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	All right, the um the the the carry what the hell do you call it carry campaign uh the carry juggernaut?
	Uh damage control has already begun, ladies and gentlemen.
	Greetings and welcome back.
	Broadcast excellence, all yours.
	From the plush, well bunkered, fortified and secured EIB Southern Command, El Rushbo at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Now, this is not going to make any sense to you, so I don't want anybody asking me about it because it makes no sense.
	Diana Schneider, the editrix of the Limbaugh Letter, monitoring our New York affiliate, WABC 770 in New York.
	Uh they played John Kerry's soundbite.
	In fact, Ed uh grabbed that one, uh, cut one again.
	This is if you're just joining us.
	Uh, we've been discussing this uh for most of the first hour.
	And I'm gonna move on to other things here because it's time to do I got too many things here.
	I'm not gonna let this carry thing distract me for the whole show, because he's not worth it.
	Uh but here's what he said.
	You know, education.
	If you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart.
	Uh you you can do well if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
	All right, so they played that soundbite uh at AM77 WAB, which is the ABC Radio News Network.
	And uh then they they ended it with a comment from Lurch himself.
	Uh Senator Carey himself, insisting that it was obvious that he was talking about President Bush.
	Now, don't ask me.
	It makes no sense.
	That's the point.
	It's not supposed to make sense.
	It's supposed to have everybody scratching their heads saying, what?
	And being distracted by it.
	Uh it's not it's obvious precisely what you were saying, Senator Carey.
	You were insulting uniformed men and women of the U.S. military.
	As you have been doing for most of your adult life.
	It's nothing new from him.
	It's it's exactly who he is.
	I have here yesterday's story from Amir Tehari, a column in the New York Post, entitled The Enemy Fails.
	And I just want to give you some of the things he writes.
	Here are some of the objectives of the jihadists and the Sodomites, that would be the Saddam Hussein bath party people.
	Don't get the wrong idea out there, uh, and other enemies of new Iraq.
	There's some of the objectives they had fixed for themselves but didn't achieve.
	And there's a whole bunch of them.
	I'm not going to read them all.
	I'm just going to say these are things, as I mentioned in the last hour.
	We don't get any reporting of success on the part of the U.S. military.
	None, and we get no reporting of the failures of the enemy.
	All we get is the latest roadside bomb, the daily count of the death toll in Iraq, U.S. soldiers, and of course, um uh we get the occasional propaganda video shot by terrorists, uh, furnished somehow to CNN, uh, which then broadcasts it.
	But these are some of the objectives of the bad guys of the enemies that they have failed to achieve.
	They wanted to seize enough territory in and around the towns of Hadithah and Anna in the Al-Anbar province to establish an Islamic emirate there.
	Despite several major attempts, they failed largely because a strong new coalition of Sunni Arab tribes in Anbar has entered the fight to flush the jihadists out of Iraq.
	To gain a foothold in Massoul is what they wanted to do.
	That's Iraq's largest Arab Sunni city.
	They wanted to turn it into a new base, as Fallujah had been in 2004.
	Again, despite several attempts, the plan failed thanks to the new Iraqi army backed by U.S. forces.
	They also wanted to blow up the Shi'ite holy shrines in Karbala and Najaf, just as was done in Samara last year.
	At least twelve suicide bombers were sent to the two cities on the last day of Ramadan.
	The authorities decided to close the shrines for 48 hours, captured some of the would-be bombers, and nipped the plot in the bud.
	They had planned on attacking the Green Zone in the heart of Baghdad.
	That's where most Iraqi government offices and the U.S. Embassy are located.
	The insurgents made at least two attempts but failed.
	They suffered heavy casualties.
	They also sought to paralyze the Parliament by threatening to kill its members.
	And at a time that they were discussing such key issues as federalism, a law for foreign investments in Iraq and the terms of an amnesty and national reconciliation.
	Again, despite several attempts on the lives of parliamentarians, the plot failed.
	They uh muqtada al Sadr, known here affectionately as Muqi, and his Mahdi army tried to seize control of the southern Shiite city of Al Amara with a well-planned attack reportedly designed by Iranian advisors.
