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Feb. 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So let me ask you a question, folks.
What would you rather do?
Would you rather go hunting with Dick Cheney or riding in a car over a bridge with Ted Kennedy?
If you go riding in a car over a bridge with Ted Kennedy, he's gonna run off if an accident happens, and you won't see him again, and it's too late.
You go hunting with Dick Cheney, and an accident happens, and he'll take you to the hospital.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to be back here in the saddle again at the uh at the glorious and the one and only Excellence and Broadcasting Network in the friendly confines here of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number if you'd like to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
I see the Saddam trial has resumed.
It looks like Saddam is actually making a pitch to be the keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention in uh in 2008.
He keeps on using Democrat talking points just exactly, my friends.
By the way, welcome to those of you on the Ditto Camera watching at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We've got it up and running.
It will be for the whole three hours.
Hey, just I told you that Saddam would be mirroring and echoing Democrat talking points during this trial, and lo and behold, he walks into court today and says, Down with Bush, down with Bush.
And then he said, I I would like to say, yes, we were beaten by the Americans, and yes, we were tortured, every one of us, meaning him and his uh his defendant.
So he's behaving exactly as predicted here, saying what other good Democrats are saying.
The Democrats have aligned themselves with the Butcher of Baghdad and now with what is what is what has happened to Al Gore?
Al Gore now aligning himself with the Saudis uh and and going to Jeddah.
We don't know how much, if anything he was paid for what?
What do you what is well there might be uh something to that?
Mr. Sturgley, the official program observer, has just observed uh that uh he believes that there might be some genuine mental instability uh in uh in Al Gork is this uh now I know he's he's he's he's got the audience in Cooksville as his target.
He's going for the Democrat base with this comment, but I'm telling you, you know, all this talk about politics used to stop at the water's edge.
This is just uh just just embarrassing.
So you've got you've got Al Gore sidling up to the Saudis uh and and bashing his own country in the process.
You've got Saddam echoing Democrat Party talking points.
Uh and and of course, if you think this is an exaggeration, don't forget good old John Kerry was out there saying to Bob Schiefer on Face of Nation, there's no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women breaking sort of the customs of the historical customs, religious customs of the country and so forth.
So it's it's an amazing thing.
While I was gone, I did a lot of work every night when I was out in California at Pebble Beach, ATT Pro-M and the New York Times was running stories about Democrats can't capitalize.
The media focus remains, what do the Democrats have to do to win?
What can they do to win?
What must they do to win?
And uh uh it it's that they they thought this is gonna be their year, and now all these stories about how 06 uh they've got they've got plenty of uh opportunities out there, they just can't take advantage of them.
And everybody's worried and wondering what to do.
More polling data.
We'll get into all this in detail as the program unfolds today, but more polling data that makes it look really, really bad for Hillary Clinton.
How about this idiotic comment of hers that how hard can it be to find the tallest man in Afghanistan?
Hey, how hard can it be to find the Rose Law Firm billing records?
Didn't find the Rose Law Firm billing records for two years until they miraculously popped up in something called the map room at the White House.
Anyway, her polling numbers and and not just uh one poll.
Uh her polling numbers continue to uh to look bad.
Also falling apart on the Democrats is this hoped for domestic spying scandal.
They uh they they gave it their best shot, folks.
You have to you have to admire them.
They gave it their best shot, but it's backfired exactly as I warned you people that it would.
It is backfired.
Uh well, they've killed the effectiveness of the program, but that would that their objective was to kill Bush politically.
That's that that's what they're That's what their objective was.
They've they've uh stuck no question they've harmed the program, and in the process, who have they harmed?
Us and themselves.
Uh but now you've got Jane Harmon when we got we got video of this, well, audio of this coming up.
She was on Meet the Press yesterday, and she she I mean broke right away from the Democratic Party.
And this is a liberal Congresswoman from California, folks.
I make no mistake about it.
And and she she uh she's the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and she said on Meet the Press yesterday that the New York Times ought to be prosecuted too.
She said the New York Times ought to be prosecuted for damaging national security by revealing the NSA's top secret terrorist surveillance program authorized by President Bush.
