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June 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 26, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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Thanks, Johnny Donovan.
Nice to be with you again.
Coming up this hour, a little later, Vernon Robinson, Republican candidate, North Carolina's 13th District, and the famed now Twilight Zone ad.
You don't know what that is?
Oh, you've seen that.
You've heard it, right?
Certainly you have.
Well, we'll play it for you and talk with Vernon Robinson about that.
Interesting fellow, that's for sure.
The soggy East Coast branch of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where there is never a final exam, but we are tested every day.
Paul W. Smith here, a fellow student, a teaching assistant for this august institution, and in a great seat where I get to say hi to and meet lots of guest experts like we're about to together in just a moment, Mark Stein of the Sun-Times in just a moment.
But I am happy to report that Rush will be right here, back in this chair behind the Golden EIB microphone tomorrow.
And I'm sure that makes you happy, makes me very happy.
There is a study out there I make note of that Americans have fewer friends than they can confide in than ever before.
You see that study?
Fewer friends?
At one time, we had as many as three really close friends that we could confide in and share stories with, share thoughts with.
Well, you know what?
It occurred to me as I heard that that that's just not true right here on your favorite radio station where you can hear from friends.
You can agree with or disagree with, but you never are alone or without friends when you're tuned in right here.
And you even get to talk to your friends from time to time.
Big news today with Warren Buffett giving away millions of dollars.
He's going to do a million shares of the Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the end, about $31 billion more going to causes that will change our world.
And they keep saying that he's just a regular Joe.
I mean, just a regular Joe with $44 billion.
But the fact is, truly, he lives in the same house he had that he bought 40 years ago.
It's just a regular house before he had any of this money.
And he drives an old car, from what I understand.
And he doesn't want to leave his kids a lot of money.
He is, in fact, for the death tax, the estate tax.
Both he and Gates are.
It kind of drives me crazy, but they are.
And they're not going to leave a lot of money to the kids.
But, you know, what's a lot of money if he only leaves them a billion dollars, as I said before, only a billion dollars.
But I do like this line that Warren Buffett is quoted as saying before, in terms of leaving money for your kids, leave enough for them to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
That's a pretty good line.
Leave enough for them to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
Also, quick note while I have you here, we tried to warn you, we tried to give you the heads up on myspace.com a long time ago when I was here filling in.
And just an update, now there's some people who are trying to sue MySpace.
In fact, one guy writing in the New York Times today, in fact, Tom Zeller Jr., link by link, he says, well, this is a quote that he puts in the story from somebody else, but it says, suing MySpace for a sexual assault perpetrated by a predator on their network is a bit like suing the car company who made the car he picked her up with.
Wait a minute.
Is this guy not paying attention?
You know how many car companies have been sued when somebody is driving drunk in a car and not wearing their seatbelts?
And because they're driving drunk and because they're not wearing the seatbelt, when they turn the car over and go flying through the car, people sue the car company and come up with some reason to sue the car company.
Is this guy not paying attention?
How about when they sue gun companies, people who make guns?
This guy, they must be, I don't know what they're thinking over there.
Finally, the president is turning 60 this week.
And he's lamenting that a little bit.
I'm here to tell you the truth.
I know when we were young, 60 seemed old.
And maybe it was when we were young, but it's not anymore.
And not just because we're getting, no, no, no, no, it's nerdily.
Not just because we're getting closer to it.
No, that's not it at all.
The fact of the matter is, 60 is the new 40.
It is.
60 is the new 40.
Mark Stein is with the Chicago Sun-Times.
He has strong opinions on lots of issues.
And I don't believe we've ever met or ever talked, Mark, but I'd like to say welcome into the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
A great honor to be with you, Paul, especially for a foreigner.
I feel I'm finally assimilated because once you're on the Rush show, that's about as American as you can get.
Doesn't get any more American than this, and especially when you're horrified that we might have a terrified America.
Yeah, I think it's astonishing when I listen to the Democrats at the national level, the John Kerrys and the Jack Murphy's, talking about this business of redeploying, which is a rubbish word if ever I heard it.
You know, they're not going to be, if anything like the Murphy or the Kerry Plan was ever adopted, no headline writer on the BBC or Al Jazeera is going to be saying America redeploys out of Iraq.
