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June 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Well, Fitzmas in July has been canceled, ladies and gentlemen.
Karl Rove, not indicted.
The Democrats are beside themselves.
The kook fringe of the Democrat Party base is simply deflated and depressed in utter denial.
Several drive-by media outlets, woefully embarrassed.
There was a website, truthout.org, which sets itself up as one of these sites that will give you the ultimate truth on every controversial issue.
It's nothing but a bunch of libs.
They ran stories recently that they knew Rove had already been indicted.
They're still standing by this story, by the way.
Wait till you hear the audio we have from some of the media and from Senator Schumer on this.
He's sold he wants Fitzgerald to explain to the American people why Rove wasn't indicted.
Can you not?
He wants a report from Fitzgerald on why he didn't indict Rove.
We have that.
We've got presidential approval numbers skyrocketing now to 38% from 31% in the USA Today poll.
And 48% of the American people now say that the Iraq war is winnable.
This is after the death of Zarkowi.
And then the PS de Resistance.
You know, if I were the White House, actually, if I have the drive-by media, I would say, you know, we know our Democratic associates, Democrat Party associates, have been accusing the president of lying throughout the Iraq war, but now he really has.
Bush lied.
Why, Bush lied to us.
He didn't tell us that he was going to Iraq on a secret visit.
In fact, one of the absolutely great things about this, they herded a bunch of press corps members from the White House Press Corps into a bus, and they're going to take them up to Camp David.
They got them in the bus.
They're on the way up and in there on the way up to Camp David to make an announcement.
By the way, President Bush is not at Camp David.
He has left Washington in a secret trip to Iraq, to Baghdad.
And you're here in this bus, and there's nothing you can say about it.
Bush lied.
Bush lied.
Ladies and gentlemen, when the president's helicopter sat down in the green zone today, the media template changed forever.
When President Bush shook the hand of Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki, the left had a collective earthquake, a nine on the Richter scale.
My question is this.
How many dots will it take for the liberals and the Drive My Media before they connect them and connect them in the proper way?
The president's no plan in Iraq is a plan.
It is a plan that is working despite the terrorism in the Sunni triangle and the terrorism from the left in the Beltway triangle.
Iraq has a constitution.
They have a government.
They have a prime minister.
They have key ministers.
And the leader, the on-the-ground general, the commanding battle general, Zarkawi, is dead.
And with this moment, that landing in Baghdad, the election, of course, coming up in November, certainly not over, but the race has begun.
The say no to everything crowd, the hate Bush crowd, the anti-war crowd, the all-time low-in-the-polls crowd, and the redecorating the Congress crowd, as well as Speaker-to-B. Pelosi crowd, are going to have to go back to their basics now, folks, because the president's numbers on the war are coming up.
This trip to Baghdad and the pictures and the meeting officially with the new government there illustrate that there always has been a plan, and the plan is unfolding before everybody's eyes, and the plan is working.
And so, what's it left for the Democrats to do?
They're going to have to go back to their basics: slavery, depression, and taxes, health care, and education.
The Liberals declared victory.
I warned them about this on this very program countless times.
You people go out there and start acting like you've won the election.
You start getting the AP to write stories about who the new Democrat committee chairman are going to be.
You start referring to Nancy Pelosi as Speaker-to-B. Pelosi.
You go out and do all this months before an election, and you are setting yourself up to get smacked upside ahead, and you're going to open that door to the Capitol right into your nose and bloody it again.
Well, I'm not going to declare victory months before.
Actually, I am going to declare victory.
I am because I've done it before today.
I have said not only Republicans going to hold the House and Senate, I wouldn't be surprised, ladies and gentlemen, if the Republicans increased their majority in the House of Representatives.
But here you have now probably the official start of the 2006 campaign now.
Pollsters, will the left hold seats in the House in the Senate?
Will Mirtha be re-elected in Pennsylvania?
All of these questions, the template should change now because all of the critics, all the naysayers, all the people that wanted to cut and run, all the people who called it a failure, all the people who said we need to get out of there.
