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March 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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We have.
Yeah, we got some Chuck Hagel sound bites here.
I uh uh Snerdry and I just talking about this.
Can't figure it out here.
Can't figure out what the political upside for Chuck Hagel is and all this rap that he has gotten into, now talking about the president might be impeached or could be impeachable.
I just can't figure it out.
Unless he's running for the Democrat nomination.
I don't know what Chuck Hagel's up to.
I literally, you know, and I'm one of the brainiest political analysts out there, and this is senseless.
I I cannot detect a an intelligent motive for this.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
But we got some more audio sound bites here on the whole Elizabeth Edwards John Edwards situation.
Let's go to slay the nation.
The host Bob Schaefer was talking to David Brooks, who is the uh conservative columnist at the New York Times.
And Bob Schiefer said uh very unusual occurrence in a campaign last week.
John Edwards and his wife come out.
She says that her cancer has come back, but he's going to keep on with the campaign where you surprised David Brooks.
Uh that this became something people sort of talked about.
I've I found out rather odd Bob, how could you had a press conference, Bob?
What what's everybody supposed to do about it?
Schieffer found it odd, everybody was talking about it.
I was saying I don't want to talk about a woman facing really sobering odds in a political sense.
I thought we're not nobody's gonna talk about that publicly.
Well, I'll talk about privately.
But they're talking everyone's talking about publicly.
The idea that this is some hacked that was gonna happen.
Yeah, political analysis on someone's really horrible disease.
And that there's a new world where everything's open.
Yeah, he's right about that.
It just sounds surprised at it.
I have been warning you people that has been happening for many, many moons.
My space, YouTube, everybody in the world out there wants to be known.
But uh, we're gonna talk about it privately.
What's the difference to talk about it privately and publicly?
I guess you can talk about it at your cocktail parties, but don't go on television to talk about it.
But I mean, but despite all of that, the um question from Schiefer still boggles the mind.
Were you surprised, David?
Uh people sort of talked about it.
I found that rather odd.
I mean, is it the whole point that people were supposed to talk about it?
Isn't that what a public press conference is for?
Is to provide news, generate conversation.
I'd say sometimes I I sit here and I marvel at the blockheadedness of these people who claim to be the first and foremost guarantors of our constitution.
Now, on the Today Show today, Meredith Vieira interviewed uh the uh the Senator uh Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and his wife Teresa Hines Carey, and uh Meredith Vieira said, hey Theresa, you know to some extent what it means to be called a distraction, because back in 2004, when you're a very outspoken lady, and sometimes your words were used against your husband.
So what do you think the Edwards are up against here in terms of the political arena?
Elizabeth is facing terrible odds.
She's a brave person.
I've lost people in my life suddenly, and um all I can say is um not just my late husband.
Not having had time to say goodbye was very hard.
Yeah.
And so I I would make certain choices.
Everybody makes their choice.
Oh.
Okay.
Uh Therese Hines Carey, uh, I'm interpreting this as that she's saying she would do something different than what the Edwards have done.
And by the way, I warned you people, well, I told you back in the 2004 campaign.
When this woman shows up, she will not stop talking about her first husband.
Uh, who was John Hines.
And here's there's Lurch sitting there.
Lurch is sitting, and he's always sitting there when she does this.
She can't get she she she refers to him as, by the way, this is the first time I've heard of her late husband.
I'm sure she said it before.
Usually she just says my husband with uh with Lurch uh sitting there.
All right.
Um let's talk about the Iranian situation, shall we, with the with the Brits.
There's a fascinating story today, or actually yesterday from the Los Angeles Times.
Capture of British sailors, all too familiar.
By the way, Scott Ott of Scrapple Face had a great idea to solve this crisis.
He suggested that well, what he said, J Dick Cheney suggested that we trade Jimmy Carter to the Iranians for the uh for the British hostages.
Uh that that all it would take is uh is an executive order, presidential executive order, and Carl Rove could handle that, so that Bush need not be bothered with the details.
