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Aug. 4, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2005, Thursday, Hour #2
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Uh want to uh briefly mention a couple of things that we talked about an hour ago.
John Roberts, Supreme Court nominee.
We have learned through Drudge, an exclusive report that the New York Times is working on an in-depth investigation of the adoption of his children.
He has two kids, five and four, both adopted the New York Times.
This is just standard operating procedure.
They say, oh, yes, we've got to dig deep.
We need to know everything about these nominees.
And so they're looking into the adoption records of his children.
And I think they're intrigued because those records, I'm not sure, but I think I think I heard a read somewhere that his adoption records are sealed.
Well, you know what that does to the media when you tell them that anything is sealed, as in medical records or um, shall we say adoption records, then their reacts, well, what's he hiding?
What's he got to hide?
Why can't we see them?
They don't understand that some people just want privacy.
They're not hiding anything.
They just don't want a bunch of people barging in on their privacy.
Well, whatever, it incites them.
And so that's being the story's not out yet.
The New York Times is researching it.
The LA Times today has a story, the headline of which Roberts donated help to gay rights case in 1996.
Activists won a landmark anti-bias ruling with the aid of uh John Roberts.
This story is attempting to use gays as a wedge against Roberts with the so-called religious right and other conservatives.
There's something really insidious about this story as well, ladies and gentlemen, and it is this.
It carries forward without question and with just a huge assumption.
It carries forward this notion that uh conservatives hate gay people.
Conservatives despise them.
And it just assumes that because of that, conservatives will now not like Roberts because he's worked with gays.
The presumption is clear in this story that conservatives have to hate gays.
Otherwise, why do this story?
Why would this be a big story to the LA Times if they didn't think that conservatives hate gay people, and so now they want to try to make conservatives hate Roberts as well.
But that's really not the point.
The point here is that this LA Times story makes it appear that he is a stealth pro-gay individual to the point of assisting in the overturning of a duly passed Colorado ballot initiative.
He worked pro bono advising people, in this case, for his law firm back in 1996.
And I've done this case, as I've told you, is Romer versus Evans, and this this the people of Colorado voted in a ballot initiative to uh uh prohibit in Colorado law to prohibit the inclusion of sexual orientation in civil rights laws.
And this case, this this ballot initiative was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional in a case called Romer versus Evans at the U.S. Supreme Court.
So the people of Colorado duly passed a ballot initiative.
The Supreme Court said, oh no, you don't.
14th Amendment says you can't do that.
And they said, your votes don't count, ours do, and your initiative is squat dead.
And on that initiative, it was uh pro bono work by Judge Roberts assisting a gay activist, the LA Times story says, uh, in their in their quest.
And of course, they do raise the question, hey, was he just these are his views, or he just duly representing his clients in this case?
Um the question needs to be asked is it could he possibly just be, you know.
Yesterday we had a story he was too nice.
Yes, we had a story, yeah.
He was he's too nice a guy.
Who was that guy's name?
Reg Henry in the uh in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
He's just too nice a guy.
And I guess this proves it.
He's just too nice a guy.
He's working with those gays to help overturn this Colorado law.
But then we had another story.
He's too mean.
You know, he's a Bolton's too mean, this guy's too nice.
Now we've got this story in the LA Times and the New York Times investigating the adoption of his children.
So it's uh it's vicious out there, and I read the president asked for decency.
The president asked for a uh uh a decent investigation and hearing.
And of course, that's uh that's now all out the uh the window.
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Hi, greetings and welcome back, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limboy here, America's uh truth detector, doctor of democracy.
As usual, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, it's uh it i it I guess it it's it's time to I don't know if it's called come clean, because I think we've already done that, but it's uh it's time to uh uh uh just uh be straightforward, I suppose.
I want to play for you a couple of things uh that have appeared on this program in the recent past.
Uh and then play something that's appearing on this program currently.
Uh and I want to I want to note for all of you that the the lugubrious voice uh on all three of these pieces of uh of uh production uh are the voice of Johnny Donovan, who has been our lugubrious voice uh for seventeen years.
So here this this ran uh back in mid-spring, if you will.
Tom DeLay, the powerful House Majority leader, has some secrets.
He doesn't want you to know.
Tom Delay has never even tried to be bipartisan.