It's an embarrassment.
It's distracting from the war on terror.
We've only killed the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Have now nowhere to go other than to continue the lies, other than to continue the myth, other than to continue to use their buddies in the drive-by media in an attempt to make the American people think that what they're seeing is not actually happening.
Let's go to some audio soundbites.
A bad morning for the drive-by media out there.
The White House put them on a bus to nowhere.
Here's Wendell Goller from Fox News this morning.
I'll tell you, the deception here near Camp David was complete.
They had just loaded up a pool of reporters, a dozen or 13 or so reporters, to go up, to take a bus up to Camp David, ostensibly to see the president, take pictures of him, hear from him.
That bus just pulled out of the camp where the bulk of the press corps is covering this two-day summit.
They are still headed up to Camp David.
Who they're going to see up there, I don't know, because it certainly won't be the president.
I love it.
And they were told on the bus, by the way, we're taking you up there, but the president's not there.
He's gone to Iraq.
Here's the president this morning in Baghdad with the newly named Prime Minister Al-Maliki.
I've expressed our country's desire to work with you, but I appreciate you recognize the fact that the future of your country is in your hands.
The decisions you and your cabinet make will be determined as to whether or not a country succeeds that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself.
Yeah, and the president then added this, and this is key.
I've come to not only look you in the eye, I've also come to tell you that when America gives its word, it will keep its word.
And it's in our interest that Iraq succeed.
It's not only in the interest of the Iraqi people, it's in the interest of the American people and for people who love freedom.
Iraq is a part of the war on terror.
Iraq is a central front on that war.
And when Iraq succeeds in having a government that of and by and for the people of Iraq, you have dealt a serious blow to those who have a vision of darkness, who don't believe in liberty, who are willing to kill the innocent in order to achieve a political objective.
So the president essentially telling the world there that Al-Maliki came to look him in the eye and say, America will keep its word.
We will not cut and run.
No need to add names after this phrase, such as Mirtha, Pelosi, Dean, Carrie, Kennedy, but it's implied.
We will not cut and run.
Quick timeout.
Back with more after this on the EIB network.
A lot of people are focusing now on the successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
I don't remember his name, doesn't matter, because it turns out he may be using an alias.
Nobody knows much about him.
They know that he's not an Iraqi, that he may be using an alias.
He's not well known at all.
All we do know is he's the next target.
The president has identified this poor slob as the next target, and we will be making every effort to take him out, just as we did Zarkowi.
Now, I want to leave the Iraq situation for just a second.
I want to come back to it, but I want to go to Karl Rove.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
As you know, Howard Dean was on the Today Show today, and the weekend anchor Campbell Brown interviewed him and said, Carl Rove is not going to be indicted, honey.
That's good news for the White House.
It sucks for us, Chairman Dean.
Carl Rove would have been indicted.
It would have been for perjury.
That does not excuse his real sin, which is leaking the name of an intelligence operative during a time of war.
He doesn't belong in the White House.
If the president valued America more than he valued his connection to Karl Rove, Karl Rove would have been fired a long time ago.
So I think this is probably good news for the White House, but it's not very good news for America.
You believe this?
Oh, these people can't handle it, folks.
This is a classic temple of what I'm talking about.
They had him indicted.
They had him in jail.
They had him in an orange jumpsuit.
It was a done deal.
They're just waiting for their hero, Patrick Fitzgerald, to make it official.
They all believed it.
They all had talked themselves into believing that Rove was going to be indicted, and he was going to be indicted for leaking her name and identity, even though Fitzgerald has said from the beginning, found no evidence anybody did that.
That's not even what he's looking at.
He's looking at perjury.
It's a process case now.
It has nothing to do with the original investigation.
And they still thought that they're going to get Rove indicted for leaking Valerie Playm's name.
Listen to Chuck Schumer today, this morning, at a press conference.
No matter what the outcome is of the final investigation, I am renewing my call on Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald to issue a report detailing his findings and explaining his charging decisions.
