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Jan. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I told you, told you these people are imploding.
I told you they're blowing.
I told you.
Biggest bunch of reprobates.
I mean, here we hear about how they are sensitive and tolerant and understanding.
We are going to nuke these people today.
Greetings, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
You are tuned to the nation's most listened to radio talk show, the Rush Limbaugh program on the one and only EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
As usual, we are ditto camming today from the top of the program, barring unforeseen circumstances, like a woman coming in here and ripping my clothes off.
We will have the camera on for well, it's my birthday, and you never know what this staff has planned.
I tell them, don't ever do anything.
Don't bring to don't do a cake, especially now, because I'm, you know, not eating that kind of stuff.
Don't do this then.
They always do.
They always the truck hasn't shown.
I can't tell if a truck's out there, it's uh it's not a it's not it's not viewable.
Ah, here they come.
See, I I knew it.
I did the minute I say don't bring a cake in, they're bringing a cake.
So hang on, folks.
This cake, by the way, but come on, come on in, because this is this reminds me of a question.
Uh kind of five on there for you.
Happy birthday, Ryan.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, you don't you got to show the cake to the ditto cameras there at home.
Well, they're looking at it backwards.
Let me let me turn it around.
Gosh, I hope I don't drop this thing.
What kind of cake is it?
It's yellow cake with white ice in your cake.
Oh, it's a Joe Wilson cake.
It's yellow cake, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
You had it, you had it, you had it baked in Niger.
Whoa, how thoughtful.
So 55, and I get to blow out two candles instead of 55.
Make a wish, right?
Yes.
So it's true.
What's true?
There were news reports today.
They were discussing your birthday on the news today, and they kept saying you were 55.
Now it was the news, so I kept saying.
That was on the isn't it on the news?
Yes.
I didn't know it was on the news.
Is it true?
Yeah, it's true.
It's 50.
I was born in 1951.
Well, you do the edition.
But anyway, the cake reminds me of a quite God.
I got a question for you guys.
I got a question for you.
If a baking contest is called a bake-off, what do you call a contest between a bunch of jerks?
I mean, really, that's what we've been listening to on this.
You you oh call it a clamorama.
All right, there you go.
That the the Adam Climber, clamorama.
A kid.
I I I kid you not.
Uh the reason I ask, and thanks so much.
I appreciate it.
Hope who'd you guys enjoy my cake?
Because there's a there's a fabulous clamorama going on between Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden, and that is who's the bigger jerk in this meeting.
And it really is a it's a it's a tough contest going on.
At any rate, we'll get into this in uh in in great detail, and we've got some some uh some really uh hot and heavy sound bites, and of course we all know the the circumstances surrounding uh Mrs. Alito uh leaving the hearing room in tears.
Yes, what the laughter about this one is the AP.
The Associated Press, the first story crossing the wires, tried to blame Vice President Lindsey Graham for this.
They tried to blame the Republicans for making Ms. Alito cry.
Anyone with a brain, half a brain, a quarter of a brain watching these things, understood what was what was going on with all this yesterday.
We'll have we'll have the uh audio tape of that incident here.
A very emotional time, by the way, in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but the guy's confirmed he's gonna be confirmed.
The Democrats are unable to stop him.
They have an able, unable to compete with him on substance, on jurisprudence.
So this is all about manufacturing conspiracy charges and and uh all these horrible things.
The cap thing, the the Princeton, uh the committed alumni of Princeton blew up on Ted Kennedy yesterday, like we hoped that cigar once had blown up in Fidel Castro's face.
Another botched CIA operation, by the way, back during the Kennedy uh presidency.
But I what when I found out what this group was, I mean, and I've known on the I'm known on the periphery what this group was, but when I saw that Bill Rusher was part of this group, Bill Rusher is a friend of mine.
Bill Rusher with a former publisher of uh National Review is 82 years old, and he he lives out in San Francisco now.
He's retired, but but still active.
And I'll tell you what this group was.
This group was an early forerunner uh to those who were fighting affirmative action.
Whatever this group was about, they were not trying to deny admissions to anybody at Princeton.
What they were trying to do was keep Princeton from lowering standards so as to meet quotas of various uh uh uh assigned minorities.
