Feb. 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| Do you see the Dow Jones Industrial Average has cracked 11,000? | |
| It's up like 128 or something. | |
| And we've got retail sales that were three times what were expected by the experts. | |
| Yeah, we still have polling data out there on how depressed and unhappy the American people are. | |
| Greetings, folks, nice to have you. | |
| We are back with more broadcast excellence. | |
| I am America's anchor man, L. Rushball, reveling in all of this. | |
| We're here at 1800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com. | |
| Let me tell you what would be happening right now if the vice president were a Democrat, if this were a Democratic administration, and the same set of circumstances had happened. | |
| Of course, would you have a Democrat out hunting? | |
| The thing if a Democrat went hunting, there'd be cameras along so that he can show people they're not anti-NRA. | |
| But let's let's just say for the for the sake of it, let's just assume that it's a Democratic administration, Democrat vice presidents out hunting with uh with some some some close friends, and an accident happens, and the Democrat vice president, say Al Gore, uh blasts away Ron Burkle, uh, who uh what big Democrat concurrently. | |
| Let's just say that that happens. | |
| You know what we'd be getting in the press ever since then, ever since the news came out. | |
| We would we would be getting uh story after story after story produced by the mainstream press to try to teach and inform and educate everybody uh on gun safety and hunting safety and how accidents happen and how we gotta we we we have to realize accidents happen out there in the marshlands of America when people go quail hunting, | |
| and the gotta be prepared to deal with these accidents, and it was a great thing that the vice president's uh security detail and medical staff were right there to rush this accident victim to the hospital as soon as possible. | |
| We would be hearing stories about how distraught and distressed the vice president was. | |
| The vice president would be beside himself thinking of hanging up this guns forever. | |
| We would be reading stories about countless other accidents that have happened while people have been out hunting. | |
| And we would have prominent Democrats on television saying, Oh, yes, my friend, this happened, that happened. | |
| We'd be barraged with how common it is. | |
| We would be told throughout the days that this is is very, very common, and that's why gun safety measures are so important. | |
| It would be entirely different. | |
| We would the vice president's mental condition would be worried about. | |
| Oh no, is this accident has it has it has it distressed him to the point that he may need some help? | |
| Uh and and in coping with this, who could cope with something like this, this darrible accident like this when you blow away your friend's face with bird shot? | |
| Uh and and uh you know the media without being too hard on the vice president in this, given that these kind of accidents are common. | |
| I mean, that's what we would be getting. | |
| You know, it's just like during the Clinton administration. | |
| Uh, you know, when Clinton was a serial liar and everybody knew it. | |
| And so we got stories throughout the administration of how that's good. | |
| You know, lying is good. | |
| It spares people's fee. | |
| Little white wives like Clinton's when everybody knows he's like that. | |
| Fine. | |
| It actually spares people's hurt feelings. | |
| It's good to do. | |
| It's nice to learn how to do it. | |
| We can learn the process of good lying from Bill Clinton. | |
| So you know, you know darn well that if this were a vice president, we would we would get, and if they had delayed the story. | |
| If if they delayed the story coming out like this administration did, we would be hearing, well, that was a wise thing to do, had to get all earth, no pun in uh tender here, ducks in a row, all the details, and make sure we got the facts right. | |
| We applaud this administration for taking time to get this right rather than panicking and putting the news out. | |
| And had it been um uh leaked or reported as it was to some little newspaper in Corpus Christi, the media would be would hoisting that reporter up on a pedestal and already be making job offers to get that reporter big time spot in the big time media inside the big time beltway. | |
| Uh the coverage would be entirely and everybody knows it. | |
| There was a funny moment yesterday that we just learned about uh uh today. | |
