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Feb. 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 14, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, we're back, folks.
Nice to have you with us.
Broadcast Excellence rolls on.
I'm your host and America's anchor man, El Rushbow, Half My Brain.
The hide uh tied behind my back just to make things fair.
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And the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
The 78-year-old lawyer shot by Vice President Cheney in a hunting accident, now has some bird shot lodged in his heart and had a minor heart attack, a hospital official said today.
Peter Banco, the hospital administrator, said that Harry Whittington had the heart attack early Tuesday while being evaluated.
So what happened here, I guess, is that some of the bird shot uh I guess it traveled through an artery or or somehow to his uh heart at a minor heart attack today as they tried to transport him.
Now that's gonna cause the media to ratchet this up uh to you know, a new level, which is expected, uh they will they will vindicate they will view this incident or this development of the heart attack as vindicating their view that Cheney should have dropped everything and called David Gregory on the phone from from the ranch uh immediately after the accident occurred.
Uh where in fact the opposite is true.
This uh vindicates Well, the opposite is true, it vindicates that Cheney's focus and emphasis uh on getting uh Mr. Whittaken medical uh Mr. Whittington medical attention first was the right focus.
Uh there's no no doubt about that.
Well, Ronnie Earl indict, I don't know if this is Travis County.
Uh course, with the Democrats, why would that matter?
Where it is.
But uh you just I'm just warning you people this is this gonna ratchet up.
Media coverage on this because this is gonna make them this is Jick Cheney, Dick Cheney should have called David Gregory the moment this happened.
The opposite is true.
Cheney did the right thing by making sure that medical attention and uh Whittington's condition was the uh was the focus.
Some wacko libs.
Now, if you if you go to the right websites, um you you will you will read that the wacko libs think that this was done purposely, that uh that Cheney shot Whittington, not intending to harm him, just shot him on person that call uh on purpose in order to distract all the media coverage from the Libby leak.
Uh because Libby is out there, Libby has said that hey, higher ups told me I can leak this stuff.
And so everybody's whoo ooh, whoo!
And of course, ever they want Cheney in this whole Libby story.
So the wacko libs think that this whole thing is this conspiracy that Whittington was in on it.
He agreed to be shot uh in order to cause this uh this media distraction, and the Libs are mad at the media uh for falling for the trick and going wall-to-wall coverage.
I'm not I'm not making this up, folks.
I am not kidding.
You can go out to some of these left-wing websites, and that is what you will read.
It is why I am not frightened of these people.
That's their base talking.
That's the people that Al Gore and John Kerry and Hillary are trying to appeal to.
Uh can't wait to see when they figure out exactly what they have to say and do in order to uh pull that off.
Uh, here's a little story today in the uh in the New York Sun.
Did you know that Judith Miller was back in court fighting with the special prosecutor uh Patrick Fitzgerald again?
Journalist Judith Miller, formerly of the New York Times, and U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald squared off in court again yesterday with a lot less public attention than last year when the dogged special prosecutor in a plane case had the then New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days to force her to disclose the identity of an anonymous source.
Yesterday's appearance in Manhattan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the second circuit was another instance of Mr. Fitzgerald trying to find out about Ms. Miller's sources this time by looking at the New York Times phone records.
Prosecutors raised the prospect of pressing her directly yet again, as they did in a plane case to disclose her sources.
At the center of this leak case is the question of how Judith Miller, who has since left the New York Times, and a second Times reporter came to learn of the government's plan to take action in the wake of September 11th against two Islamic organizations suspected of having terrorist ties.
Now she was she was subpoenaed.
What this is all about.
Judith Miller turned up at a Federal Appeals Court Manhattan yesterday for arguments over whether the feds have a right to subpoena her phone records as part of a probe into Islamic charities and terror financing.
The New York Times wants to stop authorities from gaining access to records for calls that Miller and another reporter, Philip Shannon, made to sources in the wake of the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
The reporters received information about the government's plan to block the assets and search the offices of two Islamic organizations.
