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Aug. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, good.
It's about time because the show started, and you should have them.
Cutting it close here again, late-arriving show prep.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
This is the EIB Network, as you all know.
And as you all love, I am the irreplaceable Rush Limbaugh, a man running America.
You know it, and I know it.
Here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Was out in Los Angeles over the weekend, spent all day Saturday, must have been 10 hours Saturday shooting a couple of skits for the half-hour news hour that airs on the Fox News channel.
And one of the skits is a show open for a special edition of the show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock this week.
And I'm not going to tell you about it, but it's hilarious.
It is.
And I play myself in this one.
I don't play the president.
And I just saw a rough edit of it via QuickTime movie.
And it's cool.
It's really good.
A lot of fun out there.
Got back yesterday and got ready.
As soon as I got off the plane, I got home, started prepping the program, ladies and gentlemen.
Today, we got a lot to do.
Karl Rove gone, leaving the White House.
As of August 31st, we have sound bites of the president's press conference with Karl Rove.
He is leaving the White House in his own way, in his own power.
He was not frog marched out of there by the Democrats.
The Democrats in the Senate and the House now think he's an even bigger target to hunt, and they're going to continue to do this.
Paul Gugaud said in a TV interview today that Karl Rove is irreplaceable.
So we'll be discussing that.
The Iowa straw poll, a lot of people making a big deal about this.
And I don't want to downplay it.
I mean, I'm not trying to trivialize who won or who came in second, but I do want to put this in perspective.
It's August.
It's August out there.
And all I can do is analogize this for you.
This time in 2004, I mean, everybody in the drive-bys were going nuts over Howard Dean.
And then something happened.
Then the people actually voted, and the polls were rendered useless and irrelevant.
As I said last week, and I know this stuff because I'm a brilliant political analyst out there, as you people know, it's August.
People aren't paying attention to this, and they're not going to start paying attention to it till after September, maybe even into November.
And they keep moving up some of the primaries, too.
So it's going to get people's attention at some point.
But it really, you know, people don't live and breathe this stuff like the drive-by pundits and the wonks and so forth.
As you know, I'm not living and breathing at risk.
It's still too early for me, as you well know.
All right, let's get started.
We got a tropical storm.
The drive-bys are going to be ecstatic.
We have Tropical Storm 4, and it's way, way out there in the tropical Atlantic, in the eastern Atlantic.
They've already got a track map for it.
As of 8 a.m. Saturday, it's going to just right through the Lesser Antilles, it looks like, making a beeline for the southern portion of Hispaniola, Hispaniola, which is where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are, for those of you in Riolinda, beyond that, they don't know.
Taxes.
Higher state taxes on smoking are producing sharp declines in tobacco consumption in the U.S., just as Congress considers a huge federal cigarette tax hike.
This is from USA Today.
For example, cigarette sales fell 18% in North Carolina last year after the state tax was raised in two steps to 35 cents from 5 cents.
Not only that, but here's, this is what's amazing.
We keep getting stories after the bridge collapse, got to raise taxes out there, Mr. Limbaugh.
We have to raise taxes of a country's infrastructure.
We need to raise taxes.
And yet, everybody starts talking about how the tax cuts, which have led to a burgeoning federal treasury, a reduction in the deficit, economic growth that's going through the roof.
Here they admit here they think, and I think they're half right about this, that rising taxes is reducing consumption.
Well, why don't they apply that?
And this is the media said, why don't they apply this to other aspects of taxes?
Income tax increases are going to stifle what?
Spending.
People are going to have fewer dollars to spend.
I actually think, you know, that one of the problems here is not just taxes being raised.
There is a practical reality about cigarettes, and that is you can't smoke them anywhere anymore.
Even if you buy them, where can you smoke them?
And when you do try to light up some lace, you become a varmint.
You become a target.
And people, second-hand smoke is going to kill me.
Put that out.
I don't want it anywhere near me.
So they're going to kill the golden goose, and they're basing U.S. health care, particularly for children, on the sale of cigarettes.
