Oct. 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| No, I'm not kidding you. | |
| I had I don't normally eat these things, but since they're going to get rid of trans fat soon, I went in there and tried to get a little dose of it. | |
| I had some French fries, and I swear they tasted like lipstick. | |
| And I saw Dawn eating some, too. | |
| So you ever had French fries that taste like lipstick? | |
| Greetings, my friends, and welcome. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, the big push. | |
| This is it, eight days away. | |
| We're here, full broadcast excellence, three hours straight ahead. | |
| And of course, all week long, the telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882. | |
| And the email address is rush at EIB net.com. | |
| I made a last-minute change of plans late last week. | |
| I uh uh I was invited to this year's uh annual Prostate Cancer Charity Golf Tournament and event at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, and I was uh at the first part of last week I wasn't gonna be able to go. | |
| Something else would come up. | |
| And uh uh Mike Milken and his wife Lori, and uh they're just great people said, no, look at come on out. | |
| You know, you have a good time. | |
| So went out there and and I got out there Friday night. | |
| I had a blast all weekend long, and it's uh you know what it's it's it's a tremendous charity. | |
| Mike Milken's done uh so much to raise uh consciousness and awareness on uh on prostate. | |
| What what what are you looking at, Snurk what what do you what what is the smirk or no? | |
| I was in Las Vegas. | |
| I was in Los I was I was I was in Las Vegas, yeah. | |
| Uh and uh it was just a just a I did I had a I had a tremendous time. | |
| In fact, I was I got there a little late Friday night because they have this big gala dinner that kicks everything off on Friday night, and it was in the in the Penske Wynne Ferrari dealership, which is in the win hotel. | |
| Uh and I was staying in an area of the hotel near the golf course, so it was a it was a trek. | |
| I mean, I needed meal money to get to the dealership where the where the dinner was. | |
| And I'm walking past the poker room uh as as uh I guess we're playing Texas Holdem in there, and about three people jumped up, three or four people jumped out of their table slots, came out to say hello to me. | |
| One guy had his iPod playing poker while listening to the podcast of this program on his iPod with his well it was um it was just a great weekend. | |
| I got back late last night, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Well, got no not too late, but uh had was up late doing show prep getting ready for the for the program today. | |
| But I wanted to thank the Milkins and uh and Stephen Elaine Wynn. | |
| They just it's it's I wish everybody could attend something that these people sponsor, because it was just top-notch all the way with tremendous people. | |
| Uh is anybody seen Nancy Pelosi? | |
| I think we need to put Oh! | |
| Oh! | |
| I forgot I met Harry Reed. | |
| Harry Reed was at the dinner on Friday night. | |
| Yeah, I hadn't seen Harry Reid uh you know in two weeks, and I haven't seen Nancy Pelosi. | |
| I'm wondering do we need to put out an amber alert for Nancy Pelosi? | |
| Where is she? | |
| Since the puff piece on 60 minutes, we haven't seen either of these people. | |
| Uh and uh and Milken said, would you would you like to meet Senator Reed? | |
| And I kind of I smiled and I said, Yeah. | |
| Yeah, would I would I would love to. | |
| So he walked me up, introduced me to Senator Reed, and uh had a two or three sentence conversation, asked if he was playing golf the next couple days, said no, no, he wasn't playing golf, and then he sauntered off to another area of the uh of the party, and I didn't see him again after that. | |
| Uh I didn't ask for the real estate tips. | |
| And I didn't ask him about the election. | |
| I just uh I was told No, no, there was no no no no no he was not there was not profanity uh laced uh sentences uh from anybody. | |
| I mean, you know, he was he was uh perfectly nice. | |
| I don't I I think he was a little surprised, but uh uh uh see me, but uh other than that, I mean no, it was it was totally civil. | |
| It was it was the way moderates dream of Washington life being. | |
| It was um it was entirely civil. | |
| No pictures. | |
| Not that I know of. | |
| I mean there were photographers snapping away all night, but I I don't know if there were any uh any uh pictures uh well I I did pose for a lot of pictures of people, but I don't think I paused for one with uh Senator Reed. | |
