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Nov. 22, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So have have you heard CNN's explanation for that black X that appeared over Cheney and he made his speech yesterday?
You're acting like you haven't heard about this.
Well, what do you've heard about the X, but you have well it was a computer glitch.
It was a computer glitch, and they went in there this morning and they tried to recreate it and they couldn't.
Now that's just greetings, folks, and welcome.
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Last night, Matt Drudge posted this uh still shot of a CNN's broadcast coverage of Dick Cheney's speech yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute, and there's this big black X right over Cheney's face.
Uh, while the the the headline under Cheney says, I do not believe it's uh wrong to criticize.
So uh apparently this ran less than a second each time.
I went, I got the video, I looked at it, and then it is there.
I mean, there's no question of it two or three times.
So uh CNN has been doing this this this exhaustive uh upper level management investigation to find out what happened.
And they finally went on the air today and they said, Well, you know, we we tried to recreate this and we can't.
It was just it was just a computer glitch.
We're rebooted a computer, and this happened, and it uh we d we can't we can't make it happen again.
So I I have a suggestion for you people at Fox.
What I what I think you people of Fox ought to do, and I know a lot of people fox listen to this program.
What you ought to do is is it's real simple.
Just go into your switcher uh on one of your shows this afternoon and take camera in there, take camera in the control room and have your tech explain how easy it is to do, and then do it.
Just put a black X up on the screen anytime you want to uh and show how easy it is to do it.
And if it's not a computer glitch that way, just do it.
And then and flash them throughout the, you know, th throughout the afternoon is flash these X's throughout.
It's what I would do if I ran Fox.
I thought about sending ailes and emails.
Do this.
Just put those X's up all over the place this afternoon, and it's to say it's a computer glitch and you can't stop it.
You don't know how it's happening, it's going all over the place.
Uh get some lib, get flash a black X all over Alan Colmes tonight during during Hannity and Combs.
We're trying to stop it, but we can't stop this X. It's just popping up.
It's a computer glitch.
Whatever's infected CNN's infected us.
Oh, they could they can have so much fun with this.
CNN's apology, of course, goes something like this.
We're so sorry a black X appeared over Mr. Evil, the Vice President Cheney.
Oh.
So Mr. Snurdley comes in today, folks, and he says, This economy, this has to be, this economy has to be humming.
Well, there's no question that it's humming.
His his definition of a humming economy is he can't find an Xbox 360.
He went out there and tried to find an Xbox 360, the new one.
Uh base prices between three and four hundred dollars.
Um, and and uh with other bundles thrown in there, it's been eight and nine hundred dollars.
Some are listed now over a grand by resellers online because there's such a demand for these things.
He can't find them.
I said, What do you want an Xbox 360?
Uh he said, No, I'm trying to buy one for a friend of mine's kid.
Uh it's Christmas time and so forth.
This this happened with the Sony PlayStation 2 some years ago.
You couldn't get one of those either.
But there's no question the economy is rolling.
I I had a bunch of stuff left over from yesterday from yesterday's program.
One of these stories, uh, newsmax from last week, one week ago today, in fact, uh on the 15th, former GE chairman and business management guru Jack Welch has some advice for President Bush.
Start bragging about the economy.
You know, the media is sitting out there trying to make this economy sound like it's all Katrina all the time, all over the country.
They're trying to make it sound like this is still soup line America.
They're still talking about high gas prices.
By the way, have you seen that gas prices in parts of the country are now under two bucks?
And a national average is now $2.20 or something like that, still $2.08 in New Jersey.
Well, they've got hell, New Jersey is a refinery for that matter, so they've got their gasoline right there.
Uh You go to giant stadium, all you gotta do is back your car up to the nearest swamp, put a hose in it, siphon what's in the swamp in your car, and drive off.
They got fuel all over that state, and so its price of two bucks and eight cents.
Uh a gallon, according to uh numerous people who admit to living there, uh, who've told me this in emails today.
So the gasoline price is coming down.
