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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 the EIB 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 power struggle.
This is a pork bill.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live 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.
On 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 call from a drive-buyer, a 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, the tainted pet food.
And they think that they found rat poison in the tainted pet food, the cat and dog food out there.
What's the latest death toll on the cats and dog?
Last I heard it was 14.
The drive-by question was, head, it's all well and good about the animals.
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 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 the drive-bys 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 very, very sad.
Do you see all those brands?
All those the manufacturer making all these brands, it's stuff's all tainted.
I'm lucky my cat gets a prescription food from the vet because 15 pets and all.
Well, yeah, but Snurgley 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 poisoned.
This is 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 we've been told by the Liberal Democrats, hell, folks, since the late 80s that your grandma, grandpa, great-grandma is having to choose between medicine and this pet food.
They can't afford both.
Yeah, Pat Schroeder, I went out.
You remember when I wanted to be helpful in this, and I found out this was the case.
I went out and I bought my mother a new can opener so that at least be easier for her to eat the pet food.
Told that story.
Pat Schroeder, then 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 can opener.
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.
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
This is a pull-out date.
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 the Democrats are trying to drum up these days is all about.
$24 billion in bribes and threats from the office of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and her assistant, Stenny Hoyer, in order to bring these Democrats in line.
24, get this.
Epic war powers.
What's the headline?
House OK's timetable for troops in Iraq.
$24 billion in bribes and threats, 218 to 212.
All of this $24 billion in bribes and all these threats got Pelosi a six vote margin.
I thought the Democrats in the House were unified.
Why?
I thought these people were unified.
This House is in disarray.
Democrats.
I mean, you know that you used to call Tom DeLay the hammer.
And if this had happened, with the parties reversed on any other issue, all we would be seeing today would not some epic anti-war struggle or epic this, or epic that 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 for a single spinach farmer in this bill.
And that's why I say that the liberals in the House, 218 to 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 in them may not know the difference uh, but this is a 24 million dollar, 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.
Himself is 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 going to have ancestors in every ethnic group.
He's going to have whatever you want him to be, he's going to be.
He is godlike for the godless.
That's what Barack Obama is.
And when you are godlike for the godless, you're going to have a drop of blood of every ethnic group in the world in you.
You know, it's fascinating.
Let's see.
We can talk about Giuliani's family.
We can talk about McCain's family.
We can talk about, let's see, who are we?
Well, we can talk about Mitt Romney's family.
But we can't talk about, we can't ask about Obama, so we're not supposed to be asking about his Muslim heritage.
We're not supposed to be asking about that.
We can't talk about Edwards' family, even though he just did.
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 wife Judith had discovered she had a third marriage when she was young, and this somehow.
Judith Nathaniel Barack has Irish heritage.
Oh, this is so brief time out.
We'll get to the Edwards story after this break.
Welcome back, Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh 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.
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 Amezcua.
And an unidentified anchor, guest anchor, is 90210 actor Ian Ziering.
And they had this exchange about me and the governator.
Let's talk about the war of words between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh.
It has 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 is 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 some relevance as well, right?
Rush runs a little radio empire.
So many listeners, he does have some relevance as well.
Right?
That's a little happy talk from the KTLA Morning Show in Los Angeles.
Now, moving on to the John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards situation.
You remember yesterday, I mentioned to you that so many of my trusted and loyal but cowering in fear, at least yesterday's staff, concerned that I was going to get in all kinds of trouble.
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 jump-starting 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, you wait.
They're going to focus on this, the fact that I said they're going to jumpstart 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 so classic, so brilliantly done politically and so forth.
I just want you to listen at the audio soundbites.
Last, actually, this morning on 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 Lindbaugh who says this is Senator Edwards trying to kickstart his campaign.
Well, that's pure cynicism.
You know, there'll always be cynics in politics.
This was a difficult decision which he reached in collaboration with his wife, and 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 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 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.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, how would we analyze that?
Here is Kelly O'Donnell.
Well, you know, 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 be 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's cynicism?
