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April 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh, soon to be, when I light this thing up, amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic, first and second-hand premium cigar smoke, welcoming all of you to our third hour, the Rush Limbaugh program today on the one and only EIB network.
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All right, the drumbeat continues from certain sectors of this country to make sure that the preview, the trailer for United 93, the new movie that opens on April 28th about the fourth hijacked airplane that did not hit its target.
People saying, it's too soon.
It's too soon.
It offends me.
It offends some people.
It's too soon.
These are the same people that can't get enough of the Abu Grab photos.
Same people that can't get enough of the supposed torture and terror that was being committed at Club Gitmo.
For all of you people out there who are offended by the trailer or the whole concept of the movie United 93, I and many members of my immediate circle were offended by the airing of the Abu Grab pictures.
I thought it was a little too soon to air those pictures.
I thought it was offensive to some people.
It harmed our effort to win the war, and that's why you loved it.
Bunch of leftist sludge.
I was offended, deeply offended, by those pictures.
If that was a little too soon, I demanded the media stop showing them.
No, of course, nobody listened.
But now we've pressured some movie theater operators into not playing the trailer for this movie.
Wait till the movie hits.
It's only going to make the movie bigger and bigger and bigger.
And I'll tell you what I have done.
Tell you what, I hardly ever do this.
I so seldom do it because I, you know, well, I just don't.
But I have asked for and I have been given a private screening of this movie.
I'm going to see it next week because when I see the left get in gear in this and try to try to, they're going to be scared to death this movie be shown because the Democratic Party has spent four years here trying to convince people that we really do live in a pre-9-11 world.
This is just an abstract thing that happened once and Bush is only making it worse.
So we really were lied to.
And so the last thing they want is for people to be reminded why we're in Iraq, why we're fighting the war on terror, who our enemy is.
They have tried to sabotage our effort to defeat this enemy, Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights, and so forth.
So I have asked for and I have been granted a request, my request to see a private screening of United 93 next week.
Now, I had this in the stack yesterday, and I talked about it a little bit, but I didn't spend much time on it.
This wacko scientist, what's his name?
Eric Pianca.
Eric Pianca is a scientist from somewhere.
I have no, it doesn't matter.
It really doesn't matter, but he's got this belief that the planet is being destroyed by humanity and that we're overpopulated.
The Paul Ehrlich population bomb scenario all over the place.
And I'm sure you've heard about this by now.
He says that 90% of the world's population needs to die.
People are destroying the planet, and he's got a way of doing it.
Airborne Ebola.
Ebola is not airborne, right?
But fix it, genetically engineer it so that it's airborne Ebola and wipe out nine-tenths of the world's population to save the planet.
Now, I know it's kooky, and I know it's loony tunes.
But I've these exact kind of people that are running the environmentalist wacko movement.
This guy genuinely believes it.
The problem is this, folks.
When he makes the speech in which he announces this plan, he goes to audiences of young students, 400 or so at a time, and they end up applauding this idea, and they end up giving standing ovations.
And the concern is that somewhere, this guy keeps running around making this speech, is that there's going to be some nutcase in the audience that's going to become a disciple of this guy or almost an evangel, and he is going to act on it.
He's going to say, yeah, this is a good idea, and think he's doing the best thing in the world for his planet by destroying humanity, nine-tenths of it.
That's the danger of this, is that any fanatic in the crowd can get a load of this and fall prey to it.
You know, these young skulls full of mush who think these scientists are the end-all-be-all.
So while it is kooky, I wouldn't discount the danger posed by this.
Hillary Clinton, Los Angeles Times today, Hollywood souring on Hillary from Madonna to George Clooney.
Hollywood's A-lists have been making their doubts public, such as Sharon Stone.
Hillary's too sexy to run for president now.
His sexuality is still just too powerful.
She should get out of there.
Depending on whom you talk to in Hollywood these days, Hillary Clinton's either too conservative, too polar.