Uh pure and simple.
Kennedy has not had the decency to apologize about the he wanted to take the Senate into executive session, big stunt, trying to make it look like there was something sinister in Alito's past.
So Bill Rusher said, Well, I haven't even looked at these records 30 years ago.
Go ahead and look at them.
I I hope Senator Kennedy finds something in here entertaining.
They can't, there's not one mention of Alito in them.
He's it's nothing there.
It's a total bust.
The whole and well, we said it was going to be yesterday.
But the the worst thing, not the worst thing, but the one of the one of the secondarily bad things about this is that they attempted to once again mischaracterize uh people who are uh oriented and promoting excellence, mischaracterize them as bigots and as racists and so forth, and sexists.
They try to they portray this this group as people who didn't want any people of color or any women amongst them.
And they thought that they're inferior and they didn't want to have anything to do with that, which is what the the left's comic book version of a conservative is.
That's the template version, and that's not what this group was.
This is no different than what this group was doing than people have said, no, we're not gonna lower the standards to pass the test to be a firefighter because we're not gonna end up with the best firefighters we can get.
But we had to do that.
We had to change the way firefighter tests, the physical aspects were taken so as to allow women to join fire departments.
And there was a there was a uh huge debate about it.
That's the same thing about women in combat.
You have to lower training standards in order to get them to qualify.
That's all this group was about.
And then if you look, and I mentioned this both days on this program, Ted Kennedy, a member of the Owl Club himself at Harvard.
You know what the Owl Club was?
Exactly what he was trying to make people think that Cap was at Princeton.
A bunch of rich white kids who only wanted to associate with themselves, and you had to have certain financial requirements and certain legacies like that, even get a member become a member of this uh club, very private, very exclusive.
Uh it if if if the if the the enema that uh that Sam Alito and his family have been given this week were turned on on Senator Kennedy and some of these other senators on the Democrat side, I shuddered it.
We would need laxatives, folks, and you know how irritating those are.
So I look at these guys and I see an enema, I see laxatives and I see irritation.
That's what they have become to me.
And it's it's but it they're sealing their own fate.
They're sealing their own doom.
Uh, you look at the Democrat websites yesterday, and they're all excited, Mrs. Alito broke down in tears.
They're excited this happened that they don't care.
I I sometimes wonder if they really don't care about winning or if they're just so fed up they just want their hate constantly articulated by the people that they vote for, because their their hate is practically uncontainable now.
And it's only gonna get worse because I'll tell you, as I said in the morning update today, folks, in the old days, the Democrats, when they ran the show, why we would have had some really exciting stuff rather than these horrid attempts to characterize a decent man as a bigot.
We would have had puby cares on Coke cans.
We would have had sexual harassment accusations.
We would have had we would have had uh uh all kinds of lists of video tapes that he had rented from blockbuster.
We would have we would have had security guards bring in massive sacks of garbage that had been secured from Alito's homes over the course of his life, and they would pour through the garbage and they would find what he had been reading.
Well, we got nothing.
And look at we heard that the left-wing Kook Base invested 15 million for television ads and special interest group work, and the Democrats blew up on them.
Democrats didn't give them diddly squat for all they thought they were gonna get.
The Democrats let them down, and now they can't get a refund.
They can't get a refund on the money that they have wasted on these Democrats.
It's been a totally not only wasteful exercise, it has hurt them even more than they realize.
And that's quite a bit.
They're not even really aware.
Some of them still think they're winning.
Some of them still oh, they do.
Some, oh yeah, this is great.
We're exposing these people.
They think that Lito has been exposed.
Whether he gets confirmed or not, he's been exposed, and that's good because we need to know who conservative.
I kid you not.
So lot to do today here, folks.
Sit tight, be cool, be patient.
We'll be back with much more here on the EIB network.
How are you?
Welcome back, America's anchor man on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Yesterday.
I said that this was a seminal moment and a seminal week.
Not only does the Democrats' politics of personal destruction playbook no longer work, it's now boomerang.
It now boomerangs on them.
It's Senator Kennedy and the rest of these guys got sliced up with razor blades yesterday.