And that there would be a little poetic justice here in trading Jimmy Carter to the Iranians for the 15 British hostages.
Anyway, this LA Times piece, capture of British sailors is all too familiar.
Iran also sees three servicemen in 2004, but this time raises added alarm.
And let me read to you one of the quotes here from the story.
One of the 2004 detainees, Marine Corporal Christopher, said the captives were treated fairly well and were subjected to no physical abuse.
But they were subjected to mental abuse, he said.
Uh there were the mock executions.
Basically, they were taking us from one of the rooms to the toilet, and when you turn your head, hear the cock of their weapon and them laughing, and then they'd carry you on.
A televised clip showed the men walking blindfolded through the desert, and they were later forced into a ditch.
There they heard the cocking of weapons from the edge as if the pit was intended as their grave.
Now, what is this referred to here in the Los Angeles Times?
Why, this is this is referred to as mental abuse, is it not?
Well, I w why why isn't what we just heard described here called torture.
The Iranians paraded the Brits that they captured in 2004 on television blindfolded, which by the way, that is a violation of the left's precious Geneva conventions.
You don't blindfold prisoners.
We never hear any criticism of the Iranians or Islamo fascists in the way they conduct their prisoner of war tactics.
Now we have the distinction between mental and physical abuse.
Mental abuse, that's fine.
The word torture, which actually applies here, is never used in this LA Times piece.
But it gets even better, ladies and gentlemen, because today on the view, Rosie O'Donnell implied that the captured Brit soldiers, the 15 of them, are a contrived Gulf of Tonkin for war with Iran.
Today on the view, Rosie O'Donnell discussed the Iranian seizure, and she gave out false information on National TV and implied that this may be a hoax so as to provide the president with an excuse to go to war.
But interest is her quote, but interesting uh with the British sailors.
There were 15 British sailors and Marines apparently went into Iranian waters.
They were seized by the Iranians, and I have one thing to say.
Gulf of Tonkin.
Google it, okay.
Now Rosie may have missed the news here, but there's a fisherman, an Iraqi fisherman, who was witness to this and said that the Iranians absconded the British soldiers in the Marines in Iraqi waters, that they had not crossed into the waters of Iran.
They were not therefore in Iranian territory.
Uh this guy's identity is uh being protected in order to uh protect him.
But then you have to, you have to ask.
I mean this this this woman, Rosie O'Donnell, is is no different than the most embarrassing wacko caller we can imagine here.
And if somebody who said the things like Rosie O'Donnell says on The View called this program, she wouldn't last.
We don't tolerate kookery here, even on open line Friday, where the rules are somewhat relaxed.
And this woman is uh is arguably now the leader of the program, and everybody says, well, a lot of people say, I can't believe Barbara Walters is putting up with this.
I can't I can't believe Barbara Walters now.
I think Barbara Walters lost control of the show.
I didn't supposedly her show and so forth.
But look, folks, it's this simple.
When you have a major network like ABC, that television, it has this kind of show on with this host, and this is by no means the first utterance of sheer insanity.
If you don't do anything about it, you must want it to air.
You must Want this kind of stuff on your network.
That's the way to look at this.
To sit there and say, I can't I can't believe it.
Of course they're not doing anything about it.
This is this is why she's there.
Learn it, love it, live it, whatever.
Get used to it.
Yeah, I just thinking about Rosie O'Donnell and you you lesbians out there.
I uh a question for you.
How how do you feel?
Because I know a lot of you people on the left out there, lesbians, you you you group yourselves into into groups, obviously.
How how how is it do you lesbians feel that that Rosie O'Donnell is the most prominent uh spokesman?
Lesbian spokesman out there.
I would think somebody would make a move to do something.
But I'm telling you, as far as ABC is concerned, that's how they want the program to air.
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We have uh another Elizabeth Edwards soundbite here.
She was in Cleveland, uh making an appearance, and this is what she said about telling her children about her cancer.
