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April 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
And there's a simple reason for that.
The views expressed by the host on this program are rooted in a relentless pursuit of the truth.
We find it, we proclaim it.
And we drive the left.
Batty.
I am Rush Limbo, highly trained broadcast specialist meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Here's a phone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-288-2, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have decided to expand the entire carbon offset program that we described an hour ago on this program.
If you were not with us, very briefly, what I suggested that we are going to do here, pondering it here at EIB, if Gore or individuals can go out and purchase carbon offsets so as to not have to reduce their energy usage at all.
Why can't we do this for the whole country?
Why can't the United States as a nation led by our great government by carbon offset so we don't have to reduce any of our energy consumption or usage?
And I am going to investigate the process of being the sole agent to sell these offsets to the entire U.S. government and as many citizens as possible.
I want to expand on this because the possibilities here are actually limitless.
One of the things that we're pondering here is abortion offsets.
What have there been?
Uh uh what's the number of abortions in it's a million a year, a million abortions a year.
What we're thinking of doing is setting up EIB sperm banks in red states all over the United States.
Whether you have the number of kids you want or not, you simply take a trek to one of the EIB sperm banks located in red states and make a deposit.
This will accomplish a number of things.
It will compensate, it will offset the abortions that are taking place out there, uh predominantly in blue states among liberals, and it will ensure the future of conservatism.
And it's simple to do.
You simply show up a copy of Playboy or you know something else that excites you.
Um, you we might even try drive-in windows on this.
There are people who have perfected this in a number of different locales.
But the possibilities here are limitless.
Uh uh, so abortion offsets.
There's no end to the possibilities here.
Calorie offsets.
For those of you who don't want to lose weight, uh, go and eat what you want and uh and we'll sell calorie offsets uh to people who are uh on diets.
Uh and you you realize if we do this right, every citizen could live a life totally guilt-free.
What a gift.
What a gift to the American people.
I and the EIB network could uh could offer and provide.
The nominal fee, of course.
Uh cigarette offsets, tobacco offsets, of course.
Uh the the well, the ideas are limitless here.
Simply uh simply limitless.
Anyway, great to uh great to be back with you uh here, ladies and gentlemen.
I gotta get this story here.
President George W. Bush's administration has crippled Al Qaeda's ability to carry out major attacks on U.S. soil.
This is from Reuters.
Let me read this to you.
You don't read this much in the drive-by.
You don't, I mean, if it stopped there, whoa!
Hot damn, huh?
Drive-by media reporting success in the global war on sorry, can't say global war on terror anymore, Democrats say so, because there really isn't one.
President George W. Bush's administration has crippled Al Qaeda's ability to carry out major attacks on U.S. soil.
Sentence doesn't end there.
The next word is, but at a political and economic cost.
That could leave the country more vulnerable in years to come, experts say.
Yes, you heard right.
Bush has done such a bang up great job of crippling Al Qaeda's ability to carry out major attacks on America that we could be more vulnerable than ever before in years to come.
Even as Al Qaeda tries to rebuild operations in Pakistan, experts, Including current and former intelligence officials believe the group, Al Qaeda, would have a hard time staging another September 11th because of U.S. success at killing or capturing senior members whose skills and experience have not yet been replaced.
If the question is why Al Qaeda hasn't carried out another 9-11 attack, the answer, I think, is that if they could have, they would have.
Said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Tighter U.S. airport security, greater scrutiny of people entering the country, better coordination between the CIA, FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security have also made it harder for extremists to enter the country.
Experts said, Homegrown extremists in the United States believed to be isolated, lacking the will or the ability to carry out large-scale operations.
Make no mistake about it, however.
Our enemy is resilient and determined to strike us again, said Charles Allen, chief of intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security.
Some experts warn that the successes of Bush's war on terrorism have been undercut by huge security costs, strains on the U.S. military from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and resentment of the United States abroad.
Look at Al Qaeda's plans, said Michael Scheyer, who once led the CIA team devoted to finding Al Qaeda leader bin Laden.
They're very simply defined in two phrases.
Spread out America's forces and bleed the U.S. to bankruptcy.
I'd argue America's been under attack successfully every day since 9-11 from that perspective.
If you're looking at it from the cave or wherever Al Qaeda is hiding at the moment, you have to be pretty happy with the way the world is moving.
