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July 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, we've got a woman that won an iPhone, folks.
We've it has it has happened.
It has happened.
Greetings and welcome.
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I'd say, folks, I love this story.
I absolutely love this story.
Sprint fires over a thousand customers for excessive complaining.
Hundreds of cell phone customers are being given the boot.
Accused of being uh uh too high maintenance.
Sprint Nextel is disconnecting more than a thousand subscribers on grounds that the clients call customer service too often, make unreasonable requests.
It's 1,200 people are being fired.
Twelve hundred customers being canned, gonna have to find a new carrier by the end of the month.
A uh Sprint representative said the average customer calls customer service less than once a month, but these 1,200 uh wackos are calling 50 times as often.
And you know what's happening.
They're complaining about everything.
They're whining and moaning about the bill, they're whining and moaning about just everything in Sprints is not worth it.
It's not worth having you people to- I think this ought to happen in more industries, especially in the healthcare industry.
The healthcare industry.
Get well on your own.
You're not even sick.
We got more important cases here than you.
Get out.
Uh uh it ought to happen in a whole bunch of places.
Because you know, we we've we've we've gotten a point here where we're just bending over and grabbing the ankles for everybody that whines and moans and complains.
And of course, the uh customers always right is probably taken to an extreme here.
Uh I just I just love it.
And I got folks, I have to tell you, liberals today and some Democrats are no doubt salivating.
Did you hear what the GICOMs did?
The ChICOMs executed the former head of its version of the FDA.
They executed the guy today because he approved untested medicine in exchange for cash.
This is uh said to be the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it's serious about tackling its product safety crisis.
The execution of the former State Food and Drug Administration director, Zing Zhao, was confirmed by state television and the official Xinhua news agency.
Now, during Zing's tenure from 1998 to 2005, his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake, and the drug makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals according to previous state media reports.
One antibiotic caused the deaths of at least ten people.
So uh executed doesn't say I don't well, I haven't read the whole story because you don't need to read the first three paragraphs of any story to get the guts of it.
Uh do you happen to know how he was executed, Mr. Snerdley?
I know you read the uh uh you single bullet.
That's the policy single bullet point point point point blank range.
So that's right.
That's I remember that.
Now the ChICOMs make you make your family buy the bullet.
And it's a uh it's a single bullet, so you know this has the libs salivating here.
All right, here's today's iPhone winner.
Uh her name is Lauren.
Uh, and that is in my all-time top ten list favorite female names.
Lauren N of Orange, Connecticut.
She listens to us on W E L I 960 AM in New Haven, Connecticut.
So uh big, big uh big winner here, Laura, and you're gonna get an iPhone, an eight gig iPhone, uh, complete with a check of about $1,500.
Just a little less than that, to uh cover two full years of service required uh to use the iPhone with ATT, a year subscription to the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in the country, a year's subscription to our website, Rush 24-7, and a $100 gift certificate gift card uh from Bulka Java.com.
Now, this is what is this?
This is a this the fifth iPhone we've given.
I've lost track now.
I have lost track.
We started last Monday.
Yeah, four last week.
This is the sixth one.
No, this can't be.
We had four last week, because we didn't give away one on fourth of July.
That's one two three four.
This is the four to five minutes.
Yeah, I guess this is the um this is the sixth one.
So we got is that right?
We got four.
I wait well, Winnie, we've got ten of them, and we're gonna keep one away every day until they're all gone.
So we've either got five or four left.
I'm not I'm not sure.
There's so many of these things I've lost track.
How do you win one?
How do you get eligible to win one?
Simple.
You go to Rush Limbaugh.com, you sign up for our free email flash in the afternoon called Rush in a hurry.
Um it it uh comes out generally an hour, hour and a half after the program, and it's got hyperlinks to um we've got five left.
They ran the numbers.
Okay, well, that means that there's ten, so that means there's five left.
If we've given away five, there's five left.
They're flashing five up at me.
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The iPhone will receive podcasts via iTunes just like any iPod does.
So again, congratulations to Lauren N of Orange Connecticut, W E L I 960 AM in New Haven.