Let's go to the Today Show today.
Matt Wauer talking with Tim Russert.
And Wauer said this.
I'm stalling a little bit here because 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 nor 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 trusted bureau chief Tim Russert 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 internet, track the hits that AP is getting and the rather that Edwards is getting.
You see, Edwards is all over the place.
AP, UPI, Reuters, the French news agency.
The number of hits that Edwards' story yesterday was getting was even larger than the number of hits Arnold Schwarzenegger and I got.
That little kerfuffle misunderstood with the drive-by media.
So here these guys are all saying, this is why I said 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 you've heard Kelly O'Donnell and 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 Senator Edwards trying to kickstart his campaign.
Well, that's pure cynicism.
You know, there'll always be cynics in politics.
This was a difficult decision which he reached in collaboration with his wife, and I think she will be an asset.
You know what this?
I just had the guts to say jumpstart the campaign.
Matt Wauer admitting, it's a little in a pro.
I don't want to sound, but gosh, Tim, I got to ask it.
What's the impact of this going to be in a campaign?
He clearly already knows what it is.
The same thing with Kelly O'Donnell.
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 cynic.
You want to hear some cynicism?
Let's go to October 11th, 2004, on the campaign trail, Senator Edwards himself.
If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
Would anybody call that cynicism?
Or just misleading people?
Here now is Chris Matthews.
And he's on the hard boil last night talking to David Yeps in the Des Moines Register.
Matthews said, is this going to 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.
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 we talked about this.
Yeah, political people are different than you and I.
And, you know, most people, when told a family member has been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God.
The Edwards turned to the campaign.
Their religion's politics and the quest for the White House.
And 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 David Yepson 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.
The Clinton ink will find a way, but Barack, going to be a challenge.
Maybe he 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 soundbite here on this John Edwards bus.
Remember now, we got Bill Schneider being interviewed on a San Francisco TV station referring to me as a cynic because I said that Edwards was the jumpstart kickstart campaign with the public press conference yesterday about his wife's illness.
Last night on PMSNBC, Chris Matthews interviewing Democrat strategerist Bob Shrum.
Matthews 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?
Or it's going to be part of the biography we're going to know about this.
And when we think Edwards, or 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 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, why you don't know diddly squat.
And your experiences are worthless in terms of helping others.
No, What happened yesterday with the Edwards press conference did more for the understanding and the education of 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 true.
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 polio, are you a victim if you don't act like a victim?
That's a discussion for another day.
But 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, 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 what I talk about, 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.
Mega Dado's from flyover country.
Thank you, Chad.
Hey, I was just kind of curious, what you think about the Iranians detaining those British sailors and their Marines?
It's no big deal.
The Iranians are no threat to anybody.
I mean, they're just a little skirmish out there.
The Iranians is trying to protect their sovereignty out there.
The whole world's lined against them, trying to destroy them.
You can't blame them.
They see 15 Marines from the UK.
My gosh, these guys could wipe out our country.
They take them.
This is a classic illustration.
We don't understand the peace-loving nature of the Iranians.
Look, this is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This is a peace-loving country.
That's all they're interested in.
And they see this threat out there.
Look at who these are.
These are white people.
These are British military people.
These people could have suitcase nukes.
Who knows what they could have?
Could have been planning a secret attack on Iran.
Could have been planning to work with special forces to plant laser-guided military.
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.
Little Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arriving in the U.S. on the weekend here to try to save his little country from a defeat in the vote at the U.N. Security Council.
But it's no big deal because Iran, just nice, misunderstood people.
Weren't the Iranians just coming to the rescue of an Iranian vessel detained in Iraqi waters?
The Iranians rescued themselves?
My understanding from what I've been hearing is the Iranians had a cargo ship that was detained and being inspected by the British.
Oh, the British?
Yes.
And so this is retaliation, you think?
Who knows?
Well, it could be.
I did not know that.
I did not know that 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 their hands and feet off these peace-loving people's ships.
We've 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 to 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.
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 Brett girl's I Am Woman, followed by Mrs. Bill Clinton's I Can't Remember.
