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Oct. 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And it's a big week for the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen.
John Kerry slanders the U.S. military and specifically our troops in Iraq.
Mrs. Clinton refuses to defend marriage as an institution between one man and one woman.
The New Jersey Supreme Court authorizes the legislature to write a gay marriage law.
So, banner week.
I mean, the Democrats can't hold it in.
They're finally telling us all who they are and what they are.
Nice to have you back, folks.
We are here, Rush Limbaugh, from the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at 800-282-2882, the email address, Rush at EIBNet.com.
Apparently, there is a press conference with Senator Kerry coming up at some point.
I think our microphones will be there.
We might jip it if it happens.
Don't know.
Don't know what's supposed to happen seven minutes ago, but it's obviously running late here.
Kerry's responses to his comment, grab audio soundbite number one so that we can keep this in context.
Let me know when you have it ready to go there, Ed.
It's ready to go now.
This is what Kerry said last night, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, which, by the way, Pasadena is nobody city college.
Pasadena is one of those small little conservative enclaves out there in Southern California.
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, you can do well.
If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
First thing he said was that it was obviously talking about Bush.
Well, no, the first thing he issued a statement saying he wasn't going to be lectured to by the likes of Tony Snow and the doughy Rush Limbaugh, who would take time out, no doubt, from criticizing Michael J. Fox's disease, which I've not done, to comment on Kerry.
He wasn't going to sit there and take that.
Then he came out and his response was, after being defiant in his statement, everybody knows I was talking about Bush.
Then he said, well, actually, it was just a joke, a mangled joke.
So I made a point to watch the statement during the break here at the top of the hour.
And he did have this nervous little smile on his face.
There was nervous laughter in the room.
And the three or four people on stage behind him looked like they were trying to shrink away.
They were not laughing.
If it was a joke, it was a horrible.
Kerry's not a funny guy.
I mean, I don't know that his mouth even knows how to smile.
He's just a sour, dour-looking guy.
He's always affecting this Brahmin attitude, this elitist, arrogant air about himself.
He's better than everybody else.
And he just can't pull off real guy stuff.
When he goes motorcycling or bicycle riding during the campaign, he looked like a total dork.
When he goes skiing, he just doesn't pull it off.
But my advice to Senator Kerry, and I've got a little experience with this lately, saying things that get you in the frying pan, stand behind it, Senator.
You said it.
You meant it.
Tell us why you're right.
Make your case.
Be a man.
Don't send out a bunch of trial balloon excuses to see which one fits.
Mark my words, the Democrats right now and the media circling the wagons prepared to do stories on, hey, he may have a point.
He may have a point.
They'll go out and they'll find military families that'll fit the bill, what Kerry was trying to say, that they are hopeless.
They had no hope as Americans.
There's no future for them.
They had to join the military, blah, And also said that that's not what he meant to say.
And some Lisa Birnbuck, a talk show host, about as many talk show hosts out there as there are donut holes now, said, yeah, didn't mean that.
He's just tired.
Really, really didn't mean that.
By the way, programming note, I forgot to mention this the whole show.
I'm taping an interview with President Bush tomorrow morning, and we will air it during tomorrow's program.
The time of the interview has been set.
It's going to be around 10.45 to 11.05, so 20 minutes or so.
And we will plug that interview.
We'll play it during the program tomorrow.
Let's continue now with the audio soundbites.
The media making me out to be a candidate against whom the American people will vote in the upcoming elections.
The new liberal conventional wisdom is that the conservative base was really energized.
You know, up until last week, a conservative base was energized.
This is their new template.
But the Fox flap has turned independents, the great undecideds, toward Democrats.
Now, two weeks ago, remember, the Democrats are going to win because conservatives were going to turn out because of Mark Foley.
But listen to Claire Shipman.
This is a montage.
Claire Shipman of ABC, Adam Nagurney of the New York Times, David Rodham Gergen of wherever there's a Democrat, and Joel Lockhart, the former Clinton press secretary.
The real people are the independents and the women in the middle, and those are the people who may well be persuaded now that they've heard Michael J. Fox over and over again and listened to Rush Limbaugh.
This whole dispute with Michael Fox and not incidentally, Rush Limbaugh has helped Claire McCaskill a lot.
