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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Hiya, folks, how are you?
	The Democrats think that it's over.
	I don't mean the election.
	I mean Carrie.
	They think his apology, by the way, that apology of his is as gutless as everything else he does.
	He put that apology up there on his website.
	You know what that's like?
	It's like breaking up with your girlfriend by leaving her a voicemail.
	Doesn't even have the guts to go before a camera and do it.
	And in the process of the apology, he still blames people for being stupid enough not to figure out what his eminence was trying to say.
	Hey, folks, Rush Limboy here behind the golden EIB microphone for three hours of broadcast excellence.
	The telephone numbers 800 282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
	All right, it's time to issue another amber alert for Nancy Pelosi.
	I am getting concerned about where she is.
	I'm concerned if she's okay.
	Do you know I looked it up?
	The last time Nancy Pelosi was seen in public was October 21st.
	And that was in Chicago.
	She uh this is a photo with the mayor there, Richard Daly.
	And he's laughing as Pelosi shakes hands with the actor Alan Alda at the National Italian American Foundation.
	I think it's my duty here as a concerned citizen, uh, one who loves all of humanity.
	I'll be concerned about the whereabouts of Nancy Pelosi.
	Where is she?
	Where is Harry Reed?
	I saw Harry Reed at a party last Friday night in Las Vegas, but in public I haven't seen these people.
	Now there must be a reason.
	Why the Democrats are doing their level best to hide their two leaders and the face or faces of their party.
	And we, of course, all know what the um reason that they are hiding these people is.
	They're trying to put upon us another mask, another camouflage.
	They are trying to convince the voters of America that they are not who they are.
	By the way, I've got a couple things I want to do here to get these out of the way, because if I save this till later in the show, we'll never get to them.
	And we'll get to the carry stuff here in just a second, because it's important and it's not over.
	Uh, at least for me and uh for a lot of us who really care about this.
	But first things first.
	I see as this story, this is an AP story.
	Study new air systems don't clear smoke.
	State-of-the-art ventilation systems used to clear cigarette smoke from bars and restaurants do not eliminate dangerous soot and carcinogens, and can even push their levels higher in non-smoking sections than in smoking areas, researchers concluded.
	Their findings from three restaurants in a little studied field uh come just a week before voters in Arizona, Nova and Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio considered dueling smoking-related initiatives.
	Now the reason I'm bringing this up is because it is an electoral issue.
	Ballots in each of these states include a tough ban on smoking in public places and a more lenient proposal with exemptions for bars and casinos backed by industry groups.
	Now the the uh the the ventilation systems have been put in places in these uh states as tests.
	And the ventilation system isn't is called thermal displacement.
	Most ventilation systems simply recycle the air in a room, put it through a worthless filter, and make you think that you're getting fresh air, or they flood the room with fresh air that's supposed to dilute the smoky air.
	Thermal displacement is entirely different.
	Thermal displacement floods the floor area of a room with cold air.
	The people in the room warm the air, the air rises and takes the smoke, any air out of the room, out of the building.
	How do I know this?
	Because I have it.
	I have it in my library at home, and I have it in the in my media room at home, and I've got it in a game room at home.
	Get it three rooms.
	And as you people know, I am a regular cigar smoker.
	I defy anyone, and I have been smoking in these rooms with this thermal displacement system, and it's built into the HVA system of the house.
	I mean, it's not a cheap thing.
	It's it's not it these are not little uh devices you put around the room that make all this blasted noise.
	You don't even know this thing is on except for the fact the smoke's not there.
	It works like a dream.
	You can come into my library.
	There's a lot of fabric in there, the curtains and the furniture.
	Come in there and smell it, and you will not know a cigar has ever been smoked in that room.
	Same thing in the media room where everything is fabric for the acoustics of the room.
	Smell any of the fabric.
	This is just uh this is BS.
	And I know the guy who designed the system.
	Of course, I contacted him to have it installed in my place, and he's a brilliant engineer.
	I'm not going to mention his name because I don't want him being flooded with uh with media requests of people trying to discredit the guy.
	But this is what the story says.
