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April 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 12, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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I know, I know, I just had to send a quick email out there, folks.
We're back.
We got broadcast excellence, final hour this week.
Remember, I'm off tomorrow.
Tom Sullivan from Sacramento will be here.
Uh guest hosting the program.
I, of course, Rush Limbaugh, and who am I?
Well, among many other things, ladies and gentlemen, you can make book on this.
I am your host for life.
Right here behind this.
Golden EIB microphone right here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here's the phone number.
And then I say promised you, and I'll I'll keep the pledge.
We will get to more of your phone calls in this hour because I have uh out of necessity nominated the uh the program today.
Andy McCarthy, excuse me, I always clear my throat when National Review is mentioned because it makes me think of Mr. Buckley.
The uh uh Andy Andy McCarthy writing on the uh I think it's at the corner uh at National Review.
Might have been a piece.
I'm not sure which.
But anyway, the last paragraph is is uh is great.
Uh and a lot of people have made this point.
I just I just want to read it here.
It's well constructed.
Lamest part of this whole Imus controversy had to be watching IMA's favorites, Dave Gregory and Craig Crawford on Hardball last night, explaining how Imus is schizophrenic.
They and all their NBC pals would regularly appear on the program.
But they only spoke to the Dr. Jekyll Imus.
The Mr. Hyde only came out once they were off the air.
And while they kind of sort of knew there was this lowbrow shtick going on, they were moved from it.
Uh and she didn't realize how offensive it must have been to some people.
And remember who these are.
The Craig Crawford's and the Gregories and the Jonathan Alters, these are liberals.
These are the arbiters of what's right and wrong when it comes to race, when it comes to justice and injustice, and when it comes to bigotry, these are the people that.
I mean, they're there, they are the condemners.
They're out there.
That's exactly liberals hate discrimination.
They despise it and they will not be accused of it, and yet they sat right there and listened to it and laughed at it as they heard it.
As they heard bigotry, as they heard discrimination.
As they heard the quote-unquote powerless being made fun of.
They chuckled at all of this.
And that's the lamest part of this controversy.
So listen, these people act like they had no clue.
And along those lines, get this.
Anna Marie Cox, who had a blog, I guess still does, a little wonk it.
And Time magazine said, That's our girl.
Uh, that's our woman.
Uh, that's our babe.
Uh that's our gal.
Uh, that's our female.
Uh, that's our feminist.
Covering my bases here.
So they gave her an essayist position in Time magazine.
And she's now gone public on uh why she will no longer appear on the Imus Show.
And I have to share this.
I have to read this to you.
As the invites kept coming, she begins.
I found myself succumbing to the clubhouse mentality that Imus both inspires and cultivates.
Sure, I cringed at his and his crew's race baiting, but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego.
I'm embarrassed to admit that it took Imus's saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along.
I did the show almost solely to earn my media elite merit badge.
There it is.
Credit Anna Marie Cox for honesty.
She went on that show because she wanted in the click.
She was a blogger, and she goes to time.
Big step up, not full-fledged member to click, though.
Wanted to be a a merit badge wearing media elite member, and going on that show was her way to do it.
Uh I don't know if she never got her jollies in high school, maybe wasn't part of the big clique in high school.
But let's face it, folks, that desire never leaves a lot of people as they grow up.
Everybody wants to be in a big clique.
And in Washington, the big click is the media elite.
The politicians and the bureaucrats come and go, but the media elite, they're there, and they define the social structure of the town and a number of other things.
That's the club you want to be in, and that's why so many Republicans will go on these television shows and trash their party.
They want to be accepted into the club too.
They want their merit badge.
But here you have it.
Anna Marie Cox, perhaps speaking for others indirectly, as she admits her own reason for going on the show and ignoring what it was that she heard that she found just crass and devastating at uh each and uh and every turn.
Uh let's see.
A friend of mine sent me a quote last night from uh John Adams in the piece he wrote Thoughts on Government from 1776.
And I'd like to kind of got my attention.