| Drudge has this little blurb. | |
| Apparently David Gregory of NBC, who's really obnoxious and I think very childish and immature, and obviously cannot uh take it. | |
| He can he can sit there and dish it out, but he can't take it. | |
| Did you hear about this, Mr. Snerdley? | |
| I mean, this is Scott McClellan zing this. | |
| I wish this had been on camera. | |
| But before the cameras got rolling, before the televised portion of the uh of the press briefing of the White House began yesterday, David Gregory asked McClellan about the Cheney hunting accident. | |
| And McClellan just had a great zinger. | |
| He said, Hold David, hold on, hold on, the cameras aren't on right now. | |
| Do this later. | |
| And Gregory blew a gasket. | |
| Don't you accuse me of trying to post to the cameras, he said, his voice rising. | |
| Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question. | |
| McClellan says, You don't have to yell. | |
| I will yell, pointing a finger at McClellan. | |
| If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice because that's wrong. | |
| Calm down, Dave, calm down, said McClellan. | |
| I'll calm down when I feel like calming down. | |
| You answer their question. | |
| I have answered the question, McClellan said, who had maintained the vice president's office was in charge of getting the information out and work with the ranch owner to do that. | |
| I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about it, Dave. | |
| I am riled up because you're not answering their question. | |
| Just childish it it. | |
| It it's un Dick Dick David Gregory, Dick Gregory, so what's the difference? | |
| David Gregory couldn't wear Dick Cheney's hunting vest. | |
| Look at all the jokes that Dick Cheney has to endure, all the comments. | |
| These guys can't take it. | |
| Talk about thin skin. | |
| They can certainly sit up there and dish it out, but they just can't take it. | |
| Here's a here's a couple sound bites from Hardball last night in which Gregory is talking about how the press, well, this is not about us, but it is about us. | |
| Not about us, but it's all about us, is the basic theme here. | |
| Uh Matthews says to him, David, the question is the vice president and the president apparently have a close working relationship. | |
| Yeah, here you have an incident of vast news value happening on late Saturday afternoon after five o'clock. | |
| And yet the president and the vice president don't talk until today. | |
| Does that surprise you? | |
| We don't get too far afield and sort of making this personal to us, people like me, White House reporters, and whether we matter in any way, because we're really not germane to this, even if we play clips of us asking these tough questions. | |
| The process here was definitely delayed. | |
| It was definitely abnormal. | |
| I cover this place every day, and I can tell you that it's abnormal to have this kind of delay, and that's what we were trying to get at. | |
| And again, today we we hit you know very difficult circumstances getting answers to these questions. | |
| Again, because of a of a decision, apparently the vice president and top advisors made. | |
| I I uh, you know, Wayne Gretzky is the latest victim of Wayne Gretzky. | |
| I know Wayne Gretzky. | |
| I mean, I've met him a couple of times at charity events, been nice as he can be. | |
| Uh the media is just all over this guy for not answering questions. | |
| And he is answering, so I'm not involved. | |
| But they are acting. | |
| I think I think what what bothers me about this here is the is the apparent moral superiority of all of these people who apparently act as though they have uh they have no skeletons in their closet, and they get to be the moral arbiters of everybody else's lives, and they get to decide whether somebody's handling it right or not handling it right. | |
| And it all just bothers me that everything that seems to happen these days happens within a media context. | |
| Um I know it's it's not really new, but I think it's it's becoming more and more pronounced and exaggerated. | |
| Uh what. | |
| Well, I I th I don't know where it's written in the Constitution that you're supposed to go to them first. | |
| That's that's how they're acting. | |
| They're just a bunch of spoiled brats. | |
| When you what it boils down to is they're upset that a little Corpus Christi reporter got this before they did. | |
| That's what they're upset about. | |
| They're so spoiled, they're used to being spoon-fed things. | |
| Uh and and like I said yesterday, I mean, I my impression that a reporter went out and dug the story up. | |
