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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, and 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, and it really, 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.
Hey, you know, it's really good for our party of Obama, and he's clean, he's articulate.
He's uh, you know, and this angered the Reverend Sharpton.
Then after that, we started getting we got some puff pieces in Obama, but after it didn't take long, because a lot 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-by's went into action, and this guy in the LA Times who wrote the magic Negro piece.
Uh 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 or 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 uh we did on this program.
Uh just there's there's a whole list of uh 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's not he didn't have any experienced uh experience.
And then the Clinton campaigns is 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.
Uh, 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 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 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.
So, you know, his drug dealing stuff is slush fund, he's corrupt.
Uh, you know, Republicans are gonna make hay of this stuff if uh if he wins the 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 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.
Uh so I it it's just it it 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.
Republicans haven't gotten around to him yet.
They've spent their time with Mrs. Clinton.
Cool.
Okay.
Uh speaking of Mrs. Clinton, back to the audio soundbite roster.
This is last night on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell talking to Madame 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 uh diplomacy abroad.
Most people thought you were the face of American foreign policy.
Well, I was the Secretary of State, and uh I care I developed and carried out policy.
She was the human face.
We were partners.
Give me a break Andrea, you better have a hiding place.
You didn't follow the script on this.
I thought I thought you were the face of American foreign policy.
Well, I I was a Secretary of State.
I cocked around I I I I I I developed and carried out a policy.
She was the human face.
We were we were part.
What were you afraid to put your own face out there, madam Aldright?
This is just this and as I said yesterday, folks.
You know when you can trace this implosion of Mrs. Clinton?
You were you 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.
Uh and and then Clinton comes on board, and you can you can you can on a calendar if you wanted to timeline this, you could you could chart her implosion, her fall, to those two events, the driver's license thing and Bill Clinton getting on board, because the 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 with 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 could we all take time out and bake some gingerbread cookies now, folks, and just have a you know, maybe some uh tea around the Christmas tree.
Such nice person, never envious of anybody.
That's that's that's 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 that's that's the first thing that strikes me.
But anyway, she's gotta 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 uh Rush Limbaugh program rolls on to Atlanta.
This is Twana.
Nice to have you with us.
Rashai, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
I I just wanted to say when I first heard the story um about Mr. Mitchell releasing the list of the baseball players the very first thing that came to my mind was 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 Braves 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 it's more pummeling the American people look how screwed up your country why the 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 and the other thing that really just irritates me Rush is is you have this band of hypocritical thugs in Washington DC who if we were to put asterisk by their names for all the things that we should put asterisk by their names for the list would be unending.
That is actually a brilliant brilliant point.
And the other thing Rush is 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 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 the well you know that is that that's also that's pretty smart too because this this whole thing is being done to keep Congress off everybody's back.
You know Congress got involved with this there's there's no enforcement no legal enforcement in this Mitchell is not you know he's not an officer of any court.
Uh there's this is just you name these guys like this especially the ones who are deceased Daryl Kyle you know that that's that's some some of this stuff is uh is is way over the top.
Let me ask you this 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 gonna tell us about cheating well Mitchell I mean can we start with the pot calling the kettle black what George Mitchell's not in politics anymore per se.
He's not an 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 being associated with the Red Sox and identifying a bunch of Yankees a couple Red Sox on the list too Eric Ganyer and Jason Veredick and I think Johnny Damon might have been a Red Sox uh player at the time they were talking about this happening.
Who knows?
Well the thing is Rush I I know these guys are professionals okay and 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.
Well let me ask you this if w is is wearing contact lenses cheating uh in sports if you 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 a competitive advantage I I I just continue to say look when they can get their act together then they can judge other people but but get off of the All right I hear you I hear you as far though 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.
I absolutely 'cause 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 observe excited, very, very excited to see that debate yesterday.
I I I saw I saw a schoolyard bully step out and say, hey, we're gonna 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 gonna play your game today.
We're not gonna 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 gonna play that game today.
And this this is the first time I've been this excited about a presidential candidate since 1984, Rush.
You like so you don't you like what Thompson did with uh with the global warming question, I assume is what you mean.
I uh Rush, if if these guys are gonna surrender to somebody from the Des Moines Register, what the hell are they gonna do when they're up against Amadinda Jaden Putin?
Especially that babe, uh term used loosely from the Des Moines Register.
Uh excellent, excellent point.
Uh we've got audio sunbites of the debate coming up, but I wanted to get some phone calls in first.
You'll if you didn't see it, didn't hear it.
Uh we've we've got some audio what happened with uh 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 hostess I want to run by you.
I think um Oprah has more power, and she could probably tank the Clinton um 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 gonna bite her tongue on that one, and maybe the tipping point will be reached will she say 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 uh as your enemy.
