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Sept. 19, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2005, Monday, Hour #3
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I'm sitting here thinking, what can the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee do in their vote for John Roberts, the Democrats strategierizing here on how to vote, not for the outcome, but how it'll affect him politically.
Why don't they try a John Kerry vote?
Vote for him before they vote against him.
Greetings.
Welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A bit under the weather today.
And I've done pretty well today in keeping the hacking coughs off air, but sometimes I'm unable to avoid it, and I apologize in advance.
If that happens, telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
And by the way, I want to tell you this, this is because I like to share productive good news.
I have been zycamming my nostrils ever since I detected coming down with this thing.
Zycan, they're one of our sponsors, but it's a zinc substance.
It's at the end of a q-tip-like device you just swab the inside of your nostrils with every four hours, and it gets zinc into your system real fast.
And I've been trying it, and it's worked in the past.
And I do not think I would have been here because I know the person I caught this from.
The person I caught this from was off work for a week.
And the one thing different that I did was I zycammed.
I mean, I've been sometimes more frequently than four hours.
And so this stuff is amazing.
It works.
I mean, I haven't been taking anything else for it.
You know, it's a virus.
There's no cure for a virus or anything.
You know, just occasionally some robotusin for the cough.
Oh, and I did do one.
I took a steam shower to loosen up all that congestion.
That works well, too.
But this Zycam stuff, you know, they've been a sponsor of ours since early last year.
And every time I, this is like the third or fourth time I felt on the verge of a cold.
And the other times I didn't get it at all.
This time I did, but it's manageable.
At least I could show up here and work.
Now, just not long ago, in the last hour, we had a call on and I asked this caller who's worried about all his spending.
How can we afford to do this and that?
And I said, have you heard anybody out there yet say that along the lines, well, you know, we spend all this money on 9-11 victims.
We're not spending hardly anything compared to that when it comes to New Orleans victims.
And he said, no.
I said, well, mark my words.
It ain't going to be long before somebody's going to say, hey, what was it?
The average of $1.9 million on the families of victims at 9-11 and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
And for New Orleans, it's a relative, hardly anything compared to that.
And somebody's going to predict, I said predicted, somebody is going to suggest that we do the same thing.
Lo and behold, about 45 minutes after that, Snerdley brings me this piece from the Lowell, Massachusetts Sun.
It's an editorial.
And the title of the editorial is called Save Us From Waste, Amen.
And there's this paragraph in it.
Worse, the Reverend Dax Sharpton and every NAACP leader is calling for a separate government 911 victims fund for Katrina's 400,000 evacuees.
Outrageous.
You bet.
Mother Nature's Fury is not foreign or domestic terrorism, yet this plundering of the U.S. Treasury is gaining ground in Washington from Democrats and Republicans facing a re-election challenge next year.
Tell us it ain't so, Mr. President.
A lot of people are on this bandwagon.
I just, you know, folks, I don't deny things that are out there.
And I mentioned at the top of the program that there's a lot of pessimism on my side of the aisle about this.
I mean, I've got a piece, The American Spectator today, that let me find this.
It's got to be here someplace.
I'll just read this to you rather than yeah, listen, listen, this is, and I'm not zeroing in on the spectator at all.
Because they're not the only ones.
This is just the probably the fastest example I have to get my hands on.
Publicly, the White House will tell you it intends to push ahead with two of its big legislative issues throughout the fall, making permanent the first-term tax cuts and social security reform.
Even privately, with the political and policy debacle that the White House created with its Clintonian response to Hurricane Katrina, policy and political types at 1600 Pennsylvania insist what's left of an agenda is still viable.
But at this stage of the game, barring some imaginative political moves that bear some resemblance to the Bush administration circa 2002, Republicans on Capitol Hill and even some longtime Bush team members in various cabinet-level departments say this administration is done for.
You run down the list of things we thought we could accomplish and you have to wonder what we thought we were thinking, says a Bush administration member who joined on in 2001.
