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Nov. 1, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 98.5% of the time that, according to the latest opinion audit from the Sullivan Group, an official opinion auditing firm in Sacramento, California.
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Telephone number eight.
By the way, why is that accuracy rating of almost always right?
98.5% of the time so high.
Because this is a relentless and daily pursuit of the truth here, my friends.
We find it.
We express it, we proclaim it.
You need to have courage to face the truth if you're going to listen to this program without going nuts.
So, you know, during the breaks here, some of you in the Ditto camp, what do you what do you guys wish we could hear what you're talking about during the breaks to see you laughing and so forth.
Well, I'll let you in on one of them.
The break here at the top of the hour.
And we got our power back, but we didn't get our line power back until we turned our generator off.
And I said, How cute that that see, Dawn went out in a local five and dime to get a little gasoline-powered generator.
I have a huge mama, 12-cylinder diesel caterpillar made by Kohler.
Old buddy Herb Kohler of Kohler, Wisconsin.
And I was telling Dawn it has a transfer switch on it.
And what the transfer switch does, when it recognizes line power is uh is is back, it transfers the power from generator to line and shuts the uh generator off.
Generator runs for about an hour to cool down, but it's not providing uh any power.
We test it every Wednesday, make sure it's working.
We have the generator crew come out uh that before any hurricane hits to test it out, make sure the transfer switch is uh is working, and so forth.
So uh I mean I mean a lot of people are offering help, and I I uh I I truly appreciate it.
But anyway, when I when I told Dawn that I that I did not get my generator at the local five and dimes, snurdly just erupted in in laughter in there, and that's what I was laughing at.
Uh at any rate.
Um love this story.
Environmental group Greenpeace has been fined almost $7,000 for damaging a coral reef at a World Heritage Site in the Philippines.
Their flagship boat, the Rainbow Warrior 2, ran aground at the uh Tabata Bataha, uh Tabataha, whatever, Reef Marine Park in the Sula Sea, southeast of Manila.
Park officials said almost 100 square meters, that's a thousand seventy-six square feet of reef, had been damaged.
Greenpeace agreed to pay the fine, but blame the accident on outdated maps provided by the Philippines government.
That's it.
Blame the poor Philippines government.
Don't you people have sonar in those ships of yours?
Uh they hurt the wheels.
Oh, that's right.
They don't use sonar hurt the wheels' ears and disrupt the uh whales' lives and all that.
More great news here.
This is, you know, the left hates Christmas.
Um, and every year they have a they have a fit if Christmas spending is not adequate, though.
I mean, isn't it amazing?
The left hates Christmas.
They're trying to wipe Christmas.
In fact, folks, I look this up for me on Amazon real quick.
Uh uh just uh I guess you have to search by author John Gibson.
John Gibson at Fox has a great book out on it's got Christmas in the title.
Uh uh it's and it basically is it documents how the American left is trying to get rid of Christmas any which way they can.
It's a national holiday.
They don't want any displays, they don't want any recognition of Christmas whatsoever.
The war on Christmas, John Gibson's book, The War on Christmas, and and uh Gibson cannot get interviewed anywhere in the mainstream press about this book.
He is being blacklisted as it were.
He will not be interviewed by anybody.
The war on Christmas, because the book also contains a lot of uh ammo about if you can't have a war on Christmas without having a war on Christianity.
But it really, really is a good book.
And it it it never ceases to amaze me as we as we approach the cur the the Christmas shopping season, the left just write its Hands over all the money that's not being spent on Christmas.
We're having a don't you know it's conflicting for them because they want a rotten economy, and yet they love reporting the business that that Christmas spending is down.
People are waiting for deals as though Christmas is the only time of year that people actually go shop for the best price.
Apparently, Christmas used to be whatever it cost, people paid it didn't matter what they always never waited for sales, never waited only after Christmas sales.
But now all of a sudden, last twenty years or so, because the economy is basically in a soup line.
We're in the Great Depression.
People can't afford to Christmas shop as they normally did.
But at the at the same time, while they they're all having all this that they get depressed about Christmas spending not not being what it should be.
They hate Christmas.
I mean, they ought to be happy about it all, but but they can't, no matter what you give them, whatever they say they want, it's never enough.
They can't be happy.
So this story looms large for a better than average Christmas season, which is really gonna make the left in the media mad.
