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Nov. 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, well, well, looky here, ladies and gentlemen.
L. Rushball calls it again.
Greetings and welcome back.
Nice to have you.
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America's real anchor man Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned, Maha Rushi.
With a half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Telephone number, want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
And uh email address rush at eIBNet.com back on Tuesday when first discussing the John Kerry situation.
I warned you people what I expected to occur in the drive-by media.
One of the things I told you is that they will do segments on what Kerry really meant.
I then said, before this is all over, the odds are that one of them will actually go out and do a story about how Kerry was right.
And you'll go out and try to find military families that fit the bill of Kerry's view of them.
And so forth and so forth.
Well, didn't happen precisely that way.
But I didn't visit the ABC New Web ABC News website today, but Gateway Pundit has indeed posted screenshots of ABC News website today.
And there are two screenshots here, and we will link to Gateway Pundit at Rush Limbaugh.com so you can see these.
The first screenshot has an ad for Charlie Gibson up there at the top, the ABC News logo, November 2, 2006.
That's today.
A picture of John Kerry making the statement Monday night in Pasadena.
And the headline, the caption of the picture, Carrie's botched Iraq joke.
Maybe he was right.
The Senator has apologized for his remarks, but perhaps he had a good point.
A look at both sides of the issue.
The second screenshot, same picture of Kerry making the comments at Pasadena City College.
The caption to this picture and the headline of their story, Carrie's botched Iraq joke.
Could he have been right?
The Senator has apologized for his remarks, but did he have a good point?
So the drive-by media, in this case ABC, has once again proved me right.
They have fulfilled one of my own predictions.
The liberals of even as recently as last night were panicked over the fallout from the Kerry situation, which is precisely why I don't think the Republicans ought to let it go.
Just because Democrats want to let it go.
Why should we, the party supposedly trailing in these elections, why should we let it go?
Just because they want us to.
Let's go to the Charlie Rose show last night on PBS.
He was talking to ABC News, incidentally, political director Mark Halperin.
And they're discussing Carrie's remarks.
And Charlie Rose says, there's also this.
Whatever the political discussion was before this, it's been nothing but this over the last, what, 36 hours?
I don't know that the story will continue.
I don't know that you will be able to pinpoint its effect in individual races.
But it certainly allows Rush Limbaugh, George Bush, to be rowing in the same direction with energy and enthusiasm with their supporters.
And again, that is essential if they're going to stop the House losses from costing them the House and the Senate losses from costing them the Senate.
Allows Rush Limbaugh and George Bush to be rowing in the same direction with energy and enthusiasm.
I don't know what office I'm running for.
But I'm with George Bush in the rowboat.
Michael rode the boat ashore, hallowedoo.
Here's the second bite.
They have this exchange.
But whatever John Kerry did is not going to, is not in a nanosecond going to influence Democrats not to vote.
Now, it may pull out the Republican vote, but the Democratic votes are so exercised and so warning passionately to have their presence, and they so feel like momentum is on their side that they're going to come out.
Nothing about this will keep Democrats from coming out.
There's some reason to be concerned, though, I think if you're a Democrat.
Number one, they don't have the same mechanical turn out operation On election day.
That's one thing.
Number two, there could be other incidents like this incidents with Senator Kerry that might be dispiriting to Democrats.
And finally, they may come out, but they may not come out in as big numbers as conservatives do.
Now what's going on?
I thought I I thought this election was over.
I thought this was in the bag.
Now all of a sudden conservative turnout is going to race ahead of Democrats for whatever reason.
What what happened to the storyline?
The storyline is it's you who are depressed who are down in the dumps, you who are angry, you who are not going to vote.
Now they're worried this carry thing's going to turn it all around.
And notice Charlie Rose, the Democrats can't wait to vote.
Right them in the distribution.
Republicans are out distancing them in early voting and absentee voting.
Uh, according to the best evidence that is uh out there.
Um Democrats didn't show up in great numbers in their primaries.
You know, 15%.
Look at Connecticut.
Hardly any great example there in terms of uh very low Democrat turnout.
This is so many bits of conventional wisdom here that I have j I I'm I'm sorry, I just reject them.
The whole notion that Democrats are chomping it to bit, being restrained by electrical fences, it can't so they can't get to the polls now.
They can't wait to get out there.
I'm sorry, folks.
I don't see what's happening in the Democratic Party to cause this.
I don't I don't see what it is that I know they hate Bush, and I know they hate the war.
And as I said at the end of the previous hour, they're even going back now and talking about this being the year of the woman.
