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Sept. 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Ladies and gentlemen, do we really want to live in a country where men cannot pick up other men?
And what happens when men try to pick up women?
These are serious questions we face, and this is the place we face them.
The Rush Limbaugh program and the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, here we are on the cutting edge of Societal Evolution, telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
All right.
And I should have done this during the break.
I apologize.
I gotta find um see this.
Don't have it.
No big deal.
I asked a question earlier in the uh in the program.
Do you have any problem with uh presidential candidates announcing their intentions on Jay Leno or Letterman or what have you?
Uh Mr. Snerdley nods in there that he does not.
What about you, Mamon?
Do you have any problem with it?
None none.
Oh, you do.
You you disagree with going on the Leno show.
Oh, good, good.
So I got I I have uh problems with it uh too.
Now here's the the Thompson explanation from the media guy uh running the Thompson campaign is that there'll be far more normal Americans watching the tonight show or shows like it than will be watching presidential debates.
Like there is a presidential debate Wednesday in New Hampshire.
Uh and uh there'd be far more people watching see if Thompson were to announce Tuesday than go to the debate Wednesday, uh far fewer people would know that he's announced than if uh he does it on the tonight show.
Now, Schwarzenegger announced it on tonight show.
And uh he's an actor too, and and Fred Thompson, uh Fred Thompson's an actor.
But here's my problem with it, folks, and I it's um and uh this is not settled science with me.
I mean, I'm I'm not I'm not fully uh uh decided on on this on this yet.
But uh the the I think the office is being devalued.
Or it stands the possibility of being devalued uh when it's announced in an entertainment comedy show type format.
Uh one of the fastest ways for the office of the presidency to lose its stature and its respect, to me anyway, uh excuse me, is to make the I've folks uh play happy feet again.
I have I've I've got the turn the mic.
You don't turn the microphone on till I tell you.
Turn it off.
Okay, you people watching on the Ditto Cam can see that I'm fighting the ravages of some sort of infection or virus here.
Um what do you say about dignified announcements?
Are you saying I was not being dignified here?
What am I supposed to do?
I okay, I could have stayed home.
I could have stayed home.
No, I came here to fight the battle today.
I came here to fight the war.
And I'm trying to work through this.
Do we really want to live in a country where men cannot pick up?
I'm serious about this.
If if we one of the fastest ways to devalue the office of the presidency is to make it part of the pop culture of the day, and to make the pop culture of the day relevant and important in in in selecting a president.
Um, I just it it bothers me.
Granted, the pop culture is going to hell in a handbasket.
People like Paris Hill and Lindsay Lohan go on those shows.
And uh I I just I I well, Rush, it's gotta reach a lot of average ordinary Americans, and I understand that.
But there's a more dignified way of doing this.
I think you call a press conference, you announce it, you be very serious, you just explain what you want to do.
Uh I know that the the running for the office of presidency today more than ever before requires somebody telegenic.
Uh somebody media savvy.
And I know that with the quote unquote average normal Americans.
If you can go on the tonight show or the Letterman show And come off as an average real guy.
That you uh you might you might uh have vault ahead of um other I don't know I I'm t I'm not totally decided about this.
Uh but it is it is somewhat of a um of a concern for me.
I I Yes, I did say that.
Snurdley is reminding me, but see, you that works in my favor.
Politics is showbiz for the ugly.
And showbiz for the ugly takes place in Washington.
Showbiz for the beautiful people takes place in Hollywood.
And and and you start of course, Ted Fred Thompson's uh the Hollywood showbiz guy said it uh it may fit for him.
I don't obviously he's decided it fits for him.
I know one of the one of the reasons too, you know, as far as Fred Fred Thompson is concerned, the conventional wisdom is I don't know if I believe this either.
Every time I hear this conventional wisdom stuff, the conventional wisdom is he's got a week after his announcement to make it stick.
He has a week to make it take off.
And if it doesn't take off after a week, if he doesn't have a good announcement tour with a big bang sort of start to it, then he's gonna fade and fizzle because he's waited too long to get in while all these other guys have been out there uh you know treading the paths of the state fairs and spending time with the butter queens and so forth at these various state fairs.
