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Oct. 25, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 25, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Wanna want to revisit this Harold Ford ad flap?
Uh because the Democrats think it's a distraction from the real news out there, how we're losing in Iraq.
And by the way, folks, I just want to remind you of something.
It was I, two weeks ago, who uh asked you to begin looking at all of this, uh, the election, through a different lens.
The media lens is the election's over.
The Democrats have won it.
The only question is the margin.
They're gonna win 50 seats in the house, they're gonna win 40.
They're gonna win 30 in the Senate, they take control.
Is it gonna be close?
What's gonna happen?
But it's all over.
And now the polls are starting to tighten, and as we reported today, uh Jim Talent up three in a Los Angeles Times Bloomberg News Service poll out today over Claire McCaskill.
And let's see, uh Amendment 2 is falling like a rock uh in Missouri as well.
And let's see, who else is up?
Um the Senate racist has got people stunned.
Uh I can't think of what it is.
But there's there's there's movement.
These polls are tightening.
The question is, what's gonna happen if the Democrats lose?
See, it isn't gonna be the big deal if the Republicans lose, because that bar has already been set.
The Democrats, it's already there.
What happens if the Democrats lose?
Oh, is that going to be fun?
I saw this, I saw the biggest puff piece on the I guess the front page of Washington Post.
I think it was Sunday, not sure when it was, but it was the last couple three days.
Rom Emanuel, who is running the uh Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Committee re-electing Democrats, is near exhaustion.
Oh, it's so bad.
People are worried he's working so hard.
He's not not eating right, he's not eating well, he's going to delis and wolfing down these sandwiches.
Uh just about worn to a frazzle.
It's a terrible, terrible thing.
He cares about it so much, working so hard.
Uh just I had to laugh.
I mean, what if these people lose?
And of course, if you go to uh select Democrat websites like Democrat Underground, uh you'll find some trouble signs.
They're upset that Bush is so confident.
They don't like it.
They don't know what that means, and already there are allegations of voter fraud here in Palm Beach County, Florida before the polls have even opened.
Now the early voting is ongoing, but I have a good feeling about the but here's here's the Harold Ford ad again.
He totally blew the response to this.
But there are there are other aspects of the ad that uh that I want to play that we didn't have time to in the previous segment.
So here is the ad that Democrats are saying this ad is racist.
Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough?
Terrorists need their privacy.
When I die, Harold Ford will let me pay taxes again.
Ford's right.
I do have too many guns.
I met Harold at the Playboy Party.
I'd love to pay higher marriage taxes.
Canada can take care of North Korea.
They're not busy.
So we took money from porn movie producers.
I mean, who hasn't?
The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Harold, call me.
I think this is just a great ad.
Now, the reason they say this is racist is because the unidentified female who says I met Harold at a Playboy Party is a white blonde woman.
And of course, that's furthering the stereotype.
And what did Harold Ford do?
He thought it's racist, this is unfair, this is not right, blah, blah, blah.
Harold Ford.
You need to hire me as one of your consultants.
Here's how you should have answered this ad.
You should have said, Yeah, I was at Playboy Club.
I've been there.
I'm single.
And there were girls there.
I wasn't with male pages.
I wasn't with interns.
I wasn't hanging around with married women.
I was at the Playboy Club.
Besides, a lot of guys are married to white women.
A lot of people love white women.
Clarence Thomas is married to one.
William Cohen's married to a black woman.
I mean, uh there's all what Harold, come on.
Now, yeah, you might have had a little bit of a breach with the uh Christian community by admitting you'd gone to Playboy Club, but you could have handled that by saying, now I'm going to repair the breach with the uh with the with the Christian community if you think they're gonna vote for you anyway.
But he w he could have blown this spot out of the water.
All he would have had to do is bring up the page scam.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley.
Mm-hmm.
Uh if it was a black woman in the ad, it would have been okay.
It wouldn't have been racist.
