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Oct. 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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This is this is hilarious.
This greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have while serving humanity, half my brain tied behind my back, still there to make it fair.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
One of these, one of these many articles about the flap, as they're calling it over the Michael J. Fox ad.
And I've I forget who it is.
I read it last night in print it out.
They ask some professor.
They asked some professor about my remarks from a communications.
I think it's either the Pittsburgh Post Gazette today or uh the Baltimore Sun, both those papers have done analysis pieces here.
And of course, I'm just being who I am.
Um throw or what have you.
It's amazing after all these, and they say communications professor, and these guys still don't get what happens here.
All of these experts, all of these learned people, and they still don't understand why this program's success and why you're there and how we connect with each other.
They just don't get it, which is fine.
I just find it amazing.
These are supposedly informed and learned people.
And anyway, the uh they asked some professor about my remarks from a communications point of view.
Now, why don't these same stories, why don't these same journalists brought on scientists who can attest to the fact that the ad misleads about embryonic stem cells.
Why don't they do that?
Why don't they go out and ask somebody about the sub you heard Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America yesterday with Sean Hannity.
Well, if he believes it, if Michael J. Fox believes it, doesn't he have the right to say it?
Yes, nobody's denying that.
But when it's wrong and misleading, it's going to be called on, particularly in the political arena.
Why don't they go out and get some scientists?
And by the way, they are all over the place.
I have uh, ladies and gentlemen in the um in the stack here.
Where did I put I have I have a list of I wish I could show this to you.
I'm gonna show it to you on the ditto cam just to get the effect of it.
Let me, and there's three pages of this.
Let me zoom in here as best I can.
All right, there.
Now, on the left side, this is benefits of stem cells to human patients.
On the, as you're looking at it, on the left side there is just one of three pages of diseases where adult stem cells have shown progress.
On this side, all the diseases that show progress on embryonic stem cells.
Zip zero nada.
Not one disease has been impacted by stem cell, embryonic stem cell research.
Three pages of this, ladies and gentlemen.
A total blank slate here.
These are all the diseases where adult stem cells have proven beneficial.
Some of the diseases like I'm sorry, Brian's saying don't shake it around.
It doesn't matter.
Why?
Is it because of distorting?
You can see a blank slate versus the text.
I'm not getting them.
I don't want them to read the text in there.
Brain cancer, ovarian cancer, skin cancer, testicular cancer, tumors, abdominal organs, lymphoma, non Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
I'm just that's just some of the cancers adult stem cells are showing promise.
Zip zero not a three pages of these things.
In fact, uh there are a total of 72 diseases, 72 afflictions that have shown promising uh results with adult stem cells.
Uh zero.
Um this is uh stem cell research.org.
A fact sheet.
Stem cell research.org, fact sheet, adult stem cells versus embryonic stem cells effectiveness on various afflictions.
Now my question is, why haven't the media brought on scientists who can attest to the fact that the ad misleads and misrepresents that embryonic stem cell research, as opposed to other stem cell research areas, not only not going anywhere, is potentially very dangerous as it has been creating tumors in animals.
Now, why why can't the media find these scientists?
Why can't the media find these scientists to attest to the misrepresentations that are in this ad?
Because they don't want to, ladies and gentlemen, because that's not the point.
The point is not whether the ad is true or not.
The point of the ad is to elect Democrats because the ad also claims that Republicans are not interested in curing these diseases.
That's the point it tries to make.
Vote Democrat.
You who suffer might find a cure, might be cured.
With Republicans, you have no prayer.
Now, I don't care who you are, and I don't care what your ideology, if you have any kind of a heart, if you have just a shred of a heartbeat, that ought to repulse you like you can't believe.
You ought to understand how cruel it is to advance the notion that there are cures on the horizon when there aren't.
I know we all need hope.
But false hope is just plain mean, all for the purposes of electing a Democrat.
And let me admit something now, since we played the audio sound.
In fact, let's let's go get it.
Number seven.
Can you play number seven again?
Because I want to make an apology here.
