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Sept. 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, it's uh time to clean up some more messes here today, folks.
It's it's amazing.
All the news that was made yesterday, only reported here on the EIB network, hosted by me, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and a doctor of democracy.
Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB Mike Brafond with three hours of broadcast excellence.
Looking forward to talking to you.
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As always, a hearty welcome to those of you watching the program today on the ditto cam at uh www.rushlimbaugh.com.
You know, I have to say this, folks.
Uh uh, yesterday had to be the profound insight program of the year.
Any columnist, any editorialist, any journalist, any punditist, would love to have one profound insight a day.
I had several profundities yesterday.
I had four profundities.
We can call it a multiple infogasm yesterday.
One of the profundities was my analysis of Mrs. Clinton's statement to George Stephanopoulos.
And we're going to play it again for you today, in which, in fact, Graba gets uh what is it, cut eight?
It is.
Grab cut eight.
Let's just play it again right now.
He was on Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
And Stephanopoulos uh said, Can you pledge that all U.S. troops will be home over the course of your first term as president?
You know, I'm not going to get into hypotheticals and make pledges because I don't know what I'm going to inherit, George.
I don't know, and neither do any of us know.
What will be the situation in the region?
How much more aggressive will Iran have become?
What will be happening in the Middle East?
How much more of an influence will the chaos in Iraq have in terms of what's going on in the greater region?
Will we have uh pushed Al Qaeda in Iraq out of their uh strongholds with our our new partnership uh with some of the uh uh tribal sheikhs, or will they have regrouped and retrenched.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I I I'm certainly not the only one who heard her say this, but I'm the only one that pointed out, by the way.
Not only did I point it out, I predicted this months ago.
I warned everybody.
The dirty little secret is Mrs. Clinton wins the White House, she not getting out of Iraq.
They're not gonna saddle themselves with defeat.
She sounds like George W. Bush here.
The only person in the drive-by media who has picked up on this is David Brooks today in the New York Times, and his point is that if Mrs. Clinton can sound like George W. Bush in the midst of a primary campaign where she got to please the wacko kook fringe and the Democrat blogosphere.
Brooks' point is they may not be all that powerful after all.
It may not be his point is she's got to be a centrist to win.
These guys uh conservatives of the New York Times love the center.
Everybody in inside of Beltway is just is is in love with the center.
But he's the only guy that even referenced this.
Uh this this is simply amazing.
This Mrs. Clinton flip-flopping every day when she's talking about being president as opposed to talking as a senator.
She has a totally different view on the Middle East.
So that was the one thing I contrasted yesterday.
She revealed her real war strategy.
The second profundity was the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, accidentally revealing that he knows that we are at war with terrorists, and that it is crucial to the security of this country.
I haven't seen uh too many people react.
If hardly anybody react at all to what he said.
They're still debating such things as why did Mahmood say there aren't any homosexuals in Iran?
And we're gonna get to that.
Chris Matthews tried to explain it last night.
It is funny.
Uh they don't have any because when they find them, they kill them.
They execute them.
Just like they execute women for looking the wrong way out of the burqa.
Now, this guy's invited to speak, and everybody talks about as a Free speech issue.
It wasn't a free speech issue because nobody in this country, under the First Amendment, folks, has the right to be heard.
Everybody confuses the right to free speech with a right to be heard.
Nobody has the right to be heard.
He was under no obligation, the President of Columbia to invite Mahmoud Achhmadini Zad.
And what and so, you know, a lot of things happen.
He got some uh threats from alumni and others are going to cut off funding when it's not making donations.
So we had to go out.
I'm sure he just wanted some attention for his school.
Thought he'd be applauded in liberal circles for his openness and free speech devotion and by the way, there's no free speech in the academy in this country anyway.
Larry Summers fired at Harvard for what he had to say about women and men and the way they do uh their test results in uh math and science.
The same Larry Summers, who was a treasury secretary for Clinton, the same Larry Summers, who was disinvited to speak at UC Davis last week because the female faculty out there uh uh PMS' over the whole thing.
Freedom of speech, give me a break.