Consumers got back into a buy-in groove and boosted their spending by a solid uh 0.5% in September.
And this incomes also grew briskly.
The latest figures released Monday by the Commerce Department suggested that the economy is holding up well to the double blows of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
See, I don't even mention Wilma.
Don't even mention us.
We got creamed by a hurricane.
Don't even talk about us.
Florida bias.
It's Florida by it's a Republican state.
We stole the election from Gore, so we don't even get mentioned.
We're having tough times here, not just people.
In fact, you know, does anybody remember the news networks were all going to open bureaus in New Orleans?
Where are those bureaus?
I don't think they have those bureaus anymore.
And I predicted this.
I said those bureaus would be shut down by Christmas.
And the reason I said that is because New Orleans is going to come back a lot faster, and it's not gonna be the opportunity to bash Bush that the media thought it was gonna be.
So I'm watching CNN today, and Miles O'Brien has been sent back there to chronicle how rotten it is.
But is Miles O'Brien in Florida?
Is anybody in Florida chronicling how tough it is?
Nope.
Because we deserve it.
Because we're Florida.
We have year-round sunshine, year-round warm temperatures, plus we stole the election from Gore, so the hell with us, huh?
Hurricane Katrina and Rita.
People are spending money here too.
They forget all about it.
Anyway, that's a little bit of a side track.
But this 0.5% rise in consumer spending in September came after spending fell by that amount in August, reflecting the hit from Katrina.
America's incomes, meanwhile, increased by 1.7% in September, the largest gain since December of 2004.
That marked an improvement from the 0.9% plunge in incomes in August, a decline that largely reflected fallout from Katina.
Uh Katrina, economists expect consumer spending probably will moderate in the final three months of this year as auto sales drop off with the waning of generous incentives and energy prices causing belt to hey.
We mentioned this yesterday, that the average price for unleaded regular down to $2.50 a gallon.
That price coming down exactly as I told you was going to happen in that circumstance as well.
So the news continues to come in.
Incomes are up, consumer spending is up, the outlook for the Christmas shopping season is up, gasoline prices are down.
Back in a moment.
I wish I could remember who wrote this.
I was reading something today.
It says, And I didn't print it out, so I can't credit them, but I I am indirectly here.
Somebody wrote a piece about Alito and uh talking about how out of it Californians are.
Might have been Wesley Prudenfraud.
I it could have been in the in the Washington Times.
He said, California, especially California Democrats are so out of it, they actually think Gina Davis is president, and can't understand why she would nominate somebody like Sam Alito to the Supreme Court.
And you know, great comedy is great comedy if it has an element of truth in it.
And that's why that is uh funny.
What sound bite did I tell you we're gonna start with?
Did I tell you 10 or 16?
Good.
We're gonna go to audio soundbite sixteen.
We'll go back to Howard Dean this time On Hannity and Combs last night.
This is about the CIA leak investigation.
Combs says to uh Howard Dean Some Democrats in Congress have said uh there ought to be a a larger investigation into the conspiracy to move us toward war.
Do you believe that should be the case?
If there is such a thing, uh it'll be in the vice president's office.
And I do think there needs to be more investigation of the Vice President's office.
One of the things established by the special prosecutor in the indictment is that Vice President Cheney was the was the source of Scooter Libby's knowledge about who the CIA agent was.
And the question is, did the vice president uh instruct Scooter Libby to reveal that name?
If he did, the Vice President probably is criminally negligent and he ought to be indicted as well.
And I think we're going to find that out.
Well, you know, uh Howard if if if if that's the case, there there would have been such an indictment.
The thing is, uh security clearance that Cheney has is the highest you can get.
He's entitled to know all this, as is Libby.
Uh we know how all this happened.
It's just it's it's it was it was Joe Wilson out there trying to destroy the Iraq war, the Iraq policy undermined the presidency and the and the uh uh White House simply trying to defend its policy, and then Libby was talking to people and so forth, and the fact that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA was not part of a smear.
It's simply some little incidental detail that got passed along.
And when Novak uh mentioned his column all hell broke loose, but if you have trace this, nobody was trying to discredit her discredit Wilson because his wife was at the CIA.
They were simply trying to establish how the hell did he get sent on this trip.
So they're not satisfied.
I'm telling you, the bottom line is they wanted this indictment and these indictments that they hoped were multiple to lead to a trial on the lies that led us to the war.
