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Oct. 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, what we all suspected, ladies and gentlemen, has now been confirmed it was a left-wing gay group that let go of the Foley emails, had been harboring them, shopping them around.
New York Times has a story today.
It was a an employee of the human rights campaign, a liberal gay rights group.
This guy was in Michigan.
And they say they fired the guy, and he was acting as an independent contractor.
And not as a member of the company or the organization human rights campaign.
But we're learning so many things here about uh about how things actually work in campaigns, uh, the coordination between the liberal media, the drive-by media, and the uh Democratic Party.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, great to have you back.
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All right, the flap over the uh Michael J. Fox commercial continues.
It will not die down.
Uh the story is that I am out of control.
Uh the real story is, and the fact is the drive-by media folks is devolved into an hysterical mob.
Uh they they and I'm going to explain why here in just a second.
But before we go to the audio sound bites to set up the opening monologue of the program today, I want to get one thing straight.
We had a call yesterday, and I dealt with this yesterday, and I will deal with it again today as often as I have to.
Uh, because there is an irresponsible charge and an irresponsible misuse of video from my Ditto Cam here.
By the way, welcome to all of you watching on the Ditto Cam today.
There is an irresponsible charge that I was making fun of Michael J. Fox and that I said Michael J. Fox was faking it.
Neither of those two charges have any foundation of truth whatsoever.
And yet, they continue to be leveled and they continue to be distorted and amplified upon.
I'll explain why uh in the opening monologue.
But I just I just want to tell you, as I told the woman from Maryland, fact who called yesterday and said she had heard that I was making fun of Fox and that she had seen video of me imitating his gyrations and movements in the uh ad that he had done for Claire McCaskill in Missouri.
Uh here and and by the way, many, many cable outlets have taken that snippet of video from the Ditto Cam and are speeding it up.
I am told.
Now, I I haven't seen it, but I've been inundated with emails from uh from people who say Rush, it's unconscionable what they're doing.
They're speeding it up to make it look even more exaggerated to fulfill their claim that you are making fun of Fox.
I'll take you through this step by step.
Here's what happened.
I'm reading the Drudge Report.
I think it's actually it's uh after the show has started, I'm not even sure when.
Uh one day, and then and there's the link to the Michael J. Fox video, the word controversy attached to it, so I click on it and I watch it.
Now I've seen Michael J. Fox recently on television in a number of roles on uh the show Boston Legal, which I love, and I've seen Michael J. Fox interviewed, and I I've never seen him the way I saw him in this ad.
Ever.
I've seen Parkinson's disease sufferers.
Uh I know a couple, and I've never seen this.
I uh just had never seen it.
I run a radio show here, and I have a camera right there.
I'm pointing to it.
Subscribers to my website can watch the program and hundreds of thousands do uh each and every day.
So in the process of describing for them, after all, I am a reporter.
In the process of describing what I was watching, it is a shock, as you've all seen it.
It's it's shocking.
It's unbelievable.
You don't see this kind of thing every day, particularly in a uh in a television commercial.
Not even a public service announcement for the cause that that might be involved.
Do you see something like this?
And you couple that with the fact that I'd never seen Michael J. Fox In this way, I began to try to describe for viewers on my ditto cam what I had seen.
Now, anybody who listens to me describe what I saw would know this.
It is a purposeful attempt to smear.
I mean, that's I'm not I'm not complaining because that's the league that we all play in here, folks.
And I don't whine or moan about anything, but I am going to correct the record here because this is something that's now had a lifespan of two days.
That I'm making fun of Michael J. Fox.
I would no more do that than I would make fun of anybody who suffers a disease about which and over which they have no I wouldn't make fun of anybody with anything.
That is beneath me, and it's not there's no evidence in history of it on this program at all, or in my behavior as a human being.
And yet it's out there.
And the people who culled that video could easily listen to the uh audio that accompanied and would easily know and do know precisely what I was doing, and yet it is being used for the express purpose of distorting and smearing for an audience that doesn't listen to this program.
