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Oct. 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, Jim Talent is up three or two points in three different polls in Missouri.
George Allen is up four or five points in Virginia.
And get this, Michael Steele and Cardin are tied in a blue state.
That is two to one Democrat registered voters.
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Here, here are the details of the Willie Horton ad because the Democrats out there saying, in unison now, this is a Democrat talking point that's going out that the RNC Harold Ford ad, it makes it it, it makes the Willie Horton ad look tame.
The Willie Horton ad was nothing but the truth.
Willie Horton was furloughed during a uh uh severe criminal sentence in Massachusetts by Governor Dukakis.
During the furlough, he ended up in Maryland.
While in Maryland, he stopped at a gas station.
He first raped a man's wife or girlfriend, I'm not sure which, then killed the man and stuffed his genitals in his mouth.
This on a furlough program.
This led to a commercial illustrating how Democrats are soft on crime.
It was absolutely true.
The Democrats were outraging this.
No, who would dare do this?
What they were astounded about was anybody would tell the truth about them.
And now the Harold Ford ad is being said to be worse than the Willie Horton ad.
Uh you have what standing by the Fort.
Here, let's listen to Ford ad.
Uh uh, by the way, Horton was black and the victims uh were white, and that's what the libs are upset about.
They thought it's racism.
They try to make that racism.
It's it's it's it's castigating all black people.
No, it was uh ad about the furlough program.
But because Horton was black and the victims were white, they immediately threw the race car, just as they are in the uh Harold Ford ad.
Here's the RNC ad that has been pulled on Harold Ford.
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.
Okay, Harold call me.
That's that's what really got it.
Plus, uh, yeah, I was partying with Harold there at a Playboy thing or whatever.
That was a blon white woman.
Ah, you just you can't do that.
That's uh that's stepping over the uh the racial uh boundaries.
That's that's that's the old Southern strategy.
I want you I want you to hear Chris Matthews some hardball last night, um, talking about the Ford ad and Tennessee citizens.
And what this does is illustrate for all of us what the average elitist liberal thinks about the average Southerner.
You're in a regular bar in uh Tennessee.
Some bar a road show, right along the road, one of these old roadhouses, and it's about midnight on Friday night.
And everybody's had a few beers, right?
Smoking cigarettes or whatever, they're having a good time, and that ad comes on.
What do you think the reaction is to people who are not ad?
Black or white audience, both.
What do you think the reaction is going to be?
Now note what Tennesseans are doing on a Friday night.
They're smoking cigarettes, drinking bar on a roadside tavern.
And they're watching television.
And the ad the ad comes on.
And Matthews wants to know what they're that is racism.
What you just heard is racism.
He has just created a picture that isn't true and then wants people to speculate on racist reactions by these drunken cigarettes smoking hayseeds on a roadside tavern at midnight on a Friday.
Yeah, Chris, you know what's really going on in there?
They're cleaning their guns.
They're getting ready to go out and shoot zebras.
They're cleaning the guns, they're shooting pool.
Probably an illegal card game or two going on in the back room.
Little Texas hold them going on.
Maybe even some moonshine in there, Chris.
So You know that's what NASCAR is, Chris.
NASCAR got started by the moonshiners, drowned out, run the revenors.
And so uh so NASCAR, and then these Tennessee guys, they're probably they're probably just getting stoked up for the next NASCAR race the next day, Chris.
They're probably not even going to notice this stupid ad at midnight on a Friday in a roadside tavern while smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, drinking moonshine, playing cards, and getting ready to load their guns to shoot zebras.
In the meantime, Washington Times today, local black Democrat leaders will not attack Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele in his U.S. Senate race, even as they campaign and appear in ads for his opponent, Benjamin Carden, fellow Democrat.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the uh district's non-voting congressional representative, said, I think it's a tactical decision.
If Mr. Steele has a large or fairly large black vote, why or how could you alienate that vote by going after him by doing personal attacks?
There's just no way.
Well, excuse me.
