{"id":26914,"date":"2011-05-19T04:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:55:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:44:45","slug":"perspectives_2007_the_metro_center_in_sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/perspectives_2007_the_metro_center_in_sacramento\/","title":{"rendered":"“Perspectives 2007” the Metro Center in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"
At the same time this is happening, I had my Peace Update Theme song for this global peace march for nuclear disarmament. I was using Slim Whitman\u2019s Una Paloma Blanca, so I figured it would be hilarious to find a Satanic message in Una Paloma Blanca. So I went to the production director named Don Wright and I said, ‘Don…\u2019 By the way, the Ohio minister said you had to hear the song backwards to hear the Satanic message. He said, ‘A horse is a horse, of course, of course,\u2019 is ‘S-s-s-satan.\u2019<\/p>\n

So I said, ‘We\u2019re going to find our own Satanic message in Slim Whitman\u2019s record grooves here.\u2019 We recorded it backwards. Don put his voice through a disgronificator — or harmonizer — which can make it sound out-of-this-world, and he made it sound very low and deep and the message was very simple: ‘Beelzebub! Yes, it\u2019s me, the old devil himself, right here in the Slim Whitman record grooves. Tell me, how did you find a turntable that plays the song backward like this? Me and my disciples like to spread them around.\u2019 We played this thing three or four times.<\/p>\n

I went on the air and I said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m contemplating resigning. An Ohio minister has showed me the light. He told the story about the Mister Ed theme backwards and the Satanic messages in it, and I said, ‘If it\u2019s in the Mister Ed theme, where else might this be?\u2019 So we went through our high-tech equipment here in the KFBK production room, and I started listening to some of the update theme songs played backwards, and, sure enough, there is a Satanic message in Una Paloma Blanca! I have subjected this to you unbeknownst, which means I have been easily corrupted and co-opted by the devil, and I feel horrible. I didn\u2019t know it, and you have been subjected to it. I don\u2019t know that I can go on, because it happened once without my knowledge. Even though I\u2019ve learned of it now, how can I prevent it from ever happening again? You deserve better than this. I want to think about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

This got the phones ringing. ‘What\u2019s in the song? What\u2019s the message?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Ah, I\u2019m not going to let you hear it. It\u2019s bad enough I\u2019ve subjected you to it without you or me knowing it was there. To knowingly play a Satanic message to you is something beneath my dignity. I will not do it.\u2019 They started calling the station manager, Rick Atchison.<\/p>\n

Atchison comes to me and said, ‘Look, what is going on here?\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Don\u2019t sweat it, we got a week out of this, at least a week out of this.\u2019 (laughter)<\/p>\n

He said, ‘What, are you threatening to resign?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No, no, no, no. Just ride with me on this. It\u2019s going to be great.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, after a couple days, some local preachers started calling Atchison, asking, ‘What is the Satanic message? I\u2019ve had people telling me your radio station plays Satanic messages.\u2019<\/p>\n

So the way it ended up was I went on four days later, and I said to the audience, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I have been forced by ministers across the city have called our general manager and have insisted to know what this is about, that I play this song. I\u2019m doing it in full protest, under duress. I have no desire to subject this to you, but at least I feel better. You are being warned in advance. And I still don\u2019t know if I can continue as your host, again, because this happened so easily without my knowledge.\u2019<\/p>\n

So we start the song after this four-day buildup. We start the song, and after about 30 seconds of it going backwards (Slim Whitman\u2019s voice sounds funnier that way than normal) here comes Don Wright\u2019s ‘Beelzebub, yes, it\u2019s me.\u2019<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m thinking, ‘This is going to launch me to the Tonight Show. This is going to establish me as one of the great creative, humorous minds of the decade. This is a brilliant satirical bit and everybody is going to get it,\u2019 and I\u2019m laughing myself silly as this song plays. We go three minutes with the Satanic message going three times. I looked across the glass at Kitty and she has a look of horror on her face as she\u2019s screening calls.<\/p>\n

We went through the calls. The first caller: ‘I have every Slim Whitman album. What should I do?\u2019 (laughter)<\/p>\n

You have to be adaptable. I said, ‘Sir, I wouldn\u2019t take a chance. I\u2019d burn \u2019em.\u2019 (laughter)<\/p>\n

There were people calling me thanking me that I had been touched by the Lord, by God-d, and he was using me for good, and I should not quit because this is the kind of thing to illustrate how people, innocently, are subjected to these Satanic messages.\u2019<\/p>\n