| Uh whether there were some candid shots taken, I know not. | |
| But at some point I'm sure I will uh I will find out. | |
| Now there's a reason, folks, why both of these people have have gone underground. | |
| You know, if you go back to 1994, I mean just just for comparison's sake. | |
| If you go back to 1994, Newton boys were everywhere in the final week leading up to the election. | |
| And it's not a big deal, but there is a reason for this. | |
| The LA Times had the story last week. | |
| The New York Times has it uh today. | |
| In key house races, Democrats run to the right. | |
| In their push to win back control of the House, Democrats have turned to conservative and moderate candidates who fit the profiles of their districts more closely than the profile of the National Party. | |
| One such candidate, Heath Schuler, courted by Republicans to run for orifice in 2001. | |
| Mr. Schuler, 34 retired NFL quarterback running in the 11th district in uh in North Carolina. | |
| Now, if this crop of moderate and conservative Democrats arrived on Capitol Hill as members of a Democrat majority, they wouldn't have much power individually to change the face of Congress. | |
| An argument that's been used against Mr. Schuler by the incumbent Charles Taylor, who's chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee. | |
| So here's here's the and by the way, if you look carefully at Jim Webb, James Webb, the um if you noticed by the the Washington Post has the as the funniest story, it's just unseemly. | |
| It's unseemly for George Allen to go into his novels and to select uh uh phrases and passages. | |
| Let me tell folks, it is obvious to me that this web guy has issues. | |
| I mean, it's it's it's it's obvious. | |
| But I t I don't I don't remember the let's see, the Washington Post or the uh uh Brian uh Ross uh of ABC News. | |
| I don't recall them having any any problems whatsoever publishing verbatim excerpts of the Mark Foley instant messages or the Mark Foley emails. | |
| But now all of a sudden we are to condemn the George Allen campaign uh for what it is doing uh vis-a-vis the novels written by Jim Webb, uh as story in the Washington Post uh about this Washington Nets somewhere else. | |
| Find us here in the stack someplace. | |
| Uh that that really Webb is is as conservative as you can get, except for one issue, the war. | |
| Now, the bottom line here is is that and this is politics, it's okay. | |
| I'm just spelling out the uh uh modus operandi for you. | |
| The Democrats will do whatever it takes to win. | |
| I think there's something like ten of these House Democrat candidates who are very, very conservative. | |
| And if they win, you know, this is why Pelosi's been quiet. | |
| She doesn't want to go out with an agenda, neither does Dingy Harry, they don't want to go out of an agenda that's bellowed through bullhorns uh because it would embarrass these guys, and they'll they'll deal with these guys after they win. | |
| I'll tell you how it'll happen. | |
| And uh Luis Gutierrez admitted this, he's a congressman from Chicago. | |
| What'll happen is these guys will be brought in, because there's party discipline on the Democrat side. | |
| These guys, if they win, they'll be brought into the Speaker's office and they'll have their rights read to them, and they'll have their future spelled out for them. | |
| And they'll be told, okay, look, you're here. | |
| You're you're you're just one of our majority, and you are worthless unless you vote with us. | |
| Unless you vote party line, unless you go the way we want you to go, you're not going to be here a second term. | |
| You're not going to get any campaign money outside your district, you're not going to get any help from us, and that's how they'll be brought into line. | |
| Right now, they will do whatever they have to to uh win. | |
| Jim Webb, same thing. | |
| They don't care. | |
| His one issue, and even the Democrats that are supporting him don't care that he is uh socially conservative or conservative in a number of ways. | |
| All they care about is that he is anti-war. | |
| And that that's that seems to be the big issue that the Democrats uh are going to hinge their bets on uh uh or hedge their bets on the whole week. | |
| Everybody waiting for the next Osama bin Laden tape. | |
| He seems to have a desire to impact Democrat elections or American elections in the final days, as happened in uh in 2004. | |
| So we got Lynn Cheney who and I watched this on the airplane flying out to Las Vegas. | |
| Lynn Cheney laid in to Wolf Blitzer on CNN Friday afternoon. | |
| They sandbagged her. | |
| She's got a new book out. | |
