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Dec. 21, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I was talking to Mr. Snerdley during the break.
What kind of calls you're getting out there today on the Sandy Burglar stuff?
He said there is outrage out there.
You people are a he's turning down a lot because they're just repeating things that have already been said.
But the common theme apparently from Psych is if it had happened to them or anybody else, they would not have gotten away with this without having spent some serious time in jail.
Uh and a permanent removal of their security clearance and so forth.
But it seems like Burglar as a member of the Clinton administration, a little slap on the wrist compared to what anybody else would have gotten.
I'm glad you're mad about this.
This is this ought to be an outrageous, especially with the details of this report coming this week.
Let's let's face it, folks.
This is very, very uh purposeful to release it this week.
Most of the big name news talents on vacation already.
That's why if you watched the president's press conference uh earlier this week, I guess it was yesterday.
I mean, the reporters he called on, half of them I never seen.
They're the scrubs, they're the backups.
Because all the big guns are gone.
Uh this is a week where hardly any news is expected to be made.
We've got the blizzard going on out there.
We got the Trump and Rosie uh contra temps.
Uh we have the ongoing Iraq story.
They thought they could just bury this thing.
Uh and and of course they have succeeded in most places, not here, but they have succeeded in most places.
I'm glad you're angry about it because uh it is an outrage.
Uh just stop and think about what happened.
Uh and realize that the guy has basically gotten away with it, nobody else would.
It does make a lot of people question the uh the justice system and more.
All right, here's the Christmas stack.
I told you about this earlier.
Uh I've got story after story here about how rotten things are at Christmas, how angry people are.
Uh it's just it's just amazing.
And it is it is a great illustration of uh where the drive-by media is and the and the chaos they are continuing to try to create out there.
The first story some new London, Connecticut, the woman at the center of the national battle over property rights has some less than joyous tidings for the people involved in using eminent domain to take her house to make way for private development.
However, at least one recipient of her unmarried greeting has put it on his mantle with his other cards.
We're talking about Suzette Keelo here.
Kilo's cards feature a snowy image of her pink house and a message that reads in part, your houses, your homes, your family, your friends, may they live in misery that never ends.
I curse you all.
May you rotten hell to each of you I send this spell.
The cards were sent to city officials and members of New London's development agency.
The U.S. Supreme Court, as you know, ruled in June of last year that New London had the right to take homes in her Fort Trumbull neighborhood to make way for a riverfront project.
That'll include condos, a hotel and office spaces.
My card was meant as much in humor as it was in frustration, said Suzette Keelow.
What I wrote shouldn't be taken as my literal wish for anyone.
I'm heartbroken.
This will be my last Christmas in Fort Trumbull, and when I wrote uh what I wrote rose out of that fact.
The bottom line is it was over the top.
Uh Gail Schwinker Mayer, a development supporter who received one of the cards, said it's amazing anyone could be so vindictive when they've made so much money.
In this case, it's not about the money.
Uh, Gail Schwinker Mayor, a new London development corporation member Reed Burdick, said he put the card on his mantle with his other Christmas greetings.
I still feel bad for Suzette.
He said the sorry part of this is that the things she's Angry about were not done to be mean spirited toward her personally.
Oh no, of course not.
Just taking her home away from her.
Nothing personal about that.
Why would anybody think that that was personal?
Well, I certainly wouldn't.
Somebody came and say, Your home is ours, Limbo.
We're making way here for a new casino.
Your property taxes are big, but we can get more from bigger people.
But don't take it personally, Limbo.
No, of course I wouldn't.
Of course not.
Why would anybody take it personally?
Next story, America the Angry. 'Tis the season to be angry.
The countdown to Christmas has dwindled into single digits.
As the mall crowds have worsened, so is the stress on shoppers faced with a creeping deadline to buy gifts.
And they're increasingly taking that stress out on salespeople.
Now merchants from toy sellers to electronics chains have buckled down a deal with irate shoppers.
