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Nov. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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See, I told you, folks, I told you that I was so excited about this show that I was even going to be excited to hear me do it.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number, if you'd like to join us, is 800-282-2882 and the email address at rush at EIBnet.com.
Let me do a little analysis here on timing for all of this stuff to have happened to Mrs. Clinton now.
What are we into our third week of this?
We are into our third week of a slow bleed, and it all started, I think, I can't prove it, but I think it all started on this program the day of the debate in Philadelphia at Drexel University when I read a story in the Associated Press talking about how radioactive the issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in New York was for Mrs. Clinton.
A reporter said she's radioactive.
Well, ask her about it.
The story was about how nobody's asking her about it because it's radio.
I have to ask her about it.
That night, she was asked about it by Tim Russert, and she flubbed it.
She flip-flopped it.
She blew it big time in ways that, you know, we don't need to recount.
On a conference call later the next day, a bunch of Clinton supporters were discussing all this, how to strategize around it and what to do about it.
And according to the Hill newspaper, one of them even said, Russert should be shot, and then said, I shouldn't say that on a conference call.
Now, also, in the process of this, folks, we have dealt, perhaps, perhaps, too soon to say, but we have dealt a damaging, perhaps fatal blow to Governor Elliott Spitzer's plan to give illegals driver's licenses.
So we got a twofer there.
They got Mrs. Clinton off the highway.
The guardrails didn't protect her.
She's in the SUV and it's rolling over there.
She had to get Clinton out to start defending her.
Then, of course, came the didn't tip the waitresses.
Then comes the planted questions.
Then Bill Clinton says, boys are ganging up on her here.
Then Mrs. Clinton had to say that she was a woman and that they're attacking her because she's a woman.
And she says, no, I can handle it.
I'm tough.
I'm your girl.
And blah, blah, blah.
You know all of this.
Now we've got this ongoing bleed with the student and planted questions in the Clinton Inc. war room today warning Wolf Blitzer that he better not gang up on her.
He better not do any personal attack Russert type questions Thursday night at the debate in Las Vegas.
Or else, they didn't say or else, but if you warn him, what do you mean?
You know, I've speculated earlier that Wolf may want to beg off the debate because who's going to take care of his children, just like these diplomats at the State Department don't want to go to Iraq because who's going to take care of their children?
Wolf, by the way, get a cup.
I don't know that Wolf's listening.
I know he listens to some.
If he's not listening, somebody tell Wolf to get a cup.
I know people at CNN monitor this show.
You people at Media Matters, I know you're listening.
Tell Wolf to get a cup.
Well, I could send him one, but I don't know if mine would fit him.
But nevertheless, let's look at the timing of this.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we are shortly before Thanksgiving, and all of this is happening.
Up till the past three weeks has been smooth sailing.
Mrs. Clinton reporting all this marvelous fundraising superiority, magnifying big leads in the polls wherever you look.
Now, all of a sudden, this little slow bleed is happening, and it shows no signs of abating.
It could all abate if she comes out of the box with a gang bang big time performance Thursday night in a debate, then these things can turn on a dime.
And if she comes out and is forceful and answers these questions, then that Hillary has weathered the storm.
So that's the possibility.
But if that doesn't happen, if this slow bleed continues, we're going to be at Thanksgiving next week.
And the news cycle over Thanksgiving, everybody tones it down.
You get football games on the weekend, college and pro, families getting together, the whole mess.
The news cycle sort of goes slow.
And then right after that, you get into December and hello holiday time.
And that is a, it's sort of like August and July.
Those are interruptions into what I call normalcy.
It's like radio ratings in July and August you don't pay much attention to because people are not living their normal lives on vacations.
Kids are out of school, all kinds of same thing in December.
Plus, you know, the drive-by is going to be guaranteed to be pounding us with horrible economic news.
So the last thing that people are going to remember is this slow bleed of Mrs. Clinton's, unless they can do something to make big news in December to get rid of this.