We've got this story, Hugo Chavez uh has offered discounted home heating oil uh from his uh sit go stations here in the United States.
Uh we talked about this yesterday, but we now know who who uh went down and negotiated this.
And a congressman from Massachusetts, guy's name is Bill Delahunt.
He went down there, he had a four-hour lunch or dinner with uh Hugo Chavez uh asking for this deal.
They put it together.
Nobody else in the government knew that Delahunt was down there doing this.
It's interesting that Delahunt did not go to the Kennedy family.
Uh Peter Schweitzer's book indicates the Kennedy family owns all these oil wells and oil companies, and they could have made the deal for his own constituents in Massachusetts, but Kennedy didn't do that.
Any uh president is supposed to do foreign policy, but obviously uh uh Bill Delahunt uh well he's as according to this story, Delahunt is is fast becoming America's premier expert on Latin America.
Uh and so he went down there and did this on his.
Can you imagine Delahunt goes down there basically asking uh Hugo Chavez, hey, can you cut us a deal for our constituents in Massachusetts?
What happened?
I'll get to the story here in due course as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
But the the anyway, the point is that the economy is rolling and the press is trying to make it out to be anything other than that, and that's why Jack Welch is out there saying that Bush needs to start bragging about this economy, because you know the uh the the media is also saying this is really crazy because there are reports of uh strong economy in some parts of the country.
It doesn't seem to be redounding to the presence of approval numbers.
And of course, the age-old theory has been oh, Brian, turn on the ditto cam.
I forgot I meant to have you turn on the ditto cam from the uh top of the program.
I'm sorry, folks.
Ditto cams now on, uh, should show up on your computer screens in mere moments.
The uh generally when you've got a great economy that trumps everything as far as presidential approval numbers are concerned.
But I have to tell you something, as much as the media has been hammering this president, hammering the war, promoting Democrat causes and liberal causes, uh it's it's not surprising to me that uh the presence approval numbers are what they are.
But do you know this?
If you if you look at polling data, you will find this.
And I don't have a numbers right in front of me, but if you look at the polling numbers, you will find that Bush's approval numbers are low.
You will find that Republican congressional approval numbers are low, and then you will find that the Democrats' approval numbers, congressional and Senate Democrats' approval numbers are lower than both the president's and the Republicans in Congress.
Now, what do you make of that?
I'll tell you what I make of it.
It's what I've always said.
For those of you worried about these approval numbers and these polls and so forth, don't sweat it because it doesn't mean the Democrats are picking up all this good uh good cheer and goodwill now.
They're just as despised and distrusted and hated as ever.
And nobody's looking to them is the answer here.
I think all these polls indicate is exactly what you would feel like if you did nothing but watch the news 24-7.
You would think your country's finished.
You would think it's over.
You would think there's no reason to be an American anymore.
You would think being an American's a dirty word.
You would think being a United States citizen is absolutely criminal, practically.
And it's no wonder people think the country's headed in the wrong direction when the mainstream press and all their local outlets, these newspapers and TV stations around the country focus on all of this uh these negative things for the express purpose of getting Democrats re-elected.
But the dirty little secret and the PS de resistance is that is not redounding to the uh Democrats' benefit.
They're not picking up any support for any.
In fact, their poll numbers are lower than Bush's and they're lower than the Republicans.
Everybody in Washington's approval numbers are down.
And frankly, there's a part of me doesn't mind that at all.
Really, the less love and adoration and trust and all that for these guys in Washington, the better.
The less, you know, the more suspicion and and distrust of government in general, uh hub.
I'm in there.
We're making progress.
A quick timeout, more good economic news.
Your phone calls are coming up.
Uh, see, here we go.
Here we go.
They're in a recession in Michigan.
Yep, here we go.
Okay, you want to talk negative?
I'll talk to you.
I'll I'll I'll take the call.
We'll do that when we come back.
There is a reason.
They got the uh GM's in trouble.
The layoffs and so forth.
Uh and and uh well, but it's you know, 30,000 people, Merry Christmas, uh losing their jobs.