And apparently Judith Miller tipped off these fundraisers to the upcoming FBI raid so they can destroy documents.
Is that what this is about?
I wonder what this could be about.
Uh I if if that if that's what this is about, uh the source of this tip is far more important than whether Valerie Plame was, wasn't, could have been, should have been, might have been, never was an undercover agent.
But I if if that's what happened, if if the New York Times alerted these two Islamic charities to an upcoming FBI raid, if that's that's what if well Hell's Bells here, folks.
Do we need to redefine treason here?
You know the I I but I hope before this is all said and done, the New York Times, like Jane Harmon said Sunday on Meet the Depressed ends up being prosecuted.
The New York Times is in the middle of all of this.
Be it this bogus domestic spying case that they published on the December 16th, and now this Judith Miller business.
And by the way, this uh I don't Fitzgerald is not acting as uh special counsel or independent prosecutor.
He's in his role here as a U.S. attorney uh in uh in this case.
So and and it it's it's out there, but I mean New York Post has the story, the New York Sun has the story.
Um well, here it is.
Patrick Fitzgerald has alleged that the Times reporters tipped off these Islamic charities, the Global Relief Foundation and the Holy Land Foundation, before they were searched on December in December of 2001, thus compromising the actions.
Both charities are accused of ties to Islamic extremist terrorists.
Now, this is where Fitzgerald made his bones going after these Islamic terrorists.
Um the uh I think he was part of the blind sheik prosecution, Omar Abdel Rahman.
Um Islamic charities that a raid is coming.
Hell's Bells.
You see, NBC is whining about the ratings now that well, they lost they lost Michelle Quan.
She was the she was gonna be the big draw, but she had a couple of injuries had to back out.
And I've got a little column here by an AP sports columnist.
And I just I want to read excerpts of this to you when we come back.
Uh be because this is a testament to the Title IX induced mass psychosis that is causing NBC to fritter away airtime on women's ice hockey games that end up in scores of sixteen to nothing.
And frankly, do we it's uh uh be careful here.
Do we care about the curling girls?
Do we really want to watch women's curling?
And I'm talking about hair curlers.
I can understand why they're in the fits of depression.
Um, I would I mean I know some sexists would like it because they finally get to see a woman with working with a broom again.
But as a sport, It's not exciting.
And the fact that you get to watch a woman with a broom again is not enough to overcome the fact it's not a sport to me.
Back in just a moment.
Yes, let's uh l before treat you to details of this NBC story.
Let's let's go grab uh a couple of phone calls.
Steve in Omaha.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Maharashi.
It's wonderful to talk with you.
You of all people, sir, should know why NBC is uh so rot and distressed.
It's the old time media.
They pretending still like they have a monopoly on the media.
They're running stuff tape-delate five, six, seven hours, pretending like they're telling you that some breaking story is happening when in real time I'm on the internet watching the results live, watching the events as they transpire in the moment.
And if I'm watching NBC at night, it's only because I want to see some type of a highlight from something that happens six hours ago.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a minute.
Are you actually watching video live of the events as they take place?
No, no, no.
I I'm watching the results live.
All right, okay.
Well, see, some people want to watch the events.
I mean, that's some people don't care about like I don't care who wins the women's broom race.
No, I'm not sure.
If I watch it, I mean I don't that's my point.
What do you care about women's curling?
I mean, it's not really curling.
Well, but but but but if you want the results, yeah, you can certainly do that, but like if somebody some people want to watch this in high definition.
Well, it curling is an interesting sport all unto itself.
And uh, you know, the men's versus women's is an interesting interesting debate.
But I'm gonna stick it out.
Shuffleboard on ice, whether it's a cruise ship game.
You know, it's it's I'm sure it's got its it's got its Olympic roots.
I am just getting tired of NBC pretending that they've got a monopoly and tape delaying stuff as long as they do, and expecting you to hang on for five or six hours to see something that happened, you know, half a day ago.
