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October 24, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2

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	Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
	A thrill and a delight to have you with us on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, I am Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist.
	The all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all feeling Maha Rushy.
	And also the last fertile man in America, given all the research on cell phone usage and its attack on sperm cells.
	I don't use a cell phone.
	I mean so infrequently I can't remember the last time.
	We are here having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Glad you're with us.
	Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
	Ladies and gentlemen, just one more thing on the uh controversy involving the Michael J. Fox commercial running in Missouri and in Maryland in Missouri for the Democrat candidate Claire McCaskill in Maryland for the Democrat candidate Benjamin Cardin.
	The ad is misleading in countless ways, primarily in the most fundamental of ways.
	Remember that the uh amendment two in Missouri is simply a cloning amendment that would legalize cloning in the state of Missouri.
	It is named something to do, let me find it again, it's called the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.
	It has nothing to do with stem cell research.
	The Michael J. Fox ad says that Jim Tallant and Michael Steele want to criminalize stem cell research.
	They don't.
	Stem cell research is legal in both states.
	And it is ongoing at universities in both states.
	It is misleading, purposely so, it is disgraceful, and it is exploitative of people who suffer these diseases in an attempt to use them as infallible victims, insulated from criticism.
	Well, I don't follow that script.
	This is the political arena.
	They have entered it.
	If they are going to conduct misrepresentations of fact in a commercial, then we're going to critique it.
	Now I have I have learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the television show Inside Edition is doing a feature on this controversy involving me and Michael J. Fox, about whom uh and with whom I hold no animus other than criticizing his political entry into this campaign, the manner in which he has done so.
	Now, what they've done at Inside Edition, and I'm sure, by the way, that uh that it's his PR people are behind this.
	I know journalists well enough to know that they don't know this stuff even happened unless somebody sends them a fax or gives them a phone call to tell them.
	And this is the entertainment media.
	They curry favor with Hollywood celebrities, and so this is obviously going to be a hit piece filled with uh out of context quotes from me.
	Well, I think what they're gonna focus on is my statement yesterday that he was either acting or off his medications when he was doing these commercials.
	It turns out he was off his medication.
	Uh he was not acting, but he was off his medication, and he has admitted in his own book that he goes off medication before Senate Appropriations Committee hearings and the like in order to illustrate the ravages of the disease.
	So I think what's shaping up here at Inside Edition, and I don't care.
	I mean, it's it's it's par for the course, understand it is a is a classic hit piece designed to evoke sympathy for Michael J. Fox by portraying him as a an innocent victim of a slashing attack by me, an insensitive cold-hearted, cruel boob who has no sympathy for people who suffer from ravages of Parkinson's or other diseases.
	That will no doubt be the focus.
	They will ignore everything that has been said on this program about the substance of this issue, the substance of the issues that are on the ballot in Missouri, and the substance of what Mr. Fox says in his commercial.
	So apparently Hollywood's going to come to his defense.
	Now, the obvious thing for the Inside Edition people to do is to listen to this program or to go to my website and get a transcript of what I say.
	Will they do that?
	I doubt it.
	You might say, no, hopefully Rush, they're out there taking notes.
	Maybe they're learning something.
	No, ladies and gentlemen, in a circumstance like this, the people at Insight Edition, in my experience, uh have no interest in getting the story right.
	The story is already written.
	Michael Fox, innocent victim trying to help people with disease, Rush Limbaugh, mean spirited, cruel cold hearted, cruel guy taking pot shots at Michael J. Fox.
	So what we're going to do, and what we what we do in these kinds of circumstances, we at the EIB network will roll tape on Inside Edition tonight, and we will monitor what they report, and we will report on what they say.
	There is no law that says they get to monitor me, selectively take what they want to fit the storyline or the action line they have already established, and then accept that as uh as the as the nature and truth of the story.
	We will be monitoring Inside Edition tonight.
	Uh and uh whatever they get wrong, we will blast across the country tomorrow should it be necessary.
	Now I'm told that the the reporter on this story, I don't know her name, told that the reporter wanted to call the 800 number, 800 282-2882, and interview me on the air uh for this uh piece that they're doing.
