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Jan. 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Okay, welcome back.
It's Rushlin Baldy EIB Network.
Well, I had the somebody just sent me a story, and I had to reply to it because, and you'll understand why.
Woman sent a woman just sent me this story.
This is uh where is this from?
Not sure.
And Brian sent it to me too, but I got it from the woman first.
Brian, where did you find this?
What's the website?
Do you recall?
Look at you.
MSNBC.com.
Sex calms nerves before public speaking study.
Rush, why don't you start giving a series of speeches and I'll come along.
So I was I was typing a reply to that, folks.
Here's the story.
Forget pretending that you're talking to one person or concentrating on a single point in the audience.
Having sex is a good way to calm nerves before giving a speech or a presentation.
But Stuart Brody, psychologist, University of Paisley in Scotland said it has to be full sexual intercourse to get the best results.
Bet this guy does a lot of speaking.
He studied nearly 50 men and women who recorded their sexual activities for two weeks and analyzed its impact on their blood pressure levels when under acute stress, such as giving a speech.
That doesn't apply to me.
I am never under stress.
Giving a speech, but the only stress I'm under is I wish I weren't doing it, but I'm not that I'm not stressful at having to do it.
Brody discovered that volunteers who had sexual intercourse were the least stressed and had blood pressure levels returned to normal more quickly than people who engaged in other types.
Buddies and people who had abstained from sex had the highest blood pressure response to stress.
Okay.
So again, uh news for the masses, which does not apply to me.
Because I don't engage in an experience stress.
I don't get butterflies, nerves or any of that.
People say to me, Rush, what's the best part of a speech?
I said, when it's over.
And I'm walking out the door.
I'm just kidding.
I just, but I I do them so rarely anymore.
I like them, actually.
It's when I was doing them every weekend that it got to be.
And these aren't what I do, aren't speeches.
They're two hours.
Stand up.
Anybody can stand at a lecture and read what somebody wrote for them.
President Bush actually said to General Motors and Ford, why don't you try developing more appealing products instead of looking to Washington for help with your heavy pension burdens?
It's in a Wall Street Journal today.
In an interview yesterday, Bush said that he had not talked to the struggling car companies about their finances, but he hinted that he would take a dim view of a government bailout of the top two U.S. automakers.
I've been very reluctant.
I mean, I'm mindful of the past where at one point in time a predecessor of mine was faced with the same dilemma.
I would hope I wouldn't be asked to make that decision.
Asked if he had spoken to the CEOs of um General Motors or Ford.
Bush told the Wall Street Journal not about their balance sheets, and I haven't been asked by any automobile manufacturer about a bailout.
Asked if the government should take any preemptive action, Bush quoted as saying, I think it's very important for the market to function.
He suggested he felt optimistic about the company's prospects according to the newspaper.
Now this is just this is classic free market 101.
Very, very conservative.
Why?
Wonderful.
And speak here's a great story out of Chicago about Walmart.
18 months.
I just love this.
18 months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a Southside Walmart.
24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Walmart, opening Friday in South Suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits.
The new Walmart at 2500 West 95th is one block west of Western Avenue, the city boundary of 25,000 job applicants.
All but 500 listed Chicago addresses.
In our typical hiring process, you're pretty successful if you have 3,000 applicants.
They're really crowing about 11,000 in Oakland, California last year, so they get 25,000 plus applicants and counting, I think is astonishing.
Assistant manager Rachel Fierro, who was still interviewing prospects on Wednesday, said we saw a little bit of everything.
People who hadn't worked for a long time, people who saw an opportunity to do something with themselves.
That's information I got from applicants.
The 141,000 square foot store has 36 departments, a tire and lube express, a vision center, subway restaurant, pharmacy, garden center, and drugstore.
It'll sell some groceries, but no fresh produce or meats and no adult beverages.
It's expected to generate one million dollars in sales and property tax in the first year.
A wind f get this isn't which one makes this a great story.
One million dollars in property tax the first year, a windfall in a village that collects about three million dollars a year in sales taxes, said Evergreen Park mayor, James J. Sexton.
Chicago aced themselves out of all of this by refusing to let Walmart build in the city limits.
Now I have to tell you something.
We are on the big 89 in Chicago, the great WLS.
