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November 30, 2007, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Why is everybody so surprised about this?
	I'm amazed at the news that's made out there that everybody is so surprised about it.
	I must have had 10 people send me this story.
	Not only are they surprised by it, I'm sort of insulted.
	They think that I, the premier broadcast host in the country, would not find this on my own.
	It's Friday.
	Let's go.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	All right, open line Friday, ladies and gentlemen, and that's an exciting broadcast day here during the busy broadcast week at the Mammoth EIB Network.
	When we go to the phones, you own the program.
	Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things I care about.
	On Friday, I will fake it if I don't care about it if you want to talk about it.
	The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
	We also try to take more calls on Friday, and that's generally because by Friday we are whipped here.
	We are zapped.
	I'll tell you, I know I am.
	I uh and I got I got some good sleep last night.
	You know, I'm getting all kinds of advice on what to do about punking, you know, because uh it was it was what was it, Wednesday night, started headbutting me right between the eyes for like an hour and a half.
	I mean, a combination of headbutt and nuzzle.
	And she wants to get up and be fed.
	So people say, why don't you feed her before you go to bed?
	I guess I need to give you people the routine here so you understand what's so odd about this.
	I do.
	I feed her whether it's midnight, two o'clock in the morning, eleven p.m. or I feed her before I go to bed.
	I feed the cat three times a day.
	Once when I get up, about you know, when I get home in the afternoon, and then when I go to bed.
	As a bad habit has evolved, she will not eat out of the bowl.
	Uh sometimes she will if she's really hungry, but she will not eat until she sees me pour something in the bowl, whether the bowl's full or not.
	Now, why put the food in these ziploc bags?
	Because there's two or three different kinds for urinary tract infections, make sure she doesn't get them.
	And some days she won't eat one and wants the other, but I don't know that till I open each bag and let her figure it out.
	And it's gotten to the point now where she won't eat except out of the ziploc bag.
	So I have to open a Ziklock bag, have to put it on the floor, open it up, and then stand there, make sure she doesn't strangle or suffocate in the Ziploc bag while this is happening.
	The cat has totally run my life here.
	I've got a bunch of women emailing me.
	I want to be punkin.
	Not many, Dawn, but just a few.
	Uh so anyway, I I fed the cat, went to bed last night about 1.30, and I went up there and she had not come down to see me all day.
	I mean, from the time I got home yesterday afternoon until two o'clock in the morning, one thirty, whatever it was, I'd not seen her.
	She generally comes down to the library and starts, you know, running around my feet and legs and so forth and demanding some attention.
	She didn't come down, so okay, she's mad.
	Um I'm I'm sitting there in the library punk and we're just trying to get her to totally ignored me.
	So I got up there 1.30, and she's just sitting there in her bathroom waiting.
	She has her own bathroom and sitting room, folks, and she's just sitting there waiting.
	So I went and I got the bag.
	She didn't want that bag.
	Had to go get another bag, open it up, bam, dug in there like crazy.
	Did not headbutt me today, but when I got up to feed her, bam, right back in the same bag.
	So that's that's what's I know what you cat people are saying, and and and uh you're gonna say I've lost control here.
	The cat's running me.
	If it just wait, don't feed her all the time, put the food in a bowl.
	When she gets hungry, she'll eat it.
	Yeah, but you're forgetting the headbutts at 5 30 or 6 o'clock in the morning.
	Anyway, here's this news story.
	I am ten people must have sent me this today, uh, acting shocked and surprised.
	Uh, and also I took from it, they thought I I wouldn't find it on my own.
	It's a Gallup poll of um 4,014 adults aged 18 and older.
	It's a telephone poll conducted in November 2004, November 2005, 06 and 07.
	Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent.
	This, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Health Care polls.
	Fifty-eight.
	Why is anybody surprised by this?
	When's the last time you ran into a liberal or a Democrat that you thought was moderately well adjusted?
	When's the last time you ran into one that you thought was grounded at all in reality?
	They're all nuts.
	Your kids come home and tell you about the liberal teachers.
	You go, how can anybody think this way?
	When's the last time you ran into a liberal that's genuinely happy about anything?
	So why is this a surprise that we, Republicans and conservatives, rate our mental health as excellent when they don't?
	The relationship between party ID and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.
