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March 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Hey, welcome back, folks.
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It's great to have you with us too.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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And in the process demonstrating the uh the same.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
I just I just checked the email here at the top of the break.
Rush.
I saw you stand up.
I'm watching on the ditto camera.
You look, you look like you could you've lost more weight even from last week.
It's true, ladies and gentlemen.
35 pounds now, and I think it's 42 days.
I said it was started started uh February 14th, so this is March the 26th.
Yeah, it's it's 42 days.
Something like that.
And uh speakers, you're losing way too fast.
No, no, no.
That's still one of these common myths that the the faster you lose it, the faster you'll put it back on.
There's so many myths.
Don't talk to me, but I've I've done so many diets, they all work.
I've lost so much weight over the course of my life.
I know everything about it.
I know the relationship exercise has to losing weight, zip.
Um not putting ex- I even got I have got a note from a doctor about this.
Um, do you see turnout low at immigration rallies, one year anniversary of all those millions of people protesting illegally, but nobody showed up yesterday.
Here it is.
From uh Patricia Benjamin in St. Cloud, Florida, she's an MD.
As a physician, I'm grabbing this minutes in last uh Friday.
As a physician, I'm grabbing this minute as I just wanted to send along my personal thanks for advocating your listeners never exercise, walk, or do anything but play golf.
I know you did it your way.
So even the David and the medical community is mad at me.
I wrote her back.
I said, that's not what I said.
I didn't say that exercise is bad.
I just said it was related to losing weight.
It's irrelevant.
Get on the treadmill, folks.
Jog a mile at four miles an hour, whatever.
See how many calories you burn, like a hundred?
It's not even an Oreo.
It's ridiculous.
Anyway, and how fast you lose weight is irrelevant.
I've always lost weight fast.
Don't know why.
I didn't expect to come off this fast, obviously because I'm a little older now than the last time I uh did this.
What is it?
35 pounds in uh 42 days.
I've been expecting I was at a plateau for about 11 days, 10 days uh nine or ten days, but I knew it was gonna end.
I don't panic on these things.
Some people say when you hit a plateau, well, go off the diet, you know, really chug up a couple days, and that'll jump start to hold.
Nah, that's not the way you do it.
The problem with going off a diet before you're through is you don't gain weight back right away.
If you people understand, you know why most people gain the weight and back?
Aside from that they go back to your old eating habits, which I fully intend to do, and I'm gonna lose enough weight so that it takes me four years to put it back on instead of one.
But the you you you you get yourself at a weight loss metabolism with your body burning stored fat, and you you go off the diet, it just doesn't stop that metabolism.
That metabolic process continues in some cases for three weeks.
So you can sit out there and eat what you want for three weeks and don't gain any weight back.
Aha, I've got it licked.
Bad, bad, bad move.
Uh it's pretty soon you're gonna switch back to a fat gain metabolism, and no matter what you eat, you're gonna gain weight.
It's just the way it was at least the way it is for me.
So uh, and it takes about a week to uh get the fat burn metabolism going once you once you start a diet.
But the speed, the rapidity, uh at which one sheds pain.
And I always love hearing about this in people who've never been on a diet.
You know, they're the skinny crowd out there, the uh the crowd that's normal and okay.
They're the ones that are the experts.
They've never done it, but they all know.
Uh and you gotta you gotta you you know, everybody is trying to get you off this in their own subtle ways because they think they should be on one too, and it's sort of you know, but they they feel a little guilty when you're out there losing weight, and they're not when they think they should.
So they urge you come on, a little adult beverage here won't hurt you.
Oh, yes, it will.
Won't do it.
People have said, boy, I really admire your willpower, your discipline.
I don't have any.
This is fear.
Fear if I go off a diet, I'll blow it.
And I don't want to blow it.
I I'll go off a diet.
I got a plan.
I know when I'm gonna go off the diet, only I'm gonna get back on it after these two days.
I've got a big wing ding coming up on the middle of April.
Um go back on it uh after that.
But okay, HR in the IFB says, I found if you exercise, you can drink a lot.
Now, see, you you know uh uh one thing about drinking, one thing about alcohol, alcohol, the reason you cannot lose weight.
I mean, uh a person that that's disposed to overweight cannot lose weight, consuming alcohol.
I don't care if it's window cleaner, isopropyl, or wine.
