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June 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
I am stunned that anybody is surprised that there would be terrorist cells in Canada that wanted to blow up Canadians.
Anybody surprised there'd be terrorist cells anywhere that want to blow up anybody that's not Islamo fascist.
Canadians, I guess, got a joke of reality.
And you know how they found out about this?
Hey, we're domestic uh intelligence, uh, ladies and gentlemen, by something called Canadian CSIS.
Greetings.
Great to have you with us.
Broadcast Excellence, now back from uh what hopefully was a festive or restful weekend for all of you.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man behind the golden EIB microphone, 800 28282.
If uh you'd like to be on the program, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Uh yes, a shadowy group of disaffected urban youths began talking in an internet chat room in the fall of 2004, espousing anti-Western views.
The uh Canadian Security Intelligence Service was listening.
The uh spy agency and an alphabet soup of other security agencies across the continent closely monitor such sites, where talk may sometimes turn to buildings and bombs and bringing global jihad home to North America to Canada.
Often it's just that, just talk, but when CSIS began monitoring the sites allegedly used by some of the 17 men and the Utes uh arrested in terrorism-related charges in a sweeping series of raids.
Uh last Friday, the Canadian spy agency heard enough to remain interested and increased surveillance of the uh of the group.
Four months after the surveillance began, two Americans from the Atlanta area popped onto the radar.
Sayed Harris Ahmed and Eshanul Islam Sadeki had been communicating by email with the Canadian Uts, according to the investigators.
And according to the LA Times, U.S. authorities were also watching the two Americans, and at some point discovered communications between the men in Canada and uh Atlanta and other suspected terrorists overseas.
I can only hope that they didn't tap a phone in the uh in Washington doing this, or this case could be thrown out.
The ACLU is going to take up these I don't know, the American civil and they can probably take take up their case.
It's a classic illustration of reality intruding itself on uh the American left.
And we can go through all the details of this, but it's not it shouldn't surprise anybody.
Uh I wonder how many in Canada are shocked.
I understand that there's uh quite a buzz up there.
The various police authorities are urging calm over all of this.
Uh the leader, the leader of this uh 17 gang of 17, uh the eldest, is a guy named Kaum Abdul Jamal.
He's 43.
He was arrested by his lawyer, or described by his lawyer, I'm sorry, as an active member of the mosque, the Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education.
Uh and some people say, well, it's no big deal.
They're just 17 kids there from the uh from the same mosque.
Uh and this guy's not an imam.
And some people are saying uh we'd rather he not be an imam.
It's it's it's these these freelancers out there that uh, you know, young kids uh of all ages who get inspired by the likes of Osama bin Laden and others and want to emulate them, go out and set up these freelance cells like this apparently is.
Uh and they can be uh like I happen in London.
Uh, these things can be far more uh dangerous than even these in Mamlet.
And that's a difference really without a distinction.
The New York Times did some reporting on this that is just amazing.
The last half of their story on this is absolutely worthless.
Listen to some of the details of the New York Times story about this.
This uh the leader, Kayum Abdul Jamal, lived in a handicapped accessible apartment, but he didn't use a wheelchair.
The mosque has lots of books in it, according to the New York Times.
The women had to enter this mosque through a side door, but it was locked.
And a car outside the home of uh Kayum Abdul Jamal had an illustrated guide to understanding Islam on its dashboard.
That's the kind of in-depth reporting you don't Get anywhere else but the New York Times.
The the real the real story of this is that this plot began in a chat room.
It was monitored by Canadian intelligence.
The threat in North America continues to be real, and there are people in this country, predominantly on the left and in the Democratic Party who are attempting to sabotage just this kind of effort to detect this kind of potential so as to prevent it.
These are the same people, many of them in New York, still upset over the decrease in funding that they uh they're getting from homeland security.
So while the left lives in its alternative universe and creates its little dream world, reality has this bad habit of happening to intrude.
For example, let's go to San Diego, grab audio soundbite number one.
The election, the special election tomorrow.
Uh California 50, this is Duke Cunningham's district, this Francine Busby versus Brian Bilbray.
