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Feb. 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I got my 16 gigabyte iPhone right here.
16 gig, twice what the original iPhone was, 8 gig.
That's because the software developer kit's going to be released this month.
All kinds of new software are going to be posted on the dude.
Now I need space for it.
Plus, you put more pictures if you care about that.
What was the first call?
What are your missed?
No, I just, here's the thing.
By the way, greetings, folks, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network and the fastest three hours in media, fastest week in media.
This is Thursday.
And of course, John McCain's addressing CPAC today, the Conservative Political Action Conference.
You know what time he's addressing CPAC?
Yeah, he's addressing CPAC at 3 o'clock this afternoon after the program's over.
Mitt Romney will address CPAC at 12.15.
And Hillary had to loan herself money.
Now, the question is, whose is it?
Is she getting very testy about this?
It's my money.
It's my money.
She's made about $6 million from her books.
Her husband's made the rest of the money in the family, according to reports, I mean, the financial disclosure forms and so forth.
But her staff, including the campaign manager, now gets this, folks.
Her staff, including the campaign manager, are now working without pay.
And a reporter, unbelievably, a reporter asked her today, are your unpaid staff members getting health care coverage?
She dodged, she dodged the question.
I mean, this has got to be stunning to these people to get questions like that from the drive-by media who they thought they had in the palm of their hands.
Also, Howard Dean, the chairman of Democrat National Committee, is out saying that this dead heat is not good news for us.
This tie is not good for us.
By the way, the Drive-By Media reported incorrectly on Tuesday that Hillary got the bulk of the delegates at the end of the voting.
And it depends on where you look.
But places like NBC News are reporting that Obama got the bulk of the delegates.
The only way that Hillary gets the delegate count majority is if you throw in the super delegates.
But in terms of the delegates that were awarded after voting on Tuesday, it looks like Obama cleaned up as well as cleaned up on a number of states.
And they were pretty close to a dead heat on the popular vote, like $7.1 million apiece.
This is not what the Clintons planned for.
And now her staff is basically enslaved.
Her campaign staff is a bunch of slaves.
I mean, that's what you are when you don't get paid for working.
It's time for it.
Well, that's an excellent point, Mamon.
Maybe now we should qualify them as interns.
Instead of a paid staff, we've got a staff full of interns at Clinton Inc, the campaign headquarters.
But isn't that a great question from the reporter?
Your unpaid staff are your interns getting health care coverage.
Now they're getting screwed.
They're not.
They're getting screwed for not getting paid.
They're not getting health care.
No, anyway, here's what happened.
I read that Apple had, and they just snuck this on everybody, 16 gigabyte iPhones.
And, you know, the originals were eight.
And you really, I mean, if you've had iPods before, you get iPods with 60 gigabytes.
Now, 100 gigabytes.
8 gigabytes was zilch.
But they had to keep it small, a hard drive in there because they had to keep this thing narrow and slim to make it usable as a phone.
So anyway, they got 16 gig hardbyte initiatives.
You can double whatever content you have on it.
They're going to add all this new software with the software developer kit that they're going to release to the software writers outside of Apple later this month.
So I got home.
I went to Washington last night for dinner.
And I told the staff, I didn't tell you people this, but I told the staff when we finished the program, I had to record the morning update, and I said, I got to scram.
I got to go to Washington for dinner.
And they didn't say anything.
And I get in here this morning.
I got back about 2.
And I got back at 2 in the morning and my 16-gig iPhone had arrived yesterday.
I'm going to get back and activate this thing.
So I went to my library about 2.30 to start activating it.
And after a half hour, it wouldn't activate.
And I was having some, I think I got some incorrect instructions on switching SIM cards and so forth.
So I had two of them.
I had two of them there.
And I didn't have a chance to try the second one.
And I got it done this morning with my computer wizard actually doing it remotely.
So it was just delivered.
A 16-gig iPhone.
I'll sink them ready to go.
Simple as pie brian.
Just what I told you how to do it is how to.
If you have an iPhone now, it's easy to switch over, but your old iPhone is going to become deactivated.
You can reset it and give it to a family member or sell it on eBay or find your nearest homeless person and pass it.
Anyway, so I'm all excited, but now I can't use it till the program's over.
Anyway, I get in here and Washington last night, eh?
So who was it?
Who did you meet with?