	Unlike older ventilation systems that mainly dilute smoky air with fresh air, displacement systems use cooler air, ideally pumped in at floor level, to force hot smoky air up to ceiling ducts.
	They've been heavily promoted by the tobacco industry and the casino industry as a way to accommodate both smokers and non-smokers.
	Now look, it doesn't get smoke out of there instantly.
	It doesn't, I mean, it's not as though it's not there, but the idea that it doesn't work is bogus, and I wanted to get my two cents in on this simply because I I don't like Nazis of any, I don't like the Feminazis, I don't like the anti-smoking Nazis, I don't like the environmentalist wacko Nazis, and uh it these people are all uh part of this group of people that are unassailable.
	They come across a talking of in this case smoking and public health.
	Well, you can't dis you can't disagree with them.
	Why, you're you're you're challenging their integrity.
	Are you these people have just as much a political agenda as anything else?
	They hide behind the agenda is either environmentalism or women's rights uh or or uh health or what have you.
	And you just you you're not supposed to be able to attack these people.
	You're not supposed to be able to criticize what they say.
	And as I say, for I'm not playing by that set of rules anymore.
	It's it's been going on for way too long.
	It's why we have Cindy Sheehan, uh uh a pathetic figure.
	A truly pathetic figure.
	It's why Cindy Sheehan gets elevated to uh unassailable status.
	It's just it's it's a technique uh whose time has come.
	It it needs to just just be dispatched.
	Uh this and I'm not making an argument for smoking or not.
	I'm just I just I'm telling you to question the motives of all these people.
	Uh who hide behind supposedly unassailable uh motives.
	I just want people to be healthy.
	I just want to Yeah, you leave the bar, you leave the restaurant, you go outside and you smell all the automobile exhaust and you get a good dose of bus exhaust and all that.
	I mean, what how about all the jet exhaust that gets inside terminals at airplanes?
	You ever smell Keras?
	I happen to love jet fuel smell, but a lot of people, I mean, I I like the smell of gasoline.
	But I mean, there's all kinds of places where uh you are exposed to carcinogens.
	Hell, everything's a carcinogen these days, except liberalism, of course.
	It's one of the biggest carcinogens, if you ask me, of the spirit and of the mind uh that we have going.
	Democrats are so confident of the upcoming elections, ladies and gentlemen, that they are going to greater lengths than ever before to rig the election in various states, and in the process getting caught.
	Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, Missouri, officials said yesterday.
	Investigators said the questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
	It's a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities, and that's BS.
	It's nothing but a bunch of liberals.
	It's nothing but a bunch of leftists, and they work in concert with the Democratic Party.
	This is another trick.
	Oh, they just a group that wants to improve minority and low-income community.
	That's not what they do.
	They're out there to rig elections.
	Just like rock the vote, kill to vote, or whatever these groups are.
	They're all out there just working to get Democrats elected, pure and simple, hiding under these uh these these uh mission statements of good and decency and justice and all these unassailable things.
	The four people indicted uh were employed by Acorn as registration recruiters.
	They were each charged with two counts.
	Federal Indictments allege these four people turned in false voter registration applications.
	Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.
	Acorn and Project Vote recruit and assign okay, here you go.
	Acorn and Project Vote.
	Now at least there's a bunch of creeps that name themselves accurately, but Acorn uh the group that went to improve minority and low-income community.
	What happens here is an Acorn and Project Vote recruit and assign workers to low-income and minority neighborhoods to register people to vote.
	The Kansas City Election Board told KMBC television they found suspicious forms such as seven applications from one person and an application from a dead man.
	Ray James with the Kansas City Election Board said there is some motive behind it.
	This is not accidental.
	Really?
	Last month, Acorn claimed to have processed more than 35,000 voter registration applications in Kansas City alone since uh since the summertime.
	So four acorn workers in Missouri indicted 35,000 questionable voter registration forms.
	That is one city.
	Ladies and gentlemen, John Kerry.
	Quotes have been dug up by the Associated Press from 1972 that confirm what I have been saying about John Kerry since 2004.
	We have details because this ain't over when we come back.
	Stay with us.