She said if the press was part of the process of delivering classified information, there have to be some limits on press immunity.
And a russet picking up the template of the press.
Whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute what if it's a whistleblower?
Should the New York Times reporter be prosecuting what's a whistleblower?
And she said, Well, you got to prove that first.
It's not it's not clear that uh there was a whistleblower.
So if it's protected by the whistleblower statute, then it's uh then it's protected.
But uh she said she deplored the leak.
Whistleblowers are not allowed to divulge secrets.
Whistleblowers are now not allowed to divulge classified information.
This idea to make this person out.
This is uh there's there are two things that work here.
A, you've got the press bias against Bush, but you've also got uh something that's drilled into every journalist from the first moment they face or encounter a journalism instructor, and that is your objective is to destroy powerful people.
And no matter how you do it, it is okay.
You are to be the watchdog on the all-powerful, an untrustworthy government, particularly when Republicans are in charge of it.
And in that case, you go for the throat and you destroy anybody in pen.
That's so that's where this whistleblower business comes from, is that built-in template.
There's so much of journalism today doesn't even involve thinking.
It uh it just it just revolves around instincts that uh uh these young little journo students are taught when they're young skulls full of mush.
Most people go to college as young skulls full of mush and come out with some semblance of an education.
Journalism students go in as young skulls full of mush and come out as uh as skulls full of mush.
We have some audio from Good Morning America today on the Cheney uh situation, media coverage of this predictable, trying to make it out to be a scandal.
Uh this is a montage of Charlie Gibson at ABC, along with their White House correspondent Jessica Yellen.
This bizarre story of Vice President Cheney shooting a hunting buddy.
It happened on Saturday afternoon, and this morning there are a lot of questions like why the administration didn't reveal this incident for nearly 24 hours.
And we're gonna go next to the growing political fallout from all this.
Why didn't the White House tell everyone when this accident happened?
Why did they wait so long?
And uh, did that make a bad situation even worse?
It took the Vice President's office nearly 24 hours to go public with news of this shooting.
That delay has prompted some speculation online and on talk radio that perhaps Mr. Cheney was hoping to cover up the incident.
Now they quote talk real.
Who on talk radio saying that?
Who said that the White House wanted to cover this up?
It's not hard to find out what happened.
If you call the White House and ask what happened, here's what you'll be told.
You'll be told that the Armstrong family, and this is a this is a uh family with with a deep tradition of Republican roots and supports, uh support Catherine uh uh what is her first name?
Forget.
I think it's yeah, Catherine Armstrong.
Uh uh made the phone call to the Corpus Christi newspaper.
Uh they wanted the uh the victim here of this accidental shooting to be taken care of first, the guests taken care of and so forth.
Uh she says there was no coordination between uh the Armstrong family and the White House.
Uh, but it was Catherine Armstrong that called the uh what is it, Corpus Corpus Christi, whatever newspaper here uh.
Here's what's funny about that.
Let's move on to soundbite number seven, because and this also from uh Good Morning America Today.
They think they've got the Zupruder film here.
They think they've got the equivalent of the Zuppruder film with this with this uh uh crack reporter who so-called broke the story.
Charlie Gibson interviewed her, Catherine Garcia, and Gibson says, We're gonna turn next to the journalist who broke this story, Catherine Garcia, reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller Times.
She first uh spoke to Catherine Armstrong about the shooting.
She then sat down and wrote the article that alerted the world of what had happened.
Now, here's we we have to we have to redefine breaking a story now, because you know how this happened.
Catherine Armstrong called the newspaper and ended up with this info, babe.
The info babe didn't break anything.
The info babe was doing what all journalists do, sit at the desk, wait for a fax to come in or a phone call to come in reporting some news, and bamboo, you've got your scoop.
So uh here's here's a little sound bite of uh of Catherine Garcia.
And nothing against her.
Don't don't misunderstand here.
But but but casting this and characterizing this as a as a as a as a uh breaking story, broke the story is laughable.
Yeah, actually, that's kind of how it worked.
I was incredibly surprised.
I got a phone call from Catherine Armstrong.
I um decided to start transcribing her story.
She was the tape.
Amazing for a reporter to do that.
