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Dec. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 13, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, welcome back.
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You know, Snerdley and I were talking here during the break at the top of the hour, examining this timeline with Obama and the attacks on him.
You know, it really starts with Joe Biden.
Remember when Joe Biden, and all these attacks, by the way, on Obama have come from liberals.
And Obama is the first top-tier black candidate for president, and it is liberals trying to destroy this guy.
Not just liberals in terms of his electoral opponents, but also the libs of the drive-by media.
It starts with Joe Biden.
Yeah, you know, it's really good for our party of Obama, and he's clean, he's articulate.
He's, you know, this angered the Reverend Sharpton.
Then after that, we started getting, we got some puff pieces on Obama, but after it didn't take long because most of the drive-bys are for Hillary.
So we got some Washington, D.C., and New York Times puff pieces.
And so then the rest of the drive-bys went into action.
And this guy in the L.A. Times wrote the Magic Negro piece saying that, you know, he's a Magic Negro.
And the guy that wrote the piece is also black.
Yeah, he's a magic Negro.
But nobody knows what this guy stands for.
He's got a bunch of guilty white liberals who say they're supporting him without knowing what he stands for because it makes them feel better.
It helps them assuage their guilt.
And that led to numerous parodies that we did on this program.
There's a whole list of things that Obama has been attacked for.
He's not black enough.
He's not authentic.
He's not down for the struggle.
Then it was inexperience.
Clinton camp came along and said, he didn't have any experienced experience.
And then the Clinton campaigns, he's too ambitious.
Why?
He wrote an essay in kindergarten saying he wanted to be president.
He doesn't know his place.
It's not his time yet.
All this being said by liberals about the first top-tier black presidential candidate in the Democrat Party.
Then we had Mrs. Clinton's campaign putting out the stuff, he's a Muslim.
Emails in Iowa.
He's really a Muslim.
He's got a secret agenda to take over America for the Muslims.
And then Hillary and her camp come out.
He's corrupt.
He has a slush fund.
And then now he's a drug dealer.
Oh, he must be a drug dealer.
He's black.
All he's ever said was, yeah, I experimented with some of this stuff when I was in high school and I wasted a lot of time.
Then the Clinton camp comes out with a Shaheen guy in New Hampshire says, he might have even been selling drugs.
And then we had a campaign since this summer under cover of darkness behind the scenes, Clinton operatives going to high-level Democrat donors who had signed up for Obama.
You know, his drug dealing stuff is slush fund.
He's corrupt.
You know, Republicans are going to make hay of this stuff if he wins a nomination.
We can't afford this.
So all of this stuff said about Obama by blacks, by liberals, by Democrats, by the media.
All I've ever said about Obama is this seems like a nice guy.
He seems like a nice guy.
I mean, occasionally a little lifeless up there on stage, but he seems like a nice guy.
So it's just, meanwhile, it is us folks who get tarred and feathered as the racists and the bigots and so forth.
But look what the Democrat Party, led by Bill and Hillary, have tried to do to the first legitimate top-tier black president presidential campaign.
They have been the ones trying to destroy Barack Obama.
The Republicans haven't gotten around to him yet.
They've spent their time with Mrs. Clinton.
Okay, speaking of Mrs. Clinton, back to the audio soundbite roster.
This is last night on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell talking to Madam Albright, the former Secretary of State for Clinton.
And Albright said this about Hillary Clinton's role in the Clinton administration.
A first lady is not a policymaker, and I don't think she's claiming that she was, but she was the human face of American diplomacy abroad.
Most people thought you were the face of American foreign policy.
Well, I was the Secretary of State, and I developed and carried out policy.
She was the human face.
We were partners.
Give me a break.
Give me a break.
Andrea, you better have a hiding place.
You didn't follow the script on this.
I thought you were the face of American foreign policy.
Well, I'm a Secretary of State.
I developed and carried out a policy.
She was the human face.
We were partners.
What?
Are you afraid to put your own face out there, Madam Albright?
