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Oct. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists.
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It's Friday, and you know what that means.
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All right, Ben uh Ben Carden and Michael Steele.
Michael Steele is running a new ad in Maryland.
Uh as uh as uh one of the uh posters at the Power Line blog reports today.
I'm pretty confident Michael Steele's gonna beat Ben Carden in Maryland Senate race in part because Carden keeps shooting himself in the foot.
He's now running one of those disgraceful Michael J. Fox embryonic stem cell research ads, which misrepresents Steele's position on the issue as well as President Bush's.
Now we don't have the audio of Steele's ad, but I've got the text.
Here is a uh here's the response ad to the Michael J. Fox ad.
Steele opens by saying, I'm Michael Steele, and I approve this message.
Next voice, I'm Dr. Monica Turner.
Congressman Ben Carden is attacking Michael Steele with deceptive, tasteless ads.
It's the Fox ad.
He is using the victim of a terrible disease to frighten people, all for his own political gain.
Mr. Carden should be ashamed.
There's something you should know about Michael Steele.
He does support stem cell research, and he cares deeply for those who suffer from the disease.
How do I know?
I'm Michael Steele's little sister.
I have MS. And I know he cares about me.
In the meantime, Cardin has voted against stem cell research.
And Fox and uh Carden are running ads, nevertheless, for Carden.
Now, last night, uh Michael J. Fox appeared with Katie Kurick on the CBS Evening News.
Uh Katie sent me an email prior to the uh interview with Mr. Fox and asked for some things from me that stipulate my positions on this.
I sent her five or six paragraphs.
Uh she used one line from the five or six paragraphs.
She did not tell me that she was going to use the video that everybody else is using in a distorted manner, in a misrepresentative manner, to make it look like I'm mocking or making fun of Michael J. Fox.
As I explained yesterday, that's not the case.
We've sent the transcript out, by the way, to George Stephanopoulos and Chris Wallace, because they're both doing shows on Sunday.
I'm going to be out of town this weekend.
They asked me to appear.
Can't, don't want to, wouldn't do it anyway, but it did send uh the transcript of yesterday's program explaining uh uh all of this uh as I explained it to you yesterday.
Uh the Katie did not in her email tell me she was going to use that video from the Ditto Cam that uh you've seen all over the drive-by media, uh, which attempts to with the commentary that they attached to it distorts uh what I was doing here on the program.
As I have mentioned, I just finished watching the ad, never seen Mr. Fox that way.
I was shaken and stunned.
Uh I have a camera here, and I was describing it for people.
This is radio.
Many of us on radio act out, as you know, I'm a mimic anyway.
Uh, and I was trying to illustrate what I had seen, not in a mocking way, but an informative uh way for people who were watching the program and hundreds of thousands of do each day on the Ditto Cam.
By the way, welcome to those of you who are.
So the purposeful and willingful uh distortion of this continues, which we addressed yesterday.
It's totally understandable to me why it's being done.
Uh Even today, they continue to talk about me, not the substance of the issue.
Now I only want to comment on two things that Michael J. Fox said in his uh interview with Katie Courick yesterday.
And I I'm gonna tell you right now that both of these are responses, and it's not because of anything Katie posited to him.
She only asked him or didn't even ask him to reside.
She put up the statement that I had made that uh I resent the notion that Democrats can put forth victims of um uh whatever disease or circumstance uh because they think they're immune from any criticism, even in the political arena.
Uh that was the and I said her quite a lot to explain my position on it.
Uh in fact, uh I'll tell you what, uh uh uh Coco is gone today.
He's he's uh he's taken a day off from the website, but Dean's a bit Dean, go ahead and post that.
As I sent the email up to the website yesterday.
What do you what do you look at, Snurley?
Um she asked for this day off uh back in uh February for some reason.
Uh uh and I go ahead.
I'm great to work for.
Well, what do you want me to say?
No, you can't leave.
I can't do the show without you.