In this type of case, I think that's the prosecutor's obligation.
Isn't this amazing?
Isn't this amazing?
They had this.
Folks, they're doing this with the election too.
They have the election one.
It's in their hands.
It's just a formality.
They had Rove behind bars, and that was going to lead to Cheney being indicted.
And it was going to get, and some of the libs are even saying, well, you know, what this obviously means is that Rove flipped.
Rove flipped turned state's evidence, and Cheney's going to be indicted.
That's what they're telling themselves out there on the blogs.
And now Schumer, so convinced that they were going to have an issue over which they could win an election, even though Karl Rove has never been on a ballot, he will not be on a ballot in 06, nor will George W. Bush.
Somehow, This was one of the key ingredients to electoral success.
Here's more from Schumer on Fitzgerald.
I've asked for a report.
Clearly, the name was leaked.
And there is a different standard between leaking a name, which is wrong, and a criminal standard, which is a statute that's been on the book since 1982.
It's Prosecutor Fitzgerald's decision only to prosecute if the criminal standard is met.
But that doesn't absolve the White House or the leaker of culpability.
And there ought to be punishment for them as well.
An appropriate punishment, even if it's not a criminal punishment in a trial.
What he's talking about is the myth.
What he's talking about is the alternative reality that these people have constructed and in which they live.
What he's talking about is the dream.
He wants a report issued saying that Rove's guilty, even though Rove is not even going to be charged.
He wants a report written and issued by Fitzgerald that explains, or he wants something done so that it's on the books as official that the White House did leak.
Somebody there leaked, probably Rove, and that there ought to be punishment for them somehow.
Even though, after all of these appearances before the grand jury, I believe there were five, after all the hours of testimony Rove gave, no charge.
It doesn't satisfy them.
This is what leads to when they lose elections demanding recounts, hanging Chads, blaming voting machines.
They're not grounded, folks.
They are not grounded in reality, and they can't deal with these kinds of things.
When Clinton was not charged, when Clinton was not indicted, you didn't hear these guys running around demanding a full-fledged report to explain why, even though they got one.
It's just, it's breathtaking to watch this.
What?
No, he thinks he leaked.
This is why I'm telling you, Snerdley, so he wants him punished for not breaking the law.
No, he thinks he did break the law, but Fitzgerald is not going to charge him.
And he wants to know why.
And since he's convinced that Rove broke the law, he wants some kind of punishment, even if it isn't from the special counsel, the independent prosecutor, or criminal in the form of a trial.
But he wants Rove fired.
He wants Rove drawn and quartered.
Old Joe Wilson wants him frog-marched out of the White House.
Snerdley is looking at me incredulously.
This is not hard to understand.
If you know who these people are, yes, they know exactly how they sound, Mr. Snerdley.
That's what makes this all the more amazing.
They have constructed this alternative universe, this dream, this myth in which they live where all of these things they want have already happened.
The drive-by media conditions them to this.
Let's go to the audio tape.
I'll show you.
Let's go back and review the media.
The media is culpable here.
The media does polls.
The media does stories, not on what happened, but on what they hope happens, what they hope will happen.
And everybody on that side of the aisle buys into it, believes it, and starts their own parties and celebrating before anything at all happens.
And then when reality slaps them upside the head, they don't have the mechanism and the coping mechanisms to deal with it.
And so they run around and they think when Schumer talks like this, he thinks he's reflecting the attitudes and the opinions of a majority of Americans.
I guarantee you this is how out of touch they are, especially a Northeastern politician with Red State America.
He thinks he's articulating what most Americans think.
That's why the Democrats are in the trouble they're in.
They have no clue how they sound.
They have no clue how they're really heard.
They have no clue what the American people actually think of them.
They still believe that they have a monopoly in the media and a monopoly in the American people's hearts and minds.
And that all the rest of this is just an illusion and falder all.
They have not come to grips with reality.
Here's Nora O'Donnell.
I wish I could show you this because she looks like she lost her best friend and her boyfriend at the same time.