There'll be freedom of speech in the academy.
There's no freedom of speech in the American left.
That's why we have political correctness, so they won't have to be bothered hearing what they don't want to hear.
They're more, I mean, the same Columbia University which forced the minute man speaker off the stage.
And Stanford University, the uh Hoover institution out there, uh, wants to hire Rumsfeld and faculty at Stanford's going, no, we can't have a murdering tyrant warmonger like Rumsfeld on our campus.
Wall Street Journal editorializes about this today.
Uh so don't give me this free speech business.
Here's the main problem with having Mahmud Achhmadini Zad.
Speak at your university or anywhere in this country.
You ought to see the way the Iranian media is treating his speech.
He was greeted with multiple standing ovations.
The students loved him.
He told the American students at Iran once no war that they have nothing but love in their country, did not mention the gay remarks, didn't mention anything that uh uh Lee Bollinger said to him, and so it serves Mahmoud's purposes and the Middle East purposes pure propaganda.
That's why he shouldn't have been invited.
We can talk about how good Bollinger was, we can talk about how rotten Ahmadinizad was.
Point is he shouldn't have been invited.
Nobody was obligated to invite him, and once he showed up, he had no right to be heard.
Of course, the drive-by is all over this and loving it.
But the bottom line is in addition to Mrs. Clinton revealing her real war strategy in that introduction of Ahmadini Zad yesterday by Lee Bollinger, we found out that the Academy has people in it that actually do sound just like George W. Bush and think the same things that George W. Bush does, and the rest of us think about the national security we uh threat that we face as posed by Islamo fascist terrorists.
And yet, where has this been for the last five years?
Where's this been for the last four years?
Is it in the classrooms at Columbia?
Doubt it.
But what did he do?
He revealed that he knows that we are at war with terrorists.
So in these two things, Mrs. Clinton and Lee Bollinger, the left, uh Mrs. Clinton, a presidential candidate, this guy running Columbia, just took the mask off, took all the camouflage off.
They blew the lid on their cover.
And we found out what they really think.
The third profundity yesterday, Mrs. Clinton accidentally revealed her health care plan as a phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller thing, because she said that it's not for illegals.
Well, not true because she also said last week that in order to go to a job interview, you have to prove you have health insurance.
But if illegals aren't going to be able to be insured, then they're not gonna theoretically be able to get a job.
Uh, we also have some fascinating news on health care and house deteriorating in Great Britain.
There's no evidence anywhere in the world to suggest that anything like Mrs. Clinton's plan would work.
And yet nobody is analyzing it other than on this program in a serious way.
Nobody is pointing out the fallacies, the hypocrisy of either Mrs. Clinton on the war or Lee Bollinger on the war.
And the fourth profundity yesterday, and we are going to illustrate it with audio sound bites today.
Mahmoud Ahmadinizad on stage at Columbia, mouthing, rattling off Democrat Party talking points, just as he did Sunday night on 60 Minutes.
And what we're gonna do today, folks, you don't want to miss this.
We got statements made by Ahmadini Zod.
And we have similar statements made by various Democrats.
From Russ Feingold to Dick Turbin, to uh to John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, the haughty uh John Kerry.
And we don't just sit here and make these assertions.
My gosh, he sounds just like a Democrat.
We are going to show you how Mahmud Ahmadinizad and Bin Laden.
They all sound like they sound exactly like Democrats.
Talking about Katrina Sunday night on 60 Minutes and Ebu Ghrab, he got mad at his uh interrogator, uh Scott Pelley of CBS.
Now, a um a confession from me, uh, ladies and gentlemen, deep down.
Uh your host, that would be me, has as much braggado as he does mistresses in every state out there.
But I have to tell you.
Finally, Dawn's laughing when I mention this.
I have to tell you, I am I uh uh really proud of yesterday's program, and I am even prouder.
I don't often say this, that I'm proud of a program.
Ask Mr. Snurdley.
Most of the time after program, I'll focus on geo what I could have done better.
Yesterday, I was proud of that program beginning to end, even prouder today because a day later, you still cannot find anything that happened on this program, any analysis, any truthful uh analysis.
