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January 1, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I know.
Isn't it great?
I have learned how to play these people in the drive-by media like a Stradivarius violin, ladies and gentlemen.
I just, it's one of the greatest achievements of my stellar broadcast career.
Greetings.
Welcome.
Great to have you back as we proceed for three more hours of broadcast excellence here from Hayatop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program where we meet and surpass all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And a brand new email address as of last week, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
We're loaded again today.
Unbelievable December news cycle.
And as usual, I am part of it.
What was that, Mr. Snerdley?
I'm not in trouble at all.
It's actually a note.
I am not in trouble.
I am not in trouble at all.
No, no, you're missing the point.
He's talking, Hillary, the whole thing I did yesterday about aging in politics and America's cultural evolution toward being addicted to physical perfection and so forth.
That story even got picked up in Australia.
But before we get into all of that, oh, yeah, it was a lead item on the CBS early show, their news show today.
Les Moonves' wife, who's a hostette on that show, it was talked about on The View.
We're waiting on audio for that.
It was also discussed on MSNBC and CBS Local here in New York.
And it's going to be surviving throughout the day.
I knew when I got home last night and I fired up the computer, started to do some show prep for today, and I see Drudge has linked to my website with a comment that, oh boy, this is going to spread it all over the world, which it has.
Welcome, welcome, Mr. Creeley.
It's nice to have you coming to watch the program.
This next, the first story, though, before we get to any of that, listen to this.
It's a story about how baby names reveal cultural trends.
And it is by Meredith Carroll, who writes for the Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado.
BabyCenter.com released its annual top baby names list on Thursday.
This is actually from what is the date today?
I don't even remember.
What's the date today?
17th?
18th.
So it says three days ago.
We're just now hearing about it.
It takes the Aspen Times a while to get out of Aspen.
There are a few surprises among the most popular names with mainstays like Jacob, Noah, Madison, and Emily maintaining spots in the top 10.
Sophia landed at number one on the girls list, which is up six spots from last year.
Olivia moved down two spots to number 10, perhaps because the legions of well-meaning parents are finally realizing the popular children's book character, after which they were naming their daughter, is actually a pig, although a precious one, thereby setting themselves up for years of psychotherapy bills and eating disorder evaluations.
Olivia's plummeting.
What pig was named Olivia?
Not having children, I am unaware.
But here, the next paragraph is the nut of this story.
The name Reagan made its debut on the girls list at number 80.
56-year-old Rush Limbaugh said to be considering becoming a first-time father in order to move the name Rush up even more on next year's list just in time for the presidential election.
Now, I read this.
What is it that they know that I don't know?
Who would be telling them this?
Anybody who knows me and anybody who's listened to me regularly knows that this is not something on my mind, in my mind, around my mind, or anywhere else.
Never mention it.
I've never done it.
This is the first time I've done a baby name story I can recall.
I've never said, by the way, I want more kids named after me.
I mean, I'm honored when people name their dogs after me.
You know, they name their dog Mr. Limbaugh.
They take the dog to be careful.
Don't say Mr. Limbaugh has rabies.
Mr. Limbaugh needs to be neutered.
Don't say that's an event.
But Rush Limbaugh said to be considering becoming a first-time father.
Who is saying that I'm doing this?
I just want you all to know it isn't true.
There's not a, there's, it's.
Uh no, it wouldn't be.
The North Carolina Mistress put this, no no, no.
I'm just telling you that there's.
There's no truth to this.
Uh, if you see it, how about?
You're driving around, you're driving out in?
No, it's not, I'm not, I'm not.
I am denying it snurdly because there's nothing about it.
That's true.
Considering becoming a first-time father, just the name Rush will move up the favorite baby name list in time for the presidential election.
What is the reason?
And if that's not the reason, what's the reason?
There is no reason.
Don't tell me that you're buying this.
Yeah, you had said drive-by media, it's the Aspen Times, for crying out.
I've only been to Aspen one time and I didn't meet this babe that wrote this.
All right, you're driving around California, you're minding your own business, little town outside Sacramento called Rancho Cordova.
You're minding your own business by the and you're not violating any traffic laws and all of a sudden you see the bubblegum lights in your rearview mirror and a law enforcement Smokey bear is coming up to you.
This could happen to you in Rancho Cordova.
Police are stopping law-abiding motorists and rewarding their good driving with five dollar Starbucks gift cards, while San Francisco wants a tax or ban caffeine in Rancho Court.