You get the impression we're more than listless.
We're sunk.
Too pessimistic?
Maybe not.
Rumors are flying through various departments of longtime senior Bush loyalists looking to jump, but with few opportunities in the private sector to make the jump look like anything more than desperation.
Almost daily, complaints from cabinet-level departments come into the White House about lack of communication coordination on even basic policy matters.
What happened was that some of the best people who were working in the administration during the first term, but who weren't necessarily Bush campaign members or weren't particularly close to the White House, jumped when they saw opportunities being filled by underqualified but more politically connected people.
In this department, we lost, this is a current administration senior staffer in a cabinet department.
In this department, we lost three-quarters of the people who should have been encouraged to stay.
And most of them left simply because they had received no indication they'd be considered for better or different opportunities.
And many of these people would have stayed.
So it's a story that talks about the sinking feeling in the administration.
No agenda, wandering aimlessly through the second term.
Political appointees who are underqualified being given plum jobs while true loyalists and qualified people are being passed over.
And now the spending on Hurricane Katrina, which has been categorized here as Clintonian in response to Hurricane Katrina, the news is that inside the administration, they just are essentially jumping out the windows.
It's 1929.
Now, I know this is true.
I mean, well, let me rephrase that.
I know that there are a lot of people in the, you know, they're out there on the left, but I know a lot of people on the conservative side have some of these sentiments.
And, you know, I could too.
I mean, we all could.
We all could look at the spending on this disaster, and we could all just throw up our hands and say, well, there it goes.
Last great chance to remake the country.
You're never going to get a Republican president in the Senate and the House like this again.
Even if we do, what good's it going to do us?
Well, the next time people say, let's like, let's make sure we elect a conservative president.
That'll help.
Blah, And here's where I come down on this.
I don't know what good the pessimism is going to do anybody.
Now, if I were of the mind to stick my finger, moisten my finger, stick it in the wind, and try to gain popularity by saying what I thought most people wanted to hear, then I would join the chorus.
And I would join them in the doom and gloom pessimism, it's over.
And I would cite all the examples.
But then what would I say?
Where do you go from there?
What in the world do you do?
It's not enough just to keep attacking the left and defending ourselves against the left's attacks, which is primarily what happens, at least on this program.
It seems to me that all this pessimism and a desire to be able to say, see, I was right a couple years from now when all hell goes to hell, if that's what happens, is not worthy of being.
I mean, I don't want to be that right.
I'm not that desirous of just being right about something unless it leads to something better.
And I, I don't know, I just it, just it.
It kind of frustrates me a little bit because okay, people have proven they can be pessimistic.
Then what you prove, you can be fatalistic.
Then what uh, you prove you can be doom and gloom, you can you prove, okay, it's over, that's it.
I've had it.
I've had it with this bunch.
I'm through supporting them.
I'm not going to send him.
Okay, then what do you do?
It seems to me that in the, in the process, excuse me it basically talking surrender uh, other than to continue making the case for conservatism, which is going to happen here anyway.
But why couple that with giving up?
Why make giving up commensurate with conservatism?
Why make fatalism commensurate with conservatism?
Doesn't make any sense to me.
There's uh I I, I do harbor maybe it's a naive belief, but I do believe that the people of this country generally get what they want and that the people of this country have far more power than they think and that they can affect the outcome of events far more than they believe, and not just at the ballot box, and I believe that there is an opportunity here.
Hence we put together last friday the limb ball plan with some suggestions on where, where to go to find this money and then how to spend it, in order to demonstrate some things about conservatism rather than just making an intellectual exercise.
We can all sit here and argue conservatism versus liberalism and win every day, but it seems to me the real influence is having conservatism not just articulated but implemented, and let the outcome of an actual implementation of some sort of conservative philosophy in this rebuilding, for example, illustrate by itself and for itself what conservatism is.
