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Jan. 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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And the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Ariel Sharon, I guess, is in stable condition, but serious.
He's a massive cerebral hemorrhage, a stroke.
His vital signs are in the normal range for a person in his circumstance.
When you look at the reporting on this today, some of this is the Washington Post today.
Bush at risk of losing closest Mideast ally.
And then you get down to, yet, though Sharon and Bush have met nearly a dozen times, U.S. and Israeli officials say the relationship's generally been very proper and not especially warm.
What's Bush supposed to do?
Go kiss the guy?
I mean, Sharon's in bad shape, and I got to take this shot at Bush here in this story.
And that's the Washington Post in the Associated Press.
European leaders on Thursday fretted over the fate of Ariel Sharon, a man once seen in Europe as a danger for the Middle East, but now viewed as a more complex, even crucial figure.
Such comments contrast sharply with the cautious, even hostile European attitude towards Sharon in the past.
His history as a hardline general, his role in Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 82 led many to believe that when he became prime minister, he would hinder, not broker, peace.
But since then, there's been a grudging acceptance that Sharon has made a contribution, even if it has not been in the manner that Europeans expected.
He has pursued his own peace process.
Yeah, it's peace through strength and the willingness to kick ass.
And that's something that the Europeans just do not understand.
Peace through strength.
To the Europeans, it's peace through surrender.
Peace through appeasement.
I found this, frankly, when I heard the news about Sharon yesterday, my first thought was that a bunch of libs and foreign policy people secretly are going to be very happy.
I thought they're going to, you know, it's morbid, but I just, I thought some people were going to be good.
We don't like this conservative Likud guy.
It's about he's getting what he deserves.
People think like that on the left.
But I was totally wrong.
They're worried to death.
They're worried now that the whole peace process is going to go up in flames if Sharon dies or is unable to continue his duties.
This reference here that Sharon was once seen as a danger, Arafat was the problem.
Arafat has always been the problem.
Arafat was the terrorist, not Sharon, not any of the Israeli leaders.
Well, some people want to say Menachem Begin was back in his day, but I mean, it's just, it's, it's interesting now to see the truth finally comes out when they're actually thinking they're on the verge of peace here.
And the one guy that they horribly just feared now may be on his deathbed and they're worried about.
I met Ariel Sharon.
I've mentioned this a couple times.
It was back in 93.
I took a four-day trip to Israel.
And in fact, it was in July.
We were in Israel when we learned that Vince Foster had been found dead in Fort Marcy Park.
But One of the highlights of the trip was a private, three-hour guided bus tour of the West Bank and the settlements there that Sharon was the architect of.
I met some of the people that were living there, and he spent countless hours telling us why the settlements were there and where they were located, why they were strategically located as high on hills as they could be, because these settlers were also defenders of the country.
No matter what border you're on in Israel, you've got an enemy that wishes you weren't there.
And he was just unlike any image of him that had been created.
He was soft-spoken.
He was very humble, but you could tell that he, as the architect of this, he was just totally, totally committed to the whole movement of the settlements.
And he ended up caving on some of this over the recent years because pressure was brought to bear.
But he just kept saying, over and over, we're such a small country.
We're such a small country.
And he was on and on and on about how important the relationship with the United States was.
And he was just a farmer.
He lived on his ranch.
But they brought him in to meet us, and he gave us this tour.
And I talked to him on the phone a couple of times after that when he would come over to the United States.
And I just thoroughly enjoyed my time with him.
He was a brilliant man.
It's one of the most educational experiences that I've had in my life.
Other than that, I would not have, to this day, I would not understand what the whole West Bank dispute was about, settlements and so forth.
Quick phone call before we have to go to the break, Matt in Los Alivos, California.
You're next, sir.
Welcome.
Grad to have you with us.
Rush, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
I've looked at her since 1988, so I consider myself a chart.
Oh, thank you, sir, very much.
Program has been a big part of our lives.
But Rush, yesterday, or actually, I think it was Tuesday, where you indicated that McCain-Feingold actually indirectly created the likes of Jack Abramoff.
