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June 6, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2005, Monday, Hour #3
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The media breathlessly awaiting the verdict in the Michael Jackson case, ladies and gentlemen, and many of the media assigned to that case are openly worried.
There's no new case for them to go to to analyze.
You didn't see that over the weekend, they're all worried.
Where are we going to go next?
They said Phil Specter isn't going to be that big.
Celebrity trial is not going to amount to anything.
They're worried that they're not going to have anywhere to go.
Nah, Russell Crowe's not going to be tried for this.
That's that's like trying Burt Reynolds for you know backhanding the CBS II TV reporter in New York.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back, folks.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, and we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is our second day of podcasting.
If you are a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com, all you have to do is log on and download our free software, the Rush 24-7 Media Center, and uh install it, Mac or Windows, either one, and about an hour after the show, each and every day, your download will be automatically retrieved for you as long as you have that software running, and it'll uh be placed in a in a folder, a location on your computer that you choose.
So we're off to just a rousing start with this.
The uh uh reaction has been even more than I thought it was gonna be.
And I had thousands of people the past six months.
When are you gonna start this, Rush?
When are you gonna start it?
We finally did last Friday, and uh I I haven't gotten more love and appreciation in a long time.
I've got people emailing me from Korea, people emailing me from Southeast Asia, from Iraq, from Afghanistan, saying that they they had to depend on armed forces, radio, or a decent connection to be able to stream the audio from the program.
Now they can download these uh these MP3 files and uh listen to them at their leisure.
People are buying MP3 players for their cars, people are buying them iPods for the first time to walk around using these things to walk or run in the afternoon uh or at night getting their exercise, make the time pass faster.
It's uh it's been an overwhelming response, and this is only day two, so I wanted to acknowledge as many of you who have uh sent in as possible.
Thank you so much, and we're excited about this as well.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800 282-2882.
The uh email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Oh, I keep getting questions.
Why no music?
Let me go through this once again.
Uh maybe we ought to prepare a little statement for the website on this.
Uh we simply don't have the license to give away somebody else's product, which is what we would be doing if we downloaded music.
If we included bumpers or or the uh parodies, or even the opening theme song, the the the uh entertainment industry, music and video, very, very, very concerned about piracy, and there are stringent laws, and we have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and for every one of you that would download the program every day with music in it, we would be illegal.
Uh we would be violating the law.
We would be distributing music free.
Uh, even if it's not a complete song.
Uh not enough of it fits under the the banner of fair usage.
Uh so uh and we're not gonna break the law here.
So it's just the program for now.
Uh we're always trying to change these things and get permissions uh from various entities to include their work, but we're running up against a blick wall a brick wall because so much piracy is going on uh out there.
And it and once you once you steal something, it's easy to spread it around to your friends, and they're just trying to get a handle on this.
So that's why.
If we if we wanted to write and produce, create our own bumper music and do that, we could uh if we wanted to give that away.
Uh but somebody else's we just can't.
So for now, it is uh it's audio only.
Now, I was saying about a half hour ago, before I explained to you the third incarnation of the story that I shared with you about kids being forced to get up too early to go to school.
I said there's a second story.
And I said this one keeps getting recycled, and this is older than this program.
Now, let me set it up this way.
For the past five years, the media, the American Democrats, the left, have been telling us that the economy is in the tank.
The economy is just so rotten, it's just in it's just horrible.
And then, you know, the economic news makes liars out of them.
The economic news, the unemployment, no matter what measuring stick you want to use, the economy is great.
It's roaring, and the opportunities for even more prosperity are being created each and every day.
And just as the left has to continue to find something about the war on terror to criticize so as to gin up anti-war support among American voters, so do they have to continue to dredge up stories or angles that will keep you economically depressed, because the whole point is to get rid of conservatives in power.
The whole point's to get rid of Bush, to re-elect a bunch of liberals to run Congress to run the Senate, and to be in the White House.
And so they constantly want you miserable.
They constantly want you on edge.
They want you unhappy.
They want you angry.