I mean, it's th this they can have an attitudinal effect up there.
Um well, that's the thing.
If it what General Motors ought if I have the solution for General Motors, and that is just lay off the retirees.
If you just if you just lay off the retirees, the company be in much better shape.
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Born this Jack Welch story.
Welch uh told Fox News Channel Bush has been ha has has much to be proud of with regard to the economy, but he's got to get out there and sell himself and the accomplishments to the American people, let them know about it.
Uh he said the president put a tax bill through that supported capital formation and risk taking.
We created two million jobs a year after the 9-11 attacks.
That's remarkable.
Bush has to get out there and talk about it.
Despite the recent natural disasters like the hurricanes, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, U.S. economy continues to grow.
The stock market seems to weather every storm.
In fact, last week's stock market was uh, well, not at a record high, but I mean it was at 10-7 the NASDAQ the uh Dow Jones Industrial Average of 10,700 something.
Welch was uh uh certainly noticed all this.
Most business people have noticed, investors noticed, but according to the recent polls which show the president's approval rating at its lowest level of his presidency, the majority of Americans have not been persuaded of the good news economy.
Now you know why this is.
This is very simple.
This is one of the most remarkable phenomenons uh that I recall experiencing as host of this uh uh wildly successful program.
And it is this.
We've been in the middle of an economic boom.
I get phone calls from people.
Yeah, I'm doing okay, Rush.
I am just doing fabulous bombs.
Worried about my neighbors.
Why?
Are you worried about are they uh are you is the meals on wheels showing up at their house every day?
What are you worried about?
Well, I just see the news on TV and economy's not doing all that well.
I'm just worried about my neighbor.
Well, do you know that they're doing badly?
Are you just worried about them?
Nah, I don't know.
I'm just I just I'm doing okay, and then they have some guilt associated with it.
So most people's perception of their own economic circumstances are fine, but all this negative news makes them think everybody else out there is you know eating dirt.
And so they they refuse to feel good about it because they think they're they're gonna feel guilty.
In the uh in the process, uh Jack Welch said that Bush ought to take a page from the playbook of former President Reagan to improve his communication and persuasion skills.
He said Reagan was a master.
He talked about his accomplishments over and over again, not in a bragging way, but in a disarming way.
Reagan reminded everybody of what he did and made them feel good about it and about him.
Uh Welch said that President Bush is sometimes too humble.
He won't toot his own horn, but it's time for some Texas sized bragging on the part of the White House.
And listen to this stat.
Welch said that one in five kids born in the U.S. are going to start their own business.
We are raising entrepreneurs.
They want to start their own businesses.
Now there are tax laws that are in place to encourage them to do it.
Go to France if you want to see riots in the streets.
They have massive unemployment, rising percentages of non-citizens who can't find work.
That's what a bad economy looks like.
Our unemployment rate's less than five percent after the 9-11 attacks.
Bush ought to be standing on a soapbox talking about that accomplishment.
Bush doesn't talk about many of his economies.
Welch is right.
He doesn't uh he doesn't toot his own horn.
All right, let's go to Southgate Michigan.
This is Elizabeth.
I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you on the program.
Yes.
Oh, diddles to you.
I listen to you constantly.
Thank you.
And I'm a true Republican.
The reason why I'm calling is can we trade our governors?
I'll give you Grant Home and we'll take Jeb Bush.
This economy in Michigan is a disaster.
My husband recently got laid off from Ralph Industries.
They do for four motor company.
And he doesn't make $30 an hour.
He me he made $10.50 an hour.
And I just want to know what is going on in the why is the rest of the country doing so good and Michigan isn't.
Well, now it says up here that you said that uh uh everybody in Michigan is getting laid off, is it?
Well, I mean General Motors, for a motor company.
Uh it's bad here.
Everybody's getting laid off.
Right.
Well, practically who is dealing with the auto companies, yeah.
Well, I've I've got some interesting stories about that uh today, because you know the Japanese uh uh uh automakers that build their cars in this country uh are looking for workers, and it is expected that many of the laid-off uh General Motors workers might in fact find their way over to the uh U.S. manufacturing plants at Toyota and Nissan Lexus, that sort of thing.
