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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 uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
What did I put this in the bottom?
Yes, listen 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 uh 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 dollars posted in the last budget year.
The CBO predicted a 314 billion dollar deficit for the uh 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 not paying taxes.
I tell I am I am all for that, folks.
I'm uh might want to join her crusade in uh in that regard.
I'm fed up with paying taxes, but the rest of this, yeah, and I I I must I must be honest with you folks.
I run a risk here too.
I I must admit that I I think about this over the weekend, I run a risk.
I get in what I'm gonna say to you.
I I run a risk.
I 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 getting all photos, and somebody showed up down there at uh in in their club gitmo shirts at the at the Cindy, some freepers, some of our buddies at the Freepers uh showed up down at the uh uh 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.
Oh, and have you heard about the guy that's that's that's a neighbor down there firing off his shotgun in the air, and he's I think he says he says, yeah, it's well dove season's coming up, but stop and think about this.
What's 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 uh with uh with Cindy Sheehan.
Anyway, uh the the we've posted the photos on the latest page at the Club Gitmo photo gallery at uh at rushlimbaugh.com.
Uh this folks, can I uh share something with you here?
I I'm getting emails out uh just out to Wazoo about about Cindy Sheehan and Rush, you gotta you gotta tackle this.
You gotta take this on.
I mean, what's happening in the mainstream media and so forth.
And I have folks, I I have to tell you this this does not concern me.
It I I think this is how how can I phrase this to you?
And I 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 but but I I I look at these actions by the left.
This woman's clearly uh uh grief or whatever.
She's she's she's not right.
And and I, you know, I don't even like saying that.
Now she wants the uh the the Israelis out of Palestine and she thinks this'll stuff.
This this this woman's being exploited by the media.
She probably is a genuine peacek herself, and she's been such even before her son was killed um in in Iraq.
But isn't it painfully obvious to all of you the media is grasping on to her with nothing but a wing and a prayer?
Is it isn't it obvious that it's that Cindy Sheehan is no different than the Nayrol ad.
Isn't it obvious that this hysteria and unhinged behavior by the people on the left, including the media, is really no more the uh than uh than a sign that they realize they're in deep doo-doo?
Doesn't it doesn't it show you that that I mean that to me this is positive news?
Um, you know, here we got great economic news.
Oop, can't do that.
Gotta cut to Cindy Sheehan.
We would give her her own reality show.
She may as well have one now as it as it's going.
I look at I look at this as an implosion.
You know, the head of Nayroll has resigned.
The market Well, the communications director of Nayrol resigned because he doesn't like the ad being pulled.
Well, he was fired?
Well, I did well, whatever.
I'll just go with the news.
Snerdley thinks he might be fired, but I quit, resigned, whatever.
He's not there.
In the meantime, it in the meantime, regardless, there has 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, the lesson that they are telling themselves they've 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 gonna 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.
They put and their mistake was until they're telling themselves they 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.
If they would have run this ad, if this would have started a week before September 6th, CNN carrying it, uh, and and none of the Democrats denouncing it, and without a whole lot of time to gin up, it would have probably had more effect.
So I think they're gonna 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.
Uh in including the mainstream media is gloming onto it.
It's not real.
It's it's uh it's it's nothing more than an attempt.
It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left.
And and all of these efforts are bombing.
They're all failing miserably uh in and of themselves.
Now, this does 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 I have an attitude about this, and I've been sharing this with you for 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 gonna 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.
The uh 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, it isn't, this is 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 gonna be angry at this, uh, and I understand the anger, and I'm I I share some of it too.
Um the the anger here to me is how the left and the media uh uh are trying to make this bigger than it is.
But 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.
These 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 s the Philadelphia Eagles is pretty much dovetails what's going on with the Democratic Party right now, if you ask me.
I mean, it it does.
I I I just I 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 it's all done in total desperation, as is the mainstream press's ability to prop it up.
Well, what she got done?
A hundred stragglers have showed up down there, a hundred peacnicks, a hundred long-haired maggot-infested dope smoking FM types, essentially, are down there joining her.
Um if this were genuine, if this, 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.
Uh this is a this is so obviously a desperation move.