When we told our children, you know, about this, you know, and yes, this could kill mommy.
Anybody at the table gonna live forever?
You know, raise your hand if you're gonna live forever.
No, we aren't.
So what maybe this conversation about our about our own mortality allows us to think about how it is we want to use that unknown number of days each of us has.
And if that conversation starts and people start thinking about, you know, how is it that I can do something better for my family, do something better for my community, do something better for my country uh in those days.
Okay.
Um now I don't have kids, so I have to ask the question.
And I can only ask the question to those of you who have had uh cancer, who've been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Do you sit them down and and tell them, you know, uh we're all gonna die.
You're gonna die, I'm gonna die, we're all gonna die, and we've got to use whatever unknown number of days left we have to do something better for my country and better for our family.
I I I just I I g I don't have kids.
I I don't know if if people with kids talk to them this way.
So I I merely ask the uh the question out there.
Melissa in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, thank you, sir.
Yes.
Um when I first heard about this, I guess it would be on Thursday.
I could listen to about, I don't know, five minutes before I got pretty irritated with the whole um the whole spectacle of it.
My mother has metastatic breast cancer, stage four, and has been on chemo for almost six years.
Um the part that irritated me, and it did her as I spoke to her um this weekend about it, was that um there are lots of people that go to work that have cancer and that are on chemo.
They go every day.
And they were making her out to be some hero that she was gonna go and give some speeches and be on the campaign trail, even though she has cancer.
And I resented them putting her above ordinary Americans.
So you're talking about the media and some political animals.
I mean, because he puts him uh himself out to be for the the regular Joe Schmo person.
Um that he's for the regular guys like his dad who worked in the mill and you know, came home with cotton in his hair and everything and this just shows you that he's not in touch with the American people because there are lots of people not just cancer, but with other diseases that have to go to work.
They have no choice but to go to work.
Well, you know, and you just do it.
This this takes us back to the Bob Schrum comment on it with uh with the Grab that bite.
I've lost it where it is in the in this in the the uh roster.
I don't know what number it is, but grab that let's listen to this again.
Let me know when you've got it ready to go in a machine.
Because th I think I think what you heard there, Melissa, what you were hearing was a a a drive-by media sympathetic to Democrats.
And of course, when something happens to Democrats or liberals, or when liberals or Democrats say something, of course, it's more powerful, more profound, and more brilliant than anything anybody else is saying it.
Their problems are bigger and their exactly.
Well, they but they know better.
They they just have a greater sensitivity than your mother, for example.
Your mother You're right.
Uh but that your mother doesn't know anything.
Elizabeth and John Edwards are the arbiters now, and this is this is and that's what you probably were irritated by.
It is.
And but here, listen to the shrum bite again, because I I want to ask you a question after this.
So listen to it along with me.
Now America's 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.
Yeah, right.
Now your mother has cancer, you said for six years, metatastic breast cancer, she's chemotherapy.
Did you learn anything from this press conference?
Well, no, that it well, they didn't even tell you what drugs she was on, they didn't tell you.
I know that that's much more than anything.
So, my point but you and your mother are blithering idiots, you see.
You don't really know what you've been through because you haven't had anybody smarter than you tell you.
I mean, she's had it uh uh th she probably found out about it for a week, so what is and I I was just like aghast that what do you mean I'm learning something?
I I I I could not figure out what I was supposed to have gotten from her saying, I have stage four cancer, but we're gonna go out on a campaign trail.
Well, it's like you said, I mean you you're you I think if if they were trying to impart a lesson, let's just let's let's let's grant them uh benefit of the doubt.
Well, yeah.
Boy, you were tough.
Let's pretend they were.
The the the sh they try to set an example.
We're not gonna change our lives.
We're gonna life is going to go on as normal despite this.
We're not gonna cower in fear, we're not gonna we're not gonna hide from it, we're not gonna act like it's beaten us down.
Uh aren't you saying the same thing about your mother when you say other people go to work when they get cancer, that these people are not special, aren't you?
