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Aug. 15, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2005, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
How is everybody's weekend?
If you're like me, the weekend was too long.
You couldn't wait for Monday and this show to get back on the air.
That's the way I look at weekends.
Weekends are probably a day and a half too long for me, folks.
So we're glad it's Monday.
Welcome back.
The Rush Limbaugh Program and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network coming to you, as always, as America's anchorman from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I got some great news here.
What did I put this in the bottom?
Yes, listen to this here, folks.
The Congressional Budget Office projected today that this year's federal deficit is going to drop again down to $331 billion.
That's an improvement over even earlier projections and well below last year's record red ink number.
The CBO's new report gave the latest proof that surging revenues that comes from tax cuts and the steadily growing economy are combining to bring the deficit down from a record $412 billion posted in the last budget year.
The CBO predicted a $314 billion deficit for the budget year starting October 1st.
But of course, with this good news, you probably haven't heard it.
You probably haven't heard this report at all.
You know why?
Because Cindy Sheehan remains at the top of the mainstream media's lead list.
The woman does have one good idea.
I like her idea of not paying taxes.
I am all for that, folks.
I might want to join her crusade in that regard.
I'm fed up with paying taxes, but the rest of this, and I must be honest with you.
I run a risk here, too.
I must admit that I think about this over the weekend.
I run a risk.
I get what I'm going to say to you.
I run a risk.
I check my email all weekend long, and I know how upset everybody is about this.
And by the way, we've got some new Club Gitmo photos, and somebody showed up down there in their Club Gitmo shirts at the Syndic.
Some Freepers, some of our buddies at the Freepers showed up down at the wherever.
I guess she's staying at some house.
The story is she's camped out in a ditch, but apparently she has shelter down there.
And have you heard about the guy that's a neighbor down there firing off his shotgun in the air?
And I think he says, yeah, well, dove season's coming up, but stop and think about this.
What's the peace symbol?
The dove.
So I think this guy's pretty clever.
I love this guy.
I think this guy's clever as he can be.
Dove season's coming up, and you got a big dove down.
You got a whole bunch of doves down there with Cindy Sheehan.
Anyway, we've posted the photos on the latest page at the Club Gitmo Photo Gallery at rushlimbaugh.com.
Folks, can I share something with you here?
I'm getting emails out just out to Wazoo about Cindy Sheehan.
Rush, you got to tackle this.
You got to take this on.
I mean, what's happening in the mainstream media?
And I have, folks, I have to tell you, this does not concern me.
I think this is, how can I phrase this to you?
And this is where I run the risk.
Because I don't want you all thinking that I have lost my passion because I haven't.
But I look at these actions by the left.
This woman's clearly grief or whatever.
She's not right.
And I don't even like saying that.
Now she wants the Israelis out of Palestine and she thinks this will start.
This woman's being exploited by the media.
She probably is a genuine peacenick herself, and she's been such even before her son was killed in Iraq.
But isn't it painfully obvious to all of you the media is grasping onto her with nothing but a wing and a prayer?
Isn't it obvious that Cindy Sheehan is no different than the NAROL ad?
Isn't it obvious that this hysteria and unhinged behavior by the people on the left, including the media, is really no more than a sign that they realize they're in deep doo-doo?
Doesn't it show you that, I mean, to me, this is positive news.
You know, here we got great economic news.
Oop, can't do that.
Got to cut to Cindy Sheehan.
We would give her her own reality show.
She may as well have one now as it's going.
I look at this as an implosion.
You know, the head of NAROL has resigned.
Well, the communications director of NARAL resigned because he doesn't like the ad being pulled.
Well, he was fired?
Well, whatever.
I'll just go with the news.
Snurdley thinks he might be fired, but he quit, resigned, whatever.
He's not there.
In the meantime, regardless, there still hasn't been a Democrat denounced the ad.
Not one elected Democrat has denounced the ad.
They're just, you know the mistake they made with that ad?
In their minds, in their minds, their lesson that they are telling themselves they got to learn, not that the ad was full of lies, and they only pulled this ad for expediency, folks.
They didn't pull it because it was full of lies.
They didn't pull it for any reason other than it wasn't going to work.