Now, I and I have I don't have a whole lot of uh sympathy for the woman.
I think she's taking the grieving process here to uh to uh uh links that that that most people don't, and she's being fueled by all of this 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 it's sort of like I got a I got an email today from a guy who said, Rush, why aren't you talking about that radio scandal going on?
Why don't you talk?
Why should I talk about it?
Why why 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 uh 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-han 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 gonna get fed up with it.
She's gonna 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 uh leading off a brand new week of broadcast excellence, L. Rushbow 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 uh what took place over the weekend.
As you know, on Friday on this program, I offered to mediate the dispute between uh Terrell Owens, the wide receiver of the Philadelphia Eagles, and the quarterback Donovan McNabb.
This offer to uh mediate was taken seriously by uh the Associated Press and others uh in the media.
Uh just to give you a little uh background.
Here's a montage from Saturday's ESPN of uh McNabb and Owen's comments uh about each other just to illustrate the rift.
And of course, um they've got their first preseason game tonight.
The Eagles do they're in Pittsburgh for the Steelers.
Um 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 Don.
He called the plays, I run the route.
He threw the ball, I called the ball.
Just beat my name out of them.
You ain't gotta like me.
Everybody want to call me hypocritical to say he didn't want to talk to me.
I never known for a hypocrite, you know, to reach out to somebody after comments would be made early.
I reached out to him.
All I have 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, mate.
That's all I can say.
Like you said, what a difference a year mate.
Uh that's uh Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb.
You can see the size of the rift here.
It's uh it's gotten worse.
McNabb is uh for the first time showing some uh signs of actually being irritated by uh by all this.
And uh all efforts to uh heal this rift have failed.
Uh and I pretty confident I could do it.
I've got a couple things up my sleeve that I think it'd work.
Uh I have talked 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.
Uh at least give it a chance.
I made that offer on Friday, and CNN Headline News uh covered it over the weekend.
Finally, uh, guess who wants to help Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb work together?
A man associated with peace, harmony, and tranquility.
Rush Limbaugh.
Hey, hey, wait a minute.
No, wasn't he the guy who back in 2003 said McNabb is popular because the media wants a black quarterback to do well?
Limbosh says he'll be the moderator if Owens and McNabb iron out their differences on his radio show.
Uh that is uh 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, I 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 to.
I don't back down.
It's precisely because I would not back down from this that I would have credibility.
And uh in trying to mediate the uh the rift.
Last ESPN, this may be a first uh since this all happened.
They were forced to mention my name on Sports Center.
Just when you thought the Terrell Owen situation had become pennible, there's an offer for mediation.
Rush Limbaugh wants Teal 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 that I do 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'll I can do it.
Here's um here's Fox and Friends, sports guy Brian Kilmead 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 down to 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 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 uh uh well go to the website, read the transcript of what I said on Friday.
You don't need to repeat all of that.
Uh but uh, you know, we don't need this on the eve of the NFL season, and clearly uh efforts to bring these two people together have uh have failed.
Uh and in me, by the way, the one of the reasons I think I could do this is because in me, they do have something in common.
Uh neither of them are particularly fond of me, and I don't care what it takes to bring them together.
Uh 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, uh I'm more than willing to do it uh for the sake of the Eagles, the NFC East, and the upcoming National Football League season.
So, I mean, somebody somebody's got to get Terrell Owen straightened out.
He's gonna blow his whole 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 uh in a way that that can uh make it pay off.
So I I I again extend the offer, and it does not have to be on the I 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 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 many times, certainly uh 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 1080-mile border with Mexico on Friday, pledging uh uh 1.75 million dollars to beef up law enforcement and tackle increasing crime.
Recent developments have convinced me, he said, that this action's 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 write 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 gonna happen.
Um, 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 Perot like character uh or candidacy that would siphon votes away from um from the Republicans.
You know, 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, 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 uh in some sectors panic at the uh very mention in 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 uh the move by uh Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico has 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 at 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 the 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, been telling you people this.
You can't go to California without this being the number one topic that comes up.
You just particularly Southern California, but it didn't even matter.
You just you can't do it.