This Republican leader has never helped Democrats stop George Bush's agenda.
Not once.
Like George Bush, Tom DeLay is from Texas.
We all know what that means.
Halliburton, country music, oil men in cowboy boots.
Tom Delay has never apologized for repeatedly shopping at Walmart.
Where he always gets the lowest prices every day, always, and before Tom DeLay was a congressman.
He owned a pest control company, making him directly responsible for the death of millions.
So it's no secret.
Tom Delay isn't good for America.
Isn't it time we got rid of Tom Delay?
That part by Judge Soros and foreign friends of Nancy Pelosi.
All right, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a parody.
Is a parody of the commercials that you hear out there put together by Moveon.org or Americans Coming Together, or any of these other lame brain, kooky, juvenile uh Democrat 527 groups.
Uh after the Tom DeLay ad, uh, when the Democrats failed to uh get Tom DeLay, they then set their sights on Carl Rove.
What does Carl Rove have to hide?
Plenty, just like George W. Bush and Tom DeLay.
Carl Rove is from Texas.
Yes.
And he works in the White House.
Just a coincidence?
I don't think so.
Carl talked to the press about the husband of a CIA agent.
And Carl spells his name with a K just like the clan.
If you think Carl Rove should stop hiding, do whatever you can to get him out of Washington.
Because we can't.
Played for by George Soros and Travel Friends of Nazi Pelosi.
All right, that is another parody, uh, ladies and gentlemen, a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed satire, making fun of the wackos on the left and their paranoid attempts at getting rid of their enemies via scandal because of their inability to do so at the ballot box.
Well, that of course uh fizzled.
They they've now had to turn away from Carl Rowe because they have a uh new target.
It's no joke.
George Bush picked John Roberts to sit on the highest court in the land.
Who does he think he's kidding?
As a lawyer, John Roberts worked closely with Ken Starr.
Yeah, that can star.
And as a federal judge.
John Roberts took away a twelve-year-old girl's civil right to eat French fries on the DC subway.
Civil right.
And to top it all off, John Roberts is a Catholic.
Just like the Pope, who's from Germany.
Germany.
American values.
Stop kidding around, Mr. President.
And pick someone mainstream like Judge Ginsberg.
Paid for by George Soros and Hollywood friends of Nazi Pelosi.
All right, that is our latest parody installment, brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed, which is once again designed to not only entertain, but to make a point about how wacko and baseless and and paranoid the left has become about uh us and and and also designed to demonstrate their failed and failing technique in trying to defeat us.
Uh They can't do it at the ballot box.
Now, I'm I'm going public with this because uh so many people, particularly on the Rove spot and the John Roberts spot, uh believe that these are actual George Soros commercials.
My email is inundated.
We're getting phone calls about this.
People hear about it in the radio radio stations, they're calling local stations asking why this is only running in my show.
And uh as I say, the the voice on these is you've heard this voice for 17 years on this uh program, Johnny Donovan.
You've never heard that voice on a George Soros commercial.
I just want to warn you there will be others.
There we we this isn't this is a never uh Mr. Snurley, why would so many people I don't think so many people do believe it uh uh but but we have such a large audience, it doesn't take very many to be a lot.
Uh uh and for a small percentage to be a lot.
Uh but the reason they believe it, Mr. Snerdley is because they are brilliantly conceived, brilliantly assembled, and flawlessly executed.
The reason that they're good, this it's what I've always said, good comedy has to have an element of truth in it, or it's not funny.
And the reason people believe this is because they think this is actually the kind of stuff that's in a George Soros ad or a 527 ad or a move on.org ad.
This is the kind of stuff that's out there.
And we're just parodying that.
So I I don't want anybody to labor under the illusion here that that uh uh we are because the big complaint is that we are selling time to enemies of the president and making money on that's they they think these are actual commercials that we are selling, and we're not doing that, folks.
These are these are in-program parodies, and I I don't want anybody to label under even uh our poor old buddy David Brock, who we love, we love David Brock here uh at his uh fledgling little uh little uh website, Media Matters for whatever, um uh is is upset that uh we're running fake commercials and not identifying them as fake because they're too good.
Because they're effective.
They are effective in identifying the absolute lunacy of the left in the current realm of American politics.
And so we consider these things home runs.