| They brought her in. | |
| And Wolf Blitzer is reading off Democrat talking points, literal Democrat Party talking points. | |
| And she's asking, answering questions about why did she write lesbian love scenes in the book and so forth? | |
| Let's draw a distinction here. | |
| There's a big difference in writing about genuine love scenes in a book and writing perverted incestual stories as Webb has done in uh in his books. | |
| Uh and yet they tried to diminish what Webb had done by jumping all over Lynn Cheney, and she wasn't having any of it. | |
| Uh we have the audio sound bites in case you missed this, you've probably heard it being discussed. | |
| Also, do you know that Harold Ford used to date a white woman? | |
| Did you I'm sorry, sir? | |
| No, hold it a second. | |
| It's not racist, Mr. Snerdley. | |
| It's not he did, and she has a blog. | |
| She's um me bringing up what Harold Ford did is racist. | |
| I'm just telling you that there's an ad that was pulled because the Republicans got cold feet. | |
| And it it it turns out there's a there's a there's a basis for it. | |
| I'm not criticizing I d I am not the let the NAA L C P have a cow. | |
| Do you think do you think I'm going to back down? | |
| No. | |
| He did. | |
| He did date a white woman. | |
| I can't help it. | |
| It's what happened. | |
| We're into truth on this program. | |
| Look at, I got to take a little break. | |
| I'm a little long here in this segment. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| We will continue in mere moments here on the EIB network. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| I don't care if you're Okay. | |
| Folks, let's see how long it takes for this one to make the rounds. | |
| Have you heard that the Dixie Chicks are lip-syncing every song in their concert tour, their latest concert tour? | |
| They're lip-syncing everything. | |
| Dixie chicks. | |
| And now back to programming here on the EIB network. | |
| Here's the excerpt from the blog. | |
| It's about Julia Allison. | |
| Uh actually, it's it's it's not a blog. | |
| She wrote this in Cosmopolitan in uh July of 2006. | |
| And here's here's the pull quote from it. | |
| Uh Harold Ford actually didn't do much of anything scandalous by dating me. | |
| Sure, I was younger and a dating columnist and white, but he was single, so it's sort of a moot point. | |
| I did think it was hilarious, though, when Lloyd Grove's assistant rang my noise a gossip columnist, rang my uh dorm room asking, is it true that you're 18 and dating Congressman Ford? | |
| I was pretty sure I was at 18, and I told her as much. | |
| Then I called Harold, who brilliantly responded, Wait, you're 18. | |
| You're you're you're not 18, are you? | |
| I remember thinking, you idiot. | |
| If you didn't notice that I legally drank adult beverages with you on multiple occasions, you deserve to be caught dating an 18-year-old. | |
| A lot of screaming over the uh ad uh that turns out that Harold Ford has dated a white woman. | |
| Once again, uh no problem here. | |
| Go for it. | |
| I'm just pointing out the ad was not a stretch. | |
| It's something else that Harold Ford has said that has really raised some hackles. | |
| Saturday in Paris, Tennessee. | |
| Uh this is Harold Ford Jr. | |
| Our friend Lincoln Davis, he chairs our campaigns. | |
| There are one big difference between us and unfortunately the Republicans when it comes to our faith. | |
| He said that Republicans fear the Lord. | |
| He said Democrats fear and love the Lord. | |
| All right. | |
| So Harold Ford is quoting his friend Lincoln Davis, uh, saying Democrats love Jesus better than Republicans love Jesus. | |
| Uh, that uh uh Republicans fear the Lord, Democrats fear and love the Lord. | |
| Now let's go back. | |
| By the way, here's we have a comment from Harold Ford's opponent Bob Corker uh Sunday. | |
| Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron interviewed the mayor of Chattanooga and uh and Bob Corker and the question you hear Congressman Ford Jr. saying that Republicans fear the Lord, but that Democrats fear and love the Lord, suggesting perhaps to some that Republicans don't love the Lord as much as Democrats. | |
| And so now we go to the former mayor of Chattanooga, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ford's opponent, Bob Corker. | |
| What do you make of that, sir? | |
| We've seen a number of uh characteristics uh from the Congressman ever since the meltdown in Memphis uh a week ago Friday, and uh obviously this is not the kind of thing you would expect somebody who's running for the United States Senate to say it's very offensive, I think, to people of all walks of life, whether you're Republican, independent, or Democrat, to be uh claiming that one group of people love God more than another. | |
