{"id":314103,"date":"2019-06-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=314103"},"modified":"2019-07-01T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:37:11","slug":"self-described-progressive-digs-tulsi-gabbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/28\/self-described-progressive-digs-tulsi-gabbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Described Progressive Digs Tulsi Gabbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Kelly in Columbus, Ohio. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m good.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, I just want to tell Mr. Snerdley, I appreciate him putting me through. I told him I was a progressive that really enjoys your show and he honored your wishes in putting liberals up front. I just want to tell him I appreciate him following your rules. I get a kick out of your show, Rush, I really do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You get a kick out of it. You\u2019re a progressive and you get a kick out of it. Now, that\u2019s kind of unusual. Most progressives would say that they are rendered angry or something like that listening to me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-102518-Dittohead-Nation-EST.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-102518-Dittohead-Nation-EST.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-102518-Dittohead-Nation-EST-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s their problem. That\u2019s not mine. God bless you. I\u2019m actually a charter member of your newsletter. I still have it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Before you dump my call, I want to say hi to a friend of mine at work. He\u2019s a true Dittohead. His name is Dave. Hey, Dave. Okay, that\u2019s enough of that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait a minute, now, if you know enough to know that we put people like you to the front of the line, you should also know that we don\u2019t dump calls here. I pride myself, we never hang up on anybody here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-062819-Tulsi-Gabbard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-062819-Tulsi-Gabbard.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-062819-Tulsi-Gabbard-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, if you\u2019re progressive, why or what is it about this program you like?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s just pure entertainment. It just shows the separation of this country and really what we need to get back to. People on the left are just as bad. Don\u2019t get me started on Obama and Hillary. I mean, I have as much disdain for those guys as I do for Trump. I mean, (unintelligible) we\u2019re gonna end up being just &#8212; America wants us, you know? And I really think we\u2019re on the right side of history now. I think Crazy Bernie, I\u2019d like to have Crazy Bernie. I\u2019d gladly vote for him, but he\u2019s not my choice right now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, who is? You got these 20 people running, which of them appeals to you the most?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: There\u2019s some comedy out there too. Tulsi Gabbard. We need her bad.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you know who loves Tulsi Gabbard?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Who?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pat Buchanan. Pat Buchanan wrote a column yesterday extolling her value. He thinks that Trump ought to get rid of John Bolton and hire Tulsi Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-120618-Pat-Buchanan-1992-Repub-Convention.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-120618-Pat-Buchanan-1992-Repub-Convention.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-120618-Pat-Buchanan-1992-Repub-Convention-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I agree completely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Well, why do you agree with that? What is it about Tulsi that you dig?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: She gives the idea that these regime exchange wars &#8212; exchanging wars are just &#8212; it\u2019s over. We have to stop doing all this. We have to &#8212; don\u2019t get me wrong. She\u2019s for America for all, good jobs, good pay, she\u2019s for everything, but she\u2019s a progressive as well. But her main focus is to get out of these silly wars. And Trump even called them stupid wars. And that\u2019s why when he beat Hillary, I didn\u2019t like &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s exactly why Buchanan loves her. Buchanan doesn\u2019t want any part of these wars. He thought Trump was gonna get us out of these wars and when Trump hired Bolton, you know, Buchanan had to go grab the rosary beads. It was so unlike what he thought Trump was gonna do. Then we had the debate the other night and Tulsi Gabbard really laid into somebody else on that &#8212; who was it that she laid into?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I can\u2019t remember who it was. I think it was the guy from Ohio. He tried to make it sound like the Taliban. He just showed his ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, it was Tim Ryan. Tim Ryan. He got it confused. He thought the Taliban had conducted the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And he said we gotta keep troops there, we gotta keep troops there, its\u2019 a dangerous place. She said, no, we don\u2019t, we\u2019ve been there forever, nothing changes, we need to get out, and she was speaking as an Afghanistan vet.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, she\u2019s a vet, she\u2019s on the foreign affairs, she\u2019s been in the military for 16 years. She\u2019s served in Iraq. I mean, she\u2019s really cool, Rush. She\u2019s been a congresswoman for six years in Hawaii. I mean, she\u2019s the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think America would do well if we would get Tulsi in there.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And she wants to serve, you know, she wants to serve people.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Kelly, she makes it clear that she is about service.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I know, I heard when you were talking about how many times she said &#8220;serve.&#8221; But, you know, I think that\u2019s her point is politicians are supposed to serve us. I think that\u2019s why it sticks with her so much and why she says it so much is because look at what we do. I mean, really, we take care of &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, wait. This is interesting. Let me ask you, if you will permit me, what do you mean specifically when you say that politicians are supposed to serve us? What does that mean to you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TulsiGabbard-e1561750489644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That means that they are supposed to represent us, we, the people. They are supposed to be there taking care and making sure that we, the people, the people that make this country tick do the right thing. Don\u2019t get in our way. We make this country work. We make, we ship, we drive, we deliver, and more importantly, we buy what makes this country tick. And for us to wait for stuff to trickle down is just not good, is just not right &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, now, now, now, everything trickles down. That\u2019s how you\u2019re able to buy it \u2019cause it trickles down.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, no, no, no, no.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Tell me what doesn\u2019t trickle down.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What trickles down is like you would imagine &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. What doesn\u2019t trickle down?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What doesn\u2019t trickle down? Fair wage, fair pay, health care. All that. We have plenty of money. We\u2019re the richest country in the world, and the number one reason for bankruptcy in the United States is medical bills. Come on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Well, so how would trickle-down on health care bills work?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It won\u2019t. Trickle-up is the important part. We are the ones, like, say you. You make north of $50 million a year. I\u2019m thinking you could probably get by without a tax cut. We have three people in the country, the top three wealthiest people in this country have a combined wealth of more than half of this country. They can get by without a tax cut. The top 1% make more than 90% of the country. They can get by without a tax cut. We need major tax cuts. I appreciate what I got from Trump. They can do a lot better than that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m out of time here, I want it noted that we didn\u2019t hang up on you or bump you off as you said, but I\u2019m really having a tough time why you think you are progressive. You got some things wrong, but for the most part you\u2019re not really a progressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALLER: Gabbard gives the idea that these regime exchange wars &#8212; exchanging wars are just &#8212; it&#039;s over. 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