You heard about this Democrat, this candidate for Attorney General in Alabama.
He disputes the Holocaust, says it never happened, and I guess he spoke over the weekend at a pro-white organization, widely viewed as being racist.
He's running for Attorney General.
Alabama is a Democrat.
Democrats trying to figure out what to do about the guy.
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All right, let's talk about Mrs. Clinton.
Last week, Mrs. Clinton lashed out at the instant gratification generation, saying that young adults think that work is a four-letter word, which it is, W-O-R-K, it's four letters.
She said kids, for whatever reason, think they're entitled to go right to the top of 50 or 75,000 jobs when they've not done anything to earn their way up.
A lot of kids don't know what work is.
They think work's a four-letter word.
This was a Republican-leaning audience she was speaking to gathered at the annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce Convention.
We got to send a different message to our young people.
America didn't happen by accident.
A lot of people worked really hard.
They've got to do their part, too.
A young adult named Chelsea Clinton, 26 years of age, started at around $100,000 a year at a consulting firm at the New York office of London-based McKinsey and Company after getting her master's degree from Oxford in 2003.
The former first lady, that would be Hillary, blamed cable TV, high-speed internet, cell phones, and iPods for creating a culture that really argues against hard work.
It's a culture that has a premium on instant gratification.
You know, I grew up in a home with one TV set, and we didn't get that right off the bat.
It improved your negotiating skills because you had to argue about what channel you were going to.
Come on, folks, this is the smartest woman in the world.
It improved your negotiating skills because you had to argue about what channel you were going to watch, even though there were only three.
Her get-tough talk, chastising a generation of spoiled brats, will likely play well with heartland voters who cherish old screwal values, but it may enrage her biggest fans.
A recent poll found that 62% of people 18 to 34 hold a favorable opinion of Clinton.
That's the highest of any age group.
Now, two things, or maybe a bunch of things about this.
But remember, the same day, I had the two stories in the same day.
They might not have happened the same day, but they were close.
She goes to the Chamber of Commerce and starts beating up the instant gratification crowd.
Kids that want to make all this money, like she did with her $10,000 investment in Cattle Futures, and it became $100,000.
Of course, Hillary never wanted instant gratification herself.
Hillary didn't get it at Whitewater to make money, and her husband's walking around telling, yeah, I'm richer than you are.
I mean, Bill Clinton doesn't miss a chance to tell people how wealthy he is.
He disguises him as, I don't need these tax cuts.
I mean, I'm a wealthy man now.
Richer than you are, pal.
I want to go get it with these people.
But the same day that we had this story that she chastised The instant gratification crowd and blamed cable TV and basically a bunch of slothful activities.
She sponsored this bill with some other congressman to go out and build 15,000 low-income homes that had fully wired high-speed internet in them.
So while she's out there complaining about this creating a bunch of lazy slobs that expect everything handed to them, she's going to go out and build 15,000 low-income residences with high-speed internet so that they can also join the instant gratification crowd at the lower end of the spectacle.
Now, the thing that amazes me about this for all of those people, and I know that not just Libs, I know I was on a golf course Saturday.
Rush, what about Hillary?
Oh my God.
I can't escape it.
I literally cannot escape the fear that people have.
And it's the fear of her winning.
And oh my God, what would the country be like?
But I still can't escape it.
No matter how much I talk about it, I'm going to have to come up with a stock answer because I'm getting tired already, blue in the face repeating my answer on this.
But let's face it, there are a lot of you people out there that think Hillary is a brilliant, omniscient political mind.
You need to consider this story for just a second.
She actually, she's now apologized, by the way.
The second half of the story is that she's come out after telling an audience that young people today think works a four-letter word, said she apologized to her daughter.
She said, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to convey the impression that you don't work hard.
She said at a commencement address at Long Island University on Sunday.
I just want to set the bar high because we're in a competition for the future.
She said that Chelsea called to complain after learning about the comments because Chelsea was hired at over $100,000 by McKenzie and Company after she got her master's degree from Oxford.
She called and said, Mom, I do work hard.
My friends work hard.
Yeah, well, she called.
She didn't say it to her in person.
She calls, folks.
It's safer that way.
Ask Bill.
Lamps, shoes.
You've heard all that.
You got to have your distance when you disagree here with Hillary.
But this, she calls to apologize for her earlier remarks suggesting young people don't work because she polls higher in that group than any other group.
And so she probably, somebody probably got to her.