I'm gonna tell you what this is.
If the Democrats do win this, this will be the year of the girly man.
When we have testosterone levels in men down the last 20 years.
There could be no other explanation for this.
Here's James Carville on the Today Show this morning, the host Meredith Vieira, uh interviewing him about this, and Carville had this to say about Carrie's remarks.
I think that people at home are about to throw the shoe through the television because they've already run the 04 election.
And you know, I don't this is not going to have any effect at all.
We just got out of the field with a poll last night this morning, or at least it today.
If anything, the Democrats are strong at the end of this week than they were at the beginning.
I think the public very much resents all of this bro ha over something that John Kerry said.
Wishful thinking.
The public resents it.
They've always known what the American people think and uh and resent.
On the hardball last night, Chris Matthews and Bob Schrum, who um ran Kerry's brilliant presidential campaign in 04, argue over whether Kerry should have apologized.
Now, Bob Schrum is a hardball political analyst after having left the Kerry campaign, senior strategist uh for Kerry's campaign.
Uh Matthews says Kerry's blown it again by my estimation by giving his enemies the word apologize.
Why did he put out the word what why did he apologize?
Matthews was beside himself.
I don't know.
I think he said very clearly that he's sorry if people were offended, and he's also said that.
I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.
He has given his enemies exactly what they spent all day demanding out of him.
He has lost this round.
No, I think actually what he's done, Chris, is he's put so much effort and so much money into trying to help Democrats win this election that he's taken himself off center stage, number one, and number two, he's tried to remove the distraction.
Oh, they still they can't come to a consensus on there.
So that they don't agree with Carvo, uh, is the point.
And and Matthews just continues to be beside himself.
Uh he says to Schrum, why did he apologize?
Just tell me, Bob, why did he apologize to somebody that he didn't insult?
Chris, they spent 48 hours telling a big lie about his remarks, distorting his remarks.
Hey, Bob, you clowns have spent close to ten days, two weeks, distorting my remarks, and then you lie about my apology that I didn't make.
And nobody thinks this is uh going overboard, nobody thinks we're spending too much time on this.
It's uh quite interesting comparison as to what in CNN.
You know, they're doing their bit on it tonight, the Michael J. Fox flap.
And they're running promos every ten minutes.
Every ten minutes.
You know, if I didn't know better, I'd think I'd become a movie star.
I think I'm Tom Cruise.
They're talking about me so damn much.
Uh and And of course, the the uh uh uh promo includes this video of me that totally misinterprets, they misinterpret uh purposely uh what I didn't said about uh the Michael J. Fox in that ad.
And I want to say again, we have sent transcripts to CNN, we have talked to them personally, we've explained all that and what it was.
It doesn't matter.
You know, many of you, and I understand this.
Many of you uh have written me and said, Why why don't why don't you go on television?
Why don't you answer some of this?
I mean, why don't you go out beyond your audience?
Folks, it believe me, uh it isn't I'm I'm one person who can't do this.
They've all asked.
There is a line a mile long of television shows asking me to do this.
But for crying out loud, if even after talking to us and getting transcripts, they insist on getting it wrong.
What's the point of taping an interview that they could then edit, or what's the point of going on live when when they have no interest in getting it right in the first place?
And who knows what they'll run after I finish.
I uh I am not gonna give them ammo, and I'm not gonna go out and build up their ratings simply by showing up and allowing them to promote it all over the place.
Case in point, Katie Courick, as I've explained now twice, emailed me and said she was going to do a feature on the interview on Michael J. Fox and wanted my thoughts, and I I sat down and composed five or six paragraphs, which I read to you today, we've posted them on the website.
She's on Larry King Live last night, and it's though she never read what I said, and she what I said or was not used at all in her interview with Michael J. Fox.
One little line.
But the the thrust and the whole point that I have make been making about all this was totally ignored.
So even when I participate, even when I tell them, communicate with them what happened here and what I said, and try to get on to the substance.
That's the thing they're not interested in, is the substance of the issue.
They are continually interested in parading victims, sympathetic figures, under the notion you can't criticize.
It's like Max Cleveland.
I just saw him on television.
Max Cleeland lost uh uh limbs in Vietnam.
As such, they parade him during the 2004 campaign as somebody who's unassailable.
Whatever he says about politics, you can't criticize it.
How dare you?
Do you know what he did for his country?
How dare you criticize Max Clean?
That's the point.
I don't play the game anymore.
I am not going to follow that script.