	I think it's a two-minute piece, and I am being allotted ten seconds, is what the original report I got said.
	Uh I have rejected this on a very simple philosophy.
	I am not going to accept the premise of their story and talk to them based on that.
	And the premise of their story is obviously that I am this mean rotten guy with uh with no heart and no compassion, and here's this uh young actor doing everything he can to help people, and here's old Rush Limbaugh doing what he can to stop when in fact that's not what this story is about at all, and it never has been.
	So what what channels Inside Edition on down here?
	Do you guys even know what time?
	Well, what good are you?
	Nobody here knows you don't even know what channel it's on down here.
	No, I don't.
	Well, I don't I've I haven't watched these shows since I last worked for the Kansas City Royals when it was on in a press room, and you had no it was it was entertainment tonight, Mary Hart, and the only reason anybody watched it was her legs.
	Uh but I I haven't seen these shows in uh in many, many, many, many moons.
	But uh, people do watch them.
	Uh well, whatever.
	We uh we certainly find somebody down here who knows when this program airs in our uh local market.
	Well, are you looking it up now, Brian?
	It's uh it's election season, ladies and gentlemen.
	And by the way, I knew this, yes, as soon as as soon as I finish the first segment, I sent some emails to staff.
	I say, get ready.
	You're gonna get phone calls this afternoon.
	I know how the media operates.
	I know what they um what they what they think is interesting and what isn't, particularly when it comes to me uh and uh and other conservatives.
	But the thing that they could do, if they really cared about what this story is really about, they could wait and they could listen to the program and hear what I say and uh mull that over, throw it into the mix, and do a story on that basis.
	Or they could go to my website and get the transcript later when uh when uh that is made available.
	But no, because the action line is already written.
	I just wanted to alert you people to it.
	None of this stuff uh bothers me.
	I got email from people.
	Doesn't it bother you what people say about you?
	No, folks, it doesn't.
	It's the political arena, and it's it does it's not hurtful and it's not harmful.
	I understand it hurts some of you, and you want sometimes me to fight back against it when I don't, but uh when you're the king of the hill and you start talking about all the little chihuahuas yapping at you, all you do is make the Chihuahuas dochsins, and then the Dachshunds become beagles and the D beagles and uh may become Doberman Pinchers.
	I mean, better to leave them as yapping Chihuahuas where they're inconsequential and all that.
	But in this case, uh in the middle of an election with such such a massive distortion of the facts going on in this campaign.
	And don't forget, in the case of Claire McCaskill, this is a woman who said in a debate that the president of the United States is responsible for manipulating gas Prices lower to get votes.
	That's that's simply irresponsible, and she knows that that isn't possible, and she knows that it isn't true.
	Saying it anyway.
	Uh and and I, you know, there's a certain things you see and hear, and you can't let them go by uncommented upon or unnoticed.
	Brief timeout.
	There's other news out there, quite interesting too.
	New York Times has a story uh about how Nancy Pelosi is trying to uh uh shall we say slice James Harmon off at the knees.
	Uh Jane Harmon is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and Pelosi wants to replace her.
	Had a story about this in the stack yesterday, and I didn't get to it, but since it's made the New York Times today, it is interesting stuff.
	And so it's on at 4 30 on the ABC channel here.
	Uh I know it's on different different stations in different markets at different times.
	That's why I asked, when is it on here?
	Four thir Yeah, 4 30 here.
	4 30 here.
	Okay, that that well.
	That means they're watching it at the airport.
	Um where else are they at 4 30?
	Well, people who are at home.
	Regardless.
	I must take a brief time out.
	The EIB obscene profit break is next, and we'll continue after that.
	You know, in fact, it it may be interesting to ask this question.
	Was Michael J. Fox duped by Democrats in Missouri and Maryland into doing particularly in Missouri.
	Was Michael J. Fox duped into doing this commercial because the thing he thinks he's doing a commercial about is a cloning amendment to the Missouri Constitution.
	He is not actually doing a commercial about stem cell, embryonic stem cell research.
	I wonder if he was duped by Claire McCaskill or Democrats in general.