| Went out and found out what was going on rather than sit at the desk and wait for a phone call from some PR person, but that's apparently how most news is uh is made these days. | |
| Here's a montage of Gregory badgering McClellan at the televised portion of the gaggle yesterday. | |
| The vice president made a decision about how the public should be notified that the case. | |
| Basically is at odds with the standard practice of how the president's own press operation in this White House notifies the public. | |
| Isn't that right? | |
| Let's just be clear here. | |
| The Vice President of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who would witness this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper, and not the White House press corps at large or notify the public in a national way. | |
| Did the Vice President follow all of the appropriate safety procedures that are familiar to hunters in this case? | |
| And that that's just a simple sample, little sample of the uh gaggle that was going on yesterday with and it wasn't just I mean the Gregory uh uh it was it was all of them. | |
| They were just in a frenzy. | |
| It's it's like it's like romper room in there anymore. | |
| You know, people uh you you may have forgotten this. | |
| Back in August of um, was it 1996? | |
| Back in August of 1996, the same day that, and I'm reading this from CNN All Politics. | |
| That's their that used to be their they have a website, webpage called CNN All Politics. | |
| The same day that Hillary Clinton was scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention, newly released documents suggest that she was behind the 30-hour delay in releasing the late uh White House counsel Vincent Foster's suicide note to authorities. | |
| How the White House handled Foster's 93 death and the possibility that administration officials improperly removed documents from his office or impeded an official search of it, has been the subject of intense scrutiny by congressional Republicans and the media. | |
| I don't remember the media being that interested in it. | |
| The media was more interested in explaining and covering up and soft selling whatever the administration's line was. | |
| And so this is uh it's just another illustration of how things are different when the media is covering Republican presidents versus Democrat presidents when they become pure sycophants. | |
| Quick timeout, folks. | |
| Back with more in just a second. | |
| I never watched the show on which this happened last night, but uh I've seen the pictures they've sent to me all over the place. | |
| Dana Milbank, in a serious reporter of the Washington Post, showed up on an NBC MSNBC cable show. | |
| Did you see it last night? | |
| Showed up wearing an orange sock cap and an orange hunting vest. | |
| Uh to trying to be a comedian, I guess, but I thought serious journalists took themselves very seriously and did not want to make make uh look like jokes. | |
| But uh, you know, they did. | |
| This is this they just, you know, they're like the rest of the Democratic Party in the liberal Cooksville blogosphere. | |
| They just overdo everything, and the reason is that they are unable to bend and shape public opinion the way they want it to be anymore. | |
| They j and so they they just continue to try to prove to themselves they still have that power, refusing to understand where they currently are. | |
| Try this story a man was shot and injured when his hunting partner mistook his elbow for a squirrel. | |
| Michigan State Police said George Arthur Sekengus, 64 of Muskegon, Michigan, was wounded Sunday morning and wait a minute, Sunday. | |
| What is this? | |
| This is Tuesday, and we're just now finding out about this. | |
| This happened. | |
| This happened Sunday morning, folks. | |
| This accident happened Sunday morning, and it's it's been 48 hours, and we are just now hearing about this. | |
| Michigan State cops said George Arthur Sekinga, 64 of Muskegon, Michigan, was wounded Sunday morning in Golden Township in Michigan's West Central Lower Peninsula. | |
| Sekinga was wearing camouflage clothing except for an orange hat, which he had covered with a hood after sitting down behind a tree. | |
| He clothed his clothed elbow was all of him that was visible when his friend Gregory Scott Wood approached from behind the tree and fired his weapon, which the uh newspaper described as a 17 caliber rifle. | |
| Sekinga was transported to a local hospital where he was treated and released. | |
| Police are investigating the shooting. | |