This is just this.
And as I said yesterday, folks, you know, when you can trace this implosion to Mrs. I tell you where you really trace it, you trace it to her snafu, her bumbling of the driver's license question for illegal aliens.
And then Clinton comes on board.
and you can, on a calendar, if you wanted to timeline this, you could chart her implosion, her fall, to those two events, the driver's license thing and Bill Clinton getting on board, because the dirty little secret, the big myth is he didn't help anybody.
He goes out and endorses candidates and they lose.
Bill Clinton never got a majority of votes in this country either time.
He ran 43 and 49 percent, never got over 50 percent.
The idea that these people are some juggernaut running around, loved and adored by the whole country myth, total myth.
Now Hillary has a new campaign ad and it's her mother, Dorothy Rodham.
If you have to have your mom go out and do a TV ad for you to basically say that you're nice, you have problems.
Here's the audio from the ad.
What I would like people to know about Hillary is what a good person she is.
She never was envious of anybody.
She was helpful and she's continued that with her adult life, with helping other women.
She has empathy for other people's unfortunate circumstances.
I've always admired that, because that isn't always true of people.
I think that she ought to be elected even if she weren't my daughter.
I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message.
Isn't that what her husband says?
I'd be voting for her even if I weren't married to her.
No comment on that.
But look, she's a good person.
Could we all take time out and bake some gingerbread cookies now, folks, and just have maybe some tea around the Christmas tree?
Such nice person.
Never envious of anybody.
That's denying something you know is true because you know that's what people think.
Not only envious, but calculating.
She can't stop telling people how rich that she and her husband are.
She's always envied people who have money.
I mean, that's the first thing that strikes me.
But anyway, she's got to get her mother out there to say she's a good person.
That must mean that Clinton Inc. has internal data which suggests people don't think she's a nice person.
All right, your patience will be rewarded.
Those of you on the phones, time to go to there.
The Rush Limbaugh program rolls on to Atlanta.
This is Twana.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush.
Hi, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
I just wanted to say when I first heard the story about Mr. Mitchell releasing the list of the baseball players, the very first thing that came to my mind was the Harry Reed letter about you.
And it just infuriated me.
I'm not even a baseball fan, but it makes me want to go buy season tickets to the graves just to rub it in these people's faces.
You're mad that they release these individual names.
Well, yeah, and here's the thing that really bothers me.
I don't think they're doing it because they even care.
They don't care that these baseball players are on steroids or not.
It's a distraction.
It's just one more thing to keep the American people focused on something that's really not important.
When you know, that's an interesting point.
It's more pummeling the American people.
Look how screwed up your country.
Why?
The sport that used to be, the American pastime, is polluted and it's corrupt.
Nothing's genuine.
Nothing's real in America anymore.
I, George Mitchell, big Democrat, say so.
Well, and the other thing that really just irritates me, Rush, is you have this band of hypocritical thugs in Washington, D.C. who, if we were to put asterisks by their names for all of the things that we should put asterisks by their names for, the list would be unending.
That is actually a brilliant, brilliant point.
And the other thing, Rush, is here...
You're supposed to say thanks because it's not very often that I say that to a caller.
Well, Rush, thank you.
All right.
But I also want to say that there is such a long, long list of things that really need to be happening that they are being negligent on that they continue to come up with just one more crisis, one more manufactured hullabaloo thing to keep our attention away from all of the things that they are not doing.
And the list could go on and on.
Well, you know, that's also, that's pretty smart, too, because this whole thing is being done to keep Congress off everybody's back.
You know, Congress got involved.
There's no enforcement, no legal enforcement in this.
Mitchell is not, you know, he's not an officer of any court.
This is just, you name these guys like this, especially the ones who are deceased, Daryl Kyle.
You know, that's some of this stuff is way over the top.
Let me ask you this.
I'm a devil's advocate here.
In some people's minds, you know, in recent years, this stuff's been made illegal.
It wasn't for a while, but it's been made illegal.