I was just unbelieving: This can\u2019t be my audience! (laughter)<\/p>\n

The funniest call came when some guy called — he might have been from Rio Linda, I\u2019m not sure — and said, ‘You can\u2019t fool me. You\u2019re putting everybody on with this. I think it\u2019s a shameful act that you\u2019ve been doing.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘What are you talking about, sir?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I have that record. My turntable doesn\u2019t play backwards, but I\u2019ve been spinning it backwards by hand, and there is no Satanic message there!\u2019 (laughter)<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Sir, your turntable, what year was it made?\u2019 (laughter)<\/p>\n

‘What\u2019s that got to do with it?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, what year was it made?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘May, 1980.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, turntables made prior to 1985 do not have disgronificator circuitry.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘What\u2019s that?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘You\u2019ve never heard of a disgronificator? Well, that\u2019s what separates the highs and the lows, and amplifies the midrange where Satanic messages are.\u2019 (laughter)<\/p>\n

So he said, ‘If I get a Philco, and get a new turntable, I\u2019ll hear the message?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Yes, sir, you will, if it has disgronificator technology. Ask for it by name.\u2019<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t describe for you all of the meaningfulness of flying in here with all of the memories that I have that can\u2019t be replaced. It reminds me, flying in, what a profound love and appreciation I have for where I live, where I have lived all my life: the United States of America. I sometimes make a point of conversing with young liberals. And I always get grief from my friends, ‘Why are you wasting time?\u2019 I\u2019m not wasting time. I want to try to break through this cocoon that they\u2019ve woven for themselves to live in. I want to try to persuade them of things. They\u2019re there — you can\u2019t avoid them — and I want a great country, and when I look out and I see 35%, according to the Zogby poll (maybe it was Rasmussen) of Democrats — I\u2019m not bashing. Please, stick with me on this. When I see 35% of Democrats, which is not an insignificant number, believe that 9\/11 was an inside job — that Bush knew about it, but didn\u2019t stop it. What\u2019s happening to us. Who in the world could intellectually believe this, and on the basis of what? Scam websites. So two weeks ago I was talking to a young woman who\u2019s in her mid-thirties who loves the country. She\u2019s a good liberal. She refuses to drive a car with more than four cylinders, takes her own canvas bags to the grocery store, and is doing her good for the environment.<\/p>\n

I said to her, ‘Have you ever stopped to think about something? We are a nation of less than 300 million people. We\u2019re a nation that\u2019s been around less than 250 years. In less than 250 years, the United States of America is the power in the world. There is no civilization, no human populations, no countries, nations, civilizations have been around thousands of years, and are still behind us in every measurable way, economically, freedom, prosperity, power, you name it. How has this happened? How in the world,\u2019 I said, ‘do you think it happens that in less than 250 years, that 300 million human beings living in the United States of America at one time, have become the most advanced, the most economically prosperous, the most powerful people — and for good — on the face of the earth? Have you ever thought about that?\u2019<\/p>\n

She said, ‘No.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Why not?\u2019<\/p>\n