Then the Hawkeye cauckey, January 3rd, you know, right after the Christmas holidays are over.
So my point is there's not a whole lot of time to turn this around if it continues and if she doesn't have a Bafo performance on Thursday night.
Now, you can talk all you want about Wolf Blitzer.
You know, the Clinton Inc. can warn Wolf Blitzer all they want, but I'll tell you what, if her opponents have any gonads, they're not going to have to depend on Wolf Blitzer in order to go after her on some of this stuff.
In a normal campaign, that's what would happen.
In a normal debate, the moderator's just there, you know, to sound the warning bell when your time's over.
But, you know, if the Brecht girl wants to get into it and roll up the sleeves, same thing with Obama.
You know, talking about Obama turning up the heat, and I don't think he's got the personality right now to turn up the heat on a stove.
But we'll have to see.
We'll just have to watch and see on Thursday night.
But the timing of this could not be worser, quote unquote, for Mrs. Clinton.
Another unrelated item, did you know, you probably didn't, last weekend, the United Arab Emirates had an air show.
And at this air show, the United Arab Emirates announced the purchase of $30 billion worth of aircraft, aircraft, and airliners manufactured by Airbus.
Now, Airbus is not in good health.
Airbus has their new A380, this big jumbo jet that holds 500 and some odd passengers if it's all coach configured, double-decked the whole fuselage.
They've delivered one of them to Singapore Airlines.
They're having trouble with some of their other orders and delivering them on time.
And there's some insider trading accusations against some executives at Airbus.
Yet, United Arab Emirates orders $30 billion worth of aircraft from the troubled company Airbus or consortium.
At the same time, there's three things that you can actually conclude from this.
One is, you know, the airline business is measured in cycles of 10 years or so.
And so when you go out and buy a bunch of long-haul jets, what the Emirates are trying to do is establish themselves as a global long-haul airliner hub.
You go out and you buy a bunch of long-haul jumbo-jumbo jets.
And you have these things to, you know, you're running a business.
You want to show a profit on the airline business, which is not easy, as you all know.
And these cycles are 10 years or more.
So the margins and your predictions, your strategic marketing has got to be pretty precise.
So one of the things I conclude when I read that the United Arab Emirates is buying all these $30 billion worth of jumbo jets, A, they are not concerned with energy sources.
Now, I know they're sitting on a pool of oil, but they also have to export that oil and sell it.
You know, the United Arab Emirates, one of the few Middle Eastern oil nations that actually is using that oil, their resource, to grow their country in a capitalistic economic way.
Saudis are not doing that.
Qatar is not doing that.
But the United Arab Emirates are.
The second thing, so they can't, obviously they're not concerned about energy supplies.
They're not concerned that they're going to buy a bunch of jets that won't be able to fly because there's not going to be any jet fuel.
This is a common sense conclusion.
And the other, we hear all this talk about how there's oil supplies.
Actually, I've got a story.
Oh, the crude oil prices are down because of increased supplies and discoveries, but that's for another moment.
They know this.
The bottom line, people in business who use oil as their primary fuel have to know that there's going to be plenty of it if you're in a business that measures success in cycles over 10 years or so and you're flying these jumbo jets that burn it by the pound.
So obviously these experts at the Emirates are not concerned about future oil supplies.
Number two, we can see that they are doing everything they can to get big.
They are into economic growth.
They are attempting to attract all kinds of capital from all over the world to invest, to be spent as leisure dollars and so forth.
Now, Boeing got a little bit of an order from the United Arab Emirates, not anywhere near $30 billion, as Airbus did.
By the way, I should remind you that during his speech before Congress last week, the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, did warn of a coming economic war.
And this might be something that he was talking about here because Boeing gets just a tiny little bit of the, I mean, it's incidental compared to what Airbus got, 30 billion.
Boeing's next big entry of the market, the 787 Dreamwider, not due until late next year.
