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March 30, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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I'm looking, I'm looking for the original Al Gore story here, folks.
Uh, and it's in one of my stacks.
Uh let's see, and I put it up in a way.
I'll find it here while we're doing the show open.
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I'm looking for it for a specific reason because I need the name of the Nobel Committee member who uh went and attended Gore's speech because I had further conversations during the break here with my lawyers at the landmark legal foundation.
As you know, we are considering filing an objection with the Nobel Committee over Gore's tampering, which is clearly unethical.
He's out there campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize.
And we're thinking of suggesting that uh this member of the committee needs to recuse himself from the vote.
Uh because he's uh is clearly uh involved himself in this uh.
And I'll tell you why that's important, folks.
Uh, because if if at this rate, uh Al Gore is going to be selected, not elected.
Uh and I don't think the Nobel Committee wants to be seen as the international version of Al Gore's Florida Supreme Court.
You know, Al Gore's out there saying that the Democrats say the Bush won elected, he was selected to the Supreme Court.
Uh election uh aftermath was a fraud out there.
And it is just not right, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And as such, uh, here it is.
As such, with Gore over there tampering and uh unethically and campaigning for his election as a Nobel Peace Prize winner in October.
Uh, this would give rise to the possibility, the perception that Al Gore was selected, not genuinely fairly elected if he wins a Nobel Peace Prize.
And I don't think we're gonna put this if we actually follow through with this and and um file our objection with the Nobel Committee.
I don't think they want to be seen as, you know, a uh uh a biased version of the uh Florida Supreme Court, or even the U.S. Supreme Court, uh, in terms of his not genuinely winning this thing, but rather being selected.
Now, the story here is from the AP.
Sorry, it's Reuters, it's written by Alistair Doyle, the environment correspondent.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore won praise on Thursday from the man with the power to change lives, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, after a speech urging more action to fight global warming.
The uh man's name is Ole Dan Bolt MJ MJ OES.
I'm not sure how you pronounce that.
Uh Ole Dan Bolt.
Whatever.
And he openly told Reuters after hearing Gore's speech um that it was a very important message.
Well, he hasn't said that about our application.
Uh so it looks like the fix is in, and we just we want to have our objection filed officially.
The Nobel Committee.
I don't know if we'll go so far as to suggest that Ole be uh recused or recuse himself, but we might.
Serious uh serious, serious matter.
The Los Angeles Times today.
By the way, here's the phone number if you want to be in the program, 800-282-2882, and it's open like Friday, so we go to the phones.
You own the program.
Talk about whichever you want.
Um, interesting.
Let's see, one, two.
Actually, three stories here.
First, the LA Times.
This is uh from Ron Brownstein, who's now an opinion columnist.
Um by the way, Brownstein's wife works on the McCain campaign.
I had a list the other day, and I don't have it in front of me of the number of media people whose spouses work for elected officials or on presidential candidates' campaigns and so forth, and I remembered that Brownstein's wife, I think works with McCain.
Uh, any rate.
Uh uh Brownstein's piece today, warning signs for the Democrats.
There's a black cloud in the majority party silver lining.
For all these indications of possibility, Democrats face two brightly blinking yellow lights.
The first is that approval ratings for Congress are declining again less than three months after the Democrats took over.
The new Democrat majority faces a genuine conundrum.
After six years of Republican dereliction, tough oversight of the Bush administration is not only justified but imperative in Bush's refusal to negotiate with the Democrats on issues from strategy in Iraq to testimony on the U.S. attorneys controversy leaves the Democrats with little choice but to confront him in headline grabbing collisions like the congressional efforts to impose a time limit on the war.
But as Bill McInturf noted polster notes, these repeated skirmishes are exposing the Democrat majority to a dangerous dynamic.
I mentioned this on the air the other day.
These people are doing nothing but making it look like they can't legislate, and they're keeping the country in total chaos and tumult.
That's the dangerous dynamic that Brownstein refers to here.
He says that conflicts are proliferating while the initiatives they promised voters last year, like a higher minimum wage, are stalled.
If they can't revive that agenda, even amid the fireworks with Bush on other fronts, congressional Democrats are asking for trouble.
Relentless argument and sparse achievement isn't an ideal formula for success.
By the way, speaking of that, you want to I I just had this sent to me.
This is a letter from Henry Waxman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to Condoleezza Rice.
Dear Madam Secretary, on March 12th, I sent you a letter renewing as formal requests of the committee prior letter request that I sent you between 2003 and 2006.
