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RUSH: Let me grab a quick phone call. Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. This is Judd. Nice to have you here, sir. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you. I think today is the best show you\u2019ve ever had. It\u2019s been terrific. I really enjoy it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, it\u2019s interesting you say this because I\u2019m setting an e-mail record in the public e-mail account. We\u2019re getting five times what we normally get in the course of the three-hour program on the tire gauge garbage. What have you liked about today\u2019s show, Judd?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, being on hold is terrific because we get to listen to all those bumper things, and those are terrific. And then so you don\u2019t get the commercials, but more importantly, I mean if nothing else, Clinton talking about monogamy being important, followed by Mookie, you know, turning into a social service organization, and this total nuttiness about the tire gauge.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It has been a fun show. I\u2019ll have to agree with you, since you put it that way. It\u2019s been frustrating to me, like I\u2019m 57 years old and we\u2019re discussing something that 6-year-olds understand. It\u2019s just silly. I found myself on the edge here of coherence a couple times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, I\u2019m 66, and unlike you, I\u2019ve actually figured out what the strategy is, what Obama\u2019s strategy is. There\u2019s really a subtle nuanced strategy to this tire gauge thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It involves an oil company conspiracy, a government program, and a campaign slogan. Now, the oil company conspiracy is known by anybody who\u2019s ever used one of these 50-cent fill up your tire with air gauges at any fast food place or anything. None of those things come close to working. We either put in too much or too little, you know, you have no idea how much you put in, it\u2019s just kind of — you know, the few times I\u2019ve used them —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. And how do you know if the gauge is even accurate? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t trust that, either. Made in China; how do you know?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019ve got an oil company conspiracy here, because why else would they be so inaccurate? The oil companies are obviously putting out this kind of technology that\u2019s going to cause you to either overinflate or underinflate and never have your tires correct. So that\u2019s the conspiracy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what\u2019s in it for the oil companies to do that? Oh, is it like Big Tobacco, the oil companies want to kill their customers?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, of course. Now, the government part of it is, this is going to lead to a government program because now once this problem is identified, and I\u2019ve just identified it, now you\u2019re going to have to have a government program to fix these things, and you\u2019re going to have to have an agency of testers, people to go out and test them, monitor them, make sure they\u2019re working, fining the fast food people who are not taking care of it. So you\u2019ve got an entire government program to make sure, because now that it\u2019s been identified that proper inflation of tires is so important, obviously we\u2019re going to have to spend an awful lot of money in the government on it to take care of that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tire pressure checkpoints.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And he\u2019s going to have a whole agency that helps employment and all the other things. And then the most subtle nuanced thing about the whole process is he gets a campaign slogan out of this, because it\u2019s going to take ten or 15 years for the government to get these pressure things tested and checked and everything else, so in the meantime, people are going to have to either go out and buy expensive hand-held measuring devices, or they\u2019re not going to be able to do that, and that\u2019s going to create a tire gauge gap, kind of like the missile gap that never existed back in the sixties. You\u2019re going to have wealthy people who can afford the tire gauges, and poor people who can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no wait, wait, wait. You have wealthy people who have staff to use the tire gauge to measure the tire pressure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Minor correction. I just want to keep your mind straight.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no. That\u2019s why you\u2019re the host. See, I picked out the subtleties in — <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — in what Obama —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you were talking nuance. I wanted to stay on line here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So there it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I could totally believe it. But what I know is true is that somebody was talking to Obama, and he mentioned this tire gauge thing, and Obama, he\u2019d never heard it before, and he went out, oh, really? Well, that\u2019s cool, that\u2019s cool, and then he goes out and says it, and now he\u2019s backed up into defending it, and the Drive-Bys are circling the wagons. I don\u2019t want to start with this again, though. I\u2019m just telling you, folks, do you realize this whole thing is premised on the fact that someday soon we\u2019re not going to need oil. Do you realize what will happen to your life if there is no oil? You have no clue. It\u2019s not just gasoline and motor oil and stuff. <\/p>\n

Here is Joy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Hi, Joy. Nice to have you with us.<\/line><\/a>CALLER: Well, hi, Rush. Mega dittos from beautiful east Tennessee.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just love the humor that has been on your show today and the humor that\u2019s been interjected into the campaign, and I wanted to tell Obama that I learned from my father 40 years ago to check the tire pressure in my tires. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, see, that\u2019s another thing. This elitist runs around assuming everybody\u2019s driving on flat tires.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I was crazy when I heard that. I laughed all the way down the road. I was like, ‘I never check my oil, and I don\u2019t check my tire pressure.\u2019 But one of the other reasons I called, I must have missed the show where you talked about oil that\u2019s used in plastics, and the screener also mentioned cosmetics. And while I was on hold —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oil is used in candles, paraffin.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s everywhere. Oil is everywhere. Johnson\u2019s baby oil, K-Y jelly, it\u2019s all oil.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. So you know, I haven\u2019t heard figures on how much is used in that, but I think while I was hold, it just kind of hit me, the cosmetics industry, it would be interesting, you know, if Obama got to be president and said, ‘Okay ladies, you can no longer wear your makeup.\u2019 (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, just have to go to soy-based foundation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He could do away with the makeup industry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got a woman here who I think wants to list some of these things. Susan in Pasadena, nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush, congratulations on 20 years and twenty years more.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening to you for 20 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My husband owns a plastics company, and he was just saying the other day if you don\u2019t have oil, everything in your house, everything in your office, there are so many things that are made of plastic that is oil based. And if you look in your office, your computers, your —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trash bags.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Everything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ziploc bags.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean open your refrigerator, the whole inside of the refrigerator is made of plastic. Everything in there. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Health food yogurt container.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) But I mean oil is everything. And, you know, I\u2019d love to find a substitute for it, but it\u2019s really —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There isn\u2019t. It\u2019s organic. It\u2019s a commodity. And the earth keeps making it. It\u2019s like getting mad at cotton. Getting mad at sugar. But the liberals hate it. They hate a commodity. And look at what we do. We go out and we take a commodity, and we convert it — because we think we\u2019re smarter than God and nature — into something called ethanol. So we create moonshine out of corn, and it\u2019s just causing all kinds of problems, residual, ancillary problems, whereas there\u2019s nothing wrong with the original thing. Just the hubris, the ego of the left is sometimes difficult to deal with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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