Now this is election time, and that's uh that's as I say, par for the course.
But in the old days, you see, I think one of the things going on here in the old days, the drive-by media had their monopoly.
Nobody fought back when they used any of their practice techniques to sway opinion during elections.
Nobody ever fought back.
I fight back.
They cannot and will not intimidate me, and they are going to continue to try in any number of ways.
So rather than spend so much time uh at the beginning of their program today talking about Mr. Fox, because I've I've concluded, ladies and gentlemen, this is this is even I, who know much, even I have continued to learn during this.
And I have concluded, after uh three days of this week now, this is not about Michael J. Fox, and it's not really about Parkinson's disease.
That is not what any of this is about, and it's not what is propelling the people in the drive-by media to launch their their scandalous, scurrilous, irresponsible attacks and charges on me.
It's not about him, and it's not about Parkinson's disease.
It's not about curing disease, it's not about any of that.
Little audio to set up the monologue.
Interesting for Matt Lauer today on the Today Show, commenting about me and the Michael J. Fox ad.
Rush Limbaugh started a lot of controversy when he said perhaps Michael J. Fox was exaggerating or faking these effects of of Parkinson's disease in that ad promoting stem cell research.
Didn't Rush Limbaugh just say what a lot of people were privately thinking?
If Michael Fox goes out there politically and puts himself into the fray, he has to expect to be, you know, taken to account, correct?
Whoa, what's happened here?
That's that is a standalone comment.
That is the only com in the drive-by media of this type that I have been made aware of.
I don't watch all these people all the time, as you know.
I have a life and seek happiness and contentment through most of it, and I don't find it when I expose myself to these people on a regular basis.
But there it is again, exaggerating or faking.
Never once did I use the word fake.
It's very simple what I said, and the context is I am stunned.
I have never seen Michael J. Fox this way.
I know he's got Parkinson's disease.
And I'm saying, what it's I know it's a political ad, and I know it's to benefit Democrats.
Kaching ka ching ka ching ching-ching.
The neurons in my fertile brain start firing, and I say, you know, is either exaggerating the symptoms or he hasn't taken his medication.
Either or that has become he's faking it, and I was making fun of it.
Since then, later that program in the next soundbite, after consulting a bunch of uh research, found out that he'd written in his own book that he indeed goes off or manipulates his medication when he does public appearances, which I've said countless times this week is fine with me.
He's tried to raise consciousness before members of Congress to get funding for research into the disease.
I understand how powerful that is.
Now it shows up on a political ad for a series of Democrat candidates around the country two weeks before the election.
Sorry, Fleck uh, folks, I uh I'm a political animal and red flags raised immediately.
Gotta take a break, a little more media soundbite uh action, and uh then I'm gonna explain to you what this is really all about.
Back in just a second.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man serving humanity simply by showing up, utilizing talent on lawn from a god.
All right, here's a here's a little soundbite montage, PMS NBC, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Joe Scarborough last night.
It is the most powerful political advertisement I have ever seen.
What Rush Limbaugh has done at Jim Towns is raise it about a hundred times more powerful than what it was already.
Democrats could quite possibly will most likely win Missouri, and uh very well could win uh the control of the United States Senate, and it could all go back to this ad.
All right, uh I'm confident here that we're gonna win this.
These guys are both wrong.
Lawrence O'Donnell has a history of being wrong.
He was uh he was predicting how many indictments in uh in some cases he this he's wrong.
Lawrence O'Donnell, one of the writers on West Wing is wrong.
The real perspective on this when he says that I have raised about 100 times more powerful this ad what it was already, that's good.
That's exactly right.
That's what they are upset about.
These ads were, and I'm gonna comment on more uh more on this in just a moment.
These ads were designed to be little sneakers.
These ads were designed long ago.
They were conceived long ago.
This didn't just pop up, they just didn't happen.
Somebody just didn't get the idea two weeks ago.