Their strategies vary, but the goal is generally the same to keep customers happy and from wrestling each other in the aisles and keep employees safe.
We've all done it.
I know I've lost my temper.
Everybody else has probably done it, said Ernest Speranza, the chief marketing officer of KB Toys.
At this see, everybody's everybody does it, folks.
We've all we've all gotten mad and rolled around on the floor in a department store and kicked an employee.
We've all done it.
Everybody does this.
At this time of year, people start out with all the best intentions.
They're busy buying toys for a young child.
They're happy about doing that.
Then they get caught up in the frenzy, and a nice experience now starts to spiral out of control.
Shoppers have become angrier, suggests a recent study by Compsyc Corporation, a provider of employee assistance programs this year, COMSYC, has been seen a marked increase in the number of acute stress counseling sessions it provides to retailers related to customer abuse.
The number rose 13% in 2006 following a 65% jump last year.
Yeah, yeah, during the holiday season, retailers bring on people who are less familiar with where products are and how the stores operate.
Shoppers are agitated.
You put those things together, you create a combustible environment.
On the corner of 34th Street and 7th Avenue in New York, Melanie Marquez took a deep breath as she set down two handfuls of red and white Macy's shopping bags.
She'd just been shopping there.
Forty-seven years old said she made her way to the front of the Macy's checkout line only to find the register didn't recognize the discounts she expected on a set of towels.
After leaving the line to search for the proper sales ticket, Mark has waited another hour to save about $14 on a receipt that totaled $450.
That after putting up a fight, poor Macy's, you just have to be mean to them.
Hey, um uh uh what Melanie.
You know, at some point we're talking $14 here.
At some point there's is it what's the value of your time here, honey?
Uh what did this what did it take her to save the four?
I know Rush, but Rush, but Russ, they were fraudulent.
They were not giving the discount to the cash.
She's a crusader.
Okay, I see that too.
I see that too.
Take back what I said about value of people's time.
I realize some people's time's worth nothing.
Uh.
Uh now, Mr. Snerdley, let's not bring sexism into this.
He's asking me if I expect a woman to pass up a discount.
Only if she's spending her own money.
Uh at any rate, to keep customers under control lest a stressed-out shopper become a violent shopper.
Another expert said that the uh all these chains beef up security during the holidays, including hiring plainclothes officers to police the aisles and checkout lines, and not worried here about shoplifting.
This is you people apparently are causing riots in the department stores in the malls.
You are fit to be tied.
You are enraged, you are angry.
And if that's true in your case, it's probably because you don't even want to be there in the first place.
It's it is sort of like Valentine's Day.
You give a card because you have to.
Not because you want to.
You gotta go out and find a box of candy or whatever, because you have to.
Well, many people look at Christmas now.
Oh, I have to.
I've got to everybody's expecting I don't want to go there, but I have to.
So you get, you know, you go in with a bad attitude rather than exhibiting the proper holiday spirit of giving.
Everything becomes an Arduous task, then you run into a typical part-time employee who doesn't know where anything is in the store, and you snap.
And uh this is uh this apparently happening all over the country.
We're such an enraged nation.
We are so partisan that the partisanship has extended itself now into the malls.
And the next story, all of these from the AP, by the way, is entitled Blue Christmas.
There were no jolly Christmas carols at the Canon Memorial Chapel, no brilliant poinsetas, or festive branches of holly, no smiling faces or hearty wishes of happiness.
Nothing.
Instead, melancholy piano music echoed through the hushed church.
Dead branches were laying on a table covered with blue cloth representing the winter of our souls.
Men and women held each other and cried.
The chaplain Kate O'Dwyer Randall, who probably watches The View and Oprah, said this is not a traditional Christmas service.
This is happening in Richmond, Virginia, the uh opening of the University of Richmond's non-denominational Blue Christmas service, which drew around sixty people, and yet it makes news.
Sixty people show up.
