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RUSH: Tammy in Shawnee, Kansas, nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to speak with you. I\u2019d like to let you know that we\u2019re generational listeners here in Shawnee, Kansas. My folks listen, I listen, and now my 18-year-old son listens to your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A Rush Baby.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. Hey, listen, I just feel like, as Americans, we need to put this through the filter of these people who are interviewing for the presidential seat of the United States of America, the most powerful nation in the world, and this Barack Obama is not qualified. He\u2019s handed us a blank piece of paper for a r&eacute;sum&eacute;, and our finest companies here in the United States wouldn\u2019t even consider this guy. He has no qualifications.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but see, that\u2019s the thing. You\u2019re exactly right, but it doesn\u2019t matter, does it, to his supporters. See, he\u2019s not the educated choice, he\u2019s the liberal choice.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he\u2019s gotta be stopped. You\u2019re doing the right thing. But people need to wake up and understand he is not qualified.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doesn\u2019t matter. This is what I\u2019m trying to say. Look, I\u2019m telling you, Obama, you\u2019re talking about the future, and the Clintons could be talking about the past. I stand up for the right-now.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: I\u2019m big on the right-now. Somebody\u2019s gotta be for right-now, and that\u2019s me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, listen, my 12-year-old daughter, her statement last week was who cares what the guy\u2019s middle name is, he looks like Curious George.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t make me laugh. I can\u2019t laugh. The point I was going to make to you is, you\u2019re going to have to be very careful. You don\u2019t have to disabuse Republicans of Obama, Tammy. Everybody\u2019s on the same page with you about Obama. There may be some so-called Republicans. But trust me, the people that are going to have to be separated from Obama are the people you see at his rallies and the people in these polls and those people are not attached to him because of intelligence; they\u2019re not attached to him because of his experience; not attached to him because of anything to do with his record. They\u2019re attached to him like the faithful are attached to a religion.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I never heard of Curious George until that caller. I don\u2019t care how old Curious George is. I never heard of Curious George. I had no idea what she was talking about. Now they tell me Curious George is a monkey. Well whoop-de-do, that\u2019s what you get coming in sick.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I need to apologize to both Senator Obama and to Senator McCain. We had a caller, the last caller of the hour, her name was Tammy, is that right? We were talking about Hillary and Obama and that race with her, right? Obama\u2019s qualifications. And she told me what her 12 year old\u2019s reaction to Obama was. The little 12 year old thought Obama looked like Curious George, and I chuckled and we went to a break. I\u2019d never heard of Curious George. Only now have staffers sent me little pictures of Curious George. Folks, when I was a kid, the last cartoon I ever watched — (interruption) no, I didn\u2019t watch Mighty Mouse, this is the whole point. What were the cartoons I watched? I watched Yogi Bear, Jellystone Park. I watched the Flintstones, the Wacky Races, which was hilarious. I don\u2019t know about this Curious George character. I had no idea Curious George was a monkey. I didn\u2019t like the Jetsons. This is the whole point. I didn\u2019t read comic books. I did not watch cartoons. Well, I did like El Kabong, Quick Draw McGraw.<\/p>\n

I never read Batman, never read Superman, never read Flash. I didn\u2019t read comic books. There was one time my mother was going to have to be gone, so she made me heat up a Swanson\u2019s fried chicken TV dinner. I wanted to read something while I was eating, it was some cartoon, I can\u2019t even tell you what the comic book was. Oh, I also watched Clutch Cargo, but I have no idea who this Curious George guy was. Now I do. I\u2019ve seen the pictures of Curious George, everybody is telling me about Curious George. So I wish to apologize to both Senator Obama and Senator McCain. It was not my intent to bring dishonor and guttural utterances into this campaign. It happened, I laughed about it, was a 12-year-old kid\u2019s reaction to Obama, it was told by his mother. I was laughing because I was being polite, but I\u2019d never heard of Curious George. I still don\u2019t know what the deal is. I see the pictures of Curious George now, but I have no clue what Curious George does. I don\u2019t know. And Dawn, stunned me, ‘Curious George was around when you were growing up.\u2019 Well, this is the first I have heard. In fact, I can tell you, I have never seen a cartoon starring a monkey, unless there was one on the Flintstones, but I think those were dinosaurs and alligators.<\/p>\n

