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March 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh back in action on AEIB Network.
Listen to this from AP, their headline House.
OK's timetable for troops in Iraq.
AP calling it a victory for Democrats in an epic war powers struggle.
Epic war powers struggle.
This is a pork bill.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the drill here.
Monday through Thursday.
We only talk what I care about.
I mean, if I don't care about it on Monday through Thursday, we don't talk about it because I'm not going to sit here and talk about things that bore me and things I don't care about.
Because I'll sound bored and I'll sound like I don't care, and I am the reason people listen.
And if I sound bored and like I don't care, nobody will listen.
But on Friday, I take a great career risk, unknown risk, and the rest of the media.
Turning over the content of the program when we go to the phones to veritable lovable, but nevertheless, rank amateurs.
That would be you.
And Friday, if I don't care what you want to talk about, I'll fake it.
So we go to the phones.
The program is yours.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
The email address rush at EIBNet.com.
We got a we got a call from a drive-byer.
Didn't the drive-by caller, someone who can't hang on, but wanted to make a point.
It's actually a very humane question.
It's something I totally overlooked this.
You know, their press conference coming up soon, uh, the tainted pet food.
Uh and they think that they found rat poison in the tainted pet food, the uh cat and dog food out there.
What's the latest death toll on the uh cat's dog?
Last I heard it was 14.
Uh the drive-by question was that it's all well and good about the animals.
What about what about the seasoned citizens out there who have to eat dog food and pay for their medicine because they can't eat real food and pay for their medicine?
How many, how many seasoned citizens have gotten sick eating rat poison tainted pet food?
I haven't seen the drive-bys care about it.
I haven't seen a drive-by's look into it.
I haven't seen anything on it, but clearly it's an area of concern that we all.
15 pets now have assumed room temperature over this.
It's just very sad.
It's just, it's just very, very sad.
Do you see all those brands?
All those the manufacturer making all these brands?
It's uh stuff's all tainted.
I'm lucky my cat gets a prescription food from the vet.
Because uh 15 pets and all.
Well, yeah, but snerdly said 15 pets, what's everybody so worked up about this for?
Well, it's 15 pets.
They're the essence of innocence.
They wouldn't be killing themselves.
You know, they're being they're being poisoned.
This is a this is just the the uh the early number.
There's a lot of panic out there, but I'm just saying there's no panic about the adults eating this stuff.
And uh we've been told by the liberal Democrats, uh, hell, folks, since the late 80s that uh uh your grandma, grandpa, great-grandma's having to choose between medicine and this pet food.
They can't afford uh both.
Uh yeah, Pat Pat Schroeder.
I went out, you remember when I I wanted to be helpful in this, uh, when I found out this was the case.
I went and I bought my mother uh a new can opener so that at least be easier for her to eat the pet food.
Uh told that story.
Pat Schroeder, then uh Congresswoman Colorado went to the House floor, actually believed I was serious.
This is what it's come to.
This is who they are.
Rush Limbaugh actually went and bought his mom a candle.
Uh anyway, okay, here's the vote.
This epic, as AP calls it, epic war powers struggle.
It's a pork bill.
It was a 218 to 212 vote.
The liberals voted essentially here to fund spinach, and not the soldiers.
No, Rush, no, there's funding in this bill.
Yeah, funding through March of 2008.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
This this is this is a pull-out date.
This this is not funding the troops.
This is, and note, it's an election year 2008.
This is pure election year politics, which is what everything a Democrats are trying to drum up these days is all about.
Twenty-four billion dollars in bribes and threats from the office of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and her assistant Stanley Hoyer, in order to bring these Democrats in line.
Twenty-four get this epic war powers.
What's the headline?
House OK's timetable for troops in Iraq.
24 billion dollars in bribes and threats, 218 to 212.
All of this 24 billion dollars in bribes and all these threats got Pelosi a six vote margin.
I thought the Democrats and the House were unified.
Why?
I thought these people were un This house is in disarray, Democrats.
I mean, you know that you used to call uh Tom DeLay the hammer.
And if this if this had happened with the parties reversed on any other issue, all we would be seeing today with not some epic anti-war struggle or epic this or epic Tom Delay the hammer yanking on people's heads and chains and bashing them over the head and whipping them into line.
Tom Delay the hammer.
Well, if delay is the hammer, then I proclaim a new title for the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi today, the briber.