I want to read this to you.
Upon this point, all speculative politicians will agree the happiness of society is the end of government.
As all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man.
From this principle, it'll follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or in one word, happiness to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree is the best.
Now, I'll tell you why this struck me.
Not only because it's brilliant, and not just because it's right.
All speculative politicians agree the happiness of society is the end of government.
Hello, liberals and a lot of Republicans.
It's our job to make people happy.
We've got to come up with programs to make people happy.
But moral philosophers, others agree that happiness of the individual is the end of man.
It's up to us to be happy.
Can't make anybody else happy.
Government can't make us happy.
We have to do it ourselves.
So the conclusion is a form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or in one word, happiness to the greatest number of persons in the greatest degree is the best.
Not the one that'll win, but the one that's best.
I remember back in the 1980s, during the Reagan years.
I remember so many people, and I was, you know, not well, yeah, I did.
I actually started uh got back into broadcasting in 1983.
But I remember hearing people say Reagan made them feel good about themselves.
Reagan made them feel good to be Americans, coming off the malaise of those four disastrous years of Jimmy Carter, made people feel good, made people feel happy.
Reagan himself was optimistic and of good cheer, and he inspired that.
And according to John Adams here in Thoughts on Government from 1776, that kind of government's best, not the one that always wins.
Contrast that with uh Democrats, the Democrat Party today and the American left.
Uh the word happiness is not in their vocabulary.
They are not happy.
They don't want you to be happy.
They are constantly angry and enraged.
In fact, their anger and rage has become a way in which they connect.
It's become a virtue.
That's how liberals identify themselves.
They're sort of like emperor penguins, they all look alike.
The only way they can tell each other is from their sound like Emperor Penguin's mate.
And then the uh a female lays the egg and the male warms the egg, uh, while the female, miles and miles and miles and miles away to feed, because she's been starving, she comes back, and those males are all huddled with the eggs.
Uh females come back, and the only way they can recognize their mate is by the individual sound the mate makes.
And that's how liberals end up identifying each other.
Rage is the mating call.
Anger, irrational hate is the mating call.
They share it with as many people as possible.
They are miserable people, and they want you to be.
They are trying to keep this country in total chaos and tumult with the never-ending drive-by media reports of every disaster that is happening 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Everything's an utter disaster.
Everything's falling apart.
Everything's going to hell in a handbasket, from global warming to the war in Iraq to the Bush administration.
Everything is it's it's apocalyptic.
There is nothing happy.
There is no happiness In the left.
They don't exude it.
They don't inspire it, and they don't try.
In fact, they don't want people to be happy because they think anger and rage and fear are the way they will get elected.
And it may be they've succeeded in November in congressional and Senate races.
So the point of this is the antidote to all this rage and anger, good cheer and optimism.
Some people don't have the guts to be optimistic because the daily news, the daily bombardment of the apocalypse, from global warming to the war in Iraq to the war on terror, to we're spying to we're torturing to whatever.
You hear this enough and you start half believing it.
You're not strong.
So a candidate comes along, you know what?
I'm going to start talking about how great the country is.
I'm going to be optimistic and positive.
And sometimes, well, maybe not because it's so unrealistic, nobody will believe it.
So they get cowed by the, again, false image and so forth that's been perpetrated by these lies come daily from the drive-by media and the American left.
But I just want to tell you folks, there's no sin in happiness.
A lot of people afraid to be happy when they think there's so much misery.
A lot of people are afraid to have a good time or feel guilty when they do because they think so many other people aren't.
Like there's a horse.
I don't know if you know this or not, but watching television is a horse stuck waist deep in mud somewhere in Texas.
Out there trying to rescue the horse.
Human beings are.
Other horses around looking at horses.
You think the horses are going to stop eating today because one of their own is stuck in the mud?
Think the horses are going to be depressed.
No, there are horses.
We are not horses.
And sometimes people just have a fear of enjoying themselves when they think other people aren't.
It's like you talk to people about the economy.