And it's not the kind of long-haul jet that the Emirates wanted in the first place, but Airbus has it.
But do you think that one of the reasons for this disparity in the order amount that Airbus got versus Boeing might have to do with three words?
Dubai ports deal.
Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates along with Abu Dhabi and a few others.
Just throwing that out.
You know, I love Dubai ports deal news.
And, you know, these, these, I'll tell you what, you can talk about United Arab Emirates and these oil-rich states, but the last thing, the way they're building up over there and the way they're expanding, attracting investment capital from all over the world, the last thing they need is some little runt like Ahmadinezad, who needs a ladder to reach the Uridal, running around nuking up,
threatening the whole region and trying to control it, sponsoring terrorism.
Do you think they're probably going to not have any interest in joining up with the al-Qaeda types or the state-sponsored terrorism that comes out of Iran?
So it's, and we just, we learned that Halliburton has just relocated to Dubai because they're in the oil services business.
And it makes, I haven't given up their headquarters here, but they've sent their CEO over there.
So it's just something to think about, folks.
I must take a brief time out, sit tight, back with more after this.
You want to hear something pathetic?
Audio soundbite number nine coming up.
This is the Breck girl last Saturday night in Des Moines after the, or Des Moines, after the 2007 Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
The Brett girls.
I was just talking about, no matter how Wolf behaves on Thursday night in the debate in Vegas regarding Mrs. Clinton, her opponents, you know, man up.
Doesn't matter what Wolf does.
Can the Brett girl man up?
You tell me.
Here he is trying to stick it to Hillary.
When a campaign plants questions, that's a control like George Bush is engaged in.
And we see what that kind of control has gotten us as a country.
We're better than that.
And we ought to have real Democratic town hall meetings.
He didn't even mention her name and he attacks Bush.
And Bush didn't plant the question.
This is gutless, Brett girl.
Your wife could have done better than this.
When a campaign plants questions, that is a control like George Bush is engaged in.
And we've seen where that's gotten us as a country?
You know, Brett girl, you and Obama better understand something.
It is Hillary Clinton on those caucus and primary ballots.
It is not George W. Bush.
What a bunch of blithering idiots.
Nobody knows how to run a campaign anymore.
By the way, here's that story on crude oil.
Crude oil fell more than $2 a barrel after the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for global demand through 2008 because record prices are curbing fuel use.
Consumption next year will average much less than what people thought.
Numbers are long.
I won't bore you with them.
The IEA report today had a sizable decline in demand expectations for this year.
Looks like they were too optimistic about demand, didn't quite figure on the impact of high prices.
Yes, in all the excitement of the bull market, a number of economists forgot that the price mechanism actually works, said Peter Butel, president of energy consultant Cameron Hanover Inc. in New Canaan, Connecticut.
The price mechanism works by discouraging demand and by encouraging exploration and development of new supplies.
Brazil's state-controlled oil company announced November 8th that the Tupi field may hold 5 billion to 8 billion barrels of oil.
This is the second largest field found in the last 20 years.
It may hold as much as Norway's 8.5 billion barrels of reserves, according to BP PLC.
Could also boost Brazil's reserves by almost two-thirds, transforming it from a net exporter into a major supplier to world's markets.
Probably, you know, conventional wisdom of running out of oil and supplies, limited global warming, blah, That stuff is here for a reason.
It's part of creation.
God intended it to be used as we're using it, and we're using it.
And there's tons of it out there.
And I'm telling you, these oil-rich countries that are buying all these jumbo jets and planning on long-haul flights would not be investing in a business that doesn't show profit cycles over 10 years if they were worried about the supply of oil and jet fuel and the sort down the road.
Just wouldn't do it.
It is common sense.
I wonder when anybody sees Country X, China, ordering X numbers of planes from Boeing, does anybody say, wait a minute, how can that be?
We're going to be running out of fuel.
Fossil fuels are running out of.
We've got to do alternatives.
We've got to do wind.
We've got to do that.