On this program, you cannot find this stuff anywhere on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the LA Times.
In fact, I think some of Ann Apple Baum in the New York Times has a column where she talks about Ahmadinizad being uh great Democrat with a small D. Not missing the whole whole point of his appearance yesterday at uh at Columbia.
Quick time out here, folks.
Off to our rousing start.
By the way, we don't need to go to the doctor as often now, according to the latest research.
Eight hours of sleep is too much.
You get too much, it'll kill you.
If you get not enough sleep, it'll kill you.
We're gonna die, folks.
We are going to die.
Uh lots coming up.
Don't vanish.
Stay where you are.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limbo, as usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Get a lot of some of these global warming stack headlines today.
Close line regulation hangs the environment out to dry.
This is in Bend, Oregon.
It's about a woman who hung her clothes out to dry to save energy.
Uh, and uh now she's facing legal action.
Because she hung it's an upscale neighborhood, and I don't want clothes hanging out there in the backyard.
And she just trying to save the planet to make herself feel good, not use the dryer.
Fertilizing oceans with iron may combat climate change.
Can't wait to talk about this.
Rapeseed biofuel produces more greenhouse gas than oil or petrol.
Think corn here.
Uh, we've caused a food panic in Mexico and Italy and Germany, and for what?
Only to make matters worse.
But we're not supposed to ever examine the results of liberal do gooderness.
No, no, no.
We're only supposed to examine their intentions and their good hearts.
Get this the Amazon rainforest, more resilient during a drought.
The Amazon rainforest, also known as the jungle, greened.
It grew faster and absorbed more CO2, confounding another global warming model.
In a drought, it got greener.
It exposed it absorbed more CO2.
Yes, the details are coming up.
World leaders tell U.S. to put climate before budget.
And uh the United Nations is proposing an international court to try ecological crimes on the basis that nature should have a right to take us to court.
And the United Nations should establish such a kid you not, folks, all in the um global warming stack coming up right now.
Time for who said it.
Mahmood Ahmadinizad and which Democrat here yesterday in New York City at Columbia is a portion of Mahmood Ahmadinezad's remarks.
By creating non-existent enemies, for example, and an insecure atmosphere.
They try to control all in the name of combating insecurity and terrorism.
That's Mahmoud yesterday.
Here's John Kerry, July 24th of this year.
The president is trying to scare the American people into believing that al-Qaeda is the rationale for continuing the war in Iraq.
Should we go to this Mrs. Clinton soundbite again?
John Kerry, July 24th, said the president trying to scare the American people into believing al-Qaeda is the rationale for continuing the war in Iraq.
Grab number eight.
Listen to what Mrs. Clinton again said last Sunday, contrast it to how she's so far off the page with the standard Democrat line.
You know, I'm not going to get into hypotheticals and make pledges because I don't know what I'm going to inherit, George.
I don't know, and neither do any of us know.
What will be the situation in the region?
How much more aggressive will Iran have become?
What will be happening in the Middle East?
How much more of an influence will the chaos in Iraq have in terms of what's going on in the greater region?
Will we have uh pushed Al Qaeda in Iraq out of their uh strongholds with our our new partnership with some of the uh uh tribal sheikhs, or will they have regrouped and retrenched.
Bite me.
Bite me, Mrs. Clinton.
You know something, folks.
This is uh I know I interrupted my own format here for back and forth with Mahmoud and Democrats.
I uh when you listen to Carrie's a president trying to scare the American people.
Is he gonna now say that Mrs. Clinton is trying to scare the American people as she's running for office?
So here's my Mahmoud creating non-existent enemies and an insecure atmosphere.
They try to control all in the name of combating insecurity and terrorism.
Kerry, the president trying to scare the American people into believing that Al Qaeda is the rationale for continuing the war in Iraq.
Here's more Mahmood from Columbia yesterday.
They do not respect the privacy of their own people.
They tap telephone calls and try to control their people.
Russ Feingold, May 8th, 2006.
The president violating the law by authorizing illegal domestic wiretapping.
Well, there you have it.