Nancy Pelosi bribed, had to bribe her members with spinach, and there's 25 million dollars for a single spinach farmer in this bill.
And that's why I say that the liberals in the House, 218-212, voted to fund spinach and not the soldiers.
And they're out there claiming now that these people uh that they are they're patriotic.
This is a new definition of patriotism.
Funding spinach over the troops.
Uh and I, you know, no, it's spinach, it's not lettuce.
Uh those real Linda may not know the difference.
Uh but this is a $24 million billion dollars for all kinds of pork, among it $25 uh million for spinach.
Uh Barack Obama.
You heard about this?
Obama's heritage traced to Ireland.
Can Al Sharpton say that?
Can the uh Reverend Jacks say that.
Can Calypso Louis Farrakhan say that?
U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama can now count himself as one of the millions of Americans with Irish heritage.
Research by the genealogy website Ancestry.co.uk reveals that Mr. Obama's great great great-grandfather was born in Ireland, although it is not yet known where.
You know, by the time they finish with all this, Barack Obama is gonna have ancestors in every ethic ethnic group.
He's gonna have whatever you want him to be, he's gonna be.
He is godlike for the godless.
That's what Barack Obama is.
And when you were godlike for the godless, you're gonna have a drop of blood of every ethnic group in the world in you.
You know, it's uh it's fascinating.
Let's see, we we can talk about Giuliani's family.
Uh we we can talk about McCain's family.
Uh, who we can talk about uh see who are we well we can talk about that we can talk about Mitt Romney's family.
Uh but we can't talk about we can't ask about Obama, so we're not supposed to be asking about his uh his uh his Muslim uh heritage, we're not supposed to be asking about that.
We can't talk about Edwards' family, even though he just did.
Uh we can't talk about the Clinton marriage, even though they pretend to have one, but all is fair game with the Republicans.
We go out and talk about Rudy's family and his uh his wife Judith that discovered he had a third uh she had a third marriage when she was uh young and this somehow.
Judith Nathan Barack has Irish heritage.
Oh, this is so brief timeout.
We'll get to the Edwards story after this break.
Welcome back, open line Friday, Rush Limbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have and sharing that, inspiring it among those lucky souls in the audience.
Open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
Uh the the The Arnold Rush, whatever it is, still being discussed on the left coast on day three yesterday morning on the KTLA Los Angeles television morning show, Anchorette Cher Calvin talking with anchor Carlos Amezqua.
And an uh unidentified anchor, guest anchor is uh 90210 actor Ian Ziering, and they had this exchange about me and the governor.
Let's talk about the war of words between Governor Arnold Schnartzneger and Rush Limbaugh.
It is actually simmered down quite a bit.
The governor struck a favorable nerve in Limbaugh when he suggested that the two get together to smoke cigars.
This is a good example of what America's about.
Here's the thing.
If Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant, what's the governor doing on his radio show?
Well, obviously, there's some relevance to what Rush Limbaugh is doing.
Obviously, people are listening to it.
Rush says things that, you know, raise people awareness, and you know, this is what happens.
So, you know, he's not irrelevant at all.
And clearly, with so many listeners, he does have have some relevance as well, right?
Rush runs a little radio empire.
So many listeners, he does have some relevance as well.
Right?
That that's uh little happy talk from the KTLA morning show in uh in Los Angeles.
Now moving on to the John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards situation.
Remember yesterday, uh I mentioned to you that so many of my trusted and loyal, but uh cowering in fear, at least yesterday's staff, concerned that I was going to get in all kinds of trouble.
Uh uh trusted executive producer Cookie sending constant instant messages.
Did you have to add that?
You know you're going to get in trouble over this.
Some friends sending me emails in the course of yesterday's program.
You just don't know how to stay out of trouble, do you?
Now, what was all this about?
What all this was about was that I said that the Edwards camp, the Edwards campaign was going to use the press conference yesterday as a means of jumpstarting the campaign.
Which meant what?
That I was engaging in a political analysis of the press conference.
And of course, trusted and loyal yet cowering and fear staff thought that nobody else would be looking at it politically.
Trusted friends felt the same thing, and cookie just generally looking out for my best interest at all times.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, we predicted, I said we're you know you wait.
This is the they're gonna focus on this.
The fact that I said they're gonna jump start the campaign with this.
Even though, even though all over the drive-by media all afternoon last night and all night, all we got was political analysis.
Howard Feynman.
Yesterday afternoon, this was a 10 strike.
