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Feb. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 podcast.
All right, now tell me again, what time's Cheney coming on?
2 30.
Well, actually that means 2 33.
Okay, so we got Cheney.
So I knew Cheney was coming on, but nobody told me what time.
For all I knew, he could have been waiting now.
It's kind of like when I got the memo or didn't get the memo, we were all off on January 2nd or 3rd or whatever it was.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Nice to have you with us.
Here we are, the EIB network and L. Rushbow, firmly ensconced between the No behind the golden EIB microphone.
I wouldn't mind being between a couple things, but they're not available now.
Telephone number 800-282-288-2 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com before I get started.
I have to folks, I'm just I I have to tell I'm bored silly.
Uh it started yesterday.
I I'm the Democrats are boring me.
They the liberals and the media, the dead there, the whole thing, they have become my parodies.
I'm I'm sort of lost.
I mean, they don't even make me mad anymore.
They just I don't even they don't even it's not even worth laughing at them anymore.
It just they just flat out have become so predictably boring.
That State of the Union dress last night.
If you only saw it, I mean if you only heard it on the radio, you didn't you didn't really see what the um the message of the State of the Union was.
We've prepared some sound bites for you to um uh uh we haven't done this this way before.
Little short bites of what the president said, and on each of these bites, the Democrats either remained seated and did not applaud or stood but did not applaud.
I don't think it even stood.
A couple times they stood without applauding, but but for the most part they just sat on their hands and and uh it's almost like somebody there had to be signals.
There had to be I I was thinking of this.
By the way, is uh uh Mr. Sturdley, you you might know this is was Edward R. Murrow gay.
Uh well, I don't know.
I've never heard it.
I don't misunderstand.
I just looked at the rest of the Oscar nominations and uh it made me wonder.
Um what was I saying?
I'm so bored talking about the Democrat, I forgot what I say.
What was I saying just before the Ed Murrow question?
Um uh yeah, no, that's not what I was saying.
You've even forgot what I was seeing.
It's so boring, it's what?
What?
Oh, the signals on how to react.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They acted so in unison.
I'm wondering if if somebody on the Democrat side was giving out hand signals or if they had a, you know, they had the pre-draft copy or pre-speech copy of the uh text, and I wonder if they went through it, so we'll sit down here, we'll sit down here, or if it was just instinctive.
I think it's I know a silly question.
It's uh it's purely instinctive.
Anyway, let's get uh let's get started with this because we got a lot of other things to do on the program today.
America stands and cheers and the Democrats sit down is the way to cast.
What happened last night at the State of the Union speech.
And the media spin today on the Democrats sitting and the Republicans cheering is that it demonstrates the partisan divide.
But that's wrong.
The Democrats didn't sit for partisan reasons, they sat for ideas that any average American sitting in his living room would agree with.
I'm sure there's a partisanship here, but they're trying to blame Bush for the fact that Democrats were rude.
They're blaming Bush for the fact that the Democrats wanted to make it plain as day to the American people that they have nothing in common with most of the people in this country.
Trying to blame Bush on it.
And I'm telling you, these media people are so out of touch, they do live in a bubble.
They watch that speech and they see something totally different.
They don't see what other people watching that speech saw.
And what we saw was a great con uh when Bush is walking in after he's been introduced.
Mr. Speaker, the President, and all that phony cheering erupts from the Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi was stalking Bush.
She was like she wanted a date.
Like she wanted to have an affair.
And do you know all these Democrat women wear red in the State of the Union.
Ever wonder what that's all about?
That has to be color coordinated.
Something about red on television.
So nothing's real at this thing last night, except there was a there was a German Shepherd.
There was a seeing eye dog German Shepherd up there in the gallery where Mrs. Bush was the dog was more polite to President Bush than the Democrats in the chamber last night.
The dog was paying attention.
You can dog even looked eager.
Democrats just made it a point to look dour, disrespectful, and it is it is it is just getting boring.
But we're going to go through this.
The media looks at this and they don't say that's what's they just don't see it the way average Americans watching this speech, so they don't see the same things.
They see the Democrats sitting down, and it's Bush's fault.
