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Oct. 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, and greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, and appreciators of fact.
Rush Limbaugh with the news, America's real anchorman here on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Looking forward to talking to you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
All right, let's review where we are.
Michael J. Fox apparently now could be said to be another Democrat Party October surprise, running commercials accusing Republicans in Missouri, Minnesota, Maryland, Chicago, Illinois, of being opposed to stem cell research.
Commercials in which he appears without his medication so that the people who see the commercial can see the ravages of someone suffering Parkinson's disease.
This is exploitative of a disease.
It's politicizing a disease.
It's politicizing research into cures for the disease.
It is typical of the Democrat Party.
Fox is all over the place now, and he is in his commercials accusing Jim Talmud in Missouri of opposing research on stem cells or using stem cells.
Same thing in Maryland says the same thing about Michael Steele.
Same thing in a race in Minnesota.
I have a statement here from the Michael Steele campaign dated October 24th today.
The headline, Benjamin Cardin voted against stem cell research for pure political gain.
Today, Michael Steele released the following statement setting the record straight on stem cell research.
Steele said, there is only one candidate in this race who voted against stem cell research, and it's Congressman Ben Carden.
Ben Cardin had a chance to support stem cell research that would not destroy human embryos, and he voted against it, not because of his beliefs on the issue, but as a transparent political stunt.
Both Senators Barbara Mikulski and Paul Sarbanes voted for this legislation.
Ben Cardin wanted to politicize the issue instead of getting something done.
So he voted against it.
Marylanders deserve better than Congressman Cardin's continued Washington double talk, mistruths, and sheer political gamesmanship on an issue as important as stem cell research.
I just saw a little package, Major Garrett on Fox doing a piece on the controversy now in Missouri over stem cell research because of comments made by me.
So all guns are going to be aimed at this program, starting with Inside Edition tonight.
They're doing a piece on this.
I'm told other cable networks are preparing pieces.
Reuters just called and wanted an interview.
Inside Edition wanted an interview.
This is all over one thing I said yesterday.
I said after viewing the commercial, Michael J. Fox is either off his medications or he is acting.
I also said yesterday that this is a shameless attempt by the Democrats to exploit people who suffer from these diseases.
And nobody is commenting on that in these packages.
It is no, and I said yesterday, it's no different than what John Kerry and John Edwards did in the 2004 campaign when Edwards, and we played the audio for you yesterday, said that if John Kerry is president, Christopher Reeve will walk someday.
Implying that George W. Bush doesn't want people with paralysis to ever be able to walk, just as the Michael J. Fox commercials imply that Republican senatorial candidates do not want Parkinson's disease sufferers to ever be cured.
Here's what's going on in Missouri.
Now, Missouri is the greatest example of this, and this is going to be redundant for those of you who've been with us the whole program, but bear with me because repetition is the simplest way to get this home to people.
There is a constitutional amendment on the Missouri ballot called Amendment 2.
It calls itself the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.
The Democrat Claire McCaskill favors it, the Republican Jim Talent opposes it.
Amendment 2 appears, by virtue of its title, Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, 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, which is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.
So it is actually a pro-cloning initiative.
It has nothing to do with stem cell research.
Because the bottom line is that stem cell research, embryonic stem cell research, is legal in Missouri.
It's legal in Maryland and it is ongoing.
And neither of the senators targeted in the Claire McCaskill ad have done anything to try to criminalize it.
The ad is simply misleading.
It's false.
It accuses, it doesn't allege, it accuses Republican opponents of Democrat candidates of wanting to stand in the way and criminalize people who are trying to find a cure for Parkinson's disease.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is not only false, it's reprehensible.
Jim Talent and other opponents of Amendment 2 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.
Also, want to read to you a statement from Professor Robert George, who was quoted in a National Review Online piece today by Catherine Jean Lopez.
Professor George is at Princeton.
He says, I have 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.
And 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, 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, these candidates have brought upon themselves disgrace.
Now, what is happening, ladies and gentlemen, as I said yesterday and which was totally ignored by the drive-by media, which selected one line on which to base all of their reporting that happened today and will probably occur tonight.
What I also said yesterday is that this attempt to politicize illnesses is reprehensible.
It's like the environmentalist wacko movement when they talk about dirty water and dirty air.
They set themselves up as wanting the most basic things: clean water, clean air.
If you oppose them, you want dirty water and dirty air, which is absurd because nobody does.
Nobody wants dirty water or dirty air.
At the same time, nobody wants to not cure diseases.