And what about the whole concept of cheating?
Well, a politician's going to tell us about cheating.
I mean, can we start with the pot calling the kettle black?
George Mitchell's not in politics anymore, per se.
He's not in electoral politics.
I think he's on the board of the Boston Red Sox.
He's on the board of Disney.
And of course, being associated with the Red Sox and identifying a bunch of Yankees, a couple of Red Sox on the list, too, Eric Gagne and Jason Veridik.
And I think Johnny Damon might have been a Red Sox player at the time they were talking about this happening.
Who knows?
Well, the thing is, Rush, I know these guys are professionals, okay?
And the way I look at it, though, it's entertainment.
And everybody knows it's entertainment.
These guys just happen to be, quote, professional entertainers.
As far as cheating is concerned, again, I go back to the whole hypocrisy.
Let me ask you this.
Is wearing contact lenses cheating in sports if your vision's not what it should be?
How about working out, period, whether you're using steroids or not?
Is that cheating, trying to gain a competitive advantage?
You know, you go back to the Babe Ruth days.
The workout took place in the bar.
Well, is letting dead people vote for you getting a competitive advantage?
I just continue to say, look, when they can get their act together, then they can judge other people.
But get off of the.
All right.
I hear you.
I hear you.
You're looking at this as though this may as well have been a congressional investigation because a former senator did it, and I like that.
Because let these guys show us how clean and pure they are, and they have been.
Good call.
Thank you, Twan.
I appreciate that.
This is Bob in New Orleans, your next Sonny EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
You're lighting the way for all Americans every day, and we thank you for it.
You're very kind to say that, sir.
I would.
I'm very excited, very, very excited to see that debate yesterday.
I saw a schoolyard bully step out and say, hey, we're going to play this game.
And I saw four politicians raise their hand and wave the white flag and say no.
And then I saw my president stand up.
I saw my president stand up and say, hell no.
I'm not going to play your game today.
We're not going to play your game today.
And then I saw the crisis negotiator and the corporate CEO and the preacher all get in line behind that leader, behind that president, and say, no, that's right.
We're not going to play that game today.
And this is the first time I've been this excited about a presidential candidate since 1984, Rush.
So you like what Thompson did with the global warming question, I assume, is what you mean.
Rush, if these guys are going to surrender to somebody from the Des Moines Register, what the hell are they going to do when they're up against Ahmadina Joden Cooper?
Especially that babe, a term used loosely from the Des Moines Register.
Excellent, excellent point.
We've got audio soundbites of the debate coming up, but I wanted to get some phone calls in first.
If you didn't see it, didn't hear it.
We've got some audio what happened with the Fred Thompson and the show of hands global warming question.
Bob, thanks much.
Jim, in Longmont, Colorado, you're next on the EIB network.
Professor, I have a hypothesis I want to run by you.
I think Oprah has more power, and she could probably tank the Clinton candidacy and the Democratic plantation for good if she just shows some true moral indignation over the way this Clinton has been treating Barack.
And to top it all off, you know, she was at the rally with Obama, and she said, although she's backing Obama, she still likes Hillary.
I think she's going to bite her tongue on that one.
And maybe the tipping point will be reached while she says enough.
Now, look at Oprah's doing exactly what an Oprah is going to do.
She's picked Obama, but she's got to cover her bets in case he doesn't win because you don't want Don Vito Clinton Leone and his wife as your enemy.
You don't want that.
And the first thing that you said, it would be a mistake for Oprah to go out and start trashing the Clintons on what they've done to Obama.
That would not look good.
That would look weak.
That would look defensive.
Obama's plan is just right.
He's ignoring it.
He's taking a high road.
He's continuing to talk about his vacuous policy ideas and not getting too specific about things.
And he's handling this with his messianic personality, his charismatic personality.
Well, Mrs. Clinton continues to look like Nurse Ratchet, even more so.
But if anybody's going to respond to this and act outraged about it, it should be Obama himself, not his wife, and certainly not Oprah.
