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Dec. 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 18, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, during the break here, folks, I've been reading a little more extensively on the latest news that women with short legs may have a higher risk of liver disease.
I wanted to find out what short legs are.
Because it seems to be rather important.
And I found some incredible stuff in this.
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All right, so women with short legs may have a higher risk of liver disease, with both probably caused by diet or other factors early in life.
This is a British research team.
Thirty, six hundred women were studied.
It showed that the shorter a woman's legs were, that the more likely she was to have signs of liver damage.
The findings fit in with other studies linking leg length with diabetes and heart disease, said Abigail Frazier of the University of Bristol.
Adult liver functions affected by early life environmental exposures as reflected in leg length, and this may suggest common childhood influences on liver development and adult risk of diabetes and coronary heart disease.
Now I know in ten years they'll reject this theory like they they do every other medical theory.
It's like we had the news last week.
Do you know, do you realize how many of you are out there?
You go to the grocery store, you go to a restaurant, and you're worried about how many saturated fats are in this dish or saturated fats in that.
Do you know that nobody has ever proven?
Nobody has ever proven a link between saturated fats and clogged arteries and heart disease?
It's just a bunch of people who think there's a link.
And we all end up believing it.
So now there's going to be a th there won't be a panic, but the word will spread that women with short legs who got liver problems, or more prone to them.
And listen, short legs are not defined in the story.
But listen to this assertion.
Leg length can point to how well a person was nourished in early childhood.
So see leg length equaling liver disease, the poor, hardest hit.
In particular, evidence shows that breastfeeding, high energy intake at four years, and childhood affluent socioeconomic position are all associated with longer adult leg length.
So the richer your parents were, uh and and the more you were breastfed uh indicates affluence basically indicates how long your legs are going to be.
Which has to be patently absurd.
It it has to be ridiculous.
The findings held even when Fraser's team took into account smoking, drinking, and other behaviors that can damage a person's liver.
So now the rich get a getaway scot-free again.
No problem with livers because they get longer legs because their parents were rich.
Able to breastfeed them.
The poor once again take it on the chin, or in this case, on the liver.
If you were not with us uh at the beginning of the program, Dingy Harry was on a uh Las Vegas radio station, KXNT with Alan Stock.
Uh the name of the show is the morning source, and he talked a wide-ranging interview with Dingy Harry about a number of things.
Then he asked him this question you and the other 40 Democrat senators that sign that letter, the smear letter, that Rush Limbaugh auctioned off a few months ago.
What why why why didn't you help contribute another two point one million dollars?
As Rush did, Rush doubled the money, he matched the donation.
That's what he wanted to know.
Why you didn't match the funds that Rush put into that particular situation.
It was very clear to me that when you have someone who goes in our uniform and fights in Iran.
We just talked about around fights in Iraq, comes home, and then suddenly says that they're against the war, or however they work into it.
Pause.
Get coaching, yeah.
Don't call them phony soldiers.
I thought that was wrong.
And I think that American people think it's wrong to call phony soldiers.
He tried to doctor up the tape later and say he didn't say it, but of course you can hear his voice saying that, and we we quoted uh basically what not basically we quoted what he said.
But you know, as with uh not everything, but some things there's a silver lining.
Rush Limbaugh, which has a uh large audience, uh, was able to raise some money.
Now, if he again calls one of our troops who fights in Iraq or Afghanistan has come home and is against the war, a phony soldier, I will do it again.
And I think that it is we did the right thing.
I have no regret whatsoever.
He would do it again.
What did he really do?
It wasn't, you know, he lied.
He perpetuated a lie, but what he really did, and the reason why his smear letter generated 2.1 million dollars in a record-setting eBay auction was because it was an abuse of power.
Here was the Senate majority leader, who, by the way, is the most ineffective and incompetent Senate leader, either party I have seen in my adult lifetime.
Nobody is worse.
He can't do anything right.
He can't say anything right.
Neither can Ms. Pelosi in the House.
They just got their clocks cleaned on this omnimous budget bill.
Nothing that they wanted in it of any consequence is in it.
It's it's just every one of their Iraq resolutions down the tubes.
This hit he should be so embarrassed to even show his face in a sane political environment.