	Now the basic data based on an aggregated sample of more than 4,000 interviews conducted since 2004 are straightforward.
	The differences are quite significant, as can be seen.
	While Democrats are slightly less likely to report excellent mental health than our independence, the big distinctions in these data are the differences between Republicans and everybody else.
	Now, one could be quick to assume that these differences are based on the underlying demographic and socioeconomic patterns related to party identification in America.
	A recent Gallup report reviewed these mental health data more generally, found that men, those with higher incomes, those with higher education levels, and whites are more likely than others to report excellent mental health.
	Some of the patterns describe characteristics of Republicans, of course.
	No, they don't.
	That's the big myth here is the Republicans are the rich people in this country.
	The Democrats are the party of the rich now.
	Numerous surveys have pointed this out.
	You look at the congressional districts that Democrats represent, and you'll find there's far, far, far more wealthy people in Democrat districts than there are in Republican districts.
	Anyway, as Gallup says here, an analysis of the relationship between party ID and self-reported excellent mental health within various categories of age, gender, church attendance, income education, and other variables shows that the basic pattern persists regardless of these characteristics.
	In other words, party ID appears to have an independent effect on mental health, even when each of these is controlled.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a surprise to me, but now Gallup has documented yesterday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Representative John Mertha held a video conference with reporters to talk about his trip to Iraq from which he just returned.
	From which he just returned.
	I I think I think the surge is is working.
	What?
	What did I hear?
	Can we play that again?
	Do we had do we have that available or did it vanish into the ether?
	I I think I think the surge is is working.
	He said the surge is working.
	Jack Merthus says the surge is working.
	I don't care whether he's now doing a CYA because the truth is obvious.
	The fact of the matter is this hurts Democrats.
	Nancy Pelosi, I don't know this.
	My guess is she is furious.
	My guess is that Harry Reed's furious because Mertha, Mertha was the spear taker.
	Mertha was out there catching the spears everybody was throwing because he was leading the charges in a safe district, and he was leading the charge, and the surge isn't working, and our troops are criminals and they're rapists and they're murderers and they're muggists and so forth, muggers and this sort of thing.
	Now he says the surge is working.
	This this could not be worse than the Democrats.
	James Clyburn, who is the whip, House Web, and he's chairman, I think, of the congressional black caucus, said some months ago.
	Uh if we got a as a party, we've got real problems if this thing turns around.
	And they do have real problems with this.
	This is this is uh yeah, I mean, Harry Reid, even now authoring legislation, as you know, to try to curb future Iraq funding.
	Unless it's tied to troop withdrawals.
	He's just been undercut here by Mirtha, as has Pelosi.
	We'll have more on this as the program unfolds.
	And ladies and gentlemen, the stink.
	The rot, that is CNN, is amplified and amplifying all day.
	They continue.
	Bloggers and others continue to find even more setups and more plants.
	For example, I didn't watch the little panel discussion with the 24.
	Unregistered Republican or undecided Republican voters after the debate.
	They found them at the University of Tampa.
	It turns out there probably aren't 24 Republicans, period, at the University of Tampa.
	There's a group that there was a show after that that Campbell Brown hosted on dirty campaign ads, and David Bossey and his group are suing CNN, considering suing CNN unless they retract it because it was a full-fledged hit piece.
	And the um it was just it was exactly what I said yesterday.
	This was a um uh it was a put-up job, a setup job.
	I will not be convinced by anybody at CNN or anywhere else that this was random, that it was accidental.
	In fact, look, look, ladies and gentlemen, what one of the lead stories in the New York Times today is has to do with uh gays in the military.
	Why, yes, a new push to roll back don't ask, don't tell.
	New York Times, Tom Shanker, Patrick Healy, marking Patrick Healy, by the way, the stenographer for the Clinton campaign, uh, marking the 14th anniversary of legislation that allowed gay men and lesbians to serve in the military, but only if they kept their orientation secret.
	Twenty-eight retired generals and admirals plan to release a letter today urging Congress to repeal the law.
	We respectfully urge Congress to repeal the don't ask, don't tell policy.
	Those of us signing this letter have dedicated our lives to defending the rights of our citizens to believe whatever they wish.
	Few issues have split the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates this year as clearly as whether to repeal don't ask, don't tell would some I have been watching this campaign.
	I'm not aware that it is that big an issue.
