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April 2, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now, see, this is look at this.
Watching PMS NBC, they're saying, Will Obama match Hillary in first quarter fundraising?
He already beat Hillary in first quarter fundraising.
And the drive-by media led by the Washington Post today is totally misrepresenting the allocation of Mrs. Bill Clinton's that would be Bill Clinton's wife for those of you in uh Rio Linda.
Total fundraising.
I mean, it's not all for her presidential campaign.
She has to allocate some of it for her primary campaign.
You can basically cut that number that she claims she's raised in half because she said she's not going to take matching funds.
So uh uh anyway, it's it's it's it's not the story that the drive-by's would appear uh uh for it to be.
That means Hillary just running away with a pack.
Obama did better than Hillary um uh in the first quarter fundraising derby.
You also have everybody waiting on Romney uh we're waiting on Romney.
Um we're waiting on Obama's total money, and and uh Romney's in there, I guess.
Romney actually beat Hillary too, if you uh if you if you look at this numbers in the uh correct way.
Anyway, um I'm not all at hip to it, but the drive-by's are all excited about it, so I thought I'd uh try to get the truth in.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you with us, uh chomping it to bit here, raring to go on the one and only EIB network, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
The headlines are proclaiming that Mrs. Bill Clinton set a record for fundraising in the first quarter, and that she outraised Obama.
The uh New York Times says Clinton campaign shows fundraising edge.
But look, Obama is the winner of fundraising um in the uh in the first quarter race.
He raised over 20 million dollars.
Hillary raised 26, but much of Hillary's 26 million dollars was in 4600 slices.
The maximum uh gift you can give now is 2300 per campaign.
So you give 2300 the primary, you give twenty-three hundred dollars in the uh in in the general.
So she gets forty-six hundred dollar uh donations from people, but half of those half of each 4600 has to be allocated to the primary, the other half to the general.
Uh since she already announced that she's not gonna take federal money for the general election, she was free to collect money for both.
Now, Obama hasn't decided yet whether he's gonna forego federal matching funds for the general election, so virtually all of his money is just for the primary.
And because he's not made a decision, he's limited to $2,300 per donor.
So he's got a lot more donors than Mrs. Clinton has.
Now, most of the uh analysts thought Hillary would raise 30 to 35 and Obama between 15 and 20 million dollars, and according to Drudge, Hillary found it necessary to transfer 10 million dollars from her senatorial campaign committee in order to pump up her total to 36 million dollars.
And let's not forget who's actually raising this money.
It's Derschlieckmeister.
It's Bill Clinton.
He's been out there on a fundraising tear.
And of course, this is not uh being mentioned uh quite quite clearly.
Uh I I I think, you know, that despite the spin in the drive-by media, uh you you probably got the Clinton Inc.
bunch considerably concerned here about Barack Obama.
Speaking of Barry, uh Barack Obama, well, that's what he called himself when he was in uh in college.
Uh if President Bush, this is an AP story out of Sioux City, Iowa yesterday, if President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill is promised.
Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline on the White House.
Um and and Obama says that this will happen because no lawmaker wants to play chicken with our troops.
Barack, you are wrong about that.
There are plenty of House Democrats who want to play chicken with the troops who would love to defund the troops tomorrow.
But Obama says after the president's veto, uh and by the way, the Kook websites are all over Obama now.
They hate his guts out there.
He said, My expectation is that we'll continue to try to ratchet up the pressure on the president to change course.
I don't think that we'll see a majority of the Senate vote to cut off funding at this stage.
There are a number of senators who have acknowledged they got bad information who might have made a different decision than the original vote.
But Obama's sort of let the cat out of the bag.
Why?
One of the things is that Obama realizes which way the politics on this are going to play.
And besides that, folks, Obama has uh a lot more leeway to reach beyond these nutty clowns and the net roots out there, these these.
These looney tune bloggers on the left on the war issue.
He doesn't have to prove his anti-war credentials, given he's not part of the we were tricked caucus, uh in the Senate and in the and in the House.
And the we were tricked caucus consists of Clinton, Mrs. Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, and Chris Dodd.
