Aug. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Well, good. | |
| I'm at about time because the show started, and it's 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. | |
| A telephone number if you want to be on the program today. | |
| 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com was out in Los Angeles over the weekend, spent all day Saturday. | |
| It 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 the uh one of the skits is a show open for a uh special edition of the show on Thursday night at uh at nine o'clock this week. | |
| Uh and uh it's yeah, I'm I'm not gonna tell you about it, but it's hilarious. | |
| It is, and I I play myself in this one. | |
| I I don't I don't play the president, so and I just saw a rough edit of it uh via Quick Time movie. | |
| And uh it's cool. | |
| It's really good. | |
| A lot of fun out there. | |
| Got back uh yesterday and got ready. | |
| As soon as I get off the plane and got home, started prepping the program, ladies and gentlemen today. | |
| We got a lot to do. | |
| Carl Rove gone, leaving the White House as of August 31st. | |
| We have sound bites of the President's press conference with Carl Rove. | |
| Um he uh 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 gonna continue to uh to do this. | |
| Uh Paul Jigot said uh uh in a in a TV interview today that uh Carl Rove is uh is irreplaceable. | |
| So we'll be discussing that. | |
| The uh the Iowa straw poll. | |
| A lot of people making a big deal about this, and uh and I I don't I don't want to downplay it. | |
| Um I mean, I'm not 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. | |
| Uh it's it's uh it's August out there, and and uh all I can do is analogize this for you. | |
| This time in 2004, I mean everybody in the drive-by's were going nuts over Howard Dean. | |
| And then something happened. | |
| Then the people actually voted, and the polls were rendered useless and irrelevant. | |
| Uh 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 gonna start paying attention to it till uh after September, maybe even uh in into November. | |
| Uh and they keep moving up some of the primaries too. | |
| So it's it's it's it's it's gonna get people's attention at some point, but uh it really you know people don't live and breathe this stuff like the drive-by pundits and the uh and the wonks and so forth. | |
| Uh as you know, I'm not living and breathing at risk. | |
| Still too early for me, as uh as you well know. | |
| All right, let's get started. | |
| We got we got a tropical storm. | |
| The drive-by is are going to be ecstatic. | |
| We have Tropical Storm 4. | |
| Uh, and it's way, way out there in the tropical Atlantic in the Eastern Atlantic. | |
| They've already got a track map for it. | |
| Uh as of eight A.M. Saturday, it's gonna just uh right right through the um lesser Antilles, it looks like making a beeline for the southern portion of Hispaniola. | |
| Uh Hispaniola, uh, which is where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are. | |
| For those of you in uh in Rio Linda beyond that, they don't know. | |
| Taxes. | |
| Higher state taxes on smoking are producing sharp deplo uh declines in tobacco consumption in the U.S. Uh just as Congress considers a huge federal cigarette tax hike. | |
| This is from USA Today. | |
| Uh for example, cigarette sales fell 18% of North Carolina last year after the state tax was raised in two steps to 35 cents from uh five 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 for Wraith taxes of country infrastructure is following up. | |
| We need a wraith tackheth. | |
| Uh and and yet everybody uh ign you know starts talking about how uh the tax cuts uh which have led to a burgeoning federal treasury, a reduction in the deficit, economic growth that's going through the roof. | |
| Uh here they they admit here they think, and I think they're they're half right about this, that rising taxes is reducing consumption. | |
| Well, what why don't they apply the and this is the media center? | |
| Why don't they apply this to other aspects of taxes? | |
| Income tax increases are gonna stifle what? | |
| Spending. | |
| People are gonna have fewer fewer dollars to spend. | |
| I actually think, you know, and th that that one of the problems here is not just taxes being raised. | |
| There's 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. | |
| Uh you become a target. | |
| Uh, and and and people, secondhand smoke is gonna kill me. | |
| Put that out. | |
| I don't want it anywhere near me. | |
| So they're gonna 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 uh because they're gonna have to keep it up. | |
| It's uh it's a 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 U.K. 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 is going to it's going to cause a new crisis. | |
| Another one from the U.K., this is from the Times. | |
| They've done a study over there. | |
| Sterling, this will interest you. | |
| Uh live-in boyfriends help with the housework more than husbands. | |
| Uh, 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 the 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 uh 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 key 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 uh on the success ladder, which has led the European Union to mandate that men spend more time at home taking out the garbage and uh 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 uh to uh earn as much money as uh as men do. | |
| The researchers on this, by the way, were based at North Carolina State University and George Mason University took data from more than 17,000 people in uh in 28 countries. | |