	Few issues have split the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates this year as clearly as whether to repeal don't ask, don't tell.
	Uh at a debate in June, all the Democrat candidates said they favored rescinding the policy.
	Republican candidates, meanwhile, have favored continuing it, saying that it's a sensible approach or that it would be a distraction to integrate openly gay service members into the armed forces during a time of war.
	Among Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination, the Breck girl has sometimes tweaked Mrs. Clinton and by extension, Mr. Edwards Rival uh uh uh Mr. Clinton rather and Hillary for bowing the military brass and going along with the don't ask, don't tell compromise.
	Hillary has been a steady critic of the policy, though she's careful not to rebuke her husband for his actions in 1993, as she has said he did the best he could as a new president maneuvering around a political land mine.
	Now, uh folks are gonna have to help me out here.
	You know, I'm a I'm a student and an observer of the scene.
	I I I do not know I I'm unaware that this is uh an issue such that few have split the Democrat and presidential candidates this year.
	I didn't know it was a regardless of that, regardless of that.
	CNN grabs this brigadier general.
	They get he's a former guest on CNN back in 2003 or 2004.
	He's from Santa Rosa.
	They fly him into Florida, they give him a microphone, they give him a chance to rebut what the candidates say, they tell us they had no clue, and then two days later, the New York Times is running a story about the new push to roll back don't ask, don't tell.
	And in the meantime, it's a policy, at least the New York Times gets right, initiated by Democrats, initiated by Bill Clinton, and yet they bring in this brigadier general to to to harass and hector Republicans about it.
	When that debate was supposed to be featured, questions posed by undecided Republicans.
	C and N you stink.
	You're an absolute abomination.
	You are a disgrace, and more and more people are finally seeing it now.
	Even, you know, Howard Kurtz writes about it today.
	Mara Lyerson was on uh uh the Fox News channel last night and a quote from her about it.
	I'll share with you after we come back from the break, folks.
	Don't go away.
	All right, here's a little more on Jack Mirtha, the Politico.com.
	Mirtha's comments of the surge are a problem.
	For House Democrats, Mirtha's, you know, one of the leading anti-war voices in the House Democrat caucus is back from a trip to Iraq.
	He now says the surge is working.
	Um, it'll be a huge problem for uh Speaker Pelosi and other Democrat leaders who are looking to block approval of the full 200 billion dollars being sought by President Bush for combat operations in Iraq in 2008.
	Uh a stark reversal from uh Mertha's previous positions.
	I know a lot of people think he's just playing CYA here because the what's happening on the ground is obvious and it's at such variance with his uh prior positions.
	Whether he's, you know, CYA or not, whatever he's saying here, that he was the spear taker.
	And and and he was he was the guy catching the arrows out there because he was safe.
	And now he's uh he's blown the cover here.
	It does present the Democrats with a uh with a problem.
	Uh previously, back in July, Mirtha had said it's delusional.
	We've in fact we got some sound bites of Murtha in the past.
	Uh sound bites eight and nine here, Ed.
	This is meet the press, March 4th, 2007.
	The uh question from Russert, you believe it unless the violence subsides, our troops should come home within six months.
	Yeah, they're in a civil war.
	We're caught in a civil war.
	Any way you look at it, the civil war.
	I supported uh an extra two hundred thousand troops in Vietnam when I came back from Vietnam.
	Uh it didn't work.
	This is not working.
	It it's it's one of those things.
	The surge just won't work.
	And that's what we believe, and and I think in the end, this is what you'll see will happen.
	There's too much optimist about this whole thing.
	We need to get this thing out of the way.
	That's just uh back in March.
	And now Mertha's saying, I think the surge is working.
	May 1st of this year, hardball with Chris Matthews.
	Question, why wouldn't the why wouldn't he tell the truth?
	Why is he blaming it on Al Qaeda?
	The people who blew up the World Trade Center.
	Why why is he doing that?
	This whole whole war, ever since I diverted the attention away from where Al Qaeda started, uh the Taliban in in Afghanistan and the war in Afghanistan where we should have stayed ever since that time.
	Uh they but they've been trying to tie this into terrorism.
	All of us know uh there's a there's uh terrorism all over the world.
	He's not a but Congressman, he's not a PR man.
	He's not a flack for the White House.
	He's a general in the field.
	Why would he be able to do it?