Can you imagine this is probably it's a nice gesture, but can you imagine that maybe you you're driving, you're doing nothing wrong?
You see the bubblegum lights in the rearview mirror.
You think, oh my god what, what's wrong?
What did I do?
And the cop gets out of car, gives you a gift certificate to go get a cup of coffee.
Uh, traffic officer came up with the idea to promote the holiday spirit and enhance goodwill between the traffic unit and the motoring public, said sergeant Tim Curran.
Local businesses donated money to buy the gift cards Americans.
Approval of Congress has sunk to a new low and there's a reason.
There are countless reasons for this, among them Harry Reed who, by the way, we come back from the break.
Harry Reed on Las Vegas radio this morning, continuing to lie and distort the whole phony soldier thing.
It is amazing.
We have two sound bites.
You have to hear them.
He is perhaps the most ineffective and incompetent Senate Democrat leader of my lifetime.
So bad and so, So incompetent, we need him to stay in the Senate.
And I'm thinking of actually donating to his campaign in 2010.
I really am.
I'm thinking of sending him a donation to see if he'll accept it.
Of course he would.
Absolutely.
Anyway, the way USA Today, and it's their poll, it's a USA Today Gallup poll, the way they report this, the way they massage and use the numbers, is just fascinating.
As President Bush and Congress battle on the budget, Homeland Security, and the war in Iraq, Americans blame both Republicans and Democrats for the impasse.
By more than two to one margins, they give the president, congressional Democrats, and congressional Republicans unfavorable ratings in their poll.
Now, here the two lines.
The president's 65% disapproval rating is his lowest since July.
65% disapproval.
When they talk about Congress, which has sunk to a new low in this poll, although just 30% of those polled give Democrats in Congress good marks, so while they report the president's disapproval number, the higher number, 65%, they report the Congress's approval number of 30%.
So it looks like Bush is more hated than Congress when it's the other way around.
The headline is right, but although just 30%, 70% disapproval of Congress, the headline, Americans' approval of Congress sinks a new low, 70% disapproval, and yet they don't use that number.
They use 30% approval.
They favored the party by a 53% to 40% margin in next year's elections.
The people favor the Democrats.
All right, quick timeout.
Lot to do today, folks.
It's great to have you with us.
Again, the phone number 800-282-2882.
We are coming right back.
All right, before we get to the dingy hairy stuff, ladies and gentlemen, and we got a great audio soundbite roster today, by the way.
Remember that we ended the program yesterday with a story about a journalist professor, journalism professor now teaching at the journalism school at the University of Georgia.
He's a former reporter or journalist or something.
And he's now wrote this piece, The Atlanta Urinal in Constipation.
And he said, the mainstream press, the drive-bys have got to start regulating blogs and talk radio and some of these other newfangled like YouTube new media because it's unregulated and it's uncensored and it's not edited and it's irresponsible and it's not news.
And the people doing it are not journalists.
And I was, you know, I'm sitting here stunned how this guy can literally claim that the drive-bys are fraud-free and abuse-free with Dan Rather, with blowing up trucks on Dateline NBC that otherwise wouldn't blow up.
I mean, with setting people up to act in ways they otherwise wouldn't.
I mean, it's a crazy charge.
And I'll give you another illustration of the fraud and the abuse that they are still passing on.
These alleged professional journalists.
They still pass on the fraud.
They still pass on abusing the truth.
How many times can they ignore truth and reality and hard data?
They do it every day in the economy, for example.
They are loath to tell you the truth about the state of the economy in this country.
And they continue to pass on the myth and the fraud.
They perpetrate the fraud by passing on the myth that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and Bush tax cuts really gave massive tax relief to the rich.
All you got to do is go to my website and look at who pays what share of the federal income tax bite you find is not true.
Anybody can look it up.
It's IRS data.
You can find the data anywhere.
They will look at it.
It doesn't fit the narrative, doesn't fit the template, so they don't report it.
That's fraud, journalistic malpractice.
That's abusing the truth.
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal updates the tax numbers.
Before the Bush tax cuts, the top 1% of wage earners paid 37% of all income tax revenue.
Now, after the Bush tax cuts, the top 1% are paying 39% of a total income tax bite.
That's a 2% increase in the share of total taxes paid by the rich, the top 1%, since the Bush tax cuts went into effect.
By the same token, before the Bush tax cuts, the top 5% paid 56% of all income tax revenue.
Now the top 5% are paying 60% after the Bush tax cuts.
Now you might be saying, how does this happen, Rush?
It's simple.