Just like they got Torricelli out of the race in New Jersey.
They got him out of there because he was going to lose.
They pulled this ad because it wasn't working.
They didn't pull this ad because of a bite of conscience or, ooh, this is wrong.
And their mistake was until they're telling themselves they came out of the barn too soon with it.
If they'd have come out of this, say, a week before September 6th, well, stop and think about it.
If they would have run this ad, if this would have started a week before September 6th, CNN carrying it, and none of the Democrats denouncing it, and without a whole lot of time to gin up, it would have probably had more effects.
So I think they're going to learn from this that they just, they came out, they didn't keep their powder dry.
They just were too eager.
But the fact that they are too eager, I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett.
Her story is nothing more than forged documents.
There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media is glomming onto it.
It's not real.
It's nothing more than an attempt.
It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left.
And all of these efforts are bombing.
They're all failing miserably in and of themselves.
Now, this is not to say that all's rosy.
I don't want you to misunderstand.
But I'm just, I don't get that worked up about that.
I have an attitude about this, and I've been sharing this with you for the longest time.
So I think we're in a new era.
The left doesn't get away with this stuff anymore.
They're not getting away with it now.
I know it's irritating.
I know it's frustrating.
I know it makes you mad.
Does me too.
But it's not helpful to the people who are doing this.
It is not assisting them.
They're going to try to claim that Cindy Sheehan is responsible for the Bush poll numbers on Iraq being down, but those numbers were falling before Cindy Sheehan did this.
And I'm not saying the mainstream press isn't effective in certain areas anymore.
I'm not saying the mainstream press doesn't have the ability to shape opinion.
Just saying on this, this is not the thing everybody should be worried about.
I don't have one in my mind that is something everybody ought to be worried about.
But if you're going to be angry at this, and I understand the anger, and I share some of it too, the anger here to me is how the left and the media are trying to make this bigger than it is.
But that still takes me back to the fact that they know they're losing.
They know they're losing big time.
These people are throwing it up against the wall.
It's a fourth quarter and all they're doing is throwing long bombs and their quarterback's gotten too tired to finish the game.
And their wide receiver is out there making all kinds of disparaging comments about the quarterback and getting kicked out of camp.
The situation with the Philadelphia Eagles is pretty much dovetails what's going on with the Democratic Party right now, if you ask me.
I mean, it does.
I don't think that we're looking at people who have a posture of confidence.
This is not the kind of thing that winners do.
It's all done in total desperation, as is the mainstream press's ability to prop it up.
What's she got done?
100 stragglers have showed up down there.
100 peacenicks, 100 long-haired maggot-infested, dope-smoking FM types, essentially, are down there joining her.
And if this were genuine, if this were like it was back in Vietnam, remember that's what they're trying to turn this into.
They're just reliving the old halcyon days of the anti-war movement in the 60s.
They would have had hundreds of thousands of people down there.
They would have had mass marches.
There would have been the need for riot cops outside Bush's ranch down there.
This is so obviously a desperation move.
And I have, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for the woman.
I think she's taking the grieving process here to lengths that most people don't.
And she's being fueled by all this attention.
But this is just a long way of saying I'm not, you can call about it and you can talk about it, but I just am not that worked up about it because to me, it's sort of like, I got an email today from a guy who said, Rush, why aren't you talking about that radio scandal going on?
Why should I talk about it?
Why should I talk about that, folks?
There's a cardinal rule.
When your enemy is destroying themselves, you shut up and you get out of the way and let them do it.
And it's happening countless areas and times on the left.
Certain things you do need to give a little nudge.
Other things you just get out of the way.
But the longer this she-hand thing goes on, and the longer she's treated as some sort of super celebrity by the press, and the more outrageous things she says, trust me on this, the more people are going to get fed up with it.
She's going to become the next Natalie Holloway before it's all said and done.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
As we are leading off a brand new week of broadcast excellence, El Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let's go to the audio sound bites here and just to document what took place over the weekend.
As you know, on Friday on this program, I offered to mediate the dispute between Terrell Owens, the wide receiver of the Philadelphia Eagles, and the quarterback Donovan McNabb.