Well, then, shouldn't his wife come up and say, I cannot stand the fact that Clinton's husband is claiming to be the first black president?
That to me is such an insult.
Well, she may not be able to say that because she might have gone along with it at the time.
I don't know, but if she went along with that whole concept in time, she can't go back on it now.
And you'd be hard-pressed to find a Democrat who didn't go along with it.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a black person on the Democrat side that didn't go along with the notion that Clinton was the first black president.
Well, as a white guy, I find that an insulting comment to all of my friends that are black, and I just think it needs to be.
Of course, it is.
It's a perversion.
It's a toy, just like Andrew Young going out there on the internet.
Oh, yeah, Clinton, he'd be blacker than Obama.
Why, he's been with more black women than Obama's ever been with.
Everybody applauds this.
It's a perversion.
Whole liberalism is essentially a perversion.
Jim, thank you much for the call.
One place Oprah could do it when she gets back to her television show.
She does it on a campaign stop.
If she's out there doing it, if she did it on her television show in a very subtle way, such as arranging for a guest of hers to ask her a question, then she could maybe launch into it in that regard.
Roger, in Indiantown, Florida, I have about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you.
Major dittos to you, Rush.
It is such an honor to speak.
You are America's political prophet, and it's an honor to speak to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I've been listening since 92.
My wife turned me on to you, and I didn't even vote before you, so you've educated me quite well.
Appreciate that.
I was just wondering, it seems like to me that the drive-by media have fallen out of love with the Clintons and that Obama's the new love child.
I just wondered what your take on that would be.
Obama, the new love child of the drive-by.
It seems that way.
I'm just envisioning this.
Love child, love child.
Too soon to say.
Too soon to say.
I do think a portion of the drive-by is starting to feel a little hoary.
They've been hoarse for the Clintons so long, and they don't want to attack a black guy.
I guess if she wins the nomination, it's going to be a love fest all over again.
And here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, as always, half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair to Bel Air, Maryland.
Next, this is Jim.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thanks very much.
Good.
Rush, I really think it's a real big issue here that you and conservatives like Hannity and other conservatives are attacking Hillary when you guys actually have a problem with Obama yourselves, but you don't criticize Obama.
Why is that?
I mean, I think one of the things that you're talking about.
Wait, Now, how can you?
I haven't criticized.
My real problem is Obama, but I'm attacking Hillary.
What do you mean?
Yeah, I mean, you don't attack Obama currently for anything that he does.
But I think once Obama defeats the, if he defeats the Clinton political machine, as you say, then you guys will then step up your attacks on Obama.
Think it's really disingenuous that you guys would hide your true intent, which is have Obama do your dirty work for you.
I don't get rid of the business.
Wait a second, Jim.
I don't let anybody do my dirty work for me.
You should know that after my kerfuffle with Senator Reed.
I don't let anybody do my dirty work.
Look, if Obama happens to get the nomination, I'll be very honest with you.
I will oppose him.
But you know what?
It'll be on policy things.
You're not going to find me saying he's selling drugs.
You're not going to find me saying he's not black enough while Mrs. Clinton's out there trying to sound black to the self church audience.
You're not going to find me saying that he's a magic Negro.
You're not going to find me saying it's going to be on policy because this election, I don't care who their nominee is, is going to be about the future of the country.
And to us on our side, you know, that matters.
Well, you implied earlier that Hillary hates black people because she criticizes Obama.
And those are the type of things.
I just don't see that.
Well, you're saying.
You invert it, but I didn't imply she hates black people.
Well, you didn't say that by, you know, she criticizes Obama, so therefore, well, she's the first one to attack Obama.
Look at people.
Look at the nature of the attack.
Look at my, here's my point.
You missed it.
You've got the Democrat Party, which has been long at telling us that blacks don't get enough of an equal opportunity in this country, that they're always beaten back, that they're discriminated against, they're profiled, and they're victims of prejudice.
