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Sept. 22, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 22, 2005, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi.
A little private joke going on here about strippers, uh, folks.
Greetings and uh and welcome back.
Sturdley has some unique experiences, I guess, with them.
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I just got an email, and and I I want to mention this to you because I I think this is how this is how stories get started, and I I don't think this is actually true as it's written to me.
He says, Dear Rush, I live in Baton Rouge and a friend just called, and they heard the soundbite that Governor Blanco told those who were evacuating to take a pen and write their social security number on their arms somewhere so that their bodies can be identified if they fail to survive.
Uh is that what you want your governor to be telling you?
I I watched a little bit of Governor Blanco.
I didn't watch it all.
I can't believe she'd be saying that to evacuees.
Now, what I do know is happening that in areas even in well in New Orleans and uh other parts of Louisiana, even in Texas, you know, a mandatory evacuation is really not mandatory.
They can't come take you out of your house.
It's up to you.
You you you you mean you they would need a court order, folks, to come in and get you out of your house and and physically make you leave.
So mandatory is not really mandatory, but if people do decide to stay around with such a storm approaching, what'll happen is that the officials will go in and they'll do everything they can to persuade people to leave.
Look, there's gonna be no electricity, there's gonna be no running water, your house is gonna be underwater.
There's no reason to stay here.
They try to cajole them.
And I've heard that they will say, okay, all right, if you're gonna stay, just write your social security number somewhere in ink on your body so we can identify you after you're dead as a means of trying to scare them into leaving.
But I didn't hear the governor uh say this.
All right, let me grab this call quickly because I've done the research now.
Sean from Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you with us.
No, thank you.
I just wanted to find out, you know, your opinion on, you know.
May and Nagan is, you know, he's showing the country what he believes in, his priorities are.
Uh, you know, strip clubs uh in the way in the in the upcoming Rita possibility and and rebuilding of New Orleans.
You know, he's you know, he's advocating uh opening up strip bars when he won't let uh other people.
Yeah, uh he's he's he has well, I don't know, advocated it, but well, whatever.
They are open.
Uh after I saw your call up there, and I I again expressed shock and dismay that well, the oncoming approach of Hurricane Rita to the strip bars will be open.
Oh no, no, no, and everybody's been sending me this uh story.
It's a Reuters story, uh, in a sign that things may be returning to normal in New Orleans, and this, by the way, is from today.
From today, things returning to normal.
The governor's trying to get the hell everybody out of the city again.
In a sign that things may be returning to normal in New Orleans, strip clubs are back in the city's famous French quarter.
Erotic dancers and strippers are entertaining crowds of police, firefighters, and military personnel instead of the usual audiences of drunken conventiers and tourists in Bourbon Street's Deja Vu Club, which reopened this week.
Now, I think I know what everybody's talking about.
Negan told everybody to get out one day after the previous day telling him to come back in.
Uh so he went tell people to get out and apparently though the strip club, uh, the deja vu uh club in the quarter uh can open, and there's this um little paragraph here.
Only a handful of restaurants and bars in the quarter have reopened a recent day, serving food and drinks, usually without charge, to uh rescue workers and military who stream through the mostly empty streets.
The deja vu club, in fact, waived its cover charge.
Drinks, adult beverages selling for three dollars, and uh lap dances, private lap dances available for just one dollar.
The uh deja vu manager Brent Ardenneau, uh reopening was A public service.
It's a disaster area here.
You got a lot of people in from out of town that need entertaining.
The rescue workers, the cops, the firemen, and the military.
So all right.
Private lamp dances for one book.
In the French quarter during the evacuation.
We don't know if this is still the case, but this story is dateled today.
So let me use this story as a transition, ladies and gentlemen, because last night, even while suffering the ravages of the virus that has overtaken my body.
And even though I am still here in the process of fighting these ravages, I was diligently preparing for this program.
And I ran across what I think is the first written lamp lap dance I have ever encountered.
It is a Tina Brown column in the Washington Post.
The biggest lap dance ever written is about Bill Clinton.
I know lap dances used to be free in the Oval Office, but the guy's got to get some money somewhere.
He's giving away his food and booze.
He's got so he's he's he's he's gotta get some money somewhere.
This piece, this piece on Bill Clinton by Tina Brown is uh folks, it is it is it's I don't want to read the whole thing to you.
It's it's vomit city.
It is it is really gag city.
Never before has such an inconsequential man, let alone a president, received so much attention.