	Hey, I want to before we get to uh before we get back to Lurch, I I read something interesting today at uh one of our all-time favorite blogs here, The American Thinker by Richard Bayer, and he's quoting Betsy Newmark um uh who has commented, and it's interesting, folks, stick with me on this, uh, commented on the fact that the Republicans seem to be doing very well in early and absentee voting, and I myself have reported that to you, and that has been in the news.
	The early voting and absentee voting is largely uh uh a GOP advantage.
	And as such, I don't know how significantly uh uh what what percentage of voters Republican wise nationally are voting early or via absentee, and that's the point.
	Uh but because of this phenomenon, it might, the Republican Party might appear on election night to be faring less well on election day itself.
	Now, there aren't any exit polls in house races, too many.
	There are exit polls for Senate races and gubernatorial races.
	And I'll have a story later on the program out of the network's plan to they've set up his quarantine room.
	Uh they're tired of these exit polls leaking uh to people like Drudge and then gets them all over the place.
	Uh and and so they're they're apparently they're gonna sit tight on these.
	Nobody's gonna get anything other than the networks who are uh paying for these things, and they're gonna watch these people very carefully in the so-called quarantine room.
	But uh the the thing about this is is that if you're watching uh election returns next Tuesday night, and the you see absentee votes and early votes are not counted uh along with the votes on election day.
	Absolute is always counted later.
	And so the it might it might give people the opportunity to report a much larger Democrat vote than really exists because of the amount of early voting and absentee voting on the part of Republicans.
	Here's another problem.
	The first states to report Tuesday night are Indiana and Kentucky.
	The uh and there are five vulnerable GOP House incumbents in those two states.
	Now, if the Democrats pick off two or three right away, that could also lend some credence to to the building wave theory, the blue wave theory among the left-leaning media that might also depress turnout in the West.
	So the uh I just want you to be on the lookout because of the early voting of Republicans absentee voting that the election returns in the East and Central Time Zones on election night uh could depress voter turnout in the mountain and Pacific time zones.
	And I want you people to be aware of this and not full not that it's a trick.
	I mean, this is this depending on how large the early voting and the absentee voting is on the uh behalf of Republicans, this could be a factor.
	Could also not be a factor if the early voting and absentee voting is not that large.
	All right, let's let's review.
	Let's dial things back.
	Monday night, Pasadena City College Democrat rally for the governor candidate out there in California, Phil Angelitas.
	Senator Kerry strode to the microphone.
	We're here to talk about education, but I want to say something before that.
	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.
	Yeah, and I wonder the story is uh if you don't, you get us stuck in Iraq.
	That was the spin.
	That's that's what he meant to say.
	If you get us stuck in Iraq.
	Well, Bush study it still doesn't make any sense because Bush went school, he studied hard, he got better grades than Kerry.
	Kerry has no sense of humor.
	You know, John Kerry is a pretentious fool, ladies and gentlemen.
	He really he is he because he looks and appears aristocratic, he is granted status into the club of elites.
	But he's he's dense.
	Uh it it really is a it's one of these amazing things that happens.
	Uh liberals have their favorite people.
	I don't think he's one of them, by the way, but uh he's he's not examined under the microscope that others would be examined under.
	And here he is talking to a bunch of college kids about how to get ahead in the world, and he wouldn't dare tell them what his prescription is.
	Go out and find as many wealthy women as you can date them and hope one of them becomes a widow and you can marry her.
	I mean, that's his script for becoming successful in life, because it weren't for that, what would he be?
	He's never met a payroll.
	Well, I take it back.
	He had a cookie shop once for a while in Boston.
	Didn't work out well.
	I want to then, as we're going back in time, I want to play for you the first thing I said on Tuesday after hearing and opening the show after hearing what Kerry had said.
	The Democrats, the liberals, are trying to muzzle themselves and shut up.
	They want their candidates to sound like what Harold Ford is saying, that he's pro-life, and that he's a big Christian.
	They want candidates to hear the conservatism that James Webb is using in his campaign.
	They don't want the Democrats speaking in public, betraying who they really are.
	And along comes Lurch.
	Along comes old long faced John Kerry and steps in it again.
