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Oct. 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, fun lovers, all across The Fruited Plain, Rush Limbaugh, America's Anchorman, Real Anchorman, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy.
And now the last fertile man left in America.
Serving humanity behind the golden EIB microphone, 800 282 2882 is the phone number.
If you would like to be on the program today, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Yeah, the latest cell phone scares out there.
Cell phone use uh increases the risk of infertility.
Heavy use harms sperm.
The only thing cell phone usage has been clinically shown to uh do to women is uh cause them to drive worse uh than otherwise when it comes to men, not only they drive worse when using the phone, but their their sperm is harmed.
But I don't use a cell phone, folks.
I don't use a phone, period, except on this program.
Uh and so look at me.
The last fertile man, perhaps in America, a man with unharmed sperm.
I have no heavy use, no casual use, no any use of the Well, I mean, I I'll probably use the cell phone once a week.
I never even turn it on.
At any rate, great to have you with us, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Lots to do on the program today.
Dick Morris uh uh has an interesting column today.
New York Post's latest polls show something very strange and quite encouraging is happening.
A Republican base seems to be coming back home.
Now my contention is that the Republican base never left, but that's for another moment later on in the program.
Morris continues this trend, only vaguely and dimly emerging from a variety of polls, suggested a trend may be afoot that would deny the Democrats control of the House and the Senate.
With two weeks to go, anything can happen, but it's beginning to look possible that the Democratic surge in the midterm elections may fall short of control in either house.
Now, if you happen to be watching cable news today, this is not the message you will get, particularly on PMS NBC, where they are running their their telethon again today, their telethon to cure the Republican majority.
Uh David Gregory kicked it off today.
All day long, uh the MSNBC cable network is doing everything it can to secure the and then find the cure for the dreaded disease known as the Republican Majority.
We have audio sound bites uh from that.
But other than on uh well, I'm sure CNN uh they're going nuts uh over the polls that they think they have.
Here's the evidence Dick Morris cites, polster Scott Rasmussen and John Zogby both show Republican Bob Corker gaining on Democratic Representative Harold Ford Jr. in Tennessee.
That's a must-win Senate seat for the Democrats.
Zogby has Corker ahead by seven.
Rasmussen still shows a Ford edge of two points.
There's another poll out today that shows Corker ahead by two.
So in two of the three polls I've seen, Corker is up.
And interestingly, uh one of the themes of the campaign has now become temperament.
Uh Corker had a press conference where he was to discuss a bunch of things, and Ford showed up and uh demanded to talk about some other things, and it looked like a meltdown uh to people who were there.
And that's the way it would appear.
I mean, any any time you have uh you have uh the the uh the the challenger storming a press conference of his opponent.
Uh uh it's it's it looks like a desperation move, and that's how the race in Tennessee is beginning to appear to people.
Zogby also reporting a turnaround in New Jersey Senate race with the GOP candidate Tom Kane taking the lead.
A conclusion shared by some other public polls.
Even though Senator Jim Tallant in Missouri still under the magic 50% threshold for an accumbent, Rasmussen has him one point ahead, Zogby puts him up three, but unless he creates 50% writes Dick Morris, he'll probably still lose.
One of the big issues in that race, as you know, we touched on it yesterday, is the Michael J. Fox commercial, which is entirely misleading and which is in itself an attack ad, uh, and it is filled with disinformation about embryonic stem cell research and how Jim Talent wants to criminalize it.
Embryonic stem cell research, uh, and by the way, Fox is doing similar commercials in Maryland now for Ben Cardin against Michael Steele.
But embryonic stem cell research is currently legal and completely unrestricted in both Maryland and Missouri and in the vast majority of other states.
Uh it's largely personal and institutional ethics that keeps scientists from cloning research.
The uh debate we're having is almost always about government funding or radical measures like the one currently on the ballot in Missouri, which is Amendment 2, which would write uh a right to cloning into the state constitution of Missouri, and it's one of these cleverly worded things that makes you vote yes, you're voting no, and vice versa.
So uh we'll talk more about the Michael Fox situation, because as I knew yesterday, uh the drive-by media, including things like Insight Edition, are all panting to uh make something out of this that isn't, but we will uh we will address that.
But you know, Michael J. Fox entered the political arena long ago.
He became a U.S. citizen in 2000.
He's from Canada.
Uh he was active in the Kerry campaign in 2004, and he's entered the political arena again with this series of commercials for Ben Cardin in Maryland and Claire McCaskill in Missouri.