| Well, it's uh uh it's not unprecedented for this to happen. | |
| Let's go back. | |
| December 13th of uh 1999. | |
| Uh MSNBC Iowa GOP debate, John Backman, the moderator, asks then Governor George W. Bush, what political philosopher or thinker do you most identify with and why? | |
| Christ. | |
| Because he changed my heart. | |
| I think the the viewer would like to know more on how he was changed your heart. | |
| Well, if they don't know, it's gonna be hard to explain. | |
| When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as a Savior, it changes your heart and changes your life. | |
| And that's what happened to me. | |
| Right. | |
| Rado Rado. | |
| A lot of applause for that. | |
| Now, that didn't sit well with the drive-by media. | |
| Um December 13th, same day hardball after the debate. | |
| Chris Matthews talking to Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who and uh and Matthews said this. | |
| They were supposed to name their favorite philosopher, the I guess the thinker in the world of any from any era who influenced their values and their thinking about the about life, and it was quite a contrast. | |
| You had George W. Bush of Texas mentioning Jesus Christ, which floored me. | |
| And then you had uh your candidate naming Teddy Roosevelt. | |
| What a difference. | |
| A reformer and uh a savior. | |
| That's quite a compet competition of idea makers there. | |
| I don't know how you put the two together. | |
| This isn't about religion, it's about who gets to be the Republican nominee for president, and one guy pulls God out as his co-pilot, and the other guy pulls out Teddy Roosevelt. | |
| So what? | |
| Let the voters decide, Chris. | |
| Relax. | |
| But that was the reaction six years ago, actually seven, nineteen ninety-nine, the two thousand campaign, uh Harold Ford. | |
| Let's listen to the ad again. | |
| Let's we gotta I I know the Republicans have pulled the ad, but we haven't. | |
| We have the audio of the ad, and this is the ad the Democrats say is racist. | |
| Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough? | |
| Terrorists need their privacy. | |
| When I die, Harold Ford will let me pay taxes again. | |
| Ford's right. | |
| I do have too many guns. | |
| I met Harold at the Playboy Party. | |
| I'd love to pay higher marriage taxes. | |
| Canada can take care of North Korea. | |
| They're not busy. | |
| So we took money from porn movie producers. | |
| I mean, who hasn't. | |
| The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. | |
| Harold, call me. | |
| Harold, call me. | |
| Uh now you you've heard the setup to this. | |
| So Harold Ford, I don't know how much reaction there's been in the drive-by media. | |
| There's been some outrage, obviously, in certain places, as Harold Ford uh says that uh uh Democrats love uh Jesus better than Republicans. | |
| Is this not absurd? | |
| The degree to which all of this has uh sunk. | |
| But nevertheless, I mean uh it it it it gives you an idea of what the uh problem issues for Democrats are, what they think the problem issues are. | |
| Uh they they have to go out now and try to tell values vote. | |
| I mean, it's really a smart move. | |
| You're trying to sweep in values voters as Chris Matthews describes them, these hicks uh in the roadside taverns at midnight on a Friday night drinking beer and smoking cigarettes, watching this Harold Ford ad. | |
| Uh those are the people you're trying to get, the rural that's what Democrats call them rural voters. | |
| The translation for that is Hayseed Hicks. | |
| These are the people that uh uh pickup trucks, gun rack in the back, park in the church parking lot on Saturday night to get a good spot in church the next day, after being at the Roadhouse Tavern, uh Roadside Tavern on Friday night, you would think that to go out and try to get those people, you would not say that they don't love God, that they fear God and Democrats actually love God more. | |
| Uh these voters are gonna look at this and not see any evidence of this uh since it is Democrats and the left that's just done everything it can or they can to remove any public reference to God anywhere they can. | |
| Uh uh uh because they fear it. | |
| They fear what it'll mean to them electorally. | |
| Now, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday, Harold Ford Jr. appeared. | |
| And the question do you think the fact that the woman in the ad against you was a white woman was coincidental? | |
| No, I think it was smut. | |