Another example of Mahmoud Ahmadinezad on the same page with uh Democrat Senator, this case Russ Feingold.
Here's more.
Mahmoud Ahmadinizad from Columbia yesterday.
Palestine is an old wound, as old as 60 years.
For sixty years, these people are displaced.
For sixty years, these people are being killed.
For sixty years on a daily basis, there's conflict and terror.
For sixty years, innocent women and children are destroyed and killed by helicopters and airplanes that break the house over their heads.
Jimmy Carter on the Tonight Show, December 11th, 2006.
In Palestinian territory, there's horrible persecution of the Palestinians who live on their own land.
They have uh occupied the land, they have confiscated, they have colonized it, and they forced Palestinians away from their homes, away from uh pastures, away from their fields, cut down the olive trees, and severely persecuted the Palestinians.
They're pastors in their fields.
So once again, Ahmadinizad parrots.
A prominent Democrat, Jimmy Carter.
And let's go to Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad on 60 Minutes Sunday night.
He's being interviewed here by Scott Pelley, and he doesn't like Scott Pelley's questions.
Says he feels like he's being interrogated by the CIA.
And then he says this.
This is not Guantanamo Bay.
This is not a Baghdad prison.
This is not a secret prison in Europe.
This is not Abu Korei.
This is Iran.
I'm the president of this country.
Senator Durbin, Dick Durbin, floor of the Senate, June 14th, 2005.
If I read this to you and didn't tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Paul Potter others that had no concern for human beings.
Sadly, that's not the case.
This was the action of Americans in treatment of their own prisoners.
Right.
so we wonder, you know, well, these statements are being made, and we criticize these Democrats.
Look at you're just giving the enemy talking points.
You're sounding just like them, and here come the enemy.
They don't have to say anything.
Just parrot what the Democrats in this country are saying.
And we can come up with many more examples.
Listen to this from the Islamic Republic News Agency.
Despite entire U.S. media objections, the uh President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scheduled address at Columbia.
He gave his lecture and answered students' questions on Monday afternoon, amid standing ovation of the audience that it attended the hall where the Iranian president was to give his lecture as of early hours of the day.
Ahmad Dinijad said that Iran is not going to attack any country in the world.
Before his address, the Columbia Chancellor in a brief address told the audience they would have the chance to hear Iran's stands as Mahmood Ahmadinejad spoke.
That's why he shouldn't have been invited.
Here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
All right, your host was brought up again on television last night by the uh You know what these people at MSNBC are just the they're just you know they're they're they're they're warts on the back end of a hog.
They're I mean, no, they're they're they're really trying, but it's pathetic.
Here, I'll give you an example.
You know, they're all upset here that because uh the moveon.org people got called on the Betrayus ad, and they're just oh they're beside themselves over this, and they're upset that uh, by the way, uh Rasmussen poll out today, twenty-three percent actually came out yesterday out of twenty-three percent of Americans approved of the uh move on.org ad in the New York Times.
Uh 58% uh disapprove of it.
Uh it failed, it bombed miserably.
Move on.org is now offered or has paid the difference so that they uh were charged a full rate.
The New York Times come out and after two weeks admitted that it was a political in-kind donation.
Uh their excuses for this are just pathetic.
They were just advancing their own agenda.
Uh everybody knew it, and the ad didn't work.
It bombed miserably.
And of course, the left had high hopes for this ad.
They had high hopes they're going to destroy Petraeus, destroy Bush, and the exact opposite happened.
So now they're out there trying to say, well, you know, it wasn't move on that first came up with the word betrayus.
Where was the outrage when Rush Limbaugh said this about Republican Senator Chuck Hagel over one of the senators' stances on Iraq?
Limbaugh said, by the way, we had a caller call, couldn't stay on the air, got a new name for Senator Hegel, Nebraska.
We got General Petraeus, and we got Senator B. New name for Senator Hagel.
Now they're trying to say I invented the name and move on with just copying me.
I well, of course, I get everything started in this country.
Ask Donovan McNabb.
Um, but they trying to say, hey, hey, the Holman Move On.org.
Limbaugh started it.