But now we're politicizing illnesses.
Somehow you're for them or against them if you don't buy into a liberal cultural agenda.
If you don't buy into whatever they want to do, regardless of the cultural impact to cure a disease, then you're not for curing diseases.
Sorry, I don't play to their script.
I don't buy into their script.
I think the Fox commercials are damaging what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort at addressing and curing illnesses.
They are politicizing diseases and illnesses, claiming that if you don't embrace their political and cultural agenda, then you are for Parkinson's disease or you are for paralysis or what have you.
And of course, that's absurd.
In the meantime, Michael J. Fox commercials are running for Tammy Duckworth, a personal appearance for her in Illinois, running in Missouri, running in Maryland, and running in Minneapolis.
It appears that the Democrats are using Michael J. Fox as yet another October surprise as the legs on the Mark Foley story are diminished and about gone.
One more time, Ben Cardin voted against stem cell research.
Michael Steele announced it today, official campaign statement.
Only one candidate in the race, Michael Steele versus Ben Cardin, who voted against stem cell research, and it's Congressman Cardin.
Cardin had a chance to support stem cell research that would not destroy human embryos.
He voted against it, not because of his beliefs on the issue, but as a transparent political stunt.
Senators Mikulski and Sarbanes voted for the legislation.
Cardin wanted to politicize the issue instead of getting something done, so he voted against it.
Meanwhile, a commercial is running in Maryland by Michael J. Fox, claiming that it is Michael Steele who wants to criminalize and has voted against or will vote against stem cell research.
The only candidate in Illinois, or sorry, Maryland who has, is the candidate for whom the commercial is running, Benjamin Cardin.
Welcome to the next Democrat October surprise.
Back after this, my friends.
All right, let's go back to the phones.
Number again is 800-282-2882.
We'll go to Long Island.
This is Joe, and I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush, Meghan Dittos from Manstee Beast, Long Island.
Thank you, sir.
I'm calling you because, you know, I happen to be a father of a disabled child, and I don't want to even go into all of that, but listening to you, you know, what you're talking about, I mean, you truly are a man of conviction.
I mean, you know that the liberal media is going to tear you up and paint you as basically a monster.
And regardless of what your point is, it's going to be irrelevant.
And for you to stand up and do what's right, it's like a motivation for guys like me.
It really is.
I mean, I'm just your pardon the pun, an average Joe.
You know, I work for a living 40 hours a week and, you know, you struggle.
Plus, I have a disabled kid.
Life is not easy for somebody like me.
When I hear, when I listen to you on the radio every day, and I do listen to you every day because where I work, I have to drive 66 miles.
So I get to listen to you a lot.
And I tell you, man, when I listen to you, you are truly an inspiration because I know listening to you, what you're saying, it's irrelevant what the truth is.
They are going to tear you up.
Well, you have making me choke up a little bit here.
I don't think what I'm doing at all measures up in any way to what you're having to do in raising your child.
And look, you know, you said it.
Life isn't easy for you.
This is, I was telling Mr. Snerdley during the break, and in fact, I walked through the control room on the way back here, and I was laughing, and I said, okay, get ready, gang, because starting this afternoon, tonight, and tomorrow, all guns are going to be aimed at me, Which you intuited.
But, you know, that's actually nothing new.
I know it is.
And I mean, I've listened to you, but you know what?
This is a subject that they feel is a winner for them because how could you say this about him?
And, you know, I've actually met Mr. Fox several times.
Okay.
I work.
I don't want to go into details, but I work for an airline that goes to his home country.
And I've seen him most recently.
And believe me, he looks very good.
A credit to him when I saw him.
And I saw him as close as I could stand up to him in a mirror.
And he looked really good to me when I saw him in person.
Well, his medication, the stage of his disease, as I understand it, medication is still working.
As the disease progresses, the medication will cease working and he'll have less control.
That's like with any, unfortunately, any disease.
I have what everybody's harping on, Joe, from yesterday is I made this statement.
I said, you know, almost everything I'm saying today, other than the analysis of the ballot issues in Missouri and these other states, but in terms of this commercial, I said it all yesterday.
They're just ignoring it, which I also know is going to happen when I do these things.
But regardless, I had never seen Michael J. Fox the way he appears in this commercial.
And I've seen him on television and I've seen him at political conventions.
I've seen him making speeches and I've never seen him this way.
Right.
And so I did not know at the time that he appears in public this way on occasion to illustrate and make the point of the suffering Parkinson's disease patients have.