They're going to see that for what it is, a loss and a defeat.
And I think that's really the issue here, American credibility.
Imagine Murthy saying that the U.S. poses the top threat to world peace.
The U.S. poses the top threat to world peace.
American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran.
That, according to Representative John Murthy, imagine that.
Well, that guy has flown the coupe.
And to be honest, I think it's a measure of the complete intellectual bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, that he is being promoted on Meet the Press and all these other TV shows as if he's some great font of wisdom.
You know, as one always has to say in this situation, one respects his service in Vietnam.
That's not the war we're fighting now.
And given the way, you know, Bob Dole got no credit for what he went through in World War II when he ran for president, I'm a little suspicious of his way that the only military service that counts with the left these days is service in a cause America lost with great problems for the world in the years afterwards.
You know, it occurs to me, Mark Steinwith from the Chicago Sun-Times, in fact, in your column that I think was just yesterday, back to the redeployment idea, they obviously tested that word, and redeployment apparently does play better than surrender, lose, scram, head for the hills.
That's basically what it is.
You know, there's a famous English satirist called Craig Brown who does these joke conjugations.
You know, I'm witty, you're a laugh, he makes embarrassing noises with his armpit.
And that's really what the Democrats have come up with.
I redeploy, you withdraw, he cuts and runs.
But we all know that that is what they're doing.
They want to do is cut and run.
And, you know, what is interesting to me, Go Chok Tong, who is the Prime Minister of Singapore, he was in Washington two years ago.
And he said, the issue isn't the United Nations.
The issue isn't WMD.
The issue isn't a democratic Iraq.
The only issue that matters is American credibility.
The Prime Minister of Singapore understands what's at stake in this, but the Democratic Party doesn't.
Well, let me ask you, as a reporter, since we just spoke to Bill Goertz about this and ran by the issue that Representative Peter King is bringing up, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, urging the Bush administration to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
Specifically, he, Representative King, specifically mentions the New York Times and thinks that there ought to be an investigation and even prosecution of the New York Times, the reporters, the editors, the publisher, because he says we're at war and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous, and this isn't their first time.
No.
And I think long before we get to the question of whether you prosecute newspapers and reporters, there are things that ordinary people can do.
I mean, I will not buy the New York Times again because I think it crossed the line this weekend into Al Jazeera territory here.
There is no conceivable question of public interest or legality.
It is basically like announcing a newspaper getting a heads up on the date of D-Day and putting that in the newspaper because that also is a matter of public interest.
And the fact of the matter is that this sad, pathetic figure who edits the New York Times, Bill Keller, and this pathetic publisher, Sulzberger, Pinch Sulzberger, who's degrading what was once a very valuable franchise, they're looking at this in the most pathetically parochial way.
They think winning a Pulitzer is more important than winning a war.
You know, I'm a journalist, but I'm a human being too, and it's not going to be any consolation to me if I've got a trophy on the mantelpiece.
But my wife and daughter are going around in burqas.
The important thing is to win the war.
And this is essentially, I think, as treasonous as you can get.
I don't know whether it makes the legal definition of treason, but it's certainly in the spirit of treason, in that it is, in effect, giving a heads up to the enemy who will now find their way to root financial transactions, avoiding this company in Belgium, SWIFT, which is basically the central kind of handling network for financial transfers in the world today.
And this is basically a way of tipping off the terrorists.
It's disgraceful.
And long before anybody's prosecuted, ordinary Americans should simply say, I will not hand over 50 cents or 75 cents or whatever for that newspaper because I don't want to be putting money into the pockets of people who are helping us to lose the war.
We have Mark Stein for just a couple of minutes from the Chicago Sun-Times.
If you want to weigh in, if you have a thought or two to share with him, do that at 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
In a moment, we'll talk a little bit about Al Gore's movie and how I unwittingly stepped into the middle of it the other day.
And I'll explain that here on the Rush Limbaugh show.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
So, along with my morning show, WJR in Detroit, and the honor of filling in here for Rush from time to time, and I do just recently started a newspaper column in the Detroit News, and today, the Monday morning, it just runs on Monday mornings, I did a whole thing on inconvenient truths.