They had a Congress person on last night, Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, they ambushed her over the uh the death of a uh an uh a soldier in Iraq, uh who they claim was from her district that she didn't know about.
Turns out he was not.
I've uh have a chance to read this whole thing.
I don't think that the the the uh the dead soldier was from her district, but uh dead soldier was not from her district, but they they'd accused her of not knowing uh the name and circumstances of an 18-year-old soldier that died from her district.
She didn't know who it was, and uh Schuster just really piled up.
It was mean and cruel.
It was everything liberals claim they're not.
I don't know what's happened to David Schuster.
He used to be okay when he was at Fox.
He's gotten over there, he's drinking the Kool-Aid at uh Mess NBC.
I guess trying to make a difference.
They're trying real hard over there.
Okay, so now I, your host, the doctor of democracy.
I now am responsible for the whole nerd the name Betrayous being in the in the public dialogue.
So let's move on.
That was David Schuster, by the way, that that bite that you just heard.
Let's let's move on now.
This is uh this is uh uh same guy Schuster hosting uh the Chatsworth Osborne Jr. show on the PSMMC that would be Tucker Carlson.
And Schuster says to Marsha Blackburn, Republican Tennessee, you want to take this opportunity to condemn what Rush Limbaugh said about Chuck Hagel.
What I want to do is talk about the New York Times.
And probably Rush Limbaugh could have gotten by without saying that.
Could have gotten by, it was wrong, wasn't he?
He was referencing what a caller said.
Right, but it was wrong for a caller or for Rush Limbaugh to call Chuck Hagel, Senator Betrayas.
Right.
Rush Limbaugh did not go in and buy an ad and place it with the New York Times and uh get a special preferred ray.
So there's a difference between buying an ad in the New York Times and Rush Limbaugh hearing something that he likes to hear from one of his viewers and repeating it on the air.
What's the distinction?
Why is it?
Rush Limbaugh should not have done that, but Rush Limbaugh did not go out and buy an ad.
And uh circumvent the New York Times.
Anyway, don't hold it against her.
She's a she's uh she's a good Congresswoman.
She just got sandbagged.
She thought she was being brought on to discuss other things, and uh they ambushed her on a on a bunch of, including she has she had no business defending me.
She hasn't she doesn't have to defend me.
She could have said that easily.
I don't apologize for anything anyway.
I'm gonna take it back.
I was talking about Senator Hagel as a in a in the betrayous sense, not betraying a country, not betraying uh uh the the um uh mission, not uh you know the the whole move on dot org ad, the betrayest thing was the whole thing was he's lying to us.
And the whole Democrat Party in the House and the Senate when they interrogated him, told him up front, we're not gonna believe a thing you say.
We're not gonna believe one word that you say.
He's a decorated four-star general.
He's sitting there in full dress uniform.
He has come to give them a report that they demanded.
Congress demanded the report.
He's giving it, they're calling him before he says a word a liar.
They're undermining his mission, they're undermining the troops under his command.
Chuck Hagel is a senator.
Chuck Hagel is fair game.
I was regarding and talking about Chuck Hagel in terms of his loyalty to the Republican Party.
Not anything to do with whether or not he's selling out the country and investing in defeat for the country.
I was talking about him vis-a-vis his position in the uh Republican Party.
It was a political comment.
If he wants to respond politically, he can.
The general can't.
The general's mouth has to be shut.
He can't get into politics.
This is a Democrats knew this.
So he they can call him a liar all they want, and he can't do anything about it other than say every word I'm speaking here, I wrote myself, and nobody has cleared it.
But uh, you know, he can't get into the political game while under while in command and uh in in uniform.
So anyway, it's funny.
I mean, these guys are just beside themselves, making an issue out of nothing.
When I don't have enough fingers nor hands to count over the 19 plus years, the number of times little roeboats like David Schuster have attempted to sink me a battleship with a BB.
Over 19 years, they have given me every they blame me for the Oklahoma City bombing.
You know all you know the drill.
They have tried everything to discredit me with you and with the American people.
They've tried to destroy my reputation.