	It is typical of who they are.
	I'm not surprised.
	This is not the first time Kerry said something like this.
	Look at the other things he said about the troops, that they are terrorists, they terrorize Iraqi women and children in their homes at night, disrupting their religious services.
	This is who the Democrats are, folks.
	This is what they actually think.
	This is what they actually think.
	And so we got his apology yesterday.
	And look here, it as a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones.
	My poorly stated joke at a rally was not about and never intended to refer to any troop.
	I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.
	Okay, let's parse this.
	I and by the way, this is on his website.
	He hasn't uttered this personally, not behind a microphone, not behind a camera or in front of a camera.
	He hasn't he just put it on his.
	I say it's it's like breaking up with your girlfriend on a voice message.
	You know, you call up the voicemail, say you know the phones aren't going to be answered.
	Hey, babe, we're through.
	Can't handle it anymore.
	I'm out of here.
	See ya.
	Real gutsy.
	I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted.
	He's still telling people that they're stupid.
	He's still telling you you're too stupid to get what he said.
	He is so smart, he is unable to get down to your level so that you understood what he was trying to say.
	His remarks were not misinterpreted.
	He's still blaming people like Bush and me uh and others for twisting what he said.
	What he said is what he said.
	You know what else about this is funny as hell, folks?
	What was his whole point?
	According to his spinners, according to the cable networks, according to the Democrats who did everything they could to sweep this away.
	What did they he was insulting Bush?
	He was trying to tell people that Bush is stupid.
	He was trying to suggest that you'll end up like Bush if you don't study and if you don't get good grades, and you'll be president one day and you can send dumb people to Iraq.
	Well, isn't this funny?
	Here is a guy who's being totally stupid and dumb and can't speak in a way he claims he intended to, insulting George W. Bush as being stupid.
	So here you have a veritable stupid idiot, John Kerry, acting like the smartest guy in the world, trying to insult George W. Bush, and he's so dumb and stupid, trying to insult another dumb and stupid guy in his mind, they didn't have the brains to sound smarter than the guy he's insulting.
	Meanwhile, if you look at the record, you I don't think you'll find foot in mouth disease on the part of George W. Bush, like uh exists with Carrie and a whole lot of them.
	We're not through with this.
	Back in a second.
	Making the complex understandable Rush Limbaugh, a man, a living legend, a way of life here on the EIB network.
	By the way, a lot of you watching on the Ditto Cam are wondering what what is a tune or the tunes that I am grooving to here during uh commercial breaks.
	You have to understand I can only listen to music that I've heard before I lost my hearing.
	Every bit of music since I lost my hearing sounds the same note.
	I mean, violins, uh uh strings, uh, movie soundtracks sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
	So I listen to old.
	Tune that I have been grooving to the past couple days is double shot of my baby's love.
	Uh swinging medallions, 1965.
	And I gonna go back to it.
	I got about 337 tunes here in the iTunes playlist that are compressed.
	I mean.
	I mean, just David, it's just it just sounds to me, in my memory supplies the melody.
	And uh so that that's what I'm grooving to just to answer your questions.
	All right, John Kerry.
	We know who he is, we know who the Democrats are.
	When it comes to the military, as I said, this is not I said the president yesterday, he's just the latest.
	Um of all things.
	The Associated Press was not through with this yesterday.
	The Associated Press went back and found some earlier quotes from John Kerry in 1972.
	During a Vietnam era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable, and be more prone to the perpetuation of war crimes.
	Well, that's what he thinks this army's doing now.
	I'm telling you, he hasn't changed who he is since he was 18 to 20 to 24 or five years old.
	And neither have the Democrats.
	They know.
	You know, the the New York Times today, folks, interesting on their front page.
	I guess they're not they're not getting too many leaks lately.
	So they had a they had a uh a sandbag poll question.
	Front page poll.
	If it is in control of Congress, which party do you think is more likely to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq more quickly?
	And the Democrats uh polled 76% here.
	Now the Democrats are out there saying they don't want to cut and run.
	No, no, no, no.
	We don't want to, oh, we're not we're not cutting the run.
	How can you say that about us?
