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Oct. 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 15, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Hang on a minute, folks.
They got a check and email here.
Just came in.
It couldn't come in during the break.
It had to come in.
Right now.
Hang on just a second.
Uh.
It's from my brother saying he's not trying to be an annoyance.
Greetings and welcome back.
Oh, no, no, Snerdley's not pleading his case.
That's a good point.
Bo Snerdly suspended for the day, ladies and gentlemen, for a couple of reasons.
Hopefully we'll be back tomorrow.
In fact, this is funny.
Just talking to HR.
HR is uh is the emergency screener today.
And he had a he had a woman on the phone who didn't stay, he put her on hold, but a woman on the phone who wanted to chastise me for sustaining uh for suspending Snerdley.
And uh she said to HR, I just love talking to Bo Snerdley.
You talk to Bo Snerdly.
Oh, yeah, I call him all the time.
Snerdley's in there having versatile conversation.
I didn't know that.
Anyway, here's the phone number, 800 282-2882.
The email address is uh rush at eIBNet.com.
Folks, you know, I always like to share some of these things going on in my life with you.
And I'm in a real dilemma here.
Um, my New York, my fashionable Upper East Side penthouse uh here in New York, uh moved into it in 1995, and I have done nothing to it since.
I've not upgraded any of the electronics, I've not redecorated, because I'm not here that much, and probably here a total of 20 working days uh every every year.
Uh specific reasons for that involving New York tax authorities.
But the electronics in there starting to fall apart.
I have a media room in there, and I've got a 15-year-old rear projection TV.
Uh piece of garbage now compared to what's out there, but it hasn't worked in five years.
No picture, you turn a nothing, so I can't watch it.
So I got to redo that room and take that TV out of there and replace it with some other kind of TV to rack with all the electronics and have to take that out.
I have to redecorate the whole the whole room.
And well, I went to a sports bar to watch the Patriots and the Cowboys yesterday.
Yeah, I did because I I've got I've got I got two TVs uh in uh in a fashionable Upper East Side apartment that work, and neither of them are high definition.
They're little Sonies.
Uh one.
Yeah, I don't have a wife, and I had to leave home to watch football.
Exactly right.
Anyway, I've got these two little Sonnies.
One's in the bedroom and the other was in my little study.
Uh and and the one in the bedroom doesn't have closed captioning.
I don't, I just I can't watch television in bed anyway, so that's out.
So it stayed in the study, but they're starting to get lines in that TV.
So I'm gonna I'm uh this the the whole the whole thought of having to rip the place apart and put it back together, just getting the phone calls from the contrary.
Mr. Limbaugh, we're finding things here that we had no idea we were going to find.
That original bid that we gave you is no longer applicable, and uh, we got another six months to the project.
And uh since I'm here so little, I haven't taken the time to get this done, but I something I have to.
Um it just bugs me.
You know, it just it just it just makes me mad.
Because I'm not gonna be able to shepherd the project uh myself.
I can't send Snerdley up to do it.
Uh because he's got a screen calls when he gets back from his suspension.
Oh, Stalin, Stalin, it's not gonna be up Stalin's taste, Stalin, the uh bodyguard and the security chief.
Uh no, he would be the one to uh shepherd the uh the project.
Uh anyway, it's a distraction, folks, and I just want I'm a little distracted here today.
You know, it's a good point, having to leave home and I'm not even married uh to uh to watch football on a high definition screen.
Oh, it's a great time I had, but it's still it's a it just it's not the way it's supposed to be.
All right.
This business with the uh with the Turks and the Kurds in Northern Iraq and the United States uh Congress, uh uh the Democrats in particular.
Uh speaking of the Democrats, by the way, they have now admitted they do not have the votes and will not have the votes to override uh the SCHIP veto of President Bush.
They do have the votes to override in the Senate, but they don't have the votes to override in the House.
And there are two stories on this.
The first story is how the Democrats don't have it, and how Pelosi's a little bit upset.
Um And she understands that their base is upset because they're always dissatisfied on the Democrat base.
But the companion story is how the Republicans in the House are a little bit troubled by this because they don't have an alternative program.
