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Dec. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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You gotta be kidding me.
By the way, where's a program archivist?
The program archivist is back from vacation.
I saw him in here earlier, but where is he in there?
Well there the program archivist now arrives.
All right.
Yes.
Welcome back.
Welcome back from a nice vacation at home with the kids.
Once again, 800-282-2882 is the number.
You gotta be kidding me.
Vladimir Putin, the man of the Time Magazine's man of the year.
Do you understand how irritated Gore has to be over this?
Well, I've I thought I should be uh in the running.
You know, they called me.
The Time magazine called me.
What well they sent me an email, as you know, because you forwarded it to me some weeks ago, wanting uh my suggestion.
And I said, hell with this.
If they're asking me for my suggestion, it means that they're not considering me.
So I blew them off.
I didn't I didn't even reply to it.
Vladimir Putin, come on.
I guess I guess old habits never die.
The drive-by media remains fascinated with communism.
And they remain fascinated with the KGB.
And they remain fascinated with the old the old concept of the um of the Soviet Union.
This is not going to amuse Cheryl Kroll.
Uh a bride uh getting married in toilet paper, two-ply, extra soft toilet paper.
Lovebirds Jennifer Cannon and Doy Nichols of Lexington, Kentucky, plan to get hitched Wednesday in a public restroom.
She will be wearing a gown fashioned from glue, tape, and Charmin ultra soft and ultra-strong toilet tissue.
Bad news for the guy because we all know you're never supposed to squeeze the Charmin.
But the great thing about this wedding is since it's all happening in toilet paper, the wedding and the marriage will be easy to flush once it comes time.
Santa Claus says that a woman who sat on his lap was naughty.
Did you hear about this?
Some guy some said the security officer at the mall said that Santa Claus had been sexually assaulted.
Uh Sandrama Lamy, 33 of Danbury, Connecticut, was charged with sexual assault.
Uh Santa's had an icle in your pocket.
Uh and breach of peace.
She was released on uh on a promise to appear in court on uh January 3rd.
Ho ho ho.
Oh ho.
Um, folks, it just will not await.
Wait a minute.
Putin.
Get this.
We were talking about marriages a moment ago and how easy a marriage that's well, I don't know, consummate it, takes place in toilet paper, easy to flush.
Get this from Washington Township, Michigan.
It's about 25 miles north of Detroit.
A woman who was angry because her husband wanted her to turn up the heat in the house.
Oh, by the way, speaking of heat, you know that we're into the second week now of people in Oklahoma, thousands of homes still without power because of that ice storm way back.
And I put out a call yesterday, and snerdily claims that nobody took me up.
I wanted to hear from some environmentalist wackos in Oklahoma who are without power telling us how wonderful life is now and how it would be when you get rid of all a coal-fired power plant.
Yeah, I mean, this is what they're after.
So I just I want to hear how wonderfully rosy and charming life is in Oklahoma in these areas from an environmentalist, but we haven't heard from any of those.
Well, lines remain open for that.
Uh 800-282-2882.
Anyway, woman was angry because her husband.
Did I sound like I have a cold today?
I don't Yeah, it's now I was up late last night.
I mean, it it was yo.
Yeah, went fashionable Fifth Avenue cocktail party last night from six to eight.
Eight.
Eight.
Was barely getting started.
Anyway, not a whole lot of that.
You know, I've been burning a candle of both ends up here.
I can't handle it up here any longer, three or four days at a time.
It's this city that never sleeps.
You can't do anything in a city anymore, but still, it's the thanks to the nanny mayor.
Oh, where was I?
Oh, yes.
Uh, upper Washington Township, Michigan.
Woman who was angry because her husband wanted her to turn up the heat, pulled out a gun, and shot their flat screen TV while the husband cowered behind a pillow.
My wife's got a 65-year-old guy called 911.
His name is Joseph Gruz.
My wife's got a gun.
She's shooting at me, told the operator that Cheryl Gruz, 61 was mad because he wanted the heat turned up.
She fired around while he hit his head in a pillow, striking the plasma TV, and then went upstairs.