	And if he was, could he have been duped by Democrats in Maryland to uh to do the same thing?
	Here's Mark.
	We go back to the phones, Vienna, Virginia.
	Welcome.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you?
	Just fine, sir.
	Love your show, man.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	Uh just to add a quick point with regard to the Michael J. Fox uh commercials.
	It seems like this is just one more in a long list of images that Democrats and liberals kind of foist on the public when it suits their purposes.
	But yet they try to censor those images that they don't want the public to see.
	When it doesn't suit their political purposes like the 9-11 shots or people jump jumping off the buildings at 9-11.
	We can't see those things.
	Excellent point.
	But he can exaggerate his own image and make it look as utterly hopeless as possible for maximum impact value for their political purposes.
	Excellent point.
	No question of can't show the 9-11 video, it's too soon.
	Can't see all these 9-11 movies too soon.
	It's simply it's simply too tough.
	It's an emotionally gut-wrenching thing.
	We are simply not prepared for this.
	We cannot do this.
	And yet we are made to look at every other form of we can CNN can show video of Al-Qaeda.
	Pardon?
	The sniper videos.
	The sniper videos, propaganda videos, CNN can show U.S. soldiers on the verge of getting killed.
	They they cut to black, but we all know what happens.
	See then can do that, and that's getting the truth out.
	People need to know the truth about war.
	Yes, the liberals will be glad to show us anything they want us to see if it can affect emotions in their benefit.
	But anything that they consider to be over the line, which would damage their causes, uh of course we can't see this.
	We're not uh tough enough.
	It's uh too soon, it's too traumatic or what have you.
	But it's not too traumatic to see Michael J. Fox uh in the throes of Parkinson's disease.
	No, no, no.
	We need to see this because it's Republicans' fault.
	Republicans are against research that would find a cure for this.
	That's the message.
	That's why I wonder if it's I wonder if Michael J. Fox really believes that.
	That's why I'm wondering if he if he got duped on.
	Do you think he really believes Republicans are against Parkinson's disease being cured?
	I wonder if I wonder if he really believes this.
	I don't know.
	I don't know the man.
	But that's what his commercial states.
	Jim Jim Tallant wants to criminalize this stuff.
	Wants to criminalize research that could lead to a cure.
	Um this is not insignificant stuff.
	This is not some little confrontation, uh, typical political confrontation between me and him.
	This is a serious issue.
	It is typical Democrat Party politics.
	Uh and it needs to be identified for what it is, and I'm calling him on it, pure and simple.
	And I don't care who they use to do the commercial.
	If they do something like this, uh I'll analyze it in the same way.
	Jay in Boston, I'm glad you waited.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Uh, yeah, Rush.
	You know, there's another aspect of this Michael J. Fox thing.
	What it is to me is that the Democrats are exploiting Parkinson's people the same way the Democrats exploited gays to promote the Foley scandal.
	Uh well, I think I know what you mean.
	Why don't you explain this?
	Well, they don't they're they want to get the point across on the that the big bad Republicans and they're basically running the ad, and they're doing it at the expense of Parkinson's people, not really caring about Parkinson's people.
	They're kind of and it's probably could do be detrimental to their cause or to their interests.
	In the same way that that the uh the Democrats didn't care about gays, they actually bash gays by running the ad.
	I mean, not to keep not running the ad by promoting the uh Foley scandal because it actually uh it was detrimental to gays.
	Uh in a way, it was.
	They associated uh uh gay men with pedophilia.
	They tried to uh make it seem like uh the Republicans should have known this was going to happen.
	Republicans should have known when you put gay men with these young pages.
	Yeah, I okay.
	It's uh it's an excellent point.
	But it it you can boil it down to something very simple.
	It is it is simple exploitation of people in minorities.
	It is exploitation of people who are suffering.
	It is exploitation of people who are being misled.
	And I folks, I've got to share this story with you one more time.
	I cannot just uh let this one pass my lips once, because the argument over stem cell research, and and I g here I go.
	I have to say this one more time.
	What's on the ballot in Missouri, amendment two is not about stem cell research in the slightest.