She said, ‘I don\u2019t think this country is so great. Look at what we\u2019re doing in Iraq.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Forget about Iraq for a second. Would you please get Iraq off of your mind? I\u2019m asking you about something much larger, something much greater in consequence. Iraq, I\u2019ll explain it to you in a minute if you want, but please set it aside.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I can\u2019t. You say it\u2019s a great country but this is no way to lead.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Would you stop? You\u2019re reacting in knee jerks. You\u2019ve got this built-in belief system that your country sucks because we\u2019re in Iraq, and you don\u2019t like it. I\u2019m going to stipulate something for you. I\u2019ll stipulate we shouldn\u2019t have gone.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘You will?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Yeah, I\u2019ll just stipulate. I\u2019ve got a point I want to make. So, okay. We shouldn\u2019t have gone. We got there. We botched it. It\u2019s a civil war. It\u2019s whatever you say it is. It\u2019s gone to hell. I\u2019ll agree with you.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Really? You will?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Just for the sake of asking you a question. Given all of that that I\u2019ve stipulated, why do you want to quit? Why do you want the United States — why do you want your country — to lose? Don\u2019t you realize we\u2019re fighting the people over there that blew us up on 9\/11? We\u2019re fighting them there. What\u2019s in it for our country to surrender, to wave the white flag, what\u2019s in it for us?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘But it\u2019s just been horrible, and the world hates us.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Who cares when we\u2019re talking about national security? Besides, the world doesn\u2019t hate us. The world doesn\u2019t hate us. Who\u2019s filling you with this? If the world hated us, more than 20 million people in here and others wouldn\u2019t be trying to get in here. The world doesn\u2019t hate us. They envy us; they respect us.\u2019 I said, ‘Look, in your personal life, do you care what people think about you? You can\u2019t run around caring what everybody thinks about you. They don\u2019t know you. You can\u2019t be bogged down because you can\u2019t please everybody. You can\u2019t make everybody happy. What is this? Where do you get this business here that your country has lost its prestige in the world? This is the only country that can help any other country on the face of the world recover fully from a natural disaster, and we do it — and they ask us and they beg us for help, and they take it. You\u2019ve gotta understand what it\u2019s like to be number one. Everybody wants what you have when you\u2019re number one.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Yes, yes, I understand, but look at what we\u2019ve done to become number one. We\u2019ve stolen all the world\u2019s resources.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Please don\u2019t tell me you believe this. Who have you been talking to Laurie David? Stolen the world\u2019s resources? What do you think we do with the world\u2019s resources? Do you know how economies work? What do you mean stolen the resources?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, we\u2019re only…\u2019 I forget what their figure is. Two-percent of the population that uses 25% of the world\u2019s resources, whatever it is.<\/p>\n

‘Do you realize what we do with those resources? Let me take you back to my original question. Have you ever stopped to think why it is? You know, we\u2019re no different than human beings that live in Italy. We\u2019re no different than human beings that live anywhere on this planet. We\u2019re no different than the human beings that live in the Soviet Union.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Soviet Union, just to illustrate here, do you know what Vladimir Putin\u2019s biggest problem is? His population is dying. The average male life expectancy in Russia is 57. It\u2019s because of vodka, and alcoholism, and AIDS with needles. They\u2019ve got 130 million or 140 million people in Russia today. In 30 years, their population will be 100 million. The biggest problem, Hu Jintao, the premiere of China, has is creating 25 million new jobs every year. New jobs every year. He\u2019s gotta keep the people that live in the countryside in China in the countryside. If they get into the cities, he loses control of his population. ‘Hey, Hu, you\u2019re already losing control of the population because we\u2019re exporting capitalism to you,\u2019 and this is the kind of thing that I wish people would stop to consider more.<\/p>\n

So I asked her, ‘How in the world is it?\u2019 I said, ‘Do you even understand how vastly superior [our country is]? Do you understand the miracle that is this country? We are no different than any human being anywhere. So what makes it possible for us to have accomplished everything that we have?\u2019<\/p>\n

And she still kept going on and on and on about the things about the country she didn\u2019t like and that embarrassed her and so forth.<\/p>\n

I said, ‘I\u2019ll try this one more time. I really want you to stop. I\u2019m not talking to you about Republicans and Democrats, here. I\u2019m not attacking you. I\u2019m not talking conservatives and liberals, here. I want to know what you think about my question. You obviously haven\u2019t thought about it. I want you to start thinking about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

I wish everybody would think about it, because we are the greatest country ever. That\u2019s not an ego statement. It\u2019s fact. It is what it is. We want to preserve it for our children, grandchildren. Well, I don\u2019t have any children, but you do. But we all want to preserve it. The argument we\u2019re having in society today is, ‘Well, is it worth preserving?\u2019 There\u2019s a group of people that want to tear down the institutions and traditions that have made the country great and remake the country in their own image — and, sadly to say, they are today\u2019s liberals and Democrats. This is Clinton on socialized medicine: taking away freedom, trying to control as much of life as possible, versus understanding what made this country possible — rugged individualism, entrepreneurism, freedom. I\u2019m trying to get her to start thinking this way. I finally succeed, in a minor way. Forgot the politics of this, forgot Iraq.<\/p>\n

She said, ‘You know, you\u2019re right. We are no better as human beings than anybody else.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Yes, that\u2019s right. What\u2019s special about us?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, nothing is special.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Yes, there is, not individually, but there\u2019s something special about us. Let me give you a hint. Do you realize what happened in 1776 in Philadelphia was a miracle?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Why was it a miracle?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘The United States was put together in a Constitutional Convention. It\u2019s a miracle what they came up with. In that phrase,\u2019 I said to her, ‘is the answer to my question: Why are we special\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, I will agree what happened in Philadelphia was pretty important,\u2019 she said. ‘But, the principles that those Founders came up with are far more bigger and more important than the men who wrote them.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘So, we\u2019re finally getting somewhere. So you understand there are things larger than yourself, ideas, and principles larger than yourself?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No, that\u2019s not what I mean. They were racists. They were slave owners.\u2019<\/p>\n