How about the status quo?
How about just if you if you want to increase the amount of money proportionate to the number of poor kids that exist now that didn't when the program was originally authorized ten years ago?
You know, just throw a couple billion more dollars at it, keep the same guidelines, and go for it.
And the president would sign it.
You know, put the put the Democrats on the I don't understand what's what what's so difficult about this.
Especially when the Republicans have to know what this program is, as the Democrats have div designed it.
It's simply a stealth mechanism to uh get more and more toward their objective of socialized medicine, where you'll be pulling your own teeth with pliers, as they're now doing in the in the UK.
I want to go back to um let's go to Friday, first of all, Friday afternoon.
This is a story about the situation in Turkey.
Kurdish separatist rebels said on Friday they were crossing back into Turkey to target politicians and police after Ankara said that it was preparing to attack them in the mountains of northern Iraq.
As a regional tensions rose, Prime Minister Tayep Erdogan cautioned that relations between Ankara and Washington were in danger over a U.S. Congressional resolution branding as genocide, massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Nearly 100 years ago.
Washington harbors growing concerns about the possibility of a major Turkish military incursion to crush Kurdish rebels seeking a homeland in eastern Turkey.
U.S. officials fear that such an action could destabilize a relatively peaceful area of uh of Iraq.
Now, why is any of this happening?
This is happening because the Democrats, who are unable or who don't have the guts to actually vote to defund the war in Iraq, are doing us uh a side show here of bringing up a resolution that's already been passed, already been signed twice in this country, condemning Turkey for the genocide of the uh Armenians in 1915.
And so this is this is being done deliberately to sabotage relations between the United States and Turkey.
Turkey, of course, is crucial in terms of getting supplies and materiel into Iraq from the United States uh for the troops, keep them resupplied, uh, and so forth.
I mean, this is this is just dastardly what these people are doing.
Now, later, this story came across the uh the wire.
Oil prices extended their rise on Monday after closing at a record high to win last week amid worries that supplies are insufficient for coming winter demand.
Uh prices have also risen on concerns over the conflict between Turkey and the Kurds in Northern Iraq.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday urged Turkey to show restraint in its response to the attacks from Kurdish rebels, but Turkish leaders have appeared to be less receptive to Washington's appeals since a committee of U.S. lawmakers passed a resolution last week labeling as genocide the World War One era killings of Armenians by the Ottomans, a characterization that Turkey rejects.
So the Turks are telling uh Condoleez of, you know, take it somewhere else.
You know, you guys are going to try to, you know, offend us and embarrass us on the world stage.
We're one of your allies here.
They are a quote unquote modern, uh moderate Muslim nation.
So I think, you know, let's call this what it is.
This is Nancy Pelosi's war now.
She's doing everything she can to encourage this little incursion by Turkey into northern Iraq after the Kurds and to disrupt the supply lines.
Uh and then there's this Democrats press on with genocide bill despite Turkish furor.
Uh Pelosi said some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values.
Abu Grab, Guantanamo, torture, all those issues are about who we are as a country.
Uh and she's just uh, you know, she said possible reprisals affecting Turkey's cooperation with the U.S. military were hypothetical and would not derail the resolution.
And that's when she's not.
Some things were this this is about our values.
What What what what values?
What timeliness here for your values?
Now, this was discussed on Fox uh with the uh the Beltway boys, Mort Kondraki and uh Fred Barnes.
This was on Saturday on the Fox News Channel.
Here's what Kondraki said.
Rush Limbaugh is saying that the Democrats are promoting this resolution in Congress in order to disrupt our relationship with Turkey, not get supplies to limit supplies from Turkey to uh our troops in Iraq and cause a defeat in Iraq.
I don't think that that's the case, but I think the Democrats should be very careful in in proceeding with this resolution because the effect will be, or could be that the Turks will stop allowing supplies through, and that will hurt our troops.
Now, what kind of equivocation is that?
Kondranki says Rush Limbaugh thinks that that's exactly what's going to happen, and that's why the Democrats are doing it.