You you can't do it because the alcohol gets metabolized straight sugar, which triggers insulin, and insulin is the beginning of the fat storage process.
So any diet, you want to eat as little sugar as possible.
Uh and uh uh if you do, you've you've got to eat things with it that that cut the amount of insulin.
And alcohol just blows that.
And uh, you're saying, well, I've seen some people who do nothing but drinking their skinny as a rail, and they're probably not eating much.
I've seen those people too, but I've seen a lot of people drink a lot and are nothing but you know, the Michelin tire man.
You know, some people just puff everybody's different.
And you have to learn your own metabolism and yourself and what's bad and what what you can get away with, what you can't.
And then uh you've you've got it pretty much understood.
Like everybody Well, you say you're eating a thousand to fourteen hundred calories.
Well, what do you do?
You know, I I I can't give you I'm not gonna go tell you what every meal is here, but basically um it's it's the the if it's the emphasis on low anything, it'd be low fat.
But I still eat fat.
Uh but I'm not watching the carbs.
Uh high protein, uh low fat carbs are what they are.
They're good carbs and bad carbs.
I mean, I the carbs are getting vegetables and things like that.
I'm not gonna post the menu on the website.
Somebody'll do it and they'll die, and then I'll get sued.
You know, everybody is different.
You you uh I'm I don't write diet books.
I I don't I don't uh I don't do that.
Look at I've done this enough to know uh how what works for me works and what uh what doesn't work.
But all these diets work.
The South Beach diet, the palm beach version of South Beach diet, sugar bust every diet in the world works.
The grapefruit diet, they all work.
Some work faster than others, but there's not one diet that by itself will keep your weight off.
I mean, I look at uh thousand to fourteen hundred calories.
I will tell you.
I will tell you, I will promise you I'm not gonna live the rest of my life like that.
Well, what does that mean?
Math is math.
So what I think I'm gonna do this time, I'm joking about giving myself four years to gain it back.
What I'm gonna try to do this time is do this diet that I'm on now three or four days a week, and then the other three or four uh, you know, go to town.
Uh because just what you eat in one day is not gonna affect you.
It's a succession of days and weeks, one way or the other, that lead to failure or success.
You can mix them up.
That's the one thing I have not tried.
Um I like this one.
I'm not hungry that much.
That's an amazing thing to me.
It's cut the appetite as well.
It is business of stomach shrinks.
That's another thing the thin crowd tells you.
Oh, yeah, stomach shrinks, oh, that's why you're not eating.
No, it has nothing to do with it.
Stomach is the stomach.
Yeah, it's not empty, it can be no bigger than a finger, but I mean it doesn't shrink.
You can stretch it out in one meal, folks, believe me.
And get it back to where it was.
Appetite's a function of blood sugar, primarily, particularly in people who have a tendency to overweight.
Uh and uh therefore what you eat can make you hungrier.
Like the old candy bar story.
You eat a candy bar, nothing has candy bars here, and a half hour later you're hungry.
It's because of blood sugar, whether you're whether you're hungry or not.
And you talk to some people, let's say, I never get full, I don't care what I eat.
And that's that's brain chemistry.
That's just different from person to person to person.
But don't don't tell me that you're losing it too fast, you're gonna you're gonna put it back on.
That there's so many myths associated with this.
Uh anyway, when we come back, I'm gonna get some phone calls because I have had diarrhea of the mouth this show, this whole show.
Not that it hasn't been interesting.
I know it has, but it's compelling and spellbinding, actually, but uh we'll go to the phones.
We got some audio sound bites.
We'll get to the John Edwards and Elizabeth situation with Katie Curick on 60 Minutes Last Night, the Iranians kidnapping of the 15 Brits.
I really don't want to talk about Chuck Hagel, but you gotta hear what he had to say.
There's lots of exciting stuff out there.
So we'll get to all of that, plus your phone calls next, right after this.
Hi.
Welcome back, El Rushmore.
Having more fun than a human being.
should be allowed to have.
The only expert that ever appears on this show is me.
Sedalia Sedalia?
California or Missouri.
Oh, well, it's Alan, where are you?
Alan, hello.
Testing one two.
Hello, yes.
Uh Maha Russi, yeah.
Sedalia, Missouri.
Sedale, Missouri, that's what I thought.
Yeah, I know.
