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Nov. 15, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Make a note in there because I don't I don't want to forget this.
I've got I've got this story here about uh there's a price war for Christmas between uh Walmart and Target and Libs are upset.
Liberals are u ex experts are upset this will be bad for business.
But the real point I want to make is I think this is gonna be the year of the flat screen.
Just that's all you just uh just remind me of that and I can take it from there.
You got it.
Are you putting a whiter shade of pail through the flamethrower?
And all right, I need it as an MP3 file.
I mean, uh no no real hurry, but I just uh and I want you to crank that flamethrower as high one as much compression on that as you can get.
Greetings, welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network here on Hump Day, the middle of the week at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I want to um uh introduce Glenn Beck, uh, who is on the uh on the show with us from his studio in New York.
Glenn, welcome.
Great to have you here.
How are you, sir?
Thank you so much.
What an honor to be on the program.
Well, it's it's uh it's our pleasure.
Uh Glenn, I have been s I hate uh being naive.
I hate to be naive, but this is the best way to go.
I've been seeing the ad for your special tonight on headline news.
Yes.
Uh exposed the extremist agenda.
Yes.
What is this?
What what are you?
I I really truly believe, Rush, that the media is damn near criminally negligent uh on what they how they are exposing uh the war in Iraq and everything else.
And when they come out and say the uh you know Muslim extremists, I don't think people really under even understand what that is.
The reason why we are so lost in Iraq is because we don't understand who these people are.
So what we've done is we have gone over to the Middle East and we have collected uh very much I know you saw the uh movie Obsession.
We have uh we have collected uh all kinds of uh media from their own, you know, NBC, CNN, etc.
etc.
And translated it and and we're exposing the faces who what I believe is out and out evil tonight.
Um what you you say, you've got video of the networks that they haven't used?
Yeah, no, no.
This is this is uh what that who didn't use.
Uh I I might might have misunderstood you that you've got MSNBC and CNN video that they haven't aired.
No, no, no.
The uh what we've done is we've taken the video from the sources in the Middle East, their version of MSNBC or whatever.
Oh, okay.
And and we have taken Al Jazeera.
Yeah, yes, and uh um uh Iranian state television.
And we have looked at the things that you know, President Ahmadimanjad had said with Mike Wallace and Anderson Cooper and juxtaposed it to what the interview what he said in the interview when he returned from the UN, and it is horrifying.
Uh the the um people at CNN uh give you any trouble with this when they when you pose the idea.
Um I will tell you that it has been probably the battle of my life to be able to get these images on television.
I will tell you also, however, that there have been people very high up at CNN that have stood next to me and fought with me uh to air this special.
It is um uh Rush, I I mean you uh you know uh better than most on what's going on.
When when you when you are calling out uh the president of Iran and you are saying you see him at the UN where he is where he is praying for uh strength to play his role to bring back the promised one, um when he then uh has on his own state run television, something that nobody else will play, him in front of a crowd saying, soon we will burn the mark of eternal shame in the foreheads of the unbelievers.
When he on his own state-run television says we are going all the way to ancient Babylon, which will be the seat of the Islamic uh global uh uh government, you've got to put that into context of religiosity.
You've got as a Christian, I heard that and I thought, oh, holy cow, what does that mean?
And nobody in mainstream media wants to air that.
Well, uh th that's interesting point because you know they're aware of it.
Uh they all are I I think I think that the uh the dynamic that's at work here is that uh for the last whatever, you could say two, four or six years, but let's let's say since since nine eleven and since the Iraq war started.
Yeah.
The enemy to the American left, including media, has been Bush.
Yes.
Bush poses a greater threat to the world in Ahmedinejad does, or uh any of these radical uh uh terrorist leaders.
Uh they've done their best to um to make these people like Hugo Chavez lovable and likeable and laughable even, uh entertaining.
Uh Mahmood is just this cute little puppy dog kind of guy, Droopy Ears comes to the UN, says some funny stuff.
Everybody wants to be around him, and our pop culture celebrity.
He's uh he's a big guy.
Some of the things he says, though, do end up in print.
Uh and there have been I'm sure you've reported them.
I have, we've tried to get a lot of people to pay attention to it.