Um basically what we have here, oh, and there's a quote from Kwaisi Imfume, who Cardin defeated in the primary, qua Izzy Imfume Black, uh former head of the NAA LCP congressman from uh Maryland named Frizzell Gray,
Mr. Infume, who Mr. Cardin defeated in last month's primary, has made only one appearance in support of Cardin, during which he noted the lack of diversity in the state party's ticket by saying the Maryland State Party ticket looks like the Democrat ticket for the state office in 1956.
Well, he's saying we haven't progressed here.
I'm not on the ballot.
The problem is there's a black guy on the ballot, but that doesn't count because he's a Republican black guy.
The only way Maryland would be advanced is if there's a Democrat black guy on the ticket to run against the Republican black guy.
Let me give you the real story about all this.
Ford ad and all this other stuff.
Harold Ford's an African American running for the Senate in Virginia.
A Tennessee, sorry.
Uh Michael Steele is an African running for the Senate in Maryland.
Harold Ford Jr. is a liberal.
Michael Steele is uh probably more conservative than not.
Now the media action line here is stunning and it's revealing.
If Harold Ford loses, it'll be because of race.
Michael Steele loses race, we'll have nothing to do with it.
Race will have not been a factor.
Drive by Media Crowd outraged at the Ford spoof ad.
The drive-by media crowd was not outraged when Chuck Schumer's Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee basically stole his identity.
Identity theft, got his credit report, social security number, and all that.
No, they've they weren't upset about this at all.
Drive by media wasn't even interested in it.
But the spoof ad on Harold Ford, a liberal, that makes the front page of the New York Times.
The treachery against Michael Steele.
I don't know if it even got reported in the New York Times.
The Ford ad, according to the media, is stirring a furor.
The attempt to uh well, the successful attempt to steal credit information from Michael Steele created a yawn.
The Harold Ford ad is being used to tar the Republican National Committee.
The Michael Steele incident didn't even touch Chucky Schumer.
So if uh if Ford loses, I guarantee you have racism, Republicans do the race card.
If Michael Steele loses, or if Ken Blackwell in Ohio loses, or if Lynn Swan loses in the governor's race in Pennsylvania, nobody will say it was because they were black.
In fact, there were Democrats that were throwing Oreo cookies at Michael Steele when he made public appearances.
Democrats weren't upset at that.
No, no, we're throwing Oreo cookies.
He's uh black on the outside.
White on the inside.
Clearly a race-driven attack, ladies and gentlemen.
You're gonna throw Oreos, at least toss in some milk.
Back in a second.
And we're back.
People have been patiently waiting on the phone, so let's head back.
Joseph in San Antonio, thank you for your patience and welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, sir.
Um I was considering the Michael J. Fox uh commercial, and he's absolutely exploiting this uh by the virtue of it was not live, it was taped.
Um I spent twenty two years in the Air Force, ten of which was with the FRTS.
And even at that low level of broadcasting, we did take and retakes, and if somebody's not in frame or something, we we still did it over.
This is exactly uh the same thing as if Ted Turner were to get drunk to show the effects of alcoholism.
Uh so your point is they wanted it to look that way.
Absolutely they did.
Otherwise, because it's tape.
It's a film commercial tapekemer.
They wanted it.
If they didn't want it to look that way, they would have reshot it.
Yes, sir.
That's actually a brilliant point.
Thank you.
That's actually a point I've made on previous occasions about different things in this program years ago.
Uh hard for me to remember everything I say.
There's been so much.
But that's actually it was probably your idea that I put.
Well, there's no question about that now that you mention it, but uh, but that's that's exactly right.
In fact, you know, um Joseph, uh the the let since you've you you've mentioned that let me tell you people something about how these political campaign ads are put together.
They don't just happen.
Like Claire McCaskill is saying that she was minding her own busy uh business one day, trying to figure out how to destroy Jim Talent when phone rang.
And on the other end was uh either Michael J. Fox or his uh foundation offering to help.