Did you hear what happened to Bob Schiefer?
Let's, in fact, let's not start with Soundbite One.
This is this is go to Soundbite Number Nine.
Bob Schiefer, the uh anchor Oh, by the way, have you heard that the cookie cutter, John Roberts, the cookie cutter Kendall, the uh weekend anchor at CBS News is fleeing CBS uh to join uh uh uh CNN.
It's uh it's a new sitcom called All in the Family.
It doesn't matter what networks these people work at.
Well, John Roberts is upset because he's out of the running for the anchor job.
The new the new the new prez over there at CBS, Sean McManus says, no, we're not gonna pick anybody from inside this unit.
Who the hell would?
We're gonna go outside.
Everybody in this unit's been tainted.
Well, he didn't say that, but that's what he means.
I mean, if you were running CBS News, would you pick anybody they currently have working there to make your anchor?
I wouldn't pick Katie Couric either, but but still they're gonna go outside anyway.
Thank you.
I see that cut nine.
I expect Cut Nine to be ready when I asked for it two minutes ago.
Just be patient, all the month, and I'll get to it.
All right, now, where was I?
Staff con everybody wants to get it in the act.
Oh, yeah, John Roberts goes to CNN, and he's gonna report.
And he sent an email to his CBS colleagues.
I will miss you all.
I've developed fine working relationships.
These pompous people and their emails to each other.
Half the people at CBS probably saying good.
But anyway, so he's gonna go over there.
It is, it's all in the family.
It doesn't matter what network these people work on.
Nobody's leaving CNN that I know of.
I d if somebody's leaving CNN that didn't say so.
He's gonna be a roving correspondent in various places.
Don't mention Aaron Brown.
Uh don't mention Aaron Brown was down in Palm Beach a couple days ago or last week and made a speech about how network news has gone to hell that it's not serious.
It's just a TV ratings game anymore, and proof is that they got rid of him.
Uh you know, here's a guy can't find a job, can't hold a job, can't find a job out there complaining and the business fired him has gone south.
Uh I'm telling you people just bore me, folks.
I don't know what else to tell you.
Here's here's what here's what uh Bob Scheefer said.
Now they were doing flash polls.
They had a they had a flash poll on uh people watching the speech or what their opinion of it was.
And Bob Bob Scheefer about chokes on the on the CBS flash poll results and make sure to tell everybody, well, you really can't believe these numbers.
77% of the people watching the speech approved it.
Here's the bite.
Now remember, this is not necessarily reflect the feelings of the country, because traditionally we found out in recent years, more Republicans watch when a Republican makes the speech, more Democrats watch when a Democrat makes the speech.
But did our viewers tonight approve of President Bush's proposals?
7% approved.
23% did not.
It's gotta be tough being in the mainstream media today because daily you are confronted with your ongoing failure and your ongoing irrelevance despite all these five years of trying to gin up genuine hatred for George W. Bush, their own audience, which they have to go out and insult in reporting their own poll shows at 77%.
Well, keep in mind this all Republicans and the what's unsetting.
You can't trust them.
Republicans, they're just partisans.
Why do it, Bob?
If it's so unscientific, it's if it's so worthless, why do it?
And then why report it, Bob, you idiot.
Back in just a second.
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You want to hear one more media take on this.
This is this is Terry Moran.
You know, I was watching Terry Moran, and I saw this guy Jay Carney from Time Magazine.
I look at these guys and said, are they out of high school yet?
You know, yeah, I wonder if they shave.
Oh, these young little MTV types.
That it is just an observation.
Well, and and you know, you know the speech was a home run when the media starts asking, is all this even necessary anymore?
And we have a montage here of Moran that was basically that was his point.
A lot of tonight's words and deeds here in Washington were pretty predictable.
People are beginning to ask a question about these speeches.
What's the point?
Is it really necessary?
In the end, how you view these speeches may depend on how you feel about the president giving them.
With all the tricks, symbolism, and substance.
That means it was all home run, folks.
These guys can't handle it.
You'd never hear them complaining if Bill Clinton had hit a big home run like this.
