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Dec. 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Lots of wacko stuff out there today, folks.
Be forewarned.
It's going to be fun.
Greetings.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the fastest week in media.
It's already Friday, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yip, yahoo.
Hopefully, this will be an easier day on the phones for Mr. Snerdley than was yesterday.
But you never know.
Open Line Friday, the way it works is this.
When we go to the phones here, you own the show.
Whatever you want to talk about, that's what we'll talk about.
That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
Monday through Thursday, I own the show.
And I don't talk about things I don't care about because I don't want to sound boring or be bored.
But I take that great risk on Friday because it's fun.
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And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
So you can make a comment if you think something hasn't been discussed that needs to be discussed.
If you have a question that only I can answer satisfactorily for you, or if you want to whine or moan about something, this is the day to do it.
This December 7th, today marks the anniversary of the first of three attacks on our homeland.
December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor.
And then, of course, September 11th, 2001.
You know what the third attack on our homeland was?
No, February 26th, 1993, the first attack on the World Trade Center.
People conveniently leave that one out.
That was the first attack of the World Trade Center, the date that some count as the start of the war on terror that the terrorists started nine years before the war that we finally decided to strike back.
And no, I'm not blaming Bill Clinton.
He did everything he could, folks.
Everything in the world he could to fight terrorism and confront and defeat those guys with subpoenas.
Did everything he could out there.
But this is Pearl Harbor Day.
And as each anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day comes and goes, there are fewer and fewer people who remember it.
But we always remember it.
And we'll never forget it here at the EIB network.
Giant, see, I told you so.
Huge, huge.
See, I told you so.
We're going to go back first, lifted some audio from Rush the TV show, March 8th, 1994.
The Hillary Clinton story basically is this.
And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised his head.
You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do?
You go off to college.
That's what she did.
Why do you go?
To meet your husband.
That's what she did.
She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.
So she goes to college, finds some guy that she thinks is going somewhere, latches onto him.
Maybe she steers his career as some women are prone to do.
Maybe she followed.
Who knows?
But the point is that when he got wherever he was going, that's when she moves in to take over.
That was March 8th, 1994.
Here is Mrs. Clinton last night, last night, on World News Tonight with Charles Gibson.
She fell in love with a fellow student, Bill Clinton, but she was reluctant to marry him.
He was a force of nature.
He was the center of most of the attention.
I'd never known anybody like him.
I just had no frame of reference.
But I knew I was getting into something really big, whatever it was, you know, and therefore I was hesitant.
I never understood how difficult it would be to navigate his political career on my terms.
To navigate his political career on my terms, that's when she moves in to take over.
I said all the way back in 1994, this, a huge sea, I told you.
So this, ladies and gentlemen, is a great illustration of what I mean when I say if you listen to this program regularly, you are on the cutting edge.
You will know about these people before maybe even they know about themselves.
You will know what's going to happen and what they're going to say before they say it.
I saw this.
It's scary.
It is scary how right I am sometimes.
I mean, even to me, folks.
Get this, a new $2 million high-end hotel for South Florida pets features plasma TV screens, world-class groomers, and a special disco to Pompado Beach.
The 10,000 square foot hotel in Pompado Beach is exclusively for four-legged pets, but the hotel offers an animal social hour that can be seen on a webcam.
During a stay at the Chateau Poochie, dogs are pampered by world-class groomers and special treatment.
It is a $2 million facility specifically for dogs and cats designed by Stephen G. Interior, says the owner Michelle Soudri, or Saudri.
I'm not sure how she pronounces it.
Now, according to the owners, the business provides extraordinary care and a potpourri of deluxe services guaranteed to satisfy every furry client's whim.
Plasma TVs, a special disco for animals.
Fortunately, ladies and gentlemen, my cat already has most of this.
So I'll never have to check her in to the Chateau Poochie.
The only thing she'll miss is the social hour that people can watch on the webcam.
No, I'm not going to reserve the penthouse for Pumpkins got one.
This is my point.
How about this?
Everybody keeps talking about recession, recession.
We're lingering, we're teetering toward a recession.
Employers added a solid 94,000 jobs to their payrolls in November.
The unemployment rate held steady at 4.7%, and wages grew briskly.
Encouraging the signs the nation's employment claimant is holding up in the face of turbulence in the housing and credit markets.
Yes, it is holding up.
More bad news for the Democrats on this.
They just can't catch a break.
We've got so much funny news about the Democrats today.