Thompson's been out there doing that to a certain extent as well.
I just it's just something gnawing at me.
I as I say I'm not totally decided on this.
I'm just sharing with you my considerable instincts out there.
I I can't get over this story.
This is from August 30th.
Uh United Nations officials found vials of dangerous chemicals which had been removed from Iraq a decade ago in a building at the United Nations in New York.
Uh UN officials said that there was no danger.
The FBI was called in to help remove the substances.
The material was Fosgene, a chemical warfare agent.
The inspections unit said in the statement that the chemicals had been found last Friday.
The Iraqi weapons inspectors came across the material as they were closing their orifices, which are housed in a building near the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan.
Fosgene or FOSGe, however you pronounce it, it's used extensively during uh World War One as a choking agent.
Okay, so uh in the UN building in a in a UN building in New York City, they found a dangerous chemical agent, well-known warfare agent causes choking, and the agent comes from Iraq.
Removed ten years ago.
How in the world does this mysteriously end up in a building in New York at the United Nations?
Especially since we all know that there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
How in hell can this happen?
The real question is, where is the rest of the stuff?
Hi.
Welcome back.
El Rushbone at Cutting Edge.
Can somebody name for me the last conservative presidential candidate to go on Letterman or Leno?
Throw McCain out because he's plummeted down there in the uh in the uh polls.
And and it uh I don't know if there's a connection correlation or what have you.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh presidential candidate, I said.
You give me tell me Arnold.
I've already admitted it.
Arnold went on there and announced on uh on on Leno.
Uh all right, let's go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Steve in Springfield, Oregon.
Thank you for calling, sir, and I appreciate your patience.
Hey, buddy, Megados uh from the Pacific Northwest.
Hello?
Yes.
Yeah, buddy.
Uh anyway, we're uh right next to Idaho.
I know that because I studied the old-fashioned geography, and I just wanted to say that you're you're wrong on the Larry Craig thing.
Okay.
So anyway, I I don't want that kind of guy in my party, you know, and uh um I I don't want a guy gonna try to pick up a guy in a men's room at an airport, and I don't want a guy in the White House going to try to sodomize an intern in the Oval Office.
I just I just don't want it.
Yeah.
Uh well I understand that, and I totally agree with you.
Okay.
Well, I you were kind of you know, mocking members of the Republican Party that you know we're talking about hypocrisy, and I I agree with everything that those leaders of the Republican Party said.
Um you you you were repeating them in a I'm getting to me this is this is a matter of of the people on the left dictating who among us gets to serve who's fit to hold office.
That's what bothers me about this.
I think the Republicans reacted a little bit too quickly and thrown the guy overboard because there was we don't know he didn't pick anybody up in a bathroom.
Oh man, you know how hard it is to it it it's y it wasn't toe-tapping Rush Manny.
He it was it was playing FTSE, you know, and that bathroom isn't just like the first one you come to.
It's a well-known bathroom.
You gotta go out of your way to get to it.
I mean, I'm sorry, dude, he did it, you know, and that that press conference where he says I'm not gay.
That that reminded me of President Clinton saying I didn't have sex with that woman.
You know, he's just I'm I'm glad he lost the seat.
He should have been gone.
I agree with that.
I agree with that.
What's wrong with being gay?
Nothing, but you're exactly right.
Should have been if he is, it should have probably come on and said so.
Nothing.
I guess there's nothing wrong with it.
No, it really made the Republicans mad then.
Should have admitted it, and Craig should have admitted it.
You know, I don't like that kind of hypoxic.
I I'm not sure I want to, you know, a guy like that and you know, in charge of making laws about our penal system, you know.
I I don't think he should have held on to his seat, you know, or anybody else's.
Well, I got news for you.
The guys that are making laws about the penal system and every other system out there are probably just as much reprobate as Craig is in their own ways.
I mean, these you the idea that we got people clean and pure as the wind-driven snow up there is a myth.
No, we don't.
All right, but well, uh, that's uh pretty much all I wanted to do.
I appreciate your call, Steve.
Thanks so much, buddy.
It's great to have you out there, especially in Oregon.