See the guy's on the phone of 911.
He says, Yeah, she's all excited about it because she's so cheap.
His wife had picked up another extension, was listening while he called 911.
Wife tells the operator, I want a I want you to hear my side.
I'm not gonna hurt him.
He's pushed me over the edge.
That was all.
He's had a stroke, and he's taking it all out on me.
The husband says, No, I'm not.
Yes, he is.
The wife tells the dispatcher.
Uh Cheryl Gruz was arraigned Monday in Romeo District Court on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm.
Perhaps 10 years in prison.
She also faces a felony firearms charge, freed on $50,000 bond until uh preliminary examination on January 15th.
She was also told by the judge to get into a domestic violence program.
In Rome, you can no longer name a baby Friday.
Uh Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their child Friday after the character in uh Robinson Crusoe.
They thought that it recalled the uh figure of a savage, thus creating a sense of inferiority and failing to guarantee the boy the necessary decorum, said the couple's lawyer.
A couple considering appealing the decision.
The judge court went ahead and named the kid, Gregorio, uh, after the saint on who on uh the day he was born.
Can't name a kid Friday, according to the judge.
Uh Energy Bill.
What a disaster.
What what what it's just an absolute disaster.
I cannot.
Energy bill boosts fuel economy standards, 100 watt light bulbs to vanish, and you're gonna get stickers on your car saying how many how much your carbon footprint, what your emissions are, in addition to the sticker over the price, you're gonna sticker telling you how much your car's gonna pollute, all the warning stickers and all the sun visors that think you think you're an idiot.
Uh Jane Harmon, Democrat uh California said, in this bill, we banned by 2012 the famously inefficient 100 watt incandescent bulb.
The question remains now, this this energy bill creates no new energy.
In fact, it stands in the way of the creation of energy.
The question ought to be how many miles will your next car get per new light bulb?
I mean, I haven't seen the bill myself.
I've just seen, I don't, I doubt members of Congress have either.
They just signed the damn thing.
But does the bill title energy bill end with a period or a question mark is my point.
Uh because it could just as easily be called what energy uh bill.
Uh petroleum, nothing in it.
Nuclear, nothing in it, and war, nothing in it.
Uh big brag here in the bill, a big talking point is that uh the cafe standards, the fuel, the mileage standards, the cars uh increase from 25 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon in 13 years.
Uh I uh remember my trip to Detroit talking to some executives up there, and they were I asked them, are you gonna build that big 16-cylinder Cadillac that you were thinking about?
So, nah, we can't have why so why not?
Fuel standards, the government for crying out, oh yeah, the public's all worried about global warming, and they're the customers, so we got to give them what they want.
35 miles per gallon.
Uh 20, 12, 2.
That's that's that that is going to make me mad.
I am not gonna drive a car that gets 35 miles per gallon.
I'm just not gonna do it.
I'm gonna I'm gonna find a way to buy a car that gets eight or ten, like I get now.
Um, because I'm not gonna drive around in some little podunk lawnmower with a couple seats on it.
And think I'm cruising around.
Uh they don't say how many years will it take to replace all the existing less efficient cars.
Uh we have 250 million odd cars on the road.
I don't know how many we sell every year, 10, 15 million, I'm not uh guessing.
But at that rate, you can forget the 2020 to 13 year illusion.
It could take 20 or 30 years to get all those cars off the road, especially if people end up liking them versus the junk that's going to come out 35 miles per gallon.
Uh it's just it's it is maddening.
It is bowing to a bunch of stuff.
I'm looking, I'm all for fuel efficiency and that kind of thing.
But none of the nothing in this energy bill was oriented toward growth and finding and producing more energy.
It's all about conservation, which is not even half the story.
It's important, of course, but you can't grow an economy simply on conservation.
The comment, uh the brilliant monologue that I uh gave on uh Monday on this program regarding Mrs. Clinton and the uh society in which we live's perfection addiction will not go away.
The story will not go away.
WCBS TV went out on the street.
They ran a news story like I used to be covered in 1988 or 89.
