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RUSH: Well, we\u2019ve learned quite a bit over the weekend, ladies and gentlemen, and it will take the entire three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence today for me to impart it to you. Believe me, the whole thing will be worth it. Lots to do today, great to have you with us and kick off a brand-new week of broadcast excellence from the EIB Southern Command. Rush Limbaugh here behind the EIB Network with rhetoric and resonance and dulcet tones echoing from coast to coast. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna lead off with the bailout. There\u2019s an idea at stake here, folks, a very, very precious and important idea that\u2019s about to be blown away, and we\u2019re going to lead with that, not technically, but it\u2019s going to be the first major thing we get into. There are a couple of other program notes I want to impart to you. When we left on Friday, I mentioned to you that today we were going to have Spanish language translations of all relevant commentaries and monologues that have been distorted by Obama in his campaign ad that runs in four states. They\u2019ve not pulled the ad. They\u2019re continuing to run it. The Democrat strategerists say, ‘Hey, the ad worked. It tied McCain to the right wing.\u2019 So Joe Muniz on our staff has recorded all of what I said in Espanol, in Spanish. I originally thought we were going to be able to get to this in the first hour today, but I don\u2019t think so. We\u2019ll probably get to it in the second hour. We\u2019re going to broadcast this all over the continental United States and Alaska and Hawaii, in Spanish, so that Hispanics can get the truth of this. <\/p>\n

A couple of news update items. When we last spoke on Friday, we talked about the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and their anti-Iran rally today. Remember, Hillary Clinton was invited, Sarah Palin was invited, and Hillary Clinton said I\u2019m not showing up if she\u2019s there; she doesn\u2019t measure up to my stature. So Hillary pulled out, Palin didn\u2019t. At that point, the Conference of Presidents and the other two organizations, it appeared, buckled to some pressure and disinvited Sarah Palin, and everybody was up in arms about the gutlessness of this. What we have learned since we were last together — and the story first reported on WCBS-TV in New York, the Democrat Party — that means Obama and his operatives — threatened to attack these three Jewish groups\u2019 tax-exempt status if they did not disinvite Sarah Palin. They were threatened with lawsuits that would result in the end of their tax-exempt status. So they were blackmailed, essentially, to get rid of Sarah Palin and they felt they had no choice, tax-exempt status is the basis on which they operate. <\/p>\n

Malcolm Hoenlein, who is the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that I mentioned to you on Friday was the man who arranged, assembled, and accompanied me on that great, wonderful trip I had to Israel in 1993, was just devastated by this. He\u2019s been taking a lot of hits, a lot of incoming fire because these three organizations did not actually make it known at first that they were threatened with lawsuits from the American left. I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s not just the American left, the worldwide left is in the process of destroying the country. They\u2019re in the process of really changing things. This bailout, folks, it\u2019s frightening what is going on here. It really is, because aside from the details, this is a Democrat Party mess. This is an elected Democrat mess, and the very Democrats that made the mess are asking now to be put back in total control of this. Barney Frank is even out there saying that this is a private sector problem. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. It is so the exact opposite. <\/p>\n

What needs to happen here is that Barney Frank and Chris Dodd need to be thrown out of Congress. That is what needs to happen here. Those two guys, since 2006, when they took over their committees, banking in the Senate, whatever Barney\u2019s is in the House, these two guys, Pelosi\u2019s running that Congress, the Democrats in charge of things, it has just been a nightmare and a disaster. But the roots of this trace all the way back to the Clinton administration, Janet Reno threatening lending institutions if they didn\u2019t get rid of redlining and make loans to people who couldn\u2019t pay \u2019em back, they\u2019re going to be targeted by justice. This is a classic example of some of these institutions, ‘Hell, we don\u2019t want to be bothered, we\u2019ll do what you want.\u2019 It\u2019s the way affirmative action was used in other federally regulated business such as this one, such as broadcasting. Back in the seventies they said, ‘You better start hiring some women.\u2019 ‘There aren\u2019t any qualified here.\u2019 We\u2019re talking about major market. ‘Well, you better do it anyway or we\u2019re going to come down real hard on your next license renewal.\u2019 So it\u2019s the same process that was being used then is used now. Details on all this here in just a second. <\/p>\n