Uh it's a lonely place for Republicans to be, and uh I'm I'm I'm glad you're with us.
Rusty in Orlando, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Well, diddles, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Uh good, sir.
Thank you.
And it's uh a miracle that you're actually hearing me.
I'm very pleased about that as well.
At any rate, uh I can actually read a map, and I am looking at Nicaragua and Honduras, and I'm wondering what's happening to my aging tobaccos down there that I'm supposed to be smoking in a couple of years.
Yeah, the uh the you I bet you're talking about padrones.
Uh that and some rocky patels and some Carlos Talanos.
Uh it's a good question.
I I uh you know, these uh hurricanes have gone through the p the uh the Vuelta of Bajo, uh, which is the prime tobacco growing region in Cuba in the Pinar del Rio.
Uh and it's it uh those those those those sheds where the aging takes place are not the strongest structures.
Uh this is a good point.
I haven't checked this, but I know who to call to find out about this, and I'll try to have an answer for you uh uh sometime in the next couple days.
Uh, you're great, Rush.
Thank you.
I appreciate it, Rusty.
Thank you for the call.
Cell phone on I-5 in California.
This is Dave, and you're next, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm heading up to your uh adopted hometown Sacramento.
Well, I wave for me when you drive through town.
Excuse me?
Wave for me when you drive through town.
We'll do it.
Uh when you were started talking about the uh the devaluing of the office on uh television, the first thing that flashed to my mind was uh Richard Nixon doing socket to me on Laughing.
Yeah, that's right.
Was he president then?
I believe he was, yes, sir.
Well, look what happened to him.
I know.
But it's it it just shows uh what you have if you uh try to use the wrong media and you don't know how to do it.
Well, Fred Thompson knows how to do it.
I I um uh it's it it just I just wanted to bring this up because it's just it I have a reverence uh for the office.
I know we have an evolving culture and things change.
And I'm not I'm not trying to be locked into cement as an old fuddy duddy.
Uh or I've got nothing against Jay Leno.
I got nothing against the tonight show.
Don't let anybody misunderstand here.
Uh it's just I have I have this some it's an instinctive thing in there instinctual.
He's got some gnawing problem with uh with and it's not because it's unfair to the other candidates, it's not because the other candidates haven't been on uh McCain has been.
And I know Leno has political guests uh now and then.
It just it seems like the the presidency should be exempt and above the common pop culture.
But then again, average ordinary Americans elect the president.
And if you want to expose yourself to average ordinary Americans who don't know where their own country is in a map, but you still want them to vote for you, then you go on shows like this.
Lee in Tampa, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Big fan.
First time I've ever been able to get through to you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh if you think going on Leno to announce your presidency devalues the office or president, don't you think trying to pick up a guy in an airport bathroom devalues the office of senator?
Are you do you think what what's the what's behind this question?
Do you think that I don't what do you think?
No, no, no, I just think it was uh I think the Republicans that wanted him out of office as quickly as possible, were absolutely 100% right because no he at a minimum pled guilty to disorderly conduct in a men's room in an airport.
And that that that brings discredit on the Senate, and even if you know other members of other parties have brought even more discredit on the Senate, I think a standard has to be made and set, and and when our guys don't meet that standard, they're done.
Um, I can I can see by virtue of the callers that Snerdley is finding today that I'm on a losing side of this argument.
I can see that I have failed to make my point properly.
I've failed as a communicator today, and I'm gonna chalk this up to the fact I'm fighting the ravages of the common cold.
Or maybe it's not so common what I've got, but whatever it is.
And one other thing.
Didn't Gerald Ford get a big bump against Jimmy Carter when he went on Saturday Night Live.
Uh I don't remember Ford going on Saturday Night Live.
Uh maybe my memory's bad.
Uh but I don't also don't remember Gerald Ford beating Jimmy Carter.
What are you talking about here?
Well, but he might have got a big bump, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
But who won?
Well, yeah, yeah, that's a point.
Thank you.
At least I write about something in this call.
Well, it's great to hear from you out there, uh Lee.
Thanks.
Uh thanks so much.