Well, most people are doing that uh because they want to see the events, even if they know who wins.
They they want to see if they're into the Olympics, they're gonna watch them, and NBC is gonna put them on in prime time.
I mean, there's no there's no reason to uh b and there isn't a calling it the Torino Olympic.
It's Turin.
It's it it it's Turin.
It's it's uh that everybody knows it.
The Shroud of Turin.
At at any rate, listen listen to this.
This is this is somewhat funny.
Turin, Italy, Dateline Associated Press.
The curl girls were supposed to really rock.
They had the catchy nickname, their own website and smiles as white as a Minnesota winter.
They were poised to be stars or as close to it as anyone can be with a broom in their hand.
And as Tiger Woods would say, they were really rolling the rock beautifully.
At least they were until Monday when the U.S. women's curling team was blown out in their opening match to Underdog Norway, proving, of course, that even frenetic broom sweeping can be affected by a case of Olympic nerves.
Call it an early scare for the curl girls, but there were a lot scarier things going on for American athletes in the mountains outside this factory city.
They had those two frightening crashes, two metal hopefuls lying in hospitals.
Uh NBC might have liked it because nothing sells like good wipeout videos.
Three days into these Olympics, though, injured Americans are piling up and U.S. metal projections are plummeting faster than General Motors car sales.
If it weren't for those wacky snorebore snowboarders uh grabbing air and kicking rear, the U.S. wouldn't even be on the first page of the leaderboard in the thing most important to those who dole out Olympic money, and that's the medal count.
And it goes on to talk about the injuries and some of the people involved, how they're playing and performing and so forth.
But clearly they they have lost some American star power uh with with all this.
And it was a devastating blow uh when the when the curl girl team bombed out to um to to Norway.
Devastating.
Have I watched curling?
Of course I've I've seen curling.
The last time I watched curling, I think I was eight or maybe ten.
When there were only three channels uh and the Olympics was on.
Olympics was a big deal because it was every every four years, and you know, you had to watch what they telecast.
You had to watch what they televised.
Curling is a mid you're asking me if curling is a Midwest sport.
Well, I I uh I've I don't know where there are curling teams.
I've this is my point.
I I don't I don't know if they do it in c I don't know where curling takes place.
I don't know where you go if I've like if you wanted to be on a curling team, Mr. Snurley, I don't know where you would go to try out, practice, learn the trade.
Um I don't know how it became a sport.
I'm not trying I'm not trying to be creepy.
It is what it is.
There are people that like it that do think it, you know, like I like golf.
Some people think that's as stupid as curling, you know.
So it's it's like some people don't like country music.
Uh it's just a matter of taste.
Uh but I don't want to harp on that on that too much.
It's just it is something that the the uh ratings blast for curling got blown out because the curling girls got blown out.
Uh I I guarantee if you're a TV programmer today and you're sitting down and you're designing a program designed to get huge ratings, you're not gonna decide, let's do a curling show.
And yet here we are at the Olympics, and that's one of the that's one of the big uh uh hopes that everybody has.
Meg in Loveland, Colorado, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush from my hero, you changed my life, but this is not about me.
Um I called because I am just my heartfelt sympathy has changed to disgust over the stuff I hear coming out of New Orleans.
It it just seems to me like the uh welfare mentality has robbed these people of everything, financial as well as their dignity and ambition.
And why aren't we hearing any of this these cries from Texas or Mississippi or Florida?
Look how they've been hit.
And it seems to me like those states are taking care of business, and yet um uh New Orleans is screaming and crying and wanting help, help, help.
Well, we have we have discussed this uh on numerous occasions on this program, and I can tell you if you want to, if you want me to join you in your sympathy, I will do it uh because I've been expressing it for as long as I have been behind the golden EIB microphone.
I think liberalism destroys lives.
I think liberalism destroys potential.
Liberalism robs people of the opportunity to be their best by having no expectations of them, by not having any hope in them.