Is that what you people want to hear?
No, you can't leave.
I can't do the show.
No, if you need a day off, take a day off.
I do.
Uh now and then, yes, I know I'm the boss.
It helps, but it doesn't mean much sometimes.
Anyway, Dean, go ahead and post what I sent to Katie Courick since uh since that interview is uh is being uh with Michael J. Fox is being again reported in the way it's being reported is typical of the way this whole story has come down.
But the two things that he said here that I have to respond to uh because they are direct responses to the criticism of the substance of the ad.
He said that he appeared in the ad only to advance his cause.
Disease is a nonpartisan problem that requires a bipartisan solution.
Well, excuse me, I'm the one who said that earlier this week.
He has not said it in this ad of his or these ads.
In fact, one of the things I said that distressed me about this whole ad campaign was the fact that that curing disease has traditionally been a bipartisan effort in this country, curing cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, any number of things.
Now we're politicizing diseases, first with Christopher Reeve, uh then with uh with with others and Alzheimer's, and and now we're we're politicizing Parkinson's disease.
Uh it is traditionally been bipartisan, but nothing Mr. Fox is doing is bipartisan.
I mean, I I I watched I was I was sort of stunned to hear this.
And then he said, you know, I don't really care about politics.
Uh disease is a nonpartisan problem, requires a bipartisan solution, as he's only doing commercials for Democrats.
In fact, one of the Democrats, Ben Cardin in Maryland, has opposed what uh Michael J. Fox is for.
And then I don't really care about politics.
Campaigned for John Carey.
He campaigned for Arlen Specter.
I mean, this is this is this is difficult to believe.
But then the corker, after saying that he didn't really care about politics, he said, we want to appeal to voters to elect the people that are gonna give us a margin so we can't be vetoed again.
So after saying that he's not interested in politics and that he wants bipartisanship, he then ends up by saying he needs a margin for his side that are going to give them a veto-proof margin so that their bills can't it it's it this is disingenuous as it can be.
It's it's not honest.
And that is the for the for the last three days of this has been the focus that most people have not put up.
We've tried to here, focusing on the substance of the content of this ad or these ads and the issue of involving these ads.
Uh so I uh uh Katie didn't ask anything about bipartisanship, he just volunteered that.
Uh I don't know of anybody this week other than I don't listen to everybody, but I don't know of anybody else who was talking about the tradition of of of tackling killer diseases uh in a bipartisan manner.
That's the way we've always done it in this country.
It's sort of like uh politics used to end at the water's edge, foreign policy and war.
That's out the window now.
And now we're gonna politicize disease.
And the bottom line is that the message of the Democratic Party is that Republicans will keep you sick.
Or you can put it another way.
What was the theme of yesterday's program, Mr. Snodley?
Little pop quiz.
That's Democrats lie to sick people.
Democrats cruelly lie to sick people.
They create false hope.
They are telling in this ad, voters are being told that Michael Steele and Jim Tallant oppose medical research that will lead to the cure for diseases.
That is unconscionable.
That stinks.
That is a dirty ad.
And that's why uh more and more people are beginning to carry characterize the ads of Mr. Fox as disgraceful because of the content and because of the substance.
All right, a brief time out.
Uh Dean, let me know when you get that posted up there on the website, the um the thing I sent Katie Currick at her request.
So for people who either saw this interview on CBS or are reading about it.
By the way, she didn't promise to use it all.
I dunno misunderstand.
She just she asked me if she could quote from some of it.
She ended up taking one thing that I said.
I just want you to know what I sent her that didn't make it.
I want you to know what I sent her and what of it she chose to use.
Because that's important in understanding how the drives by media works as well.
Back in just a second.
Hey, continue to write.
You know, yesterday was Tennessee.
Yesterday it was uh uh what a Tennessee and Virginia that uh the Democrats need the rural vote.
Tennessee, Virginia, and what was the other state?
It was an LA Times story, Tennessee, Virginia.