And my contention is that it absolutely is responsible for creating him because it was my recollection, and you might need to give me a history lesson here, that McCain-Feingold expressly exempted Indian tribes from the constraints of the legislation.
And that was done strictly because of the demands by Dornan and Dashwell and McCain and other senators.
I would have to look that up.
I wouldn't be surprised, though.
I wouldn't be surprised.
And the larger issue, you know, what's funny today is there's a Washington Post column by left-wing sycophant Richard Cohen.
And he's just waxing eloquent.
He's just singing the praises of John McCain and Feingold.
Why, if it weren't for McCain and Feingold, we'd have never caught this rat, Abramoff.
Why, if it weren't for McCain and Feingold, this Abramoff guy would still be getting away with the bloody murder he's been getting away with.
The truth of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, that campaign finance reform changed the way that you could donate money.
You just couldn't give it to the people you wanted to give it to.
You had to find circuitous ways around it.
It gave rise to people like Abramoff who could figure out ways to get money to members of Congress that could not alternately get there after campaign finance reform.
Now, the Indian tribes were exempt from campaign finance reform.
I haven't, we're checking that right now, but if that's true, then I mean, the symbiotic relationship between Abramoff and the campaign finance reformers is going to be profound.
Okay, they're not exempt from McCain-Fungle.
We found they're not exempt from McCain Feinkel, but they are exempt from several FEC rules, federal.
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood Mr. Snurdley.
They are exempt from campaign finance reform by virtue of federal election commission rulings.
So you're exactly right, Matt.
The Indian tribes are totally, and yet here's McCain getting all this credit today for helping to nail Abramoff.
And Abramoff simply gamed the system.
He says, okay, my guys are exempt.
I'm not even subject to this stupidity.
And so he went to town with it.
Now, I'll tell you what's going to happen.
And it's already started.
There will be now, just as we had, just as we had campaign finance reform when a bunch of congressmen were about to be nailed, we're going to get lobbyist reform.
We're going to have people up on Capitol Hill going on and we need lobbyists.
And Newt Gingrich is out there.
We need lobby reform.
There's too much lobbying going on out there.
Too many circuitous routes are happening out there.
We need more lobbying reform.
We're going to go to lobby reform bill, and I don't know who's going to end up authoring it, but you wait.
The same thing is going to happen.
We get a lobby reform bill.
There's going to be more screwed up lobbying than ever before.
We get campaign finance reform.
We got more screwed up campaign finance than ever.
McCain's passed his anti-torture bill.
We're going to get more torture than we ever dreamed possible.
Back in just a moment.
Fighting through the ravages of some mysterious flu virus, complete with achy joints and fever.
Rush Limbos serving humanity to be here anyway.
800-282-2882.
Lobby reform bill.
So let's not, Newt's out there talking about we need lobby reform.
And I don't know that a lobby reform bill has been proposed, but Newt is got, he's toying with the idea of running for president.
I guarantee you, a bunch of other presidential perspirants, not aspirants, perspirants, are going to jump on the bandwagon and will start talking about lobby reform.
And some of them are in the Congress, some of them are in the Senate.
So if it happens, here's what we're going to end up with.
Congress, which may be engulfed in a lobbying scandal, wants to pass a law to tighten up Congress's behavior.
This is like the old joke about, you know, putting Colonel Sanders in charge of the chickens to save them.
The solution to this, folks, is real simple.
You just elect people of Congress and don't take bribes.
Of course, McCain says you can't do that because money corrupts good people.
Well, then nobody should be paid anything.
If money corrupts, we should all just work for free and let the government feed us, clothe us, house us, what have you.
Lobby reform, genuine lobby reform, would simply be defeating members of Congress who sell their offices.
It's called elections.
The real powerful form of term limits.
By the way, we had a drive-by caller.
A drive-by caller is a caller with a good point but couldn't hang on to go on the air.
There's a story in a New Zealand newspaper founded on the website here.