This offer to mediate was taken seriously by the Associated Press and others in the media.
Just to give you a little background, here's a montage from Saturday's ESPN of McNabb and Owens' comments about each other, just to illustrate the rift.
And of course, they've got their first preseason game tonight.
The Eagles do they're in Pittsburgh for the Steelers.
Here's just to give you an idea what's going on with these two guys.
They're trying to pit the whole city against me about me being greedy.
I've been defending them ever since this thing started.
It's not in my contract that I have to be happy.
I have no desire to talk to Donovan.
He called the plays.
I run the route.
He threw the ball.
I caught the ball.
Just beat my name out to me.
You ain't got to like me.
Everybody want to call me hypocritical.
Say he didn't want to talk to me.
I've never known for a hypocrite, you know, to reach out to somebody after comments have been made early.
I reached out to him.
All I ask is that you respect what I do.
I'm really just tired of the dishonesty, the political scenes to make me look bad.
What a difference a year makes.
That's all I can say.
Like you said, what a difference a year makes.
That's Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb.
You can see the size of the rift here.
It's gotten worse.
McNabb is for the first time showing some signs of actually being irritated by all this.
And all efforts to heal this rift have failed.
And I'm pretty confident I could do it.
I've got a couple things up my sleeve that I think could work.
I'd have to talk to both these guys, though, at the same time to do it, which I offer at the same time in order to pull it off.
At least give it a chance.
I made that offer on Friday, and CNN Headline News covered it over the weekend.
Finally, guess who wants to help Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb work together?
A man associated with peace, harmony, and tranquility, Rush Limbaugh.
Hey, wait a minute.
Wasn't he the guy who back in 2003 said McNabb is popular because the media wants a black quarterback to do well?
Limbaugh says he'll be the moderator if Owens and McNabb iron out their differences on his radio show.
That is pretty close to what I did say.
You notice in the media reports over the weekend, they finally got it right, what I said.
I never made one racist comment or racial comment at all about McNabb.
I was simply talking about the media.
And if I were talking to McNabb, I would say, look, at the time, I think the media was telling everybody you were doing better than you were.
Pure and simple.
I think they've got a social reason for wanting you.
I don't back down.
It's precisely because I would not back down from this that I would have credibility in trying to mediate the rift.
Last ESPN, this may be a first since this all happened.
They were forced to mention my name on SportsCenter.
Just when you thought the Terrell Owens situation had become tenable, there's an offer for mediation.
Rush Limbaugh wants T.O. and Donovan McNabb to join him on his radio show so he can help the feuding Eagles settle their differences.
In fact, I'll even extend the offer.
Well, I'll do it off the radio.
It doesn't have to be done on the radio.
They don't want to do it in public on the radio.
I'll mediate anywhere they are want to go.
I can do it.
Here's Fox and friends, sports guy Brian Killmead this morning.
A new name has joined the Terrell Owens circus, Rush Limbaugh.
He told listeners on his radio show that he wants to help T.O. and Eagles go to back Donovan McNabb settle their differences.
Limbaugh made the national news in 2003 when working for ESPN when he said McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
He's invited both players to come on his show and settle their ongoing feud.
And I hope they do.
Do I expect this to happen?
No, I certainly don't expect it to happen, but I wanted to put it out there as a serious offer.
I mean it.
This is, well, go to the website, read the transcript of what I said on Friday.
I don't need to repeat all of that, but we don't need this on the eve of the NFL season.
And clearly, efforts to bring these two people together have failed.
And in me, by the way, one of the reasons I think I could do this is because in me, they do have something in common.
Neither of them are particularly fond of me, and I don't care what it takes to bring them together.
They're probably not fond of me because of misunderstandings.
But if there is that in common, we need to find something these two guys once again have in common.
And if that can be me, I'm more than willing to do it for the sake of the Eagles, the NFC East, and the upcoming National Football League season.
So, I mean, somebody's got to get Terrell Owens straightened out.
He's going to blow the whole rest of his career here if he doesn't understand what he's got and realize how to get more.
And that's what he wants.
He wants to get more.
Somebody's got to tell him how to do that in a way that can make it pay off.
So I, again, extend the offer, and it does not have to be on.