The Michael J. Fox ad would not have made much of an impact on this had he not been attacked by Rush Limbaugh.
Unfortunately for the president's side of this debate, Rush Limbaugh did them a big disservice by raising the level of this.
I think we'll have a big impact in some of the races.
Okay, so now they're setting it up.
I will be the reason that Republicans lose, and I'll be the reason that Republicans don't turn out, and I'll be the reason that big numbers of independents and moderates do.
And I am not on the ballot.
This is wishful thinking.
By the way, really move Claire McCaskill forward, huh?
Latest poll has her in a dead heat with Jim Talent in Missouri, and she has been up in that race.
There were polls last week that showed talent up a couple or up three points.
She hasn't moved at all.
I don't know what impact, if any, this is going to have on the election out there, but my gut feeling is that there are far more people in Missouri who know the substance of Amendment 2 and what this whole thing is about than they did before this ad ran.
If this ad had run as they intended, just a little quick get in and get it and get out kind of ad, it would have had a far more negative impact on Senator Talent than it probably will because it's been exposed.
And let's not forget what got this whole thing started.
You know, there's so much of this that the Drive-By Media is not reporting in terms of what I have said about this.
But the main thing is, well, it's hard to pick a main thing.
But remember John Edwards talking in the 2004 campaign.
Embryonic stem cell research.
If you voted for John Kerry, Christopher Reeve would walk.
Christopher Reeve would walk again.
But only if you elected John Kerry.
Because only John Kerry was going to move forward with embryonic stem cell research.
Federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
Here comes Michael J. Fox with the same campaign using his Parkinson's disease as a sympathetic means by which to avoid substantive debate on the issue.
It's been a tactic the Democrats have employed for way too long, and I'm sick of it.
And I'm just, I'm not going to watch this stuff go by and not comment on it anymore.
One other thing about this, just to expand a little bit on what I said yesterday, this is all about federal funding, ladies and gentlemen.
It's all about your tax dollars.
That's what this is really all about.
This embryonic stem cell debate focuses on federal funding.
Now, in explaining to you the deficiencies of embryonic stem cell research, I've produced websites, statements from doctors who will testify, as we've put it on the website, that there are no success stories in embryonic stem cells.
It's just a dream.
There are all kinds of success stories in other stem cell research, cord blood, infant cord blood, and adult stem cells.
One of the ways of learning this is to track the free market.
You know, there are venture capitalists out there who will invest in anything they'll think they get a big return on.
Medical research, you name it, doesn't matter what it is.
If there's a big, if there's something big out there that's going to really score, you'll have no problem getting private sector money to invest in it.
But they can't find a dime when it comes to embryonic stem cell research.
That's why they have to have federal funding for it, because there isn't any private sector money.
Why isn't there any private sector money?
The market will always tell you the truth.
There isn't any private sector money because the private sector, individual and corporate investors, don't see any upside, pure and simple.
We have the story of, and the same with the environmental movement, by the way.
I mean, the whole point of the environmental movement is to follow the money.
All of these scientists come up with these research papers promising this or that on global warming.
It'll get them research grants.
These are people that wouldn't know how to go out and earn a living on their own if their lives depended on it.
They feed off the public trough.
They suckle in the public teeth.
That is their career.
That is how they go about raising money.
And they do it via scarce science.
We're politicizing science.
We're politicizing medicine now.
All for the purposes of growing government, making it larger by the virtue of electing Democrats to office.
And that's what this is really all about.
Meanwhile, there have been promising research and experiments in Parkinson's disease, not using stem cells of any kind, rather, gene therapy implanted in the brain via a virus.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has invested nearly $2 million to fund further research.
Nobody asks Mr. Fox about this, not even Katie Couric.
When asking me for a statement, I informed her of this, and you might want to ask him about this.
She didn't.
In addition to that, we have the profound results of cord blood stem cells being used to actually grow a human liver.
Very small, the size of a small coin, but it has worked.
It's in the Daily Mail, the UK Daily Mail today.
And they admit that it is cord blood stem cells that are showing promise here and that they have worked in this case.
These are stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of recently successfully born babies.
So the issue here continues to be distorted.
I continue to be made the issue.
I am having approval numbers done on me versus Michael J. Fox.
I'm the reason all of a sudden now conservatives aren't going to show up and moderates and independents are.
