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Oct. 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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Black voter suppression.
Problems the Democrats sense are real.
And there are a number of theories.
Actually, not theories, they're a number of explanations.
Donna Brazil said it herself in a recent story in the New York Times.
This notion that elections are stolen and that elections are rigged is so common in the public sphere that we're having to go out of our way to counter them this year.
And who's made that charge?
Democrats.
Democrats are the ones who keep telling their own voters that their votes don't count.
They're the ones who keep telling their own voters that their votes don't count because these elections are stolen.
They're even doing it now.
They're getting talking about how these the voting machines are not reliable, that they can be easily hacked and rigged.
Try this from the Miami Herald today.
Headline glitches cited in early voting.
Early voters urged to cast their ballots with care, following scattered reports of problems with heavily used machines.
Yes, my friends, after a week of early voting, a handful of glitches with electronic voting machines have drawn the ire of voters, reassurances from elections supervisors, and a caution against the careless casting of ballots.
Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen.
That's the final voting step.
Election officials say that they aren't aware of any serious voting issues, but in Broward County, for example, they don't know how widespread the machine problems are because there's no process for poll workers to quickly report minor issues and no central database of machine problems.
And if you haven't heard this, the latest complaint from the left about electronic voting machines is let me just ask you a question.
When you go vote anywhere, what are the odds that the election supervisors and the people working in the polls are seasoned citizens?
They're pretty good, are they not?
And I by the way, I have no problem with that.
Do not misunderstand this.
I'm just setting this up.
So when you walk in there and you see these are people volunteering their time.
They care about all of this, but they are seasoned citizens.
And some Democrats and activists are out there saying these are people that can't even figure out how to put a DVD in the disc drawer and hit the close button.
And you're gonna have problem with your electronic machine, and you're gonna go to one of these people and say it isn't working.
They're clueless.
They're still challenged by remote control, standard remote control units.
The Democrats are saying all this stuff.
And so what they've done essentially is tell their voters, hey, your vote is not being counted.
The Republicans are stealing your vote, your vote doesn't matter.
So they're suppressing their own turnout, and of course, they have really zeroed in on black votes in this regard.
Even in Florida in 2000.
They really focused on the how the black vote was not counted, uh, how blacks were not allowed to stand in line, not allowed to vote, all these things, all these charge, the constant charge of racism that the Democrats have leveled has uh created in the minds of many of their own voters.
What the hell, man?
It doesn't matter.
My vote's gonna get stolen, or it's gonna get counted for somebody else.
Why show up?
Now the Democrats are having to go out and say, by the way, all that stuff we've been saying about elections being re no your vote counts.
Go out go out there and go vote.
It is just one of the many variables in the election about which you're not hearing a whole lot.
And you're hearing, and even these stories about glitches.
It could be the same thing with seasoned citizen voters.
It's not just the seasoned citizen poll workers.
Your average seasoned citizen voter goes in confronted with an electronic machine and panic sets in.
Not sure to do I mean if my gosh, if they couldn't figure out a butterfly valet ballot in this county, end up voting for Pat Buchanan for crying out loud, what do you think a machine's gonna do to them?
And so the Democrats have sort of made a bed here that uh that they may have to lay in unless they can convince people that they were just kidding.
Uh, when they said that all these elections had been stolen.
All right, it's time now, ladies and gentlemen, as promised, for an amazing uh series of soundbites here from Friday afternoon on CNN featuring the wife of the Vice President Lynn Cheney.
To get this started, we need to go back to Fargo, North Dakota, uh Scott Hennan, the anchor uh W D A Y in Fargo, and I have appeared with Mr. Hennan when I did a rush to excellence tour, uh been out there.
He's probably I mean, I uh there aren't very many people been in radio in one place as long as Scott Hennan has.
And he was interviewing Vice President Cheney, and he said, would you agree a Dunkin' Water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
Well, um it's a no-brainer for me, but I uh uh for a while there I was criticized as being the vice president for torture.
We don't torture.
That's not what we're involved in.
So let's cut forward to CNN on Friday, the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, interviewing Lynn Cheney.
He played that sound bite that you just heard and says there's been interpretation to this effect that he was in fact confirming that the United States uses this waterboarding, this technique that has been rejected by the international community that simulates a prisoner being drowned, if you will, and he was in effect supposedly confirming that the U.S. has been using waterboarding.
This is complete distortion.
He didn't say anything of the kind.
It's kind of the point of a lot of people right now to try to distort the administration's position.