Hey, we need to do something on stem cell research in these states where it's on the ballot or is an issue.
Uh they wanted to run these little ads once or twice in these districts and uh in in these states, St. Louis, Missouri, and Kansas City, in Maryland, and uh and in other states.
And what happened is I blew it up and have made this uh an entire national issue now on the on the on the way they are misleading and lying about what embryonic stem cell research promises.
This is not what they wanted to happen.
In addition, what they don't like about what has happened is that Mark Foley isn't on the front page, and they're having a lot of trouble keeping um Iraq on the front page because of this flap over this series of ads which were designed to be snuck in there, ladies and gentlemen.
They were designed to be little quick hit pieces.
Get in, get it, and get out, and move on to the next state.
And this is what I mean, they don't like it when people fight back against what they do.
This this ad, the more I think about it, is is unconscionable.
And not because of Michael J. Fox being in it, and not because of the way he appears.
That is irrelevant to what's wrong with this ad.
As I say, all of this uh will be explained to you in great detail in mere moments.
Here's Whoopi Goldberg last night on uh CNN's headline news.
The uh I guess the uh who is this, the anchor?
AJ Hammer says to Whoopi, Rush Limbaugh just went on his radio show saying he believes Michael J. Fox was exaggerating his symptoms of Parkinson's for a political ad.
And this continues the purposeful misrepresentation of what I said.
He's either exaggerating or he is uh off his medications, or he's acting.
Uh, they can't believe that this would ever be said.
They just they just and so they've got to focus in on the faking, which I never said, exaggerating and all of this in an attempt to make me the issue.
And again, why?
They need to discredit me.
They don't have the strength of the facts on their side when it comes to the issue at hand here, embryonic stem cell research.
Anyway, here is what now you keep in mind Whoopi Goldberg has appeared for John Kerry on stage at Radio City Music Hall, uttering some of the biggest filth that the political season has ever seen last year 2004 and in previous campaigns.
Here's what she said about this.
I find that quite offensive, even for Rush.
It is low.
Because the bottom line is this.
If you don't agree with someone's politics, that's fine.
That is the American way.
When you go on these kind of crude personal attacks in the name of politics, you lessen yourself and you lessen us.
Stop the tape.
There were no personal attacks.
There was comment on the substance of what was said in the ad.
And every time I hear somebody characterize this this way, it just reminds me that the Democrats have this practice technique.
Bring forth victims.
They are beyond reproach.
They're infallible.
You cannot criticize them or anything they say.
They are protected.
And when now that that we're not playing by those rules anymore, and they can't stand it.
So rather than defend the position that they're putting forth in these ads, they have to go out and attack the people who are questioning that which they are doing.
That's not allowed.
We're not allowed to question liberals.
We're not allowed to put them and their techniques under the microscope.
Here's the rest of what Whoopi said.
People who live in glass houses should never throw stones.
No matter what side of the political question you're on, whether you're in the middle or in the right or the left, should all flood him with emails and letters saying, you know what?
That goes too far.
That is un-American.
Let us not disparage people who are actually ill.
There's a basic line of responsibility and a basic line of civility.
Period.
I don't think she knows what was said on this program.
I did not disparage people who are ill.
I did not disparage Michael J. Fox's illness, and I did not make fun of his illness.
I did not exaggerate his symptoms and what they're showing in tape from the from the Ditto Cam here.
All of this is uh is a is a purposeful, irresponsible uh distortion of what has been said on the program.
But let's go back and examine what Whoopi Goldberg said just on one occasion, shall we?
She's asking for all this civility and talking about a basic uh line of responsibility and civility and so forth.
We don't have the audio of this, but we reported it when it happened.
July 8th, 2004, fundraiser for Carrion Edwards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, where she compared the president to a part of the female anatomy.
Remember this?
Uh and this is a woman lecturing us here on Good Manners.
She said, I love Bush, but someone's giving Bush a bad name.
Someone has tarnished the name Bush.