And I know that in uh comprising our audience on WLS are countless Democrats.
I I have to tell you something.
If I lived in Chicago, I would I I I'd be a pipe dream, but I would be seriously thinking that it's time to get rid of the entire pe the whoever's the city council, board of all the whatever they're called, because they torpedoed a Walmart.
It's one block.
I love Walmart thinking of this.
What I hope they would do in Maryland.
Says Walmart is one block outside the Chicago city limits.
The city receives none of the taxes.
They've shot themselves in the foot for some ideological cadence they must remain in with unions.
Sales tax and property tax revenue going to this little suburb of Evergreen Park.
And I got nothing against Evergreen Park.
I love them in this too.
I'm all for this.
I just you people that live in Chicago, you've got to ask yourselves, why in the if you look at what the left hates, look at the enemies that the left has.
Walmart is atop the list.
After that, Exxon Mobil.
Then you've got Halliburton.
And then you've got any drug company, any big pharmaceutical company.
And after that, you've got the car company.
You've got every element of the capitalist system and enterprise in this country represents a target to the left.
They've got to do something to destroy them under some pretext.
It's always about union dues and contributions, but I always come up with something else.
Well, they're destroying the mom and pop up.
Well, they're destroying the uh mom and pop neighborhood atmosphere that we use.
Destroying nothing.
Twenty-five thousand people went over to this place to look for work and sure.
What does that tell you?
Bye bye.
Chicago elected officials feeling very confident that they were able to keep this evil organization outside the city limits.
So you know what's going to happen?
I can tell you right now, because these people in Chicago running ashore Democrats, you p because they're now going to realize a tax shortfall.
What could have been?
The tax shortfall, because Walmart, if see if Walmart would have just left the area and maybe, you know, 30 miles away, it's one thing, but Walmart had to stick it to them.
Walmart had to move just a block outside the city limits.
And that's, you know, that's like an obscene gesture.
So the city won't be able to do anything in Walmart, but they're going to realize, God, a tax revenue.
They're going to call this a tax cut that they enacted on themselves, and they're going to raise taxes somewhere somehow inside the city limit on residents to make up for this shortfall that could have been theirs by virtue of their own action.
Mark my words.
Well, you by the way, you know what?
Evergreen Park, if I were you, I'd seriously seriously look out for the whole community being taken over under eminent domain.
And City Chicago says, you know what?
That little server about there, we've always had a problem with its blighted area.
Look, now it's even more blighted.
They got a Walmart.
So they'll go out and they'll find a couple of Hollywood Democrat liberals to come in and pose as big time developers to raise Evergreen Park, including the Walmart, and put up a new city hall there or something.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
All right, back to the phone.
So we got uh from Chicago, it's PJ.
Hi, PJ.
Glad you got through.
Rush, my man, how are you doing?
It is so good listening to you.
I live in Chicago.
And right now, the city is $300 million in debt, including all the money they got from the bridge, the Skyway.
The Millennium Park, which costs like two billion dollars.
He's getting rid of 600 teacher jobs and closing down eleven schools.
Well, that might be helpful to the kids that go to them.
Well, it won't be helpful to the teachers.
But he claims he has to be.
Well, that's true, but I mean not everybody can get it just proves when some people benefit, not everybody does.
A lot of people wanted Walmarts in Chicago, and Mayor Daly and his people didn't want to have anything to do with it.
I'm glad they're one block out of the city limits.
And I got a news for I know a lot of firemen that don't like Daly, too.
Well, I is a Democrat, but it's a look at for all your talk about all the people that don't like him, they keep winning.
See, this is the thing, and I and I know it's I know they're the people uh that don't like Mayor Daly and don't like the whole Democrat establishment of the machine there, but it keeps winning.
I mean it's it's at some point, though.
Uh th this is just rich.
This this is just well, I love the whole story.
I I love the whole Walmart relocating a block outside the city limits.
The real question I think I think people need to start asking just why in the world here look I've said this before, but let me go through it again.
What is Walmart?
Walmart is a discount operation.
It allows people of limited financial means and resources to be able to purchase things that are necessary in life and maybe some things that they want as well.
Now you would think that a political party which is concerned with the little people, a political party that keeps talking about the poor and the downtrodden and all, would welcome this into their communities as something that would benefit their people and try to get on the side of it as, hey, we helped you out, we brought them into town.