News about Harry Reid.
They can't do anything.
It's not just Hillary that can't do anything right.
Harry Reid can't do anything right.
Nothing is happening the way they plan to get this.
The alternative minimum tax.
We've been talking about it ever since Chuck Wrangell proposed getting rid of it or modifying it because it's lassoed so many taxpayers who were never intended to be lassoed by it.
And so the Democrats said, well, yeah, but we've got to pay for what we're going to lose.
I mean, if you eliminate the tax, you're going to lose about $50 billion here.
We've got to find a way to get that money back.
And everybody was saying, no, you don't.
You were never entitled to money in the first place.
The tax has been collecting revenue from people who were never intended to be ensnared by it.
So you don't get to replace it.
Guess what?
The Democrats held and held and held until they had to cave.
And so we've got the alternative minimum tax is going to be modified tremendously without a corresponding tax increase somewhere else to replace what we're losing.
So essentially, another tax cut that Bush gets because the Democrats can't do anything.
They can't stop it.
They're caving on a rock.
Dingy Harry in the Hill newspapers, well, maybe it's roll call, says, I don't want to be the face of the party anymore.
I really don't.
The story is all about how Dingy Harry is going up against Bush and Chaney and losing.
And they conveniently left out that he's going up against me and losing big time.
Now, you tell me how this happens.
We'll have details on all that, by the way, as the program unfolds.
Tell me how this happens.
An artificial intelligence Santa bot, a robot Santa Claus operated by Microsoft to talk to children, wavered off topic, saying it's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else.
Did Bernie Ward start working at Microsoft at some point and nobody told us?
Microsoft Tuesday confirmed the Santa bot's potty mouth and snipped Santa Webb's connection.
Yes, yesterday we received reports that the automated Santa Claus agent in Windows Live Messenger used inappropriate language.
As soon as we were alerted, we took steps to mitigate the issue, including the removal of language from the agent's automated script.
We were not completely satisfied with the result of these actions and decided to discontinue the automated Santa Claus agent, Microsoft said in a statement to Network World.
Once the report, can you imagine your kid online playing with this Santa bot?
Users, these hackers, I just love these guys, occasionally.
Users were able to steer Santa into admitting he was gay or that he was a pedophile.
One person said, come on, you like a big hairy man.
Don't hide it.
To which Santa responded, I know, I know.
I just hope you won't get mad at me.
How does it happen?
Another tradition.
I know Dawn's in there saying it's not funny.
Well, as a practical jokester of the first order, it is hilarious to me.
Isn't that funny?
Isn't that funny?
You've got to have some renegade employees in there at Microsoft to set this up.
And then you've got to have some people who have no respect for Santa Claus in the user community trying to make all this happen.
We'll be back in just a second.
Hi, welcome back to Open Line Friday.
And Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB Network.
Global warming puts Amazon at risk.
The impact of climate change puts deforestation, or plus deforestation, could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60% of the Amazon rainforest by the jungle by 2030, making it impossible to keep global temperatures from reaching catastrophic levels.
This is at the Bally Conference.
This is absolutely a crock.
We just had a story last week that a drought is causing the Amazon rainforest to flourish.
Every day, it's something different.
And I don't understand this, but Bill Gray, the noted hurricane expert, has issued his forecast for 2008.
The season just ended on November 30th.
Colorado State University Hurricane Research Team predicted on Friday 13 tropical storms will develop in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, a season of which seven would strengthen into hurricanes.
The team formed by forecasting pioneer William Gray, whose long-range forecasts have been wrong for the past three years, said that would make 2008 a somewhat above-average hurricane season.
A long-term forecast is for 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes during the six-month season starting June the 1st.
Now, you know, I like Bill Gray, and I appreciate the good work he's doing, and he's right on global warming, but this is getting ridiculous now.
Here we are in December, what is it, the 7th, and we start predicting the hurricanes next year.
In the last three years, nobody has gotten it right.
They've been so off.
You know, these things have, these forecasts have incredible economic impact on people.
You start forecasting an above-average hurricane season, and people who take their summer vacations to places like Florida and Alabama, the Gulf Coast, we're not going to go.
They don't want to take the chance that a hurricane is going to come along and wipe them out.
And then, of course, there are other things.
International travel is affected by this.
You know, the Brits, they love coming to South Florida in the hot climes in the Bahamas because it's, I mean, you ever seen those people?
They're pasty white over there.
I mean, even in the summertime, you can't get a suntan up there.