He says, I don't think that's right, but the Democrats better be careful because this is what's going to happen.
Now, what is that?
That's the kind of equivocation that we get uh from people that doesn't serve anything.
He knows full well what's going to happen, and he's he's equivocating on whether or not the Democrats mean for it to happen.
And how he's warning them to be careful.
They know exactly what they're doing, and they're doing it with glee back in a second.
Everyone's a winner, hot chocolates.
One of my favorite all-time tunes on our bumper rotation, 800-282-2882.
Let's listen uh to Nancy Pelosi talking about the uh uh situation in Turkey.
She was on this week with Stephanopoulos yesterday.
He said to her, if the president or Secretary Gates or the chairman of Joint Chiefs called you and said they're just certain that this is uh gonna put our military at risk, is it still worth going forward with your resolution?
The president hasn't called me on it, so that's a hypothetical.
Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values.
Abu Ghab, Guantanamo, torture, all of those issues about who we are as a country.
And I think that our troops are well served when we declare who we are as a country and and increase the respect the people have for us as a nation.
I know it doesn't sound like it, but I am livid.
This is idiocy.
This insults the intelligence of anybody who heard this exchange.
Uh folks, you know, they've made this personal now, and I frankly, I am fed up with these people.
I am at my wit's end with these people.
What they have tried to do to destroy the morale of the mission or of the troops to destroy the mission itself.
They run around and say, we support the troops, we don't support the mission.
The troops have one concern, and that's the mission.
And if you don't support the mission, you don't support them.
And they have been trying, Pelosi and her crew, to undermine the troops since we went into Iraq.
And it just is beyond the pale that they say, well, no, this is this is gonna help the troops.
Saying that we don't support genocide in Turkey a hundred years ago.
This will support the troops.
We have to do right by these things.
Abu Grab Guantanamo, torture, all of those issues about who we are as a country.
This makes me want to spit.
This is just offensive as it can be, especially coming from these people who have done everything they can.
Why do you think we have a rotten image in the world if we do?
My friends, I don't agree that our image is rotten, but they certainly want it to be, and they want it to be blamed on Bush.
But who the hell in public for four years have been running around ripping the hell out of this country?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, you name it, John Mertha.
It doesn't matter.
Publicly doing so.
We've had Bill Clinton, we've had Engore, we've had Jimmy Carter, all Democrats traveling the world, ripping this country to shreds, saying that it's immoral, saying that our president is an idiot and agreeing with socialists all over the world that George Bush is uh an idiot, a clown, or whatever.
It's been it's just unseemly.
And we were talking about this at lunch yesterday.
You know, I I just have to think that there are far more many Americans who feel the same way I do and you do about this than any of us ever know.
They're just not asked about it.
And the popular perception in the drive-by media is that every American agrees with Democrats on everything.
But this is just unseemly.
There are Americans who are fed up with hearing their country run down day in and day out for the last four years.
Our troops run down, criticized, impugned day in, day out for the last four years.
And then have what the Democrats say repeated on the nightly newscasts, on the cable networks, all over the newspapers and so forth.
It is unseemly.
Now to offer this, this resolution, the third of its kind, two previously have already passed, to anger Turkey, the primary supply line for troops, and then to say, no, this is about this is about our morality.
This is about who we are as a country.
Yeah, where were you during the Rwandan genocide?
What are you doing besides flapping your guns, gums over what's going on in Darfur?
You know, the uh the the enemies of this country seem to be the allies of the United States Democrats.
Just stunning.
It's just, it's just it's classless, it's unseemly, and it is it to me, folks, it is reprehensible.
And this answer that she gives here, well, the president hasn't called me.
You shouldn't need a phone call from the president to understand what you're doing, and she doesn't need a phone call.
She knows exactly what she's doing.
They all do on the Democrat side of this, know exactly what they're doing.
Uh some of the things are harmful to our troops.
Does she really believe that the rumors, the lies, the smears of U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo at Club Gitmo, are actually hurting our troops in Iraq?
What's hurting our troops in Iraq is Democrats and their judges.
As in the first hour of this program.