One of the tactics the Democrats have, and they've used this uh uh uh consistently, they bring forth people who they think are victims for the purposes of exploiting them.
And when you bring forth, for example, if you're talking about uh uh embryonic stem cell research and you want to convey the notion that the Republicans are opposed to it, and in fact they're four people having Parkinson's disease.
And make no mistake that's what the intent is, then you bring forth per a person who's suffering the disease.
And you illustrate the disease and the ravages and the suffering on TV to create sympathy and infallibility, because you're not supposed to be able to attack somebody or criticize somebody in any re in any way, in any regard if they suffer from the disease.
It's considered cold-hearted and cruel.
Well, uh what what's what's what's happening here is that as Michael Fox has entered the political arena with his attack, which includes false information about uh Senator Talent and Michael Steele in Maryland, uh that's fair game.
And I am not going to follow the script that says Renato allowed, not allowed to comment on the things said by participants, victims, what have you, that the Democrats put forth as infallible in the middle of a political campaign.
I would argue that Mr. Fox is damaging what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort at addressing and curing illnesses.
And that is, I think, the primary point here.
Democrats are politicizing diseases and illnesses.
Uh the Breck girl, John Edwards, promising, if John Kerry's elected, that Christopher Weave and others with spinal paralysis would walk.
When there's no such evidence that any research into uh embryonic stem cells will create any immediate cure toward anything.
It is irresponsible to mislead victims, people suffering from these horrible diseases in such a fashion.
But that's exactly what has happened.
That's what the Democrats are doing, politicizing diseases and illnesses, uh, damaging what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort at addressing and curing illnesses, and at the same time they claim if you don't embrace their political and cultural agenda, then you're for Parkinson's disease.
And you are for spinal paralysis.
It's no different than the way they do it in the environmental movement.
Uh they talk about dirty water and dirty air, and if you oppose the environmentals, why you must be for uh dirty water and dirty air.
You don't want clean water and clean air.
And this is a script that they have written for years.
Senate Democrats used to parade victims of various diseases or social concerns or poverty up before congressional committees and let them testify, and they were infallible.
You couldn't criticize them.
Same thing with the the Jersey girls uh after the 9-11 uh and in the period of time when the 9-11 Commission was meeting publicly.
Victims, infallible, whatever they say cannot be challenged.
I don't follow the script anymore.
Now, in terms of uh Michael J. Fox, uh I did some research today, and I found his book that was published, it's a Lucky Man, 2002, I think, but he admits in the book that before a Senate subcommittee on appropriations,
in I think 1999, September of 1999, he did not take his medication for the purposes of having the ravages and the horrors of Parkinson's disease illustrated, which was what he has done in the uh in the commercials that is running for um Claire McCaskill and Jim Tallant.
So uh when you when you insert yourself into the political arena this way, to expect insulation uh and absolution, uh, and uh to expect yourself not to have what you say uh criticized in the manner in which you're trying to sway opinion uh is a little bit, I think above the fray.
I mean, to think that you're you're immune from any sort of criticism.
It's worked in the past for Democrats, but it uh it doesn't work here.
Uh in Virginia, Republican embattled incumbent George Allen has now moved over the 50% threshold in his internal polls, he'd been at 48%.
This is more uh uh Dick Morris.
Nationally, Zogby's reporting that the generic Democratic edge is down to four points, having been as high as nine points two weeks ago.
No, none of this means, as Morris writes that the Republicans are out of trouble.
But the Democrats have to win one of these three seats in the Senate.
Ford of Tennessee, Menendez, New Jersey, or Webb in Virginia.
If they don't, they'll fall at least one seat short of controlling the Senate if they even if they succeed in knocking uh off all these uh incumbents in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and uh Missouri.
And Morris says that the Republican fortunes are brightening because the GOP base may have fast forwarded to the prospect of a Democratic victory and recoiled.
Uh well, we'll address this as the program unfolds.
If the base left, why is it all of a sudden back?
So my thinking is that it doesn't the base is very the most informed political base in America is the Republican base, the conservative base.
They're not this flighty.
They've known for a long time what Democrat control of various institutions would mean, particularly at this point in time.
But whatever.
Uh polling data indicates that and I predicted this, but I I I told you this last week.
I mentioned this to you yesterday.
As we get closer to the election, these polls are going to narrow because the pollsters are going to need credibility when the election is over.