She is the proud owner of an iPhone in two years of service, paid for by us here at the EIB network because we don't believe, like some outfits do, in giving things away that cost the winners additional money.
I have to tell you a little short story.
I I have a good good friend of mine, one of my golf buddies is the CEO of Joseph A. Bank.
His name is Bob Wildrick.
And uh uh the other day, uh Bob's secretary, there was the office is right down the road from us here.
And uh Bob's sector showed up at the front door and rang the buzzer, and uh Brian Brian looked at the computer monitor and said, Well, who's this?
So she identified herself.
We went out and got had a box from Bob, and it had three pairs.
There's a he got a new line of shorts that they're selling called the David Ledbetter, the golf instructing uh professional.
Uh David Ledbetter uh brand uh of golf shorts.
And I said, Well, this is awfully sweet.
I've got plenty of golf shorts and so forth.
And I looked at the price here, they were a gift.
Uh they were, I think, 69.95 a pair.
So I called Bob.
I said, Bob, you don't expect me to wear stuff that doesn't, I mean, cost this little.
I mean, I I don't wear stuff that under three figures here when we're talking about golf attacks.
He started a laughing.
Anyway, I wore the I put the the these shorts on, and they are uh maybe the most comfortable pair of shorts I have ever worn.
They've got a little waistband in them.
I'm not wearing them today.
Uh they got a little waistband.
I mean that it's it's not an you know, like Sansa Belt expandomatic.
It's not that stuff.
Uh, but it it it it uh it does expand, not to accommodate weight gain or any of that, although I guess it would, but it's you know, when you bend over to pick up your ball if you don't have a caddy to do that for you, uh bet your ball out of the hole after making it.
But they're just comfortable as they can be.
Deep pockets and so forth, they're stain-resistant, and I I uh I told him I would mention this as a as a little thank you for uh uh sending the things over.
I like them so much I got I went to the website uh and I I bought a whole bunch more in different colors.
Uh that they're the David Ledbetter brand.
Just did it the little nice thing like that.
I'm minding my own business here, preparing for the program, had no idea it was coming.
Bam o if you if you shop Joseph A. Bank uh and you wear golf.
By the way, these would be fine even if you don't play golf.
They're just uh great shorts.
And of course, with the heat wave up in New York, I mean, I gotta tell you, 90 degrees.
Fuck, can you believe?
90, 91 degrees of the fire hydrants are on and so forth.
It's it's July.
It's global warming.
Absolutely.
It is a no, I know it happens every July, Mr. Snerdley, but that doesn't matter because this is an emotional place.
It's a global warming causing this.
It's not normal weather and patterns.
Here's the dirty little secret.
And I happen to know this because I'm gonna be up in that region this weekend because I have uh uh golf tournament championship to defend.
And I was looking at the forecast because all this heat wave stuff, so I want to know how to dress accordingly for this, and It's gonna be 20 degrees cooler this weekend than it is right on Sunday, it's barely gonna hit 73, 74 degrees up there.
Uh may hit 91, 92, 93, somewhere like that today and tomorrow, but it's gonna be 20 degrees cooler.
Now, when it's 20 degrees cooler this weekend, will anybody say, hmm, global cooling?
That global warming didn't last very long, and it's not even that excruciating a heat wave that we're making a big deal out of it because you know out in the West, when it was 116, 119 or whatever, the uh news was heat wave moving east.
And so, and then you know, Drudge, he plays along with it, got this big picture, heat continues to test the power grids.
Yeah, that happens every year, too.
So, um, anyway, uh to your guy about the guy in Massachusetts, a Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic.
He was racist, he is homophobic, racist, and a habitual liar.
He admitted all of this to avoid jury duty.
Well, that made the judge so mad that the judges referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges.
The judge, Gary Nickerson, said in 32 years of service in courtrooms as a prosecutor as a defense attorney, and now as a judge, I've quite frankly never confronted such a brazen situation of an individual attempting to avoid juror service.
The guy's name here is Daniel Ellis of Falmouth.
Uh he'd been called to court with about 60 other potential jurors with a likelihood that some of them would end up on a grand jury.