These are grand slam home runs.
We are extremely pro this is the kind of thing that you will see when the limbaugh museum of broadcast finally opens after I retire.
And not only that, you will see pictures of Johnny Donovan actually producing these things, you will see the writing sessions where it all took place, and you will be able to hear the finished pro all of these things for 17 plus years, however many number of years it is uh uh until I retire at the Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting.
It's not going to be the Limbaugh wing.
There will be a separate limb museum of uh of broadcasting.
And we uh we keep rolling archive of all of these things.
So just you know, wanted to clear the air on this, so there's no more confusion.
Keith in Hollywood, welcome, sir.
It's great to have you on the program.
Mr. Limbaugh, how are you, sir?
Never better, sir.
Thank you.
Listen, I I I gave your call screen to some background information.
Yeah, he told me.
And that's for your eyes only, your ears and only eyes only.
I appreciate it.
No, no, you don't.
Well, okay, then apologize.
I do, because years ago, you tried to be very nice to me.
You know the circumstances now.
Yeah.
And I just rejected that.
I wasn't rude.
I was rude.
I mean, I just didn't say anything to you.
And that's because I was a flaming liberal who didn't know better.
I listened to lies that have been told about you instead of listening to you for myself.
And uh so I apologize.
I appreciate that very much.
The the second thing I wanted to say was the the Judge Roberts thing, this new uh finding out that he helped in the precursor uh to Lawrence v.
Texas is frankly very disturbing to me.
It is.
It's disturbing to me because it was pro bono work, which means he didn't have to do it.
Right, that's true.
And and I can't understand why a conservative uh would help further gay rights.
I mean to me it's that's bad.
Wait, what you know, this is the that's not quite the quite the way to put this.
I because I don't You have to define what gay rights are.
I mean, a lot of people are opposed to gay marriage because they don't think that is a gay right.
Marriage is a specific definition.
Nobody is opposed to individual human beings having rights.
We all do.
And I don't think we ought to pigeonhole Judge Roberts here as somebody who was trying to advance gay rights against an opposition.
The troubling thing about this is that he gave some assistance here to people who were trying to overturn a duly passed initiative by the people of Colorado.
Colorado.
And they were simply trying to hold off this onslaught of gay marriage and a number of other things that has swept the country.
And uh so I I think I think your concern about this is gonna be shared by a lot of people.
Not not on the the gay rights stuff, but rather activism on the court.
Uh because it did lead to Lawrence Vice, Texas being uh being overturned.
Keith, hang on just a second.
I'll continue talking after the break here.
All I'm gonna tell you is I knew it was sabotage.
I knew it was sabotage the minute you guys told me about it.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Here we are in the one and only EIB network.
Go back to Keith in uh in Hollywood.
I wanted to give you some time to expand more on your thoughts about this.
About about the the Roberts uh pro bono work.
Because you're right about about the pro bono aspect of it.
He he didn't have to do it since it was pro bono.
He chose to do it.
And uh remember, Keith, that this is a man apparently who's really had a goal in his life, and he wants to be on the Supreme Court and wants to rise as high as he can in the judicial system, and he's been uh very active in the Washington, D.C. uh area.
He has traded cell phone numbers with reporters and so forth, and and you've seen a lot of Democrats already back him up.
Uh that's disturbing too.
That bothers you, huh?
Yeah, uh well, I'm a little in the Ann Coulter camp of why do we have to have a nominee we have to guess at, but uh you know uh Well, a lot of people are of that opinion.
I don't and I I I totally understand it, by the way.
There are plenty of people out there about whom we would not have to guess anything.
You know, Russ, I just think when you win, you ought to win.
W when when you win and you and you gain power over your opposition, you ought to use it.
Or what was the point of fighting?
Exactly.
I couldn't agree more.
Slam them.
You just run roughshot over them, and they when they win, they get to do all this themselves, right?
Remember the Trent Lott power sharing decision that went out the window when the Democrats got back in power?
Absolutely.
You know, I mean, this is what they do.
So uh I'm I'm concerned because I believe that any I mean, look, we have laws on the books against discrimination from people.
All right.
You can't discriminate in housing, employment, etc., etc.
Uh I think that's enough.
I don't think it needs to go any further.
I don't think behavior should be a civil right.