| I don't think race had anything to do with that ad. | |
| I just think it was an uncall for, despicable, inappropriate ad for children to be watching at seven, eight o'clock Central time with their parents after dinner in the living room. | |
| They know it was bad. | |
| The party of family values should not have run that in Tennessee. | |
| Anyway, for that matter. | |
| Or anywhere else for that matter. | |
| It was smut. | |
| Well, I don't either. | |
| What was smutty about it? | |
| I I met Harold at the Playboy Party. | |
| Harold. | |
| Call me. | |
| Especially when you learn that it may have actually all happened. | |
| America's real anchor man. | |
| Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair. | |
| This talent on loan from God. | |
| Duh. | |
| 800-282-2882. | |
| Is is a black guy dating a white woman a big deal? | |
| Because the Democrats are sure acting like it is. | |
| It's not to me either. | |
| I mean, go for it. | |
| But it seems like they're really upset about this. | |
| Got to pull that ad. | |
| Harold Ford calls the ad smut. | |
| What uh are they what are they embarrassed about this? | |
| Because they're the ones that seem to be making an issue of it. | |
| They're the ones that started raising holy hell because the ad ran. | |
| They're the one that's racism. | |
| Why, that's the Southern strategy. | |
| Why? | |
| That's beneath contempt. | |
| Blah, blah, blah. | |
| Of course. | |
| Nothing the Democrats say or do about anyone is beneath contempt. | |
| And of course, the Republicans pulled the ad. | |
| It was on long enough, I think, to be effective. | |
| And we have, let's see, we just think one more, maybe two. | |
| Uh, if I can find yes. | |
| This is back to Fox News Sunday. | |
| By the way, sound bites with Lynn Cheney destroying Wolf Blitzer on uh Friday on CNN are coming up. | |
| You have to see this. | |
| I say I've watched this on the airplane flying out to um uh Las Vegas, and I uh I uh I tell you why I was drawn to it is because Blitzer kept promoting it. | |
| Unless and he he kept promoting it to all of his guests. | |
| You've got to see that. | |
| Oh, we had Lynn Cheney, you've got this interview you don't want to miss. | |
| And she was she was tremendous. | |
| I mean, if I had been CNN and I had scheduled an interview with the wife of the vice president using Democrat Congressional Committee talking points, moving move on.org talking points, and if I had been blown out of the water by the wife of the vice president of the United States, I don't know that I would have been promoting this as I was as as Wolf was other than uh the desire for ratings, | |
| which of course is omnipresent in the media system that news people will not be honest with you and tell you they care about that. | |
| Oh, getting ratings, well, that's beneath my mission. | |
| Oh no, as a member of the media, I am to go and uh find the facts and get the irony and get the true story. | |
| I couldn't care where the chips fall financially unless they want to cut my salary, of course, and I couldn't care about the bottom line. | |
| I don't care about ratings. | |
| I can't be concerned with such minutiae. | |
| Which, of course, is precisely what this was uh all about. | |
| Here's the question from Chris Wallace. | |
| Congressman, as we've said, you vote pretty conservative for a Democrat, but the fact is that if you win, and if you're part of a Democrat take over the Senate, that means that Harry uh well, he meant meant to say Reed here. | |
| Harry said Ford. | |
| Harry Reid becomes a Senate uh majority leader, Ted Kennedy becomes a committee chair, so does Joe Biden. | |
| Doesn't a Harold Ford victory as part of a Democratic takeover, doesn't that end up helping liberals? | |
| What Tennesseans will get will be a Jesus loving, gun-supporting believer that family should come first, that taxes should be Lord and America should be strong. | |
| When Tennesseeans send us to the Senate, that's what they'll get in my votes, and that's what they'll get in the kind of leadership that we have not had in the Senate over the last six years. | |
| Dream on, Harold, you're not gonna be heard from once you get there for the precise reasons that Chris Wallace mentioned. | |
| Folks, I'm uh I have to unload here for a second. | |
| This really when I first saw this last week, all these conservative Democrats running for seats in the House, and now here's Harold Ford uh with what he claims uh his agenda is Jesus loving, gun supporting believer, family should Come first, their taxes should be lower, uh, America should be strong. | |
| There's none of that in the Democrat Party message. | |
