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Sept. 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Where is Snerdley?
Can't start the program without the call screener.
I can't believe it.
I have been gone over a week, and the call screener can't get back here in time.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
We're going to be here all week.
Great to be back with you.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today is 800-282-2882 and the uh email address.
Don't sit there and get mad at me.
Don't walk in that room and act mad at me because I pointed out you're not there.
It comes in and starts throwing things around.
What do you still on standard time?
Phone number 800-282-288-2, uh, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
You know, folks, I was so hoping when I was in Hawaii last week that when Larry Craig announced he was quitting the Senate, that instead that he had come to the microphone.
And he had said, I am announcing today that I intend to switch parties and become a Democrat.
Sived a lot of problems.
Yeah, I guess we could call this the bathroom stall update theme.
Uh Paolo Conti on the uh on the vocal portrayal here.
Let's go to the sound bites before the the real point about this, I think has been missed.
Uh, and that's because, of course, I have been gone.
Uh since I am back, I will make the real point.
I want to review some some audio sound bites with this first.
A montage.
Drive-by media just loved talking about the details of gay bathroom sex when there wasn't any gay bathroom sex.
It's not the primary function of public parks, restrooms, and rest areas.
But for men in search of anonymous same-sex partners, they are popular destinations.
A thrill to the hunt to the excitement of sex in a public place.
People can genuinely get up and say I'm not gay, but I'm still one of these people that have sex with men.
They're not gay, but they have sex.
Tapping the foot, which apparently this is lingo.
He's not gay, but he's a man having sex with a man.
Craig tapped his toes several times and moved his foot closer to my foot.
I moved my foot up and down slowly.
Craig moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot, which was within my stall area.
This man used leg signals, hand signals.
I've been bothered in men's rooms.
He peered through the crack in the door and used hand signals to indicate he wanted sex.
Why men's rooms?
That was Larry King.
Why men's rooms?
Uh that's where the men are.
Larry, you're don't make me laugh.
Folks, I came back here.
I don't know how you do it, but I caught a cold in Hawaii.
I cut a cold last Wednesday.
I thought I was over it on the airplane coming home on uh Saturday night Sunday.
And I woke up, what was it, yesterday?
Worse than ever.
And I thought, oh my God, this can't be this.
How do you catch a cold in Hawaii?
It's a little like Chesco.
Every time I go away play golf, I get one of these things.
Uh ATT, Pebble Beach last November.
Really bad.
I missed a couple of works days because of that one.
That was that was almost let's go to the hospital time.
Anyway.
Uh that's the montage.
So Larry Craig, uh, we got all the details of gay bathroom sex, of which there was none in this scandal.
Let's go to Senator Craig himself.
This is uh August 28th, this in Boise, Idaho.
He held a press conference, a portion of his comments here.
While I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct at the Minneapolis Airport or anywhere else.
I chose to plead guilty to a lesser charge in hopes of making it go away.
Let me be clear.
I am not gay.
I never have been gay.
All right, so the Republicans threw Larry Craig over the board uh overboard under the bus, actually.
And you know who was driving the bus?
Mitt Romney.
I think we've all heard the story about Bill Clinton and the fact that he let us down in his personal conduct uh with a White House intern.
And that that strikes me as another one of these uh extraordinary acts of uh uh falling short of what America would expect of elected officials, particularly one who should be held to a higher standard.
Well, this is a guy that was supporting Mitt Romney.
He's throw him under the bus like that.
This is pandering, this is pandering to the Christian right.
This is can't pandering to uh to values voters out there, and it insults them uh to to go this way.
Tom Delay was on uh uh PMS NBC last Thursday, And he had this exchange with the uh reporter at Contessa Brewer.
Uh and and basically uh she said to start it off, the Republicans have also had a very strong message about morals.
And this is where I want to take this.
Uh but Delay will set it up here.
And Contessa Brewer, the reason I'm going to play this bite is because she is going to make the point that I'm going to expand upon after this uh bite is played.