The big the the big line in in this story, that the I guess the money quote from Clinton is this.
You know, he's I told this to these people gathered at my forum over the week, and I said, we are so arrogant because we're so obsessed with the present.
Well, I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me.
I just don't want anybody to die before their time anymore.
I just don't, I don't want anybody to die before their time anymore.
Now there are two ways of interpreting this.
One way of interpreting this is that in his previous years, he was okay with people dying before their time.
The other way of interpreting this is that uh he wants to do something positive to help people as far as their health is concerned.
Because only now, in his personal circumstances, is he realizing here how little he did when he was president.
For example, he says, Yeah, I just I just don't want anybody, anybody to die before their time anymore.
Yeah, like those 800,000 that were killed in the genocide in Rwanda, or like the 1,000, the 792 to 1,000 that died in the Chicago heat wave in 1995, or all the Americans who died in terrorist attacks during the 1990s.
Or uh, how about uh innocent people being slaughtered in Iraq?
They died before their time.
And so now Bill Clinton just doesn't want anybody to die before their time anymore.
I have a friend who actually saw this story before I did, and he said, Rush, I wiped off all the vomit from my keyboard and screen after reading the most arrogantly fawning elitist puff piece by Tina Brown in the Washington Post on Bill Clinton.
I can't print it all on this page because the dry heaves just start up all over again.
So I'll just focus on the very end of this embarrassing adolescent breathless prose, and that's the money quote that uh I just gave you.
But this declaration, uh, I just don't want anybody to die before their time anymore.
That captured Tina's truly tiny imagination.
She felt so strongly about this comment that uh she gave it Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa status.
Really, this piece will link to it.
It's at the Washington Post site if you want to go there and try to find it.
Uh I urge caution.
We'll link to it on our website today, but it is, folks, it's it's the first written lamp dance that um I I've ever, I think, read.
Quick time out, don't go away, stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, despair, tumult, chaos, torture, humiliation.
And even the good times.
Are those cookies actually from Mrs. Fields?
Who are they from?
John Ogan sent us some cookies.
Wow, they're splurging at the home office.
Chris in Salt Lake City, welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted the opportunity to define who Republicans are, if I may, and then also have a chance to respond.
How I see it is uh I think the Republican Party is a party that supports unwanted pregnancies.
And then you also support capital punishment, which means you're pro-life and you're pro-death, so it means you don't know what the hell you want.
I think I think you also support a president who is increased the percentage of illegal aliens coming into this country, he's increased the size of the federal government.
Uh also the abortion rate has gone up in this country since he's been president.
He spends taxpayer money like a drunken Democrat and then wants to borrow from communist countries to pay for the debt.
That's how I see it.
I don't see Republicans being any better than Democrats.
You know, Chris, uh, I appreciate the call.
I I I thank you very much.
I learned long ago, ladies and gentlemen, uh, that it's not wise to argue with an idiot because uh listeners may not be able to tell the difference.
So, Chris, thanks for the call.
It's great to have you with us.
Mike in uh in Delane, Florida.
Welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, Mike.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I you know, your comment about uh Bush and this uh not wanting to anybody to die before their time.
Um, you know, I I know he's had kind of a near-death experience here with this heart problem he's had.
And and I really believe that it's possible that he's he's got had a real change of heart, and I think it could even go so far as to be become pro-life.
No, no, you think Bill Clinton, because he said he just I just don't want anybody to die before their time anymore.
He's gonna become pro-life.
Well, you know, the most significant.
See, he used to be that now.
The thing you have to do, he used to be when he was uh just a local Democrat hack uh back in Arkansas in a government, he was pro-life just like uh Al Gore was.
But when a Democrat decides to go national, you gotta bow down and kiss the feet of the feminists and the nags and the nayrolls and that bunch.
So you got to become uh pro-life.
And with Hillary out there seeking the uh the White House, uh that that comment is not going to transfer itself to being uh I understand the point that you're trying to make, but the the the real point is this is just more syrupy mumbo jumbo that's designed to make people like Tina Brown need a new pair of underwear, but it doesn't sell with anybody else.
And it was it's it's designed to just soak the liberals out there with all this love and compassion.
You know, Tina Brown's out there saying after Monica Lewinsky newsbreaks, oh, why not me?
Uh and so she finally got a chance to go to this this big circle, you know what, that they at the hotel room, and then let's see, just to just to just complete in the the loop here.
Uh it's just it's it's really it's really uh uh no more than that.