And if you if you really want to talk about that, I watched the program on CNN last night, which I thought it's your 2006 voter program, which I thought was a terrible distortion of uh both the president and the vice president's position on many issues.
It seemed almost straight out of democratic talking points using phrases like domestic surveillance, when it is not domestic surveillance that anyone has talked about or ever done.
It's surveillance of terrorists.
It's people who have Al-Qaeda connections calling into the United States.
So I think we're in the season of distortion, and uh this is just one more.
And it was a big he didn't talk about water boarding, he didn't confirm it, he didn't, but the press acted like hyenas.
And it was a feeding frenzy on uh on Friday with the Tony Snow press conference, the press briefing at the White House, and she's exactly right.
The mischaracter of it it's contemptible, the mischaracterization of the foreign surveillance act as domestic spying.
It is purposeful and it is contemptible.
They have attempted to create in the minds of as many Americans as possible that the administration is just a bunch of voyeurs and they're listening in on your secret phone conversations as you arrange a date to the Playboy Party or or uh whatever else you're doing.
Your lives are not that exciting, Democrats.
Contrary to what you might think.
But never regardless, it is a total misstatement and she has called them on it, and CNN knows this.
They know it like anybody else knows it, but they use the term domestic spying, domestic surveillance, as a means of frightening the American people.
So while the ACLU may pull back on their Patriot Act lawsuit because the American people do not think, according to a CNN poll, by the way, that uh their national security or their civil rights are threatened because of the national security policies of this administration.
Doesn't matter.
CNN, despite their own poll moving forward in their attempt to uh mislabel and mislead their viewers as to what's at stake.
Uh uh Wolf, as a follow-up said, uh you're you're referring to the CNN broken government special Mrs. Cheney.
Right there, Wolf.
Broken government.
Now, what what kind of stance is that?
Here we are.
We're a country where we have been mightily challenged over the past six years.
We've been through 9-11, we've been through Katrino.
The president and the vice president inherited a recession.
We're a country where the economy's healthy.
That's not broken.
This government has acted very well.
We've had task tax cuts that uh are responsible for our healthy economy.
We're a country that was attacked five years ago.
We haven't been attacked since.
What this government has done is effective.
That's not broken government.
And uh Blitzer says, uh she by the way, Mrs. Cheney at one point said, you know, Wolf, you you asked me in here to talk about my book.
And for ten minutes we've been talking about Jim Webb's book, and we've been talking you've been you've been mislabeling and misreporting what's in my book, and she says, uh, you know, c can you can you talk about uh uh my can we talk about my book?
And Wolf says, okay, we'll talk about your book.
Right.
But what is CNN doing?
Running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans.
I mean, I thought Duncan Hunter asked you a very good question and you didn't answer it.
Do you want us to win?
The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win.
We are Americans.
There's no doubt about that.
Do you think we want to be terrorists to win?
But there's why are you running terrorists?
With all due respect.
With all due respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.
Oh, absolutely.
This is this is reporting the news, which is what we do.
We're not partisans.
Where did you get the film?
We got the film uh look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed.
This is an issue that we reported on extensively.
We make no apologies for showing that.
That was a very carefully considered decision why we did that.
And I think and I think that's a good shocking.
If you're a serious journalist, you want to report the news.
Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the news isn't so good.
But Wolf, there's a difference between news and terrorist propaganda.
Why is that?
And if you put it in contact.
Why do you give the terrorists the floor?
No, he wouldn't answer where they got the tape.
He wouldn't answer her question where you got the film.
Oh, well, well, we've talked about this, but we've extensively reported where we got.
We'll tell you how they got the tape.
They sent an email to terrorist leaders in Iraq.
They have admitted this.
American Spectator.org had the story last week.
CNN insiders admit, yes, they send emails out.
And in order to get such tape of terrorists and their snipers shooting to kill and succeeding American servicemen in Iraq, CNN says we'll give you a fair shake.
Now they think, or they would have us believe that this is honest and fair reporting of the news.
They didn't get the film.
CNN didn't go out and have their cameras shoot the video.
There was no journalism here.
There was an outreach to terrorists.
The terrorists responded after being assured they'd get a fair shake.
CNN runs it under the guise of the people need to know the truth of what's happening in Iraq.
It was repugnant and it was despicable, and Mrs. Cheney called him on it and asked him again, do you want us to win?
And this is the first time I have heard a CNN journalist say, yes, we want the United States to win.