She said the uh Republicans have uh also had a very strong message about morals.
They like to announce they take the moral high road on many issues, yet earlier you had David Vitter linked to the prostitution ring.
Last year you had uh Mark Foley, Bob Nay, you yourself saw Senator Lay or Congressman to Lay still facing charges of money laundering and conspiring to launder money.
So the question is if you're going to announce you take the moral high road, do you have to stop living in glass houses?
Well, Contessa, you just exhibited the double standard in the media.
And how is that?
Well, you just listed a bunch of Republicans, but you didn't list one Democrat.
I mean, the fact that William Jefferson was caught with $90,000 of Mark Rails in his freezer.
But we have, but Congressman, pardon the interruption, but that is a story that we have covered over and over again.
No, actually it doesn't upset me.
But because the Republicans, here's the problem it's the hypocrisy.
If people live in glass houses, they shouldn't throw stones.
The problem is the media has a double standard.
Uh she said it, and this is this is the uh the the fascinating aspect of this to me, which I've pointed out, I've been pointing this out countless times on this uh on this program for many, many years, and she says it's the hypocrisy.
The left in this country, folks, has made it a point to go after the hypocrisy of conservatives and Republicans, not really the behavior.
If they go after the behavior, they have to condone or condemn rather the behavior on their side of the aisle.
And the whole point of the left is to have no standards.
Because if you have no standards, you can't be held to any standards.
And if the left established standards that it wanted to adhere to, then it would have to abandon the uh or it'd have to jettison the supporters that come from the pervert ranks of the Democrat Party, the depraved, the, you know, the the the gutter dwellers out there, and they are all Democrats.
And they are Democrats because the Democrats will not judge them.
Now, in the case of Larry Craig here, we're getting the impression the impression's being left that he was uh forced to resign over being gay.
Uh because i i mean he wasn't.
He in fact he wasn't outed.
There's a there's a blogger at the Washington Post that's all happy today because I got Craig, I outed Craig.
Was he outed?
Has Larry Craig been outed as a as somebody he's been denying these games, been outed?
He has not been out of it.
In fact, he resigned because of the heat that he received for pleading to a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct.
Everybody else seems to be filling in the blanks here with their own agendas.
Now remember, as I said moments ago, my friends, the aim of the left is to aim straight for the hypocrisy of uh of conservatives and Republicans, not the behavior.
In this case, they need the behavior of Larry Craig in order to hit the hypocrisy.
And we've had to deal with this before.
You know, everybody out there that I've been watching this morning is making the argument that I made some time ago, and that is that the left's position seems to be that since they have no moral standards, they can't be held to any moral standards.
Moreover, since we on the right do believe in moral standards, they say we must live perfect lives, which of course is not possible because nobody's perfect.
That's what original sin is all about.
Original sin exempts this.
Nobody can live a perfect life.
And so the the left seems to want to zero in and discredit virtually everyone who supports uh or who exhibits a a failed lifestyle regardless of their values.
Uh and of course, this is this is nonsensical because it's not possible, but that's that's what they're trying to do.
We conservatives understand this as well.
Uh and this is why we seek to limit the power of the elites, uh handful of imperfect people who ride into power and want to determine what everybody can and can't do.
Uh Democrats, everything they do is perfect because there are no standards that they adhere to.
There are no rights, there are no wrongs, There's no good or bad.
They're not nothing, nothing applies to them.
They are perfect.
Liberalism is the standard, and it's a standard that says everything goes.
But they go even further.
If one or a group of people who belong to the party of family values fails to live up to a high standard, then the entire party and movement is condemned.
And that is the tactic they're employing here.
And the truth is that when they take this position on the left, they expose the idiocy of their views.
The bottom line is this we all ought not strive to be more perfect because we're imperfect.
We ought not strive to be good and moral because we can't be.
I mean, that's what their philosophy is.
You shouldn't try to be perfect because you can't.
You shouldn't try to exude any morality because you can't.