	You're saying he's singing the song of the ideologues.
	I'm saying he came back here at the White House's request to purely make uh political statements.
	That's what I'm saying.
	There's no question in my mind about it.
	He's talking about General Petraeus.
	Now, you know, all this is uh all this is off the board now.
	The surge is working.
	Uh Democrats fully discredited.
	As I said earlier this week, we now know, but we it's it's it's blatant.
	They are not qualified to lead this country.
	I don't care who they are.
	I don't care if it's Hillary, I don't care if it's Obama, who, by the way, I saw a poll today.
	Obama may have I'm not sure about this.
	Obama may have pulled away uh uh ahead of Hillary in Iowa.
	Wes Pruden today in the Washington Times has an interesting theory.
	He says the candidate of inevitability cannot lose even once.
	A candidate that has it wrapped up.
	Hillary the candidate of inevitability.
	If she loses Iowa, she's no longer inevitable, and that's a big, big blow.
	Um, we'll share you the details of West Prudence thought process uh in uh in due course as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
	Uh also talking to some people uh this morning about the upcoming uh election.
	A friend of mine, I cannot identify by name, but I've known him since I grew up.
	Uh and he's been involved in Republican Party politics for many, many moons.
	And he's uh he's in Washington quite a bit.
	He just got back.
	He says, I I can't I can't tell you how depressed Republicans in Washington are.
	The House and the Senate.
	There's no leadership.
	There are no leadership in either House.
	They just they just they just know Hillary's gonna win it.
	And they just that why you got so many of them leaving for whatever reason.
	And I I said, Well, that that there is no excuse for that.
	That is just it's dumb.
	He's a rush.
	You know it as well as I do.
	You say it all the time.
	It's the absence of leadership.
	People are craving it.
	Even leaders need leaders.
	And we look at elected officials as our leaders.
	And I say, well, let me tell you you talk to these guys a lot.
	So I don't.
	Let me, you go back and tell them something.
	You tell them that it's we've got we got a 20-year history from the 80s forward over how to win in landslides, how to govern the country.
	He said, Yeah, but we got a different context.
	I said, we may have different context, but the principles stay the same.
	The guidelines stay the same.
	The passions stay the same.
	We've got a great opportunity ahead of us.
	Everything is falling down on the Democrats' head.
	The war position that they've had, their credibility on things is This is the problem.
	These guys get to Washington, D.C., and they get totally caught up in that conventional wisdom and culture there, both the media and socially, and they're feeling all lost and wandering aimlessly in the desert with no direction to go, and there's no no excuse for this.
	There's a golden opportunity next November to score big back in just a second state would.
	Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna try to explain this.
	What do you mean we've got a golden opportunity?
	Folks, let me admit something up front here.
	Or let me suggest something up front that that might be accurate.
	I realize that that uh some of you, and I I this is anecdotal, but I realize it from reading the email, but I realize that some of you think that I am a little detached from reality.
	Uh that uh the because I don't feel a sense of uh angst about current circumstances, be it the subprime problem or the price of gasoline or what have you.
	Uh and so you believe that the optimism that I have is a little bit uh wonderful, it's nice, but it's not really reality-based.
	You might think it's somewhat uh artificial.
	And so when you hear me say, as I said just before the break, when I'm told this morning by a friend who came by to see me here at the EIB complex, he said that there's just abject depression and fear among elected Republicans in the House and Senate.
	He said, Yeah, they've been pretty good at stopping things, but what are they advancing?
	And I said, Told my friend, we got a big problem.
	They they're presidents in the same party.
	And the president's the leader here.
	The president if he's going to advance things they get behind, they do.
	If he's going to advance things they don't believe in, they got to trudge along behind and act like they're interested.
	But that's all off the table now.
	We're talking about 08.
	And we've got Mrs. Clinton.
	And I said, we've got a this election shaping up to be, if you listen to the way Mrs. Clinton is running things and portraying herself, and you don't even have to read between the lines on this.
	She's she's she's running a competence election.
	The whole point, the Democrat focus with the drive-bys uh for the past uh how many months or years has been that Bush is incompetent.
	Katrina, the fires out in California, whatever it is, Bush is incompetent.
	And Mrs. Clinton's running around saying, I'm competent, I'm experienced, I'm this, and Obama's trying to do the same thing.
	Okay, so the Democrats are doing what?