Mostly they avoid the question, well, I can't choose sides.
Why that would compromise my precious principles as a as a distinguished journalist.
can't answer that.
But he said, yeah, we want the terrorists, we want Americans to win.
There's no doubt about that.
Do you think we want terrorists to win?
Are We want Americans to win.
You think it's we want terrorists to win?
And yes, some of us ask that question.
Some of us not sure that we're getting the right answer here.
You have a track record.
CNN has a track record.
Bernard Shaw, the first Gulf War, would not allow himself to be briefed, debriefed by the CIA or any of the military of what he had seen in the Al-Rashid hotel.
Uh Eason Jordan writing his op-ed in the New York Times, in which he admitted CNN suppressed the news of atrocities committed by the Saddam Hussein regime in order to not have their bureau closed and shuttered and kicked out of Baghdad.
There's a track record for CNN here, and there's a track record for much of the drive-by media that does raise questions about where their loyalties lie.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Okay, we're back.
I've just got a couple more sound bites, a couple more sound bites from uh Wolf Blitzer talking with Lynn Cheney Friday, late Friday afternoon on the Situation Room on CNN.
He says that this is in the news today.
Your name has come up, so that's why we're talking about it.
But listen to this.
There's nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminated illuminating The surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.
I'm a serious writer.
I mean, we can go and read uh Lynn Cheney's lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.
You know, Jim Webb is full of baloney.
I have never written anything sexually explicit.
His novels are full of sexually explicit references to incest.
Exactly right.
There is a huge difference between love scenes and incest and perversion, the kind of despicable, twisted sick stuff that appears in all of Jim Webb's novels.
And you do have to wonder.
I mean, if if I were obviously I'm not, ladies and gentlemen, but if I were a female voter in the state of Virginia, and I had heard about the writings of Jim Webb, and I had not read any of his books, I would I would certainly be curious.
What kind of thoughts permeate this man's mind?
These are the kinds of things that uh uh would would hit me as a huge shock and a big surprise, and I'd start comparing things.
Yeah, well, I heard George Allen wine is macaque and a Confederate flag and the Washington Post became the official campaign headquarters for the Jim Webb campaign and spent weeks trying to destroy and ruin George Allen, which is what the left does, not just defeat, destroy, and ruin.
By the way, the race in Maryland, I have to observe this, the race in Maryland between Michael Steele and Ben Carden, and that was some debate yesterday on Meet the Depressed, and we have audio sound bites there.
Steele cleaned his clock, and the Washington Post today has one of the most misleading reviews of this debate.
Uh don't recall the headline, but it's outrageous.
But apparently, the uh the uh Washington Post campaign headquarters have shifted resources from the Webb campaign in uh Virginia over to Maryland uh because it's getting too tight.
This guy Steele is neck and neck, and he cleaned Cardin's clock in this debate on Meet the Press yesterday.
This is a two-to-one Democrat uh voter registrate in blue state.
Uh and Steele is uh is is pulling even, had a great ad responding to this uh uh now disgraced and uh and ineffective ad from Michael J. Fox on Stem Cells Fox yesterday, by the way, on uh ABC, admitted he hasn't even read Amendment 2 in Missouri, the uh anti-cloning or the the the pro-cloning constitutional amendment for the state of Missouri said he hadn't even read it, yet he's out there doing commercials uh uh for it.
You know, that that was an interesting turn of events.
And so now they have to go out and sandbag Lynn Cheney's appearance, sandbag her, with what James Webb thinks of her and what her books are as a means of deflecting attention from what he has written.
The conversation between Wolfe and Lynn Cheney continued.
I did write a book entitled.
This description, this no, not necessarily.
This description is a lie.
I'll stand on that.
There is nothing in there about rapes and brothels.
Well, Wolf, could we talk about a children's book for a minute?
We can't talk about the children's book because I think our segment is like 15 minutes long, and we've now done 10 minutes.
I just wanted to clarify what's in the news today.
That's what it is.
Sex, lies, and distortion are what's in the news, and CNN promoted all of it.
And attempted to sandbag Miss Chaney.
I have to tell you something.
This is a, as a viewer watching this, I'm sitting in the chair and I am cheering this.
This is the kind of reaction and response that is called for all the time when these kinds of personal assaults and attacks and contemptible misrepresentations are made about people.
But uh too many on our side just sit back and take it, and they don't respond.
They're afraid of responding for ginning the whole situation up even further.