And on a questionnaire that all potential jurors fill out, Ellis wrote that he didn't like homosexuals and blacks.
He then uh echoed those sentiments in an interview with the judge.
Judge said, I gotta talk to this guy.
So the judge said, Ellis, you you say on your form that you're not a fan of homosexuals.
Uh I'm a racist, too, Ellis interrupted.
I'm frequently found to be a liar, too.
I I really can't help it, uh, Ellis said.
I'm sorry, Nickerson said.
I said, I'm frequently found to be a liar.
So the judge said, Well, are you lying to me now?
Well, I don't know.
I might be, said Ellis.
Ellis then admitted he really didn't want to serve on a jury.
And the judge, the judge said, Judge said, I have the distinct impression that you're intentionally trying to avoid jury service.
And Ellis said, it's true.
So he the judge ordered this guy taken into custody.
He was released later uh yesterday morning, could face perjury and other charges for making all this.
But what does this tell you?
Does this not tell you what political correctness has become?
Here's what you say you don't like and what you don't hate, and you can be automatically branded a bigot.
He just took it a little too far.
Just took it a little, just do just say one of those things.
Uh he wasn't leaving it up to chance at all.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
Lots to do on the program today.
We'll get started with all the rest of it in a moment.
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People ask me all the time, Rush.
What's a favorite part of uh of your job?
Well, it's hard to say.
I like it all.
I love the prep.
I love the uh the actual doing of the show, the execution, the performance of the show.
But the thing that the thing I guess is the most fun is how I irritate these these liberals and Democrats.
And I am continuing and Republicans too, in uh certain circumstances.
I it is it is it is just uh I I can't describe the pleasure I get when I hear something like this, which was said by Robert Kennedy Jr.
Giant Stadium during live earth on Saturday.
I'm gonna tell you this that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat earthers, these corporate toadies lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist.
You send an email to their advertisers and tell them you're not gonna buy their products anymore.
Hey, Bob, time for a new strateger.
You guys have been doing that for 19 years, it hasn't worked, it's not gonna work because we get results.
You don't get away with calling America's truth detector a liar.
The liars, and they know it, Folks are on this global warming hoax side.
They know they're making it all up.
They know that they are making a bunch of irrelevant data into something that's relevant when it isn't.
He wasn't threatened.
I love it.
I love irritated.
I love getting these guys' skin to crawl.
Um and uh here's now it it's it's he's even more frustrated with politicians.
Here's something else he had to say.
It is more important than buying compact fluorescent light bulbs or then buying a fuel efficient automobile.
The most important thing you can do is to get involved in the political process.
Wait a second, stop the tape.
Did I not tell you?
This is all about politics.
It's not about saving the planet.
It's not about compact fluorescence.
It's not about all these things that they make you think.
Actually, not trying to make you think.
They're trying to make you feel.
It's not about all it's about politics.
It's about advancing liberalism.
Please, Mr. Kennedy Jr., tell us more.
Of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington DC, who are nothing more than corporate toadies for companies like Exxon and Southern Company, these villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interest ahead of American interest and ahead of the interest of all of humanity.
This is treason, and that we need to start treating them now as traitors.
And they have their slick public relations firms and their phony think tanks in Washington, D.C., and their crooked scientists who are lying to the American people day after day after day.
And we have a press that is completely let down American democracy.
This guy's got more supportive press in the drive-by media than any political party's ever had, and he's rejecting it.
He doesn't understand it.
But what you just heard there was pure undiluted socialism.
100%.
If you will notice, these companies, Exxon and the Southern Company, villainous companies, consistently put their private financial interests ahead of American interests and ahead of interests of all of humanity.
Yeah, that's how a company survives, isn't it?
A company survives by destroying its customers, by destroying the environment in which it works, by destroying the the customer base.
The idea in a socialist world is that corporations are indeed the evil of uh of humanity, evil of the uh of society.
That they are totally working against American interests.
And of course, uh nothing could be further from the truth in most cases.
Uh and we yeah, of course, well, we know what treason is to a liberal.