	Well, people listening to him apparently get the point.
	76% of the people in the New York Times poll say Democrats will bring the troops back from Iraq more quickly, not specified under what circumstances, defeat or victory.
	Uh it seems the voters know that the left wants to cut and run.
	I know that this is a Democrat audience, and it's a New York Times audience responding to this.
	I think it is.
	Uh, but their message is getting out.
	They are cut and run.
	Here's what Kerry said.
	Uh he it in 72, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army.
	He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft, but considered a volunteer army a greater anathema.
	I'm convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown.
	We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam.
	I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply doing its job.
	Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities.
	Kerry's hack spokesman, David Wade is the guy that comes up with the doughy Rush Limbaugh and the uh I mean Kerry approves it all, but David Wade's a guy that writes all this stuff.
	Uh the stuff suit, Tony Snow, and so forth.
	David Wade said uh yesterday that the historical document needed to be viewed in the era in which it was written, but that it nonetheless raised a bedrock question in a time of war when sacrifice should be shared by all Americans.
	All this does is confirm everything we know that Kerry said Sunday night, everything he's been saying, everything the Democrats say.
	We have a volunteer army, and Kerry told us what he thinks of that army, not just on Sunday night or Monday night.
	He told us many, many times.
	He's told us Richard Durbin has told us the Democrats have constantly reminded us, and they've done so with pride, by the way.
	They've they've stood up, they've been proud to say what they think of the U.S. military.
	Durbin thought he was scoring huge points on the Senate floor when he compared interrogators at Club Gitmo to the regime of Pol Pot or the Nazis, the gulags in the Soviet Union.
	There was a great post on the corner at National Review Online yesterday by Mario Loyola.
	He said, folks, I do not agree with letting Senator Aristo slacker off the hook for his plainly delivered insult to the troops.
	It is a basic talking point of the Pelosi Kerry Dean Wing of the Democrat Party that the troops in Iraq are not there because they are deeply committed to the mission, but rather because of a system that takes advantage of their lack of social and economic opportunities.
	It naturally follows that Kerry would exhort young students to use school as a device of upward social mobility and thereby escape the fate of those poor fools who wound up in Iraq because of mediocre talent or effort while in school.
	Very basic to Kerry's worldview, and for him to deny what he thinks is weasling mendacity, not an apology.
	John Kerry is a pompous fool who can't see what's right in front of his face.
	And that's why he steps on clearly marked landmines left and right.
	Viewed from the headquarters of the Bush campaign in 2004, the Kerry campaign was an unbelievable spectacle of how to create problems for yourself that everybody else in Washington is competent enough to avoid.
	People need to understand John Kerry does not work.
	He is a super slacker.
	His brain is soft.
	He doesn't have anything to say, and he gets by in life only because he says it like an aristocrat.
	The really important thing about this entire gaffe is that Kerry drew attention to a structural flaw in the DNC's communication strategy.
	Kerry does this all the time, by the way, was size why he's such a liability to them.
	And namely that is the Democrats do not support what our troops are fighting for.
	And my friends, they don't.
	Mr. Loyola here is exactly right.
	The Democrats do not support what our troops are fighting for.
	They are embarrassed by the troops' dedication and sacrifice.
	And thus they do not support the troops.
	And I am of the opinion that we should clobber them with that ruthlessly.
	Until the day of the election election, just like we did in 04, because it is the most basic reason they deserve to lose.
	And they cannot wait to talk about Iraq from their standpoint.
	But it is.
	Mr. Loyola is exactly right.
	It is the most basic reason they deserve to lose.
	They have disdain for the troops, for the mission.
	They have actively engaged in sabotaging it.
	From trying to kill the Patriot Act to mischaracterizing the foreign surveillance program as domestic spying, trying to grant lawyers and judges the right to prosecute the war on terror and take it away from the commander-in-chief.
	They have done all of this and more.
	Their words have been designed to destroy morale, Ted Kennedy.
	Talking about how Abu Ghrab is the same now as it was under Sedamich, just under new management.
	They have done Their level headed best on purpose to denigrate and impugn the character of the U.S. military and the mission of the U.S. military, all the while claiming they support the troops.