Liberal leaders look at most of their constituents and don't see, other than their big money people, they don't see a lot of qualified, competent people.
They they see people that they want to continue in a state of need and a state of because that's how the liberals derive their power.
Now they may deny this.
Oh no, no, no.
Oh, you have to examine our intentions.
I don't care about your intentions.
Anybody can have good intentions.
I want to look at your results.
The results of liberalism are on full display in New Orleans.
There are people there who are stuck in these circumstances because they don't know anything else, because they have never had great expectations placed on them, and they've never had demands put on them.
They have they have been told you're victims.
You are in the circumstances you're in because others have been unfair to you, and only we, your friendly liberals, can make sure that life is moderately fair for you.
And we're gonna make it fair for you by getting even with those people who have made you victims.
So we're gonna raise their taxes, and we're gonna put a bunch of regulations on their business, and we want you to feel good when we make them miserable too.
The one thing liberalism has never sought to do is elevate people at any level to a higher one.
They look at the the divisions in our society, and they look at the people on the bottom, and they express great sympathy, and they claim those people are only there because they're victims of racism or bigotry or homophobia or what have you brought about by evil Republican conservatives.
And they don't see any hope that those people will ever be any better off than they are.
And liberals say the least we can do, the least we can do is take care of them with their health care and this and that and the other thing and bam o' so they get used to these moderate levels of assistance arriving on a regularly scheduled basis, and the process never learned anything else.
But their anger never subsides.
They continue to look around and they see prosperity all Around them.
They see other people doing well and doing better, and it makes them even angrier.
The libs are ready for that too.
Well, you should be angry because those people are gaming the system.
They are winners of life's lottery.
And so the Liberals go, we're going to raise their taxes.
We're going to raise the taxes on the rich.
And the people in the lower levels of society supported by liberal policies are supposed to go, okay, great, I feel better.
Their lot in life hasn't improved.
But when they think somebody's being gotten even with, and that's we've had fifty years of this.
And we had a panacea, we had a utopia constructed in New Orleans, and we find out when the system breaks down.
Um it's patently obvious here, has as Meg said, and it's a it is a crying shame.
Because of no expectations, they've never been taught how to do better.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
I got a great idea for NBC in these Olympics.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in the winter Olympics, there's this um there's uh uh an event called a biathlon.
And uh these guys do cross country skiing and they go through the woods and they stop at some point and they and they start shooting.
Isn't that the biathlon?
Okay, you go through the woods, you score on the course, you you're going through there with your cross-country ski and you stop and start shooting at a target.
Start wall-to-wall coverage of that, and you will never have to stop talking about the Cheney incident.
And you can combine, you get David Gregory on Olympics coverage at the same time.
I mean, that that would be watching women's curling.
As usual, all my advice advice uh to help these people will be ignored.
Now try this, folks.
This as a Valentine's Day story or or present.
This is from Spotsylvania, Virginia.
Undercover sex is getting the okay from a sheriff in Virginia.
Spotsylvania County Sheriff Howard Smith said that he stands by the practice of allowing detectives to receive sexual services in the course of their investigations so they can catch suspects in the act.
Court documents show that four times last month, county detectives uh detectives allowed women at a massage parlor to perform sex acts on them.
In one case, a lawman left a $350 tip.
The uh sheriff Howard Smith uh acknowledged the practice is not new.
Smith told the Washington Post that only unmarried detectives are allowed to do the under-the-covers work.
He said the actual sex acts are needed to I'm not making this up.
You I know it's a dirty job, somebody's got to do it.
Can you imagine the waiting list?
I bet there's no unemployment in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
He said that the uh actual sex acts are needed uh to help win prostitution convictions.
If I thought we could get the convictions without that, then we wouldn't allow it.
Uh, Sheriff Smith told the newspaper if you want if you want to if you want to make them, then this has to be done.
He said most prostitutes are careful not to say anything incriminating, which makes the sexual contact necessary.