Boy, this is incredible.
Why private lives and politics are always public, and that's what this means.
This was why this was so classes, so brilliantly done politically and so forth.
I just want you to listen at the audio sound bites.
Uh last actually, this morning on uh KTVU or KTUV TV in San Francisco, an unidentified anchor is interviewing CNN's political expert William Schneider, and they had this exchange about my remarks about the Edwards campaign.
You get a person like Rush Limbaugh who says this is uh Senator Edwards trying to kick start his campaign.
Well, that's pure cynicism.
You know, uh there'll always be cynics in politics.
This was a difficult decision which he reached in collaboration with his wife, and uh I think she will be an asset.
Okay, so they focus on me, which we all knew here.
That's why the trusted staff cowering in fear in the corner was worried I would get in trouble.
Same way with uh my friends and of course the trusted executive producer Cookie.
Well, let's look at some other comments, shall we?
Last night on the NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams talking with the infobabe reporter at Kelly O'Donnell, and Brian says to her, What about the politics of this?
He, after all, is running for president as a Democrat.
Now, of course, as a cancer survivor and a person battling a recurrence, many people will find her a sympathetic figure, and that's something that certainly helps uh John Edwards in this way.
Senior advisors say that Elizabeth has always sort of made him more human, sort of balanced John Edwards in the public's eye.
Uh, excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but how how would how would we analyze that?
Here is Kelly O'Donnell.
Well, you know, that people are going to find her a sympathetic figure.
That's something that certainly helps Edwards in this way.
In what way?
You mean it might help the Edwards campaign?
That Mrs. Edwards is going to uh the evocative of sympathy among the American people.
It might help the Edwards campaign.
Why?
Bill Schneider at CNN, would you call that cynical?
Would you say that cynicism?
Let's go to the Today Show today.
Matt Wauer talking with Tim Russert, and Hauer said this.
I'm I'm stalling a little bit here because the I have the question I want to ask you is one that's going to sound terribly inappropriate.
And I'm trying to figure out the right way to say it.
Neither John or Elizabeth Edwards asked for this.
However, one of the facts that remains this morning is that John Edwards' picture is on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today.
And in some ways we have to ask the political question of what is the impact of this going to be on a campaign that was toiling in third place.
Now, how would we interpret that?
Matt Wauer asking uh trusted uh Bureau Chief Tim Russard if there might not be a big political boon.
In fact, if there hasn't already been, because Edwards is all over the place today.
Did I not say that yesterday?
I said, go take a look if you know where to go on the uh internet, track the hits that AP is getting and the other rather than Edwards is getting.
You see, Edwards is all over the place, AP, UPI, Reuters, uh, the French news agency.
The number of hits that Edwards' story yesterday was getting was even larger than the number of hits uh Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger and I got.
Well, that little uh kerfuffle misunderstood with the drive-by media.
So here these guys are all saying this why I say I'm on a cutting edge.
You listen to this program, you'll know what's relevant before it becomes relevant.
I know these people, too, like every square inch of my shrinking but still glorious naked body.
And I'm telling you that I predicted that they're all examining this in a political sense, but nobody's calling them cynics.
Nobody's referring to them as cynicals.
Okay, now you've heard uh you've heard uh uh Kelly O'Donnell and uh Matt Wauer.
Now let's listen to William Schneider again, audio soundbite number four, talking to an anchor, KTUV TV, San Francisco.
You get a person like Rush Lindbaugh who says this is uh Senator Edwards trying to kick start his campaign.
Well, that's pure cynicism.
You know, uh there'll always be cynics in politics.
This was a difficult decision which he reached in collaboration with his wife, and uh I think she will be an asset.
You know what this I just had the guts to say jump start the campaign.
Matt Wauer admitting it's a little in a pro I don't want to sound but gosh, Tim, I gotta ask it.
Uh what's the impact of this gonna be in a campaign?
He clearly already knows what it is.
The same thing with Kelly O'Donnell.
Uh many people find Elizabeth Edwards sympathetic figure, something that certainly helps John Edwards in this way.
What's this way?
The campaign.
So once again, I, full frontal direct spokesman.
Take the heat as the Senate.
You want to hear some cynicism?
Let's go to October 11th, 2004, on the campaign trade with Senator Edwards himself.
If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Gary is president.
People like Christopher Reeve are gonna walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
Would anybody call that cynicism?
Or just misleading people.