They actually used video of me from 1980, 88, 89.
Uh it's it's the it's exactly the way I got covered when I first started the show.
It is just funny as hell, and we're gonna listen to it uh when we come back from this break.
The story just will not die.
You are listening to a brand new episode of the Rush Limbaugh program.
Uh every episode is brand new here, other than when we are on vacation, of course.
Uh there are no writers and there is no writer's strike here.
Yes, a little George Winston in the Christmas bump rotation.
This is from the CD December.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, talent on lawn from God.
I'm sure you've heard about the uh the little fire that took place in the executive office building, the OEO over across the street from the West Wing of the White House.
Uh the ceremonial office of the vice president, uh, which I, of course, a powerful influential member of the media have seen on several occasions, had some water damage uh and some smoke damage.
The drive-bys, some in the drive-bys actually think that Cheney might have started the fire to destroy more CIA tapes or other sensitive documents.
From MSNBC this morning, the anchorette infobabe Contessa Brewer talking to reporter at Kelly O'Donnell.
And uh Brewer said, Look, how much paperwork, how many files, important documents might have been in that building?
We're talking about top secret, highly classified documents that are in those offices.
What's important about this is that under the Presidential Records Act, all paperwork that emanates from the office of the president or vice president, and it's known as the executive office of the president.
All of that must be preserved for legal reasons.
Now, when any company has a fire, much less the White House, there's always a problem about preserving documents.
What's lost?
Can records be recreated?
It will be an issue for them to explore.
No, it will be an issue for you to explore.
Uh because the suspicion.
Just see Cheney in there with a book of matches.
You know, fireplace.
He's reading documents.
Yeah, let's just and make it look like there was a fire.
No, it's yeah, I since I can just understand these guys, they just it's the way they think.
Look, before I get the three stories just came in.
The show prep here never stops.
Headline, hot bugs get more sex.
Being hot can lead to more sex, especially if you're a male ambush bug.
This is from Livescience.com.
Global warming, obviously great news for bugs.
Get this next study.
Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax according to new research.
Just like humans, isn't that why humans do it?
Women do it.
Yeah, just shout, and it's a, you know, come on.
Come on.
Uh yeah, well, I don't know.
Who are who what do you say, Snurdle?
Are they faking it?
A typical, a typical question from a typical sexist and misogynist, Mr. Snertley, of the female monkeys faking it.
You know, I'm not even gonna read the rest of the story to find out if they researched that.
I can't believe they're researching this in the first place.
Uh and and I don't understand this.
From Reuters, scientists trace the roots of feeling cold.
Uh nerves that sense the icy slap of an Arctic wind or just a cool breeze take their orders from a single protein.
Uh researchers said on Monday shedding new light on how we experience cold.
Why nobody's gonna be cold in a few years?
Global warming.
Why why waste money on this study?
Well, it's stupid study anyway.
How we feel cold.
What are we gonna change it?
So nobody feels cold so you can die without knowing you're dying.
I guess so these Arctic explorers who had a turn back from their global warming tour because the temperatures were a hundred below zero, and they got frostbite after like thirty seconds out there.
If you turn off the cold sensor in the brain, they could keep going.
While looking for global warming at a hundred degrees below zero.
All right, to the audio sound bites.
The story that just will not die.
I knew it wouldn't.
I can play the drive-by's like a violin.
I know I know what they're gonna hook on, and they did in this case.
CBS News in New York, WCBS Channel 2.
This is old school drive-by media treatment.
Take my comments out of context, play them for people on the street, go interview the obligatory feminazi, and in case this case a local president of the Nags, the National Association of Gals, roll video of night from 1988 of me.
Uh and the end of the story then pops up.
This is how the media operated, folks, um, before their monopoly was broken.
Here is a portion of the report by Scott Rappaport.
Is that the guy that called you?
Scott Rapp.
Well, okay.
We we we told him where to go and what to find to get the truth, right?
You told him, we took him right to the website, gave him secret passwords.
But what what he was, but his editor wasn't, because remember the editor said, Look at what Limbaugh said.