They can't afford for the last series of polls to show Democrats winning 40 seats and a Republicans holding control.
They can't afford for the polls to show Democrats winning 20 seats and Republicans maintaining control by two or three.
They just can't afford this.
It's it's quite understandable to me that these polls now would uh would begin to uh contract.
Anyway, a brief time out, ladies and gentlemen, broadcast excellence will resume right after this.
Don't go away.
And greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Let me explain to you, ladies and gentlemen, what's going on in my home state that has made this whole stem cell debate so controversial there, and it is typical of the Democrats in this country uh and the left who can only succeed by misleading.
Here's the history in Missouri.
For four years, legislators in Missouri have tried to pass a simple ban on human cloning.
Uh something that neighboring states to Missouri have done.
It's a one-page piece of legislation, a one-page bill.
It is never passed.
It says that somatic cell nuclear transfer, well, that's cloning will be a crime in Missouri.
Somatic cell nuclear transfer is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.
The other side makes hysterical claims that this bill would criminalize embryonic stem cell research and put patients in jail.
And both claims are utterly false.
Today in Missouri, there is a constitutional amendment called Amendment 2, and it calls itself the stem cell research and cures initiative.
McCaskill favors it.
Senator Tallant opposes it.
Amendment two is misleading in that it appears to put stem cell research in the Constitution and to ban human cloning, but the fine print creates a right to do somatic cell nuclear transfer, cloning, which is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.
Now, the Amendment Two proponents are using Michael J. Fox and trotting out other people with sick relatives to try to convince Missourians that there will be no cures for their diseases without Amendment 2, which is a cloning amendment, has nothing to do with stem cell research.
The truth is all stem cell research is legal today in Missouri.
Jim Talent as d does not seek to criminalize it as Michael J. Fox asserts in his television commercial.
Stem cell research is legal today in Missouri.
It is happening at universities across the state.
The truth is Amendment 2 would put human cloning in the Constitution.
Now the Michael J. Fox ad says that talent wants to criminalize research, and this is false.
It is already legal and it's already happening.
Senator Talent and other opponents of Amendment Two are not touching stem cell research in any way.
What they want to do is stop human cloning from becoming a new right in the Missouri Constitution.
And so they have named the pro cloning bill, the stem cell research and cures initiative, so that people will go to the polls on November the 7th and think they're voting for stem cell research, which is already legal.
Michael J. Fox is participating in this disinformation campaign.
Plus I I I don't folks, it is it I don't care what anybody says, it is unseemly, it is exploitative, and it is downright mean to mislead people who suffer from incurable diseases at the moment or horrible diseases, that there is a cure around the corner if only, if only Republicans could be defeated.
There has been a tradition in this country of bipartisan efforts to cure all of these diseases or to come up with vaccinations for them.
But never mind that.
We're in the process here now of damaging what has traditionally been this bipartisan effort at addressing and curing illnesses by politicizing them.
We're now politicizing diseases and illnesses.
The Democrats politicized spinal paralysis and spinal injuries in the 2004 campaign, and now they are politicizing Parkinson's disease, and they've done that, and it's all about stem cell research.
And of course, embryonic stem cell research.
Any bit of information or research that shows progress in either of these areas that does not involve stem cell, embryonic stem cell research is rejected by the left.
Now, why is this?
What is so damned important about embryonic stem cell research?
Why not adult stem cells?
Why not research on uh on umbilical cord blood cells can be extracted from the blood of umbilical cords?
Why?
Because you can't take abortion out of this mix.
And if any just because it's not being talked about in this campaign, do not be lulled and fooled into thinking that abortion does not remain the sacrament of the Democratic Party and its religion.
It is the thing that they will never once compromise on, and they think that uh uh anything that that uh stands in the way of embryonic stem cell research is going to be an obstacle to having abortions, and the and the converse is true.
Uh if you can open up the field of embryonic stem cell research and just go out and get an embryo, what do you have to do to get an embryo?
I mean, I've heard some Democrats say, well, an embryo is not fertilized, is it?
How little they know.
Of course it's fertilized, and you have to kill it.
And of course, that advances the notion.
I told you long ago, folks, if you leave it up to these liberals, you're gonna have you're gonna end up with a culture where they are going to decide who lives and who dies based on the convenience and personal preferences of theirs.
We're already eliminating kids in the womb.