Oh, speaking of that, H.R. had a great point.
We played the montage about an hour ago, two montages of McCain, back from 2001, where the press, and ever since then, they've been falling all over themselves to embrace him as the Maverick.
Oh, they love McCain.
He was a guest on Matthew's show three times a week for two years after the 2000 election.
He was treated almost as though he should have won the presidency and almost was the president.
And of course, McCain ate it all up.
He was just loved and adored by the mainstream press, and they threw the term Maverick around.
Let's contrast this with Hillary.
Hillary, of course, darling of the left as well.
And during this past year, Hillary has on occasion made experimental forays off the liberal reservation, if you will, and stuck her toe either in what she thinks is the center or the right wing.
She has made some statements on abortion that were designed to make Red State America think that she was partially understanding of their position on this issue.
In fact, even agreed with some of their position.
And she did this on a number of issues.
And the press and the Democrats, they just winked.
We know who she is.
She's just doing this.
She's just maneuvering.
And they didn't care a whit about it.
Let McCain, who they also love, he has now done two things.
He has come out in favor of Bush's tax cuts, and he is going to speak at Falwell's place, Liberty University.
He's now saying Falwell's a good guy.
Times have changed.
The incidents from 2000 have been put behind him.
They've agreed to disagree on certain things.
And McCain's gone over the edge.
They're not saying McCain knows what he's doing.
We know who McCain is.
Yeah, he's just doing what he has to do to get the nominated.
Nope, they're already throwing him off the reservation.
McCain is no longer the Maverick.
Just another illustration of how differently the left treats its own.
And this is what I always said, no matter what they did and how they treated McCain, I was warning him constantly from behind this golden EIB microphone.
It was phony.
And the minute you have a presidential opponent who's a Democrat, if it's Hillary, you are not the chosen one.
You are not going to be all he's going to have to do is take one conservative position, side with Bush on just one thing, and they're going to be cut him no slack whatsoever.
But on the left, now the media is not abandoning Hillary, but some of these Hollywood A-list people are, and that's what the LA Times story is about.
Our buddies at Newsmax are reporting that support for Hillary Clinton's re-election bid has suddenly plunged precipitously with her lead over GOP challenger former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer dropping by 10 points according to the latest Zogby poll.
In Zogby's January survey, Mrs. Clinton led Spencer among New Yorkers by 31 points.
Quinnipiak and Marist College surveys taken in the intervening months have echoed that result.
But in a Zogby poll released yesterday, Mrs. Clinton's lead has suddenly plummeted to 21 points, showing her with 54% of Spencer's 33%.
So that's a 21-point lead still makes her the odds-on favorite for the reelection.
But some New Yorkers recall the case of another Empire State Democrat whose 24-point lead seemed even more daunting just six months from Election Day.
Despite the staggering poll deficit, little-known upstate farmer George Pataki went on to defeat Mario the Pious that November.
So people are just remembering that.
Sometimes I think people on our side get a little over-excited when there's any negative news about Hillary out there.
Anybody, I mean, do you see Snerdley, her getting defeated in the Senate race?
I don't either.
So you can't let the hope of expectations cloud what is reality.
And I don't even think that the Hollywood A-listers have been.
That could be strategic, too, since most of America doesn't like the Hollywood A-listers.
Makes Hillary look good in some people's eyes.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
All right, I'm getting besieged with questions.
Come on, Rush.
I don't care if Snerdley hasn't seen 24.
Tell us what you thought about it.
And I'm sure some of you still haven't seen it.
So I'm not going to, I'm going to do it.
I'll do it this way.
Because a number of questions in the email about last night's 24.
Rush, were you surprised it was President Logan?
And here's my answer.
I don't think it's President Logan.
Remember, nothing is as it seems on 24.
Don't be fooled.
And I know nothing, folks.
I do not take advantage of my friendship with the creator and producer.
I never ask for advance episodes.
I don't ask them because they, I mean, the cast sometimes, they've got confidentiality agreements.
