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RUSH: I want to continue this discussion about oil and alternative fuel sources and so forth and the whole notion of a free market, and entrepreneurism, and zero-sum games. Way too many of you, because of the effort to demonize oil — not just because of the mistaken notion that our purchases of oil are funding terrorism. That\u2019s ridiculous. Terrorists are not using oil revenues to be funded. Even that aside, oil has been successfully demonized in this country to the point that otherwise intelligent, educated people think we can just get rid of it tomorrow. They\u2019re operating under the assumption that there is an alternative energy already out there, ‘We just refuse to use it,\u2019 because Big Oil and Big Lobbyists and Big Republicans are keeping us from this alternative energy. Let me tell you. Look at me, folks. Look at me. The only alternative energy that we have right now or for the next 20 or 30 years, is the energy we refuse to drill for in ANWR: oil. The only alternative energy we have for the next 20 or 30 years is oil in the Gulf of Mexico that we refuse to drill for but the ChiComs and the Cubans are drilling for it in the Gulf, and the Mexicans are. We did lay claim to a huge field up in the Arctic Circle recently. <\/p>\n

But the liberal Democrats will not let our country pursue this alternative energy. They will not let us drill for it; they will not let us refine it. They will not allow it to happen. Above and beyond that, this zero-sum game aspect, the idea that we can just get rid of oil tomorrow or next year or five years from now, and replace it with something that\u2019s just as productive, efficient, and economical is absurd. It is just intellectually absurd. So is the notion that oil is evil. So is the notion that it has been so demonized. Oil is not evil. Oil is our friend. It is one of our best friends. It is one of our most valuable friends. But above and beyond that, can I ask you a question or two? As Americans, what, today, are you proud of in your country? Are you proud of our insurance industry? I bet not. It\u2019s been demonized. People hate insurance agents, hate insurance companies, and think they\u2019re a bunch of crooks. <\/p>\n

How about our financial institutions — Wall Street, your bank, your savings and loan, your credit union — are you proud of that? No. It has been demonized, too. They\u2019re just a bumbling of crooks. They don\u2019t care about you. How about our automobile industry? Are you proud of the automobile industry? No, you\u2019re not proud of it. They\u2019re getting skunked by the Japanese. Besides, they make products that use oil! And they make products that are destroying the world! ‘Hell no, we hate the auto industry.\u2019 Are you proud of your pharmaceutical industry? Hell no! You\u2019re not proud of the people that rape you at the drugstores with these exorbitant drug prices when you think you can get \u2019em cheaper from Canada. You know they\u2019re running ads on TV for all these different drugs. They\u2019re just trying to get you to go to the doctor and get some. They don\u2019t care about curing you. They don\u2019t care about making you better. They just want to soak you. Let\u2019s see, are you proud of the US Military? <\/p>\n

No, you\u2019re not proud of the US military. The military kills babies and innocent civilians! The US military tortures people at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. (I know because John McCain tells us so, along with the liberal Democrats.) Uh, let\u2019s see. Are you proud of anything? Are you proud of the home building industry? No. You hate the home industry, because they build cheap stuff and they overcharge you for it, and it doesn\u2019t work, and you can\u2019t end up paying for it. No! You\u2019re not proud of it. Are you proud of the airline industry? Hell no! You\u2019re not proud of the airline industry. Hell, you hate flying. No peanuts anymore. You\u2019re sardined in the seats and the planes are always late, they\u2019re never on time, you can\u2019t get where you\u2019re going comfortably when you want to get there. Let\u2019s see. Do you like government? ‘Oh, yes! Oh, yes! Government cares for me. Government loves me. Government wants me to have health care, that they don\u2019t have to pay for, and government wants me to be safe from storms, and government wants me to not have to pay taxes. <\/p>\n