Uh uh, well, the tricks he's talking about are putting a dog up there, uh, the uh Iraqis up there with Mrs. Bush, the family of Sergeant Clay up there whose letter home was totally erroneously botched on purpose uh by those kooks at the New York Times.
Uh and who else was up there?
Mrs. Alito's wife, I think, or Mrs. Alito was up there, although she wasn't called on.
I think I think I saw her.
But that's what they mean by the tricks.
Uh of course, Reagan started those and they become a copycat item symbolism.
I this all this is uh when I hear people are beginning to ask a qu who peep who people?
What what what people, Mr. Moran?
Why give us a list of names that people start to ask if this is this, and I'll bet every damn one of them is a socialist liberal Democrat.
Either elected to office on a staff of them elected to office or a member of the media.
That's who's asking, do we actually have to sit here and allow this guy to look good?
We have to have to broadcast this.
It's our cameras making this guy look good.
They're panicked out there.
All right, now to the actual speech.
America stands and cheers.
The Democrats sit down.
Issue number one, Bush says we are winning.
Democrats can't stand to hear him say this because they've positioned themselves to benefit only from American defeat.
I am confident in our plan for victory.
I am confident in the will of the Iraqi people.
I am confident in the skill and spirit of our military fellow citizens.
We are in this fight to win, and we are winning.
All right, we've cut the applause on all these to three seconds in the interests of uh of time, but on each one of those, the Democrats sat down and didn't say a word.
They glared.
They they looked bored, occasionally would turn and chat amongst themselves.
Uh and this was on full display for everybody watching.
And when you're talking about American victory, when the president's talking about persevering, we will win, talking about all of these things, and the American people see half the house sitting down.
And Bob Schiefer warns us that 77% of the people liking the speech, you really can't be believed because it's mostly Republicans watching.
As I say, why even do the poll, Bob?
If you're gonna then throw it out as credible as not credible, why why even do the why do the poll?
On the off chance that the people would hate Bush.
You know, there was a lot of hope in the media of the Democrats last night, and it didn't, it didn't turn.
By the way, here speaking of tricks, speaking of tricks, how about that stunt that Lynn Woolsey tried to pull with Cindy Sheehan?
Now, Lynn Woolsey is a is a is a ranking member of Code Pink.
Code Pink's this upper left wing way, I mean, and they are pink.
They're so close to red, they're pink.
Sort of like environmentalists, they're watermelons.
They're green on the outside, red on the inner side.
And she's a member of Code Pink, and and they did disrupt last year's State of the Union speech.
They got 16 tickets last year, and they got in there, and if you remember, there was some cheering and booing, and people had to be hustled out.
So here's Cindy Sheehan.
Now, oh, question for you.
If you are the Capitol Hill police, and it's your job to keep that place secure, and a woman who has said that the president is ten times the murderer that Saddam Hussein is, that he's Hitler.
If that woman has gotten a ticket to come in, aren't you going to be on your toes?
Now see it, CNN reported that she unfurled a banner.
Other people say she just wore a t-shirt.
Uh regardless, none of that is allowed during the state of the year, or at any time in the Senate gallery.
It's not a place where you go, you gotta shut up.
I was in the Senate gallery once as a kid.
I'll tell you a little story.
My parents took my brother and I to Washington.
I was could have been more than ten, maybe twelve.
Uh, and we went to Washington and went to the Senate gallery, and Barry Goldwater was uh making a speech on the floor about about uh the farm bill, I think.
That's what my dad told me.
Anyway, and I'm I've got some catalog or some some some program or pamphlet that I have been given when I walked in, and I'm sitting there turning the pages.
And a page came and took the book away from me because I was creating too much noise.
Made another person spit out their gum.
So this is not new what happened last night with Cindy Sheehan.
They're trying to talk about Bush Gestapo tactics.
The real question is, what kind of stunt and what kind of trick was Lynn Woolsey trying to pull off last night?
That's uh that's the the real Yeah, they've they've thrown out Republican Congress, they thought a Republican congressman's wife.
This this is not a new stunt last night.
Uh a new thing to happen.
All right, here is soundbite number two.
America stands and cheers, Democrats sit down.
This is the subject of victory.
