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July 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, we're talking in the last hour about the live aid or live what it live Earth and the uh the poultry lineup that they have, given the I mean it's a bit the biggest issue facing our lives.
You people got to understand the context here of what I'm saying.
This the biggest issue, it's the most important thing facing it's our lives at stake here.
And where are the big names?
Where are the stones?
Where's Streisand?
Where's McCart?
Well, uh yeah, Cheryl Crow.
That's a she'd probably be there has Cheryl Crow probably in charge of the portable lavatories handing out, you know, one piece of toilet paper to every reveler.
Uh I haven't seen her on the list.
That's a good point.
I have not seen her on the performers list.
But you know, the the music industry, uh, Drudge had a story up on his page not long ago that uh the music industry is down now for the seventh consecutive year, and concerts all over the world are being canceled due to slow ticket sales.
Um Barbara Streisand had to cancel some of hers, I think, in uh Italy and uh and in other places.
You know, there's a major, major call, evolution or what have you going on in uh in music right now.
It's gonna have implications for radio.
I, of course, as a highly trained radio specialist and broadcast specialist and tuned uh to all of this and where it takes us in the future, and I'm gonna make you a little prediction.
Uh with the portability now of music being so vast, so many different ways of getting it yourself with your own playlists and listening to it on your iPod or your MP3 flare, you know, cell phone or what have you.
Uh radio stations that play music, and primarily the FM types, uh, you know, they're they're they're gonna have uh some decisions to make about programming dummies.
This is nothing any time soon.
I mean, it's gonna be years before this happens, but just as FM came along and provided a much better environment for listening to music than AM did.
Uh and AM was thought to have then died and fallen off the cliff.
That of course, until I came along with this show in 1988, single-handedly saved AM.
And I predict that we will single-handedly save FM, because the music is eventually it's gonna be it's gonna be available in a whole lot of other places, and I think spoken word is what's going to end up uh being dominant on all radio, terrestrial uh radio.
And of course, what do I do?
I speak.
Uh this is called spoken word format, so.
Um it's it's exciting.
A lot of people think change is bad because it's new, but they're all kinds of opportunities.
But the music business itself has got some um, you know, just basic business problems uh with sales down, concerts not being sold out, and this sort of thing, and uh it's well, I'm not gonna get into my theories about why, because we've got other things to do here, but it is related to talents.
I think content is king.
Content, content, content will determine, and it's just apparently it's uh it's fallen off.
Uh what are you frowning at me for?
Snerdley thinks he's in the music business because he has a oh, you're talking to somebody on a phone.
Oh.
Well, why are you frowning at the caller then?
We're running dangerously close here to you flirting with suspension again because it look like you're getting really irritated in there.
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The last time that we heard about the Democrats and their message, we also heard about a guy they were relying on to help them come up with that message.
His name was George Lakoff rhymes with USA Today has a story.
Democrats get advice on how to talk about issues.
It's just never...
It never ends these recurring themes that the drive-by's continue to pummel us with.
We never see stories about Republicans getting advice on how to talk about issues, all we get are stories that Republicans ought not be speaking.
Republicans ought to be shutting up.
Well, Republicans don't need advice on how to talk because they all get talking points from Carl Rove.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Both political parties are in a constant search for advisors who can make them winners.
Many Democrats think they've found one this year in psychologist Drew Weston, author of a new book on passion and politics.
What happened to Lackoff?
Weston's book is The Political Brain, The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.
It was released last week.
It's catapulted this professor at Emory University from the Ivory Tower to the political epicenter.
Democrats throughout the Capitol are listening to his prescriptions and adapting them for practical use.
Now, his essential point, Drew Weston, is this.
Passion is what drives us in the voting booth.
Yet the words we use on the left are emotionally barren.
Really?
The words on the left are emotionally bar all the left is is emotion.
The words we use on the left are emotionally barren to stop losing winnable elections, he says, Democrats need to engage the parts of the brain that aren't activated by facts and figures.
Well, that makes perfect sense if you're a Democrat.
Don't tell people the truth and don't tell people the facts.
That sounds like what the prescription is.
But rooted in this is the belief that people are too stupid to figure it out and follow it.
If you start giving them facts and figures and so forth.
Weston has met with uh union leaders, political donors and fundraisers, liberal and centrist groups, party committees, members of Congress, and all major presidential campaigns.
The Senate Democratic Policy Committee Is working with him on a messaging project.
Last week, Democrat senators each received a copy of the political brain.