And uh last Thursday night in Escondido, uh uh Francine Busby was speaking before a largely Latino crowd at the Jocelyn Seniors Center.
And uh one of the minutemen was was running around out there with a tape recorder.
And uh, you know, you can't take these into classrooms, folks.
You're not supposed to take tape recorders into classrooms uh to record professors, but so far the left has not proscribed tape recorders among men following uh candidates around.
A man in the audience asks in Spanish, I want to help, but I don't have papers.
And this uh by the way, this audio first aired on our uh our buddy Roger Hedgecock show last week uh out in San Diego.
Here's what Busby's answer was.
You can all help.
So we're gonna do that.
Yeah, you don't need papers for voting.
You don't need to be a registered voter to help.
All right.
Now, uh intruded on her little dream world and fantasy world is reality.
Here's the Democratic candidate telling illegal aliens.
It doesn't matter.
You don't need papers for voting.
You don't need to be a registered voter to help.
Now she's out there saying she misspoke.
Uh she says that uh uh didn't mean what I was trying to say out there, but she said it.
The latest uh poll on this from uh Tagan Goddard's website is that Bilbray has now moved ahead by a couple points, and this appears to be one of the uh reasons.
This is the final poll before the special election tomorrow for California 50.
It's Survey USA finds that Brian Billbray has a two-point lead over Busby, 47 to 45 percent.
The previous poll uh survey USA took, had both candidates tied.
Uh poll shows a big swing in the independent vote towards Bill Bray, the uh the Republican.
Now, so you have once again the Libs create a little dream world in their little alternative universe, and reality has a way of intruding on it.
In this case, Francine Busby just happened to blurt out what we all know Democrat policy is nationwide.
But they haven't uh, you know, no Democrat before her has had the stupidity to actually say it.
Now the Democrats did it back in 1996.
You know, Al Gore naturalized, we got the story coming up here in our big immigration stack.
Al Gore uh participated in a national well, he he nationalized over a million immigrants uh right before the 96 election, hoping to boost the number of Democrat voters.
And so we see the Senate immigration bill, that conference uh committee will uh will get started soon this month uh with with uh with the House.
Um we see now what what what the real purpose of it is it is to go out and harvest a whole bunch of new future and present voters.
Listen again to Francine Busby Thursday night in Escondito.
The question guy asks it in Spanish.
I want to help, but I don't have papers.
You can all help.
So we may do that.
Yeah, you don't need papers for voting.
You don't need to be a registered voter to help.
Thank you, uh Ms. Busby.
Um I don't know if sh, you know, rank amateur candidate or not.
I don't know how much experience uh she has.
She said the uh subsequent statement was to clarify what she meant.
She uh when she says you don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help.
What she says she meant to say was you don't have to vote for me to help.
You can do a lot of things besides vote for me.
And I just misspoke.
Uh uh So she's trying to slither out of that, but it's too late.
It's it's it's out there, and on the weekend before the uh election, here's some of the demographics in uh in this poll.
Remember, the Democrats are already setting this up for her to lose by saying she's going to win anyway.
I mean, we win anyway if we're this close in this Republican a district.
Um so they're there and they did this before this gaffe.
Here's the key factor.
Brian Billbray leads by 14 points among voters age 65 and over, and those are the ones that tend to show up in great numbers and vote.
Busby leads by 20 points among young voters, younger than 35.
The uh two candidates are effectively tied among voters 35 to 64.
Now, should younger voters, uh historically unreliable, vote in unexpectedly large numbers, it'd be an advantage to Busby.
Should older voters uh vote in disproportionately large numbers advantage Bill Brady.
Well, it seems to me if older voters vote as they normally do.
Most of the the vote turnout among older voters is uh highest percentage of old demographic groups.
But uh Busby, I mean, clearly stepped in it here.
Uh uh and and uh trying to wiggle out of this.
But again, uh so many things, just two little stories here, the thing in Canada and a thing with Francine Busby's lips and her mouth uh uh reality, uh intruding on the uh the uh the false front that they have attempted to build about there.