And Mrs. Cheney went out and and adequately defended her husband, more so than adequately appropriately did so, and then perfectly s blew up the whole premise of CNN's broken government show by explaining that it isn't govern it isn't broken, and she gets rhyme and reason why it's not broken, and in fact, why it's working extremely well.
But this whole show, broken government, is is a classic illustration Of an agenda-oriented uh news department and newsroom at CNN that's designed to further the action line of a Democrat campaign talking point, and that is everything's going to hell on a handbasket.
The Bush administration's destroyed a great economy, they've destroyed peace and tranquility, they've destroyed opportunity, they've destroyed everything, nobody's happy, everybody's miserable.
It's Bush's fault, it's the administration's fault.
Uh and Mrs. Cheney is uh one of the few to fire back.
I admire that.
Uh there's nothing wrong when confronted personally like this with lies and distortions about your husband and about yourself and about your husband's administration, which he works, there's nothing at all wrong with nuking and blowing all of this stuff out of the water.
There's a fear that, oh no, I'm gonna look mean, I'm going to look disrespectful.
Americans want facts, and more than that, the Republican base wants a little fight from their people.
That's what we do here, folks.
We make the complex understandable.
You think they're doing this because of me?
There's no question, which is why I'm not going to say what it is.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Looky here, folks.
Holding here in my nicotine stained fingers, a CNN story.
Lynn Cheney novel churns controversy in Senate race.
Lynn Cheney, a deflecting talk of the sexual content in her novel Sisters, a twenty-five-year-old book that resurfaced in a campaign Friday and is stirring up controversy.
Really?
Resurfaced in a campaign.
Wonder how that happened.
The novel featuring a lesbian love affair, supposedly, was brought up Friday amid a contentious Senate race in Virginia.
Soon a Democratic committee and Cheney herself in an interview on CNN were weighing in.
CNN wouldn't know anything about it.
CNN apparently waits for talking points to be emailed or faxed from a Democrat Senate campaign committee or a congressional campaign committee, wherever, move on.org, who the hell knows.
And all this is, folks, is payback for Mrs. Cheney kicking Wolf Blitzer around on Friday.
All this stuff about her novels came out during the 2000 campaign.
And nobody gave a rats rear end about it.
Furthermore, she's not running for the Senate.
In fact, she's not running for anything.
And I don't care what they can dig up from what Lynn Cheney has written.
There is no comparison to the literal tawdry sick stuff that permeates a Jim Webb novel.
There's no comparison whatsoever.
And yet, you know, when when uh when the Republicans get close to scoring a point, the CNN action news team, along with the rest of the alliance between the Democratic Party and the drive-by media kicks into full gear to make sure that nothing is allowed to stand, uh, especially if it's true in the case of the web novel analysis, so we have to distract attention from it, uh, is what they think, but they're failing in in this case.
In the process, every time they play Mrs. Cheney, if they re rerun that uh that interview, uh it's nothing more than a win win for her, especially when she repeats Duncan Hunter's question.
Uh do you want us to win?
A war on terror?
And for the first time in my memory, a journalist has actually admitted that he wants uh uh America to win, which it's noteworthy.
Here is uh Johnny in Andover, Mass uh Andover uh uh Massachusetts, that right, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the program, Johnny.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, I'm a prior service marine, and I just have a question in regards to Wolf Blitzer's statement to uh Lynn Cheney.
Yeah.
Um doesn't a journalistic approach have to involve a journalist of some type of uh reputable uh credibility.
I mean, how does how do they justify having a sniper team, you know, give uh footage?
Who who's the journalist in that business?
Well, there are well now there's many, many uh definitions of journalism in America today, and uh there's certainly one that'll fit here.
What CNN did as we explain, and I I raised your question, by the way.
CNN, most people think of journalists as uh as as people with notebooks and cameras and microphones, and they leave the office and they head out there in hunt of a story, and that they are somewhere where a story happens where most people aren't, and then they tell us what happens, what did they see that we didn't because we weren't there.
Well, that's quaint.
It's old fashioned, and that's I mean, they may still do that in high school newspapers, but I don't I'm not even sure about that.
What this kind of journalism was was outreach.
A producer or series of producers or editors at CNN went to the Rolodex, and in it they found the name of some Ali Holly Bab terrorist.
Uh and sent him an email or gave him a phone call and said, got anything for us.
Terra said, Yes, we've been murdering American citizens.
Oh, you got tape?
Yes, we do.
Man, would we love that?
And they start negotiating.