Now, this is supposed to be the most instinctive, brilliant, smartest woman in the world should not be making this mistake in the first place.
Although, can I say something about this?
I happen to think, I know this is going to floor some of you, but I happen to think that she's put her finger on a problem.
I don't think there's any question that there are a bunch of young people because there's so much prosperity all around us.
My God, life has never been better in this country.
Economic opportunity has never been better.
The wealth that people are accruing at younger, you know, these hedge fund guys straight out of college, making millions.
There are a lot of people that see this and have these expectations.
I think there are a lot of people that don't have the, you know, Hillary's generation, sadly, say mine.
You know, we are, we are cold baby boomers.
It's really shocking.
Parents and grandparents, I mean, you know, you had till you were 40.
And if you, in fact, the rule of thumb was, I can remember when I, in Sacramento in 19, oops, 19, just knocked my hearing headpiece off.
There it is.
When I was in Sacramento in 1985 or 86, and I was able to scrape together enough money to buy this cheap little model house, and the builder of the house said, don't worry, they're not going to let you make any money until you're 40.
They aren't going.
Now, what did that mean?
Well, that was the culture.
I mean, you just, you hadn't demonstrated maturity.
You hadn't demonstrated stability.
You hadn't acquired enough experience to earn a significant amount of money until you were 40.
That's what now you do.
She's right.
You do have some kids expect right out of college, top drawer.
I want the house that mom and dad had.
And if they don't get it, they stay at home with mom and dad.
What do you think's causing all these slackers living at home with their parents up to age 35?
It's because they have expectations of having what they grew up in the minute they get out of college, and they don't.
And so they're going to get it anyway.
So they stay home with mom and dad.
She was right to an extent.
She indicted an entire generational group of people.
She didn't specify.
She made the terrible mistake of forgetting her daughter was among the people she was ripping.
So that she had to get a phone call.
But here's the thing.
This is where she got to be careful.
A remark like this, beating up on lazy slobs who do nothing but sit around and listen to the iPod and watch television and surf the internet and so forth.
It makes her sound like a nagging, whining, finger-shaking mother.
Get off the couch and go do something.
I'm tired of seeing you stick around here all day, you lazy slob.
Go do something.
She got to be careful with this kind of stuff.
It's much easier for a guy to say this.
It's just our culture.
It's not sexism, feminism.
It is just the way it is.
And then the idea of so much of this is in direct opposition to what Hillary says.
Why won't Hillary say this to everybody wasting their life sitting around, waiting around for the welfare check, sitting around waiting for somebody to come help them out of a problem or build them a house?
She has to identify a specific group, but she leaves out that portion of the population that she has targeted and her party has targeted to live exactly that way.
That party has been out creating as many victims as possible.
They want them unproductive.
They don't want them earning enough that they don't need government and don't need people like Hillary.
But the Chamber of Commerce, you have to think that of all the people in the country don't have lazy kids, it's these guys at the Chamber of Commerce.
Now, she probably thought, you know, these guys are, these guys, these stodgy stuffed-shirt conservatives wish the country was back in the 50s and 60s.
So I'll tell them what they want to hear, probably the way they're raising their own kids.
And she thought that her comments would go over well with that particular audience.
At any rate, it was parts of it were accurate.
She correctly identified a certain segment of the population, but she forgot to mention she's building low-income homes to create just this kind of person to live in them.
And then her daughter has to call her.
This ought to rock the vote.
No pun intended.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
You know, folks, the official program observer, Mr. Snurdley, just made a curious observation.
It's a good observation.
It is somewhat interesting.
Because what's happening in American politics right now, like McCain, and I've got a piece by Byron York on this in the stack.
McCain went down and accepted the well, he did a commencement speech at Liberty University, which is Jerry Falwell's University.
And he made a couple remarks in the speech that people were listening for very closely.
And what did I do?
I'm going to find it.
If not, I'll have to print it out again.
Anyway, head to that later.
Falwell introduced him as a great guy.
And, you know, I've realized that very few of us have done what John McCain's done to protect our right to even do what we're doing now.
Speak freely and so forth.
McCain got up there.
Hank, thanks, Jack, for well.
And then he went on and made his speech.
The point is, here's McCain.
He is out doing everything he can to court the conservative vote.
This business of third party and a bull moose redo.
Apparently, that's not it.
Apparently, he's going to go out and he's trying to woo the conservative base, including conservative Christians.
And you have Hillary doing the same thing.