Oh, yeah, I'm doing great.
I'm doing I'm worried about my neighbors, though.
I keep hearing on the news that people are going to lose their jobs, so don't want to act happy.
And so, you know, doom and gloom pessimism, they are infectious too.
And they more than that are limiting.
They uh limit people's ability to feel happy and so forth, or to exude it anyway, because they think they will offend somebody who's not happy.
And the libs count on this.
We'll be back.
Sit tight.
Your calls are next.
Stay with us.
All right, back to the phones we go, as I promised.
Uh, we'll go to Ocean Gate, New Jersey.
This is Peggy.
Peggy, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Um I have I have a prediction in the uh the Duke case.
And my prediction is that the media and the accuser are going to escape all responsibility.
Because the media is going to spin it, that society is inherently evil, and so it's society's fault that she had to dance for a living because of all the inequality, and that they perpetuated it, those boys by hiring her to dance after being born affluent because they were born affluent.
Well, it's going to be their fault.
It's going to be their fault that they work.
Wait, wait, wait a minute.
When you say escape accountability or responsibility, um how are they ever held accountable?
How are they not?
Because the media's not going to hold themselves accountable.
Well, but they are.
The New York Times is losing money.
The New York Times stock prices down.
There's panic over there.
They're losing subscribers.
All newspapers are.
The networks, the drive-by networks, the main main uh the three networks do news, their viewership is getting older and older and older and less and less smaller and smaller and smaller.
There is accountability.
They still have a lot of power, but what you're saying, you what you're really saying is the media is never going to admit it makes mistake.
And that you're right about.
And they're going to continue to try to cover their rear ends just as just as you say.
But I think that unfortunately, then the Iraq connection will never be made.
That if they're willing to do this to these boys, that maybe they're also giving all this misinformation or you know, knowing that.
But see, look at you you can't look at it that way.
You you you uh I I talked about this earlier in the program.
Now that this Duke case has happened where the DA was wrong, all these institutions that had all this credibility, uh, law enforcement in North Carolina, the drive-by media, they were all wrong.
There were they were connecting dots that didn't exist.
They were pronouncing guilt without one fact.
I'm telling you, consumers of news know this.
And there are more people that distrust the media today than you think, Peggy, and there are gonna be more after this.
These things are incremental, and they take time.
There's not one instance that's gonna totally discredit the media.
Uh uh they've they've been in the process of being discredited now since 1988, in a in a concerted way, and it's happening.
But it's it it's slow.
But believe me, um they're they're the Iraq thing, I mean, they've had four years head start on that.
It's you had four years of pummeling the falsehoods of Iraq, not doing one story on heroism or valor of the uh uniformed armed forces over there.
You can't expect one media screw up to cause people to question what they've been hearing for four years everywhere.
Uh but there will be doubt out there now.
These things happen this way.
There's more.
There are more people to distrust the media today never before.
Uh and it it's it's going to keep growing.
Don't be fatalistic about this.
You just can't expect these people to grow up and say, you know what, we're wrong.
We made a big mistake.
They if they do it, they put it back page, you never see it, and they do it one paragraph correction on a 10,000-word story they did.
At any rate, Bob in Sacramento, my adopted hometown, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Uh taking my call, Megadidos from California.
Listen, I want to follow up on a point you were making uh uh earlier.
You know, the uh we know that that you're not at all.
You're head and shoulders above that idiot I miss, and you're not likely to shoot yourself in the foot.
But let's face it, the Justice Brothers are on a roll.
Sure, they got their hair mushed with Duke, but uh you know they're they're on a roll.
They put a big scalp up on the wall with Himas, and they're hungry and they're they're looking for an issue.
I mean, uh Tom was saying uh, you know, those guys might boycott uh they might try to get the sponsors to boycott you, but they'll need an issue.
So who knows what what form some trap might come in.
Well, you we need Mr. Snerdley to be on that kill switch, super vigilant to make sure that uh look.
Nobody tries to lay a trap for you the way uh let me let me address this because I uh uh I'm glad you called.
