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RUSH: Let\u2019s get a call. Cincinnati. We\u2019ll start with you, Chris. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is Chris in Cincinnati, an honor and a pleasure to speak with you today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I just had a comment about something you said yesterday, and let me preface this by saying I\u2019ve been listening to you for eight years. As an African-American female I do get a lot of flack from family and friends for that, however I like to have many different points of reference when I\u2019m making my opinions on things, and you happen to be one of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I can\u2019t understand why you would seek another after hearing mine, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well — (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — give me time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yesterday you spoke about how the exit polls stated that if the Republicans had come out — a lot of them stayed home — but if they woulda come out, we woulda beat Obama, but during the election you were speaking of the exit polls as, oh, don\u2019t pay any attention to the exit polls, you know, they don\u2019t mean anything. So which is it Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a nice trick. See, you shoulda called up on stump the host day. We very rarely do stump the host day anymore, because it\u2019s not possible anymore. It used to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But what I said on Election Day, pay no attention to the first wave of exit polls that are released at five o\u2019clock. The first wave of exit polls that were released at five o\u2019clock, actually two o\u2019clock back in 2004, and then the second wave at five o\u2019clock had John Kerry winning in a landslide. That\u2019s why I said pay no attention to the exit polls before the polls close, before the actual votes are counted. I said on Election Day pay no attention to exit polls. Not ever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. So thank you for clarifying that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Happy to help.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I do want to say, however, before I go that the sky is not falling because Obama is president. Believe me, as a self-made woman who is working on her Ph.D., raising my children on my own, I feel that there have been 44 presidents, not one of them has made me and not one of them will break me. So, you know, in terms of, yes, I did vote for Obama, I have my reasons —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you have financial — I assume you do, you\u2019re in the process of getting your Ph.D.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you have — this is really none of my business, but an interesting little game I play sometimes with callers. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you have an annual salary or amount of money that you want to make?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is it? What do you want to make? No, what is your dream?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Let\u2019s put it this way. Well, my dream? I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever enough money, depending on the lifestyle that we lead. I\u2019ve been blessed to be able to take care of what I need to take care of. I do have student loans, I will say that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, ah, ah —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Look at it this way. If someone asked me at my next job, which I plan to go into public health, ‘What do you want?\u2019 I need to make at least $150 to $200,000, which I don\u2019t make right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Good. You have just fallen into Barack Obama\u2019s tax increase target income, and at that point, whenever you are paid that amount of money, that is when your American dream ends.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t believe he\u2019ll be able to do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Sure. Fine. I just listen to what he says. You choose to ignore what he says and instead invest in an image that you have of Barack Obama. By the way, I\u2019ve not said the sky is falling out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The sky is blue, the birds are chirping a little brighter, the —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — people are even nicer when they beg, great national mood out there, Chris.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is. It is. And, you know what, one thing I would like to leave you with is that I don\u2019t agree on all his fiscal policies and everything, I will say, I have a 17-year-old son who, I\u2019ve had a hard time motivating him. Ever since Barack Obama has come into the scene, for what it\u2019s worth, my son has gained an internal motivation that I have not seen. So, although it\u2019s a little small piece, Rush, a lot of African-Americans are feeling that, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand. I\u2019ve got a story in the stack, I know exactly what you\u2019re talking about, and I think this is one of the genuine positive reactions here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of the problems in the African-American community is its leaders have continued to make people in that community feel inferior, like they have no chance. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So if Obama can make people think that their horizons are brighter, fine and dandy, as long as he gets out of the way and doesn\u2019t get in the way, their horizons will be brighter. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I do agree with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve got a story coming up here, Chris, about how the AP or somebody, another poll, and they have found that an increasing number — get this, folks — an increasing number of white people now say that they would feel comfortable working for a black boss.