Nobody's allowed to talk about what hasn't aired.
And I don't press them on it.
That's not what friendship is.
I don't want to know anyway.
I want to watch it and see it unfold as I watch it.
But I'll just tell you, I don't think it's President Logan.
I think we're being suckered by these writers.
Again, if you haven't seen the episode, you plan on watching it.
I haven't given anything away, but I'm answering a question I'm getting here in the email.
All right, Cynthia McKinney.
No, not Cynthia McKinney, not yet.
She's coming next.
We've got some soundbites from last night.
What is it?
It's Hardball.
Chris Matthews.
Now, one of the things I've always told you, ladies and gentlemen, is that despite robust economic news, statistically measured full employment, unemployment now 4.7%, the Democrats continue to be obsessed with painting a picture of doom and gloom.
They see soup line America and they want you to see soup line America.
I had somebody ask me.
I had a guy who's on the fence.
Democrat still loyal, but having trouble keeping up with him.
And he said, if you had a chance to speak to policymakers, Democratic National Committee or Party, wherever, what would you tell them?
And I said, I tell them every day what they ought to do.
They don't listen.
I said, when it comes to the economy, you know, acknowledge that it's good.
Be proud of the country.
Talk about the greatness of possibility and opportunity here and try to get yourself so you can take some credit for it when it roars like it is now.
Instead of trying to lie to people all the time about what it isn't.
I said, when it comes to the war, you know, we're the United States of America.
We are going to win this.
At some point, wouldn't you like to have a claim in the victory instead of having to craft a position where the war is illegitimate and you're trying to make sure we lose it?
What the hell are you people thinking?
But where's the optimism?
Where's the love of country?
Where's the respect for the president of the United States in time of war?
There's none of this.
You are actively out trying to foster an attitude of genuine kookery.
You are creating genuine lunatics as the base of your party.
I don't understand it.
I love that you're doing it.
But I can't for the life of me understand it.
You guys are trying to defy history.
You guys are trying to say that there's a new book that needs to be written, The Power of Negative Thinking, and how it can take you to new heights.
The problem is it's totally against human nature.
All right.
So we talk about it all this time, right?
Last night on Hardball, we had Steve McMahon as a Democratic operative strategerist and Pat Buchanan and Erasmus and poll.
We just had this poll out.
It said Erasmus and poll, I think we late last week announced that majority of people in the 60% think they're much better off economically today than they were four years ago.
It's a poll.
The media loves polls.
They can't get enough polls, but for some reason, this one they don't want to listen to.
So here's the question for Steve McMahon, first of two, from Matthews.
Steve, explain why the economy is doing okay.
Now, okay, certainly stock market, I think, went up again today, and yet the president gets no benefit politically from it.
Well, I think it goes back to something Pat alluded to earlier.
Macroeconomically, things look like they're in pretty good shape.
But if you ask people whether or not they feel like they're in better shape, it's that old question Ronald Reagan asked, are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Yeah, well, right.
Well, they say they are in the 60%, Steve.
I mean, this is irresponsible of you as a service to your party.
If you're going to go out there and try to tell people that they, and that's what they're doing, oh, really?
We saw a poll.
You feel better now than you did four years ago.
Well, you shouldn't.
And we're going to make sure you don't because we're going to bombard you with all kinds of news to make you feel how horrible and lousy.
And that's what they're trying to just ignore this information.
Well, it goes back to the old Reagan question.
Yeah, people four years ago, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just totally ignore the reality.
And then Matthew says, well, why is there a difference?
Well, people don't see a hopeful future for the United States of America.
They know that jobs are leaving in droves to other countries.
They know that Mexican immigrants are driving the wages in this country down.
They know that big companies are not keeping faith with the workers and they're dumping pension plans.
And so as they look at the economy, it's their personal economy that matters to them, not so much how the stock market's doing.
It's been very good for people like you and for me.
Did you catch the beginning?
Well, people don't see a hopeful future for the United States of America.