We're eliminating the elderly because they're an inconvenience, and now we want to eliminate the the uh uh embryos and and uh fetuses because we might be able to cure disease even though there's no evidence whatsoever for it.
So uh for people to say that uh it is unfair to criticize things said by people who enter this arena just because they suffer from a certain disease.
That may be the Democrat's script for all these years, but it uh is not a script I'm gonna follow anymore.
Again, Michael J. Fox is saying that Jim Tallant, a Republican incumbent senator, wants to criminalize research.
It is false.
Talent and other opponents of Amendment 2 in Missouri are not touching stem cell research in any way.
What they want to do is stop human cloning from becoming a new right in the Missouri Constitution.
Missourians against human cloning are up against a $30 million spin campaign.
It's an unheard of amount of money.
It breaks all records for statewide campaigns in the history of Missouri.
And their main spin is that the somatic cell nuclear transfer isn't cloning.
But the National Academy of Sciences and so forth and other organizations say that it is.
It is more deception from the left designed to trap you into voting for something that actually isn't on the ballot at all.
Back in a moment.
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That's C A T E. This would be Michael J. Fox, an excerpt from uh his book Lucky Man, uh, June 1, 2002.
Here is what he writes regarding his appearance before a Senate appropriation subcommittee hearing in Washington on September 28th, 1999.
I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication.
It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease and the urgency we as a community were feeling be seen as well as heard.
For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.
As it was for me when I saw the commercial he's running in Missouri, because I had never seen him that way before ever.
And I got numerous emails from people saying he had said that he does this, goes off the medication to illustrate the ravages of the disease to people.
And so it's in his own book that he admits uh doing this.
Now, Catherine um uh Jean Lopez at National Review Online has a story on their website today.
Does Hollywood or Doc Hollywood on the campaign trail, what Michael J. Fox learned while on Spin City.
And in it, she quotes uh Princeton Professor Robert P. George, uh, who sits on the President's bioethics commission.
And he says this I have uh great sympathy for Mr. Fox and other victims of Parkinson's and similarly horrible diseases.
I understand how desperately he hopes for a cure for what afflicts him and so many others.
I've seen members of my own family suffer, and I too want to hasten the day when the great engine of science conquers the diseases that cause so much suffering.
But the fact that Mr. Fox is a victim is not a license for him to mislead or manipulate the public.
The truth, the whole truth for political gain, have run these ads in which the truth is distorted and people are misled, deserve the most severe of reprimands, win or lose, they have brought upon themselves disgrace.
Uh that uh, ladies and gentlemen, is uh my whole point.
Uh you know, the the for Mr. Fox is a victim is not a license for him to mislead or manipulate the public.
The truth, the whole truth must be told.
Those politicians who for political gain have run these ads in which the truth is distorted and people are misled, deserve the most severe of reprimands.
Win or lose, they have brought upon themselves disgrace.
That is happening to Claire McCaskill in Missouri today.
Ben Cardin in Maryland are both disgracing themselves by exploiting the suffering of this disease in the effort to politicize it and to make it uh appear to voters in their states, Missouri and Maryland, that uh voters for well, at let's put it this way, making it appear that their opponents, Jim Town in Missouri and Michael Steele in Maryland, are for Parkinson's disease because they are opposed to research which would cure it.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I can't emphasize this enough.
Stem cell, embryonic stem cell research in Missouri is legal and it is ongoing, and nobody wants to criminalize it.
To the phones we go.
This is Carol in San Diego.
You're up first today.
It's nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Ditto's from the Left Coast.
Thank you.
Nice to have you with us.
Uh I I called because um I saw on, I believe it was Fox News, Dr. Rosenfeld uh has a show, I think it's on Sunday, and he um was That would be Dr. Isidore Rosenfeld, yes.
That's him.
And he was talking about a cure that they're coming up with for Parkinson's disease that has nothing to do with stem cells.
It has to do with a virus that is going to be injected in the brain, a harmless virus.
The body produces whatever it is that the uh Parkinson's disease people are missing, the brain um would actually um produce this and the disease would disappear.
This is the hope.
Now wait, no, wait, so no, this is the hope.
I have a story here that I think is along the lines of uh of what Carol is talking about.
It is a uh UPI story from October the eleventh, thirteen days ago.
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center Chicago, and I am not making this up, ladies and gentlemen.
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center Chicago have said a new Parkinson's disease treatment reduced symptoms by forty percent.
However, researchers said the test only involved twelve patients and may have been affected by the placebo effect.