President of the United States uh making a racist joke at the White House correspondence dinner at my expense.
And it hasn't worked.
None of it has worked.
And these guys, instead of launching these silly little BBs that they think are gonna hit uh hit home, start better start asking themselves how come their efforts don't work?
Because there is an answer to it, and it's an answer could really help them in trying to get their little fledgling network, some serious audience.
But uh they're not gonna learn it.
They're liberals, and they applaud themselves at the end of such a text.
Yeah, we really got him that time.
Yeah.
Uh again, never examining the results of what they do, just the uh intentions.
Here, by the way, just as a reminder, David Schuster obsessed with my attire the day I interviewed Carl Rove on this program.
They played video from the Ditto Cam and audio of some of the interview, and uh then this is what David Schuster had to say.
There's Rush Limbaugh smoking a nice cigar, wearing a golf shirt.
There was another video where you could see the nice watch.
Who's the snub?
Who's the snub?
I had called these people bunch of a feat snobs, and uh Schuster was um throwing it back at me.
So there you have it.
Uh your host, once again, the focal point of a major controversy in this country.
By the way, a new gallop poll suggests last week's intense schedule of congressional testimony and media appearances by David Petraeus enhanced his image among Americans.
Not only did Petraeus' name ID increase significantly in a matter of just a week, but his image also became more favorable than it was just before the week's activities.
This is a Gallup poll.
The uh uh this occurred in a contentious environment, included the publication of a full page ad of New York Times calling him Betrayus.
According to the September 14th through 16th poll, 61% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Petraeus, 22% have an unfavorable opinion, 18% say they're too stupid to know who he is.
So they didn't want to rate him.
So we combine this and Erasmus.
Only 23% approve of the moveon.org ad, 58% disapprove, and in Gallup, 61% like Petraeus.
I would say that the Democrats bombed big time with both of these stunts, and as usual, are now trying to take the heat off themselves by blaming your host.
Back.
Quick little story here before we grab a couple of phone calls.
Uh this is from the Politico.com, Josh Crashauer writing.
Top Republicans are privately bracing for the possibility that they could lose additional House seats in next year's elections as a result of untimely retirements, ongoing scandals, and unexpectedly gloomy fundraising forecasts, comma.
According to several members and aides.
You know, this is a problem that could be gone away.
We could get dispensed with overnight.
The sooner Republican House members start sounding and acting like conservatives, the sooner the money's gonna start flowing in and amounts that they're not gonna know what to do with.
It ain't hard, you guys.
It really isn't hard.
But you sit out there and start talking about how we can ensure over child for health care, and you start trying to be outlive the libs and the money's not gonna come in.
It's not what people want.
By the way, it was just a couple of days ago.
I had the story in the stack, but I didn't get to it.
It was just a couple of days ago, and it was in the Washington Post that the Democrats are worried that they will lose seats if Hillary drags him down, because in several swing districts, house districts, she runs poorly, even though she's doing well nationally, she runs poorly in some of these swing districts.
So she might, you know, collect enough electoral votes or whatever to win, but she might be a drag on Democrats in swing districts in the House.
And of course, uh there was some discussion of that in the drive-by's, but they quickly dispensed with it as something that's not really applicable, but it is.
But this is uh this is this is not hard.
If the president would just enforce the immigration laws and veto the spending as he promised is going to do, uh support for him would go up, and uh and I think people would feel a little bit more comfortable contributing to the uh the GOP.
Uh none of this is hard.
Maybe hard to do, but isn't hard to figure out.
Just be conservative.
Chicago, we start with you, Nick on the phones today.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, as you brightly pointed out, Mrs. Clinton is making contradictory statements on policy.
Um, i.e., no free health care for illegal immigrants, and now let's stay in Iraq.
She's being disingenuous.
So uh Maha Rushi, who is the real Mrs. Clinton?
Where does Mrs. Lockbox really stand?
Uh it's not that I can see why some people might think this is a good question.
Um, on the Iraq answer.
Uh and by the way, have you seen the story to set my answer to the question up?
Have you seen the story Bush quietly advising Hillary Clinton and Top Democrats?