| Literally none of that, particularly the Jesus loving. | |
| Usually Democrats start talking about that. | |
| They get a phone call from uh Howard Dean. | |
| And it just illustrates this is a really frustrating thing to me. | |
| This is without question a conservative country, particularly on uh on social and fiscal issues. | |
| The vast majority of the people in this country identify themselves as Republicans or conservatives over liberals and Democrats. | |
| And yet, here we have Harold Ford and a number of House Democrats running in in these states where conservatism rules as conservatives. | |
| And they're standing out because of it. | |
| They're standing out. | |
| Why is this? | |
| There's a poll from CNN. | |
| CNN, by the way, is shameless. | |
| The push that they are putting forward as a responsible news organization. | |
| If they would just say we are in competition with MSNBC, we're doing our own telethon to cure the country of the dreaded disease known as the Republican majority. | |
| If they would just say that's what they're doing, it would be one thing. | |
| But they're presenting this whole week what went wrong with the right. | |
| An ongoing series. | |
| What went wrong with as though the election's over, the right is lost, what went wrong with the right. | |
| Uh and the treatment that uh Mrs. Cheney got uh and so forth. | |
| It's just it is it is it is utterly shameless. | |
| Uh and then not to mention an airing propaganda video from terrorists uh in uh in Iraq and uh admitting that they, in order to get the video, promised the terrorists that they would get a fair shake. | |
| Mrs. Cheney didn't get a fair shake from CNN. | |
| Very few Republicans get fair shake from CNN, but the terrorists did in exchange for their propaganda video. | |
| But check this poll. | |
| A quarter century after the Reagan Revolution and a dozen years after Republicans vaulted into control of Congress, a new CNN poll finds that most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that as the gipper put it, government is not the answer to our problems, government is the problem. | |
| The poll released Friday also showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans perceive correctly that the size and cost of government have gone up in the past four years when Republicans have had a grip on the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House. | |
| Now, this is uniquely timed and uniquely worded, is it not? | |
| That most of the CNN finds all of a sudden when it can hurt Republicans. | |
| Oh, yes, the majority of the country is conservative. | |
| And right here, let's blame the Republicans for abandoning it. | |
| This is what happens with the absence of elected conservative leadership. | |
| This is what has been so frustrating to so many conservatives is that they know it wins. | |
| They know, especially in the climate in America today, coupled with the foreign foreign policy threat that we have, the uh national defense, national security threat that we have. | |
| Conservatism wins every time it's tried, other than the usual outposts where uh liberals and leftists and socialists dominate the uh political landscape. | |
| But it just it frosts me to see all these deaths. | |
| Listen to Harold Ford, what he's talking about. | |
| I mean, this this ought to get him excommunicated from the Democratic Party, but it won't, because all they care about is winning. | |
| And they'll deal with Harold Ford later. | |
| When he gets into the Senate, he won't be talking like this very long. | |
| He may be allowed to vote this way now and then, but his next election, if he wins won't be for six years, so he'll he'll he'll he'll handle this in his own way. | |
| The idea now is to get elected and say whatever you think is gonna get you elected, and that happens to be conservatism. | |
| And it's it's irritating to me that there are some Democrats who are able to go out there and out conservative in their rhetoric and speeches, Republicans and uh incumbent Republicans to boot at the uh at the same time. | |
| Here's another CNN poll. | |
| This is from earlier last week. | |
| Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration's gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror. | |
| This would explain why um the ACLU has dropped its uh challenge to the Patriot Act. | |
| I don't know if you've heard this, but the ACLU just never mind. | |
| Just dropped it. | |
| Because most Americans don't believe the Bush administration's gone too far in restricting civil liberties. | |
| This was a tree the Democrats tried to climb that um didn't lead them anywhere. | |