They have they are bleeding, folks, because of the boomerang of their politics and personal destruction playbook.
It has not been updated in 30 years.
When you combine the hate-filled and despicable questions by Ted Kennedy and his band of thugs with the intellectual command and obvious decency of Judge Alito, and then you throw in that very moving moment in which Mrs. Alito cried and left the hearing room.
You had a political bomb that detonated and will scar the Democrat Party for a long while to come.
There was shrapnel in that room yesterday afternoon when all of this blew up on these people.
What are, let's just review this for a moment.
What are the important things the hearing has taught us so far?
Number one, the president's conservative nominees to the court are intellectually outstanding.
Their judicial temperaments are first rate, and they uh seems to me by every account I can run into uh admirable human beings.
They are people who have pursued excellence and they have achieved it, and it is on display.
It is inspirational to watch, motivational to watch, it's on display, and it is clear that the intellectual firepower in this country when it comes to the judiciary and pretty much anything else now resides on the right.
As I have been saying, the left has not had to engage in anything intellectual for so many years because they never had to debate anybody.
They were they were their opposition was never treated with any respect, never giving in uh given any coverage, and so they got accustomed to just dominating by their existence.
Whatever they said, however ridiculous, however off the wall, got repeated and amplified and became the law of the land, or the um the uh the the conventional wisdom of the land, but no longer.
And as we see, they are not prepared to compete intellectually.
They think their best and brightest are on this judiciary committee, and it's an embarrassing bunch of arrogant, condescending fools.
The Supreme Court nominee's grand inquisitor on ethics of all things.
It's another thing we've learned is Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy.
He is the grand inquisitor on ethics.
I told you yesterday that Feinstein she'll take on the uh the feminist issues.
Today she tried to make hay out of the National Security Administration spy scandal again.
Durbin will take on torture, uh uh the what's his name?
Schumer will take on abortion, uh Leahy will take up, you know, whatever he read under the apple tree up in Vermont this summer.
But it's Ted Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy somehow ends up choosing, selecting, or being assigned the Democrats' grand inquisitor role on ethics of all things.
Ted Kennedy, if you ask me, ranks as one of the most despicable people in political life.
Think about it, folks.
The Democrats' chief attack dog on this committee is a man who is responsible for the death of a woman he was on his way to having an affair with at Chappaquitic.
And no, you can't repeat this too often.
He failed to report the drowning of Mary Joe Copekney until after it was discovered ten hours later, and no writer who has seriously studied the events at Chappaquitic and the ten hours uh that took place after the accident has believed Kennedy's account of it.
Nobody ever has.
You have to ask yourself, what universe do these people live in?
I can answer it.
They live in the universe where nobody I don't want to describe.
They live in the universe of arrogance.
They live in a universe where people don't remember these things.
People don't think of them.
They live in a universe where they are totally unaware that there is an alternative media that is not permitting them to get away with the same old, same old any longer.
Another thing we're learning, and it's on vivid display.
Liberalism is intellectually exhausted.
It's not over with.
And uh and I'm not saying it's dead, don't misunderstand.
I'm saying it is intellectually exhausted.
The reason Ted Kennedy is going after these non-existent ethics issues is because he and his clownish colleagues were beaten like a drum on matters of judicial philosophy.
They have been beaten by every nominee, John Roberts, Bill Pryor, you name it, Janice Rogers Brown, they have been beaten intellectually by every Bush nominee.
They are being embarrassed.
And they do know it.
When they get to their cloakrooms and they discuss these things with themselves, they know.
They know Alito was going to be confirmed after the first day.
They knew Alito was going to be confirmed before the first day.
They know that they have not done well.
They know that their tactics don't work, but they should have learned that the last five years, and they don't.
When their tactics don't work, they simply redouble the same tactics.
They shout to them louder.
They make more wild accusations.
They don't learn from this, but they do know that they are being embarrassed.
And because they knew they were being embarrassed, they had to change the channel.
They had to try to change the subject.
But in changing the channel, they've revealed their true modus operandi to try to grind really fine people to dust, to employ ugly tactics in an effort to smear the name of a really good man, destroy his reputation, destroy his career, and destroy his life.