There's no threat, they're no war.
Bush is creating all the terrorists.
Why there's no threat, we don't need to be and uh and and of course that that reality uh kind of uh uh that false reality kind of blown to smithereens by New York City's reaction to its cut in terror funds.
So we've got a good start this week here, folks.
Uh we'll continue right after this.
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By the way, one little note about this um this band of jihadists up in uh Canada, the and they were indeed uh so well, this is according this alleged by the Canadian government, uh they were inspired by Al Qaeda.
And uh they say that uh the police up there say that uh they smashed this ring, and this ring was plotting to bomb hard government targets rather than soft civilian ones like shopping walls or nightclubs.
Uh there they were going to go after institutional targets, federal agencies in Toronto, such as CSIS headquarters uh on Front Street, and uh Royal Canadian Mounted Police Building were on the list of uh of targets that uh that these people had.
So uh next time you hear some lib suggest that we don't need any stinking international phone monitoring going on or surveillance, just say uh Canada.
How about this, the libs up in Canada getting involved in all this?
You know, nobody talks about this, but that country well, they got a new prime minister up there.
Not not as uh in fact the guy is a conservative, but for the longest time, that that kind.
Well, who?
Minnie B. Bush.
Oh, I know that the new president of Canada's been called a new Minnie Me Bush.
All right, Mr. Sterley, help help me with my memory chip here.
There was a piece in the New York Times by a woman of what is it?
It's it's within the last two years.
And it was about abortion, and it was how she made up her mind to abort a child with with her boyfriend because she she'd have to stay home and raise the child and and she uh didn't earn enough money, she'd have to move out of her fashionable apartment uh in the village or wherever it was.
Remember that piece.
It was just it was literally it was so insensitive, it was it was outrageous.
The Washington Post has found another such babe.
This is incredible.
This was in yesterday's paper.
What happens when there is no plan B?
It's by Dana L. Dana L. By the way, is uh is a lawyer living and uh uh uh in Virginia.
She's a lawyer and writer.
And out of concern for her family's privacy, she requested her last name not to be published.
Here's the here's the lead.
The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion that I didn't want.
Well, not literally, but but let me explain this.
I'm a 42 year old, happily married mother of two elementary schoolers.
My husband and I both work, and like many couples, we're starved for time together.
On Thursday evening, this or one Thursday evening this past March, we managed to snag some rare couple time, and in a sudden rush of passion, I failed to insert my diaphragm.
Whoa whoa, you should have had Bush there making sure that you put it in.
If this is all his fault, the next morning after getting my kids off to school, I called my OBGYN to get a prescription for plan B, the emergency contraceptive pill that can prevent a pregnancy, but only if you take it within 72 hours of intercourse.
As we're both in our forties, my husband and I had considered our family complete.
We weren't planning to have another child, which is why as a rule, we use contraception.
I wanted to make sure that our momentary lapse didn't result in a pregnancy.
The receptionist, though, informed me that my doctor didn't prescribe plan B. No reason given.
Neither did my internist.
The midwifery practice I had used could prescribe it, but not over the phone.
And there were no more open appointments for the day.
The weekend.
And at the end of the 72-hour window was approaching.
They understand she starts this out by blaming the conservative politics of the Bush administration for forcing her to have an abortion.
All because I mean, if you take this literally, Bush should have known that she and her husband, because of conservative policies, don't have much couple time, and they were managed to squeeze some in one day in March, and woe and behold, she forgot to put in the diaphragm, and that's because Bush wasn't there to reminder.
But I I I needed to meet my kid's school bus.
And as I was pretty much out of options short of soliciting random Virginia doctors out of the phone book, I figured I'd take my chances and hope for the best.
After all, I'm 42, isn't it likely my eggs are overripe anyway?
I thought so, especially since my best friend from college has been experiencing agonizing infertility problems at this age.
Isn't this amazing?
Forty-two years of age and unable to accept responsibility for what she has done and tries to foster this off on the Bush administration's conservative policies.
