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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 um software developer kit's going to be released this month.
All kinds of new software are going to be posted on the dude.
They had need space for it.
Plus, you put more pictures if you care about that.
Um, I I just I here's the thing.
I got 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.
Uh 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 three o'clock this afternoon after the uh after the program's over.
Mitt Romney will address CPAC at uh at 1215.
And did you 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 six million dollars from her books.
The her husband's made the rest of the money in the family.
According to report, I mean the financial disclosure forms and so forth.
But uh she said her staff, including the campaign manager, now get 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.
She 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 uh chairman of Democrat National Committee is out saying that uh this dead heat is not good news for us.
This tie is not is not good for us.
By the way, the drive-by media reported incorrectly on Tuesday that uh that Hillary got the bulk of the delegates at the end of the voting.
Uh and it depends on where you look.
Uh, but places like NBC News are reporting that Obama got the bulk of the delegates.
The only way that Hillary uh gets the um delegate count majority is if you throw in the superdelegates.
But in terms of the delegates that were awarded after voting on Tuesday, looks like Obama cleaned up as well as cleaned up on a number of states, and they were pretty close uh to to a dead heat on the popular vote, like 7.1 million apiece.
Uh this this is not what the Clintons planned for.
Uh 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.
Uh it's time for it.
Yeah, well, they're that's an excellent point, uh, Mamon.
Maybe now we should qualify them as interns.
Instead of at 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?
Uh your unpaid staff are your interns uh getting health care coverage.
No, 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 the uh that Apple had, and they just snuck this on everybody, 16 gigabyte iPhones.
Uh and you know, the originals were eight.
And you really, I mean, if you've had iPods before, you got iPods with 60 gigabytes, and now 100 gigabytes.
8 gigabytes of zilch.
But they had to keep it small, the hard drive in there because they had to keep this thing narrow and slim to make it usable as a phone.
So um anyway, they got 16 gig hard byte in there, so you can you can double whatever content you have on it.
They're gonna add all this new software with the software developer kit that are gonna release to the software writers uh 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 gotta scram, I gotta go to Washington for dinner.
And they didn't say anything.
And I uh I I get in here this morning.
I got back about two.
And I got back back at two in the morning, and my my 16 gig iPhone had arrived yet, so I'm I'm I want 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 guy 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 chance to try the second one and I I got it done this morning uh you know with my computer wizard actually doing it remotely.
So it was just delivered, a 16-gig iPhone, all synced up, ready to go.
Simple as pie, Brian.
Just what I told you how to do it is how to do it.
If you have an iPhone now, it's easy to switch over, but your old iPhone is going to become deactivated, and you can reset it and give it to a family member or, you know, sell it on eBay or find your nearest homeless person.
Anyway, so I'm all excited, but now I can't use it until 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 they 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 dinner with McCain or an emesis?
No.
Did you go to the White House?
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.
No, I flew in there, went to this fabulous restaurant, Centronella, in Georgetown.
It had been 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 Byrne and Ramesh Pudnuru 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 Bird and Ramesh Punuru suggest that McCain come out and attack Democrats.
Yes Mr. Snark question from the uh program observer yes sir what is it sir well that 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 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 I'm all these other people uh many of whom are suggesting that you and me just forget it.
You know just just come on get on board here.
Our uh advising Senator McCain on how to be a conservative does that not say at 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.
You I mean you can't miss it.
National Review Online DeWall Street Journal Weekly Standard Other places please John say this please Senator do that please Senator really mean it this time Al Regner is the good piece is he needs to sign a tax pledge and no tax pledge he needs to sign a pledge that he won't nominate judges like suitor that he'll nominate judges that have a proven record.
So they want him to they want him you you start asking somebody sign pledges it means you don't trust them true um many of these you know same people continue to condemn us uh and those of us on talk radio and conservatives generally with name calling and mischaracterizations and so forth.
It continues today.
That must be three stories where my name, one is the Washington Post, one's um Wall Street Journal, forget the third one, maybe the guard three stories.
You're all over the place.
Three three stories today where my name is the first two words of the story.
What AP story?
Is it the uh talk show host voice alarm at McCain?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I'm talking about Snurdley, my name is not doesn't lead this.
I'm sorry about three stories where my name leads.
Uh so anyway, w the the the onslaught can so here's what's happening.
McCain goes to CPAX after three o'clock.
Conservative wannabe is advising him how not to blow it.
How to sound sincere.
Uh, how for him how John, say it this way, do it this way.
Really mean it this time, Senator, and those same people are uh telling me and others in my talk show, brethren uh 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 got to take a uh a quick time out.
Uh EIB extreme profit center timeout.
And uh oh, CNN saying Romney's gonna suspend his campaign.
I don't have CNN on in here.
Uh Drudge got a blow after yeah, okay.
There I turn to my right and see Drudge.
Okay, Romney to suspend campaign.
A quick time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
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Romney hasn't pulled out uh pulled out of the race yet.
Uh the source for this is Time Magazine, one of their blogs, and they're suggesting uh that he could pull out.
I mean their headline is Romney, Romney to quit race.
But the if you read the story, he could pull out uh during his CPAC speech, which is uh coming up.
It hasn't begun yet.
So that's uh that's the story.
Now I want regardless what Romney does, there's still some things here that need to be addressed, based again on some of the things that has been said today and last night in the uh in the media.
And I and basically the reason I want to go through this is to try to explain uh to those of you why I feel the way I do, think the way I do, what the reason I've been saying the things that I've been saying, it'll re it'll resonate with uh with quite a few of you, uh, if not if not most of you.
But I also want to lay down a marker uh because you know, I sense here that within the conservative movement there is a um uh 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, Lawyer 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, uh 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, it's 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.