But no, can't do it because the liberal Democrat machine anywhere, while professing all this love and connection to the little people.
The poor and the downtrodden, the forgotten, the hungry and the thirsty and so forth, is a myth.
Their real allegiance is with powerful people, other powerful people, in this case labor unions.
It's just like this eminent domain ruling that came out of the Kelo case at the uh Supreme Court.
The liberals on that court sided with a government against little people.
It's one of the things I've been trying to drill home for 18 plus years here behind the golden EIB microphone.
This is all just a sham.
You take a look at all the people, the Democrats say, if it weren't for us, why it'd be in the worst shape of the world.
We're the only ones that care about the poor, the forgotten, the downharden, the thrusty, the whatever they are.
Look at the policies they've come up with to fix that, and you won't find any fixes.
And you'll see the people that keep voting for them keep complaining about the same thing every four years, and the Democrats come around and say, Yep, well, you better re-elect us, and the Republicans are going to take away everything you've got.
Meanwhile, it's just the exact opposite.
So I think what you what you need to start doing is examining just why it is in the Democratic Party today that Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Walmart, Glaxo, Smith Klein, whatever, pick your favorite pharmaceutical company are the enemy.
They are the targets.
They are the problems if you listen to what there there is a in Maryland, all over this country.
There is an all-out war against Walmart.
Now, I understand the Democrats and their allegiance to unions.
I I understand this, but but uh again, this is a this is a falling base.
This is the union membership in this country is plummeting, and there's nothing that's going to change that.
The Democrats, I think, not only do they not realize that we're in a post-9-11 world, they don't realize that we're now in a economic global circumstance.
They still think that we're in the FDR soup kitchen days.
They look out at the U.S. economy, and that's what they see.
Maybe pre-JFK, I don't know, but they really they are so backwards and so caught in their own past because that was the day of their glory.
That's where they've created their alternative universe where they continue to try to live out their dreams.
For crying out, I don't care whether you're Republican, Democrat, communist, whether your favorite guy in the world is Hugo Chavez.
You have to wonder about a bunch of people that think Walmart is the enemy.
That I'm I know I'm sounding a little unhinged here, but uh it it is it is astounding to me.
It's just astounding.
A great American success story that and the customer base that they have targeted Would seem to me to be right up the Democrat Party's alley.
And you would think it's just like on this with with the war on terror, the war in Iraq, wouldn't it make more sense?
Because they know we're the United States.
We're going to win this despite their best efforts to bring about the impression of defeat.
We're going to win this.
Don't you think they would want to try to position themselves at some point so that when we win it, they can take credit.
No, they don't want to take because their fringe kook wacko lunatic base doesn't want to win.
And if anybody, if any Democrat does try to take credit for winning it, that Democrat's going to be thrown under the bus by the Democrat base.
This is a cock eyed bunch of people.
Now I'm living it and relishing it, and I'm enjoying it, but it doesn't mean I am not astounded by it.
All right, next we go to Arkansas.
Now, for you liberal elite Democrats, our next caller is a hick.
Because of where he's from and because of where he works.
He works with Walmart, but to us, he's an American.
Mike, welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Ditto's from Northwest Arkansas.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I am less than one mile from the center of the Death Star that is Walmart.
And uh we've been living here for about eight years, and I'll tell you what, I was up in that store last week uh doing some work as a lot of the suppliers do.
And I'll tell you what.
Evergreen is a pretty depressed area.
You can tell it's uh it's near the city.
But I'll tell you what, those people there, they were very excited to be working for Walmart.
You know, we would be working in the aisles, and you know, they would get together for their meetings and they would do their cheers and give each other jacked up, and you'd hear people getting recognized for what they did.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Does Walmart take these people behind closed doors and teach them these cheers?
Are they made to do these cheers in unison?
Is Walmart treat is this sort of like a public school where you got up and salute the flag, only in this case you got to do the Walmart cheer, or were these spontaneous?
America wants to know.
They were all they were spontaneous.
These people were excited to be working for Walmart, and I'll tell you what, is it's a very very much of a depressed neighborhood.
But the people that were working there were very courteous and very helpful to all of the visitors that were in town.