That's all they can do because they can't compete with this man intellectually.
They can't hold his they can't they can't lick his shoes.
They're not fit to lick Sam Alito's shoes.
And I think that the arrogance in the Democrats allowed them to miss something.
I think what Senator Kennedy and the others didn't anticipate is that Judge Alito would not fold.
They thought he'd cave because he's a conservative.
He's a phony.
He's really a racist, sexist big and homophobe, but if we could just get to the bottom of this and shake him up and make him admit it, we're home free.
They really do believe that about Alito, and that was their job to bring that up.
So they can't compete with him intellectually.
Didn't anticipate that he wouldn't fold.
And of course, they didn't anticipate his wife's uh very uh human and moving reaction of tears in the hearing room.
And make no mistake, folks, that that touched the heart of tens of millions of Americans.
And it's not being reported, but you don't know how outraged over that people are.
You don't know.
The AP and all these liberal groups can try to sit there and say it was Lindsey Graham that made this happen, and that just infuriates people more because you can't insult people's intelligence anymore like this.
The AP doesn't get it.
These guys, I tell you, they have no idea.
That's why I say there were razor blades in this boomerang, there were shrapnel in the bomb that they threw yesterday, and they are the ones bleeding.
We conservatives are going to win this debate hands down, and we are going to emerge both proud and energized and impassioned by it.
To liberals, folks, they're like an angry animal that's dying and desperate, and in the in the in the process of that, they're prone to making terrible mistakes.
They've succeeded.
I you talk about intellectual, I don't understand it.
You they cannot.
They can I can't be made to understand how they can put Ted Kennedy, an old, bitter, enraged, hateful, burned out, left-wing, corrupt Ted Kennedy as the face of the Democratic Party.
But they do, they think it's a winner.
For what?
For fundraising to continue to keep the hate in their party ramped up, maybe, but for winning anything?
Did you see the way Kennedy looked when he showed up today?
looked like he came straight from the bar.
Things are not well with this bunch, folks.
You know, you can talk about all these people in the Democratic Party, but I think that the one person perhaps more harmful to the Democrats than Howard Dean is Teddy Kennedy.
It's been a revealing week.
It has been a really, really good week.
Liberalism's been unmasked big time.
One more time.
And it'll happen again and again and again, this time at a very large stage.
The anger we all feel for the injustice that Sam Alito had to endure will be vindicated when it becomes the 110th justice to the Supreme Court.
He's going to serve his country and the conservative cause with honor.
And Ted Kennedy will continue to sear into the American imagination the fact that he is one of the most odious, offensive, out of place.
It's over, sir for you.
Men in public life.
We will be back after this.
Boy, is this ever Aproposed?
R the good times.
Welcome back, folks.
Nice to have you.
L. Rushball.
Uh firmly ensconced here behind that, the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
I just want to explore one more thing.
We'll get to your phone calls here in an LGO.
What do you think the biggest news coming out of the Alito hearings is, Mr. Snerdley?
What's what do you think the biggest news coming out of the hearings is?
It's not that he will be confirmed.
It's not that's not that he's gonna be confirmed.
That's not the big news.
I know it's not a trick question.
There's a myriad of possibilities here.
I just uh.
All right, I'll tell you.
I I I I'll tell you what I think the biggest news coming out of the Alito hearings is.
I think it's beginning to sink in to the liberals and the Democrats.
I think they are starting to realize.
I I was mistaken by the way, I theorized this would happen earlier.
But I think they are starting now to realize that they are no longer in control.
I think for five years, they have really believed they still can run the show using their old tactics.
They can't stop Bush from doing a lot, but they can try to get Bush in trouble.
I think what's happening this week is cementing the notion that they are really starting to get it.
The liberal crowd, those of who think of themselves as the best and the brightest, the smartest guys and gals in the room are finally starting to get it.
They are not the majority.
They can't stop these nominees.
They are not in control.
They can't, they can't do their filibuster, the votes are not there.
I think they're starting to understand they do not speak for America.
Look at it this week.
Ted Kennedy has talked about the public outcry over the spy scandal.
There is no public outcry over the spy scandal.
There's none.
Uh there's no public outcry over this congressional scandal, by the way.
