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March 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Still chuckling here, folks.
Not chuckling, we're laughing.
The shamelessness of Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama speaking to black church audiences in Selma, Alabama, yesterday.
By the way, if you're if you're new to the program uh, or if you have not joined us yet today, it's your first time with us today.
Um, an executive uh program decision been made here from this day forward.
The woman formerly known as Hillary Rodham Clinton will now be known on this program as Mrs. Bill Clinton, the wife of the former president.
Uh she obviously cannot uh run this presidential campaign on her own.
She, in fact, the LA Times referred to Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Bill Clinton is uh taking her A game to Selma uh by taking her husband.
Uh she has to go down there compete for the black vote with uh Barack Obama and needed her husband along odd in order to do it.
This is not a feminist comment.
This is uh this is a it's nothing to do with women.
Don't don't misunderstand this.
Uh it is uh it's simply the fact that uh that Mrs. Bill Clinton can't do this on her own.
Uh at uh uh what it could change.
Well uh she might go back, but she could be Mrs. Bill Clinton on uh on this program.
Anyway, look, I I I missed something the first time around on this sound, but a friend of mine caught it in an email, and I want to run it by you.
This is Barack Obama in Selma yesterday.
We've got too many children in poverty in this country, and everybody should be ashamed.
But don't tell me it doesn't have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies.
I think the fatherhood ends at conception.
Don't think that fatherhood ends at conception.
That, ladies and gentlemen, a pro-life statement.
Somebody's gonna have to talk to him about this.
That's bad, that's that's a bad move.
It it should have been don't think that fatherhood ends at birth.
As Obama just said that life begins at conception, and you can't say that in the pro-choice community.
There's a lot of stuff you can't believe and can't say in the pro-choice community.
By the way, greetings and uh welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I also want to go back to a soundbite that we played for you, uh, Mrs. Bill Clinton from Selma in the first hour.
And somehow, ladies and gentlemen, I just don't think this is what Dr. King had in mind when he said he had a dream.
Let us say with one voice.
The words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
And we know if we finish this march, what awaits us.
St. Paul told us in the letter to the Galatians.
Let us not grow weary in doing good.
For in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
The brave men and women of bloody Sunday did not lose heart.
I just can't.
We can do no less.
We have a march to finish.
Um this is just utterly shameless.
It's not helpful.
It doesn't advance these people at all, nor does it help them.
But that's the thing.
The Libs don't want them to advance.
The libs want them to stay in their current mindset.
But somehow, folks, I just I just don't think that um just don't think that this is what Dr. King had in mind when he had a dream.
Uh Mrs. Bill Clinton in a speech in a black church in Selma imitating uh the black dialect and uh James Cleveland.
By the way, little news from California, Republican lawmaker who co-authored a bill that would give every child born in California a $500 savings account, has Withdrawn his support following a backlash within his own party.
This would be Senator Bob Dutton, who had promoted the measure as a good investment.
He announced Friday he no longer supported the bill that he had introduced two days before with Senator Darrell Steinberg, the Democrat co-author.
In a press release, Dutton said that thousands of Californians had asked him what he was thinking over the past 48 hours, although he defended the savings account idea as a way for Republicans to help individuals become self-sufficient.
Dutton said that he couldn't support the bill because of the state's deteriorating fiscal stability.
Said hysteria over immigration had pressured his colleague to uh withdraw his support.
I don't think that had much to do with it.
I think our morning update and repeated comments on this program, if you've forgotten.
This was a bill that was going to give every California chow 500 bucks, including the children of illegals.
And it was going to cost 300 million.
And they said the five hundred dollars would pay for a home, uh, health care, uh, financial independence, and so forth and so on.
Uh and it was if it's patently ridiculous.
The idea that the five hundred dollars goes into account and stays there.
By the way, if if if there's ever an argument for private accounts and social security, this could be it, but with your own money, not the taxpayers.
What's a Republican doing proposing this?
Financial independence thanks to the government?