Oh, my God, here we were regressing. This took about two hours, folks. I\u2019m giving you the condensed version.<\/p>\n

I said, ‘They were not racists. They were not bigots and homophobes, and they didn\u2019t bring environmental destruction and all that. Why do you say that?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, I know that they were atheists.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Have you ever read George Washington\u2019s first Thanksgiving address?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Did you ever go to high school? They teach you about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘They didn\u2019t teach us about George Washington.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Have you ever looked George Washington\u2019s first inaugural and his farewell address? How can anybody say they didn\u2019t believe in God?\u2019 Actually, forget politics here for a second, ladies and gentlemen. How anybody can intellectually deny — when we have people trying to take God out of our culture, when we have people trying to make sure that separation of church and state becomes an official policy far beyond what was ever intended it be, the truth about that is not taught, either. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, and guess who\u2019s referenced? God. He\u2019s called the Creator, and that we ‘are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.\u2019 I happen to believe all three of those are under assault right now by those in our country I call the miserable and the unhappy. They want everybody to be as unhappy and miserable as they are. Certainly, we\u2019re attacking life. We\u2019re attacking it in the womb. Pursuit of happiness, liberty? Liberty is under assault. I\u2019m not talking about constitutional liberty. I\u2019m talking about just the day-to-day freedom [type of] liberty. Tell us what kind of cars we can and can\u2019t drive, what we can and can\u2019t smoke, what the hell we can and can\u2019t eat. Trans-fats? Sue McDonald\u2019s! Sue Big Fat? It\u2019s just absurd, all under the guise of helping make a difference. Everybody wants to matter.<\/p>\n

And, of course, nowhere more effectively is this issue than this global warming hoax, which is nothing more than a religion. It\u2019s got every aspect every other major religion has. It has its Garden of Eden. It has its taking a bite of the apple, Western Society polluting the skies, raping the rain forest, destroying the environment. It has sin, all of those things. The ‘sin\u2019 is pursuing our lifestyle as Americans, at the expense of the planet. ‘Why, we\u2019re melting the glaciers! We\u2019re going to cause the world to heat up so much and it\u2019s going to be horrible.\u2019 I made a bet on there one day with some of these wacko environmentalists. I said, ‘Look, I will bet my net worth against yours that you are wrong, that in 30 to 40 years you will not have to sell your home in Long Island on the beach, and I won\u2019t have to sell mine in Florida in Palm Beach.\u2019 They won\u2019t take the bet, and I don\u2019t see anybody abandoning beachfront property. That\u2019s an aside. The point is that these people are assaulting people on the basis of creating guilt (hello, religion), fear (hello, religion), the sin (hello, religion), and then, salvation — and what\u2019s the salvation? You accept the blame! So you start driving around little lawn mowers with seats on them thinking you are ‘making a difference.\u2019<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler ‘made a difference,\u2019 folks. This making-a-difference business is bogus. But see, people in our society — look at MySpace, YouTube — everybody wants to be famous, everybody wants to matter. Everybody wants everyone to know everything about them; they want to matter. So, I will take my canvas bags to the grocery store, and I will drive a car no more than four cylinders, and I will make sure that I don\u2019t eat trans fats and all that sort of stuff. It doesn\u2019t matter a hill of beans. We couldn\u2019t destroy this planet if we wanted to. We couldn\u2019t destroy the environment. It\u2019s been a hundred years the temperature\u2019s gone up one degree centigrade. Yippee! We don\u2019t even know if that\u2019s right, because the way we\u2019ve been measuring temperatures for a hundred years is not that accurate. All this is the latest liberal scheme to control your life by making you feel guilty and accept responsibility for ‘saving the planet\u2019 by accepting the blame and the tax increases, control over your life for things you can\u2019t do anymore and the places you can\u2019t do them in order to save the planet. And who wants to destroy the planet? One of the secrets of the environmental movement is they set themselves up as all they want is clean air and clean water. Well, right. Who wants dirty air and dirty water? So if you oppose them, you must. I\u2019ve seen how seductive all this is, especially to young people.<\/p>\n

