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Oct. 31, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2005, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
You know, I'm watching television here.
It's absolutely amazing, folks.
I'm watching history repeat itself.
Everybody's all excited about it.
And of course, temptation just put the index finger in the air into a little circle, say whoopy do.
The UN Security Council just passed a resolution against Syria.
You know what that means?
Diddly squat.
How many of those were there against Iraq?
Twelve or 13?
How many how much do those mean?
Diddley squat.
So yip yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
They've passed a resolution requiring Syria to cooperate with our investigation.
Now, what is behind this resolution?
What is it that gives the resolution teeth?
Diddly squat.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's great to have you with us.
It's great to be back to a place where there's line power.
It's great to be play back, but there's a place that's got telephones.
It's great to be back to a place where there's a computer that works getting online.
I, of course, speak of the EIB Southern Command at the home residence.
Uh, none of that has generator power, but but the no phones and no online, and uh direct TV satellite working, though.
Had a hurricane.
By the way, I had a friend tell me yesterday that uh lives lives up near Jupiter.
They clocked the winds at 130 miles an hour up there, that it wasn't any category two, that was 130 up there.
At any rate, here's the phone number if you want to be in the program today.
800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBNet.com, and the ditto cam is on, and it'll be up and running for the uh whole three hours of this program.
Right, folks, look.
We got this, we got we got Joe Samuel Alito.
I keep confusing him with Joseph Allioto.
We have Sam Alito, now nominated as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
He's been on the circuit court for 15 years.
He has been confirmed unanimously twice 100 votes uh in two separate Senate votes.
He has more experience than any Supreme Court nominee in 70 years.
Even Spectre likes him.
He's in the Third Circuit, which uh which is in Philadelphia.
Third circuit covers part of uh of Pennsylvania.
Now, I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear any whining or moaning about what the Democrats are saying.
I don't want to hear about how unfair they are.
I don't want to hear about how they're mischaracterizing him.
I don't want to hear how they're impugning him.
I don't want to hear, I don't they're gonna say it.
What I'm telling you is I don't want to hear any complaints about it because my friends, this is what we wanted.
This is what we wanted.
We want the Democrats to be who they are.
The president's made a great pick here.
Chuck Schumer, we need to give him his full-time 24-7 cable service called the all Schumer service, or ass.
Let Chuck Schumer be out there all the time saying what he said.
Let Ted Kennedy, the swimmer, come up for air and say what he wants to say.
Let Dingy Harry say, let them all talk about.
Let McCain sit on a fence all he wants.
Let them sit.
I'm telling you, this is exactly what we want.
We want the libs to be who they are.
We want a debate about the Constitution.
We want a debate about the role of the judiciary in our society.
We want such a debate that the American people are listening to it.
We want this debate to be informative.
We want this debate to be educational because we will win this debate.
This is a huge pick.
It's a fabulous pick.
It will go a long way towards setting the standard for future nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It will go a long way toward establishing a role of the Supreme Court in uh in American life and hopefully returning it to its original intent by the uh by the founding fathers, watching the media panic.
Bring more of that on.
I got notes from people.
I can't believe they're calling him Scolito.
Let them call him Scolito.
They're trying, they're all they're doing by calling him Scott, trying to impugn him.
They're trying to say that he's nothing more than little stepchild of Anton and Scalia.
He's a mini Satan.
He's a mini devil.
They're trying to deny that he is his own man.
And so let him try, folks.
This guy's got a record.
He's got he's got 15 years and two 100 to zip votes.
Confirmation by the U.S. Senate to sit on a federal bench.
Here's the president's announcement today came early this morning.
Here's what he had to say.
Judge Alito's nomination received bipartisan support.
And he was again confirmed by unanimous consent by the United States Senate.
Judge Alito has served with distinction on that court for 15 years.
And now has more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years.
Judge Alito's reputation has only grown over the span of his service.
Yeah.
He has participated in thousands of appeals.
Yeah.
And authored hundreds of opinions.
Radon.
This record reveals a thoughtful judge who considers the legal merits carefully and applies the law in a principled fashion.
Rado.
He has a deep understanding of the proper role of judges in our society.
He understands that judges are to interpret the laws, not to impose their preferences or priorities on the people.
A portion of his remarks after the president introduced him this morning.