I don't want to s give too much away here because I I don't w this is I I I I don't want to help these people.
Uh but I just love to I'd love to launch on this, but I've I'm trying to be guarded in the ammo I give people and not the kind of MO you think.
Uh in the first place, I know, and I I don't say this out of ego, this is a pure business thing.
I know I'm next because I've they've folks they've run everything at me they can.
Michael J. Fox, do you do you know that CNN on Tuesday night, Paula's on, to whom I have been nice, when she was at Fox, I went on her show a number of times.
I never said a word about Paula Zahn.
Paul is on does a whole feature on the Michael J. Fox episode from last October, repeating all of the lies, replaying the looped video of my supposedly making fun of and impersonating Michael J. Fox.
Now, what I said earlier, the reason this stuff doesn't work is because you people who listen are tremendous in number, and you know the truth.
They have to lie about what happens on this program in order to be critical of it.
And they lied again on Tuesday night.
They just repeated everything I have refuted and said that they got wrong on this Michael J. Fox episode.
When I saw that, and it was done in the context of, hey, you think I miss as bad.
Look at this Limbaugh guy.
And they rehashed, and of course they went out and had failed liberal talk show hosts on to comment.
Failed liberal talk show hosts who never ever got an audience, went bankrupt and had to quit and go do something else.
Uh I'm under no illusion that uh I am the real target and Hannity and Mark Levin and Neil Bortz.
That's that's that we all know this.
What they don't understand, look at they've tried every-there was the ESPN thing, uh the Michael J. Fox thing, the legal situation in Florida for whatever year that was.
Uh they've they've given a pretty good run at it, and we haven't lost a single sponsor.
And they tried.
We haven't lost a single station, and they tried.
Now there are reasons for this that they don't understand, and that's what I'm not going to tell you.
Uh but I f I'm just telling you, I understand why everything here has continued to grow, by the way.
Despite all of these attempts to destroy this program, we do nothing but grow, both in business and in audience.
And I know why, and they don't, and they will never understand it unless I tell them.
And if I tell them, they probably wouldn't believe it anyway, but there's no sense taking the chance.
Uh it's all about having a connection with people, a real daily personal connection, such as you and I all have.
This is uh this audience.
I'm not a preacher, and I'm not talking at you.
We are talking to one another.
You're talking back.
My empathy allows me to know what you're thinking in terms of instincts and so forth.
So I appreciate the concern, but I want you to know I'm fully aware of it, prepared for it, uh, and know how to deal with it when it happens.
We all are.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Thank you, and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, suicide bombing today at the Iraqi Parliament building.
Um, Nancy Pelosi should go over there and have peace talks with the suicide bombers.
Well, at least the family members of the suicide bombers and uh work her magic uh with the suicide bombers in Iraq, just as she worked her magic with Basher Assad and wants to work her magic.
Mahmood.
Uh Montini's odd.
Uh grab audio soundbite number 20.
I mentioned in my monologue earlier today that the uh quoted Dr. Sowell with a with a brilliant insight.
And this insight was uh highlighted today by Bob Tyrell in his continuing crisis column at the Americanspectator.org.
One of the most recent insights of Dr. Sol goes like this.
The liberals' favorite argument is that there is no argument.
Nothing uttered in opposition to liberal beliefs exists, at least nothing worthy of their intellectual engagement.
Thus, a la Al Gore, they proceed to really reiterate their point of view boldly, heroically, and with the insistence that no other point of view is worthy of notice, i.e., global warming.
There is no alternative to it.
There's a consensus.
Not allowed to have an opposing view.
And that's the way liberals are.
There is no argument to liberalism, and so they don't argue.
And they don't dare make public their views.
It's why these liberal talk show hosts are gigantic failures.
Propped up by the drive-by media as though they've big accomplished something.
They haven't done diddly squat.
They are just jokes.
But yet they're given the imprimatur of success with all this PR and buzz.
The media can do that, make you think people have an audience when they don't, but the truth eventually comes out.