So back to my little liberal. I went through all this with her, the global warming stuff. She really thinks she\u2019s saving the planet. I said, ‘Well…\u2019 I love doing this. ‘Please forgive me if you misunderstand this. You\u2019re driving your little four-cylinder putt-putt around there. I just took eight guys on my airplane to Hawaii.\u2019 I said, ‘Do you know that we measure the amount of fuel we burn in pounds, while you\u2019re out there measuring your little miles per gallon?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I am stunned that you are telling me that.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well don\u2019t be, because it\u2019s happening all over the world, every day — and guess what? I\u2019m not destroying the planet, and neither are you. We are a growing economy. We need to keep growing. We need independence from foreign oil, all of these things. We need to be able to satisfy the demands and the needs of the people in this country who are Americans. They have expectations. We want to maintain the country the way it is. Back to: Why have we been able to do this? In less than 300 years, run rings around the rest of the world.\u2019 I said, ‘Have you ever been to Italy and use the toilet? It works, or you wouldn\u2019t have one in your house. Same thing in Great Britain. You want to drive these kind of cars on those roads over there that are no wider than what horse and buggies were? It\u2019s quaint, it\u2019s fun to go visit, but that ain\u2019t how we live.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘And we should be!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No we shouldn\u2019t! What do you want somebody telling you how to live your lifestyle? Why, when what you\u2019re doing is benefiting how many people you don\u2019t even know? We\u2019re clothing the world. We\u2019re feeding the world. Please, would you tell me why we\u2019ve been able to do this?\u2019<\/p>\n

She said, ‘Well, I don\u2019t know. I think it\u2019s great. I love my country. I just don\u2019t think we should be in Iraq.\u2019<\/p>\n

In Iraq! They have it on the brain. Plus, they don\u2019t understand the concept of victory. You can\u2019t let \u2019em in power, folks. I said, ‘Here\u2019s why. We are the one nation on earth that is founded on individual freedom. The reason for our existence and our founding documents, particularly the Declaration of Independence. Our Founding Fathers — do you remember back when you said that those men that wrote the documents stood for much more than they themselves were? You don\u2019t know how right you are. Those are the things we\u2019ve gotta preserve. We are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And, in those words, we acknowledge where we come from. We acknowledge what our purpose in life is. We acknowledge our humility. We acknowledge our thanks. We acknowledge our grace, and we realize that the natural yearning of the human spirit — as we have been created — is freedom. Every one of us yearns to be free. Now, some people will give up freedom for security, or they feel more comfortable not having to take the risks associated with it, but, in general as human beings, I don\u2019t care where we are around the world, we want freedom.\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many of you know this, but there\u2019s an outfit — I can\u2019t remember their name right now, but — they just came out two weeks ago with a report. There are fewer wars in the world today than ever before. There is more freedom in the world today than ever before. There is more prosperity in the world today than ever before, and there\u2019s more happiness in the world today than ever before. Now, I don\u2019t know how many of you heard that, or heard about it, or are hearing it for the first time — and, if you\u2019re hearing about it for the first time, I wonder for how many of you it just doesn\u2019t compute. I\u2019ll tell you why it doesn\u2019t get reported. If you watch ABC, CBS, NBC, PMSNBC,if you watch CNN, if you read the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, any national news organ, you\u2019re going to be miserable and depressed. You\u2019re going to think the world has gone to hell in a hand basket, and that there\u2019s a shortage of hand baskets. It is irresponsible what national news has become, and I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s my fault, folks. In 1988, they had a monopoly: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the two newspapers, and the news magazines, and that was it. That\u2019s where you got your news, that\u2019s where you got your analysis, nothing else got through. My show starts in 1988, and now we\u2019ve got Fox News. We have the conservative blogosphere. They don\u2019t have their monopoly, and they are fit to be tied, and they are to this day doing everything they can to demonstrate their power, like all this negative news out of Iraq, ignoring the good news, trying to prove to us that they can get us out of the war just like they did with Vietnam, trying to prove that they can reflect or move and shape public opinion. How in the world do polls become news? There\u2019s nothing newsworthy about a poll. ‘A poll today shows 33% of the American people today expect our house price to be lower in two years.\u2019 Well, duh! I wonder why? The news is full of how the housing market is going to hell because we all hate Bush! See, hating Bush is the answer they want. Get this: Remember the Fed cut a couple of interest rates on Monday or Tuesday by a half point? It shocked ‘economic experts.\u2019 Stock market zoomed 335 points the next day. I get up, and I know what I\u2019m going to find when I go to the AP wire. I read the LA Times first. That\u2019s even funnier. The LA Times headline: ‘Rate Cut Might Portend Bad News.\u2019 Really? Would we have seen this headline if Bill Clinton were in the White House? (Clinton impression) ‘Hey, Limbaugh, leave me out of this. You talk about me enough.\u2019 I\u2019m sorry, I channel him sometimes. Remind me to tell you if I have time now how he hit on my date in a New York restaurant. (laughter) Ah, it\u2019s a true story. So the LA Times, they went out and they found, get this… (interruption) Everything okay out there? My security guy is looking at me. My security guy looks like Josef Stalin. I do that on purpose to please the liberals. (laughter)<\/p>\n