	Yet all the while they have done everything they can to demoralize the troops and to sabotage their mission.
	And it is the most basic reason at this point in time in this nation's history that the Democrats deserve to lose this election.
	They have not, in any way, shape, manner, or form earned the right to govern.
	They may, with these elections on Tuesday, who knows, because I think if they do win, it's going to be more of uh the result of historical trends.
	The sixth year of a two-term presidency, uh, the natural fatigue that voters have, and we will know, by the way, by how big their margins are if they do win.
	Remember, the average here is 33, 37 House seats.
	If they barely squeak by, I'm folks, the here's the bottom line.
	Democratic Party is a party in ruin.
	The Democratic Party is a party crumbling.
	A Democratic Party is a party that has no idea what it stands for.
	Well, not true.
	They haven't the ability to be honest about what they stand for.
	They have to hide their leaders.
	Two weeks before an election.
	Where is Nancy Pelosi?
	Where is Nancy or Harry Reed?
	Uh the only guy out there continuing to make an utter fool of himself is Howard Dean.
	Where are these people?
	They don't dare show up.
	In order to win these elections, they're having to go out and act conservatives.
	I've got a story in the stack here about how church-going people are warming up to Democrats as they hear Democrats talking about how they love Jesus.
	I don't know if the stories are true.
	If they're true, it frankly surprises me.
	How many years has it been the Democrats have made it known they hate church people?
	They despise and make fun of evangelicals and Christians and Catholics.
	And anybody else who is deeply religious.
	And they can be bought off with some words.
	I think there's a lot of hope invested here in these uh in his news reports about this, because they're clearly making it plain in these reports that I have in the snack of stuff today.
	That's the Democrats uh making great inroads with religion people talking about how they love Jesus, and they have uh and they're deeply religious people in the soul.
	That is not who the Democrats are, ladies and gentlemen.
	A party on the ascendancy would be robust and proud to tell you who they are.
	They would be proud to announce their real agenda.
	Instead, they hide their leaders.
	You need an amber alert program to go out and find Nancy Pelosi.
	They nominate a bunch of Democrats who are actually conservative to run in Southern districts, and this is one of the reasons the House leader Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry have to hide.
	It's one reason why they can't announce an agenda because it would undercut the real effort here, which is to win the House with conservative Democrats.
	Quick timeout.
	We'll be back and continue.
	Just a second.
	Hey, a little montage here, ladies and gentlemen.
	Democrats and their willing accomplices in a drive-by media couldn't wait to sweep this carry story away.
	We have a montage.
	James Carville, Tim Russert, Suzanne Malvo, uh Andrew Sullivan of Time Magazine, John King of CNN, Wolf Blitzer, and Jeff Greenfield of CNN after Kerry issued another faux apology.
	Now, they wanted to sweep this away as quickly as they could.
	And l now that they think they have, listen to how they deal with it.
	Let's move on to the next topic.
	We discuss that in 04.
	Will the Republican Party accept that it's milked this story for all it's worth and move on?
	We had John Kerry delay a formal apology for 24 hours.
	And now Democrats are saying, enough already, let's move on.
	Is the story going to go away?
	Is it dead?
	I think this is over now.
	I really do, and I think it's time to move on.
	Most think we'll soon go away.
	Enough.
	Enough with this carry stuff.
	Let's move on.
	What are they going to do now?
	Ask him to go run through the streets and flog themselves.
	Now, this is Thursday, right?
	So we're coming up on uh the tenth day of uh my flap with the Michael J. Fox Ed in Missouri and Maryland.
	The tenth day.
	CNN tonight is going to do yet another feature on this, featuring this video of me that they are mischaracterizing on purpose.
	We have sent the transcripts of everything I've said to the CNN producers.
	Uh uh, We have talked to them.
	We have explained what happened here.
	They don't care.
	They are continuing in promoing this Anderson Cooper piece tonight to misrepresent what happened on this program.
	Yet the Democrats want this let's move on.
	I think it's over.
	Come on, let's move on.
	Meanwhile, Katie Croick was on uh Larry King last night.