The road of victory is the road that will take our troops home.
As we make progress on the ground and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.
But those decisions will be made by our military commanders, not by politicians in Washington, D.C. Once again, once again the Democrats sat on their behinds.
The whole rest of the chamber stood up in applause, and that is a good line, because you could have finished it this way.
But those decisions will be made by our military commanders, not by politicians in Washington, D.C., Congressman Mertha.
Or throw in any other name.
America stands and cheers, Democrats sit down, the subject, the Patriot Act.
The Democrats can't stand the Patriot Act because it violates their terrorist bill of rights.
This nation has superb professionals in law enforcement, intelligence, the military, and homeland security.
These men and women are dedicating their lives to protecting us all, and they deserve our support and our thanks.
They also deserve the same tools they already use to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.
So I ask you to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Can't do that, though.
Democrats can't stand up and cheer that because how do you reauthorize the Patriot Act if you're going to give terrorists a bill of rights in our attempt to engage in the war on terror?
So there they sat, fat, dumb, and happy, looking like they owned the world last night, not having the slightest idea how they appear to the people of this country.
America stands and cheers.
The Democrats sit down.
Issue number four, terrorist surveillance.
The terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks.
It remains essential to the security of America.
If there are people inside our country who are talking with Al Qaeda, we want to know about it because we will not sit back and wait to be hit again.
And they sat down.
They remained seated.
They remained seated when the president said we will not be hit again.
I'm telling you, folks.
They remained seated.
They didn't stand up.
The whole concept of being hit again.
They had to sit down because their base expects them not to be supportive of the surveillance program.
You know, domestic spying.
And so Bush cleaned their clocks last night.
Folks, I mean there's a lot of Republican bloggers out there talking about what a boring speech this was.
Bush took it to these people.
He handed the Democrats their head on a platter last night.
This is a classic example.
He gives an applause line they can't possibly stand up to because he sets it up in the context of surveillance.
So he's making them look like unsupportive Americans in the concept of a war on terror.
And they didn't have the they didn't have the time to figure out do we stand up here and oh no, surveillance can't stand up for that.
No, no, no, it's domestic spying.
That'll destroy an issue.
Uh so it's we got more examples of this too.
We've got a few more before we uh finish up with this uh special treatment.
We'll do that.
Continue right after this.
Stay with us.
She says that John Roberts going from CBS to CNN is like getting off the Titanic and hopping on the Andrea Doria.
That's a pretty pretty good description.
All right, we we are back.
Here's a telephone number 800 282-2882, Rushlin ball America's anchor man, firmly ensconced behind that, the golden EIB microphone.
America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down.
Issue number five, tax cuts.
Cash relief is set to expire in the next few years.
If we do nothing, American families will face a massive tax increase.
They do not expect and will not welcome.
Because America needs more than a temporary expansion.
We need more than temporary tax relief.
I urge the Congress to act responsibly and make the tax cuts permanent.
Thank you.
Permit me a brief aside here.
I I know a lot of you people watching the program or watching the listening the program saw this State of the Union address last night, so you you've seen the Democrats sit down.
You must understand that this is a uh purposeful thing.
They want to be seen showing this kind of opposition, disrespect, uh, or what have you during, you know, what is largely well, I think what they're missing, this is largely an American ceremonial event.
The State of the Union is a ceremonial event.
And it is the height of hypocrisy that the casual observer even can notice.
The president comes in, the whole chamber goes nuts.
Yeah, they start cheering.
I've always thought that's phony too, because you know, I was I was uh sending some uh instant messages with people uh watching the speech last night.
And at first, every time I see this, the president walks in, and the Democrats in this case stood up and cheered, and here's Pelosi stalking the president, all these Democrats trying to get close to him and say so it'll be in the in the light that he gives off and in the camera shot where he is.
Phony baloney, plastic, but had a good time rock and rollers.
They hate his guts.
They have been trying to destroy him for five years.
Now they want to cozy up to him.
And he is as gracious.
He puts it all aside.
He is as gracious to them as he is to his friends, maybe even more so at times.
The first half of this speech I thought was the best.