Every time that I have entered the courtroom during the past 15 years, I have been mindful of the solemn responsibility that goes with service as a federal judge.
Federal judges have the duty to interpret the Constitution and the laws faithfully and fairly to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to do these things with care and with restraint, always keeping in mind the limited role that the courts play in our constitutional system.
Right, oh.
And I pledge that if confirmed, I will do everything within my power to fulfill that responsibility.
Right on, right on, right on.
Bring it on, baby.
Bring it on.
These are fighting words of the dems.
What do we got here?
We have a we have a we have a male.
Sandra Dale Connor seat.
This is supposed to swing vote.
Schumer's all up said this is a swing vote.
This is fabulous.
We've got a male.
We have a married male.
He's a European.
He is a nethema to the libs on this, folks.
He is anathema to them.
The exact opposite of what they were hoping for.
And this is fabulous.
Now listen to this.
This is even better news from the American Spectators blog.
After three hours of serious and patient consideration of Samuel A. Alito's qualifications and judicial temperament, the nags.
It taking to the streets.
A National Association of Gals is taking to the streets.
The nags are protesting outside the Supreme Court building at four o'clock today.
Isn't the Supreme Court in the wrong building?
He's not there yet.
Perhaps their choice of venue to vent reveals the nags resignation that Alito's confirmation is a fate accompli.
That's already been posted at the American Spectators blog.
So bring it on.
Here go the nags are going to show up at four o'clock.
Burn the bras, ladies, and go get Maureen Dowd out there with you.
Because you've destroyed her life, too.
Did you read that piece that she wrote in the New York Times?
Oh.
Have you you have anybody have a pet cat?
Have you heard that?
Have you heard when your cat gets upset?
What does it do?
It hisses.
Shh.
Ooh, baby.
She hates men.
She's upset at the feminist movement for destroying the life of women because she followed their roots back in the late 60s and early 70s.
It's a long piece.
Uh I'm not.
I'm I'm not too long to read, Mr. Sn.
I'm not gonna read.
It's too long.
I mean, it is it is an essay.
It's in the New York Times magazine, I think.
And uh don't have time for excerpts of we've already covered it.
We've covered Maureen.
She's got this book out, and it's I think it's adapted from the book, but she's just clearly wounded, a wounded dove.
A wounded wounded angel, uh Maureen just can't get over it.
And so put her on the march with the Nags to this is fabulous.
The nags are gonna come out, the N roll babes are gonna be demanding that these liberal Democrat senators on the judiciary judiciary committee follow their lingo.
This is exactly what we wanted when we got Harriet Myers.
This is it.
You understand?
We're ready for this debate.
Well, we can win this debate.
We're up against a bunch of people who don't have any ideas.
We're up against a bunch of people that can't be honest about who they are, but they care so much about this court, they have no choice but then to be honest about who they are.
They will not be honest in a campaign.
They will not be honest when they're running for office.
But when you put somebody up on the court that's gonna threaten their control of it, they've got no choice.
And they're gonna bring the nags out.
Every pervert oddball group in this country is gonna be on parade opposing this guy, who basically is is is such a normal down-to-earth guy.
He's a little geeky.
I mean, this guy opposes no threat to anybody.
He he's just, he's just an ordinary net nice guy.
He studied the law.
He's made it his life.
So I I want these people to go bananas.
Here's an example of the media going bananas today.
This is a little montage we put together.
We've got uh Diane Sawyer, Matt O'Wauer, uh, Jessica Yellen, she's with ABC, David Gregory, Kelly O'Donnell from NBC, George Stephanopoulos from ABC, Thalia Assurance, I'm sorry, assurus, Asuris, whatever she's for CBS, and Gloria Borger of uh I guess she's at U.S. News reacting to Judge Alito's appointment.
They've called him Scalito and is actually nicknamed Scalito because his opinions mirror those of Justice Scalia.
He is so conservative, he's been called Sculito, a comparison to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
He's sometimes nicknamed Scalito.
This guy is in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
That's why he's called Scolito.
He is a scoleto light.
He has been described by some as in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
He's a morph of Antonin Scalia.
He thinks like Scalia.
He's modeled himself after Justice Antonin Scalia has been given the nickname of Scalito.
He may be called Scalito because he's quite conservative, but he is not bombastic like Justice Scalito.
All right.
So the talking points went out.