You know, people are always telling us that uh it ev whenever a celebrity gets anything, uh any kind of a disease or some kind of problem, whatever it is, they go on television uh and look at the awareness they're bringing to X and so forth.
And that that could be I think what they're saying about this.
Well, and I get and they should have said it in a way instead of making themselves appear bigger than everyone else, they should have said, you know, she if they want to bring awareness, fine.
Say, you know, she has cancer, she is gonna be doing chemo.
We are uh we are in awe of other people and I'm not talking just about cancer, multiple sclerosis is a you know, a disease that debilits.
Wait a minute.
Parkinson's if you want to go to Michael J. Fox, you know, and all that.
You're talking about the media, you're really not talking about the Edwards.
You talking about the media.
And and and the media is slavish to these people.
The media, the media, Bob Schrum's comment that's why I replay it so often.
Because nothing else matters.
Nobody has ever gotten sick until a liberal democrat gets sick.
And nobody's ever faced these kind of challenges.
So a liberal democrat has, and then speaks about it.
And only then are we, the plebs uh and and the hoi polloi uh able to learn anything about it.
Our own life experiences insufficient and irrelevant.
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If you missed today's morning update, you have to hear this.
There's a new crisis that's emerged out there, and it's threatening the education of millions of America's college students.
And basically is this the price of birth control is uh without warning, it's skyrocketing out there.
And students, of course, are bearing the brunt of this.
Uh the cost of oral contraceptives.
And I think back, and I I've always said when I got older, I was not going to be an old folk.
I I sometimes I just can't.
I cannot imagine in uh in the 50s, 60s when I was in my teenage years, even hearing a story about this, about this the a crisis on campus has nothing to do with education.
No, it's rising contraceptive prices.
And of course, with students bearing the brunt.
Now you might say, well, students, but how come why aren't the parents bearing?
I'll explain that if you'd be patient.
The uh the cost of oral contraceptives, and for those of you in Rio Linda uh bill pills, birth control pills, has doubled.
Sometimes it's tripled in some cases at student health centers.
And of course, this has health officials concerned that cheapskate students are going to start using less preferred methods or stop using birth control altogether.
And what they're really afraid of is the students will stop having sex.
Because if they stop having sex, then you can't push condoms and birth control and a number of other things.
Plus you can't sell as many cigarettes.
So this guy at Indiana University, Hugh Jessop, he's the executive director of the health center there, is among the concerned.
He said, if a tremendous problem for our students, because not every student have a platinum card.
He's he he he says here that women are paying twenty-two dollars a month for birth control that only cost ten dollars a month a few months ago.
He says some of our students have two jobs and they have children.
Some of the students have children, how can that happen?
Stop and think for a moment.
How can this be?
How can the students have children if they're able to afford all this birth control?
Now, if you look at the numbers here, no comfort is provided.
Thirty-nine percent of undergraduate women who use oral contraceptives, uh, according to an estimate by the American College Health Association is expected now to fall because of these price increases.
Now, in case you wonder why the price has gone up, the answer is Congress.
The the short version is that because of all the attacks on big pharmaceuticals that have been worked into deficit reduction packages and so forth legislation, the end result here is that they eliminated discounts that filtered down to colleges.
There's no fix for this.
I I referenced this at the top.
There is no fix for this because female students can't go ask their parents for birth control money because we just learned they are the parents.
So how do they if they don't have enough money now, how can they ask themselves for more money?
They're the parents on our college campaign.
Uh and and this is a this is a crisis.
I mean, this could bring American higher education to its knees.
In more ways than one.
Who's next on this program?
Lakeport, California.
John, thanks for waiting and welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, good morning.
Great honor to talk to you.
Uh first time caller and uh Gulf War One veteran.
Very proud to be talking to you today.
Well, great to have you with us, sir.
Thank you.
I wish we'd got it done back then, you know.
Well, I'm actually calling about uh uh Ahmadina John.