So since I had never seen it, and since I know Democrats like the back of my hand, and since I know what liberals will do to win elections, I go, well, whoa, what is this?
Because I can remember the exploitation of Christopher Reeve, and I can remember the exploitation of a number of sad, unfortunate victims in America of a number of different circumstances.
And the Democrats constantly parade them in front of people, and they want infallibility for them.
They want these people to be able to say whatever they want, whatever the Democrats want them to say, with immunity from criticism, because you can't attack the victim.
And I'm not attacking the victim.
I am not attacking somebody with Parkinson's.
What I said yesterday was he's either off his medication or he's acting.
And that's the one line that everybody is focusing on to try to see the action line with me, Joe, and this is what I know.
There is one Rush Limbaugh story of the drive-by media, and that is mean-spirited, extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
And that's the action line for all conservatives.
Yes, it is.
And so whenever they hear something, even if it's just one sentence of a 20-minute monologue that fulfills that action line, Bamo, that's all that matters.
That's all that they heard.
Whatever else I said is irrelevant, and they focus on it.
You keep up the good work, Rush.
I tell you, like I said, and I'm not just trying to blow smoke your way.
I mean, you really, I mean, when I hear you come out and say it like it is, I mean, one line I use when I argue with co-workers is, I refuse to assign to political correctness.
I'm an independent thinker, and I will not be brainwashed by politically correct statements.
And I get that from you.
Well, God bless you.
Not only don't be brainwashed, don't be silenced, because that's the objective of political correctness.
I agree.
How old is your child?
She's 14.
She's going to be 15.
But, you know, Rush, I could get into, I could tell you, my daughter is a victim of vaccination.
She was born normal.
And when she got a vaccination, it crippled her.
Now, should I hold people in Congress responsible because they knew it was going to damage children?
And the numbers say it's better to have X number of damaged children than to have children actually getting these diseases.
I mean, to me, forgive me, Rush, but I believe God puts people on earth and they have destinies that they don't even know they have to fulfill.
And that's the way I saw it when it happened to me.
This is what I was destined to be to, and I got to accept what he's given me.
That is awfully mature.
A lot of people are being trained to go to Washington or government and blame somebody for what happened.
And you might have had a legitimate complaint in your case.
You know what?
I probably did, but you know what?
You know, I put it up to my upraising.
You know, my father, he was a really average guy.
He didn't even know how to read and write.
I didn't even know that he hid it from us.
But yet he worked two jobs.
You know, he took care of us.
It's all about where you come from, Rush.
I really believe that.
No question.
And, Joe, before I let you go, I just want to say one thing.
You said earlier in this phone call that you're an average guy, and there is not one thing average about you.
Thank you.
There is not one thing average about you.
And I'm honored to have somebody like you in the audience, and I'm thrilled that you got through.
Thank you very much for what you said.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet you have a good word.
We do.
Move to Livermore, California.
Kay, you're next on the EIB Network.
Hi.
That's Ray.
I hate to correct your rush.
Ray in Livermore.
My apologies.
Before I listened to you, I used to give my money to Greenpeace.
I'm proud to say I give it to the Heritage Foundation.
Yeah.
Now, on to, I don't think the left is really honest here.
I don't think they really want to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or cancer.
And I'll prove it real quickly here.
If we found out that if we chop down every old-growth redwood to cure cancer, I bet the left would be up in arms.
There would be not one person on the left who'd be for it.
If we found out we could melt the polar ice caps today and have the cure to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and fix Michael J. Fox, I'll bet you the left would be completely against it 100%.
And it proves that they're phoning Rush.
Well, we don't know that that would be the case.
We don't know that all of them would be that way.
Probably some of them would.
But your larger point is that they're really not about curing diseases here.
This is simply a political tactic using victims to exploit diseases and exploit the victims to create fear and sympathy.
In this case, fear.
They want voters to think Republicans want them to die.
They want voters, they want voters to think Republicans don't care about Parkinson's sufferers or cancer sufferers or anybody else.
And that's what the objective is all about.
And that's what you instinctively understand.
That's what your analogy and your illustration attempted to portray.
Yes, sir.
Republicans are for life all the way, including the unborn, Rush.
And that's what the left doesn't get.
Their love affair with abortion leads them to this road that they can't back out of now.
Yep.
And it also leads them to fewer liberals, which is the one aspect of this that I find interesting.
They're aborting themselves.
And there have been demographic studies about there are going to be fewer and fewer liberals because of this.