All right, moving on to other items in the news.
This is Deborah Oren in the uh in the New York Post today.
As Senator Hillary Clinton ratchets up her attacks on President Bush, some Democrats think they smell an explanation, the threat of a 2008 Al Gore presidential bid that could come at her from the left on a rock.
The former vice president suddenly re-emerging as a vocal and visible bush basher.
He's a slated star in a Democrat National Committee fundraiser for big donors in Washington next Tuesday.
He's keeping a very strong public profile.
He was the first major Democrat to oppose the Iraq War.
He's keeping in touch around the country and doing a lot of speeches.
You don't do all that if your goal is to play celebrity golf as a Democrat fundraiser.
Top Democrat strategist adds, Americans love comebacks.
Al Gore could come back as a real human being this time instead of a wooden guy.
This is a Democrat talking.
He could come back as a real human being instead of as a wooden guy.
He could come back as the new Nixon, somebody who went into the wilderness and found himself.
Folks, you will not remember this.
We're gonna have to dig this up for my website archives.
But I drew just this analogy to Richard Nixon, when Al Gore first started showing up after Bush was elected and started in his anti-war tilt and his anti-war binge and all these speeches to moveon dot org, Al Gore was the first to recognize who the power base of the Democrat Party is.
It isn't in Washington.
It's at Moveon.org.
It's at the Democrat Underground.
It's at the Daily Chaos.
It's at all of these left wing kook websites and special interest groups.
Americans coming together, George Soros, and all that's who he goes and speaks to.
That's who runs a Democratic Party.
And I said when shortly after his first speech, I said, This is Nixonian.
This is he's coming back and he's going to try to reinvent himself as the Richard Nixon of the Democratic Party.
And lo and behold, a Democratic strategerist here has actually made that comparison.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell before before you people start laughing.
It's Gore.
Now you could laugh at the prospects of Gore, great, don't misunderstand, but you have to understand Gore is loved by the left, and Hillary knows it, and if she starts moving left because of it, it'll be proof positive.
What I said yesterday is exactly right, who's running this party and what they really believe in Gore will be this time if he does do this.
Unashamed to say anything this group wants him to do.
He's been out there leading the charge, amplifying these kook views that have become the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
He's been amplifying them in speeches all over the place.
If he's getting ready to get back in this, whoo-hoo.
And this is a threat to Mrs. Clinton because she's gonna have to at some point start being loyal to these people on the left as well.
And I'll guarantee you what I said yesterday is ultimately gonna happen.
The camouflage and the masks of these Democrats who think they get elected by being centrist is gonna come off because they will lose their base if they try that.
And when this happens, when this when this move toward honesty, when the camouflage, when the masks remove themselves.
We find out without any question who these people are.
And when they start running for office on this, don't forget they think you gotta remember these shows back to back.
They think they've already got O6 wrapped up as a party, just don't know, and oh eight, they just don't know who the people are yet.
But they think it's over.
They think Bush presidency's destroyed.
They think they have so destroyed and so maligned George W. Bush that that equals destroying and maligning the Republican Party.
They think they've turned the corner.
They think Cindy Sheehan's a giant success story.
They think Hurricane Katrina's a giant success story.
They think Iraq is a giant success story for them.
And so Al Gore, obviously of the same temper and the same opinion now being said to come out and give voice to all of this.
And it's gonna put a lot of pressure on people like Mrs. Clinton.
What will she do?
She's been a big supporter of the war, but in terms of her votes, but she has not said much about it.
Will she have to now renounce this support?
Will she have to cancel this attempt at moving to the center?
And by the way, let me just go to uh this next story.
This just buttresses what I said yesterday.
This is from our buddies at Newsmax.com.
A new poll of left leaning Democrats shows Hillary Clinton badly trailing her two thousand eight presidential rivals.
Wesley Clark, Russ Feingold, and John Edwards all are getting more support.
Where was this poll?
It was 10,000 readers to the most widely trafficked Democrat blog, the Daily Chaos.
And it shows General Clark is the 2008 front runner with 34%.
Feingold second at 19%.
Behind him, John Kerry's former running mate, the Breck Girl, John Edwards at 10%.
But if Gore gets in this mix, throw this all out and he will move to the front of the pack, the top of the heap.
At the rear of this 10,000 reader poll, Hillary Clinton, eight percent.
And the trend shows her popularity fading.
She got 10% in this same poll in June.
I have warned you people.