They know that jobs are leaving in droves to other countries.
Steve, you know, consumer, yeah, conference board, consumer confidence is the highest it's been since 2002.
We had the Rasmussen survey I previously referenced.
But beyond all that, I think the Democrats are illustrated here, at least McMahon is illustrating, they don't even understand what the American attitude is.
The reason that down economic times, when we have them, are so politically damaging is because, precisely because, Americans do always see and have a hopeful future for themselves and their country.
It's part of who we are.
We are, whether you know it or not, you are naturally optimistic.
You have high expectations of this economy.
You have high expectations of the country.
You have high expectations of yourself.
And when they aren't met, that's when you get mad.
If you didn't have those high expectations, then it wouldn't matter if we had a roller coaster economy into recession and then into growth.
But it does matter precisely because the ingrained, I think it's part of our birth attitude of being an American is optimism and a hopeful future.
I mean, how can they miss this?
It's been the goal of every generation of parents that their kids have a better life than they had.
And it's always been the case.
Children have always had the opportunity for a better life than their parents had.
That's never been interrupted.
Democrats try to tell you that those days are over because they want doom and gloom, but it's not over.
It's quintessentially American.
And yet here is a primary advisor for Democratic candidates.
People don't see a hopeful future for the United States of America.
They know that jobs are leaving in droves to other countries.
As long as the Democrats remain out of touch like this, the Republicans screw up all they want.
This is just, this is just, it's, for me, it's really difficult to understand why they would even want to carve out a position like this that goes so against the natural existence of an American citizen.
At any rate, a quick timeout.
Pat Buchanan waved in.
We'll play that for you next when we return.
As usual, talent on loan from God.
All right.
Now, we've heard Steve McMahon run down the very essence of an American by saying people don't see a hopeful future for the United States.
If they didn't see a hopeful future, Steve, then there wouldn't, you know, politics wouldn't matter in this country.
I mean, this is just apparently absurd.
But Buchanan wanted to get in on it last night.
Matthews says to him, Pat, you're an expert on this because you campaigned about it.
You actually find cases where middle-aged guys are getting yanked and replaced by a South Asian.
Sure, you do.
I've gone to factory after factory and talked to guys.
One of them will tell me, Pat, you know where the guy worked next to me is now?
He's in Mexico training his replacement because that's where the factory is gone.
Go to California.
A lot of those folks in the defense industry, their middle-aged 40s, 50s, early 60s, they're not getting jobs.
They want the young people they can get at far less.
The top 20%, which is doing fine.
Middle America, in my judgment, is being sold out by the Transnational Corporation and both political parties.
Pat, you sound like a Democrat.
Come on, well, if that isn't true, and at least in this sound bite, but there's more importantly is McMahon is telling us who Dember what Democrats believe.
It's all doom and gloom out there.
I don't know if you saw this or not.
Well, I just had it.
I printed it out, but as usual, I got so much going on here I can't find it.
But I have a good memory.
Don't need to find it.
Toyota beat their sales performance expectations in the month of March.
All the other competitors did not meet theirs.
They're down.
Now, a lot of Toyotas are made in this country.
Toyota, a lot of Japanese cars are made in factories in this country.
I don't know.
General Motors is moving factories to Mexico.
I don't know what you know.
This is the old NAFTA argument that this is simply rehashed and recited, minus the giant sucking sound.
But we are in a constant state of flux in this economy, and it is adapting to the global nature of economic linked dependence today.
It is what it is.
Capitalism is the essence of free market economics.
And you can only stop it by regulating it, reining it in, artificially doing things that you're going to have to fix later because they're going to wreck things.
The regulations will.
It's, I don't know.
And I haven't been alive, I don't think, where there hasn't been some sector of our economy that's going south because some other sector's taking it over.
You know, the classic example is the buggy whip industry when the automobiles came along.
Like the railroad business.
The railroad people thought they were in the railroad business.
They weren't.
They were in a transportation business.