It is what it is.
But again, I'm not on the ballot.
You won't find my name on one ballot.
I'm not campaigning for a vote for myself in any way, shape, manner, or form.
But they must be worried to keep this alive and to keep distorting it.
They must think it's going to help them.
But once again, They don't have any issues of their own to run on.
But they've let us know who they are.
John Kerry has gone out and made it very clear by slandering the troops what Democrats think of the United States military.
Mrs. Clinton refuses to defend marriage as between a man and a woman, the New Jersey Supreme Court, authorizing a legislature there to write a gay marriage amendment into the New Jersey legislature, thus the Constitution.
So there are consequences to your vote this time next week.
You want to vote for amnesty for illegal aliens?
Vote Democrat because you'll get it.
You will get your amnesty for illegals if the Democrats run the House of Representatives.
Doesn't matter about the Senate because the Senate's already voted for the amnesty bill.
The president says he supports it.
If you get enough Democrats in the House, they'll authorize it and bamboo.
We've got amnesty.
If you don't care about any Supreme Court nominations in the next two years, if you don't care about, if you're not interested in the attempt to reverse the direction in the Supreme Court and the whole federal judiciary, vote Democrat.
There are consequences here.
If you want your tax cuts that have caused a growing economy to end, if you want your taxes to go up, if you want pharmaceutical companies investigated, if you want a national health care program based on Medicare, which Charlie Wrangell's already proposed as a member of the House, well, vote Democrats because there are consequences.
You'll get that.
If you want to continue America's energy dependence, if you want to end any pretense, any hope of energy exploration on the part of the United States, vote Democrat.
There are consequences here.
And if you want cloning, if you in Missouri want cloning, if you want that, if you want people to get rich off of your money in Missouri on cloning, then go vote Democrat and vote for that stupid amendment too.
And you'll get all of these things that you might want, I guess.
We'll be back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
Some Democrat strategist was just on the Fox News channel saying, we've got to stop talking about all these partisan attacks.
We've got to stop these partisan attacks like the partisan attack on Senator Kerry today.
And we've got to get back to the issues.
You know, they're circling the wagons to defend the guy.
I warned you people.
I told you it was going to happen.
I have the definitive way to deal with John Kerry.
The definitive thing, anybody that wants to comment on this, just say this.
His statement was so stupid, he'll probably end up in a rock.
Back to the phones.
Chris in Davenport, Iowa.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
It's a she, Rush.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You're right.
Sorry.
My mistake.
That's okay.
Hey, when I was listening to Senator Kerry's remarks, I was struck with something and told your call screener about it, and he agreed that if Senator Kerry and other Democrats really believed that it was the downtrodden and the people who couldn't make it any other way joining the military, wouldn't they be promoting that?
Wouldn't they be offering to do everything they could possible for them?
Aren't the Democrats the ones who...
That's exactly right.
Regardless why they join, why in the world put them down?
Exactly.
Why in the world put them down?
Now, you're going to have to hang on here a second, Chris, because I can't hear you.
My headpiece has fallen off and the broadcast engineer.
Here, Brian, I'll put the bars on so nobody will see you.
Nedetto Cam, just hand me that thing, put it back here on the proper.
Okay, now bars are back on.
Brian was seen by nobody.
And Chris, you're back.
The point I was going to make was, why impugn these people?
If they've, for whatever reason, they're defending the country.
Why make fun of them?
Why attack them?
And why put them down and what they do?
Exactly.
Why not take them and use them as part of your campaign?
Why, if the country so hates the war in Iraq, and if the country so hates what Bush has done, and if there's so much support for the troops that the Democrats claim they have, why not use them as campaign tools?
Right.
And just exactly.
And as your call screener said, these would be potential votes for the Democrats if they really believed what they're saying about only those downtrodden folks getting in.
Well, that's a dirty little secret.
They know that they're not.
They know the military is not for Democrats.
I know.
And they resent that.
And that's the way they treat anybody who doesn't support them.
One of the reasons they hate the military is because the military is not big on them.
The military people do not have the brilliance and the sophistication to understand just how wonderful Democrats and liberals are.
And so if you get on their wrong side, I don't care who you are, they will destroy you.
Here is John in Westminster, Maryland on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
You know, at the end of next week, the big story is going to be the Republicans won and the liberal mainstream media.