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Charlotte, North Carolina, hi Eric, great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my man Rush. This is going to be rough here. People are probably going to think I\u2019m a very mean, hateful person, but as a black American who is strongly evangelical and very conservative, I\u2019m certified black enough to criticize Obama. I\u2019m a certified Christian enough to criticize his ungodly moral positions on abortion and homosexuality, and I\u2019m certified conservative enough to criticize you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What do you think about the Prop 8 gang using the N-word out there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, when you are immoral as immoral is immoral goes. That is just part and parcel with the way they are. So that\u2019s not surprising. But one thing is, Rush, I\u2019m the same guy, the same Eric Woods out of Charlotte who called you back in 2005, which you said was one of the best calls you ever had, but I want to get on you big time, because you were talking about yesterday the ‘I told you so,\u2019 and I\u2019m gonna criticize Obama as well. I got some very ugly things, as you\u2019ll find out, I\u2019m going to say about him, but you talk about the I told you sos, the I told you sos. There is a song that Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams sang a few years ago called, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember that song, I loved that so long. (singing) Too much, too little, too late to ever do something again, whatever the lyric line was. Yeah, I remember.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s what you did yesterday. You talk about how creepy — Obama is not creepy, there is a wicked element, I\u2019m going to be very strong here and say —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second, now, I\u2019m quoting the Newsweek people. You gotta listen every day, Eric, to know what\u2019s happening, to have this show in context. It was Newsweek reporters that covered him during the whole campaign, ‘He\u2019s creepy, he\u2019s singular, he ascends and watches us watch him.\u2019 And so if they\u2019re going to call him creepy, and he is creepy in a way, I\u2019ll call him creepy. I\u2019ll take the lead from the Drive-Bys.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not arguing with you, I\u2019m agreeing with you, but I\u2019m going a little step beyond and saying —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ooo, I\u2019m not hitting hard enough then, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, because, see, the word that you\u2019re probably reluctant to use or rather not use is the word wicked, and I\u2019m going to use it in a moment, and you\u2019ll see why I\u2019m saying this. But the point is, Rush, you, back during the campaign, and I warned you back in January of this year that when we were talking about Huckabee, I said Huckabee they\u2019re going to go and bloody, bruise, and hobble and beat him because of the way conservatives were just — really we were just so hard on our own. Reagan said the Eleventh Commandment is, don\u2019t criticize a Republican for certain reasons. Now, there are some worthy criticisms to be made —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eric, hang on a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Reagan did have the Eleventh Commandment, but during the \u201976 primaries and the \u201980 primaries Reagan was destroying other Republicans so he could get the nomination.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re talking about a primary here. I stayed out of the primary!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I stayed out of it. Many people think that\u2019s what blew it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you\u2019re going to have your three hours, man, I\u2019m trying to tell you, I gotta say as much as I can, as quick, you won\u2019t let me say so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then, Eric, get to it, what did I say wrong? <\/p>\n

CALLER: What I\u2019m trying to say is we have silly people like Ann Coulter, foolish people who are out there saying, ‘I\u2019m not voting for McCain. I\u2019m going to vote for Hillary.\u2019 We had foolish people like James Dobson saying, ‘I will never vote for McCain,\u2019 and wound up eating his words. We had people down here in Charlotte, we had a Jeff Katz here just really, everybody was just so hard on McCain and he was so bloodied and brutalized, and what happened is we suppressed, we depressed our own turnout, and so when you talk about yesterday —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — wait a minute. Now, Rush, come on, please.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I respectfully —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — disagree with you on this, I think —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Please.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those of us who were sounding those warning bells have been vindicated as right all those many months ago. We got exactly what we feared we were going to get. We got the exact campaign, we got the exact result, we got everything we knew would happen, should the party nominate Senator McCain.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, the problem that I\u2019m trying to say is, Ann was silly, Ann was silly, come on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, there were a lot of people talking about voting for Hillary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hold on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There were a lot of people. The point is nobody caused Republicans to stay home except the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, that is true in part, you\u2019re leaving out a crucial component here. We had people calling in and saying they were listening to the hosts like Ann Coulter and you and Dobson saying, ‘I\u2019m not trusting McCain, I\u2019m not going to vote for him,\u2019 and we wound up suppressing our own turnout, Rush. Think about it, you may not want to admit it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I disagree with you on that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course you will, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I betcha —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you capable of assigning any responsibility for what happened here to the candidate? What responsibility does the candidate have in his own victory or defeat?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you speak too fast, I would have ultimately got to that, Rush, but you wouldn\u2019t let me get to that point. You cut me off too quick. You gotta listen sometimes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I can only take so much. I\u2019m glad to listen but not when you\u2019re wrong. I owe a duty to the audience here. Oh look, it\u2019s just too bad, I\u2019m outta time. Eric, I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Gray, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega Carolina dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Quick question, and a quicker comment. I\u2019m 26 years old, Rush. I work for a living, I pay my mortgage on time, and I am scared to death of where this country is going. Also, I just got engaged. And I look to you for your insightful and inspirational advice, and we appreciate you. I just want to let you know that, sir.