Yes, if there had been an after school program paid for by the government with buses, she wouldn't have to have worried about picking up her kids, and she could have sought out a doctor that would have prescribed uh I guess it's R. U 486.
Weeks later, the two drugstore pregnancy tests I took told a different story, though positive, and I couldn't believe it.
I'm still in good health, but unlike the last time I was pregnant nearly ten years ago, I'm now taking three medications, one of them for high cholesterol is uh is uh whatever.
My anger propelled me to get to the bottom of the story.
It turns out that in December 2003, an FDA advisory committee whose suggestions the agency usually follows recommended the drug be made available over the counter or without a prescription.
Nonetheless, in May of 2004, the FDA top brass overruled that panel and gave thumbs down to over-the-counter sales of plan B, requesting more data on how girls younger than 16 could use it safely without a doctor's prescription.
Although I had heard of pharmacists refusing to fill for s uh prescriptions for birth control on religious grounds, I was dumbfounded to find that doctors uh could do the same thing.
Um, so she ends up saying here uh that you know, she she she had no problem, I guess, calling around finding out, you know, uh a list of abortion doctors from whom to choose.
But she was nervous and she didn't want to call a bunch of uh doctors for the morning after pill.
She's afraid to go rummaging through the phone book for indiscriminate doctors to find one who would prescribe the morning after pill.
But she had no problem, apparently, seeking out a doctor to do an abortion.
Uh it is it is just amazing to me these people continue to blame Bush or conservatism for their own problem.
Isn't there isn't there a series of uh mysterious deaths associated with R U 46 now?
Aren't there a number of those?
And uh and and the people who are, of course, obviously supportive of the morning after abortion pill uh are are trying to deflect any interest In finding out whether or not the pill may itself be responsible for the deaths.
Now, this is the one case I can remember in my lifetime.
You know, you let a pill like ViAx or VIOX or any other thing cause a death, and there is all hell to pay, and there are new hearings and there are court cases, and we go to the FDA and we demand the drug be pulled off the market.
Do we not?
Yes, we do.
In the case of R U 486, uh uh when there were a number of deaths, have been a number of deaths.
The uh the silence demanding an investigation into the dangers and risks associated with using this pill are um uh oh, it's just stunningly silent.
Uh amazing to watch the hypocrisy on parade on behalf of the American left when they get themselves in some kind of jam or trouble.
It always turns out that the Bush administration and conservative politics are the problem.
Back after this, folks.
Stay with us.
Off and running, brand new week, broadcast excellence.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
There's a there's a great quote in this article by by uh uh Dana L in the Washington Post.
After making the decision with my husband, I was plunged into an even murkier world, that of finding an abortion provider.
If information on plan B was hard to come by and practitioners were evasive on emergency contraception, trying to get information on how to abort a pregnancy in 2006 is an even more Byzantine experience for crying out loud.
See, she had she she wouldn't even make phone calls to doctors to try to get a prescription for plan B. I don't know, but uh she apparently scoured the earth trying to find an abortion doctor.
I can't believe they're that hard to find.
Just go to your neighborhood school.
The school nurse there can tell any female student who comes and says, I'm pregnant and I don't want my parents to know.
Fine, go to Dr. Sauzy here and just have a ball.
I mean, the school nurse would have told her where to get her to the hell.
The school might have driven her there to get the abortion.
I mean, all you gotta do is call Planned Parenthood and they send the van, don't they?
We found this other story, uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, it's it's it's even worse than I remembered it being.
This is the story from July 18th of 2004, about two years ago.
It's Amy Richards, and uh she got pregnant with triplets and could not afford triplets and would have to leave Manhattan and go to New Jersey, and she makes some really caustic comments about Jersey here.
Uh as she wasn't married, she lives in a five-story walk-up in the East Village.
I work freelance.
I would have to go on bed rest in March.
I lecture at colleges.
My biggest months are march in April.
I'd have to give up my main income for the rest of the years to pardon me that was sure I could work around it, but it was a matter of do I want to.
I looked at my boyfriend.