These requests sought information on the claim that Iraq sought Iranian from Niger.
White House treatment of classified information, the appointment of Ambassador Jones as special coordinator for Iraq and other subjects.
My March 12th letter is attached.
The March 12th letter requested a response by March 23rd to several of the inquiries, but the committee received no response from you.
I now request your appearance before the committee at a hearing on Wednesday, April 18th at 10 a.m., the Rayburn House Office Building.
At this hearing, you will be asked to provide testimony and respond to questions on the subjects outlined in the March 12th letter and the original request letters.
I understand that the Secretary of State there are significant demands on your time.
If April 18th is an inconvenient date, the committee staff's available to discuss an alternative date in April for your testimony.
The trip to Niger.
Trying to defend Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.
Dragging Condoleezza Rice.
But this is the kind of stuff that Brownstein's writing about.
Look at you guys keep doing this, and you don't accomplish anything legislatively, which they can't because they don't have the majority numbers, then you are in dangerous territory.
You are asking for trouble.
There's another thing that Brownstein references here in this piece.
uh And that is the uh uh presidential weakness that uh that I discussed yesterday.
Uh that is it essentially can be a a problem for for Democrats.
Bush is not weak when it comes to Iraq, and he's uh he's forcing them out on the on the plank.
He there they're walking the plank of defeat.
And while they're all there was all kind of giddiness after the uh after the vote in both the House and the Senate, now reality's starting to set in with some of them.
And again in the LA Times, Iraq, it may be a tough road to a Senate House compromise.
It seems that the Democrats surrender legislation isn't in the bag yet.
Keith Ellison, a freshman congressman for Minnesota, said yesterday he would oppose any bill that did not retain the House's first uh firm timelines.
Gerald Nadler of New York, who had urged his colleagues on the out of Iraq caucus to back the bill, cautioned that softening the pull-out deadlines would risk defections.
He said, if we substantially weaken the timelines, I'd have a real problem with that.
But restrictive deadlines could cause support to evaporate in the Senate, like Ben Nelson from yesterday.
Um Mark Pryor of Arkansas, as well as Gordon Smith of Oregon and Chuck Hagel in Nebraska, they provided the margin of victory, but some of them are saying you keep keeping in the final vote when We go to conference, and you put a dead certain date to get out of there in this bill, and we are going to not vote for it.
So it's not swimming out there for the Democrats.
Not going swimmingly.
Let's um uh let's phrase it that way.
Quick timeout here.
We'll come back and go to your phone calls in Jiffy.
Stay with us.
Ha.
How are you?
Folks, you gotta hear this.
I'm gonna briefly touch here on the so-called scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys, Diane Feinstein making a huge stink about whether U.S. attorney Carol Lamb was fired uh mistakenly or or or uh unfairly, uh, because she's making a case here uh about how great Carol Lamb was on immigration cases.
Uh this is yesterday during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with the former chief of staff to Gonzalez, Kyle Sampson.
And this is just a portion of what Dai Fi said.
Uh done by USA Today, places Carol Lamb as one of the top three attorneys in the United States for the prosecution of these cases.
It is a real surprise to me that you would say here that the reason for her dismissal was immigration cases.
Diane Feinstein says a cumulation study done by USA Today places Carol Lamb as one of the top three U.S. attorneys for prosecution of immigration cases.
It's a real surprise to me, she said to Samson, that you would say here that the reason for her dismissal was immigration cases.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Excerpts of a letter written by Diane Feinstein to the honorable Alberto Gonzalez, June 15th of 2006.
In this letter, she specifically asked Gonzalez whether Carol Lamb, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, was doing her job by prosecuting enough illegal immigrants.
She just yesterday cited a USA Today survey, said that Carol Lamb was doing a great job on immigration cases.
Here are the excerpts.
It has come to my attention, Attorney General Gonzalez, that despite high apprehensions, uh uh uh apprehension rates by border patrol agents along California's border with Mexico.
Prosecutions by the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of California appear to lag behind.
A concern voiced by border patrol agents is that low prosecution rates have a demoralizing effect on the men and women patrolling our nation's borders.
It is my understanding that the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District, California may have some of the most restrictive prosecutorial guidelines nationwide for immigration cases, such that many border patrol agents end up not referring their cases.
I'm concerned that lax prosecution, she talking about Carol Lamb here.
I'm concerned that lax prosecution can endanger the lives of border patrol agents.
In 2005, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Southern California, that would be Carol Lamb, convicted only 387 aliens for alien smuggling and 262 aliens for illegal re-entry after deportation.