And and I have a problem uh with those who do.
I don't believe behavior should constitute a civil right.
And uh, you know, I think anything that furthers that is detrimental to society at large and I know to this country as a whole.
I think it at this point it would be uh a good time to mention that uh conservatives don't don't care people do behind closed doors.
They don't care who they sleep with or any of that sort of thing.
That's that's really not what irritates and that the the the left loves to spread the exact opposite of that around.
They love to spread the notion.
So nobody cares what people do in the privacy of their own home.
No, I care what they teach my child in public school.
Exactly.
Or when they attempt when when there is an attempted takeover of institutions and traditions that have made the country great.
And that's marriage.
Hello, yeah.
Yeah, and that or or or the education system or what or what have you.
Uh Heather has two mommies, uh you know, this sort of thing.
Um and and and so the it's it's uh it's really nothing more than respect for tradition.
We've got we've got documented definitions and ways of doing things that have proven successful.
Uh and this is what irritates people, and that's why the Roberts case, see, the people of Colorado uh uh foresaw a bunch of things coming down the road, and they wanted to pass their own ballot initiative to make sure, hey, not here.
You're not gonna do it here.
And uh lo and behold, the Supreme Court overturned them as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, equal protection clause.
And then after that, as you said, came Lawrence versus Texas, which overturned a Texas sodomy law on the same basis, and that's just two building blocks to eventually a lot of court watchers think uh opening the floodgates to uh uh gay marriage and a number of other uh changing definitions of existing traditions.
That's what bothers people.
It's not not, you know, people can go behind the closed doors, do whatever they want to do in their bedrooms.
Nobody it it's when you bring it out of the bedroom and try to impose it on everybody else.
Uh that that people go, wait, wait, wait a minute.
No, no, we're not gonna go for this.
That's that's the uh that's the difference.
Yes.
Well, look, uh that's that's cool phrase.
Behavior does not bestow upon you a right.
That's right.
I like that.
I like that.
Well, Keith, I'm glad you called.
Thanks so much for the time.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
God bless you.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, that's Keith in uh in Hollywood.
New phone number, temporary, just a temporary number, 866-437-8343.
Democratic Party polster.
Stan Greenberg.
This is from our old buddies at Newsmax today.
Stan Greenberg said uh yesterday, one of the biggest doubts about Democrats is that they don't stand for anything.
During a conference call with reporters, Greenberg said that Democrats deal with the same doubts they had about John Kerry.
The issue arose as Greenberg discussed what Democrats need to do to stop Republican gains among Hispanic voters.
Democrats' lack of clarity was a contributing factor for the gains made by Republicans among Hispanics in 2004, uh, Greenberg said, adding, that stands out even more for voters generally and for white Catholics.
Uh Karen Finney, a Democrat Party spokesbabe says it's not that we need to change what we believe in, but we need to do a better job of communicating what we believe in.
Karen and the rest of you Democrats, I'm just going to point you right back to special election on Tuesday.
You had the golden opportunity to go out there and run as Democrats.
You had a you had a great chance to communicate uh uh what you believe in, do a better job of it.
What did you do?
You told two different stories.
Your guy Hackett when talking to the national media to get him on his side, runs Bush down, says he's dangerous, as Bush is a terrorist, as Bush is an SOB or what have you.
But then, when it comes time to campaign in the district where he wins wants to win, what does he do?
He campaigns as a Bush buddy.
Well, you can't keep confusing people like this.
And I we I've had the stories here for the past month how various Democrat groups are going behind closed doors to come up with their beliefs.
Democrats going behind closed doors to try to define what it is they believe.
Now, we conservatives don't have to go behind closed doors to do it, and it doesn't take a three-hour meeting to do it.
I can tell you in five minutes.
I could give you a summary of what I believe in in five minutes, and I wouldn't even have to think about it.
It's instinctive, it's in my core.
Now, what you Democrats believe is well known.
Your problem is your message is getting out, and it has gotten out for 30 years, and it's coming back to bite you now, and you're rather sizable rear ends.
And so your real problem is how do you cover up what you really believe, and that's what the Ohio 2 election demonstrated, because you don't have a prayer being honest about who you are.
So you've got to come up with a way to hide it, and that's why you keep hiring these linguistics experts like uh George Lackoff rhymes with.