One, the head is better off if you have a helmet on when you bash your head, because people were trying to get rid of the helmet law in Michigan for motorcyclists.
Illicit drug use is never safe, and cops aren't responsible for making sure that your illegal drugs are pure.
That's one of those inconvenient truths.
This is another one I feel strongly about: Human Life Begins at Conception.
It's an inconvenient truth, which happens to also be the name of Al Gore's film.
And so, there I am, Mark Stein of the Chicago Sun-Times.
I'm shopping in the city here over the weekend.
I walk into a store.
I'm doing some stuff.
I have never had any plan to see this film.
Maybe I should because I'm in this business.
I should at least see what he's doing.
So, I'm waiting for them to send it to me free.
So, there it is on a big screen television in this big, big store in Manhattan.
And it's like a shrine to Al Gore.
Exactly.
And they keep playing this stuff from a be scared, be very scared, or whatever it was.
But I couldn't believe it.
It was there.
It's everywhere.
And I know that you have a thought or two about worrying about a ton of stuff that's never going to happen within the next half millennium, but completely ignoring the stuff that's going on right now.
Yeah, no, I thought it wouldn't be possible to make a sillier environmental movie than that thing, The Day After Tomorrow, which came out, I think, a year or two ago, and in which and if you haven't seen the movie, I don't want to spoil the plot for you, but basically a speech by Dick Cheney brings on the flash freezing of the entire northern hemisphere.
You know, I'll take the word from the scientists that that is actually technically possible.
But the Al Gore movie, in fact, has surpassed that.
You know, Al Gore is convinced that we are on the brink of the abyss in terms of climate change.
And in fact, you know, all the things that might happen might happen.
And if they do happen, the chances are, like the rise in sea levels, if that is true, that will mean that the 300,000 residents of the Maldive Islands will have to move by the year 2500.
So there's no need to start worrying about it now.
And in the year 2500, it'll be easy to resettle them all in the south of France because the south of France will be entirely Sunni Muslim by then, so they'll fit right in.
You know, we're worrying about things that aren't going to happen for half a millennium, like this global warming thing.
And we're not dealing with the real fast-moving demographic changes that are changing the world as we speak, and which Al Gore and Bill Clinton and co. haven't said a word on.
Let's deal with some of the issues important to our listeners to the Rush Limbaugh program at 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882 in Washington, D.C. John, welcome aboard with Mark Stein, and I'm Paul W. Smith.
John?
Yes, good afternoon.
Mark Stein, being a Brit, I have to take my hat off to you.
I wish we had more Americans that stood up for this country the way you do.
And you were talking about boycotting the New York Times over this secret program that we had following the funds.
That's what they always tell us is to follow the money, and then we try and do it, you know, and then we're faulted for it.
And to me, this is deja vu.
We just went through this with the NSA program where they were checking out phone calls in and out of the country.
And they found out that most people, at least most people like me, conservatives, think this is a good idea.
This is to our benefit.
If they weren't doing these things to protect our country, we'd be upset.
Yeah, absolutely.
And this is what the left say, oh, there is no war on terror.
There's a small problem.
We need to do it through law enforcement and intelligence operations.
And every time you try and do it through law enforcement or intelligence or surveillance, the New York Times leaks it.
That is the issue here, that, in fact, it's all but impossible to do it the way that the John Kerry Democrats say we ought to be doing it because the New York Times leaks it everywhere.
Joshua in New Orleans, spending some time with Mark Stein of the Chicago Sun-Times on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Joshua.
How are you doing?
I'm a sergeant in the National Guard, did a tour in Iraq, and I just wanted to let you know that the term redeploy is not something made up by the media or by the left.
It's actually the term that the U.S. military uses when you come back from overseas.
Yes, but in the political sense, that's true.
But in the political sense, it's a word they're using because they don't actually want to confront the political implications of choosing to do what they do.
The fact of the matter is that whatever the arguments for going into Iraq were, once you're in there, it's important to win it.
Because if it's not a clear victory that's seen as a victory by America's enemies and friends around the world, then the implications for that in the political sense are catastrophic, as they were after Vietnam, when dominoes tumbled all over the planet from Grenada to Iran.