Anybody remember George McGovern proposing this in 1972 in his presidential campaign?
He was going to give everybody a thousand dollars.
And he lost in a landslide.
The American people instinctively react to this sort of thing, including Californians, as being uh outrageous.
I mean, they I think the what one of these two guys, either Steinberg or Dutton in their calculations, said if you put that five hundred bucks in there the moment you're born and don't touch it, by the time you're eighteen or whatever, you're seven you got seventeen thousand dollars.
And with that, you're gonna go buy health care.
With that, you're gonna go buy a house.
Uh it is I mean, it it it's ridiculous on its uh on its face.
And we had a call on open line Friday, and a guy hung up and he was going to take issue with me about this, uh thinking that this is a very good way to promote financial independence.
And I wish the guy would have held on because if 500's good, why not a thousand?
Why not make that 17,000, 34,000 when you're eighteen?
And if a thousand is good at birth, why didn't the government give everybody 10,000 dollars?
And a where does this stop?
If the idea is good, the amount of money is irrelevant, is it not?
This is what I mean when I say I'm getting a little concerned as the Republican presidential campaign kicks off that conservatism is being redefined.
This guy, Dutton in California is a Republican.
This is not a conservative idea for the government to give people 500 bucks when they're born.
Uh you know, maybe if you want to give a kid five hundred bucks when he's born, if his mother was talked out of an abortion, then maybe we could talk.
Because there's a reward uh for having succeeded in being born.
But uh, other than that, it's it's it's it's just patently absurd and it is certainly not uh conservative.
And in very few places is it is it even Republican.
But anyway, it's all oops.
Never mind.
We're not uh we're not going there.
All right, we got a lot of other things to do on the program today.
Jack Mertha on uh on Meet the Press yesterday with some very soft questions from uh from Tim Russert.
Uh by the way, Cookie, I'm told that uh Vice President Lindsey Graham was pretty good on Meet the Press yesterday.
If you could put together some audio sound bites of uh him, I want to hear.
Said he was uh said he was pretty good.
We've got the Walter Reed Army Hospital uh uh health care problem.
I got some comments about this as the uh as the program unfolds, a a tremendously uh uh relevant, large and important global warming strike today, as uh well as a look at some of the things going on with Republican presidential candidates, plus your phone calls.
All that's coming up right after this.
Stay with us.
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This is Derek in Detroit.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Good afternoon.
How are you doing today, sir?
Hey, dude, say what it is.
You've been on this show before.
Yes, I have.
Well, it's great to have you back.
Uh, I just wanted to call and correct you.
You made the statement that uh black people can't be racist, and it was basically an incomplete statement.
The entire statement is that black people are capable of prejudice, but we're not capable of racism because we lack the institutional power to implement racism.
Yeah, but racism, racism is a term that's generally used to the majority in the population who can enforce it.
Yeah, what but that's wrong.
You know, word words mean things, and racism has a definition.
And the problem with liberalism is in political correctness and so forth, and they try to change the definition of certain words because liberals don't like to hear it.
The idea that a black person cannot be racist.
Racist is an attitude and a behavior.
Whether you have the power to implement it or not is irrelevant.
Anybody can be racist, anybody can be a bigot, and you can be a sexist, a homophobe, or any of those sorts of things.
Unfortunately, those things are just stereotypically applied uh to conservatives.
Right.
Well, I mean, I I just in in in in times past you've been accused of being certain things, and and when you d make an incomplete statement like that, that just exacerbates it.
I personally don't think you're racist.
You know, you cool with me.
Anytime you come to Detroit, we can hang out, you know that.
Well, um uh you know the the reason I you know it's it's like somebody told me once that the reason I have problems is that I'm not down with the struggle.
Well, no, it's it I don't I don't i it's it's I mean it the thing of it is is that you know a lot of times I I I believe I truly believe that you know it's never as bad as one group might say and it's never as good as another group might say.
The truth is always somewhere in the middle, in my opinion.
As a as an African American, I've experienced racism.