So here you have the first top-tier black candidate for president on the Democrat side, and who is it that's destroying him?
It's Mrs. Clinton.
Oh, he's black.
He must be selling drugs.
That was never part of what he admitted to doing.
He said he used them.
His experimentation wasted a lot of time.
Hillary's right-hand man in New Hampshire is out.
He might be selling them.
We've got to be very careful.
Why would, you know, it ain't me saying this.
It's all I'm telling you.
I'm reporting it, but it isn't me.
Well, this is obviously within the, I guess, the political campaigns of both parties.
But why do you not attack Obama on policy issues?
Why are you only attacking Hillary?
When he tubbed, I have his health care plan.
He hasn't gotten very specific about many things.
Why not criticize him all?
I called him lifeless the other day.
I did criticize him for standing aside and letting all these attacks hit him and not reply.
You know, I was very critical, and I gave him a little lesson.
Obama, you've got to fire back on this slush fund stuff.
You telling me, Mrs. Clinton, you, with all the Chinese funny money and the money orders running in from a Chinese restaurant for your legal defense fund, that I have a slush fund?
Russ, my original intent here was that I think you want Obama to defeat Clinton and kind of sort of do your conservatives dirty work for you.
And then you would go after Obama.
I don't want Mrs. Clinton anywhere near the White House.
Well, that's news, Flash, isn't it?
Of course I don't want Mrs. Clinton anywhere near the White House.
I don't want any of the Democrats anywhere near the White House.
Well, why don't you attack all the Democrats as successfully as you do Hillary?
Well, because I do!
For cracking out, where you been?
What do you think we've been doing to John Edwards, the brick girl?
I mean, there's only three of them we're talking about here because only three of them have a chance, and really only two of those.
Except, you know, here's one thing.
The Edwards camp is putting something out.
And this may make some sense with all of this negativity that's flowing around out there in Democrat early states, Iowa and New Hampshire.
The Edwards camp says, you know, we're everybody's second choice.
And if these people go into the Hawkeye Caucasian are fed up with both, we're right there.
So let me ask you a quick question here, Jim, before you go.
Sure.
Why aren't you defending Obama against?
Call me and give me all kinds of grief here for not attacking Obama, only attacking Hillary, secretly, you know, holding my fire, keeping my powder dry.
Why aren't you defending Obama calling up here?
I mean, you've got Hillary Clinton that's trying to destroy this man's character.
Oh, let's not forget the emails in Iowa.
He's a Muslim and he's going to take over the country.
Ain't me saying this, babe.
Well, I think Obama is able to defend himself.
Like you said, I think he's being very tactical.
Wait a minute.
You're asking me to defend.
Oh, no, wait.
You want me to attack him, which isn't?
I've lost track now.
I want you to equally attack Obama as you're attacking Hillary.
They're both there.
They both are the same in the poll, so why not attack them both equally?
All right.
Well, that's all I'm saying.
I appreciate that.
Now the libs are upset.
I'm not attacking them all equally.
You have to love this.
It's Hillary doing the attacking, Jim.
We've spent an hour and a half on this today.
It's Hillary doing, you should be calling Clinton campaign and say, hey, why don't you attack more than just Obama?
Why don't you go out there and attack the Brett girl?
There's plenty of stuff for that.
Who's next?
Jim in Melbourne and Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
My comment is on the performance-enhancing drugs.
And, you know, I got a real problem with that.
I think when we see our professional athletes taking them, it influences kids.
And I've been involved in high school age.
And it runs off the kids doing it.
Of course, now, if you're a professional and you make multi-million dollar contracts, you can have yourself monitored by a doctor, although it's not supposed to be legal.
And to do, well, if you want to say correctly, but kids doing it aren't going to do that.
The sport becomes a sport of people cheating because they can afford to cheat, where the average person can't.
And it corrupts the sport.
If the average person can't cheat, because they can't afford it, why are you worried about high school athletes being able to get the stuff?
Doing it, quote-unquote, correctly.