	However, the attack failed, and Muki's gunmen were flushed out of the city.
	Despite numerous murders and abductions, the jihadists promise to force the total closure of hospitals, universities, scruels, newspapers, TV stations, and even barbershops, but they failed.
	And as the people who've been to Iraq come back and talk about it, uh it becomes painfully and frustratingly obvious that U.S. media has no interest or desire to report anything positive in that region regarding the United States.
	They'll be glad to report what they think are positive and successful encounters and stories for our enemy, but not us.
	And the statement of Senator Kerry gives full weight to what the Democrats actually think.
	I made mention last hour, I want to bring this up again before we go to the break.
	All year, the Democrats have been campaigning on Iraq, Iraq Iraq, the American people hate it.
	The American people hate Bush, American people want us out of Iraq.
	We're going to cut and run, we're going to get out of there.
	That's what the American people wanted.
	Now here we are two weeks before the election, and you don't hear, I mean, not even Ned Lament's talking about that.
	Democratic Party leaders are nowhere talking about Iraq, and Carrie's broken Omerta.
	They were supposed to say silent because they know that that's not what the American people think.
	The American people don't want to cut and run.
	American people don't hate Bush, and the American people are not eager to lose in Iraq.
	If the Democrats have been right about this all year, it would be the big push.
	It would be what they are really campaigning on.
	It would be and they'd have their leaders out there because that'd be a winner for them.
	But they've gone silent.
	They're not saying a word about it because it was a lie the whole time they were uttering it.
	They were trying to create that reality by expressing it as an already existing fact when it wasn't and it isn't now.
	And John Kerry's blown the lid.
	John Kerry has broken the silence.
	And so now they're gonna get CYA, they're circling the wagons, and I guarantee you to prevent the fallout from this being as negative as they think it could be, they're gonna do stories in the drive-by media explaining what he really meant.
	And like he was just everybody knew as he was talking about Bush, he said.
	It's obvious he was talking about George Bush.
	In that quote, and then they'll go out and find military families who fit Carrie's description, uh, that they feel victimized, that they never intended to be in Iraq when they joined the military and they got sandbagged in it, whatever.
	They'll they can find all it takes two or three for a news report.
	Uh as I have, and I knew it, but as I've learned again with uh with with what they're doing with uh two sentences of mine over a week ago on the Michael J. Fox ad, they can totally make it up.
	They can rearrange it, they can distort it, and they can present it in a way that is uh totally opposite what was intended.
	And so they'll they'll go out, they'll find a way if they have to.
	The media, I mean, in concert with the Democrats to uh make Kerry right, or at least limit the damage.
	You mark my words.
	If they if they see this getting bad and out of control, that'll happen.
	Which brings us to the concept of consequences if the Democrats win.
	Here is just one example.
	If you if you want Iraq to fail, if you want the United States to lose another war, then go ahead and elect the Democrats next Tuesday.
	Go ahead and vote for them.
	If that's what you want, because that's what you're going to get.
	If you want amnesty for illegal aliens, vote for Democrats, because that's what you're going to get.
	You know, illegal immigration remains one of the most impassioned issues out there that the inside the beltway intelligentsia totally misses.
	They have no idea the anger.
	When they talk about suppressing the uh Republican turnout uh with the Mark Foley story, they missed the whole thing.
	The Republican base is already fit to be tied over the immigration issue.
	They didn't understand why it was that their president and some Senators, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate wanted to grant amnesty again, when it's never worked to as many as twelve to fifteen million illegal aliens who they view as taking their jobs, making sure wages stay low in certain job sectors and so forth.
	They don't understand it.
	And nothing else uh uh matters.
	You know, we have a lot of single-issue voters in the Republican Party.
	But we would have amnesty today if it weren't for the Republicans in the House who finally, after a long time, late this summer, got some gonads and decided to distance themselves from the White House on this.
	At the time the Senate had passed the bill, uh it was then time to go to conference committee with the House men.
	The House members refused to do it.
	We're not we're not even gonna negotiate with you on your bill, there's nothing in it.