You have number seven from the audio soundbite roster ready to go.
Let it rip.
The symptoms that I had in the ad that I did.
That's called dyskines.
That's actually from too much medication.
Okay, I I need to apologize.
I was wrong.
Uh, because I speculated either didn't take his medication or he was acting.
Never said the word faking.
Now, if you got if you people in the left want to equate acting with faking, I mean, go ahead.
George Clooney will be a faker.
All your favorite actors will call him fakers.
I never used the word.
But I was wrong.
He did take his medications.
Now he took too much.
Medication.
The point is he did something differently to appear in this ad than when he appears on Boston Legal.
And that was my first human reaction.
Whoa, I've never seen this.
I have not seen this before.
Now I gather from the past three days that we are to believe that this is the normal condition that poor Mr. Fox has to live with each and every day.
That's the impression that they're leaving, is it not?
That this is how his life is now.
But he himself said he took too much medication.
He didn't do that when he goes on Boston Legal, but it happened for the taping of this ad.
And I think the reason for that is so you would really, really hate Republicans.
Because Republicans don't want to cure it.
Jim Tallant doesn't care.
Michael Steele doesn't care.
Nobody in the Republican Party cares.
They don't want to cure these things.
They're happy, in fact, to see people suffer like Mr. Fox is in his ad.
Now, the uh the drive-by media has painted a bullseye on our old buddy here, Mark Halpern of ABC News.
Mark Howpern, the political director of ABC News, he's one of the writers of the daily publication ABC News, The Note.
And Mr. Halpern has a book out there with a uh co-written with a reporter from the Washington Post.
And Mr. Halpert appeared on the O'Reilly factor earlier this week, in which he said the National Press Corps is justifiably looked upon with suspicion by conservatives, and the National Press Corps is in dire need of reform if it wishes to regain their confidence.
Especially since reform is a sound business strategy.
Those are the words of ABC News political director Mark Halperin on the O'Reilly factor earlier this week.
He said, in this country we've got these old news organizations, the major networks, ABC, uh the New York Times, the Washington Post, these organizations have been around a long time, and for 40 years, conservatives have looked with suspicion at them.
I think we got a chance in these last two weeks to prove to conservatives that we understand their grievances.
We're going to try to do better, but these organizations still have incredible sway, and conservatives are certain that we're going to be out to get them.
We have to fix that.
I think everybody in the old old media better be uh saying, are we being fair to everybody involved in the American political process?
Even if you don't believe the argument what we make in our book, that there are some examples over the years pretty significant of showing why conservatives are aggrieved.
Uh even if you're a liberal and you don't believe that, you believe that half the country feels that way.
And as an economic model, if you want to thrive like Fox News channel, you want to have a future.
You better make sure conservatives find your product appealing if you're going to do the right thing.
You have to do it.
So not only has he he's he's broken the code here.
He's he's he's broken omerta.
He broke silence.
He's admitted there's a liberal bias in the media, and then he compounded it by saying if they want to fix themselves, they better do the Fox News model.
And they are out to lynch this guy now.
And he is one of them.
He also said this.
If I were a conservative, I understand why I would feel suspicious that I was not going to get a fair break at the end of an election.
We in the old media, we've got to make sure we do better so conservatives don't have to be concerned about that.
It's just it's not fair.
Mark Halper.
Now he's selling a book.
It's got a book out there.
Uh and it's about this subject.
But even Mark Hal.
I know he takes shots at me in the book, take shots at I don't everybody take shots at me sturdily.
I mean, I th everybody points up when they shoot.
Nobody points down.
I mean, uh I'm the target.
Yeah, it's another thing.
I've I've got people have sending me emails.
Rush, they made fun of you when you lost your hearing, and they made fun of you when you uh announced your addiction to pain pills.
I know.
I'm fully aware of it.
I expected it.
You know, folks, I know the I know the league I'm in here.
I know what they think of me.
I know they hate my guy, I know they resent me.
My gosh, I can you know, I've got three hours a day without an editor.
None of them have that.