All of the famous and popular Missouri State Fair.
Oh my gosh, it's uh yeah, the fairgrounds are about five blocks from here.
It's really cool.
Yep, yep.
You got a Malone's taffy and all that.
The only get police the only place you can get it is state fairs.
Um yeah, I always I always go for the corn dogs.
But um I called because you start off today talking about uh what you saw on the Discovery Channel and all that, and uh I had a question for you.
Uh there were two things I was gonna ask you about, but the question was uh I keep hearing a statistic that man-made carbon dioxide emissions, whatever, are about four percent of the total that's uh actually emitted, you know, by termites and volcanoes or whatever.
That's true, and that includes every time we exhale we can we could if we all stopped breathing, we could eliminate maybe one percent, two percent of the carbon dioxide emissions, and the rest of it is our automobiles and smokestacks and SUVs and incandescent light bulbs and whatever else.
Well, they uh but okay, if if that's true, if four percent of the of the toll is is caused by man, and if you c if you think that maybe the United States uh man-made total that we produce is maybe twenty-five percent of what the whole wor uh uh the rest of the people on earth, you know, produce, that would mean that if you completely overnight eliminated the United States emissions of carbon dioxide that you would only reduce the man-made you would only reduce the total by one percent.
That's exactly right.
And you totally devastate the world's economy in the in the process.
Well, what do you think the objective is?
Well, yeah, there's well, not devastate the world's economy, devastate ours.
What do you think that what do you think the objective is?
You're on the right track here, pal.
Well, if the if the United States stops going to work, uh pretty darn soon, they're gonna run out of cornflakes and everything else.
It's not gonna that's it's not gonna happen.
In fact, story that I cited that was in the New York Post yesterday by Bjorn Lomborg has a little chart.
You know, everybody's uh saving grace, everybody's panacea is the Kyoto Protocol, which has guidelines for countries around the world signatories to reduce their carbon emissions.
And uh there's a chart that shows rising carbon emissions with Kyoto and without and the Kyoto Protocol would the the re reduction would be insignificant.
It's so small the two lines on the graph barely separate.
Uh it the whole all of this, all of this is a hoax and a myth.
It may be warming.
And it it it it we may be in some small way contributing to it, but the idea that we are causing the destruction of the planet, like Al Gore in this movie shows Greenland breaking up.
He says, if Greenland happened to break up and sink, sea levels would rise and there would be no more Manhattan.
Well, yeah, that might be true if it happened, but there's nobody saying it's gonna happen.
And Al Gore doesn't say he just wants the picture to scare everybody, sees the movie and think that it's happening.
There's so much subterfuge and deceit in this whole argument uh that that it's uh it's a crying shame.
But people have this psychological belief or desire to believe that they are this powerful and that we are oriented toward evil and that and and we are committing sin, but there is salvation, and that is little curly cued light bulbs.
What Maharashi, you watch this series, and you will realize on discovery, you watch this, you all different light bulbs in the world would not have one I owe this.
It's it's absurd.
The whole thing's absurd.
What's the second thing you wanted to ask me about?
Well, I uh I I you you've inspired me to to learn a bit about the sun.
Uh and well I I started off researching it and and it's just it's more unbelievable and more they actually don't know what it is.
I mean physicists say there's there's there's solid, liquid, and gas, and then there's this stuff called plasma, which which is what the sun is made out of.
It's electrically charged atomic particles.
It it conducts electricity and it conducts magnetism tremendously.
Uh there's an article in the National Geographic July of 2004 that talks about the sun, and it just is unbelievably strange.
Uh uh Well, here's what you have to do.
The the point is you're now missionary.
You want to go out there, you want to persuade people.
And you guys hear the static on the liners of just me.
Just me.
So you go out there and you want to become an evangel on all this because you now believe it.
There's one simple question, uh maybe two, that you you can you can ask people about the sun.
And and the actually that you know, not a question.
Just the the point that's made in the first episode called pole to poll of this whole uh uh HD discovery or discovery HD channel on planet Earth.
And that is without the sun, there's nothing here.
There is no life, there's no energy.
The sun is the sole source.
We have no control over the sun.
We can't get farther from it.
We can't make it cool.
The idea that that we, all of humanity, with our light bulbs and our SUVs have any effect on the sun is absurd.
Second thing is this.