Um it it's a it's a Wall Street Journal story, and it compares the uh the the difference in structure uh between the Japanese autoc in this country, the the Japanese factory in this country, the Japanese factories and the GM factories, and they they the basic uh the labor costs are the same, but they've got more restrictive union uh uh problems at General Motors.
Oh, I agree with you.
I agree with you.
Well, uh I'll get to that story here in just a second because it does.
But I have to tell you something, Elizabeth.
You know, th th in in um in practically every instance when the we when we've had, say, a boom economy.
Right, uh there have been pockets and sectors of the country that have not participated.
I remember I forget what year this is, it might be the late 80s uh uh early 90s.
What when oil prices really came down, this country was just humming extinct.
Oh, it was in Texas and Louisiana, the oil business there was taking it on the chin because they had to close and cap a bunch of wells forever because they couldn't bring the oil out of the ground at a profit because the barrel price was so low.
And this is something that's that's um it's consistent.
When when the economy is bad, there are pockets in this country that do extremely well.
Uh it's the same thing with when interest rates, interest rates go down, and when interest rates are very low, boy, the home buying industry is great, the loan industry is great, people can go out and borrow money with very little interest, but the people who are retired and live off the interest of their investments don't do so well because there's no interest growing them.
So it's not ever universal that it's good or bad for everybody in the country.
Uh and this this situation in Michigan is unfortunate, and we feel for you up there.
Oh, it's bad.
Uh, my husband was thinking, he said, you know what?
We might have to move down south because he he just can't believe it.
I mean, even his boss said he never saw it this bad.
Well, you know something that's one of the things that this country affords.
That is it you can create your own job in this country.
That's what Welsh is talking about.
Entrepreneurism, but you can also move.
I I have found, and I've mentioned this over and over again.
Uh I've I've I'm a keen observer of these kinds of things, as you people well know.
And I have concluded that most of the limitations that individuals face economically are actually self-imposed.
Uh and and they are some some cases decisions that have to be made.
Some people will not move.
Kids are in school, whatever, can't sell a house, won't move.
All right.
Well, when you when you limit yourself to working in an area where jobs are scarce, good paying jobs may not be on the rise for a while, then you're you're obviously stuck in that situation.
If you are willing to move, and if you're willing to go to where the jobs are, if you're willing to go somewhere and create your own job, then of course, all kinds of opportunity opens up.
This is not to be critical, uh, just observant.
Uh there are all kinds of limitations that people place on themselves.
I think one of the limitations ends up being that, well, you know, uh I I'm an American.
I uh I ought to have more than this.
Uh I ought to not be getting laid off.
This shouldn't be happening.
Now, that ends up being a limitation because you're making yourself out to be a victim when in fact everybody is victimized by something every day.
We all are victims of the economy in one way or another countless times in our lives.
The point is not that we're victims, but is rather what do we do to deal with the obstacles placed in our way?
And you just said it, move south.
This is what a whole host of people from your region of the country are doing, all the way from New York across Pennsylvania up to Ohio and uh and uh into uh Illinois, Wisconsin uh and Michigan, they are moving south for a whole host of reasons.
Taxes are lower, uh incomes are higher, property cheaper, and so forth.
It's it's an option that you do have.
Thank you, Johnny Donovan, and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rushlin boss serving humanity here on the EIB network.
Mr. Sterley didn't hear a word you just said, so go ahead and bring it in here.
I heard some about property taxes in Texas, but I don't know who raised them.
Here's some other news.
This is uh all this stuff is from last week while I was gone.
For the sixth straight week, average retail gasoline prices have dropped nationwide, falling below $2.30 a gallon for the first time since early August.
Federal Energy Information Administration said last Monday the U.S. Motorists paid uh about 229,230 a gallon on average for regular grade last week, a decline of eight cents from the uh previous week.
I got an email about all this.
From a guy who said, See, Rush, you were wrong.