The facts went out, they all got it, and it's just a montage identical to the one when they said that Bush didn't have gravitas or whatever that was about.
Cheney gave him Gravitas, whatever you remember that montage we played for you.
And it just illustrates the point.
No matter where you go in the mainstream press, you're going to get the same story.
Again, the same doesn't matter who the reporter is, it doesn't matter what the network is, you're gonna get the same story.
Scalito, Scalito.
And I'm telling you, all that is is an attempt to uh impugn him.
Now, uh there's also a little bit of upset in the media that Alito is not a woman, he's just another guy.
Another montage here from Linda Douglas of ABC, Soladet O'Brien from CNN, Candy Crowley CNN, Ed Henry CNN, Katie Courick of the Today Show, uh, with our own separate montage here.
Now there is less diversity than ever on the Supreme Court.
This is another white male, not a woman.
He is the opposite of Harriet Myers.
He's a guy and not a woman.
This is a white male uh replacing a female, leaving just one female on the court.
So you hear the word man in there, Democrats hitting the gender court.
And I guess ideology, Trump gender in this case, right?
So fine, bring it on.
Let them beat folks.
Yeah, they're irritated, they're upset about this, and this court matters so much to them that they're going to tell everybody who they are.
This is fabulous.
We don't I don't want to hear any complaining about what they say.
I want to hear thanks.
I want to hear gratitude for the left being open and honest about who they are, what they think, and what they think of this particular nominee.
I don't want any calls from anybody talking about how unfair or biased the press is.
That's what we want.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the uh anchor man for America.
Servant of humanity, lover of mankind, protector of motherhood, supporter of fatherhood in some cases, except mine, and in general, all round good guy.
Here is a harmless, lovable little fuzzball at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As I say, we need a 24-hour cable network with 24 hours of Chuck Schumer.
Just keep playing his statements over and over again.
We can call it the all Schumer service or ass.
We have two sound bites from Senator Schumer today.
He compared uh Judge Alito and his seat on the Supreme Court to Rosa Parks, and her seat on the bus.
Like Rosa Parks, Judge Alito will be able to change history by virtue of where he sits.
The real question today is whether Judge Alito would use his seat on the bench, just as Rosa Parks used her seat on the bus to change history for the better.
Or whether he would use that seat to reverse much of what Rosa Parks and so many others fought so hard and for so long to put in place.
By the way, do you hear what Ted Kennedy said?
I think he's stealing lines from me.
He said that this choice that the president made is uh made from a position of weakness.
That's what I said about President Bush's choice of Harriet Myers.
They got so many of you people upset at me and in a tizzy at me.
Uh and here's the swimmer now out there suggesting that this choice made from weakness is just the opposite.
Has who apologized?
Have I?
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, I haven't gotten any apologies.
No, I'm not I well, I may have gotten a few.
I don't know.
I can't look at email over the weekend, so I I haven't had time to go through it all.
I got 30,000 emails here when I got here this morning.
I can't go through all that.
You know, that's it's it's it's it's it's it's impossible.
So um at any rate, at any rate, I did come in for a couple hours yesterday to do some pre-pub.
Uh uh some some some uh pre-pre-prep, I should say, but I didn't have a chance to go through all those uh I went out and played golf yesterday.
If only got the golf course open, there's no power out there, but we uh we charged the golf carts up.
We stole a generator and and uh we charged the golf carts, about twelve of them went out there and played.
It was like uh it was like there's a mother-in-law convention in town.
It was so windy uh out there, and I was trying a new ball, a new ball supposed to go just as far as my old ball will be a little softer, and I I couldn't tell because the wind, it was just so I no, I I'd I haven't seen any apologies.
But uh I'll tell you, folks, here can you put yourself in the in the position of Democrats?
In it during the month of October, they thought they'd pulled it off.
And last Friday, I'm telling you that when that indictment came down, it was only Scooter Libby.
The wind went out of the sails of the Democrats.
They thought it was gonna be Rove, and they thought they were going to get an indictment that would cause an investigation of the whole reason we went to war, and the independent counsel, regardless of what you think of this indictment, and we'll talk about that at some point.
He said two things in that press conference that will stand out above anything else that I hear about it.
He said, despite all of our investigation, we did not find any evidence of the outing of a covert agent.
So it means that our investigation turned up nothing.
So we decided to turn up a crime as part of our investigation.