Uh one of the they need the rural vote, and that of course is the hick vote.
And was it Missouri?
Okay, they're saying it about Claire McCaskill now.
She needs the rural vote, she needs the uh the hick vote.
Uh in addition, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to all that, there are stories.
What did I do with them?
I've got them here.
I know yes, yes.
Um when I see stories like this, I wonder about the conventional wisdom that Democrats are gonna sweep to victory.
This is from uh, let's see, a couple days ago, St. Louis.
Hundreds of bogus address changes have surfaced near St. Louis, and the election board is warning voters to make sure they get a polling place notification card.
If the card doesn't show up, the voter's address may have been fraudulently changed, the county elections director said.
The uh the bogus address changes are among fraudulent voter registration cards turning up in St. Louis County within the past couple of months, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The bogus registrations included at least one dead person.
Uh and uh the in fact the post dispatch story is dated October 11th.
Suspect voter registration cards found in St. Louis.
Uh there are a number of stories like this.
Um, for example, well, a blogger today wonders this.
If the Democrats are gonna sweep into power on November 7th, why are a majority of Democrats in hotly contested House and Senate races rejecting a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq?
Why are they not taking the standard Democrat position?
Why is it that Democrats won't debate their opponents?
You know, Cardin walked out of a debate, didn't show up at a debate with Michael Steele in Maryland.
The Washington Post has this story, Washington Times too.
This is about uh uh uh something to do with the NAA CP.
Bob Casey in Pennsylvania will not take a position on anything, ladies and gentlemen.
Um in fact, if the Democrats are gonna sweep to power on November 7th, why are there hotly contested House and Senate races involving Democrats?
Why is there such a thing as a hotly contested race involving a Democrat if they are going to sweep to power?
Here's Jerry in Noonan, Georgia.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Uh Megadigos.
Thank you, sir.
Uh Damn calling.
I was listening to the Sunday talk shows, and I heard Senator Obama talk about bringing in Syria and Iran into the talks to help stabilize Iraq.
And I said, Well, this must be just a clueless liberal Democrat.
But then later on, I heard Senator Lugar say the same thing.
Are all senators getting clueless?
Uh no, they're panicking.
Lugar, I think, is panicking.
Uh, he's a Republican, he's not up, but he's he's a Republican, and Republicans are getting beat up on the war, and there's no strategy, and there's no plan, and Bush is inflexible, and we've got to do something.
And there's a there's a notion among elites, moderate Republican elites, liberal elites, that we can just solve all this by talking to the enemy.
If if we just go talk to them.
Now I made the point yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that in Germany, the uh and I'll get to Obama here in just a second, Jerry.
Germany has a new poll.
Sixty-one percent of German citizens fear Islamo fascism.
There is a creeping fear in Germany that Islamo fascism is sweeping the country.
Now, how can this be?
I asked yesterday.
Germany didn't go to Iraq, Germany wasn't part of the coalition, Germany a much they they opposed going to, they were with the French at the Security Council in the United Nations.
They were buying, I thought, some insurance.
I'm sure they thought they were buying insurance.
But the fact of life and human nature cannot be denied.
When you have terrorists or evil people who are bent on domination and control, they zero in on weakness.
And for uh for look at what's happening to France.
Every day there's ever story in France about youths rioting.
You can't find out that it's Muslim youths.
They won't write about it, but there are youth rioting, trying to relive the old days of last summer.
Uh Germany now has this fear, but it shouldn't happen because the Germans had no quarrel with Iraq, and they had no quarrel with militant Islam, and they didn't support the United States.
Why why Germany uh that they shouldn't be leaving Germany alone as a says of a sense of gratitude.
Sending in Spain.
Spain actually got rid of the government that joined the United States in the war on terror.
Uh because they've they uh elected this socialist government and they want to send a message to terrorists and leave us alone.
Uh terrorists have not left them alone.
Uh this is going to keep happening, and all these people are eventually going to become our allies at some point.