‘Government only wants the rich to pay taxes. Oh, we love government. We are really proud of our government in America.\u2019 Let\u2019s see. Are you proud of the retailing industry? ‘No! We hate Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart why, they\u2019re mean to unions. We love unions. We are really proud of our unions in America. But we hate Wal-Mart, and we hate Kmart, and we hate the malls.\u2019 Let\u2019s see… Are you proud of our schools? ‘Well, we\u2019re proud of the public education system.\u2019 Are you proud your kids aren\u2019t learning anything? ‘Well, we\u2019re trying, but we need more money for our public schools. If we just had more money, then we could be proud of our public school system.\u2019 Let\u2019s see. Are you proud of the shipping industry, FedEx, UPS, oceangoing vessels? ‘No! They pollute. They don\u2019t get my packages here on time, and they\u2019re just out to shaft me. They\u2019re just a bunch of crooks just like the people on Wall Street, just like the people at the banks. But we love our government.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, this is an illustration. I just asked you: What in this country are you proud of, versus 30, 40 years ago what we were proud of? We were proud of all of this. We were puffed up with pride about all of this! We were proud of our achievements. We were proud of our accomplishments. We were appreciative of our freedom. But now look at what they\u2019ve made us hate. Look at what they\u2019ve made us detest. Look at the absolute BS that they have more and more educated people believing — that, oil is just a conspiracy, that there is a replacement. ‘There\u2019s alternative fuels out there, but they don\u2019t want to release \u2019em because Big Oil and big Republicans and Halliburton, Cheney, Bush. They\u2019re all in a conspiracy to keep it from threatening their own investments in oil.\u2019 Is it not shocking, ladies and gentlemen, to realize just how few educated Americans understand how the world works? More than that, isn\u2019t it scary to understand how few educated Americans understand how their own country works? <\/p>\n\n

Forget the world. But we love our government, and we love our politicians, and we love a small portion of the media: the Drive-Bys. In fact, do we like our churches? ‘Nope. Those damn priests. Look what they\u2019re doing with those little boys! We hate the pope! The pope, why, the pope is restrictive. The pope is unbending. He\u2019s not tolerant.\u2019 Yet, we are supposed to ‘understand\u2019 the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and people like him. ‘Oh, we are proud of the porn industry. We wait for the porn industry to decide whether the Blu-ray or HD DVD format war is going to be won. We love the porn industry, and we really, really, really want to do what we can to protect everybody\u2019s freedom to engage in these kind of private things in their homes. We love the porn industry. We love government. We like many of our politicians because they care about us, Mr. Limbaugh, unlike you! They care about us. They want us to have health care, Mr. Limbaugh.\u2019 What are you proud of about your country anymore? I really think you ought to take some time to think about it.<\/p>\n

Because I maintain to you, if you have any agreement with things that I have exaggerated here — if you do hate the automobile industry, if you hate Wall Street, if you hate the banks, if you hate the financial industry, if you hate the airline industry, if you hate the pharmaceutical industry, if you hate retail — if you have resentments for all these industries, and think that your only protection is government — then you really, really need to grab yourself by the wrist as hard as you can and ask yourself, ‘What the hell happened to you and who made you feel this way?\u2019 The one area of the media that people respect and like in conjunction with American liberals and socialists has made you feel this way. You hate oil? Is it rational? What the hell, folks? ‘That\u2019s right, Mr. Limbaugh! It\u2019s five dollars in California, four dollars elsewhere, three dollars other places. It\u2019s not right. Somebody\u2019s gouging us.\u2019 Wait a minute! I thought you guys were all hoping for high prices down the road so it would lead to conservation? You can\u2019t make liberals happy no matter what they get. Even if it\u2019s what they want, it\u2019s never enough. There\u2019s a political party, and its allies who feed off of your paranoia, feed off of your hatred for all things great in America. <\/p>\n

They feed off of your rage that they have made you believe, things like: ‘You are getting shafted by everybody else, and only government can protect you and make these wrongs right.\u2019 You need to get hold of yourselves, take a look around your great country, and ask yourself why you\u2019re no longer proud of it when you used to be. ‘Cause there\u2019s no reason for anybody not to be proud of this country. You all live here. You all are seeking your best performance, opportunity, because you know your country provides it. Yet some of you — not you people. I know you people are not of this mindset. But so many Americans seem to be, and so they\u2019re trying to do something positive while feeling absolutely enraged all the time. Hatred for America is real. You\u2019ve seen it. You\u2019ve heard it. You\u2019ve read it. It\u2019s out there, and it\u2019s in larger numbers than you know. And the people who hate this country are the genuine mind-numbed robots. They have been talked into it with years and years and years of propaganda. Just ask yourself, when you have a free moment — maybe bring it up at dinner if you have a family still eats together now and then. Ask them, ‘What are you proud of in America?\u2019 Don\u2019t lead \u2019em anywhere. Just say, ‘What are proud of, when you think about America. What are you proud of?\u2019 and then deal with what you get. It will be interesting. <\/p>\n

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