Now, it's tough, I mean, it's i'm i'm i'm, i'm.
By the same, while i'm not a pessimist and a fatalist i'm also not one who looks through rose-colored glasses either but it just seems to me it is.
It is premature to uh to give up.
If there's some malcontents and unhappy people in the Bush administration, let them go and let them fly the coop.
If if if, they've been looking at this administration as an opportunity to better themselves and so forth and they can't do it in the administration, let them go and find somewhere in the private sector to do it.
Uh, but it's, it's just, it's too easy to fall prey to fatalism.
It's too easy to fall prey to negativism and and uh and pessimism, uh it it.
All this illustrates folks to me is that you have to keep fighting it and you have to keep uh, uh well, I don't know what to add.
You have to keep fighting it uh, if you're, if you're ever to be uh, dominant.
The thing that's that's continually frustrating to me about this is that, for all the people who think that Bush has had it and that this administration's finished, if you take a look at the Democrats, i've never seen a party as floundering and aimless and ripe for the pickings as they are now.
I know that that can add to the frustration of people.
And yeah, Bush isn't doing about it.
Bush won't even attack them.
Bush won't even.
No, he won't.
But by the same token, he's at the same time, he's had this victory at the Supreme Court.
This is not a minor thing.
I mean, just before this disaster struck, before this disaster struck, that's all anybody cared about.
We got to get the court back rushed.
We got to save this country from the court.
Well, okay, here's step one, and it's going to happen.
And there's another nominee to come.
And we know that the court is the last refuge of power for the left.
If they lose that, they are in heap big trouble for years and years and years, folks, given what the court has become and the way they've manipulated and used it.
And it just doesn't seem to me that now's the time here to start throwing up our hands and saying, oh, well, hell with it.
Damn it.
This is a legislature.
We're spending all this money.
Where are we going to pay?
Sorry, that's not attractive to me.
And there are, to me, there are clear signs that the left continues to flounder.
They're clear signs that they don't know what they're doing.
And that there are thus tremendous opportunities to continue to skunk them.
I look at Clinton and that disgraceful performance yesterday on Stephanopoulos as a golden opportunity.
I don't think it's helping them for Clinton to go out and say things like he said yesterday.
He's not winning the hearts and minds of anybody who aren't already on that wavelength.
I'm a little long here.
Let me take a quick time out.
We'll be back and continue with all this, plus your phone calls in just a second.
Stay with us.
A couple of news items here.
Conservative Republicans this week going to present a spending cut plan to help offset the billions needed to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina that would eliminate some of the 6,000 congressional pet projects tucked inside the massive transportation bill.
Some Republican critics also suggest delaying President Bush's prescription drug plan to roll back some of the $331 billion deficit, which includes $62.3 billion for hurricane relief.
This is Representative Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican.
And he said yesterday that lawmakers will have to take a really hard look at delaying the January 1st implementation of the prescription drug entitlement, which he says would put $40 billion back into the budget.
Senator Lindsey Graham, I'm sorry, Vice President Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, agreed the president's prescription drug plan should be delayed and suggested an across-the-board cut in non-defense spending.
Now, so here you've got two elements of the Limbaugh plan being proposed here by members of Congress.
Take some of the pork out of the highway bill.
You could also, the farm bill might be tough.
That's a big red state program and there's some pork in it, but you certainly have the, and you get some out of there, maybe not a lot, but you do have the highway bill and you have the transportation bill.
You've got this prescription drug plan.
There's no poll in the world that shows the benefits even wanted this, you know, when you get right down to it.
So my point is that here are some Republicans, and they are the conservatives up on Capitol Hill, who are going to do everything they can to make this happen.
They're trying, and they don't deserve to be sandbagged and given up on.
They need support like anybody else who wants to look at this in a responsible way also.
Because remember, all the president did was propose something in that speech.
It still has yet to be put together.
The president's words are not the waving of a magic wand.