I do not think the human mind, maybe Einstein and a few physicists, Stephen Hawking.
Other than that, I don't think the average human mind is capable of comprehending the kind of power contained in our sun, which is little star.
How many billions of years has it been burnt?
We cannot comprehend what makes this possible.
We can't comprehend that kind of concentrated energy source that will not burn out for more years than the human mind is capable of calculating.
And once you understand that whether this all was created, as I happen to believe, or whether it's just the result of some giant coincidence, the fact of the matter is we're powerless.
We are no different in the big scheme.
If you go out 3,000 miles in space or more, you look down on a planet, we're no different than the insects.
We're no different than any other living creature.
We have a bigger brain, and uh we have a little bit more power to have stewardship over what we do.
But in terms of having the ability to impact all this without even trying, that's another thing.
You know, imagine if if uh it's like I once said about the ozone hole.
Um everybody was panicked about the ozone hole.
Oh my god, oh UV rays, we're gonna get skin cancer, oh no.
And let's say Ronald Reagan heard about this.
Oh, ozone hole up there, cancer?
Great.
Let's let's make it even bigger so all Democrats get cancer.
So Reagan calls Cap Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, says, Cap, I want you to I want you to widen the ozone hole out there, and Cap says, well, okay, we'll look into making the ozone hole bigger.
And then Cap goes and studies it, calls it most brilliant minds in the world.
Okay, we want to make that ozone hole that's out there.
We want to make it even bigger, and we want to move it from Antarctica right over San Francisco and New York and Washington.
Three little holes there with the old UV radiation.
And the scientists have to cap, sorry, can't do that.
Uh Cap was, well, why not?
I mean, the ozone holes down there, aren't we causing it?
No, we're really not.
Uh you know what, you know what creates ozone uh cap?
No.
Uh the sun.
That's the sun's interaction with various elements in our atmosphere that create atmospheric ozone.
So if we wanted to eliminate ozone, we'd have to put the sun out.
Now we don't have a fire truck big enough for that, folks.
We have we don't have a way to get the fire truck to the sun to put it out.
And if we did that, we'd be dead too.
The idea that we can eliminate the ozone on purpose, uh, or that we are doing it on purpose, the idea we're doing it by accident, just living our life.
The idea here that we have been granted by virtue of our creation, the ability to use our minds to enhance our lifestyles to make our standard of living even higher.
This is what galls me the most about all this is that the one country and the and the free people of the world, Western uh Western uh uh civilizations and democracies, are trying to improve the lifestyles of their people, uh and and the standard of living.
That is what's being blamed for destroying the planet.
Do you really believe a loving God would create people who by using what he created in them, an active brain able to advance their own civilization would destroy this?
Wouldn't it be more likely that the polluters of the world and the people that don't clean up their messes and the people of the third world that and then dictatorships or don't care about this, where there are three-headed frogs in the rivers.
Wouldn't it be more likely that people making the mess and not cleaning it up would be more responsible for damage and people like us.
It's the other way around, though, when you listen to the Lib socialists.
It is our advanced lifestyle.
It's our quest for a better life.
It is our quest to improve standards of living, our quest to grow more food, to have more energy.
That's what's destroying the humbug.
I r I refuse to believe that that is intellectually or spiritually possible.
That would not be a loving God.
Created human beings that would destroy their planet simply by using their God-given intelligence, tendencies, creativity, and so forth.
What about nukes, Rush?
What about nukes?
Okay, fine nukes.
Yeah, we can maybe wipe ourselves out, or some of ourselves.
We wouldn't destroy the planet.
And whatever we did do it, it would reform, and then life would start up all over again.
It's just it's it's it's silly.
Uh besides, we're not going to nuke the whole planet.
Uh unless the Iranians have a different view, and then you know, we're screwed anyway.
Back in just a sec.
All right, back to the phones we go.
The uh number again, 800-282-2882 to Rochester, New York.
Uh John, thank you for waiting.
You're next.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I'd like to comment on the audio clip you played on Friday where Bob Schrum and Chris Matthews uh shamelessly politicized the uh Elizabeth Heatherward's cancer situation.
Oh, yeah.
Just a second.
Cookie.
Uh go grab that bite out of the archives.
I'm not gonna uh she can't get it immediately, but you gotta hear this again.
I since you've referenced it, I want people to hear it who might not have heard it on Friday.
