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Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you all very, very much. Thank you all. I can't tell you how wonderful... |
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Now, I have someone in back taking phone numbers. In fact, I would like to introduce to you my security... |
| 00:06:13 |
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And that I am arrogant. Neither of these things are remotely true. I can tell you a joke to illustrate... |
| 00:06:43 |
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"No, he's got a lot of time yet, Mr. King." So Saint Peter begins the tour. Larry King sees the various... |
| 00:07:10 |
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And Larry King looks at Saint Peter and says: "I thought you said he wasn't here." |
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"He said, he's not, he's not. This is God's room. He just thinks he's Rush Limbaugh."[Laughter] [Applause] |
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So you see I'm not pompous. [Laughter] |
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Now, seriously, for those of you watching on C-SPAN as well, and on Fox, I want to tell you who we... |
| 00:08:06 |
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Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. [Applause] When we look out over the United... |
| 00:09:25 |
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We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals.... |
| 00:10:59 |
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We don't want to tell anybody how to live. That's up to you. If you want to make the best of yourself,... |
| 00:11:32 |
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We love the people of this country. And we want this to be the greatest country it can be, but we... |
| 00:12:19 |
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We don't hate anybody. We don't -- I mean, the racism in this country, if you ask me, I know many... |
| 00:12:59 |
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It was not us asking whether Barack Obama was authentic. What we were asking is: Is he wrong? We... |
| 00:14:04 |
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You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people -- its individuals... |
| 00:14:40 |
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Well. Take a look, someone has to say this -- I am thrilled for the opportunity to say it in my first... |
| 00:15:55 |
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For those of you just tuning in on the Fox News Channel or C-SPAN, I'm Rush Limbaugh and I want everyone... |
| 00:17:58 |
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For example, we gather here -- I understand that. I talked to David and Lisa in the super exclusive... |
| 00:19:20 |
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Now, let me speak about President Obama for just a second. President Obama is one of the most gifted... |
| 00:21:50 |
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The freedom we spoke of earlier is the freedom, it's the ambition, it's the desire, the wherewithal,... |
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Have you ever called to complain about whatever they do? They say, yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags... |
| 00:25:06 |
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They don't have the right to take money that's not theirs, from the back pockets of producers, and... |
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President Obama is so busy trying to foment and create anger in a created atmosphere of crisis, he... |
| 00:26:24 |
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What's the longest war in American history? Did somebody say the war on poverty? Smart group. War... |
| 00:28:02 |
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Ladies and gentlemen, there ought not be any poverty except those who are genuinely ill equipped.... |
| 00:28:50 |
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George Will once asked Dr. Friedrich Von Hayek, tremendous classical economist, great man, 1975, George... |
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They don't care about paying for it. All that's just words. All that's just rhetoric paying for it... |
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Congressman Frank's definition of affordable housing is you get a house you don't have to pay for... |
| 00:32:24 |
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So what liberals do, and I say this again to the -- another thing, I know people in the country are... |
| 00:34:32 |
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Now, let a conservative say something like that and he's brought up before John Conyers' committee... |
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They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job. They're the... |
| 00:38:32 |
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Now, this is not prosperity. It is not going to engender prosperity. It's not going to create prosperity... |
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(Crowd chanting "USA") |
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It is not their task, it is not their right to remake this nation to accommodate their psychology.... |
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I have learned how to tweak liberals everywhere. I do it instinctively now. Tweak them in the media.... |
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Well, the one thing, and there are many, but one thing that we can all do is stop assuming that the... |
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Remember, they covered the Lewinsky thing, so that's my -- bipartisanship occurs only after one other... |
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Where is the compromise between good and evil? Should Jesus have cut a different deal? Serious.... |
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The American people -- it's a tough challenge. I admit -- I admit it's a tough challenge, but it's... |
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They're going to overreach. At some point, at some point people have got to realize none of this is... |
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So you say how is he getting it done? Dumb down public education. Emotions. And the ongoing -- this... |
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John Kerry [Boos], who served in Vietnam. [Laughter] Think about this, and, by the way, Barney Frank... |
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And we find out they hired some liberals to entertain, but it still wasn't good enough. They hired... |
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Sad thing, sad thing is it works. They've created class envy in so many average Americans that they... |
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But all of a sudden John Thain's thrown out. John Thain is thrown out. He's humiliated and embarrassed;... |
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If you ask yourself this, you'll realize your life is no better off. That the Democrats and Obama... |
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Now let's talk about the conservative movement as it were. We, ladies and gentlemen, have challenges... |
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For the purposes of this occasion, I'm not going to mention any names, I bet with you I won't have... |
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And that we needed to adapt our appeal, because, after all, what's important in politics is winning... |
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We have to. You see, to me it's a no-brainer. It's not even something to me: How do you get rid of... |
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Conservatism -- for us to make the decision that we've got to figure out policies, to get the Walmart... |
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That's not why they invited Senator McCain. They invited Senator McCain because he happened to be... |
| 01:05:04 |
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I loved it when the Soviet Union went down and the wall went down and the liberals in our country... |
| 01:05:48 |
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By the way, explain that to you. This is a funny story. Show you how I can hijack a news cycle even... |
| 01:06:44 |
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So as I'm flying home from lunch, I'm watching television and I see that the word has leaked out that... |
| 01:07:30 |
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No! |
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Hell, no. His purpose -- and his purpose really wasn't to change theirs -- his purpose was to anoint... |
| 01:09:16 |
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Conservatives are naturally happy. We seek happiness. We pursue it. It's part of who we are. So what... |
| 01:10:16 |
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Don't go the Oprah route and say gotta be friends with my parents, my kids, first and foremost. Understand... |
| 01:11:44 |
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Have any of you seen the movie -- I'd never heard of it, but I happened to get a DVD the other day.... |
| 01:13:22 |
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Joe Biden, ladies and gentlemen, was watching CBS -- when did you start here? Thursday. You might... |
| 01:15:38 |
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Two other things and we'll get out of here contractually over time. The president's stimulus package,... |
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It didn't take long for people to get fired up when they figured out that they're going to be paying... |
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[Applause] |
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As I say, we want the best: Happiness for everybody. Now, about my still-to-me mysteriously controversial... |
| 01:19:59 |
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This notion that I want the President to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we've got.... |
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Yes! |
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They certainly did. They not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure. There's... |
| 01:21:42 |
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Let me add a caveat here. My friends, I know what's going on. I know what's going on. We're in the... |
| 01:22:53 |
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I want the country to survive as we have known it, as you and I were raised in it, is what I mean.... |
| 01:23:24 |
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I mean, there's some people you can't say you want the President to fail. Ladies and gentlemen of... |
| 01:24:53 |
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So as you leave here, as you leave here optimism, confidence, not guilt, it's not worth it. There's... |
| 01:25:51 |
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In fact, for those of you watching my first national address and still hanging in there, we really... |
| 01:26:31 |
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I want to thank all of you so much for everything that you have meant to me and my family in my life. |
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I understand it's mutual. And I hear people -- you have made my heart grow so much that it barely... |
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