Go do something with this.
And the and a reporter called him, well, I want to find out what this is all about.
So we directed him where to go to find out what it's all about.
I'll bet you he wanted to do a different story than what they made him do.
I'll I'll just I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt based on his original phone call to you.
Rush to judgment?
Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
That's Rush Limbaugh yesterday, exploring the electability of one Hillary Clinton for president based on her looks and age.
That's just so wrong in every possible way.
He's an idiot.
So what do you expect?
Oh, that's preposterous.
Seems it was this photo of the 60-year-old Hillary that led to Limbaugh's questionable Clinton query.
This, despite the fact that some of Mrs. Clinton's opponents aren't exactly spring chickens themselves.
Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished.
Is this a joke?
Come on.
Is he type of comment that really make women mad?
Sonia Osorio is president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women.
It can serve only to really really annoy people.
Anyone, even if they know it's Russian and Ball.
Just say such ridiculous thing.
Limbaugh says his Clinton comments are less about Hillary and more about an American culture where looks matter.
Like it or not.
Well, I hope he's not right.
And for Rush, well, let's just say there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Scott Rappaport, CBSQ News.
This is this is a I haven't heard a Ron radio TV reporter in a long time.
Did you catch that guy's voice?
See if I can uh rush to judgment.
Seems it was this photo of the 60-year-old Hillary that led to Limbaugh's questionable cricket query.
Then uh yesterday on the Fox News channel, uh Martha McCallum, the live desk, had this exchange with David Korn, the Uber Lib, who I guess is, I guess he fled the nation magazine is now at Mother Jones.
It was a very unflattering photo, a recent picture of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.
So Rush Limbaugh on his radio show asked this question.
Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
And that woman, by the way, is not going to want to look like she's getting older because it will impact poll numbers.
It will impact perceptions.
And he acknowledged he's probably going to get a lot of heat for that statement when he said it, but let's go to David Korn.
David, fair picture or unfair assessment of how people perceive a woman president aging over the course of the job.
Listen, Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.
I don't know if he answered the question.
The question was it was a fair or unfair, didn't want to address it.
Maureen Dowd addressed it in the New York Times today.
And the gals on the View yesterday, they knew what I was talking about, and they they discussed it seriously and civilly, and Maureen Dowd doesn't dispute what I said and actually backs it up and confirms it.
Uh I'm shocked.
People don't want the truth.
See, that's the everything that I have said.
It was sympathetic.
Everybody knows that here that heard what I said in that monologue about our culture's addiction to perfection and how it started and where it's where it's sustained.
Movies and television and so forth.
Everybody knows that it's the truth.
It's some people don't want to hear the truth.
Here go, we get political correctness.
You hear these people in the CBS clip.
Well, Limbaugh said, oh, he's an idiot.
I wish this were Scott Rappaport.
You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt a moment ago.
I got an idea for you.
It's going to be a fun thing to do.
And give you a new story.
I want you to grab your camera crew and I want you to go back out on the streets of the city.
And I want you to run up to people and get a play a tape of them.
I'm going to say it here right now.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's going to tell you this one time.
The sky is blue.
When there are no clouds and it's daytime, the sky is blue.
Okay, go ahead and play that for people and get their reaction.
I've just uttered another truth.
See if people go, well, this limbaugh.
So what?
He's an idiot.
I would love Mr. Rappaport for you to get the reaction of New Yorkers on the street to a simple truth.
And find out how controversial the sky being blue can be made because I'm the one saying it.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, but it's a jerk still.
He's still a jerk.
What does he mean by this?
What is he even talking about it for?
What's that to do with anything?
Again, here all Mr. Rapaport, you got a gold mine here.
Um if you if you just if you go do this.
Now, Maureen Dowd, as I, as I mentioned, the girls in a view yesterday, they they treated it uh intelligently.
Uh they did it with a civil fashion, and Maureen Dowd.
Let me give you some excerpts from Maureen Dowd's column.
Yes, it's true that looks matter in politics.
It's also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in this country.
Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, John Edwards almost always look good and pretty much the same.