If you look at the polling data on that, there's no public outcry over that yet.
There may be, we don't know.
But if there is a public outcry over it at some point, it's gonna ensnare some Democrats too.
And they live in this dream world where not only was it Lindsey Graham who caused Mrs. Alito to cry and leave, that his whole thing is a Republican scandal.
But I think they secretly know that's not the case.
It's starting to sink in to the liberal minority that they are a minority.
Now I don't expect that we will ever see them act that way.
Don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
But they can't keep losing this court thing, folks, for all the talk about the security and the NSA thing and ambu grab and all.
That's nothing compared to what this means to them.
And that's why they have lost it and become unhinged.
Because this court is about to become a six to three court.
The Roberts Court is going to become a six to three court.
It isn't going to be a five to four court.
It may be on a couple of issues, but obviously it will.
But the Roberts Court will become a six to three court.
And then you know what happens when liberals are on a losing side of things, and it's not any fun.
What will Ruth Busy Ginsburg do?
What will John Paul Stevens do?
What will Breyer do?
What will Suter do?
What are they gonna do?
They're gonna want to hang around and be on the losing side of every case or a majority of cases.
What are they gonna do?
What are they gonna do when their quest to look to foreign law blows up on them?
Because Alito's dealt with that just like John Roberts did in his hearings.
It isn't going to happen.
Combine these guys with Scalia and uh and and Clarence Thomas, uh there'll be another nominee, is my point, and they will lose that.
They are going to lose that.
So when I'm thinking about this, I have a vision.
How many of you saw 2001?
Space Odyssey?
Remember, nobody could figure it out.
You watch the beginning of the movie and nobody can figure out what it is.
It starts out with some prehistoric age with a bunch of Neanderthals running around, picking up bones and rocks and stones, and they've tried to, you know, peacefully coexist.
You know, fighting over the butt sisters.
And they try to peacefully coexist out there, but one of them is an antagonist, a protagonist, end up all hell breaks out, and this guy gets a heck beat out of him, another crow magnet or whatever with a rock, and then a black obelisk shows up out of nowhere.
What the hell's the black obelisk?
And then in the follow-ups it shows up on the moon.
All this Stanley Kubrick stuff, you can't figure out what it means.
Well, I think the liberals are the apes.
They have been visited by a black obelisk.
The black obelisk is the symbol of wisdom and shazam.
The apes realize that rocks could be used as tools, and so they're still out there throwing rocks.
But we are the wisdom and the hope and the optimism of the black obelisk, and they can throw all those rocks at the black obelisk they want, and they just bounce right off.
And they're bouncing off with such force that they're coming back and beaning the very people throwing them.
Just if you want to know who the liberals in this country are today, go rent if you have it, or go buy it, so you don't have to take the movie back.
It's worth keeping.
I never rent movies.
You have to take them back.
It's a it's a time value thing.
Go rent it and look at it if you haven't seen the opening.
It's all you have to watch if you don't want to watch the whole thing, but you will watch the modern day Democrat liberal trying to function in a modern world with his old fashioned behavioral techniques.
No doubt about it.
Here's Chip, a sell call from Cleveland.
Chip, you're up first.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Raj Mega Ditto, and happy birthday from Cleveland.
Thank you, sir.
Carling uh, because looking at ahead in the future, just think if uh like a Ginsberg were to retire, uh, what do you think would happen?
Do you think they would keep the same playbook?
Dems will keep the same playbook?
Because you know, if they do, uh you know, W might come in and have even a more conservative judge to a point.
Well, I hope he does.
I don't know how he could, though.
Roberts and Alito are pretty much there are there's still a lot of great candidates he could choose from out there, folks.
Michael Ludig would be fabulous, Janice Rogers Brown.
I mean, that would be the piece that I see his thoughts if after all this.
But you ask, well, they use the same playbook.
Let me ask you, what other playbook do they have?
There is no other playbook.
What is that say now?
Okay, right.
Well, so you answered your own question.
What are they gonna do?
Well, that's the that's the thing I understand this week, because if they continue to do this and they win that 06 elections and they can retain the House and Senate, it's just gonna get uglier for them.