However, this success has depleted us.
This success has broken our bank.
This success has spread our forces too thinly throughout the world.
And as such, we are more vulnerable than we have ever been, ladies and gentlemen.
More vulnerable than ever because of the success.
Let me read this first sentence to you again.
President Bush's administration has crippled al-Qaeda's ability to carry out major attacks on U.S. soil.
All right.
But at a cost, could leave the country more vulnerable in years to come.
The headline of this story is Bush success versus Al Qaeda breeds long-term worries.
Okay, so we got the concern, we have the people worrying, and we've got the people who want to keep us in a constant state of chaos, but the bottom line is, according to these experts, it wasn't worth it.
Yeah, we may have crippled Al Qaeda.
Yeah, we made a really dinged them up pretty good here, but it's just gonna make it worse in the future.
So, what's the point, folks?
What's the point in opposing any enemy?
You only make them matter, or you weaken yourself in victory.
You leave yourself more vulnerable.
What's the point?
Let's all just throw our hands up in frustration and recognize that it weren't for the fact that there are such compassionate and kind men in the world as Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, we would be at great risk.
Did you see what Ahmadinezad said?
He told Tony Belair said, please, do not interrogate these uh these captives because of their confession.
Don't harm them because they confessed.
This is like a Saturday night live skit.
This Ahmadinezad thing, and this story, which, according to the drive-by media, says it's pointless to try to defend ourselves, because even when we succeed, we ultimately fail.
Quick timeout.
Unbelievable.
Well, it might be to some of you is actually not believable to me.
I predicted it.
Information on John Edwards.
When we come back, stay with us.
At the beginning of this program, I asked a salient question.
How long will it before Nancy Pelosi or some Democrat claims that her visit to Syria played a key role in the release of the British hostages?
An AP news alert at the top of the hour.
Damascus, Syria.
Syrian officials say that Damascus played a key role in getting the 15 British sailors and marines released By Iran.
No mention of Pelosi here.
But Basher Assad wants in on the action.
And of course, what's next in this story is that Pelosi obviously played a key role.
Somebody from the United States, somebody from the coalition against the Islamo fascists in Iraq actually showed up and talked to one of these brave young leaders of the Islamo fascist nation Syria showed that we can do business with the United States.
The United States via Pelosi made it clear that we harbor no ill intent when Democrats are elected.
And it's a show of faith and good forth, good force.
I can just see this all coming.
See, if we will just reach out the hand of friendship to these, we've been totally lied to, Mithra Limbaugh about who these people are, and we've we totally misunderstand it.
But if people want to be left alone, like us, they diff little people, and they they're nice as they can be, but of course we're attacking them all over the world.
They have to defend themselves, Mithra Limbaugh.
You remember when uh the Reverend Dax got Sloban on Milosevic to uh release some American hostages with his diplomacy with the with those thugs.
Here's the explanation for this.
I mean, these clowns, Achhmadine Zad and uh Basher Assad, are not dumb.
They'll they'll do these tiny gestures to please people they'd rather have in power, such as limp-wisted Democrats, than people who will actually stand up to bullies.
So look at this as almost like a campaign contribution to the Democrat Party, is what the release of these hostages is like.
Now, with Syria claiming they had a role, we're not far from hearing that Nancy Pelosi privately and persuasively appealed to the good heart and the good nature of Basher Assad to do what he could.
Mark my words, folks.
It's not far down the road.
Let's go back to Thursday, March 22nd on this program, this said I. I'm telling you, this is to jumpstart the campaign.
This is to see if it'll jumpstart the campaign.
And we'll find out the next three or four days or whatever, week if that happens.
But this boat this business about this being a surprise makes me think that the leak that was planted today was purposely wrong.
To create surprise, to make sure everybody thought, oh, we know what's coming, and then have it blown away.
The campaign's gonna be gonna go, oh, where we thought it was gonna be suspended.
You know, we all get all these press releases in advance of the State of Union address.
We all know what's going to be said before it airs.
There's no surprise that this was a surprise, may have been done on purpose.
This, ladies and gentlemen, was what I said on this program the day of the John and Elizabeth Edwards Cancer Press Conference.
Uh jumpstart the campaign.
I, of course, took mountains of grief for this in a number of quarters.