Stephen Long Island, welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Welcome back.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I have a question about Larry Craig's situation.
If being gay is good, and if what Larry Craig did was kind of gay, then maybe what he did wrong and why he's being kicked out is because he won't admit that he's gay, which is good.
Well, it depends.
See, the the left cannot condemn him for being gay because they support it.
They they can't, they cannot.
This is my point earlier.
The left cannot condemn any form of behavior other than conservatism.
Because conservatism claims to have a guide rail in life.
A bunch of guide rails or guideposts called morality, decency, right and wrong.
So they go after the hypocrisy.
And they claim that Republicans are hypocrites because they stand for all these high moral values.
But look at the kind of guys they elect.
They elect reprobates, they elect perverts, they elect liars and cheats and scandal moners and so forth.
And they had to-tappers in bathrooms in Minnesota.
Uh we liberals, of course, have those same people in our party, but we don't condemn them, and we do not claim to have the moral high ground in the way we live, other than, of course, liberalism is better than anything out there.
And so they go they have to go after the hypocrisy.
They can't go after Larry Craig for being gay.
Uh that's what it would have been fun if Larry Craig, if he really wanted to stay in the Senate, were would have announced that he was uh changing parties and becoming a Democrat at that first press conference.
Uh I'm sure he didn't have the presence of mind to do that, but that would have confounded the uh Democrats.
What if what they said, well, we don't want you in our party, you're a toe-tapper in a bathroom in Minnesota.
But they've got worse than that in their party, folks.
Much worse.
Back after the I know.
I know.
And we're back serving humanity, Rush Limbaugh executing his signed host duties flawless.
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By the way, I'm gonna make another stab at this Larry Craig business.
The police report does not say that Larry Craig played FTSE in the bathroom at the Minneapolis Airport.
If he had played FTSE, I assume the prosecution wouldn't have signed a deal for a misdemeanor.
Anyway, not the point.
Here's the point.
A standard has not been made and met with the resigning of Larry Craig.
Look, can I go through some recent history for you to try to illustrate for you what my problem with this is?
Larry Craig was the latest to go for what seemed like rational reasons.
Oh, he played FTSE in a bathroom.
He's soliciting male sex.
We can't have that.
Gotta go get him out of there.
Alberto Gonzalez.
He split the scene after Republicans pushed him and joined with the Democrats.
And I guess for what seemed like rational reasons.
Why?
He was incompetent.
Why he was involved in the U.S. attorney thing.
There was no crime.
No crime was ever committed.
It was Gonzalez, but rational.
He had to go.
And the Republicans joined the Democrats in pushing him out the door.
Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld went.
That was supposed to fix things.
Yeah, we get rid of Rumsfeld.
Give the libs what they want.
And they'll turn around and support us on a rock.
Right.
Gingrich.
Delay.
They resigned for what the time seemed like rational reasons, and Republicans joined in on that too.
Yeah, you guys really got to go.
You're embarrassing us here.
Newt, you're having an affair.
Delay, you got yourself indicted out there.
You gotta go.
You're making it look bad for you.
Kick him out.
And we have Bob Livingston revive resigned after it was revealed that he had an affair.
And lots of Republicans thought that was a good idea.
Yeah, Bob, you gotta get out of it.
We're trying to nail Clinton on this stuff.
It doesn't look good if you're in there.
We gotta get you out of there.
You go, Bob.
Make it look good.
Very hopeful.
And then Mark Foley.
Mark Foley was ousted before the November election with Republican support, and that was supposed to fix things.
Do you detect a pattern here, ladies and gentlemen?
Every so often, Republicans quit.
Forced to resign with other Republicans joining in, pushing them out the door.
During this same period, may I cite for you the name of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, who is still a member of Congress.
I don't recall if he's able to hold on to his committeeship, committee position, but uh whatever.
And there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing.
You don't see the Democrats pushing each other out the door.
You don't see them leaving of their own volition.
You see them defended.
I know what you're saying, but Rush, we don't want people like that in our party.
We don't.
Uh, understand that I just there's a trend here, folks.
And every time we get rid of one of these people, we're supposed to reap the rewards.