Soldier from Queens, kidnapped in a surprise attack by Al Qaeda in the triangle of death.
We are not allowed to get wiretaps on the phones and the communications the kidnappers are using for ten hours.
Because the lawyers have to approve the request for a warrant.
In the middle of a war, not in the middle of street crime, in the middle of a war.
And the Democrats want to keep those restrictions in place.
They are handing victory.
They're trying to hand victory to the enemy.
They are failing because Al Qaeda is on the run.
There are even more stories in the stack today that I have coming up about how it's getting really, really tough to deny here that things are improving in Iraq.
In fact, here it is.
It's an editorial in the uh in the Washington Post of all places from yesterday.
The evidence of a drop in violence in Iraq becoming hard to dispute.
Meanwhile, some seemingly important facts about the main subject of discussion last month, whether there's been a decrease in violence in Iraq, have gotten relatively little attention.
I wonder why.
Because that doesn't fit the template, does it?
Good news in Iraq does we had the audio sound bites in those two journalists last week.
Well, we can't report good news.
Why one month doesn't make a trend?
Besides, how do we verify these numbers?
We can't be sure these numbers are accurate.
Yet the death toll goes up.
Oh, the numbers have no question about them.
They're totally accurate.
And that, of course, is news.
It's um maddening.
A congressional study, several news stories in September questioned reports by the U.S. military that casualties were down.
Senator Clinton challenging the testimony of General Petraeus asserted that civilian deaths have risen during the year's surge of American forces, but a month later there isn't much room for such debate, at least about the latest figures, and they go on to cite how they have plummeted.
Nevertheless, it's looking more and more as though those in and outside of Congress who last month were assailing General Petraeus credibility and insisting that there was no let up in Iraq's bloodshed were, to put it simply wrong.
This in the Washington Post yesterday.
And so now we're gonna the Democrats want to screw this up because I, Il Rushbull, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all everything Maha Rushy, have been warning you about for the past six months.
The last thing the Democrats can afford is editorials like that stick and be spread throughout the drive-by media.
The last thing they can afford is the perception by the American people that we are winning and that victory is at hand politically that cooks their goose.
Politically that finishes them.
Because they've already got us losing.
They're fundraising on it.
They're running for office on it.
The last thing they want is victory.
And Mrs. Pelosi runs around and says this gobbledygook to Stephanopoulos is what she said.
She ought to be ashamed.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here's another soundbite from Nancy Pelosi from Stephanopolis.
The question, the congressional approval ratings have taken a hit this year.
A lot of that, as you know, is because of disaffection and a Democrat base anti-war activists.
Cindy Sheehan's running against you.
I respect the dissatisfaction with the war.
I myself would not give Congress Heimarks when ending the war.
We don't have the veto or the pen to sign or not to veto.
Uh but we get doing all we can to change the debate.
I'm one of the most vociferous opponents of the war.
And so that is even more ironic.
But I again, I was an advocate myself.
I I that by their nature, they are dissatisfied, persistent and and and just keep fighting.
And I respect that.
It's as you know, it if it in a sane world, in a sane world, folks, this House of Cards that's a Democrat Party would just crumble to shreds a year from now, November.
And Hillary Clinton would already be the whole the whole party would be disqualified in terms of having legitimacy because of the things and the stunts that they have pulled uh against their own country just in the last six months alone.
I know that's not the case, because this is not a sane uh and and just world right now, but I'm telling you, it that this is just the things that they're doing to try to sabotage this effort, uh, even in the midst of profound success, more and more stories are starting to hit two, and that's just I think ratcheting the Democrats up uh even more.
But remember, I I have faith that that the far greater number of Americans are going to see this uh and surprise everybody on election day than uh anybody in the that that that conducts and creates conventional wisdom is putting out.
I also think you know, Mrs. Clinton's making a big play for the female vote.
She's throwing a female card on the table now.
She went on a view today, and one of the things I was in, I was in with Cookie's office as she's preparing the sound bites, and I never watched a view.
Good lord, who would?
What kind of per what kind of empty, miserable life must you have to want to watch that show?
So anyway, I walk in and cookie's got all these monitors.