I mean, what kind of philosophy is that?
Therefore, if Larry Craig had been a Democrat and liberal, there would be no supposed hypocrisy, because Democrats and liberals have no moral standards.
If he would have called himself a def, he just changed parties, why he'd be in great shape today.
This is the logic of the left.
Uh and it's studied and it is purposeful.
They need this position to defend the reprobates amongst themselves.
And I don't need to name the reprobates.
I mean, you can why do they defend felons?
Why they try to get felons the right to vote again?
Uh, you know, here in New York, you know there is not a law.
I have some friends in town today who went out to buy some shoes and some dresses, some ladies in town that I know.
Do you know that there is not a law in this town to prevent the owner of the store from cutting a little peeping hole in a dressing room and staring at them as they take their clothes off?
There's not.
As long as he doesn't film anything, as long as he doesn't tape any take any pictures, it's okay for anybody in the store to check out these unsuspecting women anywhere in New York City.
So a local councilman said, well, this is not good.
We need a law to stop this.
And the New York Civil Liberties Union is opposing the law, saying, well, who gets to sit in judgment of who looking through a peephole is behaving in a lewd manner.
So here you have a classic illustration of what we're talking about.
The left simply cannot allow laws to determine uh what is good or bad because they need the exemption.
They need to be able to support and and and get the support of uh of the perverts and the whinos and the reprobates of American culture.
And they can't do that if they come up with a political philosophy that condemns that behavior.
For example, if you oppose the left's agenda, and one of the items in the agenda is expanding this idiotic hate crimes agenda to homosexuals, uh, where you receive more jail time for what you think when you commit a crime.
You commit a crime, if it happens to be against a homosexual, they can add jail time to it because you must have been thinking bigoted thoughts of homophobia.
And that's on the left's agenda.
If you oppose that and so forth, then you are mean-spirited, you are a bigot, and are promoting a wedge issue and deserve no pity whatsoever.
It's very convenient for the left here.
The point being that uh you are to be judged in the end not on how you support things on the well, you are to be judged on how you support the left's agenda.
And if you support the left's agenda, then you get away with anything, and they will not condemn you.
We saw this in the in the Clinton administration, folks.
I mean, you had Bill Clinton accused of rape.
He was accused of sexual abuse in the oval orifice, all these other things.
And the left-wing so-called women's groups are either silent or found ways to defend him.
We got to take a quick time out, which will do, and I'll be back right after this.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
El Rushbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, back from vacation, rested, ready and raring to go, all revved up.
Um lots going on out there.
I don't think we can possibly get through in today's excursion into broadcast excellence, everything that uh wish to discuss.
Kept tabs of things while I was gone, got that stack, got the current stack, got audio sound bites, and when I was gone, current audio sound bites.
I've just put things here in a uh in a random order.
Oh, plus we're gonna be getting your phone calls as well.
Try this uh this headline, rock stars more likely to die Prematurely.
Rock stars, notorious for their crash and burn lifestyles, really uh really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.
A study of more than one thousand, mainly British and North American artists spanning the era from Elvis to the rapper Eminem found that there were two to three times more likely to suffer a premature death than the general population.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
I mean, everybody's gonna die, and we're all gonna die sooner than we should because something's wrong out there, but get the last line of the story.
It could also be due to the poor medical outlook for impoverished American ex-pop stars who have no health insurance.
Oh.
So the real reason they may die early is because they have no health insurance.
And science has concluded another study, ladies and gentlemen, and shockingly, and this no wonder we have global warming nuts.
Because this is what passes for science.
Science is confirming what most women know.
When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
We've just had a scientific study to confirm this.
Guys will not be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
Just because people say that they're looking for a particular set of characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, it doesn't mean that's what they'll end up choosing, said Peter Todd of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University Bloomington.
Researchers led by Todd report in today's editions of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study found humans were similar to most other mammals, following Darwin's principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if humans say something different.
The study involved 26 men and 20 women in Munich, Germany.
And from this, they conclude this.