You have to stop looking at things as a zero-sum game.
You have to look at the dynamic results of what tax cuts cause.
They cause more jobs.
They create more wealth.
And as more people gain wealth, they move into these higher tax brackets.
There are more people in those brackets.
Therefore, the aggregate income tax collected goes up.
They are paying a bigger portion, which is, you know, generating revenue to the Treasury is what this is all about.
But it's really Nazi because of the Democrats and the drive-bys.
It's about control.
It's not about raising revenue.
Let's go to the audio tapes.
Yesterday in Las Vegas, KXNT's Morning Source radio show, the Alan Stock, is the host of the program, and he talked to Dingy Harry.
And he said, you know, you and the 40 Democrat senators that signed that letter that Rush auctioned off a few months ago, why you folks didn't help contribute another $2.1 million as Rush doubled that money?
That's what he wanted to know.
How come you didn't match Dingy Harry?
How come you didn't participate?
Why didn't you 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 Iran, fights in Iraq, comes home, and then suddenly says that they're against the war or however they work into it.
Yeah, don't call them phony soldiers.
I thought that was wrong.
And I think that American people think it's wrong.
Stop the tape.
I want you to recue this because I think I know what's going on.
I think he's being coached.
You know, he's on the phone here.
He's not in the studio with Alan Stock.
And I think he's talking to wherever he is.
Somebody's telling him what to say.
No, no, don't say that.
Get back here.
They're sending him notes, cue cards, all things being flashed in front of him.
No, no, no, don't say this.
That's why that long pause.
That pause was all nasha route.
Here it is in the top again.
It was very clear to me that when you have someone who goes in our uniform and fights in Iran, we just talked about Iran, fights in Iraq, comes home, and then suddenly says that they're against the war or however they work into it.
Yeah, don't call them phony soldiers.
I thought that was wrong.
And I think that American people think it's wrong to call them phony soldiers.
He tried to doctor up the tape later and say he didn't say it, but of course you could hear his voice saying that.
And we quoted basically what, basically we quoted what he said.
But, you know, as with not everything, but some things, there's a silver lining.
Rush Limbaugh, which has a large audience, 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.
That's unbelievable.
Three-second pause where he needs to be coached.
Now he says, we doctored the tape.
We doctored the tape.
This is a new accusation.
A new allegation.
The broadcast engineer who has acts to the so-called tapes has been accused of being forced to doctor them by me.
We doctored nothing.
It's amazing.
This isn't.
I hate to relive this, but the guy won't let it go.
He had a chance here, being asked about this to punt it, you know, say, well, you know, there's a great ending out there.
Alan, we raised all this money.
He could at least try to take credit for that, but no, no, no, I'll do it again.
You don't get away with calling soldiers phony.
Dingy Harry, there were nine of them, as you know.
And we were talking about one particular guy named Jesse Macbeth.
But this is from the guy, ladies and gentlemen, who has spent the last six months to nine months impugning the honor, the integrity, the talent, and the abilities of people who wear the uniform.
He's been the one waving the white flag of surrender.
The surge is over.
We can't win.
It's lost.
Bring the troops home.
And yet, he now levels a new allegation that I doctored the tape.
You know, I understand that Dingy Harry has made a lot of money in some land deals out in our great West.
It's not too late for Dingy Harry to donate some money from his land deals, some of which have been rumored to be shady, to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Here's the second bite.
The host says, it's Alan Stock.
Look, the people he was referring to at the time, in fact, turned out there were about half a dozen, nine, I think, as a matter of fact, that were being investigated as having been, in some cases, phony soldiers.
The fact that they were, some never served in Iraq, making claims how horrible the war was that they were.
When it turned out later, the fact they had never served over there, he was referring to those people as being phony.
And the truth was those people were phony.
Hey, Alan.
He's home.
It's making something up after the fact.
Anyone can listen to what he said on the radio.
He went out afterwards and tried to dig up some of this.
What he would talk about on the radio was very clear.
People who went and fought in the war in Iraq, came home and opposed the war, were phony soldiers.
I disagree with that statement.
I didn't say that.
This has been totally doctored.
It was totally taken out of context, massaged by the Hillary Clinton front group, Media Matters for America.
Now, the fact that he won't let this go when asked about it, this was a resounding defeat for him.
It was humiliating.
Grab the letter.
You got the song.
I'm sure you can find it real fast as we probably, I think we could squeeze this in even before the break.
10, 9.
Have you found it?
Let it go.
This says it all.
Paul Shanklin.