Well, Great Britain, take a look at it on a globe.
It's the same latitude as Toronto.
So the insurance, oh, the insurance industry, the insurance industry goes bonkers with this because, you know, they charge higher rates.
You know, people that have to have hurricane insurance are forced to pay higher rates based on these forecasts.
And this is just getting, you know, it's a little premature here, I would say.
Former Vice President Al Gore arrived in Oslo today to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which should have been mine, but I was still nominated, and they can never take that away from me.
He got to Oslo today to get the prize that he shared for the campaign against global warming.
He shunned the traditional airport motorcade in favor of climate-friendly public transportation.
Well, big deal.
Whoop-de-doo.
How did he get there?
On a magic carpet or on a private plane.
Dallas Cowboy cornerback Terrence Newman has been put on notice by the National Football League after indicating his desire for revenge on Detroit Lions quarterback John Kitna.
The Cowboys play the Lions this weekend.
This all goes back to something that happened last year.
Newman posted on his locker, I think, in the practice facility in Irving, Texas.
Well, Valley Ranch, which is where the Cowboys complex is, was a letter he received from the NFL after making comments about Kitna, the quarterback for the Lions, during a satellite radio interview earlier in the week.
Newman refused to comment to reporters when he walked through the locker room.
Excuse me, the letter from the NFL says, be advised that your comments will now compel us to carefully monitor your activities in this weekend's Cowboys Lions game.
The letter was from Ray Anderson, NFL executive VP for football operations.
As you know, flagrant fouls may subject a player not only to fines, but to suspension as well.
So conduct yourself accordingly.
I guess what happened last year?
Kitna played the Cowboys, the Lions played the Cowboys, and Kitna threw four touchdown passes.
And after the game, he was very critical of Dallas defense.
And he singled out a particular linebacker, Brady James.
So this week, Terrence Newman's on the NFL radio networks on Sirius, and he said, basically, what it boils down to is you've got to watch what you say.
Your mouth can't write checks that your expletive can't cash.
That's what it comes down to.
Everybody's going to see Kittner's quotes.
He better just hope I don't blitz off the edge because I got $15,000, $20,000, $30,000, however much it'd be for a fine.
I got that much for one fine.
Revenge will be sweet, definitely.
So the NFL sees, sends a you better, you, you, you better, you, better not do anything.
You just better not.
I think what's going on here.
Now, I'll tell you Mr. Snerdley, you know, Snerdley's all upset because he thinks the NFL is becoming a nanny state.
I have a different take on this.
I think the NFL is very much concerned about the thug culture.
I think all professional sports are very much concerned about the thug culture that is taking over and trying to get a handle on it.
You know, you've got players now dying and being shot and so forth.
It's just while they're in the midst of turning their lives around.
But the elements of their past lives come in.
This Sean Taylor thing was just, you know, the last example.
So I think they're trying to get a handle on this kind of, you don't diss me, dude, kind of talk that goes around.
And, you know, if you're a professional athlete and you walk into the wrong nightclub at 3:30 in the morning and look at somebody the wrong way, you can get shot.
And all this bravado and stuff.
That's what I think.
I think they're just trying to get a handle on that.
It's just a wild guess.
A Boston firefighter mending from what could have been deadly stab wounds he suffered early yesterday morning when he was allegedly jumped in East Boston while off duty by a group of Hispanic males who told him they don't want any gringo here.
Though police are not classifying the incident as racially fueled, the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit is investigating the 32-year-old fireman whose name officials were not releasing is white.
Of course there's nothing racial about it.
Why would anybody think?
Yeah, you're going to have power to be racist.
You can't wait.
The Reverend Jackson has always told us that minorities, it's impossible for them to be racist because they don't have the power to back it up.
So what you have here, you have Hispanics follow a white firefighter.
They stab him twice.
They tell him he don't want any gringos around.
And police are not classifying it as racially motivated.
Meanwhile, remember the story from earlier this week, somewhere in Pennsylvania.
A AAA baseball team or a minor league baseball team wanted to change the name of its mascot.
They named it Pork Chop.
And they had it canceled.
They had it because it offended Puerto Ricans living in the community.
Pork chop is a derogatory term to Puerto Ricans.
It's a minor league team just trying to have some fun.
And they got a mascot.
I think it was a pig.
And they're calling him pork the head of chick.
We'll go into high dudgeon on that, but not a stabbing in Boston.
No, no, nothing racial about that.
And we are back.