Mrs. Clinton's speaking in the Chamber of Commerce.
She's going to this group or that group talking about abortion in a very unliberal Democrat way.
While that's going on, while Hillary and McCain are in a race to the right, actual conservatives are running away from conservatism and trying to be moderates or trying to sound like Democrats, afraid to be Reagan-esque.
It's stunning to watch.
And it's a good call on the part of Mrs. Sturdley.
It's not a whole lot of conservatives running away from it, but some of them are, and then the ones who are trying to identify conservative issues for their leaders to zero in on are misidentifying them.
At any rate, Jim in Chicago, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Mega Ditto is here from the Chicagoland area.
Thank you, sir.
I just had a little footnote.
You talked about the alligators down in Florida and the, of course, now it's an epidemic down there.
I have a cute story.
I had a big alligator that lived with us for several years here.
His name was Bubba.
And we traveled to school.
Wait, wait, wait, now you had a big alligator live with you?
Lived with us in the house here in Chicago.
Lived in the basement.
In the basement.
You had an alligator living.
He had a little condo I built for him.
Walked up and down the basement stairs when we had to do a job.
And what I mean by that is we went to schools.
We did birthday parties.
We did bar mitzvahs.
You name it.
We did it.
Wait, you and the Gator?
Me and the Gator, and actually a troop of some other reptiles would travel around and do programs.
Now, you have to go to the middle of the morning.
Wait, you took a Gator took Gator to bar mitzvahs?
Bar mitzvahs.
I'm telling you the truth.
We had him walking around at a hotel in a very nice, very posh Northside hotel.
He was walking around the hotel for this big bar mitzvah.
Actually, it was a bot mitzvah that we did just for a young lady.
Birthday parties to boot with young children.
You've got this.
See, I think I'm being set up here.
No, no.
Rush, no, no.
How big is this alligator?
This alligator, well, he was eight and a half feet long and 225 pounds.
What was his name?
His name was Bubba.
Bubba.
A very appropriate name for, you know, South, you know, from the South, of course.
I decided to call him.
I assume Bubba is a was because you said you did used to do, you know what I'm saying?
Well, we still do programs, unfortunately, without my friend Bubba.
But the thing that was, there was a lot of unique things about this alligator.
He was definitely a conservative, and the reason why I say that is I always had a little joke that all the reptiles that did not travel with us, they were my Democrats, okay?
And Bubba was the lone Republican conservative because he basically was the one that brought home the bacon.
We worked, did all these jobs.
But one of the things that was most unique was even after all he did, we would go into hospitals for make-a-wish in the alligator to give kids rise.
There's something you're not telling us here, Jim.
You're not just got this thing on a leash.
I mean, you can't train these things.
So what's the story?
But, you know, Sorry to disagree with you, but he was extremely trainable.
Alligators, even though they have, like you said, an almond-sized brain, the difference is they use that whole brain.
Oh, geez.
They use the whole almond.
And still not.
I know you're laughing.
Well, I am, Jim, because, I mean, you just said that alligators are smarter than us because they use all of their almond-sized brains.
Exactly.
Well, I mean, they always said that Einstein used, what, 11% of the time?
Let's cut to the chase here, Jim.
Tell me what kind of entertainment you and Bubba did when you went to the hospital on the birthday.
It basically opened up a new world for people because people thought that, of course, these animals couldn't learn, that it was impossible.
This animal, when I'd say up, Bubba, he would get up and walk.
He would sit when I told him to sit.
Now, I got to believe that.
Did you have his mouth taped up?
No, I never restrained this alligator in any way, ever.
The guy from Australia, the crazy guy, the crocodile hunter, he was absolutely in love with Bubba.
Every time he came in town, we would do jobs for him.
What is that guy's name, Steve Summer?
Steve Irwin.
Yeah, that's right.
And Steve would kiss Bubba, and I'm not all over Bubba's face every time he saw him.
Where did you get Bubba?
Bubba came from actually a facility out in Rapid City Reptile Gardens in South Dakota.
The gentleman there, I know them.
They supported me in my educational programs.
I would get animals from them occasionally.
What is an alligator doing in South Dakota?
Well, believe it.
Well, they got a big reptile in, oh, geez, it's a huge reptile facility out in South Dakota.
And it's been there since, I think, the 20s or 30s.
But this alligator was, Russia would have been proud of him.
He was definitely conservative.
He went to work every day.
And the other reptiles didn't.
Is that the point?
Yeah, most of them did.