This man would still be at home, afraid to come out because of the humiliation he has brought on himself.
But that letter was an abuse of power.
This is a Senate majority leader singling out a private citizen and trying to censor what that private citizen said by lying about what the private citizen said, in this case, I being the private citizen.
Now he's compounding it by saying that I and my broadcast engineer doctored the tape.
We didn't doctor any tape.
All we did, I even forget what it was that way it was a caller that I was responding to, and the caller, after he made the point, was went on and on and on about something else.
And I'm racking my brain all day trying to figure out what the caller was talking about, but it was it was not germane, it wasn't about phony soldiers, it wasn't about it was an old issue.
So in the interests of time, brevity being the soul of wit, we just eliminated that from the uh the sound bite and the the uh the audio track that we put on the website.
We didn't doctor the tape.
Uh doctor the tape means you changed the order in which things were said.
We didn't have to do that.
We were hiding anything.
We later went back and put the whole thing up so people could see that that accusation was bogus, but it didn't stop because the you know the accusation was the point.
But it was absurd because there's no greater support of the U.S. military than I, Il Rushbo, and anybody that's listened for a day of this program knows that.
And so yet here's Dinji Harry saying he'd do it all over again.
So I I this man is so incompetent.
He is he's so ineffective that we need him in the Senate as a Democrat.
And I am really thinking of donating to his reelection efforts.
He's up in 2010, and I'm thinking if sending him the maximum allowed, just to make sure that he stays there.
Rush, you're crazy.
Wouldn't you rather have the seat go to Republican?
Yes, I would.
But you know, Dingy Harry's pretty well deeply rooted out there.
He's been in Nevada for a long time, had some shady land deals out there.
Understand he's very wealthy from these shady land deals.
He hasn't donated a cent to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
He smeared me, he now he's up there accusing me of doctoring the tape and saying he'd smear me again.
We gotta give him a reason.
We gotta something will happen.
We're gonna give him a reason to do it all over again.
Here's the second bite, because Alan Stock says, look, the people he was referring to at the time turned out there were six or nine of them.
They were phony soldiers.
He was referring to those people as being phony, and the truth was they were phony.
Hey, Alan, he's all it's is making something up after the fact.
Anyone can listen to what he said on their radio.
He went out afterwards and tried to dig up some of this.
What he would talk about in the radio was very clear.
People who went and fought on the war in Iraq, came home and opposed the war, were phony soldiers.
I disagree with that statement.
Yeah, you're the guy that impugned him.
You're the guy that secured defeat.
You're the guy trying to demoralize him, you're the guy waving a white flag back in May.
Surge can't work, won't work where the war is already lost.
You're the guy leading the effort trying to take the money up.
You're the guy trying to pull them out so that they have defeat wrapped around their too hilarious.
And speaking of hilarious, we're going to get to the the uh modern day political stuff.
As you know, it's the beginning of the program.
I'm trying to stop this program from being all Clinton all the time.
It's hard not to.
The drive buys are So obsessed with how she's doing that as a daily and her husband won't shut up.
The guys out there, I don't know if you guys heard this.
Bill Clinton said the first thing Hillary would do, he said the first thing she would do after being elected would be send him and Bush's dad around the world to repair the damage that Bush's presidency has caused and make us love to get us in America's open for business again.
Now, two things.
If I'm a feminazi, I gotta get a little bit mad that here's Hillary, she's gonna be the president theoretically.
And her husband's already telling her what the first thing she's gonna do is.
Uh-uh.
Second thing is, do you actually think Bush 41 would sign up for this?
In doing so, tacitly admit that his son's presidency has been a failure as defined by the Clintons.
Uh yeah, well, Bush 41 and I, we've got good buds.
I gave him the bed on that airplane.
We went over to fight the Sadami stuff, and I'll tell you what, he'll do what I won't, cause we have FBI files.
So anyway, Clinton's also out there saying weird stuff.
Here he is this morning CNN live Suzanne Malvo.
Uh and she says to him some of the uh comments you made about Barack Obama.
Uh you said that in 1988 about yourself, said you weren't ready to be president, and you didn't run.
Are you trying to say that Obama isn't ready either?