The LA Times went out and they found this 27-year-old guy, Yousef Sharif Yahoo, whatever, and Yousef Sharif Yahoo was $90,000 in depth, credit cards, whatever the hell, and he said, ‘I\u2019m not paying the bills anymore. I\u2019m not paying the bills.\u2019 But guess what, folks? He is now threatened by the rate cut, because the rate cut might inspire him to get another credit card and start going in debt. An this is an example of journalistic malpractice. What the hell does Yousef Yahoo\u2019s story have to do with the economy? How long did it take to find a single guy regarding Wall Street — have to do with the fact that the rate cut left the stock market to go nuts and it\u2019s going to help maybe in the health of the economy? How long did it take to find this guy? I wonder if these guys just call the LA Times. ‘Hey, I have an angle for you that makes the economic news look bad. I know what you want is to make Bush bad.\u2019 The AP did the same thing. They didn\u2019t find Yousef Yahoo. They just found a couple of ‘experts\u2019 to say this rate cut could portend doom, and inspire people to go buy houses they can\u2019t afford to take on debt they can\u2019t afford. It\u2019s a fundamental belief in the Drive-By Media: You are stupid. You are contemptible. You don\u2019t have the brains to drive the right car, to live your life the right way. So if you don\u2019t believe all of this robust news that is happening not only in this country…<\/p>\n

Why do you think my program is popular? It\u2019s the most-listened-to radio talk show in the country. Despite all the new conservative talk shows — we haven\u2019t cannibalized them — my program, my audience has only gotten bigger, revenues have only grown. We\u2019ve expanded the pie. If the country is in such bad shape, how can this possibly be? Do you realize there\u2019s a market among the American people for good news? I don\u2019t mean trumped-up, made-up news, just optimism, just good cheer. For crying out loud, we\u2019re the United States of America! (applause) Why do we want to run around (makes sounds of weeping)? (applause) We got sick and tired of, no matter what the news is, the predictable narratives. Look at the Duke rape case. That\u2019s an example of what\u2019s going on in the media. What do you have? Well, we have a poor black stripper with a little baby and all, working her way through school, and (like he\u2019s weeping) she\u2019s a single mother, and because America doesn\u2019t like her race and America is so ruined, this poor woman was denied everything! This is how liberals and Drive-By Media picture America. So what happens? The woman is hired during her struggle to go strip for some lacrosse players at Duke, who happen to be white. ‘All right,\u2019 the media says, ‘we\u2019re getting somewhere: White, lacrosse players, Duke. It is rich, spoiled brat white kids. It is racist white. It doesn\u2019t matter we know any facts about this. We\u2019ve got a narrative, gang!\u2019<\/p>\n

This is how they see the United States of America. So bam! The woman\u2019s word is accepted, the law enforcement guy, Nifong, said whatever he said, and the Drive-By Media accepts because law enforcement would never lie — and then the prosecutors would never lie. We now know that\u2019s bogus. Nevertheless, the faculty at Duke makes a total idiot of themselves. The university fired the coach of the lacrosse team, and there was never, ever, a shred of evidence. The only thing that propelled that story was the liberal view of a poor black stripper and evil, rich white jocks. And it\u2019s not me that said it. Evan Thomas, the muckety-muck editor at Newsweek when asked about this after the fact, said, ‘Well, the narrative was right, just the facts didn\u2019t fit.\u2019 (laughter) They run around and destroy people\u2019s lives! At least Nifong\u2019s been held accountable. The Drive-Bys aren\u2019t because they\u2019ve got constitutional protection. They have to police themselves, and they\u2019re not. They\u2019re circling the wagons. They are more obvious about their agenda than they have ever been. They\u2019re not hiding it anymore because they\u2019re fighting it for prominence and power. Sort of makes what Dan Rather is doing so ridiculous and silly.<\/p>\n