Can I hold that against an entire group of people?
No.
I can't.
Because, you know, yeah, I've I've experienced overt racism, covert racism.
You know, I mean, it's hard for it's hard for people who you know haven't experienced it, you know, it's a mile in my shoes type of situation.
You know, I'm saying because I've been followed around a mall, you know I mean, like I've been followed around a store like I was gonna steal something out the store.
And I've been walking across a busy street and and heard doors locking like I was getting ready to rob somebody.
You know what I'm saying?
It you know, you get to the point where you can't let that stop you though.
You know I mean, because if if you let that type of ignorance paralyze you, where do you go?
You go nowhere.
Uh that's true.
That's very wise, very very mature of you, although it's I think all human beings, including Americans, encounter similar obstacles.
Uh there may be varying degrees.
Uh I think I have been a victim of racism.
Uh no, no.
Reverse racism.
Uh there are many people who think, simply because I'm white, that I hold certain views that are uh negative, harmful, uh prejudiced and so forth to black people.
I just hang on just a second.
We had a we had a guy that was on hold, he didn't want to stay on holy, hung up.
He's gonna ask me if I would vote for a black president.
Now now what is that?
If that's not racism.
I mean, well, uh it it's it's it's the thing of it is is there are times, and and you know I'm a I'm a great fan of yours, but there are times that that you you have seemed dismissive of concerns.
You know what I mean?
You know why whether whether or not whether or not that's racism on its face, I mean it's it's easy to label something.
You know, I mean I don't necessarily like I said, I don't think you're racist.
I've never thought you were racist, but you have been dismissive of certain things.
Thank you.
Well, let me explain that.
Um I don't know about you know, it it some of this is your interpretation.
Yeah, and that's all it is.
Well, let me explain it to you.
Uh and I'm I'm glad actually to have the opportunity to do it again.
So I believe overall in humanity.
I believe in individuals, and I believe in rugged individuals, and I think all individuals have the ability to overcome obstacles in life, whatever they are, and we all face them.
Absolutely.
There's not a one of us that doesn't.
Sympathy is good for nothing other than making somebody feel good.
But after that, what do you do?
It does no good to sympathize and try to tell black kids who were born in the nineteen nineties that their lives and their futures are equal to those who lived in the Civil War era.
It's just ridiculous.
Okay, but uh now at the same time, you can't you can't just out of hand dismiss the the historical things that have happened to black people.
I think at some point it's going to have to happen.
I think this is this is going to be a good thing.
I think that that people make the mistake of letting that if not not giving that information as a reference point.
You know what I mean?
Because I'll put it to you this way.
But if you're not going to be able to do it's the greatest country on earth, I wouldn't want to live nowhere else.
If they gave us free passage back to Africa, I'd tell them no, thank you, because I've never been to Africa.
I'm not an African.
I'm an American.
And there's no country on this planet that I can succeed in.
Okay.
Wait a second.
Then what your historical roots, whatever, fine.
Know them, appreciate them.
But Rush, now this is my point.
My dad, when my dad turned 18, he wasn't allowed to vote.
You see what I'm saying?
We've only had the vote since 1964.
You know what I mean?
And and a lot of times what people say, when when you say get over it, it's like, hold on.
We've only seen the case.
I'm not saying get over 40 years.
Derek, I'm not.
I'm not saying you're saying to me for a second.
Derek, I want you to listen to me for just a second, and I'm going to take you down off the air.
You can talk all you want, but nobody will hear you, including me.
I appreciate the filibuster, and I know what you're saying.
Point is I'm not saying you should forget about it and get over it.
But recognize progress.
Recognize that there are there are great strides that have taken place and will continue to take place and understand that everybody in life has certain kind of obstacles.
There are any number of people who are dis discriminated against because of various aspects of their existence.
And and we all face them.
My point is that rather than sit around and tell people to continue to wallow in the past and think that that creates some sort of an entitlement, that is not a service to people.
That is keeping them down and keeping them in a s in a in a in a place where they're never going to realize their full potential.