McCain was in Washington last night because he's getting ready for CPAC.
And then everybody's saying, we see some stories in the paper today that an emissary of McCain is being sent to you that you were being targeted by McCain emissaries.
So did you have, you have dinner with McCain or an Emma?
I said, no.
Did you go to the White House?
Is that no?
We don't believe you.
Did somebody try to brainwash you in Washington last night?
Yes.
But that always happens when you're on a social occasion.
This always happens.
But no, I flew in there, went to this fabulous restaurant, Centronella, in Georgetown, about 7:30, got out of there about 11, hit the spaceport, drive all the way out to Dulles, which is about 35 or 40 minutes, and jetted back.
And voila, here I am, ready to go with another three hours of broadcast excellence.
I've been doing a lot of show prep today.
You know, it is amazing.
Let's see.
Here is the Politico.
Here is Cato Byrd and Ramesh Punuru at National Review Online.
Here is Al Regnery in the Wall Street Journal.
All over the place today are a bunch of people advising McCain on how to come across as a conservative today when he speaks at CPAC.
Cato Byrd and Ramesh Punuru suggest that McCain come out and attack Democrats.
Yes, Mr. Snar, a question from the program observer, Yesterday, what is it, sir?
Well, nobody advises.
That's my point.
Nobody advises me on A, how to be conservative, B, how to sound conservative, or C, how to convince people I'm conservative when I'm not.
I don't consult anybody, and nobody would have the temerity to tell me how to be a conservative.
What they're telling me now is how not to be one.
That's what's really going on.
They're telling me, drop it, drop it.
For the good of the so-called cause, drop it.
But Senator McCain, before going to, and by the way, he's not soliciting this.
This is not my point.
I'm not even speaking of Senator McCain here.
All these other people, many of whom are suggesting that you and me just forget it.
You know, just come on, get on board here are advising Senator McCain on how to be a conservative.
Does that not say it all?
All of these want to be important people are trying to figure out ways for Senator McCain to be that conservative, which he has repudiated for years.
I mean, you can't miss it.
National Review Online, The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, other places.
Please, John, say this.
Please, Senator, do that.
Please, Senator, really mean it this time.
Al Regnery's the good piece is he needs to sign a tax pledge, no tax pledge.
He needs to sign a pledge that he won't nominate judges like Souter, that he'll nominate judges that have a proven record.
So they want him to, they want him to you.
You start asking somebody to sign pledges, it means you don't trust them.
True, many of these same people continue to condemn us and those of us on talk radio and conservatives generally with name-calling and mischaracterizations and so forth.
And it continues today.
There must be three stories where my name is one is Washington Post, one's Wall Street Journal.
Forget the third one, maybe the Guardian.
Three stories.
Three stories.
Three stories today where my name is the first two words of the story.
What AP story?
Talk show host Voice Alarm at McCain's.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I'm talking about sterling, my name doesn't lead this time.
I'm talking about three stories where my name leads.
So anyway, the onslaught can.
So here's what's happening.
McCain goes to CPAC's after 3 o'clock.
Conservative wannabe is advising him how not to blow it, how to sound sincere, how for him.
Here, John, say it this way, do it this way.
Really mean it this time, Senator.
And those same people are telling me and others in my talk show, Brethren, how not to be what we are.
Anyway, another sterling, in-depth monologue on all of this coming up in brief moments here on the EIB network.
We've got to take a quick time out.
EIB Extreme Profit Center timeout.
And oh, CNN saying Romney's going to suspend his campaign.
I don't have CNN on in here.
Drudge, you got to blow it.
I have to.
Yeah, okay, there.
I turned to my right and see Drudge.
Okay, Romney to suspend campaign.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, Cutting Edge, Societal Evolution, Talent on loan from God.
Romney hasn't pulled out of the race yet.
The source for this is Time magazine, one of their blogs, and they're suggesting that he could pull out.
I mean, their headline is Romney to quit race.
But if you read the story, he could pull out during his CPAC speech, which is coming up.
It hasn't begun yet.
So that's the story.
Now, regardless what Romney does, there's still some things here that need to be addressed based again on some of the things that have been said today and last night in the media.
And basically, the reason I want to go through this is to try to explain to those of you why I feel the way I do, think the way I do, the reason I've been saying the things that I've been saying.