And Claire said, Well, hey, get on in here.
And they sat down, put together an ad.
Just it happened spontaneously like folks.
This ads running in Maryland's gonna run in Virginia, it's running in Wisconsin.
This is a planned late stages of the campaign tactic.
There's no question about it.
Uh these are not ads by some nonprofit health-related organization.
They are ads paid for by the Democrat campaigns of the various senators for whom these ads are running.
These ads are scripted by Democrat campaigns.
Democrat campaigns hire the directors, hire the producers, hire the writers.
Democrat campaigns determine who will be in the ad.
They determine the music in the ad scenery, all of that.
And they worked with Michael J. Fox on deciding how they wanted him to appear.
And this Joseph is exactly right.
They wanted it to appear this way.
That's okay.
You know, I want to stress this.
They wanted it to appear this way, but I did uh the the idea that you're fooled by it is what bothers me.
They they can do whatever they want.
It's a political ad, open season, free speech, blah, blah, blah.
Do what you want.
But what I don't want you to do is be fooled by it.
The uh then there's a reason for the ad appearing as it does when you combine the appearance with the text of the ad, and that is that the Republican sanatorial candidates just don't care about curing diseases enough to expand research.
They it expand research that shows no promise.
On any disease, they have no desire to expand, and so they want people to stay sick, and they don't want there to be cures.
That's the message of the ad, coupled with a very powerful visual.
Wanted it to look that way.
And then, of course, you got these slavish, lazy, small-minded Democrats who are out there watching all this, and they buy it hook line and sinker.
They believe everything they see on television.
A lot of people do, sadly.
And uh they think that's the natural condition.
Just walked in, shot spot, that's how it happened, have no concept because they want to believe it.
Uh and so they this they set this up, and they just intended this to be, you know, get in, get them and get out little ads and uh in individual states and individual markets in these states.
And uh now it's been elevated nationally, and they claim to be happy about it, but um such is uh not the case in truth.
Westchester County in New York, Chris, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
And because time is short and precious, and I'd rather listen to your pearls of wisdom.
I'll just have to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything that you've always done and continue doing.
Well, you're very kind.
I appreciate that.
I uh I said earlier in the program a lot of people, I'm I get Rush, doesn't this bother you?
How are you dealing with it?
These people are lying about you on TV.
They're saying the most despicable things and uh uh I look, I'm sound like a broken record, and I uh but I'm gonna say it one more time.
I expect this.
I know who I am versus these people, and I know why they don't like me, and they shouldn't like me.
I'm proud they're my enemies.
You're known by the enemies you keep.
And uh uh what gets me through it is two things.
I don't watch it.
Uh doesn't I uh pay no attention to it.
Number two, I know that people like you are out there.
Um and you know the truth.
Well be out there voting.
Well, what if but let me let me give you uh uh a little insight into rehab 101 when I was away.
One of the things that they drilled into me was that you gotta be careful uh trying to control things you can't control because you're gonna go nuts.
And too many people try to do that.
Uh they try to control all kinds of people and situations that they can't, and when you fail, it just disappoints you, lets you down.
It it's a it's it's a it's a true downer, and it's something that you have to get past.
And one of the ways of dealing with this uh is truth.
When you, and let me just talk about you, Rick.
Let's say that uh in a hypothetical situation, you've got some people around you, uh in your family, your friends, business associates, who are out there lying their teeth uh through their teeth about you.
And you know it's not true.
And your family knows it's not true, and a number of other people know it's not true.
That's enough.
You ignore it.
It isn't true, and you take solace and comfort in the fact that you know what the truth is.
Well, uh that that is something that uh I put into practice every day.
I know what I'm being told that's being shown on television is not true.
I can go nuts here trying to figure out how to stop it or fix it or correct it, but that's not gonna happen.
It's been going on for too many days.
All I can do is continue to be who I am, know what the truth is, stand for it, proclaim it or what have you, and the fact that I've got twenty million of you people out there who know the truth.