When looking at the rates of conviction from 2003 to 2005, the numbers of convictions fall by nearly half.
I'm concerned, Mr. Attorney General, about these low numbers.
I would like to know what steps can be taken to ensure that immigration violators are vigorously prosecuted.
I appreciate your timely address.
This is unbelievable.
June 15th, 2006.
She writes a letter to Gonzalez complaining about Carol Lamb.
Prosecution of illegal immigrants and the uh smugglers decreasing dramatically, and she is concerned, and she wants to know from the attorney general is this not what Chuck Schumer did to Patrick Fitzgerald, send a full letter demanding to know what's going on here.
Isn't that what they're saying is all out of whack here?
They've been tampering with these investigations, tampering with these offices of U.S. attorneys.
Isn't that what they're mad at uh Dennis De Consini about?
Or not uh Pete Dominic.
Isn't that what they're mad about him?
Uh for he sent letters off to Rove complaining about The U.S. attorney in Arizona not doing the same thing.
Here is Diane Feinstein not even a year ago, whining and moaning about Carol Lamb, and here she is yesterday, quoting a newspaper, USA Today, citing Carol Lamb as one of the top three attorneys in the U.S. for prosecution of illegal immigration cases.
I don't know what else we need.
Anything else that's happened in these hearings can be washed out with this one instance.
You talk about pure politics.
There's no scandal here whatsoever.
Diane Finds.
By the way, you know where this letter is posted?
Huffington Post, a left-wing blog.
That's where we found it.
It's on the Huffington Post.
You heard right.
This is I don't know you call it dishonesty, but it certainly is disingenuousness.
And indicates that uh even somebody of the stature of DIFI is entirely capable of pure politics.
And a memory that is so scant that she doesn't even remember a year ago, not even a year ago.
She was on Carol Lamb's case for lack of prosecution, which is exactly why the president and his people decided they might need to replace her out there.
She was demanding to know what's going to be done.
She was in f in i de facto California Senator demanding action on this because Carol Lamb wasn't doing diddly squat.
She's on the same page as the Justice Department was and the Attorney General's office.
But no longer.
And it's about getting Bush.
It's about embarrassing Bush, and it's about politicizing and criminalizing every political decision the administration makes.
Thank you, Senator Feinstein, showing us who you are.
Here's Jenny in Dubuque, Iowa.
Jenny, thanks for waiting.
You're on open line Friday.
Megadiddles from the great state of Iowa Rush.
Thank you.
Um I have uh a problem with a comment you made last.
I think it was Tuesday about why you were wondered why all lesbians thought that uh Rosie O'Donnell was the be-all and say all.
That's not what I said.
What I said was I Rosie O'Donnell is a de facto spokesman for American lesbians, and I wonder how America I just asked a question.
I wonder how American lesbians feel when Rosie O'Donnell's out there saying some of the truly stupid things she says, like Christianity and Middleton Islam are no different.
They're just as violent.
She's an idiot.
Well, yes, she is.
As Pat as Pat Sajak said last year.
Yeah.
You know, but uh, you know, some of us are educated and uh conservative.
You know, I self served twelve and a half years.
Well, okay, then I should have said liberal lesbians.
Thank you very much.
All right, I apologize.
I mean, yeah, I served twelve and a half years in the Army and was a female paratrooper.
And um, I'd love to join your all-female squad.
Only one problem with that rush.
You'd have to have them all bleeding at the same time.
Thank you.
Thank you, Jenny.
Uh, for that.
Did she say what I think she said?
Yes, you did.
I'm looking at the transcript.
You're talking about the All-American First Cavalry Amazon battalion.
Uh, and you'd like to join it.
Oh, I would.
But you'd have to have so many.
You'd have to get them all cycling together.
Well, that happens when you group them together, doesn't it?
Well, not necessarily.
Now, I was in charge of a whole floor of women rush, and I got an award for that, and trust me, you gotta get them all in one cycle, and they never are.
You gotta get them all in a word.
Well, I well, then you would look at uh I am by no means an expert in this.
And uh I've but I've I've been told by enough this is one of the part of the research I did in formulating the concept of the All-American First Cavalry Amazon battalion, and that is that in sororities and and uh uh all these various places where women live together group that they end up uh being on coordinated cycles.
Well, but then you'd end up with them all dead because they'd kill each other.
Well, no, you I don't know.
Uh uh you were again more qualified than I to uh to answer that.