The centrist Democrat leadership council heard Weston at its spring retreat, invited him back to address hundreds of elected officials uh this month in Nashville.
Weston's also collaborating with Third Way, a progressive nonpartisan think tank on a strategy memo.
Uh the goal, says John Cowan, the third way president, is to get candidates of any party to focus on the received impression of their words, how people perceive what they're saying.
That means learning that reason and rationality are not the most effective political weapons in a campaign.
Reason and rationale.
Well, the Democrats got that down.
What do they need to learn?
There is no reason and there's no rationality.
All they do now is pummel us with emotion and fear and trying to scare everybody.
I mean, they're their politics is the politics crisis and the uh the politics of fear.
Uh Republicans have been holding their language since the late 80s when Newt Gingrich began mailing training tapes to tens of thousands of conservative officeholders at all levels of government.
They learned what issues to talk about and how to talk about them as they commuted to and from work.
You know, all this is fine and dandy, and I I understand the desire to uh learn how to communicate better.
Whatever happened to the simple uh concept here of the truth.
Meaning, whatever happened to concept of if you're a candidate or an office holder, tell people what you really think.
Whatever happened to a message of inspiration.
Whatever happened to can do attitude, whatever happened to optimism.
I mean, those are the basic things that are missing here in in uh sadly too much of both parties' rhetoric.
Uh, and that's why I say it's all fear-based.
It's all it is emotion.
It is I grassion, by the way.
Uh Drew Weston's right about that.
Passion is is uh is magnetic.
If you give you listen to two people discussing something passionately, it could be bowling, and you'll stop and listen to it for a while.
Quick timeout.
We'll continue with your calls.
We got audio sound bites in the Clintons on the Scooter Libby commutation coming up.
Ha!
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Stick with the phones for a while before the Clinton stuff.
I always I sort of regret it when the Clintons are in the news.
I got to talk about it, and I'm I'm I'm I'm kind of procrastinating on it here.
Randy in Riverside, California.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, conservative, God fearing ddos from California.
Thank you, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, I had an observation to make.
It looks like you have finally cracked the nut with the liberals in your observation of their uh creating carbon in order to reduce carbon emissions.
Yeah, the guy said this with pride.
The guy analyzing Liberson said, Well, they've got to make carbon to destroy carbon.
But I think you finally cracked their nut with what we could call the uh the conservative paradox of progress, because that is the exact same principle that we rely upon with our need to attain and to maintain peace.
Sometimes you gotta go to war in order to establish peace.
I think uh well, gee, we're not still.
Wars are not fought for peace.
That's a big misnomer.
I'm not nitpicking you here, but when somebody says something that gets me on a on a on a roll here, and I could go on a roll in this.
Wars are not fought for peace.
Um and but at the same time, uh most wars are fought uh for legitimate reasons.
Granted.
But is that I mean, even still, though, is that not still the ultimate objective of the you get your uh you know, your the enemy to concede to you theoretically you you're looking to establish some element of peace in their surrender.
Uh well, yeah, but that's not a little bit too fine a point of this, but you know, a whole bunch the Soviet Union never fought war for peace.
Whenever the Soviet Union engaged in military activity or any of some of the some dictator oppressor nations, they're they're not they don't want peace.
They want havoc.
They're not they're not going after people threatening them, they're going after people to dominate them and put them into control and tyranny and so forth.
Now you get a good good guys like us.
Well, granted, that's why the disclosing of my personal demographic of God fearing dittoes on this, because the God fearing approach to war is in order to basically to wipe out the bad guys in order to maintain or establish peace.
Well, then you got to start defining peace.
I mean, and and it that's that's not as easy as you might think.
It I mean, it might have a very succinct dictionary definition, but it's elusive.
Uh and that's why I kind of recoil with a peace movement and uh the diet for peace, uh, the global peace march for global nuclear disarmament.
I mean, in the right in the wrong mouths, peace means the exact opposite.
Peace means tyranny.
You know, the the the uh in the right mouth, peace uh uh means tranquility and lack of fear with the presence of justice.
I mean, there's any number of ways that you can that you can you can define peace, and not all of them are good.
I mean, the peace activists in this country are seeking the defeat of the United States as it exists.
The peace activists in this country are actually pro-U.S.
enemies.
The peace activists in this country sidle up to people like Fidel Castro, and they get goo over lunatics uh like uh Ahmadinezad and Hugo Chavez.
Uh and other misguided as hell, but they think they're doing what they're doing under the banner of peace.
And of course, that makes them good people.