Someone's waged war, someone's deliberately misled the country, someone's attempted to amend the Constitution all to the name of Bush.
The Bush I know and cherish would never do such things.
My Bush is smarter than that.
And if my Bush is smarter than that, you can understand just how dumb I think that other Bush is.
And anyone who would ever wave to Stevie Wonder is not fully there.
I will do whatever it takes to restore Bush to its rightful place, and that ain't in the White House.
Vote your heart and mind and keep Bush where it belongs.
She's talking about uh, you people in Rio Linda know.
Uh but but this is an example of the civil discourse that we get from these people and and from and from them that we are preached to about how we must comport ourselves and how was how must we must behave and so forth.
Um just sit tight after the next break, the monologue blowing all this to smithereens will uh commence.
Here is uh in fact, let's do play number five.
Mike, we'll go to five to number seven.
This is uh uh during a Senate debate Wednesday night, last night, Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Ben Cardin said this about my remarks in the Fox ad.
Rush Limbaugh was outrageous what he said.
And uh I believe he's backed off of it.
There was a v horrible comment that he made about Michael J. Fox.
Michael J. Fox has every right to speak out on what he believes in, and to talk about the hope that he has in regards to embryonic stem cell research.
There are millions of people that are involved.
Michael Fox puts a face on this.
Every person who is suffering from diseases in which embryonic stem cell research holds out hope is an individual with family, and Michael Fox wanted to make that point, and he's right to do it.
Uh yeah, he can.
He can make all the points.
He can say all he wants.
He can be wrong every time he opens his mouth, too.
Anybody has the right to be wrong.
Somebody ought to ask.
Uh is it just is it the case that uh anybody in the political arena, some people do not uh or cannot be responded to.
That's what the Democrats want.
That's what this is all about.
They don't want their issues to be challenged, and they bring up and exploit victims, and then they put words in their mouths that are Not true.
There is nothing on the horizon in embryonic stem cell research.
Now you go out and say it on you can believe it all you want, and you can have hope in it all day long.
You can also hope that the sun never sets tomorrow.
And you can go out and say that all you want.
You can also get up and say the sky is not blue, it is green.
But people have the right to challenge whether you're right about it when you say it.
And that is what has happened here.
And they're trying to distract everybody from that.
Here is uh here's Michael J. Fox himself last night on Access Hollywood.
Now, this is interesting to me.
The symptoms that I had in the ad that I get.
That's called Dyskines, and that's actually from too much medication.
Kate.
Uh not enough medication, off the medication, too much medication.
Uh you figure this out yourselves, folks.
Uh, just just I mean, we're talking about manipulation of medication here.
Too much medication.
What in just a second?
Don't go over.
Yes, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Remember, you may not remember this.
This happened uh uh around in the middle of January of 2003 in receiving a special filmmaking achievement award from the National Board of Reviews actor George Clooney joked that Charlton Heston announced again today he's suffering from Alzheimer's.
Clooney had a chance to apologize for the bad humor day when questioned about the remark by New York News Day, he sputtered.
I don't care.
Charlton Heston's the head of the National Rifle Association.
He deserves whatever's said about him.
So you pontificating pompous, arrogant leftists who think you have a morality on all virtue and a monopoly on all virtue.
If you want, I'll take all the time it takes to dig up all of the mean-spirited, extremist, hurtful things that you have said about conservatives or anybody.
I will dig up all of the examples I can find of you actually making fun of people.
George Clooney, who can do no wrong on the American left.
Charlton Heston announced again today he's suffering from Alzheimer's.
Clumey had a chance to apologize.
I don't care.
Heston is the head of the NRA.
He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
Okay, the story is that I'm out of control.
That's in the drive-by media.
The fact is that they have devolved into what is uh an out-of-control hysterical mob.
Here's what's really happening with all this, ladies and gentlemen.
The drive-by media in consort with the Democrat Party are now defending what is a false attack ad against Republican candidates.
The Michael J. Fox ad is false.