And finally CNN promised the terrorists to give them a fair shake in exchange for the terrorists give them the video.
Yeah.
Uh and and of course, that the terrorists also promise not to blow up the CNN news site in uh in Baghdad at the same time.
So they guess it's a it's a it's a twofer.
They get to keep the bureau open, safe from terrorist attack, plus they promise the terrorists affair shake, and they get exclusive video of terrorist snipers murdering American soldiers.
Yeah, you gotta love that, Rush.
And that's that's that's the journalism.
Uh that's you know, and then they they supposedly agonized over whether to uh broadcast the video, but in the final analysis, journalism showed them the way.
Journalism said this is what the war in Iraq really is, and the American people deserve to see this.
Uh you know, there's a I think a hard cold rule, in fact, that uh so now somebody correct me on this if I'm wrong, but I think that there is a restriction on an American broadcast network showing army or navy or Air Force made videos, precisely because it's propaganda.
Is that not true?
I think I'm correct on this, and even if I'm incorrect, one thing I know I'm right about if the Army called Wolf Blitzer or CNN and say, we got great video what we did in Fallujah, they'd reject it because they wouldn't trust it.
Uh no video news releases are allowed.
No v because you can't trust it, it might be propaganda.
But let our enemies, after being those guys instead of minding their own business, you know, refining their IEDs and planning their next uh attacks, and all of a sudden the phone rings and it's somebody on the other end from CNN.
And they put a deal together, and of course, here comes the propaganda film or tape, whatever it is from the terrorists, and CNN agonizes tough decision.
What's the journalism call on this?
And they ultimately bite the bullet and run with it.
Uh so they're airing propaganda from one side, but they uh will not do so on the other, because you can't trust the good guys.
The good guys will feed your propaganda.
The people on your side you can't trust.
But you can trust uh Ali Akbar, whatever his name is, because he of course who are these people.
They fit the mold of the way liberals look at people.
These are minorities.
These are economically disadvantaged, they're depressed, they've they've they've had rotten socioeconomic circumstances, and here is the big bad evil United States in their part of the world trying to take over their land and their oil for Halliburton and Bush.
And so it's natural that uh a bunch of liberals would choose sides with the people they think are the victims in all of this, as a means of leveling the playing field.
It's uh sort of like when Madame Albright lamented that we are the only remaining superpower in the world, somehow in her view that just isn't fair.
Uh and it's also destabilizing to have a country such as the United States, the only superpower in the world.
No concept of the good guys and bad guys in that world view.
Eric in Tucson, Arizona, I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Master Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thanks, El Mucho.
Thank you for that assessment.
Uh the reason I'm calling is because I believe that uh this was payback against Len Lynn against Lynn Cheney because of the Clinton interview with Chris Wallace earlier this year.
Um I believe they were trying to make her look like the same type of idiot Bill is, and voila, here we are.
You know, I don't take it that far.
I I think Mrs. Cheney has a book.
She's got a new children's book, they booked her.
And after they booked her, the vice president gave them their red meat by making them think that he said he was for waterboarding, and then the uh the uh the salacious details of what's in Jim Webb's novels came out.
That's when uh the Democratic uh talking point machines went into uh action and briefed CNN on what the questions Mrs. Cheney should be asked.
But you know it's a it's an interesting comparison that you uh uh have illuminated here.
Compare Mrs. Cheney and the way she reacted to questions from Wolf Blitzer to the way Bill Clinton reacted to one legitimate and innocent question from uh Chris Wallace.
I mean, Lynn Cheney didn't lean forward and start pointing a finger in Wolf's thing, accuse him of uh of of a number of nefarious things.
It was quite a contrast.
Uh Eric, I'm glad you called up next, Jay in Alpha, New Jersey.
Welcome to the program, Jay.
Hey, big ditto's rush.
Um you're talking in the last hour about the how Harold Ford commercial, and this is a record that we've heard before a play.
Remember, I don't know if it was the Kerry election or if it was the midterms when there was that commercial where the word democrats was flashing towards you, and then they they freeze-framed one part of it at the end and said, Look how they're putting the word subliminally rats in front of you, and and then they show their outrage,
and the media feeds on it and and again shows what it could have been what you know might have been a very powerful commercial, but they just make it into their own little You're talking about the you but but they had to they had to freeze frame that ad to prove that it said rats in there instead of Democrats, and that was the they they they their charge was it's subliminal advertising was being used by those evil mean Republicans.
Is that what you're talking about?
Absolutely.
