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July 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
I am Rush Limboy, your highly trained broadcast specialist doing that which no one else can do.
And as I've warned you many times, the great make what they do, look easy.
Don't try this at home.
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For all of our sakes, we're going to take a brief time out from reviewing whatever that was last night.
I still think I do think the next series of questioners ought to come from Shrek, the Little Mermaid, Snow White.
Uh would be to continue the trend of revolutionizing the way these debates take place.
But we got another health story here, another it's gonna kill you if you keep doing it.
This study says that diet soda is linked to heart risks.
People who drank more than one diet soda every day develop the same risks for heart disease as those who downed sugary regular soda.
Suggests get this.
A large but inconclusive study.
So once again, why do this?
Why report it?
Last hour we told you that the statins that you take, lowering your cholesterol might cause cancer, but they're not sure.
Studies are inconclusive, so is this one.
The results surprised the researchers who expected to see a difference between regular and diet soda drinkers.
It could be, could be, it could be they suggest that even no calorie sweet drinks in Cruce increase the craving for more sweets, and that people who indulge in sodas probably have less healthy diets overall.
The uh study senior author, Dr. Vasan Ramachandran, emphasized the findings don't show that diet sodas are a cause of increased heart disease risks.
What?
Wait a people who drank more than one diet soda each day develop the same risks for heart disease as those who down sugar regularly, so don't show diet sodas are a cause of increased heart.
Oh, oh, I get it.
But he said they show a surprising link that must be studied.
In both of these instances, folks, what you have here is two things combined into one.
You have a drive-by media with a story that gets to keep you in chaos and fear and scared that you're gonna die, and that leads you to demanding international or national universal health coverage.
And then the second aspect is you got a bunch of researchers here that are begging for more money from some agency of the federal government to keep investigating this uh surprising discovery that might lead to increased risks of cancer.
Why we can't have that.
Nutrition expert, however, dismissed the study's findings.
There's too much contradictory evidence that shows that diet beverages are healthier for you in terms of losing weight, and I would not put any credence to the result on the um on the diet drinks.
This is Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, who has called for cigarette-style surgeon general warnings about the negative health effects of soda.
By the way, I just see here that McDonald's has posted its second ever loss.
McDonald's, an American institution.
Liberals today happy, another American institution losing money.
Why do you think this happened?
A negative, never-ending drumbeat of how all that stuff is going to kill you and kill your kids.
Funny thing last night at the debate, uh, as we briefly get back to it for a moment, uh, some idiot questioner.
Well, you can't blame the questioner.
I mean, a lot of these questioners were idiots.
The idiot at CNN who decided to use the question.
Question said, uh, each of the candidates, take take a look at somebody to your left, tell them what you don't like about them, and then look at somebody on your right and tell them what you do like about them.
Well, I mean, this is right out of the Miss America pageant.
I mean, this is this is silly, but anyway, what the and they all started, oh, we love each other.
Well, everybody, nobody had a bad thing to say about it except the Breck Girl.
John Edwards said he didn't like Hillary's pink jacket.
And then he started laughing.
Well, we are ready for that.
We have a new parody tune.
Hillary Clinton singing it.
Paul Shanklin actually providing this.
It is called You Ain't Woman Enough to take my man.
You comes to tell me something.
But I think you better go.
He said my wife's not a woman.
Like that's something I need to know.
You think that you can take her?
Oh, but I don't think you can.
Because you ain't woman enough to take my man.
Women like you, they're a dime a dozen.
Worried about your hair.
But if Hillary starts swinging, I won't protect you, I'll be standing.
Stop the tape for just a second.
I, as host, need to admit an error, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Bill Clinton singing about Hillary.
And just so you know, he's singing to the Bret Girl, singing here to John Edwards.
But if Hillary starts swinging, I won't protect you.
I'll be standing over there.
I think I hear her coming.
So get out while you can.
Because you ain't woman enough to take my man.
But I didn't mean anything by it.
I was just saying it.
You know, it's not the jacket I would wear.
Actually, I like tank better than call.
That looked more like a call to me than Hank.
I'm sure you know that mean.