And uh, you know, it was it was it was very impressive to me because we went into the city there, and frankly, it's not a very safe looking area, but I'll tell you what, those people had a lot of you could tell the pride in in wearing the vest that they wore at Walmart.
Okay, then here you have another this is you call this an herbal urban renewal program brought to you by the free market.
Yeah.
Because if if it's if if it's as you describe it, this is only going to improve it.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But I I just wanted to give you a report from what it was really like inside there.
You should see the store.
It's gonna be a beautiful store, and and I know that uh, you know, come back there two, three, four years from now, it's gonna look just the way it did when we opened it.
It's a super, it's a super low.
I'm I'm I'm I'm not surprised at this.
I I think with how many people applied there, 25,000 people when they're looking for work.
I think it's uh you know, handwriting's on the wall here.
This is obviously what it is.
Fred in Lafayette, Louisiana, your next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, make it ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I just think Walmart isn't gonna stop with just one.
I think they're gonna put up about a dozen of them just outside the city limits of Chicago.
Not only is Chicago gonna leave lose the tax revenues from that, but they're also gonna steal um business away from other established businesses in Chicago, too.
Well, now that I don't know about the latter part of that, you never know, but I think I'm I'm getting a delightful picture here of Walmart surrounding Chicago.
You just say Walmart surrounds Chicago.
I'd love to see Walmart surrounding Maryland.
Uh at the uh at the same time.
Uh so yeah, yeah, when when Wal you'd have Chicago under siege, Walmart surrounds the city, armies of workers reporting for duty to Walmart each and every day, exacting one of the worst sorts of damage on the city they possibly could, a lost tax base.
I love the way Walmart plays this.
They know who their customers are, they do what they can to service them and uh whatever it takes to go around these obstacles that are political and built up for political purposes, they find a way around it.
A quick timeout, we gotta go back with the final half hour here on the EIB network after this.
Real life's exactly what you get on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I am America's anchorman, El Rushbow, serving humanity.
All right.
Sheets Bird, Robert Byrd, West Virginia, on the floor of the United States Senate during the debate on the Alito vote for the Supreme Court has just gone off, and we are hopeful that we will have tape of this for you before the end of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
Sheets Byrd has gone off on the disgrace that were the judicial committee hearings.
He said he has gotten email from all over the state of West Virginia, all over the place, talking about what an absolute disgrace it was to have to sit through this, that these have simply become made-for-TV hearings.
He says the hearings were an outrage and a disgrace.
Even the people who didn't support Judge Alito are sending Sheets Bird mail saying we didn't support the guy, but this was an embarrassment.
He talked about Mrs. Alito fleeing the hearing room to protect and maintain her dignity, leaving those in the hearing room with little of their own.
Now, he hasn't mentioned any names, right?
But of course, he doesn't have to.
He doesn't have to.
Now, there's also a story in the stack of stuff here.
Uh and I I you know don't want to make any connections here.
Where did I put the story?
He's got an opponent.
Somebody is going to run against Sheets.
Uh he's got a wealthy opponent, but but but yeah, here it is.
Wealthy businessman to challenge Sheets Byrd.
Wealthy GOP businessman to challenge Democrat Senator uh Robert Byrd.
A multimillionaire businessman entered the GOP race to challenge Senator Sheets Byrd on Wednesday, hoping to deny the 88-year-old incumbent Democrat a record ninth term.
His name is John Race, 55, said he would campaign on a platform touting free enterprise and reduced regulation, among other issues.
Quote, what I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.
What a wonderful thought.
It's going to be tough, though, to get West Virginia voters to turn their backs on all those earmarks.
That's the new word for pork, by the way.
That they have uh mainlined for how many years?
I mean, literally, people in West Virginia mainline pork.
You ought to see it.
I know it's it's tough to envision it, but they do it.
So we're working on getting audio of uh of Senator Bird, and when we have that, we'll pass it on to you.
Also, this Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Scranton, Pennsylvania, fired his campaign manager and apologized for a racially charged remark that the manager made about former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swan, who is Bill Scranton's rival for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Pennsylvania.
On a televised call-in show on Wednesday night.
James Seif, maybe C if it's S-E-I-F.
I'm not sure how he pronounces it, said, quote, the rich white guy in this campaign is Lynn Swan.