Gets a call from somebody reporting an accident.
He answers, whoa, wow, I got to get a pencil.
Maybe I gotta get to my my computer keyboard.
I'm gonna transcribe this.
Wow, that what great work by a reporter.
That is fast thinking.
Happened, giving me the details.
And she kept saying the vice president did this, the vice president did that, that we were all on a hunting.
And at the end, I mean it's a Sunday morning.
It's supposed to be incredibly slow at the Corpus Christi Collar Times.
And what ended up happening afterwards, I said, are we talking about Vice President Cheney?
And she laughed a little bit and said, Yes, absolutely.
And I thought, oh my God, you're gonna have to repeat that story one more time.
She did the vice president, the vice president.
Are you are you talking about vice president Cheney?
And then I guess you're gonna have to tell me this one more time because pencil lead broke or what whatever happened.
And then uh then she describes how she she got through to the White House press office on the telephone.
I think so.
I apparently got a switchboard with the White House.
I said, you know, I'm gonna need to talk to some sort of you know public relations office.
I need your press office.
You know, of course, I've never actually contacted the White House myself.
This was a first for me.
Um and and when she did, uh she said, No, unfortunately, it it's gonna be open on Monday morning.
And I said, No, that's that's not gonna work.
And I tried to be as absolutely dramatic as possible to get the most attention.
And I said, Vice President Cheney has apparently shot someone accidentally, and I need to speak with someone and I need a statement.
Um she got somebody straight away for me.
It was very interesting.
I was gonna say, at that point, they got you got right through.
And we uh must get right through an EIB Profit Center timeout.
We'll do that.
And yeah, like like wow, this is such so cool.
This way journalism happens.
Wow, I've very slow day at my newspaper.
Sunday mornings are very slow, and man, this story just comes across my desk, and I get to break it.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, folks.
Nice to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mr. Snerdley thinks that Catherine Garcia of the Corpus Christi Caller Times just what CBS News needs.
Young demographic, hot reporter, able to get these hard-to-find scoops, blah blah blah.
The only problem she's got is that her story was basically true.
Uh and that that might be a little bit of a damper uh at CBS.
We'll just uh CBS News.
Uh we'll we'll just have to, you know, wait and see.
But that's at least a it's a great find out there if they want to um look into it.
When I was out last week at uh Pebble Beach uh for the ATT National Program, uh Neil Cavuto was also out there.
He had his Fox show, Your World with Neil Cavuto, or My World with Neil Covid, Neil's world, whatever.
And he had he was he was set up um, I think uh off the 18th green uh at Spy Glass, and he asked me to come by for a little five to seven minute interview that went two segments.
And he asked me about a lot of things, and in the middle of the uh actually very near the beginning of the interview, he asked me what I thought of funeral uh for Coretta Scott King.
And I said, Well, you've you've seen the movie The Wedding Crashers.
You get two guys who crash weddings looking for dates, looking for chicks.
The Democrats are the funeral crashers.
They crash funerals looking for votes.
Well, we decided, uh, ladies and gentlemen, because that generated uh the the the not the funeral crashers bit itself, but just the criticism of this as well stone memorial like uh caused there to be a serious amount of analysis on the uh on the cable networks about why the Republicans are white limb going so crazy about this.
So we uh we've put together uh you know our little a little bit here on the wedding crashers take off the funeral crashers, starring Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The funeral crashers, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Reverend Lowry.
And an all-star cast, too numerous to mention individually.
All right, so Sunday, yesterday on CNN's reliable sources, the host Howard Kurtz had this exchange with his guest Eugene Robinson, who is a columnist for the Washington Post.
We went through a little bit of this after the uh funeral for the late Senator Paul Wallstone, that people like uh Rush Limbaugh are whipping this up into a controversy after the fact, or is it a legitimate public debate about whether this uh was consistent with what you should do at a funeral?
I think the um I think there's a lot of whipping.
I think the egg whites are stiff now.
You know, it's it's um uh I it's uh that's just my view, but I do think it's been whipped up into something larger than it was.
Who is this guy, Eugene Robbins?
I never heard of him.
Uh I haven't read the Washington Post in a long time, so but I think there's a lot of uh whipping.