People who are in business, who make these long-term decisions, are not going to make these kind of investments if they think there's not going to be any fuel supply down the road to make their business investment profitable.
Back to planting questions.
I'd forgotten this.
The editrix of the Limbaugh Letter sent this in and reminded me, Senator Hillary Clinton, this is from October 8th.
Senator Clinton engaged in a verbal tussle with a questioner over Iran Sunday at a town hall-style meeting after he said the New York Democrat had authorized the president to invade Iran.
The Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary concluded by suggesting to the guy, and we have the audio of this, it's in our archives, concluded by suggesting the question that the guy asked her was planted.
She said, somebody obviously sent it to you.
The questioner, a guy named Rolf, said, No, I take exception.
This is my own research.
Nobody sent this to me.
I'm offended you would suggest that.
Let me finish, Clinton sharply responded as Nurse Ratchet, before eventually saying, I apologize.
I just have been asked the very same question in three other places.
See, you live by the planted question, you die by it.
Whether it was planted or not, she thinks so.
This is projection.
She knows they're out there planting questions.
She gets a question she wasn't expecting because these audiences are stacked, and all of a sudden she goes ballistic, just like she went ballistic at Russert when he asked her about the driver's licenses for illegals.
Here's okay, good.
We've got that audio soundbite with the Rolf guy and his exchange with Mrs. Clinton.
But wasn't it in what you read to me that somebody obviously sent to you?
Is that my own research?
Well, then let me finish.
Let me finish telling you.
Well, I am offended that you would suggest.
Well, I apologize.
It's just that I've been asked the very same question in three other places.
So let me apologize.
Yeah, right.
Let me apologize, and I hope you get out of here without any bruises.
I tell you, folks, this is now getting fun.
And I knew it wouldn't start getting fun until about now.
But speaking of which, we got a poll out.
Most Americans reject the charge that other presidential candidates are piling on Senator Clinton.
This, according to a Fox 5 Washington Times Rasmussen reports poll.
Only 25% of voters said that recent criticism of Mrs. Clinton constitutes piling on.
Less than half said that she was the target because she's a woman.
The vast majority of Americans are treating Senator Clinton as a front-running presidential candidate, not as a woman, who happens to be running for president, said the pollster Scott Rasmussen.
The new poll says that most aren't convinced, about 57% disagreeing, another 18% not sure about the piling on charge.
Many of the 25% who do agree with the charge don't agree it's because she's a woman.
So that flopped, folks.
It flopped this whole mess of being piling on and piled on, which is not a pleasant vision.
All that flop.
The phones are going to Easton, Maryland.
Tony, I'm glad you waited.
Thanks for the call.
Mega Dittos, Russ.
Thank you.
I was listening to in the opening hour about Hillary planting questions, and I recalled the time when she was on late night with David Letterman in her first Senate run, and she answered a whole bunch of questions about the history of New York that David proposed to her.
And of course, she got them all right because she's the smartest woman in the world.
But it later leaked out from a staffer that she was given the questions before she appeared on the show.
I remember that too.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a pattern here.
And of course, a lot of people are eager to help the Clintons present the facade that they are what they are, which is not what they are.
Steve in Middleburg, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Now that you're doing Russett's job, would it be too much to ask you to email a few more radioactive questions to Wolf?
I'm trying to think of a way for more of your questions to reach Senator Clinton.
And would you consider planting Mr. Snowdly at a campaign stop?
Or would that be classified as torture by the Geneva Convention?
Well, it depends on if you were captured.
I don't think we get away with plants.
We don't plant things.
We would not do this.
I could send Wolf the questions that we suggested be asked.
Mrs. Clinton, what would you like to talk about tonight?
Mrs. Clinton, is there anything you haven't said that you would like to say?
Mrs. Clinton, is there anything that you said that you didn't quite think you were clear enough on that you would like to clarify now?
Mrs. Clinton, have you had enough time to answer the questions that you got tonight?
And if not, how much more time do you need?