I know.
Thank you very much, folks.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up high atop the EIB building here in Midtown Manhattan.
I see that there are still 91,000 homes without power in Oklahoma City after last week's ice storm.
You know, there have to be some anti-coal environmentalists in Oklahoma could call us today relating their experience without electricity and how enjoyable it's been in the freezing cold.
This is exactly want to get rid of coal-fired power plants.
They essentially want to get rid of power plants.
CO2, still 91,000 homes without power.
This is their nirvana.
Surely some of you anti-coal environmentalists in Oklahoma could call us and let us know just how enjoyable it's been for you the past week.
Other global warming news, it just gets stranger and stranger.
This from the UK Telegraph.
Women must stop admiring men who drive sports cars if the women were serious about joining the fight against global warming.
This, according to the government, the UK government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said that governments could only do so much to control greenhouse gas emissions.
It was time for a cultural change among the British public.
And he singled out women who find supercar drivers sexy, adding that they should divert their affections to men who live more environmentally friendly lives.
Comments are greeted with anger by sports car drivers who insisted their vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions were tiny compared.
Who cares what the sports car drivers said?
The fact that there's a government official who is trying here at first by the power of government suggestion to get women to stop admiring men who drive sports cars.
Now, folks, it's imminently laughable.
It is a joke.
But there's also something else here.
That is what's in these people's minds.
This is a liberal.
This is a hoax.
The whole thing, I mean, man-made global warming and carbon dioxide as a pollutant is a hoax.
Planet might be getting warmer, although you would find a lot of people that would dispute that the last couple of weeks all over this country.
But nevertheless, stop admiring men who drive sports cars if you're serious about global warming.
I know we got the Clinton stuff coming up.
I'm just, I'm trying not to make this show all Clinton all the time.
But it's going to be hard not to today because we've got Clinton out there.
Bill Clinton says some most amazing things about what the first thing Hillary will do.
She didn't say what the first thing she would do.
He did.
He said the first thing that Hillary would do would be to dispatch him and Bush 41 around the world to get the quote.
Well, the first thing she intends to do, because you can do this without passing a bill, the first thing she intends to do is send me and former President Bush and a number of other people around the world and tell them that America is open for business and cooperation again.
So I don't know whether he ran this by her, but I have to tell you, I bet he didn't.
And as she's out there, what the hell did he say now?
I'm the one that's going to announce what I'm going to do.
He's not.
And by the way, does anybody really think that Bush 41 would do this?
Because in so doing, he would be acknowledging their claim that his son's presidency has been a failure and that the country is despised and hated?
If I were the feminist out there, I would be livid at this.
This guy won't let go.
This super ego.
You're not electing her.
You're not electing him, folks.
If you vote for this pair, you are electing the biggest, uncontrollable, out-of-control ego we have ever had in American politics.
And that is saying something.
But if I were the feminist, how the hell does he get off saying what she's going to do?
She's the candidate.
If she wins, she's going to be the president.
Since we're discussing Mrs. Clinton, as you may know, yesterday I delivered quite a lengthy and I think brilliant and even sympathetic and compassionate monologue on the concept of beauty and perfection in this country as it relates to the fact that I think we have a perfection addiction born of Hollywood and television.
And I'm not going to go through the monologue again.
It's at rushlimbaugh.com.
You can read it.
But I made the point that our culture so admires good looks and perfection.
Everybody in the world's out there trying to achieve it.
You can probably count on one or two hands the number of people who are on radio or television or in movies who don't try to alter what they look like, who are thus happy with who they are.
Everybody else is trying to squeeze into size one or zero dresses, six-pack abs.
We are a culture that is obsessed with looking good and perfection because it's seen.
We see that those are the people having a good time.
Those are the people that have fame.
Those are the people that have wealth.
Those are the people that seem to have success.
And so people are out there trying to emulate it.
And I saw this picture on Drudge yesterday of Mrs. Clinton taken in New Hampshire.
And it's not a very flattering picture, but it illustrates the toll of the campaign.
She still got, if she wins a nomination, basically 11 months to go with this.
And it's not, it takes a strain.
And men who have been president have aged more rapidly than others.
You can see it.
You can see all of this that I'm describing.
And I just asked the question, given American culture today, will Americans want to sit around and watch a woman age that rapidly before their very eyes on television every day as president of the United States?
Well, predictably, because I know how to push the buttons of the drive-by media, I even predicted what would happen.
I'd take it all out of context.
Some actually didn't.