I can say whatever I want, and I got twenty million people right along with me.
They are so jealous, they can't see straight.
And they're also upset because they don't control the the whole universe anymore.
Uh I mean, I but I'm not gonna sit here and and and whine about being made fun of.
That's that's my point.
When you get in a political arena, that's what happens.
Ever seen a political cartoon for crying out loud?
I mean, nobody that gets in this game has any expectation of never having to take a hit.
Now, I think a lot of Democrats think they're gonna get kid glove treatment from the left, and when they don't get it, they're really they're upset about it.
They're probably the closest to a group of people that have hands-off treatment, but I mean i i it's just it's part of what it that is another reason why I say you enter the political arena, I don't care who you are.
You have to know it ain't beanbag, as they say.
And the Democrats are trying to get around this by parading this bunch of victims in front of everybody as infallible and as unassailable.
And they've gotten away with this most of my life, but not anymore.
I I'm I'm I'm not following the script as I have been saying.
And that's just sent them into an hysterical tizzy.
A brief time out.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Okay, let's go to the phones.
Again, people have been patiently waiting.
We'll start in Cleveland.
This is Bruce.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
I listen to you every day, and so does my wife.
And uh something caught my ear just a little while ago.
You were a little incredulous about uh uh Michael J. Fox saying that too much medication may cause Parkinson's symptoms.
I wasn't well I wasn't credulous about that aspect of it.
This is how this stuff gets started.
Well, I uh no, I just I just caught my ear, and so I called in, and my wife has uh Parkinson's plus.
And it's a more virulent form of Parkinson's, and uh it's quite it's terminal, as a matter of fact.
But uh a lot of people don't understand what it is, and so I just thought I'd pass some information along, like uh it all has to do with dopamine.
And no, we've no way we've we've been through this.
I mean, I uh b the I don't I don't I mean I don't uh uh sorry, I don't I don't mean to cut you short here.
No, that's but I know the sh the the the shortage of dopamine or the absence of it I know is one of the one of the problem.
What were you gonna talk about medication-wise?
That's what I thought you were gonna talk about.
Okay, the the medication that they use, uh if it if you use too much of it, it's toxic and it does cause tremors by itself.
I know I'm and if you lose too little, what happens?
And if you do it the same thing.
Okay, Well, here's here's the I'm as I I think I mentioned this yesterday.
I'm I'm being inundated with emails and doctors and neurosurgeons and a number of people.
And I don't often share emails because anybody can write and claim to be anybody in anything.
So these emails run the gamut.
But I'm hearing what you have said.
Too much medication.
And Michael Fox admitted that uh he had too much medication when he shot the ad.
All I know is that the way he appears in the ad, I've never seen him anywhere else.
In fact, when he went up to do the public appearance for Tammy Duckworth, he didn't appear that way with her as he does in the ads.
We observe what we observe, ladies and gentlemen.
And as I said mere moments ago, and I will I will happily repeat it.
I apologize for saying he didn't take his meds.
Instead, he took too much medication.
Uh but he he didn't do this when he went on Boston Legal, and he he didn't do this when he was with Tammy Duckworth later or earlier this week on a on a public uh appearance fundraiser.
Here is Gene in San Diego.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Hey.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
18 year old list now.
I'm watching you on the ditto cam smoking that Spookie, and this is a call I hate to make.
Rush, I'm so concerned, so concerned.
You're a hundred percent right on this.
But your reaction to Michael J. Fox commercial, I'm so concerned that it's gonna be a call to action to get more Democrats off their butts to go out and vote.
And they're going out to vote against Rush.
They're not going out to vote against the issues.
They're gonna go out and vote against Rush, and I'm afraid that it's gonna hurt our efforts.
I what are your res your response to that?
I think it's a good thing.
Well, no, they're they're not.
See, this is this is the thing, and this is why I can't drop this.
They're not reacting to me.
They're reacting to the lies and distortions in the mainstream media about what I have said and what I am doing.
They're not reacting to me.
They are they are reacting to they don't even listen to this program.