They just continue to fool themselves.
It's not that we need to change what we believe in.
We need to do a better job of communicating.
How hard can it be?
I believe in high taxes.
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
We hate the military.
We don't approve of war anywhere.
Every war is unjust.
No Republican deserves to be elected president.
We love big government, we want to raise your taxes.
Oh, and by the way, we want to raise your taxes.
And by the way, we want to take away some of your liberty.
We want to raise your taxes.
Just do it.
Just run out and campaign on that stuff.
That's all you have to do is be honest, but you know you can't.
Oh, oh, yes, and you also want to take the homes of little guys and give them to big developers so that those big developers can pay higher taxes to the local government.
Why don't you admit it?
You are big government types.
And you don't really care about the little guy.
I mean, you've had the little guy under your wing for 30 or 40 years, the little guy's starving, little guy's on the street, the little guy doesn't have much of a house, the little guy's paying way too much in taxes, and the little guy is is is still a little guy.
And you've had the little guy under your wing for all these years.
Ms. Fenny.
It's so patently obvious to those on the outside.
You just don't see yourself when you look in a mirror.
You look at yourself in the mirror, you see an angel, I guess, and uh you miss the pitchfork.
Here is uh John uh sell call from Los Angeles.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Uh yeah, how are you doing, Rush?
Good.
Never better, sir.
Thank you.
Okay.
Uh I'm just uh calling basically to uh get back to the uh here we tape.
Yeah.
Um I just wanted to comment uh you're talking about it being propaganda and the media being um calling this propaganda.
Um propaganda is a good word, however, uh in the military you use uh information operations as part of your of your uh your war campaign.
Uh and what Al Qaeda's doing with all these is conducting a outstanding uh information operation against uh the coalition forces against the uh the Western world.
And uh I just thought that would be a big exactly and with the assistance of whom?
Without whom could this not happen.
Oh, it's definitely the media that is uh that is.
Well, okay, now do you see the U.S. media running pro-US military propaganda around the world?
Oh, absolutely not.
Well, you know, so you can sit here and say that we're losing the information war, but why is that?
Well, I can give you an answer.
Elizabeth Bumiller, New York Times, goes up to the White House, Scott McClellan in a press conference after Newsweek runs a totally false story about Karans being flushed down the toilet at Club Gitmo.
And McClellan says, you know, we think you could do a little bit more to straighten this story out, and Bumiller says, What do you expect, Scott?
Positive stories on the military.
She actually said that, John.
So what are we supposed to do?
When the military is predisposed, preordained to oppose the military and not run positive stories.
Instead, they're out there running the daily body count as though they're happy about it.
We had the story this week of 1,800 dead.
Now we have the story of these 21 Marines dead in Ohio, and and uh while they're not out there celebrating it, uh you can you can you if you watch it correctly, you know that they're using it to try to dampen public opinion for the war.
And here comes the Zawahiri tape today, and lo and behold, oh no, this guy is he's never challenged.
He is CNN runs a little little explanation.
Look at how cleanly pressed that shirt is.
Look how good he looks.
Why, they're gonna be looking for clues in this, but it appears to me that he is in fine health, and there's not one wrinkle in that clean, crisp white shirt of his, and he's changed the color of his headdress.
Makes me want to throw up because the guy's a coward.
The guy will not even address his own people out there, John.
Any leader that doesn't have the guts to appear before his own people ought not get on American TV.
We're just we're just willingly helping them spread their own propaganda, but boy, at the same time, we're making sure that the U.S. military is not seen in a good light in our own media.
So it's not an equal playing field.
As people like to say.
Uh, quick time out.
We'll be back and continue in uh mere moments.
If you are uh just joining us, uh uh one of the shuttle astronauts commander Eileen Collins said that the astronauts on the shuttle discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned today that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.
Her comments came as NASA pondered whether to send astronauts out on an extra spacewalk uh to uh repair additional heat protection damage.
Uh she said sometimes that you can see how there is erosion and you can see how there is deforestation.
It's very widespread some parts of the world.
She said this in a conversation from space with Japanese officials in Tokyo, uh, including the uh Prime Minister Koizumi.
Uh she said, uh astronaut Collins, Eileen Collins, we'd like to see from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used.