I have told you she's not the base is not going to tolerate her lying, even if they know she's lying.
They want blood In the form of verbiage.
They want rhetoric that draws blood.
They don't want lies and schemes anymore.
They want everybody to know how they feel, and they want their elected officials to be the loudest voices.
And if Al Gore's coming back, and he's going to assume this position, well, puts even more pressure on Mrs. Clinton.
Can't you imagine that shouting match?
Then we have this story.
Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Dashel set up a new political action committee, plans a Jefferson Jackson Day speech in the politically pivotal state of Iowa.
It could be president, could be vice president, or he could continue to be nothing.
But he's thinking of getting in this.
One thing we know he can't out shout anybody.
He can barely be heard anyway.
Back after this.
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Yes.
Snerdley said when he heard the Tom Dashel news, he said, well, at Linda, his wife Linda, the lobbyist probably said, Tom, you're sitting around the house doing another for too long, get out there and earn some money.
I said, No, no, no.
These liberals don't earn money, they they raise it.
So he's now out there.
The Jefferson Jackson Day speech in the politically pivotal state of Iowa is.
I mean, this is the preview to uh an exploratory committee.
What do you do?
You raise money.
So who's this?
Is uh the what's the Hilda Brand?
Who is it?
Steve Hildebrand, director of the new committee.
Uh and uh uh Dashell's former campaign manager said that Dashel is not going to rule out opportunities to play important roles in public service.
Could be president, could be vice president, could be nothing.
We'll vote the latter.
He said Dashell's Iowa speech, scheduled for the state party's annual Jefferson Jackson dinner on November 5th, will probably be his most political since last year's election.
But Hildebrand insisted that Dashell's appearance is not about running for the presidency, it's about supporting his Democratic friends in Iowa.
He is not today looking at his options for higher office.
Well, that pretty much confirms that he is.
When I go out there and deny all this, I mean, here they announce they're going to make a speech.
They're announced they're going to go to Iowa.
And it's, but it's not about anything.
Nobody in their right mind goes to Iowa in November in 2005.
Who is a politician?
Unless there's one re there's one reason to go to Iowa if you don't live there.
If you're a politician.
In November of 2005, what a bunch of saps.
By the way, Cindy Sheehan, the Mother Sheehan tour rolled into uh Washington.
I had some trouble with the Sheehan tour.
Uh I think I think what's happened here, the Sheehan tour uh, the Sheehan Tour, uh they've lost their their big PR uh uh guidance and help because they they tried to roll in there in three SUVs.
And uh, of course, you don't get anywhere near the Capitol in a vehicle.
So the Capitol Police stopped her.
And they made her get out of the out of the out of the SUVs and so forth and uh had to walk all the way to wherever she was gonna go.
Now, I don't know, folks, wasn't there supposed to be some massive bus tour from uh from Crawford uh to Washington culminating, I think what uh Saturday, the 24th?
24 big rally.
Um, I haven't seen this bus tour.
I haven't seen it anywhere, but I do know that she showed her total party, the protest party was 30 people.
It was 30 people.
But you won't know this if you look at media pictures of this.
Because the pictures are all cropped.
But once again, the biggest crowd at the rally was the media with their boom cameras and their boom microphones.
And yet, there is a there's a um there, let me I have I have it here for you.
I I made a little study today of the uh how the media is handling the Mother Sheehan tour.
Now keep in mind, 30 people.
30 people, they show up in vehicles and are stopped by the Capitol Police.
This is illustrating absurdity with reality, because reality in the case of Cindy Sheehan is absurdity.
The anti-war activist Associated Press and the anti-war activist Reuters collaborate with the anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
I have a minute-by-minute account of how they created the news on this.
And in each case, I've got the slugs of of their stories and the Times.
And as a disclaimer, in each case, her full name is not Cindy Sheehan.
In every story, it's anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
And every story mentions she's still grieving over the loss of her son in Iraq.
And I just want to remind you of my prediction that I made yesterday.
Some say it's insensitive.
I say, no, it's being able to forecast uh liberal strategic moves.
If not Cindy Sheehan, it probably will be, but some not Cindy Sheehan.
It'll be some Democrat activists will have lost a child in either Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.
And will mount another march on Washington or Crawford or whatever to keep this going.
But listen, here are the AP bulletins.
And this is just from yesterday and into last night from both the AP and Reuters.
1219.
And remember, in every case, she's identified as anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
I'm going to eliminate the anti-war activist just to save time here.