It's still got to go through the whole legislative process for all the appropriations and where the money is going to be received and making sure that there are no tax increases.
And by the way, let me just tell you, when you hear Democrats say that they want to not make tax cuts permanent, that's a tax increase, folks.
That's a tax increase every bit more so than a federal budget cuts, a budget cut.
A federal budget cut is never a budget cut, but if you don't want to make the, if you don't make these tax cuts permanent, that is a tax increase.
Nail the Democrats with that.
That it is not necessary.
As we know, there is so much fraud and waste that's around that can be trimmed out of here at various programs all over this budget.
It isn't necessary to increase taxes.
I'm just saying, oh, Pollyanna Rush, there's an opportunity here, and there's no greater time than now to exploit it.
Here is Herb in Will Met, Illinois.
Welcome to the program, Herb.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
A long time listener.
First time getting through, 24 Summer 7 member and club getmall owner.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Listen, if you want to see a real governor, take a look at what Jeb Bush is doing on TV, saying to his Florida residents, what exactly is going to happen should, God forbid, Hurricane Rita hit that state in the next day or so.
I mean, this is a guy out in front of everything.
He's telling you what to do.
And I'd say compare and contrast that with Kathleen Blanco that you didn't see anywhere on TV to my knowledge and see what a real governor knows how to do.
Yeah, but you know, this is not the first time.
This is either the sixth or seventh hurricane, if it hits Florida, that will have hit Florida in the last two years.
I know there were four last year.
There's been one this year, the one to come.
And did one hit the panhandle earlier this year as well?
Again, I think this is six or seven, and you go six or seven hurricanes.
You don't see anything in Florida like what you saw in Louisiana.
You didn't see it in Mississippi.
I'm talking about the aftermath.
So you're right to credit Jeb Bush.
The way he's handling things now, the evacuation is mandatory for the Keys.
The latest hurricane track for Hurricane Rita van den Hoovel, by the way, and I'm just going to tell you what it is.
It's almost a direct hit on Key West.
The hurricane, I just checked the infrared satellite imagery, and it looks to be right on their track.
So if their track holds, it'll come very, very close to Key West.
And then they are saying that its next landfall will be Houston, which is where the Katrina van den Hoovel evacuees are.
So just to the left of Houston, just to the west of Houston, the Galveston area is where they're saying now.
But that's a long way out and it's subject to change, obviously.
Thanks for the call out there, Herb.
I appreciate it.
We'll be right back and move right on right after this.
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Thank you.
Thanks and welcome back.
Serving humanity, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
El Rushbaugh, America's anchorman and harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, I have a couple audio sound bites here.
I want to play for you.
These are from the Emmys last night.
And I play these in the spirit of let them keep talking.
Let them keep talking and let them keep acting.
is not hurtful anymore this is not it's more and more people watch this stuff and greet this with a joke First off, actor activist Alan Aldov.
For nearly a quarter of a century, three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one.
At a time when so much around us was changing, they were solid.
They illuminated our dark hours with insight, and they reflected the warm light of our sunniest days.
They helped us know who we were, and through that, maybe even who we could become.
They were a kind of electronic Mount Rushmore on our journalistic landscape.
And now the contours of that mountain have changed.
He's talking about Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings in calling them the Mount Rushmore of our journalistic landscape.
And now the contours of that mountain have changed.
That's right, Alan, but not for the reasons that you think.
The reasons are that even when they were there, they weren't there.
They weren't the influence that they used to be.
Their monopoly days are over.
I guess, I guess, I guess, well, I don't know why he spoke.
Well, no, I do know why he spoke.
I just, I don't know.
I don't understand it.
Here's Dan Rather, folks, accepting.
I guess he's accepting an award.
All I know is that he's thanking the Academy here for something, which is great.
Because an Emmy in this day and age is exactly what he deserves for making up the news.
Finally, we want to thank the Academy, most of all, for a gesture that I hope reaffirms the need for strong, relevant, quality television journalism.