Uh I I think frankly, uh this might be one of the problems with drive-by news networks.
You know, all the women working together at the same time and and and coordinating and and you know, just you're certain times of the month when these news networks get even more wacko.
I would tend to agree.
Yeah, well, see, we end up we end up on the same page.
Uh yes, we do, right?
Under the same parachute.
If yes, if you actually get it going, please let me know, because they definitely would love to join.
Well, thank you.
I you're the first applicant we've had.
So you'd probably be the commander.
I would I definitely could train your soldier.
All right, Jenny.
I appreciate that.
And I again I apologize.
I meant liberal lesbians.
Uh and I was not assuming that all lesbians are liberal.
Uh I just assumed that the lib lesbians would knew I was addressing them when asking them their thoughts on Rosie.
Back in a sec.
No need to think about it, child.
We redefine hip.
Here at the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies as usual, talent on loan from God, despite half my brain tied behind my back to make it fair.
From the New York Post today, the uh Reverend Jackson.
Hmm.
By the way, I tell you what Pat Sage.
Pat Sajak accepted the award for Rosie O'Donnell last night when she got the I forget what the word, the stupidest something or other when on the view she's out there badgering Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
She's telling her, look, Elizabeth, you gotta understand Christians are no different than these militant Muslims.
They're no different.
And Pat Sajak said, Yeah, you know, I went to church the other night, Wednesday night church.
We all discussed the latest beheadings that we uh planning on committing.
Just pure idiocy.
Anyway, the uh Reverend Dax already backing Barack Obama, but the Reverend Sharpton denies persistent rumors that he's throwing his support to Hillary Clinton.
Sharpton told page six in the New York Post, I am unequivocally not endorsing Hillary or anybody else.
Uh the post uh page six people said as to a tip we got that Sharpton and Clinton recently enjoyed cigars together in Clinton's Harlem office.
Should be a violation of city health rules.
Sharpton said, I don't think he even smokes cigars anymore since his bypass.
Insiders confirmed that Al and Clinton met at the latter's smoke-free office about two weeks ago.
Sharpton will certainly not make any official announcement until Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, Joe Biden, even Dennis Kucinich address his National Action Network Convention.
Uh can did I say conviction?
Convention, sorry, Al, at the Sheraton, New York, April 18th through the 21st.
Sharpton says, I want to hear all of them.
Uh as one politico told page six, all the candidates have to come and kiss Al's butt.
Uh and and Al's out there saying, No, I'm not supporting anybody.
One political observer said Al is furious that the uh Reverend Jackson got on the Obama train before he could.
Well, yeah, I we feel for Reverend Sharpton.
He's losing out every way possible on this Barack Obama Obama phenomenon.
First place, it's Barack that Al wants to be.
Al wants to be thought of as the first clean and articulate, as Joe Biden said, black guy to come along in a presidential campaign.
Al's already been on the presidential campaign, and he takes showers every day, and he can talk.
And yet they're not saying these crazy worthy things about him.
And then Obama's out there getting all this credit, and he's this new guy, new arrival, fresh face.
My gosh.
All the things Al Sharpton wants, Obama is getting.
And then the Reverend Jackson, Al Stryber's number one competitor in the civil rights business, has now joined up with Obama.
And that that freezes Sharpton out from sidling up to Obama.
Now Obama's got to wait till his national action conviction and wait there for all these other candidates to show up.
Convention.
Convention.
Sorry, wait for that to happen.
So Al's left out in the cold.
He's left smoking cigars with a guy that doesn't smoke cigars anymore.
I'm sure he still does other things with them.
That's Bill Clinton that we're talking about.
So it's not happy days for the Reverend Sharpton.
It's Paul Shanklin portrays vocally here.
Oh, that's just too much.
The chorus keeps singing.
Al Sharpton drops the lyrics and starts protesting.
That's Paul Shanklin as Sharpton and Barack.
The magic Negro.
I have mentioned earlier today that the Democrats at drive by media, they are in a tizzy over this latest poll, at two latest polls.
One of them is the pew poll that shows that Congress's approval rating is plummeting now after three months of Democrat control.
But there's an even more worrisome poll out there, and that is that uh Hillary's beaten by everybody, including Barack, McCain Giuliani, Giuliani beaches uh beak beats uh Obama by one point, and they don't understand this.
They can't figure it.
They think they've got the 08 election already sewed up for one Democrat, at least one Democrat, and they don't understand this.
And of course, the problem bottom line here is that when you get down to voting for president, you're voting for somebody to protect the country, national security, and the Democrats have just sewn up the fact that they do not get any credit whatsoever for that.