Dark suits are casual wear.
Uh Fred Thompson always looks um crepuscular and droopy.
Often Hillary looks great, and sometimes she looks tired, heavier, or puffier.
Since this is the first time we've had a woman who was serious contender for president, it's uh it's been an adjustment to watch her more changeable looks and to see the lengths that she goes to get the right lighting and to make the right wardrobe choices.
Her campaigns devising strategies to humanize her, make her seem more warm and material.
The public still has no idea what part of her is stage managed and focused grouped and what part is legit.
It's pretty pathetic at this stage of her career that she has to wage a major offensive by helicopter and web testimonials to make herself appear warm-blooded.
Now, Maureen Dowd just hit Hillary harder than I did in that monologue.
While accepting and agreeing with the premise, but elsewhere in the drive-by media, over in the sandbox, over in the playground at PMS NBC, Dan Abrams, desperate for publicity, desperate to get noticed.
Dan Abrams' middle name is Notice Me.
And I'm helping, well, I'm helping because they need help over there.
I'm I'm doing all I can to help Abrams.
Uh he tries to imitate me.
I haven't heard it yet.
He tries to imitate me in uh this with a montage of him promoting his upcoming segment last night on me.
The far right now finding a new way to attack Hillary Clinton, questioning whether she's too old to get elected.
As Rush Limbaugh put it, will the country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
Coming up next, right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has found a new reason to go after Hillary Clinton.
Coming up, Rush Limbaugh goes after Hillary Clinton, asking if this country will actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.
Okay, so when he got around to doing this segment, uh they had Tony blankly on and uh Stephanie Miller.
Uh and Abrams says, Did did aging in office hurt Hillary's husband Bill?
Dan, did you read what I said?
Dan, you got to be careful.
When you want me to notice you, I'm gonna notice you.
And when you're an idiot, I'm gonna mention it.
And you're an idiot.
I pointed out that men, society looks at aging men and they get more distinguished.
Some say they get more handsome, uh more authoritative, and so forth.
I said it's unfair.
It's the way it works.
It's sadly not that way when women age.
Sadly, read it, it's in there, Dan.
Anyway.
Uh, did aging in office hurt uh Hillary's uh husband Bill, he was 54 when he left office.
Reagan, ripe old 77.
What about Margaret Thatcher?
You know, look, I don't quite get what the allegation is.
Joining me again, Stephanie Miller, Tony blankly.
Tony, what do you make of this?
I mean, is this the right non-attack attack on Hillary?
Look, it may not be fair, but it's true that in politics in TV broadcasting in any public figure, people pay attention to your appearances.
One of the things we were all talking about was, well, Gore won't be running for president unless he we see that he's losing weight.
Americans usually elect a taller man president.
The hair dye and the facelift are the staples of people who are on television, men and women alike.
So the fact is that we do pay attention.
I think that it's unfortunately the case that whether you're a man or a woman and you're running for president, you need to look as good as you can look.
Absolutely.
It's a television age.
But Abrams, as it is often the case in a sandbox, didn't listen to his own guest's answer, turned to Stephanie Miller, who is a babe on some days.
She knows what I mean.
Uh, says, Stephanie, this seems to be a back door way to attack Hillary.
Is it?
Please, this is so sexist.
Fred Thompson, I enjoyed his work as Gollum on Lord of the Rings.
Give me a break.
I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we're going to judge our presidential candidates by?
Uh I'm not advocating it, Stephanie.
You know, you people, it is amazing how the truth is just out there or what somebody's actually said, and you have your little knee-jerk reactions.
I am not asking the American people look at Mrs. Clinton that way.
I'm just suggesting or asking if they will, because you know, I this remember the story we had some months ago now, and it was one of these little funny lighthearted things that's I at first, but then I thought about it, and it's not.
You know what the biggest fear among women who age is is becoming bag women.
You know, 55-60 with with with no relationship and no job.
Uh, and it they worry about it.
Uh look at the dirty little secret is the women listening to me know that this is a very factual assessment of our culture today, and it is very unfair and it hurts.