If they'd have figured that out, they would have bought the next step up of transportation once automobiles came along and then airplanes and so forth.
But they thought they were in a railroad business.
Then you had, like, you look at newspapers today.
They're in the information business, but they're all caught up in the delivery system, in print, and so forth.
And they're worried about this.
They've got to come up with new ways to deliver their information.
That's what they're known for.
People don't go out and buy a newspaper because it's a newspaper, because it's newsprint.
They buy what's on it.
And if that doesn't change, if that doesn't modernize, they're going to go south like the buggy whip guys did.
I could get personal, but I won't.
But everybody has to be able to look ahead and spot where things are going and try to stay ahead of it.
Cold being on the cutting edge of societal, technological, cultural evolution or what have you.
But if you're going to sit here and lament the loss of a singer sewing machine factory, I mean, go right ahead.
It's the way of the world.
It's always been the way of the world.
Here's Randy in Albuquerque.
Randy, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Rush.
Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you.
Dittos to you, too.
Thanks very much.
Hello.
Oh, hello there.
Rush.
Rush, I'm one of the biggest fans.
But I'm afraid I may have to consider not listening to you on Mondays from here on.
You mean Tuesdays?
Well, okay.
You waited one day, but I tell you what, I leave on Sunday.
I'm gone for a week.
I set the Ti-Vote to watch to CT 24 when I get back.
And you just ruined this episode for me, buddy.
Oh, come on, Randy.
I didn't give anything away.
You don't know what's in this episode.
Oh, you didn't.
You have no clue.
You give the whole thing away.
I did not.
Yes, you did.
I did not.
You have no clue what's going to happen in this episode.
Besides, Randy.
Oh, but I know who's involved, and I know the twist, and that's what I wait for each week.
It's that twist.
Yeah, well.
Who's involved?
What I'm telling you is that I think we're being suckered on the twist.
But look, Randy, we had the creator and a chief writer for this season on the program Thursday, and they warned everybody that this episode was going to be one of the four or five a year that they put together.
I know.
No, they said it was going to be in the White House, and I didn't know who it was at that point.
They didn't say, they didn't say it was going to be in the White House.
They didn't say that.
They said, what about President?
You know, the President.
I'm getting, I'm, I'm, look, what am I doing here?
I didn't, you're going to have to trust me.
I didn't give anything.
Snerdley, do you think?
Do you, Snerdley hadn't seen the episode?
Dude, did what I say make you now not want to watch the episode?
Yeah, okay.
Well, it's, I'm sorry you feel this way, Randy.
We'll be sorry to lose you on Tuesdays, but I don't, you know, what am I supposed to do here?
I resisted the temptation earlier in the program.
I'm being inundated with emails from people who want to know what I think about it.
And I try to say as little as possible in answering a specific question.
But you watch the episode when you get back home.
And I guarantee you, at no point in this episode will what I just said ruin it for you or even illuminate things for you.
Here's Kenny and Fresno.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
How's it going, Rush?
Good.
Thank you.
Hey, what I want to know is, how do the Dems justify their stated policy that they don't want to do anything to stop the illegal immigration, but yet they blame the illegal immigrant for taking jobs away from middle of America?
Well, that's a good point because McMahon did do that.
He said, yeah, they know that Mexican immigrants are driving the wages in this country down.
That is at odds with what his guys like Dick Durbin are out there saying.
These are the backbone of the future of America.
We need them.
Here's Steve McMahon said they're driving wages down.
I think they're slipping up because they don't dare tell you what they really think.
So one Democrat will go out on the limb and tell you what he thinks that'll politically benefit him to say.
And here's McMahon trying to voice the opinion of the whole party, but they're trying to stay out of the immigration thing.
They're practicing the old adage, when your opponent's destroying themselves, get out of the way and watch and let it happen.
That's what they think is happening.
They always think that when Republicans have debates among themselves, when conservatives argue about, like Harriet Myers, they thought that was a conservative crackup.
