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Dec. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 13, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I've got it here, but I just I don't know if it's the whole list or just a partial list.
Uh the baseball players named by George Mitchell, uh engaging in the use of steroids, steroids, and uh human growth hormone.
A lot of players, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettott, uh Johnny Damon, Jason Giombi, Nomar Garcia Para, Albert Puholtz of the St. Louis Cardinals, Jason Veridick, the catcher of the Boston Red Sox, the captain of the team, uh, Pudge Rodriguez, the catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Sammy Sosa, no mystery there.
Uh Julian Tavares is a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Boston Red Sox.
And uh, you know, a lot like Carrie Wood from the Chicago Cubs, a lot of names on this list.
Greetings, uh, folks, and welcome.
Great to have you with us on Thursday here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I, of course, El Rushbow.
Uh your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, uh, torture, humiliation, waterboarding, and even the good times, and there are plenty of them.
Retail sales suggest the economy may be stronger than expected.
Who is doing this expecting?
U.S. retail sales surged during November, making a surprisingly strong broad-based climb that suggests the economy might not be as weak as feared.
By whom?
Meanwhile, U.S. wholesale prices soared last month at their fastest pace since the Nixon administration.
That's spurred by record gains in energy prices.
A worrisome sign for Federal Reserve officials.
Uh price pressures appeared to st seep beyond uh just energy and risk becoming embedded deeper in the production pipeline.
Inflation.
So the good news is out, but it's got to be tempered with a bad news.
Families are fleeing, freezing powerless homes in the Midwest in Oklahoma.
Now, this is a it's a very unfortunate thing.
It's a tragedy.
We've got a million people, or at one time had a million people who had to leave because they were without power.
Well, I don't know how many of them left, but uh a number of them had to leave.
And uh this is this is something that I wanted to call your attention to, not just because of the human nature of it, but this is exactly the kind of circumstance the environmentalist wackos envisioned.
No fossil fuels.
You don't want any power?
Fine, this is what you're gonna get.
If you're gonna buy into the global warming hoax, and you're gonna say we got rid of fossil fuels, we have to get rid of coal, we have to get rid of all these things that are polluting the planet, blah, blah, blah, blah, then plan on no air conditioning in the summertime and plan on no heat in the winter, unless you want to go out and chop a bunch of wood and have a fireplace in there.
Um, like old Abe Lincoln had to do it in the old days.
It uh well, this is what they're this is where they're headed.
Uh, we did a great morning update on that just today about what this global warming thing is really all about, getting rid of fossil fuels and so forth.
This is what you'd get.
You wouldn't need an ice storm to freeze in the wintertime.
You just need winter time.
Uh back to this baseball business.
There are a lot of names on here, and I gotta tell you, uh, this it's interesting to me because while this steroid use has been growing or reportedly growing, and the sports drive-bys are trying to make just pure hell out of this situation.
They've largely aimed it at Barry Bonds, who is obviously on the list.
What you have now, you've got so many players on this list, that you're not just talking about individual asterisks.
You have to talk about team ask.
If this is what you want, if you want an asterisk beside every achievement, now you're gonna have to start asterisking teams, and whether they won a game and how where does where's this gonna stop?
Uh I I you know, George Mitchell is the guy that did this report, some 600 pages, been laboring on it for a number of years.
Uh the players' union is so powerful, a number of them would not speak to him.
He does not represent any legal authority.
This is the thing to keep in mind.
This is the result.
This is typical of what happens.
You got Congress that call those players up there for that hearing, what we all remember, McGuire, who is on the list, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmero is on the list.
Uh uh and And of course, you had all these Congressmen up there demanding action, demanding to know what was going on.
Clean up the game.
Just like they cleaned up the lending process.
Just like they got it wanted to get rid of uh redlining, and just like they forced lenders to qualify people who were not qualified.
Now they act as spectators while they write a new law to punish the very people they ordered to do what they did.
The lenders.
So anyway, you got the same situation.
You got Congress meddling in things because they can't get anything else done, uh, show boating, and so this report is largely done to get Congress off of baseball's back.