Sometimes women start saying things that they don't mean.
So say you didn't mean it.
Before she counts to three.
You won't be able to sit or stand.
No, you ain't woman enough to take my man.
Yeah, women like you, they're a dime a dozen.
Worried about your hair.
And it really won't matter how hard you hit her, she'll grow another pair.
Her boots aren't made for walking.
So get out while you can Cause you ain't woman enough To take my man Yeah.
Bye.
No, you ain't woman enough to take my man.
I'm leaving.
I'm leaving.
I'm gone.
See you later.
Bye.
Thank you for your advice.
Badu baduba dupa dour buddy Paul Shanklin as uh Bill Clinton to John Edwards.
You ain't woman enough to take my man on the EIB network.
I mentioned earlier President Bush uh kicking butt had a speech this morning uh in South Carolina on the war on terror and the war in Iraq.
We have three bites, and uh I want to play them for you.
Here's the first of the three.
Our top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said that Al Qaeda is public enemy number one in Iraq.
Fellow citizens, these people have sworn allegiance to the man who ordered the death of nearly three thousand people on our soil.
Al Qaeda is public enemy number one for the Iraqi people.
Al Qaeda is public enemy number one for the American people, and that is why for the security of our country, we will stay on the hunt.
We'll deny them safe haven, and we will defeat them where they have made their stand.
You know how this can you imagine, ladies and gentlemen, how this irritates the kook fringe base of the Democrat Party and Pelosi and Harry Reed.
They are trying to disrupt George W. Bush's confidence, they're trying to shred it, they're trying to get everybody in the country isolated from him, including other Republicans, and he doesn't care.
Second bite here.
Some note that Al Qaeda and Iraq did not exist until the U.S. invasion, and argue that it is a problem of our own making.
The argument follows the flawed logic that terrorism is caused by American actions.
Right on, right on.
Iraq's not the reason that the terrorists are at war with us.
Right on Raddo.
We were not in Iraq when the terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.
Rad on Rado.
We were not in Iraq when they attacked our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Right on, right up.
We were not in Iraq when they attacked the USS Coal in 2000.
And we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001.
Our action to remove Saddam Hussein did not start the terrorist violence.
Amen.
The only thing that I know many of you are saying is where's this been?
We're all saying it.
Needs to have been said by the President.
He said it today was at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina.
Here's the last bite.
Our troops are now working to replicate the success in Anbar and other parts of the country.
Our brave men and women are taking risks and they're showing courage, and we're making progress for the security of our citizens and the peace of the world.
We must give General Petraeus and his troops the time and the resources they need so they can defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq.
And as long as long as he's at the helm, that will happen.
Brief timeout, we'll come back at your phone calls next on the EIB network.
Stay with us.
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Now, talking about President Bush and following up his remarks, the New York Times has a story today, and uh it's uh it's basically a poll, and it you just know it had to pain them to uh publish this.
The headline, support for initial invasion of Iraq has risen.
American support for the initial invasion of Iraq has a r has risen somewhat as the White House has continued to ask the public to reserve judgment about the war until at least the fall.
New York Times CBS poll conducted over the weekend, forty-two percent of Americans said that looking back, taking military action in Iraq was the right thing to do, while fifty-one percent said the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq.
Now, that's down to 51%.
That used to be much, much higher than that, so the trend on this is public support for the initial invasion, and therefore staying there is is uh has risen.
Uh they go through all kinds of qualifiers here.
For example, however, the number of people who say the war is going very badly, and this is good news with by the way, has fallen from 45% earlier in July to a current reading of 35%.
The number of people who say the war is going very badly has fallen.
Uh and those who say it's going well, 29% now describe it as somewhat well compared with just 23% last week.
So public attitudes about the war are improving.
Now, how can this be?
How in the world can this be?
How could this happen if the drive-by media aren't slowing it down and burying the news of the success?
They have had four years or more of daily deadbeat, deadbeat drumbeat after drumbeat of how rotten this is, how horrible it is, the pictures, the burning cars, the obligatory the scenes after the IEDs go.
How in the world can it be that the public opinion of the initial invasion and that we should be there is rising?