On the CBS Early show today, Harry Smith interviewed the executive editor of Politico.com, Jim Vandehae, and Harry Smith said, hey, look at the general election.
We all know it's still a year and a half away.
Senator Hillary Clinton polls actually uh Bill Clinton's wife, uh outpulls everybody else, but against McCain she loses against Giuliani, she loses.
How do we explain this?
It's truly uh uh a fascinating mystery because everyone's saying Republicans can't win in an environment like this.
I think the play is Hillary Clinton is very defined.
People who like her like her, people who don't like her don't like her at all.
And so people have very concrete views of her.
Whereas they look at McCain and they think, oh, you know, war hero, we we hear a little bit about him, and they think of Giuliani and they think 9-11, they do not have not defined them thoroughly.
It's a big mystery, folks.
Death of mystery out there.
Uh because everyone is saying Republicans can't win in an environment like that.
Who is saying this?
Who's everyone?
Everyone is the drive-by media.
They really are entirely stymied by uh by all this.
Jason in Port Charlotte, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, make a 15-year ditto from across the peninsula.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, um, I'm calling today about this uh hostage situation over in Iran.
Bringing up old memories from back when I was a kid, back in 1980.
And since I'm a former soldier, I guess I'm not bright enough to understand this.
But when did uh taking another country's soldiers hostage uh not become an act of war?
Uh it is an act of war.
It's just whether or not people respond to it.
Uh the the Iranians are calculating it, nobody's gonna do anything about it.
And the Iranians say that we're holding some of their hostages they want us to release, and if we'll release the five that we absconded uh in uh in in Iraq, then they'll uh release these uh these fifteen.
Uh yeah, it's it's uh you know it's it's a uh it's an indication here that the Iranians think that they're pretty confident we're not gonna do anything about it, and the Brits aren't gonna do anything about it, uh, other than walk off to the United Nations and ask for condemnations and uh and that sort of thing.
And I think one of the one of the limitations on the good guys and all this is that at this stage politically they don't want to ratchet up the conflict that's going on in Iraq and spread it to Iran, although, you know, my concerted opinion, and I am a smart guy since I'm not a soldier.
Thank you, Senator Senator Kerry.
Uh uh my concerted opinion is that all of this is just delaying an eventual day of reckoning with Iran.
That is, I don't know, next year, five years, ten years, but that must happen.
It it it will happen unless unless we could totally destroy their economy.
Uh and even that I I don't think would would stop them.
I uh this is it's gonna happen at some point.
Nobody just ready for it right now.
I see.
Well, I I sure am.
I'm I'm really sick of this.
And you know, do we have to wait another 400 and some odd days before these uh these troops get released?
It's I mean, I know they're they're British and they're not American, but you know, they're our allies, and uh I just it's it's making me sick.
Well, there's one bright side here.
There is an opportunity for some television that were to come up with a brand new show.
Nightline was born out of uh the Iranian hostage crisis.
America held hostage day 79.
Oh, yeah.
And that launched a career so there's a there's an opportunity here for if somebody wants to try to repeat history, which is what liberals do, uh, there's an opportunity here for at least a a new television show to to chronicle this.
But I mean, this is it's reached the theater of the of the absurd.
You know, it's it's I don't know if you've heard me mention this earlier, but the uh the female hostage has released like her third letter.
Yes, in the letter, she says, We are being treated royally, we're being treated so well, unlike we treated prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Yeah.
So the Iranians are dictating uh uh Democrat Party talking points, and this woman has to write them down.
Did you notice all the misspellings in that letter?
Uh yeah, well, I haven't paid much attention to that.
There's a lot of a lot of duress.
That could be that could be code.
I mean, that that could be an indication the whole thing's being dictated.
That's what I thought.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh how the Iranian's gonna know.
Uh so there's but there's clear coercion involved here, and they're being paraded around in violation of the Geneva Convention.
And I haven't seen anybody in the drive-by media who wants us to close Club Gitmo, Club uh close Abu Grab.
I haven't seen any concern about this.
So you're looking at your anger is shared, and your frustration, I'm sure shared by uh countless millions.
I appreciate the call.
Back in just a second.
Okay, back to the audio sound bites.
John Edwards, we had the uh we alluded to it uh earlier today, is getting a significant bump, fundraising and poll rating bump uh from his press conference last uh well, week ago yesterday, with his uh with his wife Elizabeth.