I don't know when.
As for Obama, uh, you have to understand what Obama is doing.
Obama's been in the Senate two years.
He thinks he's qualified now to run for the for the presidency.
He's seriously thinking about it.
Obama's tactic is the Bill Clinton tactic, Jerry.
Obama is attempting to position himself as neither a Republican or Democrat in his public statements.
If you look at his voting record, he's as liberal as any of them.
You know, that he he voted against John Roberts uh uh uh for the uh chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
There were only what, 23 or 24 Democrats who voted against him.
Uh Obama did this for two reasons.
That was a presidential candidacy vote.
That was a vote intended to be seen by Democrat base voters over the years as Obama is a loyal liberal.
Now he'll go out and he'll talk a good game.
Well, we need to change course.
We need to change what we are doing.
We need to work together with people.
We can't continue to look at everybody as an enemy.
And uh what we're doing now hasn't worked.
The Bush administration's giving it a good shot.
Their intentions here were in he said this, Jerry.
Uh the Bush administration's intentions where Iraq is concerned are very, very honorable, but we have to admit it hasn't worked.
There has to be a better way.
And uh hello, famous third way.
Obama standing above the fray, looking down at everybody else, praising them for their intentions, and then suggesting it's time for a new way.
And of course, his new way is we need to involve Iran and Syria.
And if we don't involve Iran and Syria, we're not gonna have peace.
Now your reaction to it, hell, these are the people stirring the place up.
These are the people causing the problems.
Iran is the source for many of the IEDs that are being sent in to Baghdad that are blowing up people.
It's It's patently absurd to talk to enemies.
Luger does this now and then.
Luger is Luger at the moderate, moderate Republican, and Republicans in Washington have a tendency to get panicky based on the uh conventional wisdom every day of the drive-by media back in just a second.
Let me give you another illustration of Barack Obama.
A peace story from yesterday.
Democrat Senator Barack Obama, a vocal defender of Senator Joe Lieberman earlier this year, is urging Connecticut voters to rally behind his rival, Ned Lament.
The Illinois Senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate sent an email message Thursday praising Lament.
He said Ned Lament has waged an impressive grassroots campaign to give the people of Connecticut a choice in the November Senate election.
Please join me, Barack Obama in supporting Ned Lament with your hard work on the ground in these closing weeks of the campaign.
Lament aides said that they welcome the support of Obama who's enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent weeks as spec What surge in popularity?
It's been a I guess we can't deny it is see is it is it a is it a surge of popularity or is it just media attention?
Is it media attack the time cover and other news media exposes that provide the impression that he is popular?
What is this new surge in popularity?
It's manufactured, folks.
It's manufactured by somebody.
It's manufactured by Barack Obama's people in consort with the drive-by media.
Makes you wonder why.
Now we're getting all kinds of stories, by the way, trickling out.
They're coming out from gay websites, but Hillary's changing her mind on gay marriage.
She's speaking to transgender gay and lesbian groups.
I have the story here in the stack of stuff.
Oh, she's for gay marriage.
She's for it.
She used to be against it.
Now she's for it.
I'll get to it in just a second.
But look at look at the way this is written here.
Lament aid said they welcome the support of Obama who has enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent weeks.
As speculation about his national ambitions mount.
Manufactured from the beginning to the end.
Obama has also given $5,000 to Lament's campaign through a political committee.
Ned Lament and I share a commitment to bringing our troops home safely from Iraq, to achieving energy independence, to helping all of our citizens realize the American dream and to empowering the American people to reclaim their government, Obama wrote.
But just last spring, Obama traveled to Connecticut to speak for Lieberman.
Now, what do you think goes on here?
This is another move that has to be assigned to his presidential aspirations.
As is this move uh of suggesting that uh we need John Roberts vote.
Now we need to talk with Iran and Syria.
Uh and now and now he's switching his support from Lieberman to uh Lament to be in line with the uh with the Democrat base.