How can it be?
Taking uh Snartley, come on, you know better than that.
Snerdley's telling me that it's because the burning cars aren't on TV every night.
That's a factor.
But there's two words to explain this.
One or two words, depending on how you wish to reserve expression.
It's either me or Rush Limbaugh.
We've been on the case here for the past two to three weeks on this.
Uh, trumpeting the surge.
Democrats can't get their money, they can't defund the fo the war.
They can't get the resolutions passed with large enough majorities to uh I don't I don't care how you break the poll apart.
The Democrats, I guarantee you today, Democrats, because the New York Times is their is their house organ, the New York Times is their Bible, and they're they're calling emergency meetings to deal with the surge's success.
They have to figure out how to either undermine the reporting of the surge success, or either undermine the surge itself.
Guarantee you they've folks tell you, they have got everything for 2008 wrapped up in this.
They have already proclaimed this a loss.
Harry Reid has waved the white flag.
We can't win, we shouldn't win.
You go to debate last night, Obama, get the hell out of there, have the Syrians and the Iranians handle the mess and the genocide that happens later.
Tell them they have to do it.
They're the ones causing it in the first place.
They want to cause it, just As they are in Lebanon.
They cannot afford for this to be victorious for the American people to perceive it as such because they have got everything invested, fundraising and everything else invested in failure and defeat.
And if this turns out to be a demonstrable victory, or with demonstrable progress that continues prior to the 2008 elections, they have they have I told you this is going to happen.
They have locked themselves into a position where they aren't going to be able to claim credit for it at all.
Not real credit.
Now they'll tell you how they'll try to massage it.
And this is hypothetical.
Well, let's assume the surge continues to work, the Petraeus continues to come up with successful plans, and let's say at some point it becomes undeniable that it is working, but Al Qaeda's falling apart.
And the evidence is is is glowing uh folks.
You've got uh told you yesterday twenty-five uh uh tribes, Sunni and Shia join forces with us to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq because they're sick and tired of the barbarism.
Even low-level Al Qaeda terrorists are caving and and becoming informants, telling us uh things that we need to know to root these guys out.
So let's say this continues.
And it becomes inarguable that there is much progress being made, and it's worth sticking it out and it uh it can be won.
What are Democrats going to do?
The only way they can claim any credit that I can see now is to say that their unrelenting pressure on the president to get this done right is what tipped the scales.
They will try to say that they're unrelenting pressure and demanding the president do this, and then they'll take credit for all the authorizations that they voted for to send over body armor or whatever.
But it isn't gonna fly, but that's what they'll try to do.
Uh mark my words.
But I guarantee you, after this New York Times story, they are buzzing in the cloakrooms behind closed doors, emergency meetings.
What can we do?
This is not going our way.
And they probably have a little failing confidence in the drive-by, because the drive-bys uh apparently don't do not have the overall power still and uh ability to shape massive public opinion.
Here's Matt, Columbus George, as we go back to the phones.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're next.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I just wanted to say that that debate last night, if you want to call up that was that was the most absurd and ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
It was two and a half hours of style over subject.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
See, this is one of the problems of debate last night.
You think it was two and a half hours.
To me, it felt like four, but it was only two.
Yeah, it's it was only two.
It was only two hours.
It felt a lot longer, but it was only two.
But uh you know, I mean, there were questions from I think one of the questions was uh who was your favorite teacher in school?
I mean, well, come on.
This is a presidential debate.
I mean, I I'm not a Democrat, but I forgot to do that.
Wait a second, wait a second.
Wait a second.
See that I was watching that and I started shouting at the screen.
I before these guys started answering the question, I said this is simple.
Who is your best?
They started naming names.
Wrong thing to do.
You know what that's a I don't know if the uh uh the questioner did this on purpose.
Actually, a very good question for somebody who knows what they're talking about, knows how to inspire people.
The correct answer to the question is the best teachers I had are the ones who pushed me to get more out of myself than I knew I had.
The best team, and I might have named them if I could uh if if it had time, but th that's the best teacher I had.
