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Sept. 29, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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We we have an opportunity here, folks, with this this delay business.
There's something that I have said throughout the course of my star-studded career, be it dealing with the Soviets or any other enemy, Al Qaeda, and it's very simple.
Weakness invites attack.
You show weakness, especially as your enemies define it, and you are saying, come on and come get me.
Weakness can be displayed by cutting and running in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Weakness can be displayed by saying, Oh, okay, you don't like Newt Gingrich, we'll force him out for you.
Weakness can be displayed.
I want to have a new tone.
I want to get along with all the Democrats.
I want to consult you and how we should put together the education bill uh bill.
Any time the Democrats will consider any agreement with them as weakness, they will think we are caving.
Any attempt on the and and I'm uh I'll tell you something else.
If you come to grips with this, which I have been telling the Republicans for years, or they're gonna bleed to death from a thousand cuts.
You know, I mean, and and this delay thing, or but it'd be the hurricane, uh whatever.
And by the way, what get give me what is weakness in the hurricane?
By not having the guts to say, Mayor Nagan, you're incompetent.
Governor Blanco, you're incompetent.
That's what being weak is.
By okay, you know uh well, how about if we give you Mike Brown?
You see what good that did.
Yeah, how about if we blame FEMO?
How about if we spend $250 billion, Louisiana and Mary Landrew, will that be okay?
No.
They'll want $350 billion.
Can't you cannot show weakness.
You'll just invite more attack.
You just can't do it.
There's a lesson to be learned that in this delay business.
Now, for those of you that are feeling weak, for those of you who think, oh, it's over, I knew it's too good to last much.
I knew I knew it was gonna have a just throwing it all away.
Mentioned this an hour ago.
I'm getting to it now, and I've got a lot of stuff in this stack that when you hear about it, it's gonna enrage you, and you forget all about delay, and you get refocused on what we've been focused on, and that is continuing to defeat the left in this country.
But here's this this Feynman piece.
And this is posted before delay, and that indictment was handed down, but it was posted uh it's posted yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Just before the indictment was hit.
Why can't the Democrats capitalize?
With the White House on the ropes after Katrina, Dems waffle and wheeze, writes Mr. Feynman, with George W. Bush's presidency mired in the muck of hurricanes and doubts about the war, you'd think Democrats would be bursting with energy, eagerly expecting to regain power.
But in a room full of well-connected Democrats the other night, I was struck by how gloomy they were.
They can't stand Bush, but they didn't have much faith in their own party's prospects.
Why?
Well, some of the reasons they articulated are short-term and tactical, some are purely personal, others more philosophical, and I have a few myself.
The president's nomination of John Roberts was a ten strike.
It knocked apart whatever united front the Democrats might have been able to muster on judicial issues.
However genial and cerebrally may be, Roberts also is a board-certified conservative, blessed by the James Dobsons of the world.
No one doubted that at least a few red state Democrats had vote for him, but the defection of Pat Lahey, ranking Democrat, the judiciary committee was a stunner and a demoralizing one for the party faithful.
I told you that was the case.
Democrats are vowing to remain unified over Bush's next pick, which almost certainly would be a woman, a Hispanic, or both, so the party could find itself in a tough political position once again.
And these things go in cycles, I guess.
It's hard to be glamorous.
They don't have any star power, Democrats have lack star power.
And these things go in cycles, I guess.
It's hard to be glamorous when you're in the minority in both houses of Congress.
That said, it's incontestably true that the Democrats simply aren't blessed with much charisma in the leadership ranks unless you consider Angelina Jolie a Democrat.
I mean, the Republicans have Rudy, they have Colen, they have Arnold, they have McCain, they have Condy, just to name a few.
Big, bold, controversial characters.
Good copy, if nothing else.
Isn't it interesting the way the media looked at people?
Personally, good copy.
The more or less official roster of titular Democratic leaders includes Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, and John Kerry, Nuff said.
Hillary love and fear.
Yeah, they purportedly inevitably, the purported inevitability of Hillary Rodham Clinton excites some Democrats, but deeply depresses some others, both inside and outside the beltway.
Her forcefulness and talent, not to mention her well-oiled money machine, bring respect from party insiders and outsiders alike, but there's an undercurrent of unease about the back to the future quality of another Clinton candidacy.
Do we really want to relive the Clinton years?
Under their breath, even many Clinton acolytes tend to say no.