Then it would have just been unfair characterization of a well, I don't know.
That's just it.
Who are the racists here?
Um it's it's it's look, it's an old page of the Democrat playbook.
Southern strategy.
They think they're a bunch of haysaid hicks in the South who are gonna go nuts when they find out that Harold Ford hangs around a playboy club with white women.
Um at any rate, uh there were some responses to the that specific uh aspect of this.
Uh Bob Herbert last night on uh Hardball with Chris Matthews said this.
Over the past three or four decades, the country has actually made a great deal of progress in terms of race relations.
You know, blacks and whites are not in the same place that they were in the 1960s and the 1970s.
They're in a better place relative to each other right now.
And um, you know, it's terri i it it's really horrible to have the Republican Party, which is the party in power now, basically doing everything it can to undermine that.
I mean, it's really disgusting.
We're we've moved to a better place, and what we ought to be doing now is to try and keep that momentum going, not undermining it.
How is this undermining it?
How in the world is this undermining it?
Bayes doing everything it can to undermine the progress that's been made.
Uh boy, I'm I'm just under a misconception.
I thought this would be progress.
Anyway, Harold Ford then uh on Sunday, October 15th, is on this week with George Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos says, Republicans put up an ad calling you a hypocrite, churchgoer by day, playboy at night.
Uh and Stephanopoulos shows an ad with a picture of Harold Ford and Playboy Bunnies.
And Harold Ford says he's outside when he says this.
I've never been to a Playboy Mansion Party.
I'm just not going to take a morality lessons from a party.
The National Republican committee's running it from a party that took hush money from a child thred.
I mean, I'm just not going to sit back and allow them to try to characterize yet yesterday on the campaign trail, an unidentified reporter interviewed Harold Ford and she said, Have you met Playboy Bunnies?
Yes, ma'am.
I was there.
I like football, I like girls.
Well, progress here, but yet back on October 15th with George Stephanopoulos.
Uh uh I've never been to a Playboy Mansion party.
Now that's splitting hairs.
Because have you met Playboy Bunnies?
Well, Playboy Bunnies are a lot of places besides the the mansion.
Um and uh uh so he's now admitted that, yeah, I was there.
I was a Playboy bunnies, I I like football, I like girls.
Getting close.
Harold, getting close.
By the way, along the same racial racist lines, you all know the actor Wesley Snipes is under attack for income tax evasion and fraud.
Various stories, different stories uh allude to the fact that uh he could face 40 years in jail, 20 years in jail, uh, whatever it is.
Now, why is Wesley Snipes under attack?
Well, taking the guidance we're getting here from Democrats in uh telling us what racism is in the Harold Ford ad.
Could it well be that Wesley Snipes is under attack simply because he starred in a movie in which is uh love interest uh was a white woman.
Now, see, silly, we we we thought he was being uh pursued because of tax fraud, but obviously uh uh U.S. government going after Wesley Snipes for acting in a movie with a white woman is his love interest.
Back in just a second.
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Fred in Loveland, Ohio.
We go back to the phones.
You're next, and hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Long time respectful listener.
I'm calling because I wanted to offer three quick points to support my opinion that it's way too early to be arguing over embryonic stem cell therapy.
In July of 2003, I received a stem cell transplantation of my own stem cells that had been harvested from my bloodstream.
Wait a minute, you're an adult, not a not a embryo.
I'm an adult.
I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1989.
They began experimenting with stem cell transplantation to try and correct the disease and build a new immune system about five years ago.
I went to Houston and got a transplantation of my own stem cells.
Unfortunately, I had received scarring during the course of the 15 years of my disease, and so although my d disease was arrested, and I could technically say I'm cured of MS, I still have disability.
I learned of a embryonic no, I learned of a stem cell study that was going on 90 minutes from me in Indianapolis at IU, and it's a study involving uh injecting stem cells into the legs of people that have uh uh vascular needs and need new new vein growth.