| It took 48 hours for us to find out about this. | |
| Forty-eight hours. | |
| I don't know about you, but I am livid. | |
| Uh I know I know I'm watching it in here. | |
| There, The uh White House press corps is acting as though yesterday never happened. | |
| They're still going after McClellan. | |
| It's the same, it's just a repeat. | |
| It's just a rerun of everything going on as though no question was asked yesterday, as though there was no answer. | |
| Uh yesterday. | |
| Um it's predicta. | |
| You're not surprised, are you, Mr. Sturdley? | |
| Here's uh Stephen in Greenfield, Massachusetts. | |
| Let's take a quick call. | |
| Nice to have you with us, sir. | |
| Hello. | |
| Thank you very much, Mr. Limbo. | |
| Thank you, my phone call. | |
| I just want to say this. | |
| Why now you are distorting the facts here? | |
| I think you're trying to confuse us. | |
| No, no, no, you may not be able to keep up, but but I'm not I'm not trying to confuse you. | |
| Well, the vice president, Dick Cheney, was the one shot somebody, and not Al Gore. | |
| Really, really? | |
| Where did you hear that? | |
| Well, well, well, well. | |
| Now, here's another thing. | |
| He did not have even a stamp which allowed him to hunt. | |
| Can you believe that? | |
| He is the one who said during the campaign, the fast power of Bush administration, he will store honor and dignity in this wait a second. | |
| Wait a second. | |
| You called to tell me how I'm trying to confuse everybody. | |
| We all know what you think about Cheney and the fact he didn't have a stamp and you want him in jail, and you wish Cheney would have been the one that was shot, and then you wish Bush would be shot. | |
| Why don't you stick to the original topic that you called to talk to me about, which is I'm trying to confuse you. | |
| How am I confusing you? | |
| Algor who shot somebody. | |
| So don't say for us to imagine that it's Al Gore. | |
| There's nothing to imagine. | |
| We have a story. | |
| Stephen, Steve, yes. | |
| Yes, again, again, we this is something we all know. | |
| And I think most in the audience are quite capable of understanding, Stephen, that I was expressing a hypothetical. | |
| Not to say that Gore was capable of shooting anybody, but to express the differences in the why am I wasting my time here? | |
| Why why am I wasting valuable broadcast moments trying to explain to this Dunderhead? | |
| Uh uh forget it. | |
| Joey in in Houston, well well uh really i welcome to the program, sir. | |
| Bail me out here. | |
| Hi, Rash. | |
| Uh it's a real honor to talk to you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| You know, one of the things that I I find very curious is um Dick Cheney was that was part of his personal life, that hunting trip, right? | |
| Yeah, but that's not gonna fly. | |
| I mean, that you can't you can't say that this is a personal matter and know it's nobody else's business. | |
| He is the vice president. | |
| You can't you can't you can't slither out of it that way. | |
| That's not the way to do I can think of a whole nother president that didn't tell uh the the press uh for until he got caught with his pants down. | |
| Well, you know, I was thinking about that last night. | |
| This is an interesting i if uh what was that poor guy from Massachusetts name? | |
| Stephen, hang on, I know you're still out there. | |
| I'm gonna do it again, Stephen. | |
| Uh only this time I'm gonna I'm gonna use something that a Democrat actually did. | |
| Uh and that's Bill Clinton and uh and and Monica Lewinsky and BJ is oh, I brought down the gallery once out the ATP Pebble Beach. | |
| Uh tea shot on number five on Friday was long, and and it was in the rough over the green at part three. | |
| And it was not on the ground. | |
| It was it was like buried in a rough three inches off the ground. | |
| And I'm right up next to two different grandstands of people. | |
| So I looked up at him and I said, I'm gonna need the hands of Monica Lewinsky for this shot. | |
| Whoo! | |
| Whoo! | |
| They started who whispering to each other and laughing and so forth, and then I banged it like three feet out. | |
| It was a great shot and made the putt. | |
| Uh three net two. | |
| At any rate. | |
| Because when uh when when you know Bill Clinton lied about the original story about what was going on in the Oval Office, uh little off room off the Oval Office there with uh Monica Lewinsky, and had his whole staff come out and lie uh to everybody about it. | |