And again, I remind you, Bill Clinton said the same thing as uh Bush back in 1998.
The press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, was writing stories about the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had.
Now, if there was lying going on by the Bush administration, then the press was lying in ninety-eight and Clinton was lying in ninety-eight.
Which we have thoroughly documented on this program.
Uh Wolf Blitzer interviewed Ambassador Joe Wilson, and this guy is a doozy.
This guy is a cuppin's saucer short of a full place setting, folks.
The elevator doesn't go to the top floor.
He's a publicity whore.
He's a media hound.
Blitzer says, you know, a lot of your critics blame you for the eventual disclosure of your wife.
It's a CIA operative.
They go back to that early May 2003 column by the New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph, who first reports about an unnamed U.S. ambassador making this trip to Africa.
Were you the source?
Nicholas Christoph's source for that column.
Well, I was a source for that column, but let me just say two things.
One, this has never been about Valerie or me.
This has always been about the 16 words in the state of the tapes.
Hold it.
Riku that.
He just admits it.
He just admits he was the source for the column that got all of this start.
Well, who is this Wilson guy?
People who is this Wilson?
Start trying to find out who Wilson is, and you find out where his wife works if you've got a White House security clown uh clearance.
And and uh so he said, yeah, I was a source of that column.
But let me just say to he tries to change the focus of this, and and when he changes the focus, what he does is demonstrate what his real purpose in all of this was.
Here's the whole bite again.
Well, I was a source for that column.
But let me just say two things.
One, this has never been about Valerie or me.
This has always been about the 16 words in the State of the Union address, first and foremost, and then second, about who leaked Valerie's name.
And I would point out to you that the indictment does not name Joe Wilson as somebody who leaked Valerie's name.
Now let's take a look at this.
This has never been about Valerie or me.
That's all this is about.
That pure and simple is all this has ever been about, is Valerie and him.
But even after saying this has never been about Valerie or me, he says, it's always been about the 16 words in the State of the Union.
Yeah, we had to disprove those to prove Bush was lying.
Then, second, about who leaked Valerie's name.
Well, if if the second thing it's about is who leaked Valerie's name, how can you say it's never been about you or Valerie?
This guy is this guy's slimy, folks.
I'm I'm telling you.
We got more from Wolf Blitzer with the guy.
Blitzer says, Well, even even though some of your supporters were on this program last week, Larry Johnson, former CIA officer, uh, they say your decision and your wife's decision to let her be photographed represented a major mistake, because if there were people out there who may have been endangered by her name, certainly when people might have seen her picture, they could have been further endangered.
The photograph of her uh did not identify her any way anybody could identify.
Now you asked me this question.
You've asked me this question three or four times.
I have never heard you ask the president about the layout in the Oval Office uh when they did the war uh layout.
I've never heard you ask Mr. Wolfowitz about the layout in Vanity Fair, but you asked me all the time.
So let me just get this very clear.
When one is faced with adversity, uh, one of the ways that one acts in the face of adversity is to try and bring a certain amount of humor to the situation.
It's called irony.
And uh if uh people have no sense of humor or no sense of perspective on that, my response is it's about time to get alive.
Sense of humor.
Where you you this is a sense of humor?
Joe Wilson is just a roly-poly jocular guy here having a few yucks.
He has his wife and himself pictured on the cover of Vanity Fair for irony for humor?
That her picture didn't identify her in any way.
No, it just placed her in your car.
We could see that she was blonde, and there have been since pictures all galore about her.
This is this guy, you go out and you hunt Vanity Fair.
You know, do you know whose wife works at Vanity Fair?
Tim Russert's wife works at Vanity Fair, and Russert, you know, was called before the independent council.
I mean, some of these things just don't appear to be accidental.
Why Vanity Fair?
Why the cover?
Why Joe Wilson and his wife?
Why did she agree to do it?
Irony is not national security policy.
What is it, Mr. Wilson?
You went into this to undermine the war, you went into this to prove Bush a liar, you went into there into this to protect your country, or you went into this for irony, or you went into this for media coverage.
What is it you went in for?
Every time he's on television, he grants all these interviews.
I want to remind you, this is not about Valerie and me.
Well, what are you doing on television?
Every chance you can get.
Maybe Libby was being ironic when he allegedly leaked your wife's name.