And I called him, uh called the principal investigator and asked him if he knew of anyone that was injecting embryonic stem cells into spines.
He said, What would you want that for?
And I explained him, and he said, Well, you wouldn't want embryonic stem cells because that would require very, very careful patient matching, and the uh possibility of rejection would be very, very high.
He said, I would consider perhaps uh another infusion of your own stem cells if you wanted to have that done.
But he said, I don't know anyone that is doing any investigation with stem cells in neurologic disease today.
So my point is it is a very, very complicated procedure.
It took me three months, and the protocol was changed multiple times as I was going through the process.
The cost was about a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and the results were anything but marvelous.
But your adult stem cells, your own adult stem cells, you said got rid of your MS, still left you disabled in in in some ways or with a disability, correct?
Yes.
But no research at all that was promising uh involving embryonic stem cells.
No.
And yet people ignore this research and success on the adult stem cell side and continue to focus on embryonic stem cells.
I wonder why that is.
I I don't know.
And the techniques involved with just learning how to handle adult stem cells, which you could have harvested from your own bone marrow in a few hours.
Those techniques are are uh years, maybe light years away from being perfected.
Well, let me read to you again from an American thinker piece today by Mary L. Davenport, MD, obstetrician, gynecologist, a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
She says today the plain fact is that embryonic stem cell research is proving to be a bust.
There are currently 72 therapies showing human benefits using adult stem cells and zero using embryonic stem cells.
So we have a m an MD here who totally backs you up.
Yes.
And yet, and yet the focus remains on embryonic stem cells.
And I asked you why you thought that is, and you uh you safely said you didn't know.
But the answer is politics.
Yes, that's true.
Uh And one other point in the Journal of Experimental Medicine this last March, they even write that perhaps using autologous stem cells for transplantation in different types of autoimmune diseases, not unlike Parkinson's disease, may end up having a better result because it allows for the growth of a more diverse population of new cells.
And that perhaps the embryonic stem cells will not produce as positive a result as your own stem cells.
I'm sure no matter where I look, you know, the only place I hear where there are promising cures on the horizon using embryonic stem cells are Democrats.
And not Democrat doctors, by the way.
Democrats.
And celebrities.
I hear it from them, but I don't hear it from the medical community anywhere.
I'm glad you call Fred.
Thanks much.
That was really interesting and uh and valuable.
You know, I I I had a story yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen.
The this organization of Nobel laureates and so forth from Johns Hopkins University trying to affect elections from Baltimore, uh the scientists and engineers for America, and they say that they're ginning up and gearing up for the 08 race.
Uh those are the same, those those are people are coming out pushing the same notion that embryonic stem cells are the answer to everything except Republicans won't let it happen.
Republicans want patients to die, and so forth and so on.
You know, this this embryonic stem cell thing is beginning to remind me of the old days.
You remember the old medicine man, you've seen the medicine men portrayed in the uh uh movies, Westerns and so forth.
Uh Neil Diamond had a song, Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show, and so forth.
These guys would run around and they'd have a bottle, and it would be the miracle potion that was going to cure you of everything.
They would wander around from town to town and village to village, selling this tonic that cured everything.
People believed it because they wanted to believe it, and they wanted to be pain-free, they wanted to be happy, and they wanted to believe it whatever was promised was going to happen.
But we occasionally eventually came to know that they were quacks.
This is where the word originates.
These phony baloney medicine men running around with their little bottle of tonic, claiming it was a cure all for everything, and they were quacks.
Society band together and shut them down.
Sort of.
But the quacks are back.
Now they come at us again with promises of cures that are totally unsupportable, despite their impressive degrees in their research.
But note, the cures are only possible if we elect Democrats.
So we've got quacks back in our midst, and now they've gone political.
Not only will we only get the cures if we elect Democrats, we will never get the cures if we elect Republicans, because Republicans are mean-spirited extremists who want sick people to die.