Uh several have you ever heard of this anywhere else?
Several uh police off officials and legal observers uh say that the practice has been tried by other agencies across the country, but they know of none that still permit sexual contact with suspects as part of prostitution investigations, and many police agencies across the country uh have banned sexual contact between investigators and suspects.
Okay, Stephen in uh Annandale, Virginia.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
It's a pleasure, Russ.
I submitted my application yesterday.
Where is Spotsylvania, by the way, geographically in that state?
It's uh halfway between DC and Richmond.
Towards Fredericksburg.
Wow.
It's not on the border anywhere, it's not close to some other state, it's right, okay.
It's kind of country out there.
Yeah.
Uh in any case, the point I wanted to make was um as a kid I grew up in New Orleans, and um we went through Betsy and Camille, and it didn't have the flooding like uh Katrina.
I I acknowledge that.
But we didn't have FEMA back then, and we didn't have debit cards, but we we did have these things called tool belts.
Uh things called tool belts, yes.
Yeah.
Fathers actually knew how to use them, and they taught their sons uh, you know, home improvements.
It was like a home improvement class for all the sons.
And every block had father and son teams.
We uh they went around one house at a time and fixed everybody's house in turn.
That's how we did it then.
Well, you know, that was then, this is now.
This is a this is a different era.
You write about the most people can't afford tool belts because uh tattoos are four hundred and fifty bucks and uh you know depending on how many times you go into condoms to go, that can eat up uh money pretty fast, is money that you need otherwise, and of course, tool belt has to have tools.
You know how much they cost now.
Uh so it's it's different different priorities out there.
But I understand your point.
Understand exactly the uh the point you're making.
Dina in Madison, Alabama.
I'm glad you called.
You're next on a Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm never better.
Thank you.
I've wanted to call you so many times on all your political views because I agree with him, and I've actually called and gotten through on such a trivial issue, but I had to call and say how much I agree with you about the whole Valentine's issue.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It is over the top.
I am a um married woman with of course woman, but uh 15 years this April, and we dated for seven years before that, and I've never liked Valentine's Day, and um I think that the media and the marketing has gone way over the top with it, and this poor woman that this article is written about.
I'm hoping that there are other mothers like myself, mothers of young girls that help teach their girls not to grow up and feel like this poor woman feels.
Because that is not a I I don't know it it obviously the the mass marketing.
I don't I don't think there's that much yeah, you've got the Valentine ads and you've got the Valentine's This and so forth.
And I mean if people want to fall into it and and and participate in it's fine.
The the the thing that that that touched me about the story is that here is a woman who is actually giving up the power of her feelings to a concept.
And she's allowing herself to feel alone on this one night because she's not got anything going on on Valentine's Day.
And I think that's just it's a it's a great illustration of of how uh people get caught up in doing what they think they should be doing or being who they think they should be based on what others' expectations of them are, and and or they in this case think they're missing out on something because I will guarantee you this woman thinks every it's like New Year's Eve.
Everybody thinks that New Year's Eve is the best party in the world and everybody's at the best party except them, especially if they're alone or staying home, and then they get all depressed because they think all these other people are out there having a grand time when when not nearly as many as they think are.
are saying on Valentine's Day.
The thing about Valentine's Day, the number of people eating dinner tonight in a restaurant Uh because they actually want to be there as opposed to better do this, I better make this reservation.
Gosh, I hope I can get a table.
Uh I would me I would wager that the f the vast majority of flowers going back and forth today and candy grams and so forth and dinner reservations is because of uh I think I'd better do this, a sense of obligation.
Meanwhile, this woman is sitting at home feeling all alone, and it's just a shame.
She doesn't have to be.
Yeah, I just I I hate it that that thought process has to happen, and I just can't help but think that there's there are many more out there like that, and I I just don't want my my daughter to feel like that when she's growing up, you know, that someone's telling her how to feel, and it it's just ridiculous.
Well really is.
It's a family thing for us.