And by the way, there's the most unbelievably funny piece in the New York Times today by Nora Efron.
Uh I think it's the New York Times.
It's all it's all about how Bill Clinton let her down.
She's just totally upset about it.
I'll but it folks, it's it's it's better than that.
It's it's I'll I'll share it with her here in just a second.
And then there's the House divided.
Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union is a brilliant agitator, and he's all but single-handedly crippled the AFL CIO by taking his union and several others into a new group called the Change to Win Federation.
Stern's rationale in part is that the Democrats are taking rank and file workers for granted.
Does that mean that change to win will consider endorsing Republicans as the Teamsters sometimes do?
No wonder Democrats are gloomy.
And then there's war waffling.
I spent some time with Cindy Sheehan the other day, and I was struck by her impatience with Democrats.
Now, the fact that Howard Feynman's even giving her the time of day and considering her seriously.
She had a meeting with McCain came out and called him a warmonger.
I love it.
I love it.
She called McCain a warmonger, and McCain's saying he was uh he was lied to.
He thought that a bunch of Arizona constituents are coming in with her, and none did.
She came in alone.
At any rate, so Feynman says, Yeah, I spent some time with Cindy Sheehan the other day, and I was struck by her impatience with the Democrats.
Why are they so afraid?
She wanted to know.
She had just met with Harry Reed and Hillary Clinton, described both as cautious in their statements, with Reed saying that the Democrats had no choice but to push for a drawdown of U.S. troops, and Hillary remaining largely mum.
Frankly, I was surprised that uh Reed and Clinton met with her at all.
The Democrats are afraid of their own shadow on the Iraq war.
Most of their leadership voted twice for it.
The authorizing resolution and the money to support it, and none of them have come out flat out to say that they made a mistake.
Do they believe in the aims of the war or not?
If they fought the execution of the war, precisely what would they do differently now?
The silence is thundering.
Now think of this.
Howard Feynman published just minutes before the delay indictment came, yes.
All of you thinking that the Democrats are on a roll.
I'm telling you, get it out of your heads.
Forget this unified picture you see in the media.
They are in deep trouble.
That's why this delay indictment, at least if Feynman would have delayed, his headline could be, why can't the Democrats capitalize?
Well, they can now the delay indictment will cheer them all up.
Which it has.
But it's just the latest in the next it's in the next bag of tricks, and this is going to fade away at some point, and they're going to go back to being depressed about because you think Cindy Sheehan and his kooks care about delay.
I mean, they'd love to get rid of him, but there are far more important issues to them than Tom Delay.
The fringe base is who I'm talking about.
And it's the war, and it's it's it's Bush.
Indite Bush, not delay.
What do you mean indicting delay?
Why didn't his Earl guy invite Bush?
That's what they want.
They want Bush impeaked.
They want Bush strung up and quartered, folks.
And they're not going to be happy if they get just delay.
And then there's missed opportunities, Mr. Feynman says.
Then there are all those issues that got swept away and swept off the front pages by the storms.
Damn the news cycle.
Carl Rove CIA leak investigation, the FD.
Well, there what is there to report about it?
Howard, what what more do we know?
And there again, there's another here's a great illustration.
How many of you think Rove's guilty?
He hasn't even been charged.
how many of you think he's guilty in this?
Simply because the word is the independent prosecutors looking at him.
Uh it's silly.
But anyway, Howard Feimer's all depressed because the role of CI a CIA leak investigation is off the front page.
The FDA controversy about over the counter sales of the morning after pill, the subsequent resignations from the agency, the on again, off again debate about rejiggering social security, even the investigation of what went wrong with FEMA's hurricane response.
All these were juicy issues for the Democrats to dig into, but the opposition party failed to muster a united voice.
I'm sure that's going to come as a surprise to some of you who think they're as unified as they've ever been on all these things.
It's particularly the hurricane.
But Feynman's talking to a bunch of them in private, they're not happy.
And then there's vision and passion.
I led my newsweek piece with the anecdote about President Lyndon Johnson in 65.
When a huge hurricane hit New Orleans that year, he hustled down to Louisiana, was on the scene within a day, offering the full resources of the federal government to help get the region back on its feet.
I thought it was an instructive contrast to Bush's too little too late personal response to Katrina.
But the anecdote contains a lesson for Democrats, too.