Time is dwindling, I\u2019ll tell you the Clinton story and I\u2019ll close with something else. There\u2019s a great new restaurant in New York. It was Jeffrey Chodorow\u2019s place called the Kobe Club, and I met this woman who I no longer see, which is traditional for me, that\u2019s why I\u2019m taking applications for mistresses. I know some of you in this room know that mistress joke. But the ones that done, imagine this in your head: ‘He wants a mistress here!\u2019 I met this woman two days before Mother\u2019s Day. This is a bad time to meet women. I met her in Florida where I live, and I arranged to take her to dinner the next week at this place, this new Kobe steak club in New York. I\u2019d been there once before, and it\u2019s loud with music a lot of people, and I have a really big hearing problem in loud places, but I hear everything amplified much louder than it really is. I don\u2019t hear the one voice I\u2019m trying to hear unless I really hunch down and get close. So I\u2019m in a horseshoe booth facing the front of the restaurant. I\u2019m not at the front, but anybody walking in would see me and us sitting there. I guess we had been there about 45 minutes, and to me it\u2019s noisy, and I\u2019m just talking very loud; I\u2019m leaning in really close; she didn\u2019t talk very loud. And out of the blue, I just became aware of this looming presence, and she glanced away the same time I did, looked up, and there\u2019s Bill Clinton standing at the table with a big charismatic grin on his face, and he\u2019s talking to me, but I cannot hear a word he\u2019s saying. So, I just stuck out my hand, ‘Mr. President, it\u2019s a pleasure. It\u2019s nice to meet you.\u2019 He just smiled. I have no idea what he was telling (unintelligible). So he leaves, and I said, ‘What was he saying?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘He was talking about how good you look, how fit you are. He hasn\u2019t seen you in a while. ‘You\u2019re really looking good, Limbaugh,\u2019 he said.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well!\u2019<\/p>\n

Ten minutes later he\u2019s back. His table was behind us. He\u2019s got this little Hispanic guy with him. This guy says, ‘Mr. Limbaugh,\u2019 and I can hear him. ‘Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Clinton told me that you were here and I\u2019ve wanted to meet you for the longest time.\u2019 I thought he was a Secret Service agent. So he gives me his card: Mayor of Los Angeles, Villaraigosa. So I got out of the booth and I\u2019m going to get to where I can hear. He goes on talking to me. I forget what he said, but about a minute and a half, two minutes, later I look left, and Clinton is hanging on my date! He\u2019s just got his arm on top of that horseshoe booth, and his eyes are about this far away from hers, and I just laughed.<\/p>\n

I said, ‘This is unbelievable.\u2019 Villaraigosa left again. I said, ‘What were you talking about?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘People we both know.\u2019<\/p>\n

So I said, ‘Do you know people in common with President Clinton?\u2019<\/p>\n

And she said, ‘No.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Have you ever met him before?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Wow, that guy must have a hell of a line.\u2019<\/p>\n

Then he came back a third time with Ron Burkle, and they left. I guess they left. They came out. They left. Thirty minutes later, we leave, and I was not thinking. I did not stop to think that there might be photographers outside. This is 58th near 6th Avenue. The front door opens and these flashbulbs start going nuts. Smile on my face. My date says, ‘I don\u2019t want to be part of this\u2019 and made a mad dash to my car. I looked ten yards to my left on the sidewalk. There\u2019s Clinton. He\u2019s talking to somebody, an average citizen. So I walk up. I thought, ‘If I don\u2019t go up there to say hello, good-bye, and these photographers are here, the news is going to be: ‘Limbaugh Snubs Ex-President.” So I walked up there, and admittedly, I interrupted. I just wanted a quick handshake. He looked at me like he had no clue who I was, like I was interrupting, and it hit me. That\u2019s where the photographers were. There were no pictures of him coming and (unintelligible) three minutes in the restaurant — and the reason I know this is the case is because the next morning I got up and looked on the Drudge Report, and there\u2019s this little headline: ‘Fireworks in New York City Restaurant Last Night: Limbaugh Versus Clinton.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, I sent Drudge an e-mail and I asked Drudge, ‘What is this?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, I got a call from the Clinton people and they said you were all over him last night.\u2019<\/p>\n