It'll resonate with quite a few of you, if not most of you.
But I also want to lay down a marker because I sense here that within the conservative movement, there is an attempt here to point the finger of blame if there is failure of the Republican Party this year to succeed in winning the presidency.
They want to point the finger of blame at me and Hannity, Levin, Laura Ingram, and all these other people on talk radio that have been singled out.
This, to me, is the big point.
The failure of establishment Republicans, whether they be members of Congress, Washington or New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community, the failure of these people to uphold the principles of conservatism during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they now complain about.
George Newmayer, writing today a column, used to be the editor of the American Spectator, makes a great point.
He said, once the Republican Party decided, and this was largely due to abortion, by the way, once the Republican Party decided to be a big tent party, its days were numbered.
Its identity forever changed because the definition of big tent was to bring in people who normally would not be in the tent.
That there was no litmus test anymore for the river.
And this was about abortion because the establishment blue-blood country club type Republicans were always embarrassed of the evangelicals and the hardcore conservatives to whom the issue of life mattered most.
And so we had to be big tent.
And one of the reasons also for the big tent was to contrast ourselves with the Democrats who did have litmus tests.
But their litmus tests were aimed at maintaining the originality and the purity or whatever, the solidness of liberalism.
And they didn't want it watered down.
And they didn't want to let conservatives in.
They didn't even want to let Bob Casey, the pro-life Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, even address their convention back in 1992.
And yet, because Republicans felt all defensive and we felt all shamed, we were being shamed by the media, we adopt this big tent strategy.
The big tent strategy effectively eliminated the three stools of the conservative table or the three legs of the conservative stool that I've been telling you about, fiscal, foreign policy, cultural.
Once we allowed those legs of the stool to be whittled down and others added to the stool, Newmayer's point is, hey, Republicans have only themselves to blame here, and he's got a point.
But who is to blame for this?
If you want to assign blame, if you don't want to talk about it in terms of blame, you can say, okay, how did it happen?
And that's what I'm telling you.
The failure of establishment Republicans, whether they're a member of Congress, Washington or New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community, the failure to uphold conservative principles during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they are now complaining about.
They're complaining about us failing to join them as they have changed the party, as they have watered it down.
This confusion, this mess, contrary to the take of the drive-by media, this mess that conservatism slash Republican Partyism finds itself in today is a reaction to the establishment Republicans who have ignored conservative principles and watered down their party for the last decade or more and their failures.
This mess has resulted from them, their failures, and their false promises.
And these very same people now who were the big tent guys, which resulted in, and by the way, I'm all for big tent, but you bring people in as us, not as them.
Don't misunderstand.
Nothing exclusionary about me.
You want to expand the party?
I'm all for it.
It's what we've been trying to do here, in fact, with conservatism.
These very same people now who sought to expand the party by essentially marginalizing conservatives and bringing in their buddies, the moderates, the independents, even some liberals, are now demanding that the people they took for granted, us and the evangelicals and so forth, continue to follow them, continue to be swayed by their demeaning and condescending lectures.
Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has referred to talk radio as semi-psychotic, something like that.
So we now have to listen to those who write today saying, here's what we need to do to get ourselves back in the fold.
This is what McCain needs to do to make sure conservatives think he's conservative.
It wasn't that long ago, you know, like Bill Bennett.
Bill Bennett is one of the guys who wrote today in the National Review Online listing various reasons why McCain is worthy of support, conservative reasons and so forth.
But remember, I mean, it wasn't that long ago, Bill Bennett was part of the open borders crowd.
1987, he and Jack Kemp slammed Pete Wilson on Prop 187.
Prop 187 in California was a proposition that overwhelmingly was supported by the people of California.
They were fed up with tax increases to pay for education, medical care, health care insurance, and so forth for the children of illegal immigrants.
And this, you know, that's how long this has been simmering.
Now, Bill, who's a really good friend of mine, is a leader in border security.
He's changed his mind on this and wants us to accept McCain.
I'm not trying to pick on a single person here.
I'm just saying that there are people who've been all over the ballpark in this party, and they come back and go forth and they change positions and so forth.
And they're now trying to tell us, who have been consistent all these years, that we need to somehow now moderate for the good of whatever.
But the truth is, none of this, despite all the media writing about it and media talking about it and televising it, this isn't about me.