Let me ask, is Joshua still there?
Yes.
Joshua, a quick question.
When General Casey said that we'd have 7,000 troops maybe go home by the end of the year and not be replaced, would they be being redeployed?
Yes, they would be being redeployed, just like with any other tour that an individual soldier or unit takes overseas.
And it's just a term that they use.
They give you a redeployment date or redeployment plan of action in order to move your personnel and equipment back to the States.
All right.
Excellent, Joshua.
Thanks for the help on that.
And Mark Stein, I agree with you.
From a military standpoint, they've got their own lingo, obviously, but from a political standpoint, they really have stumbled upon redeployment as ingenious rather than surrender, lose, scram head for the hills.
Yeah, and in fact, you know, redeployment of the kind that's going on, which I think is excellent news, that the Iraqi armed forces are now able to do a lot of the work that was previously having to be done by Americans.
I was up on the Iraq-Syrian border a couple of years ago, and that was at that time guarded by U.S. troops.
That border is now patrolled by Iraqi troops.
And as that happens, U.S. forces will be coming home.
But that's, you know, in the Second World War, nobody in 1942 said, oh, we're going to set a redeployment date of June the 30th, 1943, whatever happens.
The minute you do that, the minute you put a sort of best before date on a war, you're basically telling the enemy all they have to do is sit things out for 12 months, and then the place will be theirs for the take.
Sure.
Bob is in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Real quick, Bob.
Oh, yes.
Hi, Mark, and Bill.
Well, yeah, I guess I vehemently disagree with some of your perspectives that, you know, the war on terror has been used for other, or it's being used, or what's called the war on terror is actually being used to advance the interests of the wealthy.
I'm glad the New York Times is at least exercising some journalism in exposing some of the invasion of civil liberties.
And our Constitution really is at stake when we have this so-called endless war, which means that...
By the way, wait a second.
First of all...
First of all, I don't know why they would give me you with less than a minute to go.
By the way, it's Paul.
You got that wrong, too.
Paul and Mark.
And now what we're going to do is we're going to hold Mark over, which we, Mark, I hope we can do that.
Yeah, that's no problem.
All right, we're going to hold Mark over.
We're going to hold Bob over because we can't let Bob come on and say these things, and then it'll sound like we're hanging up on him, which is what people who don't listen to this show think happens to liberals and people who are misguided, like Bob, in their thinking.
So we are now changing everything as scheduled.
And I hope this is all right with you, Mr. Snerdley.
We are changing everything to give Bob of Scranton, Pennsylvania an opportunity to speak clearly with Mark Stein on these issues, even though we're out of time right now as we continue here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
All right, we've stopped the presses.
We've reset the type.
And that's throwing off talk shows across the country who will be reporting on what's going on on this very program, the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Paul W. Smith in for Rush Rushback here tomorrow in this chair.
As you know, Mark Stein is with us, Chicago Sun-Times.
Also, Bob in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Bob, I would not presume to be able to sum up what you were saying going into the break.
So here's your opportunity to once again succinctly make your statement and ask your question.
Then I'll let Mark respond, and then we've got to move on.
Sure.
Well, the idea that the media shouldn't be reporting on the chief executive of the country, the commander-in-chief, is not really sound in terms of what our founders wanted with the Constitution was to uphold the Constitution.
That's the main thing, to preserve and protect it.
That we realized that they realized that men could not be trusted with power because we would always abuse it, you or I or so on.
And that so that's the first thing.
Now, when people start having this surveillance of Americans, whether there's phone or bank records, that's a very serious thing.
And then you have this endless war on terror that we're saying, which means that this will go on and on, and then there's no room for civil liberties.
And then what's being framed as a war on terror is actually a war, actually it's a war on terror on the American people so that we will support this plan of global domination that has been, that is now our national security strategy that's been dreamed up by the conservative neocons of the Project of the New American Century with 9-11 as a covert act against the American people perpetrated on the American people to scare them into giving up their civil liberties.
And there's plenty of evidence now to support that 9-11 was done with complicity of our government.
All right.
And again, somewhere in there, I know you said something about this is really for the rich.
Basically, for the rich.
So, Mark, I'd like you to enjoy yourself.