Go ahead.
What was your comment about it?
Well, in that we'll see that Mr. Schrum uh had the Hutzpah to lecture us on how the Edwards example represents a uh a wonderful educational opportunity to understand and deal with the cancer situation.
That's not what he said.
He said it was we he said a country learned more about cancer in one press conference in one day because of the Edwards press conference than anybody has ever known.
And see, this is the problem is the arrogance that I've always described to these people or assigned to them, the arrogance and condescension.
Only when they talk about something are experts talking about.
Everybody else is an idiotic plebe and doesn't understand it, and so the country was able whatever it is they happen to do or say, it is instructive, it is the only thing worth learning and so forth, and it that comes from a conceit uh and and from an arrogance.
And I'm glad you caught it.
Well, as a cancer patient of several years, Rush, I fail to understand how going out and shaking a couple thousand hands a day, kissing babies and hugging strangers, when your immune system is weakened and you probably have a low neutrophile and and white blood cell count because of chemotherapy represents a good example.
I mean, my oncologists uh encourage me to stay away from my own two grandchildren when they have the sniffles.
Uh they'd be appalled if I was gonna go out and wade into a sea of humanity during cough and cold season.
Here's that bite.
Cookie got it quick.
I want here's the buttons.
John hang on the phone there.
This is this is what he's referring to.
This is Bob Schrum from Thursday night last week with uh Chris Matthews.
Now America is different.
And I believe that today people got more education about cancer and how to deal with cancer and 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 gonna be a tremendous education in breast cancer and cancer generally how to deal with it.
Which is sophistry.
People like you who have cancer, and you said that you've had it for years.
Four years now.
Four years.
Uh what did you learn that you didn't know from that press con the idea that that there were anything was taught, the idea that people who have gone through this, who have my my mother died of cancer.
Edwards press conference taught me nothing about it.
You know, I d th that that's just that there's just the arrogance and condescend, and is basically saying to people like you that whatever you've learned or whatever you've done and however you're dealing with it doesn't matter.
Edwards and his wife, they're the lesson teachers.
Rush, the statement you made on Friday hit hit the nail right on the head that most people, when they're faced with this type of uh personal crisis, have a tendency to turn to God and turn to their family and loved ones.
And we also look upon every additional day as a gift, and we try to live it to the fullest, surrounded by the people we love.
And I, for One would not squander that gift on a campaign trail surrounded by strangers.
Well, you know, I also said that political people are different.
And you say that you turn to God, and I've heard that from uh my mother did.
Every uh the people that I know that have uh gotten cancer turned to God.
But it uh the I think I think well I've got a couple sound bites here.
I'm gonna use the occasion of your call to use these sound bites because I think that it demonstrates what I also said on Friday that uh political people, their quest, the political quest is their religion in a sense.
It's it's what animates them.
Uh you know, what's it's what motivates them and gives them drive, and it's it's it's that from which they take their identity.
Uh Russia, I'd like to say one thing that my problem is not with the Edwards's.
They have the right to make any kind of personal decisions.
Exactly.
That's what I was gonna say next.
That's right.
My problem is with these liberal pundits who seem to see everything, including a personal crisis through a prism of politics.
And then they spin it for a political advantage.
I think that is about the lowest form of political discourse there is.
You have hit the nail on the head, and we have some sound bites to demonstrate this very thing, as we did last Friday, starting with Howard Feynman and everybody else with the disclaimer, you know, I don't really shouldn't talk about this.
But this is really, I mean, they're gonna get sympathy, and this is really gonna, you know, the Edwards campaign is gonna get a little kick from this.
Uh-uh.
They were all analyzing it, especially the press conference, uh, in in terms of uh uh how good it was politically.
And of course, Howard Feynman says it's a 10-strike.
Well, they couldn't have done this any better, as though it was you know, political things are calculated.
That's one of the problems with politics.
People calculate their words, they calculate their actions, they plan them out.
So if you're gonna credit what the Edwards did as great political theater, it was just that.
And I found it I found it abhorrent that everything like this in the political world is looked at through strictly a political prism.
John, thanks much for the call.
Let's start at the top with audio soundbite number one.
This is uh what John just referred to me saying on last Friday's program.
Now let me say something 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, they 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.
Now here's a little C I told you so.
This is from 60 Minutes, Katie Courick uh interviewing the Edwards last night.