And it bothers them greatly.
Now, one thing to argue against Hillary being harmed by this is that when you Hollywood and television, look at the primary demographic there.
Um, Hollywood movies, most of them are made for uh guys that still have acne, uh, just reached puberty, you know, uh under 24.
And they don't vote.
So it might not be a big deal.
Uh television a little bit different, but still they aim for the lowest uh common denominator in terms of age demographics they can't.
So it may not be that big a factor.
I was just asking the question based on that uh on that picture that was up.
Do we have any more on this?
Let me turn the page here.
Uh pages are sticking the paper in this printer right away, really low grade, sticks together, not like at all it is in Florida.
Oh, yeah, uh, we'll see.
Um, it's not even worth it.
They just talk about Golden Mayor and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point.
I was talking about American culture, ladies and gentlemen.
As I pointed out yesterday, if if if Margaret Thatcher or Goldamay here, by the way, Gold of Mayere, that was 1950s and 60s.
Different culture altogether then.
And by the way, she didn't care, and Margaret Thatcher didn't care.
It wasn't what it was about for them.
You wouldn't, if if Margaret Thatcher were running for president today as she was when she was the Iron Lady, we wouldn't have her mom doing television commercials telling us how wonderfully she was when she was a kid and how nice she is.
And we wouldn't have focus groups, and we wouldn't have one day focusing on change and the next day focusing on like ability.
If Margaret Thatcher were campaigning, we would be uh treated to a a uh a smorgasboard of great ideas, uh proposals for the future of the country.
It would be nobody would even be thinking about the the reason that this is even a subject because Mrs. Clinton has made it one.
She's the one focusing on her appearance, her personality, and all these sorts of things.
If she's gonna do that, I, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to ask the question.
This National Inquirer story, John Edwards Love Child.
I've been having trouble with this.
I'm not sure.
I I'm not sure I buy this.
But I think understand why the story hit last night from NBC in an insider advantage poll in Iowa, John Edwards leads among 977 likely voters.
30 26-24 over Clinton and Obama.
He's also the clear second choice winner, 42-29-28 over Clinton and Obama.
It's the first poll to show Edwards solely in lead in Iowa since July.
BAMO.
National Inquirer story hits last night.
Edwards has love child.
Now less than three weeks until an important election.
And we have another liberal dirty trick.
We've had Obama selling drugs.
We've had uh Obama going to Madrasas, and uh Muslim parents, or mother and grandparent.
So now we got another liberal dirty trick.
Edwards has begat a love child.
Now this obviously didn't come from the Republicans.
Republicans got their own problems to worry about before messing around with the Democrat campaign.
Well, I've been trying to think who who leaked, who planted, who dropped this story right before a neck and neck primary.
So let's go through the list of possibilities.
To be Obama.
Well, we're told he's not that kind of guy, that he eschews the politics of old and these dirty tricks and opposition research, and he wants to run a new campaign, a higher level campaign above all of this.
Bill Richardson?
Would Richardson drop this kind of bomb?
Don't think so, because he's actually running for VEP.
He's not running for president.
Uh Chris Dodd, Chris Dodd would do this.
Chris Dodd wouldn't hit double figures in the polls if two of the big three dropped out.
And he knows it.
Kucinich.
Uh this doesn't strike me as something that Kucinich would do.
How about Biden?
Would Biden do this?
Joe Biden?
Maybe maybe Biden's campaign leaked it.
Uh that's I mean, wouldn't he like to move up into Cawckeye?
He's got more experience in the three of them, and this could be his last chance.
The thing about Biden, though, he wouldn't do this until somebody else did it first.
Because he copies the So I doubt it that it's Biden.
If it's not Obama, and if it isn't Richardson, if it's not Dodd, and it's not Biden, and it's not Kucinich, who could have been who would who would plant who would plant this kind of a story, this ugly story right before the election?
Beats me.
I cannot pick Manheim's steamroller in the Christmas bump rotation.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays to everybody from uh all of us here at the EIB network.