| And it was six months before he owned up to it, and all during that time the press believed his lie and defended his action on a basis that it was private matter, and it didn't affect the way he performed his office, and we weren't really, it was nobody's business what he was doing in there. | |
| Nobody's business. | |
| On the basis that there wasn't any crime, you know, Monica was not a minor uh at the time. | |
| But it is an interesting thing to point out how uh this is is that everything happening here is such a public required to be made public immediately, and yet the same people in this press corps went out of their way to defend Clinton, delaying the news of the truth of his rendezvous with Ms. Lewinsky for six months. | |
| And then even after the truth came out, uh, well, what do you expect him to do? | |
| He's trying to protect his wife. | |
| He's trying to protect his daughter, he's trying to protect the image of the president. | |
| Of course he would lie about. | |
| We would lie about this, because we have lied about. | |
| We have I mean, he was them, they were him. | |
| Uh same generational attitudes about things. | |
| It did just look, all this is is to illustrate the stark differences that exist today between the press and the presidency, depending on who is occupying the chair, who's occupying the seat. | |
| Any rate, I got to take a quick uh timeout. | |
| Paul Hackett, Democrat candidate in Ohio. | |
| Remember him? | |
| The elitists in the Democrat Party have said, get out. | |
| We don't want you anymore. | |
| We used you when we used you, but we don't need you or want you anymore. | |
| You're bad for us now, so scram. | |
| Details are coming up. | |
| And we are back. | |
| Great to have you. | |
| L. Rushball, the EIB network. | |
| Uh 1-800-282-2882. | |
| And the email address, rush at EIBNet.com. | |
| I don't remember um Vice President Cheney of uh at the Waco invasion, do you? | |
| I don't remember that. | |
| I mean, I I think it was Clinton Gore that uh that was uh involved in uh in all of that uh gun activity and tank activity. | |
| I don't think these people realize um how they look. | |
| I know they don't. | |
| I know they don't realize how they look, I know they don't realize how they uh they sound uh the next press conference they ought to schedule this. | |
| The White House ought to schedule it at Fort Marcy Park. | |
| You know, just send McClellan out to Fort Marcy Park and hey, let's open that up and why are you here? | |
| Well, you all you all seem interested in uh in in delayed news and so forth. | |
| I just I know it'll never happen. | |
| I it's one of these things I'd love to see. | |
| Paul Hackett. | |
| Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders. | |
| The elites in the Democratic Party are pushing him out. | |
| You know, he was the pride and joy of the wacko left. | |
| We finally, we've got, we've got a war hero running in our pro. | |
| We've got a war hero. | |
| He got somebody who looks good in a uniform. | |
| Forgetting that it didn't help John F. Carey. | |
| The wackos love the guy, but I will never forget Hackett's campaign. | |
| Uh, you know, he would raise money nationally and try to sound just like George W. Bush. | |
| He go back to the district. | |
| Um raise money nationally, trying to sound just like you know, the the the kook Democrats that are out there, but when he campaigns in this in this largely republic Republican district, he tried to sound just like George W. Bush's best buddy. | |
| His ads locally differed mightily from his ads nationally. | |
| Uh and uh the media and the Democrats are all excited, this this remember, this was going to be the test case. | |
| This was going to show that the country was fed up with Bush. | |
| This is going to illustrate it. | |
| This is gonna be this this is gonna be what they were all waiting for. | |
| This is the Harbinger. | |
| And when he lost, how many points did he lose by? | |
| What was the it was check it out? | |
| Whatever way. | |
| Well, they called it a win anyway, because it was so close. | |
| And so we had a lot of fun as the Democrats sought to redefine victory. | |
| You win when you lose. | |
| And we urged them to practice that as often as possible. | |
| Go out and lose, make it as close as you can, make sure you lose, and then claim victory. | |
| Makes all kind of sense. | |
| Here's who did hack it in. | |
| Hackett said that Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Harry Reed of Nevada, the same party leaders who said uh he said persuaded him last August to enter this race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherad Brown, longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent. | |