And like the quacks of old, these scientists who are politicizing the cure and research into diseases, prey on the fears and hopes of people who desperately want cures for themselves and their loved ones.
And that's why I say it is cruel.
And so anybody who joins them in this quest is helping to perpetuate this myth.
You know, these people have a stage to do really good things, and they use that stage to advance false notions, create false hopes, which is the ultimate cruelty.
For example, I mean, look at Michael J. Fox supporting Benjamin Cardin, who votes against stem cell research.
But that doesn't matter, Cardin's a Democrat.
So what's really the agenda here?
If you're going to say I care about X, and you support a candidate who doesn't care about X has voted against X, yet that candidate's a Democrat, so you attack the other guy.
What what are we to conclude from this?
After all, it's in the political arena.
Uh how many of you believed everything you were told by the Dems about Benjamin Carden, Jim Talant, And uh Michael Steele.
How many of you believe it?
I'll I'll I'll bet you a lot fewer of you believe it now.
How many of you want your illness used simply to elect Democrats, regardless of how they stand on an issue you claim is important to you.
So again, those parade of victims, they're not allowed to be scrutinized.
Just like Cindy Sheehan, a dupe, a tool of the Democrats in the drive by is hired by John Kerry, by the way, we've heard in the O4 campaign.
Uh it ultimately is sad because of all the cruelty involved in raising false hopes when there are actual is actual progress in other areas that they're not interested in.
Yes, on the cutting edge of societal evolution, nice to have you on the program, ladies and gentlemen, the most listened to radio talk show in America for a reason.
Annapolis, Maryland, this is Patty.
Nice to have you on the program, Patty.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
Uh listen, Democrats from Maryland giving you a holler.
I I really hate to beat a dead horse, but you said a little earlier on the program about Michael J. Fox that what you really had an issue with was what he was saying.
Uh, you know, in the advertisement for these different senators, whatever.
And I guess my issue is if that is in fact true, then say it.
I mean, you have the right to say how you feel about what he said, but you don't have to make fun of the guy.
I mean, I think everybody in America saw the webcast of you sitting in your seat and chicken all around and wait, wait, wait, wait, hold ho hold it a bit.
Make fun of him?
Who says I made fun of him?
I'm saying you made fun of him.
I could see it on the webcast.
Where did you see you don't did you did you watch the webcam when the show was going on, or what do you where did you see that?
No, and uh no, and I told your producer I didn't hear your show.
I I'm a pretty regular listener, but the last two days I've been busy, haven't had a chance to get to the radio.
I actually heard about it from my mother who is a severe liberal Democrat called and she was very upset about it, and she knows I listened to you.
Well, tell me where you saw this.
I saw it on the Today Show this morning.
You saw it on today's show.
Yes.
All right.
Then let me tell you what was happening.
Okay.
Because they have taken the.
No, here's I'm gonna from from the very beginning.
I go to the Drudge Report and I see the the the link that there's this controversial ad by Michael J. Fox running.
So I forget's political season, no big deal.
I watch it and I listen to it, and I am stunned.
Because I've never seen Michael J. Fox this way.
I've I've seen him in Boston Legal, I've seen him in interviews, I've seen I have never seen him in the full force of the ravages of his disease.
So I have a radio show here, and I am trying to describe for the audience, watching on my ditto cam what I am seeing.
And I hope you heard the words.
His face and his body never leave the frame.
And as I'm describing this, I'm even starting to do it now, as I'm describing this, I'm starting to move around like he does.
But never once was I making fun of him.
I was trying to illustrate for my audience, watching on the ditto cam what I had seen.
Okay, well, you know, that's fair.
Like I say, as a Democrat, I like to listen to your uh program so that I can get both sides of the story.
I'm an intelligent uh person.
I'm a moderate Democrat.
I I think both ways, and so I like to hear both sides of the story.
And it's it's kind of why I wanted to call and say i i it really looked like you were trying to make fun of him.