I would have been prepared to entertain a large part of that up until we get to the idea that 9-11 is a covert act perpetrated on the American people.
You know, you can believe that if you want, and in 10, 20, 30 years' time, there'll be you in Scranton saying that 9-11 was, in fact, perpetrated by the U.S. government against its own people, and that somehow this plot they uncovered in Miami and the plot they uncovered in Toronto and the bombings in Bali and London and Madrid and the Islamist takeover of Somalia, that these are presumably all part of the same conspiracy that Karl Rove is organizing against the American people, too.
He must be disguising it somewhere in that Alaskan bridge here, Mark, because it's hugely expensive to pull off these things all over the planet.
But let me forget that and just assume that the first part of what you were saying is serious.
Yes, there are constitutional issues involved when you're prosecuting a war, but a Belgian financial clearinghouse is not covered by the United States Constitution.
If you wanted to complain about the fact that if you take a check for $10,000 down to your bank account, technically your American bank has to report, can have the option of reporting that transaction to the U.S. government.
I happen to think that's slightly ridiculous.
But when somebody wires money from a bank in the United Arab Emirates to a bank in London through a Belgian clearinghouse, and for you to claim that the founders of the United States would have been opposed to that, that's just cloud cuckoo land.
If you can't do that, then you can't do anything.
Wait a minute, I'm taking notes.
That's just what?
That's just cloud cuckoo land.
A Belgian financial clearinghouse is not covered in the United States Constitution.
Mark, always a pleasure.
They said I'd enjoy you, and I have.
And for others who'd like to enjoy his work, you can go online.
If you don't get the Sun-Times, you can go online to Mark Stein, S-T-E-Y-N is how it's spelled.
But if you Google it, spelling it incorrectly, they'll find you anyway.
S-T-E-Y-N of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Mark, thanks for spending time with us.
We really appreciate it.
Great pleasure, Paul.
Anytime.
And Bob of Scranton, Pennsylvania, thanks for listening in with your question also.
Getting back on schedule, Vernon Robinson to be with us right now.
He won the Republican primary election in North Carolina's 13th congressional district with the highest ever margin of victory, winning all seven counties and capturing more than two and a half times the votes of his closest competitor in a three-way race.
He is the first black Republican nominee from a competitive North Carolina congressional district more than 100 years.
Black conservative standing out above the crowd with some rather incredible commercials.
This is the audio from the television commercial.
I think it was also a radio commercial.
I'm sure it was if he wanted to be really effective in his campaign.
But we have the audio from what has become known as the Twilight Zone Commercial for Vernon Robinson.
Let's listen.
If you're a conservative Republican, watching the news these days can make you feel as though you are in the Twilight Zone.
Americans are under attack from Islamic extremists in every corner of the world.
Homosexuals are mocking holy matrimony, and the lesbians and feminists are attacking everything sacred.
Liberal judges have completely rewritten the Constitution.
You can burn the American flag and kill a million babies a year, but you can't post the Ten Commandments or say God in.
Seven out of every ten black children are born out of wedlock, and Jackson and Sharpton claim the answer is racial quotas.
And the aliens are here, but they didn't come in a spaceship.
They came across our unguarded Mexican border by the millions.
I'm Vernon Robinson.
If you send me to Congress, I'll send that back to the Twilight Zone.
I approve of this message and of traditional American values.
And, of course, the Leave It to Beaver theme with the Beave in the back of the car waving to everybody and produced by Daly and Associates.
Where are they from?
Daly and Associates.
Washington, D.C., the company.
Or where is it?
Northern Virginia.
Northern Virginia, Daly and Associates, and the voice you hear there is Vernon Robinson.
Verbin, it's Paul W. Smith here for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome to the program.
Paul, it's great to be on.
They say in a story that's out today in the Associated Press that one of the folks who quoted here is that you have a unique way of getting your point across.
You have a talent for drawing contrasts in a way that draws attention.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, raised in Los Angeles, an Air Force Academy graduate, former university business professor who began his political career in 1988 with an unsuccessful run for the state Senate.
But boy, are you getting ⁇ you're getting more attention now than you did when you erected that one-ton monument of the Ten Commandments in front of City Hall.