Men's choices did not reflect their stated preferences.
The researchers concluded, men appeared to base their decisions mostly on a woman's physical attractiveness.
Needed a study for this.
Um I say, no wonder we have global warming nuts.
I mean, if it takes a study to confirm something like this, they also say that women, you know, women uh uh uh are much more choosy when it comes to selecting men because they choose men who will not leave them.
They make a choice, they don't want to end up as bag ladies.
They don't want to end up single and childless and with no money in their late 40s or 50s, because then it's hopeless.
So they choose men that won't leave them.
So the way this works, this is this finally is now understandable to me.
I have walked through malls in my day.
Not often, not recently, but I've done it.
And you see two people together say, how in the hell did this happen?
I mean, you see, you see a really strange-looking guy and an even stranger looking woman.
Well, the woman has a, according to this research, the woman knows the top that she's gonna get gonna get in terms of looks.
And she will choose a guy who will be not attractive to many other women so that he won't leave.
And that's what this study confirms.
Men, on the other hand, do the best they can, which doesn't explain what I saw in the mall.
But nevertheless, here's some headlines that we're gonna expand on today from last week's Drudge uh uh report.
Dangerous Iraq chemicals found stored at the United Nations in New York City.
Colorado school bans tag on its playground.
Survey, fewer than half of scientists endorse man-made global warming.
A priest, by the way, this priest offers eco confessions for environmental sinners, confirming one of my original theories, and that is that militant environmentalism, global warming, all this hoaxy stuff is nothing more than a religion.
And China says that one child policy it has will help protect the climate.
The Breck girl, John Edwards, with a couple of announcements while I was gone.
One that everybody should get rid of their SUVs except him, and uh he also backs mandatory preventive care for everybody.
He said Sunday that uh that his uh uh uh universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
It requires everybody be covered, it requires everybody get preventive care.
He told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Cemetery, uh, courthouse, sorry.
So if you're gonna go in the system, you can't choose to go to the doctor for 20 years.
You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are okay.
This requires comment, which will be forthcoming after this brief timeout.
Thank you.
Back right after this.
Yes.
Right.
Right.
Left out Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Can't forget about that.
Here we are, as usual, half my brain tied behind my back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Let's grab a couple phone calls.
Been over a week since I've talked to any of you people.
I've missed you.
Robin in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Welcome to the program.
I wish you'd been here last week.
I think it's a matter of simple arithmetic about this Larry Craig affair.
Yeah.
It's just the balance of power in the Senate.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
He didn't have an affair.
I know what you mean, but let's let's not contribute.
He did not have an affair.
All right, the foot out there.
Larry Craig happening.
Uh whatever excuse they can land on.
And this one just seemed to blindside people.
They couldn't think past it.
And it was just an excuse.
Anything to get rid of a Republican senator.
And I know there's a Republican governor who will appoint a Republican, but he comes up for elections soon.
And I think we should all send contributions to the successor.
Because he hasn't prepared for an election.
Well, I think the RNC will uh do their best to take care of that.
You make a good point, uh, that that all what they're doing here is is simply trying to go after uh Republicans.
And the Democrats uh do this because they have little confidence that they can beat Republicans the ballot box.
I'll tell you they're gonna go after David Vitter of Louisiana next, and Pat Lahay made the point yesterday of Fox News Sunday with uh with Chris Wallace, who said, Look, before we get to the choice of the new attorney general, let's discuss the resignation of your colleague Larry Craig.
Senator Leahy, let me start with you.
What do you make of the case?
Did he have to go?
We have another Senator who apparently uh used telephones in the Republican cloakroom to call the so-called Washington Madam, uh, set up uh illegal activity with with call girls.
And nobody seems to be uh upset with that.
Uh frankly, I would think that that as compared to uh a sting operation in a men's room in uh in Minnesota would be as serious.
I mean, that's a that's a a question that the Republican Party will have to be.
Now, you're talking about Louisiana Senator David Vitter.