And the story that keeps recycling, and it's emblematic of just how there are no new pages in the left's playbook.
The story is class envy.
The New York Times has been running a series for at least the past week on the class distinctions in this country.
And their basic premise has been that now, more than at any time in American histoire, it is not possible for you to move up from one class to another in this country.
That the class structure is now pretty much permanent.
You are going to live your whole life in the class to which you were born.
Economically, we're talking about.
And they've been trying to get people all depressed about this.
And here comes the last episode, or one of the, I guess one of the final episodes ran yesterday, and guess what it is?
The gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider.
Now, I've heard this story every other year.
Maybe every year that I've been on this program.
It's just a new way of rephrasing and structuring the class envy argument.
And it's it's done precisely because they can no longer say the economy's rotten.
For five years they tried to get you all miserable and pessimistic because the economy was rotten, but now they change the tune.
Now they can't say the economy's rotten because the president of the economy is good.
So now they've got to tell you that there's no chance for you to do well in this good economy, because the rich are going to keep you out of the upper classes.
Headline of the story: richest are leaving even the rich far behind.
When F. Scott Fitzgerald pronounced that the very rich are different from you and me, Ernest Hemingway's famously dismissive response was, yeah, they have more money.
Today he might well add much, much, much more money.
The people at the top of America's money pyramid have so prospered in recent years that they have pulled far ahead of the rest of the population.
This is an analysis of TAC records and other government data by the New York Times shows they have even left behind people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Call them the hyper-rich.
Draw a line under the top 0.1% of income earners.
That's the top 1,000th.
Above that line are about 145,000 taxpayers, each with at least 1.6 million dollars in income and often much more.
All right.
So we have a story here about the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor, based on one one thousandth of the population.
145,000 taxpayers.
The average income for the top 1,000th percent was 3 million in 2002.
The latest year for which averages are available.
That number is two and a half times the 1.2 million adjusted for inflation, that group reported in 1980.
No other income group rose nearly as fast.
The share of the nation's income earned by those in this uppermost category, the top 1,000th percent, has more than doubled since 1980 to 7.4% in 2002.
The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10% Rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90% fell.
And they go on, they've got stats.
They say, next examine the net worth of American households.
The group with homes, investments and other assets, worth more than $10 million, comprise 38,400 households in 2001, the last year, for which data are available.
The number has grown more than 400% since 1980 after adjusting for inflation, while the total number of households has grown only 27%.
The Bush administration tax cuts stand to widen the gap between the hyper-rich and the rest of America.
The merely rich making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year will shoulder a disproportionate share of the tax burden.
So it's an attack on the Bush tax cuts.
It is an attack on the hyper-rich.
A new category has been created now, the hyper-rich.
And by the way, those of you in the 150 to 250,000 income range are now being called rich.
Now I wonder if when you were making, say, 65 or 70, if you considered rich to be 250,000.
I don't know if you did or not, but I'll bet far few fewer people did consider it rich than the New York Times would like us to believe.
But basically what we have here is a class envy story designed to depress and anger people over Bush tax cuts to continue to give the left ammo.
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why the super rich, I'll bet you these numbers are no different from the super rich categories of old days.
There have always been the super rich, the hyper-rich.
We've always had the Kennedys.
We've always had the W. Averyl Harriman's.
We have always had these people, the George Soros is, I mean, who are we talking about here?
We're talking about a bunch of rich Democrats, largely a number of people who inherited their money, are we not?
From old-time families that started railroads or imported whiskey or whatever it was that they did.
But the premise that is missing here, or the the element that is missing, is this.
The New York Times and obviously a bunch of liberals consider all of this to be a zero-sum game.
They look at the pie that is the American economy as a finite pie.
It's of one size and it never changes.
All that changes is some people get a bigger piece than others.
And that's not fair.
And so we need income redistribution, we need tax increases on the super rich, and all of these things that are designed to lower their share of the pie.
Well, j there's another word for this.
They look at the U.S. economy as a static entity rather than dynamic.