Falling gas prices means that whoever at the oil company sets gas prices is feeling the heat, feeling the pressure that they're the the accusations of gouging from the American people have forced them to lower prices again.
So whatever makes your boat float on that.
Uh Walmart also uh uh announced last week a gain in the growth of their profit.
They posted a modest 3.8% in profit growth on Monday, said they expect electronics and other general merchandise to propel it to a healthy holiday season.
Oh, and that's there's another story.
This is horrible news for the media, but uh they're expecting a 5% increase in retail sales during the holiday season this year.
Horrible news for the mainstream press and the American left, uh, which is always wanting bad bad economic news, particularly during the uh during the uh holiday season.
Retail sales outside of autos posts gains.
Retail sales performed far better than expected in October, according to experts, as consumers took encouragement from falling gasoline prices to head back to the shopping malls.
The uh commerce department reported that overall sales dipped to a slight 0.1%, but that was significantly better than the 0.7% decline economists had been expecting.
The weakness came from a big three and a half percent drop in auto sales, which have uh weakened with the removal of attractive discounts that automakers had used during the summer.
Home prices show big increase in the summer.
The nation's booming housing market continued to push prices higher in the summer and early fall, with 69 metropolitan areas reporting double digit increases compared with a year ago.
Uh and this, despite all these attempts to create a panic and fear out there over the housing bubble.
Yeah, there's a housing, but it's just waiting, folks.
Your house is going to blow up, your investment's gonna blow up, and you're gonna be poor like everybody in Michigan.
You're gonna have effectively been laid off because your house value is gonna plummet.
We know it's gonna happen because we're gonna try to create it.
They've been on this housing bubble for how many months now?
Uh so despite all this, the economic news remains good because the media does not make the economy the American people do.
What the media can do is impact your opinion of everybody else's life.
You know when you're doing well or not.
You know when the economy's humming for you.
Uh and uh interesting little story, though.
You know, it's always it's always fascinating to me to uh get out there and uh and and and meet people in person.
And I was in Mexico last week.
I went down there for a big time super duper golf tournament.
Ninety-six four man teams.
I met a lot and most all of them from the United States is a vacation for a lot of people.
What do you think, Mr. Snerdley?
What do you think?
And they all very nice and many of them came up and wanted to talk to me about things.
What do you think the most often mentioned problem that these guys have in their lives was to me?
What do you think the one concern they the most often mentioned concern was?
I'll give you a hint.
It wasn't immigration, it wasn't the war.
Taxes, exactly right.
I if I I ran into people who were telling me, if you would have told me, Rush, when I was in college, that I would be earning between 175 and 200,000 a year, I would have been doing tap dances.
I would have been so happy.
I would have thought I'd be living a Rockefeller lifestyle.
I mean, I know I'm not going to be a Rockefeller, but I would have thought 175 to 200 grand.
And this all started Rush, what can we do to get our taxes now?
What can we do to limit our taxes?
A lot of these guys live in high tax states.
A lot of these guys, you know, 175, 200 grand in the upper one percent.
They're paying the 36% rate.
And I I said there's nothing you can do.
There's nothing any of us can do.
The deductions are gone.
All you can do is retire and take your income as capital gains.
But who can afford to retire as uh as young as these people are?
I was fascinating.
The number one concern of the people that can, it was a lot of people, uh, was the effect taxes are having on their uh on their lifestyle.
Chip in uh in Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Ross.
Appreciate it.
Mega Jones from Richmond.
Wanted to uh let's not really take issue with you, but the um talking about the economy.
The president, you know, when the economy was doing bad, everybody was blaming him, saying that it was his fault that we were losing jobs left and right and this and that and the other.
Well, it's not really his job, you know.
I mean, the president's not really responsible one way or another, rather the economy is doing good, rather it's doing bad, other than you know, cutting taxes or what have you.
I mean, that would have some effect on it, but largely it's due to the consumer, really.
And so my point is I don't feel that while we shouldn't blame him when we have a bad economy.