We do it as a family.
Valentine's Day?
I'm sorry?
You too.
Valentine's Day is a family.
Well, no, I mean we let our children enjoy it.
You know, they get little Valentine's cards and things like that, but it's not Aha.
So you have fallen for it.
No, no, no.
Not in the sense that you're talking about.
I don't make my husband feel like he has to go out and buy me something.
I just think that's ridiculous.
Now Dawn Dawn asked me when I first went on my little monologue about Valentine's Day.
Um what was her question?
Why am I so unromantic or w am I Roman Well, Dawn, here's the way I honestly look at this.
In the right relationship, every day is Valentine's Day.
How's that?
That'll make 'em melt.
Yeah.
How many times will that be said tonight?
Uh thanks for the call out there, Dina.
I appreciate it.
Who's next?
Uh Dave in Sioux City, Iowa.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Oh, hi, Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Kiddles to Infinity from Sioux City.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
See, I wanted uh to visit a little bit about the frivolous way government has handed out money to the uh Katrina victims.
Um I remember our Republican representative Steve King uh in September, shortly after uh that horrible storm down there was on our local talk radio, KFC J here at the city, and uh he said that uh he was only one of eleven representatives in the entire House of Representatives that stood up and said, you know, we're not for not wanting to help people, we do want to help the people.
We aren't even uh really worried about how much money this is, but we need to be somewhat accountable to the taxpayers.
This is these are their hard-earned tax dollars.
And uh boy were they those guys shoved in a corner and you know the rest of them said.
I I know that because the the this was this was that this was not the occasion, this was not the time to be concerned about where any of the money was going.
It just get the money there and let's see evidence that the money is.
That's all that mattered because right.
It's Washington's fault that this had happened.
So it's a whole mindset that the purpose of government is to uh uh among many other things, uh pretend to make it make it appear as though a disaster never happened by moving in so fast as it this is what politics has become.
It's a it's one of the uphill battles that we as conservatives are going to always be facing.
And that is, you know, if we're if we're ever to succeed overall, then it's only going to be done by convincing the American people, changing minds and changing hearts.
Do you know how hard it's going to be to change that attitude that people have of government?
Uh they have no kind you talk about just us the taxpayers, they don't have any concept it's their money.
Uh once they never see it, it's the government's money.
That's it's it's it's gonna be a law and it always has been and will continue to be a major educational uh uh effort.
Uh and it's not gonna be helped any by the fact, as you just found out, most members of Congress and the Senate are gonna want the government to look that way for the next campaign, hopefully get a commercial made of them passing out goodies and so forth.
It's just it's what I said, you know what it w on September 8th, right after this thing happened.
I said, when the when they started talking about all the money, I said, folks, forget the economics, it's no longer an economic issue.
It is a political issue.
With the media trying to portray Bush as blowing up levies, the media trying to portray Bush as wanting this to happen, Bush was horrible, Bush didn't care because the black people out of their homes, so he didn't care.
He's a racist, sexist, big and homophobe.
I knew instinctively what he's gonna do.
Oh, you say I don't care, huh?
Okay, watch this.
He just starts writing checks, promising money and so forth.
That's that's how, especially in a liberal state, that's how you show you care.
Is how much money are you willing to give immediately, and then how much are you willing to continue giving, and how long and so forth.
I must take a brief time out, my friend.
Sit tight back with more here on the EIB network after this.
David Gregory is literally gonna blow his stack.
His own head is going to blow up.
Because it is j it has just been reported that Scott McClellan, the White House Secretary, knew of Mr. Whittington's heart attack today before the White House briefing, and didn't tell them.
Oh, oh, oh.
He didn't tell David Gregory what he knew.
He didn't tell him that he had been informed that Whittington had had this little heart attack, and the and the uh the bird shot uh pellet was lodged in his heart and went through the whole press conference, the briefing with the repeat questions from yesterday, and now it's learned something like two hours after the briefing that McClellan knew all along and didn't tell them.