So they got they they they've got the this crime of Libby covering up a non-crime.
The second thing he said was that don't I don't want anybody to read into this indictment that there's anything here about our policy of war in Iraq.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he said.
And I tell you the winds came out of the sails of all of the Democrats and the left and the media because they were hoping that that's what this would ultimately be.
And I think it's something that a lot of them have participated in in setting up.
There was a third thing that Fitzgerald said that I also found that it didn't register immediately, but as I pondered it, he said I would have just as soon this investigation had been over in October 2004, not 2005.
Now, when he said that, just kind of skated over my head because I was I was still listening to all that he was saying within the context of his press conference.
Then I got to think in October 2004.
Is he saying that he would have just as soon been able to and preferred to indict Libby in October of 2004, as opposed to October of this year?
Because October 2004 is right before November 2004, which was the election month of 2004, the presidential race.
And then I got to think, well, what stopped him from indicting anybody in October 2004?
And it Judy Miller.
Judy Mill, no, she chose not to testify.
She's one of the people that fingered Scooter, and so she decides not to testify and ultimately ends up going to jail.
No wonder the media hates her.
No wonder the media despised not only did she do the wrong thing by promoting the weapons of mass destruction angle, she refused to finger scooter soon enough to get an indictment in October of 2004.
Anyway, the point is that the Democrats uh I'm sure, folks, uh they thought they were gonna 22 indictments yet.
Lawrence O'Donnell only said 22 indictments, and Rove was going, one to five indictments, Rove Libby, perhaps Janey could go all the way to the White House.
What did he get?
They got Zilch.
Okay, so they've lost Libby.
Well, uh, we've lost Libby.
They've lost Dan Rather.
They've lost Andrew Hayward.
We've gotten rid of a lot more key players of theirs than they've gotten rid of ours.
In these last five years, the way I tally this, we're still on the top, folks, and getting rid of key players.
Brokow's gone.
Peter Jennings passed away, rather gone away in shame.
The evening news, the mainstream media's evening news is no longer a big deal.
People don't pay that much attention to it anymore.
Gasoline price now below 250.
Did I tell you this?
You can drink the water in New Orleans.
There was no toxic soup.
All of this horrible stuff that had happened on the Bush Watch.
We've had three successful elections in Iraq.
We got a constitution.
Everything is happening on a timeline basis, as the president promised.
The Democrats think they're sitting in the driver's seat, but they know that their car is about to come to that edge of the cliff, folks.
You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the excellence in podcasting network.
We have one more bite from uh Senator Schumer, and then uh the Byron York just sent me a a little blurb.
The uh, you know how how uh Ked Kennedy uh came up with that statement.
Robert Bork's America, women will be forced to go to LaBuga.
Well, a group has tried that today with uh with Judge Alito.
The Center for American Progress has tried to rewrite Ted Kennedy's famous Robert Borke's America speech in its news release on the Alito nomination.
I'll get to that here in just a second.
But first, one more bite from Senator Schumer.
It's sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us.
Stop the tape a second.
Senator Mittelworth is going to happen.
He is going to unify America, and you're going to be in a losing end of it.
This is not going to divide America whatsoever, and you know it, and it's something you're deathly afraid of.
You want to sit there continue to define yourself and your far leftist fringe buddies as the mainstream, but you couldn't be more out of the mainstream if you had charted a course to be out of the mainstream.
And this is all posturing.
It is Schumer who is genuinely sad that he wasn't able to roll the president.
Because what's happened here, folks, the president has chosen to pick a fight with his real enemies this time.
He has chosen to pick a fight with the left.
And he's really not even choosing to pick a fight.
He's just choosing who he thinks would be an excellent nominee for the court.
Here's the rest of Senator Schumer.
America needs reaching out to one another more than ever.
Why?
But the president seems to want to hunker down in his bunker and is more concerned about smoothing the ruffled feathers of the extreme wing of his party than about governing all of America and changing history for the better.
Extreme wing of his party.
How about Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg?
Extreme wing of his party.
The president didn't want an O'Connor.
It's you people on the left who live in this mirage that there is somehow some swing vote on the court to make sure you don't lose every time that wants an O'Connor.
It's not the president.
If there was supposed to be another O'Connor, Clinton should have nominated another O'Connor.
If O'Connor is the is the is the is the baseline is the benchmark, then let Clinton have nominated.