And you know, again, it was like, oh, is this all part of Carl Rove's great plan to uh to to brainwash people into voting for Republicans?
Yeah, well, subliminal ads.
That's um we've been through those.
We've done our own share of them, in fact.
Uh Mike, say if we can go to the archives, uh drag out some of the subliminal ads that we've done.
I'm not talking about Slim Whitman.
We've done I'm sorry, I'm not gonna be able to help you because I'm I'm my my um uh my fertile brain, uh neurons firing at rapid pace, still can't remember any of the titles or the subject matter, but we've we've parodied uh subliminal ads right about that time, too.
Anyway, that was grasping at straws uh and it was an attempt to portray the Republicans in the light that they want the Democrat voters to see them.
Anyway, you're right on that.
I gotta take a quick time out back with much more as the EIB network rolls on right after this.
All right, uh, we have a subliminal spot from the archives from the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
What uh let's see, this is uh Oh, is this this is the uh the Rush Limbaugh Conservative Party tape?
Is that what's the year on this?
Do we have it?
I'm having a we don't have a year on this.
The Rush Limbaugh Conservative Party.
It's got to be at least ten years old, I would think.
Easy.
It's probably older than ten years.
Here it is.
So when they come out with this subliminal stuff, we answer back for we don't lay down for anybody or anything.
Here at the EIB network.
Have you seen the latest on newspaper circulation?
Daily circulation fell 2.8 percent at U.S. newspapers in the six-month period, ending in September.
This, according to an industry group report today, the latest sign of struggle as newspapers try to hold on to paying readers.
Uh the LA Times a big loser, uh, no question.
Sunday circulation fell 3.4%.
In fact, the only newspaper that went up was the New York Times.
Uh the New York Post.
The New York Post now leads the New York Daily News in daily circulation.
Well, uh Daily News what?
Daily News went up one per's right, plus one percent.
That that's uh and then the New York Post was up five percent.
Daily News and the New York Post, the only ones that are up.
Uh Washington Post is down, let's see, LA Times down eight percent.
The New York Times down three and a half percent.
Uh Wall Street Journal down one point nine percent.
Uh and of course uh uh uh you know the reaction to this at the news at the newsrooms.
Well, screw the readers.
Screw them.
If they don't understand what a great product we're putting out here to hell with them, and we're just gonna keep pounding it to them and telling them they're stupid until they figure it out.
It's sort it's like the Democratic Party, ladies and gentlemen.
I you have a personal problem.
If you start blaming everybody else for it, you're never gonna get to the root of the problem, and therefore you're not gonna solve it.
So Democrats keep losing elections, they blame the voters, or they blame machines now.
Now some people upset.
We've known this for a while.
We told you about this many, many moons ago.
Hugo Chavez has interest in a company that is uh selling voting machines in uh in in Illinois.
Some people are worried, well, Hugo Chavez getting involved in rigging the U.S. election in uh Illinois and any other state where uh voting machines that he has an investment in the country company company happen to be being used.
So it's voting machines, it's hanging chads, it's butterfly ballots, it's stupid voters.
Uh when you never examine your own role and your own demise, uh you'll never be able to reverse uh your momentum.
Here is Steve in St. Louis, your next sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
I just thought I'd pose an interesting question for the uh CNN folks to ponder.
Uh if if there was any date attached to the uh video that they solicited of U.S. people getting killed, um I'd be concerned if I was them.
My uh request for newsworthy footage might have caused the event rather than getting footage of an event that's already happened.
Um that's a good point.
I haven't seen any date stamp on that.
I I didn't you remember, Snerdley, have you seen a date of when those killings actually happened?
Uh I I don't I can't for sure for certain say that there wasn't a date stamp, and I can't I don't remember CNN said when they reported this that these incidents had occurred over X such and such uh period of time uh as to whether or not they create more hell's bells, folks.
I mean, if if you terrorists want to be on TV, like hell, who doesn't want to be on TV?
Everybody's Paris Hilton these days.
Everybody wants to be on TV.
People will make fools, they've been doing it for years to be on the Jerry Springer show.
Hell, terrorists are no different.
They love media attention.
So if a terrorist group got this kind of footage aired on CNN, imagine what other terrorist groups might now be doing to attract the attention of either CNN or other cable networks.
Good point.
Obviously, ladies and gentlemen, CNN would not air a video of terrorist snipers killing journalists.
Hell.
Can't even see video of 9 11 these days without people having a fit.
It's too traumatic.
It's too soon.
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