Uh peace is uh an elusive thing.
You fight wars to to to uh either stop attacks on yourself uh uh to liberate people who are being oppressed.
Uh the purpose and the way you do it is to kill people and break things.
Uh there's nothing peaceful about war.
Now the end result uh is what you're talking about.
You can you can't arrive at at uh at a at a peaceful conclusion uh if if the right side wins.
Uh but you know, World War II was not fought for peace.
World War II was fought to stop the Germans.
Now, and I'm not splitting hairs here, and World War II was to stop the Japanese.
Uh World War II, we should have completed it and stopped the Russians, too, but that's you know, George Patton got suspended for that, so we won't go there.
I appreciate the call, Randy.
Clifford in Columbus, Ohio, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh conservative Christian dittoes to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Um, just real quick.
I was listening to you talk about Al Gore Jr. and how merciful that was.
I I've I keep thinking that Mr. Franken would never have given you that kind of room.
But to the point, um, you're asking, or I keep getting the impression that you're asking why the A people aren't showing up, Striate and things like that.
Because I think that they know that Al Gore is going to be announcing himself as president or running for president.
And uh I keep wondering if these live concerts are going to be something along the line as a fundraiser for him.
Does he get a percentage?
You say follow the money, Professor, I'm trying to follow the money.
Well, all that remains to be seen.
I don't know what the financial arrangements of this thing are.
Uh they're obviously huge.
Bans have to be paid.
They're not doing it gratis.
The concessionaires have to be paid, the people are buying tickets to these things, I suppose.
But uh what Al Gore's interest in interest in it is is unknown to me.
I I have uh a number of people, friends of mine who think he's going to announce uh at Giant Stadium on Saturday, Live Earth concert in uh in New York is at Giant Stadium over in the Meadowlands.
I don't know if he's gonna especially now with what happened with his son.
He's canceled all the interviews, by the way.
The show he did the Today Show today, and he did a radio interview, but he's canceled everything else, citing uh scheduling conflicts.
But these were previously scheduled interviews to promote uh live Earth.
So um I'm I think that that the this th this is not the first incident with his uh with his son.
Uh and this is a problem they've got to focus on, and and you know running for president's all about you.
Uh whoever does it, it's it's uh it's all about you.
And uh given the history of repeat problems that his son has had, uh I'm thinking that that this is just a wild guess, but if you start canceling the interviews to promote this big thing, uh and you were printing on announcing for the presidency at this big thing, uh this this could change it.
But as to whether or not he announces or not here at LiveEarth, or whether he does at some other time, still doesn't explain why the big names aren't showing up.
Well, I mean I mean if they thought he was gonna announce, they would want to be there.
I mean, it would be part because you know, this this is the bunch that thinks the only way to save the country and the world is for Al Gore to run for president again, and this time to win and not have the election stolen from him, quote unquote.
Well, I keep thinking that's why Barbara Streisand isn't going to be announcing her tickets were so expensive the last time she announced her retirement tour.
What happened to Saturday?
Yeah, the last time she did a retirement tour, right?
You know, I didn't think this Antarctica venue uh for the Live Earth concert was going to happen, but I just I just saw Al Gore say that uh they're gonna have a concert in Antarctica.
All seven continents are gonna have a concert in Saturday Live Earth.
Now, where's the audience down there?
Who are they playing for?
The penguins.
Polar bears, whatever now, the polar bears uh North, uh North Pole.
Um you didn't watch Planet Earth.
Penguins are down there.
Uh it's absurd.
It's literally it's just penguins are swimming.
I hope they don't get electrocuted.
All right.
Uh let's let's let's get this Hillary stuff over with, because this is just I I think I think Mrs. Clinton's taken the memory pill.
I think they've already given it to both Clintons, and they have forgotten that they were in the White House, and they have forgotten the corruption that they sponsored and the perjury that Bill Clinton suborned.
They have forgotten, they have to have forgotten it in order to be saying the things that they are saying.
For example, on June 28th, the Democrat debate, Hillary Clinton said this nonviolent offenders should not be serving hard time in our prisons.
They need to be diverted from our prison system.
Yet in a press release on July 2nd, what is that, four days later?
Hillary Clinton said about the Scooter Libby commutation.
Today's decision is yet another example that this administration simply considers itself above the law.
This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.
Well, this is a this is a nonviolent offender.
Nobody uh can cite any previous record that Scooter Libby had.
So on two occasions, separated by four days, Mrs. Clinton utterly contradicts herself.