He was the one that supported the rest of them.
What did you feed Bubba besides the guests at these parties?
Well, no, Bubba never, I'll tell you, Bubba never, ever, ever, even when he was passed, he passed away last year, even when he was dying, he was the most gentle beast.
And I mean this.
I have grandsons.
I have never heard this about an alligator.
This is a fish for me.
It's my favorite.
When I grew up in Kennett, Missouri, I didn't grow up there.
My mother did.
Grew up in Kennett, Missouri.
And I'd go down there, visit her parents, my grandparents, and one of the neighbors had two of these things in a pit, in a cage that was like 12 feet deep.
And they only let them out if there was thought to be some crime thing going on in town.
But I mean, these were the most vicious, and I didn't want to train them.
But I've never heard of this, Jim.
I have to tell you, I've never heard of a trained pet gator you can walk into a hospital with and ever, and nobody's going to stop you, and nobody's going to worry this thing might lose its mind or something.
I've never heard of this.
It's a fascinating story.
I've got to run because I'm out of time.
I have never.
And I thought, you know, I've heard most everything.
Have you heard of this, Snerdley?
I have never.
I'm still not sure I'm being put on.
And by the way, I'm not calling our buddy Jim from Chicago a liar.
I've never heard of a trained alligator.
I know this at a bar mitzvah, or in a hospital, with no, I mean, I guess there's a leash, but there was no restaurant.
I've just never heard of this.
Learn something every day.
I mean, of all the places that have a reptile farm, South Dakota, it gets cold up there.
Reptiles are cold-blooded animals.
That's why you don't see them up there.
That's why they're...
I mean, you don't see these...
We've got these little lizards down here.
They're cute as they can be.
But you don't have to go very far north and you don't see them anymore.
Reptiles don't hang around in South Dakota unless they're forced to.
Probably a result of a Tom Dashel grant of some type.
A Democrat candidate for Alabama Attorney General denies the Holocaust occurred and said last Friday he'll speak this past weekend.
I don't know if he did or not, in New Jersey at a pro-white organization widely viewed as being racist.
Larry Darby conceives his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to reawaken white racial awareness with his campaign against Mobile County DA John Tyson.
The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and they were considering what to do about his candidacy.
They're worried about this.
They're wondering what to do about a candidate for attorney general who denies the whole Holocaust occurred and wants to reawaken white racial awareness.
The party says they support the free speech rights of any candidate, but Turnham said that some of Darby's views appear to be in a realm of thought that is unacceptable.
Yeah, this is just who they were.
This is the Democrat Seven Roots.
This is who they were.
This stuff got transferred to Republicans over the years, but Democrat guy's being who he is.
They're coming out of closet down there.
They're starting to feel strong again.
They're getting confident Bush's approval numbers are down and they're telling us who they really are.
I've been predicting this.
Boston Globe Today is a piece by a man named Steve Almond, the author of the story collections, The Evil B.B. Chow and My Life in Heavy Metal.
And it's an open letter to William Leahy, president of Boston College.
Dear Father Leahy, I'm writing to resign my post as adjunct professor of English at Boston College.
I'm doing so after five years at BC and with tremendous regret as a direct result of your decision to invite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at this year's graduation.
Many members of the faculty and a student body already have voiced their objection to the invitation, arguing that Rice's actions as Secretary of State are inconsistent with the broader humanistic values of the university and the Catholic and Jesuit traditions from which those values derive.
But I'm not writing this letter simply because of an objection to the war against Iraq.
My concern is more fundamental.
Simply put, Condoleezza Rice is a liar.
She has lied to the American people knowingly, repeatedly, often extravagantly over the past five years in an effort to justify a pathologically misguided foreign policy.
The public record of her deceits is extensive.
During the ramp up to the Iraq War, she made 29 false and misleading public statements concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaeda, according to a congressional investigation by the House Committee on Government Reform.
To cite one is this wait a second.
The House Committee on Government Reform.
I'm wondering if that's Conyer's rogue committee that people have.
At any rate, here you have it.
Closed minds at Boston College, or at least one closed mind who these people are just pathetic.
The guy is scared to death to be in the same room with Condoleezza Rice.
Typical, this is not how you win friends and influence people and build your party.
Here is, oh.
Okay, Sue in Wheaton, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
Go right ahead, Sue.
Oh, I just wanted to say that my daughter actually rode Bubba, that alligator you were just talking about, when she was three years old at a church function.
And he was very safe.