And it's gonna be a seven to two court.
Uh you know, uh look.
You and I can look at this and see it plain as day.
We can see it clearly.
They can't.
If they thought this was hurting them, they would stop it.
You have to look at how they define success.
I think they have a different definition of achievement than we do.
Our objective is to put the finest intellectual people we can on the Supreme Court.
Their objective in this is to stop this person, but then there's something else.
They've got a pack of rabid dogs out there that are their contributors and supporters, and these people are filled with rage and hate, and they are willing to spend gazillions of dollars investing in people who will articulate this rage and hate.
And so, yeah, they may not have stopped Alito, but on the surface they kept their kooks happy.
But have they?
People for the liberal way happy about the outcome here?
Do you think that moveon.org ultimately, when this all is over, is gonna be happy about this?
Are they gonna be satisfied with the hate-filled rhetoric of Senator Kennedy yesterday for a while?
But then they're gonna start asking, what good's our money here?
These guys, and they're not gonna ask themselves the seminal question.
What's wrong with us?
They will not say what's wrong with our idea, because they are arrogant.
There's nothing wrong with their ideas.
It's just that things are being stolen from them on election day, or you are stupid and simply don't understand just how brilliant they are and what they offer the country.
It's not just these committee democrats that start to have to ask these questions.
It's move on.org, it's these left-wing fringe groups, it's people for the liberal way, it's the it's the nags.
Timmy, is membership in any of these groups growing?
Probably not.
But you have these people who will do the same thing these other Democrats are doing.
They will not examine what's wrong with them.
They'll try to change tactics, but more than more than likely the people that contribute to these people will get on their case, say, you know, you're not spending our money.
You're not worth our investment.
This guy could have been stopped.
Everybody knows he's a bigot.
You blew the Princeton thing, you didn't do about it the right way.
They think, remember, they still think that the nature of the evidence in any of this is irrelevant.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
That's how their playbook is 30 years old behind the times.
They simply think all they have to do is say, this guy sexually harassed Anita Hill, or this guy didn't want blacks and women in the same university he was going to, and bamboo, he's disqualified.
They still think that those kinds of accusations have power.
There's nothing else in their playbook.
Do you see them saying, you know what?
I think Ted Kennedy's the wrong spokesman for us.
Do you see him saying that?
I don't.
Do you see them saying, I don't think that this Durban guy is actually who we want carrying our water?
Are they gonna say this?
And what control over it do they have anyway?
So, and I look, don't don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying it's over for these people, and I because politics, you know, there is another party that can screw up to big time.
Uh sometimes people will put the out-of-power party in power just because they get so fed up with the people in power, you know, incumbency fatigue.
I'm just telling you, as an intellectual exercise, as an intellectual pursuit, as a uh as a force of dominance.
Liberalism is on the wing.
Yeah, they still have academia.
Yeah, they still have some of these cultural institutions, they still have Hollywood.
But let me ask you a question.
We're gonna have the uh the epidemic awards, what are they, February or March?
And John Stewart's gonna be the host.
Now, how many, how many of us are really gonna watch?
Especially when we find out that Brokeback Mountain's gonna win everything.
Really?
How many of us are gonna watch?
So Hollywood's doing the same thing to the left is, oh, you don't like what we're doing?
Well, here's more of it until you like it open wide.
And they're trying to stuff it all down our throats.
And they know what makes money and they refuse to do it if it doesn't fit their ideology out there.
Yeah, they still control these these these cultural institutions, but they used to control a lot more.
All I'm saying is there is progress galore being made.
It's been on the march here for forty or fifty years, uh, and it's gonna keep on marching, and as an intellectual pursuit, the days of liberalism being able to automatically sway massive public opinion.
Ask Dan Radder are over.
Proofing once again the independence of my staff all during, and to show my utter professionalism, by the way, all during the most recent 15 or 20 minutes of the program, what I have been describing to you what I think is the implosion of the Democrats, their realization that it's over for them, uh that they're no longer the dominant uh influence uh driving force ideologically in America anymore.
That and not dead yet, but you know, it's waning, and there's no end in sight for it because they don't have what it takes to fix themselves.