So, at any rate, we have fired the caller, Tammy. We\u2019re not going to put up with this on this program. We\u2019re not going to tolerate this kind of stuff on the program, and I do officially apologize to both Senator Obama and to Senator McCain. Why aren\u2019t you apologizing to Hillary? Well, she\u2019s probably happy it happened. I guess I better apologize for saying that. You see, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m doing this as an illustration for you of how really uptight and tense everybody is going to be with any kind of criticism of Barack Obama on the Republican side. I think we may set a record in this upcoming campaign. If Obama is the nominee, we may set a record for the number of apologies to him and his campaign by various Republicans and so forth. So that\u2019s that. I regret that it happened. I can\u2019t use the McCain excuse that I wasn\u2019t here, because I was here. I know, I\u2019m here, but I\u2019m not really here. It was coming up on a hard break, and — ha-ha, being polite to the caller. (interruption) I have never once watched a Snoopy television show. I have never read a Snoopy book. I have seen Snoopy on the blimp covering golf tournaments.<\/p>\n

I was into the cerebral pursuits. I\u2019m telling you, when I was a kid all I wanted to do is be older. I didn\u2019t want to be identified as doing anything that kids did. So, no. (interruption) Well, fine, adults watched Snoopy, I didn\u2019t. I did watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at Christmastime, thought that was cool. I really got into Christmas stuff. I still do, as you all know. I know the Snoopy story. You got the Linus character; you got what\u2019s-her-name always denying Charlie Brown the ball, Lucy. Charlie Brown\u2019s the nerd; he\u2019s the brunt of all the jokes. I don\u2019t know what Snoopy does in that cartoon. Snoopy sits on top of the doghouse, I don\u2019t know what he does, I just know the character Snoopy. Was Snoopy in the newspapers? Okay, were there comic books with Snoopy? The Charlie Brown strip. Okay. I never read the comic pages in the newspaper. I did not read the comic pages in the newspaper. I didn\u2019t do the crossword puzzle. I didn\u2019t read classified ads. I went to the editorial page, I went to the sports page, that was my extent, sometimes the news section and so forth, but I did not read the comics. That\u2019s why I never heard of this loco weed crazy George or Curious George, whatever his name is. Curious George.<\/p>\n

I have never watched an episode of The Simpsons. I have seen The Simpsons when it\u2019s been on other people\u2019s TVs, I have kept walking. I\u2019m not big into animation. I keep telling you, I\u2019m into what\u2019s real, the right-now. Animated stuff leaves me cold. I did watch — I got roped into this — I did watch Finding Nemo. The funniest part of that movie was the sharks, they\u2019re having a 12-step meeting to get over their addiction of eating little fish like Nemo. When I first heard about Finding Nemo, I thought it was Captain Nemo of the Nautilus, you know, some little goldfish swimming around but there was a funny line in that movie, what is it, oh, they called seagulls sea rats. That\u2019s exactly what they are. You ever wondered why there aren\u2019t as many eagles as there are seagulls? Wouldn\u2019t the world be a greater place if there were more pelicans than there were seagulls? I understand why, but we can all dream, we can all have hope for the future, that the pelican population might someday overwhelm the seagull population.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Tanisha in Chicago. Hi, Tanisha. It\u2019s nice to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. You know what, Rush? I just wanted to say, um, first of all, I think you are lying. There is no way you have never heard of Curious George. No way possible! It\u2019s people like you that\u2019s making this whole election something that it\u2019s really not supposed to be. And you\u2019re digging deep just like Hillary and her camp, digging deep, and so you gonna get real down and dirty — and that\u2019s what this is all about right now, and it\u2019s really a shame. It\u2019s sad, and it really shows that you have no class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, I have no class. Well, sorry you think that, Tanisha. By the way, Tanisha is one of my all-time, top-ten favorite female names. Honest-to-goodness, I never heard of Curious George until today. I\u2019m still getting people sending me e-mails. ‘Hey, it wasn\u2019t a cartoon. It was children\u2019s books.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every one that you named, Rush, you have seen before. Every one that you named.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, every one?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every person. You said, Superman, Batman, Jetsons, all this stuff.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I did not. Where do we go with this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You never went to the library, Rush? You never had family members?<\/p>\n