She says, Can you describe the decision-making process for me in terms of what we do now?
Do we stay in, do we suspend it temporarily?
Do I call the whole thing off?
Do we call the whole thing off?
Uh how did that unfold with you?
She said to me, this is what we believe in.
This is what we're spending our lives doing.
It's where our heart and soul is, and we cannot stop.
You heard this on Friday from Mo before Edwards said it himself.
Just confirmed my analysis of what political people who are different than you and I, how they look at things.
He just made my point for me right there.
Uh but that, of course, is not our stopping point.
Let's go back.
Uh Bill Schneider on a San Francisco TV station on Friday calling me a cynic for saying that Edwards was trying to jumpstart 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.
Everybody was out there looking at it this way.
Everybody from the drive-by media was examining this in a political sense.
Just like when Tim Johnson had his cerebral hemorrhage.
Oh no, what's this gonna do to the Democrat majority?
They all fretted.
Oh no, is this gonna be a problem with Lieberman?
Not sure he's a demo.
Oh, no, that's all they they well, not all, but that was the primary focus uh of uh the drive-by's attention when poor old Tim Johnson had a cerebral hemorrhage.
Now, here comes Katie's question that uh uh I guess it's one of mine.
She said um well, she here's the exchange.
Well, I'm not gonna read the question.
I'll play Katie asking the question.
Politics can be a cynical business.
Some have suggested that you're capitalizing on this.
There's not a single person in America that should vote for me because Elizabeth has cancer.
Not a want.
If you're considering doing it, don't do it.
Do not vote for us because you feel some sympathy or compassion for us.
That would be an enormous mistake.
The vote for the presidency is far too important for the any of those things to influence it.
But I think every single candidate for president, personal lives, that indicates something about what kind of human being they are.
And I think it is a fair evaluation for America to engage in to look at what kind of human beings each of us are and what kind of president we make.
Let's see.
I think even Katie was taken aback in this next bite.
Her question was, I guess some people would say that there's some by the way, I made this point at the beginning of the program, and and I know a lot of people are going, hey, you know what?
She really hit him with tough questions.
Uh yes, but every every tough question was prefaced.
Some people are saying, some people say, and if I were Edwards, I was, well, who?
Who's saying it?
You're saying it, aren't you, Katie?
Aren't you I mean you're the one asking me the question?
Why don't you have the guts to put it in your voice?
Blame it on these other people.
Who are these people?
That's how I deal with it.
I get this question all the time.
Some people say that your ex.
I always say, Well, who?
Who are they?
And what you find out the journalist is not talking about anybody else, they're just talking about themselves.
Anyway, Katie's question, I guess some people would say that there's some middle ground.
You don't have to necessarily stay at home and feel sorry for yourself and do nothing, but if given a finite, a possibly finite period of time on the planet, being on the campaign trail away from my children a lot of time and sort of pursuing this goal, it's not necessarily what I would do.
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children um wings.
Because you're not they're you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest.
You're sometimes they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
They're six and eight.
They're still baby birds.
They are still baby birds.
Uh but they gotta start learning to fly.
They're not ready to fly on their own yet, but they've got to start learning.
A.B., we are talking about six-and eight-year-olds here.
B.B. We'll be back, folks.
We'll be back.
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Thank you for calling, sir.
Hi, uh Megadetto's Rush.
Thank you.
Very well.
Good.
Hey, uh a little comment on the John Edwards thing.
I have just a little bit uh different take.
Uh it it's almost like part of their uh strategy is to uh give Edwards some immunity from criticism, much like the uh Michael J. Fox issue with stem cell research.
Uh if his wife is suffering from cancer, and we all pity her for that, uh, you know, I think they might think it would generate enough sympathy to where people will be afraid or ashamed to try to criticize him or uh to contest the other.
Well, I think you know, uh look, it I think it's true.
I mean, if you're Barack Obama or uh Mrs. Bill Clinton, how do you attack Edwards now?
Uh his wife has cancer.
Simply you can't.
Eh, Clinton Inc.
would find a way, but uh it just isn't gonna happen.
I don't think that that I can't I can't believe that's a calculation.
I can't believe they had a conversation.
Look, Elizabeth, I want to stay in.
Yes, John, I think you should, because now you can't be criticized.