Seriously thinking about this uh this Edwards uh love child uh maybe built that big house down there in North Carolina with the extra wing because of the extra family.
Who knows?
I don't even know.
It just something about it, folks, doesn't ring right to me.
I I can't.
It's just uh just a gut feeling and instinct.
But the thing I don't know, who does it help?
I mean, if where are Edwards voters gonna go if they abandon Edwards?
I haven't seen any polling data on that.
I I've seen that Edwards is everybody's favorite number two, and he's now tied in one poll he's ahead in Iowa.
But if something happens to Edwards like this, or he pulls out of what I don't know where his vote's gonna go.
Um so I I would guess my my my my instinct would be that his votes would go more to Obama than Hillary.
But that too is just a guess.
I uh I'm sure some polling uh people have the polling date on this.
I haven't I haven't seen it.
Also, everybody thinks that this is a typical Clinton Inc.
uh type of uh event, and it is, but how does a story about infidelity help Hillary Clinton?
Uh if if it's gonna disqualify Edwards is gonna give him problems getting a love child out there.
Uh why why would the Clintons want to revive that unless it's sabotage from inside the campaign?
It could be any number of things uh to explain this, and all we can really do is speculate on it.
To the phones we start in Spokane, and this is Janet.
Great that you uh waited, and welcome to the EIB network.
Merry Christmas, Russ.
Hey, same to you.
Thank you.
I live in the state of Washington, and our governor is a female, Christine Gregwyer.
And she wasn't particularly pretty when she started office, but I have watched her age, and I have the same perception you do.
It's not pretty.
And you think that, you know, maybe your handlers would pick up on it and try and help her.
Uh let me ask you a serious question about this.
You're a woman.
Uh does does this does the whole concept of aging and appearance bother you?
I know you're not in politics.
But I mean, it's it it's uh here you are.
You're you're you're you're basically agreeing with my assessment about your governor out there, uh, and it's not pleasant to watch.
But you're saying this is a woman.
Do you feel queasy saying something like that?
No.
Wow, brevity is the soul of wit.
No, I I don't.
I think, you know, I especially if you're in the spotlight like that.
I think I it doesn't look like she takes any great pains to to boost her looks at all, and she didn't start out particularly, you know, anything.
Well, exciting.
That's that's that's her actually, you know something?
There's something to be said for that.
Now, I can understand people wanting to look their best and you know, taking basic steps to do it.
But I kind of admire people who are comfortable enough in their own skin to be who they are.
Don't have to go out and get hair plugs, don't have to go out and wear toupees, uh, don't have to go out and do all these other they're just they're happy with who they are.
And there's something to be said for that.
Because it's um it's one thing to be genuine on the inside and genuine on the outside, but you start monkeying around with your outside, what does it say is inside you as well?
You need to doctor that.
But yet the pressure exists.
Um don't forget, folks, this is another truth, and it uh it this one established me as one of the nation's great thinkers, but it also uh has created decades of fire storms, and that is undeniable truth of life number 24, and that is that feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society.
And I'm sure in politics, you would have to acknowledge that it's worked.
Uh without I'll just say one thing.
This is here comes another truth.
I can just tell.
I'm I have empathy.
I know some of you are uncomfortable with all of this, but truth is the truth.
Remember when Jennifer Granholm was elected governor of Michigan.
Remember how everybody went, wow, she's so pretty.
She's so pretty.
Blonde, wow, even wow, she's so too bad she can't run for president because she's not born in America.
But now notwithstanding your own personal assessment of Mrs. Granholm's appearance, the fact that people noticed it tells you what.
You know, it it just goes to show that you have to be where the employees are, or you just lose control.
Folks, you wouldn't believe the call that Snerdley has put up there.
They actually wants me to address.
Somebody wants my thoughts on Brittany Spears' 16-year-old sister getting pregnant.
Now, America couldn't care less about that, nor my opinion of it.
I'm not in touch.
I couldn't care less about it.
They got pregnant.
We all know what they did.
End of story.
Well, it's not the end of the hour yet.
See, I goofed up on the time again, Cerly.
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