I've and and there is there are there are countless millions of examples throughout this country of black Americans who have overcome all of this, who are realizing their dreams, who are doing it by their own hard work and their initiative.
The market is there for achievement and for excellence and accomplishment.
And uh and I and I I want every individual to be the best they can be.
I want every individual to understand the potential that relies resides inside them.
I want every because I want a great country, and I cringe when I see anybody, any group or any individual being told that they don't have a chance to become anything because of X. When this country disproves it each and every day.
Derek, there are certain undeniable facts.
There are Asians that have immigrated to this country who are running rings around Native Americans born here, white, black, what have you, because they don't have any of these reference points of discrimination in history.
In fact, if they wanted to, they could.
They could go back and say, we were imprisoned and we were mistreated building the railroads.
They don't do that.
They just come here and they run rings around everybody.
The University of California system had to reorient its admission system because the people scoring highest on entrance exams were Asians.
And it still is a problem.
Achievement orientation, becoming better than you think that you can be.
Any of these things, these are great human characteristics.
Human, not white, not Asian, not black.
They're in all of us.
But when somebody or especially a group of people is told by a political party for fifty years that they don't have a chance unless they vote a certain way, it's almost the same.
I react the same way as when I hear that people suffering incurable diseases only have a chance if Democrats are elected.
It offends me, it enrages me, and uh for those of you in real Linda, it makes me mad.
All I'm saying is that the the desire I have for every human being to use the opportunity of life to maximize their enjoyment and the opportunity to achieve, this is how we define ourselves, is in all of us.
And when it's denied because of a political party desiring to get a block of votes from people by keeping them dependent, I am offended.
I am outraged at that to me is human bondage, Derek, and it is still going on.
If there's a plantation in this country today, it's owned and operated by white liberals.
You can bring him back up now.
You still there?
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I I listen, Rush.
I agree with you a hundred percent.
Well, good.
I do agree with you, and like I said before, there's no place in the world I'd rather be.
You know what I mean?
Because my opportunities for success are not going to be greater any place else.
And I don't want anybody to hand anything to me.
Never ever, ever in life.
I want to earn everything I get, and that's what I teach my son.
But I also teach my son the historical perspective of the things that his forefathers went to.
Just don't turn him into somebody who hates.
Hate doesn't do anybody any good.
Oh, there it doesn't.
It's not a motivator.
It doesn't inspire.
It just enrages and angers and paralyzes.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
And we are back.
Marching on a brand new week of broadcast excellence here on the one and only EIB network.
Well, while everyone else was in uh Selma, Alabama, the Breck girl had to be somewhere.
You know, everybody has to be somewhere.
And John Edwards decided he would go out to the University of California at Berkeley on Sunday, and um while there, he called a janitor's campaign for better wages at the University of California Berkeley, a continuation of the civil rights struggle that began in the 1960s.
The Breck Girl sounded the civil rights theme to commemorate the forty-second anniversary of the bloody Sunday clash between black voting rights marchers and police in Selma, Alabama.
Now, how much sense does this make?
Everybody's in Selma and the Brick Burrow goes out to Berkeley and equates a janitor strike with what went on at Selma, Alabama 43 years ago.
During a stop on his current tour of college campaign, the Breck girl said this march for economic and social justice for the men and women who work at this university is a part of a much uh bigger march in America for fairness and equality.
Responding late to a question from a reporter, the Breck Girl, said that a remark about him by conservative author Ann Coulter reminded him of hateful speech against blacks that he heard while growing up in the segregated South.
Now the Ann Colter remarks, uh you know, I've been looking at that I I have I've been fascinated by looking at the response.
When I when I heard that this had happened, the first thing I did, I went to some uh I went to some uh blogs.
Uh they had a blog role at CPAC and made these comments about about uh the Brett girl on Friday afternoon.
Uh Mitt Romney had introduced her, Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, as we all know.
And I'm looking at the blogs, and the bloggers are uniform in their condemnation of Ann Coulter.