But this apparently is so widespread.
How do you sanction?
Plus, you're gonna have the players, they're gonna deny it.
You just you you've remembered this testimony did not come in a court.
So you got these trainers who are the uh the witnesses here.
Maybe you got a couple pharmacies in Florida, doctors and so forth that are uh providing this uh information.
But all the players got to do is deny it.
Or all the player has to do, well, yeah, yeah, but that's before I knew how bad it was.
I'm no longer using this stuff.
I've uh I've ceased using it.
By another name on the list is Daryl Kyle, uh, who perished, who died of a heart attack in Chicago four years ago while the Cardinals were in town to play the Cubs.
I'll never forget that.
Uh Joe Girardi was the uh the catcher for the Cubs, and he announced to the fans that the game was being canceled, but he couldn't tell them why, because they hadn't found Daryl Kyle's wife yet to tell her.
They did an autopsy and they found they smoked a little bit of marijuana, but that that was not enough to have cause.
They found he just had a congenital uh uh uh heart problem that it ran in his family, but his name is uh is on the list.
Rick Ankiel, with a good uh the the the you know, the heartwarming late season story for the St. Louis Cardinals.
This is a pitcher who could not find a plate.
I don't know if you people remember this.
Rick Ank, I mean, he would miss the plate by ten feet, high outside, inside.
It was embarrassing to watch.
So they Cardinals didn't give up on him, uh, turned him into an outfielder, and he apparently started using this stuff and was hitting home run after home run after home run late in the season, and was the field good story because he had not given up, he came back.
Uh these guys to just because, hey, look, it was prescribed to me.
Uh I had injuries.
I uh I needed to heal fast.
My my point is I don't know what they're gonna do about this.
I don't know what the what what Bud Sealing can do.
Uh he probably would be wise to do nothing, because if they start trying to deal with this in a in a looking past situation, looking to the past situation, you want to start asterisking Barry Bonds with all the names on this list.
Everybody in baseball that's achieved anything if he knowed is gonna get asterisk.
Do you asterisk Roger Clemens?
Do you asterisk Johnny Damon?
Do you asterisk Andy Pettott of the Yankees?
Who is and then if you're going to asterisk those guys, do you asterisk the team's performance when they were all together playing it?
Well, Damon might have been with the Red Sox at the time, and Yankees are winning their World Series, but uh you got uh Brad Boone is on the list.
Uh he and his brother, the brothers of Bob Boone, the former catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Uh let's see, any other names that you would Albert Bells, Paul Byrd, Ken Kamenetti.
Uh Jose Canseco, obviously, Clemens, Lenny Dykstra.
Lenny Dykster hasn't played for the Mets in the Phil.
I don't know how long he's he's been retired.
Uh big fan of this program, by the way.
Came by to see us when we were located uh at our flagship studios in New York at WABC.
Troy Glouse, the uh the uh Anaheim Angels in Los Angeles, um Eric Gagnier, the brilliant relief pitcher for the Dodgers, didn't do so well this year with the Red Sox.
Jeremy Giombi along with Jason Giombi.
Uh it's a long list here.
Wally joyner, who has uh finished his career with the with the well, I don't know if he finished, but he was with the Royals back in the uh early 80s when I was there.
Uh McGuire, let's see, Trot Nixon of the uh, well, he was with the Red Sox.
Pooh holes.
That was surprised.
John Rocker.
John Rocker is on the list.
Uh Gary Sheffield, who was with the New York Yankees until this past season, played with the Detroit Tigers, Miguel De Hata.
So I don't know what they're gonna do.
You're gonna have you're gonna have Mitchell's gonna have his press conference at 2 o'clock.
Then you're gonna have Bud Sealag to commission to his press conference at 4.30 at a different hotel.
And in the players' rep, the union leader Donald Fear going to do his press conference at six at a different hotel.
So this is a um this stuff is still widespread.
I mean it it to try to do something about this uh uh and in terms of rectifying what these drugs might have influenced in past performance, not now just with individuals but with teams.