	What's on the ballot in Missouri is a cloning amendment, and it is called Amendment 2, the stem cell research and cures initiative.
	It has nothing to do with stem cell research and cures.
	It is something that talent opposes, McCaskill favors.
	All it does uh is uh uh legalize cloning, makes it constitutional, while appearing to put stem cell research in the Constitution.
	But the two have nothing to do with one another.
	Embryonic stem cell research is happening.
	It's legal in Missouri and Maryland, and it's being it's being uh conducted at universities in both states.
	But here's what's fascinating.
	Researchers at Rush, University Medical Center Chicago have said a new Parkinson's disease treatment reduced symptoms by forty percent, and this treatment has nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research or adult stem cell, no kind of stem cell research.
	It is gene therapy.
	Further tests of the gene therapy method could solidify the treatment is the first known to slow, halt, or possibly reverse damage done by Parkinson's.
	Treatments are currently available to relieve symptoms of the illness, but do not stop the disease from progressing.
	Now, this this uh research at Rush University Medical Center Chicago involved twelve patients.
	The preger procedure features uh two nickel-size holes drilled into the top of a patient's head by a brain surgeon, a virus.
	This is not a stem, though.
	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, which is what's absent in significant quantities in people that suffer Parkinson's.
	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 nine 1.9 million dollars for a follow-up study.
	Nothing to this story from uh October 11th, by the way, of this year.
	The story has nothing to do with stem cell research, nor does Amendment 2 uh the in uh Missouri, the so-called stem cell research amendment.
	It is a pure clone.
	There's so much it's a it's it's call it misrepresentation, it is an out and out lie, which is why I'm beginning to wonder if Michael J. Fox weren't duped into uh into supporting this when it has nothing to do with his co everything that he thinks is important to cure Parkinson's is happening in Missouri, and Jim Talon's not opposed to it.
	Yet his commercial states doesn't allege states just the opposite.
	In the meantime, his own foundation funding gene therapy research involving a virus that does show promise.
	Nothing to do with stem cells.
	Back after this.
	Well, if the truth is what you want, you are at the right uh place.
	The EIB network.
	The distinguished and prestigious Limbo Institute for advanced conservative studies.
	Back to the phones to Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Says Bobby, Bobby, great to have you with us.
	Good afternoon, Rush.
	How are you doing?
	Fine, sir.
	Thank you.
	Well, Rush, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in you.
	You're uh you've run over time here uh with your comments about Michael J. Fox at some point by now you should have blamed Bill Clinton.
	Uh well, hold it.
	I've I've I've been all over town.
	My comments on my Michael J. Fox some point by now I should have blamed Bill Clinton.
	Sure, because I don't follow you, Bobby.
	I'm doing my best, but uh what's this got to do with Clinton?
	Well, you know, you found a way for everything really that doesn't agree with your opinion or a conservative opinion to that it's Bill Clinton's fault.
	So that's why I figured it would be a good one.
	But I have well now wait a sec.
	I haven't brought Bill Clinton up today.
	You have.
	We're talking about Michael J. Fox commercials in Missouri and and and Maryland.
	What I don't get the disc If there's a disconnect here that I don't understand.
	Well, you you'll get to it at some point.
	You're you're sharp.
	You'll finally get there.
	But I just have to say, with with all your connections, Rush, and your influence, um, it seems kind of irresponsible on your point to assume or make the comment or the statement that Michael J. Fock had been duped into making this commercial.
	I mean, you know, with your connections, you could have contacted the man by now.
	Wait a minute.
	Michael Bobby, you know, what's going on?
	But because Bobby, what is so what is so offensive about speculating and wondering if he might have been fooled into doing a commercial about something that he wasn't actually doing a commercial about.
	Why do you have to speculate on the negative?
	I mean, why not actually point out negative Bobby?
	Do you not understand compassion when you hear it?
	What I'm suggesting is is that maybe Michael J. Fox was misled by people into doing this commercial because it has nothing to do with what he claims to care about.
	There's a cloning amendment he's done a commercial for, and he's interested in stem cell research, which is ongoing in Missouri.