I think egg whites uh stiff now.
It's uh uh it's just my view, but I do think it'd be whipped.
Is this how funerals used to happen?
Did this stuff happen at Reagan's funeral?
Did I d this the idea that this is common and ordinary and everyday behavior at a funeral?
They don't find anything odd about this.
Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace interviewed Reverend Lowry.
He said, Reverend, here the president came to the funeral to pay tribute to Mrs. King.
Was that the right time to criticize his policies?
I'm certain that President Bush is wise enough to know that when he comes to the funeral of a civil rights icon like Mrs. King, that he's going to hear about the issues around which she uh gave her life, and she was an advocate for peace.
She was a strong proponent of racial justice and elimination of poverty, and how do you celebrate her life without mentioning those issues which relate to public policy?
What did she have to do with weapons of mass destruction?
What did she have to do with the war on terror?
What did she have to do with any of that, Reverend Lowry?
On to CNN last Wednesday morning.
Miles O'Brien talking to Jeff Greenfield.
O'Brien says, What are uh what are your thoughts on this as you watch this unfold?
It surprised you first of all.
What struck me also was how quickly this this became uh an item within the other side, within the political right.
Rush Limbaugh on his website went off on Joseph Lowry, whose P PC and called it, and this was really the key, a wellstone moment.
When you talk about a well stone moment, timing's an awful lot in politics.
Timing uh different here.
Absolutely.
That memorial service happened literally three or four days before the election, and there was a backlash to it that may have helped the Republicans take that sentence seat.
We're now in early February.
The idea that this is gonna have some political implication, you have to really be um overcommitted to endless analysis, which some of us on cable news are to think that.
I do, however, think that in a more subtle way, this actually rebounds to the credit of President Bush.
I mean, he came to the funeral, changed his plans, made a gracious speech.
That's all I said.
It took four segments of these guys to end up agreeing with me after first disagreeing with me.
The bottom line here, Jeff, if I if I may be so bold, it's not that this is going to be remembered specifically by the time the elections come around, but this added to the body of work produced by the Democrat Party the last five years, the last six months, three months, and it's going to continue, will continue to shape public opinion about who these people are.
And the fact that none of you get it is a godsend.
Well, Scott McClellan is engaged in the Daily White House press briefing, and the White House press corps is just over the top.
They are just in a twit.
They don't understand why they didn't get the story first.
Why didn't the White House tell them first?
Why didn't they have the story to break?
Why did somebody Corpus Christie Caller Times get the story?
You know, McClellan McClellan should have walked out there with a scot, a shotgun.
He just should have walked out there with a shotgun.
So let me tell you what this is.
Uh let's, hey, can can we let me just tell you something about the Democrats are going to have a lot of fun with this in the media, but go back.
We need to find audio soundbite five.
Grab me audio soundbite five.
It's not that long ago, folks.
This is October of 2004.
And a certain presidential candidate wandered into a sporting goods store.
I think it was in Iowa or somewhere.
I forget what state it was, and said this.
Can I get me a hunting license here?
That was John Carey, who uh served in Vietnam and who once ran for president.
In fact, that's what he was doing.
Can I get me a hunting license here?
You wouldn't hear him speaking that way, ladies and gentlemen, to his Brahmin buds in Boston.
Can I get me a hunting?
Remember, Al Gore in the debates in the 2000 campaign had to go out of his way to talk about how he loves hunting and they're all for hunting.
And the uh the the left is gonna say this this is proof that the second amendment needs to be repealed, taken out of the Constitution.
Uh why couldn't the other guy have shot Cheney?
Why did it have to be Cheney that shot this guy?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But I mean, McClellan's just really, really taking a beating here over the fact that they didn't give the press in Washington the story first to the phones uh to Okamus, Michigan.
Paul, welcome, sir.
You're up first today, and it's great to have you with us.
Yes, um, good afternoon, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Um, I must say how just exasperated and disgusted I was with you when I turned on the news, and right after the news you come on, and right away you're like going after Ted Kennedy for something thirty-five years ago.
Mm-hmm.
You know, what does that have to do with the hunting accident in Texas in 2006?