| Hackett staged a surprisingly strong congressional run last year in an overwhelmingly Republican district and gained national prominence for his scathing criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. | |
| It was his performance in the congressional race that led parties to recruit him for the Senate race. | |
| Once again, he did not. | |
| He did not gain local prominence for his scathing criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War because he didn't engage in it locally. | |
| He was two different guys. | |
| But for the last two weeks, he said, state and national Democrat Party leaders have urged him to drop his Senate campaign and again run for Congress. | |
| Hackett said this is an extremely disappointing decision that I feel has been forced on me. | |
| His announcement comes two days before the state's filing deadline for candidates. | |
| Said he was outraged to learn that party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to stop giving. | |
| Said he would not enter the second district congressional race again. | |
| For me, this is a second betrayal, Hackett said. | |
| First, my government misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me. | |
| This is fabulous. | |
| They have thrown their own hero under the bus, folks. | |
| Just sort of like Kofi Annan threw his son Kojo under the bus. | |
| A second betrayal. | |
| Party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to stop giving. | |
| He was I was. | |
| He was fragged by his own party out there. | |
| Alienating Hackett is not just a bad idea for the party, but it also sends a chill through the rest of the 56 or so veterans that we've worked to run for Congress, said Mike Lyon, executive director of the band of brothers, a group dedicated to electing Democratic veterans to national office. | |
| Now's the time for Democrats to be courting, not blocking veterans who want to run. | |
| Somebody explain to me what the Democrats are thinking here. | |
| Why do they think running a military candidate is going to be credible anyway, given the posture that they have had the last four or five years? | |
| It was a four-point loss. | |
| That's right. | |
| 52 to 48. | |
| Gene Schmidt beat Hackett, and they claimed it was a win. | |
| They were out there, oh yeah, big woe, he got so close. | |
| This means it's over for Bush. | |
| This means in the oh six elections in Bush's history. | |
| Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| But I w with with the attitudes that they have expressed about the military. | |
| They have regularly done their best to impugn the U.S. military. | |
| They've they've cooperated with the members of the media in their party to run stories about how military members as much a Haysey to Hicks who joined the military because there's no economic opportunity in America because the country sucks. | |
| They say they support the troops, but they don't. | |
| And yet they want to bring out some some a bunch of guys in uniform to run. | |
| Maybe somebody in the party has figured this out. | |
| And don't forget Sherrod Brown is black. | |
| There's a racial component here, too. | |
| And the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is the New York Times. | |
| They don't, of course, don't mention that. | |
| But but um, you know, Democratic leaders say that Representative Sherrod Brown, a seven-term incumbent from Avon, uh, has a far better chance of toppling Senator DeWine than does the Hackett. | |
| I I thought Hackett won't came so close, I thought this is really just typical of this party. | |
| The same thing they did to Andrew Kumo and the same thing they did to Carl McCall. | |
| Carl McCall was running for governor of New York. | |
| Black guy went out there, promised him all kinds of money. | |
| They never gave him the money. | |
| We ended up raising money for Carl McCall on this program just to make sure that he had some money to mount some sort of a campaign. | |
| We didn't want it to be a shellacking. | |
| And then Bill Clinton goes to Andrew Cuomo and says, you know that name Toracelli meaning to you for the good of the party, Andrew, your history. | |
| And uh Cuomo was his labor secretary for a time, hasn't been heard from since. | |
| Uh I mean, these these people are just vicious. | |
| Uh Chris Redfern, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party said it boils down to who we think can pull the most votes in November against a wine, and in Ohio, Brown's name is golden. | |
| Sherrod Brown. | |
| It's just that simple. | |