There's no question uh what he is doing here.
Dan in Dover, Delaware.
Thanks for calling, sir.
Hey Rosh, how are you doing today?
Fine, fine and dandy, thank you.
Well, I'm fired up, so I'll get right to it.
You had a caller in the first hour that just kind of pushed one of my buttons.
This goes right along with what seems to be today's theme of uh truth versus fiction.
He was talking about how we should hate uh the Bush administration because how badly the war in Iraq is going.
And it's just it's it's another one of these examples of, you know, they lie, but they lie so overwhelmingly all the time that just people start accepting it.
We already won the war in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein is in jail.
There is no Iraqi army that's opposing us there.
Yes, uh, good point.
And I've made this point before when the Democrats start ridiculing Bush landing on the aircraft carrier.
Uh the invasion of Iraq was to depose the regime to cause regime change.
There's a lot of success in Iraq.
The what what what people would describe now as the insurgency effort, the you know, the the effort to make the peace, and that's why they're focusing at Rome so well, the afterplan screwed up.
But the the you what you have to remember is at every stage the Democrats changed their tune.
First they were going to war with us.
They were all for it.
They wanted a resolution, in fact.
They wanted to debate a new resolution so they could go on the record in October of 2002 saying we support this.
And then we start the war.
And Democrats don't like that, claiming victory too soon.
Makes Bush look good.
Then we don't find the weapons of mass destruction.
And the Democrats had demanded a resolution so they could debate it and make sure the American people knew they were all for it.
So we were lied to.
Bush lied, uh, this is a Bush lied, people died, and so they began to retreat from this.
Then they said the elections would never happen.
We can't do these elections.
There's not enough freedom in this country.
It's going to be a book.
Then when the elections happened, well that doesn't mean anything.
Uh this government's not gonna put a constitution together.
That's the next stage, and that won't happen.
At every stage they have said can't, won't work, what have you.
Now they're saying that the aftermath, the battle plan for the uh for the uh after the invasion was a total mistake.
Rums felt unqualified, disqualified, didn't have any knowledge of what we were going to face, ne nobody did.
Uh I just frankly I get sick of it.
And the idea that they don't seem to want to see anything positive about anything is one of the reasons why I have never had any real fear that they're gonna have this sweeping victory.
I don't know on what it's based.
Uh the it's just mind boggling.
I know human nature, and I know there's some unease in the country about the war, there always is when uh when you're at war.
But I tell you, folks, uh the aftermath didn't there was no plan for after the uh invasion took place and all this.
Rumsfeld has to go, Rice has to go, she's no good, Grove's gotta go, Rove needs to be uh indicted, Cheney needs to go, Bush needs to be impeached.
It's just a never-ending litany.
Uh and Dan here is making a uh uh what some would consider a a uh just a semantic point.
Yeah, but most people, Dan don't look at it that most people look at this as wait a minute, what do we do?
We're the United States of America.
What do you why can't we wrap this up?
This is a band of insurgents, just what what can't why can't we wrap this up?
Uh and that's where the frustration is in and telling them, well, we won the war, we deposed Saddam.
Hell, uh a lot of liberals are beginning to put forth the notion now that that was a mistake to take Saddam out.
That the Rock could have been much better off, we'd have left him in power.
Wouldn't have had all this killing, wouldn't have had all this loss of American life, wouldn't have had all this consternation in the country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They um they're constantly uh rewinding the tape and going back to some using uh uh hindsight, uh 2020 hindsight in order to criticize, never offering a plan themselves other than cut and run and get out.
John in Columbia, South Carolina, welcome, sir to open line Friday.
Uh hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Um the reason for my call was something different than I'm gonna say real quick about Bush and the ongoing thing and Iraq.
Simply put, how many I mean, for a minimal loss of life, Bush has managed to maintain us a mega base right in the middle of things there in the Middle East.
Also we have one in Afghanistan.