Three American senators will pass through New Zealand this week on a visit to Antarctica.
It's not known yet if they will meet any local politicians.
The trio include, I'm just reading this from the New Zealand website.
The trio include the independent-minded Republican senator John McCain.
Independent, I guess Mafrick's not good enough in New Zealand.
The independent-minded Republican Senator McCain, who won a skirmish with President Bush last month over a bill to ban torture and so forth, he's traveling with two other Republican senators, Susan Collins and John Sununu.
The drive-by caller said, what is this, March of the Rhinos?
Are they going down to Antarctica?
What for?
What do you bet?
It's got something to do with global warming.
I also found from the, where is this?
This is Cato Institute website, Libertarian Bunch.
This is a column, January 12, 2002 by Pat Basham, Patrick Basham, and John Samples at Cato, Campaign Finance Folly.
And let me just pick this up about 75% of the way in.
Campaign regulations must be applied consistently across political parties and their respective committees.
Hence, the Democratic National Committee's request was rejected.
The DNC, though, isn't the only culprit when it comes to favoring one kind of campaign reform for itself and another for everyone else.
Arizona Senator, the man for John McCain, is a skilled practitioner of this approach to campaign regulation.
McCain, the principal backer of campaign finance reform, is also a loyal backer of Indian political causes.
And as a result, McCain is the number one recipient of political donations provided to candidates by the nation's 550 Indian tribes.
In fact, McCain receives twice the amount given to the second highest recipient.
Under current law, this is 2002 now, a person may donate a maximum of $1,000 to a specific candidate up to an annual limit of $25,000.
This is known as hard money.
The candidate may use it directly for his own campaign.
In May of 2000, the FEC ruled that an Indian tribe, an Indian tribe, may make the current maximum hard money donation of $1,000 per candidate to each of more than 500 candidates running for federal office, i.e., Indian tribes can make aggregate annual hard money contributions in excess of $500,000.
Everybody else's limit is $25,000.
In April, McCain's campaign finance bill passed the Senate and remains in legislative limbo in the House.
However, if a McCain-style campaign finance bill is passed, thereby banning soft money, McCain's favored tribes will possess a huge advantage over other Americans in exercising their right to free speech, political speech.
Here it is.
Patrick Basham, John Samples, Cato Institute, January 12, 2002, about almost four years ago.
So the caller was right.
Indian tribes are exempt from campaign finance reform and they give en masse to John McCain who sits on the Indian Affairs Committee.
Hello, Jack Abramoff.
Hello, Jack Abramoff.
Folks, I tell you, this is, it's just, and in the meantime, we've got this reputation for Senator McCain as a tireless worker for fairness and for purity and cleanliness and the electoral system and so forth.
You've got to get the money out of politics, except when it comes to his donors, then there are no limits placed on his donors.
They are exempt from his own law.
And I have a list here.
And I'm sure many of you people have been able to find this.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has put out a little story here.
Democrats don't know Jack.
Little dual on dual, meaning they're double entendre.
Here are 40 of the 45 members of the Senate Democrat caucus who have received at least money from Abramoff or his clients.
Max Baucus, 22.5.
Evan Bayh, $6,500.
Biden, $1,250.
Bingaman, $2,000.
Barbara Boxer, $20,000.
Maria Cantwell, $21.
Tom Harper, Carper.
He's from Delaware, $7,500.
Hillary Clinton, $12,950.
$12,950.
Christopher Dodd, $14,792.
Byron Helmethead Dorgan, $79,300.
Dick Turbin, at least $14,000.
Russ Feingold, $1,250.
Tom Harkin, dung heap, $45,750.
Oh, by the way, you know what happened the week between Christmas and New Year's?
Harkin sent back the Club Gitmost stuff that we sent him.
He sent it back.
Cookie sent me a note.
I was out in Los Angeles.
Sent me an email.
We got this thing from Harkin's office.
Do you want me to open it?
Or do you want me to send it to you?
I said, no, no, no.
Go ahead and open it.