LBJ stood for big idea, the healing power of government.
He was in the midst of his great society presidency.
What big idea would a Democrat presidency be about?
Nobody seems to know, which is perhaps the main reason why the party faithful net room seemed so lost.
And I told you this earlier in this program.
They can sit there and they can try to rerun what they think is the Republican uh route to power, which was demonizing Clinton each and every day, but they forget the Republicans had an agenda, and that agenda has been played out since they won power.
The Democrats don't have an agenda.
They don't have anything but whining and moaning and blaming and hoping and praying and so forth and getting a you know a hack prosecutor to indict delay.
We will be back.
Stay with us.
Back to the phones.
We go to uh New York City.
Hello, this is Bragg.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Welcome.
All right today.
Just fine.
Thank you.
I was listening to uh Senator Schumer yesterday on the Senate floor, and I'm not sure why I'm so amazed by what he said, but I found myself yet again amazed at his gall.
Uh basically he said, you know, in announcing he would not vote for Roberts, that uh the president had to send certain people, certain type people down to the next nomination.
You know, he names typically Janus Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, and Estrada, people that if if the president sent people like that down, then there'd be a fight, I think were his words.
And so my question is first of all, who do you think he is?
Second of all, how does the president possibly win this battle if if he'll send up someone like Roberts, who is a consensus pick and Schumer will vote no?
You know, where does he have to leverage the threat?
Wait, wait, wait a second.
Now, I know you're from New York, but Chuck Schumer, uh, in a in a national sense, a peon.
He's got one vote.
Who cares what Schumer says?
He lost.
Robert's got 78 votes.
So Schumer's one of the twenty-two no.
Yip, yip, yip, yip yahoo.
That and five bucks will get him a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
What the hell it doesn't matter what Schumer says.
Schumer said they're gonna be all-out war against Roberts.
In case you've forgotten.
Schumer said, this is gonna be a war.
Schumer's trying to make his reputation on all these things.
And Harry Reid has said the same thing, Brag.
Harry Reid told Bush, if you send any of these people up, uh, like Janice Rogers Brown or or Bill Pryor or Phyllis uh or Patricia Owen, uh uh uh uh Priscilla Owen, we're gonna filibuster.
Well, wait a minute, Denji.
What about what about what about the what about the uh the gang of 14 deal?
I say send them up.
I know it isn't gonna happen.
Send Janice Rogers Brown back up there.
Send a black woman and let them filibuster it again.
Let him do it.
Screw them.
The hell with this showing weakness and trying to accommodate these people.
And especially Chuck Schumer.
Chuck Schumer.
Uh I can't use the phrase I want to.
He's a gnat.
He's just you know the phrase he's a he's a he's a blank on a borehog is what he is in this case.
Mr. Snurley not being raised on a farm has no idea what that is.
Okay, he's a breast on a boar hog, except you use the the common, you know, game room word for it, uh, Mr. Snurley.
It's irrelevant here.
He can say it because he's full of himself.
He's a narcissist and thinks the world resolves uh revolves around what Chuck Schumer thinks.
Uh Tom in Pontiac, Michigan.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Russ.
How are you today?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Listen, uh, anybody that denies this latest move is political needed to see the screamer on Nightline last night.
Did you catch Nightline, Russ?
No, I uh haven't seen Nightline uh since Ted Coppel retired.
Okay.
Well, uh on non-nightline, the screamer was on last night.
Mr. Dean.
Yeah.
And uh he brought up every alleged scandal in the Republican Party for the last five years.
I've got his statement.
I read his statement for the Democrat National Committee.
And the the commentator, to their credit, tried to bring him back to reality and say, well, what about convictions?
This guy hasn't even been to court yet.
And that wasn't the message.
He was he was he wasn't screaming.
He must have taken a tranquilizer before the show, but he was on message.
And the message was the Republican Party is nothing but a huge blanket of corruption and greed and all these mentions that he mentioned are evidence of it.
And the whole the whole point of his his performance was for the next election, if you want to throw the bums out, get the the culture of greed and corruption out, vote democratic.
It didn't have anything to do with specifics when the commentator tried to ask him about convictions.
That didn't matter.
It's just all the Republicans are greedy.
That's right.
And it was so political, it was just amazing to me how anybody could look at that and not see the big picture Democratic plan.
Are you thinking out there, Tom, that there was coordination between Democrats who knew this indictment was coming before?