But I think, you know, we're such a picture-oriented society.
Your show has a great chance here of of uh opening some people's eyes.
Most people don't want to confront this kind of stuff, Glenn.
I will tell you, Rush, that it is such po i I I've said these things, you've said these quotes, but when you hear him and see him say it, um uh you believe him.
And it's not just that.
I don't know if you you remember Speed Racer when I was growing up.
One of my favorite cartoons was Speed Racer.
We have images of cartoons that they run, you know, on their Saturday morning cartoon shows of kids in cartoon form with the suicide belt on and uh they are waiting uh the one clip that we're gonna show tonight is is the cartoon character waiting on a cliff, seeing the Israeli and American trucks go by.
They jump off the cliff onto the top of the uh truck, pulling the pins of the hand grenade, screaming a la Akbar on the way down, and then the cartoon explosion.
It is it is so uh uh firmly mainstream.
What the biggest lie is is that A, you can't take these people seriously because oh, we have our own religious zealots like you know, Jerry Falwell.
They're not they're not American religious zealots, if you will.
These guys have a uh an Armageddon doomsday wish, and then when you couple that with the untruth that, oh, well, it's just a few.
This is mainstream television that I'm showing you tonight.
Well, I you know, one of the one of the problems in in in in all of this is that I think the American people, we have such an affluent country and we have such prosperity, and there's uh there's almost been a derived expectation of that now.
People don't want to be distracted from it, and they don't want to know the threats.
Look at this last election.
Oh, uh, this election was this election was essentially a vote by the American people.
We don't want to hear about these problems.
Explain Rick Santorum's loss to me.
There is I believe that guy is the church hill of our day.
And I can explain it.
You go ahead.
I can explain it.
Phil I look this up.
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, the whole the whole state.
Uh Pittsburgh, Philadelphia primarily, the whole state, the second largest population of elderly people in the country.
And they uh santorum was a visionary.
He was uh he was talking about things that affect the country, not just Pennsylvania.
Fifteen, twenty years down the road, most of the people in Pennsylvania worried about the next two to three years.
I was uh and and and basically what's a government gonna do for them in the remaining years of their lives.
All this other stuff doesn't matter to them now at this stage of their lives.
Rush, I uh I I think we disagree on this point, and you're smarter than I am.
I'm practically a rodeo clown, but uh I really truly believe it ain't gonna be fifteen years.
And when you see this special tonight, you see what is really being go what's going on in the Middle East, you I believe will also tomorrow say, I don't think it's gonna be fifteen years.
You can't this is not a long-term uh game we're playing.
These guys, when when Iran gets the nuke, the whole world will turn on a dime.
It's it's not like what we you know can North Korea gets the nuke.
It's not the same.
When Ahmadimijad has the nuke, this guy has a doomsday apocalyptic uh uh uh view.
I know, the twelfth imam and all of this, and uh they're gonna he's gonna emerge from the well.
I know uh and and get rid of get rid of all the infidels, but he's looking he continues to threaten to wipe out Israel.
Yes and nobody and and yet eighty-four percent of American Jews voted Democrat.
I you know, that's one of the most confusing things I've ever heard of.
Who want who want who want us now to incorporate Ahmadinejad and uh and uh the little basher Assad and Syria to help us solve our problem in uh In Iraq.
Some of this stuff is just patently absurd.
But look, I've you pointed out you're right.
I've seen obsession.
It's different when you see these people saying it on their own networks to their own people when they know they're not being watched by the world at large and they know that they're not going to be reported on by the world media at large.
What time's this show on tonight?
Uh it is seven, nine and midnight eastern.
At CNN Headline News.
Yes.
Yes.
Not regular CNN, CNN headline news.
Yeah, well all look at all the best with this.
Uh how long did it take you to put it together?
Uh we've been working on it since August.
Uh, and it is um it's it's quite powerful.
Benjamin Netanyahu will be uh on with us as well to talk about President Ahmadimajad.
So, okay.
Well uh he should be listened to as well.
I mean, these people are right in the bill.
Well, he should be.
I mean, there's uh rush.
I got I got a list of about ten people you're on it that people should be listening to, and unfortunately, man, America just needs to wake up.