Treason to a liberal is not supporting the enemy trying to kill us.
Treason is not doing what you can to encourage the defeat of the United States militarily.
No.
Treason is not supporting liberals and their liberal policies, in this case, global warming.
So you just you just heard it.
You just heard from uh horse's mouth.
Uh a full-froated definition of uh of socialism.
Uh remember, ladies and gentlemen, all this talk some time ago about uh uh electronic medical records.
Uh we were told that if we could digitize everybody's health records, medical records, that it would speed health care, it would make it more efficient, and it would help uh promote the general health and welfare because doctors and nurses and various places have quick access to your records when you went to see them, meaning that they could quickly diagnose what was wrong with you now based on your history.
Uh well, guess what?
Electronic health records failed to boost care delivered in routine doctor visits, according to U.S. researchers yesterday, of seventeen measures of quality assessed.
Uh electronic health records made no difference in 14 measures out of the seventeen.
This uh study published in the archives of internal medicine.
Our findings uh were a bit of a surprise.
Uh yeah, we uh we did we did expect practices with electronic medical records would have better quality care, said Dr. Randall Stafford of Stanford.
They uh really performed about the same so uh the same in a telephone interview, he said.
Electronic health records uh promised to eliminate errors due to bad handwriting and make it easier for doctors to follow a patient's care over time and of course to leak information from them uh to curious members of the media and others that might be interested.
Once again, so here uh at least we got to give these guys credit.
Their expectations, these are experts now.
The Experts expected to get a totally different result from the result they got.
And uh unlike this researcher on diversity we told you about a couple weeks ago, so gee, I shouldn't release this.
This is horrible.
This I totally against what I thought would happen.
Diversity is not good for people.
Uh uh these guys went ahead and released their um Didn't Mrs. Clinton want to do this too.
Was this was this part of uh the many tentacles of Hillary Clare, by the way, they can't find enough work for doctors in Texas.
There are more doctors than they can, and there's a reason for it, ladies and gentlemen.
It's not because there are more sick people there, and it really doesn't make a do with illegal immigration.
I'll tell you why when we come back.
I don't know if you saw this or not, folks.
The NAALCP, that's the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, had a funeral.
Uh when was this for yesterday?
The funeral funeral yesterday for the N-word.
Uh buried the N-word.
Now, if this had any meaning, of course, then it would never ever be uttered by any person in this country ever again.
I mean, you you bury something, it's dead.
And of course, that's absurd.
It's absolutely absurd.
Pure symbolism over substance.
A total waste of time.
All this symbolism for what?
Get noticed, fundraising.
Certainly not to achieve any objective because you know that it uh it isn't going to.
In Texas, an influx of doctors has been lured to the state by new limits, limits on malpractice lawsuits.
Uh, and this influx has overwhelmed the state board that screens candidates for medical licenses, creating a backlog that forces many applicants to wait months before they can start seeing patients.
The uh the board received 4,000 applications for medical licenses in 2006, up from 2,992 the previous year.
Spokesbabe Jill Wiggins said the board expects to approve 2,750 new licenses this year.
That's 235 more than last year.
A backlog exists now of more than 2300, almost 2400 uh applications.
Why is this?
Why is this happening?
Why in the world?
It's because a Texas law limited malpractice lawsuits.
These doctors are flooding the state from other parts of the country where there aren't any limits.
Malpractice insurance premiums have gone through the roof because of the new limits in Texas, they can afford to do business there.
This kind of stuff works every time it's tried.
By the way, you're minding your own business.
Imagine this.
You're good walking along minding your own business.
You're in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
And all of a sudden, no, it's not an airplane crashing into your sidewalk.
A wrecking ball is rolling down the sidewalk in the street right at you, a 1,500-pound, three-foot-wide wrecking ball, broke loose a McCrane cable, rolled nearly a mile downhill.
Imagine you're out walking and you hear this thing, and you turn around and say, whoa, what is this?
It smashed more than a dozen vehicles.
It injured three people as it bounced from curb to curb across the street, uh, slammed into the back of a car, stopped at an intersection.