Mrs. Clinton, is there anything that's been said by any of your opponents here that you think is unfair and unjust that you'd like to respond to?
I'll send him a list of these questions to help him out.
It's, you know, from one media figure to another.
The guy's been threatened.
Well, even warned.
I mean, what's the difference?
Frank in my glasses here.
I never said Newstrong, Kansas.
I never heard of that.
Okay, yeah, it's a little town in eastern Kansas.
Ah, well, great to have you with us.
Thank you.
Back when George Bush Sr. was running for president, I went to a town hall meeting, and I, in the chance that I would ask him a question or get a chance to do that, I worked very hard to come up with a well-worded question about Supreme Court justices.
And then the next day in the media, the local media, they said that the Republicans had obviously planted the questions.
So I called them up and said, why'd they say that?
They said, well, because the regular people wouldn't be able to come up with questions like that on their own.
And I think that Hillary is worried in her campaign that the people are not asking the right questions, aren't intelligent enough to get the right questions out for her status on whatever she wants to talk about.
There may be some of that, but I don't think that's the driving force.
I think the driving force behind planning questions is protection, is to make sure she doesn't get a question that she doesn't want to answer or doesn't have an answer that she can give.
So everybody that does this kind of thing gets worried that somebody stands up and ask idiotic questions.
But if you're really doing these town meetings and if you're really out there meeting the people that are going to vote for you, that's an attitude of contempt and condescension that you've just described, you should have been insulted all to hell that some reporter thought you were a plant because an average person, a quote-unquote normal person, couldn't have come up with your question.
That's BS.
And if Mrs. Clinton is worried that the questions she's going to get at her town meeting are dumb and stupid, you know, there's a way of dealing with that that's very classy, that doesn't insult the question, the person asking the question, and can endear you to the rest of the audience when dealing with it.
And that's what these things are for.
When you start hiding behind planted questions for whatever reason, it's clear that you're operating out of fear.
And in Mrs. Clinton's case, I don't think the worry is that she's going to be asked questions by idiots and that the whole thing is going to look bad.
I think she's worried that she's going to get questions she doesn't want.
Look at what is this all when you boil all this down, folks, there is one major conclusion that seems obvious, and it is that she is maniacally in control, demands to be in control.
Nothing will be off script.
Nothing will be taken for granted.
No chances, unnecessary chances will be taken.
And remember, her task now, as well as all these other Democrats, is to not be honest about what they really believe.
To not be honest about what they really plan to do.
Like you can send Charlie Wrangell out to announce your tax plan of a trillion dollars, and you say, well, I don't think about it.
You don't do it yourself as a liberal Democrat.
Hell, the Liberal Democrat, you don't even admit that you're a liberal because that'll hurt you in a national race.
So her whole existence is based on a cover-up, a camouflage to keep people from knowing who she is and what she really intends to do.
Because if they did, she wouldn't stand a prayer.
John in Bozier City, Louisiana.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, I was just kind of curious on since there's nothing with the Clintons.
That's coincidence.
I'm wondering if all this stuff that's coming on about her here recently isn't maybe orchestrated to show that she can overcome adversity like it was with Barack Obama.
Well, that's a possibility.
I mentioned that to somebody this morning.
Do you think the wheels are really coming off the bus here?
And I said, it's possible that the wheels are really coming off the bus, but this could also be, I don't know, this would be a tough one to orchestrate here.
A lot of people involved in this now, but it could well be that this is all being done to show that Hillary can overcome and that she can strike back and that she can deal with adversity and that when the slow bleed starts that she can stanch it and she can do it without a band-aid.
It's possible.
But you know what is it that inspires your question?
What inspires your question is a combination of my telling you that nothing that happens with the Clintons is coincidence, combined with your instinct that this is a scheming, conniving bunch of people who plan and orchestrate everything.
And so even when the wheels appear to be coming off the bus, people think, aha, is this genuine or are they staging this for our benefit?