And I know they're counting on the fact that people are addicted to nicotine and not going to be able to not buy because they're going to have to keep it up.
It's an addiction that they'll find a way to afford.
Maybe even drive less.
But the fact of the matter is they are buying cigarettes less now.
And I'm sure taxes are part of it, but also is that you can't smoke them anywhere.
We have a new stress, a new stress, a new crisis, a new angst for the drive-by media to worry about.
This is from the Times Online in the UK.
British workers are suffering email stress now because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inbox.
Staff are left tired, frustrated, and unproductive as they struggle to cope with a constant deluge of emails, according to researchers from Glasgow and Paisley University.
So get ready, folks.
Email's destroying your life.
It's going to cause a new crisis.
Another one from the UK.
This is from the Times.
They've done a study over there.
Certainly, this will interest you.
Live-in boyfriends help with the housework more than husbands.
If a woman finds that the kind and considerate man she's lived with for years suddenly stops helping with the washing and bridles at taking out the rubbish, it is probably because they got married.
Academics have found that cohabitating couples are far more likely than those who are married to split housework evenly.
But after the wedding, they revert the stereotype with the woman taking on the greater majority of risks.
And of course, this leads to another social problem, and that is the pay inequity that exists in the office place, because men, since they don't have to share the duties of taking out the garbage and so forth and changing the diapers, have more time to spend at the office climbing the success ladder.
Women penalized, somebody's got to take out the trash.
They end up doing it.
They have to spend more time at home, less time on the success ladder, which has led the European Union to mandate that men spend more time at home taking out the garbage and changing the diapers and washing the dishes so as to make it fair for women out there to leave the house, go out and have a chance to earn as much money as men do.
The researchers on this, by the way, were based at North Carolina State University and George Mason University.
They took data from more than 17,000 people in 28 countries.
So the trick is, if you're going to get married, women want to get married.
After a certain passage of time, they're going to want to get married.
Living stuff's good for a while.
And then the men, the trick for the men, given what happens, is you've got to be able to, the women rather have to be able to afford a husband or have a husband who can afford to hire a housekeeper.
And that would solve the problem.
Staff, folks, household staff works every time it's tried.
Why get married?
I think, I don't know.
You're asking the wrong guy.
Why get married?
I can only theorize as to why people do.
And we've been there and we have done that.
Federal deficit so far, this budget year running sharply lower, driven by record revenues pouring into government coffers.
Treasury Department reported Friday that the government produced a deficit of $157.3 billion for the budget.
What were they targeting?
$400 billion, folks, as the federal deficit this year.
Nearly $400 billion is going to come in at $157.3 billion.
That is a substantial improvement from the red ink figure of last year, which was $239.6 billion.
The biggest spending categories are programs in the Health and Human Services Department, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security.
Military, $437.7 billion.
We spend $560 billion on Medicare and Medicaid, $516 billion on Social Security.
The military comes in fourth, folks.
For those of you on the left who think we don't, it's not spending enough on the people of this country, Mr. Limbaugh.
You're just thunneling it all into Iraq and our bridges are falling.
All kinds of things are Karl Robins leaving because we don't.
In fact, Bush got blamed on ABC's Good Morning America Sunday or whatever it was.
We've got the soundbite on this.
It's coming up on the program today.
There was a reporter for ABC who actually blamed those Newark murders on Bush and his budgeting because we're not spending enough on inner city crime.
We're spending too much on all these social programs that take fathers and husbands out of the house.
We've busted up families.
It doesn't take a villain.
Newark and those murders and the overall situation in Newark, which has been run by Democrats for who knows how many years, probably since the beginning of time.
And yet, all these programs to help out, all this money spent, hasn't done anything but destroy the place.
Literally hasn't done any destroy the place.
So we've got the federal deficit coming down big time because of tax cuts.
We've got the military number four behind social spending.
And by the way, let's add this up.
If you put, let's say, Medicare and Medicaid, $560 billion.
Social Security, another $516 billion.