	I'm simply wondering if maybe the poor man has been mused and manipulated and duped by Democrats for their own purposes.
	This is a question rooted in compassion for him.
	Well, you know, considering that, you know, your idea of compassion typically is discrediting or disputing what someone else says instead of actually coming up with a solid fact of, you know, you don't know the inside of it.
	Bobby, give me an example of that.
	I can't but you know, this is really you you are you're following the script.
	You're accusing me of things that are not true.
	Give me an idea where I don't have facts when I criticize somebody.
	Well, you have your facts.
	No, no, your facts are facts are facts, they're not opinions.
	I have facts.
	Give me an example where I have used things that said things that are not true about somebody that I'm trying to uh not discredit, that's what the left tries to do to me, Bobby, like you're trying to do to me.
	You're trying to discredit me as dishonest when you can't even establish one instance of it.
	One of the best things about you, Rush, is that you can discredit yourself.
	If you have a three-hour broadcast, and if you actually listen to your broadcast back, you would hear what you contradict yourself and discredit yourself throughout the broadcast.
	I can't listen to myself for three hours.
	I already love myself enough.
	Well, yeah, that's quite true, and you let the whole world.
	But Rush, I will say this.
	I will say this.
	That someone well, your opinion is your opinion.
	And you say to America That your opinion is right.
	So I'm not gonna, you know, I don't sit down and write down every single thing that you say.
	Of course not.
	And you can't remember.
	And you can't remember anything either.
	And what bothers you, Bobby, because I know you.
	It bothers you that I am right.
	And it bothers you that I am so confident that I'm right.
	That's what really irritates people.
	Because most people are wishy-washy, you know, a little linguiny-spined, afraid to really tell people what they think might offend somebody.
	Uh might hurt somebody's feeling.
	Not me.
	When I think something's right, I believe it.
	I stand by it.
	I confidently and proudly proclaim it, and I understand how that can irritate people.
	But nevertheless, Bob, I love you, and I'm I'm I'm I'm gratified that you're in the audience, but I want you to understand something here before the phone call ends.
	Asking whether or not Michael J. Fox could have been misled or duped into doing this commercial is a simple act of compassion on my part.
	Yes, but if you don't understand that, then you don't understand compassion.
	You think I'm calling him stupid.
	I'm not.
	I am saying he might have been exploited.
	He might be in the process of being used.
	I'm just asking.
	By the way, I didn't state this as fact, Bobby, because I don't know that it's fact, and I haven't stated it as an opinion.
	I raised it as a question.
	And even an open question to which the answer is not known has sent you into orbit.
	Now I know what a fact that you don't like hearing does to you.
	I'm glad you called.
	We'll hope to hear from you again someday with evidence.
	Carroll in St. Charles County, welcome to the E.I. is this uh Colorado.
	I'm sorry, welcome to the uh No, I'm very St. Charles of Missouri.
	Yeah, that's what I thought it was.
	My instincts told me to St. Charles in Missouri.
	Welcome to the program.
	Hi.
	I listen, this stem cell initiative, this amendment is all about money.
	This is this is gonna op the legislator legislators in Missouri have no oversight over.
	If this passes, they are it's the facts guarding the hen house.
	They can go any place they want with it and question it.
	It also says that the Missouri tax dollars can be used to fund this human cloning, and our representatives cannot regulate how much.
	Well, there's I I'm not surprised.
	Uh there's uh there's look.
	Uh there's no question the cloning community is is uh has got an ideological base.
	Uh and we know that it's liberals that are pushing it, and we know that it's liberals uh we know what they view uh uh everybody else's as dull money as theirs.
	So uh it's it the whole thing is uh is hideous and and uh and misleading.
	But my my point, Carol, is this is typical.
	This is the way Democrats have to get things passed.
	They have to put things on a ballot where you are I mean, I've I've had experience with this, I'm gonna have trouble remembering a couple of them uh in California.
	The ballot initiative is a huge thing there.
	And you have to go out and you get enough signatures to get the uh qualified signatures to get the issue on the ballot.