Well, maybe you can help do that with the program tonight.
Uh best of luck, it's exposed the extremist Oh, by the way, Glenn, I read something today.
You know, Al Jazeera the English version of Al Jazeera starts today.
Yeah.
And I read that they're gonna make just a few editorial changes.
For example, Palestin Palestinian suicide bombers are referred to over there as martyrs.
Yes.
Uh they will not be referred to as martyrs here.
They will I for bad guys maybe they could call them bad guys.
Not even going to be referred that way.
Uh uh but uh but but they're not gonna be referred to as martyrs.
So what good is this network here?
Uh well, I tell you, there's there's a a couple of things.
First of all, let's call a spade a spade, it's Al Jazeera.
It is Osama's YouTube in the first place.
The second place is if they decide to split that much, it's really kind of good for us in a way.
First of all, I'd cancel my subscription any satellite company or cable company that carried it.
Um but the uh but the other thing is is if they are looking if they look like they are betraying uh the Islamic movement over here just to move some product, they will appear as they are in in bed with the great Satan, and that ain't gonna be good for uh Al Jazeera.
That's gonna that's not that's not gonna happen.
I I what I'm looking forward to is uh for Al Jazeera to look just like NBC, CBS, ABC, and for people to not be able to straw the draw distinction.
There's no difference between the all Arab network and the big three here in the United States.
There's a p there's a lot of potential here to do good.
Anyway, Glenn Beck in New York, good luck with this, and uh we will watch.
Thank you, sir.
Glenn Beck and his uh show tonight, CNN Headline News exposed the extremist agenda, the mad cap uh militant Islamic terrorists in their own words.
CNN Headline News tonight.
Back after this, stay with us.
That's uh uh uh let's go to the audio sound bites.
I've got Senator John Abbez today, Central Command, uh he was appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, which for all intents and purposes now chaired by Carl Levin, even though he's the minority ranking member.
And McCain um uh asked Abizade about adding more American troops in Iraq.
This was General Abizade's reply.
I met with every divisional commander, General Casey, the Corps Commander, General Dempsey, we all talked together, and I said, in your professional opinion, if we were to bring in more American troops now, does it add considerably to our ability to achieve success in Iraq?
And they all said no.
And the reason is because we want the Iraqis to do more.
It's easy for the Iraqis to rely upon us to do this work.
I believe that more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more responsibility for their own future.
They will win the insurgency, they will solve the sectarian violence problem, and they'll do it with our help.
All right, so it sounds to me like uh Abiz disagreeing with everybody.
He said, Don't get out yet and don't add more troops.
Uh we stay here and help these guys beat the insurgency.
Now the context of this uh I think needs some explanation.
The context of Abizade's answer is uh within the president's current policy, and that is to establish a functioning government, training the forces in Iraq to defend themselves or run around and uh and then defeat the insurgency.
And of course, the theory then if you had more troops, it's gonna cause laziness on the part of the Iraqis uh falls falls into line there.
But the same token if you pull troops out uh when the Iraqis are not ready, uh then they'll be swarmed.
But in another context, and I think I I've I don't want to speak for Senator McCain, but I think I can speak for myself.
I I think after all these years of attempting to establish a democracy and then win and define winning by doing that seems to me uh that if you're gonna argue more troops as the front page of the New York Times does this very if you're going to argue more troops then you have to change the mission.
The mission has to be win.
Wipe these guys out and then set up your security force and then finish the job of setting up your government that is what a lot of people wish the mission were when we started or was when it started.
That's what they wish the mission were today.
So it depends on the context.
I I don't know what McCain's thought is on more troops if he wants to change the objective to uh all out uh shock and all victory or not but the debate nevertheless continues Mike in San Antonio you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush retired Air Force Ditto here from San Antonio for you and Glenn Becker that's a tough act to follow thanks a lot.
You're welcome sir.
My comment uh Rush is that now that the Democrats uh have declared Iraq is no longer a war to be won but a situation to be resolved those were Pelosi's words I think it's unconscionable that we keep our troops over there one more day.
I've got one over there.
He's been there for six times.