But he voted against it from the get-go, so but even he knows where this is going, and he knows full well that the uh uh American people will not stand for the troops to be defunded uh during time of combat, particularly with the Iranians ratcheting up the situation as they are.
Interesting story of the Jerusalem Post that uh published today, United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Good Friday, which will be April 6th.
Now, this is actually according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the report said the U.S. has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
The uh Russian news agency Novasti quoted a security official as saying Russian intelligence has information U.S. armed forces stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a missile strike against Iranian territory.
Speaking of Iran.
The House, as you know, Pelosi's all over the world now.
She's over in Syria, despite the White House uh making requests not to do this.
Uh and the whole House left Washington on Friday for two weeks' spring break without saying a word on the international crisis of the fifteen British sailors and marines being held hostage by Iran.
Uh some Republicans are are noting this that Pelosi didn't say anything about it.
Uh they want to they they they say they should have gotten a chance to join the Senate in denouncing the bold actions taken by Tehran, Charles Dent, Republican Pennsylvania.
So I'm very disappointed that the Speaker chose to act.
Meanwhile, the Iranians are telling the President, stay out of this, Mr. Bush.
Bush condemned the Iranians' actions, and the Iranians said, screw you.
Uh Iran overnight urged President Bush to keep out of its role with Britain over fifteen sailors and marines it detained for allegedly entering Iranian waters illegally.
Uh the military or ministry spokesman, foreign ministry spokesman, Mohammed Ali Husseini was quoted as saying it's better for the U.S. President to refrain from making ill-considered non-technical and irrational comments.
Well what would they expect?
Well, maybe they would uh prefer the President Bush go on national TV and say something like three hours ago the following targets in Iran were obliterated by combined actions of the U.S. and Allied Air Forces.
You know, the the the here's the thing about this.
The the the Husseini's comments to Bush appear to be more civil and respectful than Pelosi's recent admonition to the President to calm down.
You know, I am I am still seething, and I've got a couple things to say about this as the program unfolds.
Uh over her words and her attitude after they passed the timeline bill in the House.
Calm down, Mr. President, calm down.
Just calm down.
Calm down, Mr. President.
Just calm down.
We have you must respect our constitutional authority.
You have no such constitutional authority, Miss Speaker.
You have no such const you are not the commander-in-chief.
You are not any of the things that you think you are.
Uh and to tell the president to calm down.
I'm telling you, folks, I know it doesn't look like it, but you're gonna have to sit there, you have to trust me.
These people, uh, it's it's almost gotten to the point, just get out of the way and let them hang themselves.
Talking about the Democrats in the House, the Democrats in the Senate.
Just get out of the way and let them say whatever.
When you're in the I got a rule when I'm got a hosting the talk to get an idiot on a phone, get out of the way, and let them prove it.
Don't don't get in the way of it.
Same thing here.
The Democrats are sowing the seeds here for an eventual huge embarrassment.
And it's uh it's it's gonna be sooner rather than later.
I gotta take a quick break more on this Iranian situation.
Uh uh just a couple C I told you so's on this.
Sit tight, we'll be right back and continue with all the rest.
Oh, and you know there's a big problem in the office now.
In the business.
Yes, bullies.
Bullies have grown up from the playground and they're now in offices.
There always has to be something wrong in offices, right?
There always has to be.
We got the discrimination thing settled.
We've gotten uh basically the glass ceiling things, uh, that problem is fixed.
They just the drive-by's cannot let a day go by.
We'll try to create some kind of chaos and tumult in the minds of as many Americans as possible.
Details on that, lots of other stuff coming up right after this.
America's real anchor man, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, tumult, chaos, torture, humiliation, and even the good times.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites, because uh we've got a couple of things here.
We got Senator Feinstein, we got a media montage about the whole situation in Iran.
Now, last week, I guess it was uh what date was it 29th?
Well, late last week, Thursday last week, I think.
I got a call from somebody who um was wanted to talk to me about about fairness.
Uh and uh why don't one of the American people stand up and demand fairness from the rest of the world and the way we get treated.
And this is what I said to that caller.
You start demanding fairness out there, understand this.
It's not to be extended to Americans, and particularly in this climate, conservative or Republican Americans, because we're by virtue of our power and our majority status, we are guilty.