| So the the trick uh is if you're gonna get married, women want to get married after a certain passage of time, they're gonna want to get married. | |
| They just live in stuff's good for a while. | |
| And then the men, that the trick for the men, given what happens is you gotta be able to uh 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. | |
| Feder Why get married? | |
| What 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 uh we've done that. | |
| Federal deficits 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 dollars for the budget. | |
| What were they targeting? | |
| 400 billion dollars, folks. | |
| As the federal deficit this year, nearly 400 billion is gonna come in at 157.3 billion. | |
| That is a substantial improvement from the red ink figure of last year, which was uh 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 uh 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 spend enough on the people of this country, Mr. Limbaugh, you're just funneling it all into a rock, and our bridges are falling, all kinds of things there. | |
| Carl Rovitz leaving because we don't. | |
| In fact, 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 village. | |
| 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 but destroy the place. | |
| So we got the federal deficit coming down big time because of tax cuts. | |
| We've got the military number four behind social spending. | |
| I mean, and by the way, let's add this up. | |
| If you put uh let's see, Medicare and Medicaid 560 billion, Social Security another 516 billion. | |
| So you got those three programs, uh, you're you're over you're over a thousand 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 C I told you so's 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 gonna happen. | |
| They're not gonna saddle themselves with defeat. | |
| They only want to try to do that to the president. | |
| So uh 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 uh shift in the Democrat Party on Iraq. | |
| This is because the surge is working. | |
| The Democrats have got to pull back the over to Cliff on this. | |
| And so these two stories in the New York Times are designed to give cover to the Hillaries and the Barack Obamas and whoever else out there, the John Edwards, to say we uh, you know, we we we we do think we should bring our troops home, uh, but we can't pull out there right. | |
| We and no what the way they're gonna say it is Bush has created such a mess that it would be irresistible. | |
| Bush's he's he didn't he went into Iraq for no reason whatsoever is totally uncall for he lied, blah, blah, blah. | |
| But the result of it is all the world's terrorists are there. | |
| Well, we just can't abandon that. | |
| You can't that uh 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 gonna 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. | |
| 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, 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 pain, who is black, writing in uh New York News Day or Newsday, get this headline, Mr. Sturdley. | |
| 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 Hillary be a black man. | |
| 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, hey, it went out and they did a little debate forum, did a dog and pony show. | |
| They uh, you know, they uh pandered to them. | |
| But why will nobody ask? | |
| Is Hillary gay enough? | |
| Is Obama gay enough? | |
| Is John Edwards the Breck Girl gay enough? | |
| Would they be good gay leaders? | |
| First gay the first black president, first female president for Edwards. | |
| But they're leaving out this I mean i i uh 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 is Edwards more of a woman than Hillary is? | |
| Um 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. | |
| For decades why do you think that is? | |
| Our life expectancy is still way high. | |
| I mean, the uh life expectancy now for a baby born today, 77.9 years. | |
| But there are other countries with uh 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 nine million kids. | |
| They throw the numbers around, but nobody ever proves it. | |
| Besides with the federal law requiring anybody showing up in the emergency room get treated, everybody has access to our health care system. | |
| And it is the best in the world. | |
| Health care systems in Canada and the U.K. are falling apart, and the people who can afford to opt out of them are doing so. | |
| Well, everybody knows this. | |
| Uh 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 uh other factors that are cited, uh 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 and and everybody's pretty hunky-dory with that. | |
| They think they're fine fat, uh, because everybody else is fat. | |
| It's become the new norm. | |
| There are other reasons given. | |
| Uh some of the other countries that are ahead of us. | |
| Uh Japan, uh, most of Europe, Jordan, Guam, the uh Cayman Islands. | |
| Dr. Christopher Murray, the uh 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 uh 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 little uh not so stealth attempts by the drive-bys uh and the Democrats, pushing, of course, the election of Hillary Clinton to uh 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 uh audio sum. | |
| Oh, before we go to the audio sound bites, I just got one headline. | |
| We got uh 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, they're they're 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. | |