| Mr. Fern added that Sherrod Brown's fundraising abilities made him the better Senate candidate by the end of the year. | |
| Last year, Brown had uh nearly amassed 2.37 million dollars, ten times what Mr. Hackett had raised. | |
| Senator Reed did not reply for repeated requests for comment. | |
| Asked about Hackett's contention that he had been pressed to leave the Senate race, a spokesman for Mr. Schumer said, Well, we've told both Sherrod Brown and Paul Hackett that avoiding a primary will Make it easier to win the Ohio seat. | |
| Obviously, decision to run is Mr. Hackett's and Mr. Hackett's alone. | |
| Mr. Hackett said he was unwilling to run for the congressional seat because he'd given his word to three Democratic candidates that he would not enter that race. | |
| The party keeps saying for me not to worry about those promises because in politics they're broken all the time, Hackett said. | |
| He's going to return to his uh practice as a lawyer in the Cincinnati area. | |
| And Sherrod Brown's white guy, then I'm confusing him with somebody. | |
| Okay, I'm sorry, I thought Sherrod Brown was confusing him with somebody then. | |
| Must be somebody in New York. | |
| It's got a similar name. | |
| Nevertheless, uh Hackett says, I don't work that way. | |
| My word is my bond. | |
| Hackett is seen by many as a straight talker. | |
| He became an icon to liberal bloggers because he says exactly what they have wished they would hear from a politician. | |
| So it's what have you done for me lately and what can you do for me tomorrow? | |
| And sorry, you just can't cut it. | |
| We don't think you can win. | |
| Look at look at from all these loyalty, consistency, uh intelligence. | |
| Here is a guy less than what six months ago. | |
| They were hoisting him up as their newest savior. | |
| They were hoisting him up as as j and now they've thrown him overboard. | |
| Just thrown him overboard. | |
| I'm I think it's quicker than Kofi uh through Kojo overboard and the oil for food skin. | |
| Anyway, folks, a brief brief timeout. | |
| We'll be back and continue in just a second. | |
| Scott McClellan let uh Gregory have it today when David Gregory tried to repeat yesterday's performance of the White House press briefing. | |
| Here is a sample. | |
| I was very respectful in responsive to your questions yesterday. | |
| I provided you the information I knew based on the facts that were available. | |
| And we've been through this pretty thoroughly. | |
| And I'm just not wait, wait. | |
| No, I'm just not going to go back through it again. | |
| I'd appreciate if you'd let me respond fully before you jump in. | |
| All right, but hold on a second. | |
| I've got one last question. | |
| Other people have questions. | |
| But I'm not I'm not getting answers here, Scott. | |
| And you I'm trying to be forthright with you, but don't tell me that you're giving us complete answers when you're not actually answering the question because everybody knows what is an answer and what's not an answer. | |
| And the final David, now you want to make this about you, and it's not about you, it's about what happened. | |
| All right. | |
| That is exactly what to say to these childish, obnoxious egomaniacs in the mainstream press who really think they are a coequal branch of government. | |
| Particularly the White House press corps. | |
| They do the best way to understand them is they think they are a co-equal branch of government. | |
| That's why they demand to be informed. | |
| That's why they can't stand it that they were so-called scooped by little paper in Texas. | |
| Thought McClellan just let him have it. | |
| David, you want to make that about you, but it's not about you, it's about what happened. | |
| And I've answered these questions. | |
| And you keep asking the same ones. | |
| Kimberly and Dayton, Ohio. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| Um I wanted to comment about Ted Hackett. | |
| First of all, I'm perfectly content that he's out of the race. | |
| But everybody keeps talking about the November race as if it's come. | |
| Hold, oh, oh, hold, hold on, hold it, hold it. | |
| You got to slow down because I can't I can't understand everything you're saying. | |
| Try it again, yeah. | |
| Everybody keeps talking about this race as if it's the November race. | |
| But that's not what this is about. | |
| The people of Ohio are fed up with Mike DeWine, and the real race to watch in all in Ohio is the May election. | |
| Well, you have a candidate who is on fire just as much as Kim Blackwell is for the governor's race, and everybody keeps calling all these candidates that the people watch token candidates. | |