And I called my Congressman Senator and said to put our troops in harm's way for some situation to be resolved, which is another way of saying politicians coming up with some faith-saving way to get out of there, I think it's unconscionable.
I think he mentioned this earlier.
I think he might have done it tongue-in-cheek, but I think it's a real serious issue, and we ought to seriously consider getting them out of there now if the objective is to get them out of there, of course.
Why would you assume that what I had said was tongue-in-cheek?
Carl Levin.
uh said today that the president ought to tell the Iraqis we're getting out in four to six weeks or months and my response was well if we're gonna quit why wait four to six months to quit let's get out now why is it worth another American life?
What's the if you're gonna quit quit pull out of there you think that was tongue in cheek?
Well it came across a little bit to me I know you hadn't said this but that's exactly the same point I meant to my concept I I'm not being tongue in cheek at all.
I'm trying to improve the Democrat strategy.
Well Rush if you think about it the Democrats have finally achieved the parallel to Vietnam that they've been talking about for the last two years.
And the parallel is that in both cases now we've decided that victory is not an option so we're gonna find some face-saving way to get out of it.
Well if no it's it's worse than that the Democrats chose defeat in order to get rid of a president and to uh get their power back.
So if if if the Democrats have chosen defeat and that means we're gonna quit now why wait I mean if if the mission's over if in if the Democrat Party's mind the mission is over Senator Levin's mind the uh the uh mission is over get out of there now it's not it's not worth it it's not worth exposing our troops to any more bloodshed uh harm danger plus the holidays are coming up what a great gift to their families is to br get them out of there.
Mission's over fact it's you're you're right the Democrats have said this is not even a war to win it's a situation to be resolved.
So let's resolve it.
The American people voted for it.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
All right Mike thanks for the call moving on to uh San Diego this is uh Tim you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi Rush you were saying that you're looking for a different term than swift voted to describe the Mertha situation.
Yes.
I think that we should say that Murpha is being chap acquitted.
It's kind of like being swift voted because it involves a river.
But I think the day after Mertha's nomination is pronounced dead we should see Nancy Pelosi wearing one of those whiplash collars and she can say she did everything she could to save him.
So in in your announcing to be chap acquitted his he he is Mary Joe Copekney.
That's right.
Okay, because I was going to say if he's Ted Kennedy gets away with it.
Well you can't so I gu I get your point.
Being chapacited Nancy Pelosi with the neck brace.
Well you think he's really gonna lose hard to say I mean who who can predict what these guys are going to do after after you thought that they would have what they have right now.
Uh would you have thought that they would Say that again?
Well, I mean, look where they are.
They have the House, they may soon have the Senate.
In fact, I think that we need a new um a new symbol for the House of Representatives.
Instead of having the Capitol Dome, I think that we should have a new symbol.
Call it the leaning tower of appeasement.
Because that's what it's going to turn into.
In fact, if they're No, no, no, it it already is that uh leaning tower of peace.
Now I love it when people come up with these ideas.
I'm but I'm not gonna give up on Murph.
After all, I've endorsed him.
I have put the weight of my reputation and uh and and hopes and dreams for him on the line here.
So you think that was the final straw?
All right, guy, I hope not.
Talent on loan from God.
I want you to listen to this sound bite from uh General John Abysade again, ladies and gentlemen.
As you listen to this, I want you to ask yourselves how would you describe the policy here that he is advocating?
Senator McCain has just asked him his thoughts on adding more American troops to Iraq.
I met with every divisional commander, General Casey, the Corps Commander, General Dempsey, we all talked together, and I said, in your professional opinion, if we were to bring in more American troops now, does it add considerably to our ability to achieve success in Iraq?
And they all said no.
And the reason is because we want the Iraqis to do more.
It's easy for the Iraqis to rely upon us to do this work.
I believe that more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more responsibility for their own future.
They will win the insurgency, they will solve the sectarian violence problem, and they'll do it with our help.
How would you characterize his answer here in terms of policy?
How would you describe this?
What does it sound like to you that he is suggesting that we do?
Exactly right, Mr. Snerdley.
Does this not sound like stay the course?
This sounds just and and this is the guy running the show.
This is one of the generals.
This is the Central Command Ed honcho.