Wow.
Boy, did they ever get this one wrong and why?
Well, a lot of people have that hope.
You look at all the polls and you don't see that.
But then you look at other things, look at individual polls, you see much tighter races than what the national surveys indicate.
Then you look at the early voting and the absentees and you see Democrats lagging behind Republicans here, which is an indicator to get out the vote and motivation.
What it also tells us, something I speculated on a couple of weeks ago, that if these races end up as close as many people think they're going to be, and if the absentee ballots matter, those things don't get counted immediately.
We're not going to know next Tuesday night or maybe next Wednesday what the final outcome.
You think we'll know?
You think we'll know?
Snarly disagrees.
I have to run because I'm out of time here.
I got a break coming up, but I appreciate the call, John.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Well, if that's what you want, you are in the right place.
The truth uttered out of habit on this program.
El Rushboat serving humanity, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, we played this media montage for you.
Adam McGurney, New York Times, Claire Shipman of ABC, David Rodham Gergen of wherever there's a microphone and a camera, and somebody else.
And they're all talking about how my analysis of the Fox ad and my blowing the issue up has helped McCaskill in this race against Jim Townelled in Missouri.
That race, that Senate race, has been in the margin of error for three weeks.
Damn it, I was right, ready to make a damn good point.
Here comes Lurch.
Our microphones are there.
Let's gyp the Lurch press conference.
Are we ready?
Okay, go ahead.
Go ahead.
When Spates starts speaking out there.
Look at the look on his.
Oh, that's just.
Hang on just a second until he actually starts speaking, proving that he's going to actually make a statement.
See, let me monitor this in a second.
Okay, looks the microphone just fell off or something.
Looks like he slapped at the microphone in a fit of rage and anger.
Okay, go ahead, let's chip it.
He's waiting for some of the news to the message.
We had the wrong switch there.
A microphone is, there's no woman in that room.
He's waiting for approval.
Why?
Just interrupts this show.
These people come along.
Okay, go.
Chip it.
Let me make it crystal clear, as crystal clear as I know how.
All right.
I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy.
If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it is the president and his failed team and a Republican majority in the Congress that has been willing to stamp, rubber stamp, policies that have done injury to our troops and to their families.
My statement yesterday, and the White House knows this full well, was a botch joke about the president and the president's people, not about the troops.
The White House's attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe.
This is surreal.
This is a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything America to raw politics.
It's their willingness to distort, their willingness to mislead Americans, their willingness to exploit the troops as they have so many times at backdrops, at so many speeches in which they have not told the American people the truth.
I'm not going to stand for it.
What our troops deserve is a winning strategy, and what they deserve is leadership that is up to the sacrifice that they're making.
Sadly, this is the best that this administration can do in a month when we have lost 100 young men and women who have given their lives for a failed policy.
Over half the names on the Vietnam Wall were put there after our leaders knew that our policy was wrong.
And it was wrong that leaders were quiet then, and I'm not going to be quiet now.
This is a textbook Republican campaign strategy.
Try to change the topic.
Try to make someone else the issue.
Try to make something else said the issue, not the policy, not their responsibility.
Well, everybody knows it's not working this time, and I'm not going to stand around and let it work.
If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me who's been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans, to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is, if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq, they do.
The president and his people who put them there, they're crazy.
It's just wrong.
He just did it again.
Textbook Republican campaign tactic.
I'm sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not debate real policy, who won't take responsibility for their own mistakes.
Please mention me.
Trying to make other people make mistakes.
Mention me.
I'm sick and tired of a whole bunch of Republican attacks, most of which come from people who never wore the uniform and never had the courage to stand up and go to war themselves.
Enough is enough.
We're not going to stand for this.
This policy is broken.
And this president and his administration didn't do their homework.
They didn't study what would happen in Iraq.
They didn't study and listen to the people who were the experts and would have told them.
And they know that's what I was talking about yesterday.
I'm not going to be lectured by a White House or by the likes of Rush Limbaugh for taking a day off from mimicking and attacking Michael J. Fox, who's now going to try to attack me and lie about me and distort me.
No way.
It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did.
It's over.
This administration has given us a Katrina foreign policy.
Mistake upon mistake upon mistake.