I realize they would not do it on the radio.
If they did, fine.
But if they don't, if I want this to happen somewhere else, I'm available.
Now, I want to move something here beyond Cindy Sheehan, and I want to talk about something that I warned you people about, well, many times, certainly recently in the past month and beyond and the subject is immigration.
And what was my warning?
And my warning was to the Republicans, if you don't get a handle on this, if you don't come up with some kind of policy fast, if you don't make it look like this is a big issue, that you care about the borders, national security and a bunch of illegals in this country taking jobs, if you don't get on this, the Democrats are going to beat you to it and this is going to have a profound effect if the Democrats are able to pull this off as as soon as the 2006 and certainly the 2008 elections.
And lo and behold, here I am, i'm minding my own business over the weekend, i'm getting up and, as always, i'm reading the newspapers on the internet.
Governor Bill Richardson, a Democrat, New Mexico declared a state of emergency along New Mexico's 180 mile border with Mexico on friday, pledging uh 1.75 million dollars to beef up law enforcement and tackle increasing crime.
Recent developments have convinced me.
He said that this action is necessary, including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants.
He toured the area near the busy border town of Columbus by helicopter and on the ground friday, before announcing the new initiative.
The Mexican government, which has long opposed any increased border fencing, immediately criticized Richardson's actions, which is, i'm sure, what the governor wanted.
Southwestern New Mexico residents praised the moves and said even more are needed.
This is a great beginning, said Luna county commissioner Rick Holdridge by phone.
What the governor's done is right.
On the money, he and others said that a broader solution is needed to address the problems caused by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who cross the border into New Mexico every year.
I knew this was well.
I didn't know it.
I had, I had a concern that this was going to happen.
Um, you know, mrs Clinton has been edging this way on immigration.
She's been talking tough about it and uh, I have.
I have long thought that this issue does provide an opportunity uh, for the Democrats to create at least a Ross Parole like character uh, or candidacy.
That would siphon votes away from um, from the Republicans, and it's an interesting dichotomy that you have.
The Democrats are not crazy about being anti-immigration, illegal immigration, because they're eager for the illegals to become voters.
The Republicans uh, you know some of their business people like the cheap labor offered by illegal immigrants and, of course, the political opportunity to recruit them as members of the Republican Party.
This is not what the American people want.
American people are not interested in what the political party's interests are.
The American people are concerned about the fate and the future of the country, and when they don't see either political party uh, echoing those concerns uh, it's not good for either of them.
And now the Democrats appear, with governor Richardson, to have taken the first move to placate the people.
Oh yes, screams of joy and, in some sectors, panic at the very mention of my name.
Here we are on the one and only excellence in broadcasting network, El Rushball, with talent on loan from God.
John Fund, the opinionjournal.com has written about the move by Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico.
He's got a piece called Run for the Border.
Democrats try to outflank the GOP on immigration.
He writes, President Bush is vulnerable on immigration.
The House Republicans bluntly told him in his proposal to admit guest workers would be dead on arrival unless accompanied by more border enforcement.
All my constituent town meetings want to talk about immigration and why Washington's still spending so much money, said Representative Kevin Brady of Texas.
Indeed, 17 of the 37 GOP House and Senate members who responded to a National Journal survey last month identified immigration as the issue most on the minds of their constituents.
And I don't surprise me in telling you people this.
You can't go to California without this being the number one topic that comes up.
Particularly Southern California, but it doesn't even matter.
You just, you can't do it.
It's all anybody is concerned about.
One Republican identified immigration as the issue on which the mismatch between the federal government's inaction and the realities at home is the greatest.
The same survey identified why Democrats think they have some running room with their base on immigration.
Only two of the 35 Democratic members of Congress who were surveyed mentioned immigration as being a top concern among their voters.
Now, you know, that is irrelevant to me.
I don't care where the Democrats are on this.
The Democrats are off the map anyway.
The Democrats, all they care about is the war.
We know that the internal polling that Stan Greenberg has done for the Democrats has shown them that even what did the survey say?
It said that the Democrats are so distrusted when it comes to morality and values issues.
Democrats are so distrusted that it wouldn't, the economy went into depression.