And it makes news.
Somber Blue Christmas services are being held at many churches around the country this year in recognition of what psychologists have long known, that the contrived good cheer of the holiday season can actually make some people who are dealing with heartbreak feel even worse.
And so the Blue Christmas services confront feelings of grief and loss head on.
They invite us in.
Are you feeling miserable?
Good.
Come in and join fellow citizens who are also feeling miserable.
Don't fake it.
Don't go try to have a good time.
This Christmas season is about nothing more than convincing you that this is rosy and everybody's cool, and it's a land and time of good cheer, and we and you know it's not.
We are all miserable, and we are the ones who are honest enough to admit it.
So come join us at the Blue Christmas Festival.
This is the first Christmas in a long time that 77-year-old Charles Minter Jr. will have to celebrate without Barbara, whom he married 19 days after they met and stayed with for 57 years.
In May, she succumbed to cancer.
I hate the holidays.
I hate the lights, I hate Christmas.
I just get the chills.
I hope going to the Blue Christmas service is going to help.
Sharon Vanderwald's husband of 40 years died suddenly earlier this month.
This is this is just a preparation for Christmas.
It's going to be rather difficult, she said.
It's a good place to have a cry, and nobody will mind.
The Blue Christmas concept serves an important function for those who have lost loved ones.
The biggest sigh of relief for people who are grieving comes when you name it when you say, hey, you're probably having a hard year.
When you say the person's name.
Sounds suspiciously like the group down in Boca.
Post-election stress disorder.
Trauma when uh Bush won and Carrie lost.
And uh one is this last one.
Yes, the last one.
So now we got you.
You're angry.
You're causing chaos and fights in the malls when you go out there.
Now you're so depressed because it's all artificial good times that you're seeking out places where you can go be down in the dumps with others who are down in the dumps and feel happy being miserable.
And then you can join the very troubled Miss USA will be with you probably in spirit.
Very troubled.
And then if you are hoping Santa will send you an iPod or a Nintendo, or any of the latest mobile phones this Christmas, be careful what you wish for.
Sore thumbs, inflamed elbows, stiff shoulders are among the Muskos skeletal injuries linked to excessive use of these high-tech games and gadgets that could be under the tree.
William Lenahan from Singapore's osteopathic pain relief center said, This is a pretty big issue.
Especially as more and more people are using gadgets a lot.
Hospitals have reported an increase in RSIs of the thumb from usage of gadgets and mobile phones, primarily from sending text messages.
It's a disease of modern times.
And once you suffer from tenocinovitis, referring to a type of inflammation of the wrist and hand tendons, we can Treat it with shots.
There's also medication to ease the pain and braces to wear on the wrist.
Of course, the most obvious way to treat it is to stop playing the game.
So even those of you who can't wait to open up your presence on Christmas morning, you are unaware of what utter despair, harm, damage, and pain await you.
After listening to these stories or reading this stories, uh some who have weaker constitutions that I might question why it's even worth trying to stay alive.
All right, back to the phones and Paradise, California.
Brad, uh, thank you for waiting.
Very nice of you for to be patient.
I appreciate it.
You're next.
Hello.
Hello, it's an honor.
Um you had said earlier in the show that we don't know what's in the Millennium After Action Review.
And um John Ashcroft actually testified in front of the 911 Commission, and in his book uh I'm kind of nervous, never again, he said this is a quote.
Uh this is what's in the report.
A substantial Al Qaeda American network is present in the United States, and that there's uh glaring weakness within the Justice Department and uh uh FISA operation.
Uh I'm too nervous to talk.
No, you're doing it but you're doing a great job.
I had I've not read the Ashcroft book, so this uh reminder for me.
Well what it said was there was um Clinton was given a uh what do you call uh a strategy to try to stop Al Qaeda, and he didn't do it.
And not only did he not do it, he didn't turn it over to the incoming um uh Bush administration.