Republicans are showing the world that we are not gonna tolerate this kind of reprobateness in our party.
We're not gonna put up with it.
We're gonna clean it out because we are the party of values and standards and so forth and so on.
Meanwhile, we lost the house last November.
We lost the Senate.
And it looks worse for the coming November.
But forget it, folks, because I, as has been pointed out by several callers today, have totally lost touch on this issue and have no idea what I'm talking about.
Uh Ryan in St. Henry, Ohio on the cell phone.
Nice to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
You feel better tomorrow.
You don't sound so well.
Uh I normally enjoy listening to your show, but you uh you burst my bubble today.
Um I was listening earlier and you're talking about all those uh statistics for PM for being poor.
You know, I thought I was doing pretty good.
I own my own home, it's a three-bedroom home.
Wife and I gotta own our own vehicle.
We got two colored televisions, uh, cable, cell phones.
I'm feeling pretty good, thinking my life's going pretty well, and I find out I'm I'm poor, Rush.
It's a shock, wasn't it?
I can imagine it's a show.
You have a microwave?
Yes, microwave.
You have uh you have a stereo.
Yep, I have a stolen, though.
It was stolen, though.
You still no.
You still you stole your stereo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You are sharp.
You're a sharp listener.
Well, it it is that was pretty amazing, uh, isn't it, to find out that the poor in this country are that well endowed.
Yeah, yeah.
I was I was awfully dumbfounded.
I caught me off guard.
I guess I'll I guess now I should ask for some government assistance, huh?
Uh well, you certainly qualify.
How many kids do you have?
Just one.
How old is a child?
Eight months.
Oh, well, you're guaranteed another twenty-four years of health care for that kid under the uh ships program.
You are if the president signs it, I don't know that uh that he will.
Dale in uh in Las Vegas, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the broadcast.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I got a question for you, but I wanted to make a comment first.
Yes.
Okay, I told you you were playing too much golf, and now you understand why.
Uh it spreads disease, I think.
And I told you about the ten dollar cigar tax.
I think uh what this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
Yes.
Here's my question.
Um people in Nicaragua, Guyana are Americans.
Just because we live in North America, we call ourselves Americans.
Well, they live in South America and they're Americans.
Yeah, you're making my point.
You're making my point.
This is all gobbledygook.
And you're trying to say there's North Americanos, Central Americanos, and uh uh South Americanos.
Right, and you're defending all Americans.
And so this missed teen South Carolina comes out there and says, US Americans, you think she's being taught properly.
Yeah, well, you look at it this way.
We don't defend county lines with guns.
When Bush's best buddy, Johnny Satan put two guards in jail, Ramos and Campion, he was defending the right of Americans to cross from one area to another.
Lost you.
Well, you know about the two guards.
Oh, the two border guards, the two border guards, right?
And they're still in jail, aren't they?
Uh I think, yes, sir, they are instead of okay, and the and the drug dealer that was shot in the butt, he's got a free pass to go back and forth, doesn't he?
That does appear to be the case, yes.
Okay, so I'm saying, if your own best buddy Bush thinks his best buddy Johnny Satan can do this, then we don't have a country.
We're not United States citizens, we're American citizens of the Canamex Union, the NAFTA thing.
Damn, you know you're right.
Yeah.
And it's only for the rich and the poor, and I'm afraid I'm slipping off into the poor, so I want to ask you, please, if you got an extra cigar, send it.
And the other thing is, if you're gonna run to Guatemala when the country falls, I don't want you bumping into Bush and save a seat for me.
I am not gonna go to Guatemala, just got destroyed by Hurricane Felix.
Why would it better go to Guatemala?
I am rich, but I'm not gonna send you a cigar because I don't know your address, and I'm not gonna ask you for it.
John in Mount Shasta, California.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Good day, Rush.
Uh earlier you mentioned that the Democrats had wasted the Craig situation.
Yeah.
Uh I don't think they did, because the Hillary Chinese controv contribution thing has kind of been slipped under the rug.
And nobody seems to be talking about it.
You know, the it's an amazing thing.
When the Clintons get into trouble, they always turn to the Chicoms.