You don't want that by the end.
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 that 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 uh 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.
Uh even uh even more so.
But if anybody's gonna respond to this and act outraged about it, it should be Obama himself, not his wife and and certainly not Oprah.
Well, then shouldn't his wife come up and say, I cannot, 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 d I don't know.
But she sh sh if she's if she went along with that whole concept at the 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 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.
Uh it's a perversion.
Oh, liberalism is is essentially a uh 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 uh doing if she did it on her television show in a in a very subtle way, uh, such as arranging for a guest of hers to ask her a question, then she could um then she could uh uh maybe launch into it in that in that regard.
Roger in Indian Town, Florida.
I have about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you.
Major dittoes 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.
Uh 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.
Um too soon to say.
Too soon to say.
I do think a portion of the drive-by is a g they're starting to feel a little hoary.
They've been whores for the Clinton so long and uh they don't want to attack a black guy.
I guess if she wins the nomination, it's gonna 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.
Um Rush, I really think it's uh uh a real big issue here that you and uh conservatives like Han uh Hannity and uh uh other conservatives are attacking uh Hillary uh uh when you guys actually uh have a problem with Obama yourself, uh but you don't criticize Obama.
Uh why is that?
I mean, uh I think once you're gonna do that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What what now how can you I haven't I haven't criticized what do you mean how uh my real problem is Obama, but I'm attacking Hillary?
What do you mean?
Yeah, I mean you you you you have uh you don't attack Obama at the currently uh uh for anything that he does.
But uh I think once Obama defeat the if he defeats the Clinton political machine, as you say, then you guys will then step up your attacks on Obama.
I think it's really disingenuous that you guys would hide your true intent, uh, which is uh have Obama do your dirty work for you.
Um I'm not gonna uh get you know get rid of the second Jim Knight, I don't let anybody do my dirty work for me.
You should know that after my kerfuffle with uh Senator Reed.
I don't want anybody doing my dirty look at if if uh 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 gonna find me saying he's selling drugs.
You're not gonna find me saying that he's not black enough while Mrs. Clinton's out there trying to sound black to the Selma church audience.
You're not gonna find me saying that he is a magic Negro.
You're not gonna find me saying it it's gonna be on policy, because this election, I don't care who their nominee is, is gonna be about the future of the country.
And to us, to us on our side, you know, that matters.
Well, you implied earlier that you know Hillary hates black people because she criticizes Obama.
And and those are the type of things I do.
So I just don't see you do that.
I don't know.
Well, you're saying that.
You invert it, but I didn't imply I didn't imply she hates black people.
Well, you didn't say that by well, you know, she criticizes Obama, so therefore, well, uh she's the first one to attack uh uh uh uh Obama on the issue of black 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 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 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 as experimentation, wasted a lot of time.
Hillary's right hand man in New Hampshire said he might be selling them.
We gotta be very careful.
Why would what you know what uh it ain't me saying this is all I'm telling you.
I'm reporting it, but it isn't me.
Well, I uh you know, uh this is obviously what in the uh I guess the political campaigns of both uh uh both uh parties, but uh why uh why do you not attack uh Obama on uh policy issues?
Why are you only attacking Hillary when he took it?
Wait, I have his health care plan.
He hasn't gotten very specific about many things.
I called criticize him on that.
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 I I uh I was very critical.
And I I gave him a little lesson.
Obama, you've got to fire back in 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.
Well, Russia, well, my my original uh intent here was that I think you want Obama to uh defeat uh Clinton and kind of I don't know that sort of do you your conservatives uh uh dirty work for you and then you would go after Obama.
Well I don't want Mrs. Clinton anywhere near the White House.
I'll be well that's 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 uh uh Democrats as vesterfully as you do uh Hillary?
Well, because two for crying 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, uh, Iowa and uh and New Hampshire.
Uh the Edwards camp says, you know, we're everybody's second choice, and if these people go into the Hawkeye Cawkay and they're 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 you 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 gonna take over the country.
Me saying this, babe.
Well, I don't know.
I think Obama is able to defend himself.
Uh like you said, he's I think he's being very tight.
Well, wait a minute.
You're asking me to defend.
Oh, no, wait.
You want me to attack him.
Which is it?
I've lost track now.
I want you to uh equally attack Obama as you're attacking Hillary.
They're both there, they both are are are the same in the poll, so why not attack them both equally?
All right.
Well that's all I'm saying.
I I appreciate that.
Now the libs are upset that I'm not attacking them all equally.
You have to love this.
Yeah.
It's Hillary doing the attacking, Jim.
How many we've spent an hour and a half on this today.
It's Hillary doing you should be calling Clinton campaigns say, hey, why don't you attack more than just Obama?
