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Nov. 3, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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Um yet another um how to phrase this.
Another Clinton associate has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Can I ask you a question?
In in your life, how many people do you know who have been indicted?
Probably mostly saying zero, but uh if you know it's a couple, Max, right?
How many people in your large sphere of acquaintances have been killed?
With the Clintons, I mean the numbers are like around 40 or 50.
Uh the average American.
Uh one or two, if that.
And I'm talking about mysterious.
I'm not natural causes.
Well, in news out of Miami Beach, Florida, businessman pardoned by former President Clinton, has been found dead inside his South Beach condo.
Alman Glenn Braswell, 63, found dead Saturday in his condo by his employees, may have died from a previous injury.
They released no additional information.
His death has been labeled unclassified, pending more tests, according to the Miami Dade Medical Examiner's office.
He had been uh living in seclusion since his release from prison in October of 2005, said his former mother-in-law, Hattie Berger.
He had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to pay millions of dollars in federal income tax.
President Clinton granted 177 pardons and clemencies just before leaving Orifus in 2001.
Braswell was pardoned of convictions for fraud and other crimes stemming from false claims in 1983 about a hair growth product.
His pardon became one of the most criticized after it was learned that Clinton's brother-in-law, the infamous Hugh Rodham, had been paid 200 grand to work on the case.
Rodham later returned the money.
We have a montage of Mrs. Clinton, February 22nd, 2001, at a press conference.
This is a montage of her responses with an unidentified male reporter about all this.
I don't have any uh any memory at all of ever talking to my brother about this.
So your brother may have spoken to someone who then spoke to him.
No, not about any involvement of my brother.
No, I want to make that a hundred percent clear.
I knew nothing about my brother's involvement in these pardons.
I knew nothing about his taking money for his involvement.
You know, it came as a surprise uh to me, and it was very disturbing.
And I'm just uh very disappointed about it.
I did uh uh not uh have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted.
You know, and uh I'm just uh very disappointed about my brother's involvement.
I did not know my brother was involved in any way um in any of this.
You know, he's my brother.
I love my brother.
So um another another Clinton associate dies in a mysterious circumstances uh in South Beach in uh Miami.
Uh boy, this this Story Bill Gertz in the Washington Times today.
U.S. speeds attack plans for North Korea.
Pentagon stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea's nuclear program and its bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process.
The officials said that the accelerated military planning includes detailed programs for striking a North Korean plutonium reprocessing facility at Yangbyon with special operations commando raids or strikes with Tomahawk cruise missiles or other precision guided weapons.
The effort, which had been underway for several months, was given new impetus by Pyongyang's underground nuclear test on October 9th, and growing opposition to the nuclear program of Kim Jong-il's communist regime, especially by China and South Korea.
We will resort to whatever force levels we need to have to defend the Republic of Korea.
That nuclear deterrence is in place, said the senior official who declined to reveal what nuclear forces are deployed in Asia.
The Bush administration regards the new level of Chinese support as a green light for more aggressive military planning.
Bill Gertz today, who's who never, by the way, gets it wrong, never gets it wrong.
So we're ramping up attack plans for the uh for the uh for the North Koreans.
The Iranians have just launched uh added three missiles to their naval arsenal, one of which can reach Israel.
Uh it's a dangerous world out there, ladies and gentlemen.
And by the way, our buddies at World Net Daily have a story that uh makes it clear that my instincts are exactly right.
Terrorist leaders in the Middle East are um actively endorsing and encouraging Democrats to win in the upcoming elections on Tuesday.
So and there's no quote Why meet if you if you're if you're sitting there and you're a terrorist leader, uh who in the world would you hope would win this election coming up?
The cut-and-run crowd?
Or the crowd that's gonna stay and kick your butt until you're finished.
This is a no-brainer.
Another openly encouraging Democrat victory on Tuesday.
On the basis, and they're using Democrat talking points, on the basis that Bush lies, that Bush is horrible.
How about the unemployment numbers out today?
4.4% unemployment, the lowest unemployment in history.
And of course, the uh drive-by media wondering why isn't this penetrating the mind of the American people?
Why isn't all of this good economic news penetrating?
They ask innocently.
And of course, the answer is a them B. War and no war.
Contrary to what the left thinks, no war is popular.