She has to have all these shows on so we can get these sound bites.
And whoopy Goldberg's asking Hillary Clinton a question about China.
And I don't know that Whoopi Goldberg could find it on a map.
And I I therefore also don't know that Whoopi Goldberg gives a ratch rear in what China's doing.
So, but they have Hillary on there, so they probably went back to little class and got some questions to ask Mrs. Clinton, because she's a presidential candidate, and we girls on the view here must act like we know what we're doing when we're talking big policy stuff.
And when she asked you the question about China, uh, you know, Hillary came out with a usual, we've got to be smarter about what we do.
China, I've been warning people a lot for crying out loud, half your campaign funds come from China.
We know you're not going to do anything about China.
Anybody heard of Norman Shu for crying out loud.
Charlie Tree.
Uh James Riotti.
Well, that's that's a lipo group.
That's not uh that's not the Chicoms, but I mean it was just it's it's just laughable, laughable moment.
Here's Willie in uh in Michigan is a cell call.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good to talk to you, Russ.
Thank you.
I'd like to meet you one day.
I think this would be a real good time for you to refresh everybody's memory.
I'll all the top tier of the Democratic Party said that Bush was isolating us from our allies.
We need to make better friends with our allies.
Helping us with the war.
Now look what they're doing, chopping us off at the media with Turkey.
I can't believe everybody can't plainly see what they're doing.
Well, you know, there's some people worried here that uh the Democrats are gonna get away with this because they won't have any fingerprints on all of this, as far as the drive-by media is concerned, because the drive-by is are not going to report the Democrats' involvement here in order to protect them.
Uh And you know, that is a a legitimate concern.
As far as uh a lot of Americans will will know, um, the Turks just decided to say to hell with the war in Iraq and gave us, you know, good cause trouble, and it's just another ally defecting from Bush and so forth.
And make no mistake that's exactly the way the Democrats wanted to be reported, which is why I'm shouting this stuff from the rooftops, because the Democrats are the ones causing this and the Turks are the ones telling us so.
The Turks are the ones reacting to this.
They don't want to be embarrassed.
This is an ally.
You're exactly right.
And in the early days of this administration, particularly uh during those, so what was it, a year and a half at the Security Council or 14 months at the Security Council, all the Democrats are saying we can't go this low.
We've got to stick with our allies.
Remember John Kerry global test in the 2004 presidential campaign in one of the debates, well, we need a global test out there.
We need to go around and get permissions and remember how everybody mocked that and he had to pull back from it.
This is what I mean that's and that's a great point Willie this is this is what I mean about about this uh this current crop of Democrats and liberals is you you cannot believe anything they say.
And during all of this it's not just Mrs. Clinton folks you know when she criticizes the war she only says what she won't do.
And what she won't do is what Bush is doing.
And that's the secret to the message.
She's still campaigning to the base well I'm not going to get invaged in torture and I'm not going to have things going on at these prisons and I'm not going to be spying and I won't do this and I won't do that.
And the Democrat base goes yeah yeah because all they're oriented around and what animates them is their hatred for Bush.
We never hear what these people will do.
We never hear how they're going to keep us safe they never tell us what they will do in certain circumstances regarding national security.
And here's Pelosi doing it in her own way.
So they're still running against George W. Bush.
I know it's still primary time so they're still running against the guy that their base hates the most of that and they probably won't because I don't think that they're going to be able to gin up the same amount of hatred for a Rudy or a Fred Thompson or a Mitt Romney, whoever the nominee is simply don't think they're going to be able to gin up that kind of personal hatred.
And that personal hatred is one animates and they've got to keep their people animated but at some point you know emotions have reservoirs and reservoirs empty and the uh I made a little joke about it the other day but can you imagine how many Democrats are going to be upset when they go into the ballot ballot box on the voting booth uh on in in November of 08 and find Bush's name not on the ballot to vote against they're gonna be lost what do they do Lincoln Nebraska this is Josh your next on the EIB network sir hello.
Well, I'll keep my comments brief.
Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Steny Hoyer, the majority leader, got up and said that for 24, 25 years, he's been trying to get this Turkey Amendment out there.