Using this medium for good journalism comes with undeniable challenges, but there are times, as we've been most recently reminded with Hurricane Katrina, when the immediacy and images that television provides the best way are not only false, but lead to a panic situation that is far outweighed by the reality.
Did it convey a breaking news story, but also an essential part of the story itself?
Stop the tape.
Yes, the part that's not true.
Television has been called a medium of the tremendous potential powers, and we continue to believe in the potential of those powers to do good.
Thank you.
Good night.
Godspeed.
The only thing I know, was he wearing a trench coat I didn't watch last night.
I didn't know if he was wearing a trench coat.
Did they have some stage rain so Dan could be accepting this from a hurricane-like set?
Anyway, that was the Emmys last night.
What was noteworthy from them?
I'm just telling you, folks, everybody in the world now, even Tony Blair, even Tony Blair, after he pulled the rug out from everybody at the European Union and Bill Clinton last week when he decided that Great Britain was not going to participate in a Kyoto Treaty.
Then Tony Blair had to also agree that the BBC's coverage of America, particularly the hurricane, was anti-American.
And even Rupert Murdoch agreed, and Rupert Murdoch got in on the discussion by talking about how CNN International is also anti-American.
And these people want to continue to live in their little world that what they're doing is shaping opinion.
It may still be shaping opinion, but not in the ways that they once did and in the ways they still dream of.
Paul in Chicago, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, how you doing, Rosh?
I'm just fine, Paul.
Thanks much.
I wanted to take you to task on picking the lions on Friday.
Did you take a look at the Bears game?
Yeah, I happened to watch a little bit of that game.
I saw it was a 36-6 route or 38-6 route, the Bears on Top.
I saw the game.
But that wasn't my pick.
That was the environmentalist wacko pick.
I did not pick that game according to football analysis.
I picked that game according to environmental wacko analysis.
Well, for years.
I'm not hedging.
I'm not hedging at all here.
The one thing I did say was the Bears don't have any offense, and I was wrong about that.
They certainly showed some offense, but a lot of their field position was determined by the lack of Lions having any offense at all yesterday.
Well, what do you think about the Bears for the rest of the season?
Well, I don't know.
I haven't looked at the schedule, but I think a win like this is no doubt is going to give them momentum.
And it's going to give them a huge amount of confidence.
And they've got a great coach.
Lovey Smith's a great coach.
He's been very patient.
And they've had quarterback problems for two years with injuries and so forth.
So I think, well, the Patriots didn't surprise me.
The Patriots losing to the Carolina Panthers didn't really surprise me.
I don't know why.
I mean, I can't sit here and tell you why it didn't surprise me, but it just didn't.
And the Cowboys and Redskins tonight, this is a no-brainer.
This is the Cowboys.
Cowboys in a romp tonight, folks.
There's no question of it.
The big question to me is the Saints and the Giants.
Will the Saints be able to hold on to their emotion and their momentum after their win?
I think the Saints are going to surprise people this year.
Everybody's talking about how they don't have a home and they're vagabonds and their home is wherever they happen to be that day.
Yeah, New Orleans, big theme songs ain't got no home, Clarence Frogman Henry.
So I think the Saints may surprise some people this year.
But really, I'm not trying to deduct this, but it was an environmental wacko pick.
You get what you get with the environmental wacko pick.
And the environmental wacko pick, no way you cut it.
The Lions are going to win that game, according to environmentalist wackos.
There's no other way to analyze it.
David in Newton, Iowa, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Judicial Dittos, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
There's a reason why Justice Roberts didn't have a glove laid on him, and I think it's because he went to the Mount Rush University School of Right Thinking.
You see, Justice Roberts didn't have to hold a committee meeting to determine what he believes.
No, that's true.
I mean, he knew what he believes.
And, of course, in some cases, he can't express it because of the restraints on, you know, what he can answer.
But he knows what he believes.
He's not confused up there.
