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 going to 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 glorious and the one and only Excellence in 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 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 would like to say, yes, we were beaten by the Americans.
And yes, we were tortured, every one of us, meaning him and his defendants.
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 and going to Jeddah.
We don't know how much, if anything, he was paid for what?
Well, there might be something to that.
Mr. Stergley, the official program observer, has just observed that he believes that there might be some genuine mental instability in Al Gore.
Because this, now I know he's got the audience in Cooksville as his target.
He's going for the Democrat base with his comment, but I'm telling you, you know, all this talk about politics used to stop at the water's edge.
This is just embarrassing.
So you've got Al Gore sidling up to the Saudis and bashing his own country in the process.
You've got Saddam echoing Democrat Party talking points.
And of course, if you think this is an exaggeration, don't forget good old John Kerry was out there saying to Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, 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 an amazing thing.
While I was gone, I did a lot of work every night when I was out in California at Pebble Beach, AT ⁇ T Pro-Am, 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 they thought this was going to be their year.
And now all these stories about how 06, they've got plenty of 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 not just one poll.
Her polling numbers continue to look bad.
Also falling apart on the Democrats is this hoped-for domestic spying scandal.
They gave it their best shot, folks.
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.
Well, they've killed the effectiveness of the program, but their objective was to kill Bush politically.
That's what their objective was.
No question they've harmed the program.
And in the process, who have they harmed?
Us and themselves.
But now you've got Jane Harmon.
We got video of this, well, audio of this coming up.
She was on Meet the Press yesterday, and 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 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 Russert 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 prosecuted?
What's a whistleblower?
And she said, well, you got to prove that first.
It's not clear that there was a whistleblower.
She said, if it's protected by the whistleblower statute, then it's protected.
But she said she deplored the leak that whistleblowers are not allowed to divulge secrets.
Whistleblowers are not allowed to divulge classified information.
This idea to make this person out.
There are two things that work here.
A, you've got the press bias against Bush, but you've also got 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 Penn.
So that's where this whistleblower business comes from, is that built-in template.
There's so much of journalism today.
It doesn't even involve thinking.
It just revolves around instincts that these young little journal 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 skulls full of mush.
We have some audio from Good Morning America today on the Cheney situation, media coverage of this, predictable, trying to make it out to be a scandal.
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 going to 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 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 is 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 family with a deep tradition of Republican roots and supports, support Catherine, what is her first name?
I forget.
I think it's Catherine Armstrong made the phone call to the Corpus Christi newspaper.
They wanted the victim here of this accidental shooting to be taken care of first, the guests taken care of, and so forth.
She says there was no coordination between the Armstrong family and the White House, but it was Catherine Armstrong that called the, what is it, Corpus Corpus Christi, whatever newspaper here.
Here's what's funny about that.
Let's move on to soundbite number seven because, and this also from Good Morning America Today, they think they've got the Zapruder film here.
I think they've got the equivalent of the Zapruder film with this crack reporter who so-called broke the story.
Charlie Gibson interviewed her, Catherine Garcia.
And Gibson says, We're going to turn next to the journalist who broke this story, Catherine Garcia, reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller Times.
She first spoke to Catherine Armstrong about the shooting.
She then sat down and wrote the article that alerted the world to what had happened.
Now, 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 bamo, you've got your scoop.
So here's a little soundbite of Catherine Garcia.
And nothing against her.
Don't misunderstand here.
But casting this and characterizing this as a 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 decided to start transcribing her story.
Stop the tape.
Stop 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 got to get to my computer keyboard.
I'm going to transcribe this.
Wow, 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.
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 Caller 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 going to have to repeat that story one more time.
I guess she wasn't writing fast enough.
The vice president, the vice president, are you talking about Vice President Cheney?
And then I guess you're going to have to tell me this one more time because pencil lid broke or whatever happened.
And then she describes how 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 going to need to talk to some sort of 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.
And when she did, she said, no, unfortunately, it's going to be open on Monday morning.
And I said, no, that's not going to 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.
She got somebody straight away for me.
It was very interesting.
I was going to say, at that point, they got, you got right through.
And we must get right through an EIB profit center talking about will do that.
And yeah, like, wow, this is such so cool.
This is the way journalism happens.
Wow, 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 Collard Times is just what CBS News needs.
Young demographic, hot reporter, able to get these hard-to-find scoops.
The only problem she's got is that her story was basically true.
And that might be a little bit of a damper at CBS.
CBS News, we'll just have to wait and see.