They're not even listening.
You can they they they watch whatever they watch, they read whatever they read, they get outraged, and they run to the computer and they fire off their emails or what have you, but they haven't listened to the program.
They don't really know what is uh what is being said here.
So and of course, since I'm not the editor of the drive-by media, I can't control what the drive-by media does.
All I can do is come here and disavow it and claim that it is what it is.
What would you have me do, uh, Gene, since you have well, first of all, Rush, you're a pro.
First, I think we should have anticipated this.
We we might have it might have been a better choice to lay law on this.
Can't do it.
Gene, Gene, we live forward.
We live in reality, can't go back.
We this is not a TVO world.
We can't pause it and rewind it.
Well, what do you think about keeping it going?
Maybe we ought to let it die down.
I mean, what can we do?
I just believe the secondary argument.
Gene, don't worry.
Gene, Jane, don't don't don't worry.
Don't what whatever you don't worry.
What next week there's going to be another October surprise somewhere down the line.
Some something is uh something's gonna happen.
And you have to have more faith in our side on this.
You you you're falling into the trap that that that uh that everybody fell into for so many years.
Oh no.
Oh no, Democrats motivated, we're sunk, as though we have no role in this.
You don't think the same thing might be true of conservatives?
You don't think the same thing might be true of Republicans?
You don't think maybe they might be rallying over what they are seeing here, and especially when they are told the truth about the misrepresentations and lies in these ads and all these other Democrat ads, by the way, that are run you don't think that this all has a rallying effect.
You seem to think that only Democrats are going to be affected by this.
Uh and that's you know, that's that's a fear-based negative reaction and attitude that you're having.
You gotta have faith.
You gotta look forward, you gotta be positive about this.
There's still um essentially a week and a half to go here.
And something's gonna come along and supplant this.
Uh and if it doesn't, they are going to blow it by but they've got nothing new to say.
If they're just gonna run the video that just that is a total lie about what happened on this program, they're gonna continue to say I made fun of Michael J. Fox.
Every day they do it, I'm gonna come here and I'm gonna set him straight.
Um This is all about informing and educating people.
This is what the political process is all about.
As I said in my brilliant monologue of the first hour of the program, Gene, they're not going to get away with these lies and distortions.
And if I sit down, and if I drop it now out of fear that I'm just rallying the enemy, they're going to get away with it.
And they're not going to get away with it with me here.
They're not going to get away with it with me.
Others can do what they wish.
But they're not going to get this stuff angers the hell out of me.
I just I say it's cruel as hell to promise what they're promising.
It's not true.
They're lying to sick people.
A man, a living legend, a way of life.
Nice to have you with us, my friends.
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All right.
I imagine many of you have the same thought that Gene hit.
Rush.
I wish you hadn't done, but since you've just let it die.
Rush.
I mean, just you're stoking the fire of all these Democrats.
I thought these Democrats fire were stoked anyway.
Bottom line is this, though.
Let's go back.
Let's let's do a TiVo moment.
Let's rewind Monday.
And then let's move forward, and I don't say a word about what I think about the ad.
And the ad runs.
And the ad runs in St. Louis and it runs in Maryland, it runs in Wisconsin.
By the way, I hear the ad is now been bought in Virginia.
They're going to take the ad, the Fox ad and run it against George Allen in Virginia.
Well, let's suppose that I had not said any of this.
What would be going on in these states?
Jim Tallant, Michael Steele, George Allen, the others, they'd be on complete defense, taking hit after hit about being against fixing illnesses.
Nobody would have challenged the substance of the ad.
Not loudly, not significant because they would have been afraid to because of Michael J. Fox's appearance in the ad.
Nobody would have challenged this.
They would add in a perfunctory responses, but and there wouldn't be any focus on television about dirty ads and this and that.
There wouldn't be any focus on this at all.
And it would just be another late-inning Democrat hit piece that would have been successful.
Those of you who agree with Gene think I should just, you know, cut it out.
This drop it.
Not enough, Rush.