And it's for this reason I we look, we know who she is.
But it's not because she reveals it.
It's because she can't hide it.
She can't, most people can't hide who they really are.
She can't hide it.
She doesn't have to reveal it.
She tries not to reveal it.
But this is, you know, I mean, this is the hobgoblin here of little minds.
Now, Bill Clinton blasted the Libby clemency and said his pardons were different.
Yeah, he sold his.
He sold a lot of his.
He kept a lot of the money that was given to him, like from Denise Rich, not the uh uh uh was it's not Denise, what uh the the wife of uh Mark Rich, the former wife of Mark Rich.
Uh million bucks to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
Let's go to the audio tape.
Uh this is on Tuesday, our affiliate in Des Moines, WHO, uh Mickelson in the morning guest host, Michaelson in the morning.
Yes, Jen Michaels.
Guest host, David Yebsen.
He's a columnist from the Des Moines Register.
Uh presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton made a surprise phone call to the show.
And Yepsen asks Hillary to respond to President Bush's decision to commute Scooter Libby's sentence.
Well, David, I think it's disappointing, but unfortunately not unexpected from this administration.
Uh they think they're above the law.
They think that uh the rule of law is uh an inconvenience that uh they can skirt whenever they choose.
This is just one of many examples, and it's you know, dispiriting because the president and the vice president have really decided that they are above uh the law, and they don't respond to legitimate congressional inquiries.
They obviously don't uh really value the identity of a covert CIA Agent and decided to uh expose her for the purposes of their own political and partisan advantage.
I think it speaks loudly about what their real priorities and values are.
Richard Armitage was the leaker.
The White House didn't leak her identity or her name.
Richard Armitage is the guy that put it out there to Robert Novak.
Everybody knew this.
There was no underlying crime.
That's why I say they have to have been taken to memory pill.
But this is this is this is an incoherent answer.
The president and vice president have really decided they're above the law.
You know, anybody can say anything, but if you are a Clinton, you've got to be very careful here because you're gonna cause people to start laughing themselves silly at you for the utter blatant hypocrisy.
Here's President Clinton now.
Yep and David Yepsen said, What's your response to the uh the well, I guess no, this is I don't know which Clinton this is.
We'll find out.
Yep says, what's your response to the president's decision to commute Scooter Libby's prison sentence?
You had some controversial uh controversial pardons during your presidency.
Yeah, but I think the facts were different.
I think, you know, there are guidelines for what happens when, you know, somebody's convicted, and I think that, you know, you gotta understand, I think that this is consistent with their philosophy.
They believe that they should be able to do what they want to do.
And it that the law is a minor obstacle.
I think that that's what I think.
I think that, you know, it was wrong to out that CIA agent and wrong to try to cover it up, and wrong that no one was ever fired from the White House for doing it.
The White House didn't do it.
Surreal again.
And again, he he he is well, you gotta understand my circumstances are different.
Uh, they were different when I was in there, and then starts attacking the administration for things that didn't happen.
Now, I know it's a Democrat primary state up there, the Hawkeye Cocaye, and they're out there trying to raise money, and Edwards, the Brett girl.
Speaking of the Brett Girl, the Washington Post has one of the funniest stories about the Brett girl today in his hair.
His barber, his stylist has gone public because the Brett girl didn't even refer to him kindly when the story came out that he gave him his first four hundred dollar haircut.
So Brett Girl act like he didn't even know the guy when the guy was solicited by the Brett Girl campaign to come cut the Brett girl's hair numerous times outside the state of California.
Some of these haircuts cost twelve hundred and fifty bucks when you factor in the airfare for the stylist to get out to where the Bret girl was.
Anyway, all of that's coming up.
This this is that they're in there trying to, you know, uh shore up their their their support with the the the kook fringe base of the Democrat Party, but they've got to understand other people are going to be listening.
Now, Ron Fournier, the Associated Press, um, he did a story on the effect of the Libby uh uh commutation.
He ripped the Bush administration, but he also said this.
This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, or as he's quoting Hillary saying this, and and and uh we just shared with you, and and uh what Fournier responds to that with is this is that that was a brazen statement from a woman who uh in was entangled in many Clinton White House scandals, including the final one.
On his last day in office, President Clinton granted 140 pardons and 36 commutations, many of them controversial.
He goes on to cite the Mark Rich Pardon, who had fled the country after being indicted for tax evasion, and whose wife had donated more than a million dollars to Democrat causes.