It's time this came to a screeching halt.
This ends up misleading the American people, flat out lies to the American people appear in these ads offered by these people.
And when you can't criticize them in the political arena, as the Democrats hope, sorry, I'm going to criticize what people say in the political arena, particularly if they're being used to evoke sympathy from people precisely to make them unassailable and and uh above criticism.
So appearing on these programs would only benefit them.
Uh I've learned my lesson on this.
It's I reach a larger audience here than all those shows combined anyway.
You get down to it.
Yeah, Rush, but that's a different group of people.
Those people that you're talking about hate my guts.
I'm not gonna change anybody's mind out there.
I'm not gonna change.
They they're they're they're uh that's that's not something that uh that could happen.
Uh I have, you know, I'm it goes back either I am SOB number one in America or Bush is.
I wear the label proudly, but it's years and years of experience, ladies and gentlemen, that have taught me that uh dealing with this on their turf doesn't end up the way people think it will, because there's a presumption of fairness.
There hasn't been any fairness about this from the get-go.
Why is it that everybody assumes they will be fair when I show up?
And after I leave, back in just a second.
All right, during the break, uh ladies and gentlemen, I spoke to my chief of staff, who once again this morning uh sent over transcripts and actually had phone calls with producers and executive producers at CNN about the Anderson Cooper piece that's coming tonight.
And when I tell you the story, you look I think you'll understand better what I mean.
We sent over all of the transcripts and all of the uh uh uh explanations and after telling them all that, the exec producer said to the chief staff, why didn't he just come on?
So you're about 23rd in line here, and we haven't done any, and we start doing you, we make all the others mad, we're not doing any of these.
That's why we're telling you what happened.
The guy said, Well, why did why did he just come on and correct the record?
To which chief of staff said, Isn't that the role of journalism?
And aren't you guys journalists?
And when I heard this, my reaction was who is it that uncorrected the record?
Who is it that's getting the record wrong?
I have said what I have said.
I have said it on record behind this microphone.
Why is it that what I say on my program doesn't count?
How come if I only go to their network shows does what I say count?
Why didn't he come on and correct the record?
Who got it wrong in the first place?
Who continues to get it wrong on purpose?
CNN, MSNBC, and all of these other networks that are going wall to wall with this.
So if they're at it for all they want is for me to come on.
They don't care about getting this right.
They don't otherwise they would.
They've had two weeks.
They don't care about getting the real thrust of what I was saying.
They want this to be about competing personalities, with me, of course, being the guy wearing the black hat.
And they think they can affect that with an appearance by me on their um their networks or what have you.
Why don't I come on and correct the record?
The fact of the matter is, in this circumstance, who is the record?
I am the record.
They are telling me that they are the record.
What they say, and this is a great lesson because this is true.
What they say somebody said, what they say somebody did becomes the record.
And then the accused, the suspect, me, I have to go on and correct their when I am the record in this case.
What I did and what I said by definition is the record.
I am also the record because I am me.
This program is the record.
This is the radio talk show of record.
They talk about the New York Times being the newspaper of record.
Well, this is the talk show of record.
Now they got me in a rowboat with Bush.
Rowing in unison at speed, they're all worried about this interview that happened.
Bush was revved up.
So there you have it.
I have to appear with them on their stupid little networks to correct the record when I am the record.
It's pointless, folks.
And this, because of years of experience guided by intelligence, I understand.
Here's Greg and Chatham, New Jersey.
I'm glad you were patient and held on.
Welcome to the program, sir.
And all right, Ditto's here, Rush.
Thank you.
Rush, in my in my mind, uh the military is steeped in solemn tradition in many of its uh rituals.
It's a very serious thing to have men and women serve the country, give their lives and limbs.
And for Kerry to brag about making a joke about the war, in an in and of itself is offensive to me.
Good point.
Good point.
Here is joking about it.
Actually, it was here's here's the he was trying to tell us he was making a joke about Bush.
And this is the real irony.
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, here you have this Boston Brahmin aristocrat, pretentious elitist fool, who wants everybody to think he is the smartest guy in the What are you laughing at, Brian?
Think I'm hitting them too hard here.
Here you have this guy who wants everybody to think he's the smartest guy in the world, and he botches a joke talking about how dumb the president is.
He is so smart, and he is so worldly.
Here is a guy who sounds like a pure dumkoff trying to insult Bush for being dumb.
Now, how ironic is that?
I don't care how they try to spin this at the drive by media.
It is what it is.
And it primarily is this.