This is MSNBC Live today with the anchor, Randy Meyer.
And he says, the prosecutor has not come up with enough evidence to charge Rove.
Phillis in, Nora.
What happened there?
And how may this impact the case?
Well, it does appear this morning that the White House is firing on all cylinders, doesn't it?
A lot of good news for this White House.
They've got a lot of wins that they are racking up.
That nervous laugh of hers.
I don't know if you watch her when she sits in and guest hosts for Matthews, but she's got this nervous laugh.
And there was an example of it.
It's when things are not going right.
She doesn't know what she's actually reporting.
A lot of good news for the White House.
They got a lot of wins that they're racking up.
Let's go back to the audio tape.
We have a montage from October of 2005 of the media reporting the news that Rove will testify before the grand jury.
And this is part and parcel of what I was referring to a moment ago.
These people think, Rove's dead.
Rove's nailed.
He's testifying.
He's going to be indicted.
Listen to this.
We begin with breaking news out of the White House.
That's right.
Presidential Advisor Carl Rove will testify before the grand jury.
It has been reported that Rove has been a source on the CIA leak story.
Carl Rove, a figure in the CIA leak investigation, returns to the grand jury yet again.
George, three times in front of a grand jury is fairly unusual.
Carl Rove is going to testify now for a fourth time before this grand jury.
This is a fourth grand jury appearance.
That's extraordinary.
They give him one last chance to talk his way out of a possible indictment.
Rove has no guarantee that he won't be indicted in the case.
I think it's an old blues song.
If it weren't for bad news, I'd have no news at all.
He's headed back to the grand jury.
They've been told he's not a target, but that doesn't mean he won't be indicted.
Rove will testify with no guarantee against indictment.
There's no guarantee Rove will not be indicted.
We're at a point where, in the not too distant future, we're going to see Kyle Rove with a raincoat over his head being perp walked down the street in Washington.
That's Aaron Brown, no longer at CNN.
And let's hear one more.
This is Jack Cafferty, October 17th, last year on CNN with Wolf Blitzer.
Here's the question: What should Karl Rove do if he is indicted?
He might want to get measured from one of those extra-large orange jumpsuits, Wolf, because looking at old Carl, I'm not sure that they'd be able to zip him into the regular size one.
Well, he's actually lost some weight.
I think he's in pretty good shape.
Although maybe just the regular off-the-shelf large would handle it for him.
Yeah.
But, you know, it's still a big if.
It's still a big if.
Oh, I understand.
I'm just hoping.
You know, I love to see those kinds of things happen.
It does wonders for me.
So you see, folks, a simple review of media in the past year shows they'd already had him indicted wearing jumpsuits, just like they thought I was going to be in jail.
Delay, same thing.
They just, and now they're beside themselves.
It's going to take them so off their game.
They're going to be even more irrational, as Schumer has already indicated they are.
Ha, are you?
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As to Senator Schumer, who says, in fact, grab audio soundbite number two again, Mike.
Snerdly asked me, does he not realize how he sounds?
I think actually, I think he's talking to two groups here.
I think he's talking to the media and he's talking to the left-wing fringe kook bloggers in sort of a split screen.
I don't think he really cares what we or most Americans think of what he says, but there's something I want to add to it.
Here, hit that one more time.
No matter what the outcome is of the final investigation, I am renewing my call on Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald to issue a report detailing his findings and explaining his charging decisions.
In this type of case, I think that's the prosecutor's obligation to the American people.
I don't know.
I still hold out the possibility that Schumer actually thinks most Americans agree with him on this, that most Americans think Rove did leak, that most Americans think Rove is guilty, that most Americans are shocked and dismayed and angry and demand answers.
Could be speaking to the blogosphere in the media.
Anyway, Victoria Tensing, a good friend of this program, called during the break at the bottom of the hour and points out that what Schumer is calling for or demanding is illegal.
The independent prosecutor law no longer on the books.
There is no law that allows Fitzpatrick to write a report about grand jury proceedings.