Uh over there, and and it sounds to me like it's uh stay the course.
I have noticed something very curious.
Ever since the election, well, give it a couple of days.
Whenever it started after the election, the Democrats started ramping up their call to get out of there.
Levin the latest today, get out in four to six weeks.
Well, he has his point is Bush months, months.
Bush ought to tell them.
Bush, President Bush don't tell them that we're leaving in four to six months.
It seems like a whole lot of voices are all of a sudden popping up saying, hey, we can't get out of there now.
Front page of the New York Times today, Anthony Zinney, other military experts.
Here's General Abbey.
Hey, we we can't get out of there now.
That's that's not the thing to do.
Funny how none of this uh was articulated prior to the election.
Hank no I'm sorry, Mark Rockland, California.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Chartered dittoes rush from your adopted hometown.
Thank you, sir.
Well, you know, I was talking to your screener, and I just thought it was so hypocritical for the Democrats, Levin, Pelosi, and these folks to have an attitude that we should put more responsibility on the Iraqis when they don't practice what they preach with welfare and entitlements here in this country.
Interesting observation.
Uh you are suggesting when they tell the Iraqis, hey, stand up, protect yourselves, defend yourselves.
You know, the what they uh they don't do that with their own constituents here.
They oh don't worry about it.
If you don't have it, we'll get it for you.
Absolutely.
It it it just burns me because you know they can't have it both ways.
Yes, they can, and they won the election doing it.
Absolutely.
They're not uh the look it we're we're I'm gonna go broke here trying to point out the hypocrisy of liberalism and uh and and democrats.
Uh but that is uh that is an excellent observation on your part, and it it's it's but you have to understand the context.
The The context is that they've never said a decent word about the Iraqis.
They they don't care.
These are the people with all the compassion in the world and all the tolerance and all the understanding, the people run around talking about human rights and making sure everybody has them and they're not violated.
They couldn't have cared less about the people in Iraq.
This is this was um this is nothing but selfish as selfishness on their part, and and everybody knew this.
We shouted it from the uh from the mountaintops, but they uh convinced along with the media enough of the American people a situation was irretrievable over there, and so uh the American people voted to get out.
Uh changing the direction here just a bit.
Most Americans have a poll here.
This is from Al Reuters.
Most Americans believe smokers and obese people should pay more for health insurance.
But they have mixed views on how to help the millions without any health insurance.
This, according to uh uh a survey that has been published yesterday, the poll of about 1,500 people found that about 80% in America believe the U.S. health insurance system needs fixing.
Sixty percent of those polled favored higher premiums for smokers, while thirty percent felt the obese should pay more.
When it comes to personal responsibility, consumers increasingly support making people pay more for unhealthy behavior, said the report in the journal Health Affairs.
The survey came uh, you know, a week after the Democrats won the House.
Why that's relevant, I don't know.
Has to be in every story.
And on Monday, the health insurance industry unexpectedly uh threw its support behind a plan for nearly universal health insurance.
Yeah, I saw that in the stack yesterday.
So a new poll that says smokers and the obese should pay more for health insurance.
And uh people said you believe the poll.
I believe every poll from now on out, ladies and gentlemen, every poll.
I and I believe this one.
This one's easy to believe.
Everybody wants somebody else to pay their freight.
Everybody's willing to blame somebody for being the cause for high prices or this or that and the other thing.
And I'm telling it's easy to blame the fat.
It's easy to blame the obese and the overweight, and it is easy to believe, uh blame those who smoke.
Yeah, so I mean, I I totally believe this is true.
I I don't question this poll at all.
Fascinating story here from Al AP.
Walmart and rival Target are brewing up a price war for toys, electronics, and other things consumers may want for Christmas.
That could spell savings for shoppers, but profit woes for retailers in the critical holiday quarter.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer on Tuesday, promised its most aggressive pricing strategy ever to fuel year-end business, but warned that the move could also make it miss Wall Street's expectations for fourth quarter earnings.
The announcement came as Walmart posted an 11.5% profit increase in the third quarter when improved merchandise mix and stricter cost controls offset weak growth in uh in U.S. sales.
John Menzer, head of Walmart U.S. told investors there were huge sales increases among the discounted toys and in some electronics.