There'd never been one that's well, you know, the Gulf War, because it ended so quickly, might have been uh considered popular in the uh the end of the day.
But even the run up to that, uh, the leftists and the drive-by media had us losing in droves because we simply weren't equipped or prepared or committed as much as the Iraqis.
And we had no experience fighting in the desert.
We had no experience fighting in the heat.
We needed 50,000 body bags, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah.
The uh story from Judy Matthewson at Bloomberg is sticking on North Korea here.
The Bush administration claim that North Korea cheated or reneged on a 1994 agreement with the United States to freeze its nuclear program is completely false and ridiculous, according to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Carter, who helped broker the agreement with the North Koreans on behalf of President Clinton, said the pact was observed pretty well by both sides for eight years.
Carter said it lasted until 2002 when the U.S., in effect abandoned that agreement and branded North Korea as an axis of evil.
He said this in an interview to be broadcast this weekend on conversations with Judy Woodruff on Bloomberg Television.
Well, let's help Judy out here.
Judy, I don't know, you've probably already taped this is too late.
New York Times.
Now remember, we just heard Jimmy Carter say, I didn't cheat.
They didn't share it.
Hold together for eight years.
It wasn't until Bush put them in the axis of evil that they started going nuts in North Korea.
We know that's not true, but let's use A Jimmy Carter Bible, the New York Times.
The North Korean challenge, instant fallout for politicians finger pointing.
This is from October 11th.
We went back to the archives.
Cheryl Gay Stolberg and David Sanger reporting this story.
And it says, starting in around 1997, the North Koreans took steps to start a second secret nuclear program, one based on enriching uranium.
South Korean and American intelligence agencies didn't find conclusive evidence of that program until the summer of 2002.
And that fall, the Bush administration confronted the North Koreans with its intelligence.
Who was president in 1997, Judy?
I think that would be Bill Clinton.
They cheated in 1997.
It was discovered by the Bush administration in 2002, and hello, uh new member Axis of evil.
And it's not just the New York Times saying this.
It was Madeline Albright who has also admitted that the North Koreans cheated on the agreement.
Jimmy Carter is just you know it's just it's it's amazing.
Uh how losers end up being elevated to the top tiers of stature in that party.
Sturdley asked me during the break.
I he's still on this homosexual thing.
I rush, I think this gay bashing there's going to come back and haunt the Democrats.
I think it is.
They're bringing all this uh homosexuality up in a negative way to attack Republicans.
I think after this election, however it goes, there's going to be a lot of people thinking rethinking this.
And it prompted another brilliant response from me to him, and I'll share that with you when we come back after this timeout, plus get to your phone call.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rushlin bought documented to be almost always right, 98.5% of the time.
Sean in Columbus, Ohio.
Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you today, um, especially right before this very important election.
Um I have tried to explain this to friends and coworkers.
I I grew up in Ohio, but I also lived in Florida for about six years.
And friendly enough, I've heard from several different people the concept of, well, regardless of who is in charge of the White House, whether it be a Democrat or Republican, that they chose to vote the opposite party into power in the House and Representative for a checks and balances without realizing that there's already checks and balances in place.
So I thought maybe if it was coming from you, it might be a little more persuasive to say, don't do that.
It's not very smart.
Well, see, these are I I understand that sentiment.
I don't think there are that many people out there.
I the media has put that notion out there, and they've done it for a number that they tried it in 2002 and 2004 in the sense it would be good.
Uh the we have uh one party rule, why uh at least a corruption, at least in the uh the people becoming out of touch in Washington.
They love one party rule when it's them.
The only reason they're against one party rule is because they're not the party.
And so they're trying to say it leads to all kinds of bad things, but that means they don't trust the democratic process.
The democratic process delivers what it delivers.
And if it delivers a Republican-dominated House and Senate and a Republican president, then that's representative democracy at work.
That is what you get at a representative republic.
And to sit there and complain about it is to complain about the system itself.
I just I'm telling Sean, I do not believe that Joe Six Pack voter or Susie Six Pack voter, when they walk into the voting booth, says, you know what, especially in a congressional election.
Well, we've got President Bush, but I think we need Democrats to counter it.
Uh especially Republican voters.
If Republican voters don't vote Republican this year, it had nothing to do with wanting divided government or checks and balances.
That's that's not how people think when they vote.
There may be some naybobs that do that, but it's such a small number as to be inconsequential.