And the Chicoms always come through.
You know, you're right.
First we had the Lippo group and James Riotti, and we had Johnny Chung of the barbecue Chinese place in Little Rock.
No, that was Charlie Tree.
Johnny Cho.
We all these guys in the in the 96 fundraising scandal, all this money coming in from uh the people's liberation army of China, James uh James, whatever that was a different route, but the li the Lippo group.
Now we got this Norman Shu guy.
And Hillary's runner.
I had no idea he was a fugitive.
Whoa, I had no idea.
And Clinton said, well, there's no way we could know it's a fugitive.
Too many donors out there.
You can't vet all these people.
But Hillary gave the money he donated to charity.
Yeah, but it's all right.
And if we find out that more of it came from him, it's wrong, we'll give it back.
We'll say, but when I go take it, when I accept it.
I was watching, I was watching Meet the Press yesterday.
And uh they had it, they did a whole round table.
Russell did a whole round table.
It was Mary Madeline, it was Carville, it was Bob Schrum, and uh Mike Murphy, political consultants extraordinaire.
And this fundraising thing came up.
You know what, you know what the uh uh uh the conventional wisdom on this is?
Uh Carville led off by saying, well, of course, you got so many donors out there, it's impossible to keep track of who these people are.
Uh and he started citing several instances of uh sleazy donors to the Republicans, and we didn't they didn't know either.
I mean, they uh but I folks, nothing happens that with the Clintons that is coincidence.
Here's Norman Shu.
He's from Hong Kong.
He's Chinese.
Uh not known whether he has any ties to the ChICOMs.
But I mean, come on.
Eight years apart, 96.
Well, 12 years apart.
It was 11 years.
96, now 2008.
Somebody, I forget who.
Somebody said today, it's interesting.
In a Chinese calendar, 1996 and 2008 are the year of the rat.
And these two years happen to be years in which there is suspicious fundraising going to the Clintons, and nobody seems to care about this.
Now, the Craig thing, obvious, look at the drive-by is they swerved right by Gonzalez.
They swerved right by a whole bunch of they have zeroed in on this Larry Craig thing.
They are paying no attention to Hillary's fundraising or these uh this the scandal involving this guy, other than to report it as she gave the money to charity.
What a woman.
What a candidate.
And of course she didn't know where the guy came home.
Well, of course not.
She did.
She doesn't know anything.
Well, I've got a list of sound bites.
In fact, let's get started with.
Let me uh see, find them.
Let's take a break.
We'll take a break.
I'll find these sound bites because we've got years of examples of Hillary's.
I don't know.
I I don't remember that.
I mean it's just the biggest surprise in the world to me.
You'll hear when we come back.
Stay with us.
Hi, we are back.
Before we get to the Hillary sound bites, I'm gonna try one more time here with Larry Craig.
Uh ladies and gentlemen.
Um if you want to talk about standards and and uh and and morality.
I mean, I've got people calling this show, accusing Larry Craig of crimes that he didn't commit and accusing him of conduct that he didn't commit.
I mean, everybody talks about Craig cut a deal.
How about the prosecutors cut a deal?
If they had him on a lewd and lascivious behavior, why'd they cut a deal to something much less than that?
I've been through this, folks.
I have been through this.
You you people out there are falling for Democrat talking points.
If they had such a strong case, why'd they cut a deal with Craig?
We keep hearing that he cut the deal.
Well, the local officials had to sign a deal.
If his conduct was lewd, and if he did in fact solicit sex in a public place, why not throw the book at him?
Why not?
That's what you do when you have someone dead to rights and you seek to prove a point and deter certain conduct.
If you don't want that kind of stuff going on in your bathroom, and you're a you're an airport cop in Minnesota and you don't want this stuff going on, and you found it, you throw the book at the person that did it, and you send a so, but they didn't do that.
Another thing, folks, this is not about the Republican Party.
Some of you callers are insisting this is about the Republican Party.
You're falling for Democrat talking points.
You are acting defensive, and you're trying to maintain a high moral standard for yourself.
You're making it about you personally.
When in fact, you're sitting around and you're watching Democrats decide to pick off any of our guys they want, and you're helping them.