Uh she said the view from space made clear that Earth's atmosphere must be protected too.
The atmosphere almost looked like an egg shell on an egg.
It's so very thin.
We we know that we don't have much air.
We uh need to protect what we have.
Um stick with the phone.
I don't know.
There's not no, it's not an air shortage.
Every it's it's nothing's changed for gazillions of years.
The atmosphere, everybody knows that the atmosphere is just certain number of miles high.
Beyond that, you can't.
I mean, you go a 15,000 feet, you need oxygen to breathe anyway.
And that's that's how thin it is.
The atmosphere is actually higher than that, but you go to 15 grand uh and you need uh pressurization in an airplane.
If you climb it a mountain, you need uh you need tanks.
It's it's been that way for the volcanoes and earthquakes and uh nuclear detonations and uh all it's still there.
You know, so I don't know what our automobiles and barbecue pits and uh.
What wonder if she's got before and after maps on the deforestation?
Uh what a day.
Lisa in Orange County in California.
Welcome uh to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, hi, Rush.
Thank you.
It's really an honor to talk to you again.
Uh my comment was regarding John Roberts, and I think it'd be interesting to have him answer the question of what he feels morally, how he believes morally about homosexuality.
And assuming he morally is against homosexuality, wouldn't that case, that pro bono case, just prove that he can adjudicate without prejudice.
He's not gonna say that.
If he he's he's not that that that that qu he's not, I don't think he's a you can't nobody's against homosexuality.
Well, I guess some people are against it, but I mean it no the the the the what what Roberts did in this case, he he he took it pro bono and helped the Supreme Court overturn a duly passed initiative in Colorado, an initiative which many people think was discriminatory against gays in the workplace uh and uh and in other circumstances.
And if if anything, you could say, hey, look at the guy's guy believes in civil rights.
The LA Times is trying to draw this wedge between uh uh Roberts and the conservative movement in this country on the basis that he's pro-gay.
And I, you know, I as I most conservatives I know as I don't care about.
It's not it's not what what people do in private is not a concern.
It's with it it's when there is an attempt to impose it uh or or uh uh sanction it as normal or whatever.
This is this is this is where some people begin to have a problem with it when they feel like it's being forced on them and they have to accept it when they when they have deeply held reliefs, beliefs against it, and when the courts then start siding against tradition and all that, then people start getting concerned.
Ergo, here comes Roberts, and he's gonna be on the court, and he's a conservative nominee, and uh therefore original intent of the Constitution is supposed to be something that he uh adheres to.
And then the LA Times runs this story.
Uh all I said today is that this story is gonna drive a wedge between some people uh on the conservative side.
It probably will.
And and it doesn't for me, I don't expect him to answer the question, but I think it would just be really interesting if it came out that he was morally against homosexuality, and then and then prove that he's able to uh rule on cases according to law and not personal opinion.
You know, the the the thing about the thing the thing about being morally opposed to homosexuality, that that I think that's just an incorrect standard to apply to anybody because I I don't know too many people who think it's a choice.
Uh in in some in some cases where you know women have admitted it later on, they've chosen it after a lifetime of what have you.
Uh but it's rare.
I I for for you you you can't say something that isn't a choice is is uh uh attach moral or immoral to it.
Uh for for those people that have that belief have to believe that it's a it's a it's a choice that's been made and and so forth.
And I I just don't I don't think I think it's the wrong way to look at this, and it's the wrong way to make a point about it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because he's not gonna say he's opposed to homosexuality morally.
Look, the same trick was tried with Bill Pryor.
You have to understand what this is all about.
Bill Pryor, who was nominated for the appellate court, he's the attorney general of Alabama, and they dug up information he refused to go to Disneyland, take his kids to Disneyland when he found out the day they were scheduled to go was gay day.
And he simply said I'm not gonna go that day.
And they held it against him as being anti-gay and prejudiced and bigoted and so forth.
He said, No, I just I'll go a different day.
And yet they're trying to portray him as anti-gay and so forth.
They're trying to portray Roberts as pro-gay to drive a wedge to hurt his nomination chances on the conservative side.
Meanwhile, the New York Times today digging deep into his adoption records of his children.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Uh more on this whole Roberts thing when I have some time in the next segment.
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It's not funny, Brian.
Jeez, what a day.
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