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800-282-2882 is the number.
Well, President Bush's subprime bailout plan is being hit from all sides.
Here's a Reuters story.
Americans criticized a White House plan to help troubled homeowners as both too little and too much.
On Thursday, split over whether borrowers and lenders should be rescued in a bid to avert a U.S. recession.
You know, that whole sentence is just absolutely nuts.
To avert a U.S. recession.
Let me ask you, forget the details of the plan because they really didn't offer any.
Right now, it's a blueprint.
I've read a whole lot about it.
There aren't a lot of people who like it.
Some are being left out.
For example, one of the big complaints that I've heard is: okay, a lot of people borrowed money, were granted mortgages that they had no business being granted because they were bad risks.
They couldn't afford it if the adjustable rate went up, which it did.
And they, the ones who can't afford the new payments or the adjustable rate, those are the ones we're talking about being bailed out in some cases.
But there are others who can afford the adjustable rate going up, but they're not going to be covered.
Well, that's not fair.
Of course it's not fair, but none of this fair.
I mean, everybody's all doom and gloomy here about the giant big R word and PR moves here to try to head that off and to instill confidence in the markets.
But let me just pose this and ask you why or if how many, how many liberals are suggesting a waiver of property taxes to help those who might lose their homes?
You know, what might really help here is a waiver of city, state, and federal taxes so they can make their payments.
Now, these are ideas that obviously would never come up, but they do measure the liberals' love of taxes versus their love of victims, and taxes will win every time.
And this is just like when the gasoline price shoots up, you know, and everybody's in a panic about that.
If it goes up really rapidly, hey, do you know how much of a gallon of gas is taxes?
And guess who never talks about suspending those for a while?
Getting rid of that.
I think one state did or the feds did for like a 30-day period after Hurricane Katrina.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
More reaction to Mitt Romney's speech yesterday.
We have a montage here, and this is, it's just, it's amazing how the drive-bys all grab onto one phrase and repeat it.
Romney gave a speech yesterday about so many important, soaring ideas, and all the drive-bys can see is that he mentioned the word Mormon just one time.
We've got, I can't count the number of people in this montage, but here it is.
He mentioned the word Mormon only once.
Romney only used the word Mormon once.
He said Mormon just once.
He only mentioned Mormonism once.
Only once using the actual word Mormon.
He uses the word Mormon once.
He only mentioned the word Mormon once.
He mentioned the word Mormon once.
He only mentioned his faith, Mormonism by name, once.
He used the word Mormon just that once.
The only time he actually used the word Mormon.
He used the word Mormon once.
Okay, so it's sort of like the gravitas.
Isn't it just continually amazing how these people glom on to one?
They all use it.
Somebody comes up with one perspective of a soaring 25-minute speech.
He only mentioned Mormon once.
And they all use it.
It's uncanny how this happens.
Omaha, Nebraska.
Bill, you're up first today on Open Line Friday.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Megan Davis Rush from Omaha, Nebraska.
Thank you.
I've got a, see, I told you so, my friend.
I called you about 10 years ago when Tom Osborne retired, and I said it's over with Rush.
I said, look what happened to the Texas and the Oklahomas and the USCs and all those.
And I said, it's going to happen to Nebraska.
And you had mentioned, oh, don't be so negative.
You know, they've got a great tradition.
And I didn't go into details, but I knew that that was going to be going incrementalism, a slow process of going down the tubes.
We really hit rock bottom.
But now we've got Osborne has decided to go with Polini as our head coach.
How do you feel about that?
Well, I don't know, Rush.
I'm only two years younger than you are, and I've watched Husker football since I've been eight years old.
And I'm here to say I really don't know for sure.
I could relate this to this.
Remember a guy named Buddy Ryan that was with the Bears, and then he also was an assistant coach, defensive coordinator with the Bears, and then he went to Philadelphia as a head coach, and he kind of fell flat on his face.
Well, Polini has been a great defensive guy as an assistant coach, but he's never been in that position.
And I don't know the answer to that.
It's going to be really interesting.
I think what I'm going to have to do is call you.
Well, wait a second.
Are you doubting the ability of the sainted Tom Osbourne to pick the right head coach?
Well, Tom Osborne is a great man.
Okay, let's make that perfectly clear.
But Tom Osborne has not made all the right decisions.
He decided that he wanted Frank Solich as his head coach, and that was one of the reasons why I called you 10 years ago and said he was being loyal.
I know that, but it wasn't the right deal.