He's asking Fitzgerald to break the law.
He can't simply write a report about what was said in a grand jury.
You just can't.
Now, a couple reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle who can get the information leaked to them, as in the Barry Bonds case, could write a book about it.
But the special prosecutor himself cannot write a report about what went on in grand jury proceedings.
And that's all that Schumer could possibly be referring to here, because it is clear.
You heard the media sound bites.
Five appearances.
Why?
They had him indicted.
They had him in jail.
They had Cheney going.
In fact, our buddies at Newsmax did, Newsmax did some surveying, if you will, of some Kook left-wing blog sites.
And this sample featured reaction ranging from disbelief to denial to the desperate hope that Rove has turned state's evidence against Cheney.
One visitor to the Huffington Post website said, how could this snake slither away from an indictment?
The man lied to the D.C. grand jury.
He gets off scot-free.
Where's the justice?
How do we know he lied to the D.C. grand jury?
You see, this is where the dominant media, the drive-by media, is creating all this false hope, not only in the Democrat Party's eyes, but in these poor little waifs that make up the Kook blogosphere.
They actually report this stuff.
These people believe it and think that it's true.
Another Democrat at the Huffington Post said, oh, there's no God.
And then over at the Daily Coast, it was even better.
This is appalling.
And any D.C. jury and many Main Street USA juries would find him guilty.
It really, really is a bad precedent to allow a criminal to have free reign in the White House.
Another Daily Coser was in abject denial, said, I personally will believe nothing about this until I read it and hear it from Patrick Fitzgerald himself.
Still another poster at Daily Co's saw the silver lining in this.
If Rove flipped, then Fitzgerald believes it'll give him Cheney, and he may damn well be right.
I've been alive 55 years.
I've been paying attention to politics probably since I was 12.
And I'm being honest with you people.
I have never seen, even after Watergate, I have never seen a political party so disengaged from what is real.
I have never seen a party with supporters, a major political party, with supporters as dense, as stupid, as dilapidated, as pathetic as those who make up what are now called the future, the Democratic Party.
I've never seen.
This party once ruled this country almost as royalty, folks.
The Democratic Party had an iron fist grip on everything in this country.
And now, and I know what's happened.
I mean, I'm going to bother you with boring explanations again, but they have now descended and faded away into a collection of people who may be clinically insane because of their inability to grasp what has happened.
They had the bowl of cherries for so long.
They had the Holy Grail.
They owned everything.
It was their country to do with whatever they wanted.
And now it's not.
And with each passing day, that reality hits them, broadsides them, and they simply have no mechanism to deal with it.
It's not going to help if they read USA Today.
In the wake of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, President Bush is seeing improvement in public confidence that the Iraq war is winnable.
A USA Today Gallup poll shows.
The new poll found that 48% believe the U.S. probably or definitely will win the war.
That's up from 39% in April.
Also found that 47% believe things are going well in Iraq, up from 38% in March.
Wait till the next poll, by the way, when they start polling people who saw the president land in Baghdad, talking to the new prime minister there and vowing that he will stay with them throughout, though it's their country now to run, but that we will not cut and run.
Wait till that poll comes out.
The survey taken Friday to Sunday and released Monday.
And that's interesting, too, because this, ladies and gentlemen, was a weekend poll.
And you know what we've always been told the conventional wisdom about weekend polls is that the odds to find Republicans at home and answering the phone are lower on weekends than finding Democrats.
And yet, I don't doubt that that's true.
And I also don't doubt that they did the weekend poll on purpose for that very reason to find a low Republican sample.
And yet even in a weekend poll, Bush's numbers go up from 31 to 38 percent.
48 percent think it's winnable as opposed to 39 percent.
So big, big news.
And then there's this Senate minority leader Dingy Harry, after leaving a gathering of kook fringe wackos in Las Vegas last weekend, told a gathering of Democrat and liberal activists in Washington yesterday that, quote, we have to start bringing the troops home.