So you've got those three programs.
You're over $1,000 billion.
Guess what, folks?
You are at a trillion dollars, over a trillion dollars on Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then the military at $437.7 billion.
And in one of the biggest sea, I told you so is that I have been able to recount on this program for about two months, three months.
I have been telling you and reminding you ever since that the dirty little secret is if the Democrats win the White House, they are not pulling out of Iraq.
It ain't going to happen.
They're not going to saddle themselves with defeat.
They only want to try to do that to the president.
So yesterday in the New York Times, look at this.
Democrats say leaving Iraq may take years.
Oh, yeah.
Even as they call for an end to the war and pledge to bring the troops home, the Democrat presidential candidates are setting out positions that could leave the U.S. engaged in Iraq for years.
And then there's a New York Times editorial today.
U.S. cannot walk away from Iraq.
Two days in a row, this is the New York Times providing cover for the upcoming shift in the Democrat Party on Iraq.
This is because the surge is working.
The Democrats have got to pull back.
They're over to Cliff on this.
And so these two stories in the New York Times are designed to give cover to the Hillarys and the Barack Obamas and whoever else out there, the John Edwards, to say, you know, we do think we should bring our troops home, but we can't pull out of there, right?
And the way they're going to say it is, Bush has created such a mess that it would be irresistible.
He went into Iraq for no reason whatsoever.
It was totally uncalled for.
He lied, blah, blah, blah.
But the result of it is that all the world's terrorists are there.
Well, we just can't abandon that.
You mark my words.
I knew this was coming because they had an untenable position.
They were invested in defeat.
They owned it.
The surge is working.
The president's poll numbers are coming up.
And Carl Rhodes says that he thinks they're going to be up by 40% by the end of the president's term.
And congressional numbers are flat, depending on the poll you look at, 4%, and in some cases, 14%.
Be right back.
Stay.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on loan from God.
You have to say God when you say talent.
You just can't say talent on loans from God.
It just doesn't cut it.
All right.
I want to share some headlines here with you.
Things that we are going to be discussing and analyzing and chuckling about as today's program unfolds before your very eyes and ears from The Nation magazine, one of these extreme far-left wacko publications by Alexander Coburn, how the Democrats blew it in only eight months.
This is such a priceless whining and moaning about how the Democrats have blown it.
We'll get into it.
Howard Dean talks up Democrats' voter protection effort.
And included in this is the idea to give every Democrat a condom.
Les Payne, who is black, writing in New York Newsday, or Newsday, get this headline, Mr. Sterling.
Could Hillary Clinton also be a black leader?
Obama's wife decries blackness question is the next headline.
Because the question about him is, is he down for the struggle?
Is he black enough?
Now they're asking, can Hillary be a black?
You know what I'm waiting for?
There's a constituency here in the Democrat Party that's being ignored, that's being left out.
I mean, they went out and they did a little debate for him, did a dog and pony show.
They, you know, they pandered to him.
But why will nobody ask, is Hillary gay enough?
Is Obama gay enough?
And John Edwards, the Brett girl, gay enough for they be good gay leaders, first gay president, the first black president, first female president for Edwards.
But they're leaving out this, I mean, in order to be elected, you have to be the ultimate groupie and have all the right stuff to prove that you're down for the struggle, be it whether you're gay, be it whether you're a woman, be it whether you're black.
Hillary woman enough?
Now, is she black enough?
Is Obama black enough?
Is Edwards more of a woman than Hillary is?
Is Obama, is Hillary, are they gay enough?
You know what nobody's asking?
What really, nobody's asking the question, are they man enough?
I'm serious.
Nobody's asking about any of these candidates.
Are they man enough?
Gay, black enough, woman enough, not man enough.
Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
Why do you think that is?
Our life expectancy is still way high.
I mean, the life expectancy now for a baby born today, 77.9 years.
But there are other countries with greater life expectancy.
What do you think the problem is in the United States?
What would you guess your educated guess be as to why our life expectancy is slowing down?