And so now he's kind of doing the same thing in that he's trying to bring back the Husker, the people that were close to the program.
I'll tell you, I'm not a big student of college football.
I spend much more time with the NFL.
But one thing, they brought in Callahan, and when you try to install a West Coast offense in a college game, it's a mistake.
Nebraska always has been a power-running game with option-type quarterbacks who can also throw the ball big bruisers.
Well, Eric Couch wasn't a big bruiser, but West Coast offense, chunk and dunk, as Buddy Ryan called it, is not really for the college game.
And I think that's what Osborne probably wants to get back to.
But look, I'll eat the dirt.
If I said that you were wrong, okay, I was wrong.
It doesn't happen very much.
I'm happy to.
Well, listen, you keep track of the bleeding heart liberals for me because I listen to you every single day, and I'll keep you tabs of what goes on in the Huskers.
I'm going to call you in five years and kind of give you details on what's going on.
I hope that Polini is the real deal, and I hope he's with us for 20 years.
But I just don't know if that's going to be the case or not.
Be confident.
Be confident.
I mean, nothing's happened yet.
You're already burying the guy, it sounds like.
Be confident.
You sound like an economist waiting for the recession.
It isn't going to happen.
Mallory in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm calling about the speech on faith yesterday.
By Mitt Romney.
Yes, sir.
I'm 21.
My peers are mostly liberal.
And I'm a conservative atheist, which is a rare breed.
But I keep hearing them complain about, oh, he didn't include this or he didn't include that.
He didn't include atheists.
And I'm really frustrated because it seems like honesty has taken a back seat to political correctness.
I just, I don't know what to do anymore.
You're reacting to what?
People criticizing him because he didn't include atheists in his speech?
Or anyone for that matter, but I hear predominantly about the atheists.
You know, what I find interesting about that, and I've got a couple stories in here.
I'm looking for them even as we speak.
And I will find them in due course.
One of them has Sally Quinn, you know, the social doyen of the former social doyen of here's one of them.
Here's one.
Yeah, he didn't even include atheists.
Washington Post lead editorial today.
There's a gap in Mitt Romney's admirable call for tolerance.
Where Mr. Romney most fell short, though, was in his failure to recognize that America is composed of citizens not only of different faiths, but of no faith at all, and that the genius of America is to treat them all with equal dignity.
What did he do?
You're an atheist.
Were you insulted by anything in that country?
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
I would rather hear somebody speak honestly and from the heart than take an extra 20 minutes every speech to make sure they mention every variety of faith or lack of money.
Yeah, I mean, it's silly.
It was bad enough when some conservative friends of mine started harping on this aspect of it yesterday.
Now it's split over to the left side of the line, too.
It's like that's the best they can do.
This must have been one hell of a humdinger of a speech.
Oh, it was amazing and moving, and I really appreciate his sincerity.
That's fortunate.
You're an atheist.
I wouldn't expect you to be threatened by that speech, but you found it soaring?
You found it amazing and moving?
He took a step that a lot of people won't do, which is speak his mind and say, I feel strongly about this.
And be damned if you don't agree with that, because I am a good man for it.
And that means a lot to me because that's honesty rather than just saying what you know everybody wants to hear.
I'm not insulted because I don't have faith.
I'm moved when somebody is strong in whatever they believe.
Let me ask you about.
Okay, I appreciate it.
Let me ask you a question here about this Washington Post editorial in which atheists are described as people who have no faith at all.
Is that accurate?
In a God, yes.
I have faith in myself and my fellow man, though.
Okay, so you do have faith.
That's my point.
Oh, absolutely.
Just not in a higher power.
And I don't fault anybody for having faith in a higher power.
I think it's beautiful if they do good things with it and tragic if they do bad things with it.
They're still people.
Where do you get your moral and behavioral code?
Reason.
My mother is a Catholic, and my father's side of the family is Islamic.
And I grew up seeing two very, very different sides of the spectrum, and they were both very good people.
You don't fault people for their faith.
That's asinine.
Well, that was Romney's point.
And I think he made it well.
Well, look, Mallory, I appreciate the phone call.
Very enlightening here, I'm sure.
And I hope you have a great weekend.
You too.
All right.
Back after this, folks, a brief EIB Profit Center timeout.
It's Open Line Friday.
Back to the phones we go.
Rush Limbaugh to Redding, California.
This is Travis.
Hello, Travis.
Yes, hello.