The Nevada Democrat opened his remarks at the Take Back America 2006 conference by these people pathetic.
I told you not to lose confidence, folks.
I told you not to go all pessimistic and doom and gloom on me.
I told you to hang in there.
I told you there's every reason in the world for optimism.
And it's not hard to figure out why this is the case.
You know, it's a simple case of character and morality and being on the right side of things versus joining the other side with what?
What in the world is inspirational about what they're doing?
They're the cut and run crowd.
Nothing will work.
They're the abject failure crowd.
They're the crowd that says, vote for us.
Be the worst you can be.
Vote for us.
Be the worst we can all be.
But at least we'll be equal.
I mean, why cave to that?
Why even be afraid of that?
At any rate, here's Dingy Harry up there at the Take Back America 2006 conference.
They're timing.
They're timing.
This is yesterday.
Saying we have to start bringing the troops home.
And after he goes to this meeting, criticizes the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq.
Bush shows up in Baghdad In a photo op that I'm telling you, changed the whole dynamic of this upcoming campaign.
It's going to change the whole dynamic of the upcoming election.
Dingy Harry said, as we meet here today, the president is meeting with his cabinet to talk about Iraq, as well as he should.
No, he's meeting with the prime minister of Iraq to tell him we're not going to cut and run, dingy.
President Bush has stated his position repeatedly.
As Iraqi forces stand up, American forces will stand down.
I don't want to hear that anymore, Reid said.
Our troops deserve an exit strategy.
Reed seemed to make a more direct call for withdrawal of troops than his previous remarks, but the senator's office disagreed.
Anyway, at the end of the speech, people in the crowd started chanting, bring them home, bring them home.
And I go back to Tony Snow in his press conference the other morning after we learned of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Tony Snow saying, What a guy so hell-bent on getting out of there.
And the same question to Dingy Harry: What is this about bringing the troops home?
To whom is he speaking?
Is he speaking to the American people?
Is he speaking to the fringe-based kooks?
Is he speaking to the drive-by media?
Does he understand how he is being heard?
Does he not know bringing the troops home signifies defeat?
At any rate, it's moot because the president just told Dingy Harry without even addressing him to go pound sand back after this.
Stay with us.
I see where Patrick Kennedy has accepted a plea deal.
He's going to plead guilty to driving under the influence of prescription medication and other charges, reckless driving and something else are going to be dropped.
He'll plead guilty to that, I guess, in court this afternoon.
I'm just wondering why he chose not to fight this.
I know, he's been out there saying he was going to accept the consequences of what happened, and they've actually got the evidence of the car and the stories out there.
But anyway, I just have a new perspective on all this stuff now, of course, and I just wonder why he chose not to fight it.
Chad in Kearney, Nebraska, you're next on the EIB net.
By the way, hang on, I just want, folks, if Bush really wants to capitalize on the momentum spawned by the events of the past two days, past week, do something on this Senate immigration bill and change it.
And the Republicans will own it again.
Just fix that.
Off to the races.
Okay, Chad.
Thank you.
You're next, sir.
Yeah, Rush Megadittos from Kearney, Nebraska.
Thank you.
Just had a quick comment about the liberals and the absolute messed up mindset they got.
I like to call them a defeatist of convenience.
With all the stories we see coming out, well, I guess not all the stories we see coming out, all the stories that we find about the successes that we're having in Iraq, the death of Zarkawi, we get nothing about how it doesn't matter.
We're losing the war.
It's not winnable.
We can't do it militarily.
Yet we get story after story about moral victories when they actually lose in states like California.
It's not the first time we've gotten the stories about moral victories.
And just wondering what your thoughts were on.
I get that.
It's an excellent point.
When they see victory in Iraq, it can't be happening.
We can't win.
We had Jane Harmon, the audio soundbites yesterday.
We can't play whack-a-mall in Bandar province or whatever.
We are playing whack-a-mall all over the place, and we're whacking them.
And it's achieving victory.
And there's a new constitution, a new government, now new ministers, and Bush over there for five hours to meet with the people.