It wouldn't matter because the Democrats do not appeal to people on the areas of morality and ethics and this sort of thing.
So it doesn't surprise me they're not concerned about immigration.
Sheila Jackson Lee gave it up for the Democrats when she said that these people want to come vote legally.
It's clear what these people are concerned with with these illegals.
It's clear what the Democrats are concerned with when they're trying to legalize the vote for felons.
They're trying to broaden their base.
And they can't broaden their base any more than they have it with Americans because there's nothing they're doing that's appealing to people beyond the nuts that they already have.
But if you can get these illegals in here and hornswoggle them and then give the felons the right to vote, then bamo, well, then you're broadening your base.
And so it doesn't surprise me that there's no concern here.
But you might say, well, then why is Governor Richardson doing what he's doing?
The idea is not to build up the Democrats.
The idea is to fracture the Republicans here, folks.
The idea is to split the Republicans.
The idea is to get some Republicans who are fed up about a number of things and then immigration at the top of the list say, okay, I've had it.
This party is not responding to my needs.
This party is not listening to me.
This party's not doing what I want.
Look at all the spending that's going on.
Look at that highway bill so full of pork that when it was signed, it smelled like bacon.
You got Link Chafee driving around Rhode Island here in his car describing for everybody all the pork that he brought home.
These guys are so proud of the highway bill, and it's just nothing but a massive spending bill.
The highway bill has become the new omnibus spending bill where all the pork is just dovetailed and tucked right into it.
And don't think people don't notice this.
It's got them fit to be tied.
This is supposed to be a conservative Republican administration with fiscal restraint and responsibility.
And it do some things right, like the tax cuts and all this, but then here comes this massive bill.
And don't say, well, Rush, the president signed it.
Well, he did, but you had a whole bunch of Republicans vote for it as well.
Because it's just ladled with pork.
So you take some issues that some of the base on the conservative side is not all that comfortable with.
Then you throw the Democrats trying to siphon off some of those people with immigration.
That's all it will take, regardless what the Democratic National Committee does about immigration.
Now, Fund, in his piece, and I really, it's too long for me to read to you the entire thing.
You ought to read it, though, because his basic premise is that the Democrats' move on this is totally phony.
That Hillary is phony about it because she got 85% of the Hispanic vote.
She's really not going to do anything to anger them.
She's not going to come out against illegal immigration.
She's going to say just enough to make it look like she's shifting her position to make herself attractive to some recalcitant Republicans.
He says the same thing about Richardson.
Here's what Fund writes about Hillary.
Hillary won 85% of the Hispanic vote in New York for Senate in 2000, says Dick Morris.
She thinks she can outbid the Republicans for Hispanic votes 2008 while bringing Reagan Democrats home with vague rhetoric about getting tough and employer sanctions that she has no intentions of implementing.
So, you know, the Democrats are making a move, but it's a typical Democrat move.
They don't mean it.
It's all for show.
It's how can we fool them today?
And the worry is that it might siphon enough people off because they'll go with anybody who they hear saying what they want said about this, somebody they can agree with.
Now, Fund says that in New Mexico, Governor Richardson's done much the same thing.
He now blasts the federal government for not showing the commitment or the leadership to deal with border issues.
He is demanding that officials on the Mexican side bulldoze an abandoned town on the border that serves as a staging area for illegal drugs and illegal aliens.
But Mr. Richardson sang a different tune in late 2003 when he showed up at a rally for the immigrant workers' freedom ride and told them, a viva la raza.
Thank you for coming to Santa Fe.
Know that Santa Mexico or New Mexico is your home.
We will protect you.
You have rights here.
So two years ago, he was welcoming illegals into the state.
Today, all of a sudden, as we get closer to an election, oh, guess what?
Going to do a 180 on this, but it's just for show.
According to the, well, that's the opinion that Fund clearly has in here.
Jamie, or Jaime, I should say, Bessaril, one of the organizers of the Freedom Ride, told the Santa Fe, New Mexican that the participants favored a new amnesty program.
He called immigration a byproduct of colonialism and capitalism.