And she opened it up, and it was all the Club Getmo stuff.
Like I said, it exceeded the gift limit.
My foot had exceeded a gift limit.
Harkin here, $45,750 at least from Abram Off or his clients.
Senator In No Way from Hawaii, $9,000.
Some of the other big amounts here.
Tim Johnson, $1,450.
John Kerry, $98,550.
Let's see.
Barbara McCulsky, $10,000.
Blanche Lincoln, $1,480.
Patty Murray, Washington, $78,991, at least that much money.
Who's the other big one?
Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry, at least $68,940.
We know that Wrangell has received $36,000, and he's not giving back.
The Republicans have made a mad dash to give all this money back.
The Democrats aren't.
Dingy Harry's keeping the money.
I don't know Abram Off.
I never met Abramoff.
And that's what all the Democrats.
I never met Abram Off.
I never went and played golf.
I never flew in a private jet, my rear end.
Besides, when is that a crime?
How many congressmen have been ferried around in private jets since you and I have been kids?
The idea that that's some sort of a crime, they're laying that at the feet of a delay.
Our golf trips.
Debbie Stabenow, 62.
Chuck Schumer, 29,550.
Jay Rockefeller, 4,000.
These are minimal amounts.
They received at least this much from Abram Off or his clients, according to the Republican, National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Quick time out here, folks.
800-282-2882 is the telephone number.
Be back.
Roll right on right after this.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Les Moonves.
CBS president, quote, I think what's scary right now is the average age of the network news viewer is 60 years old.
No surprise to me.
All you got to do is look at the commercials, hemorrhoid prep age stuff, wrinkle creams and so forth.
He said, I think we have to prepare something that's a little bit more friendly to people who are a little bit younger.
Damn right, that's scary.
60 years old, the average age for the network news.
I have the solution to all this, and it would never work.
The solution's me.
If some network wants to really shake it up and differentiate themselves, it'd be me.
I can read the news like anybody else does, and I can raise my eyebrow at the right time to send my point of view along.
I can wink.
Peter Jennings used to do.
I know all the tricks.
Try this.
See if you heard this story.
Sally Erickson and David Renzi thought that they had the secret to marital bliss.
The eccentric list of demands outlined in their prenup, which included mandatory back rubs and a $5 fee for nagging, still couldn't save their marriage.
Sally Erickson 61 is now suing David Renzi62 for allegedly divorcing her in secret more than two years ago, according to Seminole County Court Records.
That's here in Florida.
Before saying I do, in 2001, the Florida couple agreed to a quirky prenup agreement.
Erickson, a mental health counselor, promised to cook breakfast a minimum of three times during the weekdays and once on the weekends, according to the document.
In return, Renzi would not wake Sally up on her off days.
The agreement also required Renzi to rub Sally's back three times a week for five minutes.
If Sally used the F-word, she was sentenced one hour of yard work.
Renzi had to pay five bucks each time he complained, nagged, or made a fuss about her expenditures.
No wonder this didn't work.
He had to pay for nagging?
Husbands don't nag.
Husbands just run and hide.
So they don't have to hear the nagging.
No wonder this didn't work.
But despite the best-laid plans, folks, despite their carefully laid plans, Renzi decided to call it quits three and a half months into the marriage.
Erickson was served notice of the divorce suit six days later, which she acknowledges, but she says in court pleadings that Davidson then intentionally missed led her saying he had dropped the whole thing.
He apparently had a change of heart for a while.
The case stalled for a year and a half.
Then in February 2003, he asked for a default judgment in his favor and got it.
Court documents show that Erickson was absent.
She claims she never even knew about the divorce.
Now, Renzi has not contested Erickson's claim.
Last month, serving as his own attorney, he filed paperwork asking the judge to throw out the divorce.
So, I mean, this guy, a real wimp.
I mean, he didn't have the guts to tell his wife he divorced her.
And if you're going to sign a prenup promising not to nag your wife, I can totally understand why you would be afraid to announce to her that you have divorced her.