I asked the doctor, is it possible to get rid of one of them or two of them?
Meaning she was carrying triplets, so she wanted to get rid of two of the kids.
The obstetrician wasn't an expert in selective reduction, but she knew that with a shot of potassium chloride you can eliminate one or more.
Remember this story when we read it to you?
Well, it turns out the New York Times has republished this story.
Well, when you when you search for it and get it, they added a an editor's note two weeks after the original publication to tell us who Amy Richards is.
She's a freelancer at the uh was a tan a freelancer at the time of her pregnancy, but she should also have disclosed, uh, or the Times should have disclosed that she's an abortion rights advocate who has worked with Planned Parenthood as well as she's being a uh was a co-founder of a feminist organization, a third wave foundation, which has financed abortions.
That background, which would have shed light on her mindset, was incorporated in an early draft, but it was omitted when an editor condensed the article.
Oh, really?
The editor doesn't say any need uh to uh put uh any of that in.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Editor didn't see the need whatsoever to uh tell readers about that.
Yeah, you just uh you little shot of potassium chloride in there, you can eliminate one of those one or two of those uh fetuses.
Hell yeah, this is a matter of uh because I I'm not I'm I didn't ask for this.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put up with this.
We'll Uh we'll relink to the article.
Uh both of these at Rush Limbaugh.com later this afternoon when we update the site to reflect the contents of today's program.
All right, a company called Emar Properties, E M A A R, EMR Properties, has uh announced they've announced that they've acquired a leading U.S. home building company in a deal valued more than a billion dollars.
This company EMAR, EMAR, paid 1.05 billion dollars in an all cash transaction to acquire John Lang Holmes, the second largest privately held home builder in the U.S. MR Properties is Dubai based.
Uh the uh deal, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies creates, quote, one of the world's leading real estate developers in a residential home building right here in the United States.
A Dubai government controlled investment firm in May announced the acquisition of the bankrupt New York based retail chain Alomans for three hundred million dollars.
I guess they have all his cash left over because the ports deal went south, and so they had to put it somewhere.
So now rather than just try to sneak terrorists in at the ports, they're actually going to be building homes that terrorists can live in uh right here in the United States.
The the do you think the do the Dubai model?
Uh yeah, you can go out and maybe have one of these homes built as a replica of the sale hotel uh that is uh over in Dubai.
Grab a phone caller here too.
Daniel Delmar, California.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hey, good morning, Rush.
Um, first time on the radio.
Uh I'm on the ra am I on the air?
You're here, yes.
Okay, uh, yeah.
Um I'm part of San Diego Minuteman down here at San Diego, California.
We received a tip off about Busby secret meeting in Escondido uh about a day or two before.
And uh well, we thought it was kind of fishy.
We also heard that um well, she's she invited Spanish media only and no English media, and it was pretty much kind of a closed meeting.
Anyway, we we thought it was kind of fishy, and uh well, we thought we'd uh see what was going on w what was happening and see if we can uh get a recording of this uh meeting.
Anyway, um we we did so that night, and uh well uh there was about a few of us, and most of us were sitting outside uh watching in through the large windows, and well, we received a recording, right?
Well we take the recording, we listen to it, and well, we pick up something that sounds really fishy.
Uh you don't need papers for voting.
Okay.
This sounds really fishy when she says that she's having a secret meeting with illegal alien activists.
Uh this uh whole thing was put on by somebody by the name of Daniel Perez, and um not inviting English media, and uh I mean he had a translator there and everything.
She could she can't speak Spanish, and it was uh mostly entirely uh uh Latino middle-aged men.
And well, we thought it was very fishy, and we thought that we needed to inform uh the public about this, and that's what we did Friday morning.
First radio host to put it on was Roger Hedgecock down here in Kogo.
Right.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if you've been listening to the program or not, Daniel.
We talked about this a half hour ago, uh, let off the uh program with it, even played the uh uh audio tape.
You guys did some great work out there, and uh, you know, this is these uh candidates uh you know I made I made the comment that Francine Busby may have been the first Democrat stupid enough to actually let the cat out of the bag.