Have you seen that?
Uh This is one of the most misleading headlines.
I saw this headline.
I said, what the hell now?
I felt like when I was out there in Nebraska, and I opened up the iPhone and I saw that Greenspan said we went to war in Iraq for a while.
I said, what the hell's this?
And then I read the story, and it makes all the sense in the world.
In fact, it may even be one of the reasons Mrs. Clinton answered Stephanopoulos the way she did on Sunday.
Essentially, there's a book.
Bill Salmon's got a book coming out.
He's a White House correspondent for the examiner.
And he says that the president's quietly providing back channel advice to Hillary, urging her to modulate her rhetoric so she can effectively prosecute the war in Iraq if she's elected president.
In an interview in this book by Bill Salmon called the Evangelical President, the chief of staff in the White House Josh Bolton said that Bush has been urging candidates, don't get yourself too locked in where you stand right now.
Because if you end up sitting where I sit, things could change dramatically.
Especially if it's a Democrat.
The president wants to create the conditions where a Democrat not only will have the leeway, but the obligation to see this out.
And what he's basically doing is say, look, I understand you guys are playing politics.
I understand you're running for the Democrat nomination.
I understand who your base is.
But if one of you happens to win, you're going to be sitting where I sit, and you're going to have a totally different view of this, and you know it.
And you'd better not get yourself into positions now where you have to take a losing position once you become president because you've campaigned promise to do it.
And so bam, Mrs. Clinton totally changes her tone in the answer to Stephanopoulos.
Now, I don't know if Bush's answer or his back channel efforts had any effect on Mrs. Clinton.
Um because I think, you know, I've I've said before we learned of this.
I mean, this is not hard to figure out.
If a Democrat's elected president, they're not pulling us out of a rock.
It could be John Kerry.
They're not pulling us out of a rock if we're not going to do it.
So in the sense of who is Mrs. Clinton, uh in that in that answer, she was being honest.
They're not going to pull us out of a rock.
However, the real Hillary Clinton is a committed leftist, a committed socialist.
Uh look at her rhetoric.
We had it yesterday.
Shared responsibility, take things away from people, make life more equal, the government should be the agent of change in uh in matters like this.
Uh she's bad news.
She's bad news all the way around.
Uh there's just uh no two ways about it.
There's nothing centrist about her, there's nothing moderate about her.
Uh and you know, she's she's learned from her uh, you know, take it all to one big bite mistakes from the first Clinton term.
The worst thing about this is it put two of them back in there.
Um that's we want to go through that soap opera again.
It's up to you, folks, I guess.
Ed in Fort Myers, Florida.
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Hello.
Rush, Megadiddo's from across the state.
Thank you.
Uh I noticed something when you played that uh Hillary clip uh yesterday when she was on uh Stephanopolis on Sunday, and uh she said that uh we you know we're gonna have to continue working with our partners of the Sheiks in the Anbar province, uh which directly contradicts her uh her uh Senator or her colleague there, uh Chucky Schemer, who said that uh that the Sheiks are doing this on their own in spite of our uh of our efforts over there in Anbar.
That's the point.
That this was the reason for the profundity yesterday.
She totally sold all those people out.
She totally sold them out on for reality.
Now, it's not being reported.
Not a lot is being made of it in the drive-by media.
It's cover her tracks time.
I'd say easier to do that than her behind.
Um but I'm telling you, folks, this was made just like like the president of Columbia, coming out and admitting he knows that we are at war with terrorists, and he knows that we're at war with Iran, and he knows that they pose great threats, and he knows it is serious.
So the entire foundation of the Liberal Democrat Party's reason for existing the last four years was just thrown Upside down by Hillary Clinton and Lee Bollinger at Columbia University.
Back in a moment.
All right, we have some more Mahmoud Ahmadinizad sound bites from New York University and from the National Press Club.
By the way, you need to go to rushlinbaugh.com.
We've done a side-by-side uh Mahmood on C SPAN and what it would look like if they had bin Laden, uh, Democrat Pakistan on um well, Democrat Al Qaeda uh on C SPAN.
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