	They did this splitting with the president.
	They did this for their re-election efforts.
	They should have done it sooner, but at least they did it.
	But consequences.
	If you want amnesty for illegal aliens, vote Democrat, because Bush will get it and McCain will get it.
	The people that have been pushing it will get what they want.
	Well, the Democrats will easily ratify the uh the uh the House or the Senate bill on uh on immigration.
	So if you want that, if you if if you're angry at Republicans for blowing it on immigration, and you want amnesty for all these people, then by all means vote Democrat.
	If you want.
	Yeah, you kiss the fence goodbye too if you care about that.
	If you uh if you care about taxes, if you if you like the fact that their taxes are low, and the fact that the tax cuts have uh created a surge in new jobs, a surge in revenues to the government, which have reduced the deficit and so forth.
	If you are uh interested in that, uh, those tax cuts expiring, vote Democrat.
	Uh if if you are of the mind that you don't want any new energy exploration, if you don't want any new discoveries of oil, if you don't want this country to become more energy independent, then by all means vote Democrat.
	Because that's what you're going to get.
	You'll get no energy exploration, you'll get no energy independence, you'll get a bunch of a bunch of uh investigations and uh worthless uh money spent on alternative fuels that will not ever power this country to the sense to the degree that we need to be powered.
	If you want amnesty for illegal aliens, then vote Democrats.
	If you want uh your tax cuts sunsetted, if you want no work done on eliminating the inheritance tax, uh, by all means vote Democrats.
	And if you want to return uh the tort law lawsuit culture to America, by all means, vote Democrat.
	There are consequences here, folks.
	And some of you I know don't want to turn out, some of you cut and run conservatives, some of you don't want to vote, express your anger, just understand their consequences and examine those consequences, and if you can live with them, then by all means, you want to lose in Iraq, you want the U.S. humiliated, you want the war on terror to suffer a great big defeat.
	If you want to embolden our enemies, if you want to make them feel invincible, by all means vote Democrat.
	You want amnesty for illegals, vote Democrat.
	You'll get it.
	You want your tax cuts removed and raised, your taxes vote Democrats.
	Those are the consequences that uh we all face.
	We'll be back in just a second.
	Stay with us.
	America's real anchor man and truth detector, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by showing up here on the EIB network.
	It's uh not a it's not a matter of guesswork, ladies and gentlemen.
	All you have to do is check the record.
	The last time the Democrats controlled the House, we had uh income tax increases being proposed, and Charlie Wrangles promised to do it again.
	Uh they expressed a desire for an energy tax uh increase, the old carbon tax, Bill Clinton did that.
	Uh I'm just 1992 through 1994.
	Go back and look at it.
	They cut the military.
	Uh they did their best to cut intelligence.
	They're out there doing their best now to see to it that we can't intercept phone calls involving conversations between terrorists planning attacks.
	Um you want to return to the golden years of the yesteryear, Democrats ran the show, by all means, vote for them, because there are consequences here.
	Now I've noticed going through the uh papers here today that there's uh this is as I suspected uh more hedging of the bets on the Democrats winning out white outright control of the House are occurring in the drive-by media.
	The little blurb here by Adam Nagourney in uh the New York Times.
	Remember, politics is local, is the headline.
	Democrats are almost strutting into the final days of the midterm campaign, their enthusiasm bolstered by nearly every national poll, but national polls can be misleading in a congressional election.
	When looked at on a race-by-race basis, their advantage is not so clear.
	Among the races that Democrats are counting on to help them win seats from Republicans, AIDS say about ten Democrats have leads that exceed the margin of error.
	Democrats need to pick up 15 seats to retake control of the House.
	In twenty other races where Democrats have a chance of a pickup, the candidates are separated by just a slim margin.
	Those races can be swayed by any kind of last-minute burst of wind, and more than anything, the relative success in turning out supporters.
	So yeah, they keep relying on these national polls of Democrats have this uh much higher party preference result than Republicans do, but they're looking at the individual races now.
	All of a hmm, uh and they're not finding this huge blowout margin for the Democrats.