But at least it's a great find out there if they want to look into it.
When I was out last week at Pebble Beach for the ATT National Program, Neil Cavuto was also out there.
He had his Fox show, Your World with Neil Cavuto, or My World with Neil Cavuto, Neil's World, whatever.
And he was set up, I think, off the 18th green at Spyglass.
And he asked me to come by for a little five to seven minute interview that went two segments.
And he asked me a lot, a lot of things.
And in the middle of the, actually, very near the beginning of the interview, he asked what I thought of funeral for Coretta Scott King.
And I said, well, 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, ladies and gentlemen, because that generated not the funeral crashers bit itself, but just the criticism of this as wellstone memorial-like, caused there to be a serious amount of analysis on the cable networks about why the Republicans, why Limbaugh going so crazy about this.
So we've put together our 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 funeral for the late Senator Paul Wollstone: that people like Rush Limbaugh are whipping this up into a controversy after the fact, or is it a legitimate public debate about whether this was consistent with what you should do at a funeral?
I think there's a lot of whipping.
I think the egg whites are stiff now.
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 Robbin?
I never heard of him.
I haven't read the Washington Post in a long time, so.
But I think there's a lot of whipping.
I think egg whites are stiff now.
It's just my view, but I do think it's been whipped up.
Is this how funerals used to happen?
Did this stuff happen at Reagan's funeral?
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 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 the CNN, last Wednesday morning, Miles O'Brien talking to Jeff Greenfield.
O'Brien says, 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 became an item within the other side, within the political right.
Rush Limbaugh on his website went off on Joseph Lowry, whose pieces you played, and called it, and this was really the key, a wellstone moment.
When you talk about a wellstone moment, timing's an awful lot in politics.
Timing 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 sentency.
We're now in early February.
The idea that this is going to have some political implication, you have to really be over-committed 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 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're 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 Christi Caller Times, get the story?
You know, McClellan should have walked out there with a shotgun.
He should have walked out there with a shotgun.
So let me tell you what this is.
Hey, let me just tell you something about the Democrats are going to have a lot of fun with this and the media, but go back.
We need to find Audio Soundbite 5.
Grab me Audio Soundbite 5.
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 Kerry, who 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 left is going to say this is proof that the Second Amendment needs to be repealed, taken out of the Constitution.
Why couldn't the other guy have shot Cheney?
Why did it have to be Cheney that shot this guy?
Blah, But, I mean, McClellan 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 to Okamas, Michigan.
Paul, welcome, sir.
You're up first today, and it's great to have you with us.
Yes, good afternoon, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
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 35 years ago.
You know, what does that have to do with the hunting accident in Texas in 2006?
I fail to see any connection.
I also think it's terrible.
Do you consider yourself a Christian?
Don't most conservatives go around saying how they're defending Christian values?
And isn't it a Christian value to be kind to people and not to judge and not to bring up people's faults from 30 years?
You tell me.
Are you a Christian?
You sound like you're an expert in it.
Are you a Christian?
Well, I was brought up Catholic 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.
So why are you slandering Ted Kennedy?
I'm not slandering Ted Kennedy.
I simply reported the truth.
You are missing the point here, Paul.
Let me tell you, the point is not to compare specifically these two things.
It's 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 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 Sen.
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 didn't pick up on one of the most clever ways of making that comparison that probably has been uttered by anyone in the mainstream media.
Ted Kennedy was hunting that night, too.
In fact, I mean, if you want the commonality, Cheney's out there hunting, he was hunting quail.
Somebody sent me a note today.
Gee, is Dan okay?
This idea, somebody sent me that, and it's Dan O. 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 Oldsmobile, and failed to make the turn onto the bridge.
Chap a quitted fine and dandy, and bam, we know what happened.
You got to 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.
Oh, Lake Ronconka.
I thought I said La, and I never heard of it.
Lake Ronconqua, New York.
This is Don.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you.
Hey, great to have you on the program, sir.
Listen, maybe it took 24 hours to break the story from the White House because the vice president was at the hospital with Mr. Whittington and his wife.
You know, he could have easily left the field and told Harry, you know, that looks pretty bad.
You ought to put some ice on it.
Better be careful.
You're going to upset Paul in, where was he calling from, Michigan?
Yeah, okay, Ms. Michigan.
That's another very unchristian thing you just said there, Don.
Because we all know what that means.
That's what Juanita Broderick said, Bill Clinton said to her after she said he raped her.
That's right.
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 traveling entourage consists of that, and they were helping the guy, too.