Unquote.
Now, Bill Scranton, in uh in a statement released of his campaign, said he was trying to reach Lynn Swan last night to apologize.
I want to apologize to Lynn Swan to his family, his supporters in his campaign.
He expressed deep personal regret and anger at his campaign manager's comment says in no way whatsoever reflects my views or those of my campaign.
Lynn Swan seeking to become Pennsylvania's first black governor.
Scranton comes from a wealthy family and is white.
Scranton fired a campaign manager who's an old friend and served in former Governor Tom Ridge's cabinet, fired him just before midnight.
The show on Pennsylvania Cable Network also featured Ray Zaborney, a top official in the uh in the Swan campaign.
Now, I know this is a Republican fight, but what does this tell you?
What is this?
What is it?
So here's here's here's a black former star of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he comes from modest beginnings.
I I've gotten to know Lynn Swan, and he comes from uh Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area.
He has been beaten up by white supremacists in his childhood before he was in college or going to college.
And uh he he's he's triumphed and he is a tremendous success, has his own business, works works some for ABC and is running for governor.
So here you have well, the rich white guy in this race is X. It it tells me that it's come as no surprise, that there is a a built-in bias against wealthy people.
Built-in bias, and rich white guy is supposed to define somebody as aloof and out of touch.
It's code word language, and it exists on both sides.
You know, you seldom hear Republicans talking this way.
And to say this about Lynn Swan is just it's it's it's absurd and stupid.
Uh it it well uh I know it it it well, it does it denigrates it denigrates Swan uh as a black man who has achieved.
Oh, cargo okay, so he you're just a rich white guy now.
You're just a rich white guy.
Black people are supposed to be poor.
That's you know it's just it's it's absurd.
This whole thing is just yeah, you have to wonder what would possess somebody to say this.
But I know what it is.
You think you can get an advantage by portraying somebody as a rich white guy.
Rich white guys are the enemy.
Rich white guys own Walmart.
Rich white guys run the drug companies.
Rich white guys run the auto and oil companies.
And that's that's what it is.
And it's an attempt to caricature and and and not well, not only caricature, but it's a it's an attempt to uh categorize Swan as one of these aloof, out of touch, all powerful, but no thread to the common man type of guys.
It's just the exact opposite.
Patrick in Peoria, Illinois.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it's an honor from the heartland of Illinois and America to take away.
Thank you, sir.
Can you hear me?
Yes, sir.
Oh, great.
The question I had for you is what are your thoughts about with uh what we're hearing with General Motors and Ford and the trouble that they're experiencing?
What your thoughts are of a possible merger.
Is there talk of a possible merger?
Or are you just asking this theoretically?
I'm asking that theoretically, but doesn't it make business sense?
Uh if you want to maintain number one market share in the world, don't you want to maybe combine forces, uh uh cut back on production facilities, number of employees necessary to put out the cards and maintain number one status in the country in the world.
I would I would have to think about this.
This is something that's never crossed my mind, Ford and GM merging.
Uh nothing's impossible, but these are two totally different cultures.
Uh I uh one is one is a still a family-owned and operated uh outfit.
That would be Ford.
Uh my big question is well, who gets the football stadium in Detroit?
That's what I would want if I were in either company and they were gonna merge.
So we'll have to look at that.
There's a whole bunch all sid.
I I'm you what do you you think they will?
Well, uh, you know, I'm I've been out in the business world for a number of years.
I've got a lot of friends who are also uh along with me, and you know, the the talk at the table is how do we become bigger, how do we become and maintain number one status?
Caterpillar, you know, record profits this last quarter.
Well, you know, you do that by uh buying other companies, buying your competitors, buying uh you know, affiliated facilities that uh complement your product line.
So why not?
I don't know.
I don't see it.
Uh stranger things have happened.
Uh but give me give me some time to think about this, because this is something I have not even uh I've not even considered.
See, the way uh when I see stories like this, when I when I see General Motors and Ford and all these problems, losses, I my first reaction is do they advertise on this program?
And if they don't, and they're having these problems selling product, then it makes sense to me.
If they want to sell product, advertise on this program.
It's real simple.
Uh it's uh it's way I look at it first.
I look at both of them being able to solve their problems individually, uh Because this is America and miracles happen and so forth.