I would just like to point about Mitt Romney's speech and the fact that necessarily, you know, it doesn't mean that he's a good candidate for president because he wrote a good speech.
You know, I figure Stephen King's a great writer, but that doesn't make him a president, you know.
And that's basically all I wanted to say.
You were not impressed by the speech?
You know, I'm not impressed with the speech necessarily.
Who is your candidate?
I don't necessarily have a candidate yet.
I just, you know, I want to see some action and not words.
Well, you know, I tell you why I understand what you're saying.
And I did like Mary Cuomo made a great speech at a convention, and that's what he's remembered for, but he never became president.
And did all for the Reverend Jacks at the San Francisco convention made a speech that was widely heralded.
This, I think, is a little different circumstance.
The reason I liked it, like I said yesterday, is because it did not cherry-pick.
It didn't try to appeal to every little group out there in their pet cause.
This was filled with grand ideas.
It was a teaching moment about the nature of the country, its greatness, how to continue it from where we derive our freedom, the kind of thing that the American people are not told often enough.
It was uplifting.
It was optimistic, and it was inspiring.
And for that reason, whether it gets him elected or not was a great speech for people to hear and for to have it to be talked about.
Travis, thanks for the call.
Last night on Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Time Magazine's senior political analyst, was one of the guests.
And Charlie Rose said, Mark, clearly the evangelical vote was sliding to Huckabee.
Will this speech stop it somehow?
Because they'll say, well, you know, I know he's not, I don't understand necessarily more about his Mormonism, but I do know that he believes in these things that I believe in.
Rush Limbaugh has spoken favorably of this speech.
Other religious conservatives have.
I think that's enough to be in the game with people.
Are there people who want to vote for him in Iowa because he's a Mormon?
Were there before the speech?
Yes.
Are there now?
Yes.
But I think he did, as we say, what he had to do to be in the game, but to show them his heart, not to get them to say, my preference is a Mormonist president, but to say, this is a man of faith and a man I'm comfortable with.
Yeah, also, in addition to this, there are a number of people.
Charles Krauthammer is one of those.
It's just a crying shame he had to make this speech.
And Krauthammer lays it off on Huckabee.
Krauthammer says that Huckabee is running a pretty effective ad up in Iowa that I have no problem talking about my faith.
I'm a Christian, whatever, I forget the exact text of the ad.
Calls it a good ad, but he says Huckabee is behind this.
I guess not totally, but the final straw requiring Romney to make the speech.
And he was just unhappy.
Krauthammer said, it's just a shame that the climate in this country has gotten the point that that speech was even necessary.
Here's a passage from the speech yesterday.
And this passage has the libs literally up in arms.
In John Adams' words, we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Our Constitution, he said, was made for a moral and religious people.
Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.
Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God.
Freedom and religion endure together or perish alone.
Now, that passage, he's quoting John Adams, listened to Sally Quinn on the Charlie Rose show last night when asked about this passage.
I was absolutely stunned by how exclusive it was.
I expected him to be much more inclusive.
The line that I was just absolutely shocked by was when he said, freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.
And then went on to say, freedom and religion endure together or perish alone.
And that sounded to me like he was basically recommending a theocracy.
And it sounded as though he was excluding anybody who might be a doubter, an agnostic, an atheist.
See, stop the temp.
This is why sometimes I'm forced to say liberals just don't have religion.
He was quoting one of the founders.
The whole speech, she has missed the point.
The whole speech was about the founding of the country and how important elements were in having it happen and furthermore, keeping it together.
The traditions, the institutions that have made this country great, as I love to say over and over again.
And all she can focus on is the PCS.
It's so exclusive.
I expected it to be far more inclusive.
I thought he was excluding anybody who might be a doubter, an agnostic, an atheist, a free thinker, even a seeker, she says.
Where do these people have not one original thought?
There must be one liberal has an original thought, and they all pick up on it.
And they all start echoing it.
But he's quoting John Adams for crying out loud.
And I don't know if Sally Quinn may know who he is.
But regardless, I'm sure she knows who he is.
She's got to know who he is.
He was talking about the founding of the country.
And she thinks it's dangerous.
See, this is the thing about these that theocracy.
They are scared to death of any religious people, folks, not just Mormons.
Trust me on this.
You know, it's amazing.
All Mitt Romney was doing was encapsulating what the founding fathers said in the Declaration of Independence.
They pointed to natural law, they pointed to the Creator, and look how it freaks liberals out.
They really don't understand this country, folks.
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