We're seeing we're seeing a huge growth in our new categories such as flat panel TVs, MP3 players, laptops, and cell phones.
But this is tempered with declines in our more mature categories such as music, DVD players, and telephones.
Well, two parts to this.
First off, discounts are bad for business.
That is the theme here of the AP story.
Great for consumers.
Walmart cutting prices.
That's gonna anger the Democrats even more.
Walmart's gotta get their head on straight.
They gotta understand that they are in the crosshairs.
They are a target.
They have a bullseye pointed on air painted on every store they've got.
And you know why?
Because they're doing a better job for the middle class in this country than the government is and the Democrats and all their programs, and that can't last.
Liberal Democrats cannot stand for that to stand.
Once the American people figure out that the free market is gonna improve their quality of life, they're not gonna rely on big government programs to do it as much, and that is going to in turn eliminate or decrease some of the power and the powerful of the grip that Democrats hold on people.
So they will con Walmart's just in their face.
Walmart already a target, already hated, and now they say, guess what?
We're lowering prices for Christmas.
They're not even saying the holiday season.
They're really piling on by saying they're lowering prices for Christmas.
I mean, that's that's punching a liberal in the nose when you go up and say Christmas.
And then when you dare to cut prices even more.
So this is this is going to cause anguish.
So now the second part of this is, well, this is going to cause great, great results for consumers, but they might not meet their fourth quarter expectations on Wall Street.
Which leads me to a theory that I've had for a long time, but I don't know that I'm qualified, ladies and gentlemen, because I've never been a CEO of a major corporation or a business.
So be prepared to discount everything I say because I'm not qualified to say it.
I'm not even allowed under the new rules imposed by the left.
But it seems to me that when you have a business and your focus is Wall Street rather than the business, you are making a tactical error.
I also am not sure Walmart's not going to meet its fourth quarter expectations.
With all these discounts, you know what happens, usually sell more volume.
It's kind of like lowering taxes and increasing revenue.
Funny how that works.
Probably will work for Walmart.
In fact, it's the definition of Walmart's success.
So they're going to cut prices for a period of time here in the uh in the final month leading up to Christmas.
And they're worried about the impact on Wall Street.
That, you know, I understand all that, but it it seems to me it distracts CEOs from uh what ought to be the real mission.
But here's the third leg of this little story that I want to talk about.
You hear me say here that they're seeing big growth in new categories such as flat panel TVs, i.e.
plasmas, and uh near plasmas and the uh the uh uh quartz, liquid quartz, the liquid crystal display screens.
These flat panels, they've been out for a long time, but the price at the outset was just too high.
You had to have one of these in order to watch high definition uh broadcasts.
Well, what's happened is the reason why Walmart is expecting this to be the year of the flat panel is because the prices come down.
Frankly, I hope they're right.
I want as many of you people as possible buying flat panels, and I'll tell you why.
I love high definition, and I have sacrificed.
I have been on the cutting edge.
I have been a pioneer taking the arrows on this.
I have in my house, and I know some of you are gonna misunderstand this.
I have 12 flat panels in one of my houses.
I have a 15-foot HD rear projection flat panel.
I have paid through the roof so that you can afford yours now.
And the reason for this is the more of you that go get flat panels, the more high definition programming there's gonna be out there, and the sooner the better, because there's nothing like it.
I've been willing to un undergo this uh this sacrifice, but you know it's it's the way things always happen.
When new products are introduced, certain people rush out and buy them, pay the price, get the production and sales forces rolling, and that brings the price down so that everybody else, it happened with the VCR.
I was I led the I led the trend there.
I mean, I I went I borrowed 1,200 bucks from a bank to buy a Sony Betamax that would record for one hour.
And it was only a month later that Panasonic came out with their four-hour VHS machine.
But I was loyal because the Sony Betamax had a better picture quality and a far better mechanism.
But it event uh well, people do owe me a lot on this.
I've I've sacrificed plenty.
I've I've gone, I've this is this is called leadership.
I mean, without people like me, the price would there could not be the year of the flat panel at Walmart were it not for people like me.
So I hope they're right about this.
Because I want more high definition programming, and I have been willing to pay for it.