Yes, yes, of course.
Of course, we wouldn't be talking about a Democrat.
A Democrat can do whatever they want, and there's no problem whatsoever.
Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy can make the famous waitress sandwiches at La Brasserie, and it's a resume enhancement.
Well, we've addressed the uh this is all about hypocrisy.
Howard Dean, when he was running for president, folks, I will never forget, said he was gonna root out Republican hypocrisy.
Now you have to understand this is the this is the uh the target here.
They they they claim to be able to discredit Republicans on the basis of hypocrisy.
Uh they can't condemn the behavior because they they they protect and encourage the behavior when practiced by people who support them or by themselves.
So they have to go out and target hypocrisy.
Larry Craig was not caught doing anything.
Uh he he pled guilty to a misdemeanor trying to make the whole thing, uh, whole thing go away.
And that's that's what caused his downfall.
So now you hear Leahy say, and they want to go after uh I want to go after David Vitter, as though uh there are no Democrats who have patronized call girls and madams and so forth.
But see, even if there were, they that's okay because they don't critical of it.
The left does not criticize prostitutes or prostitution, and so when they visit a madam or a call girl, why there's no hypocrisy, and so there's no crime.
There's no guilt.
Because in the land of the left, there are no standards.
Nothing's In fact, the more depraved you are, the more valued you are.
Because the more unique and different you are, and the easier it will be to make you a victim.
The greater pervert, the more depraved you are, the more attractive you are to the Democrat Party and the American left.
Ben in Charlotte, North Carolina, you're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh Tara iPhone Ditto's rush.
Thank you, sir.
You on your iPhone now?
Yes, I am.
That sounds awesome.
That just sounds awesome.
I hear you just fine.
Good.
Um is uh in regards to how you and Tom DeLay are handling when when asked the question, you know, where's the double standard?
They do, I mean, the the media will get on William Jefferson.
But what they won't do is hold the entire party accountable for what William Jefferson does.
Right.
So uh I don't think that he summed it up nicely.
When Tom DeLay was talking to her, she said, but we did hold William Jefferson accountable.
His response should have been yes, but did you hold the Democratic Party accountable?
Well, I understand that.
Uh uh, but you, of course, you're exempting me from this criticism, I hope, because I did make that very point in my analysis after that sound bite, not about delay who should have said it, but I did point out that what they do, they take the behavior of a Larry Craig or a Vitter or whoever, and it condemn the whole party for it.
They condemn the whole conservative movement for it.
Uh you must have missed that.
I'll exempt you for that.
Okay, thank you.
You know, the the other thing is uh they don't uh sometimes they'll bring up things that we aren't really bringing up anymore.
I mean, my mother-in-law is a really liberal person.
Yeah.
And when when the debates were going on, she kept commenting on all of the Republicans have been divorced.
All the Republicans have been divorced.
Right.
And I'm like, who's talking about divorce?
Like, she's just acting like they're hypocrites because they've been divorced, as though we're the party of, you know, no divorce.
They're talking about things we're not even talking about.
I know.
So this is the this is the uh uh I'm I'm I'm forced now to go back to my brilliant monologue here following the delay soundbite in the first half hour, but uh what what the the point here again is that when you have a values voter-based party, which the Republican Party is, I mean the values voters vote for them, and the Christian right votes for Republicans for the most part.
So when you have Republicans who fall off the moral uh bus, if you will, be uh then the the the um Democrats try to say, aha, we have hypocrisy here.
They go after the hypocrisy rather than the behavior.
Uh the Democrats do not hold themselves to any standard because they don't protect any.
They don't they don't promote any, they don't they don't say they adhere to any.
Now, the the interesting thing is this you get a lot of Republican candidates who've been divorced.
Uh divorce have been very, very good to a lot of guys.
It's made them happier, it's got them different families.
I mean, it's it's it's uh you know, it it and everybody fails.
There's not one person that does not commit some kind of a sin.
It is impossible to live a perfect life.