We'll find out.
It won't be long.
If there's a real knockout debate performance on a Thursday night, if she really turns this around, then all of this will be forgotten.
And the talk will be about how she put it back together and how she really overcame adversity.
And then we'll know.
It's just a couple days.
We will watch and we will learn.
We will also find out whether or not CNN and Wolf Blitzer end up being intimidated by being warned by Clinton Inc. not to be russert-like in his moderating of the debate.
Mark, somewhere in Tennessee, it's nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Rush, heavy lift dittos.
Hey, I was watching Fox News this weekend, and the thing that scares me the most about this is we've got guys like Bill Crystal, who you've taught me to trust, and Britt Hume.
And they see this behavior, and they accept it as normal for this person.
And you contrast.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
I missed a word.
Did you say, and I lost my train of thought, did you say we got guys like Bill Crystal that I totally trust?
Yes, sir.
I mean, unless I'm confused, he's not.
No, no, no.
No, I just want to know what you said because I wasn't sure.
I went to the screen and it didn't pop up.
So start again.
Start it.
We had Bill Crystal and Britt Hume on Fox News this weekend, the guys I totally trust.
And then what did you say?
Yes, they give her a pass.
They accept this character flaw as normal, and it doesn't even register on the warning screen.
Whereas Giuliani, they just got done talking about how he had made a grievous mistake with misjudging the character of this.
Bernard Carrick.
Bernard Carrick.
Wait, no, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm still confused.
Are you saying that Bill Crystal and Britt Hume thought nothing of what, the planting of the question or of the screw-up of the driver's license?
What did they say was nothing?
Well, what they did was they discussed what she did with the planning of the question.
All right.
And then it's nothing.
You know, it's they accept this as normal behavior from this person.
Well, it is.
This is standard Clinton campaign stuff.
But what the problem is, is they don't point this out to everybody and say, look, this is a major character flaw.
This means that you can't trust a person like this.
They're willing to fool you.
They're trying to fool you about who they are.
And it goes right back to what you've always said.
How can we fool them today?
Yeah.
Well, you know this.
I know this from studying under you.
But it troubles me when guys like Britt Hume and Bill Crystal, they're not even pointing it out anymore because it happens so often.
In fairness to Crystal and Hume, I didn't see what they said, and I didn't see how they treated it.
I'm not trying to insult you by denying or not believing what you said.
But until I actually see, I've had this happen to me too many times.
People tell somebody what I've said, and I've never said it, and they believe it.
But if what you say is true, and it's simply because it's not a big deal to them.
It's not a big deal to them because there's nothing out of the ordinary about it.
These are two seasoned drive-by media experts or veterans, and they've seen it all and they've been up close to it.
And they think, you know, this is, they'll compare Rudy and Bernard Carrick to Hillary.
And when a contest of ethics and morality, you don't expect it from the Clintons.
You do from Rudy and Republicans.
And so to them, it was probably something, what's more interesting, a planted question at a town meeting or Bernard Carrick being indicted.
And I guarantee the drive-bys and everybody else in the media is no different than you and I.
We all have things that turn us on and excite us more than something else does.
And I'm just guessing these two guys were not kind of whole hum about a planted question in a town hall meeting.
Exactly.
But that's the problem is.
Don't worry about it.
I'm here.
We got it handled.
We got it covered.
God love you.
Yes, you are.
And thank you.
All right.
We'll be back after this.
Don't worry, folks.
There's no reason.
You know, this writer's strike, it may spread to CBS news.
CBS news writers could be joining their entertainment colleagues on the picket lines.
The writers are members of the Writers Guild of America East.
They are expected to vote unanimously Thursday to authorize a strike on both the national and local levels.
They've been working with a contract since April of 2005.
Doesn't mean there'll be a strike immediately, but it gives us the authority to call one, said the Guild spokeswoman, Sherry Goldman.
Oh, this is a shocker to me.
I thought CBS had guys like Bill Burkett writing their news stories.