Then I can't tell you how comforting that is.
And and and how reassuring it is, how stabilizing it is.
Uh you couple that with just my knowledge of of the of the territory and eighteen years of experience, uh guided by intelligence, and there are all kinds of ways to deal with it, uh such as other aspects of life as well.
I mean So anyway, I I've taken a lot more time than uh you probably intended, so go ahead.
What was it you called about?
Can't possibly be as interesting as what I just said, but go ahead.
Well, we need your truth, and and we need the truth to to show the the opposites and extremes.
And here's one of them.
Uh about a month ago, running for about two or three weeks was a Michael J. Fox commercial.
It was a commercial for Parkinson's.
And how they do, I guess, the the skit or s uh stick that they use is Michael J. Fox starts talking about Parkinson's, and all of a sudden he says it makes you go out of control, and the camera goes a little out of focus.
And then he says, sometimes Parkinson's makes you also lose things out of control, and all of a sudden the screen gets a lot of interference.
Now he does this type of camera trick as he's talking, but all the while he's talking perfectly normal, like you would be sitting down across from me at a table somewhere in front of a camera.
Then I'm listening religiously to my rush, and I hear here's a commercial where he's being a little spastic out of control because of his Parkinson's.
He's and not in control of his hands and his body, and I'm saying, wait, I had just seen Michael Fox promoting Parkinson's in a totally normal manner, but using a television type device to do it.
I said, which is the truth.
Is he totally spastic, the poor guy, and my heart bleeds for him, and these Republicans are trying to, you know, make him not walk like Christopher Reeves, or is he now perfectly cured, but he just wants to show us the effects of Parkinson's and how to do that.
I haven't you know I I I haven't I haven't seen the ad you're talking about.
Um you're it sounds like you're saying that camera movements were used to uh uh replicate tremors.
I have I I didn't see that, and I and I don't um I don't have any have any knowledge of it.
All look, here's here's the the the point, and I tried to make this in the first hour.
The point is the substance of that ad, a point I also made on Monday, but that nobody bothered to pick up on.
And the point is now the drive-by media is supporting the misrepresentations in this ad for the purposes of defeating Republicans, and then because there's a victim of something in the ad, we're not allowed to say any of this.
We're not allowed because it's it's cruel.
And I'm I'm uh uh trying to keep the focus on the tactic and the substance of the ad uh rather than Mr. Fox.
Uh been there done that back in just a second.
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Look.
I don't want to be redundant.
I don't want to go through the uh highlights of the monologue in the first hour, powerful though it was.
It will be on the website when we update for content uh change today, late this afternoon, uh www.rushlimbaugh.com.
But the um the focus here is the media of the Democratic Party, not Michael J. Fox.
I mean, that's that's been explored.
Uh people think what they think about it.
Uh the lies and distortions about me and what I've said are all over, and I addressed those in the first hour of the program today.
The real point here is the substance of this ad on this issue of embryonic stem cell research.
And you can boil the essence of this ad down to one thing.
Democrats are lying to sick people about cures for what ails them.
It really is that simple.
This ad lies to people who suffer from Parkinson's or other diseases like Alzheimer's, people who've been told that the magical cure lies in embryonic stem cell research.
There is zip zero nada success in any research project on any disease, embryonic stem cells.
None.
Lots of progress on adult stem cells.
They want embryonic stem cell research because they want federal funding.
They want your tax dollars, the researchers do, and others.
There's also the abortion component in this.
But the bottom line is the very people that Chris Matthews says do not know anymore how to run a dirty ad, who haven't the stomach for a dirty ad.
These people are running Michael J. Fox commercials which say Republicans have no interest in curing sick people.
The ads also say that uh though they lie.
The ads say that there are cures for sick people, and that Democrats are for them.
And Republicans aren't.
And it's the height of cruelty, ladies and gentlemen.