Now, just because uh let's let Democrats have been trying this for I don't know how long.
If you didn't serve in the military, you can't support the defense budget.
If you didn't serve in the military, if you didn't sign up in 69 to go kill commies in Vietnam, you have no right to talk about the use of the military today because you're being a hypocrite.
Where were you when it was time to kill commies?
You'll be glad to send other people's kids off to kill people, but you wouldn't go do it yourself, so you shut up.
And this is because the left cannot beat us in the arena of ideas, folks.
They have to shut us up either by discrediting who we are, uh, or blaming us as being hypocrites and so forth.
And what they hope to do here in the long run, uh, is okay, here's somebody who's divorced, can't talk about gay marriage.
Why, I know some of the most I know some of the most healthy and loving relationships among gay people, and here's a re divorced Republican, he shouldn't be allowed to comment.
And that's how it works.
Uh now the the the the see the thing about this is you have the the understand this, and it it may sound a bit extreme, but to understand this, the left must, by definition, have no standards.
So it can't be accused of violating them.
Now, just because somebody makes a mistake in life does not mean they don't know the difference between right and wrong.
And it does not disqualify them from being able to tell other people, you know, what's right and wrong.
We've got fewer and fewer people willing to say what's right and wrong because they're attacked as intolerant, as bigots, as as as prejudiced people.
Uh and and if you somebody says to you, I think we must teach more tolerance in the schools.
Really?
How about teaching more math and more history?
Tolerance is simply respect.
And it used to be taught at home.
To give up whole class periods to teach tolerance is nothing more than a liberal trick to make sure that people do not judge and do not condemn behavior, which in the old days automatically would have been, because we all know what's right and wrong.
Doesn't mean we all live perfect lives because we can't, but we all know that more and more of us have been intimidated into not saying what's right and wrong and not being judgmental because we're going to face all kinds of hell directed towards us personally.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
Keeping with our happy feet uh theme, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh little Michael Jackson uh bumper music rotation here.
We are back, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I want to go back to this uh because I promise that I would, this John Edwards story, in which he said Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require all Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
Now I have a question.
His universal health care is socialized medicine.
And I have a simple question for you people.
Under socialized medicine, who is in charge of your health?
Do you realize it ain't going to be you?
You will not be in charge of your health under socialized medicine.
And some of you may actually like that, which is a scary thing.
Some of you may actually relish the fact that somebody's going to make you go to the doctor, your neighbors are going to pay for it, and you're going to find out early on whether you're sick or not.
But for me, it's a frightening concept because this is government control over everything, including what you might get in terms of your health.
How many of you go to the doctor when you are not sick?
I suspect way too many of you do, just for the hell of it.
You have nothing else to do.
Sit around in a waiting room, read some free magazines, see the doctor, see the nurse.
You think somebody else is paying for it, your own insurance program.
How many of you go to the doctor when you're not sick?
I don't go to the doctor when I am sick because I know that I'm going to get over it at some point.
Plus, I'm really, really sick, then I go to the doctor, but I don't go to the doctor very much at all.
I freaking hate going to the doctor.
Stand in line, wait for three hours a waste of time.
But many of you people probably go to the doctor when you're not sick.
I don't want to go to the doctor when I'm not sick.
I don't want to have to go be told what I'm not sick with.
But John Edwards is going to require that you go to the doctor every year.
You are going to have to go to the doctor for preventive health care.
The whole idea is a continuum of care, he said, basically from birth to death.
Now, this is, you know, we've we've talked on this program on several occasions, ladies and gentlemen, the real point of all of this, and that is control.
It's not your health, and it's not keeping you healthy and all.
It's just control.
Uh and this is what liberal democrats uh are after.
Uh and they and they count this stuff in terms of trying to help you and your good health and so forth.
Who's going to pay for all this, by the way?
How much is all this going to cost?
And people going to the doctor when they don't have to.
Isn't that one of the problems?
Now too many people going to the doctor for unnecessary purposes and reasons.
Hang nails and this sort of thing.