Uh this is disturbing and it's distracting to the conservative movement.
Uh this is not what we're about.
It unnecessarily makes all conservatives a target for continuing attacks by the left and so forth and so on.
Uh then a little while passed, and time passed, and the bloggers began getting comments from their readers of uh just a couple hours I checked back, and the bloggers were mostly writing about how they were being excoriated by their readers for criticizing Ann Coulter.
That finally somebody like Colder had the guts to stand up and say what things are for because the left gets away with this and does it all the time.
Uh and uh the bloggers uh admitted that they were taking it on the chin from their readers in the comments of all their blogs for people who were very supportive of Colder.
I went to my own my own email, and uh the vast majority of the uh email I got was uh rah-rah and and right on.
I'll tell you what I think this means.
You know, they uh and there's free speech out there, and there's no question you can say what you want to say, you should be able to when you want to say it, but we it can't.
Uh because of uh political correctness.
But I I I I think that what what uh inspired so many people to be supportive of what Ann Calder said was, and I think this is something that that Republican candidates need to understand.
There is i among I'm sure many of you in this audience, not all of you, you are fed up with the imbalance.
For example, Bill Marr, Bill Marr Can go out on his show on Friday night and basically say that it's a shame that Dick Cheney wasn't killed in the assassination attempt at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.
That there would be a lot more people alive today if Dick Cheney were dead.
And he's asked if it really means that.
And he says, yeah.
And uh and even Barney Frank understood, who was a guest on the program, even Barney Frank understood uh what Marr was saying.
But take a look at the difference in coverage that the the Bill Maher example got, hardly any, to Ann Coulter.
And uh and her remarks about uh about the Breck girl.
And I think, you know, she might have been able to say it better.
She might have she might have been able to uh say that she was making a point about free speech and how you can't say certain things without having to be get sent to rehab and this sort of thing.
I think what people misunderstand about about the rank and file in a lot of the Republican Party is that they're sit and tired of taking it on the chin day in and day out.
The mainstream press can assault every one of our icons, the mainstream press, the drive-by media, and the left can assault every one of our presidential candidates, can call George Bush Hitler, can write movies on how Bush ought to be assassinated, can or do movies and produce them, write books on how Bush ought to be assassinated, uh, can say that they wish Cheney had been killed, and there is no condemnation of it.
And there are a lot of people in the so-called conservative movement who are fed up with the docileness of uh of Republican leaders in Congress and even in the White House who just sit by, don't respond, and just take this stuff.
Uh people are hungry for leadership, and they want there to be a response.
And they're want they they they want fighters.
Uh and I think that's one of the reasons that Giuliani is looking good, frankly.
Giuliani has shown a willingness to fight on those principles that he holds dear, such as terrorism and uh and a number at the drive-by media and a number of other things.
And accordingly, the drive-by's are out trying to destroy Rudy today.
There's a story about his son Andrew thinking his father's a dud.
Um his son uh thinks, yeah, I never see my dad anymore.
Since he remarried, uh he never comes to my golf tournaments.
Andrew's a great golfer at college, I think he's a Duke.
Uh and and uh the the it there's an there's an imbalance, and the the rank and file of average citizens in in uh in the so-called conservative movement, the Republican Party is sits by and watches every one of their leaders get trashed with no response, the leaders don't respond to it.
Uh the uh uh a lot of the conservative media doesn't respond to it.
Uh and so when somebody like Ann Colder comes along and says what she said, they simply react to it, all right, somebody's fighting back.
Somebody is saying something in return to these people and pointing out their hypocrisy.
And I think that's why the the uh the support uh that that is there for Ann Colder is there because she represents something that the leadership of the party doesn't provide them.
The leadership of the movement these days doesn't provide them.
Uh an outlet for their own anger.
You know, individuals are sitting out there roasting and frying and getting angry at uh each and every day at the uh things that are in the drive-by media, the unfairness, the imbalances, the constant defense of the people who are invested in defeat of their own country.