	They're running a competence election.
	Do we want to play on that field?
	Do we want to let them set the premise?
	Do we want to run a competence election?
	No.
	We want to run an election based on the future of the country, what it's going to look like if they win, what it'll look like if we win.
	We want to run on the vision of the greatness of America and American exceptionalism.
	And we want to run on an inspiring message, not a message of fear.
	Now, the idea that elected Republicans, who all they have to do is look at a 20-year history of success to see how this is done, and they don't see it or they don't want to replicate it, kinda boggles my mind.
	The idea that Mrs. Clinton is unbeatable has always frustrated me.
	My optimism is not based on being out of touch with anything.
	My optimism is not based solely on the uh uh uh circumstances of my life.
	I mean, the the public view or the what of the things of my life that are public, uh, you might have an idea about it.
	But as my staff told me the other day, and they were being serious, they wouldn't want it.
	For a whole host of reasons.
	A, no privacy, B, everybody trying to find out everything I do every time I do it and put a negative spin on it.
	But that's what it is.
	For me, that's fine.
	And I chose this, it is what it is, you deal with it accordingly.
	I'm optimistic because I'm an American.
	I'm optimistic because I live in the United States of America, and I have history on my side.
	I see that today is better than yesterday.
	By the way, Mrs. Obama, they must be listening to me out there.
	Mrs. Obama's running around saying life today is worse than when she grew up.
	It's not.
	I refuse to believe it.
	I refuse to believe that Michelle Obama's in worse circumstances today than she was when she grew up.
	However, you wanted to find him.
	Her husband's in the U.S. Senate.
	She had a big job at a hospital.
	She has a lot of money.
	I don't believe any of this.
	You know, the gap between the rich and the poor, we talk about it all the time.
	It's a great gap.
	It means you can get there.
	If there's a gap between the rich and the poor, and it's shrinking, by the way, it's not growing, but so what?
	It means there's something to shoot for, and most of the middle class do want to shoot for it.
	And you got a political party running around trying to tell you it's not possible.
	You used to have a conservative Republican movement that said not only is it possible, it's likely.
	And here's how you do it.
	But that inspiration, that motivation isn't uh isn't forthcoming, and it's it should be.
	And it is frustrating to me.
	I I I think that the uh I don't care about all these Republican resignations, Trent Lott, this sort of thing, uh, they happen.
	I also don't believe this notion.
	Go ahead and let Hillary Wynn rush and show people how rotten it'll be, and that'll really read about that was the same thing that happened in 1992, and you look what that got us.
	Um, you know, it's it's a selection is a serious thing.
	All elections are.
	But uh I just want to assure you that my optimism here is not artificial or phony, uh, nor is it based on a narrow, limited look and perspective of what life in this country is all about.
	Quite the contrary.
	You know, I've I have I'm fifty-six years old, and I don't mean to be playing the violin here, but I've been broke a couple of times.
	And I've had I've I've earned so little money that my house payment and my master card bill came in the same two-week period in a month, and I couldn't make them both.
	So I had to go buy potato chips, a little quick shop back when grocery stores didn't accept credit cards because it ever had any cash.
	I've been fired seven or eight times.
	Don't tell me, you know, I I I think I'm perhaps one of the greater living examples of what this country is is uh capable of, or what people who live here are capable of.
	Uh contrary to people telling me I'm out of touch and so forth, and the and the optimism is uh is artificial.
	I know optimism is hard.
	Uh and looking forward down the line, seeing good things, it's hard because it's you know, it's not the natural human uh disposition or proclivity.
	But why what what is to be afraid of with the Democrats?
	What what they are they are imploding in a lot of ways.
	Now the drive-by's may not be saying so, but it's still there happening.
	Uh the the attitude, the hatred, the the the general disgust and anger and misery that they run around with, it's ripe to be mined in a uh in a positive sense.
	But if our elected officials uh are themselves mired in depression and uh angst over this, well, yeah, then I am gonna be worried because they're the guys out there that are running for office.
	Now, another thing.
	After my latest rant on CNN, I got a note from you know, Rush, you're giving these people too much credit.
	They're not that smart.
	They don't talk to each other enough to be able to construct a debate like that that aired Wednesday night that's totally planned and orchestrated as a hid job.
	I don't care how you explain it.