So they we were left, you know, just he didn't he didn't do what he should have done to protect the American people.
Yeah, yeah, well, you know, I remember Ashcroft alluding to this during his testimony uh uh uh now that you bring it up, I have not read his book.
But there's no question it has to be something like this.
It has to be because the remember the the key to this, I think, in in uh uh understanding it, draw connecting the dots, uh, is to look at the Clinton administration reaction to the path to 911.
Here was just a you know nonpartisan film shows a bunch of things going on terrorist wise in this country and around the world, and it shows during the nineties that there wasn't much interest paid to it, uh, at the highest levels of the Clinton administration.
Yet they've tried to build their legacy for the 911 Commission report that they were tough on terrorism, and they took it seriously.
And Clinton was working harder on that than he worked on anything other than the middle class tax cut that just couldn't get done.
And then they have to get Sandy Burglar in there to change what's in this report because the report does say that the Al Qaeda networks are in the country and are active.
The Clinton administration knew it didn't do anything about it.
Guys going to the flight schools and so forth.
Uh this was known, and so they had to try to scrub that out.
And that's what burglars' purpose probably was.
And it ought to outrage everybody.
It this is a there are so many incidents like this, so many news stories, so many uh stories, period, that have just illustrate the the the vacancy, the substantive vacancy of the Clinton administration.
They didn't want to tackle hard things.
They didn't want to have to deal with possible outcomes like the Bush administrations had to deal with.
They wanted to create Camelot 2.
They wanted to create this notion of a 65% approval rating throughout with a roaring economy and people happy as they could be, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And one of the ways you do that, or you can try to do it, is don't tackle anything hard.
Don't tackle anything hard that may go wrong.
So you just when you go fight the Kosovo war, you fight it from fifteen thousand feet, so you don't take any casualties.
And you don't call it what it really is.
You're going over there to stop ethnic cleansing.
Why, who can oppose why this is great, there's a great human rights uh uh project.
The Clinton administration cares about people.
Meanwhile, there's a genocide in Rwanda that they didn't lift a hand to do anything about and stop.
But that's okay because Clinton apologized for that.
And see, folks, is all you have to do is apologize and say you made a mistake.
And uh after you leave office, of course, and and why all is forgiven.
But there's there's no question that uh the administration, the Clinton administration knew of the buildup of Al-Qaeda personnel in the country prior to 2000 and 2001.
The Millennium After Action Review probably did contain evidence of it, as uh Ashcroft said.
And hello, Sandy Burglar to go in there and try to scrub that.
Must be what this is about.
Otherwise, they would release it.
It's been requested a number of times.
They won't release it back with much more, just to say.
All right, let's look at the uh latest news here on the illegal immigration front and these recent raids at Swift and Company.
Excuse me.
Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired to replace meat packing workers arrested at Swift and Company plants in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Greeley, Colorado during last week's immigration raid, according to Union officials.
Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired.
Local 22 Union president Dan Hopps said uh Tuesday that 40 to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids, and he said the lion's share of those people were Caucasian.
Now, as you remember, ICE people arrested nearly 1,300 people, mostly Hispanic at six and cup uh Swift and Company plants in the sweep, and some experts say that the raids could lead to a shortage of meat packers, and thus higher wages, and thus higher prices for the beef in homes and restaurants.
Several union officials said that Swift, uh, which has denied knowingly hiring uh illegal workers and has not been charged, improved its wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids.
Now, let's look at this.
Uh uh uh experts say the raids could lead to a shortage of meat packers, higher wages, and higher prices for the beef in homes and restaurants.
Now, why is this?
Well, for uh shortage of meat packers.
Well, that's right, because uh illegal immigrants will only do jobs that Americans won't do.
And so when you go in there and raid the place and you throw out a bunch of illegals, uh you're short of workers because Americans refuse to do it.
So you gotta pay more.
Uh and the higher wages thus lead to higher prices, so you people at home are going to get blamed for this.