And I'm I'm beginning to rethink it.
Uh she may be the first candidate stupid enough not to know she was being recorded, because how many Democrats are out there telling these people these things is the point.
They are there recruiting at all these protest marches from February on or March on.
Uh so how many Democrats are out there perhaps alluding.
We'll find a way to get you to vote.
They just haven't been any cameras or microphones or tape recorders around.
But I my only point here is that I doubt she's actually the first Democrat to tell a group of illegals.
Don't worry about that.
We can find a way to get you to vote.
She's just happens to be the uh first one, unfortunately, uh, to have her words recorded.
Now she's trying to slither out of it.
Penny In San Diego.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I'd like to give a shout out to my husband who is in the Navy and deployed to the Persian Gulf right now.
The reason that I'm calling, though, is I was to the understanding that Brian Bilbray has been trailing Francine Busby in the poll.
And last week he was supposed to have some big fundraiser with John McCain.
And they could not reach an agreement on the uh immigration stance.
And the the uh McCain's appearance was canceled at the last moment.
It was announced on the radio that it that he had canceled because they couldn't reach an agreement.
And I knew at that point in time that that would be a big plus for Brian Bilbray.
Well, please.
You think that's why Bill Bray went up two points?
I do.
I do, absolutely.
Uh because they announced it several times on the local news on on the station we're listening to right now that uh it was canceled because they couldn't reach an agreement on the um the immigration issue.
You know, here's the there's an interesting point about this.
And and I uh I don't know how you people are going to feel about this.
But but uh we we mentioned this last week, by the way, Penny, we uh the the McCain pull out and and uh how it's gonna make Bill Bray look good.
Uh but it also makes McCain look very petty.
Now you gotta look at McCain in a different light now, folks.
He is being examined under the microscope of a presidential candidate.
Uh and presidential candidates um have to be uh bigger uh than themselves.
Presidential candidates and presidents usually the good ones are those uh that know there are larger things than their own ego and their own policies.
Now here's McCain acting petty as as he is.
It's very it was typical, I think, of Senator McCain.
Uh here's this guy, Bill Bray, opposing McCain's bill, and McCain, I'll show him.
I'll show him.
I won't help, I'll show up and I won't help.
And what McCain doesn't know is that it does help when he doesn't show up for this kind of candidate.
But uh let me compare this uh list action to President Bush.
McCain wants the party's presidential nomination.
Here's McCain not working for a Republican, all because McCain's nose is out of joint, because this Republican disagrees with him on X. You go back and look at this president, George W. Bush.
I know you got irritated uh at times over his campaigning for uh uh uh Spectre over Pat Toomey and so forth.
Uh and well, Susan Collins and also the uh the notion of uh of going out and helping uh what's his name, little Link Chafee and so forth.
But that's the tradition.
When it comes to matters of party, you do not have presidents abandoning members of their own party.
Uh and especially when you're talking about incumbents.
Now, this the that the incumbency does not uh relate to Brian Billbray, but still the point is that this is a very petty way for Senator McCain to act when he's trying to portray himself as presidential timber to people.
If if uh if he's gonna continue, if he's gonna put himself first in his one issue of the day, whatever it is, put that first.
It's gonna be uh an eye-opening uh uh experience for people.
In fact, they had a uh straw poll Friday night at the Minnesota Republican Party State Convention.
Newt Gingrich won it going away.
McCain came in pretty much near to last here with uh Condoleezza Rice.
But I I want to after the break here analyze this uh in a little bit more detail.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
All right, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a story from Saturday.
Former uh House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the easy winner of a straw poll Friday night that tested 2008 presidential candidate support at the Minnesota Republican Party State Convention.
Gingrich got about 40 percent of the 540 votes cast.
That put him far ahead of Senator George Allen, who got about 15 percent.
Next were Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and uh Arizona Senator John McCain, each of them got 10 percent.
Uh this shows activists think that Gingrich has the cachet to help set and drive the conservative agenda, just as he did when he led the Republican take over the House in 94, said Tony Sutton, a Gingrich supporter and secretary treasurer of the party.