The U.S. economy is always growing.
Does it not stand to reason that if you have a million dollars invested someplace, that it's going to grow faster than somebody who has $50,000 invested someplace?
Does it not make sense?
It certainly does, especially if the investments are responsible.
There's nothing unnatural or abnormal about this whatsoever.
In fact, the the the truth probably is that American prosperity is increasing across the board.
Contrary to what the New York Times would want you to believe.
Taxes for the middle class basically don't exist, not income taxes.
You can look at the for all this talk about the 90% whose uh share of the pie went down.
Take a look at their share of the income tax bite.
The bottom 50% pays something like 10% of the total income tax bite.
We've got the table on our website.
It's never going away, just to counter stories like this.
And it's got much more recent data than what the New York Times was able to get.
So we're back to the same old page of the playbook, Class Envy.
Rich are getting richer, you're getting screwed, the richer taking money from you and putting it in their back pockets because Bush is cutting their taxes.
It's the same old thing, and it's not working, and it hasn't worked for the Democrats for a long time.
However, last week, at the Take Back America conference in Washington, Selinda Lake, who has one half of the battleground poll, she works with Ed Goaz, who is the Republican.
Selinda Lake did a poll presentation to the Democrats, and she said, based on her polling Data, class envy may be making a comeback.
Class envy may have gains for Democrats if they make the arguments right.
So they believe, obviously, that the class envy business is going to work again.
And I find the timing of this New York Times story quite interesting given the results of Celinda Lake's poll.
This whole story on class, for example, is nothing more than an effort to make you mad, make you depressed, make you feel like your effort to get anywhere in life is futile.
Because the real power in this country is taking all of your money through Bush tax cuts and not giving you a chance to go anywhere.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
And by the way, one other thing about this New York Times story, don't fall for this.
They are making a comparison with one one thousandth of taxpayers to all the rest.
One 1,000.
They're taking 145,000 taxpayers, getting their data, and then comparing it to everybody else.
I'll bet it's never been done that way before.
By the way, the bottom 50% pay only 4% of federal income taxes.
The top 10% pay 90%, is the way it boils down.
That's what the number is.
But you can't, what you need to do, if you if you want to actually get a more accurate reading of whatever gaps between uh classes there are in the country, you take five income groups, the quintiles, if you will, and you you compare the top 40% to today with uh 10 years ago or 20 years ago, whatever you want.
The top 1,000th percent compared to the rest of the country is always gonna be so out of whack.
You can print any kind of a picture you want using that small a sample.
Well, let me tell you something else, folks.
Now hear me on this.
There is a new level.
There's a there's a new type of money that is being earned in this country, and that's the key, it's being earned.
Have you heard the terms old money and new money?
The old money crowd is basically the trust fund group, these aging derelicts who inherited all their money.
They were the lucky sperm club, we call it.
And these people are considered the upper crust, the aristocracy of America.
And they're quite aged now, but their offspring are equally as useless and we've got all this time on their hands, so they run around and they do big charity balls and so forth to make themselves look good and seem important.
They'll have a big charity ball that costs a million dollars to put on with all of their ball gowns and all the decorations, and the net to the charity will be $10,000.
But the news will be that they raised a million because they did.
That's what it cost all the attendees to go, but the net to the charity will be 10 or 20,000 or 100 grand, whatever, out of the whole million.
This is but there's a whole new group of people out there, and they're younger, and they're not old money, they're called new money, and it's new money because they're earning it.
And the new money crowd is moving into the neighborhoods of the old money crowd.
The old money crowd has their nose in the air.
A little snooty about this.
Because the new money people don't bring a legacy, a family legacy to the uh that can be traced to their money.
No, they've gone on earth, they've actually worked.
They've actually worked.
Now, some of the old money crowd, I get W. Averyl Harriman, his father was big in its railroad business, and he was one of Lyndon Johnson's big advisors.
You never hear these people get ripped to shreds, but they inherited it all.
What's wrong with this New York Times story is that the money we're talking about is earned income on which taxes are being paid.