Well, in some ways, the reaction has been very predictable, and in some ways it's surprised us.
Most conservatives tell us they've waited all their lives for a person to have the courage to say these things, and half the women want to marry you, and most of the men want to run you for president.
Well, people are a little frightened by your right-to-the-point way that you attack these various issues, saying that that is the Democrats' or the liberals' dream for America, and you gore everybody's ox there.
Well, believe it or not, no matter how good that ad is, you have old cowardly curmos who tell you, well, you know, Vernon, I agree with you on all these issues, but you just can't say that.
The media will crucify you, and they'll call you every name in the book, and I tell them, look, they're doing that already.
What more can they do?
And the reality is that professional consultants say, you can think that, but you can't say that.
And I told them, I don't work that way.
Well, it is unusual.
In fact, I'm going to ask Maimon to play another commercial that you used very effectively.
This one's called the Bill Cosby Commercial.
Vernon Robinson, Republican candidate, North Carolina's 13th District with the Twilight Zone ad and yet another ad from Daly and Associates.
This lesson in tough love paid for by Vernon Robinson for Congress.
Bill Cosby made the liberals mad when he said black hoodlums need to stop stealing and start getting jobs.
That black mothers need to stop having eight babies by seven different fathers.
Stop talking street talk jive like yo dog, peep my bling bling.
You can't be a doctor with that kind of coming out of your mouth.
You can't land the plane with why you ain't where you live.
Go wild back.
As a congressman, Vernon Robinson will tell all of America what he tells his own three children.
Stay in school, speak English, and get a job.
Don't have children out of wedlock.
Don't take drugs.
Don't commit crime.
And if you do, don't pull a Jesse Jackson and blame it on Whitey.
I am Vernon Robinson, and I approve this message because Bill Cosby was right.
The biggest problem facing blacks today isn't slavery or racism.
It's the destruction of the family.
The answer isn't racial quotas or a government handout.
It's personal responsibility.
Vernon?
Yes, Paul.
What's been the reaction to that commercial?
Well, in all the commercials, the left has gone ballistic.
You know, particularly you have guys on the Blogosphere saying that they listened to the ad and their head exploded.
And another fella said that those ads are worse than Willie Horton and the Swift Boat Veterans Combined.
And so I wanted to let everybody know that you can make thousands and thousands, or like Carl Sagan said, billions and billions of liberal ships explode just by going to the website, listening to the ads.
And if you feel that those are the kind of ads you want on, to donate to the campaign at RobinsonForCongress.com.
Well, I should point out that you have had rather incredible luck with contributions.
You have gotten the financial contributions from more Americans last check, and this is old figure, 35,000 than any congressman or candidate for Congress in the history of the United States.
People from outside of your district are sending you money.
Yes, and the left doesn't like it very much.
I bet they don't.
What's that website again, Vernon, for folks who want to see more of what you're doing?
That's www.robinsonforcongress.com.
And I did want to let all the college students listening know that if they're not doing anything for the rest of the summer or they want to intern in the fall, we have interns, paid internships right now.
And all they have to do is send an email message to info at vernonrobinson.com with a subject line internship, and we'll bring them on down to North Carolina and they can do the hard work of freedom.
And I know that there are a lot of complaints and a lot of threats and a lot of negative information out about you.
And I know that because you put it right up on your website.
Well, the left would go after any Republican who said these things, but they really hate it when a black Republican has the courage to say them.
They just can't stand it.
They call me all kinds of names.
They call me Uncle Tom, Oreo, Coconut.
We have a Democratic candidate for the Supreme Court who called me an Uncle Tom and a good slave for staying on the Republican plantation.
But did they say you were a good slave and then they cleaned it up by saying then an Uncle Tom?
That was cleaning it up.
Yes, that was cleaning it up.
And we have an opponent who he had two previous nice gals running against him, and he had the money to get the ads out to define them and the willingness to lie about them.
And so what's critical in this race is I have the guts to tell it like it is.
And if your listeners and other great Americans are willing to give me the resources to meet Brad Miller just word for word, very quickly, I got to go.
They're giving me the high sign here.
But you did use something about childless Miller since you brought up Mr. Miller's name.