But just every time you hear her name, understand that these AP and Reuters bulletins, without exception, referred to her as anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
1219, Cindy Sheehan pauses outside White House.
1226, Cindy Sheehan addresses members of the media.
1230, Cindy Sheehan sits on the lawn in front of the U.S. Capitol.
1231, Cindy Sheehan joined by Iraq War veteran Jeff Key.
1231, Cindy Sheehan signs a letter intended for President Bush.
1225, Cindy Sheehan pauses outside the White House.
1240, White House aides carry a letter delivered by Cindy Sheehan.
1239, Cindy Sheehan delivers a letter to the White House.
1239, a uniformed Secret Service agent looks on as Cindy Sheehan arrives at the front gate of the White House.
12 or 224, Annie Campbell of Washington works on construction of Camp Casey, D.C. 227, Cindy Sheehan leads a group of protesters to the White House.
Those were AP bulletins.
Yesterday on Reuters, the bulletins were 130, Cindy Sheehan speaks on Capitol Hill.
137, Cindy Sheehan holds a letter to be delivered to the president.
144, Cindy Sheehan escorted by other anti-war activists, carries a letter to be delivered to the president.
343, Cindy Sheehan speaks on Capitol Hill.
652, Cindy Sheehan carries a letter to be delivered to the White House.
They recycled news from 1.30 and 2.30 in the afternoon as bulletins at night.
There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen bulletins between AP and Reuters, all from 1219 to 652.
Yesterday afternoon.
That's right.
And more updates on Cindy Sheehan than we are getting on the hurricane.
So that is why I say the anti-war activist Associated Press and the anti-war activist Reuters collaborate with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
And they presented a total lie.
There were 30 people with her after all this time.
After all this media attention, after all this giant bus tour, 30 people.
And we don't know how many of those were paid and how many, if they were paid.
We don't know how much they were paid.
Here is uh Cher in Tampa, Florida.
Welcome, Cher.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's nice to talk to you.
Um this guy who called a few minutes ago aggravated me so much.
I listen to you on the road all the time, but this guy just warranted a call talking about uh the differences between you know how can we be for uh against abortion and for the death penalty.
Share, share, share, share, share.
Remember, remember remember my advice.
Don't argue with an idiot because people will not be able to tell the difference.
I tell you, I just don't understand how people cannot see the difference between an innocent child and a murderer.
Don't you don't have to say this.
Everybody does.
It it you I'm I'm telling you, this this this did not require uh any argument or debate.
This it didn't.
I understand your outrage.
You but this is what I you need to learn to be happy when this stuff happens.
You need to learn to be happy when these people are willing to announce what they believe and how they lie about what we believe or what they stupidly believe we believe, whatever it is, but uh this is this is a new reason to celebrate.
I know it's tough.
I know it's tough to celebrate this kind of stuff because you take it personally, it's a f yeah, it's aggravating, it's offensive.
But it's stupid really is.
I mean, it's it's absolutely it's it's it's literally stupid.
Well, it's not the only stupid thing he said, but that one just really stuck out as people can't actually and you be you're hearing that more and more in the plastic comparison, and it's just you know, they can't truly believe everybody's that stupid.
Look, if I the the way I look at it, that's the best the guy could come up with, they're hopeless anyway.
Pro-life and pro-death.
I mean, the death that you know, abortion and the death penalty is a let me I'll take this one on because I do get this one a lot.
People who are on the cusp, but just learning about politics, just learning to follow the ebb and flow and and a and a and they want to get right, they don't quite know who to listen to and who not to listen to.
People uh on both sides sound persuasive.
And this is a question that I that I do get frequently.
Rush, how how how do how do you explain the fact that you are uh uh pro-life?
Uh you anti-abortion, but but you're but you're pro-death penalty.
And that to me is a softball hanging curve waiting to be knocked out of the park.
Here's the answer.
Why am I pro-life?
Because life in the womb is the essence of innocence.
The utter essence of innocence.
Somebody who is to be put to death, not only does the Bible talk about it, not only does our Constitution talk about it, when they say nobody should be denied the right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness without due process.
Someone who has uh condemned, is condemned to death in this country, has been judged by a jury of his peers and 14 years minimum of appeals to have committed atrocious, unspeakable acts of mayhem and murder on at least another citizen and sometimes multiple citizens.
There's nothing innocent whatsoever, and in terms of a just punishment, it fits.
It is that people, well, well, what about the deterrent fact?
You think it's determined?