This is uh this is gonna be interesting to see how they deal with it.
And during all of this, you know, while the drive-by sports guys have been just drumming up all of this hatred for people that do this stuff.
It's cheating.
These people are cheaters.
Why it's that and it's never gonna be forgotten and so forth.
All the while the fans kept showing up in greater and greater numbers at the ballparks.
Uh, and they wanted to see these behemoths, and they wanted to see him hit the ball out of the park.
They wanted to see Roger Clemens at age 55, be able to still throw a 95 mile an hour fastball.
It's what sports is for people who don't play it, it's an escape, it's a fantasy.
It's the way you get away from the humdrum of your life, and you go pretend that you can do it too.
And you get your you get your jollies.
As I've often said, I love this.
A sociologist when I was with the Royals.
We had our winter meetings out in Scottsdale one uh one year after the season.
And uh our job and marketing people sell more tickets.
So what if the sociologist out from Harvard?
I don't know why, I don't know who invited him, but he came out.
I don't remember anything that he said other than the great thing about sports, the one thing about sports, is that it is the one thing in life, the one thing outside of your pets, that you can invest total passion without consequence.
Meaning you can give your team everything you've got.
You can love them, you can show up, and they will never kick you out of the house.
They will never kick you out of the ballpark unless you jump on the field.
They may disappoint you by losing, uh, but they won't.
And so these, you know, people show up and and and watch uh and on television in person and so forth, uh, and they just don't seem to have had any problems, at least with their with their dollars, what they're spending it on with the reports of all the cheating.
It'd be interesting to see if that changes now with this list and if this is the complete one.
We got the Republican debate to talk about.
We've got Mrs. Clinton literally imploding.
She is imploding, she has apologized to Barack Obama.
She had this guy, Bill Shaheen up in New Hampshire, the husband of the former governor uh Gene Shaheen, uh who's been running around bad-mouthing Obama uh in a and in fact, she be we we have learned today through Bob Novak, she has been ripping Obama privately for months.
Typical dirty tricks.
She's had to apologize, Huckabee apologized to uh Mitt Romney.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, uh, do think that was a result of yesterday's program.
Uh but Huckabee, Uckabi's a decent enough guy.
I well, there was no direct intervention other than what happened on the program yesterday.
We've got debate sound bites, by the way.
How about how about that moderator?
And how about Fred Thompson yesterday to the debate?
You you probably didn't see this because we were all hosting the program here.
I'm talking to the guys the other side of glass.
But uh this stupid schoolmar moderator, I mean, typical, just wound so tight, Coke bottled glasses.
Uh Lib, editor of the Des Moines Register, asks all the candidates, can I think of hand for all who think that global warming is a terrible issue that we need to get out of hand?
Something something like that.
And Fred Thompson, I'm not gonna put my hand up here.
I didn't this is not a show of hands debate.
I'm not gonna sh uh I'll answer your question if you give me a minute.
No, she said.
How about 30 seconds?
She said, Nope, I'm not, I'm not on, and the audience loved it.
The audience absolutely loved it.
Debate reviews yesterday were Romney and Fred Thompson.
Bio New York Today, National Review Online, a review online.
Where's this been?
Speaking of Thompson.
Is it uh too little, too much, too late?
Lots of stuff in addition to all that straight ahead, folks.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Manheim Steamroller and the official Christmas bump rotation here at the EIB network, the IRS yesterday, hit several employees and consultants of the Reverend Al Sharpton's civil rights organization, a national action network, hit him with subpoenas, demanding a wide range of documents as part of an ongoing investigation.
Charlie King, the acting exec director of the National Action Network, said that he didn't know the nature of the investigation, but he noted that the Reverend Sharpton himself was not among the four people he knew to have received the subpoenas.
The IRS probe is the latest in a long line of investigations into Sharpton and a national action network, which is his Harlem-based nonprofit group.
Here we go again, Sharpton said, who claimed that prior probes have suspiciously come to public light when he was in the midst of making political moves.
This is more smearing.
I'm getting ready to make a presidential endorsement.