Clinton's half-brother Roger, who was convicted of distributing cocaine and lobbied the White House on behalf of others, also received a pardon.
This is in the AP story.
This is what I mean.
These people are gonna have to be a serious news agency cannot ignore this and not react to it.
The thing kind of things the Clintons are used to getting a pass in this kind of stuff.
Say whatever they want to say, press marvels at how well they lie, marvels at the guts they've got to lie.
But on something like what they're saying about Scooter Libby, when you the king of pardons starts ripping George W. Bush, who's issued very few and very few commutations, and then perpetuates lies and myths about what the case was about.
They're having a tough time ignoring this.
Uh Fournier said Hillary Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham was paid tens of thousands of dollars in his successful bid to win pardons for a businessman under investigation for money laundering and a commutation for a convicted drug trafficker.
Her brother Tony lobbied successfully for clemency on behalf of a couple convicted of uh bank fraud.
Now, uh Fournier did not get into all the detail he could have in the uh Tony Rodham situation because not only did Tony Rodham, Hillary's brother, lobby on behalf of these people they were named the Gregories, he got over a hundred grand in loans, which the Gregories never bothered to collect, and which Tony never paid a red cent on.
They only came to light when the Gregories, fresh from the presidential pardon for their fraudulent activities, declared bankruptcy and listed the Rodham loans as an asset.
Uh, you know, so this is the kind of stuff that's on the record.
Big time.
Uh here's here's uh Hillary.
Let's go back.
February 22nd, 2001.
This is a press conference.
Senator Hillary Clinton taking questions from the media, and an unidentified uh uh unidentified reporter said, Senator, did you ever have a discussion with your brother, notwithstanding his professional involvement about pardons or commutations?
No, I I did not.
You know, I don't I don't have any uh any memory at all of ever talking to my brother about this, you know.
That's my best memory.
And uh but I I have to say, and I will repeat once again.
Information was coming to me, information was passed on.
So if, you know, if I said information came, people wanted you to look at, I might have said that.
I just don't remember anything further than that.
I'm sorry.
So your brother may have spoken to someone who then spoke to him.
No, not about any involvement of my brother.
No, I want to make that a hundred percent clear.
I don't want you to try to put words in my mouth.
I knew nothing about my brother's involvement in these pardons.
I knew nothing about his taking money uh for his involvement.
Uh I had no knowledge of that whatsoever.
Sorry, it just strains credulity here, strange credibility.
She didn't know anything what her brothers were doing, trying to secure pardons from her, just like she didn't know about Monica Lewinsky.
And she didn't know about Jennifer Flowers, and she didn't know about Kathleen Willie.
And she didn't know, but she knew it all.
I mean, she was running a bimbo eruptions unit that's in the book.
One of the books, I don't know if it's Bernstein's book or the Don Van Netta and uh Jeff Gerth book.
But you know, we all we all thought it was Betsy Wright that was running the bimbo eruptions unit was Hillary that was running the bimbo eruption units with with illegal wiretaps.
She knew what was going on.
The idea she had no idea her brothers were involved.
So they they say these things about Scooter Libby.
Uh uh.
You know, it it's it's mind-boggling to me.
They're a smarter.
These are supposedly the smartest people in the world, and it's mind-boggling to me.
They can't come up, speaking of communication, with a better way to respond to this.
Still get your political digs in if you want.
But don't open yourself up to all these unavoidable charges of of hypocrisy.
Uh, same press conference.
Reporters said to Mrs. Clinton, is Mark Rich among the people that you passed information on?
No, you know, I never knew about Mark Rich at all.
And in fact, I don't even, you know, frankly, I couldn't, you know, people would hand me envelopes.
I would just pass them.
I, you know, I would not have any reason to look into them.
I didn't, I knew nothing about the Mark Rich pardon until after it happened.
So she was accepting the envelopes of people wanted her to pass on to her husband to try to influence his pardon decision, but she had no clue what was in the envelopes.
She didn't look.
You know darn well she looked.
She won't f I'm gonna make sure this one doesn't get us in trouble.
I gotta make sure this one doesn't get us in trouble.
I gotta make sure it isn't won't find out if uh, you know, maybe it's a secret love note from some intern.
Who knows?
You know you have to think.
This this is a hands-on control woman, uh, folks.
And she was hands-on co-president and living in fear that old Bubba was going to do something one day to blow them both up and their political futures and says he wasn't looking at the envelopes.
Come on, you all of all of you people married, you know that that's a cruc.
Hi, welcome back.
Yell Rushball, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, listen to this.