I frankly, another thing I could I could do away with his laundry list of stuff that nobody's gonna remember that nobody remembers it today.
Much less two or three days from now.
I don't know where this all got started, but this idea that President stands up there and I think we need to do this.
We need we need, we need what did he say?
Cars that run on gas or are gas uh cars that run on grass?
Grass something and grass wood chips and so forth.
Uh I don't know what he's trying to rope Al Gore in uh with his speech or or Laurie David.
Uh Hollywood left.
Uh but I could do without that because if he if if he would have stopped after the the basic, you know, the the the let me put it this way.
established, I thought, one of the greatest statements of what this country is, who we are, what we stand for, and where we are going.
You don't have to get specific with his laundry list of stuff.
Start throwing all that gobbledygook out that nobody's going to remember.
But I mean, that's just a that's you got it's it's like 24 has put love scenes in a in a show about terrorism.
The president has to put in stuff About giving away things because there is an entitlement mentality in this country.
So he's got to put it in there.
The writer said, now we gotta put it in.
Nobody will remember it, but the fact that you said it will get credit with the people you switchgrass.
That's the switchgrass to power automobile.
I can't wait for that.
Hell if I know, never heard of switchgrass before, we'll never hear of it again.
That's so so that's my point.
But it was a great, great speech in the media now there to replace some republicans, there was just uh boring.
And I'll tell you why I thought it was a great speech in addition to all the other things I've said.
Remember, I told you I was I was uh at at a reception with President Bush out of three weeks ago now.
And this has happened to me seven or eight times.
He's a totally different guy than when you see him at a press conference or whatever.
Although last press conference out was Buffalo, last night was Buffalo, last night was as close to the way I know the guy.
When he's speaking to friends and so forth, he was relaxed, he was comfortable, he was confident.
It was superb.
And so you get the media are these speeches even really necessary anymore.
They're so predictable.
Everybody knows what's going to happen.
The tricks, the blah, but you know it was a home run.
And if he if that speech were just 30 minutes shorter, 20 minutes shorter, bam.
It would have just been dynamite.
All right, now back to the sound bites.
America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down, the issue, Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court now has two superb new members on his bench, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito.
Now I don't expect the Democrats to stand up on that one.
I just expect them to eat the excrement sandwich the president threw at them.
That's what they did.
So that was one time I enjoyed sitting them sit down, uh seeing them sit down because the president said, here, eat this.
We've got Roberts and Alito on the court, and you couldn't stop me.
I mean, he threw down a gauntlet to these people last night.
Two of the two of the justices.
Well, yeah.
Well, not when you applaud the court.
They will applaud themselves.
They're judges could applaud themselves.
They just can't applaud anybody else or uh or any issues.
But yeah, I can applaud the you know the two new judges coming on board, sure, absolutely.
Uh let's see.
Moving on, America stands and cheers.
Democrats sent sit down.
This is another this just nailed them, folks.
Democrats can't bring themselves to applaud the fact that there are even fewer abortions taking place, and that teen pregnancy is down.
I mean, if if if there was if there was an objective media anywhere.
Even a media concerned about the plight of the Democrats rather than focused on what they hope to convince people is wrong with Bush.
When the President United State, because even even the you know, certain members of the pro-abortion crowd love to say, well, we're not really pro-abortion.
We're we're we're we're just for freedom, civil liberties, the rights of the mother, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And they go out of the way.
Even Hillary said abortion, we don't want it to happen with it, but we can't stand in the way.
So here's a chance.
Okay, abortions are going down in America.
That's something to cheer.
No, not to the Democrats.
America has become a more hopeful nation.
Violent crime rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1970s.
Welfare cases have dropped by more than half over the past decade.
Drug use among youth is down 19% since 2001.
There are fewer abortions in America than at any point in the last three decades.
And the number of children born to teenage mothers has been falling for a dozen years in a row.
The Democrats sat on their rear ends.
They didn't I mean, folks, I mean, occasionally one Ben Nelson would stand up now and then from Nebraska.
There'd be a couple of them like a jack in the box that real quick and then sit right back down.
But they couldn't even because abortion is the sacrament to the religion of feminism.