A three-year-old rode Bubba.
Yes.
And a Bubba would sit about, I mean, five inches off the ground at most.
Yes.
So I'm having trouble visualizing this.
How was your three-year-old seated on Bubba?
Was there a little seat like you'd put on a camel?
Just on his back.
She just hung on.
To what?
To him.
And for how long did this ride go?
How long was the ride?
Bubba actually walked around a little bit.
I would say.
Did you ever hear from social services after this took place?
I was a little nervous afterwards.
Not till the next day, though.
But he was, I'd say it was for at least a minute.
I'm having trouble visualizing this.
Wait a minute.
Now I'm being told Bubba has a website.
We got a picture of a kid riding Bubba.
Okay, we're doing it.
George up at the Cocoa, up at the website, found it.
Cold-blooded creatures.
Yeah, there's a picture of a kid riding it.
All right.
Well, I guess seeing is believing.
Did this alligator ever exhibit any offensive, threatening behavior when you saw it?
No, not at all.
Was this alligator drugged?
Not that I was aware of.
Yeah, you wouldn't know that.
No.
Well, okay.
Well, this is going to, yeah, because I've always said a tiger is a tiger.
I guess we can't say an alligator is an alligator.
I never knew you could train these things.
No, I didn't either, but my daughter actually rode, and it was Bubba that she rode.
So that's kind of a fun story to have, though.
Do you have any pictures of it?
I do.
Yeah.
And was Bubba pretty big?
Yeah, Bubba's pretty big.
Okay.
All right.
Sue, I am so glad that you found your way through here, and I appreciate you calling.
Let's move on.
Charlotte in Kirkwood, Missouri.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, this is outside St. Louis, by the way.
Hi, Rush.
Hi, Charlotte.
Oh, I just lost my trainer thought.
Wait a minute.
I'm getting it back.
Well, it's because you're picturing little kids ride alligators.
I can understand.
I kind of lost my trainer.
I'm looking at the website right now.
I'm looking at this guy that just called us.
Jim Nessie has his alligator website with pictures of kids riding his gator.
Well, it just makes me wonder.
I mean, when you say people are smart enough to live their own lives, this kind of person makes me wonder.
Well, anyway, I'm a Republican conservative, and I like, I think a lot of Republicans have just been mystified why so many of our representatives and George Bush have done such, you know, things that are just contrary to what we expect them to do.
And in the case of congressional members, I really do think that once they get to, they are so corrupted by the power and everything else that they get that they just become totally self-serving, and they say and do whatever they think is going to keep them in power.
But when it comes to George Bush, I really admire him, and I tried so hard to figure out what is making him so out of touch with the rest of us out here.
And I really think it's because he is a member of a very, very small group of people who come from families that are a combination of really smart and really ambitious and hardworking, but also really, really basically honest and good-hearted.
And when you get that combination of qualities together, people generally are pretty successful in the things that they do.
It just they become more and more winning.
They get things done.
They become confident.
They're optimistic.
Things happen the way they expect them to because they're doing all the right things.
So what you're saying is they win.
They're used to winning all the time.
Yeah, but it's not because they're corrupt or they're using their power.
Oh, I understand.
I understand what you're saying totally.
And I think he's in there in the White House thinking, well, if I decide that this is really the thing to do, he's expecting that it really will be.
And he's also, they usually work within a very limited confine, you know, like certain areas of life where they really do pretty much understand the animal they're working with, like when he was governor of Texas, okay?
It was just Texas.
Now he's in the White House, and he's got all kinds of different people, and he really doesn't, he's kind of out of his element because he's in a more diversified arena, and he's used to being successful and figuring out what's right, and it usually is, and it usually happens.
And I just hope that somebody like Tony Snow can get in there and break through his, you know, the bandwagon of people that he has around him who are pretty much just probably his cheerleader.
Let me tell you one thing about that, Charlotte.
This is something that a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that President Bush runs around and takes polls inside the Oval Office and is subject to the influence of some more than others to the point that maybe he doesn't really have his own beliefs on certain things.
And I can tell you, and you're just, I mean, I don't doubt me.
As I said earlier, Tony Snow is not going to be trying to change George W. Bush's mind about anything.
What Tony Snow is going to be doing is challenging the people in the press corps for misreporting and misunderstanding purposely what George Bush is saying.
Tony Snow's not there to say, Mr. President, you know where you're missing a boat here.
That's not going to happen because your first description of President Bush is accurate.