How many state and federal investigations have you been through with me?
Whatever it is, it's part of the territory.
I'm a public figure.
And then to the audio sound bites.
Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews uh guest was uh Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who uh we like here.
We've always liked how he's uh he does his best to get it right.
And uh, and to be fair.
Matthew says, uh, you know, is is it better to be noticed and whacked at or ignored, Howard, when you're one of these uh when one of these candidates.
A couple of months ago, Hillary, you remember did all five Sunday morning shows.
Whenever anyone has to a reason, I was called Ful Gensburg, right?
Monica Lewinsky.
And after uh any unreasonably tough question, she would go, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
So John Stewart spliced all that laughter together and and made a bit out of it, and that ended up being played on the CBS Evening News.
They're all now adopting the daily show technique of using videotape to illustrate the absurdity of politics.
Uh, come on, Howard.
You know, this this is uh We started that on a rush television show in 1992.
That's what the show was.
The famous Ron Brown built a memorial with Bill Clinton walking along with Tony Campolo, I think it was his name, the uh the minister, uh, and he laughing it up and yucking it up, just having a grandest time walking into church for the Ron Brown Memorial spots and NBC camera, and in less than half a step starts faking crying.
And Campolo doesn't get it, keeps laughing.
We put together all kinds of video montages.
We did it for four years, and we brought that to the radio show as well.
Uh and and to give Stewart credit, why, that's just not right, Howard.
It's just not right.
So much of what has happened on this program has been stolen and adopted as original by other broadcasts, particularly television.
Uh and and uh hell.
You know, folks, I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna go so far in a limb and tell you that nighttime cable television shows are talk radio on TV.
And who do you think what?
Let me say, what do you think was the inspiration for trying that format on television?
Uh wasn't John Stewart.
I got nothing against John Stewart.
I don't even uh I don't even know him.
Think of this from the uh what is Christian poster?
What post?
How did it matter?
Uh holiday dilemma, real versus artificial Christmas trees.
With Christmas right around the corner, more Christians this year are finding themselves faced with a difficult decision, choosing between a real and an artificial tree.
Uh during this season it's all about environmental concerns.
And may finding some artificial trees coming from China got lead in them.
The environmentalist wacko said, you know what?
If an artificial tree has got lead in it, we care about the kids.
We exalve you from using artificial tree.
Go ahead and cut one down.
But to make this a Christian issue, what is Congress's approval rating?
Twenty-two to twenty-four percent?
You want to know one of the reasons why?
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to hold two top aids to President Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors.
On a party line vote of 11 to 7, the Democrat-led panel, and it's led by Pat Lahey, sent contempt citations against the White House Chief of Staff, Josh Bolton, and the former Deputy Chief of Staff Carl Rove to the full Senate for consideration.
As with many of uh Bush's battles with the Democrat Senate, the president may ultimately prevail since his fellow Republicans may be able to block the citations with a procedural hurdle.
Now this sets up the next story.
This is purely for show.
This is simply aimed at uh Moveon.org, which literally is blackmailing the Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee.
They have such hatred for hell!
Howard Deankiss came out today with issued a statement.
Say that who says George Bush isn't on the ballot.
Every Republican in the top tier that seeks a Republican nomination has pledged to continue the policies of Bush and Cheney.
They have to have Bush on the ballot.
They've ginned up so much hatred.
So they're going to try to morph whoever the Republican nominee is into Bush.
And they're sitting there with their 22 or 24% approval rating.
They do all these things that go nowhere to satisfy the literal genuine lunatics that make up the base of their party.
This has resulted, by the way, because none of this stuff ever gets done.
This has resulted, I mean, there is a meltdown in Congress right now.
The Democrats in the House are pointing fingers at Democrats in the Senate, and vice versa.
The Democrats in the Senate say the idiot Democrats in the House are sending stuff over to them that'll never see the light of day.
Doesn't have a chance of passing because it's too radical.
Meanwhile, the Judiciary Committee passes this little resolution on Roven Bolton, which is just as radical and isn't going to go anywhere.