I'll tell you, this state's getting more interesting.
Some of these wacko states, Wisconsin used to be the king of wacko news on this, but Florida is quickly overtaking it.
Don in Chicago, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
28-day diddles, Rush.
Yes, thank you, sir.
Just call him to let you know that our favorite senator, Dick Turbin, just announced through the Chicago media, I don't know if it's Hip National, that he's going to return the $14,000 he got from the super lobbyist.
And in my mind, he's still a scumbag because my son's a Marine, and I'll never forget what he said on the floor of the Senate that evening when he didn't think anybody was listening.
So it doesn't matter what he does.
I still think he's a scumbag.
And as soon as I get done talking to you, I'll call him up and remind him we're on a first name basis at his office.
You know, well, be prepared because his office is going to tell you he didn't say it because he's still not admitting that he said it.
Well, you know what happens often when I call him.
He's blaming people like me for distorting it and publicizing it.
He often hangs up on me, Rush.
The office does.
Well, I can understand that.
I mean, how often do you call him?
About once a week basis, just to remind him that I'm not forgotten.
Well, why don't you disguise your voice next time?
They probably know who you are.
Well, practice disguising him or try to use a different voice.
Put your hand over your mouth or try to sound like a woman.
Okay.
That sounds good.
Go, try it.
We're going to rehearse here.
If you're going to call with a disguise of your voice, they won't hang up on you this way.
Okay, great.
This is good.
Okay.
How about this?
Senator Durbin, this is.
And then I could also go with a foreign accent.
I could sound like a.
Here's what you do.
When you use, that's a perfect voice.
That's a perfect voice.
And when you call Senator Durbin's office, I want you to use the name Sally Erickson of Florida, whose husband divorced her and didn't tell her.
Great advice.
Let's start here with Sally Erickson.
We have some Durbin soundbites here.
May as well get to them.
Let's move on to audio soundbites seven and eight here, Mike.
This is yesterday on Bloomberg television.
The anchor Mike McKee interviewing Senator Turbin from Illinois.
McKee says, are members of your party involved in the Abramoff scandal?
I've never met Jack Abramoff.
He's never been in my office.
I've never had a meal with him or had a drink, nor have I played golf with him.
But it turns out he wallpapered Washington with contributions.
And we started digging in and found out two of the Indian tribes he represented actually sent money to me.
I don't recall ever sitting down with any members of those tribes and certainly never handled any issues involving them.
No, no, of course not.
He's just an innocent victim.
He's just an innocent victim of the wallpapering of contributions the members of these guys are innocent, clean, and pure as the wind-driven snow.
He had no idea.
Never played golf.
See, that's a crime.
He never had a drink with it.
That's a crime.
Never had a meal with it, and that's a crime because we're to nail delay on those things.
But we started digging and we found out two of the Indian tribes he represented actually sent money to me.
Now, this is interesting, though.
And one facet of this, folks, because you, like Snerdley was just asking me when I went through the list of Democrats that took money from either the tribes or from Abramoff.
Jay Rockefeller.
Jay Rockefeller, how many gazillions does he have?
He took four grand, at least four grand.
And Snerdley says, I don't understand this.
Why would somebody so filthy, stinking rich run around with his handout for four grand from some Indian tribe or Jack Abramoff?
And the answer, folks, is why I am here.
You cannot bribe yourself with your own money.
No more complicated than that.
Now, when you talk about bribery, yeah, all these people got donations, Republicans and Democrats alike, but this does not proof anything.
They're going to have to go out and find evidence of a quid pro quo.
They're going to have to find evidence of bribery.
It's one thing to say Abramoff gave all these people money, and Abramoff's going to be singing like a canary in the coal mine anyway because he wants lesser sentence and a nicer prison.
And he's going to have as much documentation as possible.
They're still going to have to prove what he alleges and prove what he says.
For there to be bribery, there has to be a quid pro quo for these donations.
And Durbin knows it because that's the point he's making.
I got the money, but I didn't even know I got it.