John Kerry voiced for the nation.
Two things.
One, precisely who Democrats are at this moment in time when it comes to national security and the U.S. military and American victory.
Number two, he voiced for all who care to listen precisely why.
This is the number one reason Democrats deserve to lose this election.
And they deserve to continue to lose elections if they ch if they don't change.
If they remain this way on the fundamental issue of national security, they don't deserve to win elections.
And John Kerry told us both those things.
All right, now let me tell you what I just saw during the EIB extreme, obscene profit break timeout.
Was up there watching PMS NBC.
And they had an info, babe on the ground in Maryland.
And they were doing a report on the race, the Senate race between Benjamin Carden and Michael Steele.
The focus of the point was that Michael J. Fox was in town campaigning for Benjamin Carden.
Yeah, okay, fine and dandy.
Except for one thing.
Michael J. Fox ran ads all over this country for stem cell research.
Benjamin Carden voted against stem cell research in the United States Congress.
And yet, there is Michael J. Fox doing commercials for Benjamin Cardin.
His support is in town campaigning on the basis of stem cell research.
Of the two candidates in that Senate race, only one of them has voted for stem cell research, and that's Michael Steele.
And yet Michael Fox is in town doing appearances for the Democrat who voted against stem cell research.
Now I am not supposed to say this.
I'm not supposed to say this because Mr. Fox has Parkinson's disease.
I mean, isn't he entitled to want to do anything to help find a cure?
Yes, he is.
He's entitled to mislead people, he's entitled to have hope in things that show no promise.
He's entitled.
All of that.
But he doesn't get away without having it commented upon, at least on this program, as I have just done, and I've been doing it for two weeks.
And I think, frankly, sorry, one of the reasons they haven't dropped is because I haven't.
Bottom line.
Uh audio sound by time.
Harold Ford last night was on uh Fox News Channels Hannity and Combs.
Sean Hannity said, Can you explain to me what the joke was supposed to be that John Kerry was trying to tell?
Because I don't get the joke.
Look, we forgive Rush Limbaugh for what he did to Michael James.
Think about Rush.
Uh when Vice President Cheney mistakenly shot his friend while they were out hunting.
He said he was sorry, didn't mean to do it.
I believed him.
Uh if John Kerry says that it was an awful attempt at a joke, I mean I take him at his word.
How forgiving is Harold Ford.
Forgives Cheney for mistakenly shooting his friend in the face.
I don't know if that was an accident, the guy was a lawyer.
Just kidding.
We forgive Rush.
Who's forgiven me?
Yeah, Harold Harold Harold Ford forgave me.
I didn't this first I heard of that.
Harold Ford forgave me for what I did to Michael J. Fox.
What did I did to Michael J. Fox?
I did him wrong as exactly and you know how I did him wrong?
I dared to criticize what he was saying.
I dared to criticize what Mr. Fox was saying.
Because he's not supposed to do that.
It's not fair.
Jim Tallant was also on the program last night.
And Alan Colms said to Talent, You agree with Rush Limbaugh that Michael J. Fox was faking his symptoms for the sake of the commercial.
Now, I I sent Hannity a note last when I was watching this.
And I sent Hannity a note and I said, would you please tell Alan?
Because I like Alan.
And we've been, I've been on that show a number of times, and I I have I have I I like Alan Combs, and I think he's in a tough spot, by the way.
The liberals don't like him because I don't think he's tough enough.
But I asked Hannity to tell him I was disappointed in him, because he ought to know I didn't I didn't accuse Fox of faking anything.
Uh and he wrote back and he said, I'm sorry you're right.
I I I should have said let me find the no, I don't want to paraphrase this paraphrase because I got a I got a note from Alan.
Uh and it says, What I should have said is that Rush raised suspicion that Michael J. Fox was faking.
Now that well, that's a John Kerry kind of distinction.
Now but Rush was raising raised suspicion that Michael J. Fox was faking it.
How many times do we have to repeat what I said?
I said he was either off his meds or he was acting.
He is an actor.
I said, I will apologize, somebody tell me I'm wrong.
About two days later, Michael J. Fox said I was over medicated.
I I had read his book uh in which he says he doesn't take his medication on occasion.
To me, that means he manipulates his medication.
When he admits that he doesn't take it sometimes.
Then he came out and said I was overmedicated.
That's when I apologize.
I apologize, I said it was under medicated.
He says it's over medicated.
He was over medicated.
At no time did I say he was faking it.
I never ever used the word.
Therefore, and now see I that's an example.