You reap what you sow in many regards.
Ray, thanks for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
We've got to take a brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen.
We will be back.
The cutting edge of societal evolution.
That is the EIB network, Fearless.
We'll continue here after this.
I know.
And thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you with us.
Talent on loan from God.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
Here's the phone number: 800-282-2882.
Democrats continuing their policy of parading victims before the American people.
Michael J. Fox, just the latest.
The Jersey Girls, another example.
And One of the tricks when you bring victims are people who are suffering legitimate things.
They're immune from criticism.
They're infallible.
Whatever they say, you can't challenge.
Whatever they say, you can't disagree with because if you do, you're heartless, cold, and cruel.
You don't see the suffering, and that has no impact on you.
Liberals want us to believe, Democrats want us to believe that anybody suffering anything is entitled to say anything because life is so unfair.
Look at them.
We must have compassion.
When they enter the political phrase, sorry, folks, I don't follow the script.
Politics is what it is, and nobody gets a pass.
Nobody gets a pass in politics.
There's a suspicious group of victims, however, that the Democrats are not parading around.
Can anybody tell me what that victim group is?
There's one conspicuous group of victims not being paraded, not even being talked about, not even being referenced by the Democrats.
Thirdly, you want to take a stab at it?
No, not the embryo.
No, no, no, no.
I'm talking.
No, no, no.
I'm not saying totally different group of people.
I'll tell you who it is.
The only victim group missing from the Democrat Party parade of victims is economic victims.
We saw a parade of economic victims in 2004.
We saw them in television commercials.
We saw them at the Democrat National Convention.
People that just couldn't get by.
Bush had so wrecked the economy.
Recession was so horrible, blah, The reason there is no parade of economic victims is because it's so hard to find them.
Or if they do find one, it's not very easy to relate to because there aren't very many economic victims.
Investors Business Daily had an editorial yesterday, something like, I don't have the numbers in front of me.
We know that since Bush's tax cuts went into effect, 5.8 million new jobs created.
The total GDP has gone crazy.
Net worth, national net worth is way up.
So they had to find other victims.
Stem cell research is something that they have been on a warpath about for the longest time.
And they still, as Democrats always must, have to mislead people and frighten them.
Use fear in order to secure the votes that they want.
It is a maxim and an axiom.
They simply cannot win by approaching people with what they really believe, what their real objectives are, and what they hope to accomplish.
By the way, the Washington Post ABC poll that came out the other day, all this horrible, rotten, bad news.
It's interesting what they didn't report that's in this poll.
For example, they did not report that enthusiasm to go out and vote for Democrats, or Democrat enthusiasm to vote, has dropped from 81 to 78 in two weeks.
Republican enthusiasm has increased from 76 to 80 percent in the past two weeks.
There is an also interesting poll result that they didn't amplify, but we found it, and that is that only 55 percent of Democrats are voting for their candidate.
43 percent of Democrats admit to voting against the Republican now.
In the past, people that have encouraged victory by voting against their opponents have not won.
They have not secured victory.
That's not a way to do it.
So I don't know how this is going to turn out, obviously, and nobody does.
Remember, Dick Morris has a story about the polls, keep holes are closing and narrowing.
That, by the way, also predicted by me last week.
Phone call from a guy mentioned it.
The pollsters need to be credible at the end of the day when the actual votes come in.
And so these widespreads will narrow as we get closer to election day.
David in Poughkeepsie, New York, thanks for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
You are awesome.
The truth juggernaut.
My point, I really believe that the Democrats, the libs, have a great disregard for the voter for Americans.
You were talking about the Michael J. Fox commercial, these issues across the country in the states with regards to stem cell research.
They can't tell us who they are, and they simply lie to us, and they really believe, I think, the American people are stupid.
Well, a lot of people think the American people are stupid.
That's not exclusively a Democrat stronghold.
There are a number of people that think that the Americans are based on it.
And I think what they mean when they say they're stupid is that not a whole lot of them are paying attention.
So it's easy to fool them.
It's easy to play on their fears and emotions.
Much easier to do that rather than to reach out to them intellectually.
And that's my exact point.
Thank you for clearing it up.
Well, I think the thing that needs to be said is that while there are a lot of people who think that, and some Republicans, I mean, I've got people who've called this program think the American people are stupid.
I mean, some people, a lot of people think the American people are stupid when they see the latest poll on anything.
You know, how can people be that dense?
Then you have to back up and say, wait a minute, how do we know?