I I man, if that's if that's part of the calculation, then I I would be stunned.
I I would surprise.
I I wouldn't compare this.
You know, Michael J. Fox is a different situation.
Michael J. Fox wasn't running for anything.
Michael J. Fox was used by uh uh a couple of politicians.
Uh and the whole purpose of putting him in commercials with the symptoms of his Parkinson's on full display was to uh inoculate him from any criticism because he's a victim.
There's no question.
He could say whatever he wants politically, uh and nobody could challenge it, because you just don't I mean, they don't, I mean, he's got to hold out hope for his cure and so forth.
And that's what I railed against, and of course caught a lot of grief over.
Uh, once you enter the political fray, I think you're subject to criticism.
And in in time, when Edwards starts talking about issues again, it'll th th that that criticism or disagreement, debating whatever you want to call it, will s will will commence again.
But there there's going to be a grace period here, obviously.
Right.
Well, that's what I was getting at, Rush.
I don't think it was the calculation or the main point of bringing her out publicly, but I think it's a uh you know, it's an ancillary aid uh to his campaign to at least uh if not jump start it, at least maybe uh protect them, give them a little bit of time, buy him some time to get his issues out, maybe immune from criticism, and see where it goes from there.
In the end, I agree with you.
I don't think that's gonna save his whole campaign.
Well, no, his campaign if it's if he's gonna win this.
I mean, he I think he knows he's not gonna get nomination based on the sympathy of voters.
Uh that that's the the the primaries are long time down the road.
Uh uh I look it, I don't know, but well I could be wrong about that.
Uh I don't know these people.
I just I have a little different take on this.
I I really have when I when I look at this, I cannot tell you the degree of sympathy I have, but it would probably surprise you why.
But I have I just to me it is so obvious that there are just certain things missing in this guy's life.
That uh I better I better be careful here.
But uh look at Matt, I appreciate the phone call.
Here's John in Washington, D.C., our nation's capital.
Uh where soon everybody will be able to have a gun.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
I hope you're right about the gun.
I do too.
Yeah, Carl Rowan, uh uh big liberal uh newspaper uh man, uh he had an illegal gun and used it, but that was okay.
I can remember that.
I remember that.
Yeah.
Shot he shot a teenager.
Yeah, it's right, and he demanded to be uh exempted from the law because he's a special person or some such thing.
I forget what it was, but you're absolutely right.
Columnist for the Washington Post.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, uh I want to say the obvious, I'm not like uh I'm not that smart as Bob Schrum, who was probably the most unsuccessful uh uh political analyst going.
Uh he hasn't won in years.
Uh but uh for him to side with uh John Edwards is is probably appropriate because John Edwards is a loser.
He's acting like he's got a chance in this.
He doesn't even show up on the radar screen on any of the polls.
Holy Toledo!
Have you no mercy, sir?
Oh no!
Dare you call here and call him a loser.
He's a loser, he's wasted his wife's life on a losing campaign.
What the hell's wrong with him?
This is crazy.
He could he couldn't get re-elected senator in his own state.
I understand that, but how do you know his wife is being dragged into this kicking in the screen?
Because she's stupid.
She's a big vet flaw that she just looks up to him like he's a movie star.
All right.
Free speech is one thing, but I mean this is well, there's uh all kinds of opinions and attitudes out there, and and uh and Snerdley will uh will no doubt find them.
I just I don't I'm gonna take a break.
I I'm just gonna take a break here.
I must admit I am still struck.
Even as uh Katie Couric was taken aback uh when Lee Edwards said that uh, well, you know, as far as spending time with our kids, uh, you know, birds got to learn to fly sometime.
Um they have to be able to fly by themselves.
And Katie said, look, they're they're six and eight.
They're still baby birds, and Elizabeth Edwards said they're still baby birds.
And then uh John Edwards himself chimed in with, well, but they they've got to start learning to fly, and they're not ready to fly on their own yet, but they've got to start learning to fly.
Uh I tell you that as I as I said mere moments ago, that evokes in me a tremendous amount of sympathy.
And I I I'll just I'll just go ahead and tell you why.
Because it it it it appears to me that there's one thing in this guy's life, and that's running for president.
Without that, it doesn't see me as a life.
Or nothing in it that's worth spending some time on anyway.
I mean, I I mean that just it's it's sad.
It's just is this very sad.
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