	And then the way you write the question for the ballot, uh oftentimes the people who do this, both parties do actually, uh write so that a if you if you say no to the initiative, you're actually voting for it.
	And if you say yes to it, you're actually voting against it.
	Uh it's it's um it's it's it's it's a view of the way libs look at voters with their condescension and contempt.
	Easily fooled.
	How can we fool them today?
	Um next is Mike in Franklin, Tennessee.
	Welcome, sir, to the rush limb tour.
	Yes, hi.
	Russia, I hate to blow your cover, but I've been listening to you long enough to know that you are really an inherently humble man, but you don't talk that way on the air because you know talking down to elitist liberals is the best way to drive them nuts.
	And you know that telling uh most extreme family she doesn't is considered uh attractive, even if she looks like Molly Ard does the same thing.
	So my question to you is this When and how did you discover that you have this uh amazing ability to dissect a liberal mind and to use that ability to combat them.
	I mean, this didn't happen overnight.
	Uh uh many people think that it was something I was born with, but uh uh well, in a way I was.
	I was I was born into a very Uh politically active family, and I was uh treated uh to regular dissertations by my father uh about Democrats and what his fears of Democrats were, and just over the course of uh of my years, you know, it's almost like I attend a college course every day where I'm the lecturer uh on on what liberalism is.
	I just I just watch them and study them every day.
	It's it's it's just it's nothing more than the accumulation of knowledge and experience uh guided by intelligence.
	Uh they are what they are.
	Uh and one of the one of the one of the ways that liberals have skated by the truthful analysis is that some of the stuff about them is is is such that most people no, they couldn't possibly.
	For example, yesterday gave you the story, Senator Kennedy actually tried to get Yuri Andropov in 1983, the leader of the Soviet Communist Party, the dictator of the Soviet Union, the president of worldwide communism, to go on American TV to uh trash Ronald Reagan to help defeat Reagan's re-election in 1984, and to uh warn the American people that it was Reagan that threatened world peace because he was a nuclear cowboy.
	It was Ted Kennedy that did this.
	Uh the letter that he sent to the KGB that was then to be transferred to Andropov, Yuri Andropov, has been discovered and is in a book by a uh a professor named Paul Kanger.
	And that book came out last week.
	Same thing with the Contras in Nicaragua.
	It was commonplace.
	Daniel Ortega, the Soviet uh satellite communist leader in Nicaragua, the Sandinista movement, uh, would routinely embarrass Democrats who supported them as they opposed President Reagan's attempt to fund freedom fighters so that freedom and capitalism and a market economy could develop in Nicaragua.
	And they would routinely dispatch people like George Miller, congressman from California down to slap uh Ortega Round William Barris, the Democrats, John Kerry, Jim Wright was in the Speaker of the House, Jim Jones, a former member of Congress from Oklahoma.
	They all got together.
	Patsy Schroeder wrote a dear commandante letter, dear Commandante Ortega, basically saying, We Democrats are your friends, we'll do what we can to protect you from Ronald Reagan.
	Reagan is the problem.
	Uh they lionize uh Fidel Castro.
	Uh they do things in such a way that makes leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez come to the United Nations and tear uh a hole to the United States of America by saying essentially the same things about George Bush that the Democrats have been saying, the liberals have.
	Uh they are who they are.
	And we've all had uh people in our lives that have influenced us and educated us.
	My father is one, William F. Buckley Jr. is another.
	Uh many of the friends I've made uh over the uh years uh have intellectual pursuits uh in this area.
	I've benefited from their hard work and knowledge, but you know, it's just the daily accumulation of uh of knowledge, and you know, knowledge is a very powerful thing.
	Uh uh it it leads to firm opinions, uh formulated with a lot of backup uh and research, and they and they are who they are.
	And it's i it's it's exciting for me to be able to share it uh with people in a way that makes it understandable for everybody to under and I think it's I think it's working.
	Look, folks, in 1988, when this show started, there were three networks and two newspapers, basically, and a couple of magazines.
	And now look.
	Those newspapers are losing circulation or losing revenue.
	The New York Times profits down 39%.
	The old television network news monopoly has been blown to smithereens.