All right.
I expect to be fully a judged wrong again.
When we get to our next series of phone calls.
Here's Hillary Clinton, January 1992, 60 minutes.
This is about what voters want in a candidate.
Part of what I believe with all my heart is that the voters are tired of people who lie to them.
They're tired of people who act like something they're not.
They're tired of people who deny problems, they're tired of people who neglect problems.
Right.
This is when her husband was running for president.
This is when she's pulling off the Elizabeth Edwards uh, you know, routine.
But let's go to last Thursday, Manhattan at a press conference, talking to reporters about the money that Norman Shu had donated to her campaign.
We do the very best job we can based on the information available to us to uh make appropriate vetting decisions, and this one uh was a big surprise to everybody.
Oh, yes!
Of course it was.
Why, it was a huge surprise.
Well, does that sound familiar?
Let's go back to her Senate campaign.
Shocked and surprised her own brother was selling pardons.
You know, it came as a surprise uh to me, and it was very disturbing.
And I'm just uh very disappointed about it.
I did uh not uh have any involvement, you know, and uh I'm just uh very disappointed about my brother's involvement.
If I had known about uh this, we wouldn't be standing here today.
Uh I didn't know about it, and I'm very regretful that uh it occurred that I didn't know about it.
Uh I might have been able to prevent this from happening.
And I'm just very disappointed about the whole matter.
I did not know.
I was heartbroken and and shocked by it.
Yeah, it was a big surprise to us to find out Norman Shu was this uh this this uh bad guy.
This is a big big shock to us.
Say wonder when her brothers were involved in Mark Rich Partner.
She was stunned at that.
Let's go to Pretty and Pink uh press conference from our TV program archives, April 22nd, 1994.
The young attorney, the young bank officer did all the work, and the letter was sent.
But because I was what you call the billing attorney, in other words, I had to send the bill to get the payment made.
My name was put on the bottom of the letter.
It was not an area that I practiced in.
It was not an area that I really know anything to speak of about.
Where the hell would a billing record?
Well, I know my name was on them, but just I had no idea why my name was anything about it.
It was a total shock.
Um, this is uh this is from the same press conference, the Pretty in Pink Press Conference, April 22nd, 94.
Uh semi-identified reporter named Mike says, Mrs. Clinton, you could you clarify for us what documents are removed from Vince Foster's office after he died and why were they there in the first place?
Well, Mike, I I can tell you what I know, which is that I did not know that Vince had any of the documents related to our personal business in his office until after his death.
When I snuck in there and found him pull him out.
She never knows anything.
She wants to be president of the United States.
She never knows anything.
January 27, 1998, Today Show.
And so my husband.
I mean, you know, he woke me up Wednesday morning and said, You're not going to believe this, but and I said, What is this?
And so, yeah, it came as a very big when he said but he said, but what?
But I want to tell you what's in the newspapers.
This uh this was the uh uh Monica story.
This is how she was explaining how Bill was gonna tell her about the Monica story.
Um it all up.
Here's the Breck girl talking about Hillary.
Oh, of course he denied he was talking about Hillary.
The American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln bedroom is not for rent, and lobbyist money can no longer influence policy in the House or the Senate.
So she didn't know about Monica.
Of course, she probably vetted Monica, you know.
Uh bottom line here is, folks, woman knows nothing, is surprised by everything.
Um yet wants to be our president.
One of the things I had intended to get to today and and didn't get to was the president's uh visit to Iraq.
Uh this could be seminal.
Uh somebody wrote today that this could be the gettysburg of the Iraq war, going to Ann Bar province.
Because it was not too long ago the Democrats kept saying that Ann Bar was the example of how the war is lost.
And now Ann Bar safe enough for the president and his war cabinet to go and Moliki to come up there and uh and all that.
And I wanted to juxtapose it with Mrs. Clinton saying we got to get out of there again, which she will not do if she's elected president.
So we'll have uh we'll have that discussion uh tomorrow when we get back.
Uh been great being with you today, folks, even though suffering the ravages of a major, major illness.
I am not deterred, and I will not be deterred tomorrow.
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