If if people vote against Republicans who normally vote for them, uh it's gonna simply be because they're mad at them.
And I think that that that misses the point, too.
I uh there's so many things that that are consequential here.
Uh that, and I've heard a lot of people say, Russia, it's a mistake to go out there, and you you should have been leading the charge in in in telling people what Republicans stand for and uh the lower taxes and all uh I have, and those things are working.
And it's been an effort to try to convince people the economy is in great shape precisely because of those policies that we conservatives have long advocated low taxes, we haven't gotten a smaller government.
But I can't I can't go out there and honestly, I'm not I'm not running for election.
I can't tell you what these guys are gonna do.
I can tell you what conservatism would do if it dominated, if we had an elected conservative leadership, I could tell you what it would do, but I don't know what we're gonna end up with.
But I do know what we're gonna end up with with liberals in power.
And that's a consequence that I don't uh uh uh don't want to consider if there's an alternative.
Uh the stakes are too great on a lot of things.
All of these things.
In fact, I saw I wish I'd have printed this out.
I I saw a story from some Western European socialist.
Uh and he writes for the Guardian.
It was in writes for the Guardian.
He's in LA right now, and he's gonna be in America through the 12th of November, so he's gonna be here through the election.
He's Brussels, he lives in Brussels.
He misses Brussels.
But he's all he's he's he's amazed watching this election here.
But he's excited because what he sees is America becoming Western Europe.
And to him that's a good thing.
He wants it to become like a Western European country, like a France, like a Germany, with an enlarged welfare state with open borders with all kinds of immigration, because these elites don't think that any of the destruction that's going to come from those things will ever affect them.
I guarantee you, John Kerry doesn't worry one whit about any deleterious action from terrorists or enemies of this country affecting him.
He probably thinks, and people like him, that they will leave him alone, that they have the utmost respect for him.
And these people in the Democratic Party who claim to be for the little guy, you know who really does that anymore?
You know who really's looking after the little guy these days?
If any party is, it's the Republicans.
The little guy today is a small business owner, an entrepreneur, and his big enemy is government regulation and taxes.
And there's one party that's on his side.
You take a look at the Democratic Party's enemies list.
Let's take a look at it.
Exxon Mobil or any other big oil firm, Walmart.
This is a political party actually targeting an American success story, an American middle class sex story, and they uh success story.
And they are targeting them.
They are targeting big pharmaceutical.
They are targeting big food.
Let me tell you, you know, Walmart specifically for just a second.
Walmart does more for the GDP of this country than any government program.
Walmart does more for the middle class and the lower middle class than all government programs combined in terms of making things affordable, stretching their dollars.
Uh it and yet Walmart is an enemy.
Uh big anything is an enemy to these people.
The backbone of this country is an enemy.
I'm gonna tell you straight, one of the reasons that the Democrats despise Walmart is because they outperform what liberals want to do with their social programs.
That Walmart is a threat.
Walmart, the unemployment rate, the the growing revenue to the treasury from tax cuts, all of that threatens liberal orthodoxy.
And they can't stand, they can't run the risk that liberal orthodoxy is going to be discredited.
That's why you get stories left and right in the media about how rotten the economy is, how it's only good for a select few, i.e.
the rich.
But you people everywhere else, you may as well start finding the next soup line because you're gonna be in one before you know it, because Bush and crowd don't care about you.
What they're really worried about is that people are gonna snap to and start paying attention one day and understand that the way things are being run now in terms of taxes, government regulation on small business is far better than a whole series of government programs run by a bunch of bureaucrats who can't get anything right in the first place.
If you want this country to in total be the equivalent of what the FEMA response after Katrina was, then go ahead and elect Democrats and let them in charge of as much as you can.
Because that was a bureaucratic failure, a big government failure, too big to know what to do when, and liberals want that back in force.
Yes, it does.
Back to the phones here in just a second, but I want to run through Nancy Pelosi's voting record.
You know, she's a wall.
We have an amber alert out for Ms. Pelosi.
Nobody has reported seeing her.
And people think I'm just making a joke about this.
We got Bush out there representing his party.
He's putting his ideas forward, and every media is saying all he's doing is hurting Republican candidates, but he's out there working it.
Pelosi, no guts, no desire to show up.
She think of herself as a liability?
Sure she does.