I I I don't I I fail to see any connection.
I also think it's terrible.
Do you consider yourself a Christian?
Uh don't most conservatives go around saying how they're defending Christian values and isn't a Christian value to be kind to people and not to judge and not to bring up people's faults from thirty.
You tell me.
Are you are you are you a Christian?
You sound like you're an expert in it.
Are you a Christian?
Well, I w I was brought up Catholic and and I try to follow the teachings of Jesus.
I don't go along with everything.
That's good.
That's good.
We all try to follow the teachings of Jesus or Allah or the Prophet or somebody.
Uh so why are you why are you slandering Ted Kennedy?
I'm not slandering.
I'm not slandering Ted Kennedy at all.
I simply reported it truth.
I am you are missing the point here, uh, Paul.
Let me tell you, the point is not to compare specifically these two things, is to compare the reaction.
There is outrage.
There is a demand.
Howard Dean's out there saying Cheney ought to resign.
And Cheney is horrible.
Cheney's this.
Cheney leaked.
There is there is an all-out planned assault on this administration, and there has been from the get-go, and this story is the latest vehicle for this irrational pursuit of a good man to continue.
By contrast, Ted Kennedy has been lionized and heralded and treated as one of the greatest American liberals in history.
The feminist movement finds absolutely nothing wrong with Senator Kennedy and what he has done.
He is a serial womanizer.
He was the author with Chris Dodd of the waitress.
Oh, sorry, my Christianity ought not allow me to mention the truth, I guess, of the past.
We're talking here about the lack of consistency in coverage.
And I'm sorry that you you didn't pick up on uh one of the most clever ways of of uh making that comparison uh that probably has been uttered by anyone in the mainstream media.
Ted Kennedy was hunting that night, too.
In fact, I mean, there if you want the commonality, Cheney's out there hunting, he was hunting uh quail.
Somebody sent me a note today.
Gee, is Dan O'Kay.
This idea, somebody sent me that in his Dan O'Kay.
Cheney's out hunting quail with some very, very good friends.
Ted Kennedy's out hunting.
He's hunting babes.
He found one, loaded her into his old mobile and failed to make the turn onto the bridge at Chappaquitic, fine and dandy, and bam, we know what happened.
That's the you th you you gotta redefine your definition of what's despicable.
Here I did all I did was utter some words and you find it despicable.
Senator Kennedy and his past actions you apparently have no comment on.
Here's Don in La Ronka uh oh Lake Ron Lake Ronconqu.
I thought I said law and I never heard of it.
Lake Ron Cocoma, New York.
This is Don.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey Rush, great to talk to you.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Listen, maybe uh maybe it took twenty-four hours to break the uh story from the the White House because the vice president was at the hospital with Mr. Whittington and his wife.
You know, he could have easily uh left the field and uh told Harry, you know, that looks pretty bad.
You ought to put some ice on it.
Better be careful.
You're gonna upset Paul in uh where was he calling from, Michigan?
Yeah, okay, Mission, there's another that's another very unchristian thing you just said there, Don.
Oh, talking about because we all know what that means.
That's what Ron Juanita Broderick said, Bill Clinton said to her after she said he raped her.
That's right.
Uh better put some ice on it.
Cheney could have said, Yeah, better put some ice on that, Bub, and kept on pulling the trigger looking at the quail.
But he did Cheney also had his own medical staff with him, as the vice president's uh traveling entourage consists of that, and they were helping the guy too.
Um the the story the White House is is is putting out is that they wanted to leave this uh up to the Armstrong family to break the news.
And I look at does anybody have any first you you go make sure that the victims okay and you get the victim stabilized and the hospital and all that.
I mean, what's Cheney supposed to do?
Walk down to the local sheriff and surrender, or better yet, walk to the media and surrender.
Hi, I'm Vice President Cheney and I'm guilty.
What's he sp is that is that what they expect him to do?
And then, of course, these people are all Republicans.
They know what's gonna happen the minute this hits.
And so they were I'm d the idea they're planning a cover-up is uh is you know absurd.
Uh but they no doubt were trying, no pun intended, trying to get their ducks in a row here for the uh media onslaught, which uh which was to come.