| I'm you idiots. | |
| That's the voice, by the way, the new Castrati. | |
| Uh which can happen to you, by the way, if you uh happen to get on the wrong side of Hillary Clinton and the testicle lock box. | |
| But regardless, trees are it's God's in control, folks. | |
| We aren't on this kind of stuff. | |
| And it's time everybody woke up and understood it. | |
| Audio sound bites. | |
| President Bush and Carl Rove, a joint press conference today to announce Carl Rove's departure. | |
| Here are the uh is the first of what we have three bites. | |
| Carl Rove is moving on down the road. | |
| I would call Carl Rove a dear friend. | |
| We've known each other uh as uh youngsters interested in serving our state and 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 uh 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 life, too. | |
| I've seen a man of far-sighted courage put America on a war footing and protect us against a brutal enemy and a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century. | |
| I 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 ten 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 and 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 Carl Rove with the president this morning, and that's that's uh that's who he is. | |
| You know, uh uh everybody talks about how um when they meet the president, that uh they wish people could get to know him the way he is when you meet him in private. | |
| You say the same thing about Carl Rove. | |
| You know, Rove has been attacked, vilified. | |
| You have to understand that the Democrats, they're golden boy was Al Gore. | |
| Next golden boy was Kerry. | |
| They hate Rove because Rove outsmarted them twice and continued to outsmart them. | |
| They they waited for a year, every Friday, they waited in newsrooms in the drive-by media, hoping and praying for a Carl Rove indictment. | |
| Uh They despise Carl 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 have they really have been uh humiliated and embarrassed a number of times, and they're not going to stop going after the poor guy. | |
| They are gonna they're gonna hunt him down as a private citizen. | |
| Uh first thing over the firing of the U.S. attorneys uh 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 Carl Rove did and get away with it. | |
| Uh and I, you know, normally uh folks. | |
| Well, let me just tell you, I've I've was with Carl Rove a week ago Friday for breakfast in the uh in the White House mess. | |
| This is the day after uh I'd had dinner with the president. | |
| And it was all social. | |
| Um it didn't talk about any of this. | |
| This this didn't come up. | |
| Uh there were no policy discussion. | |
| About ten of us in the room, uh, and it was just a great time, and he was upbeat and laughing, and he was playing with his iPhone. | |
| Um 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 a sh one of the smartest people you would ever run into. | |
| The statistics and history of politics that he can rattle off. | |
| I remember uh last summer, a year ago in June, after we had the forum at the Heritage Foundation on uh the TV show 24 and terrorism. | |
| Uh Carl had invited a whole gang over for lunch in the White House mess. | |
| And then they uh he took us to his office afterwards. | |
| And during the lunch and during the um 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. | |
| Uh uh, it was just he's a he's a fine, upstanding, cheerful, optimistic person, just like the uh the president is. | |
| And as Paul Jigot said, uh he's he's not replaceable in the White House. | |
| Uh and I tend to uh agree with that. | |
| Now, normally, folks, I I have given up spending any time playing sound bites from Chris Matthews's show because it's predictable and it's uh hardly anybody watches it anyway. | |
| And it's just it's you know, you if you want to watch it, you can, but uh get into these repeated offerings of sound bites from that show is something that I abandoned as a programming principle many, many broadcast months ago. | |
| However, I'm gonna 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. | |
| Uh and I'm gonna 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 in 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 to try to get him in a witness chair. | |
| I think Henry Waxman's gonna 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 be, on the leak 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 Arminy. | |
| 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. | |
| Uh Gregory says, well, uh, can uh 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 he forced the election of 2002, the congressional election on the war in Iraq, and won the election of 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? | |
| This is they don't have a uh basis in reality. | |
| They are not grounded, folks, and and that's why I'm uh I'm I'm playing these sound bites for you. | |
| Here's Joe Scarl, Scarborough, by the way, on uh uh on vacation, but he called into his own show today. | |
| This is such breaking news to say this. | |
| All of us now in Washington, I think it was throughout most of 2006. | |
| Every Friday, it seemed. | |
| The word was Carl Rove's going to get it died at this Friday. | |
| Our staffs were told, you know, you may have to stay late Friday night because they're about to die, Carl Rove. | |
| Yeah, well, he had five grand jury interviews or appearances. | |
| Not one led to an indictment. | |
| They were trying, they were trying to it's a 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. | |