Oh, hell yes, they were ready.
This is like you said, they're gonna ride this issue in every other allegation that hasn't been proven in every other every other case.
That there's no conviction.
They're gonna ride this through, and they think this is going to be the crest of their wave to take back the House and the Senate.
This is their issue, like you said.
And anybody that watched that program that couldn't see that is not listening with a mind.
Well, yeah.
I I know, but I see I'm not as worried about these.
I think only people watch these programs are liberals anyway, uh yourself excluded.
The people like you that watch it have the same reaction you did.
Their monopoly is over.
Uh but I I pre- I appreciate the phone call.
I want to I want to spend some time here giving you evidence that things are not going well for the left in this country, despite despite what you think.
I I don't know if you've seen this.
This just sickens me.
And if if if if you want a word to describe this, well, let me tell you what it is first, and I'll tell you what the word is.
A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home.
Despite protests from abortion opponents, Little Rock, family planning clinic director, Dr. Jerry Edwards, said he has already performed six free abortions.
The clinic usually charges between five hundred and twenty-five bucks and six hundred big ones for a first trimester abortion.
If we didn't provide it now, they'd get it later, a late-term abortion to give greater risk to the mother's health.
Edwards told KTHVTV and Little Rock.
Edwards, who runs the only abortion clinic in Central Arkansas, was unavailable for further comment Tuesday.
Hey, who are the evacuees from uh New Orleans?
Who are the who are the evacuees from New Orleans?
They they uh they are poor African Americans, are they not?
Poor African Americans.
So here's this doctor in Little Rock.
Hey, you poor African Americans, come get an abortion now.
You can't afford to wait.
The presumption is they're gonna have an abortion anyway.
They better do it now.
Rather than wait till the third trimester would be dangerous.
So here you got a little rock doctor saying to poor black Americans, come abort your babies here.
Now to me, the word that attaches to this is racism.
The word that attaches is racism.
And let's talk about the success of the feminazis.
This is a uh story from the Republican American, a feminist movement may be losing its steam as more women at the nation's elite colleges are de-emphasizing careers for motherhood.
The equality issues that have been feminism's primary objective are being submerged in the new generation's cognizant response to maternal instincts.
Cynthia Russett, history professor at Yale, put it succinctly.
The women today are in effect turning realistic.
A group of Yale women were asked about their plans for careers after graduation.
Sixty percent said that when they did when they started having children, they would either quit working or work part-time.
Most would return to full or part-time jobs after the children entered school or grew into adults and left home at Harvard.
Shannon Flynn of Guilford said many of her women friends don't find being a stay-at-home mom shocking.
They don't expect to work full-time after having kids, and they don't want to.
Nature is rearing its head and correcting the excesses of feminism.
And the left folk, I'm telling the pillars of their foundation are slowly being chipped away.
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A man, a legend, a way of life, Tupolo, Mississippi.
Neil, great to have you on the program.
Welcome back.
Fine.
Well, by welcome back, I mean you're in Mississippi and you've obviously got phone services.
It's great to have you back.
Yes, uh, actually I'm an evacuee from Katrina, so we're doing fine.
I think that uh I think that the Mississippi response and the female response and everything in Mississippi has been very good from everybody that I know and everybody that I've talked to.
That's what the uh governor told me, too, uh Haley Barber.
And he I think his stock has risen during all this crisis out there.
Yes, it certainly has.
Um I do have a question for you.
Yes, sir, I have an answer.
I was about to um uh join your 24-7 and wanted to know about your podcasting.
Yes.
And I was gonna buy an MP three player.
Um but I don't know like what size memory that I need.
How much memory does it take to uh to listen to a three-hour show?
Thirty-nine megabytes, thirty-nine or forty.
Each each hour you get each hour by itself, it's gonna be between twelve and thirteen megs.
So uh be safe, call it thirteen, maybe a little bit more.
What you do is you download it from your player to your hard drive on your computer and free up the memory on your player that way.
Yes.
But uh for a three-hour show you need 40 megs, which uh which is uh, you know, uh it's a piece of cake.
You can go out there and get a gigabyte little iPod nano out there that uh handle all kinds of things.
You get a I think you can get a four gigabyte nano, can't you?
Two and four gigabytes is what those things are.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, yeah, you shouldn't you shouldn't uh you shouldn't have any problem.
