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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.
Tied behind my back just to make things fair.
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And the email address is rush at EIBnet.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, I guess it traveled through an artery or somehow to his heart at a minor heart attack today as they tried to transport him.
Now, this is going to cause the media to ratchet this up to a new level, which is expected.
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 the ranch immediately after the accident occurred.
Where in fact, the opposite is true.
This vindicates, well, the opposite is true.
It vindicates that Cheney's focus and emphasis on getting Mr. Whittington medical attention first was the right focus.
There's no doubt about that.
Well, Ronnie Earl indict, I don't know if this is Travis County.
Of course, with the Democrats, why would that matter?
Where it is.
But I'm just warning you people, this is going to ratchet up media coverage on this because this is going to make them, this is Dick 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 Whittington's condition was the focus.
Some wacko libs.
Now, if you go to the right websites, you will read that the wacko libs think that this was done purposely, that Cheney shot Whittington, not intending to harm him, just shot him on purpose in order to distract all the media coverage from the Libby leak.
Because Libby is out there, Libby has said that, hey, higher-ups told me I can leak this stuff.
And so everybody, whoo, whoo, whoo.
And of course, everybody 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 in order to cause this media distraction.
And the Libs are mad at the media for falling for the trick and going wall-to-wall coverage.
I'm not making this up, folks.
I am not kidding.
You can go out 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 Al Gore and John Kerry and Hillary are trying to appeal to.
Can't wait to see when they figure out exactly what they have to say and do in order to pull that off.
Here's a little story today in the New York Sun.
Did you know that Judith Miller was back in court fighting with the special prosecutor 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 plame 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 Plame 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 subpoenaed.
What this is all about, Judith Miller turned up at a federal appeals court manhand 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.
If that's what this is about, 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 if that's what happened, if the New York Times alerted these two Islamic charities to an upcoming FBI raid, if that is that's what if, well, hell's bells here, folks.
Do we need to redefine treason here?
You know, 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 December 16th, and now this Judith Miller business.
And by the way, this, I don't, Fitzgerald is not acting as special counsel or independent prosecutor.
He's in his role here as a U.S. attorney in this case.
So, and it's out there.
The New York Post has the story.
The New York Sun has the story.
And, 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 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.
And I think he was part of the blind sheikh prosecution, Omar Abdel-Rachman.
If you've got the New York Times reporters tipping off Islamic charities that a raid is coming, hell's bells.
See, NBC is whining about the ratings now that, well, they lost Michelle Kwan.
She was going to 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 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 16 to nothing.
And frankly, do we carefully, 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.
Well, I would, I mean, I know some sexists would like it because finally you see a woman 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.
Before I treat you the details of this NBC story, let's go grab a couple of phone calls.
Steve and 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 so rot and distressed.
It's the old-time media.
They're pretending still like they have a monopoly on the media.
They're running stuff tape-delayed 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 happened six hours a day.
Wait, just a minute.
Are you actually watching video live of the events as they take place?
No, no, no.
I'm watching the results live.
All right, okay.
Well, see, some people want to watch the events.
I mean, some people don't care about, like, I don't care who wins the women's broom race.
No, if you want to watch it, I mean, I don't, that's my point.
Anybody care about women's curling?
I mean, if not, really, does anybody watch men's curling?
Well, but if you want the results, yeah, you can certainly do that.
But like, some people want to watch this in high definition.
Well, curling is an interesting sport all into itself.
And, you know, the men's versus women's is an interesting debate.
But I'm just a shuffleboard on ice.
Well, it's a cruise ship game.
You know, I'm sure 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 half a day ago.
Well, most people are doing that because they want to see the events, even if they know who wins.
They want to see if they're into the Olympics, they're going to watch them, and NBC is going to put them on in prime time.
I mean, there's no reason to.
And there isn't calling it the Torino Olympics.
It's Turin.
It's Turin.
Everybody knows it, the Shroud of Turin.
At any rate, listen to this.
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.
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 snowboarders 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 have lost some American star power with all this.
And it was a devastating blow when the Curl Girl team bombed out to Norway.
Devastating.
Have I watched curling?
Of course I've seen curling.
The last time I watched curling, I think I was eight or maybe ten when there were only three channels and the Olympics was on.
Olympics was a big deal because it was 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?
I don't know where there are curling teams.
This is my point.
I don't know if they do it.
I don't know where curling takes place.
I don't know where you go.
If you wanted to be on a curling team, Mr. Snerley, I don't know where you would go to try out, practice, learn the trade.
I don't know how it became a sport.
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.
So it's like some people don't like country music.
It's just a matter of taste.
But I don't want to harp on that too much.
It's just it is something that the ratings blast for curling got blown out because the curling girls got blown out.
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 going to decide, let's do a curling show.
And yet here we are at the Olympics, and that's one of the big hopes that everybody has.
Megan, Loveland, Colorado, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
Rush, you're my hero.
You've changed my life.
But this is not about me.
I called because I am just, my heartfelt sympathy has changed to disgust over the stuff I hear coming out of New Orleans.
It just seems to me like the welfare mentality has robbed these people of everything, financial as well as their dignity and ambition.
And why aren't we hearing any of 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 New Orleans is screaming and crying and wanting help, help, help.
Well, we have discussed this on numerous occasions on this program.
And I can tell you, if you want me to join you in your sympathy, I will do it 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 they're big money people, they don't see a lot of qualified, competent people.
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.
Oh, you have to examine our intentions.
I don't care about your intentions.
Anybody 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've never had great expectations placed on them, and they've never had demands put on them.
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 going to make it fair for you by getting even with those people who have made you victims.
So we're going to raise their taxes, and we're going to 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 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 bamos.
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.
And 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 50 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, it's patently obvious here, as Meg said, and it is a crying shame.