The results also now this is the paper saying this, the uh d Dane Smith, the reporter.
The results also confirm once again that party activists are considerably more conservative than Republican voters and the public in general.
McCain and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who are considered moderates, typically lead in public opinion polls.
Um Minneapolis Star Tribune, the writer obviously has no understanding of conservatism, the Republican base, uh, and who it is that elects presidents in this country, and it is America's conservatives, whatever party they're in, that elect presidents in this country.
Um the idea that that McCain and Giuliani uh typically lead and I don't he doesn't cite what public public opinion polls here.
I don't know if they're public opinion polls in Minnesota or if they are public opinion of polls nationwide.
Uh all I know is that every time they've had one of these straw vote play things at any Republican Party gathering, McCain's nowhere near the top of any of them.
That's all I know.
Now these guys can go on and play and make it make it out like the only people show up at these Republican Party conventions are the wacko fringe extremists.
But they're gonna miss the boat continually if they keep doing that, and the press is gonna wake up on election day stunned and shocked and in disbelief because they've got this template and they won't move off of it.
And that is that conservatives are a bunch of fringe, minority, small number people that make a lot of noise and frighten the moderates into saying what they uh uh fringe wants to hear.
Uh it's just the exact opposite.
The minority in the Republican Party is the is is the moderates, but they happen to be the elites.
And they happen to be the ones inside the beltway and in the northeastern corridors of power from New York to Washington to Boston.
And you have uh I was talking about this with F. Lee last night, instant messaging going back and forth before I decided to call it in and pack it in for the night, because I was beat.
I was busy in Philadelphia all weekend.
I uh I got to play Marion, uh uh golf club for the first time ever.
Uh a lot of history there.
Bobby Jones uh uh won the U.S. amateur there in uh 1929, and and that was his grand slam he quit.
And it's also the site of Ben Hogan's famous one iron on eighteen in the U.S. Open in uh in 1950 to send it into a tie uh the next day uh and I parred I parred uh best three finishing holes in golf, par par par.
Uh right in in the rain and the and and then played Pine Valley yesterday and flew back home.
And I was talking to Liv In last night.
And and I said uh he he had sent me, he was he was he was foul mood about uh about actually said good mood last night, but he was still made some comment about I don't know what, but I responded to it as you gotta understand here that uh uh the reason we in talk radio are disdained by the elites in our own party is that we appeal to our audiences.
We appeal to the people who make this country work.
I do this program not for the elites.
I don't care what the elites in Washington think of what happens on this program.
See, I have a belief that you people are what make things happen in this country.
The elites in Washington think that policymakers are what make things happen, and so they lobby and got to get cozy cozy with the policymakers in Washington, and they become insulated, and then they become disdainful of you, the people who make the country work because they don't have any influence over you.
They think you're a bunch of rudes and stupid, and this is true of elites in both parties.
And so here you have the results in Minnesota.
And once again, you've got a reporter.
Well, this really doesn't mean anything.
It just goes to show how powerful a kooks are in the Republican Party at the early stage.
But uh the true uh leaders and the uh public opinion polls out there, the Republicans, presidential sweepstakes, is uh moderates uh like uh like McCain and and uh and uh and Giuliani and so forth.
And a well, I I I i it it says it says quite a bit about Newt's rehabilitation program, but I don't have time to get into that right now, and it maybe it's premature to do that now anyway.
That was not the point that I wanted to focus on.
Uh it it it I think Newt, you know, it was talked about this last uh last week.
And I don't have time to get into it.
Let me save this for the monologue of the of the next uh that segment of the next hour, but it's all about the fact there's no elected conservative leadership in uh Washington right now, and people want it, and people want an ideological leader leading a movement.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
It seems like everywhere I go, I get the question at golf course yesterday.
What about Hillary?
I said, forget it.
She's toast.
Why doesn't why why why does it the House leave why they?
And I explained to those people what I am going to explain to you in mere moments when we get back after this top of the hour EIB profit center uh timeout.
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