And there's a front page above the fold story about all of this on the Washington Post today.
It has got to be bad if the Washington Post and the rest of the drive-bys are not trying to hide this.
Normally these kinds of things happen and get shoved to the C section, page 17.
Front page above the fold.
The Democrats aren't just melting down.
They are allowing the entire nation to witness the meltdown.
And most of it is being driven by these great society relics, these 60s liberals in the House, who are far more concerned with scoring points than they are with any particular agenda right now.
John Boehner, somebody in his office, told John Fund today this is Christmas, and it's come early.
Here are a few great paragraphs here from the Washington Post story.
It's actually a story by uh uh Jonathan Weissman and Paul Cain.
Asked about the decision on government funding.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey groused to the Capitol Hill newspaper roll call.
I'll tell you how soon I'll make a decision when I know how soon the Senate sells us out.
Senate Democrats have fired back, accusing Pelosi and her liberal allies of sending over legislation that they know can't pass in the Senate and of making demands that'll not gain any Republican votes.
Senator Evan Bye of Indiana Democrat noted that this summer Reed employed just the kind of theatrics that Wrangell and other House Democrats are demanding, holding the Senate open all night, pulling out COS, forcing a dusk till dawn debate on the Iraq war before a vote on war funding.
Democrats gain not a single vote after the all-night antics.
I understand the frustration.
We're frustrated too, but holding a bunch of kabuki theater doesn't get anything done.
It is a genuine meltdown, and it's Democrat.
And you know what?
I I thought this was going to happen.
Uh because these I've I'll bet you if we go back to the archives, transcript archives of this program at some point in this past year.
You will find that I referenced this possibility.
Not just the Queen Beast syndrome with uh with Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, uh, but the the whole concept of these Democrats not getting along, and it was based on the fact that Pelosi was thinking she was running the town.
So Dingy Harry, to illustrate this, Dingy Harry on December 5th on the floor of the United States Senate.
I can't control Speaker Pelosi, and I hope everybody understands that now.
She is a strong independent woman.
She runs this the House with an iron hand.
I support what she does.
No one needs to come here and tell me that I didn't keep my word.
Uh who's telling him that, aside from us?
Could it be other Democrats?
Could it be move on.org?
Could it be the anti-war fringe that he has secret nighttime meetings with?
You're not keeping your promise.
I can't run Miss Pelosi.
She runs that place with an iron hand.
This is juicy, folks.
I must admit that I love it.
And this is all happening out in the open for everybody to see while they get literally nothing done.
Hillary Clinton has personally apologized to Barack Obama over this drug flap that happened on the tarmac at Reagan Airport en route to the uh Iowa debate today.
Clinton uh told Obama that uh negative personal characterizations are not a part of her campaign.
Uh and uh she disavowed comments by a big shot New Hampshire supporter by the name of Billy Shaheen.
Uh now get this.
Hillary's advisor, not Hillary.
This Shaheen guy reminds us of Obama's former drug use.
Sorry, he reminds New Hampshire of Obama's former drug use.
And by the way, a Novak column out today, Howard Wolfson and others in the Clinton campaign were running around a high-level Democrat donors also rubbing Obama's nose in it over his slush fund pack.
They're running around and both in both instances.
Shaheen telling uh people about Obama's drug use, and uh Wolfson or whoever it was warning people about Obama and his slush fund, were all saying, you know what?
Republicans are gonna use this.
The Republicans are gonna use this.
We can't nominate this guy.
You're supporting Obama, he's in big trouble.
He got a slush fund, he's got drug use in his past.
If you if you if you support Obama and you get him nominate Republicans to destroy him, and we're not gonna win.
Really?
He has the chutzpah to say the Republicans might remind us when it's Hillary Camp that did remind us.
More projection.
You blame the Republics for something that hadn't happened that you've done.
We were told Mrs. Clinton is a victim, not a victimizer.
We were told she's attacked.
Not that she's the attacker.
We were told that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get her and her co-president.
Well, looky here, all that Barbara Streisand sandwiches pure BS.