No, I'm trying to say that I agree with what the DeMore Register said.
Hillary has the best record of positive change making in other people's lives, and I think it's important.
And I think that's why they endorse her.
That's what I was trying to say.
I think I bragged on all of them.
Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, all of them.
I like them.
I think she has the best record of making change in other people's lives in the most different circumstances.
You know why he didn't run in 1988?
They couldn't control the bimbo eruptions.
It took them and I'm not making this up.
It took him till 1992 to be able to control the bimbo eruptions, put the unit in place.
If he had run in 1988, he'd have been he'd that they wouldn't have had the machine in place to deal with all of it.
And I'm not the one asserting this.
This is you can find this uh a number of blogs, drive by media stories today.
Uh this business, oh yeah, I like them all.
I've been talking them all.
Yeah, like Barack selling drugs.
Hillary's campaign guy out there might even be a drug dealer.
Cocaine got Bob Carey out there saying, oh, yeah, he even went to a madrasa.
He's a Muslim.
I think it's a great and they say this is saying great things about Obama.
Much more ahead, a brief time out here, EIB obscene profit break back after this.
And I just love this stuff.
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Now listen to this sound bite.
This is Mrs. Clinton.
She has been programmed to insist that she is the change candidate.
Uh in this bite, this is a 32-second, well, actually 33-second soundbite.
She uses the word change seven times.
But that was yesterday.
Today, the campaign has shifted from change, because I guess of internal polling data, to the fact that she's likable.
But here first, 33 seconds, the word change, seven times.
Everybody talks about change in this election.
People have different ideas about how to bring about change.
Some people believe you can get change by demanding it, and some people believe you can get change by hoping for it.
Well, I believe the way you get change is by working hard for it.
Persistence, perseverance, even some perspiration.
That is how you change lives, you change institutions.
That is what I've done my whole life.
That is what I will do as your president.
Because I intend to give America a new beginning.
Notice the softer uh attempt here at being likable at the same time talking about change.
What does she say here?
Uh how you change lives, change institutions is what I've done my whole life.
If it made them worse, or failed, in which case the nation benefited is in health care.
We had the story earlier about all the horrible uh uh learning and English problems there are in poor schools, poor neighborhoods, Mrs. Clinton been fighting for 35 years for the children, and fighting for change.
Nothing ever gets done and nobody answered What did you change?
And of course, you're not supposed to ask that question because the results don't matter.
It's the intentions that count.
But now, change is out the window.
And it's sort of interesting to me as I watch all this.
The entire Hillary campaign is now unlikability mode.
Not issues.
No ideas.
Just these platitudinous phrases.
I'm going to bring change.
I've been working hard to change things for 35 years.
I haven't been able to change my husband, but cut me some slack.
I've been changing everything else.
I've been trying to.
Change change change.
No.
No issues.
Not ideas.
Not the greatness of America.
Not freedoms, not the future of the country.
No, the Clinton campaign is totally oriented to getting people to think that Hillary is not the cold stone person that we all know she is.
And that is the that is the mode of operandi that the campaign is in today.
And it'll change tomorrow if this is deemed not to be working.
Now, the Washington Times has reports of a Rasmussen poll.
Forty, 40% of Americans say they would vote to keep Senator Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency more than twice the total for their number two anti-pick, which happens to be Rudy.
It's a Fox Five Washington Times Rasmussen report.
64% of Republicans, 42% of third party or independent voters, 17% of Democrats said the candidate they most want to keep from the White House is Mrs. Clinton.
17% of Democrats.
Hillary Clinton's better known than any other presidential candidate on either side.
She has a lot of people who love her and a lot of people who hate her.
So it's Scott Rasmussen, who uh who uh conducted the poll.
Uh Rasmussen said the rest of the field steadily catching up to Mrs. Clinton when voters are asked in other polls whether they support or oppose a particular candidate rather than asked whom they most oppose among all the candidates.
By that measure, each of the candidates is now opposed by at least 30%, and most draw more than 40% opposition.
But when you ask it by name, Hillary runs away with it.
Leads in the anti-vote.
Interesting to see if somebody would.
I mean, that's polarization.