| And then there's this. | |
| This is so patently absurd. | |
| Democrat or a CNN poll, despite p politicians' complaints about judges having too much power. | |
| Two-thirds of Americans do not believe elected officials should have more control over federal judges, according to a new CNN poll released on Saturday. | |
| 67% of 1,013 people surveyed by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN said that federal judges and the decisions they make should not be subject to more control. | |
| Only 30% said that they should. | |
| I don't know what the questions in this poll were, but I'll bet you one of the questions wasn't this. | |
| Do you think judges should have the right to tell local communities that they can take away your property in exchange for somebody who is going to build something bigger that pay more taxes to the city? | |
| Do you think with questions like that in a poll we would get results like this? | |
| I doubt it. | |
| By the way, Democrats are still, even on this national security business, the ACLU may have dropped its lawsuit and its pitch against the Patriot Act, but the Democrats haven't. | |
| The Democrats are still promising to investigate Bush's domestic spying program. | |
| That's what they purposely mislabel the foreign surveillance program. | |
| They're gonna they're gonna inspect and investigate terrorist detentions. | |
| They're gonna inspect all of the and investigate all of these transgressions of law by the Bush administration, even though they say they're not. | |
| They won't be able to stop themselves. | |
| And uh besides that, Nancy Pelosi is not gonna have control over the people that run these committees. | |
| She may think she will, but it's gonna be tough to stop people like Chuck Wrangle, Charlie Wrangle, and uh and what's his name, Conyers. | |
| I mean, they're getting up there in years as their big splash swan song. | |
| They're not they're they they're they're it's gonna be difficult to rein these guys in if they do end up running the show. | |
| Brief time out, we'll come back and continue. | |
| Uh and we'll get to your phone calls El Quicko, folks. | |
| Sit tight, back with more right after this. | |
| Yeah, I just keep thinking about the the Democrats and their their reaction is Harold Ford business. | |
| Let me run through some things here. | |
| They keep telling us, they say they're so offended at that commercial that would uh imply that Harold Ford uh dates white women. | |
| Then he died. | |
| They did. | |
| Fact is fact, no big deal. | |
| They're the ones that seem bothered by it. | |
| What is it about that that so offends them they keep telling us that the ads racist. | |
| But I'm I'm not aware that Republicans or conservatives or th southerners could could could could care about it, couldn't care less about it. | |
| Seems to me that the Libs are the ones who are obsessed with this, and it's not just the Ford thing. | |
| They were obsessed with uh Mark Foley's sexuality. | |
| They were r they they they they tried to they didn't try, I think they goofed up uh by equating uh male homosexuality with pedophilia. | |
| They had to out foley. | |
| It was a liberal employee, supposedly, of the human rights campaign. | |
| But it seems to me when you look at their reaction to all this, it's the libs and the Democrats that got problems with race and sex. | |
| But while they have problems with race and sex, they run around defend James Webb and the really sick wanderings that come from his perverse imagination in those novels. | |
| And then after they get after they defend Webb and all that, of course, that that Webb actually followed defending Bill Clinton and his sexual abuse of women. | |
| And yet they attack blacks like Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas uh uh on frivolous terms. | |
| I mean, it really is fascinating to watch this. | |
| You can you're gonna learn a lot by people by watching them express their outrage over things. | |
| These are the supposed tolerant among us, the compassionate, the understanding, the caring, the forward thinking, The people that see the nuance in every situation don't see just the simplistic black and white. | |
| No, these are people that are much smarter than the rest of us. | |
| Boy, it didn't take much to offend them. | |
| Uh and they blare their hypocrisy in the process. | |
| Uh quick phone call, Joshua in Johnson City, Tennessee. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um I watched the debate Saturday night between Bob Corker and Harold Ford, and uh uh Harold Ford is uh a slick operator. | |