One final thing. Remember George Onyango Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama, living in a hut outside Nairobi or something, living on $12 a year. Obama in his acceptance speech in Denver says, ‘I am my brother\u2019s keeper.\u2019 But George Onyango Obama is still living in the hut, not even a ‘Hut, Sweet Hut\u2019 sign, no help from Obama whatsoever. Do you realize a $20 bill would have the effect of almost doubling this guy\u2019s annual income? He wants to become an auto mechanic, so here\u2019s what happened. Dinesh D\u2019Souza has started a fund for the George Obama ‘Get-him-out-of-the-hut\u2019 campaign. I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s actually called here, but there is an official ‘get-him-out-of-the-hut\u2019 campaign. Dinesh D\u2019Souza has chipped in the first thousand dollars here, says he\u2019s received more than a thousand dollars in small contributions. So right now George Onyango Obama has $2,000 headed his way thanks to Dinesh D\u2019Souza and America\u2019s conservatives. My North Carolina mistress says she\u2019s going to send the ‘Hut, Sweet Hut\u2019 sign along with her donation. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t escape the football games this weekend. You New England fans, and I love you, but I gotta tell you, it was not enjoyable watching you lose. That\u2019s not the point. That happens. But I\u2019m channel surfing around yesterday, and Matt Cassel, the backup quarterback for the Patriots gets sacked a couple times and the cameras cut to the crowd, which they always do after some plays. Rather than staying on the field to see if the guy can get up, they go into the audience, the fans, and these New England fans look dumbfounded. The quarterback has just been sacked and they\u2019re looking at each other, ‘What was that? We haven\u2019t seen that in two years, what just happened out there?\u2019 They had no idea. Their quarterback never got sacked at home. They haven\u2019t seen it in two years. They started streaming out of there early in the third quarter. <\/p>\n

Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers, ought to sue his own team for attempted murder. Gee whiz! Against the McNabbs in Philadelphia, the Steelers look like a sandlot team yesterday. I\u2019m a huge, big Steelers fan, but my Lord, I mean they talk about the sacks, Roethlisberger eight sacks, it wasn\u2019t the sacks it was the hurries, the knockdowns. You think it was bad watching this? Imagine Roethlisberger playing in that game. You know how nervous you Steelers fans were every time he took a snap in the shotgun. Imagine him and the way he felt! The coaches did nothing to correct this. Where were the screen passes? Where were the draws? There\u2019s all kinds of things you can do to nullify the pass rush but they didn\u2019t do it. Meanwhile, Roethlisberger\u2019s got a bad hand, probably going to be able to play, but it\u2019s just going to get worse. <\/p>\n

The Baltimore Ravens and that thug defense of theirs, they see what happened out there. I guarantee you, those guys, Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, just can\u2019t wait. They wish the game were tonight. It\u2019s a week from tonight on ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football, which means we might not see much of the game. They don\u2019t televise much of the game even though they broadcast the game. The bozos in the booth there, yeah, they\u2019ll show graphics of plays that happened 30 minutes ago to show you why it worked while a current play is happening. Anyway, a quick time-out here. We\u2019ll come back and start — (interruption) well, what\u2019s to say about the Cowboys? The only thing to say — don\u2019t give me — the Cowboys, they\u2019re playing great, there\u2019s no question, Cowboys are playing great, Terrell Owens looks like he\u2019s matured into a team player. Happy to see it. There\u2019s a lot of surprises in the NFL this year, but that\u2019s what makes it great. <\/p>\n

Also, there\u2019s another topic here, folks, that I cannot — and it\u2019s going to take me all three hours to get to all this — there\u2019s a topic out there that I cannot let go uncommented on, and that is this outrageous AP poll, AP story, Ipsos poll, that hit Friday afternoon when we were outta here. It\u2019s the most amazing thing. They are concerned as hell. They\u2019re already setting the table here for Barry losing on the basis of race. They went out there and they surveyed a bunch of blue-collar Democrats, the kind Barry needs and they found out that one-third of them will not vote for him because he\u2019s black. Now, you ask yourself, why run a story like this? Why run a story insulting so large a contingent of the Obama constituency? Why do this? I think it\u2019s to shame them into action, but it\u2019s also setting up the excuse down the road. Why not run a poll on how many Republicans won\u2019t vote for Obama because he\u2019s black? The answer to that is very simple. That would just mobilize the Republican base even more, you start putting that kind of garbage out there, \u2019cause the racism in this campaign\u2019s all been found on the left. <\/p>\n

By the way, these are (whispering) ‘Reagan Democrats.\u2019 They\u2019re setting up this, these are so-called conservative Democrats, and they\u2019re in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Texas, these places that Obama bombed out in the latter stages of the primaries and they\u2019re saying that they\u2019re going to vote against Obama simply \u2019cause he\u2019s black. I can\u2019t let this one pass. Lots to say. I\u2019 mean, 95% of blacks are going to vote for Obama. Where\u2019s the racism? What would you say, AP — this is our buddy Ron Fournier — what if 95% of whites said they were going to vote McCain? How about the racism charge there? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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