Well, hot damn, folks.
I don't know if you saw this story last night.
It was just updated.
Our old buddy Brian Ross, he of uh penis fascination during the uh Mark Foley story, has put up on his investigative blog website at ABC News.com the following.
As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramov reported at federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Senator Harry Reed, dingy Harry, was one of the members of Congress.
Abram had allegedly implicated in his cooperation with federal prosecutors.
Now the story last night was that Abramov had dished dirt on six to eight prominent Senate Democrats.
There weren't any names.
Today, ABC News says one of the members of Congress, Abramov gave up, was Harry Reid.
Of course.
This this they couldn't possibly have held this uh or after the election, could they?
You know, they did.
They had of course they'll deny this.
Oh, no, no, we just got this.
Look, we just got those instant messages of Mark Foley.
Well, we just we just got those.
I mean, we ran them right up.
We don't know, we didn't get this.
No, we haven't been holding this stuff.
Sorry, not likely.
A spokesperson, uh spokesperson for Dingy Harry said the Senator had done nothing illegal or unethical.
We have no idea what Abramov's telling prosecutors to save his skin, but I do know that these kinds of uh old allegations are completely ridiculous and untrue, said Jim Manley, uh Dingy Harry's spokesman in response to questions from ABC.
So Abramov apparently has given up six to eight Democrats.
And in fact, story also goes on to say that he started his sentence today, prison sentence today, and and the prosecutors, the FBI, somebody said we don't want him to start a sentence yet.
We're still talking to him.
And others said, Nope, prison judge said prison sentence starts, and so they uh I don't know how they're gonna continue to talk to him in jail, in prison, uh wherever he is.
It's just it just fascinating how all of this stuff, and this is not by the way, this isn't the first time, folks.
This is a pattern.
Uh if we wanted to go back and document it, we could all of after elections where Democrats win, even sometimes Republicans win.
All kinds of stuff comes out uh that you just know has been held.
For obvious reasons.
This is Bob in Hughesville, Pennsylvania.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
All right.
Megadetto's from Central Pennsylvania, Roger.
Thank you, sir.
Gratzate.
Uh just give you a little information.
Uh about Thursday or Friday of last week, uh the newspapers carried a story on the uh Democratic uh governor coming out with uh state faces a crisis in transportation funding.
They want to increase taxes 1.7 billion dollars.
That would be uh fast Eddie Rendell.
That's right.
Now, this is a guy that runs all over the state, giving out millions of dollars in uh grants all over the place.
But anyway, he wants to raise the gas tax by twelve and a half cents a gallon.
He wants to increase motor vehicle registration.
We pay thirty-six dollars for a car and a truck truck can go up to what?
And he wants to raise it to about to about fifty, fifty-five dollars for a car.
So and he wants to increase uh spending on mass transit, which only affects Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frank Mooksbury, which is the Democratic stronghold.
Right.
Yeah, so what?
I mean, what's and uh so we're paying for that people in those areas to ride buses, basically is what they're doing.
They want they want to increase the uh real estate transfer tax.
Uh you know, the it's all kind of tax increases.
Let me ask you a question.
Did did Fast Eddie did Fast Eddie uh mention any of this during the campaign before?
Nothing brought out.
Nothing at all, right?
So as far as I'm concerned, that's still no excuse uh uh for people in Pennsylvania.
Isn't Democrat.
You just describe what they do.
I know why is anybody angry or surprised.
I'm not a bit surprised.
I've been expecting it.
And you want to know something else, Rush?
Well Senator Santorum and Congressman Sherwin carried the central part of Pennsylvania where I'm located.
That was not even put in the papers.
What elected him, what elected him was uh uh Democrats, uh uh Senator Casey, elect Casey was Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Scratch Mooksbury.
Oh, well, of course, I mean that's there's yeah, that's that's uh I misunderstood you there at the first.
I was having to read the transcript of what you said because we're out of time.
Thanks, uh thanks for the phone call.
Look, I I I'm sorry, but I got no sympathy for people that live in Democrat states that get tax increases.
What do you Okay, I've got the term for what's happening to our man Jack Mertha in his effort to become a new number two Democrat in the House.
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