And, you know, the real question here, well, what, Burkett cannot possibly be a member of the union.
So they'll still have his services, unless he went over to HDNet with Dan Rather.
But how's this going to affect the reporters?
You know, is this not an eye-opening thing?
Now, stop and think about this for a second.
You've got all these highly paid and really high-reputation talk show hosts, comedy guys, funny men.
I don't need to mention the names.
You know who they are.
The shows have gone into reruns because there aren't any writers.
I know some of it is respect and not wanting to cross picket lines and so forth, but Really?
I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to have people who can talk without writers to do a talk show?
We don't have writers here at the EIB network.
It really is kind of interesting to me.
Everybody has these impressions.
These guys show up to tell jokes, do this.
Wow, how funny are these guys?
Blah, blah, blah.
You know, I guess it's not a big secret.
Johnny Carson had like 12, 18 writers to do a 10-minute monologue every night.
I mean, it's tough.
Don't misunderstand.
But, nevertheless, there's some interesting economic news out.
Oh, wait.
You know what?
I don't have time because it's going to take me more than the three minutes we've got here, almost four to do this, because there's three different economic stories I want to tell you about that are all related.
So we'll do that in the monologue in the next hour.
Let's go back to the phones.
Bill and Long Island, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes.
How are you, Russia?
Sure.
First, let me preface by telling you I'm a liberal.
All right.
And I want to say that I think it is a little ridiculous that you would take a rumor that's on the Drudge Report and assume that the Clintons are so stupid that they would actually tell Wolf Blitzer not to question Hillary.
It doesn't make sense.
Why would they do that?
Wait a second.
A top Clinton insider has explained it to Drudge.
Yeah, but why would they even try and do that?
They're not stupid people.
Well, they did it after the debate.
They went out and they ripped Russert to shreds after the debate.
Well, they may have ripped.
After everything that's happened, after everything that's happened to them for the last two weeks, do you think they would take any chance at all?
First of all, if they got in touch with Wolf Blitzer, how do they know that Wolf Blitzer's not going to say something about that?
It wouldn't make it look stupid.
Well, they've been looking stupid the past three weeks, Bill.
They really have.
I don't mean to insult you as a liberal.
I don't know where you stand on Mrs. Clinton's campaigner candidacy.
I'm going to vote for Hillary.
Well, I'm sure you probably still will.
I asked, look at when I first mentioned what's on the Drudge Report front page today, I myself asked the same question.
What in the world do they think they're doing?
I said, the first place, did they ask, did they call Wolf and issue this personally, or did they just try to put it out there via the Drudge Report so Wolf would hear about it?
The thing is, my knowledge of the Clintons, this is how they think.
They have upbraided reporters in the past, and we've had just a number of details today about how they have done it in the past.
Bill Clinton got a GQ cover story killed that was going to be very unflattering to him.
And the way he did it by going to Condi Nass and said, look, you want me and the rest of your magazines like Vanity Fair, then you killed the story, and they killed it.
So the Clintons think they can do this kind of thing.
They think they can intimidate the media to getting it done.
I think it's arrogance and a sense of power that makes them think they can get away with this stuff.
Yeah, but they're not dumb people.
Hillary's not a stupid woman.
She wouldn't do that.
No, she's the smartest woman in the world.
Well, she probably doesn't even have a smartest woman in the world, but I know that she wouldn't put her name on, put her signature on doing something like this.
Bill, you know and I know that Hillary doesn't even know about this.
Some staffer did it, and she's going to say that her campaign will not tolerate this kind of treatment of the press later in the day today.
Yeah, well, you know, she can't.
She can't possibly know about it.
She doesn't know about anything else, so she can't know about this.
Well, she certainly wouldn't do something like this after what's happened.
Oh, of course not.
I'm sure she's shocked.
I'm sure she's probably more surprised than you and I are.
Wait, really?
Okay.
All right.
Goodbye.
Bye.
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