Somebody who who had confidence in me knew that I could do more than I thought I could do myself, and they showed me uh how much more I had in me than I knew.
Those are the great teachers, and you find them throughout this.
That's a brilliant setup question.
But these people, as liberals, haven't they don't think that way.
There's no such thing.
How can you be inspired when everybody's depressed?
How can you be inspired and confident when everybody thinks they're gonna die from global warming, the polar bears are gonna melt along with the glaciers?
They don't think this way.
But that I thought that was a question that was a softball.
That was just waiting that that would that was that was Barry Bond's 756 home run, waiting to be struck last night.
Well, uh and I mean, real quickly, because I know you're short on time, but I I couldn't believe Hillary Clinton brought up that the the oil industry had its highest profits last year, and she wants to take that money and redistribute it.
Well, what about Walmart, Rush?
I mean, Walmart makes a ton of money.
Why don't we take their clothes and uh and clothe all of the uh kids in the world that don't have any?
Uh look, did did Hillary say this about oil company last night to debate?
I uh well, I could have sworn it was it may not have been the the uh last night's debate that I've got I know she's she said it in on other in other forums.
Um I frankly may have uh been up fixing an adult beverage at the time.
So uh that's why I needed a couple of them to get through this thing last night.
Moderately sized, and I mean, don't worry about anything here, folks.
But I I um I don't remember her saying that.
That's that's I but I I totally trust you because you stuck with all two and a half hours.
Yeah, it I I just I I couldn't believe it.
I mean, I guess next time we'll just have uh uh you know first graders um asking them questions.
That way, none of them will get cornered uh on a on a question from a real moderator that they won't be able to answer, and uh none of them will be.
Speaking of that, speaking of you know, hold on to the break here.
I I mean, keep listening to the break.
I'm gonna I'm gonna uh conclude the call here in a minute, but uh this morning on PMS NBC, they had uh political director Polster at uh the Washington Post talking about how people, average people, saw the debate last night versus drive-by media members, and how troubled he is at the chasm uh that uh that exists uh between the way drive buys analyze this and the way average people in focus groups saw it.
I'll have that bite coming up for you right after this.
Sit tight.
And welcome back, Rush Limboy, man, a legend, a national treasure.
A profit Nobel Peace Prize nominee, making the complex understandable.
Here at 800-282-2882.
Bad news for the Libs again, Starbucks Corporation gonna raise U.S. prices on coffee on lattes.
Is it latte or latte?
Latte.
Good.
I got it right the first time.
Even when I think I'm wrong, I'm right.
Never had a latte, never been inside a Starbucks.
Never been inside of it.
Uh it's not an active decision that I have made not to go inside a just never been there.
Coffee's not a destination.
Coffees is not a destination.
Coffee is I drink it where I am.
Let's see.
Uh starting here at the beginning, because I was rudely interrupted by unbelieving staff.
Starbucks corporation will raise U.S. prices on coffee, lattes, and other drinks by an average of nine cents a cup next week to help offset the soaring costs for milk and other commodities.
Well, what happens if you order it black?
Is it gonna cost nine cents less?
The widely anticipated move marks Starbucks' second price increase in less than a year, comes a month after the coffee shop chain's chief financial officer warned it would be very challenging for Starbucks to meet the high end of its 2007 earnings forecast in part because of rising dairy prices, which is no doubt because of global warming.
U.S. milk prices uh soared recently amid strong global demand for dairy products and higher production costs.
Spokesman Brandon Borman uh said we're always looking at the business costs, and uh given the rising cost environment of which we operate, we think this is an appropriate time.
Uh increase will vary by drink and by market, but we'll average out to about nine cents a cup, Borman said.
The last price rise of about five cents per drink went into effect in October.
Well, I'm terribly disappointed.
These people are not supposed to be earning profits.
This is a liberal outfit.
And their customers are big time liberals.
I know a lot of non liberals go in there too, but let's face it.
An email.
Could you clarify this for me?
Dear Rush, I just heard a Hillary soundbite that you played where she said this administration has made diplomacy a dirty word.
Could you please list history's top ten greatest diplomatic successes to illustrate for your listeners why the work of the State Department and diplomacy generally is so important to our nation's safety and security.