If you said, because the experts say we don't have nationalized health care, you would be right.
That's ex Bush's fault.
We don't have socialized medicine.
Researchers said several factors have contributed to the U.S. falling behind other industrialized nations.
A major one is that 45 million Americans lack health insurance, while Canada and many European countries have universal health care.
I want them to prove this number.
It's been 42 million since the early 90s.
Now it's up to 45 million.
Now we've got 9 million kids.
They throw the numbers around, but nobody ever proves it.
Besides, with the federal law requiring that anybody showing up at the emergency room get treated, everybody has access to our health care system, and it is the best in the world.
Healthcare systems in Canada and the UK are falling apart, and the people who can afford to opt out of them are doing so.
Well, everybody knows this.
Sam Harper, an epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal, said, it's not as simple as saying that we don't have national health insurance.
It's not that easy.
One of the other factors that are cited, adults in the U.S. have one of the highest obesity rates in the world.
Nearly a third of U.S. adults 20 years and older are obese, while about two-thirds are overweight.
So nobody, and everybody's pretty hunky-dory with that.
They think they're fine fat because everybody else is fat.
It's become the new norm.
There are other reasons given.
Some of the other countries that are ahead of us, Japan, most of Europe, Jordan, Guam, the Cayman Islands.
Dr. Christopher Murray, the head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries.
Keeping up with other countries?
How the hell are they defining this?
Life expectancy?
It's so close as to not even be a factor, but it's just another one of these little not-so-stealth attempts by the drive-bys and the Democrats, pushing, of course, the election of Hillary Clinton to get in there and continue to foster this whole notion that until we get national health care and socialized medicine, we're not ever going to be the country we deserve to be.
All right, let's go to the audio soundboard.
Oh, before we go to the audio soundbites, I just got to give you one headline.
We got a couple of great global warming stories in the snack today.
His headline, trees won't fix global warming.
Oh, really?
Anybody with a brain knows that, but these idiots that are out there selling these, well, not the idiots are not selling the carbon credits.
The idiots are the ones buying them and thinking, I'm making my life carbon neutral, Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm doing my part to save the climate and save the world, and you don't care because you're a cold-hearted conservative.
Well, I'm planting trees, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's what I'm doing.
You idiots.
That's the voice, by the way, the new castrati.
Which can happen to you, by the way, if you happen to get on the wrong side of Hillary Clinton and a testicle lockbox.
But regardless, trees are God's in control, folks.
We aren't on this kind of stuff.
And it's time everybody woke up and understood it.
Audio soundbites.
President Bush and Carl Rove a joint press conference today to announce Carl Rove's departure.
Here is the first of what we have three bites.
Karl Rove is moving on down the road.
I would call Karl Rove a dear friend.
We've known each other as youngsters interested in serving our state.
We work together so we can be in a position to serve this country.
And so I thank my friend.
I'll be on the road behind you here in a little bit.
I thank Darby and I thank Carl for making a tremendous sacrifice and wish you all the very best.
Here are a couple from Mr. Rove.
I'm grateful for the opportunity you gave me to serve our nation and you.
I'm grateful for being able to work with the extraordinary men and women that you've drawn into this administration.
And I'm grateful to have been a witness to history.
It has been the joy and the honor of a lifetime.
I've seen a man of far-sighted courage put America on a war footing and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century.
I've seen a leader respond to an economy weakened by recession, corporate scandal, and terrorist attacks by taking decisive action to strengthen the economy and create jobs.
Final portion of his remarks here.
It was over 14 years ago that you began your run for governor, and over 10 years ago that we started thinking and planning about a possible run for the presidency.
And it's been an exhilarating and eventful time.
Through it all, you've remained the same man.
Your integrity, character, and decency have remained unchanged and inspiring.
Through all those years, I've asked a lot of my family, and they've given all I've asked of more.
And now it seems the right time to start thinking about the next chapter in our family's life.
At month's end, I will join those whom you meet in your travels, the ordinary Americans who tell you they're praying for you.