They are defending that ad.
They are defending experiments on embryos.
They are lying about candidates.
They are lying about science.
They are the campaign ad production team for the Democrats now.
They may as well be, the drive-by media.
And let me back this up.
Experiments on embryos.
That's exactly what embryonic stem cell research is.
There is no evidence that any disease is anywhere near any progress using embryonic stem cells.
No disease.
Zip zero nada.
Why do you think there's no venture capital money or independent market money going into this research?
Why do you think that they keep promoting embryonic stem cell research?
Why do you think they've got the scientific community on it?
And why do you think things like Amendment 2 in Missouri are on the ballot?
They want federal money because they can't get money anywhere else.
They don't want to go borrow it.
The researchers don't.
They want free federal taxpayer money.
That's what this is about.
And you couple this with the sacrament of which I described back in the mid-90s.
The sacrament to modern liberalism is abortion.
And by, I mean, you you're talking embryos in order to harvest them and get them, you keep alive the entire concept of what abortion is to the left.
The campaign ad production team for the Democrat Party now is the drive-by media.
Their ratings are down.
You see the New York Times stock price today.
The New York Times stock price has plunged the circulation of drive-by publications down.
Their profits are down.
Why?
Because they've dropped all pretensive news reporting.
They have openly now joined the ranks of the Democrat Party.
They're not defending Michael J. Fox.
Make no mistake about this.
They are not defending Michael J. Fox.
They are defending abortion.
They are defending embryonic stem cell research.
They are defending their right to distort issues in a campaign without being challenged.
If they really cared about Michael J. Fox as they pretend to, they would be denouncing the manner in which he has been used and exploited for their purposes.
They would be attacking the manner in which scientific research is now being politicized.
There's been a tradition in this country of bipartisan approaches to the cure and research into diseases.
That has now been turned upside down when it comes to Parkinson's disease or close to it on Alzheimer's and with spinal paralysis.
They were thrilled.
The drive-by media was thrilled when John Edwards lied through his teeth about cures from embryonic stem cell research and how Christopher Reeve would be walking again if only John Kerry were elected.
That's such a sickening lie.
But it scored for the Democrats because it was interpreted by people.
Oh, they care so much.
At least they're gonna try, at least they're gonna try Republicans don't want Christopher Reef to ever walk.
And that's the irresponsible, uncalled for message that is the result of politicizing research into disease.
So the liberal media promoted it.
Anything that makes the Democratic Party look angelic.
Anything that makes the Democratic Party look like what it is not, they will promote to the gills.
And they thought it would work again.
But this time someone is standing up to them.
Me.
This time someone is challenging them, me.
This time somebody's questioning them me, and they don't like it.
They do not like being challenged.
They had a monopoly for years where they got away without ever being challenged.
They don't like it.
And rather than accept the challenge, they attempt to destroy and discredit those who stand up to them.
Let's review some obvious recent history.
The media in this country lied about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath.
They l and they gave himself Pullitcher prizes for doing so.
They lied constantly about the status of the Iraq War.
They lied about Carl Rove in the Valerie Plane matter.
They not only lied about Bush's National Guard records, they engaged in a conspiracy to create forged documents to further what they knew was a lie.
The drive-by media lies constantly about the economy.
They lie about our judicial nominees.
They lie about John Bolton.
They lie about Donald Rumsfeld.
They lie about Condoleezza Rice.
They lie about Dick Cheney.
They will lie about anybody who gets in their way.
They lie about Halliburton.
They lie about oil profits.
They lie about tax cuts and how they are effective.
They lie about practically everything.
They carry the water for the Democrat Party.
They carry the water for liberal elites, for anti-capitalists and the environmentalist movement and elsewhere.
They carry the water for the appeasement crowd, the socialist elites in Western Europe.
When someone stands up to them and questions them in their tactics they try to intimidate and destroy.
Just think.
Think about the last three days.
There are literally hundreds of stories over the last three days about me.