Now, I only got this email uh during the break a few minutes ago, and I must confess I've been thinking very hard about this, and I can't come up with one.
Now the North Korea Six Party Talks diplomas.
Uh okay.
Uh if if if we've been there's a great illustration how it doesn't work.
Diplomacy with the Clinton administration and uh Madam Albright, we give them all this nuclear stuff.
They, a bunch of communists, promise us that they'll only use it for nuclear power.
Satellites fly over the country at night and there are no lights on.
Don't have any electricity there.
They've used it to gin up nuclear weapons manufacturing.
Now they promise they won't do it anymore.
So, okay, but the jury's still out on that.
Give me another one.
Louis uh Louisiana Purchase, it was a purchase.
There wasn't any By that definition, you can say buying Manhattan for 24 pizzas from the Indians or whatever it was.
That's not diplomacy.
That is not diplomacy.
It was a purchase.
We snookered them, but we what we bought it.
I mean, you can't call a negotiation on a sale diplomacy.
You just you just can't.
Give me another example.
And you don't cite for me, oh, how about the armistice after we defeated Japan?
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not diplomacy.
Uh Sadat's peace agreement with Israel.
That's really worked out, hasn't it?
Sadat's peace agreement with Israel.
Yeah, well, Egypt's not fired on them, true, but what we do.
Uh Hz Bala said the other day that they got rockets now that can hit any part of Israel.
Uh his bottle also says that they've got cells working to infiltrate the United States to uh conduct operations here.
Okay, handing over the Panama Canal.
Okay.
We're talking successful diplomacy.
Um, if you people out there want to help this uh this emailer understand that uh there are some great diplomatic successes that have kept the United Up Monroe Doctrine.
Is that diplomacy or that?
No, that was a de that's a policy as a decree.
That's true.
Top-down policy.
We don't have the guts to do that anymore.
Um, what we have, we've we've got guys like Barack Obama gonna tell Bashar Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadini Dad, you guys better fix a rock when we leave.
I'm sorry to laugh at the magic Negro, but I I just I that answer, it still has me um uh in stunned amazement.
All right, here's this audio summary.
I actually got two of it.
It happened on PMSNBC today.
They're doing for some reason they got super Tuesday.
PMS NBC is running another telephone for the Democrat Party.
And this morning, um Tim Russert spoke with the Washington Post's Chris Salism about last night's CNN YouTube debate.
And Russert said to Salisa, uh, you know, these after-debate focus groups, what'd they tell you?
And and what about the disparity that appears between what people told focus groups in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and what some of the pundits are saying watching the same debate.
Well, you know, it's it's that disparity that keeps me up at night, to be honest, Tim.
Uh, you know, I worry because uh I watched the debate and I thought uh Senator Obama did well.
I thought he did better than he had in previous debates, but I still thought Senators Clinton and Edwards did better.
And then as Chuck pointed out, we do have all these focus groups that say Obama did better.
There appears to be some sort of chasm between the public perception and what folks like myself uh, you know, in Washington think.
It worries me because I'm always worried as a journalist about missing the boat, you know, missing that Howard B. So I'm gonna try and pay real close attention over the next couple days about what that's about.
You're not you d I don't believe that for a second.
You're not worried about as a journalist about missing the boat.
You're worried people don't see it your way.
What's wrong with them?
That's the what's wrong with these people?
We're the professionals here.
We're the experts, we're the journalists, we're the drive-by media.
We're supposed to tell them who did best.
By the way, Hannity and Combs last night had Frank Luntz on there last night.
He had a focus group too, and that focus group came in there.
I think if if I got this right, the focus group came in there predisposed to Hillary after the debate, they all thought Obama disgunked her.
And that's what Siles is saying here.
And I tell you why in the first hour today.
He was he answered those questions.
He knew the audience.
He knew the can't we all just get along?
I want to go talk to these people that dislike us and find out why, and then hope that I can make them like it, and then and then, and then we can all live in peace.
And we can we can disband the military.
I mean, that's the audience for watching this thing last night.
And Obama gave them that.