Like them, I will ask for God's continued gifts of strength and wisdom for you and your work, your vital work for our country and the world, and for the Almighty's continued blessing of our great country.
Thank you again for this extraordinary opportunity.
That's Karl Rove with the president this morning, and that's who he is.
You know, everybody talks about how when they meet the president, that they wish people could get to know him the way he is when you meet him in private.
You can say the same thing about Karl Rove.
You know, Rove has been attacked, vilified.
You have to understand that the Democrats, their golden boy was Al Gore.
The next golden boy was Kerry.
They hate Rove because Rove outsmarted them twice and continued to outsmart them.
They waited for a year.
Every Friday, they waited in newsrooms and the drive-by media, hoping and praying for a Karl Rove indictment.
They despise Karl Rove like they despise Bush because he has snookered them, tricked them, beaten them at every turn.
All the while they are the elites.
They think they're smarter than everybody else in the room.
And they really have been humiliated and embarrassed a number of times.
And they're not going to stop going after the poor guy.
They're going to hunt him down as a private citizen.
First thing over the firing of the U.S. attorneys when nothing happened that was illegal, but they're not going to give it up because they are into payback.
And you don't do to Democrats what Karl Rove did and get away with it.
And, you know, normally, folks, well, let me just tell you, I've was Karl Rove a week ago Friday for breakfast in the White House mess.
This is the day after I'd had dinner with the president.
And it was all social.
And it didn't talk about any of this.
This didn't come up.
There were no policy discussion.
About 10 of us in the room.
And it was just a great time.
And he was upbeat and laughing.
And he was playing with his iPhone.
Every time I've been around him, you would never know this guy as the target of an entire Democrat Congress and drive-by media.
He's always upbeat, having a great time.
He's one of the smartest people you would ever run into.
The statistics and history of politics that he can rattle off.
I remember last summer, a year ago in June, after we had the forum at the Heritage Foundation on the TV show 24 and Terrorism.
Carl had invited a whole gang over for lunch in the White House mess.
And then he took us to his office afterwards.
And during the lunch and during the time in his office, I mean, we were there two or three hours, and it was a nonstop history lesson with not one stutter and not one lost train of thought.
It was just, he's a fine, upstanding, cheerful, optimistic person, just like the president is.
And as Paul Gigo said, he's not replaceable in the White House.
And I tend to agree with that.
Now, normally, folks, I have given up spending any time playing soundbites from Chris Matthews' show because it's predictable and hardly anybody watches it anyway.
And it's just, it's, you know, if you want to watch it, you can.
But to get into these repeated offerings of soundbites from that show is something that I abandoned as a programming principle many, many broadcast months ago.
However, I'm going to violate my own principle because I can, because it's my show.
I'm the boss.
Nobody has to.
I don't have to clear anything I do with anybody.
And I'm going to violate my own principle here because you have to hear.
I just, I told you how much this guy Rove is despised and hated.
And I want you to hear the hatred.
I want you to hear the abject dislike that they have for Carl Rove and the drive-by media.
This was this morning on the Today Show.
David Gregory filling in there and talking to Matthews.
Chris Matthews says, so Carl Rove says it's simply time to leave.
He's obviously been there a long time, well into the second term, but he's also being pursued by congressional investigators, by Democrats.
So what do you make of the timing of his departure and the departure itself?
He's used executive privilege to protect himself from Pat Lay on the Judiciary Committee and Congressman Henry Waxman, both hot the trot to get him in a witness chair.
I think Henry Waxman's going to go after him now.
He's not involved in any criminal proceeding like Scooter Libby is.
He can't claim he's in the appellate process.
He's exposed now, it seems to me, on the league case.
In terms of the eight U.S. attorneys that were fired, I think he's also exposed there, not having the White House position anymore.
The leak case, the leak case is over.
Rove was not indicted.
They can't get over that.
They just can't get over it.
And they want Rove to be blamed for this, even though there was no crime in the leak of her name.
We know who the leaker was.
It was Richard Armitage.