If you don't know how to use steroids correctly, you can screw yourself up really easy.
And that is my point.
I don't think it should do it at all.
I think it's destroying sports.
Sports are not just entertainment.
Sports are classified differently.
That may be, but what people are really upset about here is publishing these names.
It's almost McCarthy-esque.
Oh, I agree with that.
I totally agree with that.
I think it has to be addressed, though.
I think we've ignored it, and we've ignored it for years, and it's affected many people.
But I think the way it's been handled, I think it's a political game right now, is all it is.
But I think it does need to be addressed.
And I think, again, I was referring to an earlier call you had.
The lady was saying about it's all entertainment.
It's not all entertainment.
Sports aren't supposed to be.
Wrestling's entertainment.
It's easily leisure.
It's the leisure time dollar.
That's what she means.
Entertainment.
People go out to be entertained by what they're watching.
She had a point there.
Oh, I understand what you're saying in that regard.
She wasn't saying the sport's not legit because it's entertainment.
She was just saying that it's the entertainment business.
Let's see.
What happened to the Al Gore call?
Because I was all ready for, we got, yeah, we got a big Al Gore story out there.
We've got a new Al Gore update theme song, the Global Warming Wonderlander.
I understand.
We'll get to it.
Well, now, but Gore's blaming America for lack of progress here at Kyoto and Bali and all on global warming.
Let me take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll do that.
We'll come back.
We'll start with some of the soundbites from yesterday's debate because the Democrats are getting revved up for their debate in Iowa in about 20 minutes.
And I was wondering if it's going to be the same.
I hope the Democrats get that same school marm moderator, that editor for the Des Moines Register.
And by the way, you know, I was, when that started yesterday, what the hell is Alan Keyes doing in this debate?
And the Des Moines Register, well, according to our criteria, he qualified everything.
He's got a number of people here, a campaign office, and so forth.
Byron York, National Review Online, looked at that and found it may not be true, but guess they kicked Kucinich off the Democrat debate today.
So they add somebody with no chance who they think, see, this is how they work.
They think that Keyes is a kook.
And one kook, Ron Paul, isn't enough for them.
So they want two kooks in a Republican debate to make the Republicans look like a bunch of freaks.
When the Democrat debate starts today, there will not be the Democrat kook up there, Dennis Kucinich.
There's no question that's what the Des Moines Register is doing.
Drive-by media, and that's what they do.
And we'll be right back.
Stay with us.
I find it fascinating that libs from Maryland are calling and asking me to equally attack the Democrat candidates in order to be fair.
But you know what?
It's an acknowledgement of my power.
An acknowledgement of my presence.
An acknowledgement of my influence.
I happily take it.
How long ago was it, ladies and gentlemen, that I told you that immigration was the issue that any party, they wanted to really win and win big, get their arms around and understand what it's about as far as the American people are concerned.
Border security, stop this influx of illegals.
And once that's done, deal with those that are here.
And try to find as many of the illegals as possible and send them back.
Must be, must be even before this year began, but certainly during the course of this calendar year.
This is a point that I have continually emphasized.
People inside the Beltway so out of touch do not understand what's really going on throughout the country.
Nor does the drive-by media who need visas probably to get into Iowa for these debates.
They go there so infrequently, probably don't even know where it is.
To them, it's a foreign country.
That's how out of touch they are.
Here is Jim Van de Gay, John Harris today at Politico.com.
Immigration reshapes politics everywhere.
If there was any doubt about the fearsome power of an anti-immigration message in American politics this election cycle, Republican Bob Lutta drove a stake through it on Tuesday.
It's hard to imagine a more miserable political climate for Republicans.
But Lotta, running in a special election for a suburban Toledo-based House district, crafted a message echoed by party officials that bashed illegal immigrants who live here, drive here, or get government-funded health care.
He won by 14 points.
Democrats and Republicans alike credit the immigration issue for the big margin.
These guys are stunned.
You know, Van De Gay and Harris are good reporters, but they are stunned by this.