You know, Hillary's full of nuance, and uh you can't help when you look at Hillary.
You know, she's talking about herself.
She's she's uh she's she just you know, she's she's got a a likability problem that everybody acknowledges, and she's got a a problem being uh being real.
And it didn't help, it didn't help.
I mean, Jimmy, you noticed this last night.
Got that camera right behind her.
I mean, uh stopped us dead in our tracks watching this debate last night.
Who you did.
It was distracting.
Here's here's here's the next exchange between Russert and Chris Salisia of the Washington Post.
In fact, uh, Chris Elizabeth, there have been numerous reports that all three thousand YouTube questions were available on the website before the debate.
So the candidates or their campaign staffs had access to all the questions.
Right.
It's sort of like an open book test, in truth.
You know, all the answers are there.
You just have to uh spend the time to find them.
Uh I think, look, someone on Clinton's staff, and I would guess on Obama staff and Edwards staff too, probably went through the vast majority of them.
He said the you just the uh the the the staff had the answers were there.
No, the questions were there, and yeah, but I didn't know that.
Did you know that?
Did you know you can?
Well, that makes this thing an even sorrier excuse for if you have if you know what the questions are, what the possible questions are, and to have inane answers like we got last night.
Maybe they didn't look at him.
If they did, it was it was more pathetic than I thought.
Scott, Peoria, Illinois, you're next on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, it's a thrill to be on your show.
Thank you, sir.
I know.
Hey, I didn't watch last night.
I've watched things like this in the past, and uh, but I think I've got a good feel for what these powder puff feel-good questions were about.
And I I think everybody's under the um premise that they're trying to figure out who the best Democratic candidate is.
But you know, after after thinking about this now, I don't I don't think that's the point at all.
I think this is like you said in the earlier dialogue here that this is a campaign for the Democratic Party.
It's not about which candidate.
Yeah, because which candidates decided.
We we know it's going to be Hillary.
We just know this.
And as we sit here today, there's an eighty percent chance that she's the next president.
I haven't revised that.
Umt Gingrich on load on the Republicans?
Did you hear about this?
I'll share it with you when we come back.
But I think Scott's a good point.
Right now they're all this it's a commercial for the Democrat Party, and it's maybe not by design, but it is primary voters that they're aiming at.
Uh and and so uh but I guarantee Kucinich is trying to stand out, poor little guy, doing everything he can to stand out.
Uh uh Chris Dodd tried to stand out a little bit less.
I was uh surprised that Edwards was uh uh not the strong woman last night that I thought that he was going to be.
How about this as an example of great diplomacy?
I mentioned it earlier on this very program, and that would be Ronaldus Magnus walking out on Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik.
That was great diplomacy.
Another example of great diplomacy you might cite, Chamberlain with Hitler.
Neville Chamberlain with Hitler.
Nancy Pelosi with the House Democrats.
There's been some great, great diplomacy taking place there.
And maybe one of the greatest diplomatic feats...
Of all time.
Bill Clinton with Hillary after Monica.
Kathy in Napa, California, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Well, thank you so much, Rush.
You've been a thrill.
Okay, I have to tell you, you're the number fourth man in my life, besides my husband, my son, and my dad.
They're all ditto heads, and they love you.
I'm honored to be on your list.
You're on my own.
I just have to say Kathy is one of my top ten all-time favorite female names, too.
Okay, you just made me love you more.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, I listened to President Bush in South Carolina, and I was cheering.
My man is back.
I love when he wants to hunt hunt down the terrorist.
I I love when he calls them killers.
I've been waiting for this.
I you know, I don't know why he hides out and doesn't come and speak to us.
I mean, because every time he speaks to us, we get behind him.
So what I did was I wrote a note with my RNC membership and said finally, and then I renewed my membership.
Oh, they'll be happy to hear that because you're one of few.
Well, now I'm confused also because you're telling me that Newt went off on us Republicans.
So now you're confused.
Let me get one.
Let me get that since you bring it up.
Uh Newt had a uh a luncheon, or maybe it was a breakfast with the editors of the American Spectator.