Here's uh John in Kansas City.
Hello, sir, you're up next in the EIB number.
Oh, good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I uh caught your interview with uh Cavuno.
Yes.
And I enjoyed what you had to say until he brought up your wealth.
And you looked like you were just kind of embarrassed about it.
You really would rather not talk about it.
Uh what you're worth is your own business, which I agree with.
You made it, you enjoy it.
And I thought that was a very classy way to handle it.
Well, thank you.
He uh uh you're very kind.
He I he th that did sort of come as a as a I thought it c looked like you'd been blindsided by it.
Well, yeah, I mean uh I well what the what caught me is a blind when he said uh we don't understand that your net worth is hundreds of millions.
I'm I got a lump in my throat.
Well, surely nobody's business.
Uh well, yeah, but there's even more than that.
But nevertheless, um and then he asked me how I had on my investments, and and uh nobody has ever asked me that before.
I've j I've been asked every question there is except except that one.
And then really it wasn't a very Christian question.
Christians don't ask people about their private financial affairs.
Um but anyway, uh uh I I told him that uh from the moment I started earning enough money to sock away, that I also knew that the that that m uh I was not gonna rely on my portfolio uh to provide my lifestyle, that it was there and it wasn't gonna be touched for years because I'm gonna keep working.
And so I was patient.
Uh and I d I didn't I I'm in nothing that's terribly risky because I'm content for the market averages over the long haul to take care of things.
And I'm I'm uh in invested in a lot of municipal bonds, tax-free.
I love tax-free anything, uh tax-free municipal bonds and and uh in the stock market as well, and some real estate, uh, which I was which I was happy to tell him, but he was did you see how surprised he was, John, when he found out uh uh the extent to which I've invested in Munis.
Oh, yeah, very much.
He thought you were gonna be out there doing being a day trader or whatever, and uh he just couldn't understand why you wanted to do long-term investment instead of short term.
Well, I long term's the way to go, I mean.
Well, depend of my circumstance it is, uh, you know, if if if I wanted to try to make the nest egg grow as fast as possible, then yeah, I'd take some Risk and and uh and so forth, or more so than I'm taking now, but that that was never my preservation of principle uh was my guiding philosophy back when I started making enough money to invest, uh, and then keep you know, adding to it little by little over the years.
Preservation of principle was the key for me, uh, and knowing full well that I'm gonna be working until every American agrees with me that time frame is is going to allow plenty of growth uh if if I just remain patient.
I appreciate the call, John.
Thanks very much.
A quick timeout, folks.
Back in just a moment with much more.
Here's the broadcast engineer trying to sneak one past me, but you can't do it.
This is an appropriate bumper.
It's Junior Walker and the All-Stars and shotgun.
Media at the White House press briefing, they're acting like a bullet.
That's why it was used.
He ought to walk out there with a shot because this is a shotgun, this is shotgun shell, and this is buckshot, and then this is birdshot.
And the accident happened with birdshot.
If if the vice president were using buckshot, we would have a deceased victim here.
And he had been using a bullet, he would have been a stupid hunter.
And now the press is asking, well, is it appropriate now for the vice president to resign?
They're just beside themselves that uh a private citizen ended up reporting this rather than the uh the White House press office or the vice president's uh press office.
Here is Paul in Culpepper, Virginia.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, Megadethos from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, Rush, in respect to finding Osama bin Laden, how long did it take to find Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber?
I mean, he was just hiding in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Yeah, and North Carolina.
Yeah, but you see, he's much shorter than uh than uh Osama bin Laden.
It's like Hillary Clinton.
I mean, that this is to run out there and say uh how long can it take to find the tallest man in Afghanistan?
Like I say, how long can it take to find the Rose Law Firm billing records in the White House?
Answer after the statute of limitations on the crime runs out.
Speaking of Mrs. Clinton, I've got a couple of pages and stories here relating to her.
First, there was a New York Post editorial on February the 10th.
And just the headline.
The headline is just is is a scary picture.
I I don't forget the editorial.
Senator Clinton's tough straddle.
I don't even want to.