| So um uh but they were just they were just itching in the drive-by media, just itching for Carl 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 in this is funny, but they think Bush is a genuine stooge, a bumbling idiot. | |
| These people really do believe that Carl Rove is the winner wizard of Oz. | |
| They believe he is the entire single brain in that administration. | |
| Uh they believe it. | |
| This is not something they just concoct and uh 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 uh Diane Sawyer interviewing via telephone, uh uh uh Washington correspondent uh Stephanopoulos, I guess. | |
| Uh and uh says, you know, uh 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. | |
| Uh, I think the Republicans have very good chance to hold on to the White House, this Rove says. | |
| What about these words uh 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 uh uh President Bush. | |
| They all view uh Hillary Clinton as the strongest uh Democratic candidate, the most experienced. | |
| They also believe that she is such a polarizing figure that she could give a Republican the chance of winning the White House if she's nominated. | |
| Carl Rove's partner in the 2004 campaign, uh, Ken Nellman has called Hillary Clinton an angry candidate, who and they say that uh the American people simply won't go for an angry candidate. | |
| This is uh 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, uh, or even NBC offers Carl Rove a job hosting a Sunday morning show like Stephanopoulos has. | |
| How long will it be before one of the drive-by networks offers Carl 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 gonna go to the phone here in just a second, but this is hilarious. | |
| Researchers. | |
| Colin. | |
| 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 uh of the story. | |
| It comes from a website called Channel 3000. | |
| And I don't know what Channel 3,000 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, that they're bombing out. | |
| Listen 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'd be too late for what? | |
| To stop mutant poison ivy for taking over our lives. | |
| Here is uh John in Silver Spring, Maryland. | |
| John, I'm uh I'm glad you called. | |
| Glad you waited. | |
| You're up first today. | |
| Great to have you with us, sir. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Thank you, Brash. | |
| Uh just a comment regarding uh Carl Rowe. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh I get the opinion from talking to many of my friends. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Uh I guess uh a feeling regarding the uh American people's uh view of Congress and the presidency, that there's just a mistrust of both Roe and Cheney. | |
| And it appears to me that uh uh they seem to be somewhat uh a little devious in what they do. | |
| Uh I wonder why people would think that. | |
| Well, I don't know. | |
| Why do it's because call a media. | |
| It's called the drive-by's and the Democrats, because there's nothing can 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. | |
| Yeah. | |
| They've been villainized and demonized, as have I, yeah, by the drive-by media. | |
| Well, bro, uh 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 uh, you know, they're not satisfied with the war, and of course they blame both uh President Bush, but I think they play uh blame uh Pres uh Vice President Cheney as well as Carl uh Bro. | |
| So I don't know. | |
| Uh 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. | |
| Uh the fact of the matter is, if you want to basically on polls, recent polls are up. | |
| Uh more people support the initial invasion of Iraq, more people under think it's going well, the president's approval numbers are going up. | |
| This is all based on the surge. | |
| Uh the New York Times, two stories, two days. | |
| We can't get out of Iraq now. | |
| Why, we this is the wrong way to get the the editorial today of the New York Times is actually about the Brits, you know, uh packing up and leaving. | |
| They don't like it. | |
| This is to provide cover for the Democrats to drive that car back over to cliffs 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 I do? | |
| Last Friday, a week ago Friday, as you know, I had breakfast with uh with with Rove and a bunch of the White House people after dinner with the president the night before. | |
| And in setting it up, uh Carl said again, why don't you bring that snurdly guy with you? | |
| I said, Oh, snurdly is gonna be in Florida. | |
| He's gonna 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 Snerdly and Sterling, no, no, I can't. | |
| I said, Come on, Carl's asking for you specifically. | |
| And I sent Snerdley a copy of Rove's email. | |
| So I took Snertley up there with me, and uh 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 we get there? | |
| We got there at 6.15 after it. | |
| We got there at 615. | |
| Uh 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 uh spent the whole breakfast just regaling everybody with stories and and so forth. | |
| But uh I mean that's that's the that's the kind of um uh guy he is. | |
| I I I I don't know him well enough to know what what's bad about him, but uh 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 dire bite. | |
| I'd say 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 uh from yesterday. | |
| Clinton, a drag. | |
| Democrats fear her negatives. | |
| Details are coming up. | |
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| Back before you know it, folks. |
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