| But David Smith is all over the state. | |
| And he has the people, and he is rounding them up, and Mike DeWine needs to be shaken into the boots. | |
| All right, okay, okay, hold it. | |
| Hold it, hold it, hold it. | |
| Look at I'm gonna be I'm not in the best of moods today, folks, but I don't this not a political rally. | |
| I don't want to turn the show into a campaign commercial for a candidate. | |
| I thought you were gonna talk about Hackett and what happened. | |
| Hackett doesn't understand his own party. | |
| Veterans and black candidates are out. | |
| That's the message in the Democrat. | |
| Well, ask Carl McCall about that. | |
| You know, they don't want any veterans running for you realize the conflict that that's gonna cause them. | |
| They can't continue their current campaign against Bush in the war if they're out there running a bunch of military uniformed candidates. | |
| Uh, even uh even as Democrats, because all they can do is come out and speak out against the war. | |
| What do you need somebody in uniform coming out and speaking out against the war for? | |
| That's not gonna help. | |
| I think, you know, they they understand the position in which they've uh they put themselves. | |
| And I understand conservatives in in uh in Ohio are upset at uh at DeWine predicted that. | |
| Predicted that would be the case. | |
| It's about the gang of thirteen and uh and and and uh and a couple of other things. | |
| Uh we keep our eye on all these primaries and all these elections, but I just I just don't want to turn the program over to to to campaign rallies for individual candidates because I can't do them all. | |
| Debbie in Griffin, Georgia. | |
| Welcome. | |
| Nice to have you with us. | |
| Hey, Rush. | |
| Happy Valentine's Day. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Same to you. | |
| I'd like to say happy Valentine's Day to my husband in Iraq. | |
| He's serving in our military as well. | |
| Well, God bless you both. | |
| Well, I'm calling because I am completely all I have to do is think about it and hearing their voices. | |
| I read it about the press conference and the incensed when you mentioned the word vicious about the press, and I am just so angry because the man shot a friend on accident. | |
| And it's like complete indifference to the fact that he might have feelings. | |
| That he that he cares about the man he hurt. | |
| That there's that there's a lot of people. | |
| I don't think you understand how the press views Cheney. | |
| Yes, I do. | |
| And it just then you you have to understand one they don't think Cheney is is capable of feelings. | |
| But they think he is a mean, calculating, behind the scenes wizard of Oz who is destroying the country and that Bush is just a puppet. | |
| Then the other the next day they'll say that Bush is actually in charge, but Cheney's the most powerful vice president we've ever had. | |
| This is unprecedented. | |
| They hate the man. | |
| Well they they hope his feelings are hurt. | |
| They want him indicted. | |
| They want him indicted and in jail. | |
| They want to plaster his face all over as as often as they can as a criminal. | |
| That's why they're harping on this stupid seven dollar stamp that he didn't have on his uh on his hunting license. | |
| The thing about it is, Debbie, is it's as obvious to everybody as it is to you. | |
| I saw a video last night of them, you know, it's like they've uh just making it seem like uh our soldiers in Iraq. | |
| I I'm changing a little bit here, but you know, they showed some video of some soldiers supposedly beating some teenagers and uh Iraqi teenagers, and I thought, you know, have they shown any video of our men getting blown up and so that's the same as a bigger one. | |
| Well, no, because that's what wait a minute but wait a minute. | |
| That that was British troops, but you you have to understand the mindset of these people. | |
| Our troops and British troops are supposed to get blown up so that the body count can go up. | |
| But they're not supposed to act like soldiers against the enemy. | |
| They're not supposed to act like we're in a war. | |
| They're certainly not supposed to win this. | |
| That's you have to understand the frame of reference uh and the context in which all these reports are made. | |
| I understand your anger. | |
| Uh I used to have it. | |
| Now I just I still get mad too, but I can't help but laugh at them because I look at how impotent their efforts uh efforts now are. | |
| Back in just a sec. | |
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