They're not focused on the phony science involving embryos.
They're not focused on any aspect of the issue that the ad of Michael J. Fox produced attempts to persuade people about.
They're not focusing on it.
I wonder why.
Because they know it's not a winning issue.
The only way it's a winning issue is if nobody stands up to the ad.
The only way it's a winning issue if nobody challenges the lie and the misrepresentation that they put forth In the ad.
For three days, we've had news stories about me.
No focus on the phony science involving the embryos.
They're not focused on the dirty trick of running these ads at the last minute in close races.
They're not focused on the fact that they are lying about the records of these Republicans.
There's nothing substantive in any of the news the past three days about the flap over this ad of Michael J. Fox.
They will not even quote Michael J. Fox from his own book about how he doesn't or does take his meds based on what his outcome is, the outcome he desires is before whatever group he's speaking.
They pretend that these campaign ads, and and that's what they these are Democrat campaign ads, folks.
This is the next thing that I want to, I'm going to make a point about.
They pretend that these campaign ads are untouchable news stories.
That Michael J. Fox is a nonpartisan advocate, suffering the horrors of a of a and the ravages of horrible disease, and as such, he's nonpartisan.
He has no he has no political stake.
But yet every one of his ads is run for the benefit of a Democrat, even in Maryland, where the Democrat beneficiary of the Michael J. Fox ad uh voted against exactly what Michael J. Fox advocates in the ad.
That would be Benjamin Cardin.
Let me tell you something about how these political campaign ads get put together.
They don't just happen.
Claire McCaskill's out there saying that a phone rang one day was Michael J. Fox.
Hey, I would like to come in and help you.
She would love for us to believe that.
But the way these political campaign ads are put together, they don't just happen.
These aren't ads by some nonprofit health-related organization.
These are ads paid for by Democrat campaigns.
This ad is not paid for by a Parkinson's disease foundation, for example.
These ads are scripted, written by Democrat campaigns.
The Democrat campaigns hire the directors, they hire the producers, they hire the writers.
The Democrat campaign determines who will be in the ad, the music behind the ad, the scenery in the ad.
The Republicans do the same thing, don't misunderstand.
But they want us to look at these ads differently.
They want us to appear that these, they want us to think these ads, PSAs almost.
Public service announcements run by somebody who has nothing to do with the Democratic Party, Michael J. Fox, independent guy coming in, hey, want to help out.
These are every bit as much Democrat ads as the ad back in 1960 that depicted Barry Goldwater blowing up the world, a little girl was picking daisies.
They are scripted by Democrats.
Democrat campaigns hire the directors.
They work with Michael J. Fox on deciding how he will appear in the ad.
Make no mistake about this, because he has a choice.
He just said in the soundbite is actually over medicated when he did the ads.
I leave the conclusion and the meaning of that to you.
I'm through speculating on this.
All I'm telling you is I know how campaign ads are put together.
The Democrat campaigns decided for whatever reason they wanted Michael J. Fox to appear the way he does in the ads.
And the same way he appeared when he testified before the Senate.
Why?
It's powerful.
It has the most impact.
There's no question, if it's not challenged.
If it's not commented on.
If it just if it plays as they intended it to.
Sneak these ads in, one or two, three, four airings during the World Series in local markets, and then go on to another state and do it there.
That's what they intended.
Now the whole thing's blown up nationally, and there is attention focused on the substance of the issue that they never ever intended.
These ads, make no mistake about it, are Democrat Party campaign ads.
They are not the ads of a Parkinson's foundation.
Now the media want you to believe that these are public service ads, non-political, nonpartisan objective ads.
They want you to believe that none of this is contrived.
They don't want you to know how the process works.
They don't want you to know who's behind it and what kind of thinking goes into it.
They're now demanding that you and I roll over, that we cower over the effectiveness of these ads and take our losses in these close campaigns.
That's what they demand.
I'm not going to do that.
And you're not either.
And by the way, I note from your emails you haven't you haven't been cowed at all, and I I applaud you for that.