The Chicago Sun Times reported this uh earlier this month.
Further tests of the gene therapy method could solidify the treatment as the first known to slow, halt, or possibly reverse damage done by the progressive disease.
Treatments are currently available to relieve symptoms of the illness, but do not stop the disease from progressing.
The procedure features two nickel-sized holes drilled into the top of a patient's head by a brain surgeon.
A virus, she's right.
A virus containing the desired gene is then inserted into the brain using a needle.
The virus carries the gene to the brain cells.
The cells are then instructed by the gene to produce a protein that protects and regenerates cells that make dopamine.
Dopamine is what is missing in uh Parkinson's disease sufferers.
The results now get there, here's the clincher.
The results were announced at a meeting of the American Neurological Association in Chicago, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research has donated one point nine million dollars for a follow-up study.
So the Michael J. Fox Foundation, currently with its namesake doing commercials misleading Missourians and Marylanders on the effects of stem cell research and the idea that Republicans want to criminalize this research and stop and prevent a cure for Parkinson's disease, has actually funded a follow-up study to this virus research that involves gene therapy.
Do I need to say more?
They're still not sure about this, but it shows promising theory, and I will uh uh promising uh uh uh results, far more promising than anything that has come from embryonic stem cell research to date, ladies and gentlemen.
Now this has to be known by Mr. Fox since his foundation donated one point nine million dollars for a follow-up study on this, and yet he still is producing these commercials.
Now, who do you want to blame?
You don't blame Fox, you want to blame the candidates for running them.
Um Robert George, the professor at Princeton blames the candidates.
They're the ones who are disgraced by exploiting and uh and and using the sufferers of this disease to politicize the illness in for political gain.
Jane Lee's Summit, Missouri, welcome.
Great to have you on the program.
Uh C Modiddos to you, Rush.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Canada privilege to talk to you.
I wanted to call regarding this embryonic stem cell research as a person who has brain cancer, type one diabetes, taking four shots a day, have rheumatoid arthritis, two broken bones in my leg that have ta have not healed in six years.
Why?
Is that because of diabetes?
Right, right.
And so I'm in a wheelchair.
So I have a vested interest in this.
But I see this stem cell research as being another gambling issue in Missouri.
They say one thing, but they do another.
They um talk about creating a cure, but uh what they really want to do is clone.
And I am totally against the cloning, and I see Claire McCaskill as just being another deceptive liberal.
No question about it.
Look there's no other there is no other way to categorize this.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, not to be the dead horse, but repetition is the best way people learn.
Amendment two on the ballot in Missouri, it calls itself the stem cell research and cures initiative.
It has nothing to do with that.
It is a cloning initiative.
The way they're getting away with this is that the scientific name for cloning is somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Somatic STEM I mean the syllables all run together for people that pay average amounts of attention.
So it's a it's a pro cloning bill calling itself the stem cell research and cures initiative.
And this is what makes this commercial by Michael J. Fox so all the more misleading.
He's actually trying to say to voters in this commercial that Claire McCaskill is running that Jim Talent opposes stem cell research, and Jim Town wants to criminalize it, so does Michael Steele and Maryland.
Thus they want people who suffer these diseases to continue to, when in fact the amendment two is not even about stem cell research, it's about cloning.
The bill has failed to become law for four years.
For four years, legislators have tried to pass a ban on human cloning, and the bill has never passed.
And so they're trying to write a cloning amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
And they're making everybody think that the cloning amendment is nothing more than stem cell research.
They're preying on people's ignorance.
They're creating false hope for people who suffer from these diseases, uh, that uh this vote for amendment two will lead to a cure for what they have.
No different than what John Edwards was doing uh in two thousand four when uh when when promising.
Yet if John Kerry's elected, we'll do the work necessary, and Christopher Weeve will be walking soon.
So uh Jane, how many people do you run into in Missouri that are confused about this?
Oh, probably every third person.
Um I have a fairly large group of friends, and we have talked about it incessantly, uh and it's just you know, everybody's confused.
And to me, if liberals are for it, then I'm against it.
Yeah, you know you and I on the same page.
Right, and I see this as a whole cottage industry growing up to harvest women's eggs and taking advantage uh young women who are in a financial crisis, harvesting their eggs, and then at some point there they will find out that they sacrifice their fertility.
Uh yeah, uh no, the only the only uh the other there is an upside to this.
Yeah.