And I just want to review this, folks, because once again, I, your host, am the singular focus of attacks for pointing out that that might happen, and that the drive-bys were looking at that looking at it that way when they still are.
So here is Howard Feynman, which got my whole mindset on this started last, I guess this is Thursday after the press conference.
This is part of what he said after the Edwards press conference.
Looked at politically, diagnosed, if you will, politically, that was a tenth strike of a press conference.
They showed guts that was nothing short of remarkable and somewhat unexpected, and it's always great when uh something unexpected happens around here.
That was unexpected was that the reports earlier were the campaigns gonna be suspended and they decided nope going.
This is what I said.
I predicted this after the Edwards has made their announcement.
And by the way, stop tape, stop tape.
All during this, despite warnings from my frightened staff, despite the staff saying, Don't do it, Rush, don't go there, don't say it, you're gonna get in trouble.
I persevered.
I think what the Edwards campaign is going to do here is see what the reaction is within the ranks of Democrat voters as far as this announcement today is concerned, and then go on from there.
If there's not a big jump, if this doesn't cause a breakout, if this doesn't cause a big uptick, then at some point uh Senator Edwards probably uh will have to suspend the campaign, depending on the health of his wife as she goes through treatment for this.
Now, I just wanted to put that out there because everybody, you know, I should have predicted this before the program.
What I thought that they wouldn't get out of the campaign.
And I used these exact words, folks, to three people last night and one person this morning.
This campaign goes on because uh the love of our country that we both have.
And those exact words were uttered today by Senator Edwards.
So we'll see if there's a bump from this.
And you say, Rush, how can you be so coward?
Hey, folks, politics, politics.
I tell you right now, if you went to a website that tracks news hits, you'd find that Edwards is at the top of the AP news hits right.
He probably got more hits on Edwards today than I had with Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday.
And I had hits all over the world with this.
I was stunned for somebody so irrelevant as I am.
I mean, there were reports on the Schwarzenegger thing with the in Russia, in India, I mean, all over the world.
160 different news sources in this country alone.
Edwards is gonna get much, much more than that out of this.
And campaigns are what they are.
And of course, all during I could see them waving me off on the other side of glass.
Don't do it there in the IFP.
You're gonna get in trouble.
You're gonna get in trouble.
Say it.
But I knew what I was talking about, and Howard Feynman proved it.
Then this morning on the Today Show.
The whole subject of the Edwards bump was discussed.
And Tim Russert, like Feynman, points to the news conference as the turning point.
Meredith Vieira said, How about John Edwards?
After he announced that he's staying in the race, despite the fact that his wife's cancers returned, his numbers actually went up according to a time poll.
Up nine points.
Are you surprised by that, Tim?
Some of his opponents have accused him of exploiting this issue, but right now it appears that the American people have said we've heard you, we listened to you, and uh we over in large part agree with your decision.
And we're taking a new and interesting look at your candidacy.
The way they conducted themselves at the news conference, I do think created a bond with the viewing public.
You know, it's rare to see a politician out of the setting of answering political questions.
And this was real human life, real life and death situation.
Everyone has been affected by cancer.
So I I'm just playing these bites because I predicted this.
Despite warnings from a frightened and cowardly staff.
Well, cowardly going too far.
Guarded, guarded staff.
So, right again, I mean, you heard me say that if there's a big jump, they're gonna go on.
And we all knew there'd be a big jump.
That was not hard to say.
Some people can't be so callous in things.
Not callous.
I want to grab one more call.
It's Cheryl from Elko, Nevada.
Cheryl, I have one minute, so please squeeze it in there.
Thank you for calling.
I I just wanted to remind everyone, as you said earlier, our military is 100% voluntary.
My husband is 59 years old.
He joined the Army Reserves a little over a year ago.
Fifty-nine you're sir.
And he is in better physical shape than most of the people he works with.
And well, you would know.
He is serving in Iraq currently.
And he is a an orthopedic surgeon.
We closed the sacrifice we made for him to go over there and save lives was we closed our doors.
And we have no income right now.
And he but he went because he wanted to.
He wanted to.
He wanted to serve his country.
God God bless both of you.
I you she's responding to a guy who called earlier, a liberal who confessed liberal, uh, tried to horn swoggle me into a agreeing that at some point defeat would be possible.
I'm smarter than these tricks played by liberals.
Thank you so much, Cheryl.
I appreciate your uh your waiting.
Have a great weekend out there, folks.
And we'll um baseball season opens Sunday night, by the way.
I know Snerdley.
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