It's all anybody is uh is concerned about.
One Republican um 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.
Uh now, you know, this 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.
That we know that the the um uh the internal polling that Stan Greenberg has done for the Democrats has shown them that uh even if even even uh uh what it what'd the survey say that said that the uh Democrats are so distrusted when it comes to moral morality and values issues.
Democrats are so uh distrusted that it wouldn't matter 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 uh 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 doing that's appealing to people beyond the nuts that they already have.
But if you can get these illegals in here and horn swoggle them and then give the felons the right to vote, then bam oh, well, then you're broadening your base.
And so 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.
His party is not responding to my needs, his party's not listening to me, this party's not doing what I want.
Look at all the spending it's going on.
Look at that highway bill so full of pork that when it was signed, it smelled like bacon.
You got Link Chafey 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 does some things right, like the tax cuts and all this, but then here comes his 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.
Um because it's it's just it's uh ladled with pork.
So you you take some some issues that um some of the base on the on the conservative side, not all that comfortable with, then you throw the Democrats trying to siphon off some of those people uh with with immigration.
That's all it will take.
Regardless of what you know the Democratic National Committee does about immigration.
Now, Fund, in his in his piece, and I really uh it's 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 uh because eighty 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.
Um he says the same thing about Richardson.
Um here's what he's 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.
They 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 Mexic 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?
Gonna 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.
Uh Jamie, or a jaime, I should say, uh Besserril, 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 uh 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 insured 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 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 puff and 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 the they can 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 knows no apparent effort to do anything about it.
So the I warned you people this was gonna happen.
Uh In fact, I even got some emails today from people.
This is your fault that Richardson did this.
You gave them the idea, Rush.
Come on, folks, wake up.
Nobody had to give them this idea.
This is this is a this is the elephant in a 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 uh it might.
You never know.
Uh it's it's clear the mainstream press.
I don't know where they're gonna 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 uh within the span of the last two years.
But uh, and I'm sure they're counting on that.
But it's just it's it's still, you know, 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 uh uh the communications director of the National Abortion Rights Action League has resigned, some think fired, but uh has resigned in protest over the wimpish behavior of the Nayrol people themselves in pulling the ad.
And there's a story that ran, let's say cuts, I guess it's Saturday in the New York Times from Cheryl Gay Stolberg.
Glow of ad shows Democrats' dilemma.
A decision by Nayroll, a withdrawal 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 Nayrol Pro-Choice America, uh 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 Carey.
You can see from Nayroll 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 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 uh we've we've had our run-ins with Mr. Raspberry early on in this program's life.
Back in the uh early 90s, late 80s, I forget when it was.
But uh 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 uh did 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.
Uh 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 Robert 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 uh uh 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 a 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's decide the law, to decide legal cases.
They decided for themselves, uh, in the late 1800s that they were gonna be the sole arbiter of what's constitutional or what isn't.
It's called judicial review, Marbury versus Madison.
Uh but the left clearly sees uh the Supreme Court as uh the balancing uh mechanism to level the playing field between society's haves and have not.
Society's fortunates and society's unfortunate, 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.
There's there's the resignation, and I'm not saying there won't be fireworks.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm the they're gonna they're that's all they know how to do.
They'll try to stop the confirmation uh during the hearings, but you can just see the resignation of we gotta go back, though.
We gotta what is all this about?
The Nayroll ad, here it is.
This is the ad that's been pulled.
Nayroll said, Well, we don't we just don't we think people are not understanding it or misconstruing it.
In other words, you're 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.
The bomb ripped from 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 am 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 Limbaugh.
Well, fact check.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 and used his own cell phone to trigger the explosion.
Just like the terrorists in Iraq.
Stop Judge Roberts from getting on the Supreme Court before he kills again.
Far by George Soros and they're all 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 they'll figure out that their problem was they came out with it too soon.
It came out with it in August.
The recess, vacation time.
Come out with this thing a week or ten 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, first of September, latter part of uh 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 uh put out.
The reason why it got pulled was in my opinion is Rush Limbaugh, the 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 goodness 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.
Uh this this is interesting.
President Bush said on Israeli television, uh, 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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