If you read the story, it's earned income.
It's not trust funds throwing off coupons that are being clipped out there on the beach watching turtles here in Palm Beach.
These people are working at and they're earning it.
They are people like Bill Gates, they're people like Paul Allen, they're people that are starting companies.
You know how many millionaires work for Bill Gates?
Are we gonna complain and bitch and moan about all the millionaires at Microsoft simply because they have all the money?
No, they created it.
It's a market-generated wealth.
I mean, the computer industry at the right companies is going through the roof, and there are a lot of other businesses like this.
So a time story comes along like this, and its intent is to discredit these people and to make you mad that you don't have a chance to become one of them.
They're just like you were at some point.
They might have gotten lucky in who they knew, might have hiped into a good opportunity, might have been lucky about the job they got.
Everybody, no, there's a s there's luck is got a great definition.
It's where preparation meets opportunity.
Uh A lot of things people think luck is like winning the lottery, and it's not.
Preparation meets opportunity.
So there's there's all kinds of I mean the Schultzberger family owns the New York Times, old money.
Old money.
Maybe they're a little resentful of a bunch of new upstarts are coming in, like Rupert Murdoch working at it, making more money than they are.
You never know, but you have to factor it in.
I'm just saying, folks, that these this this week-long series on class and now income disparity with the way the New York Times approached this is not coincidental.
It is done because they no longer can attack the economy is rotten, so they painted picture.
They can't deny that the economy is going well.
Now they have to make you believe you have no chance in it.
Because the top 1,000th percent is stealing everything.
And not giving you a fair chance at your shot at the American dream.
Here's uh Norris in Madison, Wisconsin.
Hi, Norris, welcome to the program.
I'm an IT security consultant, but today I need your computer advice.
Uh oh.
I was a Mac user from 1985 to 1996.
But recently, because of some of the issues with Microsoft platforms, and also I'm a part-time professional photographer.
I've been seriously considering moving back to the Mac.
I can't believe as a professional photographer working in digital and video that you're still you're not back at Mac yet.
Well, I just moved back to photography about three years ago.
So but today, the news out of uh San Francisco, the jobs announced and confirmed that they will be moving to the Intel platform.
Yeah.
I need your advice.
Do I move to a Mac now, going to an old, what's going to become an old platform, or do I wait another year?
Well my answer on this is so premature.
I'm sure the nerds and MACDAM out there will listen to this and act like scientists do when I talk about global warming.
You idiot, shut up.
But from what I know, from what I know, the uh uh the the introduction will take a year for the Intel chips to be uh uh introduced into Mac and then the high end Macs will be the last uh that will get the Intel chips a year from now, maybe sometime two thousands, uh two years now, two summertime two thousand seven or early two thousand seven.
Uh I also have been reading up on this uh since the rumor hit, and and from what I've been able to gather, being able to port the Mac OS from the IBM Power PC chip over to the Intel chip will be not too big a deal, but they're gonna have there will be some some things to iron out with software compatibility, uh switching from chip to chip.
But uh I I I I think there's a hidden reason for this.
And that would be well, please don't, I mean, don't anybody quote me on this.
Uh uh this is just a wild guess.
Uh, but I I happen to think that all this uh involves Hollywood.
I happen a lot of I happen to think a lot of this involves look if you look at let me put it though, try it this way.
If you look at the success of iTunes and the iPod, Apple is selling iPods out the Wazoo.
They are selling for 99 cents all these songs from their iTunes store.
They are soon going to be selling music videos and other things.
Uh I think uh somewhere down the line you you might be able to get iFlicks.
You might be able to download movies.
You might be able to be able to rent movies by downloading them as certain kinds of files once they increase compression and it and the Intel chip uh the the in there's a there's the Intel chip they're talking about uh it is the only chip that has a security.
Uh uh I've uh I'm not familiar enough with the language here to tell you the truth, but there's the new Intel chip that everybody's talking about here that'll eventually be in the high end max, well, all of them, is the only chip out there that will be able to protect massive duplication and guard against it.