	If that's true, that still doesn't say much about them.
	It says they're incompetent.
	They're either incompetent or they are deceitful and libs.
	I don't frankly don't care which.
	But I lean more toward the fact that they knew exactly what they were doing, that liberals by definition seek to expose conservatives and Republicans, seek to play gotcha with them, and mock them and make fun of them.
	And that's what every one of those questions did.
	Those questions, and listen to the listen to um senior vice president, the Washington Bureau Chief, and the senior vice president for CNN, uh said this debate, this is before the debate, is that this debate is to let Republican voters pick from among their eight candidates.
	We are trying to focus mostly on questions where there are differences among these candidates.
	There are plenty of animated figures out there.
	There are certainly some funny questions, but more importantly, there are hundreds, if not thousands of really good solid questions from real people on real issues.
	Now, this this is an abject distortion of what CNN's purpose was.
	CNN's stated purpose was to go find undecided Republican voters to ask Republican candidates about Republican issues.
	But instead, what do we get?
	We get two Jesus questions.
	We have a Bible question and a Jesus question.
	We get two abortion questions that have nothing to do with abortion.
	They're straight out of the Democrat Party playbook in terms of how Democrats look at Republicans on abortion and on Jesus and on religion.
	And it could all be boiled down to they look at Republicans and conservatives as racists, sexist, bigots, homophobes.
	And so that's whether they plan to or not doesn't matter.
	It's groupthink.
	How else?
	Let me ask for those of you who think this just happened to be the result of an uncoordinated, uncommunicative CNN staff.
	Let me ask you this.
	Do you remember when Bush chose Cheney to be his vice president?
	Every media figure on cable news who or who has a column in Newsweek or Time magazine or the Washington Post, New York Times on TV, Cheney brings gravitas.
	Cheney brief We have a montage that takes a minute and a half to play.
	Well, I mean, I don't have it now, but we've got a montage, takes a minute and a half to play, with not one repeat.
	You got Jonathan Alter in there, you've got Sam Donaldson twice.
	Now you tell me, how is it that 50 drive-by journalists can come up with the same word to describe a political event?
	The selection of Dick Cheney as vice president for George W. Bush.
	He's got gravitas.
	Well, who somebody had to come up with it first?
	And what would cause somebody to suggest gravitas to Cheney?
	A bias against Bush as an idiot, uneducated, unserious, unsophisticated, frat boy.
	So he chooses Cheney.
	Well, they've already got this picture of Bush based on nothing other than their own liberal prejudice.
	And so here's Cheney, who has been in government for a long time.
	He's been Secretary of Defense, he's been uh chief of staff, been a number of things for decades.
	Ah, he brings gravitas.
	And then do they all pick it up?
	Or did some of them sit around a bar one night talk about this?
	They came up with the word and everybody went and used it.
	You know, I have I have how many times have made a joke about this, but it's true.
	If you miss the NBC Nightly News, no big deal, watch the CBS evening news.
	If you miss the CBS evening news, no big deal, watch ABC's World News Tonight.
	If you miss that, no big deal, watch CNN.
	If you miss that, no big deal, watch MSNBC.
	If you miss that, read the New York Times.
	If you miss that, read the Washington Post.
	If you missed that, read USA Today.
	If you missed that, read the LA Times.
	If you missed that, read the San Francisco Chronicle.
	You missed that, read the Chicago Tribune.
	If you missed that, read pick your paper.
	And virtually every one of those sources, the same story will lead, the same take on every story.
	It's no different.
	And they wonder why viewership is plummeting, advertisers are dwindling.
	They wonder why circulation at newspapers is going down the tubes.
	Uh you miss this show, you're not going to get it anywhere else, for example.
	So I don't frankly care whether these people have conspiratorial meetings at CNN to figure out how they can screw conservatives, because frankly, I think that's their purpose anyway.
	They don't have to get together and talk about it.
	That's the reason they exist that and to promote Hillary.
	Back in just a second.
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	It's open line Friday.
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	I want to play you one soundbite, Mar Lyerson.
	Last night on uh Fox News special report, fill-in host Brett Baer says, let's read the CNN statement about this today.
	CNN cared about what you asked, not who you are.
	Doesn't help CNN.
	The fact that the what do you case for both a Democrat, Republican CNN YouTube debates.
	No, it's not.