Oh.
And folks, uh I have to share something with you.
A friend of mine in North Carolina has sent me a column by a staff writer there by the name of Barry Saunders.
And this is in the Raleigh News Observer, News and Observer, and he is uh the main columnist in the local paper there.
And his piece is called Dummy Up Scooter.
And I'm gonna read to the remember, this is a this a mainstream North Carolina newspaper.
This is not a left-wing liberal blog.
Accident my eye.
Or rather Harry Whittington's eye.
If you believe it was just an accident that Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting companion last weekend, you obviously have never seen the Godfather movies.
Just as surely as a fish wrapped in a bulletproof vest means Luca Brazi sleeps with the fishes.
That shotgun blast to Whittington's face was meant to convey that Scooter Libby had better bite his tongue and forget about testifying against Cheney, his former boss in the Valerie Plame spy case.
What'll it be, scooter, a case of amnesia or lead poisoning?
The woman who owns the ranch on which the shooting occurred said that Whittington shot a bird, went to retrieve it, and then snuck up on Cheney.
The vice president, she said, was shooting at a covey of quail when he hit the tall orange vest wearing lawyer.
Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, recently told a grand jury that leaking Playm's identity was a s as a spy was authorized by his superiors who were angered by Plame's husband's public criticism of the war at Iraq.
That revelation had many questioning how low this administration would go to quash dissent.
Now we know.
A vice president who will shoot an ally to get across his message of Omerta, mob speak for hush up, may be considered a national disgrace by some.
And he goes on.
Now I'm going to allow.
I I will suggest to you that if if this man Barry Saunders column ends up getting a lot of attention, he will say, People obviously don't understand satire.
People obviously don't understand, I am kidding.
Uh there are better ways to do satire than this.
Because the uh he goes on to Savage Cheney is a hunter, and Savage Cheney is this or that.
The reason I bring this up, though, is because I told you people mere moments ago that if you go to the right websites, you will read that this was all done on purpose, that Whittington agreed to be shot by Cheney in order to take this very Libby story off the front pages, the story that this columnist in North Carolina refers to.
So you've got the Kooks who have somehow have bought into this notion, this whole thing was a plot, a conspiracy.
Uh and now you've got this guy adding to it by suggesting that Cheney's sending Libby a message to shut up.
Um just why that's satire in parody and Limbaugh, who claims that's what he does, doesn't understand it.
I have a little owl for that.
I just it uh the first half of it doesn't read that way.
Finally, a national survey suggests that you actually can buy happiness.
Now there was a story yesterday that says that uh uh money can't buy happiness, but says here you can.
This is a pew research center national telephone survey.
Rich Republican churchgoers must be the happiest people on earth.
While only about a third of Americans in a survey released Monday reported being very happy, the people in those categories had the best odds of bliss.
Rich Republican churchgoers.
Republicans are happier than Democrats and independents.
Republicans on average 45% happy and content, only 30% of the Democrats.
I've told you this.
We don't need a survey for this.
I'm surprised 30% of Democrats say they're happy because I don't see any of them who are.
I run into them angry, churlish, frowning, fretting, always discontent.
It's amazing to me that 30 of them, 30% of them reported being happy.
Forty-five percent of Republicans did.
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I have a question for those of you in uh New Orleans.
The Clinton tax increases designed to make everybody feel so much better, that others are being hurt.
Those tax increases didn't fix the levies, did they?
Did not build up the U.S. military, did they?
And those tax increases did not bring about universal health care, did they?
So tell me again, why why did the Clinton administration raise taxes on the rich retroactively?
It wasn't to balance the budget.
The dot-com boom and bubble and spending restraints did that.
No, it was simply to make the people the Democratic Party takes care of.
I think the Democrats are getting even.
With all those people, they're doing better than everybody else is.
Pure envy politics and capitalizing on it.
All right, folks, have a great day out there.
Enjoy women's curling as it's replayed on NBC.
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