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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 what what can a Democrats on the Judiciary Committee do in their vote for John Roberts, a Democrat strategy here on how to vote, not for the outcome, but how it'll affect him politically.
Why don't they try a uh 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.
If I 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 uh if that happens, telephone numbers 800 282-2882 and the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
And by the way, I I want to tell you this, this is because I like to share uh productive good news.
I have been zycamming my nostrils ever since I detected coming down with this thing.
Uh uh Zykan is one of our sponsors, but it's a zinc substance that'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 I I do not think I would have been here.
Uh, 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.
Uh the I mean, I've been sometimes more frequently than uh than uh 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 it's a virus.
There's no cure for a virus or anything.
Uh, you know, just occasionally some uh uh Robotussin uh for the cough.
Oh, and I did do one, I took a steam shower to loosen up all that congestion.
That that that works well too.
Uh but uh the the this Zycam stuff, you know, they've been a sponsor of ours since early last year.
And uh I uh every time I this 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 uh it's manageable.
At least I could show up here and work.
Now, just not long ago, in the last hour, I we had a call on, and I asked this caller who's worried about all this spending, uh, how can we afford to do this and that?
And I I said, have you heard uh any anybody out there yet say that uh along the lines, well, you know, we spent all this money on 9-11 victims, uh, 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 gonna be long before somebody's gonna say, hey, what was it, the average of 1.9 million dollars on the families uh of victims at 9-11 in the World Trade Center and a Pentagon, and uh what is for New Orleans, it's uh it's a relative uh it's it's hardly anything compared to that.
And somebody's gonna 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 this this piece from the Lowell, Massachusetts Sun.
It's an editorial, uh, 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.
Uh I just, you know, folks, uh I I don't deny things that are out there, and I mentioned at the top of the program that that there's a lot of pessimism on my side of the aisle about this.
I mean, I uh I got I've got a piece of the American Spectator today that let me let me find this.
I'm it's got to be here someplace.
I'll just read this to you rather than Yeah, listen, listen, this this is this is and I'm not I'm not zeroing in on the spectator at all.
I I I'm the because they're not the only ones.
This is just the probably the uh fastest example I have.
Uh 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 of the Bush administration circuit 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 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 uh would have stayed.
Uh so it it it's a it's a story that talks about the sinking feeling in the administration.
No agenda, wandering aimlessly through the second term, uh 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 uh been categorized here as Clintonian in response to uh Hurricane Katrina, uh 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, I mean I'm well, let me rephrase that.
I know that there are a lot of people uh in the uh you know they're out there on the left, but I know a lot of people on the conservative side have the some 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, uh, last great chance to remake the country.
You're never gonna get a Republican president in the Senate and the House like this again.
Even if we do, what good's it gonna do us?
Uh well, and the next time people say, let's elect let's make sure we elect a conservative president, that'll help, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And here's where I come down on this.
I don't know what good the pessimism's gonna do anybody.
Now, if if I were if I were of the mind to stick my fingers, 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?
Uh it's not enough just to keep attacking the left and defending ourselves against the left's attacks, which is primarily what happens, uh, at least on this program.
Uh, it it seems to me that 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 or all 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 prove you're okay, yeah, 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 gonna 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 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 in, not just at the ballot box.
And I believe that there is an opportunity here.
Hence we put together last Friday the Limbaugh Plan with some suggestions on where to go to find this money and then how to spend it in order to uh 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 uh 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 I'll 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 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, and then Bush isn't doing anything about it.
Bush won't even attack them, Bush won't even.
No, he won't.
Uh but by the same token, he's uh uh uh at the same time he's 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 gotta get the court back, Rush.
We gotta save this country from the court.
Well, okay, here's step one, and it's gonna 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 the the time here to start throwing up our hands and saying, ah, well, hell with it.
Damn it.
This is a spending all this money, where are we gonna pay?
I just sorry, that's not attractive to me.
And there are, to me, there are 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 uh 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.
It's not, he's not winning the hearts and minds of anybody who aren't already on that wavelength.
You know, 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 uh 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 dollars back into the budget.
Senator Lindsey Graham, uh, I'm sorry, Vice President Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican agreed the president's uh prescription drug plan should be delayed, and suggested an across the board cut in non defense spending.
Now, so here you've got you 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 uh the the farm bill might be tough.
That's a big red red state program, and it's uh it's it there's there's some pork in it, but you certainly have the uh 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 um uh this prescription drug plan there's no poll in the world that shows the benefits even wanted this.
You know, we when you when you get right down to it.
So my point is that here are some Republicans, uh, and they are the conservatives up on Capitol Hill, who are gonna do everything they can to make this happen.