They sat back, oh, this is fabulous.
When a Republicans are destroying themselves, that was a conservative crackdown, and the conservatives strengthened themselves.
And anytime that there is a, I mean, this is the United States of America.
We debate issues here.
We're not all monolithic.
We disagree, even on the same side of political aisle from issue to issue.
We have people among us that see things differently.
But at least we don't hide what we really think.
Our factions are honest, and the American people can figure it out for themselves.
They don't have to wonder if we're lying to them.
When you listen to Steve McMahon complain about all these illegal immigrants driving wages down, then you hear Dick Durbin talking about how they're the backbone of America and they're becoming the future neurobiologists of the country.
Believe me, the people have Democrats in this country sized up.
They have them sized up.
And what they know is that Democrats won't dare be honest and tell them what they really think.
I mean, here we've got this silly little security plan of theirs.
And Fred Hyatt in the Washington Post yesterday dissed it.
He's their op-ed page editor.
And it's called Democrats' Narrow Vision.
Here's the money quote.
Throughout the plan, in fact, there is no discussion of values of liberty or generosity of free markets of foreign aid of any purpose for American leadership larger than self-protection.
The pollsters may be satisfied, but John F. Kennedy would not recognize his party.
And that's exactly right.
So you've had Ron Brownstein dump on their security plan.
Now here's Fred Hyatt of the Washington Post dumping on it, and a lot of other members of the media are going to start doing so too because the Democrats simply won't be honest.
And they think, like they think they've driven delay out of office with Ronnie Earl.
Oh, we won big.
Okay.
They haven't won anything.
They think they've already won the White House and the 06 midterms with their security plan.
This is one of those times you thank the Lord for your enemies.
Because, I mean, these people are just...
Folks, I am no longer intimidated by them.
I no longer associate them with brilliant forward thinking and strategies.
They're just, they're too busy trying to hide who they really are because they're so, so enraged.
And they are.
They are creating a base of people that are literal lunatic kooks.
They are fomenting it.
They are encouraging it.
And it's gotten to the point now where they value emotional satisfaction far more than, in fact, that's when emotional satisfaction is victory to them.
Case in point, Paul Hackett loses by four points in a special election in Ohio, and they proclaimed him a winner.
Let me give you the real way to look at that.
You remember a little football enough?
It's very true.
Charlie Weiss, former offensive coordinator for New England Patriots, first season head coach Notre Dame last year.
Big, big game at Notre Dame against USC, the eventual national champs.
USC won that game on the last play of the game.
And it was tight all the way, and they were losing.
And Notre Dame was, I mean, this close to winning the game.
And after the game, the press conference, Charlie Weiss was asked by the media, so you're going to tell your boys a great emotional victory here, almost beating USC?
And Weiss glared at him.
He said, what do you mean, emotional victories?
There's no emotional victory.
We lost the game.
And the last thing I'm going to have my players think is that they won and that they did a good job.
We lost the game.
I don't care about moral victories.
I care about winning.
And we didn't win the game.
That's it.
Enough said.
The Democrats lose by four points and they start to celebrate and throw to party and thought they had found a candidate until they got rid of him, threw him overboard that could take on a Senate seat from Ohio.
And they're just, they run down the country.
They run down the essence of being an American.
Mixed messages on immigration.
No message on immigration, actually.
They don't want to get anywhere near this.
They haven't got the guts to take a stand on anything, folks.
All right.
I promise they're going to talk about Cynthia McKinney, and we're going to do that.
But a story out of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, St. Paul.
The world today is full of evils that compete for our outraged attention.
And Sudan genocides underway.
Closer to home in Castro's Cuba.
Political prisoners languish in jail.
But at McAlester College, some students are crusading against the friendly folks at Coca-Cola through an initiative called Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, the latest cause du jour on progressive campaign.
Last week, the students announced that McAllister's Social Responsibility Committee had voted unanimously to ban Coke from vending machines in fountain drink locations on campus.