You probably haven't heard or seen about this because this story came out yesterday on the 4th of July.
It's an AP story, amazingly.
Headline Clinton's chief strategirist accused of illegal eavesdropping.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist is being accused of illegal eavesdropping in a lawsuit that alleges he and his polling firm monitored the personal emails of a former associate who started a rival company.
Mitchell Markle, former vice president at Penn Shane, and Berlin, or maybe it's Sean.
It's Doug Shon.
I just have never heard the name pronounced since I read closed captioning.
Anyway, Mark Penn's firm.
This guy was a former uh vice president there, Mitchell Merkel, Markle.
And he claims in a lawsuit that the firm began monitoring all messages sent from his personal BlackBerry device nearly a month after he had resigned and became president of his new business.
The suit claims that Mark Penn, who is Clinton's chief strategist in Polster, knew about and approved of the monitoring, which the suit says violates federal wiretapping laws.
Well, this is the second such allegation.
The first is in the book that I just told you about that she was monitoring phone calls of the bimbos that they were afraid might erupt during the uh 92 presidential campaign.
And I got a note from a uh subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com, Sean Sands who said, hey, Mark Rich did far more than you mentioned, and I'd forgotten this, and he's right.
When Saddam Hussein issued vouchers for oil to pay off people into the oil for food program, the one with forty billion dollars in corruption at the UN.
It wasn't an easy thing to cash in these vouchers and get your money.
Your oil had to be transferred because you never had possession of the oil.
You had vouchers for Iraqi oil, and you had you had to find your oil away to be transferred through a particular network of companies before the money ended up in your Cayman Islands trust or your offshore account.
And Mark Rich was the person who navigated that network for clients.
He was his name, came up big time in the oil for food investigation.
Uh a lot of politicians and uh in the House of Commons in the U.K. Strangely, we didn't see Cheney or Bush's uh names in any of these lists, even though they were being accused of going to Iraq for the uh for the oil.
And let's not forget Bill Clinton's steadfast defense of Sandy Burglar.
You want a real crime.
We got a real crime here, not a process crime.
Sandy Burglar caught taking documents in and out of the National Archives in his socks or pants or what have you.
And the Justice Department didn't pursue it much.
I think a $10,000 fine, loses his uh his law license and his security clearance, but he's gonna get his security clearance back in time for Mrs. Clinton's inauguration.
Let's not forget the pardons of the 16 FALN terrorists in New York, and that was for the Puerto Rican vote for Hillary Senate race.
But I mean, you compare all this to Scooter Libby and the and the former president and his wife are running around talking about how this administration is above the law.
I'll never forget what he said about Sandy Burglar.
Hey, you know, Sandy was a great servant to this country.
He worked harder than uh even I did on some days.
And uh he's just he got it in his desk.
It's just a mess in that.
I mean, they forgot what he did, where he put things there.
We all joked about Sandy was just an unorganized, disorganized mess.
He's he loved the country.
He's a great guy.
And that was the uh that was that was a defense.
You know, meanwhile, Scooter Libby here uh don't forget Mrs. Clinton, two four days separation, says that nonviolent criminals ought to not even be sent to prison, and four days later says, he ought to go to prison.
It's his cronyism, and it's the worst example of president consent.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Los Angeles and Dave, you're next, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Uh, yeah, this is Dave.
How are you?
I'm pretty good, Dave.
Nice to have you on the uh program.
That's great.
I'm speaking to the Czar of America.
That's great.
Uh no, no, man who runs the bear.
We don't use czar here.
Uh well, the only Besides the Czar is Bill Bennett.
He owns that title.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Um, I'd like to congratulate you on killing the amnesty bill.
Well, I want to congratulate you too.
I mean, you guys actually did it.
You people I mean, I don't claim credit on things like this.
Everybody's on this, I killed the amnesty bill.
I led the movie.
You did it.
And you guys had the smarts on your own to figure out what a bad bogus piece of legislation this was.
I congratulate you.
Well, thank you.
So we mutual congratulations here.
Um, the my what I'm worried about is if you're right that 80 it's a 80% chance we're gonna have Hillary as president next year.
And considering the fact that I know that at least 49% of the American public are complete blithering idiots.
So we're very likely also to have a um a uh Democrats.
What's the question?
What's the question?
Seven seconds.
Six.
I'm afraid that we're gonna have um even worse, Bill.
So we need to kill it.
Oh, you want me to come up with a new bill.
Okay, we'll work on it.
Thanks.
Back in just a second.
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