And the uh examiner in the examiner.com, a web paper in uh in Washington, uh, wrote up about it or wrote it about it, and and uh you know he called a Republican presidential feel a bunch of pygmies.
A pathetic bunch of pygmies.
He hinted Monday that he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
He said, if in mid October it's quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton Obama ticket, you don't need me to run.
But if it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out that the Democrats have raised a hundred million dollars more than the Republicans.
And at some point people decide we're gonna get Hillary unless there's a radical change, then there's space for a candidate, so you'll know by mid-October one of those two futures uh is is real.
Then he was asked if he was prepared to commit to a run.
He said, I'm perfectly happy to do what I do.
Whether that leads to the presidency is the country's problem, uh, not mine.
He mocked Republican presidential candidates for um subjecting themselves to a made debate hosted by Chris Matthews on PMSNBC.
He said, You're watching an utterly irrelevant, shallow television celebrity dominate everybody who claimed they want to lead the most powerful nation in the world.
He said, How can this happen?
He ridiculed the idea of ten or eleven candidates standing passively at microphones and said he refused to shrink to the level of 40 second answers, standing like a trained seal waiting for somebody to throw me a fish.
He said these are not debates, these are auditions.
And by definition, the psychology of an audition reduces the person auditioning and raises the status, for example, of Chris Matthews.
Uh I have no interest in the uh in the in the current political process.
I have no interest in trying to figure out how I can go out and raise money under John McCain's insane censorship rules, so I can show up to do seven minutes and twenty seconds at some debate.
Now, about individuals.
Here's what he said about Fred Thompson.
You're still with me out there, Kathy.
I am.
Okay, here's what he said about Fred Thompson.
I'm excited to see whether Fred turns out to be as decisive a front runner as John McCain.
The guy who wasn't even in the race is now exciting the exciting new name, having decided that he would leave television for the purpose of entering television.
That's what he said about Fred Thompson.
Of McCain.
The guy who had spent the most on consultants is on the verge, I think, of dropping out of the race right after he collects his federal matching funds.
On Robert Novak, eh, sometimes he's right, sometimes he's venomous.
He was once a good reporter.
He's now just a personality.
On Al Gore, not in touch with reality.
The advertising for his movie was the most viciously anti-animal advertising I've seen in a long time.
Had these little penguins walking on sand.
It was terrible.
Michael Moore.
I find Michael Moore so despicable I can't imagine looking at a movie by him.
We'd be looking at a movie by Goebbels.
Chris Matthews, an utterly irrelevant, shallow television credit, a celebrity who doesn't know anything.
And he referred to the current Republican candidates, the field of candidates, as a bunch of pathetic pygmies.
Unloaded.
I see you're speechless out there, Cap.
I am speechless, but I'm I'll I'll I'm up for an October surprise.
If Newton gets in, it'll just elevate everything.
So go for it, Newt.
Um I'm I don't know enough about Fred Thompson.
I just I want somebody.
But when George W. Bush came out this morning, it gave me hope again.
And it's like he's you know, he has been saying a lot about Iraq, uh uh, but this was different.
That he came out and answered some specific charges and it leveled against him uh for four years that he has not responded to, such as, hey, there were terrorists killing Americans before we went into Iraq.
There were terrorists killing Americans before 9-11 happened.
Uh these are the kind of things that uh that we've all been pointing out to the Libs, but he has not uh he's not he's not made that point, at least not as forcefully as uh as he did today.
Kathy, thanks for the call.
Uh I appreciate it.
Quick timeout here, folks, to be back and continue in just a sec.
The economic boom rolls on, ladies and gentlemen.
United Airlines parent company, UAL Corp today reported its biggest quarterly profit in seven years.
274 million dollars.
Who would was it Delta that just reported another over a billion dollar profit?
Uh so that the boom rolls on despite the best efforts of the drive-by meeting of Democrats to uh uh convince you otherwise.
Yeah, they'll they'll say it's a windfall.
I'll tell you that there is I shouldn't say that, but there is a downside to this.
I've I hear more complaints about flying these days.
I have more delays, all this stuff, they're making money doing it this way.
It ain't gonna change.
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