And that's why the Democrats hate him.
And you and President Bush and Roberts have that in common, that you know what you believe and don't always 100% agree with all of you all the time, but you know what you believe, and so there's no wishy-washy-ness about you.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And I know exactly what you mean.
A little addition to this, Arlen Specter was just on the floor of the Senate, and the essential thing that he said was that Judge Roberts is well qualified, and he's going to vote for it.
Is that pretty much it, Mr. Sternly?
But earlier, Arlen Specter issued a warning to the White House saying for the next pick, you must remember to keep the balance of the court in mind.
So you've got to remember now, Senator Specter is a liberal Republican.
But I will guarantee you that George Bush is not going to listen to what Arlen Specter says.
He may make Specter think he's listening, but he's not going to react.
Ooh, I better do this because Specter wants me to.
Here is Specter, a man who owes his reelection to George W. Bush.
The lack of gratitude in this town politically is just stunning.
From the Clintons to any number of people that Bush has gone out and helped and campaigned for, they never repay.
There's never any reciprocity whatsoever.
As far as you know, it doesn't bother Bush because he's doing what he thinks is right and best for whatever he wants to do.
But I think what Senator Specter needs to remember, and also I think this would be a good lesson for Senators Schumer and Leahy and Kennedy and Feinstein and Senator Cole and Senator, who else am I leaving?
Biden, and am I leaving somebody else, Schumer?
I think I got them all, all the Democrats on the committee.
They leave one out.
Oh, yeah, Senator Turbin.
Not only a good lesson for all of them to remember, but a good lesson for all of you to remember for all their caterwauling, for all their warnings, for all the senator specters that go out there and tell President Bush what he's got to do, and for all the caterwauling from Senator Schumer and whatever advice he gives.
They are but one vote.
They're not 100 votes.
They are not the Senate.
They are not the entire committee.
They are just one vote.
Pure and simple.
They may be amplified, and the press may make them sound like they are the Senate.
The press may make them sound like they have more than one vote, like they may have all 100 votes, like they are speaking for the whole Senate, but they never are.
They are just one vote.
One vote out of 100.
So whenever you hear these guys start pontificating, forget their words, forget their admonitions, forget their threats or their warnings or whatever.
And just remember, they only have one vote out of 100 votes.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
You know, I just got the funniest picture from my old buddy, The Hutch.
Ken Hutcherson, the Reverend Hutcherson from out in Seattle, he went to Washington during the Roberts hearings, apparently.
And he went to the Capitol building, wearing his Club Guitmo t-shirt.
He has sent it in.
He submitted it for posting on our Club Guitmo photo gallery, which we will do.
But he's standing at the bottom of the Capitol steps surrounded by a bunch of Capitol Hill policemen and nobody else around during the Roberts hearings.
And the Hutch has got on a nice black suit with just that Club Guitmo orange t-shirt.
He's also got another shirt.
It's got the Warner Brothers logo on it.
You have to look at this real carefully.
He sent me this picture, too.
And let me call it up just to make sure I get this right.
If you see the police, D-A-Comma Police, if you see DePolice, warn a brother with the Warner Brothers logo.
Don't make me laugh.
I'm going to start a coughing spasm.
Roger in Pittsburgh.
Well, home of the Steelers.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Joe Steelers, thanks so much, Rush.
Good to be talking to you.
It's been dragged out of the Democratic Party by you and your sensibleness.
I'm not quite a Republican yet.
I'm on the Independent band, and there's no need to call you most times because you articulate so well the point of view that I'm interested in.
However, just calling quickly to disagree on one point, my wife was watching the Emmys last night, so I looked over her shoulder, and I saw the tribute to the three anchor folks, and I thought it was just a nice thing.
I didn't think it was political, and I know that you call yourself America's anchorman is partly for entertainment, but I didn't see the need to politicize it.
I thought it was just a nice, especially because I guess Peter Jennings died.