You go bankrupt.
You have to quit because nobody's listening to you.
So yesterday on CNBC, actually Tuesday on CNBC, uh, the anchor Joe Kiernan was interviewing Lori David.
She's on this bus tour with Sheryl Crow to try to convince people of global warming and to change their lifestyles and so forth.
And here is what Laurie David says about CO2 in the atmosphere.
I do believe in fact and science.
I mean, this is, you know, this again isn't my opinion, and the world has complete consensus on this.
The debate is over.
Let me just say this, okay?
There's now more CO2 in the atmosphere than in the last 650,000 years.
Now, just basic common sense says that cannot be a good thing.
2006 was the warmest year on record, and they're saying 2007 is going to be worse.
Something is happening, and we need to start acting.
We really need to put the debate behind it.
Put the debate behind it.
There's nothing to do.
There's a consensus out there.
Uh the debate's over.
We need to put the don't ask me these challenging questions.
What do you mean there's more CO2 in the atmosphere than in the last 650,000 years?
Where do you pull that?
What is she a vampire?
She alive back then?
Did she know it?
She had measuring instruments back then.
Folks, it has been a lot hotter.
Uh 650,000 years.
It was hotter, what is this, 700 years ago than it is today.
And this is just fills my bill.
It exactly illustrates what I've been saying today.
There is no debate.
There is a consensus, a complete consensus.
There is not a complete consensus on this, Ms. David.
And by the way, did you also note 2006 was the warmest year on record?
We've got snow in Minnesota later than anybody can ever remember it.
We've got a major snowstorm from the Midwest and the Northeast starting today through Monday.
We've got the major league baseball season is in chaos.
We've got record cold this year.
She doesn't mention that.
How can you have global warming and record cold?
No, she's already talking about how 2007 is going to be worse than last year.
Well, that's who these people are.
There's no debate.
Don't, don't, don't put the debate put the debate behind us.
There's complete consensus on this.
Debate is over.
There's more CO2 in the atmosphere than the last 650,000 years.
Now just basic common sense says that can't be a good thing.
Who says it can't be a good thing?
A lot of things need CO2.
This is just.
I love this.
Don't misunderstand.
Frustrates me in the way I'm trying to explain this without being profane.
That's how it affects me.
But nor do I wish to name call, ladies and gentlemen.
Don in Houston, your next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rash.
Thanks for for the call.
I'm angry because of the attorney general in North Carolina, and anybody else over there is not bringing any charges against the genesis of this lacrosse and Duke thing.
And that's the lady, and I say that respectfully, that caused all this harm is financial.
It's criminal what she did, but she gets a free path.
Why where is justice?
Is justice colorblind?
Um the all I can tell you in answer to your question about this is what uh the attorney general said yesterday.
Look, we talked to her a number of times, and and and she believes all these different versions.
She actually believes that they happened.
Now, for lying and perjury and all that take place, you have to knowingly try to deceive.
And what he was saying was she believes this stuff.
She actually thinks these various versions of her story all happened.
So she's schizophrenic.
Plus, she's escaping any legal examination, but she's not going to escape the humiliation.
I mean, her name's all over the place out there.
Her picture is all over the place out there.
So she's she well known.
She's not going to be able to run this scam again.
Well, that's that's great.
And a quick follow-up to that.
I think you've done it, but I think you're the only one is uh excerpts from Sharpton and uh that other guy, uh the Reverend Jackson, I guess.
Uh Jackson and Sharpton, uh, have you played excerpts when they were down there uh condemning these fellows, and they're not going to be on their bending knees apologizing to these men?
Yeah, we play we play both the Jackson and Sharp did I say they're not going to apologize.
We've uh we've played those sound bites.
That's great.
Nobody else has.
Nobody else has called them on it, and I appreciate what you're doing.
And uh Well, you can count on this being you can count on it being doing here.
You bet I have.
And uh and it's appreciated.
By the way.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry, I was just gonna tell you that the you know, the the Duke Lacrosse circumstance has led to problems for the uh for the Justice Brothers.