What he's really saying is, I couldn't have been bribed because I didn't even know I got the money from these guys.
So he's laying the foundation for that kind of defense.
But after that lame defense, I didn't know it, I'm just a victim, Durbin gets on the talking points and spins this whole thing as a Republican scandal.
Let's be honest about where this all started.
His closest connections, his power channel, came through the Republican leadership in Washington.
It started with Tom DeLay's so-called K Street Project, which screened lobbyists to make sure that they were loyal Republicans that gave money personally and could be counted on to contribute to Republican campaigns.
And in return, the Republican leadership, which has been in control now for over 10 years, made certain that those lobbyists did pretty well in terms of their legislative agenda.
That's what it was all about.
Oh, yes, of course.
This has never happened before.
And it never happened when the Democrats were the balance of power in Washington for 40 years in the House of Representatives.
In fact, you know something, folks?
Lobbying didn't even exist until Tom DeLay got to Washington.
There was no such thing as lobbying.
No, DeLay invented this.
This notion about Tom DeLay's so-called K-Street project, which screened lobbyists to make sure that they were loyal Republicans that gave money personally, you know, all that is, is just damn good partisan politics using the system as it's always been used.
The Republicans have been trampled on for 40 years, treated like stepchildren, treated like dirt.
They finally got into power, and they were going to make sure that they got the trappings of power and so forth.
They were going to use their power to their advantage within the guidelines of the system.
And now that is the Democrats who've done the same thing when they were in power trying to criminalize all of this under this umbrella of the culture of corruption.
Of course, Democrats don't want to talk to us about Bill Clinton and the Chinese funny money scandal or Al Gore and the Buddhist nuns out there or John Wong, Johnny Chung.
I mean, here you have a Chinese restaurateur from Little Rock ending up in some trade, official trade agency in the U.S. government as a result of.
And I don't want to talk about that, but this stuff is spread far and wide.
And if there is this wide-ranging corruption up there, I don't care who it is.
They're going to pay the price once it's established.
The people of this country aren't going to put up with it.
And that's why this scandal has the potential to have more of an impact on the shape of the Congress after these 2006 elections than anything else the Democrats are trumping up out there.
Quick timeout.
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Stay with us.
All right.
So little Dick Turbin out there waxing away about the K-Street project, Delay's K-Street project.
Isn't it interesting, ladies and gentlemen?
And we never hear from the Democrats about Bill Clinton's Lincoln bedroom project.
I wonder if Delay's K-Street project was anything like Clinton's Lincoln bedroom project.
Remember what he was selling sleepovers in the Lincoln bedroom for access.
Access.
He was selling access to himself for donations.
And these things weren't cheap.
For some reason, the figure of 200,000 sticks in my mind about that.
And then remember all those White House coffees where people Clinton had never met and would never see again were showing up.
We had videotaped from one of those White House coffees where Clinton's telling these people, we don't have a Rush Limbaugh out there.
We got to do something.
That's why they're having you in here for coffee.
Actually, little scotch in there, too, if you want, but we're calling them coffees.
But nevertheless, we don't have a Rush Limbaugh out there.
Remember that?
See how these White House coffees?
We had the White House Lincoln bedroom project.
Was Clinton ever indicted for that, by the way?
Like Delay has been indicted.
Here's Bob in Clinton Township, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
You know what?
These guys, Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't matter.
They get that money back.
It's not going to change my idea of them.
You know what it kind of reminds me of?
A segment I saw once on America's Funniest Videos where this little kid is got this makeup and stuff all over him and all over the bedroom and stuff.
Yeah, I'm here.
Oh.
And anyway, he's got this, you know, the bedroom is covered with this makeup.
I think the National Security Agency is bugging your phone.
Have you been talking to Al-Qaeda?
No, I just got off my cell phone because it's a big deal.
Oh, okay.
Anyway, so here's a picture of this now.
This bedroom is covered with this powder and lipstick and everything.
Yep.
And that's the money.