They're they're trying, and they don't they don't deserve to be sandbagged uh and given up on.
Uh they need support, like anybody else who wants to look at this in a uh 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 still got to go through the whole legislative process uh for for the 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 it 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 it's it there's no greater time than now to exploit it.
Here is Herb in uh Wilmet, Illinois.
Welcome to the program, Herb.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
A long time listener, first time getting through, 24 uh seven member and club get mowner.
Thank you, sir.
Very appreciate that.
Listen, if you want to see a real governor, take a look at what Jeb uh Bush is doing on TV, saying uh to his uh Florida residents, what exactly is going to happen should God forbid Hurricane Rita hit uh the uh 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 uh 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 this is this is either the sixth or seventh hurricane if it hits Florida that will have hit Florida last two years.
There, I know there were four last year.
There's been one this year, the one to come.
And did there did one hit the panhandle earlier this year as well?
Again, I 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.
Uh so I mean you're right to credit Jeb Bush uh the way he's handling things now.
The evacuation is mandatory for the keys.
The the latest hurricane track for uh Hurricane Rita Vanden Hoovel, by the way.
Uh and I'm just gonna tell you what it is.
It's almost a direct hit on Key West.
The uh the hurricane, I just checked the infrared satellite imagery, and it it looks to be right on their track.
So if their track holds, it'll it'll it'll come very, very close to Key West, and then they are saying that its next landfall will be Houston.
Uh, which is where the uh uh Katrina Vanden Hoovel evacuees are.
So uh 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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Uh I got a couple audio soundbites here.
I want to um uh 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.
This is not hurtful anymore.
This is not it's uh more and more people watch this stuff and greet this with a joke.
First off, actor activist Alan Aldove.
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 uh 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 uh even when they were there, they weren't there.
They weren't the influence that they used to be.
Their monopoly days are over.
Uh, I guess I guess uh I 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 here's Dan Rather, folks, accepting I guess he's accepting an award.
Uh uh 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 are not only false, but lead to a panic situation that is far outweighed by the reality.
It can 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 j I'm I'm just I'm just I'm just telling you folks, everybody in the world now re 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 when he decided that the Great Britain was not going to participate in the 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 are you doing, Rush?
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 happen to watch a little bit of that game.
I saw was a 36 to 6 router, 38 to 6 route, the the Bears on top.
I saw the game.
But that wasn't my pick.
That was the environmentalist wacko pick.
Oh I didn't I didn't, 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 I'm I'm not hedging at all here.
I the one thing I did say was the Bears don't have any offense, and I was wrong about that.
They they sh they certainly showed some offense.
But uh a lot a lot of their field position was determined by the lack of Lions uh uh having any offense at all yesterday.
Well, what do you think about the Bears for the rest of the season?
Any playoff hope?
Well uh I don't know.
I haven't looked at the schedule.
Uh but I I think a win like this uh is no doubt I'm gonna give him momentum.
Uh there's nothing and it's gonna give him a huge amount of uh huge amount of confidence.
And they've got a great coach.
Lovey Smith is a great coach, and he's been very patient, and they've had quarterback problems for two years with injuries and so forth.
So I I think the well, the Patriots didn't surprise me.
I I I I the Patriots losing to the uh Carolina Panthers didn't really surprise me.
Um I don't know why.
I mean I can't sit here and tell you why it didn't surprise me, but it just it just didn't.
Uh and the Cowboys and Redskins tonight, this is a this is a no-brainer.
This is the Cowboys.
Uh Cowboys and a romp tonight, folks.
There's there's uh no question about it.
The big big question to me is the Saints and the Giants.
Uh that that, you know, will the will the Saints be able to hold on to their emotion and their momentum after their uh after their win.
Uh I think the Saints are gonna surprise people this year.
Everybody's talking about how they don't have a home and their their vagabonds and their their home is wherever they happen to be that day.
Uh yeah, New Orleans big theme songs ain't got no home.
Clarence Frogman Henry.
Uh I think the Saints may surprise some people this year.
But really, I'm not I'm not I'm not trying to deduct this, but it was an environmental wacko pick.
You get you get what you get with the environmental wacko pick.
And the environmental wacko pick, no way you cut it.
You you the lions are gonna win that game, according to environmentalist wackos.
There's there's no other way to analyze it.
Uh David and Newton, uh, Iowa, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Judicial dittoes, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
There's a reason why uh Justice Roberts didn't have a glove laid on him.
And I think it's because he went to the Mount Rush University uh School of uh of uh right thinking.