There, they're MP3 files.
So they're uh they're compressed as uh uh as professionally uh as they can be.
Uh it doesn't take long to download them either, depending on your online speed, of course.
Uh okay, let's I want to go to the audio sound bites too because I've been promising we'd get to the audio sound bites, and I have uh a few things here.
Hodge watch.
We do have Howard Dean from Nightline last night.
So uh we had our call about that, and I want you to hear it.
But we'll start out here with a montage of Terry Moran, willing accomplice at ABC News, taking the Democrat talking points and badgering Scott McClellan with it yesterday at the White House press briefing after the indictment was handed down, a montage of questions only.
Does the president take the allegation of wrongdoing seriously?
He doesn't take it as seriously as he takes other allegations.
did take it seriously.
You said that you take those allegations very seriously.
I asked you to take these allegations very seriously.
Here we have alleged acts How seriously does the president take this is politically motivated?
President concerned that there's a stench of corruption.
Uh is the president concerned there's a stench of corruption.
Yeah, an allegation.
See, here's my point being proven.
You may as well be guilty.
Allegation.
What have I always said?
It's not the nature of the evidence.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
With the left.
And make no mistake about that in this case.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
And now a montage.
We got Terry McCaula, the former uh DNC chairman.
We got ABC News reporter Terry Moran in this.
We got Representative Marty Meehan, Democrat Massachusetts, and we got Katrina Vandenhovel of the Nation, along with uh Howard Dean.
This is a montage of things they said last night.
Listen to the talking point.
It goes to the whole culture of corruption.
It's the whole culture of corruption of the Republican Party.
A culture of corruption around leading Republicans.
Unfortunately, there is a culture of arrogance and corruption that has developed here.
We have to pay attention to a kind of ruthless one-party system that is thriving on a culture of corruption.
It's a culture of corruption which has permeated the Bush administration in both the White House and in the government.
It's a culture of corruption.
You think the uh talking points went out, or the talking point, uh the facts went out to all these people.
And by the way, here's Katrina Vandenhoovel uh of the nation.
We have to pay attention to a kind of ruthless one party system thriving on a co Katrina, they won elections.
That's why they're one and it's not really one party rule, it's one party majority, but they won elections.
See, they these people can't stand this.
They cannot stand that this happened.
You people that voted them out of power, you are just they're gonna get even with you when they get the chance for right now, they're gonna punish the Republicans.
Your day is coming.
When they get their power back, you find out who's in power.
Yeah.
I mean, this is just it's hilarious.
All right.
Your world with Neil Cavuto yesterday, interviewed Congressman Barney Frank of all people, who goes out to denounce Tom Delay, sneering at Delay's claim he didn't know what this pack was doing.
This is a guy whose boyfriend ran a male prostitution ring out of his townhouse, and Barney claimed you didn't know about it.
Well, we have is it seems to be a fairly clearly established set of facts.
Corporations that were not allowed under Texas law to contribute to Texas legislative races, gave money to Mr. Delay's associates.
They in turn gave it to a Republican national committee entity, which laundered it in effect and gave it right back to Republican state legislative candidates.
Mr. DeLay's defense apparently is he was not aware of what his associates were doing.
I'm not I'm skeptical, but that has to be proven in court by the district attorney.
Um I I must tell you, though, when I hear Tom Delay complain about the quote politics of personal destruction, and I remember his insistence on driving the impeachment of Bill Clinton far beyond what most Republicans wanted to see.
Uh I'm a little bit uh puzzled by his uh conversion.
He was, I think, in in in the 90s one of the prime practitioners of the politics of personal destruction.
Yeah.
This is just laughable to me, folks.
I mean I'm sorry, I've been studying this every day of my life for the last 20 years, so 24 years.
So to me, this I'm beyond being outraged by it.
I just laugh at it.
It's nothing new, it's the same old.
For these guys to run around talking about the politics personal destruction, is just is like me, uh, you know, com c complaining their other conservatives on the radio, is just it's silly, it's dumb.
It's the fact they do it.
And and have done it, and in fact, perfected it.
And you should have heard it during the Nixon years and the Reagan years.
Politics.
But anyway, this is a guy commenting on ethics.
And see, here's another thing.
We don't go after these guys.
We we we we sort of bet over backwards than we want to be nice to Barney Barney.
We understand this guy was you know, run on his ring in your house, you didn't know about it.