That's why they did it.
And it's unnecessary to attack them today, it seems to me.
That's all I had to say.
Oh, okay, Roger.
I appreciate the call.
Thanks so much.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe I was overdoing it a little.
Perhaps it was not political to have Dan Rather, a guy who made up the news, accept the award.
Well, he did.
He made up this forged documents, the memo, Bill Burkett.
They have Dan Rather up there accepting, I don't know if he's accepting an award or whatever for the great work, but maybe that wasn't political in the sense that Hollywood doesn't think anything it ever does is political.
But even beyond that, even beyond that, Roger, you're right.
I think it was a bit of a cheap shot, and I want to try to make amends here.
I want to beg the forgiveness of the audience for blatantly politicizing what was a heartfelt, deeply touching moment last night at the Emmy Awards.
So, folks, could we have a brief moment of silence while we pay homage to the American left as it documents its falling relics and ruins?
Sorry, I'm trying to do this seriously.
Try again.
A brief moment of silence, ladies and gentlemen, as we pay homage to what once was.
We now have to recognize that much of what the left's power base was is now in ruins.
And soon we will be able to pour through these ruins and find relics and artifacts to post and display in our museums.
Might we all pause for just a brief brief moment of silence as we remember what once was.
Hopefully we'll never be again.
I'm sorry, I just can't do it.
One more time, ladies and gentlemen, a moment of silence, if you will, for the network anchor triumvirate rather broken Jennings and the days that used to be.
Can't do it!
I just can't do it!
Hi, it's Joe Lockhart at Carrie for President.
Leave your message at the sound of the beat.
Hey, Joe, Mary Mapes, CBS.
Listen, I got a guy who's been helping us out on the memo story about Bush being AWOL.
Could you call him?
Name's Bill Burkett in Baird, Texas.
You know what?
Better yet, I'll give him your number, okay?
Hello, Joe.
Bill Burkett here.
What the hell kind of campaign are you people running?
The Swift Fetch are killing you, buddy.
Give me a call.
I have a way to beat him.
Hi, Joe.
Mary Mapes again.
Oh, listen, did you talk to Bill Burke yet?
The guy's really starting to become a pain.
Cornered me in a Denny's the other day, rambling something about secret information for Senator Kerry.
Hello, Joe.
Bill Burkett in Texas.
Look, the CIA and the NSA and a whole bunch of organizations are out to get me.
Courtesy of the Bush family, of course.
Now, listen, you gotta stop talking about the Vietnam Swiftboats.
You need to talk about the secret plot to get me right here in Texas.
Call me, Bill Burkett, CBS Secret Source.
Okay, hey, Joe, this is getting kind of weird.
I came home from work like always, and there's Bill Burkett with four memos sitting in my kitchen table, muttering something about Bush in Panama.
Can you call this guy, please?
Joe, this is Bill Burkett again.
Now, listen, I got memos, lots of memos.
Here, Lucy, give me the memo.
I got all kinds of memos.
Bush went AWOL in Vietnam.
Bush is hiding Bin Laden in Ohio.
And here's a hot one.
Bush is rigging the lottery in New Mexico.
Did I ever tell you about my trips to Cambodia in 1968?
I'll tell you what, it's seared in my head.
Seared in my head.
Damn, Nixon.
Call me back.
I think they're listening in again.
Hello, Joe.
Dan Rather calling.
Courage.
Hey, that's a fitting tribute.
As the Emmys last night offered their tribute to the great work and the Mount Rushmore-like importance and status of the three network anchors.
And I'm sorry if I offended anybody that was watching that ceremony last night and was touched by it.
So I just want you to show I can be sensitive.
I want to show, and I want you to know that I can be sensitive when called on to be.
And as I will always do, make sure that you know the truth about whatever it is that we happen to be discussing here.
Have a great Monday, folks.
We'll be back tomorrow morning, noon Eastern, live, and do it all over again then.
Look forward to it.
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