You know, we in talk radio like that kind of number, but presidential candidates do not get elected uh with numbers like that.
Moving on to the audio sound bites.
This is Bob Carey.
I mentioned this a moment ago.
He signed on to Clinton campaign, former senator from Nebraska is on a situation room, John King filling in for Wolf Blitz.
And King says, Let me let me go through what you said specifically in a quote to the Washington Post, and I want to ask you why.
First, let's hear what you said.
You said it's probably not something that appeals to him, but I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim, and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim.
There's a billion people on a planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.
So some would say this is cynical, Senator Kerry, a new Hillary Clinton supporter doing this to try to stir this Muslim stuff up again about Barack.
I'm a little reluctant to go into it because we're supposed to be talking about Senator Clinton.
There is a smear campaign going on, and people uh acting as if he's uh Islamic Manchurian candidate, and I feel it's actually a substantial strength.
He is a Christian, both he and his family are Christians, they've chosen Christianity, but that connection to Indonesia and a billion Muslims on this earth, I think is a real strength and add an awful value in his foreign policy efforts.
Yeah, yada yada.
Say all that, but there's a smear campaign, people are acting as if he's an Islamic Manjurian candidate.
Who, Senator Kerry, is acting like that?
Who's out there saying it except a bunch of wacko freak lunatics on the Democrat side, and maybe some else he just put it in the presidential campaign.
He just put it in the campaign.
So King says, well, you have to know when you're about to say something like that, that somebody's gonna twist it, especially in this age of the internet and blogs.
Did you think about that before you talked about it?
Or is is it Bob Kerry saying this is what I think, and I'm gonna say it?
It's something that I've spoken about before.
So this is not something that just sort of came out of the head birth out there in Iowa.
I thought about it a great deal.
I've I've watched the blogs try to uh say that the that you can't trust him because he spent a little bit of time in a secular madrasa.
I feel quite the opposite.
I think it's a tremendous strength.
Uh uh, whether he's in the United States Senate or whether he's in the White House, I think it's a tremendous asset.
These people, it's like Billy Shaheen resigns for suggesting that Obama might have been a drug dealer.
And then Clinton's guy, what is his name?
Paul, what's his name?
Uh Mark Penn goes on TV that night and brings the stuff back up again in saying how horrible it was.
So here, in two sound bites in less than a minute, we got his a Muslim, his grandmother was a Muslim, he went to a madrasa.
His middle name is Hussein.
And I think, by the way, as a Clinton candidate, he'd be great anywhere.
Yeah.
Happily so making the complex understandable here at the EIB network.
Uh see, President Bush 41 has denied that he has spoken to President Clinton or Mrs. Clinton about this round the world rehab trip for the United States of America's.
I don't know what he's talking about.
I'm very proud of our foreign policy.
Uh I knew he would not gonna renounce his son's own presidency by signing up with the Clintons to go on his round the world tour to supposedly make the world love us again.
Now, will Clinton be held accountable for this?
I mean, this this was all over the CNN uh blogs, it's been all over the uh the drive-by media.
He said, Yeah, the first thing Hillary gonna do is send me and President Bush around the world to do all this good stuff and make the world loved again or love us again, because uh President Bush is so damaged.
He even talked to Bush 41 about it.
Now the drive-by is they gotta go to President Clinton.
What were you talking about?
You know, I got a little bit ahead of myself.
We're good buddies, Bush 41 and I. I should have said I was going to suggest that to him.
And they'll give him a pass on it.
New York Times is accusing Blackwater of shooting their dog in Baghdad.
I kid you not, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards, this time the New York Times' dog.
Staff at the newspaper's Baghdad Bureau said that Blackwater bodyguards shot the dog named Hentish last week before a visit by a U.S. diplomat to the Times compound.
Blackwater spokesman Ann Tyrrell, or Tyrell, maybe, said that the dog had attacked one of Blackwater's bomb sniffer dogs while a security team was sweeping the compound for explosives.
The canine handler made several unsuccessful attempts to get the dog to retreat, including placing himself between the dogs.
When those efforts failed, a canine handler, unfortunately, was forced to use a pistol to protect the company's canine and himself.
So Blackwater guy shot the New York Times dog.