Maybe he thought he'd just have a little fun in the process.
So Blitzer says, so you you don't have any regrets about the Vanity Fair picture.
I think it's a great picture.
I think someday it's a good one.
It's a great picture, but I mean, I think someday it too will be in the International Spy Museum.
He wants the picture that's on the cover of Vanity Fair to be in the International Spy Museum, and he's trying to run around at the same time talking about how his wife's life was destroyed because of her her name being leaked.
And yet now he wants her and his picture in the International Spy Museum.
And this is who the Democrats have thrown in with.
Does the name Bill Burkett ring a bell?
Does the name Cindy Sheehan ring a bell?
Because I'm telling you, the difference between Burkett and Sheehan and Joe Wilson is so tiny, you couldn't put it in a thimble.
Who's next on this program?
Alice in Spring Lake, New Jersey.
I'm glad you waited.
Well, you're right on about everything, Rush, and I believe I I my husband and I were just discussing this, and we said, wouldn't it drive these liberals crazy if Bush decided to just pardon Libby?
I mean, if Clinton can pardon this rich you know, cook, then uh by golly, Bush should show everyone, you know, that Libby is is uh is uh innocent and darn it.
Free him, you know, pardon him.
If anyone's gonna be able to do that.
Well, the problem the whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
The problem with the pardon is that it it it would just cast further doubt on Libby's guilt.
Particularly the timing.
Are you suggesting he pardon him now before the prosecution?
Well, well, maybe not before the prosecution.
I don't think he's guilty of anything, to tell you the truth, but why not right now?
Drive the nothing they can do about it.
Well, b first it's not in Bush's nature to stick it in Lib's eye that way.
Best to do that on policy.
If you pardon Libby now, uh you don't give Libby a chance to prove his innocence that you are convinced uh of, and you and and you uh you simply you give everybody the ammo to say, uh huh.
Bush knows he's guilty and doesn't want any of this testimony at the trial, Bush is trying to say and they'll be coming they call it the Saturday Night Massacre 2, which is what uh they called when Nixon fired uh what was his name, Elliot Archibald Cox.
Yeah, when Nixon fired the independent counsel Archibald Cox in the Watergate era the Saturday night massacre.
Uh and that's when Bork, by the way, went in and took over the gig.
Oh, yeah, Bork was solicitor general back then.
Bork went in and took over the gig.
And people couldn't believe Bork would do it.
And he said, Well, the law's the law.
I mean, they can president can fire the guy, and I was uh took over.
But they yeah, I I don't think there won't he he I'd be all for if pardon after any trial, but not now.
Quick timeout, folks, back with more in just a moment.
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Back we go to the phones to um uh uh Virginia, Gloucester, Virginia, and Bonnie, welcome, nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rosh, I'm a first time caller.
Well, it's so nice to have you.
Thank you.
I just uh was telling your caller, you know, we're hearing all about this CIA leak everywhere in newspapers, on the TV, these liberal press.
But I'm out every day, I'm a small businessman, and I don't hear anyone talking about it.
So what is the point?
Well, you know, I don't think they're getting any ground at all.
Well, as an interesting, interesting observation, I think that's probably pretty common around the country that a lot of people don't care.
One of the reasons nobody knows who Scooter Libby is.
Uh but but number two, uh, you know, the the what the mainstream press doesn't understand to this day is that they have lost so much influence, and some w when they go overboard on something, people get suspicious.
It's like I've I've told Senator McCain on this program, you if if you're gonna say that the mainstream media is your base, you're in trouble because the base of the Republican Party detests the mainstream media and anything they want and anything they like, we instinctively oppose.
And I think that's part of the explanation for the phenomenon you're noticing.
I think it's just been i it it it looks too much like gotcha.
It's looked too much the Democrats of the media aligned to take out a president, and it's nothing different than what they've been doing since 2001.
And I've run through all the different opportunities they've tried.
They've tried Bill Burkett, Forged Documents, the Jersey Girls, uh, Richard Clark, the 911 Commission, Cindy Sheehan.
This is just another one of those examples, and the people in the country do not hate George W. Bush.
They do not disrespect George W. Bush, and they don't want him impeached or thrown out of office.
They don't want him in jail or any of that.
And yet the mainstream press and the Democrats seem focused only on on making that happen, and so they don't care.
The American people get turned off by it.
