri but that kind of tells me something

RUSH: But we have, we have people on our side who want to be thought of as reasonable and not -- see, we've been painted as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, extremists, so forth, and I've said on the radio a number of times the Republican Party has its own rift. We've got northeastern liberal Republicans who do not like social issues, the pro lifers being in the party, don't like going to convention with them. They are embarrassed to be seen with. Their liberal buddies in New York make fun of them for being in the same party as a bunch of Billy Bobs with gun racks in the back of a Ford F 150. And they don't like and plus their wives give them hell like you wouldn't believe. Oh, I told this story but on the radio. I was in the Hamptons back in the Nineties, early Nineties. One of the few times I've been there. And it was a dinner party at some famous people's houses you would know. And after dinner people came up to me. One of them jabbed me in the chest and said, what are you going to do about the Christians. I said, what do you mean what am I going to do about the Christians? Well, yeah, yeah, they listen to you. What are you going to do about it? I said, what are you talking about? Abortion, man, it's killing the party. It's going to kill the party. You're going to have to tell these Christians -- why am I going to have to tell the Christians? Why don't you? He said, you're going to have to -- and this guy actually said, my wife won't leave me alone. She's bugging me about this. You've got to do something because they listen to you. So these, our -- the people who are not with us are all on the -- they're in this, something that just I've grown to despise, people concerned about what others think of them, people who try to be what they are based on what they think others want them to be. You know, we've all done that. We've all done that in high school. The problem is some people still haven't gotten out of high school and still live in that clique world and they're still concerned, and too many people on our side are still concerned about what those people, the left and the liberals and the people that run the show in Washington think of them. And they don't want to be thought of as unreasonable or racist or sexist. So they'll criticize us. And they'll jump in Christine O'Donnell's chili not because they really, they're just afraid of being associated with her because they hear what the liberals are saying and they don't want to be laughed at like they're laughing at Christine O'Donnell. So we have two challenges. We have to prevent a third party from forming because that's going to elect Democrats from here to kingdom come (applause)

RUSH: At the same time we have to succeed in Reaganizing the Republican Party once again

RUSH: And that's what the tea party is. So... as for me, I just, people ask me, why do you still do this? I mean, you could, you could work 30 weeks a year, four days a week. Some people say, yeah, he already does. But I don't. What do you have left to prove? I said, I'm not trying to prove anything. The way I look at what I do, I still feel blessed to have the opportunity I have. And I'm -- I wish everybody had the opportunity to find in life their passion and get paid for it. I mean, I -- and I got fired a whole bunch of times and I did jobs that I was not really meant for but had to eat. Been fired all these times but finally found what I was born to do. And I'm doing it, and I have no desire to stop doing it, especially now because it matters so much. It's not...

RUSH: People say, why don't you run for office. That I really -- you know, pay cut. I don't, that's -- I'm not cut out for that. I really, I could not ask anybody for a dime. I just, I can't -- I don't know how people that do that live with themselves. When they have to do it, that's part of that business. Because when you ask people for something, you're obligating yourself to get something back. If it's not money, you've got to give a piece yourself or you've got to give them some policy thing down the road if you happen to win or give them access, something they can hold over you. And then you have to keep asking because it continues to cost money. That's something that I'm not interested in doing. But there are other people who want to do that, and God bless them. And when they come along and are worthy, we support them. But my, my reason for continuing with this is, besides the fact that I love it, is that it -- I really think that the times now are more important and more crucial than they ever have been. Now, I know every, every generation thinks that it's living in the last days. My parents thought when the Beatles came around that that was the end of it all. We all...

RUSH: And every generation, they all think the last days, that some biblical sign is reached. I don't think we're in our last days. I don't think America's going to stop being America. The country's not going to be destroyed, but it can be fundamentally reformed so that the reason that the United States of America became the beacon of freedom around the world can change. We cannot -- it can be structured so that we're not the beacon of freedom anymore. We can join the ash heap of countries that are command and control, socialist democracies to one degree or another. This is something we don't want. This is something I certainly don't want, and I don't want to -- I know you don't want it for your kids or grandkids. It's worth fighting for. It's worth taking on every challenge and opportunity, educate and inform people as much as possible