How could Limbaugh be so callous when in fact I was not the first to say so?
I was not the first to categorize this and analyze it in a political sense.
The drive-by is beat me to this, led by Howard Feynman.
Now let's go to CNN, the Situation Room last night.
Uh host Suzanne Malvo, filling in for Wolf Blitzer, interviewed Senator Edwards, and she said, Now a lot of people have really set up this race as uh Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama, but these poll numbers show you second to Hillary and neck and neck with Obama.
I've been moving up.
We have some momentum now.
I think this is going to be a serious race where voters get a chance to look at the differences in our positions and our personal characteristics to be president.
I've been moving up, he said.
We have some momentum now.
Would somebody look at you you fill in the blank.
What was it that caused the momentum?
I mean, there wasn't momentum before the press conference.
What was it that caused the momentum?
It is clear what caused it.
But this, ladies and gentlemen, is the PA that resistance.
I am holding this in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
This is from the Washington Post blog today.
When you visit the John Edwards for President website, you're invited to send a sympathy note to them, the Edwardses.
And tens of thousands of well-wishers have done that since the heart-wrenching news conference two weeks ago at which Elizabeth Edwards courageously discussed her incurable Cancer.
What those well-wishers got in return?
Email messages soliciting contributions to Edward's campaign.
So if you went to the Edwards website and you saw the opportunity to send a sympathy note to the Edwards, and tens of thousands of people did, every one of those people has registered on the Edwards website, and every one of them has received an email message asking for contributions to the Edwards campaign.
Visitors to the Edwards website who choose to send a note to Elizabeth and John, quote unquote, are first taken to a heartfelt letter from the candidate that was written the day after he learned his wife's cancer had returned.
Edwards thanks readers for their prayers and wishes, vows that he and Elizabeth will keep a positive attitude, always look for the silver lining, and it declares that our campaign goes on and it goes on strongly.
Anyone who then chooses to send a note of sympathy to the Edwards' and thus provide his or her email address automatically becomes part of the Edwards campaign's online email database, a list that is crucial to any campaign's ability to raise vast amounts of money over the internet.
If you sent a note to the Edwards's before the critical March 31st end of the quarter fundraising deadline, you would have received frantic email solicitations from the campaign, such as the one on March 28th from Edwards campaign manager David Bonnier, titled 96 hours to show substance works.
The solicitation asks for 25, 50, or any number of dollars you can afford to give.
And you only had 96 hours to do it.
Thank you.
Um...
This this this is what it is.
Do I need to analyze this?
Do I do it?
Do I need to add commentary to them?
Uh you you think I do?
Snurley, the st what that means people out there don't can't figure this out.
That means people are not going to understand the point of this without me telling them.
I refuse to believe the people in this audience are that dense.
I'm just, well, of course they're liberals listening.
They're um they're always liberals listening to this program.
They're always spying.
Studying.
Um, what word would you associate with this, folks?
Crass.
Uh ball ballsy.
Uh what what what what word would you opportunistic?
Uh some might say, hey, Russia's politics, it's no big deal.
You send a note, you send a note to some candidate's website.
What do you expect you're gonna get, Rush?
I mean, come on.
Everybody knows you send an email to a candidate's website, you're on the list, and you're gonna get solicited for money.
Everyone, come on, Rush, you're making too big a deal out of this.
No, no, folks, you are invited to send a sympathy message, not donate.
The first thing that happens is you want to send a sympathy mess.
Well, my guys, look at the number of people who never knew Princess Diana who left notes, letters, pictures of themselves all along the cortege route.
So the campaign handed note that there would be a lot of people who wanted to send along well wishes and sympathy, and so that's the first thing people were asked to do.
They weren't asked to donate.
It's only after sending in the sympathy card or message that you are then.
I'm sure this is thanks for the great sympathy note.
We really appreciate it.
It means a lot to us.
By the way, 96 hours left to show that you have substance or that there is substance.
2550 or whatever amount you can donate.
96 hours to go from campaign chairman David Bunyer.
Uh H.R. just said in the IFB, they could have at least done that part under separate cover.
You what do you mean?
A separate thank you note?
Separate thank thank you, thank you, and then a follow-up.
They at least could have done that.
Well, that that's that's time consuming, and and uh it it removes you one step from the sale.