Uh here now uh is Chris Matthews.
Uh, and he's on the hard boil last night talking to David Yepson, the Des Moines Register.
Matthew said, is this gonna be one further bit of shielding for Edwards against attack by another candidate?
Yes, I think so.
I think it really speaks to his biography and his character.
Uh, and I think you're absolutely right.
It adds a little armor plating if somebody wants to go after him.
I mean, he certainly has said something about his character here with us.
I thought it was a shining moment.
I thought I said God's in his heaven, all right with the world today.
I thought those people who I think are religious but never mentioned it today acted religious.
I thought it was great today.
Interesting point.
Now let me say something else that might be accused of cynicism.
What is their religion?
I don't doubt they're religious people, but uh, we talked about this.
Yeah, political people are different than you and I. And, you know, most people, when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has turned to God.
The Edwards turned to the campaign.
Their religion's politics and the quest for the White House.
And that's it's not just with them.
I mean, it's part and parcel of political people.
Undergo all this stuff, the media anal, all everything, private life being made public even by the candidates themselves, it's all part of the drill.
But here again, Matthews and uh and David Yepsen uh making the point that I made yesterday.
Well, I said it yesterday, folks.
If you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, how do you now attack John Edwards?
Not a problem for Hillary.
Uh the Clinton Inc.
will find a way, but Barack gonna be a challenge.
Maybe you can use some Irish tips on this.
And we're back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair on open line Friday.
One more sound bite here on this uh John Edwards Bis.
Remember now we got Bill Schneider being interviewed on a San Francisco TV station, referring to me as uh cynic.
Uh, because I said that Edwards was uh the junk jump start, kickstart campaign with the public press conference yesterday about his wife's illness.
Last night on PMS NBC, Chris Matthews interviewing Democrat strategist Bob Schrum.
Uh Matthew says, look, FDR ran for president as a man as a victim of polio, didn't act like a victim, but he was.
Is this something like that?
Where it's going to be part of the biography, we're going to know about this.
And when we think Edwards, where we're going to think about Elizabeth and her cancer, is it going to be part of the picture in our head?
Now America's different.
And I believe that today, people got more education about cancer and how to deal with cancer in one day than they have very often over a long period of time.
Whatever you think of Edwards, whether people vote for him or don't vote for him, whether they vote for Obama or Hillary, there's going to be a tremendous education in breast cancer and cancer generally how to deal with it.
How absurd.
How how how insulting.
You see in this one bite the condescending arrogance.
You stiffs out there, even those of you who have experienced cancer in your family.
Well, you don't know diddly squat.
And your experiences are worthless in terms of helping others.
No, no, no, no, no.
What happened yesterday with the Edwards press conference did more for the understanding and the education of uh cancer and how to deal with it than has ever happened before.
And of course, prior to that, they're speculating on whether or not it will lead to votes, but nobody would dare call them cynics.
Yeah, well, that's that's true.
The the FDR's polio was hidden from the American people by the press.
They didn't know he was a victim.
And by the way, victim of polling, if you are you a victim if you don't act like a victim?
That's a discussion for another day.
But I I find this just typical.
Why, only when Democrats get cancer, and only when they go public in a press conference, do you stiffs, you idiots, you nimrods have any idea what life is really all about.
When it happens to you, and the way you deal with it, you don't learn anybody, uh teach anybody, you don't learn anything from it.
No, no, no, no.
You have to see a prominent Democrat family get cancer and how they deal with it.
And that's what really counts in America.
That's what shapes America.
This quintessential example of uh what I talk about, this this contemptuous condescending arrogance that Democrats have toward the average people in this country.
All right, open line Friday.
We'll go back to the phones now.
Rick in Elkhart, Indiana.
Thank you, sir, for waiting.
Not a problem.
Negative news from playover country.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I was just kind of curious what you think about the uh Iranians detaining those British uh sailors and their Marines.
Uh it's no big deal.
The Iranians are no threat to anybody.
I mean, they're just uh uh little skirmish out there.
Uh Iranians uh trying to protect their sovereignty out there, the whole world's lined against them, trying to destroy them.
Uh you can't blame them.
They see 15 Marines from the UK, and they my gosh, these guys could wipe out our country, and they take them.
Uh, this is a classic illustration.
We we don't understand the peace loving nature of the Iranians, and and we don't we don't know this that this is look, this is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This is a peace loving country.
That's all they're interested in.