It's not about Rush Limbaugh.
It's not about any single person.
The same people in Washington and New York who like to write op-eds and editorials to themselves to show how smart they are and how in touch they are are missing what's going on here.
I don't control.
I want everybody to drive-bys and rules to listen to this.
I don't control the real disaffection conservatives are feeling for the Republican Party and for Washington in general.
I don't control that.
This isn't some manufactured view that people didn't hold, and all of a sudden they do because I have been saying it.
This isn't some view that's turned on or off by me, other talk show hosts.
This is a result of years of contempt for the grassroots, years of neglect, false promises, pseudo-conservatism here and there, a primary system put in place with the party and state parties intended to quickly choose a nominee, which benefits a Washington insider.
On and on and on and on.
I got more on this, but I got to go with you here.
Back in just a second.
Another way to look at what's happening here, to put it in relevant terms, the hey, look, I acknowledge the fight that's taking place in the Republican Party.
It's one of ideas.
And I'm just, I'm going to continue to address this here today.
This is irrelevant to Romney pulling out if he does, to McCain being the presumptive nominee.
This is about the riff, how it came about, who's going to get blamed for it.
And that's where I eventually am headed here because I'm going to tell you something, folks.
What's happening in our party today is not only do the establishment Republicans want amnesty for illegal immigrants, they want amnesty for Democrats.
And they want punishment.
Well, they don't want punishment, but they want to try to humiliate, manipulate whatever us to join them as they destroy the concept of the three-legged stool of conservatism.
I think, especially now since Romney is going to get out, it still says could withdraw during the speech are three Republican sources that Time magazine has says he's going to suspend the campaign.
So let's assume it's true, and that makes McCain the presumptive nominee.
He was the presumptive nominee before this, as Romney's imminent withdrawal indicates.
But therefore, it's up to Senator McCain to demonstrate leadership here, not browbeat people into following him out of fear or loathing for Hillary Clinton.
You realize this is what they're counting on.
They're counting on a reunification, a unification of the party based on fear and loathing of Hillary.
And it may not even be Hillary when all is said and done.
It may end up being Obama.
And you can't gin up fear and loathing of Obama.
You just can't do it.
If somebody tries to gin up fear and loathing of Obama, it isn't going to work.
I mean, they're going to have a tough time criticizing Obama because as Republicans, you start criticizing the first black presidential nominee, you're going to be tagged with racism by the drive.
I don't care what.
So it's going to be Kid Gloves time with if Obama gets us.
You can't rely on the fear and loathing of Hillary, especially at this stage, to unify the party.
Besides, it already exists.
I mean, to try to drum something up that already exists is a waste of time.
Leadership is a little bit more than being the anti-Hillary.
That's the minimum that we expect.
And all of our candidates fit that bill.
A leader, folks, is someone who, by his own convictions, personality, and vision, can unite a party, a movement, a country behind him.
Do you see instead what is happening?
The leader of the party is not being told or it's not being said of him that he will unify.
It's up to those of us who have problems with what's happening in the party to put our problems aside, our differences aside, and join up.
This is the exact opposite of leadership.
Leadership on its own unites a party or a movement or a country.
It's not up to me or anybody else to unify the Republican Party, much to the drive-by media's exasperation.
These are not my jobs.
This is not our purpose.
And this is, and I'd be happy to tackle it, but that's not what happens here.
I'm not the candidate.
It's the candidate's job to unify a party, a movement, a country behind him.
These Talking point op-eds and editorials are no substitute for the candidate demonstrating leadership.
And how much leadership can there be when there are all these advice pieces out there for Senator McCain on what to say and how to say it today at CPAC?
By the way, telling people they never served in the military or that private enterprise and working for profit is bad or that anybody who disagrees with him on campaign finance reform is corrupt or that anybody who disagrees with him on amnesty must be racist and so forth.
Those are not leadership qualities.
Senator McCain has not demonstrated leadership qualities and he's not doing so now.
We don't know what he's going to say today, but the onus is on those who disagree to come aboard.
The onus is on leadership to lead.
When you demean and smear the people whose support you need down the road, it's human nature that they're going to remember the personal insults and the abuse that you heaped on them not that long ago.
Call nativists and racists and so forth.
Insult the people personally.
Call them corrupt if you oppose abridging the First Amendment campaign finance reform.