Uh anyway, uh this should put to rest among anybody who's reasonable out there that this is being seized upon as a political opportunity.
Uh and I predicted it and see if it jump starts the campaign, which it has financially poll-wise.
Quick timeout, sit tight, we'll be back.
Oh, crap, listen to this story.
A Chinese woman survived a fall from a sixth floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement, which broke her fall, said local media.
The accident happened when a woman was hanging out laundry yesterday in Nanjing, a capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu.
The Kwabao tabloid said on its website.
Workers happened to be emptying the building septic tank, which had not been tented for a long time and had regularly blocked sewage pipes, the newspaper said.
She probably stretched out too far out of the window there, and um, she just fell right onto a 20-centimeter thick heap of excrement.
The woman suffered only slight injuries.
In March, a six-year-old girl broke only her left leg when she fell six stories onto a pile of snow in the northeast province of Hilong Jang.
What have I told you people about the lack of plumbing in most parts of the world?
And here it actually perhaps saved a woman's life.
You know, there's there's you you you hear this ever so silently.
Ever softly.
But if you look in the right places, you'll find numerous stories that uh use the word success involving the surge in Iraq.
Such as this from the Washington Times, American and Iraqi soldiers yesterday killed six terrorists, captured another 41 insurgents and death squad suspects in operations in Baghdad and outside Fallujah.
Raids were part of the ongoing enormous effort by U.S. and Iraq security forces to break the backs of the various armed groups warring in Iraq.
Iraqi government cited the success of that operation yesterday in announcing that the nightly curfew will be pushed back by two hours.
Throughout the uh it's not so much uh penetrated the drive-by media yet.
But that doesn't mean they don't know about it.
As surge is not even at full strength.
And it is beginning to work.
And uh folks, I think, you know, this story I just shared with you from Reuters, where wildly successful operations against Iraq actually are going to make us more vulnerable.
Wildly successful operations against the rock and to make us even more dangerous or places at greater risk.
These things don't just happen by accident in the drive-by media.
That's not just something that happened to pop out of the woodwork.
It wasn't as though the drive-by media was sitting there at Reuters and minding their own business, and all of a sudden some experts started calling them.
The way this works is the drive-by media gets a storyline, they get a template.
Hey, what if gosh, the worst thing we want is a surge to work.
Uh, how can we combat the surge?
So they go out and they have it, they got a story in mind.
Could this suc could could our success against Al Qaeda be so successful it could actually harm us?
And you go out and find anybody that's willing to be proclaimed an expert to answer the question the way you want, and you write a story about it.
This, my friends, is what I think has happened.
You've got look at this.
You've got a military supplemental bill that could re-establish and resemment the Democrats as soft on security, a la Vietnam.
The this this the the the supplemental bill for um uh money to fund the surge uh is been passed by the Democrats, but it contains language in it the president won't go for, such as a mandatory pull-out date, March 31st of next year of 2008.
And he's he's eager to veto this thing, and then the real negotiations begin.
Okay, how are you gonna solve this?
One bill promotes victory, one bill promotes defeat.
Where's the common ground?
So you've got that.
And that the Democrats, in the back of their minds, they can't really want to be thought of as a bunch of linguini-spined limperists when it comes to national security.
You've got signs of early success with the surge.
There are journalists reporting from Baghdad about bombings and killings outside of Baghdad where the terrorists have been chased from their neighborhoods inside where they were wreaking havoc.
The drive-bys are having to leave Baghdad and travel to see stuff.
They they it used to be the drive-bys could just look out the hotel window, point the camera out there, and in a matter of time a car would blow up, and you'd have the requisite flames and smoke, and you could then send that to the network office, and bam oh, you've got more unrest and chaos in Iraq, but they're having to leave the hotel now.
They're having to go outside Baghdad to find wherecause we're chasing the bad guys out of there.
The surge is working, and it even isn't even half implemented now.
Now, my point is you never even heard the word success before.
We made this point yesterday.
I asked a caller.
Five years of this battle, tell me one story you remember in five years of success in Iraq.
Tell me one story you recall of valor or heroism on the part of American troops, and you can't, because there have been so few of them that you have forgotten them if they existed at all.
And you never heard the word success, obviously.
So now we're starting to hear about some success in Iraq.