Height of cruelty to deliver false hope in a misleading commercial that doesn't look like a political ad, or rather, looks like a public service announcement done by some partisan charity, which misleads people about the false hope of the disease they suffer.
Yeah, there's a cure out there, but you gotta beat Jim Talent to get that cure.
Yeah, there's a cure out there for what you have, but you gotta beat Michael Steele to get that cure.
Yeah, there's a cure out there, but you gotta beat George Allen to find that cure.
You sick people, you suffering from incurable disease, there is a cure out there.
We Democrats can get it for you, but Jim Talent won't.
Now I don't know how that how an ad can be any dirtier.
Doesn't look dirty.
Doesn't look dirty.
It looks like an innocent PSA, looks like it's run by a nonpartisan group.
It looks like it's, you know, Michael J. Fox, as far as most people know, a nonpartisan guy is sick.
Look at him in the ad, and he just wants to be cured too.
But Jim Talant doesn't want him to be cured.
Michael Steele doesn't want him to be cured.
George Allen doesn't want him to be cured.
No Republican wants him to be cured.
Because Republicans aren't for a cure.
No, in fact, Republicans, this ad says, want to criminalize the people that are going to try to find a cure.
They're gonna make criminals out of people try to find a cure for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Yes, and st and and spinal paralysis.
You tell me that's not a dirty ad.
You tell me Democrats don't know how to do dirty ads, and you tell me that the drive-by media doesn't know how to carry the water for dirty ads run by Democrats.
Where are the experts analyzing the substance of the ad.
Can't go find them.
I got all kinds of experts on TV talking about what a reprobate I am.
But I don't have anybody out there.
I don't see anybody analyzing the substance of the ad.
I'd like them to go get somebody with experience in stem cell research.
And I would like them to um analyze the ad.
I I want them to find an expert who says, yep, if Jen Talent's defeated, we're going to get a cure for stem cell research.
Yep.
If Jim Talent's defeated, why people that uh have spinal paralysis are gonna walk again.
Yep, if Jim Talant loses, if he's defeated, why Alzheimer's patients are gonna get cured.
That's what they're saying.
That's the thrust.
That's what everybody needs to take away from this.
Uh and of course the libs don't want that.
Democrats don't want that kind of analysis, so they are more than happy to have this be an argument among personalities.
Look at all these stories the last three days.
Look at the number of stories and the amount of TV time on me.
Not the substance of the issue.
Not that the substance of the issues is what mattered to people.
Apparently, here the only thing that matters is that another Democrat victim is allowed to go on television being portrayed as nonpartisan, can say whatever he wants, and nobody is allowed to challenge it.
And if anybody does, that person's gonna get smeared.
Meanwhile, we don't get any expert analysis of the substance or content of the ad.
Rick, Richmond, Virginia, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
The uh conservatives who call in whining that your consumer there's only been there's only been one.
Well, on on this particular issue, but this has happened in the past.
And it's saying that, you know, you're gonna make them mad, you're gonna make them more Democratic voters.
It's just like the Libs saying we shouldn't confront terrorists, we shouldn't kill them, we're just gonna create more terrorists.
Good point.
He's reacting to a call.
We had a guy from San Diego today, last hour named Gene, who uh uh was worried that that I am just creating excitement uh and energy among Democrats who might not have been excited in this election, and they can't wait to go out and vote against me now uh because of the Michael J. Fox flap.
And what you're saying is that's a typical Democrat trick.
Don't make Osama bin Laden, Matty might bomb us again.
Don't try to catch the neighborhood rapist, he might rape even more.
That's right.
And not only did Republicans not want to cure Michael J. Fox, it's probably Bush's environmental policies that made him sick in the first place.
Uh well, give it time.
That's my prediction.
Have a good day, Red.
All right, thanks a lot.
Gretchen in Long Beach, Mississippi.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Ross, how are you doing?
Fine, thank you.
Good.
Uh, listen, my comment is I got pretty fired up on the phone and we got disconnected before, but anyway, long story.