Call them deniers if you don't buy into the hoax of man-made global warming.
Ronald Reagan never spoke this way, wouldn't have spoken this way, and he didn't speak this way.
He was a leader.
So the establishment Republicans have their work cut out for them.
They can continue to attack the grassroots.
That's you.
They can pretend this primary shows that you have no influence, or that they and their candidate can start to act like mature and seasoned, intelligent adults who will try to find a way to repair the damage they have done to the party and the conservative movement.
How in the world can conservatives who have stayed loyal to conservative principles and concepts be blamed for what's happened to the Republican Party?
The people that have made the mess of the Republican Party are those who have attempted to expand it by including liberals and independents and Democrats so as to marginalize conservatives.
And all of a sudden it's our fault.
No, sir.
And that's the purpose of the monologue here today is to set down a marker.
If this debacle continues and happens in November, I'm not going to sit here and get the blame for it by these people who are trying to shove it on me and others in talk radio.
What I am saying here, folks, is that the responsibility for fixing what's broken belongs to those who broke it.
We grassroots and we conservatives did not break this, yet we're being told that we are responsible for breaking it.
We did not break this.
They, those who broke it, do not accept that it is their responsibility.
So they're lashing out and digging themselves into a bigger hole with the people who they've already turned off.
It is important, folks, to understand here that we have to put the responsibility for this debacle back on them so that we are not blamed for this months from now.
They can try.
We put our marker down now where it needs to be.
Let me put this as simply as I can so that even David Brooks from the New York Times can understand.
It is the Republican establishment that has taken the grassroots and conservatives for granted and has misled it for many years now, that is responsible for what's going on today, what will happen in November.
The establishment of the Republican Party has let the Republican Party slide.
You've used conservatives when you needed them.
You've not led.
You've not kept your promises.
And now you're promoting a candidate who has spent years leading the effort to marginalize the party and demean conservatives and a host of critical issues.
You establishment Republicans created this mess.
Created this scenario and your tactics today with the name-calling and the demeaning of the base, which is really why you're attacking talk radio.
When you attack me, you attack my audience.
When you attack Levin and Hannity and Ingram, you're attacking their audiences.
You're attacking the base of the party.
It's going to backfire on you.
And you'll have yourselves to blame until you accept responsibility for what you've done and are doing to this party and take significant steps.
Why do you think the Democrats are so happy to see what you guys are doing to the party?
And why do we never see this happening to the Democrats themselves?
You're going to be responsible for the election.
If you don't fix this, you are going to be, you establishment Republicans are going to be responsible for the election of a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama.
It will not be us who are responsible.
It will not be talk radio.
It will be you.
Again, and I look at all of these conservatives writing about how McCain can convince conservatives to vote for him, which they're, I guess, acknowledging that he's not a conservative in his own right.
Phil Graham, McCain supporter, said, I want to make the point that a lot of conservatives are coming home to McCain, but some aren't.
Some just don't seem to understand that if they don't do this, it's going to hurt the party for a long time.
They say they have principles, but some of it's their ego and power, too.
They're well known and they're used to having power.
It is they who crave power.
It is the establishment Republicans who are trying to get power back at the party level from the grassroots who they have been embarrassed of for so long.
Even now, they can't stop insulting us.
I know.
Here is after Senator McCain and his team have said, yeah, we're going to reach out to these people.
They can't stop insulting us.
This is what Graham said.
Some conservatives aren't coming home.
Some just don't seem to understand that if they don't do this, it's going to hurt the party for a long time.
This is 180 degrees out of phase.
We have to continue to compromise what made this party great and what it made it a majority party.
We have to compromise and go with these people who have changed it and altered it in order for them to be able to acquire and seek their power.
This is the kind of statement, the kind of thing that I'm talking about here.
They're going to try to shift the blame on all of us when this debacle in November happens, if it does.
And we're just setting down a marker here.
We'll be back.
NBC News, by the way, now says they've confirmed that Romney's going to suspend or withdraw from the race.
So it appears imminent.
Stay with us.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
Your bulwark.
Don't duck me.
Mitt Romney just took the stage at the CPAC convention.
Our microphones are there.
Let's listen to just a little bit and see if we get a flavor for what's coming.
Standing ovation happening now.
Laura Ingram just introduced him as the only conservative candidate on our side.