That's what I think is really going on here with this Intel switch by Apple.
Because the PowerPC chip is smaller.
It's just as powerful.
It's it's it's uh uh it does the job.
It's as fast as anything that uh that Pentium has, but it's the Pentium something chip that Intel's working on that's gonna have uh forgive my terminology here.
I'm not a I'm not a nerd on this, but it's got the anti-piracy stuff built into the processor, making it impossible for any other computer via download or whatever to share what's on yours in things like movies that you would download or songs that you were download or what have you.
And my that's my guess here, because I don't think in terms of computer performance, I don't think the Intel chip can match what Mac is using right now with the Power PC.
But in answer to your question, uh you're not calling to ask me if you should get a Mac to download, and I'm just this is just a wild guess, folks.
When I read that about the chip, though, when I read that about this Pentium chip, I thought, well, why why would that be a and I know that there's a new iTunes that's being worked on out there.
A new version of iTunes, you know, upgrade on iTunes.
It's gonna have some uh some video attached to it.
I these are just rumors.
I read the Mac blogs, so you know, don't quote me on it.
I'm getting these from third parties.
Uh but the chip thing, the Intel chip aspect, I know I happen to think that that's pretty accurate based on something I read just this morning about this.
But as to your question, uh should you move to Mac.
I'm gonna I I'm I'm gonna answer your question this way.
When the Mac, when Apple goes to the Pentium chip, I'm not moving to Windows.
That's uh uh but whether what what you do, you need to go out there and examine a platform.
You're obviously as a photographer you're into graphics.
You're into digital photography, you're into I mean if you've been out of it three years, you do not know what you can do on the Mac with Apple software uh with photos these.
I just did uh my sh my my my latest photo shoot.
How many months ago was that now?
Two or three months ago.
It was like 750 750 pictures, all digital.
It was all done uh with Photoshop and and uh and a piece of Apple software.
And what we can do with these pictures is literally amazing.
They're sharper than film to me.
And they uh they're huge.
I mean, each picture is like two megabytes.
You've got all kinds of data.
You can blow them up to whatever size you want.
You can shrink them to whatever size you want, massage the pixels in any uh in any way you want, what you can do, even with the just the the consumer applications like iPhoto, it's amazing what you can do, what a consumer can do with pictures these days on a Mac.
It's just it's unbelievable.
Uh and now you you uh Mac has this subscription service itself called.
Mac, and it's among other things, uh they have uh web page creation.
A friend of mine right now, friend of mine is driving the country.
Friend of mine who lives out in California, he and his wife are driving the whole country six weeks driving the country, visiting sons and daughters all along the way, various places, as they say they're doing this to see if America's still there because they're very troubled about immigration.
But every day they stop and they upload all their pictures to a website they created at dot Mac and they sent the uh link for their website to all their friends and uh whatever we want.
We can log on to their website, check their pictures, do whatever.
Um I don't know that this stuff's in Windows or not.
I I don't know that that Microsoft has its own version of it.
I'm sure anybody can create their own website if you want to, but this just makes it easy for the non-computing public and don't know code uh to do it very easily.
I I just especially when you're dealing with pictures and graphics, I think uh it probably makes all the sense uh in the world.
Now don't hold me to this stuff about why go into the Pentium chip, the the Intel chip.
I'm just sharing with you basically the rumors I've read on the Mac blogs, but I do I do think there is something to this business that the Intel chip that everybody's talking about has this protection uh I'm still not wording this right.
There's a I'll have to go get the page.
Well, it's no encryption, it's encryption is what it is, but it's it's it's uh it it's something no other chip's got in it.
It it does somehow prevent uh piracy.
It it prevents duplication At the at the root level, if that makes sense.
Bear with me on this, folks.
I'm just a consumer of this stuff that's interested.
You know, I don't make my living writing about all this.
Uh so I'm just on the you know the surface of understanding here, but I'm trying to be as best uh I can with the information I've got.