That force caused a chain reaction with two other cars at the traffic light.
The driver, uh Allegheny College Jr. said he thought a car had hit him when his back windshield exploded.
The wrecking ball finally came to rest in the trunk of a car and pushed it nearly twenty feet.
I want to know what kind of car has a trunk big enough to handle a 1,500-pound three, well, three feet wide.
Yeah, it'd probably fit in the Prius.
Prius have trunks, or is that where the battery is?
I have no clue.
Uh workers had been uh using the wrecking ball to demolish part of a library at uh Allegheny College when the cable snapped.
There actually was a just you should have seen this a crew, a whole bunch of people running after this wrecking ball like crazy.
They weren't trying to stop it.
They were trial lawyers throwing out business cards like confetti all over the place.
All right, I wasn't gonna talk about the McCain thing.
And you know why I wasn't gonna talk about the McCain thing?
Uh well, I was I I was gonna talk about it, I wasn't gonna lead off with it.
I wasn't gonna talk about it because it's uh the McCain campaign is it's imploding.
You don't kick people when they're on the way to the mat.
I just I you just you just don't do that.
But I gotta bring this up because the AP, and I should have known this is gonna happen.
The AP is blaming the implosion of his campaign on his stance on the Iraq War.
John McCain's campaign manager and chief strategist are gone from their leadership roles.
A major staff shakeup for the struggling Republican presidential candidate is all but broke and trails an opinion polls in statements.
Terry Nelson, a veteran of President Bush's successful O4 re-election effort, said that uh he resigned as campaign manager effectively immediately effective immediately, and John Weaver said that he stepped down from his post of chief strategist uh on Tuesday.
Other officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, though, said that Nelson was fired.
Has also been a third resignation, and that's Mark Salter, who was McCain's chief of staff, and co-authored uh five of McCain's books.
And so uh has soured campaign first blamed on his embrace of victory in Iraq.
Can you believe that?
Can you they're actually trying to say that this is all happening because McCain wants to win in Iraq.
I think, I'm not sure because I haven't paid me that close attention, but I think all of the Republican candidates, aside from Ron Paul, not sure about him, have at the least been hopeful about the surge, if not embracing it outright.
Is McCain standing alone in the Republican presidential field wanting victory in Iraq?
Hell no.
Giuliani's the front runner, and he's all for victory in Iraq.
This is absolute BS.
If anybody wants to know the truth about why McCain Well I I don't I'll tell you there are two different things going on.
The McCain campaign is imploding because of illegal immigration.
When you have the courage to get in bed with Ted Kennedy, and you seek the Republican nomination, somebody needs to stop you from getting in bed with Ted Kennedy.
Somebody on your staff needs to tell you, Senator McCain, you want the Republican nomination, this ain't the way to get it.
Uh the they say he showed great courage in teaming up with Kennedy on immigration.
Maybe so, but that's the primary factor here.
Uh I know there are other things, too.
I mean, his embrace of the drive-by media for crying out loud.
We predicted this uh years ago.
When he was out there bragging about the media as his base, the base of the Republican Party distrusts the drive-by media as much as they distrust government.
And they don't like people sidling up to them.
They don't like people trying to curry favor with them because the way you do that is rip your own president, rip your own party.
Uh Republican voters don't particularly like limits on free speech, which is what McCain Feingold was.
I mean, there are all kinds of policy reasons here.
This is this is absurd for the AP to sit here and make it out to be totally Iraq when they know damn well what well, they may not.
That's so out of it.
Who knows?
But it's it's ridiculous.
Now, as far as the campaign shakeup, that could have nothing to do with any of this.
There could have been an internal battle in there for control.
Could have been a power struggle, and somebody won out, and the other guys have to go in a power struggle.
Who knows?
Uh it could also be that the going got tough in there when they started losing ground.
It could have been there's some tempers were fraying.
I don't know whose.
But there could have been some tempers.
Uh any number of things.
But don't buy this silly notion that this is uh this is all happening because of the senators' embrace of victory.
That's another point, too.