Stephen Gobi was his name.
He's called this program before to give us details about it.
Uh only he claims Barney knew, doesn't he?
I think I think Gobey told us that Barney knew.
Uh, regardless.
Uh the fact is that you know, this this uh I think I think Barney got a couple sanctions, but the Republicans didn't go after him.
Republicans didn't go after Ted Kennedy or any of this.
Culture of corruption.
Uh here's Howard Dean on Nightline last night.
Ted Coppel said I thought he retired.
Ted Copel said, let me ask you to keep your hat as Democratic national chairman on for a minute, and give me a frankly partisan assessment.
He asks for it.
He wants a partisan assessment of how this delay indictment can help the Democrats.
I don't think it helps the country at all.
That's the big issue.
I mean, you know, at times like these you kind of wince.
This is not good for America.
We've had some terrible blows.
Uh, we've had the president's blunders in Iraq.
Uh, we've had the disaster at Katrina, which embarrassed us in front of the whole world.
And now the whole whole world again gets to see uh the leadership in both uh White House, the House, and the Senate uh be indicted or investigated or uh arrested for corruption.
It's not a great time for America, and I think Americans are sick of this, and I can tell you one thing.
Uh when we get back in power, which I believe is gonna be in two thousand six and the congressional uh we're gonna have some ethics reform in Washington.
Damn right.
The first thing we're gonna do is outlaw Republicanism.
And the second thing we're gonna do is outlaw conservatism.
It's gonna be an ethical violation to be a conservative.
It's gonna be an ethical violation to be a Republican, and then the next thing we're gonna do, any anybody who then, after being uh proclaimed unethical as a Republican, does anything, we're gonna make it criminal.
We're gonna criminalize it.
That's what we mean by when we get back in power, we're gonna have ethics reform in Washington.
The whole world's embarrassed over this delay thing, huh?
Whole world's embarrassed over this.
Whole world's embarrassed over Katrina.
We embarrassed ourselves again before Katrina.
Sorry, folks.
This I this is not washing with anybody except those that already believe this tripe.
Do not worry.
Let's listen to Delay.
Delay was on hard boiled with Matthews last night.
Matthews says, You've said that there's a coordinated attack on you involving the leadership of the House on the Democratic side now.
Is Pelosi involved?
Yes.
What's her role in this?
I don't know.
You ask her.
But they announced it.
It's on their website that they were going to come after me.
And that's and they it's in all their fundraising mail.
I'm not complaining.
I'm just saying this is what they're doing.
I guarantee you.
People like Martin Frost, Lloyd Doggett.
They're still managing.
Pete Laney, the former speaker.
These are the losers in your campaign to rebuild the Republican Party of Texas.
And Matthew says, Well, do you believe it there was a heads up to people like Pelosi before this thing came out today?
Yes.
Do you believe that Nancy Pelosi and all the Democrats are keeping it quiet today in order to let the focus be completely understanding?
And you're probably one of them.
The D triple C last yesterday afternoon was shopping this story.
Nobody had this story.
The D triple.
I love this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I believe Pelosi and all the Democrats had it and are keeping quiet.
And I think you're one of them.
I think you're one of them.
I think you had one of the head advanced notice of this.
He's right.
He's got to be right.
There's uh there's there's no question about it.
Katie Currick, by the way, in this month's AARP magazine.
Uh says that she wants to do important journalism, and that 22 minutes on the evening news is very unappealing.
She admits that she had a recent conversation with Les Moonvis, who runs CBS, and says that there's some appealing things about it, but there's a downside.
Twenty-two minutes on evening news is very unappealing.
I I I don't know if it would be too constraining for me.
What would suit her best, she said, is an opportunity to do important journalism.
I have a real appetite for smart journalism.
It's not being done currently.
Oh man.
I'd like to provide smart journalism is not what's stopping you?
You've been running a today show for how many years?
Three hours a day.
Network television.
What's stopping you, Katie?
She said, I'd like to provide some type of forum for more intelligent discussion of the issues.
So it's not just one person on one side and one person on the other side and a lot of screaming.
Well, let's go to Katie Curry today.
She was talking with Tim Russert.
And uh doing uh serious journalism, uh, Katie said, getting back to Tom Delay for a moment, Tim.
I know he's not going quietly.
Damn it.
I know.
What's he supposed to do, Katie?