Snurdley is giving me these stares of incredulity in there like I am the biggest idiot, and what happened to me on my birthday?
Did I lose the other half of my brain?
He's looking at me like this.
But I'm thinking he can't possibly be disagreeing with me because this is so brilliant and makes so much sense.
So I'm thinking, well, Brian's moving around in there like something's wrong.
So we got a technical problem that I don't know about.
None of this distracted me.
But I noticed it all.
So during the break, I said, Sterling, what's your problem?
We have a technical in there.
No.
And he wouldn't say, you just you just think I'm totally wrong.
Yes.
So I asked him to explain how am I totally wrong about this?
He said, what if they take your advice and what if they drop all this personal attack stuff and just get back on their message?
Fine, let them do what is their message.
Well, the message is the little guy doesn't stand a chance in the American court system today.
A little guy doesn't stand a chance in life.
I said, let him do that.
That's the whole point of a representative Republican freedom.
I I was.
I will tell you people a little story.
Went to Afghanistan in February and uh went with Mary Madeline.
This is when we're watching the first season of uh 24, 16 hours straight on the way over to Dubai.
And before we started it, because actually we we didn't we didn't start the DVDs for an hour.
So we're talking about the Democratic Party and and and where they're going, what they gotta do.
And I said to me, it's real simple.
They have to do what we did.
What do you mean?
Look, Mary, fifty years ago, conservatism began to articulate what it believes, and it stuck with it, and it had people working in the basements in obscurity and anonymity, and they were producing brilliance.
And that brilliance slowly found its way to other people in the country, and they they absorbed it.
And finally, people in the media who had been raised and had been educated with these principles and beliefs found their way to um uh uh reach massive numbers of people, such as this program.
And the whole thing just spread like a snowball, and through it all, we were losing.
We got humiliated in 1964 with Barry Goldwater.
We didn't get Reagan in 76, we had the embarrassment of Nixon in Watergate.
We had Jimmy Carter.
We uh But we got we've stuck with it.
This stuff that goes back and predates us to the 40s and early 50s, we finally got Reagan in the 1980s, and what do we do the whole time?
Here's what we believe.
Here's who we are.
And we went out, we engaged in a battle for the minds and hearts of the American people.
The Libs are gonna have to do the same thing.
They're gonna have to go convince people of what they actually believe.
That's why I said, and they can't do it.
Well, she said they can't do that.
They can't be honest about what they believe.
The days of being able to fool people about who they are over.
They're not gonna be able to fool people anymore.
They're not gonna be able to make people believe they're the big sensitive, compassionate types when they seek nothing other than personal destruction of their enemies.
They can't do it.
They're gonna have to go out and make the case for tax cuts.
They're gonna have to go out and make the case for abortion.
They're gonna have to go out and make the case for partial birth abortion.
They're gonna have to go out and make the case for affirmative action and quotas and hiring less qualified people and more qualified people don't get the work because that's fairness.
They're gonna have to go out and make their arguments about public education must remain average and mediocre in poor black neighborhoods in order to protect our union members.
They're gonna have to go convince people that this is the best for America.
Now you're saying, but they can't.
You never know, folks.
Go back to 1940-50.
Everybody told the the uh dinosaurs of of our leadership back then, you think you can beat these liberals?
You think you can go out and beat FDR?
You think you can convince you think you can convince people a welfare state's not good for them that the war on poverty is not something really great and testimonial about how great this country is?
You go try it.
Well, they did.
Now I know that what the liberals have to sell is anathema, but that's how you do it.
That you go out and you you create voters, they're gonna vote for you so that when you elected you have a mandate.
Even after they get elected, they don't have a mandate because they haven't stood for anything.
Or the things they say they stand for, they really don't.
They're liars.
They live in an era of deceit.
Their motto is how can we fool them today?
Their success stories are Bill Clinton, semen-stained dresses, being found in contempt of court for lying in a grand jury deposition.
And that's what they think is great.
But the only chance they have is to be honest because it ain't working this way.
Snerdley still thinks he tripped me up after in this break.
Snerdley still thinks that he tripped me up.
I don't have time to tell you about it now, but we'll do that in the monologue segment next hour.
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