Uh because you well, you're not going to get blamed, but you're gonna you're gonna face the ultimate uh responsibility for it.
But wait.
Before the raids, roughly 90% of the Greeley plant workers were Hispanic.
Now, in Greeley, where Swift is headquartered, union local president Ernie Duran said about 75 new workers have been hired, including about 30 Caucasians, 15 Somali immigrants, and seven Hispanic immigrants, with the uh rest being U.S. born Hispanics, but the raid has not dissuaded Hispanic immigrants from seeking work at the plant.
So let me see now if I understand this.
Illegals don't exactly take the jobs Americans won't do.
It seems like illegals take the jobs American companies won't offer to Americans.
And now when ICE goes in and removes a percentage of the workforce because they're illegal, then Caucasians get the gig.
Then Americans get is am I interpreting this right?
Well, I don't know if it's indelicate or not.
I mean, it's just it seems to me we hear that Americans won't do these jobs and ergo, we need this uh uh uneducated low-wage workforce in order to fill these jobs because Americans won't do it when you remove some of the uneducated low uh well, yeah, uneducated low-wage workforce.
Why thirty Caucasians were hired?
Which means they will do the work.
They will, they they will work I know They hire some Somalis, but then they will do the work.
Well, but but but we're told they won't.
But they do.
So if they'll do the work and aren't doing it, then whose fault is it?
Who is it?
Is it maybe they're not being given the jobs or offered the jobs?
And uh uh a companion story here.
This is from um Nebraska State Paper dot com.
Guess who's hiring Americans who happen to be white?
Some of the jobs Americans purportedly won't do have apparently been getting more popular among the white people who are doing them these days, but for better money than the illegal immigrants they replaced.
Union officials say that Swift and company meatpacking plants have been hiring more Caucasians since the feds raided their plants last week looking for workers who were in the country illegally.
Up to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids that snagged 261 workers there.
Hops uh told reporters the lions' share of those people were Caucasian.
Now it didn't say white people, because that could be a subject of classification as a politically incorrect, so they're they're uh Caucasian.
Now, this is a column bar story by a guy named Ed Howard at this website.
He says, here's the interesting thing about the new hires.
Union officials also said that Swift began improving wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids, not after.
Uh was this a reflection of the holiday spirit?
If so, it also reflected the fact that Swift and Company knew well in advance the raids were coming, and the replacements would be needed if illegal workers were hauled off.
The company apparently was just being cautious since it never knowingly hires illegal workers, but understands that such things can uh obviously happen.
The uh recent hires at Swift might indicate that some Americans will do these jobs uh for better wages and benefits.
And of course who would have thought that.
Um, it seems that the meat packing industry knew it.
If they if they raised wages and benefits, if they knew the raid was coming, they raised wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids, they knew that they're gonna have to replace these workers.
And so Americans will do the work.
If the uh pay is above what you will pay your uneducated, low-wage illegal immigrant workforce.
And this from the Louisville Courier uh courier journal.
Uh married couple who embody the American dream were sentenced yesterday for hiring illegal immigrants to work at their jumbo buffet restaurant in Jeffersontown in Kentucky.
One bin Young, 34, received three months of home incarceration, and her husband, Howe Young, 34, was sentenced to three months in prison after they admitted to hiring thirteen illegal immigrants between February of 05 and February of 2006.
These are hardworking people who in many respects embody the American dreams, talking about the youngs.
Uh chief uh U.S. District Judge John Haber in the second said before imposing the three months of home incarceration punishment.
He opted for a punishment that he said wouldn't destroy the young's family or business while sending a message that the nation's immigration laws must be respected.
Similar case pending in Louisville.
Habern yesterday accepted a guilty plea from John Chi Lin to a charge of knowingly hiring ten illegal immigrants over the past year to work at his Radcliffe restaurant, the Golden China Buffet.
As part of a plea agreement, Lynn forfeited 42 big ones from a restaurant bank account.