Are you?
Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you mean got it done back then?
You're talking about Saddam?
I'm talking about Wolf War I, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Absolutely.
We got we got it seems like we got we got cut short there and have suffered ever since.
But um I was talking about Ahmadina John.
Are you open to conversation?
Sure, you want to talk about Mahmood?
Go ahead.
Just the fact that um you I don't they're not pointing out the point.
His religious beliefs point him to the need to have a war.
He wants a war because his he believes that his Armageddon will create the chaos that will result in that twelfth imam rising to power and them ruling the world at the end of that whole deal.
The 12th imam is hold up in a well.
Honest to God here.
Uh honest uh folks.
The 12th imams hold up in a well and is trapped in it.
Can't get out until uh uh the uh the terrifying end days.
The uh no, it's not an oil well, it's just some kind of a well.
They didn't have oil wells back then when the twelfth imam got got trapped in it.
But yeah, I know the the reason they don't they don't uh actually they they they um you know there let me there's a story.
I think uh let me find this because there's uh dovetails with what you're discussing uh in in a way that that I think will make some sense.
But have you seen this story out of the Philippines?
Gay cops told not to sway hips.
Gay cops, yes, Philippine police.
Don't worry about this, John, it's not gonna take away from your valuable call time.
Philippine police on the defensive on Friday after gay cops were warned that they could be fired for swinging their hips or engaging in flamboyant behavior.
Chief Superintendent Samuel Pig Delillo said that the Philippine National Police does not have a policy that discriminates against gays and lesbians.
In short, all its policies are issued for everybody, regardless of sex or creed.
But being a uniform service, there are rules of conduct apply to everybody for which violations may result in being fired or uh other sorts of discipline.
It can't say can't swish.
They can't sway.
Anyway.
Listen to this, this is this is from the Wall Street Journal from yesterday by Catherine Kirsten.
And the title of this is uh Sharia, Sharia Law, Islamic Sharia law in Minnesota.
And look it it let me summarize this, because I I don't want to I don't want to take the whole time to read a lot of it.
In Minnesota, uh there are those who follow Sharia law and are seeking special accommodation for the religio for for these particular religious beliefs.
It's like this judge in Germany last week, John honest to gosh, said that a Muslim man can beat his wife because it's in the Quran.
A Muslim man living in Germany can beat his wife because it's in the Quran.
Now, m multiculturalism run amok because it's Germany.
It's and and Sharia law is not the law, or the law of the Quran is not the law in Germany.
But this is total capitulation.
This is being done out of fear.
And in Minnesota, the same sort of thing is in the process of developing.
They're seeking special accommodation for their religious beliefs, the the uh the Sharia Muslims.
And what what what I find funny?
You ask why don't they talk about uh Mo Mahmood and his religion?
They don't talk about any other religion other than Christianity in this country.
Um if if uh you know liberals look at evangelical Christians, the so-called Christian right, or uh any of these uh people who uh live what they hope is a godly life in public.
Uh why are they a threat to the Republic?
Why these people are dangerous?
Why even some Republicans want to get them out of the party?
We gotta fix this abortion problem.
We're never gonna win elections.
We've got to shut up these hicks that live in the South.
All these Christian right people are destroying our party, so we can have liberals criticize religious people in this country left and right if they're Christian.
But in Minnesota, if Sharia law is gonna be the law of the don't dare criticize as discriminatory.
And in Germany, if uh if an Islamic man wants to beat his wife up, it's okay.
So you ask, you know, why why doesn't anybody explore what Mahmood's foreign policy might actually be based on in terms of his religion, uh they're afraid.
It's just simple fear.
They're afraid of being critical or afraid of look at the look at the Dutch cartoon scandal.
There was a f the everybody after there were protests and riots all over the world about the publishing of those cartoons.
The world coward in fear.
So there's your answer.
Short and simple.
Are you back on?
You're you never were off.
Oh, okay, good.