And I'm just wondering if, correct me if I'm wrong, but in 1993, the Clinton White House and both houses of Congress, the Democrats, they should have passed this then and there if it was such a big issue with Democrats.
Steny should have brought it up then.
Pelosi was there then.
They should have all brought it up at that point when it could have gotten through if it was such a big issue.
Obviously, this was politics.
They're trying to play politics.
They did bring it up.
They brought it up in 1984.
They did bring it up at some point in the 90s.
This is the third time in the last 20 years they brought it up.
But you're exactly right.
The timing of this has nothing to do with anything other than sabotaging what is now turning into positive news out of Iraq because they can't afford for that to happen.
invested in uh in defeat I'm telling you I don't it it it it's just it's just unseemly um that doesn't even cover it halfway because they're Democrats uh it just uh I you know I I'm trying to maintain my composure here at the same time describe how livid I am about it and in Sarasota Florida thank you for waiting or calling rather you're on the uh EIB network hi.
Hi there you're my hero believe it or not you really are but what I'm saying wanted to make a point is at Pelosi if if that's what a woman does as a uh uh in the House as a as a leader look what it a woman as a president, as such as Hillary Clinton would do.
Maybe the American people, I they've got to be able to see that.
Well, it's interesting, you know, Mrs. Clinton is playing the female card now.
Uh just exactly as Segaline Royale did in the French race over there for Prime Minister, president, whatever they call him.
And it was uh I think it was a debate between Sarkozy and Segaline Royale, where she made this big play for women and said that she deserved to be elected because she's a woman over for and Sarkozy just listened to her and listened to her and sliced her and diced her, and she was finished.
And she didn't end up getting but forty-two or forty-three percent of the feed, maybe maybe not even that much of the female vote.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, for whatever strategical reason, is making a play for women based on the fact that she is a woman.
And of course, by coincidence, I'm certain.
There are countless new stories today about how warm and friendly Hillary is, and how people are changing their mind on how she's so hard and emotionless.
Oh, she's really warming up now, and women are really taking to her.
So we're getting predictable news stories.
Um Hillary's out there saying, in fact, it's going to be women who decide uh who is president in 2008.
And the dirty little secret is it's not, it's white men, it's who they vote for, folks.
And I still maintain that there are a lot of white males in this country in certain regions.
They're gonna look at Mrs. Clinton and not even just have to hear one or two sentences, and they're not gonna take the chance of bringing their ex-wife back or their two ex-wives back and making her president.
It just isn't gonna happen.
And I will lay you ten to one that a majority of women do not vote for Mrs. Clinton.
Now that's uh I'm going way out on a limb here in the general election, but I think they're misreading all of this.
Uh they they look at women as monolithic.
Uh Mrs. Clinton's gonna get the female vote because she's female.
That's what Segaline Royale thought in Paris uh and in France, and it couldn't, it didn't happen, and all these female commentators from uh Mara Lyas and the Koki Roberts, any number of them were just beside themselves, couldn't understand.
Why would women not vote for a woman?
Well, maybe because they don't think like you.
Maybe they're not liberals as much as you think, and don't engage in group politics.
Maybe they these women actually cared about ideas in France, as many women in this country do.
Baba Duban.
Uh Segaline Royale got 48% of the uh female vote in the French elections, not the 42, wanted to offer that uh correction.
52 percent supported the uh overall winner, Nicholas Sarkozy.
Now, you know, Newsweek has revamped their website.
They're no longer partnered up with uh PMSNBC.
They got their own website, they've uh done something, changed the appearance of the magazine and so forth.
They got their first independent website up today, and there's a s there's a a review of a forthcoming book, uh the review written by Jonathan Darman.
It's a book on uh on the Hillary Clinton, or the Clinton marriage, actually, and it is uh uh by Sally Bedell Smith.
Now, some of the some of the stuff in this uh uh excerted from this book, by the way, I'm you know, uh not not trying to obsess here on Mrs. Clinton.
I'm just telling you there has been a noticeable shift in media coverage and Clinton strategy.