Who says that this is setting up?
Who says all this stuff?
I think one of the greatest questions you can ask when you are reading a news story is who says, especially all these anonymous sourced stories about what's happening in Iraq or what's going anywhere.
Who says?
Who says this is the case?
Why do we automatically tend to believe it just because it shows up in the news someplace?
Who says that things are going bad in Iraq?
Who says that we're killing and raping?
Who says these things?
You know, I mean, it's it.
Who says there's a broader feeling that Iraq might simply be spinning out of control?
Who's saying this?
They're not identified in the piece.
It's a piece that U.S. News and World Report I'm bouncing off of, by the way, a rising toll and prospects for even worse in Iraq.
And all these anonymous sources in there are saying all these dreadful things.
Who says the Iraqi prime minister looks increasingly ineffectual?
Who says this?
Who called President Bush's recent policy pronouncements a defensive tactic?
Who's saying this?
Who says everybody, it seems, is increasingly just looking for a reasonable way out?
Who says this?
We're not told who says it.
That ought to be our reaction.
Who says?
There is this myth that attaches itself to the drive-by media that it is automatically authoritative.
Well, who says?
Kevin Whitelaw wrote the story for U.S. News.
I want to know where he got his information and how he got it.
Administration officials, pundits?
His editor, the guy who sat next to him in a bar the night before, said something?
A Democratic operative?
Who's saying these things?
How do you know?
For example, let's say you're watching a television commercial for a candidate in a state, either state Senate or U.S. Senate, and they appear to make it a man on the street interview or a woman on the street interview.
And the woman on the street interview, the man on the street interview says about the opponent, well, I don't know, whatever he says.
Who says, how do we know that's a man on the street?
How do we know it's an average American?
Maybe it is a campaign aid to the candidate running the commercial.
How do we know?
We don't know.
Who says all of this stuff?
That's why, and this is, by the way, this skepticism is born of experience guided by intelligence in monitoring and studying liberals.
They put out these commercials, these incessantly insipid commercials like the Fox commercial.
Who says?
Who says Jim Talent is a polar wants to criminalize stem cell research?
Well, Jim Talent doesn't.
Who says so?
Michael J. Fox is saying it.
Oh, can't criticize Michael J. Fox.
He has Parkinson's disease.
Oh, yeah?
He's entered the political phrase at a political commercial, paid political commercial.
The end of the commercial, Claire McCaskill pops up and says, I approve this commercial.
Well, fine.
And Ms. McCaskill, you approve a lie.
You approve a statement of a false statement.
We're just supposed to sit here and whimper and whine and moan and ignore it.
Sorry.
Not here at the EIB network.
It's not the way it works.
Tom in Mentor, Ohio, thank you for calling.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How you doing?
Hey, I got a point on this.
What if big pharmaceuticals put out a commercial before and after with Michael J. Fox on meds, off-meds?
The liberals would have an absolute fit if they put out an ad on it, which is what I wish somebody would do.
Because they would shut them up in a minute.
Okay, so the big pharmaceuticals who have the, and I forget the name of the drug.
Yeah, the big bad that are curing people.
Yeah, well, let me let me let me illustrate people.
No, no, yeah, let me illustrate your analogy.
I forget the name of the drug, but there's a drug that's identified.
Michael J. Fox identifies it in his book.
And by the way, again on that, Wentworth looked at his book, an excerpt, chapter eight.
He admits that before a Senate subcommittee on appropriations hearing in 1999, he went in and testified without his meds to illustrate the ravages of the disease, which is not a bad thing to do if you're trying to get attention and call attention and you do want research and you're trying to get concern about funding for research to cure the disease.
That's great.
We've always done this in a bipartisan way.
That's what's wrong with politicizing all this now.
But all I said yesterday was he's either acting or he's off his meds.
I was right.
He's off his meds.
And he's done it on purpose.
So let's say your analogy.
Big Pharma, let's say Big Pharmaceutical has this commercial that really retards the effects of Parkinson's disease.
And they do a commercial showing a Parkinson's disease.
Listen, Michael J. Fox not taking the drug.
And then after taking the drug as a means of trying to get people to take the drug, there would be howls of exploitation by Big Pharmaceutical.
You're exactly right.
That, sir, is an excellent point.
Great transition.
You're more than welcome.
You're more than welcome.
Great point.
Back in just a second, my friend.
Stay with us.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, the candidate for lieutenant governor in Maryland is legally blind.
Are the media showing her the respect she deserves?