Rosemary in Superior, Wisconsin, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good morning.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes.
Um good afternoon, actually.
I'm I I just call when you were talking about old money.
Yes.
And I immediately thought of a certain person, but Habahubadoobadoobah, third time ditto.
I told you two, three years ago Dash would be out.
And he was ousted.
So I was right about that, Rush.
All right.
Well, I'll listen to whatever else you have to say there.
Okay.
The old money, you were just talking about, and I I got in and told you a screener.
Who represents old money better than Howard Dean?
That's that's old money.
Because Howard Dean grew up as a privileged child in Manhattan on Park Avenue with the ultra ultra rich.
And uh, you know the ultra-rich prep schools of the old blue blood, old money crowd.
You're exactly right.
And he's out there saying Republicans don't do an honest day's work in their life.
Exactly.
How would he know?
He's never been a Republican.
He doesn't act, he doesn't even act like a Democrat of the old.
He acts like the lefty he is.
You know, he he doesn't know how to earn money.
He he he can't even represent the Democrats properly because they're distancing themselves.
So I said to the You know what?
That's a great point.
He is bombing royally raising money.
He is.
And I'll tell you something else, the Democrats are starting to dump on him now.
The uh Reverend Jacks and Joe Biden both dumping on Dean when asked to back up his uh uh statements that he's making.
Oh, we've got some Dean sound bites here uh from over the weekend.
I'll share them with you when we come back from this time out.
Stay with us, folks.
Don't go away.
By the way, I I something I've I'm I'm an idiot.
I should I should have this guy that asked me if you should uh get into Macs now, they're going Intel.
What one thing for you, Macintosh users that currently use the PowerPC, yours it's always gonna work.
These new chips, even when they go with Intel, they're supposed to be uh finally integrated with all Macs by mid-2007, I think.
But if you you're not gonna have to get rid of your power PC Mac to run uh your computer.
You could you'll be able to hold on to your power PC Mac for as long as you want to.
Uh the software outfits will you make compatibility.
So it's you it's it's a wash, really.
I mean, you're you'll be able to make the move up to the new Intel Max when you want to, but you'll not have to get rid of your power PC to do so.
I mean, that'll have to be the case.
They're not gonna they're not gonna obsolete uh all these Mac owners out there, just not get not going to do it.
I I I think it's you know, they've obviously made a business decision that they're trying to increase their market share.
And they're and they're trying to grow the business.
And they're trying to I think they're trying to produce the best computers for people they can.
That's what it sounds like to me, which is what most businesses do, folks.
I'm sorry, and they and they make money when they do it.
I'm sorry.
They make money, and sometimes the people that work there get rich, and sometimes stockholders get rich when the things work out.
Uh and then the New York Times will write a story complaining about them.
Speaking of the New York Times story, uh one other thing that might be going on.
The reason why this class envy is back, the reason for this series on class and how you don't stand a chance to get into the rich categories anymore.
The House of Representatives has already passed legislation to eliminate the estate tax.
The Senate is gonna be more problematic.
But the president wants to get rid of the estate tax.
That's 55% of your whole estate when you when you when you die.
Now you can give it to your spouse with no tax, but if you give it to the kids, so you're at some point your estate's gonna be taxed 55% when you die.
And they want to eliminate this, and the Dems don't want to eliminate it because the purpose of the estate tax is the redistribution of wealth, is to go get money created in the private sector and bring it back to government so the Democrats and Liberals can spend it on people create dependence and uh get more votes and that sort of thing.
The House has already gotten rid of the death tax.
Now that bill goes to the Senate, and this is time to just coincidentally, to dredge up a whole bunch of anti emotion for eliminating the uh death tax.
All right, Howard Dean.
Uh by the way, John Edwards of the Breck Girl has uh has come out against uh Howard Dean as well.
Let's see, do we have yeah let's start with number two here.
This is uh Wolf Blitzer reports Friday night CNN talking to Howard Dean.
Wolf says this comment comes only a few days or a few weeks after some other comments.