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Question: These people that supported The Messiah, Mr. False Hope here, how long do you give it before they realize that there\u2019s no way he can come through with half of what he\u2019s promised? And that being the case, will they turn on him? We know the media is not, but will the people actually turn on this man?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That remains to be seen, and it\u2019s a good question. My instinct would be to say of course they will at some point, they turn on everybody. But, I\u2019m reserving that because I think you should get ready for even more synergistic behavior from the media and Obama. Bad news is not going to be reported as bad news. You heard me say at the beginning of the program today they\u2019ve already got a poll out that well over 50% of the American people are willing now to wait on tax cuts. They understand what a hard job Obama now faces, and they really don\u2019t care about getting out of Iraq real soon. So they\u2019re going to be carrying the water, and they\u2019re gonna smooth the road for him, and they\u2019re gonna do news stories misrepresenting public opinion like they have been doing up until the election and through the campaign, misrepresenting public opinion in a means of shaping it. Now, as to Obama\u2019s voters, another reason for reserving comment on this is that I\u2019m really worried that there is more groupthink than I have ever seen in the electorate this year. People voted for an image; they voted for symbolism; they voted for this mythical thing called change.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they\u2019ve got so much emotion invested in this guy. And there is so much emotion disguised as love that they think is love, and that\u2019s a hard emotion to shatter. You know, I\u2019m sure you know people that love reprobates, and you\u2019d love to take them aside and say, ‘How do you love that person? That person mistreating you.\u2019 ‘Don\u2019t you dare!\u2019 You can\u2019t insult them. You can\u2019t criticize them. Love is one of these emotions that\u2019s on its own out there. So I don\u2019t know. I think what is interesting to me is he will overreach. At some point he\u2019s going to overreach because at the bottom of his heart, bottom of his mind, Obama knows that he got this election by fooling people. He knows that he was not honest with the people about what he wants to do. He had help from the media camouflaging his proposals, his ideas, and what he really intends to do. At some point he\u2019s going to do what he intends to do, and it will be at odds with what people heard him say. At that point, do those people excuse him and say, ‘Well, he faced circumstances he didn\u2019t know.\u2019 Do they make up excuses to justify what he\u2019s doing because of their emotional attachment to a symbol? It\u2019s creepy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right? I mean, it\u2019s creepy. I don\u2019t know people like this, too many people. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to shatter their faith.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. We\u2019ve got the media in the tank for this guy. I mean, this is the United States version of al-Jazeera as far as our media. They only show us what they want to show us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep. <\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just disgraceful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are making up news, literally. When I saw this poll today: ‘Most Americans willing to wait on tax cuts,\u2019 I could not keep a straight face. It is just so patently a lie, and they\u2019re already taking Obama approval ratings now, and he\u2019s not even been inaugurated. And, by the way, it\u2019s at 64%.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, that poll must have been given out in the NBC waiting area out there or something, maybe that\u2019s where they got that poll from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I would love to have an answer for you on your question, but I do think, like I said yesterday, he is going to overreach because he also has this messianic complex. He thinks of himself as something super special and unique. He thinks — and Michelle said it — the power of his will, he can fix anything just by the very nature of his presence.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, of course nobody has that kind of power, and he doesn\u2019t, either. At some point, something has to give here, and he\u2019s going to overreach in ways that will create openings, electoral openings for Republicans and so forth, but I don\u2019t know to what extent his own voters — you said Democrats. The Democrats are going to hang with the guy no matter what, but people who were not really hard line Democrats who voted for him will be the ones that will be the first to peel off.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, I hope so. I hope the American public gets enlightened, because it\u2019s scary, Rush, it really is, looking at where the rest of my life and my generation\u2019s life. They said 98% of people my age voted for Obama, and that\u2019s what\u2019s really scary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I understand totally — forget Obama for a moment. Look what\u2019s happening here with the Treasury secretary and nationalizing various businesses and making sure that people who could not afford mortgages still get to stay in those houses.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bailing out the auto companies. This is antithetical to the way this country was founded and to the systems that were put in place, the institutions that led to America\u2019s greatness. They\u2019re all being torn down here. They\u2019re eventually going to get rebuilt because this is going to fail. All this is going to make more people unhappy and miserable than they ever dream possible. They think they\u2019re mad and miserable now, they have no idea what\u2019s coming. At that point, there\u2019s going to be a tipping point, we\u2019re going to reach it. I can\u2019t tell you when. But I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Obama doesn\u2019t even run for a second term, if he implements everything he really wants to implement, and if he does it, if he comes out running, he does these things, there\u2019s going to be nothing to run on. The people are going to want not any more to do with him, if, if, if, he does all these things and gets a lot of them accomplished. And that\u2019s a big ‘if,\u2019 too.