| I mean, we're talking uh I think he's got a a bright future in the Democratic Party for uh right or wrong reasons, whatever, uh, even after this election, even if it doesn't win. | |
| Um the way that he presents himself in the debate uh as a conservative uh, but then the the biggest thing, the the most glaring uh uh double point that he made was that he's running on a referendum against the the Bush policy and uh the the way things have been done by the White House for the past six years in the Republican. | |
| What? | |
| He doesn't think the Bush White House has been conservative enough. | |
| Well, no, he's saying that if you don't like what's happened in the past six years with the uh Republicans running Congress and and a Bush White House, then vote for him and send him to the Senate so that we can have change. | |
| But my point is that, and I was thinking of this while watching it, he's the one that's been in D.C. the past six years, if not more. | |
| Um, you know, is not he the insider and Bob Corker the outsider. | |
| True. | |
| But you're you're illustrating a good point here. | |
| You're you're you're basically saying that uh he's slick. | |
| He's a good speaker, he's a good talker. | |
| Uh and uh as such, you know, people remember what they heard yesterday. | |
| They're not gonna remember that Harold Ford's been in the House for all these number of years and hasn't affected any change and so forth. | |
| This is you know, they're just they're just trying to capitalize on what they think is a uh large volume of discontent over the direction of the country, and hey, you know, it's six years into a uh two-term presidency. | |
| You know what? | |
| I looked it up the other day and I mentioned this to you last week. | |
| The average loss in the House is 44 seats uh in an off-year election like this. | |
| And uh I think it's it's a little bit less than that since World War II. | |
| This is a national average, but it's it's uh it's still pretty close to the 44. | |
| You know, the internal polling uh you look at uh it's hard to tell because people and Mike Barron has a great piece on this today. | |
| You it's just really hard to tell about these polls and how to read them because of the way they sample. | |
| The uh the in in the in the body politic, the the difference between people who identify themselves as Republicans versus conservatives, pretty small compared to the sample that polsters are using, given anywhere from five to nine point advantages in their sample to uh to Democrats, particularly in uh in generic ballot polls. | |
| Here's Mike in Attleboro, Massachusetts. | |
| I'm glad you waited, sir. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Thank you, Rush, and ditto's from here. | |
| Um this Harold Ford ad, I saw it on YouTube, and it's magnificent. | |
| Had they pre presented the uh the bleach blonde bimbo as a minority, you can't present that in the media as a floozy. | |
| That would have been a thunderstorm of condemnation. | |
| It works as a beach blonde bimbo. | |
| It doesn't work as any other sort of thing. | |
| Wait, how can you say it worked? | |
| The Republicans pulled it, it did create a fire storm precisely because this woman is portrayed as a floozy. | |
| It created a fire storm, but not because the Republicans were upset over the black white thing. | |
| It never recurred to us. | |
| It only occurred to them. | |
| Well, that's my point. | |
| The Democrats are the ones that got offended because they're frightened. | |
| They're really, really worried about it. | |
| They're worried one of the one of the most uh uh l least talked about things in the upcoming election. | |
| You've seen scattered stories about it, but one of the things that has Democrats worried in this election, and they're not worried about much, you'll have to admit that. | |
| They're spiking the ball on the 10-yard line before they even got to the end zone. | |
| The one thing that does have them worried is black vote suppression. | |
| They just don't see a lot of enthusiasm in the black vote in the uh in that community in this off-year election. | |
| Unions have come in strong with all their money, uh, but the the black vote they just they don't see these signs of it, and they think an ad like this uh will suppress it even further for a uh a black candidate. | |
| I'm glad you called out there, Mike. | |
| A quick timeout will be back. | |
| The Lynn Cheney sound bites for CNN on Friday will lead off the next hour. | |
| Now well, not enough time to say it. | |
| So sit tight, and I'll say it when I come back. | |
| It is an explanation of why the black vote Democrats are worried about it. |
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