He didn't.
He nominated an ACLU member.
Ruth, Buzzy Ginsburg.
And here you have Schumer dumping all over uh Alito, but then says that he will scrutinize.
He says he can't be a fair judge.
He's been a federal judge for 15 years.
He's been on the Federal Circuit for 15 years.
One hundred uh to nothing unanimous votes twice.
You know, and Chuck's not even the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
That would be leaky leahy.
Patrick the Senator depends.
Uh and he's had some things to say too, but he's being outflanked here by uh by by Chuck Schumer.
But like I'm saying, folks, we we need to be happy that Schumer is saying what he is saying.
We want People like Schumer out front every day, just as we want this.
As I mentioned, Byron York has sent me this note that the uh Center for American Progress has tried to rewrite Senator Kennedy's famous Robert Bork's America.
And here's basically what it says.
Samuel Alito would overturn Roe vs.
Wade.
Samuel Alito would allow race-based discrimination.
Sam Alito would allow disability-based discrimination.
Sam Alito would strike down the family and medical levax.
Sam Alito supports unauthorized strip searches.
Sam Alito is hostile toward immigrants.
And they cite their cases to give evidence of this.
This is what we want.
We want these people to come out and show just how far out of the mainstream they are.
We want them to illustrate that it is they who are extreme on all of these things, folks.
This is I'm telling you, for those of you who doubt me, and I'm sure there's some of you out there because I I know that I know I know who you are, you know who you are.
Okay, Rushwell, hope you're right, but uh what if you're wrong?
Oh no.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, I guess we got it.
We have to do it.
Folks, we know that conservatism wins every time it's tried and every time it's stood up for.
Conservatism doesn't win when conservatives act like they're not conservative.
Conservatism doesn't win when conservatives try to please liberals and moderates.
That's when conservatism loses.
Conservatism wins when it stands up for itself, and it will.
In this case, here's Cliff in Greenville, South Carolina.
Hello, sir, you're up first.
It's an awesome responsibility.
Hey, it's showtime.
Yeah, showtime.
You and I have to put our trust in these Republicans in the Senate.
And uh, though we agree that we're a nation of laws, when we started out that way, we weren't.
We were a nation of men because the laws hadn't been established.
And I don't think I I hate to say this, but I don't think we have the the individuals in the Senate that are up to this.
I know you've pushed it really hard.
Wait a sec.
It's showtime.
Wait a sec.
Wait a sec.
Vice President Lindsey Graham has already come out.
Did you hear what he said?
Yeah, he's one of my senators.
Well, okay.
Well, then Lindsay Graham's a member of the gang of fourteen.
And Lindsay Graham said if there if anybody tries to filibuster on this, it will fail.
This man is not filibustered, but it means he's he will abandon a gang of fourteen.
It may be a couple Republicans to vote against the guy.
I will bet you, I'll predict to you right now, Cliff.
And I'll tell you what if I lose, I'll send you a couple of EIB golf shirts, all right?
Sounds great.
All right.
If you win, you have to do nothing but keep listening.
Well, okay, what you're gonna do in it, he gets 65 or more votes.
Okay.
Sixty-five or more.
All right.
Let it be.
I mean, I'm I'm hoping and praying that's the case.
Yep.
Sixty-five or more votes.
I'll tell you what else is going to happen.
He's gonna be the fifth Catholic.
Oh no.
The fifth Catholic on the Supreme Court.
You're gonna that let him come out against religious people too.
Let all of this surface.
But after what happened with Harriet Myers, I don't think that you're gonna have that many Republicans wander off the reservation now.
I think I think with with this indictment of Libby and all the I think I have a uh uh and just an instinctive feeling, and I obviously could be wrong about this.
I hope you're right, but I I'm so nervous because we know sins can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
And these guys continue to befuddle me.
Uh supposed, supposed conservatives.
Well, look, there's some Republicans in the Senate that are not conservatives.
I know that.
Okay, so you got Lincoln Chafe, you got Susan Collins, you got Olympia Snow, and McCain, depending on, you know, you know what he wants to wants the press to think about.
Yeah.
Uh so but but but look, I even even in that scenario.
See what I think is going to drive this.
Don't don't don't forget what happened out here with the Harriet Myers thing.
And I I I I say this with great trepidation.