	And here in Time Magazine, well, actually, it's uh it's their internet blog by Mike Allen.
	Why some top Republicans think they may still have the last laugh.
	Let me just cull some of the highlights from this.
	No Republican is being taken by surprise, unlike many Democrats in 1994.
	The Democrats were totally bamboozled by the outcome in 94.
	I mean, they they lost 52 seats.
	And nobody on the Democratic side saw that coming.
	In this race, the Republicans have already been told it's over, you lose.
	The Republicans have uh the whole country, Democrats win.
	There's no element of surprise here.
	So the Republicans can prepare accordingly.
	Absentee ballot requests and returns, closely tracked by the party, are meeting or exceeding past levels for Republicans in key states and districts.
	This has them biting their fingernails on the Democratic side and in the media.
	Because they have done their best to suppress Republican turnout.
	They have done their best to keep Republicans at home.
	They've done their best to do things in the media that make Republicans angry at other Republicans.
	And yet, absentee ballot requests and the return of those ballots, as tracked by the Republican Party, are meeting or exceeding past levels for Republicans in key states and districts, which means they get out the vote effort in those states and districts is working, and it also means there's plenty of passion out there for early voting and absentee voting.
	Another highlight from this little blog, when the national parties and national campaign committees, state victory committees, uh uh accounts and competitive campaigns are added up.
	Republicans maintained a substantial financial advantage over Democrats at the last filing period.
	Ergo, there's more money to pour into this last week or two.
	Republicans say the district-by-district playing field favors them in several structural ways not reflected in national polls, and they get out the vote machine, designed by Rove and now Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Melman in 2001, was dubbed the 72-hour program, but officials say that's quite a misnomer that it's really a 17-week or even two-year program.
	So these are the highlights from a Time magazine blog, which is uh headlined why some type Republicans think they may still have the uh last laugh.
	And there are stories today all over the place that people still can't believe that Bush doesn't have a plan for action or of action after they lose.
	And they're starting to scratch their heads uh over this.
	And even the media is starting to ask my question.
	Old buddy Bill Schneider at CNN says, what happens if the Democrats do lose?
	Uh no big deal if the Republicans lose, because that expectation has been firmly submented in everybody's mind.
	What if the Democrats lose?
	If they can't win during this environment with all this help they're getting from the drive-by media, then maybe they have no reason to exist as a political party anymore.
	And uh in Tennessee, Bob Corker has pulled ahead of Harold Ford Jr.
	And it's significant.
	Uh 541 likely voters, it's 52 to 44.
	Who did the uh poll?
	Uh CNN poll, that's uh they do it with opinion research, uh, I believe.
	Congressional Quarterly, the respected nonpartisan magazine of Capitol Hill uh says, as of now, the Democrats are favored to win two ten of the two eighteen they need to wrest the gavel from Denny Hastert.
	Republicans are ahead in 207 seats.
	There's more to this, but as more and more of these uh polls are analyzed, this massive huge blue wave just doesn't seem to be there other than in national polls.
	Be back in just a second.
	Well, now it gets even better.
	Uh ladies and gentlemen.
	Uh uh I didn't see it.
	Snurdley uh watching PMS NBC and said the the latest from the Grab soundbite number one, uh Ed.
	We need to keep playing this to remind people what we're talking about.
	John Kerry passadena city college last night uh in a rally for California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelitas.
	This is Lurch speaking.
	You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart.
	Uh you you can do well if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
	Right, all right.
	Now he issued a statement after that.
	Statement said if anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy.
	This is the classic GOP playbook.
	I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks.
	It always seemed to come from those who never can be found to serve in war.
	But love to attack those who did.
	I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or a doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, which I didn't do, to start lying about me just as they've lied about Iraq.
	Okay, that's a pretty stand behind his comments, Ray.
	Don't understand this.
	This is just a Republican playbook.
	Well, guess that that defiance and that strong backbone that he tried to effect there didn't work because uh ABC Radio News at the top of the hour.
	Uh floated uh trial balloon response.
	Hey, hey, everybody knows I was uh there was talking about Bush.
	Everybody knows it was talking about President.