McAllister's president must sign off on the ban for it to take effect.
McAllister's Student Labor Action Coalition, SLAC, charges Coke with a loose and shifting set of allegations.
They claim that the claims grow from the death of a labor leader at a Coke plant in Columbia 10 years ago and the deaths of seven other Colombian Coke warriors from Coca-Cola here.
What the author doesn't mention here, I'm not going to belabor you here with the entire story.
It's actually from April 2nd, a couple days ago.
I've had it a stack here for a while.
You know, it's amazing to look at who the left targets, Walmart, Koch, ExxonMobil, the backbone of American corporate life, and they hate them.
And what the author doesn't mind, the author is not really that sympathetic to these idiots, these dumb college kids.
But what she doesn't mention is that the reason that Coke is being attacked is it is a symbol of America.
And because it's a symbol of America, it is to be hated by the loony left.
And the loony left includes all these anti-globalist students, academics, and news media, and other useful idiots.
You hope that they grow out of this stupidity at some point, but there's scant evidence of it.
All right, Cynthia McKinney.
You know, you've seen different pictures of her.
She looks different.
And that may be one of the reasons she wasn't recognized.
Wolf Blitzer asked her about her changed hairstyle yesterday on CNN.
Wolf, the only thing I can say about the juxtaposition of those two pictures is that in one of them, I happen to have a little more makeup on about the way I am here on CNN today.
But the bottom line is that my face hasn't changed, and I haven't changed.
I've looked like this for the entire 11 years that I've been in Congress.
And so I don't understand exactly why it is that certain police officers have a problem remembering my face.
So Blitzer says, well, I guess the basic question, Congresswoman, is if they ask you to stop and identify yourself and go through the detector, what's the big deal?
Why not do that?
Today we had black elected officials from the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus at the time when Coretta Scott King's body lay in state at the Georgia State Capitol.
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus was not allowed into the building to form a part of the procession.
Why?
They can't even answer the question, except that the security at the Georgia Capitol did not recognize them as duly elected members able to carry out the mandate of the people who sent them to the legislature.
It doesn't matter if you're in the United States Capitol or the Georgia Capitol.
The issue is racial profiling.
All right, Alyssa, she said it.
The issue is racial profiling.
In the next bite, she denies she ever said it.
Blitzer says, this is an extremely serious charge you're making, Congresswoman.
Well, I haven't made a charge.
I just asked you to do a little bit of research.
No, no, no, but you're talking earlier about racial profiling and that there was racism involved in stopping you for questioning because you weren't wearing your congressional pen.
Now, Wolf, you know I didn't say that, so don't twist my words.
Well, tell us what you said.
Don't even begin to twist my words.
Tell us whatever it is that I said is already on the tape, so you can replay the tape.
All right, so this wacko who says, quote, the issue is racial profiling, less than a minute later denied saying it.
The Georgia or the Atlanta newspaper, the Uranal Constipation, has an editorial on her today called McKinney's Arrogance Crosses the Line.
And this is the bottom line, that they have one paragraph here that makes sense.
Well, it all makes sense.
I mean, this is the money paragraph.
A smarter, less arrogant politician would have smiled at the officer who stopped her, extended a hand and said, I'm Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from the great state of Georgia.
I appreciate your diligence in keeping the Capitol safe.
Next time, I hope you'll recognize me and walk through the detector.
She would have had a pal for life.
But why make friends when you can make headlines?
She's arrogant and she's not smart.
The smart thing that this is just, you know, this is Well, frankly, Georgia, it's embarrassing to center there.
That's a bottom line.
Well, that's it, folks.
We've given it our all today.
The whole staff, well, some of them were slacking a little bit.
But even when they slack, they're better than most.
So we must sail off now into the broadcast sunset to begin immediately preparing for tomorrow's excursion.
And that's exactly what happens here.
Show prep never stops.
Life is show prep.
Thanks for being with us today, and we will get together again tomorrow.
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