	Here's Andy in Chicago.
	Andy, welcome to the EIB network.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you doing?
	Just fine, sir.
	Thank you.
	Uh, thanks for having me on.
	Uh first time caller, long time listener.
	Um, but yeah, I was watching the um the interview with uh Katie Crook on Larry King, and he was showing uh some clips of her interview with Michael J. Fox and Michael J. Fox saying that he indeed had over medicated himself for the ad that ran in Missouri.
	And when he had asked her about it about three minutes later, uh, when she was discussing Parkinson, she said that it it was she had a lot of her experts looking at the video, and they said that it doesn't appear that he had any way altered or changed.
	Yeah, I know.
	You know, we've got we've got this sound bite, and I I want to I want to play this for Andy is uh is right on the money here.
	Uh Larry King talking to Katie Corey last night.
	Were you shocked at what Limbaugh did and said?
	I think that it was thoughtless.
	I think Rush Limbaugh himself would concede that.
	And I think that it was based on misinformation about Parkinson's.
	I heard many conservative commentators making statements that Michael J. Fox had somehow manipulated his medication or was acting or made sure he did that when his symptoms were heightened.
	And I think most scientists and medical experts who really understand Parkinson's would be the first to tell you that just isn't the case.
	Well, I know is there a bigger expert than Mr. Fox himself, Katie.
	You know, I um I really disappointed in her because as I mentioned to you, she sent me an email and said that she was going to be interviewing Fox and wanted to know if I had anything to say.
	She did not tell me that uh she was going to run this video that everybody's running that mischaracterizes and misinterprets what happened on this program.
	She's not, she didn't tell me that um well the couple of the things she didn't tell me what were going to happen on this thing.
	I sent her one, two, three, four, five paragraphs.
	Thanks, Katie.
	Let me try to make it simple.
	I believe Democrats have a long history of using victims of various things as political spokespeople because they believe they're untouchable, unassailable, they're immune from criticism.
	But when anyone enters the political arena of ideas, they f they do not, as far as I'm concerned, forfeit the right to be challenged on their participation in message.
	They are fair game.
	I've not met Mr. Fox.
	I don't know him.
	I've admired his work in film and TV, and his appearances on Letterman were howlers.
	I have nothing personal against him, but I believe his implication that only Democrats want to cure diseases is irresponsible, as I believed about John Edwards assuring voters that Christopher Reeve would walk if only John Kerry were elected.
	I think this is ultimately cruel, gives people who suffer these terrible afflictions false hope.
	As of now, there is no evidence that embryonic stem cells even hold promise while other approaches, such as adult stem cells, already have yielded results.
	Mr. Fox's TV spots mislead and misinform on this.
	You might ask him about the gene therapy research at a Chicago hospital, which has produced encouraging results on Parkinson's patients.
	A virus is inserted in the gene, which is then inserted in the brain.
	The Michael J. Fox Foundation has committed one point nine million dollars to further research on this.
	Uh she didn't bring it up.
	I did not mock or make fun of Mr. Fox.
	I've seen him on television many times, but never have I seen him appear as he does in these ads.
	I read from his own book that he will not take his medications before certain appearances, Senate 1999, in order to illustrate the ravages of Parkinson's, which I understand and applaud, by the way.
	So the concept of manipulating medications has been stated by Mr. Fox in his own book, which is what caused me to question his appearance in the ads.
	He's stumping for Democrats in the political arena, is therefore open to analysis and criticism as we all are.
	His suffering is not fair game.
	And I'm sorry if people drew that conclusion about my comments, but I believe this happens precisely because no criticism of victims is ever allowed at all.
	Which, as I say, is the Democrat strategy and putting them forward.
	And she goes on Larry King last night and says she's hearing about all these people saying Fox manipulates his medication or was acting or made sure, and the experts don't say this.
	She didn't even read what I sent her.
	Or if she did, she didn't remember it.
	Or she didn't read his own book, and if she did, she didn't believe him either.
	We will uh post again at rushlinbaugh.com the note that I just read to Katie Kirk that she requested.
	By the way, and we'll take a break and be back and continue after this.

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