	Well, that didn't fly, because they've come out now with another stab at this.
	The late excuse me, latest from the Kerry camp is this.
	It was a joke that came out slightly mangled.
	Now, Senator Kerry, why don't you get some guts?
	Like me.
	Stand up for what you said.
	Regardless what people say about you.
	You meant it.
	Just tell us why.
	No, you mean you issue this huge this huge macho statement.
	I'm not gonna take this.
	I'm not gonna be lectured to by a bunch of fat spokesman, White House Doi Rush Limb.
	I'm not gonna listen to it.
	I don't have to be lectured to by people like that.
	I don't have to hear a w now it's a joke.
	It was a badly mangled joke.
	What'll be next when this one doesn't fly?
	Senator Kerry, you need some guts.
	You said it.
	You believed it.
	Stand by it.
	Inform us, educate us, tell us why you're right.
	Be a man, Senator.
	Come on, just try.
	Linda in Dallas, your next, I'm glad you call.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Yes, I wanted to remind you, Rush, is the reason that we intelligent people know that he wasn't talking about President Bush is because Bush graduated with better grades than Kerry did.
	Yeah, we've we've been through all that.
	Uh uh I uh did.
	Uh yeah, here I have I let me I have the story here.
	During last year's presidential campaign, as a Michael Cranish, by the way, the Boston Globe.
	Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex while Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.
	But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical uh grade average at Yale University.
	Uh and uh well, the bottom line is that that uh uh Kerry's grades were slightly below Bush's throughout their entire uh college career.
	So if he if he's trying to say here that this is a stupid statement.
	I don't understand why this got a b uh education as you make you can do stuck in a rock.
	Um yeah, he he he did go to Yale.
	He's skull and bones, he's part of the secret society.
	I but uh he's not folks, it's dim bulb.
	I mean, there there's there's there's book learning and then there's smart.
	There is formal education, which obviously has its value, but then there's average daily common sense intelligence.
	And Kerry just doesn't have it.
	He's so narcissistic.
	He we don't know how smart or dummy is because he can't stop thinking or talking about himself.
	Uh Oscar in Bellevue, Nebraska, welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Yeah, hi, Russ.
	Um I was in the Air Force for 17 years.
	And uh during my time in the Air Force, I finished one degree and um completed a second degree.
	And of the people that I met, I met from all social stratus.
	Um and there were many that um joined, you know, had degrees and became officers.
	And uh the military was a a uh a great learning experience for them.
	I had uh I knew other people who were from uh more uh de you know uh depressed upbringing and did use the military to to get out of that and went on to get degrees and do very well.
	Well, that's you know that that that is an excellent point.
	I w I I wanna I want to expand on that because what what Kerry is doing is common.
	It is what Democrats believe.
	Folks, I don't have time to go back and find it all.
	We've done this all for the last two years.
	They have made it a practice to impugn and denigrate members of the U.S. military.
	They go to their hick towns and they try to tell us that these people have no hope and no prayer of getting out of the horrible economic circumstances that Bush gave us.
	They got no hope.
	Well, they joined the military and they don't even it's just it's the last chance they got.
	They've got to risk their lives.
	That's what the Democrats, they have to risk their lives to live in this country because they don't have opportunity here to get education or health care or whatever their stupid mantras are.
	Let's just for a moment, let us assume that there is truth.
	Just let's hypothetically.
	Let's say that Carrie's right.
	Let's say that there are some members of the military who come from such destitute backgrounds they have no hope.
	That the only hope they've got is to join the military and risk their lives getting killed.
	Why impugn them?
	Why make fun of them?
	Why put them down?
	Why denigrate them?
	Why question their motives?
	What in the world are they doing?
	They are joining, they are volunteering to serve the country and defend it during wartime.
	And they are doing this not asking for anything.
	Why put them down regardless what their circumstances, even if you make up their circum, why put them there's no other way to interpret this, Senator.
	You whether you were joking or whether whatever, you were putting them down.
	You were denigrating them as uneducated morons.
	Because in your sick twisted view, this advances your political cause.
	It's it's it's just it's mind-bong.