The only upside is it is that liberals will be continuing uh to abort themselves, which will uh uh weaken their political strength in the future, which you know makes this a tough call uh on the political side, morally and ethic ethically, of course, it's uh simple.
But anyway, Jane, uh great great call.
I'm gl I'm glad you took the time to get through.
Thank you so much, sir.
All about best.
Now we'll be back and continue after this.
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You're next, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
Yeah.
Uh Rush Megadiddos.
Thank you.
Vietnam veteran and uh retired police officer.
Um I just wanted to call in how the Democrats are with their sympathy vote, they uh recruited Tammy Duckworth uh to run against him uh for Henry Hyde seat in DuPage County.
And uh I think this is just another example of them going to Tell people tell t to tell people out there in Rio Linda who Tammy Duckworth is.
Well, Tammy Duckworth is uh a uh veteran of uh the Iraq war, and she uh lost two legs uh while in in combat and uh then when she came back, they uh Democrats.
Uh now they've recruited her to run against uh this Roscom uh for Henry Hyde Seat in Duke County up around Elmhurst.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I know it's it's the fear thing uh the sympathy thing, but I actually think it's something else out there, Steve.
And I think it's not new.
There's nothing new in the Democratic Party playbook.
This is nothing but fear.
The Michael J. Fox ads in Missouri and Maryland play on people's fears.
Uh the attempt to uh come up with a cure for uh spinal paralysis, nothing but an attempt to play on people's fears.
Throughout my political awareness, my adult years, I have listened to Democrats say that the election of Republicans will lead to the end of Social Security, that people will be kicked out of their homes, that uh uh their money will be snatched in any number of ways.
Uh that senior citizens will be eating dog food uh as opposed to getting prescriptions because the Republicans are gonna fix it so they don't have enough money to do both.
This is quite common.
Uh and it but you know, fear uh is something that everybody battles through every day.
Everybody fears something multiple times a day.
If you're a social security recipient and that's all you've got, and a trusted Democrat politician comes along and tells you that the um Republicans take away from you may not be able to take the chance that they're lying to you.
Take a look at the NAACP ads in 2000 and 2004.
We had radio ads suggesting in St. Louis, by the way, that Bush was responsible for black churches burning.
Uh we had a television ad that James Byrd ad the lynching ad that uh Bush didn't do anything about James Byrd being dragged behind the bumper of a fast-moving automobile down a dirt road.
Uh we've these are these are frequent and common appearances.
So the Tammy Duckworth situation, there may be a little difference here, but um you know the Democrats, in addition to Tammy Duckworth, have gone out recruited uh eight Iraq war veterans to run, and none of them are doing well.
Some of them didn't even survive the uh uh their primary.
Oh, yeah, within a week of Bush taking office in 2000, he was responsible for leaving arsenic in the water that was going to poison everybody.
Uh uh forty-three to fifty-three million Americans don't have health insurance and can't go to the doctor, and they're just one in-breath away, one inhale away of getting a fatal disease.
So this is unseemly stuff, and it's playing not so much on sympathy but on fear.
You take people with horrible diseases, like Michael J. Fox has, Parkinson's disease, or or something else that is it gets progressively worse over time.
Alzheimer's, you name it, cancer that is not curable.
Uh to exploit these diseases and to try to try to convince voters that there is a political party who doesn't want the cure to ever happen.
That they want people to get sick.
They want people to, it's no different than saying they're gonna take all your money away by cutting your social security and kick you out of your house.
I'll never forget 1985, 86, working in 84 actually in Sacramento, Ronald Reagan was responsible for AIDS.
Ronald Reagan and Republicans wanted AIDS victims to die.
And you know why?
Because Reagan never uttered the word.
Reagan never talked about AIDS.
You go look at the federal budgets, the outlays on AIDS research, and you'll see the lie put to that myth.
This is a common Democrat tactic.
It is very common to lie and misname ballot initiatives.
To convince people they're voting for just the opposite of what they think they're voting for.
This is how Democrats operate.
Ladies and gentlemen, learn it, love it, live it.
Democrats Cannot look you in the eye and say, here's what we're for and convince you to vote for it.
They have to trick you, they have to lie to you, they have to try to fool you or mislead you while camouflaging themselves.
And this latest tactic of the Michael J. Fox commercial in Missouri and Maryland is just the latest incarnation of it.
Somebody forgot to remove my coffee pot today.
That's insubordination.
I'll deal with it during the break, folks.
Sit tight.
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