But if if you look I told you that what was going to happen, instead of this conservative crack up that everybody on the left was talking about, Howard Feynman, that it was a conservative crackdown, and and here here is evidence it's been validated.
This is a conservative crackdown.
The the you can call it the conservative movement, the base of the party, whatever, uh brought this nomination about, and they're not gonna sit by and if if some Republican senators want to go wobbly, they will hear about it.
Well, Rush, this is a bet I certainly want to lose, but boy, I they just this is not the theory.
Well, you think he's gonna You think they're gonna defeat Alito?
I think there's enough of them there that that when the uh when the press puts its full court press on and they want to be the McCaines, they want to be the darling of the press.
I think they have the spines of a chocolate cler.
Let me tell you something.
You mentioned McCain or any of these other Republicans want to be president.
If they really want to be president, they're gonna have to get on board with the Republican agenda right now, because we're getting close to primary time.
If they start trying to uh undermine the president on this pick uh and and other things, they can they can kiss their chances in 08 or the 08 primaries goodbye.
I just I think also because of what happened with Myers, I I think there's going to be a um uh a big sigh of relief now that we can be unified and focus on the real enemy, which is not us and ourselves or the president, but the left.
So how many votes do I get?
Sixty-five.
Okay.
That's a vote I would love to lose.
Sixty-five.
Sixty Well okay.
Uh he may only get fifty-four, fifty-five.
Uh oh, let's put it this way, there won't be a filibuster.
You don't think so?
No.
Not not with Vice President Graham demand d all already suggesting that that he's off that reservation.
Well, Graham did that is because myself and so many of us here in South Carolina just barraged his we worked so hard to get him there, and we barraged his office with uh how disgusted we were with him being a part of that.
That could well be a factor.
There's there's no question.
There's also uh I I think I think he realizes it might have been just a bad structural move uh uh as well.
But uh if he and he was very plain as day yesterday about this, there will not be a filibuster in the meaning the Republican side of this will not hold.
Well, I hope you're right, Rush.
Well, I'll tell you, I don't I don't see any reason for pessimism here because I l you you take a look at doesn't matter who it is, Schumer, Kennedy, the uh Alliance for whoever they are, the Nags, their opposition to this guy is the same as it would be to anybody.
There's nothing specific about this guy that they're they're just opposed because he's conservative.
There's nothing new.
It's the same old playbook as the same old song and dance.
And I'm telling you, when the left brings forth these let put Ralph Nees on TV as much as possible.
You want to talk mainstream America, the guy's not it.
But Ralph Nees go on television as often as possible.
Let Nan Aaron let all of the leaders of these fringe groups get on television as much in time as much as possible and start denouncing this guy.
There's not one thing unlikable about the Mr. Alito.
There's the kids' family that he's not a demon.
He they cannot demonize the guy.
Let him try.
This is my whole point.
This is it it it's time to swat this fly for good.
Uh the left and their and their so-called uh uh unity and and their their ideology and all that.
So Cliff, I'm glad you called.
Uh hold on there.
We'll get the necessary information here to uh uh just in case we don't get sixty-five votes and I send you a couple shirts.
But I don't think it's gonna happen.
We'll be back and continue here on the EIB network right after this.
Something else you can add to the list of good news, and that's economic growth.
The uh third quarter economic growth growth was three point eight percent, is that what it was?
And that you know, that'll be seasonally adjusted upwards uh after after they uh uh get some more data in.
So, you know, all these things supposed to be falling apart, and they're not.
And it's because the press believes the own their own alternative reality that they create uh and they ignore uh uh real reality, if I can be redundant, uh as they create their alternative realities.
We've got gas prices now moving below two dollars and fifty cents.
That's for regular unleaded.
Uh I got a story here, this is from um Knoxville, Tennessee, Scripps Howard News Service, why some Americans remain opti optimistic, press can't believe that they're Americans, they're optimistic out there.
And one of the things that it points out among those who are optimistic, they are watching less and less of the evening news and reading less and less of the newspaper.
I've always told you if you did this, your life would change dramatically.
Now, I know you have this compulsion like I do to stay informed, but some people are really optimistic when they don't read the news, when they don't watch the news, or at least the front page of the newspaper or whatever.
People have been tuning out the mainstream media for decades.
Folks, their audience numbers are coming down.
The vast majority of elections in this country are decided by incumbency.