Snerdley has just reminded me of something uh that I would have come up with on my own if you'd have just let me, and that is he's never been the frontrunner in anybody's mind except his own in the media's.
He's never been the frontrunner in this in this field.
He's been the presumptive in the eyes of the um of the drive-by media.
In Scranton, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania man who sympathized with Al-Qaeda.
A Pennsylvania man who sympathized with Al-Qaeda.
Of course, there's no war on terror as we listen to the Breck girl and others describe it.
A Pennsylvania man who sympathized with Al-Qaeda plotted to blow up U.S. energy installations in a bid to drive up gasoline prices and prompt a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, according to prosecutors yesterday.
Defendant Michael Curtis Reynolds believed that gasoline prices could hit astronomical levels if he succeeded in attacking the Alaska Pipeline or the transcontinental pipeline connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Northeast.
Reynolds is uh 49 from Wilkesbury, faces six charges, including attempting to support Al-Qaeda, plotting to damage an interstate gas pipeline, distributing instructions on making explosives over the Internet and possession of uh hand grenades.
Uh Reynolds' suspected plans were uncovered by Shannon Ross Miller, a former Montana magistrate and internet sleuth with a record for tracking down extremists online.
She posed as an Al-Qaeda operative, luring Reynolds to a rest stop on a remote Idaho highway with the promise of 40,000 to finance his plot.
He was arrested there by the FBI.
Reynolds defense lawyer argued at Reynolds, too, was snooping for potential security threats online, that he is not what he is being charged with.
According to one email from Reynolds, an attack on major energy facilities would force President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq and lead to the government's downfall.
What do you what do you what do you think this guy's uh political party affiliation is?
A wild guess.
Uh what do you think the likelihood is that this guy's a Republican?
Not likely.
What do you think the likelihood is that he's a Democrat?
What do you think the odds are this guy hangs around the kook internet blogs that comprise the Democrat Party base?
I'm just what do you think the likelihood?
I'm leveling no charges here.
I'm just, or even accusations.
I'm just wondering aloud about all this.
All right, uh, let's go to some audio sound bites.
Since we're talking about Senator McCain, he did display some courage today on the floor of the Senate.
And the New York Times story yesterday said if McCain comes back for his latest trip to Iraq and tells Bush it's over, then of course Bush will have to surrender and Bush will give up.
And if uh McCain doesn't do that, then Bush can go this all the way out till September when Petraeus is supposed to report.
Well, what did uh Senator McCain say on the Senate floor this morning?
This fight is about Iraq, but not about Iraq alone.
It's greater than that and more important still about whether America still has the political courage to fight for victory or whether we will settle for defeat with all of the terrible things that accompany it.
We cannot walk away gracefully from defeat in this war.
General Petraeus and his commanders believe that they have a strategy that can over time lead to success in Iraq.
They asked just two things of us.
The time necessary to see whether their efforts can succeed, and the political courage to support them in their work.
I believe we should give them both.
Oh, he's coming out strong on this and uh remaining consistent, which I applaud, and many as well of you should too, in the support uh that Senator McCain here continues to show for the cause and for General Petraeus.
Again, the answer to why the Democrats don't want to wait till September is because they can't afford for the report to come out and say it's working.
That that would that just that would just uh well, they could deal with it by saying it's a bunch of lies that Bush made Petraeus say it, but they don't want to even take it that far because they don't they don't want that news even getting out where some Americans might actually believe it.
Uh McCain also said this.
I know that Senators are tired of this war, tired of the mounting death toll, tired of the many mistakes we've made in this war, and the great effort it requires to reverse them.
Tired of the war's politicization, and the degree to which it has become embroiled in partisan struggles and election strategies.
Radon, Radon, Radio.
I understand this fatigue.
And yet I maintain that we as elected leaders with a duty to our people and the security of their nation.
Cannot let fatigue dictate our policies.
Would we find similar courage on the Democrat side of the aisle?
Let's see if we find any in these comments here from Senator Boxer.
Oh, but twelve billion dollars in Iraq.
No problem.
No problem, Madam President, to save his reputation.
To save him from having to prove to the world that he was wrong?