You see, uh Justice Roberts didn't have to hold a committee meeting to determine what he believes.
No, that's true.
I mean, he he knew what he believes, and uh, of course, in some cases he can't express it because of the uh 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 uh you and uh and uh President Bush and uh Roberts have that in common, that you know what you believe and don't always a hundred percent agree with all of you all the time, but uh you know what you believe, and so there's no wishy-washyness about you.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And I I know I know exactly what you mean.
Uh the the little addition to this, uh Arlen Spector was just on the floor of the Senate.
And uh the essential thing that he said was that Judge Roberts is well called qualified and uh he's gonna vote for it.
Is that pretty much it, Mr. Sterling?
But earlier, Arlen Spector 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 gotta remember now, Senator Spector is a uh is a liberal Republican.
But I will guarantee you that George Bush is not gonna listen to what Arlen Spector says.
He may make Specter think he's listening, but he's not he's not gonna he's not gonna react.
Ooh, I better do this because Spectre 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 uh what I think what Senator Spector 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 uh Biden and uh leaving somebody else the Schumer I got I think I got them 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 caterwalling for all their warnings for all the Senator Spectres that go out there and tell President Bush what he's got to do and for all the caterwalling from Senator Schumer and whatever advice he gives they are but one vote.
They're not a hundred 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 one hundred 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 one hundred 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 where his Club Gitmo t-shirt, he has sent it in.
He submitted it for posting on our Club Gitmo 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 Gitmo 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, police, if you see the police warn a brother, you know, with the Warner Brothers logo.
Don't make me laugh.
I'm going to start a coughing spasm.
Roger in Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Go Steelers.
Thanks so much, Rush.
Good to be talking to you.
I've been dragged out of the Democratic Party by you and your sensibleness.
I'm not quite a Republican yet.
I'm an independent bent.
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 as 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.
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 the forged documents, the memo, Bill Burkett.
Dan Rather up there accepting uh I don't know if he's accepting an award or whatever for the great work.
But uh maybe maybe that wasn't political.
Um in the sense that Hollywood doesn't think anything it ever does is political.
Uh but even beyond that, even beyond that, Roger, um.
You're right.
Um I I th I I think it was a bit of a cheap shot, and and I want to try to make amends here.
I want to uh beg the forgiveness of the audience for blatantly politicizing uh what was a heartfelt, deeply touching moment last night at the uh Emmy Awards.
So, folks, could we have uh a brief moment of silence uh while we pay homage to the American left as it documents its uh falling relics and ruins.
Sorry, I'm trying to do this seriously.
Try again.
A brief moment of silence, uh, ladies and gentlemen, as we pay homage uh to what once was.
Uh we now have to recognize that uh much of what the left's power base was is now in ruins.
Uh 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, and hopefully we'll never be again.
*coughing*
Sorry, I just can't do it.
One more time, ladies and gentlemen, a moment of silence, if you will, uh uh for of the uh the uh a uh network anchor triumvirate uh rather broke out Jennings uh and the the uh days that that used used to be.
*cough* *cough* *cough* Can't do it!
I just can't do it.
Uh hi, it's Joe Lockhart, Carrie for President.
Uh 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.
Uh Bill Burkett here.
Well, what the hell kind of campaign are you people running?
The Swift Fets are killing you, buddy.
Give me a call.
I have a way to beat him.
Hi, Joe.
Mary Mapes again.
Well, listen, did you talk to Bill Burkett 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 Carrick.
Hello, Joe.
Uh Bill Burkett in Texas.
Look, uh CI and the NSA and a whole bunch of organizations wrapping at me.
Courtesy of the Bush family, of course.
Now listen, you gotta stop talking about the Vietnam swift boats.
You need to talk about the secret plot to get me right here in Texas.
Call me, uh Bill Burkett.
Uh 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.
Uh now listen, I got memos, uh, lots of memos.
Uh here, Lucy, give me the memo.
I got all kinds of memos.
Bush went A-Wall in Vietnam.
Uh Bush is hiding.
Uh uh Bin Laden in Ohio, and here's a hot one.
Bush is rigging the lottery in New Mexico.
Uh, did I ever tell you about my trips to Cambodia in 1968?
I tell you what, it's seared in my head.
Seared in my head.
Damn Nixon.
Call me back.
Uh uh, I think they're listening in again.
Hello, Joe.
Dan Rather calling.
Courage.
Hey, that's a fitting tribute.
As the uh Emmys last night offered their tribute to the great work and the Mount Rushmore like uh importance and status of the uh of the three network anchors.
And I'm sorry if I offended anybody that uh was watching that ceremony last night and was uh was touched by it.
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