Are they focusing on her legal blindness and suggesting that we need to go easy on this woman?
No, not at all.
How about Dick Cheney?
Dick Cheney suffers from heart disease.
Heart disease kills, what, more people than anything else in the country?
Heart disease, whatever, heart disease, cancer, they're number one and number two.
They make fun of Cheney nonstop.
They don't show Cheney any respect.
They don't give him any slack, cut him any slack whatsoever because he has a life-threatening disease.
So you can see how selective this is.
I found this interesting story today in the Baltimore Sun.
Social issues pushed to front.
Let me give you the highlights of the story.
And I want you to listen to the whole thing.
It won't take long.
At Johns Hopkins University yesterday, representatives of the newly formed Scientists and Engineers for America encouraged students and faculty to assume a more active role in politics.
The 6,000-member group, which includes 14 Nobel laureates, trying to affect close races in eight states by encouraging science-minded people to vote.
Mike Brown, the group's executive director, said Bush's policy on embryonic stem cell research was based on political ideology instead of sound science.
Steele supports the president's restrictions on stem cell research.
Brown said the distinction between Steele and Cardin is clear.
Except Cardin is the only guy in this race that's voted against it.
Steele has not.
Ben Carden has.
This is 180 degrees wrong, but I'm only halfway through this.
Peter C. Egri, who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, paraphrased Dante, telling the crowd of about 150 that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a moral crisis fail to act.
Brown said the pro-science group was formed in mid-September, is really aimed at the 2008 presidential race.
We're probably too late to have a great impact on the midterm elections, he said.
The stem cell discussion, which Benjamin Cardin will attempt to keep going with an appearance in Baltimore this morning with researcher Kurt Sivan, or Sivan, follows a weekend in which he was the keynote speaker at an event sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice, Maryland.
So there's no question stem cell research, Michael J. Fox, it's all an October surprise.
The Democrats are launching, manipulating victims, exploiting them, inciting fear throughout the country, when in fact, in the state of Maryland, of the two candidates in the race, the one who's voted against stem cell research is the Democrat, Ben Cardin.
Orrington, Maine, and Becky, glad you call Becky.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, thank you.
Don't you find it kind of ironic that Michael J. Fox gave up his Canadian citizenship when he could have taken advantage of their free health care system, which has more liberal embryonic stem cell research laws?
Well, I don't know that that's the case.
I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong.
I just.
Yeah, he became a U.S. citizen.
No, I knew that.
I knew that.
He came a U.S. citizen in 2000, but I didn't know that Canada has a much more liberal.
It's more flexible than the United States, but it's also free health care.
It's glorious.
It's free, but there's a waiting list a mile long for some of the basics up there.
It doesn't surprise me that anybody with a brain would abandon the Canadian health care system if they have the opportunity and the means to.
Exactly.
And if you think that the Democrats who want nationalized health care are going to be able to spend money on all types of stem cells.
Well, you're right, but you have to understand their arrogance.
The only thing something hasn't worked is because they haven't been the ones to lead it or to try it, or they haven't been the ones allocating the money.
I mean, you look at some of Bush's social spending.
Bush created the new, what is I for Part B, Part D, the prescription drug benefit for Medicare.
Liberals are out there trashing this like it's the worst thing it ever came down to Pike.
But what they're really mad about is that Bush spent the money on it, not them.
The Democrats think that entitlements are their entitlement.
Bush doesn't get to create entitlements.
Republicans don't get to go buy votes that way.
That's our territory.
They're simply upset that Bush did it and they didn't.
So they're out there trashing it.
It won't work.
They've been roped into complaining about the failures of big government entitlements and Medicare department, all the liberal media slavishly following along.
Now, somebody will call me a racist for using the word slavish attached to the drive-by media.
Asked to Michael J. Fox: look, he was active in the Kerry campaign in 2004.
This is the point.
He's a political activist.
He's got Parkinson's disease.
It's not limiting his political activism.
He's not immune from criticism when he enters the political arena.
I don't care what anybody says.
And the fact that the liberals are upset proves their attempt here, what they're really all about.
They're trying to come up with victims that they can parade out there that get away with saying whatever they want without being challenged because it's not nice to do so.
I just don't follow their script, folks.
Never have.
Got to go.
Quick break.
Back after this.
Don't forget, October 28th, 1994, Al Gore making fun of Oliver North supporters, making fun of the extra chromosome right wing that's making fun of Down syndrome sufferers.
Al Gore, Democrat.
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