And then the parents in the background videotaping it, and you can hear the voice saying to the little kid, where did all that stuff come from?
And the little kid turns around, the camera pans at him, he's covered with powder and lipstick and everything.
And the kid says, very innocently, I don't know.
It wasn't me.
You know, these politicians, I'm telling you, Democrats and Republicans, whoever did it.
Well, let's not leave out the Independents.
We got some of them in there.
We got a socialist in there as well.
Let's not leave them out.
Well, everybody.
That's exactly right.
Snerdley was telling me he Snerdley such an exciting life.
He actually watched C-SPAN in the morning.
It was today you were watching.
It was the Washington Journal.
And what?
It was one of those shows.
At any rate, the whole question of Clinton and the Chinese funny money came up.
And it's exactly what you're talking.
You said the politicians accepting the money and giving it back when they find out it may be dirty.
That doesn't square with you, and it doesn't change your mind about them.
This Clinton defender was a caller, right?
Just some, oh, the guest.
Do you know who the guest was?
Okay, some guest was asked by a caller or by the host, by a caller, okay, well, what about all the Chinese campaign contributions that were illegal to Clinton?
And the guest said, whoa, wait a minute.
There's a big difference in taking illegal money and giving it back from bribery.
So the Republicans are all guilty of bribery.
Clinton, when he found out the money was dirty, why he sent it back.
And that's a big difference.
Well, Clinton sold a Lincoln bedroom.
Clinton, he sold the Queen's bedroom.
The Queen's bedroom is right across the hall from the Lincoln bedroom.
I have been in there and I didn't pay.
I have spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom.
It didn't cost me anything.
$5.2 million Clinton raised.
Okay, so it's $100,000 apiece, $100,000 apiece.
He had $5.9 million raised at $100,000 per person in these sleepovers.
I mean, that place was occupied every night.
That place had to be occupied practically every night.
Over 900 guests, folks, 900 quote-unquote saps who gave Clinton $100,000 to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom, and that doesn't even count the coffees.
Of course.
This, of course, well, that was just Clinton sharing the bounties of his good fortune to live in the White House with average Americans.
Yeah, right.
Quick timeout, folks.
We'll be back and continue in an El Gifo, the little Spanish lingo there.
You know, it's funny to watch here these libs.
They're so upset with Abramoff that you'd think these congressmen took money from the Red Chinese Army or the Russian mobsters.
Sorry, that's a Clinton Legal Defense Fund.
So we have this.
Clinton Legal Defense Fund, and the guy's running around bragging about how rich he is.
Clinton Legal Defense Fund, Clinton Library, or the Clinton.
Well, yeah, 200 million bucks to the Clinton Library.
We don't know who donated any money to that.
We've got the Clinton Lincoln bedroom project.
By the way, I got a note from Levin.
He says he understands that for an additional $50,000, you could get clean sheets on the bed in the Lincoln bedroom if you sought access to Bill Clinton.
So we got the Clinton Legal Defense Fund.
Red Chinese Army was big in that.
Remember, it was.
Russian mobsters, and we have the Lincoln Bedroom Project.
We had White House coffees, all this sort of interesting.
Hollywood story yesterday, still can't figure out why they're not doing well at the box office.
And I suggested that they're missing out on some of it.
They're trying to blame concessions and DVDs and high ticket costs.
And that's not.
They're not making enough gay-themed movies.
I'm surprised that they haven't figured this out.
But they're trying to fix this.
Jon Stewart is the new Oscar host.
Long search for an Oscar host is over.
An official announcement from the Academy expected to come today.
I don't know if it has come or not.
So this is going to be good.
We'll have another hate Bush orgy in Hollywood, seen by tens of millions of movie-going people.
And this is a great move because that's going to really help sell tickets and make sure that Brokeback Mountain wins as many awards as possible.
It's real simple what they need to do out there.
You know, let Lori David have some role.
She can drive her Prius to the airport, getting on her G5 to fly up to Nantucket to tear up her yard illegally to have a party for Bobby Kennedy Jr.
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