The reason I'm spending so much time on it is because I uh we didn't know what this indictment was going to be.
If these if these indictments went all the way up, then people would have cared.
If it had been Morton Libby, uh Bonnie, if it had been Cheney, if it would have been Rove, I would guarantee you people would be talking about it.
And we were just trying here to educate the American people as to what the motive behind all of this was, not at the prosecutor's side, but at the media and the Democratic Party side.
Well, thank you for keeping us so informed, because I really do appreciate it, but I just you know felt like no one else was talking about it in the real world, and they don't even realize it.
No, they don't.
No, though absolutely it's not just this that people are not talking about in the real world, it's a whole lot of other things the media interested.
The the country's not obsessed with two thousand deaths in Iraq.
As a means of, oh, we should get out of the country is not obsessed with the fact that we're failing in Iraq.
The country's doing pretty well.
We were weathering some storms.
We've weathered a gasoline price hike that has now come down.
Uh, people are focused on their own lives and things that matter in their own lives, and the media does not touch on that with the things that they're interested in Washington.
I'm telling you that, you know, the w when the media decided that it's big subject, its number one subject that had to be covered 24-7 was government, is when they started leaving people behind.
Because most people just don't care.
They don't I mean don't want to watch and hear about government all day long, particularly from a liberal advocacy point of view.
I think it's one of the many, many reasons that we can offer for why mainstream media influence is uh is waning uh as it is.
Ed in Columbus, Nebraska, you're next, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, buddy, nice to talk with you.
Thank you, pal.
I got sick the other day.
I'm self-employed, so I don't have much time for TV, but I watched the National Press Club.
I watched all of Wilson.
Yeah.
On the documents, I mean there's three points he's been called a liar.
On the documents he was supposed to have seen that didn't come out for six months after he was supposedly seen them.
Right.
He just said Nicholas Christoph got it wrong.
Right.
And there was never a retraction.
So the guy's just a liar.
And then on the sale of yellow cake, the sixteen supposed words, he went into great lengths about the sale.
There'd have been a whole bunch of money in Niger if there was a sale.
The president said that there was, you know, somebody was trying to buy it.
And that's what the Senate committee has said that someone was trying.
And Wilson said that he went over there and he didn't find a sale of yellow cake because there wasn't a whole lot of money in that small country.
And then he was asked in front of the press club about nepotism, whether he got the job.
This one killed me.
He said nepotism, by definition, is if you get paid.
I did it pro bono.
I was sent there because of my qualifications.
One, two, three.
Barry Goldwater said, if a man lies to you, he's a GD liar.
This Wilson is a liar.
I think congenital.
It was unbelievable.
And I don't have time to watch this crap.
I'm sorry.
But I'm not sure.
No, I I love that characterization of it.
I it was unbelievable.
And this was in front of the National Press Club, and they applauded this man.
Oh, I know.
And never pinned his ears back on, hey, the president in 16 words never said the sale.
He said they were attempting to purchase.
And he said he cited the British government as uh and the British intelligence agencies as the source for it.
Absolutely.
They stand by it to this day, but you're absolutely right.
Nobody ever said they bought the yellow cake.
They just tried to.
He did a 15-minute dissertation on the fact there wasn't money in Niger.
He'd have found out if there was a lot of money from a sale of yellow cake.
Well, you know, this this Wilson guy is is uh he's been making a lot of speeches.
He went out to Stanford or Sam San Francisco State, making a lot of speeches, and he's he's making it clear who he is.
He's a child of the sixties, anti-war uh protester that's uh that's managed to clean up and look pretty nice uh as he's gotten to be fifty-six years old.
Uh and his wife, they're both they're both Democrat activists in mindset.
Uh and it's just it's it's clear here that that there was uh an attempt.
He keeps talking about his trip and it was about the sixteen words.
Really, uh that that the sixteen words in this in the State of the Union, so the CIA decided on its own.
Hey, wait a minute, President CIA tried to keep those sixteen words out.
The president used them, uh, and he deferred to the British intelligence agencies rather than the CIA.
So CIA gets mad about that.
They dispatch Joe Wilson over there to f I mean this sounds like a m a miniature coup d'etat attempt to me.
Well it does.
It sounds to me like the CIA is is trying to cover its own rear end and discredit Bush at the same time.
What are we talking about?