I am the record, and yet the record has been distorted, yet I'm supposed to go on these TV shows and correct the record when I am the record.
They have distorted the record on purpose.
At any rate, here's the talent answer to the question.
Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh that Michael J. Fox was faking his symptoms for the sake of the commercial?
And this is a good answer from Senator Tallant.
I have no idea.
I don't speculate as to people's motives.
Um my gosh, I mean, there's enough flying back and forth in Missouri without doing that.
I think the commercial was over the top.
Uh you know, and and I it's pretty clear I think that he wasn't informed about what's really happening in Missouri, but I don't know what his motives were.
This is a question really of whether you believe that human cloning is something that's acceptable or not, and I I'm not for it.
And uh I've strongly supported medical research as well as various kinds of stem cell research.
And let's go back to Larry King alive last night because Katie Courick appeared, and we played this earlier in the program, but we may as well uh stay in the moment, uh, as they say, since I am the record on this.
Larry King says to Katie Currick, were you shocked at what Limbaugh did and said?
I think that it was thoughtless.
I think Rush Limbaugh himself would concede that.
And um 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.
I always admire people who uh claim to know what's in my mind, as uh Katie just did.
I think that it was thoughtless.
I think Rush Limbaugh himself would concede that.
She asked me before her interview with Michael J. Fox if I would send her some things that she could use.
And I didn't tell her that I thought what I had done was thoughtless.
We have posted what my answer to her here on the Rush Limbaugh.com, and I want to go through it again, since you just heard what she said, and you you might have seen, well, you probably didn't see the interview that she did with uh Michael J. Fox, but she also aired the video that everybody is using that distorts purposefully what uh I was trying to illustrate here.
Uh dear Katie, I believe Democrats have a long history of using victims of various things as political spokespeople because they believe they are untouchable, unassailable.
They are immune from criticism, but when anyone enters the political arena of ideas, they forfeit the right of immunity and can be challenged on their participation in message.
I've not met Mr. Fox, I don't know him.
I've admired his work in film and TV and his appearances on a Letterman show's been 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 and gives people who suffer these terrible afflictions false hope.
Do I sound like I I was thoughtless here?
As of now, Katie, there is no evidence that embryonic stem cells even hold promise, while other approaches, such as adult stem cells already have yielded results.
Michael'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 1.9 million dollars to further research on this.
It's not about stem cells.
Furthermore, I did not mock or make fun of Mr. Fox.
I've seen him many times on TV, but I've never seen him as he appears in these ads.
I read from his own book that he will not take his medications before certain appearances at the Senate, 1999 as an example, 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, which is what caused me to question his appearance in the ads.
Yet she said here, I think most scientists and medical experts who really understand Parkinson's would be to tell you that manipulating medication just isn't the case.
What?
Well, I guess we're to ignore what Michael J. Fox wrote in his own book.
Anyway, I concluded by saying he's stumping for Democrats in the political arena and is therefore open to analysis and criticism, as we all are.
His suffering is not fair game.
Does that sound thoughtless, by the way?
I think it sounds pretty thoughtful.
His suffering is not fair game, and I'm sorry if people drew that conclusion about my comments.
She didn't even tell him that when she interviewed him.
His suffering is not fair game.
I'm sorry if people drew that conclusion about my comments, but I think this happens precisely because no criticism of victims is ever allowed at all.
Which, as I say, is the Democrat Party's strategy in putting them forward.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, I have a quick question.
Will John Kerry get a purple heart for shooting himself in the foot this week.
Well, didn't he get a purple heart for uh uh shooting himself in Vietnam or some such thing?
What me check.
Well, is that an unsubstantiated Swift boat thing?
Uh but he I thought he I thought he applied for a purple heart for a self-inflicted wound in uh in uh Vietnam.
But that's an unsubstantiated swift boat veterans for truth charge, huh?
All right.
Well, there's still an opportunity.
I know he's not active duty, but um Well, that's right, he did.
He said in 2004, after he retook the Boston Harbor with his Swift boat vet buddies.
Remember that?
Got on this boat and made them look like they're retaking Boston Harbor.
And uh he reported to duty.
He did uh went out there to do his acceptance speech at Democrat National Convention.
I am John Carey reporting for duty.
So he's apparently back on active duty.
And so it might it might be um worth us suggesting he get another purple heart for shooting himself in the foot.
Chris in Omaha, welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, hey, Rush.
Um I'd like to um step back and talk about uh a caller of the previous hour who was just beside himself trying to figure out what war it was that the Democrats are trying to win.