And further evidence of the governor's zigzag policy on immigration came in April when he voted a no-fear bill, which would have prohibited, prohibited now, state and local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal authorities to detect or apprehend people based solely on immigration status.
But then he quietly ensured or issued an executive order that had much the same effect.
Earlier this year, he also signed legislation giving some illegal aliens the right to in-state tuition rates at public universities.
David Pfeffer, a Santa Fe City Councilman who abandoned the Democratic Party this past March when he concluded that its members were closer to Michael Moore than to me, said, the governor's all puffing no cigar.
He expects the governor to run for national office while saying one thing while he does something else back home.
So the point here is that it's a move to the left simply for show.
But why?
It's because they think it'll work.
They know how upset.
They can read these polls and they know they can, well, they don't have to read polls.
All you got to do is go to one of these states and talk to people.
They know how upset so many of us are about this lax border policy that we have and no apparent effort to do anything about it.
So I warned you people this was going to happen.
In fact, I even got some emails today from people.
This is your fault that Richardson did this.
You gave him the idea, Rush.
Come on, folks, wake up.
Nobody had to give him this idea.
This is the elephant in the room sitting out there that nobody wants to talk about.
And these guys are political strategists first.
These people are political connivers.
These are the people that, you know, they can't even be honest about what they really believe or they would be sunk.
So they're out there, they're having meetings behind closed doors.
What do we believe?
Three hours and we didn't do much but get a good start, but we'll be back in touch with you.
Three hours to figure out, that's not what they're doing.
Three hours in a closed-door meeting to figure out how to make people think they're for things they're not and how to make people think they're against things they're not.
And this is probably one of the byproducts of some of those meetings.
Yeah, let's get a border state Democrat governor to come out against.
That'll wake people up.
And it might.
You never know.
It's clear the mainstream, I don't know what they're going to do on this.
I can't imagine the mainstream press running stories on how Hillary and Governor Richardson have saying one thing and doing another within the span of the last two years.
And I'm sure they're counting on that.
But it's just, it's still, you know, a red flag up there, folks.
It's a red flag that's waving in the wind.
A quick timeout.
Back with more after this.
We will get to your phone calls in due course, folks.
Sit tight.
Just one more thing I want to do here.
I mentioned at the beginning of the program that the communications director of the National Abortion Rights Action League has resigned, some think fired, but has resigned in protest over the wimpish behavior of the NAROL people themselves in pulling the ad.
And there's a story that ran, let's say, I guess it's Saturday in the New York Times from Cheryl Gay Stolberg.
Glow of ads shows Democrats' dilemma.
A decision by NAROL to withdraw an advertisement attacking Judge John Roberts signals a deepening conflict within the Democratic Party, which has grappled for months over how much to emphasize abortion and is now divided about how hard to fight Judge Roberts' nomination to the court.
Some Democrats say the furor over the advertisement, which is placed by NAROL Pro-Choice America, suggests that they will have a difficult time generating opposition to the nominee whose legal resume and charm have won him praise from senators of both parties.
You can see, this is Bob Kerry.
You can see from NAROL pulling their ads down that the public's not going to tolerate going too far.
By all accounts, it looks like he's going to get confirmed, so they're a very difficult position.
And there is, throughout the news, throughout my stacks of stuff today, there are stories that show the frustration and the resignation on the part of the left that they're not going to be able to stop this guy.
He's just too nice.
He's just too plain.
In fact, to show you how absurd it's gotten, William Raspberry, a man I like, a man I admire, we've had our run-ins with Mr. Raspberry early on in this program's life, back in the early 90s, late 80s, I forget when it was.
But Mr. Raspberry wrote a piece, Ripping Me and Ripping This Program.
And after that piece, he got several letters from readers saying, Mr. Raspberry, I love your column and I love Mr. Limbaugh's show.
I read you and listen to him.
So Raspberry tuned in and we did an apology, essentially, saying that he had misjudged.
I forget precisely what he said, but we call it the Raspberry Effect.
The Raspberry Effect is when a journalist critical of the program who has never listened or any liberal critical of the program actually listens and changes their mind.
And ever since, we've had tremendous amount of respect for Mr. Raspberry, but he illustrates today just how frustrated the left is because his piece, his column is that Roberts is not qualified because he's had it too easy in life.