And therefore any act against us is permitted.
But any act of retaliation by us is excessive, unnecessary.
That's why we got to close Club Gitmo.
Why these are just poor little nomads?
What do we think we're doing?
Acting like we run the planet, acting like we run the universe.
Who in hell do we think we are?
We deserve this.
We deserve to find out what it's like to feel like we have been making the rest of the world's poor and minorities feel all of our existence.
That's the point of multiculturalism and the trashing of the original founders and settlers of this country.
It's part and parcel.
So if you want to call a mass rally and demand fairness for the United States of America, understand this, you are gonna be laughed at by liberals and the drive-by media in this country throughout.
Here you'll hear Nian Feinstein in the next bite, use my almost use my exact words.
She's on a late edition of Wolf Blitzer.
By the way, um we do have more on uh her resigning from the mill uh Milcon committee, the subcommittee in the uh in the Senate.
This is a this is a scandal that's it's every bit as big, if not larger than Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
It's going nowhere.
And it was started by a bunch of leftists, alternative paper publishers out on the left coast in the Northern Bay area.
Uh, and it's it's uh it's just garnering no interest whatsoever.
We're gonna be mentioning it again on the program today, but first things first.
Wolf Blitzer said, Senator Feinstein, I want you to react to the regime change in Iran idea.
We're hearing a lot about that now.
Is that the only solution from the U.S. perspective as you see it?
I don't know who the United States thinks we are, that we we are the keeper of all the world, and that if we can't get along with the government, uh the w we've got to change that government, and then we do it by preemptive war.
And uh, I think that's tragic.
Um and I think it will set uh in place a kind of dialectic with the Islamic world that is very, very dangerous indeed.
So I I wish that conversation had never taken place.
I think cooler heads need to prevail.
I think diplomacy needs to work at its fullest.
I think we'd need to put some of our best diplomatic minds forward to help the British and sit down with people and solve this situation and stop all the saber rattling.
It seems that these days all America knows is the threat of force.
The threat of force, that is what our enemies are using against us, but yet she sees us as the primary guilty people on that score.
And it's exactly what I said.
We're the United States of America.
We're too big, we're too powerful.
We don't expect fairness.
Fairness is not to be extended to us.
Who do we think we are?
She said, practically echoing me.
Who do we think we are that we're the keeper of all the world?
We're talking about the enemy here, Senator Feinstein.
We're talking about the Iranians who illegally snatched 15 British Marines and sailors while they were in Iraqi waters.
And we've tried, we're going the diplomatic route.
You want to do Jimmy Carter two on this?
You want these people held for hundreds of days?
While we do something other than saber rattle?
Who is saber rattling?
All we're doing is responding to this.
And she's all upset here that the president had to get involved.
This is not about us.
This has nothing to do with us, she says.
These are the people who state sponsors of terrorism, and they look at the threats that uh Ahmadinejad has made.
This is why I say, folks, these people are out of it totally.
And this is gonna come back to haunt them.
They are setting themselves up for a powerful embarrassment.
And they've got themselves in such a circumstance that when that event happens or a series of events happens that will no doubt embarrass them, they've got no way out of it.
They have they have allied themselves on the sides of America's enemies.
They own defeat of the United States of America.
Be it Iran, be it Afghanistan, be it Iraq, be it the war on terror.
In fact, you're gonna see.
Well, I did say Peter Bynard of the uh I don't know where he writes anywhere.
He used to be with uh New Republic.
Yeah, but I don't think he's there anymore.
But he might be.
I mean, you know, these drive-bys, it's incestuous.
They just go from one publishing house to the next.
That's how they get their promotions.
They move up from reporter to managing editor to bureau chief to what have you, but they, you know, it doesn't matter where they work, it's all it's all the same agenda.
And uh he's out there saying, you know, I don't even think we ought to be talking about war on terror.
I term is just antiquated and it's outdated.
It's it's not even it's not even uh applicable, he says.
And so this is where they are.
There is no war on terror.
There aren't any immilitant Islamists that want to wipe us out.
We're just making all this up.
And we're living here in a state of fear that's totally unnecessary.
In the meantime, we're acting like this big braggadocious bully running around all over the world, demanding the the rest of the world kowtow to us.