And now all of a sudden comes this Reuters story that suggests success over Al-Qaeda will lead to greater danger.
Success against Al-Qaeda is going to place the U.S. at greater risk.
You think that story is just happenstance?
You think it's just coincidence shows up today?
No, folks.
The drive-by's are terrified that this is going to work.
They are terrified that Petraeus and Bush are going to be successful.
And so it's time to undermine success now again.
And the way you undermine success is to tell adults in this country that access media via the drive-bys that success is going to make it even more dangerous for them to get out of their houses.
Make no mistake.
They are the Democrats.
The drive-by's own defeat.
They are invested in it.
They cannot permit victory regardless.
And in this in the event that victory happens, they have to position it as an ultimate defeat.
Yeah, we may have beaten these guys who may have broken them up.
We may have sent them running, but that's just going to make us even more vulnerable in the process of doing it now, and it's not coincidental.
Back to John Edwards.
More sound bites here.
Edwards in Durham, New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire.
They held a town meeting.
An audience member named Jenny Valentine stood up.
Now I want you to, as you listen to this, I want you to remember the brilliant monologues of yesterday where I described for you, you know, you you why do people not see the repeated errors of Democrats?
How come Democrats never get chastised for the mistakes they make?
They're wrong about a lot of things, but yet they're continually play portrayed the drive-bys as omnivorent and omnipotent and powerful and successful, and they're just always right.
And how come people don't see this?
And I described for you uh, you know, some average Americans who are just sponges that don't think.
They say everything is about them and their woes and their guilt and their fears is all they care about.
And those fears, those woes, and that guilt is fueled every day by the Democrat Party of the drive-bys.
I want you to listen to this question at the Edwardstown meeting from an audience member named Jenny Valentine.
I need to be able to look to my leader and see words of encouragement, words of hope.
I need to be able to trust that person.
I need to be able to know that I'm gonna grow in a world that's not gonna be full of hate and prejudice and racism, and to know that I matter, that I wasn't just dumped in this world for no particular reason whatsoever.
The tape, stop that now.
I need to know that I matter.
And of course, that's one of the things that makes the global warming scare sell.
Because you tell these people that they matter by making them the ones to fix the problem.
And so this woman is a prime, prime, prime sponge to soak up all this global warming stuff.
She'll be out there buying incandescent or fluorescence compact, whatever they are.
She'll be driving a Prius into whatever when she can afford one.
Because she wants to matter.
And what about this?
I don't want to feel like I was just dumped in this world for no particular reason whatsoever.
Poor woman, where were her parents?
She was born into this world.
We all have a purpose.
Uh we all have a reason, but somebody's not told her of hers.
Nobody's not even put the has even put the idea in her mind.
She just feels like she's a wandering island floating aimlessly, which is probably true in her case.
And of course, here are the buzzwords.
She needs to be able to know that she's going to grow in a world that's not full of hate and prejudice and racism.
Has she ever studied any history?
Does she know any history?
What utopian idealism?
She has no concept of the basic human nature.
And yet she looks at herself already as a victim, and she can't do anything about this.
She doesn't want to grow up to guess to whom she's looking for all these problems to be fixed.
Here's the rest of her question.
Busting my ass though in school.
I work 25 to 30 hours a week, and it's just me and my dog.
So what can you do for the people that are in my situation that are trying their dandas in school, wanting to go to grad school is going to be hit with the loans.
And uh I have no idea what I want to do when I grow up.
I don't know what I want to be when I'm an adult, but I'm 22 right now.
So people are like, honey, you are an adult.
You know what?
It's about me.
It's about me voting for you or supporting somebody who's going to be the next president.
So it's all about me right now.
Just give me something.
And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the answer to the question you were asking me yesterday.
You think this is not a prime sponge to soak up all of this tripe that she hears and reads.
She already has soaked it up.
Give me something.
You, Mr. Edwards, give me something.
It is about me, she said.
She's not even a baby boomer.
You can understand this if it was a baby boomer saying this.
Here is the answer that uh came from John Edwards, and it was it was it was pathetic.
And so Elizabeth has to jump in here and save the day in the answer.
Ah, bless you.
If I were choosing a president, uh that's what I'd be doing.
I'd be looking for the specifics of what they want to do, because that matters, but I would also be judging them personally.
Because we need to trust our president.