You know, Michael J. Fox is just the martyr uh in the church of mean Republicans for his Parkinson's.
I mean, God bless him, it's a horrible illness.
But the Pope was a senile moron with his Parkinson's.
The man who, you know, worked with Reagan to bring down the Berlin Wall, yada yada.
And and so now but Michael J. Fox is just this great humanitarian, and gosh, if only the mean Republicans would let him go.
But when the Pope was sitting out there with Parkinson's, he was a complete moron and see how idiot and go away, shut up, you don't know what you're talking about.
And it always comes back to abortion.
And if you are there's no question.
Do we lose her?
Oh man, she's on a roll and we lost her.
She's on a cell phone.
Oh, she's there.
Before, I'm back on my phone.
Oh, we brought up.
I hear you intermittently.
Okay.
We never know after the storm where the towers are or not.
You know, this kind of crud.
But um i it just it blows my mind.
Uh they just take whatever's convenient for them to use to make their point.
Well, you made that you're not looking not even two years ago.
You zeroed in on it.
It's all about abortion.
It's all it is.
And I I'm an I'm a nurse.
I can tell you they've been researching stem cells for twenty years, and the only promising, barely promising stuff is with adult stem cell research that they get from umbilical cords.
Nothing but bad stuff, if any stuff is coming out of embryonic stem cells.
I personally know somebody who went down to Mexico, Tabus Parkinson's treated in Mexico, injected this crud in his brain, and he he's totally confined and incapacitated now.
Whereas before, yes, he suffered.
Yes, he had to take a lot of medications, but he was functioning.
Will you go to a movie?
What they've done, they they have they have injected some embryonic stem cells uh uh as tests into rats, and they uh uh it it leads to tumor-like uh uh growths, uh and it's uh it there there's no progress.
But you know, you you said something interesting about the Pope.
I don't remember who said it, but uh the within the last year or two of the Pope's life, when uh you know, the Pope had a philosophy.
Uh uh he was devout, obviously, and he believed that uh his suffering was to be seen.
Uh he thought that was part of his mission.
And I'm sure he took medication for his Parkinson's, but it did not get rid of you all remember the Pope, uh his hands shaking, and uh it was very uncomfortable to watch.
And I do remember, I wish I could remember who it was more than just one person suggesting he come on, Pope quit.
Retire.
This is this is unseemly.
We don't need your senile.
How can we trust what's in your mind when we see your hand shaking this way?
It was brutal what some people in this country were saying about Pope uh John Paul II.
Uh he didn't care.
I mean, but but again, it was it was from people uh who are saying it is just you can't you can't be critical of people who are uh courageously and bravely exhibiting their symptoms so that we all can learn.
But when the Pope did it, uh retire, get off the public stage, don't subject us to your hand tremors and your slow speech.
It's uncomfortable, nobody wants to watch this, you're not able to spread the word of God in this condition.
He felt just the opposite.
Uh I just there there are all kinds of uh stories like this.
If we thought about them, researched them, we come up with the uh tremendous hypocrisy that uh that exists out.
She's right.
Pope is uh vicar of uh Christ.
That's I mean uh stands in the way of embryonic stem cell research.
Pope stands in the way of a lot of things.
And the Pope is evil, whoever the Pope is.
Uh this Pope was especially evil because he was so powerful and so strong and so charismatic, he was um uh so persuasive.
Uh had a huge flock, created more and more people in his flock uh throughout his papacy.
And that was a threat.
And I'll tell you who these people are.
Anyway, I got I'm up against it here on time, a quick timeout.
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Pop quiz staff on the other side of the glass in there.
What is if there is a message I want people to take away from today's program, what is that message?
Uh, this means I uh That's right, Snerdley got it.
Democrats are lying to sick people.
That is you know, brevity is the soul of wit, said my old friend William Shakespeare.
Democrats are lying to sick people.
It is cruel and it is mean and it is full of false hope, and it is a classic dirty ad.