They're never called on it, it's never portrayed.
The Democrats, the left in this country never portrayed for who they really are in the drive-by media.
Uh and uh the White House won't say it.
And uh many of the Republican leaders in the House and Senate won't say it.
Uh uh and they they won't they won't be critical of anybody.
The drive-by's let total totally give Bill Maher a pass, uh, wishing that Dick Cheney were dead, saying that more people would be alive were that the uh were that the case.
Now, as for the timing of the statement, uh the the thing at CPAC uh is uh is an association of two conservative groups, the American Conservative Union and uh uh Young Americas Foundation.
And the I think they had about 6,000 people that uh that attended.
And uh the all the presidential candidates showed up and spoke except Senator McCain, who attempted to have a private reception with uh attendees, but he couldn't pull it off because there weren't any ballrooms left at the hotel where they had the meeting.
So he he was he didn't do well, but Mitt Romney was there, uh even Vice President Cheney was there.
Uh Sam Brownbeck was there, you had uh Giuliani.
Uh I'm leaving some out, but uh they were all there.
And as such, this was not the same thing as, say, hosting your own radio show or making a speech of your own uh at the uh at a at a university or to some group of people, and there are some who are upset that uh the comment uh that that Anne made took away from what should have been others who were stars of the show, the presidential candidates and so forth, and besmirched them.
And true to form, all of the candidates uh were there, including McCain, not there, uh disavowed Colder's comments, distanced themselves from her, which is going to infuriate those I described earlier as being angry and spoiling for a fight uh even uh even more.
She could have chosen a better place to say it uh rather than uh you know force these presidential candidates to have to disavow it and distance themselves from it.
There's no way that they were going to defend it.
I don't care what you want them to do or uh what you want them uh how you want them to act.
So, you know, if she says something like this when she's making a speech at a college campus uh be far less fur flying, so forth, but there's then there's this aspect of it.
Some of the criticism is that she besmirches the whole conservative movement by making herself an icon or an identity figure of the of the whole conservative movement.
Uh and other conservatives saying this is bad, she she chose to be selfish at CPAC and make something that was not about her, about her, and that's bad, and so forth and so on.
Uh when you when you boil uh all of this down, I think, what you uh what you end up with is a little bit of a conflict, because you have a number of people who clearly loved it and thought it was fabulous and want to hear more like it.
And not so much more like it, they just want to hear somebody fighting back and somebody doing something to point out the absolute ridiculousness of the people on the left and uh and and and Coulter did it.
Uh to those who are worried that it taints the entire conservative movement, that is only because the drive-by media makes it so.
That's only because the drive-by media will pretend or portray that comet is typical, as you know the cliches exist uh about conservatives, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
Now, those are all false.
Conservatives are not racists, they are not bigots, they are not sexists, and they are not homophobes.
That is not part of conservatism.
So if we're going to suggest that somebody shut up and not say something, because it only confirms those cliches, then are we not acting defensively?
We're accepting the cliches are believed, and so we've got to do something not to confirm them.
It seems to me to be a rather defensive way to go about this, which is, I think, another thing that uh a number of conservatives, just rank and file average people, uh, are offended by because they think it's, you know, why, you know, why accept the terms defined by the left for us and then live our lives defensively, as if to say, look, we had a this guy Derek, uh a nice, nice guy, call her from Detroit, fan of the program, black guy.
He said, I don't think you're a racist.
Uh I'm supposed to be pleased by that.
Remember when when uh who was it, Jack Camp and Al Gore.
It was in 1996.
It was a presidential debate.
Jack Kemp was the vice presidential candidate for Bob Dole.
And during a debate, Al Gore started talking about the racism and sexism and all of these things that exist in the Republican Party, but he exempted Kemp.
And Kemp said thank you, sir, rather than become outraged that his whole party had just been tarred and feathered by the vice president of the United States.