It's led to problems for the sending more emails today than I'm getting, and that is unusual.
All right, who's next here?
Um uh uh Daniel in Niagara, Wisconsin.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Yeah, Ditto's rush.
Yeah, you know, I was listening, I heard uh, you know, when I heard that uh Nancy Pelosi is now gonna meet with the president.
The only reason why she's doing that now is that you know she was pretty much forced into it by all the criticism that she got for going to Syria and meeting with a dictator instead of the president of the United States of America, for God's sake.
And you know, the pressure from the official news outlet from the Democrats, you know, the Post and the Times and other that's the only reason why she did it.
Well, I uh I don't know if if that's the only reason why she did it.
Uh let me let me find the story.
I'm glad you reminded me of that, because I've got a whole news stack that uh that I didn't get to.
And here's hang on just a second.
Oh, by the way.
Put that aside, gotta get to that.
Come on.
Where is it?
Crying out loud.
Well, hear me put this aside.
I got so many stacks here.
Uh why do I always pick up well?
Hang on, be patient.
It's here and it's worth talking about.
Well, I guess it's not here.
Uh, But I read it earlier today, and it was dingy Harry changed his mind after five and a half hours.
Said they weren't going to go meet with the president.
The president ought to come to the Capitol Hill and meet with him, but they are going to go up there even though the preconditions exist.
Now, why they've changed their mind.
I don't know.
I I I I couldn't couldn't begin to tell you why they've changed.
I think they focus group everything.
And somebody, maybe some consultant got hold of them and said, you know, you guys, you can't run around dissing the president.
The president is not disliked.
He may be unpopular, some people, but he's not disliked.
You can't sit here and just continue to diss the president.
You got to branch out and try to please more than just the moveon.org crowd.
Probably something like that.
Because they've got, you know, the whole idea here is to put forth this silly notion, this image, this mirage, that they are being cooperative.
Um, I could be all wrong.
I don't I don't know why they're gonna do it.
All I know is that uh that they are uh going to do it.
Uh Joe Biden, chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat presidential candidate, said yesterday, we need to use military force to end the suffering in Darfur.
I would use force now, American Force Now at a hearing before his committee.
I think it's not only time not to take force off the table, I think it's time to put force on the table and use it.
Okay, predicted this, they'll take us anywhere where we have no national interest at stake.
They'll put American lives on the line and darfur or wherever when there are no national interest at stake, but the suffering that's going on in Iraq, no way, not gonna we gotta get the military out of there, because you see, we in their view are the ones causing it.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
Hey, Coco, uh personal message here to your webmaster.
Coco, I want you to do, I want you to go back to the archives, and I want you to put up uh the explanation or the the actual Michael J. Fox scenario from last October.
Uh since the drive-bys are gonna be hitting that again uh uh and trying to rebuild that.
Uh they didn't make it stick last time.
They're gonna try to uh use it this time.
I know they're coming after me, folks.
Don't have to worry about this.
It's not that they've been coming after me.
They've tried every number they could they can think of.
Now, this Michael J. Fox business, they continue to get wrong, even though all they have to do is go to my website back then or listen to me talk about it on the radio.
We spent two hours talking about it on the first day.
What they've got is that video, the Ditto Cam video, and I had seen that commercial that Michael J. Fox ran if it was Claire McCaskill at the at that time, and I'd never seen him this way, and he was suffering the symptoms of the disease Parkinson's disease.
And I was demonstrating to people what I had seen, because I had never seen him this way anywhere.
Not in any movie, not in any television show, not in any personal appearance.
I'd never seen him that way.
So, you know, we we radio broadcasters emulate, we're, you know, we're mimics and so forth, and I'm showing people what I'd see.
That video, two or three seconds, get loops to twelve or fifteen seconds.
They admitted this at MSNBC.
They sped it up, and they then said I was making fun of him, which wasn't the case at all.