The Republicans and others are saying that we're outrageous.
Republicans, you said on April 4th, are mean.
They're not nice people.
That was a pretty strong comment right there.
Do you think Rush Limbaugh is a nice person?
Uh I don't think so.
I didn't think John Ashcroft was very nice uh the way he treated uh American immigrants uh either.
Uh I don't uh you know illegal.
I didn't think it was very nice uh to uh put gay marriage on the ballot of a of uh 11 states where gay marriage was already against the law.
These folks are telling people things about the Democratic Party that aren't true.
We believe in equal equal rights.
Gay marriage doesn't appear on our platform.
Nobody's pro-abortion in this country.
The abortion rate was lower than Democrat when Democrats uh were in charge than they are when Republicans are in charge.
I'm tired of being told what to do by the dem by the Republican Party.
Democrats are now going to speak for ourselves.
We're gonna tell the Americans what our message is.
I finally saw Dean's speech.
Uh watched a little bit of it Saturday afternoon before the Take Back America crowd.
That crowd was about to fall asleep.
That crowd wasn't fired up at all.
And Dean's, these this is the speech where he said the three things the Democrats need to do to get back into power, portability at pensions, uh uh election days a national holiday, and voting machines that have a paper trail.
I mean, it it was it was pathetic.
Dean doesn't even know me, but everybody that knows me thinks I'm one of the nicest guys you'll ever run into.
I have people telling me I'm too nice.
I mean, I actually have had that happen to me all my life.
Now uh Blitzer then said, okay, so when you said back in January, I hate the Republicans and everything I they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization.
I guess what I'm suggesting is that you're talking about Republican leaders and political leaders, and Dean had heard enough and interrupts.
Political leaders, uh, but the impression you're giving is that you're talking about these millions, tens of millions uh of Republican people, average people across the country that seem to be uh a lot of people are say uh are taking your words very personally.
Well, you know, that in part that's fueled by the Republican spin machine.
Uh I I'm sure you must have gotten press releases about this, because there as soon as I say things like this, the Republicans put out a cascade of paper.
My parents were Republicans.
I don't hate Republicans, but I sure hate what this Republican Party is doing to America.
He said he hated Republicans.
We don't we don't have to spin anything when he says something, you just report it.
He says Republicans haven't worked in honest days, haven't done honest days work in their lives.
He said that is a Take Back America convention in uh in Washington.
And then they called him on and said, Well, I was talking about the leadership.
You want me to go through a list of Democrat lucky sperm club members?
Ted Kennedy, every Rockefeller still breathing, the Pinch Schultzberger, the editor of the New York Times, uh, editor-in-chief, publisher, whatever, New York Times.
Uh blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But the list is Howard Dean himself is lucky sperm club.
Uh uh, well, his parents are they might have earned her money.
I don't know, but but Dean is the lucky sperm club.
I don't know what his parents were.
Um, and uh let's see.
Well, here, this is what he said last Thursday at the Take Back America convention.
You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever, uh, and get home and then have a chance, still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote.
Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.
Now he's talking about voters.
He's not talking about the leaders, and he got called on it and he backtracks.
I was talking about the leaders.
Uh I don't even know anybody gets really mad about this.
I think we're sitting around laughing at it.
Uh I don't know anybody losing their chili over this.
Uh Joe Biden was asked about all this by George Stephanopoulos.
What about Dean?
You agree with Dean?
Not with that kind of rhetoric.
Um he doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric.
Uh, and I don't think he speaks for the majority Democrats.
Um, but uh I I I wish that rhetoric would change.
Well, why don't they change it?
I'll tell you why they don't change it.
Biden might not like hearing it, and Barney Frank might not like hearing it, but they know they need to raise money, and the Democrat kook fringe loves it.
Because that's the Democrat kook fringe is the mainstream, and they love all this talk about Republicans being rotten and evil to the core.
And that's why Dean's still there.
If they wanted to get rid of Dean, they could get rid of Dean.
But they don't want to get rid of it.
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