And the feminists aren't not gonna put up with the Democrats standing up and cheering that number.
Bush nailed them.
You people, he made he made them look like exactly who they are last night.
That's why this thing was uh such a big home run.
Now there was there was a time of the Democrats, there was an instance when they they stood up, they just cheered uh as loud As they did all night.
Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security.
Yay!
He stood up and cheered.
And then Bush had a couple lines after that that just nailed him.
We haven't done anything to fix this that's coming down the pike.
This big problem coming down the pike.
He went on too soon.
Here they are standing up applauding the lack of progress.
So that's that's uh that's how I saw it.
That's that I wanted to put it together this way because that's what I saw last night, in addition to what I heard.
Quick phone call or two here, Cliff in uh in Portland, Oregon.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Mega out of control dittoes from Portland, Oregon, where literally three quarters of the of the city citizens still have Carrie Edwards bumper stickers on their cars.
It's amazing.
Well, you gotta feel sorry for them.
I do.
It's just so funny.
But the reason I called is um regarding I think you called it issue number four.
That was the that was the surveillance wiretapping part.
Uh I was watching the whole thing on Fox, and right as I'm pretty sure it was on that one, they showed the gum chewer, and she was rolling her eyes and had a mocking laughter smile on her face when he was saying all this.
It was amazing.
Yeah, well, let me explain what Hillary was reacting to there, because the the little known fact is that Bush made reference to previous presidents having done exactly what he's done, and Mrs. Clinton heard without his name being mentioned his name.
And the Democrats are trying to set Bush up as a criminal, that he has broken the law, and so by invoking all these past presidents, not by name, but saying, hey, we've all done it before.
He is he brought Bill Clinton into it, and Hillary doesn't like it when her husband's name gets made.
There was another instance.
Bush told a joke about what was the line.
He had a joke about Clinton being his Yeah.
My my brother and I both turned 60 this year, Bill Clinton, and they cut to Hillary, and she was not laughing.
She was glaring because I'm telling you folks, she is sick and tired of her husband become being the butt of all these jokes.
Not sick and tech because it's unfair because sick and tech because it's warranted.
And it's just embarrassing to her.
So Bush got her twice last night, too.
Now, this was I mean, here's you want Hillary looking that way, Cliff.
That's the way she really is, chewing gum during the State of the Union address and glaring at the president of the United States.
It was uh It was a home run.
I gotta run.
Quick time out.
Don't go away.
All right, I gotta make a correction here, getting all kinds of grief in the email when I said that the German shepherd up there in the uh gallery near Mrs. Bush last night was seeing I dog.
It wasn't a seeing eye dog, it's a bomb-sniffing dog that was injured in Afghanistan.
The dog was given a discharge to be with its handler, who uh was also injured in the same incident.
So I apologize.
I didn't mean to insult the dog for calling it a seeing eye dog.
It's uh it was a soldier dog, a combat dog.
I don't care.
It still showed that the president more respect than any of the Democrats did.
The um the commentary from the media prior to the speech last did you hear how Stephanopoulos opened uh World News tonight?
The country is just in a sour mood.
That's how they open world news tonight.
I was feeling pretty good until I saw Stephanopoulos say the country's in a sour mood.
Now I'm sour.
Now I'm bored, now they're thinking everything else because Stephanopoulos led that way.
And there was some jerk on CNN, and I don't know who it was.
In the in the remaining seconds before the president was introduced, said it was impossible for the president to do a positive speech because we live in times of such pessimism, gloom, and despair.
Not possible to do a positive speech.
And then, of course, we get we get Bob Schiefer and Terry Murray here.
Let's play nine and ten again.
This is hilarious.
This is Bob Schiefer announcing the results of a flash poll that CBS did during this time of gloom, doom, and pessimism.
CBS do a flash poll, and he almost chokes here reporting this.
Now remember, this is not necessarily Reflect the feelings of the country because traditionally we found out in recent years, more Republicans watch when a Republican makes the speech.
More Democrats watch when a Democrat makes the speech.
But did our viewers tonight approve of President Bush's proposals?
Seventy-seven percent approved.
23% did not.