That tragedy of war, ladies and gentlemen, these things happen.
Uh, who's next?
Paul in Pocatella, Idaho.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, this is a real honor rush.
Thank you, sir.
You know, honestly, I don't think it matters as much to me that Hillary hasn't done anything as a leader.
There's just no sweetness.
I'm a guy, and Hillary to me is just unattractive, conniving, and unfeminine.
Her voice, her eyes, and everything about her.
And if I can contrast with that, uh with George Bush for a minute, he's got a very positive nature, and I think that's why the liberals hate him.
You know, Bible prophecies of 9-11, the new book on Amazon, has shown that Iraq uh Bush is a hero in Bible prophecy.
That's an actual Bible prophecy.
And I think that uh he's a religious figure.
I think that's why religion plays a huge factor in the world.
You sound you you you sound like you yourself are a religious figure, that you uh or your devout.
Am I correct?
Absolutely.
Well, wasn't very charitable the things that you just said about Mrs. Clinton.
Said she was a very feminine, she's uh unattractive.
What should that matter, really, when we're talking about the future of the country and issues and all of that?
I mean, I think even if it's a male president, or it doesn't matter.
You've got to have some kind of uh connection to the people you person you elect as president, you gotta feel good about.
But I think you misunderstand Mrs. Clinton.
She's above Having connections with people.
She is that's you she is to be coordinated.
This this this primary campaign has become something it was it was supposed to be a coordination tour.
Now it's turned into a a fight and a battle.
You're right, she doesn't connect with people.
She doesn't have the ability to do that.
That's why they're trying to focus on the likability stuff.
They brought her mother out at TV ed.
You know, Hillary is really a nice person.
That's and your mother has to come out to tell people there must be a lot of people that think the opposite.
Uh and th this is this is uh, you know, it's it's not good, but this guy's proving the point of my brilliant monologue yesterday.
She's just unattractive, she doesn't connect, no likability and so forth.
Appreciate the call, Paul.
Thank you.
This is Phil in Portland, your next.
Appreciate your patience, and hello.
Megatito's brush.
Thank you in Rainy Portland, Oregon.
Uh got a question, uh, more of a comment.
You know, you were talking about the greater generation a minute ago.
And my dad was a part of that generation, passed away when he was about 78, World War II veteran.
And I I can remember going up as a kid.
I'm probably about ten years older than you.
And I can remember what he stressed with me is man, whatever you do, don't go into debt.
You know, just sp buy what you can, pay what you can pay for, uh save your money.
You know, all of these things that uh it's a tough thing teaching our kids nowadays when everybody's got all this credit available and they can spend their money and keep the economy going.
But you know, my dad was a whole different character.
They they grew up in a depression when they couldn't spend money, they had to save as much as they could.
And we used to go to doctors, and we never had a you know anything.
We just paid the doctor when we went, or he'd pay him so much a week, and you know, with a whole different mindset, different mentality.
Uh my dad told me the same thing.
Don't go into debt, don't do it.
It kept drumming this Great Depression into my brother and me, and of course, we after a while got tired of hearing about it because it be it became almost the same thing as hearing, yeah, I had to walk ten miles of the snow with no shoes.
That's how poor we were, and that's how committed.
And you boys, your mom won't even take you got a bush.
You don't know how lucky you are.
And I get so sick and tired of hearing it.
Over and on, I finally said, you know, I I I it wasn't until I matured and grew up that I really understood uh how difficult life in the Great Depression was, but I had to study it because there's no way I could relate to it because I didn't live through it.
And that's what I finally told him.
I said, Look, this is not effective, Dad.
I understand that you're trying to raise me to be the best you can be and I can be, and so forth.
I didn't go through the depression.
Um he said, son, I know you didn't, but there might be one someday, and you've got to know how to handle it.
Once something's happened once, the odds are it's gonna happen again, and it was so horrible they didn't want their kids going through it.
So yeah, he was he was big on the don't go into debt and uh and all kinds of things.
I I just it's different today, but uh you know the the society is structured.
Speak you know, speaking of debt, I am glad you mentioned this.
I've got this story here.
Um get this.
This is in the New York Times today.
Until the boom in subprime mortgages turned into a national nightmare this summer.