Well, that's what media can do when they take words and pictures out of context.
And I I I I would I didn't see the Today Show report, but it wouldn't surprise me if the commentary that accompanied that little video cam clip uh helped create the impression that that's what I was doing, because they've also reported that I was accusing him of faking, which I didn't do.
I accused him of acting or being off his medication.
And the reason I I raised the speculation about being off his medication is because in his own book, he has written in chapter eight that before Senate committees he goes off the medication so that people can see the ravages of the disease, which I said I could understand.
So I think he he hasn't done that since the last time you spoke in front of the Senate that I'm aware of was 1999.
And now, as an RM, I can tell you that the progression of that disease, especially in one as young as as he is.
I understand.
One of my favor one of my favorite TV shows is Boston Legal, and he's been in it within the last year or two, appearing entirely normal.
So uh, you know, I th the the the I'm just using, you know what what I have seen with my own eyes and what I know.
I understand the degenerative nation Of uh nature of the of the disease.
But the idea that I was making fun of him, that is a media concoction and creation because they have an agenda with this, which is understandable.
I mean, I'm I'm their I'm their favorite guy wearing a black hat.
But I'm glad you called such straight because there was there was an anybody who watched this uh did not see a smile on my face while I was mimicking this, just trying to illustrate for people watching what I had seen in the ad that shocked me.
And it is shocking.
It's horrible to watch.
Okay.
Would you agree?
Uh yes, I would agree.
It's it's kind of it is it is difficult to watch for people that don't understand what it is that Parkinson's does to uh a person.
I mean, it it's very difficult to watch, and what's m makes it even more difficult to watch is to understand that he can't control that.
He's not acting.
I don't I mean, that there's nothing that he can do that can stop those movements from happening.
Well, no, no, wait a second.
You can go on the drugs makes people very sick.
We've all seen Muhammad Ali, and we've all seen what the drugs are.
Wait a second.
Now, I'm I'm just gonna be human with you here.
Uh there's no way to control it, yet he finds a way.
He can he can appear on Boston Legal.
Now, I understand that they have to do a bunch of different takes and it's hard to do, but I've never seen him that way.
I have I have seen him uh uh far more recently than 1999.
So when you say you can't control it, or he can't see how you're not the dogs that he's taking in the doses in the day.
I mean, we all know everybody with or without a disease, everybody has good days and bad days, and and with patients that have those diseases, it's worse.
See, the but the bottom line remains all of this is a very sad use of this to politicize all this and to go out and claim that there's one political party doesn't want to find a cure here, and the only other and the only other political party that around the Democrats do want to find a cure is just dangerous and it's cruel, it gives false hope uh and and all that.
And that's what I spent the vast majority of my time talking about, including trying to educate people about the the uh issues on the ballot in the state of Missouri and in Maryland and in Wisconsin.
Uh, you know, they they took that little video clip and they took a uh maybe a seven or eight second audio clip out of three hours of things I said, and it's no wonder that you would conclude what you did.
Well, I agree with you there, and like I said, I'm I'm generally uh a pretty regular listener to you, and I can kind of see where people get the wrong impression.
However, uh sometimes you do put yourself out there and you know, saying or insinuating that he was acting.
I don't I don't know.
I think that's kinda what I did I said he's either.
You know, words mean things.
True.
Either acting or off the meds, and I had a reason for speculating on both.
Sure, because he said before that he was off the med, that he's gone off the meds.
Right.
And he's a and he's and he's an actor.
Plus, you couple the fact that I've seen him on television in recent months and years with no such symptoms.
I'm human.
Sure.
And that's why I don't know if they told you this.
If somebody can prove to me that I'm wrong about it, I will bigly hugely apologize.
I don't know if they mentioned that.
Did they mention that on today's show?
Uh that was actually in the Washington Post this morning that I read.
Oh, so well, somebody got it.
All right.
Well, look, Patty, I'm glad you called.