And it gets charged to Medicare, Medicaid, or somebody's health insurance program.
Uh this is uh and plus it promotes the idea that we're all always sick anyway, and we've got to find to the doctor, go to the doctor and make sure he finds.
We're all sick.
Nobody's healthy.
We're all gonna die.
All of us have got something.
We all eat wrong, we all behave wrong, we all drive wrong, something's gonna kill us, and liberals are gonna make sure we find out in time by uh by going to the doctor.
There's another story about Edwards or that that should disqualify John Edwards uh as a presidential candidate, even more so than the stupid statement he made before I left uh for vacation, and that is the U.S. poverty rate has declined significantly.
Uh and this, according to Census Bureau Statistics, this is right in the middle of Edward's campaign where he claims poverty is on the rise, and we've got to wipe it out.
Meantime, Tom in Boise, Idaho.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Megaditto.
Thank you, sir.
I'm just calling about the Larry Craig issue.
I live here in Boise, and I agree with you about the media trying to point out Republican hypocrisy and all that, but I think you're wrong about why the Republicans threw Craig under the bus.
It wasn't so much that I know why they threw him under the bus.
What do you mean I'm wrong about why they threw him under the bus?
Well, uh why'd they throw him under the bus?
It wasn't so much about the gay issue.
It was about him lying to us and about the whole way he handled the situation.
You know, he just showed incredibly poor judgment in the whole way he handled it, trying to cover it up and not tell anyone.
He didn't even tell his wife about it.
Didn't tell his staff.
Didn't hire a lawyer.
Right.
And he thinks he can just brush it under the rug.
And around here, Republicans were already upset with him about how he voted on the amnesty bill.
They already weren't going to support him for that reason.
Right, right, right.
And then this is just icing on the cake.
Yeah.
So to speak.
So the gay thing had little to do with it.
It was a horrible lack of judgment on his part and the way he lied to us.
Well, that may be from your standpoint, but I guarantee the Republicans in Washington, it was not that at all.
That may have been a s uh the minor factor in this thing.
Believe me, it was the solicitation for sex charge in a bathroom, the toe tapping, the foot tapping, what you know that this this this is this is uh uh Republicans are just uh they have a tendency to be gutless.
Uh and then this was one of the uh shining examples of it.
They they made they've jumped and made all these decisions right before they found out what had really gone on here.
And it's all because they're afraid of being ho being called hypocrites and so forth.
And some Republicans are gonna say, no, Rush, you are wrong.
We stand up for more of that.
We are going to make sure we can't afford to back people who do not stand up for the the the morality and the lifestyle that we uh uh uh promote and so forth.
Yeah, I under I understand all that, but at the same time, folks, you can't sit there and just let the Democrat Party you know pick you apart.
You just you just I know it's a it's a fine line.
Um but in this kind of a battle, you know, this this kind of a a war uh uh there's certain certain factors here that have to be weighed.
Anyway, um I'm up against it on time, which is why I uh not developing this as I should.
Quick time out, we'll be back and continue, though, right after this.
All right, if if uh John Edwards is gonna require every one of us under his universal health care plan, socialized medicine, to go to the doctor all the time.
Going to be mandatory.
The government is gonna make us go to the doctor, then I have an idea.
I think the government should make every American have access to a lawyer.
I think the federal government should take over the whole legal field, just like they're taking over the whole health care industry.
Take over the legal business, set prices for all services, set salaries for all attorneys.
Everybody should be forced to go to a lawyer for preventive legal care.
You must be sent to the lawyer for your will.
You must be sent to a lawyer, a government lawyer for your prenup.
You must go to a lawyer for your real estate contracts and so forth.
No lawyer will be allowed to make more than 200,000 a year, and every lawyer will be assigned an area of the country in which he will work.
If we're gonna do this in health care, if John Edwards wants to do this to the medical industry, well, why don't we just look at the same way of behaving under the legal system in this country and virtually everything else?
Quick timeout, folks.
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