Well, I mean, this the the the the story that talks about all kinds of penalties that are being meted out for hiring of uh of illegals.
But they're just trying to pursue the American dream.
So the romance.
The romance, well, I know they're illegal, but these people they're just they were immigrants themselves, they're just trying to the American dream.
And this is this is oh, how can we dare pass Judge?
Well, they're just so poor people, they're just trying to do the right thing.
And none of us ever succeed all the time in doing the right thing, so how can we hold them accountable?
And so begins the snowball.
Here is John in uh Logan, Utah.
John, welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Megadiddos, right.
Thank you, sir.
From a native Sacramentan.
Hey, um I am in Logan.
We are about five minutes from one of the plants that was that was raided.
And uh couple things.
Add to that list of newspaper articles, one from uh the Rocky Mountain News, where apparently there are lines of people waiting to get these jobs.
And all of them, of course, aware that uh their uh status is going to be in question.
So I'm assuming these people uh are our citizens.
And the the interesting thing, of course, is I was waiting to see articles like this because I've never bought the tripe that that only illegal immigrants will do this kind of labor.
So waiting.
It was posed as though these people are kind of like cannibals coming in to to clean up afterward and then you know live off the dead bodies of the city.
Vultures, yeah, vultures.
Exactly.
Cannibals eat live people, uh, vultures wait for you to die.
Well, one of the guys was a roommate of one of the illegals that was sent off, and he was left with all of his goods in his apartment.
He uh took his animals and gave them to people who could take care of them.
So it was really kind of an interesting article.
But but there are lines of people.
Now, I don't know if you saw that uh here in in Logan, the newspaper, that there are sixteen indictments that have come down, um, all related to various forms of uh of fraud.
Oh, common identity.
This is excessive.
We're talking about human beings here.
You're claimed citizens and illiterate, they're human beings that everybody has to eat.
I know, I know, and it's really sad, and one of the editorials led off in the in our local newspaper saying this is appalling.
We are not, first and foremost, a country founded upon a uh uh laws.
We are a country founded on compassion.
And so I am obviously out of line.
Yes, you are, because you cold-hearted extremists.
And I appreciate you given voice to the things that I have always felt and believed.
So thank you, Robert.
Thank you.
I'm glad you call.
Appreciate that.
Thanks very much.
Americans will do the work, but I mean it's uh it's it's there's a there's always something left out of that equation.
The jobs Americans no longer will do.
Jobs Americans refuse to do at the wages being paid to an uneducated workforce here illegally.
That's what's that's what's left out.
We gotta take a break.
We'll do it.
We'll be back, we'll continue.
Be back before you know it.
Stay with us.
I have a fantastic story.
It's gonna make uh many of you out there happier than you ever been.
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Uh, this is the first study of the neurological reactions to human touch in a threatening situation.
The results of the test, the MRA able to show how these women's brains responded to the handholding while in a threatening situation.
The result showed a large decrease in the brain response to threat as a function of spouse handholding.
Uh didn't test people who aren't married on this.
Uh from Stillmore, Georgia, an animal protection organization, PETA, has raised questions and objections to convicted felons being used to process chickens at a South Georgia poultry plant whose workforce was decimated by a crackdown on illegal immigrants working there.
PETA said Wednesday that it it was concerned that criminals with violent pasts could be among the workers being bussed from a probation center.
Peter said it wanted to point out that uh chicken slaughterhouses are notorious for animal abuse.
Huh?
How can you abuse an animal any more than slaughter it?
Chicken slaughterhouses are notorious for animal abuse, and that staffing the plant with violent criminals is begging for violations of Georgia's cruelty to animal laws.
So we got the illegals out of there.
They're bringing in convicted felons who are on probation.
This is sort of like community service work.
And PETA is concerned.
You can work at social services.
They can drive your kids' school bus.
They cannot work at a chicken slaughterhouse.
Speaking of animals.