And then I say, are either of them advertising?
Because if they were advertising here and that well, that wouldn't be happening.
If either of those companies were advertising here, the story about five billion dollar loss in one quarter would not happen.
But it did happen.
So it means they're not advertising here.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue in mere minutes.
Boy, you talk about dodging a bullet.
Sheets Bird just said during the debate on Alito on the floor vote on the floor debate in the Senate.
You said that Richard Nixon once asked him to be on the Supreme Court, but Sheets said no, I'd rather stay in the Senate.
That is dodging a bullet.
Can you imagine for the last 30 years Sheetsbird being on the Supreme Court?
Whoa, I wonder who got the seat that Sheets claims was offered to him.
Did he say?
All right, try this.
This is some Tampa, an angry father who marched into a classroom.
Remember, we talking about cowboys all day today.
The Democrats, as his poll out, Harris Paul, one of the most popular movie stars last year, John Wayne, Richard Cohen, Washington Post, big story, Democrats are dead.
The thing that Democrats and have in common with John Wayne is they're both dead, and that's it.
There are no John Wayne's, there are no real men in the Democratic Party.
And it's not just Richard Cohen said.
And they're all ripped and complaining about it.
Angry father marched into a classroom in Tampa and punched a teacher's assistant in the face.
Said yesterday he was protecting his 15-year-old daughter who had accused the man of inappropriately touching her.
Dave Swafford, 42, charged with felony battery on a screw employee after he hit the 35-year-old aide in front of a class full of students at Lakewood Ranch Hascral near Bradenton Tuesday morning.
He was also named Father of the Year by a local radio station for his actions, and I don't know what the radio station was.
Said, I'm not real proud of what I did.
You have to protect your children.
My daughter does not lie to me.
He's the part owner of an air conditioning company.
He said he came to the Scrual to meet with officials about allegations made by his daughter and other female students about the assistant's inappropriate touching and conduct.
When he saw that the man was not in the meeting, he asked his daughter to take him to the classroom.
He walked into classroom, punched the guy out.
Now, this little girl, this this daughter, th this is the kind of thing.
She look at let me just be honest, folks.
I'm not going to try to tiptoe and be sensitive about this.
One of the best things that a girl or woman can know is that the man and her wife is going to defend her from all these threats.
They want John Wayne's, and there aren't any in the Democratic Party.
And somebody named Paula Cole knew this as far back as 1996.
Paula Cole, where have all the cowboys gone in 1996 said when she sang about how she's stuck at home washing the dishes while a louse husband heads off to have a beer, Brian raised his fist to the air and went, yeah.
Robert Sheets Bird concluded his speech by announcing he too will vote for the confirmation of Sam Alito.
He must have been infuriated by what he saw in those hearings.
As were all decent people.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
All right.
Here is a little clip from Robert Byrd on the floor of the Senate raving about the tone of the Alito hearings.
Mr. President.
Was it really necessary to subject Mrs. Alito to the harsh glare of the television click lights?
As she fled the hearing room in tears.
Fighting to maintain her dignity in response to others with precious little of their own.
Have we finally come to the point where our nation's assessment of a Supreme Court nominee turns more on a simple-minded sound bite or an exploitative snapshot than on the answers provided or withheld by the nominee?
He also ripped the media.
We'll have more from uh Sheetsbird tomorrow on the program, but he uh he ripped these million dollar million dollar advertising campaigns either to proclaim or to denigrate Judge Alito's fitness uh for the position.
He said they raged across the airwaves.
Across the airways, Mr. President.
A solemn constitutional responsibility is not helped when it takes on such a tone.
And then there were the media, and the media's contribution to the deterioration of this very important constitutional process.
My guess is that uh uh he must he said he got a lot of mail, and I'll bet he did.
I'll bet that's what prompted this.
I'll uh you just know people that watch this were just outraged with with the the smear tactics that were used.
That was all this uh hearing was was an attempted smear.
They attempted attempted to bork uh Judge Alito and the fact that they don't have the guts to filibuster, they portrayed this man as a as an imminent threat to this nation, and yet all those lies are just hollow because they will not act on them to try to save what they think is a great country by stopping him.
So they're phony baloney plastic banana, good time rock and rollers.
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