He shouldn't get credit when we have a good economy either.
Well, okay, let me answer that this way.
I don't think the economy was nearly as bad as it was being portrayed, and this is the problem.
And old Jack Welch is saying, Mr. President, stand up.
The economy in this country is strong.
It's good.
Stand up and say so.
If you don't want to take credit for it, just stand up and say so.
Say the economy is going well.
The fact is, you know, that the it was part of a democratic campaign that we've lost two million jobs since 9-11.
We did not lose two million jobs.
This is not a zero-sum economy.
Uh the Democrats would have had you believe it.
Two million people were out of work since 9-11.
That's not what happened.
You yeah, two million jobs might have been lost.
Uh two million people might have uh jobs might have been lost, but uh 1.7 million of those jobs were replaced.
1.7 million of those people found new jobs.
The net job loss was nowhere near two million.
But this reporting made everybody think the economy was going south, and it was and it was also done on purpose because the media and the libs wanted to blame Bush's tax cuts for it.
They can't stay- Look, folks, we were talking yesterday.
The Democrats are invested in defeat in Iraq now.
They are invested in it.
Do not believe anything else.
For the Democrats to win politically, we must lose in Iraq.
That's the position they've staked out for themselves.
It's the same thing on taxes.
They, as liberals, cannot afford for you to believe that tax cuts work.
Well, the tax cuts did work, and that's what Welch is saying.
Welch is saying, Mr. President, get out there.
You did have an effect on this economy rebounding after 9-11 because those tax cuts stimulated the economy.
Because you're right, Chip, it is the consumer that makes the economy do whatever It does.
And when the consumer has more disposable income, the economy is gonna hum.
Not when the government has more income.
The tax cuts, no question spurred the economy.
The Libs can't let that idea stand.
The media can't let that stand, so they're out there trying to create the impression of a horrible economy caused by tax cuts.
None of it was true.
We have now found out, in fact, that income as it always is, as it always happens, the income to the treasury went up.
And remember the experts, all these people were surprised.
We had the story back in the spring.
Income went up.
Federal revenue increased because of the tax cuts.
It was actually a news story.
Didn't get a whole lot of play except on this program.
So there are things that governments and administrations can do to spur economic activity.
One of the things they can do is cut taxes.
The other thing is get out of the way.
Remove barriers to success and remove punishment of success.
The more you punish success, the more there is a disincentive to achieve it.
I actually, one of these guys came up to me at this golf tournament last week and said, I've actually thought about not taking a job with more money.
I've actually thought about not getting a second job because it's just going to be eaten up in taxes.
Now stop and think of that for a moment.
Somebody actually, I don't want to earn more money.
It's gonna I said, take the oh take the take the money.
You're already in the top bracket.
You're not gonna move up in a in a new income tax bracket, so take the money.
Never ever say I'm not earning any more money.
Not with the current tax structure that we have.
But this is the attitude people have.
They think that there is a punishment for achieving.
They think there's a price, and it's called taxes.
Well, if government gets that that punishment out of the way and can reduce some regulations, capital formation, as Welsh was talking about for small businesses.
There are countless things governments can do and can take credit for.
But it's not because they actually do the work.
They just remove the obstacles and barriers that let all of us go out and do the work that causes an economy to go up.
And when people lose confidence, they stop spending.
There's less commerce going on.
The economy slows down a little bit.
But it's always a cyclical thing.
But so much of it is dependent on attitude.
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Listen to this.
This is from the Dallas Morning News.
Hubbahub.
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled today that local property taxes used to pay for public scrubs, amounts to an unconstitutional statewide tax, and is given the state until June the first to fix it.
Texas Supreme Court agreed seven to one with one of three arguments brought against the state by hundreds of scrubal districts, but found that overall scrubal funding is adequate and that poor districts have equal access to facilities funding.
Justice Scott Brister was the only member of the nine-member court to dissent.
Newly sworn in Justice Don Willett did not participate.
The court has been considering the case for months on an appeal from a district court in Austin.
Property rich and poor school districts sued the state, claiming its method paying for public education was inadequate.