I know he's not going quietly.
He did a media blitz of sorts last night.
Seems to also say during these interviews, Tim, that this is a campaign targeting by Democrats.
What do you make of his comments?
Tom Delay's nickname is the hammer for good reason.
He loves us squish his opposition.
Not only beat him at the polls, but after Democratic congressmen and their staffs are taken out of office, he will go to K Street, the lobbyist uh headquarters, if you will, and try to prevent them from getting jobs as lobbyists.
He is a fierce partisan infighter, and the Democrats realize that and they're trying to respond in kind.
Okay, so uh Tim here reveals what this is.
The Democrats are using a criminal prosecution to respond to political defeats that delayed Delay handed them.
Isn't that what he said?
Okay, Delhi's delay's defeating them politically.
Delay hasn't gone to court to get him indicted.
He has defeated them politically.
Well, what do the Democrats do?
Respond with an indictment.
But I think this is fabulous.
I didn't know he was going to K Street and trying to get those people not to hire ex-Democrat congressmen.
That is all right.
Oh, cool.
All right, let's see.
Oh, you people are gonna love this.
You are going to love this.
Oh, look at this.
Now the mayor of Thousand Oaks of California is saying, don't go to your homes until given the go-ahead.
We got a new trend here happening.
Whether it be a Bush-started fire or Bush-inspired hurricanes that kick you out of your house, you can't go back.
Well, that's it.
We've learned the lesson there.
Once you lose your home to a fire hurricane, it's ours.
I'm only kidding.
I'm only kidding.
All right.
Here is from the Times Online, the UK Times.
Here's the headline.
Society's worse off when they have God on their side.
By Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent.
Religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards higher murder rates, higher abortion rates, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society, but may actually contribute to social problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
It compares the social performance of relatively secular countries like Britain with the U.S., where the majority believes in a creator rather than the theory of evolution.
Many conservative evangelicals in the U.S. consider Darwinism to be a social evil, believing that it inspires atheism and amorality.
Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that religious belief is socially beneficial, believing it helps to lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity, and abortion.
The benefits of religious belief to a society have been described as its spiritual capital, but the study claims that the devotion of many in the U.S. may actually contribute to its ills.
The paper published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a U.S. academic journal, reports quote Many Americans agree that their church going nation is an exceptional, God blessed shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example of an increasingly skeptical world.
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.
So uh Ruth Gledhill here, the reporter would say no doubt that she's just reporting the facts.
I mean, whether God, the average believer, the objective reader would agree.
I somehow doubt that, uh, given that no one was allowed space to comment on this nonsense in this story, and that the social scientist about whom we know absolutely nothing except he's pushing an evolutionist agenda has been given so much space to air his fantasies in one of Britain's leading papers.
That's about all we know here.
It'll no doubt be in U.S. papers any day now.
So just stand back for a moment, whether you're Jewish or Christian believer or not, and consider what this guy, this this this man is saying, and just what the Times is presenting as valid research.
The conclusion of this social scientist is that American and British Christians primarily.
That is the people who frequent that building on the corner of your street in any town are the people directly responsible for the higher higher rates of murders, higher mortality, teen pregnancy, and abortions in both nations.
All these people you see going into church every Sunday, they're the ones causing all the teen pregnancy and abortion and murder.
I mean, be clear about 100% clear about what he and the Times are reporting.
If it wasn't for belief in God in the Judeo-Christian nations of Britain and America, according to this report, social evils would begin to disappear from our streets.
Yes, Mr. Startley.
No, it's not satire.
It's it's two days ago, September 27th.
I had it all ready to go yesterday until I remembered I wasn't going to be here.
Society's worse off I'll link to it on the website.
It's from Times Online UK.
TimesOnline CO.uk.
It's not, it's not a satire.
This guy's name is Gregory Paul.
Gregory Paul, the author of the study and a social scientist, used data from the International Social Survey Program, Gallup, and other research bodies to reach his conclusion.
Gotta go.
Quick break.
Time out back after this.
Well, that's it, folks.
I don't know where the time went today.
Three hours is coming gone.
The fastest three hours in media.
The swearing in ceremony for uh Judge John Roberts is now underway.
The president at the podium in the White House.
Uh by previous arrangement, they delayed the swearing until after this program today.
And we will see you tomorrow.
Look forward to it.
Open line Friday already.
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