I'm sure the Democrats think of her as a liability.
The stealth leader of the Democratic Party.
There's a lot to read into this.
This from the Washington Times today...
A look at her voting record.
A Roman Catholic who has repeatedly voted to uphold partial birth abortion, who has voted against parental notification when minor children seek abortion, and who has shown no concern for the rights of the innocent unborn, Mrs. Pelosi has consistently opposed the death penalty.
Over the years, Nancy Pelosi has consistently voted against welfare reform, including the 96 bill signed by President Clinton and its reauthorization.
In 1998, she opposed a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer in the classroom.
In 99, she opposed allowing state and local governments to display the Ten Commandments on public property, including scruels.
She has voted against education IRAs.
In 2003, she opposed a 10 million dollar program for scruel vouchers in the District of Columbia.
That same year, she voted against the 10-year $400 billion Medicare prescription drug bill because she preferred one that was twice as expensive.
Mrs. Pelosi has repeatedly voted for tax increases and opposed tax cuts, even the 2001 bill that doubled the child tax credit to a thousand dollars.
This among other tax cuts that she has opposed.
As the United States has become increasingly dependent on foreign sources of oil, Nancy Pelosi has always opposed drilling for oil in and war.
In recent years, she had and that you know that is a serious consequence.
That's just not her, that's the Democrats.
This is a lot of Democrats voting record here.
Hers is just she gets a near 100 from the uh uh ADA, Americans of Democratic Action Rating Group.
But I mean, energy independence is something we all care about.
We all these people bleeding about alternative fuels and Prius and and and these hybrids and so forth.
Uh Nancy Pelosi has not cast one vote that would advance energy independence.
Nancy Pelosi's votes force us to rely more on uh imported oil from regimes around the world.
In recent years, she has become protectionist, leading the opposition in 2000 against Clinton's successful effort to establish permanent normal trade relations with the ChICOM.
She also opposed giving Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bush trade promotion authority.
In 2005, she voted against the Central America Free Trade Agreement.
In 2004, she voted to end Radio Marty broadcasts of Cuber, and she voted to reduce funds for the B-2 bomber, which performed superbly in the 1999 Kosovo war in 2001 in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
She has repeatedly opposed anti-missile defense, even as a nuclear-armed North Korea has tested ballistic missiles.
Now, you say, so what?
So what?
I mean, she's entitled to these views, don't I didn't mean to be passing judgment on them as I read this, but this is who's gonna run the House of Representatives.
And this who doesn't dare show up and tell us any of this.
This is a woman, and and Dingy Harry is on the same page with a lot of this stuff.
These people don't dare show up and tell the American voters what's gonna happen.
They don't dare show up and tell them what's going to happen, what legislation they're gonna pursue.
And what legislation they're gonna block, and what presidential initiatives they're gonna stand in the way of.
I'm just saying if you want a you know a uh uh a stealth liberal house.
Well, it won't be stealth once they get the power.
It's stealth now in the process of trying to keep from people exactly who they are.
Charlie in Detroit, you're next on open line Friday.
Hello.
Rush.
Yes.
Hey, uh handicapped Ditto's from uh New Fallujah.
Thank you, sir.
Uh we don't we don't call it that anymore.
Well, I still do.
Yeah, you can.
You can't, I I have moved on.
Yes.
Um last hour you had a caller called saying she was uh also blind and a diabetic.
Yeah.
And uh I am too.
But when I went blind about two to three years later, I noticed uh uh uh hearing improvement.
My hearing had increased due to my blindness.
And I was wondering since your deafness, if uh any of your other senses have uh heightened at all.
No, they're all going to hell.
But you haven't picked up your your sight hasn't gotten any.
No, no, in fact I just well, I need reading glasses, but I I've need reading needed reading glasses for about um three years now.
I I got most people need them in their mid forties.
Uh uh I I got by till I was fifty-two without needing them, but I I need them now.
You know, I've heard that about people who lose their sight though, and they're their their hearing and I I think I understand why it is.
Um you you're your sensory perception's not divided when you can't see.
Uh your your your sense of hearing then be will then become dominant because you're not you're not able to see anything.
And I think I think that's uh right the visual acuity in the brain has stopped, so all the So you're you're you're a sense I've heard I've heard this about a lot of people who've lost their sight.
Yeah, but it took me a uh about probably two or three years to develop it to before I was really a aware of you know my hearing increase.