It's what an honor.
What an honor to be here.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
What a welcome.
That is so fabulous.
And it's such an honor to be introduced by Laura Ingram.
You know, we have all the fun.
The people in our party, they're gorgeous.
They're brilliant.
It's wonderful to have Laura Ingram on our side.
You know that?
She is wonderful.
Thanks to her and all of talk radio for what they do to keep the conservative movement strong and alive and vibrant.
And I appreciate her generous introduction.
I love being introduced as the conservatives conservative.
And that's exactly how I feel.
Thank you.
I was also proud to be joined by my wife.
You know my wife, Ann.
She was here with me.
And our five boys have been out campaigning.
They're fabulous.
It's been a family affair.
I want to begin today by thanking you.
It was a real honor to be here last year.
It's great to be here with you again.
And I look forward to joining you many, many more times in the future.
Last year, CPAC gave me the send-off I needed.
At the time, I was in single digits in the polls, and I was facing household names in the Republican contest.
As of today, more than 4 million people have given me their vote for president.
That's good, yeah?
That's, of course, less than Senator McCain's 4.7 million, but quite a statement, nonetheless.
11 states have given me their nod compared to his 13.
Thank you to those 11.
Of course, because size does matter, he's doing quite a bit better with the number of delegates he's got.
Now, to all of you, thank you here for caring enough about America to show up, to speak up, to stand up for conservative principles.
As I said to you last year, conservative principles are needed now more than ever.
Yeah.
We face a new generation of challenges, challenges which threaten our prosperity, our security, and our future.
I'm convinced that unless America changes course, we could become the France of the 21st century.
Still a great nation, but not the leader of the world, not the superpower.
And to me, that's unthinkable.
Look, it was a while ago Shimon Perez came to Boston for a visit.
He was asked what he thought about the war in Iraq.
First, he said, I have to put something in context.
He said, America is unique in the history of the world.
In the history of the world, he said, whenever there's been conflict, the nation that wins takes land from the nation that loses.
One nation in history, and this during the last century, laid down hundreds of thousands of lives and took no land.
No land from Germany, no land from Korea, no land from Japan.
America, he said, is unique in the sacrifice it has made for liberty, for itself, and for freedom-loving people around the world.
And Colin Powell added, the only land we took after the last great conflict was enough land to bury our dead.
The best ally peace has ever known and will ever know is a strong America.
Folks, we're going to have to leave this at this time because of the constraints of our programming format and the clock.
Why is it that when people decide to suspend or get out of a race, they start giving their best speeches?
We notice this when some embattled football coach quits, you get the best speech, the best public address we've ever heard.
It's got to be, you know, the pressure's off or whatever.
You're not worried about making a mistake.
You're not on defense or whatever.
But that's just, if it's all true, that Romney is going to suspend, and NBC is confirming it now, and Fox News is confirming it, saying that a Romney aide has told them that he will suspend or withdraw from the race.
Before we go, I have to tell you this, before we go to commercial break.
You know, I mentioned the other day that I had a party back in December and a bunch of people wanted to tour the house and went upstairs.
And when one of the women saw the bed, the select comfort bed, the sleep number bed, is that one of those select comfort things you said?
Yes, it is.
You really use it?
Yes, I do.
Why would you think I say I don't if I don't?
And she wanted to try it.
I said, here, lay down on it.
Say, here, take this, lay down on a bed, take this and flick it up or flick it down.
This will increase the firmness of the side you're on, or it'll make it softer.
So she's got the remote control, starts doing it.
Same thing happened.
I had a Super Bowl party on Sunday afternoon.
Somebody at the party had heard me tell the story.
They wanted to go upstairs and try the bed before they got one.
I wanted to watch the game.
I don't want to demonstrate the sleep number bed during a game, but I did.
I dutifully went up.
It was at halftime, took somebody upstairs.
Here's the bed.
Laid down on it.
Started flicking the remote control up or down.
Amazed.
The sleep number, sometimes I get taking stuff a little personally.
My recommendation is not enough.
But I can understand.
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It's a personalized possession that you have.
Just call 1-800-GETA-BED, folks.
It's all you have to do.
You've got to give me a free DVD and a brochure.
Details on models and sizes.
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All right, folks, another Sterling, exciting, busy broadcast hour is in the can.
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