Now they're focusing in on the women, and they're focusing in on how she warming up, how she's got all these feelings, and how people are finally finding that she's not this this this stiff mannequin, but we really like Hillary, people are saying.
And of course, one of those stories happened to be a quote from a uh vice chair of some Democrat party committee in New Hampshire, who said he'd been out talking to Democrats.
Oh, yeah, a lot of people are finding she's a lot friendlier than she used to be, at least appears that way.
Wow, what a what a source to go ask about Mrs. Clinton.
At any rate, here's a quote from this story about Sally Bedell Smith's book, which which is a um uh even this story, by the way, uh, is is about the uh the gripping, the grating psychodrama.
That is the Clinton's marriage.
A new book tries to make sense of the gripping, grating psychodrama.
Is anybody obsessing about this marriage, or do we all know what it is already?
We all know what it is.
Nobody's obsessing about gripping.
Grating psychodrama.
At any rate, here's here's a telling quote uh from the story.
Smith's Hillary Clinton wants only to be a public woman, a wonk, and a warrior for the Clinton's noble causes.
Arriving in the White House, she and her husband make her status clear to staffers.
Staffers are to call her the Supreme Court, mindful that the first lady had the final say.
She strives for cool detachment.
But her husband's coterie sees the cracks.
They are wimps, she tells them.
Mrs. Clinton tells his staff.
They're wimps, she tells them in tirades.
Men who don't have testicles and don't know how to fight, quote unquote.
Neither Clinton, by the way, talked to Sally Bedell Smith for the book.
Uh quickly her real target emerges, the president himself.
She knew how to push his buttons, a senior official tell Smith.
Makes it sound like Hillary ran that whole show and ran his staff and gave them all kinds of grief for being gutless and testicles and all these other things.
And how cold and makes a big point here about how the key to success in politics is never having emotion and never allowing emotion to compromise your principles.
Don't compromise goals for the sake of emotion.
Don't discover your feelings.
Don't share your feelings.
And of course, this is the Hillary that we know.
Now all of my take on this is these things don't happen by coincidence.
Nothing that happens with the Clintons is coincidence.
There has to be polling data out there.
And the polling data or the focus group data has to show.
She's not likable.
She had the negatives are still pretty high.
She seems a little cold and awkward.
So here comes the cackle.
The cackle's gone.
Here came the $5,000 for every baby.
That's gone.
It's been replaced by a 401k for everybody with a $1,000 seed donation.
Who knows how long that will last?
Now we've got the stories about how warm and fuzzy she is, and people are starting to like her, and this is just like the news, the polling data that we got on the Iraq war involving public opinion.
Public opinion never was what the polls said it was.
They were trying to create that opinion with the polls.
Polling data any more simply way to get editorial opinions on the front page or the lead item in a news story as so-called news.
A quick timeout here, folks.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, folks, a reminder, we are up to uh 41,000 or 45,100 on the eBay auction for the original copy, the original of the Harry Reed letter to uh Mark Mays, the CEO of Clear Channel, my syndication partner.
That auction will go until Friday at one o'clock.
We have been deluged with requests for uh us to make copies of the Harry Reed letter available for a donation.
Uh smaller amount.
Most people don't have the means to donate 45,100, even for something like this.
Uh but people who wanted to contribute to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation have been requesting copies.
We have made uh uh PDF file available uh that is a copy of Senator Reed's letter, and you can download it for free.
We're not folks, you already paid for this letter because these senators were on work time.
They were on normal work hours when they wrote this letter and signed it and so forth.
You've already paid for this.
Now we've also got a link up at the at the uh Rushlinbaugh.com homepage if you want to send a donation to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, by all means do so.
We're not gonna require you to do that.
I want as many copies of the Harry Reed letter in American homes as possible.
So feel free to download it.
It's yours.
Uh and remember that the auction on eBay with the original uh goes until Friday at uh one o'clock, and our current amount is at 45,001.
Think some of the big money is gonna hang back until the end of the week, of course.
Keep from bidding this up.
So it's gonna get exciting as we move toward the uh end of the week.
Brief time out.
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