Um of the little known secrets about the Republican takeover of the House in 1994 was that there was a whole bunch of of uh open seats in 1994.
There are 435 House seats up for re-election in uh in 2006, and about 20 of them are competitive.
Only 20.
The incumbency rules these things.
So there's there's there's um really a a whole a whole sector of of the country that's uh noticing positive things, the situation in Iraq is far better than uh the alternative reality that has uh has been created.
Rove was not a dead.
I I cannot tell you, I don't care what the left wants to massage themselves and say or how they want to massage it.
There's this is well, let's go through it.
Look, let's just go through what they they said.
We had Schumer calling uh Pat Fitzgerald a prosecutor's prosecutor.
Well, what happened?
Fitzgerald charged no criminal leak, but he still found a crime.
He reported no conspiracy, but he found one.
He didn't charge Carl Rove, but the left says that Rove should step down anyway.
Dingy Harry says that Rove should either quit or Bush should fire him.
He discounted any connection to the war.
But the left is out there saying that this whole thing is the cause of the war.
The mainstream media might have the template on this, but they do not have the facts about any of this that went on.
The more the left talks about Libby's alleged perjury, the more you have to ask, did Joseph Wilson commit treason?
Joseph Wilson's the uh is out there who has been documented by the Senate Intelligence Committee, bipartisan to be a liar.
People have poured over his New York Times and LA Times op-eds, found him to be a liar.
If, as the left charges, we went to war because of yellow cake in Niger, then they have to live with that charge or die with it.
Now I know it's not our argument.
It's not the president's argument, the argument in Congress of the UN, but that's the Bush bash of today.
That we went to war because of yellow cake and Niger, and it was all a lie.
That's what the left wants to believe themselves, and they try to make everybody else believe it.
And so Wilson came back and found no evidence, they say, when that's not even true either.
His initial verbal report confirmed what the CIA knew at the time.
You still can't convince me, by the way, that this whole thing's not a CIA-hatched plot to destroy Bush, undermine the war effort and all that.
Uh mentioned this for the past uh couple of weeks.
But the real question is this: did Bush lie about uh yellow cake?
Did the Brits lie about uh uranium in Niger, or did Wilson?
Did Wilson lie about Niger?
Did Wilson commit treason?
Did Wilson make up something that did he go out and sip tea and not even investigate, come back and just say what he wanted to say, what the plan was.
I mean, I uh you know it didn't even strike me that this was all that important until the left started making it the reason for opposing the war and trying to get rid of Bush, that he lied about weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons of mass destruction to get us into war.
At Wilson uh is the agent for that story being moved forward when Wilson is himself a questionable source.
So Dingy Harry wants Rove to resign?
Why?
Wants Bush to pledge no pardon ever?
Why?
Can't wait till Dingy Harry says this goes all the way back to Barbara Bush.
Well, how far back are they going to try to take all of this?
And then we have Lawrence O'Donnell.
This guy ought to be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
He was 21 indictments off.
And he was the first guy to guarantee us and he'd heard his sources inside that Rove was it, that Rove was gonna be indicted.
This is the guy who pops his blood vessels on TV, writes for TV's West Wing, predicted twenty-two indictments, uh, or I don't know, predicted multiple indictments.
I think twenty-two indictments was a rumor in the media about three weeks ago.
But he predicted Rove would be indicted, and and of course wasn't the case.
And the left all thought that was going to happen.
So I'm telling you, no matter how they phrase it, no matter how they pursue this, and you can tell with the way Wolf Blitzer was pursuing guests on his show yesterday.
Well, even so, wouldn't you wouldn't you have to admit that what Libby did was bad?
Even though the special prosecutor found no crime and he found no covert outing uh agent outing, wouldn't you have to agree with what Libby did was bad?
Wouldn't you have to agree that what Libby did was wouldn't you have to agree what Libby did was a crime.
Anything to associate the word crime in the White House.
They didn't get what they want.
They didn't get what they want in the Supreme Court nominee.
They don't have what they want with the economy roaring.
They don't have what they want with New Orleans not as bad as it was forecast to be.
They don't have what they want going on in Iraq.
Don't believe for a moment they're happy with what's going on because they're not.com, uh emailing saying turn the ditto cam on.
Uh it is on.
It's being viewed online by our testers and scientists.
It's working, and it's been on for the whole hour.
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