I'm I'm I'm uh I'm I'm happy for the chance to uh straighten you out or try anyway, and uh you do sound intelligent.
I appreciate that.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Thanks for talking my call.
You bet you all right.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I am not beating a dead horse here, but y this is it it's happening all over again in St. Louis.
We played for you the ad that is gonna run tonight in the World Series game made by celebrities who are opposed to amendment two, which is an amendment they're opposed to cloning.
These people are talking in this ad.
We played the audio for you.
They are opposed to cloning.
The headline in a St. Louis Associated Press story, actors athletes to be in stem cell ad.
They are not in a stem cell ad.
This story just broke out of Missouri.
It is it is typically misleading.
This headline.
Uh this is not a stem cell ad.
It's a c it's a cloning ad, and it's another example of the drive-by media trying to help Claire McCaskill and pro amendment two folks in Missouri by mischaracterizing what these actors and athletes in this ad are doing.
And here's the root of it, ladies and gentlemen.
Amendment two in Missouri calls itself the stem cell research and cures initiative.
It doesn't deal with that at all.
It is a cloning initiative.
It is misleading.
This is just one of the countless ways the whole thing is misleading to people.
It's not about stem cell research.
That is not what this stem cell research in Missouri is legal.
Gosh, I'm getting I'm getting a broken tongue becoming a broken record.
So when the AP runs this story, actors, athletes to be in stem cell ad, it is misleading.
And I'm going to conclude, and the AP writer here is Jim Salter, and I'm going to conclude that like most who do what he does, he's just flat out ignorant.
And just doesn't know.
And just has bought hook, line and sinker what his buddies on the liberal side of the aisle happen to say about any issue.
Athletes, actors in anti-stem cell ad.
It's only called anti-stem cell ad because the misleading title of the amendment is the stem cell cures and whatever the hell else act when it has nothing to uh do with it.
One more story here before we go to the uh break.
This is the Los Angeles Times, Ronald Brownstein.
Here's the headline Democrats Senate hopes lie with rural voters poll fines.
Oh, and did translate that headline for you.
Uh, you hicks are holding out against the liberals.
Democrat Senate hopes lie with rural voters, according to a poll.
Yep, you Hayseed Hicks are holding out against the Libs.
Here's the story.
Capturing a Senate majority is within the Democrats' reach, but the party is facing potentially decisive resistance from rural voters in three Republican-leaning states.
Series of Times Bloomberg polls is found.
If the Democrats can't break through the Hicks on November 7th to uh win the Senate races in at least two of those three states, states of Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia, they are unlikely to control the chamber.
Breaking the GOP's grip on socially conservative voters in Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia will be especially challenging.
In each of those states, the surveys found that despite extensive doubts about the country's direction.
The Republican candidates are amassing strong margins among rural voters and whites who regularly attend church.
I thought you conservative Christians are going to stay home.
The LA Times has discovered that you are not cutting and running from the election.
You hicks, you Christian white hicks in Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Damn you, you haven't bought the Foley Kool-Aid.
You are gonna vote, and your margins of support in polls for these Senate candidates, Republican Senator Senate candidates, is increasing.
Damn it, they're screwed.
They are shafted.
They thought that they had depressed you hicks and you hey see.
Rural voters is what they called you.
But what I'll tell you, you gotta you gotta know the code.
Rural voters and whites who regularly attend church.
That's hick.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
There's been an update of this St. Louis story, the AP story.
I I want to I want to pull back my criticism of the writer Jim Salter.
I forget the writer doesn't write the headlines.
So uh Jim Salter, he just wrote the story.
They've they've revised the story, or they've issued an update.
Stem cell research foes get sports stars in ad.
Stem cell research foes.
So Patricia Heaton, these this is an anti-cloning ad.
It is not, and the story says that.
The Missouri ad opposing amendment to finished Tuesday, immediately available on the internet.