Well, it's one thing to have an argument with someone and have pride and say, you know, I'm not going to admit I made a mistake.
It's another thing when people are dying because of your mistake.
Every day.
Now, in November 2006, the American people voted against the Iraq War.
They elected Democrats.
They want this war to end.
They want this mission to end.
Okay, not the kind of courage that we uh expect.
Well, actually, it's exactly what we expect, and that is no courage and a lot of uh prevarication, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
And she's speaking at variance with the truth there.
The November 06 elections were not about that.
If they were, we'd be out of a rock, or we'd be on the way because all these resolutions would have passed easily.
Uh one more from Senator Boxer.
We will be dealing with the problems of this war for decades to come.
Anyone who lived through Vietnam knows that if you go on the streets today and look at who the homeless are, you know who they are.
Half of them are veterans.
Most of those from Vietnam who never got over the experience.
Okay.
Yeah, let's sum all this up because I'll tell you again what the Democrats are doing.
They want to leave Iraq now.
And the aftermath, I mean, uh I don't care.
You you won't find much disagreement about this.
There will be a mass slaughter as there was when we got out of Vietnam.
Cambodia, the killing fields, pole pot, it will happen, the North invading the South and wiping out as many people as possible.
That did not deter the libs from getting us out of Vietnam and forcing us out of Vietnam.
They say they care about poor people and the disadvantaged and the disaffected and the thirsty and the hungry and the put upon and all that.
They couldn't care less.
That's another one of the many smoke screens behind which they hide.
They take no responsibility for the mass murder of Vietnamese and Cambodians that followed our massive pull out in Vietnam.
They pretend they had no role in it whatsoever.
They have no second thoughts about any of it, as they demand the same outcome in Iraq, and it's exactly they're trying to make Iraq Vietnam.
They're trying to turn this administration into Nixon, scandal after scandal after scandal.
Uh it's it's a it's it's amazingly similar.
It's uh not even they're not even hiding it.
Uh this is what people don't understand.
The Democrats have done this before.
This is nothing uncommon for them.
They are in charge of losing wars.
That's their mission.
They've done it.
It's out in the open in history for people to say.
I mean, even here, this is what's amazingly different about this.
The enemy actually struck us at home, murdered 3,000 of our citizens on 9-11, and they still want to lose to this enemy.
Vietnamese never attacked us directly, is the point.
Al Qaeda has doesn't change the Democrats' outlook.
Uh, you know, they I keep saying they're McGovernizing themselves.
I hope they have the same landslide defeat in 70 in 08 that they had in 72.
Uh they will at some point may not happen in 08.
Uh Republicans won that landslide, and then uh we were forced uh out of Vietnam after Watergate.
They they they believe they've set up the same scenario.
This is clearly what they are up to, trying to create Nixonian-like scandals.
I mean, Leahy's even calling them that.
Nixonian-like scandals weaken the president, then lose the war.
It's all part of their strategy.
I read McGovern, McGovern has a piece today.
Um said he's not sure if the country's ready for an anti-war president.
He was an anti-war president, and it got him the nomination, but he's not so sure that the country's ready for an anti-war president.
Well, I mean, I'm gonna don't mean to scare you here, but the truth is, unless we start to explain why the country should not be ready for an anti-war president, the country may well elect one.
You can't just sit there and rely on the fact the American people will never elect people like this and want to lose.
You gotta explain to the American people what's bad about this and what's dangerous about it.
I mean the Republican candidates have to do this.
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Feeling a little guilt uh here today, ladies and gentlemen.
I you know I've been on my uh been on this diet, and I actually I ate some potato chips last night.
I just didn't eat some potato chips.
I had like well, almost uh half a bag.
And I says, Why, you know why did you do that?
I'm asking because I didn't eat dinner, was not hungry last night.
Uh so walked in there rather than fix a standard dinner.
I said, I've just I saw the bag and I said, what the hell?
Rip the thing open, got some dip, pow.
It isn't worth it.
Just just isn't worth it.
Look at this headline Women Drawn to Men with Muscles.
Um I f I w remember reading something just the opposite of that not long ago.
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