And it's it's to say that people here that are fed up with this kind of accepting these terms, accepting these stereotypes, accepting these definitions, and then acting defensively to go out and say that they're not true, or to disprove them, and to disprove them, you don't talk about racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and as such the left wins and shuts people up.
Uh freedom of speech Is what it is.
Clearly there's a double standard.
Does it mean that we need a bunch of people on our side acting like Bill Maher in order to level the no?
I don't think that's the way that uh that you deal with this.
Here's another thing.
For the longest time, and I'm one of these people that's been saying this, and I'm I'm I'm not sure that uh I'm still right about it.
I I could be very wrong.
I've been under the impression that all the hate and all of the outrage, all of the despicable, unseemly comments about the president and the vice president and wishing they were dead and all these other things you know what I'm talking for.
Michael Moron down would eventually cause the Democrat Party big problems.
And it didn't prove to be the case in the November elections.
And I was dead wrong about it.
And I'm beginning to wonder now if it is a drag on the Democrat Party for these people to be acting the way it is.
It could well be, too, that the majority of Americans don't know that there's this kind of hate because they don't read blogs, they don't read Kook websites, and the drive-by's don't report on this stuff, as we uh evidenced and witnessed here by the lack of coverage of Bill Marr's comments on the uh hoped-for assassination or death of uh Dick Cheney.
So it could well be that a significant number of Americans are just not aware of all the rage and hate, but the democracy the elected Democrats have not been short in content.
When speaking of hatred for the president and the investment in defeat, they own defeat, their own country.
So I don't know uh where this goes and how harmful it uh it it really is.
But I I think it's a mistake to uh for for anybody in the conservative movement, this is the final, it is a mistake for anybody to assume that one person with one speech or one comment speaks for the conservative movement.
That is too defensive.
And just because the left tries to tar and fetter the search circumstance that way does not uh make it true.
Uh we can't have our own speech codes enforced against people for the purposes of not offending somebody in the left or uh or what have you.
Anyway, not way long in this segment, so the next one's gonna be way short.
I just want you to understand that going in.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Anyway, folks, don't worry about Ann Coulter.
Uh her opportunities for exposure will only multiply because of this.
And uh she'll have her own uh and has had her own things to say about it and the and the uh intent that she made and the roots of it.
Uh uh her point is that she was simply making a reference to Isaiah Washington having to go to rehab for using the F-word, the new F-word, uh that's uh that's out there.
And that's what a lot of people were offended by was the use of that word.
Uh, pure and simple.
I mean there's certain words that a lot of people think you shouldn't say in public.
The N-word, the old F-word, the new F-word.
Uh when you throw it in there about John Edwards, uh presidential candidate, he's out there now raising money off of it.
I this I've had this happen to me over the course of my uh stellar uh broadcast uh career.
Uh and it's it's uh you know it's don't don't think Edwards is upset about this.
He's uh he's loving everybody and he's he's out there raising what he's calling Coulter books.
At any rate, uh Mike in Seattle, welcome to the EIB network search.
Great to have you with us.
Hey Rush, great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, getting back to uh Mrs. Bill Clinton, uh her comments kind of remind me of I remember back, I believe it was the 2000 election, the uh the great pancake flip when we had all those uh stuff search trying to flip pancakes in the uh the debate down in the Southwest where everybody was trying to speak Spanish.
This seems to me that they're they're they're failing at not being who they are.
They're so fake, and they go into these arenas where they don't know what they're doing, and they pull it off so terribly.
Well, that's it's not very many people are good actors.
And you know, politics is showbiz for the ugly.
There's a reason politicians are not actors because they're not that good at it.
Plus, who would pay to look at any of them on the big screen doing anything?
The problem is they don't, there's no guts anymore.
Nobody's willing to say what they really think about something.
They all got consultants, and they're all out there focus grouping various segments, segments, segments of the audience.
And then uh safe statements uh become the order of the day because, as you know, we cannot offend.
We cannot offend people who deserve to be offended.
We can't offend people who are wrong.
We can't tell them that they are wrong.
So we're sort of mired.
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