	I don't care why they join, Senator.
	It doesn't matter to me.
	It does apparently to you.
	Apparently the U.S. military is it may it may as well be a death sentence.
	It may as well uh may as well be prison.
	Uh anyway, Joe in Miami, I'm glad you called.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hello there, Rush.
	Uh good to be along with you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Um to uh to let you know, last week After the uh Fox ads ran, uh, you made some uh statements about uh how the gems would put up somebody who was really uh beyond criticism.
	So uh over the weekend what we did was uh I have a small film company here in Miami.
	We rushed our crew together and shot two campaign spots because we don't agree with Fox, and uh we're supporting steel and talent, and we've uh uploaded those on YouTube, but I wanted to bring those to your attention, not what are they?
	What kind of ads are they?
	Uh well they touch on amendment two, and they touch on uh the entire stem cell uh and embryonic research uh components of the Fox ads.
	In fact, uh we uh myself, I'm actually in the ads.
	I'm blind.
	I was left blind by diabetes.
	I've had it for twenty-five years.
	Uh I felt that I had a perspective akin to Fox's, but I didn't uh support his positions, and there's really nobody pressing, you know, for for that other side for that balance.
	Uh, you know, we all understand Michael J. Fox is suffering with something, but he's not alone, and you know, there's lots of us out there who just disagree.
	Well, um, yeah, I tell you what, I'm gonna use your call after the break to transition into some of the audio sound bites that they're continuing to use.
	Uh it's primarily MSNBC and CNN uh to distort and uh uh characterize my comments about the whole issue.
	Uh they're boiling it down to me versus Fox, and they're trying to establish this notion that I like the fact that Fox is ill and I don't want him to get better when in fact Fox is saying that about Republicans.
	They've done it's a total one eighty.
	And we'll we'll get to all that in um in just a moment after the break.
	By the way, there's some round table discussion going on the Fox News channel right now.
	What babe said I'm looking at it, just tell the one in the purple.
	Do you get her name?
	What is it?
	All right.
	So they're they're discussing Kerry.
	Now, it was about an hour ago, ladies and gentlemen, that I told you what's gonna happen when the Democrats get alone at just how big a blunder Carrie had made here.
	They're gonna do reports, drive-by media will do reports on whether Kerry has a point.
	Maybe maybe we just need to understand the depth of his intellect.
	Maybe he's got a point here.
	And they'll run around, they'll start trying to find military people that they can uh categorize in some sort of way that fits Carrie's description and get those people say, Yeah, I only went to Iraq because I'm an idiot, because I had no choice to do anything else, because his economy doesn't offer people like me a future.
	Whatever, you don't find those people.
	Then I said they'll send people out to explain what he really meant.
	What he meant to say.
	So lo and behold, it took them less than an hour, because the babe in purple on the Fox News channel just did that, explaining what he actually meant.
	So I'm telling folks.
	Learn it, love it, live it.
	I know these people like every square inch on my glorious naked body.
	Not just the back of my hand.
	We'll be right back.
	Take it away, Ed.
	The uh babe in purple on the Fox News channel is Lisa with it uh.
	Yeah, Lisa Bernbuck, a talk show host.
	Who isn't a talk show host these days?
	Yeah.
	Syndicated talk show host on two stations.
	And but who is it?
	You know, it would take us less time to go through the entire U.S. population, say who is not a talk show host.
	Everybody and their damn uncle and grandson is a talk show host these days.
	So she's got no audience, but she's up there and she said he was tired.
	Uh Carrie was uh he was just tired.
	Uh it's not what he meant to say.
	He was uh he was just tired.
	Uh the uh let me move on to the audio sound bites, uh, ladies and gentlemen, since we had the uh the guy with diabetes who's blind in Miami cut a commercial or two, his film company did to post them on YouTube in response to the Michael J. Fox ad that's running there and in other states on stem cell research.
	I mentioned the top of the program that Democrats and the media are treating me again like a candidate.
	I'll never forget the late great writer from sports illustrated Ralph Wiley, who during the uh NFL season when I made it through five weeks on ESPN before that fell apart with a Donovan McNabb flap.