RUSH: For books, Tanisha. For books.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No family members that would have possibly had a Curious George book?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tanisha, all I can tell you is, I never heard of Curious George until today. I never saw Curious George until today. I didn\u2019t know Curious George was a monkey until my North Carolina mistress sends me an e-mail after that segment.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, I really don\u2019t believe that, and I just think that that\u2019s really a shame.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The real shame here is that you have such prejudice.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The shame is that you laughed! You chuckled. Not being polite, but being yourself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was being polite to a caller. The shame is that you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You are being polite. What is polite about that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are being prejudiced and biased, and that\u2019s the shame because you are unwilling to accept the truth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s you. What\u2019s the truth?<\/p>\n

RUSH: How often do you listen to this program out there, Tanisha?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Well, what else am I lying about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: All the time!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I figured.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I lie about everything, huh?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Have a good day, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks, Tanisha. Really cool. Really, really cool. I had to ask these guys, ‘Did I laugh after she said that?\u2019 Because when I got the note from the North Carolina mistress, I said, ‘Oh, Lord. Did I laugh?\u2019 They said, ‘Yeah.\u2019 Brian started laughing. ‘Yes, you did.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Sandy in Dayton, Ohio. Great to have you here on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you. I listen to you every chance I get when I\u2019m in the car, and I just wanted to make a comment about Tanisha calling in and saying how you were lying, that you\u2019d never heard of Curious George. I am also close to your age. I had never heard of Curious George, either, and I just can\u2019t understand what the big issue is. You know, there a lot of books and a lot of cartoons or whatever that people never heard of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly! It\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The point is that there are Obama supporters out there waiting, monitoring for anything that they can start accusing people of that\u2019s racist.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or bigoted or what have you. This is why the Republican National Committee is working on this memorandum to everybody: ‘Don\u2019t criticize Obama.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they need to stand up and I can\u2019t say what they need to grow. (laughs) Sorry. They just need to… It\u2019s not racist. He\u2019s a candidate for president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you ever heard of Howard Cosell?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, Howard Cosell was raked over the coals for describing a Washington Redskins running back. Maybe it was a Baltimore Colts running back. I don\u2019t remember. He referred to a Washington Redskins running back as a monkey, and he survived because he\u2019s a big lib, whereas Jimmy ‘The Greek\u2019 was sent packing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the Obama people are going to be out there and this is one of the examples that I could use. I know Cosell called his grandchildren ‘little monkeys,\u2019 but that didn\u2019t fly, at first.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That didn\u2019t fly at first.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there is a big sensitivity to this. This is why I say the race business is only going to get bigger with Obama\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not going to go away. People are not going to conclude, ‘All right! We\u2019ve shed our racist past.\u2019 It\u2019s going to get worse. I appreciate the call, Sandy, so much.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Gerald in Little Rock, Arkansas. Hi, Gerald. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s great to finally talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening for about, hmm, two or three years now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just felt that I had to call in because I\u2019m a black male from Little Rock, Arkansas, 25 years old, and certified black enough to criticize Tanisha. Anybody who listens to your show long enough and hard enough is going to realize that you spit too much truth out of your mouth in order for us to pull it in and use it and do our own research from what you say, for anybody who\u2019s an actual listener of this show to say, ‘Well, he lies all day long, and he knew what he was doing and he was laughing about the fact that she said he looked like a monkey.