Let it go.
You're revving up the enemy.
That's what the left and the drive-by media want all of us to do.
Which is essentially take it on the chin.
And it I'm just not in the mood.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
New York Times today, liberal gay rights group.
We knew this, didn't we?
We had our suspicions.
A liberal gay rights group, the human rights campaign, said yesterday one of its employees acting anonymously had created the website that first published copies of unusually solicitous email messages to teenagers from Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.
A spokesman for the group, the human rights campaign, said that it first learned of its employees' role this week, immediately fired this guy for misusing the group's resources.
After the messages appeared on the web at stop sexpredators.blogspot.com, the website of ABC News followed with its own independent report.
The ABC News report resulted in the disclosure of more sexually explicit IMS.
Instant messages that Foley sent to other former congressional members.
He wasn't fired for outing Foley.
He was fired for misusing the resources of the human rights campaign.
Now this leaves a lot of questions.
How long did this guy have these emails or where did he get them?
And did the human rights campaign not know that he had these emails from Foley?
We know that these emails are being shopped eleven months ago.
But the bottom line is we're not surprised it was a liberal group or somebody working for one that again, this is politics.
This was not about protecting children.
This was not about protecting kids from predators or any of that.
It was a political hit piece.
And notice how effective it was.
Man, the Republicans turned tail and ran for the tall grass before the first instant message had even been read in its entirety.
And they weren't held by Foley's instant um instant resignation.
Now, you gotta love New Jersey.
You just have to love New Jersey.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has signaled they will pass same-sex marriage less legislation, but they're not going to write it.
They demand that the legislature write it.
And the legislature can call it whatever they want, but they better do something.
Do something.
Now this is different from Vermont and from Massachusetts, where the uh Supreme Court there in both those states, especially Massachusetts, actually wrote it in total legislature, you pass it.
Everybody applauded.
Yes.
If you have any doubt, I mean, these are McGreevy judges.
These are a lot of them are Jim McGreevy judges.
By the way, Jim McGreevy said, I get married.
He said that he will get married.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, if if this does become law, uh I don't know if he'll be the bride or the groom, and I don't know if his ex-wife will show up or whatever.
Maybe Oprah will cover that wedding if it uh if it happens.
Madonna's new adopted little boy could be the ring bearer.
And all kinds of uh potential here.
Uh denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts, bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate government purpose, the New Jersey court found.
The court ruled that it's up to the democratic process.
They remember that in New Jersey.
This is reason for hope.
They remember the democratic process.
It's up to the Democratic process to determine how marriage rights are given to same-sex couples, whether through allowing them to marry or by applying some other term to their unions.
It gave a legislature 180 days to act.
Legal analysts said the ruling is similar to Vermont's 1999 Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the state's marriage law, but allowed legislators to grant same-sex couples equal status through civil unions rather than marriage.
The legislature created civil unions effective in 2000.
Uh and of course they don't like this.
No, we want marriage.
We don't want the civil union business.
Joseph Grodin, a former uh California Supreme Court justice who now teaches at Hastings College, said the New Jersey court majority appears to accepted a separate but equal status for same-sex couples, much as the U.S. Supreme Court did for racial minorities in uh 1986.
Now that's a San Francisco Chronicle reporting on this.
The Washington Post editorial, this is classic.
New Jersey's step forward.
A court's order on same-sex partnerships leaves plenty of room for democratic decisions.
Now get this.
What role judges should play in that process is always a difficult question.
And yesterday's decision will no doubt spark controversy.
Yeah, the idea of legislators writing laws is no doubt controversial.
The judges said that uh it's a difficult question the post says.
But the uh, you know, the controversy.
What's controversy?
It said the legislature has to do it.
What they said, hey, our Constitution says this is okay.
You guys gotta go write the law.
To the Washington Post, that's controversial.
I guess writing laws no doubt does spark controversy.
What's more, the court specifically declined to require that marriage itself be available to same-sex couples, provoking a dissent from three justices who would have gone further and simply mandated marriage rights.