Unwilling to give our troops the armor that they need, unwilling to have enough troops in place, unwilling to give them the Humvees that they deserve to protect them, unwilling to have a coalition that is adequate to be able to defend our interests.
Our own intelligence agency has told us they're creating more terrorists, not less.
They're making us less safe, not more.
I think Americans are sick and tired of this game.
These Republicans are afraid to stand up and debate a real veteran on this topic.
And they're afraid to debate, you know, they want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men.
Well, we're going to have a real debate in this country about this policy.
The bottom line is these Republicans want to distort this policy, and this time it won't work because we are going to stay in their face with the truth.
And no Democrat is going to be bullied by these people by these kinds of attacks that have no place in American politics.
It's time to set our policy correct.
They have a standstill and lose policy in Iraq, and they have a cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan.
And the fact is, our troops who have served heroically, who deserve better, deserve leadership that is up to their sacrifice.
Period.
All right, there you have it.
That's Lurch, John Kerry, just finishing his statement.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, there are two people that watch this and are fit to be tied right now.
They are Nancy Pelosi and they are Harry Reid, and perhaps even Rah Emmanuel and even Chuck Schumer.
The Democrats have done their best to stand mute on the whole subject of the Iraq war for the past two weeks during the real thrust of the campaign.
And Kerry has stepped in it twice now, once last night by insulting the troops and now trying to make it sound like everybody's insulting him for not understanding that he'd mangled a bad joke in which he was talking about the president of the United States.
So we'll see what impact this has, ladies and gentlemen, on the campaign because as I theorized earlier, if the Democratic Party really thought that this kind of rhetoric would launch them to even more victories on Tuesday of next week, then they would have been doing what Kerry's doing today.
They would have been doing it non-stop the past two weeks.
But we need an amber alert for Nancy Pelosi.
We can't find her.
She was uttering that, where's Jack Murtha?
Where are all the Democrats who have been saying the same thing that John Kerry's been saying for the last year or two?
They have vanished.
They are nowhere to be seen.
And let's also stop and think, what about the impact of Osama bin Laden or whoever the terrorist leaders around the world are who heard this?
This is a call to arms for them.
Ratchet up the attacks.
Ratchet up the violence in Iraq, in Baghdad, or wherever.
Their allies have finally spoken up.
John Kerry speaking for the Democratic Party.
Denise in Marietta, Georgia, thank you for calling and welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Russ.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
I just listened to this press conference at Egypt and I've heard what Kerry said yesterday.
And, you know, I'm just so thankful that this man is not the president because if you can say what he said yesterday so clearly, and I understood it, you know, so and I'm afraid that I'm obviously not very smart, but I understood what he said when he impugned our truths.
And then you get up today and you clearly redefine what it is that you said yesterday for the whole world.
I mean, if this man were in charge of negotiating for on my behalf as an American citizen with a foreign power, I mean, one day it's one thing.
The next day, it's something coming up.
Mentally, then totally different.
How do you trust?
How can you depend when somebody is so mentally, I mean, there's really no other word for it except unstable.
Because, you know, you either say what you mean or mean what you say.
I'm just thankful.
You know, things may not be going as wonderfully well as we'd all hope and pray that they are, but nobody's over there making mistakes on purpose.
Well, wait a second.
They're going much better than anybody thinks they are.
The stupid reporting that's come out of there is so one-sided.
It's not a panacea, but there's progress that's been made.
Countless evidence exists.
It just doesn't get reported.
But you raise a good point.
Imagine if this guy could have been our president.
This guy flip-flopping.
Now to turn this around and say, if anybody needs to apologize, it's Bush.
You know what this was?
Among many other things, this is John Kerry trying to be a man.
I'm not going to put up an attack on me.
I'm going to stand for what I'm.
He's not backing up his statement.
He excused it.
He excused the statement and said, it was just a joke.
Everybody knew I was trying to tell a joke.
I bangled a joke about George W. Bush.
And then launches into an attack trying to change the subject while accusing everybody of engaging in partisan attacks against him.
I think what he's done, if he hadn't done it last night, he's done it now.
He has doomed his fate, sealed his fate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
If he ever had a chance at it anyway, it's vanished now.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Well, yeah, it is Christmas on Halloween.
But I got to tell you, the Kooks are going to love this.
The Kooks are going to be revved up.