The few people who tried to warn federal banking officials might as well have been talking to themselves.
Edward Gramlik, Federal Reserve Governor who died in September, warned nearly seven years ago that a fast-growing new breed of lenders was luring many people into risky mortgages they couldn't afford.
But when Mr. Gramlik privately urged federal examiners to investigate mortgage lenders affiliated with national banks, he was rebuffed by Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman.
Uh so you know they they were warned, the Federal Reserve was warned about the market, the mortgage market mess seven years ago, didn't want to do anything about it.
Now, a caveat.
This story appears in the New York Times.
And the New York Times is the House organ of the Democrat Party.
And the Democrat Party is targeting the lenders in this subprime mortgage debacle because they can't wait for their constituents, the trial lawyers to be able to take aim at them.
Even though the lenders have already gotten soaked, Uh it's not enough.
They're gonna be the fair game of if the Democrats get this legislation passed, they're gonna have a fair game for the uh for the for the plaintiff's bar to be hidden right for them in their back pockets after they've already been emptied.
And of course, we're gonna bail out uh some on both sides of this, quote unquote bailout.
Uh you have to keep the the the the lenders are gonna be the bad guys here, as far as the Democrats in the New York Times are concerned, because it fits the narrative.
Lenders are big, greedy, rich, capitalists on Wall Street, and they have the poor and the middle class and the people that are barely hanging on, they have them at their beck and call, and they can cut them off and ruin their lives, or one paycheck away from being homeless.
And of course, class envy being what it is, the Democrats love to portray the lenders as being in that predatory uh category.
So this is you have to you have to read this in the New York Times with a um a jaundist eye and seek some confirmation of it elsewhere.
What the real the dirty little secret in this is that who created the lenders.
I mean, these lenders just didn't come out of the woodwork and say, you know what?
We want to loan money to people that can't pay it back.
Guess who made them do?
Congress.
Oh, yeah, the American dream, redlining.
Why, there are too many Americans out there being denied their fair and equal opportunity for a loan.
It must be discrimination because capitalism's unfair.
So, guess what?
People that were bad risks, very unlikely to be able to handle an adjustable rate mortgage, were lured in under the notion it was unfair, they were being denied access to the housing market.
And now here's where we are.
And the people who lured them in and created these subprime lenders in part are now acting like spectators.
Members of Congress, innocent bystanders.
Why, look what happened here.
Why, we need hearings, we need meetings, and we need lawsuits.
They are the guys.
Just like after Hurricane Katrina.
These guys acted like they had nothing to do with the levies that didn't get fixed, the aid that didn't get there, members of Congress, the guys who write the laws, acting as spectators, and they're doing the same thing here.
Uh but keep in mind, Congress's approval numbers have reached an all-time low in practically every poll that there is.
Anybody thinks that they have a lock on any result in any election coming up, well, other than these uncontested racism.
If you think you know what's going to happen in the Senate and the House, if you think the Democrats are gonna walk away with it, think they're gonna walk away with the White House.
Don't be so hasty.
Back after this.
From today's Washington Post, having boys as friends can boost a young girl's drinking risk.
That's right.
Having boys as friends can boost young girls' drinking risk.
Uh this is uh for girls especially, having friends of the opposite sex during adolescence can raise the likelihood for alcohol use.
This comes from uh researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, analyzed data on four thousand seven hundred twins in Finland.
They focused on the association between friendship characteristics and alcohol use, and the extent to which genetic and or environmental factors influenced similarity in drinking behaviors among adolescents and their No, not it's all the boys' fault.
It's all the boys, but the boys who make the girls misbehave.
Girls can't, they have no power to resist, have no power to influence, they have no power to say no.
No such bogus, because we all know.
We all know it's women who have the power in civilized relationships, they're the ones that say no.
You know, it's gonna be long before we're gonna see the following headlines.
Having boys as friends can lead girls having premarital sex.
Having boys as friends can lead to failed marriages.
Having boys as friends could lead to eventual death.
Chickification of our culture is not happening.
The audio sound bites.
Mike Huckabee's floating cross ad.
Drive-bys are going bonkers over Huckabee's latest ad in Iowa, New Hampshire.