Which, of course, is a gross exaggeration of of what's happening.
But anyway, I wanted to play the Feinstein bite because it uh it it I know these people, folks, like every square inch of my shrinking rapidly, but yet nevertheless glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand.
So uh it it it it is what it is.
Uh I know these people.
We're too gig too big, we're too bullyish.
We did we we need to step out of this.
We need to we need to ratchet these things down.
We need to understand that uh we can't tell the rest of the world how to be.
Which with which is not what's happening here.
What's happening here is simply the interest in U.S. national security.
Here's example number two of this.
A montage, a drive-by media montage from last night and this morning.
And who we got here.
The names matter, they don't matter.
We got people from CNN, we got people from ABC, we get people from Newsweek.
Um, and that's pretty much it.
A montage uh reporting on these Iranian hostages.
President Bush used the word hostage.
Now, is that something the British would rather the U.S. stay away from?
Mr. Bush made that comment at a press conference.
Maybe it was off the top of his head, but certainly here the word hostage is not being used.
You heard President Bush say hostages.
That's the first time he said hostages.
Do you think Black wanted him to use that word of a hostage crisis?
Use of the word hostage.
Comes up memories of America's own crisis with Iran.
British officials have been hesitant to use the H-word hostage, but President Bush had no qualms.
Well, somebody tell me what the hell they are if they aren't hostages.
Are they guests?
Are they captives?
Uh are they kept?
They're kept as you mean okay, they they're kept as in as in women who have sugar daddies.
They're like kept women.
Oh, give me a major break.
They are hostages.
What is this?
The British, oh gosh, that's gonna really ratch.
Oh no, we're really going to offend the Iranians with words.
The Iranians went out illegally captured these people, and we've got drive by media to, oh no, oh, what's gonna have Oh, we we call them hostages.
Oh, can you imagine what their cocktail parties were like that night?
Probably double or triple the dose of adult beverages they're downing to handle all the fear as they're quaking in their boots.
Whoosh call them hostages.
Why this is this is this is gonna this is gonna remind everybody of the hostage crisis in 1979.
Yeah, it already reminds a lot of people of that.
And so does the way it's being dealt with, by the way, remind a lot of people of that.
I tell you, it's more than just these people are visually blind.
They are intellectually so committed to the notion that the United States is guilty that whatever we do, whatever our leaders say, cements further in their warped minds this whole concept of our guilt.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, time for a major announcement from me, Rush Limbaugh.
As you know, there has been um there have been many attacks on my credibility over the course of my uh eighteen plus years behind the golden EIB microphone.
There have been claims, false claims that I make things up to fit my agenda, uh that I always get things wrong.
You know what the the drive-bys of the American left continually do, not just with me, but a number of people on the right, in order to discredit us, because they can't dispute, they cannot argue with our ideas, and so they attempt to try to discredit us as uh leaders, spokespeople, and what have you.
But I am here today to officially proclaim that I, Rush Limbaugh, am the most correct and accurate media figure in America today.
On this basis, I have the largest audience of any media figure in the country today in a program of this type in the drive-by media.
My audience is larger than the nightly news.
If you combine their nightly news audiences uh uh might have an argument there, but this audience is larger than than any cable news show.
I don't care what the show is, it's larger, and by many, many multiples.
As such, a consensus of American news consumers by making me a most listened to media figure in the country, have therefore anointed me with also being the most accurate and the most right.
There is a consensus of agreement among the American people that this is not only the most listened to program, but by virtue of that it is also the most right.
It is also the most accurate, it is also the most correct.
Anyone else?
People who disagree with this are rush deniers.
And they are simply living in a dream world.
They refuse to accept the truth, they refuse to see the truth for what it is, and I am going to uh uh become even less tolerant of the rush deniers than I have been uh up to now.
A consensus of the American people, ladies and gentlemen, has made me not only the most listened-to radio talk show host in America, but it also the most accurate and the most correct.
Here now to the phones, we go to David and Gaithersburg, Maryland.
David, great to have you with us today, sir.
Historic videos, Rush.
Hey, the senior political editor for CBS News.com was on the Washington Journal this morning.