Bob, let me give you a clue.
I don't know any Republicans that watch CBS anymore.
I'll bet there aren't a whole lot of Republicans that waste their time watching CBS anymore.
And the only time they would watch is if I was on it.
And since that's not going to happen, CBS has no hope with Republicans.
So why report it, Bob?
If you're gonna go on and discredit your own poll and say it's not even worth it, it can't count on it, then why even do it if you know full well that your sample is so stacked?
This is clearly not what they expected to get.
And here's our montage of Terry Moran of ABC.
And of course, I say when they say this, you know the speech was a home run.
A lot of tonight's words and deeds here in Washington were pretty predictable.
People are beginning to ask a question about these speeches.
What's the point?
Is it really necessary?
In the end, how you view these speeches may depend on how you feel about the president giving them.
With all the tricks, symbolism, and substance.
Yeah, like Cindy Sheehan trying to cause a protest up in the gallery.
So are these and who?
Who people?
Who people, Mr. Moran?
What who who's who's beginning to ask questions about these speeches?
What's the point?
Is it really necessary?
Tell us who.
This is anecdotal uh storytelling rather than reporting the news.
And then and then Ashley Wilkes, uh the esteemed General Wesley Clark on Hannity and Combs last night after the State of the Union speech.
Combs said to him, Bush said that we're on the offensive in Iraq with a clear plan for victory.
But again, I didn't hear what the plan was.
Alan.
Alan, we love you here, but if you if you how can of all the things, how do you not know what the plan is?
You're Alan, the line is you disagree with the plan.
It's not that there isn't one.
You guys are the ones that have a plan about anything.
Anyway, here's what Ashley Wilkes said.
When you use phrases like offensive, well, you know, we're not going to go down.
I hope we've gotten over this sort of kicking in the doors and roughing up the women that some people said that that we did some up.
Some people?
Some I I I remember who said it.
There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, uh uh uh you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the uh historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not, Iraqis should be doing that.
Yes, Iraqis ought to be doing the terrorism, not U.S. So here's here's Ashley Wilkes last night.
Well, you'll use the phrase like offensive.
Offensive.
Well, you know, we're we're not gonna go down.
I hope that we've gotten over this kicking down the doors and roughing up the women.
Oh.
And then, as you know, my friends, I have a spy who is on the moveon.org mailing list.
And uh listen to this.
Dear Pete.
This is a moveon.org mass mailing that went out.
Uh with with President Bush's State of the Union address last night and the confirmation of Sam Alito, it can feel like a dark moment.
But here's the important thing to remember, Pete.
The 2006 elections are only a few months away, and if we keep our eyes on that goal, we're in a position to win big.
So instead of griping about the lies and inaccuracies of the president's speech last night, admitting there weren't any, uh, we're gonna go on offense big time.
We're gonna start kicking on the doors and beating up the women.
No, he didn't say that, but I took if Wesley Clark hurt read this, if I'm sure Wesley Clark's on the mailing list, he probably had that thought cross his mind.
We're gonna go on offense big time.
We have a new plan.
We have a new plan to change control of Congress in 2006, a three million of us on his email list.
If we all commit ourselves to making this happen, Pete, it'll happen.
But we need to start now.
Victory this fall won't be easy.
It'll require people on the ground, ads in the air, and of course, money to pay organizers.
So this week, we're aiming to take the fight to the Republicans by raising the first 250 grand for our plan.
It's just 2500 of us contribute a hundred bucks we can do it.
Will you join us, Pete?
Our goal is to raise two hundred and fifty grand before tomorrow night.
Uh I didn't read the whole letter.
I don't know what the plan is.
I don't know if they actually get to the plan, but anyway, the the the State of the Union, another evidence, a bit of evidence.
It was just a grand slam home run last night.
Quick timeout.
Stay with us, my friends.
I'm gonna apologize here in advance, folks.
As you know, I'm bored silly with the Democrats, and I got a couple of John Kerry.
Says it only two that we have.
Yeah, thank goodness.
Only two of them.
You have to hear them, I'm sorry, but uh they're coming up.
And I just wanted to give you ample warning.
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