I want to say something too.
I was really impressed with you, Jenny Ballantine.
And I I think probably everybody in this room was, and I want everybody in this room who believes that Jenny Valentine's going to be able to do it to give her a round of applause.
You say now I'll let her tag along with this thing.
All right.
Uh I have to take a break, but this is worth I could do an hour analyzing this answer.
Not her question.
I could do an hour analyzing Edwards, not even his wife.
Uh he just heard this woman say, it's about me, and he turned around.
His answer to her was no, it's about me.
Uh but let's go back.
This is not a first.
Shall we go back to March 30th, 1993 from my television show?
I played this sound bite from October 15th of 1992.
This was the presidential debate.
Perot, Clinton, and Bush 41 in Richmond, Virginia.
The focus of my work is uh domestic mediator is meeting the needs of the children that I work with by way of their parents and not the wants of their parents.
And I asked the three of you, how can we, as symbolically the children of the future president, expect the two of you, the three of you to meet our needs.
That's the famous ponytail guy from the Richmond debate in 1992.
His presidential candidates are our fathers.
The president's gonna be our father, and what Can we expect from our father you to meet our needs?
This is just another way of wording the same question you just heard from Jenny Valentine at the University of New Hampshire.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limboh.
Talent.
Talent on loan from God.
At 800-282-2882.
Mr. Schnerdley.
This is tough to accomplish because anybody can call here and say anything.
But I want to put out an all points bulletin for Jenny Valentine, who participated yesterday in Durham, New Hampshire, the town meeting for the Edwardses at the University of New Hampshire.
Is Jenny Valentine, if if you are there, or if anybody in the audience knows Jenny Valentine, uh I would love to genuinely discuss your question in your comments to the Edwards.
Uh I don't have a tape of the entire answer that you got from the Edwards.
Whatever they said is not relevant.
This is not going to be about them.
Jenny Valentine says at the end of her question, it's about me.
It's about me voting for you or supporting somebody who's going to be the next president, so it's all about me.
Jenny, if you want it to be about you, I would love to talk to you about you.
And on the up and up.
You represent Jenny Valentine, a pop portion of the population of this country that has a lot of potential, but nobody's told you.
And you're relying on others for this potential.
And it's a sad thing.
I don't know, you know, you the the relevant relativist society that we live in, uh, or whatever it is.
But uh if anybody out there in New Hampshire knows this Jenny Valentine, please get hold of her.
We want to talk to her.
800-282-2882.
Seriously, non-confrontationally.
Uh she deserves to have.
She's obviously got questions.
She has angst.
She has dilemmas.
She has a clouded view of her future.
And she frankly needs a little inspiration.
And it doesn't sound like she's received much in her life.
I would I would crave.
I would welcome the opportunity to talk to her about the things that she mentioned to the Edwards.
Uh and again, conversation I have with her, if what if it happens will not be about the Edwards, won't be about Republicans or Democrats, it won't be about presidential race.
Nothing to do with that.
I must say, though, before uh that that Edwards' answer, I don't even know if he heard what she said.
I'm busting my ass going to school.
I work 25, 30 hours a week.
It's just me and my dog.
Uh I need to know there's not going to be any racism or sexism, uh prejudice or hate.
I need to know that I matter, that I wasn't just dumped in this world for no particular reason whatsoever.
That that that I can't tell you how that makes me feel good.
Read that somebody thinks of herself as being dumped in the world for no particular reason.
Uh that is that's I don't know, sad.
It's just it's terribly sad.
But Edward's answer was well, bless you.
If I were choosing a president, that's what I'd be doing.
I'd be looking at the specifics of what they want to do because that matters.
Because I would also be judging them personally, because we need to trust our president.
I mean, one cliche after another in this answer.
And Elizabeth had to step in there and save the day and make the answer about this woman.
Because Edwards was making it about himself.
And he has an excuse.
He's a baby boomer.
Plus he's running for president.
That that is one of the most telling exchanges.
And it's one of the most vapid, vapid.
Uh it w it's it's transparent.
It was just totally empty.
And it's left a gnoing in my gut to try to fix it.
You know why American American Idol became popular, according to the New York Times?
Because of the 2000 election aftermath, because elections were cheap and fraudulent.
American Idol was genuine, and that's why it's popular.
New York Times.
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