	Ralph Riley Wiley accused me of hijacking that NFL season.
	It appears I've hijacked this election because the drive-by media is making it about me.
	Okay.
	As though I am on the ballot.
	It went so far as Bill Schneider taking approval polls of Michael J. Fox and me.
	And this is how it ran last night on the Situation Room with Paula Zahn.
	She says to Schneider, Michael J. Fox out there campaigning for candidates.
	You have any idea how those ads are cutting?
	Hmm, Billy Boy.
	Michael J. Fox is a very popular figure.
	We did a poll and asked people, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him?
	Nationwide, 75% to 14 unfavorable.
	That is 75% favorable.
	And we compared Rush Limbaugh, who is critical of Michael J. Fox, though he apologized for his remarks.
	He's got a 26% favorable, 58% unfavorable.
	And even among Republicans, Michael Fox is better regarded than Rush Limbaugh.
	Well, neither of us are candidates, so you know what it means, Bill.
	And it doesn't matter.
	I'm not in this for approval ratings.
	Fox probably is, uh, but I'm not.
	Uh, about this business of apologizing.
	I think I need to clarify that too, because the libs are even misreporting that.
	They're they're trying to say that I apologize to uh uh help convey the note.
	I was wrong.
	I was I'm not standing by what I say, folks.
	I stand by everything I said, stand by everything I did, except I said I would apologize.
	I remember the quote Hugely and Bigley, if somebody can prove to me that I was wrong in suggesting either Mr. Fox didn't take his medication or was acting a little in those ads that he produced.
	And of course, his own book, which is not being mentioned by anybody in Drive by Media, he admits to manipulating his medication in order to appear more sympathetic in congressional appearances and so forth, which I also said I understand from his standpoint.
	When he said late last week that he was over-medicated, not under-medicated, that is when I apologized.
	I apologized because he came out and said that he was not under-medicated or off his meds or Or acting, he was over, and that's the one thing I had not thought of.
	That is what I apologized for, but nothing else.
	Mr. Fox keeps making an issue of his symptoms out on the campaign trail.
	This is yesterday in Ohio campaigning for Sherrod Brown.
	I'm not supposed to speak with you until my symptoms go away.
	Or maybe I'm just supposed to go away.
	But I'm not going to go away.
	Mr. Fox, nobody wants you to go away.
	And nobody has told you you don't have a right to say what you think.
	All people like me are doing is questioning the accuracy of what you're saying, which we have a right to do as well.
	You have a right to be wrong all day.
	You have a right to be wrong all day long on embryonic stem cells.
	And you can try to convince people all day long, but it's not the fact that just because you're suffering your symptoms that we're going to be quiet about this when you're wrong.
	When you're running out, tell people that Republican candidates are not interested in a cure for Parkinson's disease, they're not interested in research that might lead to a cure.
	Can't just sit here and let that go by.
	We did in the past, because we didn't, you know, uh felt felt guilty, uh, disagreeing with somebody who was suffering from a horrible disease.
	But there are promising areas of research in adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells, and even gene therapy using a virus that Mr. Fox's foundation has helped fund that do show results.
	Embryonic doesn't.
	And I'm just not going to sit here and let it go by uncommented upon.
	Nobody's asking Mr. Fox to have his symptoms go away.
	And nobody is demanding that he shut up or go away.
	Uh nobody that I know of, anyway, and certainly not me.
	By the way, have you seen the story in the UK Daily Mail where scientists have actually grown a human liver?
	Small size about the size of a one-pence piece.
	You know where they got the um stem cells to make it happen?
	That wasn't embryonic.
	Uh, it was cord blood.
	They got the stem cells from the umbilical cord of babies after their successful Births.
	And they have successfully grown a small human liver.
	We're light years away here from this becoming practical reality, but there is success, uh, stem cell success, growing a human liver from cord blood stem cells, not embryonic.
	All right, second hour is in the can.
	Lots more straight ahead, ladies and gentlemen, including more distortions.
	Me and Michael J. Fox and the whole stem cell argument.

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