We don't need it to end right now, and I feel sure that there's probably some thermal nuclear devices somewhere on those bases.
But to my point about I'm sure you're sick of hearing about Michael J. Fox.
But not at all.
Some something that hit me the other day was I was listening to NPR, and uh they had a program on touting the patents that have been a uh applied for uh persons like the guy who did Dolly the Sheep, he's got a patent on the new humans and so forth, and they were very proud of themselves.
Then they followed up the program with a uh program with uh Iraq Obama or whatever, and uh he was on the gene research, talking about the gene research.
And it occurred to me sort of like the neutral suite thing and uh the trailer tape that the senators all have stock in the companies, and then they uh passed the law to get uh the proper things in motion.
What do you think?
Um I'm not sure I understand at all what you're saying.
Let me ask you a question.
Are you saying that the supporters of embryonic stem cell research are actually invested in it and stand to gain financially, and that's why they're pushing it?
I wouldn't be surprised.
All right, well, here's let me tell you about Missouri.
Let me let me tell you about Missouri.
There is uh a couple that alone has spent twenty-eight million dollars on advertising to get amendment two ratified and passed by the American by the by the uh citizens of Missouri, uh Missouri, uh, Missouri Missouri.
Twenty-eight million dollars.
Now, some people are wondering what twenty-eight million dollars by two people to get an amendment to the Constitution passed.
So there are people beginning to wonder, is is uh people have a financial interest in this.
I've always said follow the money, and you will get to uh many answers to many questions that uh that you ask.
And I think your point's a good one.
Look beneath the surface.
See, what it's just like the environmental movement.
The environmental movement wants us to believe that their only concern is us and the planet and cleanliness, anti-pollution, fresh water, plenty of animals, no extinct species, people living at one in happiness and in communion with each other,
when in fact everybody in the militant environmental movement is out there raising money left and right, flying around on their private planes, cutting down redwood trees for their backyard decks, uh, and they've got a financial stake in it.
Plus they're ideologues, they're anti-capitalist, uh, and they're using this uh environmental movement as an advancement of their anti-capitalist views.
When it comes to stem cell research and embryonic stem cell research, precisely because there is no evidence it works.
There's none, folks.
You can sit out there and have hope all day, and you can hope until the end of the world, and if there's no evidence, your hope is gonna be just that.
Uh it's sort of like I'll draw a parallel.
1984, watching this week with David Brinkley and all these global warming scientists are starting to fear mongering.
We only got twenty years.
We can't afford to wait.
We don't know if what we think is right, we're pretty sure, but we have only 20 years.
If we don't act in 20 years, it's all over.
We'll lose the ability to reverse the controls of the effects of of uh greenhouse gases and climate control.
Uh well, there never has been, I don't care what anybody says, convincing unassailable with empirical data proof that human beings are causing climate destruction.
I saw a story the other day.
Global warming will cause floods, famines, earthquakes.
Hell, folks, we have those anyway.
Don't we?
We have famines, we have earthquakes, we have floods, we have big thunderstorms, we have hurricanes when there's global warming or not.
Scare tactics.
I mean, you can't say that uh those are going to be the effects of global warming when they happen anyway.
Now we've got embryonic stem cells.
There's no evidence.
There's no evidence.
It's just I'll give you another analogy.
The October surprise, 1980.
Remember what that was?
Reagan supposedly sent George Bush and an SR-71 to Paris to talk to the Iranians.
Cut a deal.
Keep those hostages in there until after the election.
We'll make a deal with you let them out.
And that's exactly what happened when Reagan was elected, the Iranians let the hostages go.
There was no evidence.
A guy came out, a Columbia professor, Princeton professor, somebody, a guy named Gary Sick wrote a book.
He was all over television, confirming that Bush had been flown in a plane or whatever, gone over to Paris to meet the Iranian.
It wasn't true.
Tom Foley, Speaker of the House says.
Despite the fact there's no evidence.
The seriousness of the charge demands that we investigate.