That 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 and these Olympics.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in the Winter Olympics, there's this an event called a biathlon.
And these guys do cross-country skiing, and they go through the woods, and they stop at some point, and they start shooting.
Isn't that the biathlon?
Okay, you go through the woods, you scroll on the course, you're going through there with your cross-country skiing, 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 would be watching women's curling.
As usual, all my advice to help these people will be ignored.
Now, try this, folks, as a Valentine's Day story 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, detectives allowed women at a massage parlor to perform sex acts on them.
In one case, a lawman left a $350 tip.
The sheriff, Howard Smith, 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.
I'm not making this up.
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 actual sex acts are needed to help win prostitution convictions.
If I thought we could get the convictions without that, then we wouldn't allow it.
Sheriff Smith told the newspaper, 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.
Have you ever heard of this anywhere else?
Several police officials and legal observers say that the practice has been tried by other agencies across the country, but they know of none that still permits sexual contact with suspects as part of prostitution investigations.
And many police agencies across the country have banned sexual contact between investigators and suspects.
Okay, Stephen in Annandale, Virginia.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
It's a pleasure, Rush.
I submitted my application yesterday.
Where is Spotsylvania, by the way, geographically in that state?
It's halfway between D.C. 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.
In any case, the point I wanted to make was as a kid, I grew up in New Orleans, and we went through Beth C and Camille, and it didn't have the flooding like Katrina.
I acknowledge that.
But we didn't have FEMA back then, and we didn't have debit cards, but we did have these things called tool belts.
Things called tool belts, yes.
Yeah.
The fathers actually knew how to use them, and they taught their sons home improvements.
It was like a home improvement class for all the sons.
And every block had father and son teams.
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 different era.
You're right about that.
Most people can't afford tool belts because tattoos are $450.
And, you know, depending on how many times you go into condoms to go, that can eat up money pretty fast, money that you need otherwise.
And, of course, tool belt has to have tools.
You know how much they cost now.
So it's different priorities out there.
But I understand your point.
Understand exactly the point you're making.
Dina in Madison, Alabama.
I'm glad you called.
You're next on a Russian 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 them, 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 married woman with, of course, woman, but 15 years this April, and we dated for seven years before that.
And I've never liked Valentine's Day.
And 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 all about.
I don't know.
The mass marketing.
I don't think there's that.
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 participate in it, it's fine.
The thing that touched me about the story is that here's 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 great illustration of how 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.
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 not nearly as many as they think are.
Standing on Valentine's Day.
The thing about the number of people eating dinner tonight in a restaurant because they actually want to be there as opposed to, I better do this.
I better make this reservation.
Gosh, I hope I can get a table.
I would wager that the vast majority of flowers going back and forth today and candy grams and so forth and dinner reservations is because of, 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 hate it that that thought process has to happen, and I just can't help but think that there are many more out there like that.
And I just don't want my daughter to feel like that when she's growing up, you know, that someone's telling her how to feel.
And it's just ridiculous.
Well, it 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, you just have to do it.
You just have made it something else.
You're not afraid of it 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.
Dawn asked me when I first went on my little monologue about Valentine's Day.
What was her question?
Why am I so unromantic?
Well, Dawn, here's the way I honestly look at this.
In the right relationship, every day is Valentine's Day.
There, how's that?
That'll make them melt.
Yeah.
How many times will that be said tonight?
Thanks for the call out there, Dina.
I appreciate it.
Who's next?
Dave in Sioux City, Iowa.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Oh, hi, Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Dittos to infinity from Sioux City.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
See, I wanted to visit a little bit about the frivolous way government is handed out money to the Katrina victims.
I remember our Republican Representative, Steve King, in September, shortly after that horrible storm down there, was on our local talk radio, KSCJ here at the city.
And he said that he was only one of 11 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 really worried about how much money this is, but we need to be somewhat accountable to the taxpayers.
These are their hard-earned tax dollars.
And boy, were they, those guys shoved in a corner and, you know, the rest of them said, I know that because this was not the occasion.
This was not the time to be concerned about where any of the money was going.
Get the money there and let's see evidence that the money is.
That's all that mattered because Washington was expected to care and Washington was expected to do something.
And Washington had better make this right.
It's Washington's fault that this had happened.
So it's a whole mindset that the purpose of government is to, among many other things, pretend to make it appear as though a disaster never happened by moving in so fast.
This is what politics has become.
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 ever to succeed overall, and 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?
You talk about us, the taxpayers.
They don't have any concept it's their money.
They never see it.
It's the government's money.
It's going to be a lot, and it always has been, it will continue to be, a major educational effort.
And it's not going to be helped any by the fact, as you just found out, most members of Congress and the Senate are going to 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, on September 8th, right after this thing happened, I said 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 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 going to do.
Oh, you say I don't care, huh?
Okay, watch this.
He just starts writing checks, promising money and so forth.
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 timeout, my friends.
Sit tight.
Back with more here on the EIB network after this.
David Gregory is literally going to blow his stack.
His own head is going to blow up because 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.
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 bird shot 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 him.
And folks, 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 the main columnist in the local paper there.
And his piece is called Dummy Up Scooter.
And I'm going to read to the, remember, this is 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 Brazzi sleeps with the fishes, that shotgun blast to Whittington's face was meant to convey to 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 Plame's identity 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 will suggest to you that 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.
There are better ways to do satire than this because he goes on to savage Cheney as a hunter and savage Cheney as 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.
And now you've got this guy adding to it by suggesting that Cheney's sending Libby a message to shut up.
You just want satire and parody and Limbaugh, who claims that's what he does, doesn't understand it.
I have a loud for that.
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 money can't buy happiness.
It 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 have 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.
45% of Republicans did.
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I have a question for those of you in 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?
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 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 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.
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