The story the White House is putting out is that they wanted to leave this up to the Armstrong family to break the news.
And look, does anybody have any?
First, you go make sure that the victim's 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.
Is that what they expect him to do?
And then, of course, these people are all Republicans.
They know what's going to happen the minute this hits.
And so they were the idea they're planning a cover-up is absurd.
But they no doubt were trying, no pun intended, trying to get their ducks in a row here for the media onslaught, which was to come.
Here's John in Kansas City.
Hello, sir.
You're up next in the EIB night.
Oh, good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I caught your interview with Cavuto.
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.
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.
You're very kind.
That did sort of come as a.
I thought it looked like you'd been blindslided by it.
Well, yeah, I mean, well, what caught me as a blunt?
He said, we understand that your net worth is hundreds of millions.
I got a lump in my throat.
Well, it's really nobody's business.
Well, yeah, but there's even more than that.
But nevertheless, and then he asked me how I had on my investments, and nobody has ever asked me that before.
I've been asked every question there is except that one.
And really, it wasn't a very Christian question.
Christians don't ask people about their private financial affairs.
But anyway, I told him that from the moment I started earning enough money to sock away, that I also knew that I was not going to rely on my portfolio to provide my lifestyle, that it was there and it wasn't going to be touched for years because I'm going to keep working.
And so I was patient.
And 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 invested in a lot of municipal bonds, tax-free.
I love tax-free anything, tax-free municipal bonds and in the stock market as well, and some real estate, which I was happy to tell him.
But he was, did you see how surprised he was, John, when he found out the extent to which I've invested in munis?
Oh, yeah, very much.
He thought you were going to be out there being a day trader or whatever.
And he just couldn't understand why you wanted to do long-term investment instead of short-term.
Well, long-term's the way to go, I mean.
Well, my circumstance is, you know, if I wanted to try to make the nest egg grow as fast as possible, then yeah, I'd take some risk and so forth, or more so than I'm taking now.
But that was never my preservation of principle was my guiding philosophy back when I started making enough money to invest and then keep adding to it little by little over the years.
Preservation of principle was the key for me.
And knowing full well that I'm going to be working until every American agrees with me, that timeframe is going to allow plenty of growth 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 shotgun.
This is a shotgun.
This is a shotgun shell.
And this is buckshot.
And then this is birdshot.
And the accident happened with birdshot.
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 a private citizen ended up reporting this rather than the White House press office of the vice president's press office.
Here is Paul in Culpeper, Virginia.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, Mega Ditto's 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 Osama bin Laden.
It's like Hillary Clinton.
I mean, this is to run out there and say, 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 a scary picture.
Forget the editorial.
Senator Clinton's tough straddle.
I don't even want to.
I just.
I don't even.
And then have you heard that 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 bad news out there.
The program's ratings were plummeting.
They were just heading downhill fast, and they don't even want to put it back on the air because until April, we'll have to wait and see if they put it back on the air then.
But it was supposed to be back on for the February sweeps.
No chance, no prayer.
Then there was this from 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, Bode 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 Kerry, five were squeakers with margins of 1 to 3 percent.
This is where the 2008 race is going to be decided.
There's no reason to believe that nominating Hillary will add a single state to the Democrat column.
In fact, go look at every, this has been my point all along.
You look at every state that George Bush won and tell me which one Hillary Clinton's going to win in 2008.
Going to win Florida?
She'd lose Florida bigger than Kerry did.
Ohio?
No.
What state's she going to win?
But that no, that Bush won.
Talking, Bush didn't win, California.
You better be more observant, Mr. Snur if you're going to have input like that.
You're going to listen to what I'm saying.
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 made the whoever told her it'd be a good idea to go out there and stand up to her president next to her husband and act like a sock puppet, you know, nodding her head in like wifely approval and admiration.
That's the exact opposite what she needs to do.
So Alder goes on to say that 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.
And Maureen Dowds trashed her, too.
Doesn't think that she can win.
So it gets even more fundamental than this.
She has to see, I think everybody's talking about Hillary and her anger.
She has to get angry to hold that mob in Kooksville.
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, and that's why standing next to her husband, while he went on and on, and then she went last, illustrated that pretty potently.
Here's a montage of Hillary in Detroit speaking at the 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 going to keep playing the fear card.
They're doing it to us again.
We're going to 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 the crowd was 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.
Got to 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 gone last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
And didn't Hillary, in that last soundbite, even sound shrill when she was just speaking normally?