But he's totally engaged.
He knows exactly what he will.
Like I'm telling you, these hearings coming up on General Hayden on Thursday, they've been don't doubt me.
Hey, I've been wanting these hearings.
I can't tell you for how long.
That episode is the Democrats are falling in a trap, and I think they might even be sensing that now.
But anyway, don't make the mistake of thinking that Bush is up there just a sponge absorbing all these things and making up his mind based on who's more persuasive with him.
He's running this show and always has.
And we'll be back.
Stay with us.
All right.
I'm going to shut down the poor guy's server, but I owe this to him because I frankly, I was in stunned disbelief when Jim from Chicago called and told us about his alligator Bubba.
Well, we got the website.
It's coldbloodedcreatures.com.
www.coldbloodedcreatures.com.
And there you will see a five-year-old riding Bubba.
You will see little kids holding a baby alligator.
I'm sure I'm going to shut down this website now, but I questioned whether I was being put on by all this, and I'm still stunned.
I don't believe what I'm seeing, but I'm looking at it.
There's a picture of Jim there with Bubba.
In fact, he's sitting on Bubba.
So.
Okay, Mark in Torrance, California.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, big fan, been listening for many years.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, just wondering with Bush's President Bush's speech tonight.
Since supposedly the White House told the Mexican government where the Minutemen were stationed, I was just wondering if they'll tell the Mexican government where the National Guard guys are going to be stationed.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Now, you've got to understand that the government is not officially confirming that they ratted out Minutemen locations.
Of course not.
Of course not, but it seems to go with the whole plan.
I don't know what the deal is with the position there.
Let me tell you what a possibility is.
We'll just have to wait and see.
But one of the things that the Guard may be doing will be shooing the Minutemen away.
Just never, now you just never know.
But I think this is.
Well, I think you're right that they're setting them up for failure for a bigger picture program.
We need to have the...
Yeah, we need the guest worker program.
We've tried to stop at a border.
We sent the guard down.
It's just not working.
But we're going to have to go, yeah, this is...
Yep, I agree with that 100%.
You do something halfway, you let it fail, and then you can claim, then you can surrender.
Yeah, and we've got to go a different direction.
Yep.
See, this border stuff doesn't.
We sent our virtual fence down there, and it is not working.
Like I say, put a virtual fence around the White House.
Try it there first.
Then put a virtual fence around the Capitol.
Put it there.
If it works, then we know it'll work everywhere else.
Try this.
This is from yesterday's UK Guardian.
Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez arrived in London yesterday with an extraordinary promise to offer cut-rate heating oil for needy families in Europe, modeled on a similar campaign in the United States, which has been seen partly as a bid to embarrass President George Bush.
Last night, Chavez also issued a taunting obituary for the American Empire on the eve of his visit, where he will be shunned by Downing Street, but welcomed by the London mayor, Ken Livingston.
What's Ken's name, Big Red?
Red Ken?
Ken the Red.
Well, there it is.
Chavez said in Vienna on Saturday that the final hours of the North American Empire have arrived.
And now we have to say to the Empire, we're not afraid of you.
You are a paper tiger.
I'll tell you what's going to happen here, folks.
At some point, we're going to have to start trying to spread the democracy we're trying to spread in Iraq in our own hemisphere.
Because this little lunatic is out of control.
I've got to take a brief break.
We'll be back and wrap it up right after this.
The First Lady, Laura Bush, said yesterday, she's on the Sunday shows.
I don't have time for the audio soundbites.
But nevertheless, she said that she doesn't believe these opinion polls showing her husband's approval ratings at record low levels.
She was on Fox News Sunday.
She said she didn't think people were losing confidence in the president despite a series of polls showing support for him at his lowest point in his presidency.
She said, I don't really believe those polls.
I travel around the country.
I see people.
I see their responses to my husband.
I see their responses to me.
And as I travel around the country, I see a lot of appreciation.
A lot of people come up to me and say, stay the course.
I think there's something odd about these polls.
They don't make sense.
Unless the people doing the polling are choosing a universe of people that listen only to them, who only watch drive-by media networks, who only read drive-by media publications.
It doesn't make sense.
29%?
With the economy the way it's going just doesn't make sense, folks.
So anyway, she may have a point.
We've got audio on that.
And I finally found the McCain paragraph from the speech he made at Liberty University over the weekend.
I'll get that to you tomorrow.
I've got to run now because we're out of busy broadcast moments, but there are more tomorrow.