I gotta take a break here, we'll be back.
Wrap this up in just a second.
Don't go away.
And welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, highly trained broadcast specialist on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Look, folks, the media can attack me all they want.
They can play you for fools all they want.
They can try to promote the Democrats and embryonic stem cell research, the rest of their left wing agenda all they want, but they do so now at a price.
They do not get away with it without comment or challenge anymore.
There is no monopoly any longer.
They don't get to decide elections without a fight.
They don't get to mock Republican presidents and Republican candidates without a fight.
They don't get to push a left wing agenda without a fight.
They don't get to undermine our war effort without a fight.
Those days are over.
The liberal media are having a hissy fit over it, and they have been for over 18 years, at least 16 when they figured out what was happening.
They cannot come to grips with the fact that they don't own it anymore.
They cannot come to grips with the fact that they don't set the agenda and they don't know how to compete.
All they know how to do is distort, discredit, and destroy.
They tell us, they tell us this election is over months before a single vote is cast.
Sorry, that offends me.
I haven't voted yet, nor has anybody else.
They are not going to tell me the election is over before a single vote's cast.
They're not going to tell me the election is over when they count exit polls.
They are wrong.
They tell us we've lost in Iraq, while a hundred and forty thousand brave soldiers are over fighting the enemy.
They are wrong.
They tell us that Mark Foley represents us.
They are wrong.
They tell us we're supposed to think and believe what they want us to think and believe.
Not any longer.
They demand that we adhere to their agenda and to their views, or they will mock us, smear us, try to destroy us.
Ask George Allen, ask Michael Steele, ask Rick Santorum, ask Denny Hastard, ask Tom Delay, ask Newt Gingrich, ask Dick Cheney, ask Rumsfeld, ask Ed Meese, ask George W. Bush, ask Carl Rove, ask anybody who achieves power over these people, and you will confirm what I am saying.
They will destroy, mock, smear anybody who beats them because they don't know how to deal with it.
Anyone who dares to stand up to them, anyone who dares to challenge them to actually practice conservatism, defend liberty, faith, the constitution, capitalism, those people become the targets of the wrath of the drive-by media.
But it's a new day, ladies and gentlemen.
This whole flap over the Michael J. Fox ad illustrates that it's a new day.
We will not be intimidated.
I'm not going to cower.
I'm not going to abide their demands, and I'm not going to be silenced or intimidated by the way they lie and misrepresent what is said on this program because one thing I know, 20 million people a week hear what I say on this program.
Those 20 million watch the embarrassing antics of people in the drive-by media who do not listen to this program, purposely mischaracterize what is said here.
Guess who loses?
The drive-by media.
They lose credibility.
They lose a number of things.
My uh faith in you and my confidence in you is what propels me.
You can ask any of my friends, are you bugged with it?
No, I know my audience.
They know the truth.
And I got the biggest audience around.
They know what's going on.
I got 20 million warriors with me.
Twenty million supporters.
I don't care what these nabobs that don't even know what they're talking about, write in and say.
One other thing, folks.
They aren't there claiming that they are upset about people making fun of others.
Don't believe it.
George Clooney makes fun of Charlton Heston.
These people on the left make fun of more disadvantaged people, make fun of the very people they think should be protected.
They out there making fun of them left and right.
They don't have the problem is when the tables get turned on and they think the tables have been turned.
They don't like that.
They they were not upset over what Mark Foley did.
Not for a minute.
That didn't bother.
Hell, they support it.
They have advocated support for far worse than what Foley did.
They made a hero out of somebody who actually had sex with a page.
So the idea coming along and uh suggesting what Foley did.
No, they they don't have any problem with any of that.
They just see these events as opportunities to smear and destroy.
But they don't succeed.
It's taking them three days to try to get me, and they haven't made headway back in just a second.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, television commercials that give people suffering incurable diseases false hope.
That's not compassion.
It's not caring.
It is cruelty.
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