And uh You know, sometimes you have to step back a little and uh and look at things.
To me, it was very it's very apparent.
Uh what word is their turn to win, but you know, before we talk about that, I'd like to make three points that I think Republicans are just wrong about.
First of all, that the Democrats don't know how to win this war, and the fact is they do.
Okay.
They're not willing to go to Ann Link to win this war.
And they are.
And third, uh, if they are put into power, that they can't win this war, and there's a very good chance that they will.
Okay, so what war are we talking about here?
Well, you this is a war in America.
This I'm not talking about you know, we're not talking about Iraq.
This is a war in America.
And and to push them aside and say, Well, they don't know how to strategize.
They don't know how to do you know what?
For the last six years, the the Republicans have underestimated the fact that the Democrats absolutely know how to go to war.
And and in some sense, in a big sense, they are winning this war.
The war against America, the war against Republicans.
Yes, in fact, they're running telethons.
You're right.
You're right.
Great point.
Telethon on MSNBC right now.
Uh and they've been doing it all week.
The telephone to cure the nation of the Republican majority.
And the Republicans have not learned.
Uh I I guess they kind of have.
You have, Laura Ingram has, Fox News, to some extent, you know.
Uh, but they they will go to any lengths.
You see it all the time.
They've got the press behind them.
I've I've I've heard this.
You know what?
That's actually an excellent point because it reminds me, people have called here before and said, you know, it'd be nice if the Democrats were cared about defeating our real enemy as much as they do in uh care about uh defeating Republicans.
That's that's an excellent observation.
I happen to know where you were going, so I was not panicked as you laid out your um your thinking on this.
Uh but uh we say they don't know how to win wars, they do, uh they don't have what it takes to stick to it and win it where they do.
Um and once they win a war, they don't know how to uh keep winning it, they do.
You're right.
When the enemy is us.
When the enemy is the United States, and the enemy is the people of this country or the Republicans, they're still accomplished at uh at fighting that war.
And John Kerry was a soldier in that uh uh uh uh naval officer in that war on Monday night.
Uh in passing here.
Thank you, Chris.
Appreciate the phone call.
This is Nancy in Dana Point, California.
Hi, Nancy.
Hello, Rush.
I am so stoked about your interview yesterday with President George Bush.
He never sounded so good.
It is such a service you have given us by having him on the air and interviewing him the way you do.
Let's face it, the questions you ask put him at ease.
He he sounded good, he made everything clear.
People don't have time to read the newspapers and magazines any longer, but they heard him on your show, and I hope you'll play it every day between now and November.
Well, that's very kind of you to say.
He is um uh i the the Bush that you heard with me is the Bush that I've constantly told people that I know when I've been with him on those few times I have uh in person.
Well, that's what I thought.
That's what we've all thought.
Actually, I'm related by marriage to Jack Kemp, so we know a little bit about George Bush, and he sounded so fabulous yesterday, and I want the American people to hear this again and again and again before they vote.
In fact, you know, um uh you you you raise a good point.
I didn't see this, but I got a bunch of emails last night for people telling me Howard Feynman was complaining that I played the interview twice on the program yesterday.
Not really complaining, commenting on it in a negative way.
That he does, yeah, Limbaugh just gonna give his whole show over to Bush.
Play the interview twice.
So as though um how many times do they run the sound bites every damn day that they think are going to advance their cause?
That's true, and I wish you would record it and sell it with the t-shirts and whatever else, I'd buy it.
I loved it.
I absolutely loved it, and I think every American should hear it.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
You've made my you made my day out there.
Well, I couldn't seem happier about that.
Well, I understand that too.
Anyway, thanks for the call.
I gotta run.
Time is growing short, and I have one story from the Houston Chronicle.
Signs link Democrats to terror and illegal immigration.
Early voters in the heart of the heated race to succeed, former majority leader Tom DeLaber greeted Wednesday with red and white signs that read, want more illegals, vote Democrat.
Encourage terrorists, vote Democrat.
By mid afternoon, outraged Democrats had removed the signs, but not the acrimony.
Precinct 3.
Fort Bend County Commissioner Andy Myers acknowledged paying $2,800 to the Republican Victory Committee for 75 signs.
Uh Democrats took them down.
This is incredible.
It hit home.
It's a home run this guy hit.
Okay, uh we are finished, ladies and gentlemen, in the can.
Back tomorrow, already Friday.
It is, and tomorrow's Friday.
Yeah, we will be here revved up.
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