And uh they see this threat out there.
These are these look at who these are.
These are white people.
These are these are British military people.
These people have suitcase nukes.
Who knows what they could have?
Could have been could have been uh planning a secret attack on Iran could have been planning to uh you know work with special forces to plant laser guided military.
You can't blame the Iranians for this because they are simply a surrounded nation, everybody gunning for them.
The Russians are threatening not to pay them.
Uh little Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arriving in the U.S. uh on the weekend here to try to save his little country from a defeat in the vote at the U.N. uh Security Council.
But it's uh it's no big deal because Iran uh uh just nice misunderstood people.
Weren't the uh Iranians just coming to the rescue of a uh Iranian vessel detained in Iraqi waters?
Uh the Iranians rescued themselves.
Uh they were I my understanding from what I would have been hearing is the uh Iranians had a cargo ship that was detained and being inspected by the British.
Oh, the British.
Yes.
Uh uh and so this is retaliation, you think?
Who knows?
Well, it could be.
Um I had I did not know that.
I did not know that the uh the British had detained an Iranian cargo ship.
Did they board it?
I believe they were inspecting, from my understanding.
Inspecting it.
Well, this should teach the British a lesson.
You know, keep your hands and feet off these peace-loving people's ships.
We got to get our minds right about it.
Everybody knows the threat in this world is the United States of America.
Iranians are harmless people.
They just want get along, they want to be left alone and so forth.
What are the British doing invading their territorial waters anyway?
Someday we'll learn, folks.
Someday we will learn.
Uh uh, Nick in Rosemont, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush Limbaugh, you and Paul Shanklin rock.
Thank you, sir.
I have a twin spin request.
What's that?
Please play the Breck Girl's I Am Woman, followed by Mrs. Bill Clinton's I Can't Remember.
Jello, cello, cello.
What do you want to hear that for?
Well, um she's running for president, isn't she?
Yeah.
So let's be reminded of who she is and her past.
All right.
Well, let me say uh by the way, Mike, but before we do that.
Nick.
Do you have those handy, Mike?
Whether I know we've got I Am Woman.
Uh you have to try to remember.
But I want I would, you know, I just got this soundbite from Cookie.
Hey, hang on there, Nick.
Stand by out there.
We'll we'll uh we'll play the request.
It's open line Friday.
So what'd you get?
See, this is I would normally not do this.
Uh, but it's been requested by a loyal listener on the program.
I I want to play audio soundbite number 21.
This is Tony Snow this afternoon at the White House.
In re-a recent series of CAT scans and pet scans and MRIs, we have found a small growth in my lower abdomen.
Blood tests are negative, pet scans are negative.
But out of an aggressive sense of caution, I'm going to go in for surgery on Monday.
Tony Snow, who has had colon cancer, is going back in for surgery on Monday.
Is this the White House trying to upstage the Edwards?
Is this the White House trying to curry sympathy and get the president's poll numbers back up by sending Tony Snow out there to announce that he too now he's got to go in for some kind of surgery because they have found the uh uh uh pet scan, uh cat scans and MRIs, a small growth in his in his lower abdomen.
Good news that the blood tests are negative, the pet scans are negative, but an aggressive sense of caution.
Now is this is is this is this gonna jump start the president's poll numbers.
The White House just trying to steal the Edwards Thunder on this.
How I mean, fuck.
We we we must ask these questions here uh at the uh at the EIB network.
All right, time for the twin spin.
Let's start with uh with I am woman.
Uh this is John Edwards, and remember he was said to be by Kate Michaelman, the first female president, should he win.
Okay, now time for the EIB twin spin.
We lost the twin spin jingle.
They Get a new one made.
Second half.
I casually mentioned uh the opening of the program today almost two hours ago that I'd been on a diet here that I've lost 30 pounds in 40 days.
And of course, it was a casual mention.
It was not a big trumpeted thing, but people still heard it.
How did you do it?
I'm being asked in the email.
Uh it's just it's it's a thousand to fourteen hundred calories a day.
Vary the number of calories so my body doesn't get used to a restricted amount.
You know, the fewer calories you eat, the uh your body will slow down, becoming accustomed to it, thinking, uh huh, I'm being starved.
I'm gonna start storing this stuff, I'm gonna start burning it not as quickly.
So you gotta go up and down on your caloric intake.
It is that's it's that simple.
Uh I've done this so many times, it's just every diet you do works.