I had a story here in the, I think it's Los Angeles Times, some newspaper, sent a reporter out into the hinterlands of Iowa, which probably required Google Maps, maybe a guide in order for him to find the hitterlands of Iowa in small little towns of 200 people.
You know what they found?
The number one issue was was illegal immigration.
In small little towns and they were stunned.
These reporters are stunned.
They simply don't understand it.
I called this.
I warned everybody that this was going to be the case.
And there's another issue that is just as powerful as it's going to be, and that's taxes, primarily tax cuts, and no tax increases.
Going to matter big, both these issues in the presidential campaign.
This is why I'm so happy that this massive amnesty bill went down the tubes because this issue needs to be part of the presidential campaign.
Let's start with the audio soundbites from the debate.
Before we actually get to the debate, Huckabee, last night's situation room with Wolf Blitzer got this question.
When you asked this question for the interviewer, the reporter wrote the story, you said, don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?
Now, as you know, Mormons say that's a canard.
They don't believe that.
It's been a canard spread by people who don't like Mormonism.
I want you to explain what you were doing by even raising that question.
After the debate today, I went to Mitt Romney and apologized to him because I said I would never try ever to try to somehow pick out some point of your faith and make it an issue.
And I wouldn't.
I've stayed away from talking about Mitt Romney's faith.
And I told him face to face, I said, I don't think your being a Mormon ought to make you more or less qualified for being a president.
That has been my position.
Wolf, everybody I talk to just about wants me to come out and say something about Mitt Romney's faith.
I've not taken the bait.
But if I don't say something, they say that my avoiding it is really an underlying statement.
If I do say anything, then I'm attacking it.
Well, you did take the bait because there's a New York Times magazine piece on Sunday that he asks the question and so forth.
Anyway, I apologize.
And note the apology came the same day I intervened on this program and told these guys to grow up and stick to the issues that really matter here.
And so the apology took place.
By the way, Huckabee is going to be on the cover of the next issue of Newsweek magazine.
And, you know, I've been on a cover of time, and when they put me on the cover of time, they had smoke curling out of my mouth with a snarl.
It was a photoshopped job.
No such picture of Romney.
So I guess they may be actually trying to promote the guy at Newsweek.
Then Blitzer follows up with this question.
So how did Mitt Romney react when you went up to him and you said you apologized for that one quote?
Well, he was gracious.
You know, I hope he knows it was sincere.
But, you know, I'm trying to stay away from everything I can say.
I'm being much more cautious now because everything is being parsed.
Trying to stay away from everything I can say.
Isn't that sort of like saying it, but not saying it?
They went to Romney.
Hannity calls last night.
Hannity said, I understand there was an apology offered to you by Governor Huckabee, and it was accepted by you.
Can you tell us what happened?
Yeah, following the debate, Mike Huckabee apologized for that smear on our faith.
And the church also put out a statement and said that this kind of thing comes up from time to time and that it's a not accurate perception of our faith.
And Mike apologized for that.
I, of course, accepted his apology.
Good.
So after the intervention here on this program yesterday, we're back to what matters.
Now, the drive-bys, we have a montage of CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, talking about how boring the debate yesterday was.
I don't recall any Democrat debate ever being referred to as boring, not by these guys.
That was the worst debate in Western history.
It was awful.
I mean, it was boring.
It was hard to stay awake.
This was a boring debate, pretty boring debate.
The most boring debate, perhaps, in the history of debates.
Yeah, it was all out there.
It was very boring.
Well, whose fault is this?
You got a school marm up there.
Well, Dawn, she was a school mom.
Did you see her yesterday?
I mean, the school marm, frankly, folks, is being kind.
And she ran that thing like she was running a prison camp for crying out loud.
Fastest three hours in media.
It's already the end of the second hour.
One more hour to go.
We'll get to the soundbites of the Republican debate yesterday, and we'll see if it was actually as boring as the drive-by media portrayed it to be.
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