So I called in and asked him if he thought the reason that the network news divisions were losing viewers and laying off employees was because the conservative talk industry radio industry that you spawned was constantly pointing out that both the network news divisions and the entertainment uh network news divisions are constantly undermining our political process.
And I mean, Rush, he immediately gave you some credit uh by saying that you were basically the person that was leading the change uh uh under the under the complete change, but then he quickly converted it to try to blow it off with talking points saying that that basically people can go to whoever they choose to to get the personality that they trust.
And Rush, I thought the amazing thing was the one thing that this guy never did point out was my premise, underlying premise that the network news divisions and the entertainment news divisions are undermining our political process.
He never mentioned that at all.
Well, I know that sound bite.
Well, yeah, I've got it here.
I in fact, uh the cookie made at number one uh on the uh soundbite roster.
Your call, uh a pure coincidence, uh, provides a perfect opportunity to air this.
But here, we'll play it.
I just as to him responding to your claim that they're undermining the political process.
One of two things happened.
Either he forgot that you made the claim and didn't want to get to it because you so riled him up on the mention of my name that you totally discombobulated him, and I would think that's probably it.
The second reason he might have avoided it is because he just doesn't agree with you, and on C SPAN you're supposed to be polite uh and dull and uh and and boring.
So anyway, here here's the bite, and this is the guy, this is the caller that uh that asked the question.
The uh the question, and you're from Gatersburg, Maryland.
The question was do you think the continuous discline uh decline in viewership of the major networks news divisions and programs is a direct result of Rush Limbaugh successfully spawning an entire conservative talk radio show industry that regularly points out that the news divisions, not just the news divisions, also the network entertainment divisions are constantly trying to undermine the political process.
Do you think that they're responsible for the fact that you guys are losing viewership and at the same time laying off a lot of employees in your news divisions while at the same time talk radio is flourishing.
What Rush Limbaugh does represent is the changing media landscape that we see uh just exploding over the past five years.
Of course, Limbaugh Talk Radio was a big forerunner of that.
Basically, people can now get their information, the kind of information that they want from the sources that they personally trust, uh whether it's on the conservative side or the liberal side, uh, at a time of their choosing.
Certainly online is a component of that.
And Rush Lumbaugh was a big uh part of uh forwarding that and being the one of the forerunners of that kind of new technology and new ways to receive information.
The only thing I would disagree here, it hasn't been the last five years.
Um it it was uh it's been the last eighteen and a half years.
Uh and uh I don't think I was one of the Did he say I was not one of the forerunners, and I was the forerunner.
But not a bad answer.
Not a bit.
Um yeah, I guess we got to give him a break.
He probably only started listening five years ago.
Uh but anyway, that was uh that was his answer.
And you you remain a little disappointed you didn't get an answer uh on the uh question you asked about distorting the political process.
Oh, absolutely.
It was like he went right into the talking points, but Rush.
But you you know, you've always stated that your success isn't dependent on who wins elections.
But Rush, your success is absolutely dependent on whether the mainstream media continues to manipulate the truth in order to undermine our country or whether they decide to tell the truth subjectively.
Are you saying to me in this audience that if the drive-by's did a 180 and we actually became fair and actually reported truth and facts, if they actually would that I would be out of a job?
You would be comf Rush, you would be completely out of a job, and not only am I saying that, Rush, I'm saying that we should be focused on bringing down this enemy within media and not even talking about Democrats in Congress or Democrats in the Senate because they're puppets, Rush.
You know if the mainstream media was telling the five-sixths of the American age voters the same thing that you and the rest of your conservative talk show hosts are telling the one-sixth of the American age voters, then these liberals that are thawing our country in Rush wouldn't be able to be re-elected.
So why would we talk about them?
We shouldn't talk about them anymore.
We should go to MediaRamport.com.
No, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I up to now you have been a genius.
But your last comment I mean uh I and I appreciate it.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
Uh many people over the course of the eighteen and a half years here have attempted to tell me how to do what I do.
Uh and how about what I'm doing wrong and whatever it happens every day.
I mean, I get I don't count them.
I mean uh thousands of emails from people, and some of those emails.
You know what you really ought to start doing, and you need to talk about this more, and you stop talking about that.