Why don't you go out there and attack the Breck girl?
There's plenty of stuff for that.
Who's next?
Jim in Melbourne, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, my uh comment is on the performance enhancing drugs.
And you know, I I 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 like in high school age.
Yeah.
And it 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.
Um to do well, if you want to say correctly, but you know, kids doing it aren't going to do that.
It becomes uh the sport becomes a sport of people cheating because they can afford to cheat, where the average person you know can't.
And it corrupts the sport.
You know, the the uh election.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait if the average person can't cheat.
Yeah, why are because they can't afford it.
Why are you worried about uh high school athletes being able to get the stuff?
Doing it cr uh quote unquote correctly.
You if you don't know how to use steroids correctly, you can screw yourself up really easy.
And that's my that is my point.
I don't think it should do it at all.
I I think it's uh, you know, it's destroying sports.
It is sports are not just entertainment.
Sports are classified differently.
I know that may be, but what people are really upset about here is publishing these names.
It's it's it's almost McCarthy-esque.
Oh, I agree with that.
I I totally agree with that.
I 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 but I think the way it's been handled, it's it's it's I think it's done a pol 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 a earlier call you had, the lady was saying about it it's all entertainment.
It's not all entertainment.
Sports aren't supposed to be.
Wrestling's entertainment, it's it's legally it's the leisure time dollar.
That's what she means entertainment.
People go out to be entertained by what they're watching.
I mean you got it's it's she she's she 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 is the it's the entertainment uh uh business.
Let's see.
What happened to the Al Gore call?
Because uh 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 uh Global Warming Wonderlander.
Uh I understand.
We'll get to it.
Well, now, but Gore's blaming America for lack of progress here at Kyoto and Bali and uh and all on global warming.
Uh let me take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll do that.
We'll come back.
Uh we'll start with some of the sound bites 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 gonna be the s I hope the Democrats get that same school marm uh moderator, that that editor there 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 Registers, well, according to our criteria, he qualified everything.
He's got a number of people here, uh campaign office and so forth.
Uh Byron York, uh National Review and 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.
Uh 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 ultimately 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.
Uh that's how out of touch they are.
Here is Jim Vandehay, 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 Lotta 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 Hae and Harris are good reporters.
But they are stunned by this.
I had a story here in the I think it's uh uh Los Angeles Times to some newspaper sent a reporter out into the hinterlands Of Iowa.
Which probably required Google Maps, maybe a guide in order for them to find the hinterlands of Iowa.
It's small little towns of 200 people.
You know what they found the number one issue was was illegal immigration.
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 as just as powerful as 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.
You know what I'm letting let's let's let's start with the audio sound bites from the debate.
Before we actually get to the debate, uh Huckabee, last night's situation room with Wolf Blitzer, uh, got this question.
When you ask this question for the interviewer, the reporter wrote the story.
You said, Don't Mormons believe it, Jesus and the devil are brothers.
Now, as you know, Mormons uh 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 uh to try to uh somehow pick out some point of your faith and make it a uh uh you know an issue.
And I wouldn't.
Uh I've stayed away from talking about Mitt Romney's faith.
And I told him face to face, I said, I don't think you're 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 debate because there's a New York Times magazine piece on Sunday that uh he asks the question and so forth.
Uh anyway, 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 gonna be on the cover of the next issue of Newsweek magazine.
And uh and I uh 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 photo shopped job.
No such picture of Romney.
So I guess they may be actually trying to promote the guy at uh at Newsweek.
Uh then Blitzer follows up with this question.
So, how did Mitt Romney react when you went up to him and you said you apologized uh for that one quote?
Well, he was gracious.
Uh, you know, I I hope he knows it was sincere.
But you know, uh I'm trying to stay away from uh everything I can say.
I'm 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 and Combs 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, uh, Mike Huckabee apologized for that uh smear on our on our faith.
And and uh uh the church also put out a statement and said uh that this kind of thing comes up from time to time uh and that it's a not accurate perception of our faith, and uh and Mike apologized for that.
I of course accepted his apology.
Good.
Good, good, good, good.
So after the intervention here on this program yesterday, we're back to what matters.
Now the drive-by's we have a montage of CNN, MSNBC, uh Washington Post talking about how boring the uh 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, uh there 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 mom up there.
Well, Dawn, she was a school.
Did you see her yet?
I mean, the school mom, frankly, folks, is being kind.
And she ran that thing like she was running a prison camp for crying out loud.
Fastest three hours, and maybe it's already the end of the second hour, one more hour to go.
We'll get to the uh sound bites of the Republican debate yesterday, and we'll see if it was actually as boring as a drive-by media portrayed it to be.
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