How old were you when you lost your sight?
How did that happen?
Uh I was diagnosed with uh diag diabetic retinopathy in February of ninety, and I went totally blind in June of nineteen ninety.
So three months I lost everything, went totally black.
Uh then I had to go learn be blind, you know, I had to learn how to be blind, so um uh then I went and got a guide dog and uh just making the best that I can of it right now.
Are you are you married?
Do you have no sir.
No, I I'm kind of like you.
But uh try to go on a lot of blinds.
You got a lot of blind things.
That's very insensitive, sir.
You are making fun of the handicapped.
Yes, I'm not gonna be able to do that.
Yeah, you're doing it on a show that's under scrutiny.
That's uh well, I have to, because uh people say, well, you don't look blind, and it's it's well uh what is a blind person supposed to look like.
Well, you do wear dark glasses?
Uh yes, sir, I do.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
At nighttime, too.
With my guide dog.
Yeah.
But being blind, I I I don't have to look listen to these Democrats, and you being deaf, you you can just unplug it, you don't have to hear it.
You know something I I uh I th there is there are a lot of advantages to my circumstance.
I wouldn't I wouldn't pardon?
Mine too.
There's a lot of advantages to mine.
You know, people say being blind would be terrible, but I don't have to worry about driving.
I don't have to pay a car payment, I don't have to uh worry about uh insurance, car insurance stuff.
Well, yeah, but uh who does this for you?
I mean if you if you uh you don't if you're not married don't live with anybody, who does this for you?
Uh well I got a guide dog from uh leader dog school and right.
Oh well I want to meet the dog if it does.
Uh well I do have uh uh my sisters helped me with you know I have a I have a computer and a scanning program for software they have out for um uh screen reading and I can do scan, scan my mail, and I I can pretty much do it all I can.
I was just out raking leaves yesterday here.
When it when it happened you were really when it when it happened, what when you first started losing your sight, and it sounded like it went fast, three months, right?
Yes, sir.
I mean, did you were you depressed?
Were you scared?
Yeah, well isn't depression a normal part of life.
Uh yeah I was depressed, but I I pulled myself out of it, and now I look it back at it as a um uh I I use a little comedy, you know, when I when I have to.
I just like you know, I'm blind.
I can't do that.
There's certain things that I just can't make eggs over easy anymore.
I can make great scrambled eggs, but eggs over easy.
I can't do that because I'm blind.
You know, it's and with a guide dog, you got a clean floor.
So how old are you?
Uh 46.
Uh do you date?
Uh yeah, sure.
Well, now how do you do that, Charlie?
I mean, you can't how do you how do you gotta get out first and uh No, no, no, but I mean how do you how uh we everybody wants to go out with attractive people and and how do you know?
Uh well um they gotta braille them.
Uh get started early.
Yeah, it's very start with the start with a knee.
Well, you know, I uh you you've got a you've got a great attitude about it, and I I uh I'm glad you call.
I wanted to say one thing.
You you uh you talked about the advantages that you have in being blind.
Uh and people think that's kinda odd, but I I I can tell you some advantages being deaf.
Now, these advantages are predicated on the fact that I lost my hearing.
Uh you want to know why I believe in God.
I mean, there are countless reasons, ladies and gentlemen.
Countless reasons.
And I've I've mentioned many of them uh during the course of discussions of the environment and so forth.
But if you look at the timeline of humanity on this planet, whatever it is, I don't know, ten thousand years, uh a hundred million years, whatever it is.
My little speck on that timeline happens to coincide.
And look at my career now.
Well what I do for a living.
My little speck on that timeline coincides when science has invented the cochlear implant, which allows 100% deaf people to hear.
And particularly in speech, you know, again in a loud noisy areas, uh restaurants, and that's it becomes very, very difficult because the thing just amplifies all the noise it hears.
And uh if if you're in a restaurant with uh a couple other people, the other people's voices are much louder than the two you're trying to hear.
So it it really becomes a challenge.
But in a situation like this one-on-one speech, uh it's not normal as it was, but it's it's miraculous.
And I i i but at there are times in those restaurants I just I lose my mind.
I can't it the the I can so I can turn the volume down.
Or I can take it off.
And there is blessed silence.
How many of you people can't sleep through the night because some noise wakes you up?