If I listened to all of this, I would be in a little white coat in a straitjacket in an asylum, uh be going back and forth in one of those little yellow buses every day because I'd be trying to please everybody.
You can't do that.
And I'm not going to stop talking about Democrats in power.
I mean, the drive-by's are what they are.
We know that there's a symbiotic relationship, uh, that they are accomplices in the same game, the same objective.
Uh but the drive-by is that they they have a certain amount of power, but they do not have total power getting people elected.
Otherwise Republicans would never win elections anywhere.
But now you've got it, you've got circumstances where uh the Democrats are in power uh in Washington and uh both the House and the Senate, slim margins in both, uh but it changes the way they behave and it changes the things that happen.
It it's it's changed the way Republicans deal with them and interact.
Uh can't ignore them, and uh and I'm not going to ignore them.
But I really I want to, nevertheless, despite all that.
Uh thank you for your call to C-SPAN.
By the way, the the guy from CBS.com's name is Vaughn Ververs.
Uh and I w I just want to appreciate your question.
Uh thank you for your question, tell you I appreciate it because it's uh means a lot to me.
Uh that that uh you have this on your mind and a lot of other people do uh and you get a chance to confront the drive-by's on on places like C SPAN with it.
You make me proud.
And uh I I thank you so much.
Candy in Los Angeles on the 405, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good morning, sir.
How are you?
I couldn't be better, thank you.
That's terrific.
My point is is that Nancy Pelosi is doing a lot more damage to besides just the um the Democrats, my mother, who is eighty years old who votes in every election, said this is the reason why you shouldn't vote for a woman, dear.
Look at how upside down she is.
She knows nothing, she puts her nose where things don't belong.
That's what women do.
They're just too emotional.
And I, you know, when we were talking about it, I just simply had to call and tell you because I Wait a minute now.
Wait, wait just a second.
You can't you can't issue a broad generality like women put their noses in places they don't belong.
I can give you several personal examples where that's been great.
Not me, sir.
I will tell you honestly that I have been having uh an on an open dialogue with my mother about you know about the possibility of a woman being president, and she says, nope, they're just not emotionally capable, you know, blah, blah, blah.
But the long and short of it is Nancy Pelosi was the person that she used to drive home her point this weekend when I saw her.
And I just thought that it was kind of ironic because she says, This is why Hillary Clinton can never be president.
Well look at what this woman is doing.
So I think that the damage is not only to the Democrats, it's certainly to specifically to uh Mrs. Clinton.
Well, you know, you you're very prescient, you and your mother.
Because I have to tell you something.
One of the things that that uh that I predicted would happen after Ms. Pelosi uh was elected to the speakership of the House was a battle for control of Washington between Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi.
And this is a it's gonna be a problem for Hillary.
You're exactly right, because Nancy Pelosi thinks that she is co-president already.
Something Hillary has actually been.
Pelosi's acting like she is the co-president now, and she's doing what she can to set the Democrat Party agenda for Washington, and it may not be something that's gonna be helpful to Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Mrs. Bill Clinton is not gonna want to appear as far off the left wing fringe as Ms. Pelosi does, even though she is, she isn't going to want to appear that way.
But Pelosi, there's that and this is why we created the uh or we reminded you of the existence of the Queen Bee syndrome, uh, which is women in positions of power do not put other women in close subordinate roles because they don't want a female competitor.
They would rather have a male competitor uh in close supportive roles and a business organization, uh wherever.
Uh and but Hillary is is gonna be she's seeking the power of the most powerful woman, the most powerful person in the world.
Pelosi's nowhere close to that, but she's acting like it.
So there's uh you're right, there's all kinds of things here that are being uh roiled and mixed uh in in this evil brew, and it it is gonna have consequences uh and ramifications uh down the road that will not lead to friendship.
No, no, not only that, it's it's alienating the women voters because uh as I say, my m my mother and I have had a dialogue for some time because I have sort I would love to see um Condoleez Rice run.
I I really respect her.
I think she's a fabulous woman, and I think that you know that she might have a place someday, you know, in as as the uh um as the chief.
However, that having been said, my mother, who, as I say, is eighty years old, said absolutely not.