You have to, you listen to this stuff and you wonder, does reality ever seep in and make it through the boundaries, the tunnel vision, the narrative, the template these people have of their daily lives and the news.
Gregory says, well, can Rove be compelled to testify now out of office in a different way?
This guy is the Democrats, Moby Dick.
They've been after this guy for years.
They blame him for Bush's election.
They believe he got a guy elected to the presidency who didn't have the brains to get there on his own.
They believe he forced the election of 2002, the congressional election, on the war in Iraq, and won the election 2004 the same way using evangelicals.
They blame Rove for every problem they've had.
He had a lot to do with developing that 2000 election whereby George Bush, a relative unknown, was able to come in and win the presidency basically by exploiting the Monica mess.
Winning the presidency by exploiting the Monica mess.
The one thing Bush has tried not to do is to be partisan in that.
He came in with the new tone.
You remember all this?
They don't have a basis in reality.
They are not grounded, folks.
And that's why I'm playing these soundbites for you.
Here's Joe Scarborough, by the way, on vacation, but he called into his own show today.
This is such breaking news to say this.
All of us know in Washington, I think it was throughout most of 2006, every Friday, it seems, the word was Carl Roe's going to get indicted this Friday.
Our staffs were told, you know, you may have to stay late Friday night because they're about to indict Karl Rove.
Yeah, well, he had five grand jury interviews or appearances.
Not one led to an indictment.
They were trying.
I'll tell you, folks, this was a process crime.
And the reason Rove was brought up there five times is so they could trick him into telling a lie, which is what happened with Scooter Libby.
There was no crime being investigated anymore because there wasn't a crime in the first place.
That still, to me, remains one of the most surreal events in American legal history.
But nevertheless, brought him up there five times for multiple hours, trying to make sure that he said something different.
One time from a previous time.
And apparently, for all those five appearances, they had nothing.
They had nothing to begin with.
But they were just itching in the drive-by media, just itching for Karl Rove to be invited.
And Rove, by the way, is correct when he says who they really want is the president.
And the reason they target Rove is because, and this is funny, but they think Bush is a genuine stooge, a bumbling idiot.
These people really do believe that Karl Rove is the Wizard of Oz.
They believe he is the entire single brain in that administration.
They believe it.
This is not something they just concoct and say, it's not just their kook fringe that believes it.
The entire elected leadership of the Democrat Party believes it.
One more bite here before we go to the break.
This is Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer interviewing via telephone Washington correspondent, Stephanopoulos, I guess.
And says, you know, Democrats, quote, they're likely to nominate a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate by the name of Hillary Clinton.
This is what Rove, how he describes Hillary.
I think the Republicans have a very good chance to hold on to the White House, this Rove says.
What about these words that Rove says about Hillary Clinton and so forth, George?
What do you think?
Fascinating.
I think this is the consensus view in the White House, including President Bush.
They all view Hillary Clinton as the strongest Democratic candidate, the most experienced.
They also believe that she is such a polarizing figure that she could give Republicans a chance of winning the White House if she's nominated.
Karl Rove's partner in the 2004 campaign, Ken Melman, has called Hillary Clinton an angry candidate, and they say that the American people simply won't go for an angry candidate.
This is a consensus view in the White House, according to George Stephanopoulos.
By the way, I have a question, ladies and gentlemen.
How long will it be before ABC or CBS or even NBC offers Karl Rove a job hosting a Sunday morning show like Stephanopoulos has?
How long will it be before one of the drive-by networks offers Karl Rove a job as a political analyst with a rising star to eventually get his own show like they offered Stephanopoulos at ABC coming out of the Clinton White House?
How long do you think it'll be before Rove gets that offer?
This is hilarious.
This, I'm going to go to the phones here in just a second, but this is hilarious.
Researchers, colon, powerful poison ivy plentiful this summer.
Officials blame carbon dioxide levels for plants' increasing presence.
We're doomed out there because of mutant poison ivy.
And listen to the last line of the story.
It comes from a website called Channel 3000.