I didn't want to I'm sorry, I didn't want to speak out of turn.
Well, no, you just understand that I'm the reason people listen to the show and you're being dutiful here, and I'd appreciate it, but it's your turn now.
Well, I would I would I would segue to Edwards then and wrap this up for you and let you run with it.
Um you had uh you had said earlier, of course, that uh when you say something on something that's all needs to be said, and I'd say you did it, you did exactly right in comparing Edward's wife with with uh uh President George Bush's wife, Barbara.
And and and uh uh Barbara, forgive me.
Uh but in any case, uh my point there is uh if you could do us a service there would be to track the news that from here to the presidency, you know, but depending on how long he stays in the race.
Um how many times uh when Edward's name is brought up in in the news, uh his wife's name is brought up alongside.
We know that.
And put it in your sack of stuff, you know, so we can look at it.
You don't need me for that.
Nobody's gonna even need to calculate that.
Well, they maybe in calculation.
You're probably gonna get as tired of hearing about that as you do, Anna Nicole Smith after a while.
If they're not careful, they're gonna I'm just kidding.
Okay.
Very good.
You're sharp, John.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Love you, Russia.
Have a great day.
You bet.
We have I think that guy did that whole call without taking a breath.
So excited to be on the program.
Programming a note here, ladies and gentlemen.
We may not, even though I sort of committed to it, we may not get to the incredibly boring and dull Chuck Hagel sound bites.
Remane calm out there.
Do not do anything drastic.
Uh we can always get to them tomorrow if necessary.
I I have to share this with you.
Just you always check uh websites during the break here.
Some some online website called the Dunfirmline Press.
It's got to be some wacko little cult paper in uh in the UK has a story that has really got a great lesson, the unintended consequences of actions taken by those who want to save us from ourselves.
In this case, the unintended consequences of the smoking ban.
Now, in order for you to appreciate this, and you'll be able to see it, because we'll link to it on the website later.
But uh, for those of you watching on the ditto cam, I want to zoom in because you have to see this guy.
He's the focus of the story, and I would that just I'm not gonna be able to hold it here steadily while I do the story, but get just gotta look at that guy and keep keep the memory of that face in your mind as we tell you what the story is about.
He's a regular at a pub.
And he goes in and he he he has you know his adult beverages or whatever.
He has been barred, he's been thrown out of this pub because he breaks wind.
The guy cannot stop breaking wind.
Management at the bar, his guy's name is Stuart Laidlaw, and they say that that uh his his bouts of flatulence are so over the top that people in the bar in the pub have almost been sick after exposure to to to the to the well, the foul smells.
This guy's he is 30 foot won't work.
It would won't work to tell him his termites.
He's 35 years old.
He's fury.
The name of the pub is Thirsty Kirstie's, and the guy is livid.
He's the first person to be barred from the pub for breaking wind.
Now the owner says he's been in there for years breaking wind, and nobody knew it because you were able to smoke.
But now that they've banned smoking, people who have been taking in the guy's wind all these years are for the first time in their lives able to smell it.
And so he's been banned.
And so see, uh uh the unintended consequences of banning smoking has made this cause this guy public humiliation.
People had no clue it was happening because of the cigarette smoke that used to be in there.
Uh the title of the story is uh well, we're gonna title this on the website, Gone with His Wind.
Uh the bitch, I wouldn't let the guy in if he smelled like Drakkar Noir Cologne.
Just on the base of his look, it does it bright eyed.
This guy looks like he's on something from the moment he gets in.
All right, Kathy and Williamsville, Williamsville, what?
Oh, New York.
Uh glad you went.
Yeah, glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
You know, I have five kids.
I think these people are lunatics.
Who?
Who?
Whoa.
The Edward, the Edwardses.
They're gonna spend their last couple, either one of them are gonna spend their last couple of years on the road giving stump speeches, and they've got they and you know, what it would be a blessing if they had five or six years as a couple with their kids.
They might.
They might her the the the what she has, she's got a twenty percent uh survivability rate over the next five years.