I wouldn't vote for her, I wouldn't vote for a woman.
And my mom isn't so different than like all the other moms out there that have been around for a long time.
You know, they're from the old school.
They don't see, you know, they don't see the changes that are coming, but when this lady, who like is an embarrassment to California anyway, you know, reacts the way she does.
It's like it just it just drives home my mother's point that women are not fit to be in those kinds of positions But you have to have a cool hat.
Look at look at the look, you can I understand this, but that alone, these things taken singularly or individually are not going to be enough to uh have an impact.
It's gonna take a uh you know a series of these kinds of things.
Like this is what what Pelosi's doing is doing is not irritating her people on the left, is not irritating a lot of people.
They think she's looking uh cool, uh especially the left-wing kooks, which make up the uh the base of the Democrat Party.
So it's it hasn't hasn't come back to hurt her yet.
And don't forget, you know, there's there's another side to this equation.
You can sit there and you and mother can you and your mother can tell yourself stories, anecdotes about all this, but it's not scientific, and you you'd be making a big mistake if you think that you are thinking and reacting as a majority of American women are.
In and of itself, you may be right, but we'll never know.
The aspect of this equation, the part of it that's missing is Republicans standing up and saying what you're saying, not about the women business, but who the hell does she think she is?
This is negotiating with a terrorist state.
The State Department is has Syria on the list of states that are that sponsor terrorism.
She's over there sipping tea.
She's not the first.
A bunch of other Democrats have gone over and done the same thing.
John Kerry has been there.
Republicans don't stand up and say anything about it, then uh a lot less hullabaloo will be created in the minds of the general public.
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Thanks for the call out there, Candy.
Be back in a sec.
I mentioned earlier, ladies and gentlemen, that uh Nancy Pelosi's calm down, Mr. President, just calm down comment is still driving me up the wall.
Here she is.
She's a mother, she's a grandmother.
She can nurse the kids and balance them on her knee and protect the country at the same time.
She's speaker of the house, she's commander-in-chief, she's Secretary of State, and my friend, she is a fill-in the blank.
What has she done?
Look at this 100-hour gimmick.
Lots of drive-by praise, but what did it accomplish?
Oh, I'm sorry, it led to a minimum wage wage increase in two years, which still hasn't become law.
What'd they get done?
They can't legislate anything, folks.
They can't get any legislation through Congress.
They don't have a majority uh large enough to sustain presidential vetoes and because they can't legislate, they've decided to investigate.
And they're gonna go overboard doing that.
Uh Hatch finally took it to Senator Pat Leakey Leahy yesterday.
We have the audio soundbites of that coming up on this uh attorney general firing uh thing.
I mean, they she hasn't done anything other than become the first female speaker of the house.
She got a lot of press, a lot of Barbara Streisand, uh and now she's off to Sir Syria.
The administration asked her not to go.
She didn't even ask for permission.
She didn't even call up and say that uh, you know, what would you think of me going over there in a fact-finding trip?
So there she is in Syria, when we see her uh sipping tea with the dictator over there, Basher Assad, uh, you know, she she tells the president to calm down.
And you understand that the president, she can't handle one bit of criticism, not one bit of criticism, and she's on the phone to the White House complaining or moaning or telling the president to calm down, while she slow bleeds the funding for the military, she tells the president to calm down while she's trying to secure the defeat of the U.S. military and the United States itself, she tells the president to calm down.
She defies her own government while we are at war, and she tells the president to calm down.
Can you imagine back in 1995 or 96 if Newt Gingrich had gone off to Kosovo to try to negotiate some sort of peace here while Bill Clinton was mounting bombing runs from 15,000 feet?
Can you imagine if uh Newt Gingrich had gone off to Syria, if he gone up to Syria while Bill Clinton was negotiating with Arafat in a Lincoln bedroom, trying to achieve Middle East peace.
Now, Bush has to do something about this.
The president has to get involved.
He can't sit there and say, okay, I'll be calm.
He's got to react to this somehow, if not for himself, for the presidency.
Uh you know, I I uh uh what you might say, they gotta be careful, because the Republicans are gonna play these same tactics if the Democrats get the White House, but I'm not so sure the Republicans have it in them to behave like this.
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