And I don't know what Channel 3000 is.
I don't know what half the places are we get show prep from.
We get show prep from around the world.
By the way, Al Jazeera, English language Al Jazeera failing big time.
I can't believe there is not a Democrat fundraiser or donor who will not fund that outfit.
Get the anti-American view on as many cable networks in this country as possible.
Al Jazeera, they're bombing out.
Listen to this last line.
Scientists warn that if people don't take steps to decrease fossil fuel now, it will be too late.
This is WISC-TV in Madison, Wisconsin.
It'll be too late for what?
To stop mutant poison ivy for taking over our lives.
Here is John in Silver Spring, Maryland.
John, I'm glad you called.
Glad you waited.
You're up first today.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Yes, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
Just a comment regarding Carl Roe.
I get the opinion from talking to many of my friends.
I guess a feeling regarding the American people's view of Congress and the presidency that there's just a mistrust of both Roe and Cheney.
And it appears to me that they seem to be somewhat a little devious in what they do.
I wonder why people would think that.
Well, I don't know.
Well, I do.
It's called a media.
It's called the drive-bys and the Democrats because nothing could be further from the truth.
They're two of the most decent, warm, loving people you would ever run into.
Sure.
They are great public servants.
They've given their lives to it.
They've been villainized and demonized, as have I, by the drive-by media.
Well, bro, Rush, I think that basically the American people's feeling towards the war.
Have you talked to the American people?
No, sir.
I'm just basing my opinion, if you will, on the polls.
Yeah, well.
That, you know, they're not satisfied with the war.
And, of course, they blame both President Bush, but I think they blame Vice President Cheney as well as Carl.
Bro, so I don't know.
That's just my opinion.
I just thought I would share it with you.
Well, you're entitled to an opinion.
Yeah, sure.
I do.
You are.
You can have your own opinion, and you're entitled to be wrong.
We have that freedom in this country.
The fact of the matter is, if you want to based on polls, recent polls are up.
More people support the initial invasion of Iraq.
More people think it's going well.
The president's approval numbers are going up.
This is all based on the surge.
The New York Times, two stories, two days.
We can't get out of Iraq now.
Why, this is the wrong way to get.
The editorial today, the New York Times is actually about the Brits, you know, packing up and leaving.
I don't like it.
This is to provide cover for the Democrats to drive that car back over to Cliffs so they can get back on solid ground here.
I want to tell you guys a little story about Rove before we have to go to the break here.
Do I have time to do it?
I do.
Last Friday, a week ago Friday, as you know, I had breakfast with Rove and a bunch of the White House people after dinner with the president the night before.
And in setting it up, Carl said, why don't you bring that Snerdley guy with you?
I said, oh, Snerdley, he's going to be in Florida.
He's going to be screening calls for my replacement.
He said, oh, come on.
Come on.
Snerdley deserves some FaceTime at the White House.
He works hard.
He's stuck in Palm Beach all the time.
So I said, okay, well, I'll ask him.
So I asked Snerdley, and Snerdley, no, no, I can't get it.
I said, come on, Carl's asking for you specifically.
And I sent Snerdley a copy of Rove's email.
So I took Snerdley up there with me, and he fended for himself on Thursday night, which he knows how to do quite well.
And we got to the White House.
Well, what time did we get there?
We got there at 6.15, Aftrite.
We got there at 6.15.
And we were the first to get into the wardrobe.
And eventually Carl came in and demanded that Snerdley sit next to him for breakfast and spent the whole breakfast just regaling everybody with stories and so forth.
But, I mean, that's the kind of guy he is.
I don't know him well enough to know what's bad about him, but I can't imagine much.
The times I've gotten to know him, he's just the exact opposite of this caricature they have of him on the dive bike.
I'll tell you the stack of stuff I have on the Democrats today, I could spend a whole show on it.
I'm not going to, but I could.
Try this headline from Ron Fournier, the Associated Press, from yesterday, Clinton, a drag?
Democrats fear her negatives.
Details are coming up.
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