Then that other question, how do you plan on keeping it off?
I don't.
I'm not under any illusion I'm gonna keep the weight off.
Nobody that loses weight keeps it on.
Joe Torrey's done it, a couple other people, but it's very, very rare when anybody keeps the weight off that they lose.
My goal here is to lose enough weight, it's gonna take me three to four years to gain it back rather than one.
So I can look forward to three or four years of fun instead of just one.
What?
It will not, with consistent exercise.
If if you know, I get I get so frustrated.
Everybody keeps hammering at this at me.
You gotta do exercise to lose weight, or you gotta do exercise to keep it off.
You know, here I am.
I'm sitting here as the at the at this moment expert in this.
Of all the people here in the staff, I am the only one losing weight.
And yet they're all telling me that what I'm doing is wrong.
30 pounds in 40 days.
I haven't exercised one shred above what I normally do, which is pretty much zero other than playing golf.
That's another thing.
I know I'm gonna not gonna turn into gym rat or an exercise freak.
I'm not gonna go jogging, walking down the street.
I'm not so I you gotta know who you are.
You gotta be honest about who you are.
You can't go out there and make commitments to change yourself.
You know you're not gonna make.
Losing weight is about calories, intake versus outgo.
You exercise is fine.
Don't miss I mean it's it's got many benefits.
But but uh, you know, if you want to go out and eat 3,000 calories a day, the amount of exercise you've got to do to burn a thousand of them is something I know I'm not gonna do.
Marathoners can do it, and you know, pref professional athletes, all they do is work out, but hey, that ain't me.
My life is mental exercise.
Uh so one more sound bite, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh and this, you'll remember this is from December 21st of uh well, you may not remember the bite, but you'll remember the the story.
This is the early show, Bob Schiefer CBS.
Uh had an interview with the first lady Laura Bush.
He played a little bit of it on the CBS early show to promote it.
Can I ask you about everybody's talking about this, Mrs. Bush?
You had this cancerous growth removed from your shin.
Minor skin cancer, you might say.
I take it you're okay.
I'm perfectly yes, I'm perfectly all right.
Thank you very much for asking.
Well, let me uh you know, Tony Snow, the press secretary got a lot of grief from reporters.
That's what I heard who wanted to know why you didn't make that public.
Actually, it never occurred to me to make it public.
It was very minor.
Also, of course, I am a private citizen.
I mean, I have to say that as well.
I don't release the results of my regular physicals like the president does, of course.
And so it just never really occurred to me.
That's how they treat Republican illness as a scandal.
Bob Schiefer at drive by thought they had a scandal.
Why didn't you make it public?
Why didn't you tell us about them?
What are you trying to hide?
And all the implications that are in there.
Well, you know, I'm a private person.
I don't wear my private life uh on my public sleeve, and so forth.
Just uh uh uh uh I'm uh I'm just uh just well, I know Elizabeth Edwards did keep her condition quiet 2001.
I'm not talking about the Edwards here.
I'm talking about the drive-by's.
Don't anybody mistake this.
I'm pointing at people watching on the ditto camp.
I'm not talking about the Edwards here.
Talking about the driveways.
Drive by Republican scandals.
Why the Republican illnesses are uh are scandals.
Let's see.
I have only got a minute here, and that's that's not enough time to be fair with another caller, and there's some normal sometimes we have callers uh about whom it doesn't matter for fair, but they all look pretty good up there on this roster, so uh let me let me take a break here.
We'll come back and close out the hour right after this.
You know that that Laura Bush soundbite and the Bob Schrum soundbite that we played.
Just make some things crystal just crystal clear.
Plus the Tony Snow situation today.
Like I'm I'm wondering if Howard Feynman will analyze Tony Snow's press conference and tell us how it scored politically.
See, if you don't go public with your illnesses, you're you're not qualified to even talk about them.
You're not any good.
You have to make it public.
Now, when Clinton refused to release his medical records for eight years, well, that was private.
Well, of course, and rightly so, of course.
Um, whatever the Libs do in the media is is the right thing, for which they deserve credit.
Go public, great.
It's educational.
Stay private, that's his right.
The FDR cover up, well, the public wasn't ready for that.
Clinton doesn't release his medical records, that's his right.
Edwards goes public, continues running for pre- Why, he's educating us about cancer.
As far as the drive-by's are concerned, Democrats can do no wrong, and nothing's gonna change that, folks.
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