RUSH: I do think -- I always said when I grew older, I was not ever going to be an fuddy duddy. And as such, I always told myself I'm never going to fall into the trap of thinking we're in the last days. I'm going to try to stay hip as best I can. But politically -- I'm not meaning to sound like a broken record, I don't mean to be redundant but we really haven't been as close to losing the country as founded as we are today. We got close with FDR and Woodrow Wilson, so forth, but World War II came along and we revitalized our way out of the economic morass that FDR put us in and expanded upon. But this is at a crossroads period of time, or moment in time, where the country can fundamentally change. I mean, it's this close. With this debt, the debt alone that we have rung up has an impingement on liberty and freedom that people instinctively understand. May be tough to actually put in your hand but instinctive we all feel this is not how things happen in this country. This is -- we don't nationalize one sixth of the economy in healthcare. We don't -- and it's not been made better. It's going to be made more expensive. There are going to be death panels. This is an utter debacle. It's got to be repealed. It's got to be overturned. The best health care in the world, right here.

RUSH: It's in the process of being destroyed. And at the same time we only have one life and we want to enjoy it. So it's a balancing act. If you take all this stuff seriously, you can get lost in it and not enjoy the one life that we all have. So what I try to do is balance them both, not taking either for granted. Life is a very precious thing. It's a shame we have to get so old to appreciate it, to understand that. It really is. I'm more in awe of just the whole concept of human life with each and every day I get up, realizing how strong it is, how hard it is to snuff out and yet how fragile it is at the same time. And I, folks, my mind continues to expand. I still have room in here

RUSH: It's beyond me. It really is beyond me how anybody can think all this is an accident or a coincidence. It's beyond me how anybody can look at the human brain and think, "Yeah, Big Bang zillions of years ago led to this." There has to be a reason for all this. I believe that there are questions that we can ask that we'll never have the answers to on this Earth but that we will get the answers to. My father told me once that...

RUSH: When I was a kid, my father was a biblical father. He taught Sunday school. He was immersed in it. And I would, when I was very young, ask him questions. And he told me once that the questions I asked forced him outside to try to independently in his own intellectual way validate his beliefs. And I guess when I was a young kid, I was having trouble with a concept of heaven and hell. I said, why would God create a competitor to whom he could lose, the devil? Daddy, I don't understand this. So he said, okay -- I'm 4 or 5 years old and he's trying to explain this. He took this very seriously. He knows he can't send me off to watch romper room. He's got to have an answer for this. So the one thing I remember him saying, I don't know if it was in answer to that specific question and he said -- and I've never forgotten it.

He said, son, I believe in the loving God of Creation and I believe that a God who creates begs, who can conceive of a beautiful heavenly afterlife and can live their lives in such a way as to achieve that place, it would be the ultimate act of cruelty if it isn't true. The fact that a God would create begs could ponder these things that don't exist, that's how he told himself above and beyond the Bible that there was heaven. And that's what he -- that's how he explained it to me. And he said I'm the one that caused him to start thinking about things like that. Well, I've always believed that we are going to be able to ask questions to which there aren't any answers to. They are what drive us. The quest to find out our purpose, our meaning, it's all embodied in how we live our lives and how we want to manage our affairs, and it certainly includes our politics. If it didn't matter, nobody would get as aroused. And a lot of people don't, but enough of us do that we have enough that will get engaged, an enough people, a majority of whom will get engaged enough to take on the challenges of the people who do want to fundamentally change this country. I am blessed and grateful to be on the same side of all this as all of you. I thank you all very much for coming out tonight. It's -- being in my radio audience, it's a blessing I have each and every day. Thank you so much

who can conceive of a beautiful heavenly afterlife and can live their lives in such a way as to achieve that place,

Rush needs some gentle Christian education.

I had to check on it -- Kirsten Gillibrand. Not "hot" by any definition except, as Rush said, compared to the other Democrat females in Congress:

One of his best comments:
RUSH: So I see her and she’s with this guy that has been her boyfriend for 15 years. I mean, this guy, believe me, is so henpecked, the only thing he does behind her back is zip her up.

LOL

'You know what? I drive a Maybach and it gets four miles to the gallon and I love giving those Priuses anals. I get right behind, flash the lights, zoom around them.'

That made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes.......

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

I think Barack Hussein Obama has a grudge against this country, thinks it was founded in an immoral, unjust way and is hell bent on making us pay the price for whatever he thinks we have done in an unjust, colonial, immoral way, I mean it.

I second that comment! Impeach the scumbag.

Thanks for the transcript.

Sounds like Pelagianism. He hasn’t shown much interest in procuring that “gentle education”. Mammon gets more attention.

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