Missourians against human cloning spokesman Kathy Ruse said the ad was already in the works.
We sped up production after the Michael J. Fox ad came out.
The ad claims opponents want to criminalize research and prevent the expansion of stem cell research.
Those claims are just false and the leading misleading.
Our gripe with amendment too is it creates a right to do human cloning.
It creates the right to do human egg trafficking for cloning research.
These athletes and actors in this ad gonna run tonight.
St. Louis market in the uh during the World Series are anti-cloning, and yet here's AP Stem Cell Research Foes get sports stars and ad.
I still I just think it's ignorance.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk to you for just a second about uh uh Republican Senate candidate Thomas Kane Jr. in New Jersey.
This is a brave man.
This is a man who deserves your attention and your support.
This is a man who, in the midst of the um war on terror and the war in Iraq, has demanded the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld.
That's so courageous.
I I was so moved when I heard this demand from this Republican.
It's not many Republicans that have this kind of courage and have these guts.
And he wasn't through there.
He then demanded the resignation of Speaker of the House Denny Hastert.
Uh and and uh any of the Republican leadership uh just off the top.
This is courage.
This is political leadership that uh the Republican Party has long needed.
Uh, this is the kind of foresight, uh, this is the kind of vision, this is the kind of independence uh that the Republican Party needs to join with others in making sure that the Republicans in power quit.
Uh few Republicans have the kind of guts here being exhibited by Republican senatorial candidate Tom Cain Jr. in New Jersey.
But then he did something yesterday that really impressed me and really demonstrated his bravery and his courage under fire.
Without being asked, folks, he issued a statement denouncing me over press reports he had heard.
He had not heard me.
He had heard press reports uh regarding my reaction to the Michael J. Fox ad.
Is that there's no reason for this in our politics, and I don't subscribe to, and he wanted no part of it, and then spent a lot of last night trying to get himself invited on television shows to announce his distance from me.
This is the kind of man we need in the United States Senate.
I rarely see this kind of backbone and courage.
This is a man whose two feet are firmly planted in the air.
He will end up wherever he needs to end up to protect himself.
And that's what we need in American politics is more self-interest.
More politicians and senators on the Republican side who care about themselves than they care about issues or their party or anything else.
This is true independence, ladies and gentlemen.
People like Tom Cain Jr. may hold the key to Republicans securing that valued independent or moderate vote.
Thomas Cain Jr.
I sent his staff a note, by the way, uh last night, to which I've not gotten a reply.
I said I can certainly understand the panicked reactionary and opportunistic stance of politicians and their seizing on any chance to distance themselves from what they think is harmful to them.
But I thought you might want to see what I actually said on my program as opposed to what's being reported.
Here's a link to my website.
In the meantime, let me know if you'd like me to endorse either you or Senator Menendez in my efforts to help Republicans hold a majority in the United States Senate, which is not something you seem to be interested in yourself.
And that's what we need.
We need Republicans in the Senate who don't care about whether Republicans run the place.
We need Republicans in the Senate like Thomas Kane Jr. who have no interest in the party or causes or issues.
We need the selfish self-interest of Tom Cain Jr.
And so today, ladies and gentlemen, I, Rush Limbaugh, officially and proudly endorse Thomas Cain Jr. for Senate in New Jersey.
We need another Lincoln chafing.
Sit tight in there and don't panic.
Everything's cool.
I just had to hear the end of my song.
There's not enough time here to take a call anyway, which distresses me because there have been uh people patiently waiting uh entire busy broadcast today, and I just haven't gotten to as many of them as uh as uh as I would like.
At any rate, uh, ladies and gentlemen, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence has come to a close.
Actually, it never ends here.
We just take breaks, and we have a 21 hour break coming up next.
Uh but this is the fastest three hours in media, the fastest week in media, so start time tomorrow be here sooner than you can think.
Whatever happens between now and then, rest assured, we will be on top in and around all of it.
And you shall hear about it.
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