Jell-O, Jell-O, Jell-O.
What do you want to hear that for?
Well, she's running for president, isn't she?
Yeah.
So let's be reminded about who she is and her past.
All right.
Well, let me say, by the way, Mike, before we do that, Nick.
Do you have those handy, Mike?
Whether I know we've got I Am Woman.
You have to try to remember.
You know, I just got this soundbite from Cookie.
Hey, hang on there, Nick.
Stand by out there.
We'll play the request.
It's Open Line Friday.
So, what'd you get?
See, I would normally not do this.
But it's been requested by a loyal listener on the program.
I want to play audio soundbite number 21.
This is Tony Snow this afternoon at the White House.
In 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 has got to go in for some kind of surgery because they have found the PET scan, CAT scans, and MRIs, a small growth in his lower abdomen.
It's good news that the blood tests are negative, the PET scans are negative, but an aggressive sense of caution.
Now, is this going to jump-start the president's poll numbers?
The White House just trying to steal the Edwards thunder on this?
I mean, fuck, we must ask these questions here at the EIB network.
All right, time for the twin spin.
Let's start with I Am Woman.
This is John Edwards.
And remember, he was said to be by Kate Michelman, the first female president.
Should he win?
Okay, now time for the EIB twin spin.
We lost the twin spin jingle.
Get a new one made.
Second half.
See, I casually mentioned 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.
It's just, it's 1,000 to 1,400 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 your body will slow down becoming accustomed to it, thinking, aha, I'm being starved.
I'm going to start storing this stuff.
I'm going to start burning it not as quickly.
So you've got to go up and down on your caloric intake.
It's that simple.
I've done this so many times.
It's just every diet you do works.
And that other question, how do you plan on keeping it off?
I don't.
I'm not under any illusion I'm going to keep the weight off.
Nobody that loses weight keeps it off.
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 going to 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.
I get so frustrated.
Everybody keeps hammering this at me.
You got to do exercise to lose weight.
You got to 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 not going to turn into gym rat or an exercise freak.
I'm not going to go jogging, walking down the street.
You've got to know who you are.
You've got to be honest about who you are.
You can't go out there and make commitments to change yourself.
You know, you're not going to make.
Losing weight is about calories, intake versus outgo.
Exercise is fine.
Don't miss.
I mean, it's got many benefits.
But, 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 1,000 of them is something I know I'm not going to do.
Marathoners can do it, and professional athletes, all they do is work out.
But hey, that ain't me.
My life is mental exercise.
So, anyway, one more sound bite, ladies and gentlemen.
And this, you'll remember, this is from December 21st of, well, you may not remember the bite, but you'll remember the story.
This is the early show.
Bob Schaeffer CBS 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, because 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, you know, Tony Snow, the press secretary, got a lot of grief from reporters 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 Schieffer, drive-by, thought they had a scandal.
Why didn't you make it public?
Why didn't you tell us about it?
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 on my public sleeve and so forth.
Just, well, I know Elizabeth Edwards did keep her condition quiet in 2000.
I'm not talking about the Edwards here.
I'm talking about the drive-bys.
Don't anybody mistake this.
I'm pointing at people watching on the DittoCam.
I'm not talking about the Edwards here.
Talking about the drive-bys.
Drive-bys, Republican scandals.
Why?
The Republican illnesses are scandals.
Let's see.
I have only got a minute here, and that's not enough time to be fair with another caller.
And there's some, I mean, normally, sometimes we have callers about whom it doesn't matter if we're fair, but they all look pretty good up there on this roster.
So let me take a break here.
We'll come back and close out the hour right after this.
You know, that Laura Bush soundbite and the Bob Shrum soundbite that we played just make some things just crystal clear.
Plus, the Tony Snow situation today.
Like, 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 not qualified to even talk about it.
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.
Whatever the libs do in the media 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 print.
Why?
He's educating us about cancer.
As far as the drive-bys are concerned, Democrats can do no wrong, and nothing's going to change that, folks.
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