	Now you've got all kinds of new media.
	You've got talk radio, you've got the internet, you've got the blogosphere.
	Uh they don't control the uh thought process, the news reporting, selecting of what's news, as they did just eighteen years ago.
	It was just eighteen years ago that they had a monopoly on all this stuff.
	It doesn't exist anymore.
	And that's why I'm optimistic.
	This is only going to continue in terms of people's education and understanding that there are countless things out there not being reported to them uh because there is an agenda among the people on the left in the media, as there always has been.
	They've always denied it.
	Uh now they pretty much have no choice but then to go with it because they now understand they're in a competition.
	And I think they're losing the competition slowly but surely.
	A little long in the segment.
	A quick timeout.
	We'll be back and continue after this.
	Ha!
	Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it appears to me now that Michael J. Fox is actually an October surprise being utilized by the Democrat Party.
	Let's go to the audio sound bites first.
	Today on WFLD TV in Chicago at noon, anchor Patrick Elwood reported that Michael J. Fox story and who he's campaigning with there.
	He will appear later today at a fundraiser for Democratic Congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth.
	Fox has Parkinson's disease, as we know, and now he is campaigning this fall on behalf of candidates who support embryonic stem cell research.
	Missouri Fox has recorded a commercial endorsing Senate candidate Casco.
	The incumbent Republican Jim Talon opposes using human embryos for stem cell research.
	The issue is a big deal in Missouri this fall.
	It's the subject of a referendum.
	The commercial of the PSA is getting lots of buzz and some biting comments from talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
	He said Fox was quoting here, either off his medication or acting.
	And I was right.
	He was off his medication in the commercial.
	But here again, you see how this stuff happens and gets spread.
	Jim Talent, this is a this is this WFLD TV in Chicago.
	Uh this is uh totally misleading, and this reporter doesn't know any different.
	This anchor doesn't know what he's talking about.
	Just reading the wire copy on this.
	I've seen the wire story.
	Jim Talent does not oppose using human embryos for stem cell research per se.
	Stem cell research is legal in Missouri.
	It is ongoing, and talent does not want to uh criminalize it, which is what Fox says in his ad.
	Uh that's how this stuff boomerangs.
	Then there's this.
	A little story from the website of K-A-R-E-TV, Channel 11.
	Where is this?
	Is this uh I want to say Wichita, but that's cake.
	Uh at any rate, a television ad for Democrat Governor Jim Doyle is the latest done by actor Michael J. Fox, who is backing candidates across the country who support embryonic stem cell research.
	Fox has Parkinson's disease.
	Blah blah blah goes on uh to report that Fox speaks directly to the camera with his tremors evident, asking voters to re-elect Doyle.
	Fox says Doyle's Republican opponent Mark Green has stood in the way of research that could lead to cures and new jobs.
	Congressman Green has voted against expanding federal funding for the research because days old human embryos are destroyed to obtain the cells.
	The dirty little secret here is it's George W. Bush authorized embryonic stem cell research with existing stem cell lines.
	Some are opposed to expanding them, but the stem cell research goes on.
	Talent doesn't stop it in Missouri.
	This guy doesn't stop it in Wisconsin.
	So I think what it looks to me like Michael J. Fox is a Democrat Party October surprise.
	Now what they're doing fundraising for Tammy Duckworth, which, but folks, is entirely okay.
	Do not misunderstand.
	I'm just saying that the extensive use of Michael J. Fox by the Democratic Party does not insulate him against criticism for the substance of what he says in these commercials.
	It's terribly as the disease.
	It's it's it's sort of riveting to watch it's him in with with suffering the ravages of this disease.
	You wouldn't wish it on anybody.
	But when you get down to what he's saying, it doesn't give him insurance against criticism for getting into the political arena, which is the point I made in the first hour.
	When you enter the political arena and you start stumping for candidates, and you start announcing things and making statements.
	If they are not true, you are opening yourself up to criticism.
	And just because you are a victim of a disease does not protect you or insulate you from that.
	But that's the Democrat strategy.
	See, now the story is not what Fox is saying.

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