So I gave Drudge the story, and I told the story the first thing on the air. These people are PR slick. They really are.<\/p>\n

Now, folks, in closing here, I want to go back to this business of what makes America great. I think that it\u2019s something that more people ought to think about. We take so much for granted in this country. We\u2019re so subjected to negative news, even about good stories and good people, we have to get negative news. You know, optimism is an applied process. I think human beings are naturally pessimistic. Human beings naturally expect the worst, otherwise people that write how to think positive books wouldn\u2019t be millionaires. You won\u2019t go to the library and find a book on how to fail in life, or walk in the library and find books that say, ‘How to be Depressed for the Rest of Your Life,\u2019 because we know how to do that. But positive thinking requires so many things, and it\u2019s easy to slip away from it. It\u2019s easy to think like this young liberal I was talking to, to run around embarrassed and think that the country is hated and Iraq is the biggest mistake. This is not new, by the way. There\u2019s always been partisanship. It\u2019s good. These arguments we have in America today are really oriented around pretty much the same things: liberals, conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, with exceptions, but they pretty much want education. It just depends how we define it. We want safety. We want economic opportunity and security. We want the best for our kids.<\/p>\n

The arguments we have are over how to achieve them, and liberals happen to believe that the government should be in charge of all that because most people are incapable of accomplishing it on their own. We conservatives think that that\u2019s exactly wrong, and we look at the history of the country to prove it. No government program made this country great. It\u2019s people like you who labor away in relative anonymity — you don\u2019t care for fame — but people who accept the understanding of where we came from, what it is that makes us unique, and understand the relationship to God, Creator, inculcates those values to as many people, her family, friends, the people that make the country work. They never get any credit for it, never become highly acclaimed. Celebrities are acclaimed. Celebrities, movie stars, are said to have all this influence and power. I understand that. But the people that make this country work are the people I think are under assault for making it work. Their freedom, their individuality, their ability to make decisions, follow their own instincts, I think are under assault and have been for a long time. I think that\u2019s the essential argument of liberalism versus conservatism. Liberalism doesn\u2019t believe in and trust in the abilities of most people, because it wants the power to do those things.<\/p>\n

I think liberals want the power of making people dependent on them for whatever they get. Conservatives, they don\u2019t care about government. Liberals are raised to go to Harvard and Yale, and they now won\u2019t let their speakers speak. Is this crazy? We\u2019re going to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking. He\u2019s spoken at Harvard and he\u2019s going to speak at Columbia, but military recruiters are not allowed. Neither is Larry Summers. Nor is Larry Summers welcome at UC Davis. This is an absolute abomination. I know this results in outrageous editorials, but where are all the politicians? This is outrageous. These are the people telling us they\u2019re the ones that are the tolerant, they\u2019re the ones with compassion, they\u2019re the ones with understanding? Political correctness is censorship and the left has given it to us. They don\u2019t want to be offtended by what they don\u2019t want to hear. (applause) It\u2019s not just that they don\u2019t want to be offended. They don\u2019t want to be questioned. They live in this cocoon that they have woven to make themselves feel good. They don\u2019t have this concept of something greater than themselves. They are the center of their universe.<\/p>\n

And, if you\u2019re not making them the center of the universe, you\u2019re going to be a target, and if you know that there are things in life larger than yourselves — principles, God — you become a threat to these people, and bye-bye. A nativity scene doesn\u2019t coerce anybody to pay homage to it, but it makes them uncomfortable. Well, screw them! (laughter) Do you realize how much freedom we will lose if every aggrieved group that claims to be offended gets us to shut up or stop behaving a certain way? It\u2019s happening right now, and it\u2019s a threat. I want you to be cognizant of this, to remember why we\u2019re the greatest collection of human beings when we\u2019re no different than any other human beings that have ever lived. The answer to that question is profound in helping people understand what today\u2019s fight and argument is about. I\u2019ve gone a little long here, but I know it\u2019s not a problem for anybody. Well, look, I never get a chance to hear myself like you do. I\u2019m always speaking. I\u2019ve never heard my radio show. Do you realize it is the most powerful, most popular, radio show in the country, and I\u2019ve never heard it. You people don\u2019t know how lucky you are. Thank you so much. You have been a great audience, and it\u2019s fabulous to be back, and it\u2019s always a thrill.<\/p>\n

(applause)<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

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