Instead, the judges distinguish between the right to marriage and the rights and benefits flowing from marriage.
They argued it makes no sense on the one hand to give gays and lesbians full civil rights and their status as individuals, and on the other, to give them an incomplete set of rights when they enter into committed same-sex relationships.
So what what's the impact on the election of this?
Not just in New Jersey, but around the country.
There's gonna be national news.
What's the I I noticed that the brave and courageous uh Thomas Kane Jr. issued a press release in which uh he deplored uh all this, said that the marriage is uh reserved specifically for one man and one woman and demanded to know where his opponent stood.
Uh haven.
I now has has uh has has Menendez responded, as Menendez said what him Yeah, find what Menendez said because uh because our brave Republican candidate up there, Tom Kane Jr. demanded it.
Depending on what Menendez says, Cain could always change his mind because his air, his feet are firmly planted in the air.
This man's very flexible.
He's uh go either way on this depending on uh what he needs to do to help himself.
David in Chicago, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
Uh multi-generals from the Chicago area.
Thank you.
Um, my point is um basically this.
Uh this whole Fox situation uh is just another fully evasive tool.
In the time of a major election, the Democrats are going to stick on this, just like they have on the folding issue for the last month to try to get the attention away from the real issues of which they have no stance, a valid stance that people really believe in.
And this is has become another evasive tool to basically divert our attentions away from the most important things that it's at at this time.
Let me tell you something.
I for for all this talk about how the Democrats are happy that this has happened, I'm not sure.
They're having a tough time keeping a rock on the front page.
They've lost foley.
Now this story with me and uh Michael J. Fox in this ad seems to be captivating a lot of the drive-by media.
And uh, I'm guarantee you the Democrats are not favored in that.
They they wanted these to be little hits, local action stories, these ads running in states and it's just specific cities, uh, quick hits, get in, get it, get out, move on to the next state, do the thing, and hope the impact is contained there.
This is this goes natural national, and now this raises all kinds of attention on the substance of the ad.
This is not what they wanted.
They had no desire for the substance of this ad, the message of this ad to be examined.
Uh but but you nailed it.
This is a political ad.
This is not a public service ad, public service uh announcement.
It is not even about Parkinson's disease.
It's not paid for by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation or any Parkinson's disease group.
It's paid for by Democrat candidates.
It's a political ad.
And it has a political purpose, and that is to convince voters that Republicans aren't interested in curing disease.
That's unconscionable.
I'm sorry, I can't lie down on it.
Lay down on that.
Let just go by unchallenged.
Be right back.
All right, uh diligent research has pointed out the striking differences between uh our man Tom Cain Jr. in uh in New Jersey and the Democrat uh Bob Menendez.
Menendez opposes gay marriage, as does our guy, uh Tom Cain Jr.
But Menendez says he will not support a constitutional amendment to block it.
So while he opposes it, he won't do anything to oppose it.
But our guy, Tom Cain Jr., he says he would not support a constitutional or uh would support a constitutional amendment to uh to ban gay marriage.
I love our guy.
For now, I know it depends if the heat.
Yeah, if he if it got hot there in the kitchen, uh the he would cleverly modify his position to protect himself and us.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen at the same time.
So that's that's where the two senators, uh the candidates in uh New Jersey stand on this.
You know, this Michael Fox ad is not the only flap out there, the ad that the Republican National Committee ran against Harold Ford for a while.
Just hilarious.
And it was really great in in in illustrating where Harold Ford Jr. is and the issues.
But the Democrats racism and race you can't do that, you can't do this, you can't give it, you can't say it.
The black guy's merely white women.
You can't it's racism, it's a southern challenge.
You can't get it.
Republicans said, Oh, okay, okay, we'll pull it.
So they pulled the ad.
The RNC has pulled the ad.
Well, they got enough days out of it, but they uh they they have uh they've pulled the ad.
But here, you know, you remember my monologue in the first hour what this is really all about.
This is about squelching opposition to liberalism.
This is about making sure that people who fight back against the liberals pay a price for it.