What a time of year for this story.
I kid you not, the world will soon witness another virgin birth.
Seven of them, actually.
The Chester Zoo in Northern England is home to Flora, a Komodo dragon.
She's managed to get pregnant without the participation of a male.
And at this point, I know the ears of feminists have really perked up.
Yeah, we were blown away when we realized what she'd done, said Kevin Bruley, a reptile expert at the zoo.
But we certainly won't be naming any of the hatchlings.
Jesus.
Oh, how clever.
Virgin births are known to occur at about 70 animal species.
It's called Parthenogenesis, where eggs become embryos without male fertilization.
This is the first known for a Komodo dragon.
So we have a dragon.
I think Komodos are not fire breathing dragons all, but they can reproduce here without a male.
So this I think.
For those of you doing graphics at the Limbaugh Letter, this, the Komodo Dragon is the new mascot icon for the nags.
The National Association of Gals, the Now Gang, you know, radical feminists, the Komodo Dragon, Virgin Births.
You don't need men.
The ultimate objective of the early feminist movement, we don't need no stinking men.
And the Komodo Dragon gets that message across.
Gross Point, Michigan.
Rich, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Long time listener since uh 1991, I think it was.
Thank you, Rim.
I'm going to sue Kleenex here.
I'm getting I've got a defective box of Kleenex.
I pull one out of there and half of it comes out, it's torn into shreds.
It's unusual.
I'm sorry.
Well, uh it's been going on all day, and I can't contain it.
I'm like an angry shopper.
Okay.
Sandy Berger should have had that uh box.
It would have shredded them instead of uh I wanted to go back to that if I may, because I think something's been forgotten.
When the story first broke, uh Clinton's defenders, people like uh Barney Frank and so on, rushed to television and said, If Sandy just made a mistake, it couldn't have been intentional because these were copies.
Just copies.
That phrase was used over and over again by more than one of the uh Clintonista defenders.
That's right.
That was the excuse.
That excuse died fast, and here's why.
Because the next day or so, in papers like the Washington Post, they pointed out that Bill Clinton communicated with the staff by taking these various copies and writing notes in the margin.
And as soon as that was published, the st the the words they were just copies, you know, weren't used anymore.
That that wasn't part of the talking points.
And here's my best speculation as to what happened.
He took these things out and whited out the marginal notes, and then made copies of that and stuck these copies with the marginal notes uh you know excised out because part of the story that's coming out today is he he stuck some stuff in a trash can and then of course tried to get it back again, but couldn't find it.
And you if you think back to um that ABC, was it the ABC television show that showed the millennium event and all that stuff?
Yeah, Path Line Eleven, right, right, right.
Yeah, remember that.
Well, how did that what went down in that event is this?
That woman that we all owe a great uh deal of uh credit to, one border guard, a lady stopped this guy for no apparent reason.
And in the as portrayed on television, it was get out of the car, put your hands on the roof.
And she said it over and over and over and over again, very tense.
All of her cohorts just stood around and looked at her like what you know, what's the matter with her today?
So it wasn't like she spotted something.
It wasn't like That's right, it's right.
It was not a policy.
It was it was it was just great police work on the part of one agent.
No, no, you're exactly right.
I wish I had more time with you here, Rich, because we're we're we have uh would dwindle down to our precious few remaining broadcast seconds.
But I get give me a yes or no on this.
Are you speculating that what happened is that he whited out the margin notes because the margin notes are what are incriminating?
I got five seconds.
Yes, the margin notes probably say, hey, can't we take credit for this?
Ah, ah, ah, okay.
Interesting speculation.
For those of you in Boston, we have our reasons back in just a second.
Why, where did the time go?
It just zips by here.
Well, we got one more day to go, ladies and gentlemen.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
Already looking forward to it.
In fact, Bush, it was starting in five minutes, but it's not.
It's starting in twenty one hours, and we'll be back, and we'll see you then.
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