Democrats, Claire McCaskill, Benjamin Cardin, what other ever Democrats run this ad about stem cell research, they are lying to sick people, and they say at the end of the ad they approve the message.
They approve lying to Americans who are sick.
In some cases, terminally so.
They are lying to sick people.
That's as dirty an ad as you can get.
Now, Los Angeles Times today.
Sort of a fascinating story.
I asked a question the other day of a friend of Williams.
Anybody seen Harry Reed lately?
Anybody seen Dingy Harry?
Dingy Harry's either gone underground or they've thrown him under the bus for a while.
Well, snerdly, we're in the last two weeks.
Where's Dingy Harry?
Well, I'm making plans for the Senate ticket.
I'm sure he's making plans for the Senate takeover, but he's not out there.
Why not?
And Pelosi, I'm another than the puff pieces.
There's a fascinating story here in the Los Angeles Times by Janet Hook called A Right Kind of Democrat.
With now listen to this paragraph, with so many conservative leaning candidates at the forefront of the Democrat effort.
Nancy Pelosi has at least for now stuck to a minimalist agenda that steers clear of grand liberal ambitions.
Instead, Democrat leaders are focusing, and almost all serious Democrat candidates are campaigning on a more limited six-point agenda that includes raising the minimum wage, repealing tax breaks for big all, restoring the college tuition tax.
By the way, why does nobody ever complain about the gouging of big university?
You've seen the latest on tuitions and every other cost at a major universe.
Nobody ever talks about the gouging at big university.
A bunch of liberals, of course not.
Nobody ever talks about obscene profits at big university.
At any rate, the point of this story in the LA Times is that there are so many conservative Democrats out there that the Democrats Pelosi has to lie low with the true liberal agenda.
An influx of new blood from the party's right wing, Democrat Party's right wing could test party leaders' ability to maintain the remarkable unity they have forged during their years in the minority.
Remarkable unity.
So Pelosi is sitting on her liberalism so that Heath Schuler doesn't seem out of step with the Democrats.
Heath Schumer running, what is it, uh North Carolina?
It's one of the Carolinas.
Heath Schuler is running, and there are at least ten from what I'm told, very conservative Democrats running for the House.
So Nancy Pelosi has to bury the liberalism so as not to hurt these guys.
Uh they have to bury the liberalism anyway.
But this is uh this still fascinating.
And one more.
Well, what did I do with it?
I just had it right here.
Now time all.
Here it is.
This is uh from the uh San Francisco Chronicle.
Germans feel the clutch of terrorist threat.
Sixty-one percent surveyed believe exoti Islamic extremists are targeting their nation.
Well, how can this be?
I don't understand.
Germany didn't join us.
They were not on our coalition in the uh war in Iraq.
This this can't possibly be.
The terrorists are nice people.
If we leave them alone, they will leave us alone.
If we just talk to them.
By the way, have you heard about that theory that Democrats, somebody we gotta talk to the enemy?
Let me call I'm gonna make a phone call here real quick, folks.
Hello, CNN.
Could I have could I have uh whoever's in the control room?
I knew the number in advance.
I'm not putting the call on the air, don't worry about it.
Uh yeah, hi, uh, Rush Limbaugh.
Um I need Osama Bin Laden's phone number.
Well, I mean, no, no, no.
I mean why okay, how about Zawahiri?
Okay, how about how about the phone number for the guy in Iraq, the Al-Qaeda guy in Iraq?
I mean, oh, come on, you guys are you're you're you're getting video from these people.
I want to reach out to them.
I I see the story in the news about Germany, 61% of Germans.
They didn't go to war, and they feel threatened by Islamo fascists.
And I I you know, I I just want to talk to terrorists and tell them we mean them no harm.
And you guys know how to reach them.
Yes, you do.
Young up on Quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
Be right back.
Stay with us.
One more time.
The lesson from today's program is Democrats are lying to sick people.
In this ad about stem cell research.
And it is mean and cruel what they're doing, and uh see you tomorrow, folks.
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