And that may be why we need the Kooks revved up.
We need the Kooks out there revving up and saying things, speaking things.
I'm telling you, the Democrats did not want this kind of stuff coming up during this final two weeks of the campaign, or they would have been doing it.
If this was a winner for them, every Democrat in the world, in the country would have been doing it.
And they haven't.
You can't find a Democrat leader anywhere talking about the war in Iraq.
They've got some conservative candidates in the House running, and they're trying to soft pedal their liberalism in order to trick voters in those conservative districts into voting for Democrats.
We'll see.
Now, I want to go back to what I was saying before Lurch interrupted with his press conference.
The media, drive-by media is out there attempting to blame me now for the upcoming loss of several Republicans next Tuesday, particularly in Missouri, with the Michael J. Fox ad flap.
And I just want to remind you that that race has been a margin of error race for six months or more.
It's been deadlocked for that long a period of time.
But there is another ad, another race featuring a Michael J. Fox ad where I also commented, said the same things, and that's in Maryland.
And in that race, the Republican Michael Steele has vaulted ahead.
And he just got several key endorsements from black leaders in Prince George's county yesterday.
What's the difference?
The difference is that Michael Steele didn't sit back and take the ad.
Michael Steele launched a counter ad with his sister, who has MS, because the ad, just as the ad in Missouri against Talent, the ad in Maryland, professed and claimed that Michael Steele doesn't care about stem cell research.
The ad in Missouri said that Jim Talent wants to criminalize it.
Talent just said, didn't say a word about that that I heard about.
But Michael Steele launched a response ad and didn't let Fox or Ben Cardin get away with this.
It was Ben Carden who, in fact, has voted against stem cell research as a member of Congress, and yet Michael J. Fox's ad runs on his behalf.
So this can be, if the Republicans involved know what they're doing, a huge winner for them.
And this the Democrats know, which is why they continually now for over a week continue to distort what I said and how I said it, because they're worried about the impact of what I said might have on the races.
That is the real bottom line.
Here is Mark in Toledo.
Mark, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Megadido, Rush.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure and an honor to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to comment that, you know, Senator Kerry really isn't all that bright because he gets up on stage and says, you know, President Bush went and sent those troops off the war without armor, without armored Humvees.
And isn't he the one that said he voted for the $82 billion or million to fund the war before he voted against it?
Did we get to break that clip out again?
Well, we'll bring it out.
In fact, since you bring it out, I want you to hear another clip.
This clip, let me go find it.
It didn't print it out.
It's April 22, 1971.
Now, John Kerry just told us in his press conference how he loves troops.
He has the respect.
Anybody who thinks that as a veteran that he would criticize and rip the troops is crazy.
Well, let's listen to John Kerry himself in April of 1971 describing acts that he claimed to have seen U.S. troops commit in Vietnam.
They told the stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, raised villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.
Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with a full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
That was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony.
That was John Kerry, and he was making that stuff up.
And that is what led one of many things that led to the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth saying to hell with this guy.
He didn't see these things.
He just made this up.
But here's a guy who says in his press conference, why anybody thinks I would attack veterans and people in service?
Well, it's just crazy.
Well, he has a history of doing it, and he did it last night.
And he's trying to change the subject once again and blame all this on the Bush administration.
I don't know about you folks, but John Kerry, the Republicans' October surprise, had Karl Rove as brilliant.
Karl Rove somehow found a way to get John Kerry to get tired in Pasadena last night and to make a comment here about the stupidity of the troops in Iraq.
This Rove can pull things off.
I mean, I know how good Rove is, but I continually am amazed at the reach that Karl Rove has.
So John F. Kerry, who served in Vietnam, the Republicans' October surprise.
Be right back, ladies and gentlemen.
It would have been so easy for Senator Kerry just to slot this away.
But no, Senator Kerry had to try to prove to us he's a man and he's not going to get swiftboated again.
So this is a swiftboat attack he's looking at.
I hope Republicans around the country are preparing their press releases and their responses and their campaign remarks about this.
Again, programming note, President Bush on the program tomorrow will be taping the interview prior to the program.
And I don't know yet when we're going to play.
It'll be in the first hour, no doubt.
We'll squeeze it in at some point.
Until then, ladies and gentlemen, have a wonderful afternoon and evening.
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