I don't care whether it deters anybody or not.
I never looked at crime as a deterrent.
Punishment of crime is a determinant.
I looked at it as a punishment.
But the whole argument fails when somebody wants to try to compare the utter essence of innocence that is a baby in the womb to a convicted murderer.
I'd I uh that's why I say that had I engaged this caller this way, it would have, it would have it would not have registered because understand that you're not dealing with people who are acting on thoughts that's pure raw emotion, and in most cases it's hatred and rage.
And you have to understand this about them too.
They insulate themselves from these intellectual arguments and discussions by telling themselves they're superior to everybody else.
They know more that they're elitists, they've got a better handle on things, and if we don't see it their way, we're just unenlightened.
We're just hopelessly stupid and dumb, reactionary, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic, whatever.
Uh it's just the exact op.
They're the bigots, they're the closed-minded ones, they're the intolerant ones, they're the ones who are incapable of thought.
And as such, if we want to start talking about who's superior and inferior, they clearly are the inferior.
But and then to get beyond that again, they tell themselves that uh they're of lofty heights, and we just can't possibly understand them, so it's pointless for them to even engage us.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
Stay with us.
Remember this, folks.
When defining the difference between liberals and conservatives, particularly on the matter of life.
Liberals Fight to the end to protect convicted murderers.
We fight to the end to protect innocent, unmourned babies.
They favor bureaucracies and we favor people.
And they think they think that they have the moral high ground when they ask this silly question.
Well, what about the death penalty?
If you still pro life would have the death penalty.
Truly, folks, uh a sad bunch of mental midgets.
Glittering jewels of colossal ignorance, who think they light up the universe with their uh with their intellect.
More evidence that Mrs. Clinton gets it.
Two thousand eight presidential hopefuls, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have agreed to meet with anti-American war protester Cindy Sheehan.
By the way, I'm reading this from our buddies at Newsmax, and that's why they've written this correctly.
Anti-American war protester.
She's not anti-war, she's anti-American war protester, Cindy Sheehan, when she travels to Washington this weekend to cap her national tour.
Sheehan has meetings scheduled with an array of left-wing Democratic officeholders, including the swimmer, Nancy Pelosi, and Henry Waxon.
Uh Waxman, as well as uh Hillary Clinton and McCain.
Uh actual source for this is the Village Voice.
They reported it uh in editions today.
Uh Hillary's decision to meet with Mother Sheehan flies in the face of her attempts to reposition herself as a pro-defense Democrat, although lately she's been scrambling to appeal to her party's left-wing base.
That's because Hillary has people who listen to this program.
And she also has people who understand the political and can read the political tea leaves out there.
They know where the where the where the where the power in this party is.
It's properly vested with these Democrat activists.
And so Hillary Clinton and you add the specter of Al Gore getting back in the race for 2008.
And uh Hillary and Al Gore are going to have a race to see who can get these activists first.
And Al Gore's already half the way there, if not already, in the camp.
The McCain meeting, according to our buddies at Newsmax, uh, is completely inexplicable because on August 24th, the Tucson citizen asked McCain if President Bush was right not to meet with Sheehan.
McCain said, if I was president of the U.S., I probably wouldn't.
The same day, McCain told the Arizona Scar that Sheehan's probably being used by anti-war groups.
Uh Clinton and McCain's offices are no doubt aware of the long list of anti-American statements uttered by Sheehan since she lost her son in Iraq last year.
You want me to re you want to hear some of these statements in a while you may have forgotten.
These are highlights of uh the utterances and the big thinks, if you will, of Mother Sheehan.
America has been killing people in this continent since it was started.
This country's not worth dying for.
We have this lying bastard, George Bush taking a five-week vacation in a time of war.
When I was growing up, it was the communist, now it's terrorists, so you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets, and everything.
You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine, and you'll stop the terrorism.
Thank God for the internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we'd already be a fascist state.
George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all-around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans.
And they're not waging a war on terror, but a war of terror.
The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.
Uh, these are some of the uh the the great profundities uh that have been articulated by Mother Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist El Supremo, or anti-American war activist, I should say.
And it's as it's totally understandable.
Hillary is uh bend over and grab the ankles and meet with this babe, but McCain is uh probably not hard to figure out if you think about it long enough.
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All right, uh I'm looking at the clock here and calculating the remaining moments in our busy broadcast hour here as a highly trained broadcast specialist.
I've determined not enough time to be fair with uh another caller.
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