His road was paved for him.
He was the son of some wealthy industrialist, and he's never known tough times.
And we don't need people on the court who haven't known tough times.
We need people on the court who've had to struggle, which, of course, is another way of saying the court is supposed to relate to social concerns and the disadvantaged and give them a voice, which is as far from the intention of the Supreme Court, the founding fathers had, as you can get.
The purpose of the Supreme Court is to decide the law, to decide legal cases.
They decided for themselves in the late 1800s that they were going to be the sole arbiter of what's constitutional or what isn't.
It's called judicial review, Marbury versus Madison.
But the left clearly sees the Supreme Court as the balancing mechanism to level the playing field between society's haves and have-nots.
Society's fortunates and society's unfortunates.
Society's successful and society's bums.
And since Roberts has never been a bum, since Roberts has never had it tough in life, that's a problem.
I mean, this is just throwing it up against the wall.
The resignation, and I'm not saying there won't be fireworks.
Don't misunderstand.
That's all they know how to do.
They'll try to stop the confirmation during the hearings, but you can just see the resignation.
We got to go back, though.
What is all this about?
The NAROL ad.
Here it is.
This is the ad that's been pulled.
NAROL said, well, we just don't, we think people are not understanding it.
They're misconstruing it.
In other words, you're just too stupid to understand what they were trying to say.
In an effort to further the understanding between you and the NAROL pro-abortion people, here is their ad, once again, run free of charge by me as a public service to you, the EIB network.
Seven years ago, a bomb destroyed a woman's health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
When a bomb ripped through my clinic, I almost lost my life.
I will never be the same.
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber.
I'm determined to stop this ballot, so I'm speaking out.
Call your senators.
Tell them to oppose John Roberts.
America can't afford a justice whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.
Don't believe Rush Limbo.
Or FactCheck.org when they debunk our ads.
Our ad ran on CNN, so it must be true.
Not only did Judge John Roberts defend an abortion clinic bomber, but Judge Roberts drove the bomber to the clinic himself.
Drove him.
And used his own cell phone to trigger the explosion.
Just like the terrorists in a wreck.
Stop Judge Roberts from getting on the Supreme Court before he kills again.
Farm by George Soros and Neyrall friends of Nazi Pelosi.
Mark my words.
They're meeting behind closed doors and what they think they messed up was the timing.
They're not embarrassed about this ad.
They pulled it for expediency.
They pulled it because it wasn't working.
They didn't pull it because it's a bunch of lies.
They didn't pull it for any reason of substance.
And they're going to go back to the drawing board and go figure out that the problem was they came out with it too soon.
They came out with it in August.
The recess, vacation time.
Come out with this thing a week or 10 days before the hearings.
You've got a whole different story.
They'll probably have a new one.
Nayroll's probably putting together a new ad now to come out, you know, 1st of September, latter part of August.
Let's go to C-SPAN's Washington Journal today.
A caller from Silver Springs, Maryland, talking about the nomination of Judge Roberts.
Good morning.
I wanted to talk about the ad that the pro-abortion group put out.
The reason why it got pulled was, in my opinion, is Rush Limbaugh, a parody of that ad.
And in this parody, he accused John Roberts of driving the bomber to the abortion clinic and then using the cell phone setting off the bomb.
It sounds like an honest to Gunners ad.
I've had two or three people come up to me and ask me if it was really true that John Roberts drove the bomber to the abortion clinic.
I said, no, you're hearing Rush Limbaugh at his best when he's being funny.
And there is truth to comedy.
It's comforting to know that there are those who get it.
We'll take a break and be back and continue right after this.
I really do appreciate all of you who are on hold, and I want you to stay there.
I'll make a supreme effort to get to you as soon as possible in the next hour.
So if you're on hold, please hang on.
This is interesting.
President Bush said on Israeli television, this is a Saturday story from Reuters, that he could consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear weapons.
All options are on the table, said Bush from Crawford, Texas.
Asked if that included the use of force.
He said, as I say, all options are on the table.
The use of force is the last option for any president.
You know, we've used force in the recent past to secure our country.
So this is good.
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