Uh that there was no litmus test anymore for the ribbon.
And this was about abortion.
Because the, you know, the establishment blue blood country club type Republicans were always embarrassed of the uh 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 um uh contrast ourselves with the Democrats who did have litmus tests.
But their litmus tests were uh were aimed at maintaining the uh originality and and the purity or whatever, the 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.
Um and yet, because Republicans felt all defensive, and we felt all ashamed, and 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.
Uh once we allowed those those legs of the stool to be whittled down and others added to the stool, new mayor'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 member of Congress, uh 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, uh, 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 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.
Uh Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has referred to talk radio as semi-psychotic, uh something like that.
Uh so we we we now have to listen to those who write today saying, here's what we need to do to get ourselves back into fold.
This is what McCain needs to do to make sure conservatives think he's conservative.
It wasn't that long ago.
Um, you know, like Bill Bennett, Bill Bennett is one of the guys who wrote today in the National Review Online listing uh various reasons why McCain is worthy of support, conservative reasons and so forth.
Uh but remember, I mean, it I uh uh it wasn't that long ago, Bill Bennett was uh was was part of the open borders crowd.
Um 1987, he and Jack Kemp slammed Pete Wilson on Prop 187, Prop 27 in California was a proposition that overwhelmingly was supported by the uh 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.
Uh now Bill's a really good friend of mine, is uh is a leader in border security.
He's he's changed his mind on this and wants us to accept McCain.
I I'm 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 get go forth and they change positions and so forth, and are now trying to tell us who have been consistent all these years that we need to somehow now moderate uh 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.
Uh the same people in Washington and New York who uh 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 I don't control.
I don't want everybody to drive by's and liberals 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 this is a result of years of contempt for the grassroots, years of neglect, false promises, pseudo-conservatism here and there, uh, a primary system put in place with a 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 as you hear, back in just a second.
Another way to look at what's happening here, to put it in relevant terms, the and look, I I acknowledge the fight that's taking place in the Republican branch.
One of ideas.
And I'm just I'm gonna continue to address this here today.
This is irrelevant to Romney pulling out if he does, uh, to McCain being the presumptive nominee.
Uh this is about the RIF, how it came about, who's gonna get blame for it, and that's where I eventually am headed here, because I'm gonna 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 they they they want to they want to try to humiliate, manipulate whatever us to join them, as uh as they destroy the concept of the three-legged stool of conservatism.
I think, especially now since Romney is going to get out, that it still says could withdraw during the speech are three Republican sources uh that Time magazine has says he's going to suspend the campaign.
So let's assume it's true, and uh that makes McCain the presumptive nominee was the presumptive nominee before this, uh, as uh Romney's imminent withdrawal indicates.
But therefore, it's up to Senator McCain to uh demonstrate leadership here, not browbeat people into following them out of fear or loathing for Hillary Clinton.
You realize this is what they're counting on.
They're counting on a reunification or unification of the uh of the party based on fear and loathing of Hillary.
And it may not even be Hillary when all 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 if somebody tries to gin up fear and loathing of Obama, it isn't gonna work.
I mean, they're gonna have a tough time criticizing Obama.
Because as Republicans, you start criticizing the first black presidential nominee, you gonna be tagged with racism by the drive.
I don't care what.
So it's gonna be kid gloves time.
With uh 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, you know, 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 distance, uh 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 you know, 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 uh, you know, 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, uh 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 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 a bridging the First Amendment, campaign finance reform.
Uh 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.
Uh 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 uh you have no influence, uh, or that they and their candidate can start to act like mature and seasoned intelligent adults who'll 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.
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 and 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 in a host of critical issues.
You establishment Republicans created this mess.
You 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.
I 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 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.
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.
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Your bulwark.
Don't duck me.
Mitt Romney just took the stage at the uh 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 with our side.
It's uh 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, uh, we have all the fun.
They're good the 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 uh the conservative movement strong and alive and and 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 Anne.
she was here with me, and uh 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 uh 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.
Thank you.
Now, last year, 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 four million people have given me their vote for president.
That's good, yeah.
That's uh course less than Senator McCain's 4.7 million, but quite a statement nonetheless.
Eleven states have given me their nod compared to his 13.
Thank you to those 11.
Of course, because size does matter, he's uh 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.
Thank you.
As I said to you last year, conservative principles are needed now more than ever.
We face a new generation of challenges.
Yeah.
Challenges which threaten our prosperity, our security, and our future.
Yeah.
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.
Thank you.
All right, folks, we're gonna we're gonna have to uh we're gonna have to leave this at this time because of the constraints of our programming format on the clock.
Um 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 to get the best speech, the best public address we've ever heard.
It's gotta 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 it if it's all true that Romney is uh going to suspend.
And NBC is confirming it now, and uh Fox News is confirming it, saying that a Romney aid has uh has told them that he will suspend or um withdraw from the from the race.
Before we go, I have to tell you this before we go to commercial break.
Um, I 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 sweep member.
Is that one of those select comfort things you did?
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.
So here, take this, lay down on a bed, take this and flick it up or flick it down.
This will this increase 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 you know 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 the game, but I did.
I dutifully went up.
It was at halftime, took somebody upstairs.
Here's the bed.
Laid down on it, sort of flicking the remote control up or down, amazed.
The sleep number, it's a sometimes I get take it stuff a little personally, though my recommendation is not enough.
But I can understand it's a costly investment, but it's personal.
It's a personalized possession that you have.
Just call 1-800-get a bed, folks.
It's all you have to do.
You've got to give me a free DVD and a brochure, uh, details on models and sizes.
1-800 get a bed and find out for yourself, because I cannot have you all over to my house.
All right, folks, another sterling exciting busy broadcast hour is in the can.
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