Misdirection, transference.
Accuse your opponents of doing what you do, get everyone looking to the right.
While you go pick their pocket.
We knew it.
Now Barack Obama knows it.
But he uh he can take comfort in this, I think the Clinton calendar probably had this schedule for two weeks from now.
But certain developments in momentum, as in she's imploding along with her husband, and he's rising, have made the announcement more urgent uh if you're on the left, more desperate if you're not on the liver.
This does smack of uh of desperation.
Howard Wolfson, this morning on uh Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough show PMS NBC.
Scarborough said it was the co-chairman of New Hampshire uh talking about Barack Obama's past drug usage, asking the question whether he actually ever sold drugs.
Is that a is that a statement Hillary Clinton would like to distance herself from this morning?
In fact, she did so uh yesterday after the statement was made, uh the campaign put out a statement saying that the comments were not authorized or condoned by the campaign in any way, and uh Mr. Shaheen himself uh put out a statement uh saying that he regretted them, and I know that he did.
So Mika Bzinsky, the co-hostette, uh says, Howard, you know this Billy Shaheen's clearly fairly high up in a campaign, a main player really.
Are we supposed to believe this a little blip, a little mistake, not some sort of strategery to tear down Barack Obama in the long run?
Billy Shaheen is a key supporter.
Uh not everybody uh always says uh what you anticipate they're gonna say, expect they're gonna say we were unaware uh that he was gonna make these comments.
Uh they were not approved, they were not authorized, and uh uh he regretted them and uh rightfully so.
The statements he made were his own.
And uh I think when these things happen, and look, they unfortunately in campaigns, uh everybody has a lot of supporters, and people are gonna say things that uh campaigns don't approve of or authorize, and then the question becomes what is the campaign do when statements like that are made?
And uh in this case, uh, we made very clear that uh they were not approved.
You know, okay, so she apologized now for Shaheen running around and saying, Drug use.
He might have been selling drugs.
We can't nominate this guy.
The Republicans are going to destroy him, while Hillary is trying to destroy him before the Republicans even get around to him.
Uh all this apologizing going on.
I gotta apologize to Obama.
Uh how about these two campaign aides in Iowa who are sending out these emails to people saying, you know what, Barack Obama is really a Muslim.
He's lying about not being a Muslim.
He's a Muslim, he's gonna take over this country.
And these two people have to quit.
Forced out.
Hey, Mrs. Clinton didn't know anything about any of this.
Never does.
Let's go back to Sunday, December 2nd on Face the Nation.
Howard Wolfson, from whom you just heard, says this about Barack Obama.
There is a lot that voters don't know about Barack Obama.
There's a lot.
He was setting the stage for it all the way back on December 2nd.
Uh that would be eleven days ago.
And these things just happen in the campaign.
We all know Clinton Inc., and we know what they do, and we know that they're a week ahead of where everybody else is.
And this is this is just this is you know what's happening here.
They're running a national campaign.
They're running this campaign of inevitability and are running up trouble in these individual early states.
She's a can candidate of inevitability, and they don't lose.
And uh not, I mean, if you're in if you're inevitable, it's just a feign of compliance, it's a matter of time, and then you lose one, maybe two states.
Doesn't look good.
You need a roadmap to follow all this, Frank, uh uh, frankly, folks.
And look at me as your navigation system.
So Hillary Clinton tells Obama she doesn't run a dirty campaign, and then she hires sleazy campaign people like Billy Shaheen on the drugs in Obama, her Iowa people on Barack as a Muslim, and the New York-based guy looking for dirt on Obama in Chicago.
And to hear the Democrats tell it, the actions of underlings like Carl Rove and Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney reflect on their boss, right?
Have they always been saying that?
You know they said this goes all the way to the top.
This is really George W. Bush.
He's the one providing the motivation, the inspiration.
He's the model for the behavior of Libyan Rove and Cheney, right?
Buck stops with the boss, right?
So what does it say that Mrs. Clinton's underlings runs sleazy campaigns?