The view, the gals on the view, actually got this somewhat right, even though their comments are slightly off the mark.
But here's how the CBS early show opened their program this morning.
Now, you have to see this, and you can, and I'm going to describe it.
They got a picture.
I think it's Mrs. It's a split screen, Mrs. Clinton on the right, me on the left, with this big cigar and the biggest, just happy as a clam grin on my face that they could find.
And this is what Julie Chen, who is Mrs. Les Moonvest is the CEO of CBS.
This is how he opened the program.
Sexism hits the campaign trail as Rush Limbaugh asks if voters want to stare at an aging woman as president.
Yeah, I did ask that after about seven minutes of a brilliant monologue.
Now, are we, now, we have, we have this little story to tell you, too.
I heard from HR.
HR is on vacation, but he has his trusty iPhone with him.
And a producer, or actually a reporter from Channel 2 in New York, CBS Local, called HR and said, hey, my editor just handed me this thing.
And what it was, Limbaugh said that voters want to stare at an aging woman as president.
What's this all about?
And HR said, look, go to the website.
The whole thing's there.
The transcript is there.
You can read what he said.
And the reporters say, I thought there had to be more.
The editor just handed me this stuff and said, do something with it.
See, you give them the line, the one line, after a brilliant moment.
I knew what they were going to focus on.
Gives me an opportunity, see, to focus on it a second time.
So anyway, that guy went and looked at the website.
I don't know what he's going to do with it, Channel 2 locally.
Here is the report on the early show, a portion of reporter Meg Oliver's report on me and my comments yesterday about Mrs. Clinton and American culture.
And now a story that's expected to reverberate throughout the day.
The question of sexism in politics.
It's a particular interest in Campaign 2008, where a woman has a good chance of becoming a major party nominee.
Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh yesterday had some thoughts after seeing this picture of Hillary Clinton posted on the internet.
Limbaugh believes Americans are addicted to physical perfection and wondered if this country is ready to watch a woman age in the Oval Office.
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'll impact poll numbers.
It'll impact perceptions.
Limbaugh also says as people age no matter who they are, America loses interest.
That was their report.
I knew it.
I knew it.
Don't get mad at them, folks.
They are who they are.
I gave them the line.
That's what they were going to see.
I know the drive-bys like the back of my hand.
Oh, yeah.
Well, in Australia, in the Australian newspaper, they call me a misogynist and a leading American shock jock.
Other places are calling me a sexist and so forth.
Mean, let's go to PMS NBC and Scarborough's show this morning, a portion of his exchange with the reporter David Schuster.
Hillary Clinton took some really tough hits on the cover of the Drudge Report.
Some people would say a very personal sort of attack.
Also, Rush Limbaugh talking about Hillary Clinton, how she's aging before our eyes.
And also, of course, on the other side, Barack Obama really going after.
Hillary Clinton, you recall that, of course, in the Rick Lazio Senate race, Republicans didn't really sort of know where to draw the line between contrasting their positions with her and outright attacking her.
And the more they attacked her, the sort of more sympathy went to Hillary Clinton.
And you start to see some of that now, some rumblings that certainly the stuff on the Drudge Report and the stuff that Rush Limbaugh has been saying is totally over the line and sort of generating some sympathy.
The whole monologue yesterday was a sympathetic treatment of that picture of Mrs. Clinton and what it could mean.
I am a cultural analyst, my friends.
An observer.
I am an observer and I understand where our culture is going, both good and bad.
So if it generates some sympathy for her, you know, it I have to take a break, ladies and gentlemen, because we still have two more sunbites here from The View Babes, who also discuss this.
And we'll get to your phone calls and other things right after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have two more audio soundbites here, both from The View.
We open up here with Whoopee Goldberg as they discuss my brilliant monologue on the cultural evolutions, addictions to perfection, and the impact on Mrs. Clinton.
Rush Limbaugh was on the radio, as he always is, and he was commenting on whether we want to watch a woman aging in the White House.
And I believe he said on his radio show, he asked whether America really wants to watch a female president age in office day after day.
He explained he knew that it was going to get into trouble for the comment, but said, I'm talking about the evolution of American culture here, not so much Mrs. Clinton.
He also said that presidents age rapidly and added, a woman is not going to want to look like she's getting older because it will impact poll numbers.
In politics, perceptions are reality, so there will have to be steps taken to avoid the appearance of aging.
I can't agree with the female part because I think that, you know, a woman's going to age the same as a man.
I don't want to see Mitt Romney's hair get any darker, Frank.