Here was a guy who had been thrust into the political process, and he was running a commercial for Democrat candidates accusing Republican candidates of not caring about people who have incurable diseases.
And he was saying that Republicans wanted to criminalize people who were working on cures via embryonic stem cells with these.
Well, now, if you I don't care who you are, and I don't care what your malady, you enter the political arena and you start I'm a Republican, and you start lying about Republicans and my party, I am going to defend.
And if you are lying and not telling the truth, I'm gonna point that out.
Now, the Democrats use people like this.
They used Christopher Reeve and his family, they use Michael J. Fox, because they think they're above criticism.
They've got these diseases that we all feel sorry about, and we all, you know, there, but for the grace of God, go all of us.
And the Democrats use that as a way of insulating them from any criticism.
Therefore, they can go on television or read the script that's written for them and lie, mischaracterize without criticism.
Remember, liberals don't want debate.
There is no alternative point of view.
Now, all of this I said.
I said, you're gonna go on television in a commercial, and by the way, uh television commercial is videotaped.
So they wanted it To appear that way.
Whoever put this together, these producers, these directors, they wanted the Michael J. Fox commercials to look the way they did for a purpose.
I just didn't play along with the game of considering all that hands off and untouchable.
You go in the political arena and you are going to be subject to analysis and criticism.
And that's what they can't believe that I did.
Why, that's heartless and cold and cruel.
And they were saying, why?
Well, doesn't he have a I mean the opportunity, he just hope he's exercising.
He can exercise hope all day.
We all have hope.
I love to get my hearing back.
We all have hope.
But you don't get the lie in the political arena and not have yourself called on it.
My only point.
So this whole thing was I was making fun of, which I wasn't.
Michael J. Fox himself in his book admitted that he manipulated his meds before Senate committee hearings so as to demonstrate these symptoms to make a connection and an impression on the senators, which I said I can understand.
You're trying to get attention, you're trying to draw attention to the disease.
You think you need federal funding and assistance for a research into a cure?
I can understand that.
Well, then if if if the man admits to having done this, uh it's not within they're without the realm of outside the realm of possibility that uh such things could have happened for the TV commercial, which is I speculated on.
And when he said later on, I over medicated when I did the commercial, I apologized.
He said he over medicated.
In other words, he used more medication he normally does.
For whatever reason, I don't know.
Now, this whole thing was blown up and used for a month.
It was distorted, it was taken out of context.
One of the reasons that I'm confident, folks, when I say I know they're coming after me, you know the truth, and you and I both know that in order for them to try to make a case out of something I say or do, they have to lie or misrepresent, or take it out of context.
And I'm not a voiceless individual.
I have 15 hours a day here, or 15 hours a week.
Uh, and I can respond to it.
Money, many public figures can't.
They got to make the talk show circuit and so forth to explain their case when they get attacked.
But I have the truth on my side in all this, and I've got 20 million people, 22 million people a week who also know what the truth is.
So they're not able to shake your faith in the program because you know exactly what they're doing.
So Paul Azan resurrects this thing as though it happened yesterday, with the same lies and the same distortion, and it is a purposeful, and it's no accident this was CNN.
And it was done for the express purpose of putting me in the crosshairs next while they have this thing going on with Imus.
So all of you are sending me, Rush, be on the lookout, man.
We love you, and we are now Folks.
I'm I'm never not in the crosshairs of these people.
And the reason for it is we're effective here.
They don't like debate.
There is no art there is no alternative to liberalism, and yet for 18 and a half years we have demonstrated that there is with facts.
They can't deal with it.
Uh I don't care if they like me.
I don't want to be in their click.
Uh I'm not gonna grovel or any of that sort of thing.
You got the truth on your side, and you got 20 million friends that love you and understand the truth.
It's power, folks.
I appreciate the concern, but uh relax.
It's gonna be fun.
Back after this.
Don't miss the website tonight, folks.
We're gonna have two or three instances of video with me all revved up and gesticulating like this, and ask you which one is the Michael J. Fox video to illustrate it happens all the time.
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