Are you about worn out of all the television commercials you've been seeing?
Mostly about politics.
I don't blame you.
At this time of Year.
Sometimes it's nice to pull aside from all of that and just remember that what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ and being with our family and our friends.
I hope that you and your family will have a magnificent Christmas season.
And on behalf of all of us, God bless and Merry Christmas.
I'm Mike Huckabee, and I approve this message.
The montage of drive-by journalists and their reaction.
He's just stating the fact.
It's Christ's birth.
And he's doing it in a very low-key way.
And the people who are talking about it is us.
But I think if you're just watching TV ads, that that one is far nicer to look at than all the attack ads.
A stroke of genius.
This is a genius album.
Yeah, yeah.
And then why are they drive-by's like this?
Normally drive-by should start mentioning Christ.
It's bad enough that you say you're a Christian.
You start mentioning Christ, the birth of Christ.
The drive-by's in the liberals run for the hill.
Separation of church and state separate-but in this case, ooh, it's brilliant.
It's brilliant.
Now I know why.
I know why.
They hope Huckabee gets a nomination.
They can't wait.
They just cannot wait.
Then we get him, and then we get rid of all these evangelical stuff once and for all.
Ron Paul.
Fox Fox and Fox and Friends.
This is this morning.
Steve Ducey talking with Ron Paul.
Deucey says, Congressman, I'm interested in what you think about Mike Huckabee's Christmas ad.
Well, I haven't thought about it completely, but you know, it reminds me of what St. Claire uh Lewis once said.
He says when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.
And I don't know whether that's a fair assessment or not, but you wonder about using a cross like he is the only Christian or implying that subtly.
So uh I don't think I would ever use anything like that.
So Huckabee is a fascist.
Uh what do you mean thanks?
Why didn't you want me to play that?
Well doesn't matter.
The show's over.
You have to worry about the Ron Paul calls.
Snurley, you you snurdley, you gotta understand something.
I know I'm not down there, and I know it's a Christmas season.
But how this show affects your calls is not how I'm gonna do it.
I am not going to avoid talking about Ron Paul just so you don't have to deal with Ron Paul callers.
I still run this show.
What is it about this day?
This has been one of the strangest oddball days.
All right, back to the phones.
We go to Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
This is Steve.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Rush, regarding Harry Reid.
As always, you're being far too nice.
Harry Reid is way beyond incompetence.
He is flatly a bald-faced liar.
Here we have a U.S. senator that's supposed to stand up for truth, justice, and the American way.
He's had months to get this story right, to get the truth right, and he's chosen not to.
The American people ought to hold their leaders accountable.
And make and get this guy on your show so that he can humble himself and bow at the altar of truth.
It's still possible for Senator Harry Reed to become redeemed, but I think he's gonna need a lot more nudging and help from the American people.
I I think he is too deep.
He's just it's just like he will not come around on the fact that we're winning in Iraq, that the surge is working.
He's still maintaining it's not a big deal, it ain't gonna change anything.
Yeah, these people, he is he's he's right now more frightened of moveon.org and the anti-war left uh than he is of the American people.
He's frightened from truth.
That's what he's frightened about.
And the American people ought to not stand for it.
Well, it's that's true, he's threatened by truth.
All the truth the biggest inconvenience that Democrats, many of them in Washington have these days is the truth.
Uh and they they are having a tough time dealing with keep standing for truth, Russ.
Merry Christmas.
Well, thank you, Steve.
It's it's sort of a habit with me.
I have to try not to want the truth.
I think most people have now I don't mean people with psychological disorders, but you you when you want to know what's going on, you want to know what's going on.
You want the truth.
Some people will be happy with they don't want to hear bad news, and so that but in most cases, you know, I well, I just speak for myself.
But I have to.
It re it requires a conscious effort in this program to say something that isn't true.
So I don't do it.
It would require a conscious effort to uh other of course, now there's exceptions, parody and satire, but the truth is always there.
Um meant to be figured out by the uh clever and ingenious presentation of the parody and satire, uh, which also well all humor requires element of truth anyway to be funny.
Have a great day, folks.
Open line Friday's coming up, the end of the week, tomorrow's Wednesday.
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