They ruled that the system is unconstitutional because so many school districts in Texas are forced to tax property owners at the maximum limit, which amounts to an illegal statewide property tax.
That is big news.
It's about time.
You know, I thankfully don't have any kids.
Therefore, they're not in school.
You ought to see my property.
I am paying.
I am paying that's what property taxes are for here.
You ought to look, you look at the when they send you the notice every year to tell you, okay, here's how we're gonna soak you.
And you look at where the money is going.
And I'm saying to myself, I don't have a kid in school.
Why is this my responsibility?
I purposely don't have a kid in school.
For this very why is this my responsibility?
So um, well, see I this is just a state action in Texas, and I don't know uh how far it will spread, but at uh at some point this this has to be picked up uh other places.
Teresa Hines has dropped Carrie from her name.
Uh according to the Washington Times, Teresa Hines, the erstwhile Teresa Hines Carrie has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam.
For those of you who don't know that, he was also, if you have forgotten, last year's Democratic Presidential nominee.
Preceding its women who make a difference awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring a conversation with Teresa Hines.
And according to a release from the organization, the council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel Ketchup Heiress's formerly elongated last name and several other references too.
I just checked and she no longer uses her entire last name.
Only during the presidential campaign did she use Carrie, said campaign spokeswoman Tamrit Rodriguez Reichberg.
We suppose that this means the Carries or the Heinz and Carrie will have to get their checks reprinted, but it's an expense they can probably afford.
Let me the idea that John Kerry has his own checks is a joke, folks.
He didn't have to get any checks reprinted.
Uh but at any rate, so she's dropped the last name, and then I guess I guess this means he's not running.
But if he does, will she go back to Carrie if he if he seeks the Democratic uh presidential nominate?
We have a couple conflicting stories from um from Bill Clinton.
Now, uh and I was gonna save this for detail in the next hour, but uh last week Clinton was over in Dubai.
Uh, and and he went over there, and and this is this is just classic Bill Clinton.
You know, here's Bill Clinton's attitude.
I I don't want you to like me, I don't want you to even love me.
I want you to adore me.
I will say anything, anything it takes to get you to adore me.
I don't care whether you're an international body or if you're the body of an intern, I will say whatever it takes to get you to adore me.
Whether you love America, whether you hate America, I will say whatever it takes to get you to adore me.
Why I just was over in Dubai, went over there in the Middle East.
I'm just hundreds of yards, hundreds of miles away from where our brave soldiers are putting their lives on the line for a phony policy out there, and I told hundreds of thousands that war was a mistake, and they adore me.
Then he comes back and says, uh, maybe I shouldn't have said that we need to get out right now.
And then Hillary's out there on the total opposite side of this than he is.
Hillary is basically saying, Congressman Mertha, I disagree with you.
She's not for a pull out at all.
And I, you know, you watch the the kook left, uh, and Mertha, by the way, Mirtha's also sending a signal to the kook fringe on the Democratic Party.
Don't don't get on my side on this.
I don't want any support from you people, because I don't want this to look like a stunt.
What do you bet the whole thing was a stunt?
I understand there's this new tone in Washington now.
Mirtha's a great guy, he's a good man and so forth and so on.
Well, I'm not party administration.
And I know Democrats like the back of my hand like I know every square inch of my glorious naked body.
And until somebody proves to me that this was not a stunt, I'm gonna believe it was a stunt.
Until somebody proves to me that Nancy Pelosi didn't get together with somebody, go to Mertha and say it's your turn, stand up and be counted.
I'm not gonna believe it didn't happen that way.
These people have gotten the point they are always guilty to me.
That's already been established.
It's up to them to prove their innocence in the EIB court.
We'll be back after this.
There was something that Teresa Hines story that I I glossed over.
And I need to f uh yeah.
Women who make a difference awards dinner by the National Council for Research on Women.
I wonder who's doing the research.
That's what I want to know.
Who's doing the research?
Because that'll tell us a lot about the research and what the awards are about.
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