So there was a long investigation.
Blue ribbon panel to find out there was an October surprise.
That's what's happening in embryonic stem cell research.
There is no evidence.
There's evidence that plenty that other attempts, other types of research and techniques are showing promise.
But no, no, no, we've got to focus on embryonic.
There's no evidence.
And yet, people are investing $28 million.
There's a reason for this, folks.
I'm a little long here, but I'm going to keep going.
There's a reason for this.
The argument with embryonic stem cells is over federal funding because there is no venture capital going into the movement.
Venture capital, meaning private investors, people like you and me with a lot of money who are looking, yeah, you know what?
That looks promising.
I want to get on a ground floor of embryonic stem cell research, and I will clean clocks.
I'll make so much there's none of that money going into it because nobody looks at it as anything other than a black hole.
But if you can get federal funding, if you can tug at people's heartstrings, and if you can say that Jim Tallant, and if you can say that Michael Steele don't want people to get cured, that only Claire McCaskill and Benjamin Cardin do.
If you want to tell people that the cure for disease resides totally in the election of Democrats, then you can do it.
And you can lie through your teeth, and you can mislead and you can cruelly misinform people, which is being done.
But there's no evidence, and yet it remains the big push.
So there's got to be some other thing involved here, and it's the it's the desire on the part of these people to get limitless.
Federal money.
Your tax dollars to be spent on a black hole.
Back in just a second.
All right.
As I said, I went long in that last segment.
This was going to be very short.
I apologize for that lousy programming uh decision making by me, but uh at least I can admit making it because I did it.
Drent, Northfield, Minnesota.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Uh Megadeth's Rush.
Um couple weeks ago, you uh had a spoof where you predicted that the Republicans would pick up 40 to 50 seats in the House.
And uh, as we know, sometimes when you make a spoof that comes true.
Uh I'm beginning to think that the Republicans have a sporting chance of picking up some seats in the House in the Senate.
Why do you think that?
Well, I'm looking at the Senate race in uh Minnesota.
Um, over the past month or two, the uh Star Tribune published some polls that uh showed Clobushark just cleaning Kennedy's clock.
And people would write in and challenge the uh the polls themselves and how they were conducted.
Um so I think the Republicans have a uh a shot at uh picking up at least that Senate seat.
I'm also looking at uh the House race in my district, and uh Colleen Rowley's running against the uh incumbent, uh uh John Klein.
And I look at uh the Star Tribune's endorsement, and all they can do is cite her passion.
No issues at all.
And you know, I've heard John Klein speak, and he's uh you know, very thoughtful, well spoken.
Uh I think he's done a great job.
And then I look at the uh Senate races, you know, Missouri, Tennessee, uh, Maryland, Virginia, and how the Republicans are gaining strength there.
Now, who knows?
I I think they got a sporting chance.
Well, you're uh it's it's look, it's it's gonna be up for grabs, and it's gonna be close.
Uh it is gonna be close, and we're not gonna know the day after the election who wins the House.
There's gonna be some close races.
They're gonna be uh recount demands, lawsuits, voter fraud allegations.
It's this this is gonna be an interesting election night.
This is gonna be one of the most fun election nights uh uh in in uh in quite a while.
But I I've always thought that the big blue wave of the liberal media, drive-by media democrats have been predicting is not gonna materialize, and they know it too.
Um there everybody's ratcheting down now.
New York Times, all of Twitter here over the New Jersey gay marriage ruling.
That is energized Republican candidates all over the place.
Oh no.
And then blacks, black voters seem to be not energized.
They're upset.
They don't think they're getting a fair shake in the polls anyway, so why show up?
And then this Michael J. Fox said, I don't care what the drive my media wants to say.
Uh this is focused attention on this whole issue of stem cell research and cloning that the Democrats were trying to hide.
And that is problematic for them as well.
Uh, one of my all-time favorite tunes, Bozkags, and a lowdown.
One hour to go on open line Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
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