We're talking about Wilson and Libby instead of the CIA total failure on WMDs.
Yeah, that's that's the of course.
And you wonder how much of this stuff will come out in the uh in the trial.
You know, you know, old Joe, uh, and this is not about Joe or Valerie, is it?
But they'll both be called you'll be called to testify, as will all these media people.
You know, you'll probably go in front of the National Press Club and they didn't even pin his ears back on anything.
Well, no, because he's the latest he's the latest vessel for destroying Bush.
They're not gonna discredit him.
You don't see any stories in the mainstream press about Wilson's uh lack of veracity.
You don't see one you don't see w I I couldn't believe Wolf Blitzer asked him these questions.
It was well, they missed the three points that I caught, and I'm a schlub from Columbus, Nebraska.
I'm working every day and raising kids, you know?
I'm self-employed.
I don't have time for this.
Hey Rush, for doing the best you do with the handicap you have, you inspire me.
Thank you, man.
Well, you're more than welcome.
I appreciate that.
Uh thanks so much.
Uh many of you are wondering what handicap do I have.
What do you think people think when they hear handicap?
I'm trying to think, what am I what is my handicap?
Uh what do you mean my power's up?
Oh, oh, that I don't have power at home.
Yeah, that's my no, he's talking.
he's talking about my golf handicap, which is playing.
My handicap at golf is playing.
No, he's talking about my my cochlear implant.
Uh I I uh I appreciate that.
Also, you know why, you know what speaking of my power being out, you know why the media is not focusing any attention on us down here in Florida?
You know why?
Because we aren't mobbing in the streets, demanding gimme gimme gimme.
We can take care of ourselves.
Have you have you heard anybody complain uh other than me?
I want one of those two thousand dollar debit cards.
I want I I yeah, well, I'm not gonna go that far.
Mamon says take a shot at a helicopter.
They f they fly by my beach all the time.
I maybe I could organize a bunch of my friends to go stand on the beach and start and start demanding and crying and ripping.
Well, loot.
Loot.
The problem with looting is that is that how do I say this?
Well no, that's the problem with looting is that there's there's nothing to get that I don't have.
But that would not be the point of looting.
The point of looting would simply be to cause social unrest, right?
So I'm looking at it the wrong way.
Right, right, right.
Start looting, and that'll focus attention on how whoa, whoa, and woe is us and so forth.
My my problem is that most of my friends, I'm getting I'm this is so funny.
Most of my friends are sending me email.
I got power back, yeah, yeah.
I got phones back, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is this is what this is what referencing it uh does.
Uh at any rate.
Try this story before we go to the break.
It's out of Philadelphia where they have big problems.
They got the big problems of Philadelphia.
The Eagles not having the year that everybody had hoped for.
Uh and uh they got you got stuff going on in the mayor's office, and then you got this.
Usually Chris Hambros's commute to work takes 14 minutes on the subway.
It's taking substantially more these days as a transit strike brings Philadelphia's buses, subways, and trolleys to a halt.
I'm not happy.
How can you be happy?
asked Chris Hembrose, who was waiting Monday for a ride to take him from his home in South Philadelphia to his job in North Philadelphia.
A second day of travel nightmares dawned today for nearly half a million people, and there was no end to the strike in sight.
No new labor negotiations are scheduled.
Labor negotiations broke off around midnight Sunday.
Wages, work rules, and the health care plan were the main issues in dispute.
The talks broke off because union leaders rejected the transit agency's health care offer, which would have required employees to pay five percent of the premium.
Workers currently pay nothing.
The offer included a 9% pay increase over three years.
Uh the union supported a sliding scale payment system for employees based on their salaries, but the deal breaker was requiring employees to pay five percent of their health insurance premiums.
Now I know what the union probably is saying.
Hey, if you guys go for this next year, they'll make you pay 10.
And then next year, next contract they'll make you pay 15 or 20%.
And after that, who knows?
But uh what, Mr. Snerdley?
Well you ask me a question?
Yeah.
Oh really.
Oh.
Oh, oh, I see it on the screen now.
I see it.
The Democrats, this is just the Democrats or the whole Senate.
Rule Okay, okay, the Rule 21 has been invoked by the Democrats.
The whole Democrat is uh the whole Senate is in session behind closed doors.
It's a closed session.