We have to believe that Hillary is signed off on sleazy tactics, right?
Based on a Lib's own philosophy, based on their own thinking.
I may be one thing if this was the first time, but it's at least the third sleazy move by a Hillary employee in just the last month.
And of course, we know that Clinton Inc.
Uh, as I have said countless times, just put some crime scene tape around the Clinton headquarters.
Because we we all know what's uh what what goes on in there?
So she's desperate.
Her lead is tanking.
She is inevitable no more.
She sends a New Hampshire buddy, uh, noted for not having any testicles out to warn the nasty, wild, vast right wing of the GOP will use the story of drugs on Obama.
And yet they are the ones that use the story of drugs on Obama.
And then they hint that Barry had actually sold drugs, and they warn Barry's supporters, you better drop this guy.
Once the Republicans learn of this, he's toast.
Well, who is it that informed, quote unquote, are sleezed or slimed Barack Obama?
Obama.
And then, after all this, the campaign, Mrs. Clinton Howard Wolfson.
We didn't know anything about this.
We didn't have anything to do with it.
We didn't authorize this hit.
And then Mr. Shaheen, the one without the testicles, says he shouldn't have said it.
Did Hillary call him and scream at him?
Meanwhile, it's the top story of the day, and this from Bob Novak.
David Axelrod, the seasoned Chicago Democrat operative who is chief Store strategirist for Obama's presidential campaign was taken by surprise.
In the last minute of CBS Face the Nation on December 2nd, Howard Wolfson, Clinton's spokesman, accused Obama of running a slush fund.
In fact, the Clinton campaign was spreading that story privately months ago.
Last summer, a senior Clinton aide told a famous Democrat believed to favor Obama, the Illinois Senator was using his leadership pack to spread money around the country to grease his presidential prospects.
That message was private when Clinton seemed far ahead in the race for the Democrat nomination.
It became public when Obama threatened to overtake her, but Wolfson spoke out.
One of Clinton's, or before Wolfson spoke out, one of Clinton's close supporters was spreading word of unspecified defects in Obama that should deter Democrats from supporting him.
This is the Clinton style that has proved effective for two decades.
But Obama has continued to close the gap.
This attack mode works best when the accusations are hidden from public view.
Last summer, a few Clinton insiders, headed by her Senate chief of staff, paid a presumably social visit to the Cape Cod, Massachusetts vacation home of a prestigious Democrat reported to be in Obama's corner.
Tamarit Lozato, the chief of staff for Hillary, warned that Obama was ethically challenged because of his leadership pack in the slush fund.
This is last summer.
Robert Novak says his sources indicated this was not an isolated incident.
The slush fund story was spread widely.
A month ago, Democrat close to Clinton, though not under Senate staff or campaign staff, approached a party activist who has not made a commitment to a candidate with this message.
Skeletons in Obama's closet will make him vulnerable if nominated, didn't elaborate.
Said that Clinton campaign would keep its anti-Obama information to itself.
Claiming it was a Republican plot.
In truth, writes Mr. Novak, there was no Republican source.
For this story, in the wake of these denials, Howard Wolfson made his slush fund accusation on Slay the Nation shortly after polls showed Obama passing Clinton for the lead in the January 3rd Hawkeye caucus.
Now, with more time, David Axelrot, Obama's guy, might have noted that Obama's PAC contributed to Clinton's 2006 Senate re-election bid and the current cycle to Gene Shaheen's Senate campaign in New Hampshire, even though her husband Bill heads the state Clinton campaign there, and he's the guy that ran up the drug rumors about Obama selling.
And Obama's slush fund had contributed to both Hillary and Shaheen.
Some slush fund.
So anyway, the fact that this bomb proved money much a dud raises doubts about the whispers of impropriety by this untried candidate, meaning Obama, this stuff is not working.
It's not lowering his numbers.
And people are beginning to think, hmm, maybe he's clean and pure, can stand it.
As you know, Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles and San Francisco earlier in the week.
She privately told donors out there, don't worry about any of this stuff.
This actually in Sacramento, Rissa said this.
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