And this is an excellent point, Chad.
On the other hand, they lose and they call it a moral victory.
I just think it's a, I'm not well enough versed in genuine psychiatric terms to describe these people.
But it's, they're just, they're not home.
The elevator is not going all the way to the top floor.
They're a cup and saucer short of a full play setting.
And I do think it shows just how regaining their power is the only thing on their mind.
You know, that's the only time they can look for a win is when it's even just a slight glimmer of hope.
Oh, that's exactly right.
What's bad for America is good for them and vice versa.
Exactly.
And you're right.
You're right.
This is a clear illustration of the poisonous results of seeking power for power's sake without wanting to bring people along with you to share the power, to understand how the power is going to be used, an agenda to lead the country to better days, better times.
They're not talking about better days and better times.
That's the whole point.
They want to tell you life's going to hell in a handbasket and you need them to cushion the blow.
We're all going to hell, folks.
America's dishonest.
America's guilty.
America's culpable.
And we deserve to go to hell.
But with the Democrats in charge, it may not be as hot when we get there because we, the Democrats, know it well.
Hell, that is.
John in Newark, welcome to the program, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, I just want to comment on your perception of Schumer's mental capacity or his craziness.
I don't believe Schumer, I think Schumer's pretty shrewd.
He's not, I don't think he's crazy.
In fact, I don't think a lot of the Democrats are crazy.
They just realize that the media is going to carry the water for them no matter what they say.
Take, for instance, look at Tom DeLay's situation.
You have Tom DeLay, he steps down.
He's not guilty of anything.
Yet you have this guy down in Louisiana, Jefferson, Democrat.
That would be William Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana, yes.
Yeah, this guy's $90,000 of marked bills in his refrigerator, and he's not stepping down for anything.
And they just know, Schumer knows, that the media is going to carry the water for him.
That's fine.
Whatever he wants.
I appreciate, but you've got to join the 21st century here.
Yeah, he expects the media to carry his water, and they will.
But we're here.
We are on the case.
And as he makes these absurd statements, a whole lot of Americans have a different perspective on it rather than just the blanket carrying the water or supporting or reporting whatever it is that Schumer says.
And I disagree with you.
I do think that this quest for power has genuinely poisoned these people.
It may be the way the airborne phenomenon, EIB, affects them.
In most cases, EIB, airborne phenomenon, is a cure for whatever you have.
And once you get to, it's an airborne phenomenon.
It's spread by casual contact.
And once you get it, you're cured.
But apparently, the airborne phenomenon of EIB poisons liberals.
It distorts their worldview.
It distorts reality.
Schumer is supposedly a lawyer.
He is supposed to know that what he is asking the independent counsel to do, Mr. Fitzgerald, is against the law.
He can't release a report about grand jury testimony or proceedings.
Can't do it.
Yet he's out there demanding it.
And I do think that Schumer probably is still living the illusion that most Americans agree with what he's saying and that most Americans think Rove is guilty and want him hung up to dry in jail.
I have no doubt that they believe this.
If you review the last year, year and a half of audio, video of what media and Democrats have said, it's easy to conclude that they've already had Rove guilty.
It's just a matter of time.
So here we go.
Reality Every time they can't, reality.
I opened the program one day last week talking about the reality versus the myth and the dream, and it seems to just bamboozle them every day now.
And one of the reasons this happens, by the way, and I know we've been critical of the president when it comes to illegal immigration and this sort of thing, but when it comes to these issues such as Rove and Plame or whatever, the Iraq war, the war on terror, the one constant, the one thing you know, the one thing you can count on is George W. Bush being who he is.
And that is always going to win the day over a bunch of people who are feeling the situation out every day, trying to massage their position and change it based on the free flow of events on a daily basis.
And they've just been caught up short practically every time they have tried to win the day from the Wellstone Memorial on.
Back after this, folks.
So, Der Schlichmeister Bill Clinton out there blaming President Bush and his policies for more damaging and more frequent hurricanes.
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