She might make it.
There might be a mixture.
Wait a second.
A miracle might happen.
You don't know.
But then her child's gonna be ten or eleven, and the feminist response to this rush has been if she made any other decision, then it would be a step back for women.
I I was shocked.
Well, I heard Geraldine Ferraro's interview on Fox.
Okay, well that's horrendous.
That's then that's just another peak bunch of people looking at this through a political prism.
So she has become not a human being to them.
She's become a symbol for a for a for the for the feminist movement.
And if if if she were to step back, it would set the cause of sisterhood back.
Well, that's what they said.
I mean, it did they they're they're so messed up as a group.
It's absolutely shocking.
All right.
Uh but that doesn't the Edwards have the right.
I can it's their lives.
Can't if they if they want to, if they want to spend it, and by the way, you know, they're they're they're okay financially.
What if they're what if they're taking the kids out of school and traveling with them?
I don't know that this is true, but what if the kids are with them on a campaign trail?
I don't know.
You know, a six and eight-year-old kid, they want to play, they want to have a childhood.
Do they want to be on a campaign trail?
I I it's just that it's very uh Well, they may want to be with their parents now.
Yes, they they should want to be with their parents, but little six and eight year old kids want to play with and have friends and go to school and be normal.
And there's gonna be nothing normal about that.
You people are tough out there.
That's all I'm gonna do.
Very well.
Well, I you know, that I I don't know.
I the they're they're just a little bit hard.
I just I tell you what I th I I really do believe, and this is an object lesson.
I believe that your anger is not so much with the Edwards as is the way that they are being portrayed by the media and all their decisions are being lauded as the smartest decisions that anybody could make, and that's being forced on you.
And they're not the ones doing it.
It's it's uh, you know, they're willing accomplices in the media that are doing it.
I think of all the people that have called here today to talk about this, I think most of their anger, if you really get down to the nut of it, is directed at at the media, the Bob Shrums of the world and and and telling uh, you know, the uh uh ordinary average Americans and you average Americans know who you are, uh that you don't know diddly squat uh and you're being lectured too about it when many of you have faced these same circumstances uh and resent it.
I think it's a large part of this.
This is Wendy in Lansing, Michigan.
Hi, Wendy, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi, Rus.
Um, I just wanted to make a comment.
I have had breast cancer at the same time.
My first husband had brain cancer, and I took care of him for eight years, and we raised a young song during all this.
And my sincere opinion is that the Edwards are in denial.
And it's gonna change over time.
They did the same thing with Christopher Rees and his wife Dana.
They jumped all over them and were um you know, holding them up as some kind of a token of bravery, and they'd make comments like we're gonna have you know more kids and just go on with life as usual.
And if you notice on interviews they had years later, things changed, and reality's gonna hit.
And I really think that um they're gonna pull out.
You do.
Uh or things are gonna be changed.
She's she's in denial.
It's like this has just hit her full in the face, and it's like she hasn't really even had time to think about it.
Now, according to your theory, how long is it gonna take for this realization?
No, it depends on the person.
And it depends on the people around you who are who might be pushing her, like you said, you know, the media and other people are saying you can't quit, you have to get it.
Give me more, give me more.
Pretend on a lawyer leading a question.
What is it that would force reality to smack them in it in your thought?
You got 30 seconds here not to pressure you.
What would force them to have reality smack them upside down?
Oh, her kids things her kids say, you know, her being if she has to go on chemo or radiation, how sick she gets, or how the whole the whole thing is just gonna come crashing down.
I'd be really surprised if it didn't.
And she'd have she'd say, you know, I have to make a choice.
Uh-uh.
I can see why you say that.
Uh, but I think you're dead wrong.
Oh, okay.
I think there's gonna be something else that doesn't.
Unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, we are out of time, so I'll have to tell you tomorrow.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence now in the can on the way over to the museum housing all artifacts soon to be on display at a limb broadcast museum.
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