	The vested interests who are challenging their credit.
	Anyway, Mara Lyerson, is this true?
	CNN does itself a great disservice when it doesn't apply the exact same kind of criteria to both debates.
	I covered both of them.
	In the Democratic debate, I don't think there were any questions that were clearly coming from, you know, a Republican point of view.
	They were generally sympathetic.
	They were about global warming and health care and education, all kind of democratic issues.
	They weren't challenging them.
	There was one anti-tax question, I think.
	But um they weren't challenging the basic principles of the Democratic Party.
	There were lots of questions last night that were.
	I think the question about the Bible was mocking.
	I think one of the abortion questions was was clearly not from someone who was pro-life.
	It was the opposite.
	Um so, you know, they also and they also tended to find people who were on what you might call kind of the libertarian end of the spectrum among Republicans.
	Now that I think is an artifact of the YouTube community itself, which tends to attract younger people.
	All right.
	Mara Lyerson, they found people who mock the Republicans.
	They don't do this with Democrats.
	And frankly, as I say, I don't care, folks.
	It doesn't matter to me whether they did it on purpose or whether they just stumbled into it.
	They are CNN.
	They are the Clinton news network, and they are who they are, and this is who liberals are, and this is who populates the majority of the drive-by media as well.
	Uh I've, you know, I've been able to laugh at these people for the last four or five years.
	But this, for some reason, has me incensed.
	This has me incensed the utter because these people portray themselves as holier than thou, the best of the best, the most informed, the most informed and erudite, um, a most uh uh understanding, tolerant and compassionate so forth.
	All they care about is reporting the news get to the truth.
	We've always known that uh is is a crock.
	Uh but uh but you know it's it's tough enough to beat Democrats as it is when the drive-by media joins them and becomes a uh an adjunct to the uh Democrat campaign.
	Let me just tell you something.
	CNN, if you you want to know what you are.
	You were nothing more than opposition research for Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party.
	You are nothing more than the dirty tricks arm of the Democrat Party.
	That's what you have become.
	You are there to aid and a bet and the Democrats, and however you have to misrepresent and lie about Democrats' opponents, you will do it.
	And you call yourselves a news network.
	Uh, Phil and Smyrna, Delaware, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	Uh yeah.
	I just want to bring up a quick point about Murphy.
	You were talking about earlier.
	I was just under the impression that he might be agreeing with the status of the war in Iraq.
	So that the troops come out.
	I don't care.
	This is not I don't care about their motivation.
	I really couldn't care less about his motivation around it.
	These people do not have a clover's leaf of credibility to stand on.
	I don't care why he said it.
	If he thinks saying the surge is working is going to help get the troops out, screw he's wrong.
	All he's done is infuriate Nancy Pelosi and put a cog in the wheel that they're trying to they're still trying to remember, still primary period time.
	And move on.org out there is still threatening to find candidates to run against Democrats who are not properly fealty on the uh on the anti-war issue.
	And so you got Harry Reid and Pelosi still offering these meaningless resolutions to defund or not provide uh money to continue in the midst of success, in the midst of the road to victory.
	Democrats are still trying to come up with ways to keep money from the troops to force Bush to pull them out.
	And Mertha now says the surge is working.
	I don't care if it's personal, I don't care for CYA, I don't care if this dirty little trick to try to get the troops out of there.
	The fact is uh this is exposing the Democrats as incompetent themselves.
	This Mrs. Clinton running in a competent election.
	We can do it better.
	We are this.
	We're these pe she hasn't done anything right from health care to managing the Paula Jones case.
	Bimbo eruptions are about it, and she missed a couple.
	She missed more than a couple.
	The idea these people are more competent.
	Look at the programs they've given us social security, Medicare, the war on poverty.
	We're going broke because of these programs, not the military.
	We're going broke because of the redundancy of programs that keep way too many productive Americans on the dole.
	There's nothing competent about liberal Democrats whatsoever.
	They're the most incompetent, destructive people running around.
	I don't care about their good intentions, folks.
	They are ruining this country.
	They are literally ruining it.
	And for us to sit around all cowering in the corner in fear because we think she's going to win and so forth, and we can't win a competence election.
	Give me a break.
	Can't win a competency.
	These people couldn't spell competence if they had to to survive.
	We have barely scratched the surface on open line Friday.
	And I promise.

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