I I I just I don't even I then have you have you heard that uh the TV show designed to set America up for the first female president and Hillary Clinton, commander-in-chief, has again been pulled off the air before it was put back on the air.
New episodes of this new drama starring Gina Davis as the first female president were supposed to air through February, then take a six-week hiatus in March, but late on Friday.
ABC said the show will come off the air this week and return mid-April.
So uh bad news out there.
The program's ratings were plummeting.
They were they were just heading downhill fast, and they don't even want to put it back on the air because uh until April, and we'll we'll have to wait and see if they put it back on the air then.
Uh but it was supposed to be back on for the February sweeps.
No chance, no prayer.
Then there was this from um Newsmax on Saturday.
Media liberals are starting to jump ship on Hillary Clinton, one CNN veteran calling her a certain loser, and Jonathan Alder at Newsweek warning that she'll take Democrats on a kamikaze mission in 2008.
Ken Bodie is the former CNNer.
He says if the Democrats nominate her, she's a certain loser.
You hear this even from those who like Hillary or want to like Hillary, he insists.
Writing in the Indianapolis Star on Friday, Bodie argues that in 2008 the Midwest and not the South will be the critical battleground.
In 2004, four Midwest states went for Bush, four for Carey.
Five were squeakers with margins of one to three percent.
This is where the two thousand eight race is going to be decided.
There's no reason to believe it.
Go look at every this has been my point all along.
You don't look at every state that uh uh George Bush won.
And tell me which one Hillary Clinton's gonna win in 2008.
Gonna win Florida?
She'd lose Florida bigger than Carrie did.
Ohio?
No.
What what state's she gonna win?
But that no, that Bush won.
Talking Bush didn't win California.
You better be more observant, Mr. Snerv.
you're gonna have input like that.
You're gonna listen to what I'm saying.
Um Bodie also complains that Mrs. Clinton has been so busy grabbing opportunities to establish herself as a centrist that she's losing the support of important voices who might have been expected to argue that she deserves a chance.
If you're tempted to bet that Hillary will be the Democratic nominee, let alone the next president, you should leave your money in your other pants.
And then Saturday, Jonathan Alder of Newsweek added his voice to the rising chorus of liberals who think Hillary has no chance of winning.
He discussed her lackluster speech at Coretta Scott King's funeral.
And I I made the whoever told her it'd be a good idea to go out there and stand up to her president next next to her husband and act like a sock puppet, you know, nodding her head and in like wifely approval and admiration.
That's the exact opposite of what she needs to do.
So Alder goes on to say that uh her campaign will be a kamikaze mission, and he said the Democrats are not likely to relish the prospect of going over the cliff with the former first lady.
Um Maureen Dowd's trashed her too.
It's uh that doesn't think that she can win.
So I I I um it gets even more fundamental than this.
Uh she has to see, I think everybody's talking about Hillary and her anger.
She has to get angry to hold that mob in Cooksville.
That anger is all about trying to relate to those people on the blogosphere on the left.
They don't want anger, they want ideology.
And Hillary is missing the point about it.
So she thinks anger is what they want, so she goes out and sounds shrill.
But when she gives a speech, there's no charisma, there's no persuasiveness, she really doesn't have uh uh and that's why standing next to her husband while he went on and on and then she went last illustrated that uh pretty potently.
Here's a montage of uh of Hillary in Detroit speaking at the U United Auto Workers' Union.
We've lost two elections, and we lost them on the issue of security.
Contrary to Franklin Roosevelt, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
This crowd is all we've got is fear, and we're gonna keep playing the fear card.
They're doing it to us again.
We're gonna win by getting everybody scared again.
I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to fighting terrorism and standing up for national and homeland security.
But even there, we could have done a better job than we have done.
You cannot, you cannot explain to me why we have not captured or killed the tallest man in Afghanistan.
So uh the crowd was you know moderately warm to some of this stuff, but again, no plan.
We can just do it better.
We can just do it smarter.
A quick timeout, gotta run.
Be back with more in just a second.
I still have some information on Hillary's plummeting poll numbers and lots of other stuff.
Been saving lots of stuff as I was uh gone last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
And and didn't Hillary, in that last soundbite, even sound shrill when she was just speaking normally.
Yes.
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