He says that a man looks authoritative and a woman does not.
That's the difference.
Except that I think that he has a point in that people's looks impact the election.
What is going on here?
This is two times in a row I have been on the view or discussed on the view and are getting it right.
It must be a little Christmas kiss from the babes at the View.
The gloves will come back off after the joyous holiday season comes to a screeching halt the 1st of January.
Here's the next clip.
I like Rush Limbaugh, and he's certainly provocative.
For example, there was a woman named Margaret Thatcher.
Remember her?
British Prime Minister?
Came in at 53, left at 65.
Golden my ear.
I mean, hardly a sex symbol.
Took office at 71, left at 76, came back again.
And then Indira Gandhi, she took office at 48, left at 59, took office again at 62.
She was assassinated at 66, maybe because she wasn't sexy.
I don't know.
Bonald Reagan didn't look young.
He just had the red hair.
But his face was old.
And this is his point.
That if a man gets old, he looks authoritative.
If a woman gets old, you don't want to.
What I'm saying to you, Barbara, is that the men are held to a standard also.
Like, what's his name?
McCain.
They're saying he's too old to run for president, which I don't agree with.
I happen to think he'd be pretty good.
The too old to run for president thing has nothing to do with looks.
It has to do with age and health and how long you're going to be around.
But let's talk about Margaret Thatcher for just a second.
I was first addressing American culture.
I think Pamela Anderson would have a better shot at getting elected president of this country at her three marriages than your average politician.
It's got three marriages and divorces.
I mean, it's a little bit of an exaggeration.
But Margaret Thatcher, I'll tell you, if Margaret Thatcher were running in this country, Ms. Walders has a point here.
If Margaret Thatcher were running as she was, we wouldn't be hearing about her husband, and we wouldn't be hearing about how she's a woman, and we wouldn't be hearing about how she's not likable, and we wouldn't be hearing about how she has all this experience because she was a first.
We would be hearing nothing like we are hearing from the Hillary campaign.
We would be hearing from Margaret Thatcher on the future of the country and what she intended to do about it, what was important.
We would be hearing broad, defining, tremendously important, soaring issues that would face the future, that the country would face in the future.
We wouldn't be getting all this female pep.
We wouldn't be getting all of this first woman stuff and all of the trials and tribulations of Mrs. Clinton's campaign.
And we wouldn't be talking about her looks because she would so overpower us with her intellect and with the force of her commitment and her passion.
We wouldn't be listening to a bunch of platitudinous, meaningless phrases.
I have worked 35 years for this, gotten nothing done.
I'm an agent of change, and I'm an agent of friendly change.
That's the latest take on the campaign.
Now she's friendly.
Now she's likable.
It's stunning how this campaign changes its focus on a daily basis based on polling data.
And that would not be the case with Lady Thatcher.
Gola Mayir, no question was great.
We're not talking about Israeli culture here.
We're not talking about Indian culture.
I was not anyway.
I was talking about American pop culture as it is today.
Dennis in Glen Rock, Wyoming, you're first on the phones today.
It's great to have you with us and welcome.
Well, thank you.
This is an honor for me.
Thank you for that.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a dittohead.
I'm a Hennani Cohn's Fox listener.
I'm a free thinker.
And I am totally outraged.
I've already called my senators.
This budget bill that got passed in the House, these people who tell me they're for the little guy when the Woodstock Museum is still in this turkey, and we can't spend one nickel for our troops.
This is a total outrage.
Well, now, I got a little bit different take on this because the Politico is reporting liberals lose big time in budget battle.
Here's how it starts.
This much is clear.
Democrats in Congress buckled under pressure from the White House to hold spending near the administration's specified limit.
They're poised to give the president more war money with no strings attached.
But the buckling didn't stop there.
Democrat policy priorities that liberals hoped would be included were left on the cutting room floor under a veto threat.
The Democrats removed the reversal of a long-standing anti-abortion provision.
They abandoned long-sought provisions that would have loosened travel and trade restrictions on Cuba, deleted a line item demanded by unions, would have required federal contractors to pay union wages in disaster areas like New Orleans.
From the early looks at it, the Democrats once again totally caved.
Now, there is $10 million in emergency funding for attorneys for illegal immigrants in the bill.
We'll see what happens.
I'm going to look up that Woodstock business, find out if that's true.
Back in just a sec.
Do you know that they're going to have entrance polls for the Hawkeye Hawkeye?
Entrance polls.
And probably as well as exit polls.
Information overload.
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