The the the truth is the libs don't get away with it any longer.
They are gonna pay a price for the ways in which they go about running these campaigns and everything else.
Now listen to this last night.
This is uh a montage of Susan Estrich, uh Paul Bagala, Tim Russert, and Mike Barnacle.
I showed my current students the old Willie Horton ad, and then I showed them this ad.
My students looked at me as if the 1988 Willie Horton ad was kid stuff.
It's scurrils, it's worse than Willie Horton.
It makes the Willie Horton ad look tame.
The spot resurrected visions of the racially charged Willie Horton ad.
Hey, guess what we've got here?
We have got gravitas all over again.
We got Democrat talking.
Why this is worse than a Willie Horton ad.
They're banking on the fact nobody will remember the Willie Horton ad.
The only problem with the Willie Horton ad was it was true.
And that's my point.
The Willie Horton ad, that's 1988.
You want you if some of you may not know what the Willie Horton ad, well, you tell what the Willie Horton.
Willie Horton was uh a multiple murderer in the Massachusetts prison system.
The then governor, Michael Dukakis, had this furlough plan because he thought he thought he thought murdering prisoners should get out now and then uh to see people.
Uh help them in their in their imprisonment, I guess.
Anyway, the guy escaped, he's in Maryland, and uh he's at a gas station, and uh he killed a couple more people, right?
Rape what what was it about?
He raped a woman.
He raped, he raped raped a woman in front of her.
It's a violent crime.
A violent crime.
And of course, uh uh an independent Republican, it wasn't the Bush 41 campaign or even the RNC, and independent Floyd Brown was the guy that ran the spot, put together the Willie Horton ad, which basically told the truth that liberals are soft on crime.
And still true today.
I mean, they want to let terrorists out of Club Gitmo.
The only problem is the countries where the terrorists are from don't want them back.
The Brits are saying you can't hold those prisoners, let them out.
Well, we don't want them, by the way, but you let them out.
So nothing's changed.
Liberals are liberals.
The in fact it was it was it.
Uh no.
Well it was it was it might have been gore against somebody.
I it gore or Cuomo was the first to dig it might have been Cuomo.
Governor Cuomo was actually the first to dig out the uh uh uh Willie Horton ad, or the Willie Horton.
Uh I think Gore used it.
Gore also, by the way, uh accused uh right-wing conservatives, Ollie North supporters of being uh an extra chromosome crowd in a down syndrome.
And they they never make fun of people, folks.
So now this Harold Ford ad is worse than Willie Horton.
See, they never get over it.
You're not supposed to challenge these people.
You're not gonna.
You don't, you the liberals get away with whatever they want.
They are above it all.
They are immune from challenge, and when somebody does it, uh they launch both barrels.
And that's that's what has uh happened here.
One was this totally absurd.
Chris Matthews saying that the Democrats don't have the stomach to run dirty ads anymore.
Number nine.
Read a couple of years ago, somebody said it's not that the Democrats don't know how to make these ads.
They just feel they've gotten above it, that this is really bad stuff.
It's like they're like Michael Carlione.
They've gotten out of the business of running dirty ads.
It's the Democrats' attitude.
We're not gonna run that kind of campaign.
Is it?
The mentality?
I think they just don't have the stomach for it.
I can't believe when I listen to these liberals talk about themselves.
They don't have the stomach to run these kinds of ads.
They're running an ad now that purposely misrepresents stem cell research.
Embryonic stem cell research.
Uh they don't have the stomach for it.
No, they don't have the stomach for any of their mean-spiritedness or their extremism.
And so these guys are worried.
Oh no, man, we're not we're not in a dirty ad business anymore.
Is it gonna hurt us?
We just don't have the stomach for it.
My stomach's not able to take this much longer.
Back here in just a second.
Well, now I'm hearing that our guy uh uh Tom Caine Jr. does not support the amendment to ban gay marriage.
I thought he put out a statement yesterday saying he did, but but now I'm hearing he doesn't.
So which makes sense.
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