I never hear the noise.
I there are I people who do not you you who can hear do not know what pure silence is.
Because you can never you can plug your ears up, you can put muffs and headphones on, but you're always getting the white noise of a room.
But but when you when you're totally deaf, I I can tune anything out.
I can if I'm talking to somebody, I'm tired, I just take it off, sends the message I'm through.
I can I don't have to listen to the the racket on the TV.
I can read closed captions.
You could do that too, hitting the mute button.
But I mean it the the ability to just totally turn off noise and uh to not have uh the normal distractions like when you're trying to sleep or when you're really trying to concentrate uh and noise distraction, I can turn all that off.
Well, I can I can feel my heart.
Of course I can feel my heartbeat.
You no snerdly is asking me, can't hear the heartbeat, but can you feel it?
Yeah, uh if I slam a door without touching the door, I feel the door slam.
I don't hear it.
I mean, I don't sl I'm just giving you an example.
But there are number when I slam the car door.
I don't hear it, but when I see it happening, I feel it.
There's a particular Yeah, th there's there are those uh those kinds of sensations.
Uh toilet flushing.
I don't hear it, but there's a there's an awareness of it.
And I think that's the brain, because I used to be able to hear it.
It's like the way I hear music.
Uh I can't hear mu I can hear it.
I can't listen to music and understand it unless I've heard it before.
And I've got eight electrodes in my brain covering for what used to be 40,000 active hair cells.
So There's not much frequency response for me.
Every note of every new piece of music that I've never heard before sounds the same note.
Movie soundtracks or what have you.
But I listen to music that I knew before, and my memory is what supplies the melody.
So I know that there's sounds taking place.
Now I'm still, because I can hear, I'm still very much concerned that the vo the noise in a room is too loud, so I'm constantly keeping it lower, even though I can't hear it.
Just out of habit.
So brain is a powerful thing.
And the uh the amount of control we think we have over our brain, it would be surprising to you when you realize you don't.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
Charlie, thanks for the call.
We'll be back and continue in just a sec.
And welcome back.
L. Rushbow, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
The popular minister out there, Mr. Reverend Haggard, now admits to buying uh crystal meth from a gay escort one time.
He issued a flat out denial earlier, but MS NBC is reporting that he has admitted buying crystal meth or meth from uh gay escort one time.
And they're just they're they're pouring it all on you, evangelicals, from Mark Foley to this.
They're trying to make you question everything you believe all the way up to God.
They are trying to ruin your weekend.
They are trying to ruin everything you believe in with this.
You know when you hear about stories like this, uh and having been involved in in the receiving end of stuff like this, that much of it wasn't true.
You know, one of the things that got me through, uh, and there were many things, but one of the things that got me through it was faith and confidence that people watching all of this salacious stuff being reported about whoever have to know two things.
One, that a lot of it's exaggerated.
Two, who among us hasn't done anything that embarrasses us?
Who among the evangelicals has not committed a sin?
I don't know that they expect flawlessness in their leaders, because by virtue of their belief it's not possible.
You uh you hope and pray and expect the effort.
Uh but the idea, the idea that that they put this news out there about this guy today, uh, it may be worthy news, don't misunderstand it, maybe it may be a valid news story.
Timing of it, of course I'm very suspicious, as we all are.
But the objective is to have those of you in the evangelical community, particularly those who um are part of this guy's flock, to just have your head spinning.
Nothing's real.
Nothing you believe in counts.
Uh the things you believe in uh fall apart.
There's there's no substance, there's no there's no floor of uh anything foundation solid you're standing on.
Everything you believe in is a house of cards, everything you believe in is a joke, everything you believe in is a lie.
That's what they want you qu they want you questioning everything that is at the root of your soul and your essence and your existence by virtue of these stories.
And the only way that can work, and I and I know it does work, well, not the only way, but one of the one of the primary ways it works, I would think, is if everybody on the receiving end of this news thinks they are perfect.
What are the ways to deal with this kind of news?
Ask yourself if you would like your life to be investigated by anybody in the media or law enforcement, and whatever they find or don't find and make up will be put on television.
My point is there's not one of us, not a single one of us clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
And yet they parade these stories before us as though the leaders are pretenders and phonies and charlatans and so forth designed to totally destroy your faith in everything you hold dear.
I would just hope you don't let them succeed at that.
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