And you mentioned childless and you made some implications.
But the fact is that he and his wife apparently did not have children because she had a hysterectomy more than two decades ago.
Did you regret bringing that up at all?
No, he raised that issue against Carolyn Grant, who just ran against him four years ago and basically just said that she had raised a family.
And so out came the campaign, pushing her into one of the newspapers, etc.
We raised those issues because time and time again, he's voted to hurt children.
He voted against the 604 provisions, which would have kept convicted child molesters out of this country in the Sensenbrenner Bill.
He's voted against Lacey and Connor's law.
He's voted against vouchers for D.C. kids and for disabled kids.
So he's voted to hurt children.
And, you know, I've changed my perspective.
I wouldn't be voting to her children.
All right.
So you felt that was the issue of voting to hurt children.
I appreciate you clarifying that.
And good luck to you, Vernon Robinson.
Paul, it's great.
And I hope your listeners go to www.robinsonforcongress.com.
All right.
He knows how to promote.
He's done very well, hasn't he?
We'll continue, wrap things up with Ann Coulter in a moment.
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All right, let's catch up with Ann Coulter.
You know, of course, her book is out, New York Times bestseller.
It's called Godless, the Church of Liberalism.
Ann and I talked a week or two ago on my Detroit show, and I actually tried to speak with her about something other than what she's gotten all the attention for, the so-called witches of East Brunswick, et cetera, et cetera.
And I guess from your last column, Ann, it says, I dedicate this column to John Murthy, The Reason Soldiers Invented Fragging.
You know, you pull no punches, and you say whatever you want to say, and then let the ashes fall.
And the thing we were going to talk about today is that.
Well, just so you know, the reason I put that in, I had been asked on right-wing news interview to give, you know, quick descriptions of like half a dozen liberals.
And, you know, it was like Cindy Sheehan, the Dennis Rodman of Grieving Mothers, John Murthy, the reason soldiers invented flagging.
You know, they were all joke answers.
I got you.
Exploded in rage and started claiming I was calling for the murder of a congressman.
So I just, I had to go back to the one thing that had driven them crazy.
And frankly, the latest line for Merthy is that the U.S. poses the top threat to world peace.
So how's that grab you?
So you're serving its country again.
And in your book, all that attention's been on that one section of those four women, and it's unfortunate.
But now that I look further into the book, you know, no wonder you wrote at your column the other day.
Finally, a word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have written or said, please be patient.
I'm working as fast as I can.
Well, I finally read the section on teachers.
And thank you.
Thank you.
It starts off with the only group in society that must be spoken of in reverential terms at all times, no matter what, is public school teachers.
Attack the Boy Scouts, boycott Mel Gibson, but don't dare say anything bad about teachers unless you want it noted on your permanent record.
And you go from there.
Yes, yes, they are the left's clergy.
I mean, this has been the goal of all totalitarians, to get the children.
It's the left's reproductive system, the public schools.
And on closer examination, they're not teaching children to read.
In fact, each year a child spends in an American public school, the more our international comparisons go down.
In fourth grade, even though kindergartners' IQs have been going up year after year over the past 20 years, as children, American children spend time in public schools, they do worse on international tests.
But what about the teachers saying they are underpaid?
Their benefits are not so great.
What about that, Anne?
Yes, I deal with all of that.
It turns out, economist Richard Vetter, I think at University of Ohio, has done all of these comparisons for how teachers are paid compared to other professions.
And it is stunning how well public school teachers are paid, especially when you start comparing apples to apples.
I mean, they get, you know, their entire summers off, every possible federal holiday, snow days, personal development days, and their full workday is usually completed at 0-2 o'clock.
So better compared the hourly pay of various professions.
And public school teachers get about 25% of their salary in benefits, pension, health care, that sort of thing.
The average private sector worker only gets about 17% in benefits.
So when you start comparing apples to apples, it's stunning how well public school teachers are paid.
And by the way, I think good public school teachers should be paid a lot.
But so are the ones who are not teaching children to read.
And like I say, they go down each year they spend in a United States public school.
And there you have the rest of the story of Ann Coulter's, The Church of Liberalism.
The book is godless.
Thank you, Anne.
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