Harry Reid invoked Rule 21 to discuss the Libby indictment and to pursue the notion that this pre-war intelligence was known to be untrue, that Bush lied.
Democrats unhappy that Fitzgerald did not indict on this basis, so they are going to make it happen.
And I told you this was gonna happen.
Folks, it's uncanny.
When when when are you doubting Thomas is gonna finally wake up and admit I know what I'm talking about?
I after the past two weeks I've had, I don't understand how anybody could ever call here and disagree with me about anything.
I predicted this to you.
I predicted whether they get the indictment they want or not.
They're gonna still proceed on a policy basis as though Bush lied, and now they've invoked Rule 21, and they got the Senate in closed session dealing with the notion the investigation of the Libya indictment and what does it mean for the fact the president lied us into war.
Back after this, folks.
Stay with us.
Wait a minute.
Oh, hang on.
Hang on, just say.
Ha!
What a what a what a what a month, what a year I am having here, folks.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A copy of a printed story from the Village Voice Today by Kristen Lombardi.
Story posted at 1222 this afternoon.
Headlines, Cindy Sheehan for president.
Or Senate.
The anti-war left seeks a challenger for Hillary Clinton.
I told you people, I told you people that the anti-war left was not going to sidle up to Clinton, and you told me Rush, you know this is just a trick.
They're going to support Hillary no matter what.
They want Hillary to lie to whatever she has to do to fool people, but they're not going to vote against Hillary Clinton.
It is not the case.
Cindy Sheehan, the peace mom, probably never intended to sound like a candidate, but she did.
She hand the activist who became the face of anti-war sediment after camping outside Bush's ranch in Texas last summer, had just mounted the podium at the Brooklyn Peace Fair on October 22nd.
Already she was getting political.
Where is Hillary shouted an audience member from the back of the hall?
The crowd, mostly members of local anti-war groups, went wild with applause, waving posters that read Hillary speak out.
And we Cindy.
Another audience chin done chimed in with We Love You, Cindy.
The anti-war left.
I'm telling you, folks, not happy with Hillary Rodham Rodham.
And then there's this very quickly.
A message on a website linked to Al Qaeda.
This is from The Guardian, has threatened death to the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif after he played St. Peter in an Italian TV film.
In remarks widely reported in Italy earlier this month, Sharif, who is a convert to Islam, said he had seemed to hear voices during the filming of St. Peter, a two-part miniseries shown last week.
Sharif was quoted as saying, playing Peter was so important for me that even now I can only speak about it with difficulty.
It'll be difficult for me to play another role from now on.
The Italian news agency Ancronos International said that a message on a web forum used in the past by Al Qaeda had a link to a site carrying the threat.
Omar Sharif has stated that he has embraced the crusader idolatry.
He is a crusader who is offending Islam and Muslims and receiving applause from the Italian people.
I give you this advice, brothers.
You must kill him.
So I guess they've moved on from Salman Rushdie and have now headed out to Omar Sharif.
It's the best guess that intelligence has.
Quickly, Jim in Philadelphia.
Welcome.
We have one minute, sir.
Make it count.
Rush.
Yeah.
Mega Philadelphia Boredop Ditto's from 1210 WPHT.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I am one of the Scepter Riders here in Philly, and believe me, it is a total nightmare just getting to work.
But everybody here has been so great.
They've been trying to make a lot of exceptions.
People were driving me to and from work, so it's a little bit crazy, but I I don't think there's going to be any end to this.
Oh, yeah, there'll be an end to it at some point.
There's always an end to strikes.
Yeah, maybe like in about another month.
Well, it could be longer, but I mean, strikes all I've known strikes that are gone two or three years, but but strikes always end.
Well, I was just curious right now.
Since I'm the guy who makes sure to Philadelphia hears your show.
Is there any way you could help me out?
Maybe you couldn't.
This is a first.
This is the guy.
This is a guy actually running the control board at our Philadelphia affiliate calling during the program.
He wanted to uh to to buttress what I was saying.
But look, the way to look at this is every day is a day closer to resolution.
Uh I just find it, you know, not even what you can pay five percent of their health insurance premium.
Not even five.
That that's it, that's a deal breaker.
Quite indicative of where the left is.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast moments, but there's always tomorrow where you will be one day closer to the resolution of your transit strike in Philadelphia.
See you tomorrow on Wednesday, middle of the week.
Look forward to it.
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