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Right, ‘if.\u2019 Quick question to you, Rush. The Failure Factory book, is that out now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mr. Gertz\u2019s book?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. It most definitely is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I\u2019ll have to go get that today. He sounded very insightful, and I\u2019m just trying to find anyone that is insightful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s one of the foremost national security reporters and one of the last remaining investigative reporters in Washington dealing with the Pentagon and national security matters, State Department, CIA. He\u2019s a great reporter, and his books are always great reads. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Bobbi in Newton Falls, Ohio. Hi, Bobbi. Glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Our whole family listens to you. We love you. I\u2019ve been listening to you ever since Joycelyn Elders wanted to make safer bullets. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you. (laughing) Safer bullets. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Safer bullets.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I have a son in Iraq. But before I get to my question, I have a juicy little tidbit. (giggles) In Luke chapter 10, verse 18, it says, ‘I beheld Satan fall from heaven as lightning,\u2019 and Barack\u2019s name is ‘lightning,\u2019 and ‘bama means ‘highest.\u2019 <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, now, now, now, that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) I\u2019m not inferring anything. I just wanted to throw that out there. But my question is: What can we do about getting back to closed primaries?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s up to the state parties. The state parties set the rules on how primaries are going to happen, and if you live in a state with an open primary you\u2019re going to have to go to your state parties and start the process going. The problem is… (sigh) I don\u2019t know what the motivation in various states are for the these open primaries, but the way the Republican Party has attempted to constitute itself lately is wanting Democrats to come in and vote for them. Of course the Democrat Party uses the same thing. They use their open primaries to send Democrats in to elect or nominate our candidate. It\u2019s a bad deal. Early voting, all of these things… A lot of things in the electoral system need to be fixed. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shannon in Dahlonega, Georgia. Nice to have you on the program. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for your time, and for giving me a voice today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re welcome. By the way, people are asking me about my voice today. ‘Rush, do you have a cold?\u2019 No, I don\u2019t have a cold. I take Zicam<\/a>. I was up very late last night. It was a very festive night last night, was up late having lots of fun, and for some reason when I don\u2019t get a lot of sleep my voice just fades away and I get a little hoarse here. No, I don\u2019t have a cold. When I think I\u2019m getting a cold, I take Zicam.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I need to go get some. We\u2019re on the verge at my house. Herman Cane is from down here. He\u2019s a very smart, conservative man. He would be a wonderful black bass.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Herman Cain, Herman Cain. Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Herman Cain. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. He was a black boss, and everybody loved him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. He\u2019s on conservative radio down here now, and I like to listen to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling about the Georgia Senate race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a little frustrated — well, that\u2019s not true. I\u2019m very frustrated. I kind of feel like my vote is being extorted down here. You know, Georgia conservatives screamed bloody murder over the bailout and Saxby Chambliss refused to vote with us. He went up there and did what he wanted to do, whatever he wanted to do, which, you know, even come clean down here and admit it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. I know, I know, he voted for the gang of whatever on the offshore drilling. He made a tactical mistake there. At this point, people in Georgia have gotta take this very seriously because the Democrats are trying to steal Minnesota, and he\u2019s gotta win this runoff in Georgia. If we lose these two, they\u2019re up to 59.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know, Rush. I\u2019m in total agreement with you there, and I continue to write and write and write letters over to their campaign begging them for just one humble moment to admit that the bailout was a really bad idea and that it\u2019s down the tubes further than anybody could have imagined, and just to admit that he\u2019s in Washington to represent me,<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not going to do it,<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not going to do it, these guys, the last thing they do is apologize. It opens up too many cans of worms. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Makes me want to fire him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, don\u2019t. Do what you want. I understand the sentiment, but somebody if one of these guys, ‘I\u2019m sorry, I am sorry for what I did,\u2019 the Democrats are never going to let go of it, it will be a TV ad, and they\u2019ll say, ‘What else should he apologize for?\u2019 And they\u2019ll finally get, ‘He should apologize for breathing, Saxby Chambliss should apologize –‘ you can\u2019t go down that road.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can\u2019t we just go down the road just a little bit and then blame it on the Democrats for being the ones to take control of the bailout and make such a big mess out of it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: If he does that, he\u2019s making himself sound powerless. The stakes here are a little bit more important than just individual Saxby Chambliss, but then you get what you get when he goes there. So it\u2019s a tossup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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