\u2019 That\u2019s ridiculous. And I know where she\u2019s coming from, because I argue with people like her every single day. They feel like the race card can still be played, and, to me, it\u2019s frankly ridiculous, because I\u2019m a single father, I don\u2019t have a college degree, but I\u2019ve got a great job, been in the military for eight years, and it is on me how well or how horrible my family does, not President Bush, not President Obama or Clinton or McCain. It is on me and my family. And that\u2019s what conservatism is all about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen. You are exactly right. Well, as far as Tanisha is concerned, I think you nailed it. There are people just waiting for this kind of thing to happen. It\u2019s an excuse for them not advancing. It\u2019s an excuse, everybody needs somebody else to blame for their shortcomings or their failures or what have you, and if women can blame sexism for it, certain minorities can say it\u2019s bigotry or racism, you have the Democrat Party come along and they want to promote all that and make as many people victims of all these isms as they possibly can. But as far as I\u2019m concerned, I think Tanisha should be the one on the hot seat. If somebody\u2019s going to call up and say, ‘You lie about everything —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Prove it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — I don\u2019t believe you never read Superman, I don\u2019t believe you never read Batman,\u2019 all those things. There are probably a lot of people who haven\u2019t. We make these universal assumptions. See, even my own staff is thinking that I\u2019m wrong about this in terms of who has and who hasn\u2019t seen these — (interruption) what are you saying? Boys read Batman? Yeah? I never read a Spider-Man, either, by the way, until I saw one of these movies. I still haven\u2019t read a Spider-Man. I did not go to comic book stores. My parents did not read me stories, that I can remember, my parents did not do this. (interruption) I was not deprived. By the way, Gerald, thanks for the call. I appreciate it, and thank you for eight years in the military. God bless you. So now I\u2019m deprived. Deprived because I didn\u2019t read these worthless, specious little things. (interruption) Okay, I take it back, life lessons, yeah, they\u2019re life lessons, okay, fine and dandy. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s true, life lessons in The Simpsons, life lessons in the King of the Hill, life lessons in all these — yeah, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s true. Mighty Mouse, life lessons. Oh, I\u2019ll tell you one of my favorite cartoons, Boris Badenov and Natasha — Bullwinkle. Now, there was a sophisticated, genuinely funny cartoon. I hated being a kid. I hated it. I wanted to be older. I still want to be older, because I\u2019ve always believed that the older I got, the better life would get, and it has been true with the passing of every year.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mark in Redding, California, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Hi, Mark.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019ll get right to the point — and let me give a quick shot out to my fellow Dittoheads Tim and Susie out there on their routes. I wanted to back you up on this Tanisha thing. I know for a fact, even though she ‘knows\u2019 that you\u2019re lying, I know that you\u2019re not, because you don\u2019t have any kids, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do not have any kids. No, I do not have any kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re not going to know who that is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t have any kids\u2019 books in my house. I\u2019ve never had a kids\u2019 book in my house.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you\u2019re not going to know who Curious George is. I have kids, and I barely know who he is. So I just wanted to back you up on that — and, plus, I think Tanisha needs to get off of her whining. You know, I am an ethnic person also, but before that, I\u2019m an American. I\u2019m an American, with an ethnic background — and you gotta quit whining about your ethnicity. Be proud of it, be who you are, but don\u2019t let anybody put you down because of it. Not only that… Well, there\u2019s other things I\u2019d like to say, but…<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is not going to end, this is only going to get worse. There\u2019s a whole race industry in this country, a cottage industry to keep this kind of stuff alive and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I hate it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — growing, and it\u2019s a business and there are people earning a pretty good living, you know, running around promoting the concept of never ending (and worsening, in fact) American racism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hate that, Rush, because, you know, that\u2019s what keeps people down. I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re polka dot or whatever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I dislike it, too, but there\u2019s a way here. All of this stuff gets wrapped up in political correctness and people end up afraid to say things about which there\u2019s nothing wrong whatsoever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do all the time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sitting here, and I\u2019m suffering the cold. I\u2019m delirious with the fever here, and I\u2019m having trouble putting a cogent thought here together, so I\u2019m repeating what I\u2019ve said earlier because I remember that. This is political war, and too many on our side are not willing to engage it and fight it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you what. I\u2019m ready to engage it and fight it. I\u2019m doing my part.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Don\u2019t let anybody talk you out of it, either.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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